Liu Bei was about to think about the battle when he was suddenly startled and said loudly: "Advancing from south to north, he only has a few troops, how can he be so calm? Cao Cao is so cunning and easy to take advantage of others, so he has to guard against it." p>
He urgently ordered Meng Da, Chen Dao and several trusted generals in the tent to rush to the East and West Chui and rear armies respectively with general orders, ordering all armies to be on guard to prevent a surprise attack.
The Han army formation arranged by Liu Bei was a horizontal formation from west to east. The front row and both wings were filled with cavalry. Liu Bei's central army was actually part of the cavalry, located in the center. The infantry was concentrated in the middle and behind. This is actually
Liu Bei took into account that Cao Cao's troops were small, so when the two armies faced each other, he prepared to ride out the front row and ride in the formation, while spreading the cavalry on both wings to outflank Cao Cao's army.
If Cao Cao formed a majestic formation and fought against him, he would definitely lose. But now Liu Bei saw Cao Cao's cavalry marching forward and backward in a horizontal column towards the western army formation. He was so careless that he couldn't help but feel suspicious. He expected that Cao Cao must be there.
Lure the enemy in the middle and send the elite out to the side! Therefore, we urgently order the armies on the two wings and back to be on guard. If there is a challenge, they are not allowed to send out troops without authorization to prevent falling into the trap.
Meng Da led his personal entourage and flew towards the western border. As soon as he was talking to Yuan Tan, who was in charge of the power, he heard the sound of gongs and saw a large group of cavalry from the Eastern Army pouring out from the mound in the distance, rushing over like a tide.
The enemy's knights were only wearing light hunting attire, and their horses were without armor. They were galloping like flying, and they were almost there in a blink of an eye.
Meng Da said loudly: "Your Majesty is so good at predicting the situation, the thieves are really sneaking up on the side!" The knights in front all jumped off their horses, holding their bows and arrows and shot at the rushing cavalry. The dense arrows and stones fell like rain, and the Eastern Army
Wherever the light cavalry dared to approach, they just changed to a horizontal sweep along the arrow range, fired at each other for a while, and then circled back to the hill. However, they saw that the enemy knights had dismounted, some were sitting cross-legged on the ground, and some were talking and laughing loudly.
, as if we were not fighting, but hunting.
The Han soldiers here abided by the emperor's orders and did not attack easily to pursue the emperor. They remained unmoved despite the people on the hill shouting and neighing, and continued to defend their formation.
Liu Bei returned to his formation early. Facing the approach of Cao Cao's army, he calmly sat back on the bed and discussed with everyone how to deal with the enemy. Fa Zheng said: "The rebel army is mostly light cavalry, and they are approaching my heavy cavalry.
, is not his strength? Our army is not afraid of him coming. When the two armies are fighting, I stab him with my long spear, which is not like stabbing a straw man? His bow and arrow cannot hurt my heavy cavalry."
Liu Bei was quite convinced, but he expected that Cao Cao had backup, so he did not order an attack. Instead, he looked at the empty bed beside him. Guan Yu, who was originally sitting on it, had returned to his front row. He went back and forth.
He paced and said to himself: "How on earth does this dwarf want to fight?"
The newly promoted Lingwu captain Jia Kui came over and asked: "Do you want to rush out and catch him off guard?"
Liu Bei waved his hand and said: "I'm afraid that if I hit him, he will scatter in all directions! Or will he trick me into attacking?"
He suddenly had an idea and whispered to Fazheng Xunyou. When he felt that he was fine, he immediately summoned the cavalry envoy and asked him to tell Wuhuan Colonel He Napinglin at the eastern edge of the military formation, and immediately divided the Wuhuan cavalry to attack Cao Cao.
The camp on the back hillside. No matter whether it is laid or not, it must be set on fire quickly to let the camp catch fire.
"The east thief turned around and saw the black smoke rising, and the morale of the army was in chaos! But I guarded the front and held him here." Liu Bei unconsciously smiled slightly, and when he continued talking to Fazheng on the side, he seemed to have seen victory.
Waving to him.
After a while, there was the sound of horse hooves in the east, which seemed to be the Wuhuan cavalry starting to take action.
At this moment, the trusted knights next to Liu Bei were shouting: "Your Majesty, look ahead!" Liu Bei hurriedly mounted his horse and could see in the distance under Xuqiu. In the open space where the enemy and the enemy were facing each other, thousands of war horses were heading towards his side.
Galloping forward, but there is no rider on the saddle!
