Han Xian's morale-boosting words also played a certain role, and the Bai Bo army soon continued to move resolutely upstream, and divided some archers to shoot at Zhao Yun's archers.

Many soldiers really felt that Han Xianam's simple words were very reasonable: The officers and soldiers want to scare us away, doesn't this mean that they can't beat us?

Who would have thought that Guan Yu was not afraid of not being able to fight, but he was unwilling to face several enemies from different directions at the same time, and wanted to break the time difference between them.

However, the blood is on top, and the reality is cold. Since Zhao Yun had witnessed the actual results of several "cavalry and warships shooting against each other, and the result was a big loss", he obviously had much more experience in micro-manipulation in this area than Han Xian.

In the past year and a half, I have come and gone in the wind and sand of Youzhou, fighting with the Hu people, and the experience points have not risen in vain.

The formation of the hundreds of cavalry under Zhao Yun's command was spread out very widely, and the distance was kept just right.

On Han Xian's side, because there are many people and few ships, in order to transport as many troops as possible, the ships are basically crowded. Moreover, the boats running in the waters downstream of Hukou Waterfall and Sanmenxia in the upper reaches of the Yellow River are not big in the first place, and there is no superstructure to cover them.

Of course, some people may wonder - other inland river ships are not so shabby, and those warships used in the south in the Hanshui or Xiaoxiang land can not be used to make warships and fighting ships?

This brings us to the hydrology of this section of the river - in order to be able to sail from Puhanjin to the water (the narrowest and shallowest of the three important tributaries of the Yellow River in this area), the draft had to be made very shallow, and the superstructure had to be omitted as much as possible.

The draft of a ship in a body of water is limited by the draft of the smallest port.

This is also why the threat to Tongguan on the other side of the river is so small - if you want to bypass Tongguan by waterway and go straight to Weishui to fight under Chang'an City, you can only find such a small boat. This is also the result of the perennial strict investigation of the imperial court, in order to ensure the strategic security of the three auxiliary places of Chang'an, it is not allowed to appear in this water.

The result is obvious, Han Xian can't replicate the glory of Lu Yi and Guan Yu with broken boats before, such a crowded boat, as long as Zhao Yun's people shoot arrows at a target as big as the boat, they can always catch someone on the boat.

Han Xian's troops were equipped with such a level that they couldn't even do a shield in their hands, and they were miserable in less than half an hour.

"Follow me, all the ships will dock on the north shore and divide their troops to chase that Zhao Yun! Zhao Yun has hundreds of horsemen on the north and south banks, and they can't cross the water on horseback, so we just want to break through the north bank first and then turn back to clean up the south bank! ”

Han Xian finally couldn't hold back and shouted an order for the troops to land immediately.

The White Wave Thief had no training at all, and he tried to pursue it in formation when he went ashore, but he was quickly taught by Zhao Yun to be a man - Zhao Yun could completely retreat and avoid the battle, not to fight you, and then used a few rounds of bows and arrows to consume hundreds of casualties of the White Wave Army.

"Qu Shuai, we have too few cavalry to catch up!" The officers of the trilogy complained bitterly.

Han Xian calmed down at this time, and hurriedly changed his tactics again: "It's me who was careless, don't chase it!" Let all the crossbowmen go ashore, the front gun, the spearmen outside, the archers inside, and march to the shore in line to protect the fleet, and advance by land and water! It won't be long before we can reach Xie Liang County, Sun Jing is still guarding the city and waiting for us, and we are not afraid of cavalry when we enter the city! The cavalry can still dismount and attack the city! ”

Han Xian was crooked, but he had a little bit of the idea of "protecting the ship with a bow and a foot" in the moon formation, but the specific formation, weapons, and drills were too far behind. At best, it only reduces the density of your own personnel, but fortunately, it is not so disadvantageous in covered fire.

Han Xian spent more than half an hour shooting at Zhao Yun in this way, and he also arched more than ten miles upstream, and there were only twenty miles left from the county seat of Jieliang, and it seemed that the roofs of the city towers were about to appear on the horizon.

It was past noon.

Zhao Yun also found that after the Baibo Army reduced the density of the formation, it was no longer possible to take advantage of the counter-shooting - the key is that Zhao Yun's Youzhou elite cavalry had fought with the Hu people for a year or two, and the lives of these elite soldiers were valuable, even if they exchanged five with the soldiers of the Baibo Army to capture strong men, Zhao Yun felt that he was at a loss.

