Of course, Zhang Xiu believed that if the four thousand Xiliang Iron Riders were ready, there would be no need for such trouble. With only the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, you can rush to this position, and then the Xiliang infantry of the brigade will be able to press up, and you should have been able to break through at this time.

But there are no ifs in this world. So Zhang Xiu still has to fight hard.

Cao Jun in the other three areas had already discovered the direction of Zhang Xiu's breakthrough, but they were helpless.

This is because the circle formed by the encircled side is much larger than the defensive circle formed by the encircled side. The two are like a concentric circle, the outer circle is one circle larger than the inner circle. That naturally mobilized the troops, the outer circle was not as fast as the middle was surrounded.

Therefore, even if it was known that Zhang Xiujun's breakthrough direction was east, it was difficult for Cao's army to draw troops from other sides to supplement the east in time.

In this case, the best decision is not how to block the breakthrough of the surrounded, but how to kill the encircled living force as much as possible.

Therefore, Cao Jun did not plan to increase troops in the east, but adjusted the other three-sided formations in time, converted to an attack formation, and killed the 30,000 Zhang Xiu army behind the middle hall.

Let's see if you will use 50,000 horses to kill the 30,000 horses and horses that we have garrisoned to the east first, or if we will use 90,000 soldiers and horses to defeat your 30,000 people and horses.

The final result of the contest was a draw!

Relying on its strong individual ability, Zhang Xiujun successfully broke through the blockade of 30,000 Cao troops in the east, killing more than 10,000 and dispersing 20,000.

However, less than 3,000 soldiers and horses behind Zhang Xiujun's palace could rush out.

In this battle, the Cao army exchanged about 15,000 casualties for 30,000 Zhang Xiujun's main force, which was actually a big victory!

Breaking out of the encirclement is not the end. Thousands of Cao cavalry pursued Zhang Xiu's army, and Zhang Xiu had no choice but to use the remaining hundreds of Xiliang iron cavalry and 3,000 foot soldiers.

Leaving behind the precious Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Foot Pawn Palace, it is really a last resort.

Although the Xiliang Iron Cavalry has a strong ability to charge into battle, its shortcomings are also obvious. The iron armor on which they became famous not only prevented them from fighting for a long time, but also from marching for a long time.

Now, even if these Xiliang iron cavalry and the large army retreat, it is the limit to walk five miles, and it is difficult for horses and people to load heavy armor for a long time. At that time, even if the war horse is wasted, and the cavalry has no horses and wears heavy armor, it will also be wasted. Instead of abolishing these hundreds of Xiliang Iron Riders, it is better to let them exert their last bit of residual heat.

At the beginning, the more than 2,000 horses and Xiliang iron cavalry knights who ate poisonous forage, Zhang Xiu's breakthrough also made them take off their heavy armor in order to keep up with the pace of the troops.

In addition, there were more than 3,000 foot soldiers in the rear of the palace, all of whom were also injured in the breakthrough and could not continue the march. Since it will slow down the marching speed of the large army, these wounded soldiers will also automatically ask for help and leave the palace behind.

Zhang Xiu personally made the palace, and there were also generals Li Fenghou Cheng Wei Yue Cheng Lian.

Zhang Xiu finally met the commander of the more than 100,000 Cao Army-Cao Ren!

The reason why Zhang Xiu recognized Cao Ren was that several years ago, when Zhang Xiu was still Dong Zhuo's subordinate, he had followed Xu Rong and Lu Bu to set up an ambush for the Cao army who was rashly pursuing. Cao Jun, who had few generals and few generals, only had six generals at that time, and the Xiahou brothers Cao Ren, Cao Hong and Li Dianle Jin, Zhang Xiu all looked at it a few times at that time.

Cao Ren didn't recognize Zhang Xiu, and he didn't like to say many useless things, so he directly attacked and killed. Zhang Xiu took the Xiliang Iron Ride as the forerunner and met him head-on.

The first armies to collide were heavy cavalry. And the advantages brought to them by the excellent equipment of the Xiliang Iron Riding are fully manifested here.

Cao Jun's heavy cavalry used a spear to stab the Xiliang Iron Cavalry Knight, who was dressed in iron armor, often unable to penetrate the iron armor at all, but he was shocked off by the spear of the opponent's extremely heavy impact force.

