Zhang Fei instantly knocked away the soldiers on the opposite side with his spear. The spear was like a meteor, stabbing five soldiers to death in an instant. There was a gap in Cheng Pu's military formation, and Zhang Fei excitedly entered the gap.
At the same time, the two armies charged together, and many soldiers were stabbed to death with spears. The battlefield was filled with the smell of blood! Soon blood flowed into a river!
Although Cheng Pu's army was Sun Jian's elite force, a large number of soldiers would fall in each round when fighting Zhang Fei's army. Liu Bei and Zhang Yan captured everyone's ceramic armor during the battle, and he went
Xiliang later asked Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping to go to the Tengjia Army's territory to purchase a large number of ceramic armors, almost 20,000 sets.
Although these armors are not as good as iron armor, their defensive power far exceeds that of leather armor. Therefore, Zhang Fei's army has already surpassed Cheng Pu's men in terms of equipment. In addition, the Xiliang soldiers' combat effectiveness is generally stronger than that of the Jingzhou army. Soon Cheng
Pu's army was defeated steadily by Zhang Fei's soldiers.
Zhang Fei danced his spear very fast, stabbing one person to death, and then knocked the person away and knocked over four or five soldiers. With his strong combat power, Cheng Pu's army formation was constantly broken into by Zhang Fei! Zhang Fei's side
The soldiers continued to expand the opening along Zhang Fei's breach, hoping to completely tear Cheng Pu's military formation apart!
After Cheng Pu discovered the brave and invincible Zhang Fei, he immediately led his own guards to block him! A spear blocked Zhang Fei's spear!
Zhang Fei was surprised and said: "You are quite strong, but you didn't retreat!"
Cheng Pu didn't say anything but stabbed Zhang Fei in the throat with his spear! Zhang Fei dodged it, and then used all his strength to strike straight down with his spear. Cheng Pu blocked it with his spear, and both sides' spears were broken.
Zhang Fei immediately pulled out his sword, and Cheng Pu also pulled out his spare long sword, and the two fought with their swords.
Zhang Fei slashed at Cheng Pu eleven times. Although Cheng Pu resisted with all his strength, he would take a step back every time he resisted. Cheng Pu kept retreating until his body was blocked by his own soldiers. But his arms had already
Zhang Fei was so shocked that he could no longer lift it up.
Just when Zhang Fei was about to kill Cheng Pu, two of Cheng Pu's guards stood in front of Cheng Pu, and the remaining guards took Cheng Pu away. When Zhang Fei killed Cheng Pu's two guards, Cheng Pu
Pu has disappeared.
Zhang Fei said angrily: "I didn't expect it to be so difficult to kill a general. I really don't know how my second brother killed Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju in the first place!"
Brother Liu Guan and Zhang Zhang were already somewhat famous as Liu Bei. Later, Guan Yu killed Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju in the midst of thousands of troops. Guan Yu's bravery shocked the entire Han Dynasty and was praised by the entire Han Dynasty as a fierce general who could defeat ten thousand enemies. Zhang Fei thought about his martial arts.
Not much worse than his second brother, he also wanted to complete such a move so that the entire Han Dynasty would know his reputation! It was only through Zhang Fei's practice that he discovered how difficult it is to kill a general with a formation!
Without Cheng Pu's command, Zhang Fei led his soldiers to kill and retreat Cheng Pu's men, and soon divided Cheng Pu's men into two groups. Zhang Fei commanded his men to surround these soldiers on three sides.
Cheng Pu's men saw themselves being surrounded, and their morale plummeted. In the end, they suffered from pressure other than death and fled to the rear for their lives.
Zhang Fei was overjoyed when he saw this scene and said: "Let's take advantage of the victory to pursue and kill all these rebellious ones!"
You can’t kill a general in formation, but it’s not bad to become a famous general who is victorious in every battle!
When Sun Jian saw Cheng Pu's defeat, he immediately ordered: "Order Huang Gai to lead people to support Cheng Pu, and order Zhu Zhi and Han Dang to lead the troops forward to deter Liu Bei's left and right armies!"
The messenger quickly conveyed Sun Jian's order.
Huang Gai immediately led his army forward to support Cheng Pu!
After Liu Bei found out, he ordered Guan Yu to lead his troops to support Zhang Fei!
After Liu Bei saw Sun Jian's entire army pressing down on the Chinese army, he laughed and said: "Sun Jian's elite are all in the Chinese army. The combat power of his left and right armies is far inferior to that of his Chinese army. Many soldiers fled before the battle began."
