My older brother is Gao Huan.

Chapter 264 I am the Overlord, but you are not the God of War!

Gao Yu transformed into a dump truck, with his horse clad in a heavy armor, further amplifying its impact force.

It's easy to overexert the horse's stamina prematurely. Gao Yu could already feel that the warhorse beneath him was moving much slower and panting more and more, and was about to reach its physical limit.

He dodged an arrow shot at him by sidestepping, and then used his lance to deflect the weapon aimed at him. The closer he got to the center of the camp, the more difficult the assault became. Yuan Hao had obviously placed the weak and able-bodied men on the outer perimeter, while the real core elites were protecting his safety around the camp.

How foolish!

If the elite troops had been positioned at the front, preventing such an easy collapse, the situation wouldn't have become so chaotic.

However, with the reinforcements in front, the able-bodied men were easily overwhelmed. Even though some elite soldiers dared to take up their weapons and fight back immediately, the vast majority of them followed the crowd. Their morale collapsed, causing more and more elite soldiers to join the fleeing ranks!
"kill!"

Gao Yu roared and swung his lance, sweeping away all the soldiers around him who were still putting up a fight. Then he thrust his lance forward.

The spearhead pierced through the soldier's body. Gao Yu forcefully lifted him high, using this method to further break through the soldiers' psychological defenses and make them completely afraid to resist.

really.

After Gao Yu and his men brutally slaughtered all those who dared to take up arms and fight back, the morale of the Southern Liang army soldiers was completely shattered, and they all turned to flee for their lives.

Gao Yu slowed down his pursuit; he wasn't so carried away as to become complacent.

The elite White Robe Army led by Chen Qingzhi has yet to appear. While the individual bravery of the White Robe Army is certainly inferior to that of the Black Armor Army, their numbers are numerous. If they were to engage in a head-on confrontation, even the valiant Black Armor Army would suffer considerable losses.

Gao Yu quickly made up his mind.

"Kill! Anyone who stands in my way shall die!!"

Gao Ang was even more excited than Gao Yu. The corpses in front of him and the strong smell of blood seemed to constantly stimulate the restless DNA in his body. He was so excited that he even broke away from the main force, with only Zhang Mao and other guards following him.

"Ao Cao! Ao Cao!!"

Gao Yu shouted, "Don't pursue them! Keep staying by my side!"

Gao Ang then reined in his horse and turned it around to join Gao Yu.

"Where are the Xuanjia Army?!"

"The Xuanjia Army is here!!"

On the chaotic battlefield, Gao Yu could only rally his soldiers in this most primitive way, and then Liu Yi followed behind him, raising the military flag with the character 'Gao' on it.

Too many people.

The sounds of fighting, screams, and all sorts of noises filled the air.

Everywhere you look, there are people, especially since the terrain here is extremely flat, making it impossible to climb up and get a good view.

"Black Armor Army! Charge with me!!"

Gao Yu urged his warhorse forward again. Fortunately, the current position was relatively easy to confirm. He led the charge towards the due east direction, determined to break through the ten-mile-long military formation in one fell swoop!
The Xuanjia soldiers, who were originally in a loose formation, were transformed into a 'sharp knife' with Gao Yu as the core under Gao Yu's deliberate gathering.

They completely breached the location of the central army.

As for the Left Guard Army and the Right Guard Army?
Originally, they did come to the rescue immediately after seeing the riot in the central army, but they ran into the fleeing soldiers of the central army halfway there. The army was mixed together, and the morale of the left and right guards had already collapsed because of the fleeing soldiers of the central army before they even saw the enemy.

"Damn it!"

Yuwen Luosheng looked anxiously toward the central army camp, "Could it be that Heaven is truly protecting Gao Lang? How could he turn such a desperate situation around?"

Three hundred thousand troops are coming to attack the city!

In just one exchange, the central army was completely routed, utterly destroying the morale of the entire army!
Yuwen Luo swiftly drew his sword from his waist, cutting down the fleeing soldiers as he passed by. He shouted, "Turn around and face the enemy with me! Anyone who dares to run away again will be killed on the spot!!"

Among the 20,000 men he brought from Hebei were many brave warriors who had followed him in his campaigns across the country. Their morale did not collapse, and they drew their weapons and killed hundreds of men in one go.

This stopped the momentum of the rout, but only slightly halted the decline; it was far from enough to reverse the overall situation.

"Is our army really going to repeat the mistakes of Fu Tianwang of the Former Qin Dynasty?"

…………

Under the protection of his personal guards, Yuan Hao ran out of the tent in a very disheveled state and ran wildly northeast until he reached a hill. He looked back in shock.

From a high vantage point, one can have a commanding view of the entire battlefield.

The army was like headless flies, with Gao Yu's Xuanjia soldiers standing out, but at a glance... their numbers were less than five thousand!
"Ah!! My army of hundreds of thousands! And it was actually defeated by such a small number of people??"

Yuan Hao was furious. How could his forces, which outnumbered the Luoyang garrison by dozens of times, be defeated so badly?
"Hmph, Xuanjia! Is this what Yuan Ziyou relies on? Defeat them! Then I can enter Luoyang and ascend the throne!"

After seeing through the situation, Yuan Hao immediately abandoned his idea of ​​fleeing. He ordered his personal guards to display their royal banner, as he intended to regroup his defeated troops and fight back!
"Pass on my order: follow me and charge back! Anyone who dares to flee will be killed without mercy!!"

With the opportunity to ascend the throne and become emperor right in front of him, how could he be willing to retreat to the land of Henan?

