Originally, Gan Ning thought that his men and horses would easily win against this mere 20,000 enemy troops.

However, when the soldiers and horses of the two sides really fought, Gan Ning realized that something was wrong.

Those Xiongxi barbarians' soldiers and horses occupied the advantage of this terrain, and played with Gan Ning's men in the palm of their hands, so that Gan Ning's soldiers were tired of running around, and they did not fight Gan Ning's soldiers and horses head-on at all.

After a while, the men and horses of Xiongximan, did not lose much, but the people under Gan Ning were tired and half dead, although there were not many deaths, but the physical strength was greatly consumed, and when the physical strength was exhausted, those warriors of Xiongximan could easily counterattack.

Gan Ning didn't have many archers, most of them were brave and good infantry.

But in this kind of mountain, the charge is useless, and they can't give full play to their strengths, but those warriors of Xiongxi Barbarian, after pulling a distance from Ganning's people, directly use arrows to shoot from a distance.

Gan Ning's soldiers and horses, who were already at a disadvantage, immediately increased their casualties after charging back and forth with these soldiers and horses of Xiongximan, and the opponent's arrows would not recognize people.

After a few rounds of shooting, Gan Ning's soldiers and horses immediately suffered a lot of casualties.

Gan Ning himself went on the field and led his soldiers and horses to charge and kill on the battlefield.

But except for some barbarian warriors around him who were killed by him, the rest of the barbarian warriors didn't have many casualties at all.

At this time, Liu Zheng also sensed that something was wrong here.

Although he had long known that these Southern Barbarian warriors would definitely have a great geographical advantage when fighting between the mountains of Wuling County, Liu Zheng, who had no experience in fighting with them at all, cautiously let his generals deal with Ah Huilan, and still did not take any advantage.

Instead of taking advantage of anything, it also caused Gan Ning's men and horses to lose a lot.

At this time, if these soldiers and horses of Gan Ning continue to fight with Ah Huilan's men and horses here, the same soldiers and horses will suffer a big loss for Gan Ning, so Liu Zheng did not dare to hesitate, and immediately let Sun Jian's men and horses also enter the battle.

"Brother Wentai, Xingba's men and horses are not enough to deal with Ah Huilan's Southern Barbarian soldiers, you are also up, you must use archers to deal with these Southern Barbarians."

Infantry engagement, there is no advantage here, only the shooter can play a greater advantage.

And most of the shooters under Liu Zheng are under Huang Zhong, and it was a miscalculation not to let Huang Zhong come over this time, but Sun Jian's men and horses, there are some shooters, and they can barely be used to deal with these Southern Barbarian soldiers and horses.

Sun Jian immediately received the order after Liu Zheng's order was spoken.

Immediately with his 20,000 horses, rushed to Ah Huilan's side to kill the past, with Sun Jian's help, so many people joined the battle, this generation of mountains and forests, has become a fierce battlefield, the mountains and fields are full of people.

Liu Zhengzhi didn't care about Ah Huilan at this time, what he wanted to do was to break down the Xiongximan's cottage, as long as the cottage was gone, even if those Xiongximan's people were still there, they could only sleep in the wilderness, and it would take a lot of work to rebuild the cottage.

Liu Zheng took his thousands of elites, regardless of the soldiers and horses that were fighting here, and directly led people to rush to the direction of Xiongximan's cottage.

He had already found out where Xiongximan's main village was, and now he was rushing to kill it in order to burn down the Xiongximan's habitat with a fire.

When Liu Zheng's men and horses rushed in the direction of the main village, Ah Huilan finally discovered Liu Zheng's purpose, originally wanted to fight guerrilla warfare with Liu Zheng, but now seeing Liu Zheng go straight to the main village, Ah Huinan is still a little nervous, after all, it is his own nest, if it is broken by Liu Zheng, he can't hang on his face.

He hurriedly anxious about his manpower and began to stop Liu Zheng's elite with all his might, which made Ah Huilan's people and Liu Zheng's men fight on the frontal battlefield.

These southern barbarian soldiers are familiar with this area, and this head-to-head battle can be regarded as allowing Liu Zheng to truly see the power of these Xiongxi barbarian soldiers and horses.

Individually, these Southern Barbarian soldiers are no worse than these soldiers under Sun Jian.

There are even some of them, and they are even stronger, especially in such a place to fight, they naturally have an advantage, and the 20,000 Southern Barbarian soldiers are stubbornly competing with Liu Zheng's 40,000 army, and in a short period of time, they have not fallen behind.

Seeing that the charge was fruitless and unable to defeat these Southern Barbarian soldiers and horses, Liu Zheng withdrew his troops and did not let Sun Jian and Gan Ning's men and horses continue to rush and kill, making senseless sacrifices.

Originally, this time, Liu Zheng didn't plan to use his own soldiers and horses to directly fight to the death with these Xiongxi barbarians, Liu Zheng's men, as well as the soldiers and horses seconded from Youxi and Luxi, those Youxi and Luxi people are the local Nanban, with their help, it is easier to deal with these Xiongxi tribesmen, so Liu Zheng did not plan to rely on his own men and horses to destroy these Xiongxi tribesmen.

With men and horses, he retreated for a while, retreating a few miles, after some damage on both sides.

Liu Zheng arranged a big tent, and then invited Sun Jian, Gan Ning and other generals to come over to discuss the matter.

In the big tent, more than a dozen generals came in at once.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you have also seen the strength of these Southern Barbarians now, this is where they are cunning, they do not fight us head-on, but blindly fight guerrilla warfare with us, how can we break this way of fighting?"

Gan Ning and Sun Jian, both of them were injured in this battle, but the damage was not much, each lost thousands of soldiers and horses, killed more than 2,000 people, and injured 4,000.

Gan Ning's hatred for these Southern Barbarian soldiers and horses became even stronger, and when Liu Zheng asked, he immediately stood up.

"Lord, these Southern Barbarians are really cunning, they are angry with me, I think, if you want me to say, we will directly use fire to attack and burn this mountain, so that those Southern Barbarians will directly burn them all to death."

"Burned? Xingba, those people have long legs, they can run, it's not so easy to burn them to death. ”

"Then rush head-on, kill their cottage directly, and see how they can toss."

"But now they are defending, we are attacking, if we attack, the loss of men and horses will be great, in that case, although we are sure to defeat this Xiongxi Man, but the loss of your soldiers and horses will definitely not be less."

"How about it, using the least number of soldiers and horses to achieve our goal is what we should do most."

The conversation between Liu Zheng and Gan Ning made several other generals nod their heads again and again.