And under the blow of the special heavy spear of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, a large hole immediately appeared in the mixed armor of the Cao Army's heavy cavalry. As if he had been hit with a hammer, he was stabbed off his horse in the face. Often the war horse was still running forward, but Cao Jun, who was riding on it, was stabbed behind.

Even if the two horses collided, it was often the Xiliang Iron Rider in full vest who knocked Cao Jun's heavy cavalry down and pressed him to the ground.

Of course, after hitting this time, although the Xiliang Iron Cavalry first killed Cao Jun's heavy cavalry, he couldn't stand up from his own war horse. The knights of Xiliang would lie on their horses at this moment, stab their spears forward, and do their best to cause trouble for the Cao cavalry rushing on the opposite side.

As a result, Zhang Xiu, hundreds of Xiliang Iron Riders, instantly played a one-to-three battle ratio!

Immediately after the heavy cavalry dissipated the impact, the light cavalry went into battle. Relying on the advantages of Zhang Xiujun's heavy cavalry at the beginning, it also impacted Cao's light cavalry to a certain extent, so these hundreds of Zhang Xiujun light cavalry, which were composed of the wolf cavalry and the remaining light cavalry elite, also played a one-to-three record.

The last 3,000 embroidered soldiers on the field even played a deadly style. Cao Ren personally led the personal guard cavalry into battle, but was still defeated by Zhang Xiujun.

But it also ended here, and the more than 100,000 Cao army foot soldiers who had been reorganized caught up with it, instantly drowning Zhang Xiu's palace army in a black sea of people.

……

The battle of Qiyang is over.

Zhang Xiu was carried back to Shouchun. Like him, there were many generals of Zhang Xiujun, such as Ji Ling, Liu Pi, Gong Du, Lei Bo, Chen Lan, Wei Yue, Chenglian, and many other generals of Zhang Xiujun.

In the final battle of the palace, Zhang Xiu only lasted half of it, and he passed out because of the arrow wound in his thigh. The general Li Feng led a Wuwei battalion of less than 100 people to escort Zhang Xiu, and fled by the way. Wei Yue Cheng Lian was outnumbered, and in the end, Wei Yue Zhong Cao Ren shot him, and Cheng Lian was hit by two arrows, but fortunately both of them escaped.

After Cao Ren defeated Zhang Xiu, he immediately turned to the west, and the 100,000 Cao army and 200,000 Cao troops led by Xu Huang surrounded the western camp of Zhang Xiu's army.

Because when Cao Ren surrounded Li Feng and others, he also broke through the original Zhang Liao military camp with only 3,000 defenders, and rescued Xiahoudun, who was previously captured by Zhang Xiu. Therefore, some of the routs fled to Qiyang City and reported the situation to Gao Shun.

Gao Shun, the general of Qiyang, who knew that there might be a major change, decided to escort Zhang Xiujun and a group of strategists to abandon the city and retreat. and contacted Ji Ling, the commander of the western camp, to retreat alternately.

Ji Ling was also shocked to learn that Cao's army had more than 100,000 people, and immediately moved closer to Qiyang City after repelling a group of Cao Hong's attacks.

Halfway, he was blocked by a small number of Cao troops led by Xu Huang. By the time Ji Ling broke through the Cao army's interception and arrived at the west gate of Qiyang, Gao Shun had already abandoned the city, and the banner of the Cao army had already floated at the head of the city.

Ji Ling had no choice but to retreat south, but unexpectedly bumped into the more than 30,000 Cao troops led by Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Lejin Li Dian. At that time, there were Liu Guan, Zhang Lejin, Li Dian, and Cao Hong, Cao Ren, Xiahou, and Xu Huang in the back. After a scuffle and hard fighting, Zhang Xiujun was defeated again.

Ji Ling, Liu Pi, Gong Dulei, Bo Chen Lan and other Zhang Xiu generals were seriously wounded, and most of the 60,000 troops were lost.

On the other hand, Cao Cao personally led the siege of 100,000 Cao troops to pursue, but he didn't want Gao Shun to be instructed by Jia Xu, so he led 40,000 Zhang Xiu's troops to return to fight Cao Cao.

The result of the battle was beyond everyone's expectations except Jia Xu, and the 100,000 Cao army against the 40,000 Zhang Xiu army was actually defeated! Within a few hours, more than 30,000 people were killed and wounded, and finally collapsed.

So Gao Shun was able to successfully protect the troops and horses of his headquarters and withdraw to Jiujiang County.

