The sky is high and the clouds are clear, and the mountain eagle, with its urgent whistle, flies over the mountains with withered autumn grass and into the green vastness with crisscrossed ravines.
On the narrow mountain road, a tired cavalry team was moving forward in a dusty way.
Cenbi leaped onto a slope and looked into the distance.
Bi Shui extends from east to west. The road becomes flatter as you go west, and the mountains on both sides gradually decrease.
Cen Bi knew that Biyang City was more than twenty miles away. After passing that small city, the road to Xinye would be smooth.
This is Xinpi's plan.
According to detailed reports, in addition to Yan Liang's main army, the more than 10,000 troops left behind were mostly stationed along the Yangtze River and in the northern Jingzhou area. In addition to the 4,000 troops in Wancheng, the remaining counties had even fewer troops.
The garrison in Xinye is only about 300 people.
At that time, Yan Liang took the Biyang Trail and made two sneak attacks on Xudu from Xinye. Today, Yuan Tan wants to follow the same pattern and make a sneak attack on Xinye from Xudu.
Once he breaks through Xinye, Yuan Tan will be able to cut off the connection between Jingbei and Jingnan, and the entire Jingzhou will be in chaos. Not only will Yan Liang's 40,000 troops have to retreat, but their morale will even collapse. The hero who saved the king of Wei from danger will be
It will be his Cenbi...
A look of pride appeared on Cen Bi's sweat-covered face.
As one of Yuan Tan's generals, Cen Bi was not a very outstanding one. If Jiang Qi, Sui Yuanjin and other senior generals had not died one after another, Yuan Tan would never have entrusted such a heavy responsibility on his shoulders.
"I, Cen Bi, am about to become famous all over the world, Yan Liang. I will use you as a stepping stone for me to become famous."
With a sneer, Cenbi leaped his horse down the hillside, urging his cavalry to continue moving quickly.
Unconsciously, the sun was setting in the west, and ahead was the valley entrance. Once out of the valley, Cen Bi and his cavalry could let go of their horses' hooves and charge towards the new wilderness at a speed as fast as the wind.
The excitement in Cen Bi's heart became more and more intense. He whipped his horsewhip desperately, wishing he could put on his wings and fly to new fields in an instant.
While running, Cen Bi suddenly noticed some unnatural lights shining on the mountain tops on both sides. Out of a soldier's intuition, he instinctively smelled an unknown smell.
"The whole army stopped advancing, stopped advancing——"
Cen Bi shouted loudly. The war horse neighed loudly and stopped abruptly.
The more than a thousand Yuan family cavalry under his command are in a narrow valley. The gray-white mountain walls on both sides are sloping toward the center, forcing them to line up in a long column. The widest part can only accommodate three cavalry.
parallel.
Cen Bi suddenly issued an order to stop advancing, causing the cavalry to halt their horses for a moment, and more than a thousand people were crowded together.
Looking up, on the top of a mountain not far away, Cen Bi suddenly saw more than a hundred Yan soldiers appearing like ghosts.
"What happened? I was actually ambushed!"
Cen Bi was shocked and immediately wanted to order the withdrawal of troops.
But Cen Bi soon discovered that these so-called ambush troops only numbered more than a hundred people within a few miles, and they did not seem to pose much of a threat.
If he ordered to continue advancing now, even though those ambush troops were equipped with strong bows and crossbows, but their numbers were limited, they might not be able to stop his thousand cavalry.
Cen Bi's mood quickly calmed down, and just when he made his decision, a sarcastic laugh erupted from the top of the mountain.
The man holding a long sword in his hand and looking down on Yuan Jun at the foot of the mountain was none other than Xu Shu.
Just a few days ago, Yan Liang and his advisers noticed something was wrong from Yuan Tan's initiative to advance the army. After some thinking, Yan Liang saw through Yuan Shao's conspiracy to attack Xinye.
Yan Liang, who saw through the plan, did not send heavy troops back to Xinye to set up defenses. Instead, he sent only Xu Shu back to Xinye quietly.
Xu Shu, who was returning to Xinye, had been waiting here for a long time with more than a hundred troops in Xinye City. Today, as Yan Liang expected, Yuan Jun's cavalry arrived.
"Listen, Yuan Jun down the mountain, my lord has seen through Yuan Tan's treacherous plan. You guys, why don't you dismount your horses and surrender."
Xu Shu's voice was like a loud bell, and he shouted loudly.
Cenbi in the valley road heard Xu Shu's words of persuasion to surrender and couldn't help but get furious. He thought to himself, "What if you, Yan Liang, have seen through my king's plan? Do you think that with more than a hundred people, you want to block my way?"
Angry, Cen Bi raised his gun and shouted: "Brothers, rush up the mountain, kill these arrogant enemy troops, and then attack Xinye."
Thousands of Yuan's troops roared loudly, shouting to kill and were about to charge towards the mountain.
At this time, Xu Shu sneered and raised his hand.
More than a hundred soldiers quickly raised the crossbows they had prepared.
Yuan Rong's crossbow!
Cen Bi was shocked for a moment, and then he realized how the opponent dared to ambush his thousand cavalry with only a hundred men. It turned out that they were equipped with Yuan Rong's repeated crossbows.
"No, I've fallen into a trap. The whole army retreats. Retreat quickly..."
Cenbi turned around and screamed.
