Lu Meng's defeat was a bit of a surprise to Zhou Yu. It seemed that the generals under Lu Bu were not as unbearable as Chen Deng said. Whether Chen Deng did it intentionally or not, Zhou Yu didn't care, and he couldn't care at this time, otherwise a war would begin.
, it is not a good thing to start a chaotic situation within your own house.
"Lü Bu's army is present in Sheyang, Haixi, Lingxian and other places. It's not just Hou Chengyi. The bandits are attacking everywhere with the advantage of cavalry. It's really annoying!" Zhou Yu clicked on the map and looked at everyone.
"Commander, why don't we all go out and drive them away?" Tai Shici frowned.
"There is no need for this. These are just small groups. Let's look at their style. If our army is small, they will get entangled. If our army is large, we will withdraw immediately. If our main force is exhausted, we will only fall into Lu Bu's scheme.
Being led by these small groups of cavalry is a waste of energy, and it is difficult to achieve success." Zhou Yu shook his head and rejected this proposal. In war, we cannot let the enemy lead us by the nose.
"The Xiongnu in the north like this kind of warfare, and all the Xianbei tribes like to use it." Han Dang looked at the map and said with some nostalgia.
"General Yi Gong, how did the frontier fortress deal with Hu Qi?" Ling Cao looked at Han Dang curiously. Han Dang was from Youzhou and followed Sun Jian to fight from east to west. He was from Wuwan, Xianbei, Xiongnu, etc.
For Ling Cao, who was born in the south, Han Dang's experience was legendary.
"We have always been riding against each other, and there are many cavalry on the frontier. Lu Bu had a good reputation in the frontier in his early years. Before I followed my old master, I heard that he often chased the Hu tribe single-handedly, and the cavalry cooperated with the imperial guards.
Most of the Ninth Secret of the Army, Xiongnu, and Xianbei had no choice but to wait for death, but later on, some of these barbarians began to learn how to fight against the Ninth Secret of the Army." Han Dang said with emotion.
Not only Lu Bu, many famous generals in the north have been on the border battlefields, such as Lu Bu, Dong Zhuo, Sun Jian, and Gongsun Zan. The Han's method of dealing with Hu cavalry is also simple, using cavalry against cavalry. Although the Hu cavalry
He is good at riding and shooting, but the Han army has the Nine Secretaries of the Imperial Army, so he can suppress the barbarians without breathing.
But later, as the Hu people also figured out tactics similar to the Nine Secrets of the Imperial Army, the suppression effect was not as good as before, but they could still suppress it, especially for border generals like Lu Bu. The Hu people basically heard
Just leave after your name. Generally, it will be too late to leave after seeing the flag.
"Our army does not have cavalry. So, don't we have to let them harass us like this?" Chen Wu was a little depressed. There was a lack of cavalry in Jiangdong. When the horses arrived in Jiangdong, it was difficult to send them. Secondly, even if they were sent, the price would be very high.
It was also ridiculously expensive. Sun Ce had just settled in Jiangdong and had no ability to organize cavalry. This was not a problem in the south, but when he encountered princes like Lu Bu who were good at cavalry on the north bank, the disadvantage became apparent.
"Shrink the defense line, and transport food mainly by water. In addition..." Zhou Yu drew a few lines and said: "We are not good at riding on horseback, but the enemy is not good at water fighting. If we want to fight, why should we let them challenge us?
Field? These waterways should be widened. As long as they dare to cross the river, with the ability of all the generals, they will never come back!"
"Of course." Huang Gai and others looked at the map and immediately laughed and said, anyway, Guangling is a vast area with few people, so a few cities will be given to the opponent. As long as Lu Bu is defeated, the city will still be theirs.
After losing it, the remaining cities are concentrated in the dense waterways. As long as the opponent's cavalry dares to come, there will be no return.
"Let's talk about Hou Cheng. This is Lu Bu's vanguard. If he can be destroyed, it will definitely frustrate Lu Bu's spirit. But now it seems that this person's ability is acceptable. Lu Meng has been defeated. Tomorrow General Jiang Qin will be able to defeat him.