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Jian Yong said: "Sun Jian only has 10,000 troops in his headquarters, and the other 20,000 are from Sun Jian's annexation of Jingzhou Governor Wang Rui! Although Wang Rui is a famous scholar, he is not good at fighting, and the soldiers he trains do not have much combat effectiveness!"
When Liu Bei heard this, his eyes lit up, and he ordered his left and right armies to attack Sun Jian's two armies. At the same time, he ordered Zhao Yun's cavalry to attack Sun Jian's left arm!
After receiving the order, Liu Bei's left and right wings attacked Sun Jian's two wings. The combat effectiveness of the soldiers on Sun Jian's two wings was indeed much worse than that of Sun Jian's central army. They were beaten back and forth as soon as they fought.
Zhu Zhi shouted: "Everyone, hold on, you can't continue to retreat! If you retreat again, you will be killed without mercy, and the archers will shoot at Liu Beijun!"
"Everyone shrink our formation and don't let Liu Bei's army break our formation. We must rely on each other!"
Although Zhu Zhi continued to command the army to resist, and even led his own guards to resist, the soldiers were far behind in terms of equipment, strength, and morale. Under his encouragement and command, his men still fought against Liu Bei's army.
Many people retreated and even ran away.
It's just that Zhu Zhi knew the dangers of deserters and left a group of soldiers behind. Any soldiers who dared to escape from the battlefield would be killed on the spot. He killed dozens of deserters. Only then did Zhu Zhi know that escape was a dead end and the only option was to fight desperately.
There is only one way out.
The same situation is almost the same for Han Dang on the other side. These Jingzhou soldiers are not their confidants at all. It only takes a few days to conquer them. They don't want to fight to the death for Sun Jian, so no matter how outstanding Han Dang's command is, they can't change their fate.
Faced with the fate of being beaten, he can only rush to the front to boost morale.
Zhao Yun realized that Zhu Zhi's army was already at the end of its strength, and another straw would crush them to death, so he shouted: "The whole army attacks!"
"Kill!" The cavalry brought up billowing smoke and continued to surge towards Sun Jian's army!
"Liu Bei's cavalry has launched an attack, Liu Bei's cavalry has launched an attack!" The billowing smoke made Sun Jian's soldiers unclear about how many enemies there were. They had not lost much, and Zhao Yun's dispatch became the straw that broke the camel's back.
As soon as Zhao Yun's cavalry charged into Sun Jian's army, these soldiers did not continue to fight, but immediately dropped their swords and turned around and ran away!
The soldiers ran and shouted: "The imperial army is too fierce, we are defeated, we are defeated!"
For a time, the army was defeated like a mountain, and Zhu Zhi's supervisory army could not resist the soldiers who kept running away.
Zhu Zhi saw the soldiers running away and knew that they were defeated, so he could only escape with his own guards!
Sun Jian saw his left wing collapsed and said angrily: "These useless Jingzhou troops cannot fight like a man!"
At this time, Zhu Zhi fled to Sun Jian and said: "General, let's flee quickly. The Xiliang soldiers are too fierce. The Jingzhou soldiers are no match at all. If we don't flee now, Liu Bei will annihilate all our elites in the new field!"
Sun Jian said calmly: "I will lead my personal guards to resist Liu Bei and the others for a while, while you flee towards the Feishui River. Liu Bei's army is all Xiliang soldiers and cannot swim. We will be safe if we cross the Feishui River!"
But Zhu Zhi took Sun Jian's hand and said: "General, these 10,000 Chinese soldiers are our confidants. The 20,000 Jingzhou soldiers are not of the same mind as us. Even if the general saves them here, they will escape, and we
Even if we abandon it, it won't hurt our foundation. If our Chinese army suffers heavy losses here, how can the general fight for hegemony in the Central Plains!"
Zhu Zhi continued: "We used 20,000 Jingzhou soldiers to buy us time, and we escaped to the ship transporting grain and grass!"
In order to facilitate the transportation of food, Sun Jian had hundreds of transport ships behind him, and now these ships have become life-saving ships!
After hearing this, Sun Jian finally gave up the plan of using his personal guards to rescue these Jingzhou soldiers, but still said: "The Jingzhou soldiers can give up, but Demou and the others still have to save them, and let Yigong gradually retreat and help.
