If a general leads a group of people for too long, the force will form a distinct personal imprint. Tian Guofeng's department, which was stationed in Xiangyang, was like this.

Tian Guofeng is known for his bravery, attacking and fighting, taking the lead, and what he is best at is attacking and disrupting the battle. When he fights the enemy, what he likes most is to make the battlefield a mess, pull the opponent's ability to command the battle to a level above his own, and then solve the opponent with his fierceness.

This style of play, when encountering slightly weaker armies and generals, is invincible. However, after encountering troops with strict military discipline and extremely strong combat resilience, it is not so easy to use.

And his deputy general, Chen Changfu, is not a general from a professional class, and has the same characteristics as Tian Guofeng.

Such an army naturally has fatal flaws, so after the reorganization, this army was supplemented with a large number of military attachés, who made up for the weakness of the main general in this regard, and after more than a year of hard work, this army became a sharp division with invincible offense and rock-solid defense.

Facing the siege of the Liang army, Tian Guofeng, as always, led the army out of the city to fight.

The three thousand cavalry with the Taishan bandits as the core are the sharp weapons in Tian Guofeng's hands.

Cao Bin, who was ordered to lead his troops to attack Xiangyang and take this important strategic base, did not expect Tian Guofeng to react like this at all.

The 50,000 Liang army, plus tens of thousands of young and strong people, and Cao Bin, who falsely claimed to be an army of 200,000, thought that in the face of absolute superiority, Tian Guofeng would definitely rely on the fortified city of Xiangyang to consume his troops, so he also launched a series of procedures for attacking the city step by step.

For a fortified city of Xiangyang's level, there are not too many ways to do it, it can only be hard-hitting, fighting consumption, and fighting manpower.

When tens of thousands of young men rushed to the moat with sandbags under the supervision of the warlord, the gate of Xiangyang was wide open, and Tian Guofeng led 3,000 cavalry to sweep out.

The high-headed horses, all the machetes, the roaring Tang cavalry did not have the slightest mercy for these people, and wherever they passed, they formed a sea of blood.

The 3,000 cavalry were divided into three teams, and after successfully causing a period of slaughter, they chased the people like sheep and swept them backwards towards Cao Bin's main formation.

Tian Guofeng did it on purpose.

These panicked people are young and strong, except for the middle road that can run, if they run in any other direction, they will be driven back by the cavalry, and they don't want to be hacked to death by the cavalry, so they can only run to the Liang army's main formation.

The Liang Jundu team in the rear of the people bore the brunt.

Even if they wielded their knives and desperately slashed these people, but the number of them was too small to control the scene at all, and in the chaos, even they were wrapped up and rolled towards the main formation.

At this time, if the generals of the Liang army were a little slow to deal with it, they would be disrupted by the chaotic army, and if the three thousand cavalry were allowed to rush into the main formation of the Liang army, they would be able to find a chaotic battle as Tian Guofeng expected.

But this time his opponent is Cao Bin, the former Xuanwu general who has been on the battlefield for a long time. The battles he has experienced in his life are much stronger than Tian Guofeng.

As the saying goes, that is, the salt he has eaten, I am afraid that he has eaten more than Tian Guofeng, and he has walked more bridges than Tian Guofeng has walked.

After a slight surprise, he immediately ordered all ranged weapons to attack at once.

Compared with the shaking of this formation, the lives of some young people are not in his consideration at all. If the people are gone, they can be recruited and recruited again.

When the sky was covered with black pressed feather arrows, and when the sound of a strong crossbow breaking through the sky resounded on the battlefield, the two cavalry of the Liang army separated from the two wings, one left and one right, and headed towards Tian Guofeng's rear.

Their intention was so obvious, that is, to try to keep this army that dared to leave the city. And the Tianzi banner waving in the wind surprised Cao Bin even more.

He really didn't expect that in the first battle, the opponent's main general would actually go out of the city.

The feathered arrows fell, and wailed all over the ground.

These feather arrows did limited damage to Tian Guofeng's cavalry, they were all covered in armor, except for a few unlucky ghosts, the rest of the people continued to rush forward almost unaffected.

But the young men fell down like leeks.

The battlefield was almost emptied.

Tian Guofeng's cavalry was immediately exposed.

Looking at the columns of pikemen and big shield soldiers in Liang Jun's main formation, Tian Guofeng couldn't help but sigh, damn it, this reaction was too fast.

The wishful thinking of the inverted bead curtain suddenly fell short.

However, he did not intend to give up on this.

He has been in the camp of the Liang army for several years, and he still knows the elite Liang army very well, as for Cao Bin, he is his acquaintance, and the two fought side by side when they were under the command of Zhu Youzhen!

Since the first blow missed, then, the backup means must be used.

He felt the whistle from his waist and blew it vigorously, and the two cavalry on the left and right immediately turned and went to the left and right wings, and he himself, leading a thousand cavalry, still rushed to Cao Bin's main formation.

