On the eighth day of the eighth month, on the bank of the Fen River, Pingyang County, more than 200 miles north of Linfen County.

It was already the fourteenth day since Lu Bu led his troops south, fought in a stalemate, and then he had to retreat after hearing that he was attacked.

In fourteen days, Lu Bu lost Cheng Lian, a side-level teacher, and failed to get any substantial results. He was forced to turn back by Zhang Fei-Ma Chao, who unexpectedly appeared on the same route.

Starting from the fifth day of the lunar month, he retreated from Linfen to marches north, and gave up part of the baggage to reduce the load, so that the maneuvering speed of the infantry troops could be improved. He walked north along the Fen River for 200 miles in three days.

In the end, he only got the control of the field by Fazheng, ensuring that Zhang Fei-Ma Chao arrived at the battlefield almost at the same time.

Lu Bu didn't want to endure such a withdrawal, so he decided to stop and fight. Even if he had to fight with all the main forces of the enemy at the same time, even if the frontal battlefield had to bear the disadvantage of number of people and equipment at the same time, he would have to endure it.

More importantly, during the previous process of Lu Bu heading south, he easily occupied Pingyang County, which originally belonged to Hedong County. Zhang Fei and Xu Huang deliberately let him in at that time and did not leave any defenders in Pingyang.

Lu Bu realized that if he insisted on retreating north now, once he was forced to fight in field by the Han army on another battlefield and was defeated in field battles, his combat power of 30,000 infantry would have to end up being wiped out by the entire army.

There is no danger to defend on other battlefields, and there is no place to escape if you lose. His nearly 30,000 cavalry is better, and he has the advantage of speed. In addition, he can definitely stop Ma Chao from breaking the back himself. However, the infantry runs too slowly, and if he loses, he will be completely wiped out.

So, if you make a last try in Pingyang County, there is an additional opportunity:

If Zhang Fei and Ma Chao and Xu Huang were defeated at the same time, then 50,000 or 60,000 troops would retreat. Even if he was defeated, he could still escape with all the cavalry and cut off his back personally, but let Wei Xu take the infantry to retreat into Pingyang County and then stubbornly defend.

There is still some food in Pingyang County, which is enough for Wei Xu to eat for a while. With the protection of the city wall, it is difficult for Zhang Fei and Ma Chao to break through immediately. It is possible to wait for a while for more opportunities.

Although the probability of turning around is very slim, Lu Bu was defeated back to Taiyuan and was unable to rescue Wei Xu and the main infantry force. Can it be done after returning? No one came to save him. Wei Xu was besieged for several months, or Zhang Fei dispatched a siege weapon from the rear to attack, and Wei Xu would eventually be destroyed.

But no matter what, chronic death is better than death immediately. The probability is lower, at least there is hope, and it can also buy time for the re-arrangement of Taiyuan's old nest.

On the morning of the eighth day of the eighth month, shortly after the army set out, Lu Bu suddenly turned his head and rushed towards Zhang Fei in the south after he asked his troops to march north for more than ten miles.

No matter how good Fa Zheng's micro-train is, when the two armies are less than 30 miles apart, the enemy's change of formation when they kick the door is caught off guard.

After all, Lu Bu is fighting inside, and all his troops are in one punch, which will definitely pull out a slight time difference between Zhang Fei and Ma Chao's arrival on the battlefield.

Fa Zheng made up for it repeatedly, and used the fastest scout to notify Ma Chao to speed up immediately. The time difference was at least half an hour.

In other words, Lu Bu can fight with Zhang Fei and Xu Huang's troops alone for half an hour before Ma Chao can arrive at the battlefield.

If Zhang Fei can't hold on in this half hour, Lu Bu will get the opportunity to "break each time difference", defeat Zhang Fei and then turn around to face Ma Chao.

However, Zhang Fei and Xu Huang had more than 30,000 people in total, and nearly 40,000 people. With Zhang Fei's talent, how could he not be able to hold on to Lu Bu's full-strength attack for half an hour?

"General Zhang, I didn't expect that Lu Bu would change his formation and turn back at the last moment. It was because I was incompetent in dispatching and I really couldn't fight for you in a better state of fighting." Fa Zheng saw Lu Bu's army coming like a tide and sincerely admitted his mistake to Zhang Fei.

"I don't have to do this! It's not your business. You have done a good job. Isn't it just fighting alone in Lu Bu's army for half an hour? If there was no such incident, why do I have to do?"

Zhang Fei is very open-minded: We are responsible for dealing with emergencies! If all the wars are as thorough and perfect as planned by the strategists, what else should the front-line generals do? Famous generals are used to perform at this time!

The two armies rushed to set up their formation and launched a bloody battle of tens of thousands of people on the west coast of the Fen River.

Lu Bu's army had more than 55,000 people, and Zhang Fei and Xu Huang's two units had a total of 37,000 people. On the long battlefield with a width of more than 20 miles east-west, they collided violently together in depth. Later generations were known as the Battle of Pingyang.

Zhang Fei attacked from the south to the north, and he himself was on the left, Xu Huang was on the right, and Xu Huang's side was Fen River, which could not be detoured.