Let’s buy time and tell Yi Gong to retreat after our Chinese army retreats!”
Then under Sun Jian's order, Huang Gai and Cheng Pu led the army to retreat continuously and broke away from the battle with Liu Bei. Han Dang also continued to retreat while fighting. Sun Jian even brought his personal guards to help Han Dang resist Guan Yu's attack.
Army!
Sun Jian was already highly skilled in martial arts, and his bodyguards were also top-notch elites. After they joined, Han Dang and their formation finally stabilized, and Zhu Zhi continued to direct the soldiers to board the ships transporting grain and grass, even in order to transport more soldiers,
They also threw away food and grass, and hundreds of transport ships boarded thousands of soldiers!
Guan Yu's long sword was flying, he was invincible and invincible. Any soldier in front of Guan Yu could withstand more than one strike from Guan Yu. He was like a sharp arrow constantly piercing Sun Jian's army.
At this moment, a long sword stood in front of Guan Yu! With a "dang" sound, the sound of gold and iron echoed throughout the battlefield!
Guan Yu looked at the person standing in front of him and said with a cold expression: "Sun Jian!"
Sun Jian said excitedly: "Since you killed Zhang Chun and Zhang Ju in the midst of thousands of troops, you have been called the best general in the world. If I kill you today, I will be the best general in the world!"
Since Sun Jian joined the army, he has never surrendered to anyone in martial arts. Even in Xiliang, there are not many generals who can fight him in 10 moves without losing, and there is no one who can defeat him, so he has no confidence in his own martial arts.
Very confident!
Guan Yu said calmly: "Guan has never thought that he is the best general in the world!"
He still remembered that in front of Hukou Pass a few years ago, Lei Gong defeated the three brothers and joined forces to attack. He knew that Lei Gong was much stronger than him!
Sun Jian was surprised that Guan Yu was so humble, but he still said: "I will try your martial arts today!"
After saying this, Sun Jian slashed Guan Yu more than a dozen times in one breath, but Guan Yu's expression did not change and he blocked Sun Jian's attacks one by one with the long knife in his hand. Guan Yu was calm and confident, but Sun Jian was panting and sweating profusely.
Obviously the attack just now consumed a lot of energy.
At this time, Guan Yu began to fight back. He knew that as long as he killed Sun Jian, the battle would be completely over, so he unleashed all his power as soon as he took action!
Guan Yu's long sword attacked Sun Jian with a low thunderous sound. Sun Jian felt the power of the sword and blocked it with all his strength!
"Dang!" A dull voice echoed around the battlefield. Guan Yu slashed three times in a row and cut off Sun Jian's Gudian sword!
When Guan Yu slashed at Sun Jian with his sword, he had no weapon to resist Guan Yu's sword. Sun Jian, knowing that he would die, closed his eyes and waited for death!
But at this time a voice shouted: "Don't hurt my lord!"
An eight-foot strong man rushed over and shot a big sword at Guan Yu. Guan Yu used his sword to deflect the flying knife. At this time, the strong man picked up the spear on the ground and rushed towards Guan Yu and said: "My lord, leave quickly!"
The person coming is Cao Zumao, a thief under Sun Jian!
The personal guards around Sun Jian also pulled Sun Jian back and retreated!
Guan Yu was anxious to kill Sun Jian, but he didn't hold any hand against Zu Mao. He cut off Zu Mao's spear with all his strength, and then cut off Zu Mao's head with his second sword!
After Guan Yu killed Zu Mao, Sun Jian was nowhere to be seen!
At this time, Zhang Fei rushed over and saw Zu Mao's corpse and said with envy: "Second brother, you have killed another general!"
Then he said in confusion: "My martial arts skills are not much inferior to yours, second brother, so why don't I have the ability like you, my second brother!"
But Guan Yu said calmly: "Among Sun Jian's army, who else can be considered a general besides himself? He just killed one of his guards!"
Guan Yu was really right about this. Except for Sun Jian, the rest of Sun Jian's army could be said to be unknown. They only fought some small Qushuai like Ou Xing, small rebels with tens of thousands of people.
The Yellow Turban Army, which numbered ten thousand people in the Central Plains, was not worth reporting. Naturally, Sun Jian's men would not be famous in the Central Plains.
People in the world have seen that the most difficult thing to fight is the Xiliang rebellion. The imperial court has been fighting for decades and is still fighting. The second is the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou. Even if they are defeated, they will recover quickly and even get stronger with each war! Other places
The rebellion is not worth mentioning. Basically, a general with several thousand troops can suppress it.
