"Where is Zhang Liao?!" Lü Bu bellowed.
"This general is here!" Zhang Liao half-knelt on the ground.
"Zhang Liao, you will be the vanguard. You will build a bridge and open a path for our army!"
"Yes!" Zhang Liao accepted the order and left.
"Where is Gao Shun?!"
"This general is here!" Gao Shun also half-knelt on the ground. Lü Bu was their lord and thus their master.
"Gao Shun, your Formation Breaker will be the rear guard and cover the advance of the main army!"
"Yes!" Gao Shun knew that as the rear guard retreating from Xiapi, they would definitely be pursued by Cao Jun. The casualties would definitely not be small. However, he still carried out the order without any hesitation.
"Worthy Younger Brother Liu Mang!" Lü Bu issued his final order. "You will lead your subordinates and follow the Central Army. Protect Bu's family!" If it wasn't for Liu Mang, Lü Bu would have already died in Xiapi.
"Yes!" Liu Mang followed suit and half-knelt. This made Lü Bu stunned. Normally, when a general receives an order, they only need to cup their fists. Only a family general would half-kneel on the ground!
"Congratulations Fengxian. You have gained another general!" A middle-aged scholar stroked his beard and said with a smile. This person was Chen Gong, who was captured by Cao Jun. Lü Bu wasn't able to kill Cao Cao. However, he was able to rescue Chen Gong! This was definitely a pleasant surprise!
Chen Gong also admired this kid called Liu Mang. He was young but he was able to rescue Lü Bu and even come up with such a plan. If it wasn't for the messenger, Lü Bu would have been able to kill Cao Cao. At that time, Yan Province and Xu Province would be in chaos. Lü Bu might have been able to replace them!
"Haha!" Lü Bu smiled bitterly and shook his head. From the beginning, he felt that there was something wrong with Liu Mang. He was completely out of tune with this world. You could say that he was a country boy who didn't know anything. To be able to analyze people so carefully and even come up with a plan, you could say that he understood! He didn't even know the most basic etiquette. It was truly a strange thing.
"Perhaps!" Lü Bu didn't know what Liu Mang was thinking. Even if he wanted to accept Liu Mang as his general, he had to be willing to be Liu Mang's lord!
"Army, break out!" Lü Bu mounted a date red horse. Under his command, the army began to break out of the encirclement.
The east gate of Xiapi was opened. Zhang Liao's army took the lead. A group of less than a thousand people walked in front of the army. Behind them was the Central Army, Lü Bu and Liu Mang, leading several hundred soldiers to protect the carriages of their family members. Of the eight hundred Formation Breaker inside the city gate, only seven hundred remained. Most of them were injured. They needed to cover the rear and buy time for the Central Army to escape. They might have to face an enemy ten times or a hundred times stronger than them. They might be completely wiped out, but they didn't have the slightest fear.
Who were they! They were the Formation Breaker. Their determination to break through the enemy lines meant death.
Looking at the departure of the last Central Army soldier, Gao Shun prepared to close the city gate of Xiapi and block the east gate with sandbags. This way, they could delay the enemy's pursuit. At the same time, this could also cause the Formation Breaker to be blocked.
The eight hundred Breaching Formation soldiers were already prepared to fight to the death!
"Brothers, are you afraid?!" Gao Shun, a man of few words, opened his mouth.
"Not afraid! Don't be afraid! "The soldiers of the Capture Barracks told Gao Shun in a high-pitched voice.
They thought that this would make Gao Shun happy, but it didn't. Gao Shun scolded, "Fart! You are afraid, but so am I! There's nothing to be ashamed of! In another incense's time, the entire gate will be blocked. Death. Everyone is afraid! There's nothing to be ashamed of! If there's anyone who is afraid and regretting, I, Gao Shun, am not a person who doesn't care about etiquette. You can leave now! I, Gao Shun, don't blame you! "
No one spoke at the scene. Everyone was looking at each other. On their faces, there was struggle, reluctance, and an expression of facing death with equanimity.
"Zhang Kui, step forward!" Gao Shun suddenly shouted a person's name.
"General, I'm not afraid of death, I'm not afraid of death!" The man who was called out shouted.
"I didn't say you were afraid of death, what are you so excited about!" Gao Shun gave a rare laugh.
"Zhang Kui, you guys have been following me, Gao Shun, and the Formation Breaker since Bing Province, right?" Gao Shun said.
The man who was called out by Gao Shun nodded his head. In his mind, he seemed to be recalling something.
"Zhang Kui, from Jinyang, Bing Province, the only son in the family!" Gao Shun looked at Zhang Kui and said.
"How is your mother?" Gao Shun stretched out his words.
"Mother, mother passed away!" Zhang Kui's eyes were full of sadness.
"Oh!" Gao Shun looked at Zhang Kui's expression and didn't ask much.
"Zhang Kui, this general orders you to cross the city gate. Abandon the supplies and chase after the lord's Central Army!" Gao Shun opened his mouth.
Gao Shun's words made Zhang Kui anxious, "General, Zhang Kui is not afraid of death, Zhang Kui is not afraid of death! Ball General, leave me behind, leave me behind! Don't abandon me! "
"You are the only son in the family. It doesn't matter if you die, but if you die, what will happen to your Zhang family?" Gao Shun's voice suddenly became louder, "Your mother is already dead. You haven't fulfilled any filial piety after following me into the army. If you die, when I go down, how will I face your mother? Tell her that it was I, Gao Shun, who caused their Zhang family to have no descendants. It was I, Gao Shun, who caused your Zhang family's bloodline to be cut off?! Are you trying to make this general into a heartless and unjust person? "
"General, Zhang Kui didn't mean that, Zhang Kui!" This man who killed without blinking on the battlefield was about to cry after hearing Gao Shun's words.
