Chapter 223: The Battle of the Breakout
Liu Zheng's order, after Xu Huang spread it, Liu Zheng's army near the entire Hepu City quickly converged on the south city gate.
Liu Zheng knew that Zhu Fu in the city would not have fought with him, if Zhu Fu had the courage to go out of the city to fight, he would have come out a few days ago, and he would not wait until now.
This is also the reason why Liu Zheng was able to let half of his soldiers and horses sweep the various counties.
Liu Zheng is at a loss, he surrounded Hepu City, Zhu Fu in Hepu City did not know the situation outside the city, and now someone broke through and killed into the city to report the news, so that Zhu Fu understood Liu Zheng's reality and Liu Zheng's strength, there should be a battle.
In this way, Liu Zheng continued to disperse the already small number of troops into four cities, which would only increase Zhu Fu's fighting strength, and Zhu Fu still had 50,000 troops in Hepu City.
Although these 50,000 troops are nothing in Liu Zheng's eyes, Liu Zheng only has 10,000 people after all, and if he is scattered, there are only less than 3,000 people, and 3,000 soldiers and horses deal with Zhu Fu's 50,000, more than ten times the enemy, even if the battalion under Liu Zheng's command is the most elite soldiers and horses under his command, he dare not say that he can defeat Zhu Fu steadily.
Only when these soldiers and horses were regrouped and gathered in one place and had 10,000 people could Liu Zheng have some confidence that he could use these soldiers and horses to fight with Zhu Fu's manpower.
With 10,000 elites, the elite battalion of the new army after the restructuring, he fought against Zhu Fu's 50,000 troops improvised together.
There is still a lot of confidence.
Not long after Liu Zheng gathered his soldiers and horses at the south city gate. Sure enough, in Hepu City, there was movement.
In the direction of the east city gate, Zhu Fu gathered most of the soldiers and horses in the city, opened the city gate from the east city gate, and killed directly from the city.
The reason why it is the East City Gate and not the other City Gates is also because Zhu Fu considered that once he could not defeat it, he would be able to evacuate from the east and go to Jiaozhi County.
In fact, the direction of the South City Gate is the best point for evacuation, but the South City Gate is occupied by most of Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses, and if you want to break through from the South City Gate, the difficulty factor is too great.
After thinking about it again, Zhu Fu still did not break through directly from the south city gate, and chose the east city gate, which was close to the south city gate.
On the side of the East City Gate, only Liu Zheng was responsible for the more than 500 soldiers and horses left behind.
These people have long been ordered by Liu Zheng that once someone in the city leaves the city, they don't have to fight, retreat collectively, and go to the south gate to join Liu Zheng's army.
Therefore, when the gate of the east city gate was opened, and the army inside suddenly came out of the city, Qu Chang, who was in charge of commanding these hundreds of people, immediately ordered a retreat.
At the same time, there was news from the cavalry, and Liu Zheng soon learned the news from the East City Gate.
"Okay, sure enough, this guy Zhu Fu can't bear the loneliness, Xu Huang, form a formation, and prepare to meet the enemy!"
Liu Zheng fought from the big tent, and Xu Huang and the two immediately walked out of the military tent and began to drive in the direction of the East City Gate, intending to meet Zhu Fu at the East City Gate.
When Liu Zheng led his army to the East City Gate, the East City Gate had already been controlled by Zhu Fu's army, and tens of thousands of troops outside the city were already in full array, as if they were waiting for Liu Zheng's arrival.
Zhu Fu and several soldiers under his command stood at the front of the team in turn, watching Liu Zheng gallop over on horseback from a distance.
Liu Zheng pulled the reins when he was about to approach Zhu Fu, reined in the war horse, and stopped.
"Zhu Fu, the turtle has shrunk for half a month, are you finally planning to come out?"
As soon as Liu Zheng led people to the East City Gate, after seeing Zhu Fu, he immediately said a cold word to Zhu Fu.
Zhu Fu's face was unhappy, but at this time, there were tens of thousands of troops behind him as hole cards, and he was not as timid as before, although he was still not too sure to deal with Liu Zheng, but how many Zhu Fu still had to pretend to be calm at this time.
"Liu Zheng, the revenge of killing your father, you must not go unpunished, today you will either die, or I will die!"
"Okay, I've been waiting for your words for a long time, if you have the ability, you can let the horse come, even if I only have 10,000 soldiers and horses, it's not something that you waste army can defeat!"
Liu Zheng said while mocking the soldiers under Zhu Fu.
When those soldiers heard Liu Zheng's words, although they felt aggrieved, some of them who had experienced Wuyangling were still ashamed and did not dare to speak out.
They had seen Liu Zheng's power, so they knew at this time that Liu Zheng had the confidence to say this.
Zhu Fu ignored Liu Zheng's words, but at this time, he immediately turned his head to look at Liu Yan beside him.
Liu Yan advocated attacking, and Zhu Fu also gave Liu Yan full authority to fight this time.
At this time, Liu Yan's eyes also saw Zhu Fu's body, and when Zhu Fu's eyes made contact with him, Liu Yan had already understood what Zhu Fu meant.
"My lord, you go to the back of the military formation as soon as possible, leave it to me here, and once there are heavy casualties among our troops, you will leave from here."
Liu Yan whispered to Zhu Fu, and then he immediately began to give orders, so that the 50,000 troops behind him began to assemble.
These 50,000 people, under Liu Yan's command, immediately rushed towards Liu Zheng like a tide.
Although it is a group of people from various counties and counties that have been cobbled together temporarily, after half a month, Liu Yan's training has somewhat the appearance of a regular army.
At least, when facing the battle, they would not be too afraid, and they all rushed towards Liu Zheng's army.
Among them, although some of the men and horses were veterans who had experienced the battle of Wuyangling and knew that Liu Zheng was powerful, they had already followed the army and rushed towards Liu Zheng's army at this time.
Watching the soldiers and horses rushing over like a tide, although Liu Zheng was a little nervous in his heart, he had been on the battlefield for a long time, and he had long since lost the youthfulness that he had just entered the battlefield.
Immediately roared loudly at the army on the battlefield.
"Array!"
"Drink!"
An army of 10,000 troops, under Liu Zheng's order, immediately stood at the front of the team with 3,000 swords and shields.
Immediately after that, the three thousand pikemen also rushed up and used the phalanx to push up, and the six thousand army had to face the 50,000 army rushing over from Liu Yan's side at this time.
Liu Zheng's square formation, although it seems to have no bright spots, but because of Liu Zheng's military cooperation, the square formation at this time is precisely the formation that can give full play to the strength of Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses.
As the Jiaozhou soldiers led by Liu Yan gradually approached, thousands of shooters on Liu Zheng's side began to shoot.
The first round of shooting soon rushed into the sky, and on the side of the Jiaozhou army, some people raised their shields high, while some people had nothing to resist at all, so they could only charge without their lives.
After all, there are only so many shields. Not every soldier has a shield in his hand.