The drizzle falls evenly. The land of Huainan has a southern climate, and rain is a common occurrence. The humidity and heat in the air is a disaster for Hou Cheng who is accustomed to the northern climate. It is not as simple as the heat. The north
The summer in the south is also hot, but it’s more like baking on a stove. The summer in the south feels more like being in a steamer. The stuffy feeling in the air makes people who are not used to the climate here feel that they may be suffocated in the next moment.
die.
Even if it is drizzling at the moment, the sweltering feeling has not diminished at all.
"It is said that people in Jiangdong are prone to die early. Living in a place like this every day, it would be strange if you don't die!" Hou Cheng morosely wiped the sweat from his forehead and cursed angrily. It would be really miserable to fight in this place.
"General, I have never been to Jiangdong. The climate in Jiangdong is more uncomfortable than here. Summer is even hotter than here, but in winter, the coldness is so cold that it takes away your bones." A general next to him said earlier.
General Danyang, who had stayed in Jiangdong, was quite accustomed to the climate here. Faced with Hou Cheng's complaints, he explained with a smile.
"No wonder the last time we said we should take Jiangdong first, the military advisor and Ziyan disagreed." Hou Cheng smacked his lips. Someone had previously suggested that we take Jiangdong first to have a large rear area and then confront Cao Cao, but it was rejected by Chen Gong and Chu Nan.
Hou Cheng didn't know what the two of them were thinking, but now Hou Cheng felt that it was pointless to attack Jiangdong. That place was too unfriendly to men born in the north like them.
"This Jiangdong land, it's good to get used to it..." General Danyang also wanted to explain that Jiangdong is not that bad, but you northerners can't accept it all at once, but before he could finish his words, he was stopped by Hou Cheng.
"Someone is coming!" Hou Cheng frowned and looked at the scouts on the top of the mountain ahead waving their flags. He immediately raised the flags in his hands and the three armies immediately stopped.
After Chu Nan helped them transform the Ling Qi, Hou Cheng felt that he had a deeper understanding of the Nine Secrets of the Royal Army, and it was like divine help when he used it. Not only was the speed nearly twice as fast as before, but the power was also much stronger.
After a while, a black line gradually appeared in the rain curtain at the end of the road in the distance. Hou Chengshen focused his eyes and saw that a Lu banner was stuck together in the rain curtain, and then was thrown away.
Soldiers and horses dressed in black and white colors surged towards this side.
Hou Cheng looked in the direction of the scouts and saw the scouts waving their command flags one after another. General Danyang on the side helped count the numbers: "There are about one battalion of men and horses, and there is a full battalion. There are no ambushes around for the time being."
In the military system of the Han Dynasty, one unit had about 400 troops, and one battalion could have two troops, or at most five troops. One battalion would be five troops, that is, two thousand troops.
"Form up!" Hou Cheng waved his command flag and looked at the rapidly approaching enemy troops with some disdain. He raised his hand high and said, "Fengzimi, attack quickly!"
As he gave the order, the formation behind him changed, and the archers carrying bows and arrows quickly appeared in the front row, unfurled their bows, nocked arrows, and quickly fired crossbows.
Each of the nine secrets of the imperial army has a different use. The secret of wind can only speed up the march of the army at first, but when you practice it to a high level, you can also use it to attack. For example, if you use it on an archer, you can speed up the shooting.
Arrow speed.
Originally Hou Cheng couldn't do this, but after getting Chu Nan's enhanced version of Shuaiqi and Lingqi, Hou Cheng realized the new use of Fengzimi.
But for a moment, arrows filled the sky, and the arrow array composed of thousands of people actually exploded into a volley of thousands of arrows.
Lu Meng, who was running at a fast pace, saw this and didn't care that the other party could shoot arrows from such a long distance. He shouted sharply: "Iron wall!"
However, the change of formation was a little slow after all. By the time he formed a formation to block, dozens of soldiers in the front row had already fallen into a pool of blood. Fortunately, Lu Meng had a solid foundation. After the iron wall was raised, all the arrows that followed were blocked.
It bounced away, but even so, morale was also dampened.
"Line up and attack quickly!" Hou Cheng saw this and laughed. He didn't know whether the opponent was Chen Deng's subordinates or Jiangdong people, but it seemed that he had average abilities. He immediately raised his spear high, led his men and horses into an offensive posture, and pounced fiercely.
to the opponent.
While running, fire appeared faintly around the Xuzhou Army, and the rain curtain around them seemed to evaporate the moment it touched the opponent's formation. In Lu Meng's view, the opponent seemed to have disappeared.
Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of rapid footsteps, hitting the iron wall hard.
The military formation formed by Jiangdong Army was violently disordered at the moment of collision. Lu Meng felt that the formation that had been smoothed by him began to become chaotic. The military formation felt out of control at this time!
He was horrified in his heart, and his whole body was full of energy. He yelled: "Immove like a mountain!"
In terms of defense, Iron Wall is an upgraded version of the Immovable Mountain in Shan Zi Mi, but in terms of stability, he is better at the latter. With his sharp shout, the chaos caused by the opponent's collision was immediately smoothed away.
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The mist dispersed, and he saw an enemy general holding a spear. The sharp energy was already stabbing at the intersection of the two sides' battle formations. At close range, Lu Meng felt that the other party's smile was particularly ferocious, and there was a trace of anger in his heart.
There was a trace of fear on his timid and immature face, and he subconsciously avoided it!
But after this avoidance, the original morale suddenly disappeared. For the soul of the three armies, especially on this battlefield that relies heavily on military formations, the general's heart was frustrated. The first thing he reacted to was the military formations. He was already overwhelmed by the opponent.
