Chapter 6746 Blockage

Chapter 6746 Blockage
Before, when Lou Xiang's nephew retreated to the Xiliang military camp, he happened to meet Zhang Xiu who was repelling Bakza's soldiers. As a famous officer under Cao Cao, Lou Xiang's nephew immediately told Zhang Xiu everything he knew.

"After a strong attack to break through the battle line and destroy the outer battle line to enter the main formation, release the phantom soldiers to defeat the regular soldiers in the inner circle, use light and sound to attract the attention of the backbones of the rear formation, and then lead the elite troops to strangle the regular soldiers with the highest efficiency?" Zhang Xiu took a deep breath after listening to this and instantly realized the insidiousness of this operation.

The Han army attacked as a group army, so there were core legions deployed on the periphery. But even among the core elite, only a few of the conventional formations could stop the Holy Death Cavalry, and they would naturally be killed. After crossing the periphery and entering the main formation, the soldiers in the inner circle had basically no ability to resist the Holy Death Cavalry.

This is not a problem that the soldiers in the inner circle are not elite enough. In fact, in terms of quality, these soldiers are not inferior to those soldiers defending the outer circle. To be honest, the biggest problem is that the backbone of the organization and elite veterans are all defending the outer circle.

After all, it is somewhat difficult for ordinary soldiers to maintain the front line under such climatic conditions, so the soldiers who perform the outer defense line tasks are basically the backbone of the organization.

This was also the reason why Cao Hong was killed by Ardashir in the previous wave. In order to take the lead, he led a dozen personal guards to wander around the outer circle.

As a result, he happened to encounter Ardashir while wandering around, just like Xiahou Yuan in Dingjun Mountain, who was wandering around the periphery and happened to meet Huang Zhong who rushed down the mountain. He was unable to defend himself and was killed instantly. However, on Cao Hong's side, Ardashir jumped out from the rain and stabbed Cao Hong with his spear. Cao Hong didn't even have time to react before he was killed instantly.

To be honest, if it had not been so sudden, even if Cao Hong could not defeat Ardashir, he could at least run away. In addition, Cao Hong's legion talent could dissipate the energy of five metals, and the weapons of Ardashir's soldiers should have been damaged during the fight.

As a result, he was defeated in one move, so there is no need to say what happened next.

This was also the reason why the entire rear army front was in a mess. Ardashir himself attacked by surprise and also disrupted the command line.

The veterans who could not see the overall situation could only judge based on their experience. As a result, they were tricked by Ardashir's powerful move using his phantom soldiers, and the entire rear army fell into turmoil.

Just like the veterans on Cao Cao's side who have been fighting for so long and know how to deal with the Holy Death Knights, Ardashir has been fighting with the veterans under Cao Cao for so long, how could they not know how these people deal with the Holy Death Knights?
The sharp soldiers led the counterattack, the elite veterans led the backbone to block the attack, and then fell into the mud and rolled around. The Holy Death Cavalry, having lost its impact force, was still very strong, but it was absolutely impossible for them to kill these third and fourth level Han veterans like mowing grass.

After all, as long as the conditions are right and the veterans of the third and fourth levels of melting adapt to the new legion a little, they are capable of fooling around in the Legion of Miracles. Even if they have weaknesses against the Holy Death Knights, as long as they fight in the mud, they will definitely not be killed instantly.

Coupled with the sneak attacks by some old guys who are around sixty years old and at the fourth or fifth level of smelting, with little endurance but with a special combination of talents, to be honest, for a general like Ardashir who would be one less person if he died, this battle would be impossible to fight.

So while the veterans were studying how to deal with the Holy Death Knights, Ardashir on the Holy Death Knights side was also leading his men to study how to effectively annihilate Cao Cao's manpower, and this time was an attempt.

Don't you have a high damage rating of your Sharp Warrior? It's so high that when the Sharp Warrior is fully activated, killing the Holy Death Knight is as easy as mowing the grass. Well, I'll give you a Phantom Warrior to kill. After you draw the sword, you can't feel the difference between cutting a person and a phantom warrior. They are both paper anyway.