Zhang Fei was shocked by Guan Yu's Versailles and said: "I also want to kill such a personal guard!"
Guan Yu said: "Then hurry up and kill, Sun Jian hasn't escaped yet!"
"Kill, kill Sun Jian for me." Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others are all veterans who have experienced the battlefield. They easily discovered that Sun Jian's army on the battlefield had no fighting spirit. They led their men to charge hard, thinking
We must capture Sun Jian and others and end this war!
At this time, Sun Jian saw that all his elite troops had boarded the ship, and he fled the battlefield with Han Dang and the others.
Guan Yu and others' pursuit was blocked by the Jingzhou soldiers. When the Jingzhou soldiers saw that Sun Jian had already left and were still willing to fight, they all discarded their swords and said: "We are the army of the Jingzhou governor and our own people. Don't fight anymore."
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Guan Yu and others could only take prisoners first.
When Liu Bei saw this scene, he was also frightened and ordered: "Take in the surrendered soldiers and stop massacring the soldiers!"
As Sun Jian and others fled, the shouts of killing on the battlefield ended, and the Jingzhou soldiers dropped their weapons and waited for Liu Bei's army to take them in.
Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and the others also began to count their casualties and tally their results.
Half a day later, Guan Yu and others came to the Chinese army's tent to report the results to Liu Bei!
Liu Bei asked: "How many people have we lost?"
Jian Yong said with a dark expression: "More than 2,000 people died in the battle, of which more than 200 were lost because the cavalry was the last to join the battlefield. The remaining more than 2,000 are infantry, and there are about 3,000 lightly or seriously wounded! These people can return after training for a while!
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Liu Bei's face suddenly turned ugly. This battle cost him one-sixth of his soldiers.
Guan Yu consoled him: "Brother, after all, the enemy is comparable to our army, and Sun Jian is also a fierce general in the world. Now that only one-tenth of the army has been killed, Sun Jian's army can be defeated. It is already a good command of my brother!"
Liu Bei continued to ask: "Where are the enemies? How many of them have escaped?"
Jian Yong said: "We captured 16,000 Jingzhou troops, and there were more than 7,000 corpses on the battlefield. Sun Jian probably escaped with 6,000-7,000 people! But they threw away all their food and grass when they fled, so they shouldn't be able to run far.
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Liu Bei said firmly: "Chasing, we can't let Sun Jian escape. I will use his head to scare the traitors of the Han Dynasty and let them know the fate of the traitorous Han Dynasty! Zilong, you lead the cavalry to chase Sun Jian all the way. Be sure to read this."
Rebellious!”
Zhao Yun accepted the order and led the cavalry to pursue Sun Jian's defeated troops!
Then Liu Bei said to Guan Yu: "Yun Chang, the navy is indispensable to encircle and suppress Sun Jian, and the navy's help is also indispensable to deal with Yuan Shu!"
Guan Yu surrendered and retreated, taking Liu Bei's order to Nanjun to contain the navy and prepare to deal with Yuan Shu later!
Finally, Guan Yu looked at Jian Yong and said, "Xianhe, you lead the Jingzhou officials to appease the Jingzhou soldiers who were captured by us. Their participation will be indispensable in the subsequent battles!"
Jian Yong cupped his hands and said: "No!"
Liu Bei himself took Zhang Fei to the wounded soldiers camp to visit the wounded soldiers and boost their morale!
On the other side, Sun Jian was having a hard time. Sun Jian was still sad that Zu Mao was killed. Zhu Zhi and the others went to Sun Jian and said: "General, there is no time to be sad. We only have enough food and grass for one day. We can't find any more."
When we get food, we will soon run out of food."
Sun Jian put away his sad expression and said: "Continue going north, we will meet the highway. Only with the help of the power of the highway can we defeat Liu Bei. If Guan Yu kills my general, I want Liu Bei's head to commemorate Da Rong!"
Cheng Pu asked: "But the journey is hundreds of miles away. What will happen to our food and grass?"
Huang Gai also said: "Liu Bei's army has 5,000 elite cavalry. If they follow us, they will definitely not be able to defeat us."
When they fled, many of them discarded their swords and had no weapons. Naturally, they could not be the opponents of Zhao Yun's cavalry.
Huang Gai continued: "But if we continue to stay on the ship, we will surely die from lack of food, and if we go ashore, it is impossible for our two legs to outrun four legs!"