The suppressed military formation was instantly weakened by 20% as Lü Meng became frightened. When Lü Meng reacted and wanted to regain his strength, there was still no time.
Military morale is easy to disperse and difficult to gather, otherwise generals would not be so valuable.
The already suppressed military formation was instantly shattered as Hou Cheng thrust out a spear.
"Kill!" Hou Cheng yelled, and the hoofs of horses trampled through the broken military formation. Hou Cheng jumped on his horse with his spear and came straight towards Lu Meng.
Lü Meng suppressed the panic in his heart and mustered up the courage to raise his gun to face Hou Cheng. However, Hou Cheng was supported by military power at this moment. Lü Meng's army formation had been broken. Although there was not much difference in the strength of both sides, at this moment it was equivalent to resisting with the strength of one person.
How could a general who was as brave as himself and supported by three thousand soldiers stand in his way?
"Bang~"
The spears and spears collided, but there was an explosion, the spear broke, and Lu Meng was also knocked away by the huge force, rushing into the crowd like a cannonball, knocking over all of them in an instant, his head tilted, and he fell unconscious.
"kill!"
Hou Cheng broke through the formation with one blow, and his morale was greatly shaken. He roared, and without caring about the life or death of the young general, he led three thousand men and horses to rush past. How could the Jiangdong soldiers who had lost their military formations withstand the number of people who exceeded themselves and who had military formations?
The three thousand elites who were protecting them were all killed in an instant, and they ran in all directions in a panic.
"Whose tent are you waiting for?" Hou Cheng broke up the opponent's army formation, picked up a thief general who had no time to escape with a spear, and asked sternly.
"Jiangdong, under General Lu Meng's tent!" The general said in a low voice, not daring to look directly at Hou Cheng.
"Jiangdong?" Hou Cheng laughed loudly, and suddenly he lifted the Jiangdong general into the air, then shook his hand and pierced the body of the Jiangdong general with a spear, and hung him on the spear like this. He smiled arrogantly: "Jiangdong rats, that's all they can do.
You dare to attack my master Huwei even though you are capable!? You are really overestimating your capabilities!"
Lu Meng was beaten to pieces, and finally regained consciousness. What he saw was the corpses of Jiangdong soldiers all over the ground, and Hou Cheng's arrogant voice came from the distance. He couldn't help spitting out a mouthful of blood, and looked at it angrily.
Looking in the direction of Hou Cheng, he turned around and submerged into the rain curtain. Although he was annoyed by Hou Cheng's rampage, how could he fight against that Hou Cheng in his current state?
Stumbling all the way back, the rain began to fall heavily. Hou Cheng obviously didn't want to go forward in the rain, so he probably started looking for a place to hide from the rain. Lu Meng ran back for more than ten miles, and saw that the sky was getting dark, and a faint figure appeared in front of him.
At the camp, Lu Meng looked intently and saw that it was Jiang Qin's camp. He was overjoyed and quickly gathered up his strength and ran away.
The soldiers who were guarding the camp gate quickly drew their bows and arrows when they saw someone coming.
"It's me, Lu Meng!" Lu Meng shouted hoarsely.
The soldiers at the camp gate saw Lu Meng's appearance clearly and relaxed their guard. They opened the door to let Lu Meng in and sent someone to notify Jiang Qin.
Jiang Qin was not too surprised when he heard that Lu Meng was defeated. After all, Zhou Yu's order was to fake defeat, but when he saw Lu Meng's appearance clearly, he couldn't help but be shocked.
"Ziming, although the governor asked you to fake defeat, he didn't let you defeat so cleanly!" Jiang Qin looked at Lu Meng's appearance and frowned.
Lu Meng smiled bitterly when he heard this and said sadly: "The last general has really been defeated. His soldiers fled in all directions, and there are not many of them along the way."
"I heard from Chen Deng that although Hou Cheng is good at martial arts, his military skills are mediocre. How many troops does he have?" Jiang Qin frowned.
According to what Chen Deng said, although Hou Cheng's ability was high among Lu Bu's subordinates, he was far from the first echelon. He was just an ordinary general. The ninth secret of the Imperial Army only knew the third secret. He was domineering and arrogant and relied on his martial arts.
Doesn't sound like a powerful person.
Although Lü Meng is young, he has good talents and is not weak in commanding troops. According to Jiang Qin and Lü Meng's previous discussion, Lü Meng can really fight. In Jiang Qin's opinion, Lü Meng is not as good as Hou Cheng.
He won the battle, but he didn't expect to come back defeated.
"This person is quite arrogant, but he is also very capable. He can change formations quickly and is far inferior to the generals in the end." Lu Meng was a little frustrated. According to Chen Deng, Hou Cheng was just a third-rate person who was determined to squeeze into the second-rate ranks.
Now that he has been beaten to the point where he is unable to fight back, is he not even as good as a third-rate person?
For a time, Lu Meng fell into deep frustration.
Jiang Qin asked people to get clean clothes for Lu Meng. Seeing his appearance, he shook his head and said, "Zi Ming, don't be discouraged. You are still young now, but Hou Cheng is nearly fifty years old. Even if we lose today, we will fight again tomorrow."
, you may not lose to him, just take a good rest and I will meet him tomorrow!"
After appeasing Lu Meng, Jiang Qin also stopped looking down on Hou Cheng. At the same time, he suspected that Chen Deng was setting them up. Hou Cheng's behavior was by no means as useless as Chen Deng said, so he immediately sent someone to deliver a message.
Tell Zhou Yu to make this clear. Hou Cheng should not be underestimated!