Similarly, Lu Bu on the opposite side attacked from the north to the south. He himself faced Zhang Fei, Wei Xu, and Cao Xing faced Xu Huang. Wei Xu's left side was also Fen River, so there was no need to worry about going around the back.

"The slaves from the three surnames died! Don't think they didn't dare to fight you a few days ago! They were just afraid that you would lose and run away. Today is your death date!"

"The ring-eyed thief is killed! You won't live, Ma Chao is here!"

The snake spear and the painting halberd intersect again, and the sound of gold and iron clashing loudly and excitedly. The difference is that this time they did not fight like the generals like the previous few days, but instead fought with thousands of troops behind them.

Zhang Fei and Lu Bu fought for only three short moves, and then passed by, rushed to the depths of the enemy's formation, and then crazily stabbed and stabbed the cavalry behind the enemy's chief general.

With Zhang Fei and Lu Bu's martial arts, their personal soldiers and cavalry naturally suffered the disaster, and almost all of them were enemies without a single enemy under their command.

After sprinting to slow down, more than a dozen Lu Bu's personal guards died at Zhang Fei's hands, and more than a dozen Zhang Fei's personal guards died at Lu Bu's hands.

In particular, many of the personal guards and cavalry around Zhang Fei are equipped with plate armor. Lu Bu's halberd branch can only cut through weak positions or embedded in the armor cracks at most, and cannot cause fatal injuries that must be killed with one blow.

But even so, Lu Bu's killing efficiency is still so amazing, which shows that he has fully adapted to the experience of fighting with all-body plate armored cavalry.

Either you stab and kill people with the halberd's forward accurately, or you can use small branches to carefully cut the gap in the neck under the opponent's helmet, pull and lift off the helmet, and then wipe the neck with the helmet, completely like a precise and terrifying killing machine.

The cavalry on both sides made a ball of meat, and the broken limbs and broken arms were stacked together. The piles were piled higher and higher, almost causing the war horses to be tripped and lost, and the soldiers fought and buried their heels. Even so, some people standing in the pile of corpses could not pull out their feet and could only stand in a stance and wave their weapons in vain.

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Since there is a detour space on the west side of the battlefield and the water on the east side is adjacent to the water, both sides have moved the main force of the cavalry to the west side in an attempt to obtain a larger front width of the battlefield than the enemy, and go around the enemy's flanks or attack behind the back.

On the east side of the river, Wei Xu and Xu Huang were both dignified heavy infantry soldiers lined up to cut each other, shooting at each other without any maneuvering pulling or fancy.

Among the troops Zhang Fei brought this time, there was also a battalion-sized army soldiers, all of whom were armored. At this moment, he was left to Xu Huang to lead and rushed forward.

The two wings of the Iron Armored Ruiz are square arrays equipped with super long spears such as quadrilateral guns. The front row of spearmen also wears breastplates to hold the gun bars with both hands, and obtain a longer stab distance and a better assassination effect.

The back row is an ordinary crossbowman and even an elite equipped with divine arm crossbows. Zhang Fei's army has equipped two thousand divine arm crossbows that were only rushing to be produced in the second half of this year. This scale is already relatively humble compared with the divine arm crossbows equipped by Guan Yu's army.

After all, Guan Yu was the main force before, and all good equipment must be given priority to Guan Yu. Guan Yu's army has accumulated tens of thousands of divine arm crossbows. Zhang Fei's two thousand sets were created by the Chang'an generals during this period after Yuan Shao launched an offensive on the front line.

However, for the Bingzhou soldiers, who were directly under Lu Bu, it was the first time they had seen the extremely long lethality of the Divine Arm Crossbow. Previously, this weapon was splashed on Yuan Shao's Jizhou Army and died. Lu Bu had never been beaten like this because of his preservation of his strength.

Therefore, when we were truly facing the suppression of the divine arm crossbow, Wei Xu's troops still had obvious panic.

Cao Xing, who saw the enemy's firepower fiercely, also took out his own special heavy five-stone strong bow. He targeted several officers who suppressed and commanded the Han army's crossbow formation and shot three or four Qu Chang and a military Sima in a row, which made Xu Huang's divine arm crossbow formation fall into a brief chaotic dispatch.

However, Xu Huang also quickly noticed the abnormality on the opposite side, especially Cao Xing took the opportunity to shoot Xu Huang's arrows, but Xu Huang was wearing iron armor, and the powerful bow of the counting stones could only cause some skin trauma.

Only one arrow shot on the knee between Xu Huang's skirt armor and iron boots, which was not protected. In this position, there was only two parts of steel connected by leather armor, and several inches of flesh were penetrated through the leather armor. Xu Huang fell to the ground in pain and was rescued by his personal soldiers.

Xu Huang had already discovered Cao Xing's position and angrily ordered the two thousand divine arm crossbowmen to concentrate firepower to cover them. In a moment, a small piece of Wei Xu's army was cleared, and more than a hundred people around Cao Xing were shot and killed. Cao Xing was also hit by several arrows and was crushed back.

