Chapter 961: The Battle Outside the City

Zhang Ren was afraid of Zhao Yun's awesomeness and did not dare to make a rash move.

But Liu Zhang didn't know that Liu Zhang saw Zhao Yun under the city on the city tower, but he was just a young general, so he was not afraid at all.

Moreover, the strength that Zhang Ren showed just now was enough to defeat the unknown young general in front of him.

But Zhang Ren flinched and suddenly turned back, which made Liu Zhang's face not look good.

Zhang Renhui has already retired, so he naturally doesn't care about Liu Zhang's thoughts.

After all, if he continued to stay on the battlefield, Zhang Ren would not have much chance of winning.

As soon as the city gate was closed, Zhang Ren returned to the city again with his own soldiers.

And Guan Yu's army on the other side did not take advantage of the danger to launch an attack at this moment.

After all, in the battle between Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ren just now, Zhang Xiu did not take any advantage, but was almost picked by Zhang Ren.

This made Guan Yu's expression a little unpleasant.

In the heads-up before the battle, Guan Yu's soldiers and horses did not gain any advantage, and their morale could not rise, and Guan Yu, as the chief general, naturally would not let his soldiers launch a strong attack on Nanzheng City.

After all, once it is attacked, the number of dead and wounded soldiers will be greatly increased, and there are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under Zhang Lu in this Nanzheng City, even if it is a strong attack, it may not be able to defeat this Nanzheng City.

In addition, Liu Bei had already had a new plan before, they planned to call a confrontation under Nanzheng City, but in fact, a part of the descendants led by Ma Chao directly inserted into the rear of Nanzhen City from the side to block Liu Zhang's soldiers and horses outside the city.

As long as Liu Zhang's part of the soldiers and horses is destroyed, then Nanzheng City will be besieged, a lonely city, and it will naturally be self-defeating for a few months.

This is the strategy that Liu Bei can think of.

Although this plan could not break through the gate of this Nanzheng City in a short time, it was able to allow Liu Bei's men and horses to break through this Nanzheng City at the lowest cost.

Both sides, for the time being, just left the army.

When Zhang Ren returned to the city tower, Liu Zhang's face turned dark, and he scolded him when he stared at Zhang Ren.

"Zhang Ren, who asked you to come back! Didn't I keep you at war? If you don't kill that young general, you still have the face to come back, I thought you would definitely be able to kill Zhang Xiu just now. You make me can't hold my head up in front of Zhang Lu! ”

Liu Zhang was excited, but he didn't expect this big battle to come to an abrupt end like this, so he naturally felt uncomfortable, and sprinkled all his grievances on Zhang Ren's body.

Zhang Ren was speechless when Liu Zhang said this.

As a general, Zhang Ren did not dare to refute Liu Zhang's words at all.

After all, Liu Zhang is the son-in-law of the entire Yizhou, and in Yizhou, if you offend Liu Zhang, there is no difference between death.

Although Zhang Ren had a lot of complaints in his heart, he could only endure it and be scolded by Liu Zhang.

After all, Liu Zhang also knows Zhang Ren's strength, just scold a rare good general like Zhang Ren, he can't really kill Zhang Ren, he still needs to rely on Zhang Ren to defend against the enemy for him.

In fact, Liu Zhang's anger was mainly because he originally planned to let Zhang Ren attract the attention of the enemy army here.

But Zhang Ren suddenly retreated and fled back to the city. Let what was originally a mighty battle suddenly stop.

It may divert the enemy's attention from the city of Nanzheng to the soldiers and horses under Liu Zhang.

In case these people find out that Liu Zhang's soldiers and horses outside the city are rapidly approaching this side.

It is likely that the core of the battle will be transferred from the city to the soldiers and horses under Liu Zhang.

Liu Zhang's worries are not unreasonable.

Because soon, he sensed that something was wrong.

According to his previous speculation, the men and horses sent out to convey the order should have already passed Liu Zhang's order outside the city.

But now it's been so long.

The battle between Zhang Ren and Zhang Xiu is over.

There is no shadow of the soldiers and horses outside the city.

Meanwhile.

On the other side of this side, outside the city of Nanzheng.

Deng Xian led an army of 30,000 under Liu Zhang, and was rapidly approaching Nanzheng City outside the city.

He received an order from Liu Zhang to support Nan Zhengcheng in a short period of time and deal with these emergencies.

But just when Deng Xian's 30,000-strong army was about to approach Nanzheng City, a burst of dust suddenly rose on this spacious avenue.

Smoke filled the air, accompanied by the sound of the earth shaking.

He has lived in Sichuan and Shu for a long time, even if he has never seen cavalry, he has still heard of the appearance of cavalry galloping, and after hearing this voice, Deng Xian was stunned for a moment.

Liu Zhang's men had no cavalry, because Sichuan and Shu did not produce war horses.

There are horses in Sichuan and Shu, but they are not war horses, they are some bantam horses, and those horses are a little reluctant to say that they are horses, and many people call them mules.

This kind of horse cannot run for a long time, and it is not fast enough, and because of its small size, it cannot give full play to the advantages of cavalry when it is on a war horse.

Therefore, there are no cavalry in the land of Sichuan and Shu, and there are very few.

When Deng Xian heard this voice, he immediately knew that these soldiers and horses were not Liu Zhang's men, but the enemy troops who had come to attack Nanzheng.

At the first time, Deng Xian did not immediately lead people to warn, but urged the soldiers and horses on his side, and accelerated in the direction of Nanzheng City.

Because Deng Xian didn't think that these cavalry were coming at his people, he thought that these cavalry were attacking Nanzheng City.

He thought that he should rush to Nanzheng as soon as possible so that he could help resist Liu Bei's soldiers and horses.

But after Deng Xian led the people out of the road for a while, he found that something was wrong, and the smoke was not coming in the direction of the city gate, but towards them.

At this time, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses could be seen from a distance, and in the smoke not far away, a black cavalry ran out.

The number of cavalry is not very large, but at this time, the appearance of a cavalry is enough to scare these people.

Deng Xian himself was already panicked.

However, as the commander, he did not flee at this time, but immediately roared loudly and issued orders to the soldiers and horses behind him, so that these people could react first.

He didn't let these people attack these cavalry immediately, but wanted to let his men and horses defend first.

In the face of cavalry charges, maintain a formation and not collapse without a fight.

But these Xichuan troops led by Deng Xian are not elite, they have not seen the power of cavalry, and at the first time, they did not think how terrifying the cavalry was.

The speed of the reaction was not timely, and such a scattered way of mobilization, when the Xiliang Iron Cavalry led by Ma Chao came to the front, there was no ability to resist at all.

Seventeen-year-old Ma Chao took the lead, brandishing the golden spear in his hand.

Sassy and heroic, like a tiger slaughtering into the flock.