Although Zhong Zhiming and Li Xiaofei were marshals and deputy marshals, they only had more than 3,000 horses under Ling Yun, and Liyang on the opposite side was 230,000 Wu troops!

It's not that Pharmacist Zhu wants to trap them, but Pharmacist Zhu didn't expect that Wu Zhenchang would dare to kill Zhu Bojiu and seize Liyang City, plus Pharmacist Zhu really has no troops to send now.

Ling Yun led people to burn Liyang's boat, but for Wu Zhenchang, it would take more than ten days to build a ship and kill him, after all, it was not difficult to cross the river less than 100 zhang wide.

Ling Yun is not stupid, most of the people under his command are brothers who were brought out of Juye at the beginning, and they can't fight hard with Wu Zhenchang in Xinli City. The 3,000 men and horses have been packing up their belongings for the past few days, ready to retreat at any time.

In fact, Wu Zhenchang on the other side is also difficult to ride a tiger now, and he took more than 200,000 people to occupy Liyang and get a lot of goods, but except for Liyang, there are enemies all around. There were those who persuaded him to go south to Jinling, those who persuaded him to take advantage of the situation to go north, and those who persuaded him to go west to occupy Yecheng.

Wu Zhenchang suddenly sobered up at this time, he knew that there was no hope for going south, after all, the combat strength of Wang Tiezhu and He Wuji's army was far above him, not to mention that no one under his command could resist Wang Tiezhu. But if you go north, you are all infantry, even if you occupy the counties, once you divide the troops to defend them, the army of Yu State can be broken individually.

It seems that there is only one way out by going west!

However, the Qianyu army from the west had already arrived at Liyang, and Pajaqili gave a death order to Hudu Bili and Zada Yuanxian, and asked them to lead the 5,000 Qianyu army stationed in Xiangguo to attack Wu Zhenchang.

Hudu Bili and Zada Yuanxian have followed Hu Gao for several years, and they still have some feelings for him. The two believed that as long as they obeyed the orders of the imperial court this time and defeated Wu Zhenchang, they would be able to dispel the imperial court's doubts about the Thousand Feather Army.

After all, the two of them and these soldiers of the Thousand Feather Army were all selected from one in a hundred, and they were still very confident in their combat power. Of the 5,000 people in the Thousand Feather Army, 3,000 are equipped with heavy armor, and among the rest, 1,000 are heavy infantry with long shields, and then there are 1,000 scouts and scouts who are responsible for finding the road and luring the enemy after the road is broken.

Hudu Bili personally led fifty people to explore the way in front, and the opponent was completely annihilated, which made Hudu Bili dare not take it lightly.

Hudu Bili and Wu Zhenchang's former army met a hundred miles west of Liyang, and Hudu Bili glanced at it and knew that this team's combat strength was not bad, so he already had an idea.

Wu Zhenchang's front army quickly formed a circle formation, raised their shields, and fired arrows at Hudu Bili. Hudu Bili and his subordinates turned their horses and ran, and when they ran out of range of the Wu army, they stopped and continued to watch the movements of the Wu army. Not every enemy army will come to die, but Wu Jun thought that the soldiers of Yu State were all like Ju Wuzhi. This time, the enemy deliberately provoked them, but they refused to come to send them to death, so that the Wu army did not know how to respond, so they had to stop and wait for the Chinese army to arrive.

Seeing that the Wu army no longer released arrows, the tiger capital would fight his horse again and come back to charge and shout, and quickly ran away after the Wu army opened his bow and set up the arrows. After repeating this four times, the Wu army was a little slack, after all, the infantry could not catch up with the cavalry, so they walked for a while and stopped, not to mention the physical strength, and the originally expected camping points and routes had to be adjusted.

Ma Wenchang, the commander of the former army, quickly gave the order - the front army stopped on the spot and waited for the Chinese army.

This order is undoubtedly very correct, and Hudu Bili originally planned to introduce the front army of the Wu army into the ambush that Zada Yuanxian had already arranged.

Seeing that the Wu army began to camp, Hudu Bili knew that the enemy general had seen through his plan, so he prepared to leave a few scouts behind. But at this time, the front army of the Wu army began to put away the camp tent and move again, and the tiger capital was surprised.