"Scram!" Gao Shun said, "I'm not letting you go because I want to abandon you, but because I want you to chase after the lord's Central Army. I'm leaving a seed for our Formation Breaker. Gao Shun can die, Zhang Kui can die, but the Formation Breaker, the lord's Formation Breaker cannot be destroyed!"
"General!" Zhang Kui knew that he couldn't convince Gao Shun. He knelt down and kowtowed to Gao Shun several times. Every time he kowtowed, the sound of his head hitting the ground could be heard. Not long after, his head started bleeding.
Gao Shun ignored him and shouted again, "Lu Yi, Zhang Yao, Lu Jie, Cheng Yun, Hao Hao …. Zhao Kai, step out!" Suddenly, he pointed out more than twenty people, "You and Zhang Kui, put down your supplies and leave Xiapi to chase after the lord's Central Army!"
"General, what do you mean by this? They may be the only child in their family, but I, Cheng Yun, am not! I still have an older brother! "Cheng Yun argued.
Gao Shun looked at Cheng Yun and said to himself, "Yes, yes, you still have an older brother. You are not the only child in your family, but where is your older brother now?! He is in our hearts! He will always live in our hearts! "Cheng Yun's older brother was called Cheng Feng. He was originally a Yiyuan of the Formation Breaker, but he died on the battlefield.
"Get out of here, get out! For your older brother, you have to live well! Do you hear me?! "Gao Shun was almost shouting at the top of his lungs.
"Yes!" Cheng Yun replied with tears in his eyes. The twenty people stood in a row, "Brothers, put down your supplies and leave!" After saying that, the group of people left without looking back. It wasn't that they were heartless, but they were afraid that if they turned back, they wouldn't be able to bear to leave!
"Haha, I, Gao Shun, can die, my brothers can die, but the lord's Formation Breaker must not die!" Gao Shun looked at the twenty people leaving with gratification. With them, they would definitely be able to pull out another group of Formation Breaker soldiers!
"Without Gao Shun, the Formation Breaker is still called the Formation Breaker!"
"Who is it?" The soldiers of the Formation Breaker discovered an unknown person.
"General Wei, General Song?!" The soldiers of the Formation Breaker recognized the two people.
"Wei Xu, Song Xian, why did you come? Did you think that if the lord didn't kill you, I, Gao Shun wouldn't kill you?!" Gao Shun didn't have any good impression of Song Xian and Wei Xu. Although they had been brothers for so many years, his killing intent wasn't any less.
"Yes, yes, yes! Wei Xu and I both deserve to die, so we came to apologize! "Song Xian said with a smile.
"Apologize?!" Gao Shun frowned. He was about to give the order to behead these two traitors.
"Lao Gao, you should leave! Tell the lord, although the Pengzhou Army is Song Xian and my home, we already don't have the face to go back! "Wei Xu said indifferently. There was already a strange thing in his eyes.
Gao Shun understood this thing. It was the determination to die!
"What do you want to do!"
"Replace you, Lao Gao, and die for the lord!" Wei Xu and Song Xian's troops immediately surrounded the city gate. Both sides were at their crossbows.
"Why should I believe you!" If Song Xian and Wei Xu betrayed again and let Cao Jun catch up to the Lvbu's Army, then they would be finished. With their families, they wouldn't be able to escape quickly.
"Don't worry! Cao Cao has already killed Hou Cheng. We also killed a lot of Cao Jun's soldiers. It's impossible for us to betray again! "
Gao Shun was silent for a while. "Have you really thought it through?!" Gao Shun said, "Once the gate is closed, you really can't come out!"
"Don't worry, Lao Gao! In the Pengzhou Army, you're not the only Lao Gao who isn't afraid of death! "
"Good!" Gao Shun took a deep breath, "Formation Breaker, listen to my order! Withdraw from Xiapi and chase after the lord's Central Army! "
"Yes!" The eight hundred Formation Breaker soldiers accepted the order and left. No need to throw away their lives. Everyone's heart had a trace of joy.
"Old Song, Old Wei, we'll meet again someday!" Gao Shun's words were against his will! Once the gate is closed, it's impossible to escape. It's a place of certain death.
"Mm, Lao Gao, don't forget to burn more paper money for me and Old Wei every day. Even if we can't obtain glory and splendor, you still have to compensate us!"
"Take care!" Gao Shun nodded. With a wave of his hand, the Formation Breaker left.
"Let's go, let's go!" Wei Xu looked at the departing army and shook his head, "Old Song, don't you think we're stupid?!"
"If you're not stupid, why are you being stupid! We'll be brothers for life. Old Hou is already waiting for us down there. If we don't accompany him, he'll be lonely! "
"Yes, Old Hou. Don't worry, we'll come find you later!" Wei Xu's face suddenly changed. He shouted, "Pass down my order. Seal the gate. We'll fight to the death. As long as we're still alive, we won't let a single Cao Jun leave here!"
Lord, oh Lord! Let's be brothers again in the next life! Next time, I'll be the big brother!
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