After the royal banner was displayed, a large number of soldiers who had fled in panic were indeed gathering in the direction of Yuan Hao. In a short while, Yuan Hao had gathered a thousand men, all of whom were brave soldiers in his army and not ordinary auxiliary soldiers. As more and more people gathered, and with the constant killing to stop them, the army, which had been in a state of disarray, actually began to regain some order.

Gao Yu had already led the Xuanjia Army behind him to complete the tunneling from beginning to end.

He could no longer see the Southern Liang army's formation, so he quickly reined in his horse and turned it around.

"Change horses! Change horses!"

After Gao Yu issued the military order, he had his soldiers change horses, removing the heavy armor from their exhausted warhorses and putting it on the spare horses beside them. He then took advantage of this break to change into a spare horse and go to a hillside to observe the situation.

"They do have some ability; they actually managed to stop the downward trend!"

Gao Yu also noticed something amiss.

The situation is no longer as chaotic as before. The number of soldiers running around like headless flies is decreasing significantly, indicating that someone is gathering the defeated soldiers and maintaining order!
"Hurry!!"

Gao Yu urged them on hastily, no longer caring how many men had been lost in the charge.

He had to go back and make things chaotic again.

Just like the preparations before leaving the city, he had the soldiers tie tree branches to the horses' tails again. This time, he had more people raise the Xuanjia Army's banner, in order to create the illusion that reinforcements had arrived and to break down the psychological defenses of the Southern Liang army once again.

"My comrades! The enemy's formation is in disarray! Follow me and charge again! This time we will surely rout them in one fell swoop!!"

"Black Armor Army! Charge with me!!"

Gao Yu, riding his newly replaced warhorse, which possessed tremendous power, used the small hill where he had previously observed the battlefield to accelerate, and once again turned back to charge!

Like a sharp blade, it strikes the enemy's weak point once again!
He had seen Yuan Hao raising the 'Wei' flag from afar and remembered its location.

You like to rally up defeated soldiers, don't you?

You like to rebel, huh?
"Kill!!"

The earth-shaking momentum made the enemy soldiers take notice!
In just one round of fighting, they had already witnessed the terrifying combat power of the Xuanjia Army.

Seeing Xuanjia and Guimian charging at him again, the courage he had finally mustered instantly crumbled!

Gao Yu didn't care about these people at all; he only had one goal!
Prince Yuan Hao of Beihai!
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! The Xuanjia Army is attacking again!!"

Yuan Hao was terrified and turned pale. "What? Damn it, how could they have arrived so quickly?"

He had just seen Gao Yu leading the Xuanjia Army towards the rear guard in the east, and now he turned around so quickly?

How could he possibly know?
When the rear guard saw the central army soldiers scattering and their banners retreating, especially with the fleeing soldiers constantly shouting "Our army has been defeated! Our army has been defeated!", it directly shattered the morale of the entire rear guard.

What's the point of fighting if our army has already lost?
The wind is strong, why don't you turn around and run?
“Run! Run!!”

Yuan Hao looked at the thousand men gathered around him and, without thinking, immediately mounted his horse and turned to run away. He was completely terrified; Gao Yu's actions had exceeded his comprehension!
He had never seen anyone move freely among hundreds of thousands of troops as if walking on flat ground.

Keeping the green hills, you don’t have to worry about having no firewood.

however……

Whoosh whoosh!
A hail of arrows came, and Yuan Hao heard countless screams all around him!

He turned around and was completely stunned!
A fierce general with a ghostly face and black armor charged towards him, his spear sweeping across the battlefield with ease, taking several lives in an instant!
"Still want to run?"

The more Yuan Hao feared death and had his personal guards surround him like stars around the moon, the more he exposed his identity!
Gao Yu grabbed him by the collar and, with a sudden tug, pulled him over to Yuan Hao's astonishment, placing him across his horse!

He immediately shouted loudly!
"I have captured the bandit commander alive!"

The soldiers behind him also shouted, spreading the news that Yuan Hao had been captured alive to every soldier of the Southern Liang army.

This will further break down their mental defenses!
"Liu Yi, keep an eye on him!!"

Gao Yu threw Yuan Hao onto Liu Yi's horse and looked into the distance.

To the west, one can faintly see the figures of soldiers clad in white robes.

Is it Chen Qingzhi's White Robe Army that has returned to fight again?
Yuan Hao has been captured. As long as the White Robe Army is defeated again, the outcome of this battle will be decided!

Just now, when Gao Yu climbed up the hillside to observe the situation, he finally understood what Chen Qingzhi was thinking.

As a vanguard, he voluntarily made way for himself to enter.

It's obvious they want to emulate the legendary strategist Han Xin and recreate the 'Siege of Gaixia'.

however……

Throughout history, only Han Xin has successfully employed this tactic; he is the only one to have achieved this!
This tactic seems very appealing.

Lure the enemy in so that the Left Guard and Right Guard can attack from both sides.

But in reality, the situation on the battlefield is more like what we are seeing now.

When the soldiers in the central army saw the enemy troops that should have been blocked by the vanguard suddenly appear in front of them, their only thought was that the vanguard had been defeated. The elite vanguard had been defeated, so didn't that mean our army had been defeated?
Once the central army formation collapsed, the entire army completely crumbled!

The Battle of Fei River is a prime example.

Fu Jian's army was known as "the army that could stop a river with a single whip," but the entire army collapsed simply because the vanguard was defeated, which led to Xie Xuan's famous Northern Army.

Southern Liang's elite forces?

It's not like we haven't killed before!
The Xuanjia Army is specifically targeting elite troops!
"Ao Cao! Zi Xing! The White-Robed Army is ahead. Follow me and defeat them. We must capture Chen Qingzhi alive!!"

"Your subordinate obeys!!"

(End of this chapter)