It turned out that Wu Zhenchang's personal soldiers had an order, blaming Ma Wenchang for being too slow to advance the army, and asking Ma Wenchang to advance quickly with the front army. Ma Wenchang wanted to refuse, but when he thought that Wu Zhenchang would dare to kill even the emperor's uncle, he had to continue to march west with the front army.

Advancing westward, you can only fall into the ambush of the Thousand Feather Army.

Ma Wenchang walked for two more hours with 30,000 former troops, and then found a high ground to stop and rest. Marven knew that there must be enemy troops nearby, so he asked the soldiers to divide into four groups to take turns to guard the guard, originally thinking that they would rest for an hour and then start again.

But Zada Yuanxian and Hudu Bili had been waiting for them to camp here, and seeing that the Wu army was resting on the high ground, Hudu Bili led a thousand cavalry to rush over from the west.

"There are enemy troops!" "Cavalry!"

Wu Jun immediately became alert, and Ma Wenchang immediately ordered 3,000 shield bearers and 4,000 spearmen to line up on the western periphery, 3,000 archers to prepare to release arrows, and the rest to guard as reserves. To deal with the cavalry of the Yu State, the Wu army still has experience.

Seeing that the 1,000 cavalry of Hudu Bili was about to reach the range of the archers, Ma Wenchang was about to give the order to release the arrows, but Hudu Bili reined in his horse and stopped with a thousand cavalry.

Marven shouted at Hudu Bili: "The savage on the other side! You don't dare to charge the battle with the cavalry, so it's better to go back to the grassland to herd the sheep! ”

Hudu Bili smiled but did not answer, took the kettle from the saddle and drank water, and all the soldiers around him began to drink.

When Marven saw this scene, his heart tightened, it turned out that the enemy army didn't want to fight with them, but just wanted to trap them here and wait for them to drink water before making plans. Wu Jun, who originally only planned to rest for an hour, brought barely enough water to drink for half a day at this time. But at this time, the enemy took out the kettle to drink water, and Wu Jun also began to drink water, and this time there was basically no water to drink.

"Stop! Don't drink water! Keep the water! Ma Wenchang immediately stopped his subordinates from drinking water, but it was too late.

Now there was only one way left, and that was to crush the thousand cavalry head-on, and then go to the front to find water.

The 4,000 people led by Zada Yuanxian were waiting for the Wu army to loosen the formation, and Ma Wenchang waved the command flag in his hand: "Rush into battle!" ”

The front army of the Wu army approached the 1,000 cavalry of the Tiger Capital Bili, and the Wu army thought that this Tiger Capital Bili would continue to run again, so they rushed faster, and the formation began to loosen.

But this time, Hudu Bili not only did not run, but rushed forward with a thousand cavalry with a wave of his scimitar.

The Wu army was not ready to attack, and the thousand people of Hudu Bili rushed into the Wu army formation in an instant, and it was thanks to Ma Wenchang that his own soldiers fought to the death that they did not break up, but at this time it was no longer possible to release arrows, because the two sides were entangled together.

The Thousand Feather Army is a strong, battle-hardened elite cavalry, and they all think that they can defeat the Wu army with one or ten. Because the Wu army had defeated the cavalry of Ju Wuzhi before, and because of the large number of people, not only was it not afraid, but the more it fought, the more brave it became, and many people died with the Thousand Feather Army.

Ma Wenchang firmly believed that he could annihilate these thousand enemy troops, so he took his own soldiers to the location where the tiger capital was located.

Zada Yuanxian appeared! In the south! Three thousand heavy cavalry opened the way, and one thousand light cavalry quickly came to reinforce the position where Hudu Bili was located.

Three thousand heavy cavalry trampled over, and the ground was dusty, and together with the south wind, the wind swept the dust towards the Wu army.

Ma Wenchang looked back and knew that it was not good, there was no hope of escaping at this time, and the only way to survive was to resist the enemy's cavalry and wait for reinforcements from the Chinese army.

"Array! Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! ”

The Wu army began to fire arrows at the heavy cavalry to the south, but to no avail, except that they were deflected by the wind, that is, they knocked up and fell on the iron armor of the heavy cavalry.

Marven had a long heart: "Shoot the surrounded enemy first!" ”

The order was to shoot his own soldiers who were entangled with the enemy army, but there was no better option at this point.

