The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Zhang Liao rushed forward with his army and came to the front of Xun Pu's formation.

The two are old rivals, and both know each other's strength.

This time, because of the ample time, Xun Pu not only formed his battle formation, but also placed the carriages around the formation, and his formation was stronger than when he fought Zhang Liao for the first time.

Zhang Liao watched for a moment, then smiled to the left and right: "Xun Mengtu has less than 500 minions, no matter how strong the battle is, what's the use?" Ling said, "Fifty to stay on the horse, 200 paces, supervise Xun Mengtu. The rest will follow me around the formation and attack the beach." But he didn't plan to fight Xun Pu, and he had no intention of breaking the formation. Instead, he decided to go around and seize Xu Zhongbandu's rare opportunity to attack him. main force.

The military officials of the Liao Department received the order, leaving fifty cavalry and two hundred infantry in an offensive formation, guarding the flanks of Xun Pu's formation. As long as Xun Pu dared to withdraw and pursue Zhang Liao, they would launch an attack.

Xun Pu saw Zhang Liao's response in the array, smiled and said to the servants, "Zhang Wenyuan has a plan for General Xu!"

Zhang Liao led the rest of the group through the eastern side of the Xunpu Array and rushed forward. When passing by the Xun Pu Array, he turned his head to pay attention to the movement of the Pu Array, and found that the Pu Array was standing still, and there was no change in the formation. Please continue to block your own intentions.

Zhang Liao's heart skipped a beat, vaguely feeling that something was wrong.

But because the soldiers were moving so fast, he didn't have time to think about it, that's all. After passing the Xunpu Formation and approaching the river, he heard the drums beating loudly, and a group of foot soldiers stopped in front. Zhang Liao looked at its flag, which read: "He is the commander of Xiapi". It is He Yi's part.

Among the battalions under Xun Zhen's tent, He Yi's ministries could not be called the most elite, but all the soldiers in his troops were soldiers of the Yellow Turbans, and they were all veterans, and their combat effectiveness was not bad. When Xun Pu's group was full, there were five hundred people, while his group numbered eight hundred.

He Yi's soldiers formed an array, with shield players and spearmen in front. The spears were mounted on the shield. From Zhang Liao's side, they looked like sharp hedgehogs. After the shields and spearmen, there were more than 300 crossbowmen. He Yi's department did not have so many crossbowmen. In order to enable him to better block the Liao's cavalry, Xu Zhong specially took the entire army's cavalry. The elite bowmen were temporarily assigned to him.

The arrows of the crossbow are released, and the rain shoots the Liao Department.

Zhang Liao's heart was not good, so he contacted Xun Pu'an just now and didn't move, and watched his passing performance, knowing that he was probably caught in Xu Zhong's strategy.

First of all, if Xun Pu was really responsible for intercepting the enemy and ensuring Xu Zhong's main force crossed the river safely, he would never sit by and watch Zhang Liao's troops pass by, and he would definitely try every means to change the formation to block it.

Secondly, if Xu Zhong really crossed the river, he would never have released Xun Pu and He Yi to stop the Liao’s pursuit. You must know that the Pu and Yi troops have a total of more than 1,000 troops. People accounted for nearly one-third of Xu Zhong's entire army.

The cavalry of the Liao Dynasty rushed in front, the infantry behind, and the arrows shot in the face, first the cavalry rioted, and the cavalry avoided, and then the infantry raised their shields and stopped their advance.

Zhang Liao remained calm in the face of danger, and said to himself, "Xu Junqing has not fought for several days, but as soon as he leaves the camp, he will design it so that I can be fooled? Changed the front, the cavalry was pushed back, and wanted to withdraw from the battlefield.

Where is He Yi willing to let him go?

But seeing the flag of He Yi's formation waving, the drums sounded again, and dozens of cavalrymen rushed out from behind the formation and attacked the western flank of the Liao troops.