So he gradually pulled farther and farther away, and no longer fought a war of attrition.

At the end of the meeting, Zhao Yunbu seemed to have made some adjustments, they pretended to finish shooting bows and arrows, and even directly drew their spears and sabers after a contact, rushed up, and saw the gap in the march of a White Polish army's formation, broke through at the junction between the two rows of gun formations, and slashed and killed a hundred and ten archers.

If it is a battle in formation, of course this kind of gap will not appear, but who made Han Xian move along the river at a relatively fast speed while arraying, the moving military formations are basically a long snake formation, and it is inevitable that they will be disjointed because of the speed and slowness.

Zhao Yun held back for so long before, and only made a move when he saw the opportunity for the first time, Han Xian was naturally caught off guard and suffered some losses.

Han Xian, who was furious by the continuous attrition, finally thought that he had seized the opportunity, and shouted sharply: "Take the opportunity to entangle Zhao Yun!" Chase the whole army! The enemy dares to fight in close combat, why don't you chase after you! Finally, there is a chance to stick to the enemy army! ”

The Baibo Army Brigade, which was more than ten times more numerous than Zhao Yun, chased after each other one after another, no matter whether they could catch up or not, how much they could catch, so they would chase a few miles first.

And this time, Zhao Yun seemed to be running out of horsepower, and he didn't escape as fast as he started, which made the confidence of the pursuing party stronger and stronger, and it was easy to chase deep unconsciously.

"Attack! Han Xian's formation is in chaos! Guan Yu, who had been watching from the edge of the woods on the hillside on the shore of the river, saw that Zhao Yun had lured the enemy all the way downstream to this area, and hurriedly waved his hand and ordered all his subordinates to mount.

You can't ride a horse in the woods, and it's easy to stumble and mess up, so Guan Yu's people are all tied to their horses to rest and wait for work.

It seems that Han Xian was preconceived, thinking that the soldiers he brought this time were all like the hundreds of descendants under Zhao Yun, who could only ride and shoot and were not good at melee fighting.

Then let him see the true strength of the Youzhou cavalry.

Han Xian was in deep pursuit, and suddenly heard the rumbling of horses' hooves on the left, the sound was like muffled thunder and rain, and the hail was whistling.

If Guan Yu sneaks up again, he will be discovered by Han Xian at least six or seven miles away, and it is impossible to really have a sudden effect.

The woods closest to the river on both sides of the Xiangshui River Valley are also several miles, and Han Xian will not take the initiative to chase Zhao Yun to the edge of the woods as long as he is not stupid.

So Guan Yu also knew in his heart, he didn't expect Zhao Yun to lure the enemy to lure out a surprise attack fighter, as long as he could lure out a situation that "made Han Xian have to immediately turn to the defense" and didn't let Han Xian escape back to the ship, then Zhao Yun's luring of the enemy would be considered a success.

Forced to this situation where he has to fight in a dignified manner, the rest depends on Guan Yu himself.

Han Xian shouted frantically, the heralds came out to restrain the troops as much as possible, and in the five minutes that Guan Yu's main force rushed through the six miles, Han Xian barely lined up the formation for seven or eight points, and it was definitely too late to completely complete the formation, and the few rounds of bows and arrows before the formation could only be fired freely.

Guan Yu's goal is very clear, he rushed straight to Han Xian's banner array, and he didn't ask to kill Han Xian, but as long as Bai Bo's civilian armed forces killed the command system, their morale would definitely collapse and the whole line would collapse.

"Boom~" The iron cavalry collided with the formation of spearmen, sword and shield soldiers and archers, and instantly turned on their backs. At that moment, the casualty ratio was even fought back and forth, and no one could say that they had bargained.

However, the gap between the elite soldiers and the militia is often reflected in the subsequent protracted war.

After Guan Yu disrupted several sections of Han Xian's army with a wedge-shaped formation, Han Xian soon discovered that the negative drawbacks of his too wide formation were immediately fully revealed.

There is no way, I was chasing Zhao Yun just now, of course the formation will be too wide, it will be disjointed, and it will lack depth.

The large frontal width is good for the infantry to outflank the enemy, but if it is broken through by the wedge-shaped center of the cavalry charge, it is another matter.

"I heard that this Guan Yu has also killed several famous generals in Youzhou! No, you can't play with him, if you think about fighting or not, your life is still important! ”

Han Xian is very self-aware as a general of the rebel army, and his awareness of saving his life is even stronger than Zhang Rao's, seeing this, he desperately let the friendly troops on the left flank move closer to the middle, trying to surround himself tightly.