The Wu army shot all the arrows only at the light cavalry of Hudu Bili and Yu State.

Dozens of arrows fell with the war horse in the body of the tiger capital, and thousands of Wu troops were shot and killed along with the more than 1,000 cavalry.

Those who did not die wailed on the ground, and the wind echoed over the field with the wailing. Marven didn't have time to grieve and sigh, because the heavy cavalry had already arrived.

Zada Yuanxian was full of anger and extremely remorseful, he thought that he could save Hudu Bili, a comrade-in-arms, but the enemy did not hesitate to shoot his own people to kill Hudu Bili, but he couldn't save him when he was close.

Zada Yuanxian brandished his scimitar and shouted: "Revenge!" Avenge! Avenge! ”

After three rounds of revenge, three thousand heavy armored cavalry shouted revenge and rushed to the Wu army's position.

Marven laughed wildly: "Brothers, we have already killed one enemy general, and another one will be killed, we will be worth it today!" I can't run anyway, so I'll stare at the enemy generals and rush forward! ”

If it was in peacetime, these people would have fled a long time ago, but today everyone knows that they can't run, the enemy army is cavalry, and they only have two feet, so it's useless to run.

On the one hand, he was eager for revenge, and on the other hand, he was killed, and seeing that the Wu army was smashed to pieces by the heavy armored cavalry, Zada Yuanxian thought that the rest was harvested.

But Wu Jun, who fell to the ground, stood up again and continued to rush towards Qianyu Jun, lying on the ground and unable to get up, he grabbed the horse's leg and refused to let go, and there were those who bit the horse's calf with their teeth.

Zada Yuanxian didn't expect that these emaciated Wu troops in front of him could be so desperate, so he raised his scimitar again: "Don't be careless, line up and rush again!" Rush until they all lie down! ”

But at this time, Ma Wenchang jumped up from in front of Zada Yuanxian's horse and threw Zada Yuanxian to the ground, and in an instant, Ma Wenchang had been slashed dozens of times in the back.

But Ma Wenchang still refused to let go, but roared with red eyes: "Brothers, bite this enemy general to death!" ”

Zada Yuanxian's personal soldiers dismounted one after another to rescue Zada Yuanxian, and cut off Ma Wenchang's arms directly, but Ma Wenchang's legs were still wrapped around Zada Yuanxian's feet, and a personal soldier beheaded Ma Wenchang again, and when he pulled out Ma Wenchang's head, Zada Yuanxian shouted: "Don't pull it out!" ”

Everyone saw that Ma Wen's long teeth even bit the iron armor on Zada Yuanxian's shoulder, biting Zada Yuanxian's shoulder.

The remaining Wu troops rushed to the place where Zada Yuanxian was, but after all, they still failed to break through the defense of the Thousand Feather Army, and were killed by the Thousand Feather Army one after another.

The strong wind stopped, and a red sun set in the west, and Zhada Yuanxian ordered the tiger capital to be transported back to Heren City, and sent someone to bury Ma Wenchang's head and arms together.

The Thousand Feather Army counted the battlefield and found that only more than 80 of the 2,000 light cavalry had survived, and more than 500 of the 3,000 heavy armored cavalry had been lost.

Zada Yuanxian looked east: "Collect the troops!" Return! ”

When Wu Zhenchang's Chinese army arrived on the battlefield, they saw the corpses of Wu Jun and countless crows and wild dogs everywhere.

"How could the former army be wiped out? Where is Marven? Wu Zhenchang questioned left and right

"Report, General Ma's saber was found on the mound over there!"

Wu Zhenchang led the left and right, the soldiers were digging through the mound, and the split body of Ma Wenchang was impressively visible.

Although Wu Zhenchang also fought a few battles, it was the first time he saw someone he was familiar with being cut into several pieces, and when he saw it, he fainted to the ground.

The first thing Wu Zhenchang said when he woke up was: "Go back to Liyang!" ”

Wu Zhenchang's army returned to Liyang, and everyone understood that Wu Zhenchang was frightened by the fiasco of the previous army, but Wu Zhenchang could not continue to show timidity. Since there was still a formidable enemy in the west, they had no choice but to go south.

In less than five days, Wu's army had prepared hundreds of large and small rafts to cross the river.