Zhang Liao knew very well that if he wanted to gain the death force of the soldiers, he had to pay for it with love and righteousness. He could not leave these foot soldiers alone, and at the same time, he believed that there were more cavalry in his headquarters than the enemy, so he led his cavalry to meet the enemy cavalry. These dozens of cavalrymen saw Zhang Liao lead the cavalry to fight, but they did not fight with him, and slowly retreated.

In this way, after fighting for a while, Zhang Liao and the others heard the sound of shouting and killing coming from the river beach. They looked up and saw hundreds of enemy cavalry rushing towards them. But it was: while He Yi and the dozens of cavalry were entangled in Zhang Liao's Konger, Xu Zhong had already organized the remaining cavalry and came to help.

In the south, the infantry of Heyi's troops were lined up to intercept them, and in the west there were hundreds of Xu cavalry about to kill. Looking back to the south, Xun Pu's formation still maintained a defensive formation, but now it was not to prevent Zhang Liao from going north to the beach, but Instead, he stopped him from escaping south, and he was enemies on three sides.

At this moment, someone in Zhang Liao's ride screamed.

Zhang Liao said angrily: "Although the enemy has set up a siege on three sides, and the Pu formation has the fewest troops, I will gather foot and cavalry to attack each other, and attack with all my strength, and I will be able to break it. You can also return to camp calmly, so why panic!"

Na Cong Qi pointed to the west, so frightened that he couldn't speak clearly, and said, "Du, Du Li, that, over there, ... in the camp, in the camp."

Zhang Liao looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a black smoke rising from the far west under the snowstorm.

Zhang Liao's heart skipped a beat, and he secretly shouted "That's it". From the direction and distance from where the black smoke started, we could tell that it was his base camp. Knowing that this was really a "trick" by Xu Zhong, not only at this time The place was surrounded on three sides, and the fort was also broken by Xu Zhong. This time, not only the option of returning to the camp is gone, the infantry and cavalry soldiers will be frightened when they see the camp being burned, the army is unstable and the soldiers have no fighting spirit~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I want to fight Xu Zhong again and defeat Xun Pu , He Yizhen's plan is also difficult to do.

With no other choice, Zhang Liao had no choice but to choose the last resort.

The more than 200 cavalry that he had left behind in the Pu array, saw the sudden change, and suddenly his own army changed from the pursuit side to the besieged side. I didn't know whether to attack the Pu array immediately, or return to Zhang Liao's side and lead the troops. The military officials sent cavalry to Zhang Liao to ask for instructions.

Zhang Liao ordered them to come and join him, and he sent orders to retreat to the east, with the infantry at the back and the cavalry at the front. In order to cover the infantry, he personally led dozens of elite cavalry soldiers to the formation, galloping back and forth on the two wings of the infantry formation, helping the infantry to resist the pursuit of the enemy cavalry.

On the river beach, Xu Zhong watched the battle from a high place for a long time. When he saw Zhang Liao finally retreating east, he calmly said to Yuan Pan, "You will stay and settle down the people." Ling Xiaming, Wan Yan and other military officials said, "You wait from me Hit Zhang Wenyuan."

Earlier, the scouts of Zhang Liao’s department reported that they saw “many soldiers and civilians along the river, and there were many people and horses.” In fact, most of these so-called “soldiers” were dressed by civilians, and their armor and weapons were fake.

Xia Ming, Wan Yan and others received the order, quickly assembled their headquarters, and followed Xu Zhong to the east along the river beach.

Zhang Liao led his troops to the east, retreated while fighting, and marched for several miles. Xu Qi and He Yi's infantry were in hot pursuit, and the battle in the rear was rushing. , incessantly. Zhang Liao immediately turned his spear, looked up, and saw that many of the cavalry in the vanguard turned on their backs and turned into a mess. Soon, someone riding in front came back to report: There are pits all over the ground, and the horse can't run.

But it turned out: Xu Zhong sent people to the shore to collect ships yesterday, but secretly he sent civilians and soldiers to this area quietly, dug small pits, and after digging, they covered them with snow, because Zhang Liao. The cavalry of the troops came here, and they broke their horses’ legs one after another.

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