This move not only gathered the elite backbone of the Han Dynasty, but also deceived the elite of the Han Dynasty with their killer moves.

Take Sun Ling as an example. Before he faced the Holy Death Knights with his full strength, he appeared in front of the Holy Death Knights. As long as he was not too unlucky and the Hidden God Sword was activated, he could at least take away one or two elite members of the Holy Death Knights. After all, the elite warriors would fight to the death and would not be afraid.

But now Sun Ling has already opened the Hidden God Sword, and the Death Sword is half opened, and only killed the Fantasy Warrior. If he encounters the Holy Death Knight again, can he take one or two Holy Death Knights with him before he dies as he did before?

It is most likely impossible.

The foundation of the miracle soldiers is at the same level as Sun Ling and others, but in addition to this same foundation, they also have other fancy abilities. If used well, like now, it is not a problem for them to take away soldiers who are theoretically at the same level as them without any injury.

More importantly, if a single legion wants to stop the Holy Death Knights of Ardashir's current size, it must mobilize the elite troops of the entire army to carry out the operation, and this is an important opportunity for Ardashir.

After listening to the explanation from his nephew Lou Xiang, Zhang Xiu immediately understood why the rear army was in such a situation. He did not ask about Cao Hong, because Cao Hong still had not opened his legion talent, so there was no need to ask, he must be dead.

When Zhang Xiu thought of Ardashir killing ordinary soldiers with the highest efficiency, his face became extremely ugly. If he continued to be killed by Ardashir like this, Cao Hong's army would probably be disbanded after Cao Hong's death. Although veterans were important, they would be useless if all the regular soldiers died.

Considering that once Ardashir completely destroyed the organizational ability of the rear army, the Liangzhou soldiers' front line close to the rear army would definitely be affected. Before that, Zhang Xiu had already fought with the Undead Guards under Bakza and the Scimitar Assaulters under Gorgan. Now if Ardashir destroyed the rear army, Zhang Xiu would have to face these three things next.

There's nothing else to say. Just lead the team to attack Ardashir directly. For a special type of troops like the Xiliang soldiers, as long as Ardashir doesn't rush in to cause trouble, the Undead Guards and Scimitar Assaulters will at most give themselves a few disgusting blows on the periphery and will not inflict any fatal damage.

On the contrary, they were unable to stop Ardashir and were killed by the enemy who rushed in. There were also Undead Guards and Scimitar Assaulters in the outer circle causing trouble. The collapse of the front line was not a surprise. So after listening to the words of the soldiers in the rear, Zhang Xiu decisively took the lead and led his most elite troops to attack Ardashir.

As I said, although Zhang Xiu was used as a blood bag all day long, the Three Idiots and Hua Xiong would still replenish some people for Zhang Xiu after sucking his blood every time. In addition, after the first weather change, when the strength of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry had not been almost consumed, Hua Xiong still consumed his military souls to replenish Zhang Xiu's guards. Although they were only the first level of smelting guards, they were still guards after all.

In the past few years, Zhang Xiu has been on the front line, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry has also suffered losses, and with the curse of world consciousness, the overall combat effectiveness has indeed declined, but the more than 100 core people under Zhang Xiu at least still maintain the combat effectiveness of the Iron Cavalry headquarters. The four or five hundred people in the core headquarters led by Zhang Xiu now are all serious organizational backbones, at least those who have reached the second level of smelting.

Although you definitely can't defeat Ardashir, how many Holy Death Knights do you have, Ardashir?
So charge, charge, charge. At this time you have to shout loudly so that everyone can hear you. As for heroic appearance or something, Zhang Xiu knew very well that he could not defeat Ardashir at all. If he rushed forward, he would probably be in a mess. But it didn't matter. He just had to say it first. No one could see clearly anyway. Whoever roars the loudest will be the stronger. Aaaaaaa, charge!
After Ardashir quickly killed the soldiers led by Lou Xiang, he heard a certain arrogant voice. At this time, Zhang Xiu had rushed out from the rain with a spear in his hand, as if he was going to have a decisive battle with Ardashir. However, Ardashir just glanced at Zhang Xiu, turned his horse's head, and rushed in another direction.