What's going on? Not only Liu Bei was puzzled, but the heavily armored knights in front of the Western Army's formation were even more puzzled. They saw the Eastern Army approaching on horseback, but suddenly they heard an order and all the knights in the enemy's front row jumped off their horses.
He picked up his riding whip and whipped the war horse wildly. The frightened war horse ran forward, not caring about the Changsha Forest of the Western Army in front of it.
The knights were still shouting: "Do you want to shoot arrows?" Some people also said: "Go down and drive them away!" However, the frightened horses had already rushed forward. When they encountered obstacles, many horses began to sweep horizontally, and some
Some ran towards the west, and some ran towards the east, making a mess.
The knights in the front row were all blocked by the frightened horses, while Liu Bei, who was watching the battle from behind, saw the dismounted Eastern Army soldiers rushing up quickly! Although they were far apart, you could still see that they were only wearing two pieces of leather armor.
, holding a short knife, like enraged wasps, swarming up in groups.
Liu Bei couldn't even shout. His knights were all crowded together, wearing heavy armor and moving cumbersomely. If they were surrounded by these monkey-like enemy troops, it would be difficult to move. But it was already too late to send the order to attack.
Want to retreat? Such a huge and dense military formation is layered on top of each other. It won’t take half a moment to give an order. Where can you move? Liu Bei secretly complained, but didn’t know what to do. He saw the Eastern Army rushing over the frightened horses like a tide.
All of a sudden, he fell into the formation of the Western Dynasty cavalry.
These Eastern Army soldiers only wore cloth shirts with round collars and narrow sleeves, and a layer of leather armor. They held knives in their hands and carried bows and arrows on their backs. They threw themselves into the formation of the Western Army's heavily armored knights and buried their heads.
When he got inside, he saw human legs and horse legs, so he picked up his knife and hacked at them. Although the Western Army's heavy cavalry was good, they were crowded together and had nowhere to show their ability to kill the enemy on horseback. They were squeezed here and there with their heads down for no reason.
The enemy soldiers cut off their legs and chopped off their feet. They were so shocked that they had no way to resist, so they had to pull the reins and pull their mounts to dodge, and at the same time, they were looking for the enemy in the crowd with a long bamboo stick and poking at them.
Helplessly, everyone was crowded together. When the horse turned its head, it bumped into others. When the pole was raised, it either hit its companions or hit each other. How can it be compared to the enemy soldiers who are as dexterous as monkeys? This situation is like a pack of wolves.
He ran into the cavalry and bit the horse's legs. The horse was in a panic and was helpless. The Western Dynasty cavalry suddenly fell on its back and cut down a large area like a crop.
Seeing that the front team succeeded, the mass of infantry and cavalry following the Eastern Army rushed forward with shouts. Some of them fired at the Western Army soldiers who were still resisting in the front line, while more people poured into the Western Army desperately.
In the chaotic formation, they were charged, killed and ravaged, causing the Han army's already chaotic formation to scatter towards the back.
In a short while, the Eastern Army was waiting to be killed, and they reached the front of Jizhou Governor Qianzhao. As the fleeing sergeants pushed and trampled each other, even though Qianzhao's more than a thousand knights had strong fighting spirit, they were scattered.
He retreated back with the current. Lianzhao, who was still hesitating and moving slowly, along with the few remaining trusted knights around him, were instantly overtaken by enemy soldiers wearing short armor and holding short swords.
Things happened in a hurry, and the knights around him fired arrows in a panic, but failed to hit the enemy. Instead, they attracted several enemy soldiers. Seeing that the situation was critical, in order to protect the general, he called on the two knights beside him to jump off their horses one after another and waved their long swords.
He drove the enemy soldiers away, but unexpectedly an enemy rushed from behind.
This man only wore a hunting suit with a round collar and narrow sleeves, and carried a long bow on his back. However, he did not even wear leather armor. His clothes were stained with blood, and there were several nicks on the edge of the knife in his hand. This man
He is the champion general Wen Ji, the most famous tiger warrior after Xu Zhu. When Cao Cao created the tiger warrior, he accepted all the people with unique skills. Although Wen Ji is not as famous as Xu Zhu, he is eight feet long and is very powerful and good at shooting.
, claimed to have shot arrows into rocks like Li Guang, and was known as a warrior.
When Wen Ji saw General Qianzhao dressed up, he was secretly happy. Taking advantage of the gap between them and the enemy in front, he suddenly rushed to the side of Lianzhao's horse. He grabbed the horse's mane with his hand, picked up the knife with his right hand and slashed at the man on the horse. But he didn't want to
The horse's back hurt, and it jumped up in fright, almost knocking off its owner.