As Wei Xu's command center was suppressed by Xu Huang, the main infantry force of the Bingzhou Army gradually fell into decline, and it was gradually unstoppable under the storm of the four-pyramid gun array and the iron armored horse sword trapping troops. Although the number of people was superior, they gradually retreated.

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After half an hour of bloody killing, Lu Bu suddenly found that his 55,000 people were dealing with Zhang Fei's 37,000 people, but he did not gain an advantage. It was just that the cavalry had a slight advantage on the side of the detour, but the side of the infantry formation battle had a greater disadvantage.

Before he could transform the advantage of the cavalry side into a successful roundabout encirclement, the infantry on Wei Xu's side was about to be broken through by Xu Huang, and it was completely penetrated.

Lu Bu could only try his best to add fuel to Wei Xu's remaining reserve team to ensure that Wei Xu was not penetrated, and all the only advantages on the cavalry side were sent back.

"It turns out that even without Ma Chao, I can't take much advantage! How can I fight this battle? Why don't our Bingzhou soldiers have such excellent equipment and such strong and excellent war horses with excellent loads!"

Lu Bu was filled with unwillingness, but in the end he waited for Ma Chao 15,000 cavalrymen behind him to arrive at the battlefield and launched a back-sprint charge.

Lu Bu did not even repel Zhang Fei. How could he make the entire army turn around to face Ma Chao? He could only make the back row turn around and resist the attack.

Ma Chao's 15,000 people are not too bullying Lu Bu. Because Ma Chao has to take into account the mobility of the army's large-scale strategic transfer, there are still only 5,000 cavalry who are full of plate armor, and the remaining 10,000 are light cavalrymen in leather armor, and bows and guns are used together.

The only one who launched the first wave of backsprint charges was five thousand iron cavalry. Others chose to harasse themselves when Lu Bu's army was in chaos before they could come up to fight to harvest.

But this was enough. Lu Bu had no advantage at all. After half an incense stick, he fell into a constant collapse under the bloody slaughter of the back prick.

Wei Xu was killed in a mess and fled into Pingyang City with his remaining soldiers and shivered. In order to prevent the pursuers from taking the opportunity to steal the city, Wei Xu blocked at least five or six thousand teams of back teams without entering the city, so he rushed to close the city gate and block it. Of course, the wounded soldiers who did not enter the city and the infantry who broke the rear could only choose to surrender directly in despair.

Seeing that things were not done, Lu Bu roared and retreated decisively with his cavalry. He also cut off the back as promised.

Xu Huang surrounded the southern gate of Pingyang and tried to clean up the battlefield and crazily arrested Wei Xu's infantry prisoners of Bingzhou, and divided the encirclement and forced landing.

Zhang Fei himself led hundreds of personal guards and the main force of Ma Chao to pursue Lu Bu.

Zhang Fei and Ma Chao worked together to fight with Lu Bu who was cut off the rear.

Because Ma Chao was stabbing around the back, he rushed to the battlefield first, so he fought with Lu Bu for seventy or eighty rounds. Then Zhang Fei arrived at the battlefield. The two of them started to thrust violently.

After only more than thirty rounds, Lu Bu's halberd technique gradually dissipated, and his physical strength after a long bloody battle was a little too high.

Zhang Fei was in similar situation to him. Both of them had spent an hour on bloody battle, but Ma Chao was a new force who had just started fighting and was very physically strong.

After a total of 150 rounds, Ma Chao came with a gun and arrogance, and was as proud as a dragon. Taking advantage of the opportunity that Lu Bu's painting halberd was entangled by Zhang Fei's snake spear, he took the opportunity to take the door of Lu Bu in front of him.

Lu Bu rose up and dodged all over his body, but was stabbed on the decorative wing of his helmet. A hole was cut and flew directly to the ground.

Lu Bu felt his head buzzing and instinctively abandoned Fang Tian Huaji, took out his sword and drove his horse and fled, and ordered his personal guards to swear to cover the situation to death. Zhang Fei and Ma Chao were entangled and killed dozens of personal guards around Lu Bu. Only then did Lu Bu, who was thrown off his armor and abandoned his artifacts, reduce his load and use his horse speed to run away.

Ma Chao: "The Red Rabbit Horse is worthy of being a member of sweat and blood. Its endurance and speed are first-class, but it is not enough to carry weights. Lu Bu is willing to abandon his weapons and escape with heavy armor, but he still can't catch up."

Zhang Fei: "The slaves of these three surnames are so afraid of death. Well, I remember Zilong often boasted that this was the case when he killed Lu Bu, who was exhausted.

Although we can't kill him today, it's almost the same as when Zilong was trying to get a bargain. From now on, it's my second brother's turn to envy Zilong and me."

The two gathered their troops to chase and killed them for a while, and wiped out more than 3,000 Lu Bu's slow-running troops. The remaining troops completely ran away, and then Zhang Fei and Ma Chao withdrew their troops and went back to meet Xu Huang.

As for Wei Xu's men and horses, as long as Lu Bu escaped, he would be just a turtle in a jar and could be eaten at any time.
Chapter completed!