Sun Jian said: "We went upstream along the waterway and robbed the towns around the Feishui River to obtain food. Liu Bei's cavalry was to the west of the Feishui River. As long as we rob the towns to the east, Liu Bei's cavalry could not do anything to us. At the same time,
Inform Yuan Shuzhi County to come and meet us, otherwise we will be in danger!"
They can't stay on the river all the time, and these small boats don't have much combat effectiveness. If Liu Bei transfers to the Jingzhou Navy, they will definitely be wiped out by Liu Bei!
Cheng Pu said: "Wentai, my riding skills are outstanding, so I will inform Yuan Shu!"
Sun Jian saluted and said, "I trust Demou with our lives!"
Then Sun Jian's fleet docked on the east coast to let Cheng Pu leave.
After Cheng Pu got off the ship, he found a town, bought a war horse, and then galloped towards Luyang!
Sun Jian waited for Cheng Pu to leave and looked at everyone, picked up an oar and said: "Whether we can survive depends on everyone's own efforts! Everyone rows with all their strength!"
Then Sun Jian rowed with all his strength. Seeing Sun Jian's example, others followed suit and rowed hard! Hundreds of small boats kept flying upstream like long arrows!
As expected, Sun Jian and the others saw Zhao Yun's men and horses shortly after rowing, chasing them! Obviously Liu Bei had no intention of letting go of their defeated army!
And Luyang on the other side!
Yuan Shu also quickly got the news of Liu Bei's arrival in Nanyang County!
Yuan Shu thought deeply: "Liu Bei appeared in Nanyang County with an army of 30,000 people. It seems that Liu Bei has defected to Dong Zhuo and wants to fight me!"
After all, Yuan Shu was a direct descendant of the noble family, so he naturally knew that an uprising like theirs would not be recognized by the Liu clan.
Just like the Nanyang Army is the hometown of the emperor, there are a lot of royal relatives here, but no one has a good look at Yuan Shu, and no one supports Yuan Shu. If they didn't look down on Dong Zhuo, a vulgar warrior, here comes a
If the two don't help each other, I'm afraid he will be kicked out of Nanyang County!
The same goes for other clansmen in the world. After they saw that the Yuan brothers and Dong Zhuo were not good people, they simply ignored them.
And he knew Liu Bei well. When he was in Jizhou, he did not deal with the nobles, and he could even say that he used strong force to suppress the nobles. Although this was all to deal with the Yellow Turban Army, no nobles in the world appreciated Liu Bei.
The powerful nobles in Jizhou hated Liu Bei even more.
After everyone saw that the fight against the Yellow Turban Army was a matter for the imperial court, what did it have to do with their family? Why should their family pay for the fight against the Yellow Turban Army?
Just because he offended the noble families in the world, Liu Bei was kicked to Xiliang, so the relationship between Liu Bei and the noble families was very cold.
Other Han clan members may have chosen not to help each other because of their relationship with the Yuan family, but Liu Bei might really use this opportunity to help Dong Zhuo attack them!
Ji Ling was a little worried and said: "Lord, our 40,000 troops are all new recruits, but Liu Bei's 30,000 troops are all elites. I'm afraid we won't have the upper hand in a fight!"
Yuan Shu smiled and said: "Zili, don't worry, Wentai has arrived in Nanyang County. As long as we join forces together, the number of soldiers will be more than twice that of Liu Bei. Not to mention that Wentai is still a powerful general in the world. I can use people to pile up."
Die Liu Bei!"
But Yuan Shu was happy too early!
A few days later, Cheng Pu, looking embarrassed, came to Yuan Shu and said: "General Hou, we fought with Liu Bei's army in the Xinye area and returned defeated. Now I ask the general for support in Zhixian County!"
Yuan Shu couldn't sit still and asked in surprise: "Wentai has also been defeated. How can Liu Bei be so powerful?"
Cheng Pu said helplessly: "Although our troops are comparable to Liu Bei's, there are 20,000 Jingzhou soldiers with no morale among them. This battle is dragged down by them! Please ask the general to rescue quickly, otherwise my lord will be in danger!"
Yuan Shu was very loyal, and he immediately said: "Ji Ling, station all the troops in Zhi County, and at the same time order Kong Ni and Li Shu to lead troops to Nanyang County to destroy Liu Bei. If Liu Bei is not surrounded and suppressed, our hometown will not be able to live in peace!"