Although there was an absolute certainty that Zhang Xiu and his men would be defeated, if they did so, most of his personal guards would be lost here, and the quality of Zhang Xiu's own troops was very high, so it was very likely that he could be stopped here, and then the main force of the Han army would rush forward and directly surround and kill him.

After all, at this time Ardashir and the Holy Death Knights had actually separated from their main battle line and were rapidly mowing down the Han army's manpower. In this situation, once they were blocked and surrounded, their main force would not be able to quickly rescue them. Even Ardashir, the king of kings in official history, would have to die here.

"Ardashir, if you have the guts, don't run!" Zhang Xiu jumped out from the rain and could already see the vague figure of Ardashir. He was about to rush up to block him, but the other party just glanced at him and then turned around and ran away. Zhang Xiu was stunned at that moment.

The battle strategy of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was to fight back if they didn't obey. However, they faced such a slippery opponent, an opponent who had no respect for their reputation and would run away at any time, and who had no respect for the Miracle Legion at all. This made Zhang Xiu somewhat doubt his life. Where is the reputation of your Miracle Legion?
"Asshole, Ardashir, don't run!" Zhang Xiu was furious, and he kicked his horse's belly to chase in the direction of Ardashir. The guards around him hurried to stop Zhang Xiu, "Don't you know how Cao Hong's troops exploded? If we chase them now, the enemy will throw us away and attack the Xiliang soldiers from other angles. Wouldn't that replicate the current situation of Cao Hong's troops?"
The Xiliang soldiers may be better than Cao Hong in their response and organization during combat, but boss, look at us now, you should have some idea in your mind. We should have strengthened our organization on the front line. If we rush forward, Ardashir will not be able to defeat us. But if Ardashir shakes us off and rushes towards our main formation, our main formation will be breached on the spot.

By then, Ardashir's main force will rush forward through the gap, and even if the Xiliang soldiers can withstand the attack, they will be half-crippled.

"Damn bastard, have you no shame at all?" Zhang Xiu's face turned pale, but he also understood that the right choice now was not to chase Ardashir. On the one hand, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was not good at pursuit, and on the other hand, if they continued to chase like this, Ardashir would move into the Xiliang front from other directions, and the whole thing would be blown up!

"Now we can only report to General Cao Ren and ask him to draw out the best troops from each legion, and then collectively encircle Ardashir according to the earlier estimate. Otherwise, in the current situation where everyone is fighting on their own, it will be easy to be defeated one by one." Qi Hao pulled Zhang Xiu and said.

Cao Cao had discussed earlier how to deal with Ardashir. It was not advisable for a single legion to face Ardashir, because Ardashir's Holy Death Knights were indeed powerful. Therefore, Cao Cao specially formed a special legion under his command to deal with the Holy Death Knights.

This legion is essentially a small-scale elite force that is composed of mechanical and numerical monsters from various legions. It has strong survivability and can cooperate. The main task of this elite force of a thousand people is to encircle and blockade Ardashir. However, the legion is now with Cao Ren...

There is actually nothing much to say about this. Cao Ren was at the front line. It was estimated that Cao Ren was defending in the front while Ardashir attacked. Then Cao Ren used this legion to entangle Ardashir while the others encircled and suppressed Ardashir's main force and fought a fierce battle at the Helmand River ferry.

However, the current situation is that Ardashir arrived almost at the same time as the Han Dynasty. Gorgan and others even braved the rain and forced their way to the Helmand River ferry first, resulting in the main force that should have faced the Holy Death Cavalry being at the forefront. Cao Hong, who was supposed to serve as a stable front and continuously cause equipment damage to Ardashir's army, encountered Ardashir.

It can be said that the entire battle arrangement was the opposite of what it had been before. In such a heavy rain, if the messenger had not been effective, Cao Ren might not have received the news until after Cao Hong's troops were defeated. After all, this was an army of tens of thousands, and even if they were advancing in a complete formation, the distance between the front and the back was very far.