Seeing this, Guan Yu didn't want to directly stick into the crowd, so he split the left and right flanks and cut them, peeling onions layer by layer, and slashed and consumed Han Xian's army, and quickly isolated Han Xian's main formation from the Baibo army in the distance on the left and right flanks.

Soon, the Bai Bo army, which was too long in front, saw that Qu Shuai's flag array was surrounded by regiments from a distance, and they were still retreating, and they didn't know what the situation was, and they lost further command, so they couldn't help but be demoralized, and ran back to the river, just to get back to the boat.

"Don't mess around! Don't mess around! Retreat without chaos! The number of Guan Yu's soldiers and horses is less than thirty percent of us, resist! Han Xian is still trying to redeem himself, but in the end he is powerless.

Guan Yu also wanted to pick a soft persimmon and pinch it first, seeing that Han Xianam's flag array was always like a hedgehog, but the two wings that were cut off and commanded retreated first, so he went to chase and kill the rout.

For a while, on the banks of the river, many boats were spilled with blood on their sides. When some of the small boats saw the cavalry rushing to the vicinity, they were afraid that someone would jump up and grab the boat, so they drove to the center of the river, completely giving up the march and continuing to march forward, but went down the river and used oars and oars together, only to retreat.

Some of the routs grabbed the side of the boat and tried to climb onto the boat, but the soldiers on the boat were afraid of being entangled by more and more people, so they drew their knives and cut off the fingers of their comrades who climbed the boat, just hoping to put the boat into the water as soon as possible.

Han Xian couldn't count how many casualties he had paid, and he relied on his henchmen to fight to the death before he fled back to the ship, and he no longer dared to fight the idea of the wealth of Yuncheng Salt Lake.

The battle continued until evening, when Guan Yu's troops began to clean up the battlefield.

If he insisted on killing Han Xian, Guan Yu thought to himself just now that he could still do it, but he didn't dare to take the lives of his subordinate soldiers and horses too much to fill it - he knew very well that coming to Hedong was just a measure for the imperial court to temporarily settle him, these soldiers and horses were all accumulated by the eldest brother in his hometown, and hundreds of casualties were enough to feel distressed.

Therefore, it is just to seek defeat, not annihilation. Anyway, no matter how well Hedong is peaceful, the court will not give this territory to the eldest brother, so why bother to work too hard.

This time attracted Han Xian, firstly, Guan Yu killed a group of those salt lords in order to calm down the internal troubles, and secondly, since he couldn't hide, he could only buy a few months of peace if he hurt the other party, so that Bai Bojun knew that he Guan Yu was in one day, and he didn't dare to commit a day in the south.

After cleaning the battlefield and on the way back to the army, Zhao Yun also comforted him: "Brother doesn't have to worry about it, there is no difference between Han Xian killing and not killing." That Han Xian is not handsome, and the Bai Bo Army has him or not, and he does not necessarily know how much stronger the combat power strategy is. Killed Han Xian, this kind of middle-of-the-road general can still nominate a lot, but in the end, it's not the same? ”

Guan Yu sighed: "I think so too, so I am reluctant to suffer casualties in the robe, and I don't want to die." ”

The two chatted for a day, and had returned to the county seat of Jieliang, and the group of people garrisoned for a night's rest, and before dawn the next day, they received an emergency messenger from the direction of the county magistrate, which was sent by Fan Ling.

"Captain Guandu! The prince asks for help! In the northeast direction, Yang Feng's department of the Baibo Army suddenly came out of Wangwu Mountain and went down the river along the river valley, and there were probably 10,000 or 20,000 people and horses.

The prince sent me to ask for help before the siege, and the commander quickly led the main force back to Anyi! It is said that there are fierce generals in Yang Feng's army, and he has already killed the two Qu military marquis who defended the city under the Taishou tent. ”

Guan Yu's eyes narrowed, and he was puzzled: "Yang Feng came faster than I thought, he would be so active in rescuing friendly troops, it seems that the unity within this white wave thief is beyond our expectations." ”

Zhao Yun analyzed on the side: "In my opinion, where is the rescue of friendly troops, it must be that Yang Feng and Han Xian have confidant sources on each other's side, seeing that Han Xian sent troops first, Yang Feng was afraid that the huge profits of the salt lake would be completely swallowed by Han Xian, so he was so anxious to get a piece of the pie!" Either way, fight again! ”