Before he finished speaking, in the next moment, thousands of crossbow arrows shot out of the sky from the top of the valley, falling with a sharp whistling sound.
Yuan Jun, who was unprepared, was frightened by this sudden and overwhelming wave of death.
Most of the soldiers had no time to take off the wooden shields tied to their backs, and were instantly shot into hedgehogs by the iron arrows that struck fiercely.
Yuan Jun's army fell to the ground like straw cut by a sickle, with shrill screams, and the screams shocked the hearts of nearby companions.
Many cavalrymen were even nailed to the mountain wall with their horses. Their hands and feet were still twitching and shaking even before they died.
In the valley, dull "puff" sounds kept coming and going, which was the terrifying sound of arrows digging into flesh and blood.
Before the remaining Yuan troops could recover from the shock, a second dense volley followed, then the third, fourth, fifth...
Crazy crossbows and offensive attacks devastated Yuan's army like an avalanche, causing their formation and fighting will to completely collapse along with their strength, causing the valley to be splashed with ferocious blood.
The Yuan Army's cavalry were all at a loss under the onslaught of arrows. They galloped aimlessly and howled like crazy until they were impaled on the ground.
Above the head, Yan Jun's arrow rain even blocked the sunlight at the top of the valley. As the intensity of the attacks increased, a thin layer of blood mist actually rose from the blood flowers at the bottom of the valley.
At this time, Cen Bi had no hope of making a name for himself. He knew that the situation was out of control, so he could only follow the defeated cavalry and flee towards the mouth of the valley.
The terrain would be flat after leaving the valley mouth. Only by regrouping there, he and the remaining troops would still have hope of turning defeat into victory.
As for Cen Bi, who was running away, he had been hit by two arrows. He was just running away, unaware that the blood was flowing.
At the end of the seventh formation, Yuan Jun had completely collapsed.
The originally menacing cavalry team turned into a mass of panic and fear. The surviving enemy troops just wanted to escape from this Shura hell-like place as soon as possible.
There are fewer and fewer subordinates around Cen Bi.
An arrow roared in, and the last soldier beside him was shot through the head by a crossbow, and he fell to the horse with a wailing sound. The blood spurted from the wound splashed all over his face, blurring his vision.
Xu Shu stood on the top of the mountain and watched Yuan Jun's chaos, but still did not order to stop firing arrows.
Although he had only a hundred crossbowmen, Yuan Rong's crossbows fired thousands of arrows, and they continued like an endless wave.
Cen Bi was lucky. Although he was hit by several arrows, his heavy armor was not pierced by the iron arrows. With the protection of the iron armor, he ran desperately and rushed out of the valley mouth alive.
Just when Cen Bi had no time to rejoice, the horse under his crotch suddenly whined and fell forward.
The poor beast's front hooves were pierced with horse tacks scattered all over the valley entrance. Although the horse armor protected it from crossbow attacks, it could not protect him from such small things that were not easy to detect.
Cenbi, who was thrown to the ground, rolled heavily for several weeks before he came to a stop. The horse-trapping nails all over the place actually dug countless bloody holes in all the exposed skin on his face and hands.
Cen Bi, who was in severe pain, held on for a breath and managed to get up.
Just when he was about to escape on foot, Liu Pi came towards him, slapping his horse and wielding his sword, roaring towards him with ferocious murderous intent.
In an instant, the iron tower-like figure passed by him. Liu Pi did not hesitate and swept his sword across it like the wind.
Then, the bloody human head flew into the air.
At the top of the mountain, Xu Shu, who had witnessed Liu Pi's execution, looked down at the floating corpses all over the mountain and sneered lightly.
"Hurry and report to the lord that all the enemy thieves who attacked Xinye have been killed."
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Three days later, Xiangcheng.
There was a dead silence in the Chinese army tent.
Everyone was downcast and silent, not even daring to make a loud sound.
Xinpi looked even more panicked, with big beads of sweat rolling down his forehead.
After the military incident, Yuan Tan's face was ashen, and his eyes were filled with anger and fear.
A thousand cavalrymen, the only remaining cavalrymen in his hands, were all killed and wounded in this way, died inexplicably, and died in such humiliation.
At this time, Yuan Tan could even imagine that Yan Liang, dozens of miles away, was mocking his own clumsy strategy in such a mocking manner.
As for the uneasy mood and low fighting spirit of the soldiers outside the tent, Yuan Tan felt the same.
In shock and anger, Yuan Tan raised his head fiercely and glared at Xinpi with blazing eyes.
"Xinpi, is this your clever plan? Where is your guarantee and where is your victory?"
Yuan Tan shouted angrily, and his fierce anger made everyone around him tremble.
Xin Pi was so frightened that his legs became weak, fearing that Yuan Tan would do something immeasurable in his anger.
"Subordinate... Yan Liang, that bitch..." In panic, Xinpi stammered and didn't know how to respond.
The more Yuan Tan looked at him, the angrier he became, and shouted again: "If you don't give me an explanation today, I will definitely not spare you lightly."
The threatening words shocked Xinpi like exposing himself.
Amid anxiety and fear, Xinpi's thoughts were racing, and in his panic, a glimmer of light suddenly flashed in his eyes.
He hurriedly held up his hands and said: "My plan is wrong. Please calm down, Your Majesty. I have another plan here, and I will definitely make up for it."