Lead here." Zhou Yu looked at Chen Deng and said with a smile: "Whether this person can be trapped or killed depends on Yuan Long's ability."
It is not difficult to kill Hou Cheng, but it depends on who does it. This is what Zhou Yu specially left for Chen Deng.
Chen Deng nodded: "Don't worry, Gong Jin, I have prepared an ambush. As long as General Jiang Qin can bring Na Hou Cheng here, he will never come back!"
On the other side, Hou Cheng won the first battle and was somewhat proud of himself. Chen Deng's judgment of his character was correct and he was prone to arrogance. After defeating the Jiangdong soldiers and horses in the first battle with overwhelming force, Hou Cheng sent people to report the victory to the rear. The next day
Early in the morning, we continued to move forward and met Jiang Qin who was closing his camp and preparing for war.
The rain had stopped, and Hou Cheng stood on horseback in the forest. As the flags were waving, the formation had changed. However, Jiang Qin had also completed the formation. Hou Cheng faced off with him for a long time, but could not find a flaw, so he could only advance step by step.
Use power to suppress others, hoping to put pressure on Jiang Qin and create a loophole.
However, Jiang Qin was as immovable as a mountain, no matter how hard Hou Cheng forced him, he would not retreat even a hair.
This person is much better than the young general yesterday!
Seeing that there was no loophole to follow, Hou Cheng began to feel a little impatient. After he ordered his soldiers to shoot arrows but failed to hurt the opponent, he suddenly turned around and made a detour.
Seeing this, Jiang Qin changed his formation and seemed to want to stop Hou Cheng.
However, Hou Cheng took the opportunity to change his formation and attacked Jiang Qin while he was changing his formation.
"So fast!" This time, Jiang Qin personally experienced the speed of Hou Cheng's formation changes. As Lu Meng said, the opponent's formation changes were extremely fast. Even though Jiang Qin was prepared, he almost couldn't keep up.
Jiang Qin looked at his formation and found that although the rebel army was strong, it was not stronger than his own. However, the power of the formation and the speed of formation changes were still higher than his own. How did he do this?
When he was puzzled, the two sides fought for a while, and it was difficult to tell the winner. Hou Cheng was good at fast attacks. As the time dragged on, Hou Cheng gradually became a little irritable. The three thousand soldiers combined their morale and machine into one, and they were actually rude.
He came straight towards Jiang Qin, hoping to kill him quickly and kill him in the middle of the army to defeat the enemy.
Jiang Qin saw this, but he was not afraid. He rolled up the long knife in his hand, and the already clear sky seemed to be raining again. Hou Cheng raised his spear to hold it, but he felt that although the sword was not heavy, there was something inside.
A force, like an undercurrent, surges forward and becomes stronger and stronger.
If this continues, you will lose!
Hou Cheng was so aware that he quickly slipped his spear and took off Jiang Qin's long knife. Then his energy exploded, and the energy gathered by the three thousand soldiers turned into a violent explosion, and he was mad at Jiang Qin.
output.
Jiang Qin struggled with Hou Cheng for more than fifty rounds. Seeing that Hou Cheng was about to run out of energy, Jiang Qin seemed to be weak. He feinted with his sword to force Hou Cheng back, then turned around and left.
Hou Cheng was enjoying the fight when he saw that the other party was escaping. He was not willing to give in. He immediately led his troops and horses and used a "Feng" secret to rush towards the direction where Jiang Qin escaped. The two sides chased each other and ran for fifty miles.
, when he arrived at a mountain forest, Jiang Qin suddenly accelerated, threw Hou Cheng away and disappeared from sight.
Hou Cheng, who was chasing vigorously, suddenly felt shocked when he saw this. He thought that both parties were already at the fastest speed, but he did not expect that the other party could suddenly accelerate at this time. In other words, this person had retained his strength before.
"Retreat!" Hou Cheng reined in his horse and looked around. This place was not a dangerous place, but Jiang Qin obviously had enough energy to deliberately bring himself here. There must be a ghost here!
At that moment, Hou Cheng turned his horse's head and wanted to evacuate.