Finally, the Lord Bo Yan Xiang counted the soldiers of each department. After the battle of Qiyang, less than 90,000 of the 180,000 Zhang embroidered troops were able to return to Shouchun, and half of them were wounded.

The main generals included Zhang Xiu, Ji Ling, Li Feng, Wei Yuechenglian, Cao Xing, Hou Cheng, Wei Xu, Song Xian, Lei Bo, Chen Lan, Liu Pi, Gong Du, Mei Cheng and other generals were all injured to varying degrees, but fortunately no one was killed.

In other words, after this battle, most of the soldiers of Zhang Xiu's army were killed and wounded, and there was no capital to fight with Cao's army.

Without waiting for the dark clouds of defeat to envelop the entire Jiujiang County, 200,000 Cao troops marched into Huainan.

A few days later, Diannong Zhonglang transferred Li Tong to 20,000 of the more than 100,000 Tuntian troops to reinforce Shouchun.

……

In late November, Cao's army approached Shouchun.

Shouchun North Building, cold wind. Zhang Xiu calmly looked at the gently flowing Huai River in the distance, motionless and silent.

His body and mind were extremely exhausted at the moment. Physically, the arrow wound in his thigh made it difficult for him to walk. His face was extremely pale due to excessive blood loss, and the wind and cold of the infection made him extremely mentally weak.

He should have slept more, but he didn't dare.

Because, as soon as he closed his eyes now, what he saw in front of him was the thousands of light horsemen who were killed by random arrows in the nameless valley, the last desperate cry of the 30,000 soldiers surrounded by Cao Ren, and the Xiliang iron cavalry that was broken in the last battle and the 3,000 wounded soldiers who fought with their lives.

The three hundred guards of the Wuwei Battalion who he could name one by one once are now only eighty left!

was carried back to Shouchun, and Zhang Xiu was in a coma for three days and three nights. For three days and three nights, he wandered in this dream of death. The screams of his own soldiers in his ears, the collision of knives, the sound of falling horses, and the sound of falling to the ground are endless......

An old scribe climbed the city wall and walked slowly in the direction of Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu also saw the old scribe, and at that moment, countless reactions flashed in his heart when he saw this person. Choosing apathy? Choosing to be indifferent? Or choose the same as before?

After a moment, he still chose to brace himself and face the old scribe.

The old scribe's face was gentle, not happy or angry, not impatient or impatient, and walked slowly to Zhang Xiu. first put a few charcoal sticks on the brazier for Zhang Xiu, and then helped Zhang Xiu lie down.

"There is no one around the general for a hundred steps, but it is convenient for the old man to spit out some heartfelt words."

Zhang Xiu did not have a single guard or maid within a hundred steps. Even the Wuwei battalion, which had never left half a step before, was unmanned and guarded.

The kind of scene where a few days ago it was a living person in front of him, but a few days later he didn't even know where the corpse was, Zhang Xiu didn't want to see and recall it again.

Zhang Xiu coughed a few times, nodded, and signaled but said it was okay.

Half an hour had passed, and the old scribe kept his mouth shut. Zhang Xiu also closed her eyes deeply, but tears flowed down for some reason.

In the end, the old scribe helped Zhang Xiu, and the two walked along the city wall with their support, without saying anything all the way.

After wandering for a long time, I passed a city wall, where the soldiers and men were preparing the equipment and supplies to defend the city.

The soldiers and the people also saw Zhang Xiu and the old scribe, and they all stopped their movements and looked at the two silently.

Zhang Xiu put aside the old scribe's support, walked up to a young soldier, and asked softly, "Do you dare to fight Cao Jun?" ”

The young soldier straightened his chest: "Dare! My brother died in Qiyang, and I want to avenge him! ”

Zhang Xiu was noncommittal, and turned to another man: "Aren't you afraid of death?" ”

The man reacted much more than the young soldier, jumped directly on a stone and shouted: "If it weren't for the lord you gave us the food of those big clans, where would we still be alive until now!" Since I did not starve to death in the famine, I am willing to die for my lord! ”

Zhang Xiu looked at the excited faces of this group of people and soldiers, and the same enthusiasm as the 180,000 faces when he swore to go on the expedition before.

But at this moment, he didn't have the surging feeling he had when he swore to go on the expedition.

Is your heart cold?

After a long time, Zhang Xiu waved his hand and said slowly: "Everyone is tired today, so you don't have to continue to work, let's go back and rest!" ”

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