However, as the war horse jumped up, the chopped knife also lost its accuracy and sliced across the left thigh of the horseman. On the day he was leading the move, he was wearing a bright ocher-red armor, with a skirt that covered his knees and a lining.
The skin of the rhinoceros skin was broken. The enemy's knife slashed through it, cutting open the armor skirt on his knees, and then scratched the rhinoceros skin inside. It penetrated deeply and cut the flesh, cutting his knees, revealing the white skin.
Sensen's bones.
Wen Ji failed to kill the person on the horse with one blow. He raised his hand to look at the knife. The edge of the knife was rolled up, making it almost impossible to cut people. Just when he was annoyed, someone suddenly grabbed him from behind. The two of them could not stand firmly and fell together.
He fell to the ground. Taking this opportunity, Lianzhao's close confidant Gongsun Ji rode on his horse, freed his hand to grab the reins of Lingzhao's mount, pulled the horse and the injured general and ran back.
Wen Ji, who was lying on the ground, relied on his strong strength to turn over and press on his opponent, but saw that the lead had been pulled away. He was not very angry. He said to the Han knight under him: "I lost my wealth, but you want to lose it?"
It's not worth losing your life!" Seeing that the knight turned his head and said nothing, Wen Ji simply cut off his head with a short sword, then mounted the horse left by the deceased and went to pursue the defeated Western Army.
At this time, the front army of the Western Army had been defeated. Seeing that the situation was irreversible, Liu Bei decisively ordered a retreat. Although it was said to be a retreat, in fact, all the armies were rushing north and fleeing for their lives. In order to avoid the infantry being surrounded and causing heavy losses, Liu Bei led Shang.
The headquarters intercepts and kills Cao Cao's pursuers.
Unexpectedly, arrows and rocks were flying randomly on the battlefield, and several arrows flew from nowhere. One hit Liu Bei's horse in the neck, and the other hit his waist armor. The severely injured horse jolted, and Liu Bei turned over and fell to the ground.<
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The attendants nearby were shocked and rushed up to surround the emperor. General Chen Dao supported Liu Bei and tested the arrow shaft. When he saw that the arrow was not deep, he pulled out the arrow cluster. He quickly untied Liu Bei's clothes.
A, exposed the wound, leaned over and sucked out the blood from the wound. Liu Bei did not panic, he just spit a few mouthfuls of saliva in the palm of his hand and applied it on the wound. Then he simply bandaged the pain, stood up, and followed the help of others
He helped him mount a group of horses. When the soldiers in the distance saw him galloping away, they all felt relieved and said comfortingly: "Your Majesty, his horse was just hit by an arrow. It's nothing serious!"
Because some Han cavalry insisted on intersecting the enemy and tried their best to separate the Eastern Army from their own infantry, the Han Army's formation did not completely collapse. They gradually broke away from the Eastern Army and retreated to the north. However, because the Eastern Army was small in number,
There were even fewer cavalry, and most of Cao Cao's horses had been mobilized by the previous frightening force, so he could not organize a pursuit that could kill the enemy, let alone achieve a decisive victory.
After the Han army retreated, they turned around and captured the remaining enemies, collected horses, stripped off the clothes of the dead and wounded and collected property. The cavalry rushed into the camp left by the Western army in the west, and the sergeants guarding the camp also escaped. Inside the camp
The baggage, including the large number of horses and grain currently available, fell into the hands of the Eastern Army.
Besides, Wuhuan Colonel He Napinglin was originally ordered to attack the Eastern Army's camp. Unexpectedly, the battlefield situation suddenly changed drastically. Liu Bei's army was defeated early. When they came back, they were surrounded by enemy soldiers again. They were panicking.
On this occasion, he saw Cao Cao's Yellow Sky Teng Snake flag. He was frightened and had no fighting spirit, so he dismounted, disarmed and asked to surrender.
In this battle, the Eastern Army captured tens of thousands of troops and horses, countless baggage, and nearly 10,000 prisoners. Cao Cao originally wanted to trap and kill them, but then he thought about it. They were all righteous followers of the Hu people, and they may not be truly loyal to Liu Bei. He would win this battle in the future.
They might also be used for their own purposes, so they were taken to the south bank of Jiangshui River and all were released.
At this time, the Western Army retreated northward. Fortunately, Cao Cao's army did not pursue him, so he was able to gather his troops. Liu Bei considered that Boluoting in the northwest had convenient waterways and could rest and reorganize. So he led his army northward and stationed at Julu, west of Xin
Du Baili. Cao Cao also moved his camp, and the two sides resumed their confrontation at Zhangshui.