"I'm worried that Cao Ren will directly send that legion to strangle the legion blocking the front line." Zhang Xiu said with a gloomy face. Although this can solve the problem and cause considerable losses to Gorgan under Ardashir, the battle line layout of Gorgan is very different from the current Han army. They are not gathered in one place. Even if all the blocking forces in the front are wiped out, that's it.

But the time Gorgan delayed was enough for Ardashir to destroy the entire Cao Hong army in the rear.

"Then we can only rely on ourselves." Qi Hao exhaled, "What should we do?"

"You go and take people to notify Pang De and Xiahou Dun, and ask them to lead the main force to help us hold out. I'll go to stop Ardashir. We must stop Ardashir now, and currently only my legion can be withdrawn to barely hold out against the main backbone of Ardashir." Zhang Xiu took a deep breath and looked at Qi Hao and said. If other legions withdrew their main forces on this scale, they would basically be useless. Zhang Xiu's legion at least still had some combat effectiveness, and could maintain a level that would not be easily overwhelmed by non-Ardashir headquarters.

"Okay, you be careful." Qi Hao knew that this was indeed the situation after hearing it. He raised his hand and led five or six elite Xiliang cavalrymen to run towards Pang De and Xiahou Dun. Then Zhang Xiu, with a gloomy face, ordered his men to determine the position of Ardashir and prepare to encircle him.

At the same time, Cao Ren, who was at the front, had realized that his side was in a slump as a whole. It was not because their overall combat effectiveness was inferior to Ardashir, but purely because of the difference in their judgment of the battlefield situation and the command level.

Even though it was impossible to judge the overall situation now, just by summarizing the information continuously sent over by the intelligence personnel in the rear, Cao Ren could almost figure out what Ardashir was planning.

"Order Cao Zhen's troops to lead the main force in the front to the rear to block Ardashir!" After judging the current situation, Cao Ren made a judgment that was different from Zhang Xiu's. Although Cao Ren did order these elite troops used to deal with Ardashir to strangle the Gorgan tribe, Cao Ren adjusted the military order as soon as he received the intelligence from the rear.

"Yes!" The messenger led his men into the rain to notify Cao Zhen's elite headquarters, ordering them to go to the rear to execute the order.

"Order Zhang Xiu, Pang De, and Xiahou Dun to hold the rear at all costs. Never let Ardashir lead the Holy Death Cavalry to break into the central army. Order Le Jin's troops to move forward from the flank." Cao Ren quickly issued a series of correct orders.

Although Cao Ren was indeed not as good as Ardashir in terms of reaction and judgment, the Han army had stronger hard power and foundation, and they stopped and walked along the way, maintaining their physical strength very well. Although to be honest, the failure to reach the Helmand River ferry in advance led to a strategic failure, and they did need to consider stopping and walking for rest, but their physical strength was indeed well preserved.

This is very different from the legion under Ardashir, which had to march long distances, march all the way, and then go straight into the battlefield, relying entirely on their courage.

At least after Cao Ren issued the order to stabilize the front line and advance steadily, although the Han army was still in a slump, the overall situation gradually stabilized.

After all, in the current situation, even if Ardashir's men are powerful, they can only rely on temporary bravery to maintain the burst. After enduring the peak wave, they will only go downhill. After all, not everyone is like a monster like the Holy Death Knight, who has abundant physical strength far beyond the normal legion.

"Ardashir!" Zhang Xiu finally blocked Ardashir in the chaotic rear army. The backbones of the rear army followed Zhang Xiu to set up a semi-encirclement front in the main camp, blocking the Holy Death Cavalry inside. After losing a large number of regular soldiers, the elite backbones of the rear camp were liberated. They naturally huddled together to block Ardashir together with Zhang Xiu.

"The mobility of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is really poor!" Ardashir adjusted his voice twice and stopped communicating through telepathy, but used words to mock.

"But even with poor mobility, you are still blocked." Zhang Xiu didn't feel ridiculed at all. Facts are facts, he had long been used to it. Anyway, Ardashir was blocked.

"I'm recovering my strength, what are you waiting for?" Ardashir said with a sneer.

"I'm waiting for reinforcements!" Zhang Xiu sneered, "Follow me and kill him!"

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