"There must be a city here!" Just when Hou Cheng wanted to evacuate this place, he saw a city wall suddenly erected on the ground. Hou Cheng looked around and saw that there were walls of earth rising up, surrounding Hou Cheng.
The troops are surrounded in the middle.
"Chen Deng!?" Hou Cheng looked around. Unless he was a great Confucian like Chen Gong, before breaking through to the Great Confucian realm, only the Chen family, who had the ability to control earth, could combine the ability to control earth with words and magic.
Such things!
"Charge!" No one answered, but Hou Cheng didn't want to wait for the earth wall to be completely erected before leaving. He immediately shouted and rushed towards the nearest earth wall with three thousand soldiers and horses!
"This wall is indestructible!" Another person stood on the top of the wall and shouted, pointing at the city wall at his feet.
At the same time, several people appeared around him, and they also shouted that the wall was indestructible. There seemed to be people shouting outside the city wall.
How many people are there!?
Hou Cheng listened to the words coming from all around and was filled with hatred!
"Boom~"
The spear carrying the power of a thousand armies hit the city wall. The imagined scene of the wall collapsing did not appear. The strong energy penetrated the earth wall, earth and rocks splashed everywhere, and the city wall shook violently. However, it failed to shatter in the end.
There were countless Confucian scholars on the city wall and behind who were trying to improve the status of the city wall. Hou Cheng finally failed to break through the weak earth wall, and his spear broke directly. Then three thousand soldiers bumped into him, and he was completely suspended.
The army was destroyed.
"General Hou Cheng, you are also a general. Lu Bu's rebellious behavior is not tolerated by the world. Why should the general continue to follow him? If you had surrendered earlier, you could be appointed as a general in the future. It is better than dying here!" Chen
Gui's figure appeared on the city wall, looking down at Hou Cheng and sighing.
"Chen Gui, old man, my master treats you well. How dare you collude with Jiangdong and plot evil!?" Hou Cheng pointed the spear in his hand at Chen Gui and shouted loudly.
"It's useless to talk more. The general should surrender as soon as possible!" Chen Gui shook his head and sighed.
"It's just an earthen city, but you want to trap me!?" Hou Cheng looked around, sneered, turned the horse's head and led the people as if to leave, suddenly turned around, without saying a word, half of the spear in his hand was already pointing towards Chen
Throw it over.
"Bang~"
A wall of earth suddenly rose up on the ground to block Chen Gui. Although the spear was powerful, it only threw up a cloud of dust when it hit the earth wall, unable to shake the sudden earth wall.
"It seems that the general would rather die than surrender?" Chen Gui looked at Hou Cheng and said with some disappointment.
"I, the son of Bingzhou, can only die in battle. When will we surrender?" Hou Cheng took a spear handed over by his subordinates and said proudly: "Old man, today I will destroy your earthen city!"
"What a pity." Chen Gui looked at Hou Cheng, shook his head and sighed.
However, around the earthen wall, people began to walk up the city wall. Hou Cheng looked around and his eyes froze, but he saw that those people were constantly throwing some fire starters into the city.
"Shoot arrows and shoot them!" Hou Cheng shouted quickly, clearly intending to burn himself to death.
Whoosh whoosh~
Sharp arrows shot out of the air, intending to kill those people, but the strange thing was that when the arrows landed on these people, nothing happened to them.
"The general wants to kill, I can keep them closer!" Chen Gui laughed, and those people just slid down from the city wall, carrying their things on their backs and placing them on the ground in the massacre city.
Only then did Hou Cheng see clearly that they were all natives!
When he was lost in thought, a warning sign suddenly appeared in his heart. Before Hou Cheng could think about it carefully, Chen shouted: "Iron wall!"
Countless sharp thorns appeared on the ground all around. The ground beneath everyone's feet trembled for a while, and after a while, the thorns failed to come out.
Hou Cheng raised his head and looked at Chen Gui. Chen Gui said regretfully, "What a pity. The General's Ninth Secret Service seems to be quite diligent?"
Hou Chengxin looked at him with lingering fear, his eyes showing a cold light: "Old man, when I get out, I will kill you!"
Chen Gui smiled faintly and did not answer, but those earth puppets moved the fire objects faster, and many people were mixed in during the process.