This made Cao Bin a little puzzled.

Of course Tian Guofeng is familiar with him, this person is brave and fierce, but he is not a fool, he uses cavalry to attack the spear and shield troops that are arranged in an array, is he here to find death?

Definitely not.

He must have some plan, but he didn't know it.

Since it is impossible to guess the opponent's combat intentions, you can only respond to changes with no change, wait for the opponent to make a move, and then adapt to the situation. In any case, Tian Guofeng only has 3,000 cavalry, two of which are heading to the left and right wings, and with just this 1,000 people, it is tantamount to a fool's dream to break through his own Chinese army.

The sharp whistle kept coming out of Tian Guofeng's mouth, and the cavalry actually began to slow down. This made Cao Bin even more inexplicable, what advantage did the cavalry have lost its speed?

More than 100 cavalry stood out to the front, obviously out of touch with Tian Guofeng's headquarters.

Cao Bin suddenly thought of a possibility, his face changed slightly, and he immediately whispered a few words to a general beside him, and the general ran to the front line like a fly.

Fierce fire bombs!

Tian Guofeng wanted to use the fierce fire oil bomb to cause panic and break through his own formation.

In general, Cao Bin was not wrong.

However, what the Tang Army threw after igniting it was not a fierce fire bomb.

Rather, it was a gunpowder weapon, a grenade.

Compared with the fierce fire oil bomb, the lethality of the grenade is much more powerful.

After deliberately calculating the time, the grenades were thrown hard into the big shield array and exploded one by one, a large amount of smoke rose up, and countless pieces of broken iron whistled and flew.

In the dense smoke, Cao Bin could no longer see the battlefield situation in front of him.

When the sound of the second round of explosions sounded again, Cao Bin took a deep breath and ordered sharply: "The Chinese army presses forward!" ”

Although he couldn't see it clearly, Cao Bin could generally guess the situation on the front line, and it must have been a mess at this moment.

There was no fire as expected, and the mourning of soldiers was heard in the thick smoke, and it was clear that the front line was not lightly damaged. It is very likely that Tian Guofeng will tear his mouth open.

The Liang army pointed forward to the banner of the Chinese army, and the Chinese army stood in the main formation with a shield and a tree gun, and slowly pressed forward.

The front line was as Cao Bin expected, the sudden attack tore through the defense line of the Liang army's formation, and when the second round of explosions sounded, Tian Guofeng had already begun to accelerate the impact.

The first line of defense was quickly torn open by Tian Guofeng.

He really hoped to drive these Liang Jun, who were obviously a little at a loss, to turn the bead curtain again.

But the sound of war drums from afar made Tian Guofeng dispel this thought.

He was very familiar with Liang's command system.

It was the harshest military order that ordered all the troops to hold on to the spot, take a step back, and kill Wuhe.

I can't get much benefit.

Tian Guofeng, who was slashing in the chaotic lineup of the Liang army, glanced at the well-groomed Liang army in front of him, and rushed towards the flank with a whistle.

It's a pity that he used up more than 200 grenades in his hand at one time.

The grenade has just been developed by Datang, and it has not yet been manufactured on a large scale, and the batch given to them is only a trial product.

However, it is much more useful than the fierce fire oil bomb, and the lethality is somewhat unexpected by Tian Guofeng.

This battle is a deterrent, let Cao Bin also see his majesty, and then Cao Bin is attacking, he has to worry about this powerful weapon at any time.

Although I don't have it anymore, it can still scare you.

The wind swept away, Tian Guofeng rushed out with his cavalry, first to the left flank, and then to join the army, to meet the cavalry on the right, and then retreat towards Xiangyang City.

The cavalry of the Liang army was a little dazed by the sudden explosion, and the pace of pursuit was inevitably a little slow, and they watched Tian Guofeng's subordinates, so they retreated to Xiangyang City in a neat manner.

Cao Bin looked at the battlefield full of messy eyes, and was extremely annoyed.

Is the loss big?

Minfu's losses were indeed a bit large, but his army did not suffer too many losses, less than a few hundred casualties, which was almost negligible for an army of 50,000 people.

But morale has really been affected.

"Mingjin, collect the troops!" Annoyed, he gave the order.

Above the city, the soldiers cheered, and the Liang army came violently, and returned dejectedly.

But Tian Guofeng, Chen Changfu and a group of experienced generals did not have much joy.

The strength of this Liang army obviously exceeded their expectations. Defeat without panic, scattered but not chaotic, advance and retreat to a degree, this battle is very difficult to fight!

Zhu Youzhen is no longer the Emperor of Liang, he has become the King of Liang of the small court in Guangzhou, and it seems that he is preparing to spend money for this battle. It's the absolute backbone of the people who survived with great difficulty.