Chapter 453: Ambush Battle

After Liu Zheng stopped with the first wave of arrows, he poked his head out again and glanced at the enemy in front of him.

Only then did I guess in my heart who these people were.

There were not many people coming, on the left, on the right, on the front, three soldiers and horses rushed over, each with only about 5,000 soldiers and horses.

The three-way army, each with its own banner, vaguely, Liu Zheng saw Cao, Zhang, Liu, three different words, this pondering, the heart is clear.

"Made, I'm still a step late, looking at the appearance of these soldiers and horses, it seems that they are waiting for me here, careless!"

Liu Zheng could already see from these ambushes that these people were waiting for him here, although Liu Zheng had already guessed that this trip might be a vicious battle, but he never expected that the other party actually knew in advance that he would go here and come to support Yuan Shu, and he was caught by the other party, which was also a miscalculation.

Although Liu Zheng sent scouts at the beginning, Zhou Cang and Huang Zhong did not have many war horses, and the number of scouts was not very large, and they could not pass the news back in time.

In addition, since Cao Cao and the others' soldiers and horses were ambushed, they would definitely install spies in advance and secretly pull out the scouts sent by Liu Zheng and others, so Liu Zheng would be ambushed.

"Zhou Cang, your men and horses, go up, Huang Zhong, you lead people to the center to respond, the Zhou Dynasty divides part of the troops to resist the people on the left, and Tai Shi Ci divides part of the troops to resist the people on the right!"

Liu Zheng quickly figured out the situation and did not intend to retreat from this ambush battle.

Although it was the ambushed side that was at a disadvantage, Liu Zheng soon saw that there didn't seem to be many people on the other side, and compared with Liu Zheng, there were even thousands of fewer people.

Although Liu Zheng was ambushed and shot by the first wave of arrows, he lost a small number of people, but the gap in strength made Liu Zheng not plan to retreat, because he knew that if he retreated, it would really make the morale drop suddenly, and the loss of soldiers and horses would be more.

And to fight up under pressure, with the Qu Commander of those legions under Liu Zheng, Tun Chang stabilized the morale of his subordinates, and it only took some time to make the panicked soldiers and horses quickly stabilize, and then there was the strength of a battle.

Liu Zheng has not been in contact with Zhang Miao, Liu Dai and others' soldiers and horses, but Liu Zheng has seen Cao Cao's men and horses, and now some of these soldiers and horses are Cao Cao's men and horses.

After Liu Zheng finished his order, Zhou Cang immediately led the sword and shield men at the forefront of the military formation to start pressing up.

Zhou Cang's subordinates were mainly infantry, and the infantry was a mixture of sword and shield men and pikemen, which was the most suitable to deal with this kind of jungle warfare.

Except for some panic when the arrows came at the beginning, after Zhou Cang shouted a few times, soon those arrivals came to their senses and heard Zhou Cang's order to charge, and the first few commanders began to command their teams and began to charge.

And Cao Cao, Liu Dai, and Zhang Miao are not in the team, and there is no coach in charge, and they are all the deputy generals of the three of them.

The person who commanded the army of Cao Jun was Cao Cao's brother Cao Hong, who Liu Zheng had seen before, but it had been a few years, and he had not had a positive and actual battle with Cao Hong back then, so he naturally did not recognize it for a while.

Cao Jun was in front of him, leading the army to rush over, and the soldiers pointed directly at Liu Zheng's position, while Liu Dai's army on the left was Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu was an important strategist under Cao Cao's account in history, but before Cheng Yu defected to Cao Cao, he was actually a person under Liu Dai of Yanzhou Mu, and was recommended to Liu Dai by Liu Dai's subordinate Wang Yu.

The main reason is that when Cheng Yu resisted the Yanzhou Yellow Turban Army a few years ago, he had made a lot of efforts and was quite famous in the township, so he was appreciated by Yanzhou Mu Liu Dai, and then joined the army with the army, Liu Dai was able to compete with Cao Cao in Yanzhou for half a year, and thanks to the help of Cheng Yu, he won Liu Dai's trust.

And the person on the right who commanded the army of Zhang Miao was Zhang Miao's younger brother Zhang Chao.

The soldiers and horses of the three sides rushed over, and did not launch a second round of arrow rain attacks. Because, in addition to the first round of arrow rain can have a surprise effect and cause more damage to the soldiers and horses on Liu Zheng's side, when the second round of arrow rain comes, the soldiers on Liu Zheng's side are all on guard, and it will be a little difficult to hit again.

Therefore, if you shoot again, it will not have much effect, and it will be easy for Liu Zheng's men and horses to withdraw calmly, so Cao Cao and others' soldiers and horses did not carry out a second round of shooting, but changed to use infantry and pressed up.

wanted to fight head-on, taking advantage of the fact that Liu Zheng's army was ambushed and the morale of the army was at a disadvantage, and defeated Liu Zheng in one fell swoop on the frontal battlefield.

Although in this way, the tripartite soldiers and horses on Cao Cao, Liu Dai, and Zhang Miao's side will definitely have losses, but compared to being able to defeat Liu Zheng, they are still willing to lose this loss.

After all, it is not one family's men and horses that are lost, but the soldiers and horses of three families, and there are not many people who really belong to themselves, but they can cause a lot of damage to Liu Zheng, and they will not be happy there.

The sound of metal intertwining ping-pong bells, the hysteria of screams and roars, the sound of arrows breaking through the air, and the crash of people on their backs, all came and went.

The battle was on this official road, and it was about to break out, and it started in an instant.

To say that in this battle, Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses should be at an extreme disadvantage.

After all, Liu Zheng's army, after a two-day long journey, marched directly from Poyang to the Shouchun territory, just to support Yuan Shu, and they didn't have much rest on the way.

In addition, he was hit by an ambush set by the enemy, and the soldiers were at a disadvantage in terms of morale and physical strength.

However, these people under Liu Zheng did not show too many disadvantages in the battle with the enemy army, but faintly gained the upper hand.

This is mainly because the 20,000 soldiers and horses led by Liu Zheng at this time are the most elite 20,000 soldiers and horses in his army.

Huang Zhong's battalion was the early Runan Yellow Turban Army under Liu Zheng, and some of them followed Liu Zheng for more than three years.

In three years, after being trained by Huang Zhong, the natural individual strength and overall quality have been unusually improved, and they are all pulled out one by one, all of them are captain-level characters in other military camps.

And the battalion of soldiers and horses under Zhou Cang is also not bad, it was formed by Liu Zheng after Jiaozhou, which incorporated the soldiers and horses from all over Jiaozhou, plus some of the thieves in Mingyue Cottage.

The time to follow Liu Zheng is also constant, and the bandits are already good at this kind of mountain warfare.