Facing the advance of Liu Bei's infantry phalanx, Dian Wei slowly retreated with his cavalry.

He only needed to delay Liu Bei's advance now, so that Zhao Hui had time to respond.

If it was a place with open terrain, even if Liu Bei formed a phalanx, Dian Wei would have already killed him.

Zhao Hui in the camp received news from Pei Yuanshao and Dian Wei one after another.

At that moment, let Zhou Cang lead 3,000 infantry to support Dian Wei.

At this moment, there are only 5,000 infantry in the camp, and there are already more than 1,000 people.

Judging from the information obtained now, there are at least 20,000 soldiers in Gongsun Zhan's camp on the other side.

Five thousand to twenty thousand, the difference in strength between the two sides reached four times.

At this moment, the river is knee-high, and in a quarter of an hour, the riverbed will be completely exposed.

Zhao Hui stood by the river, and Gongsun Zhan stood opposite, and the two looked at each other across the ten-zhang wide river.

Behind Gongsun Zhan, there were already rows of soldiers, ready to go.

The man in front of him, with a plank in his hand, waited for the river to dry up and then spread the plank on it.

In front of Zhao Hui, there was a row of fences along the river.

The water level is constantly decreasing, from submerging the knees to only submerging the calves. And then to the instep of the instep.

Soon only a small stream remained in the middle.

Gongsun Chan gave an order, and the soldiers behind him spread the planks in their hands on the riverbed, and then rushed over with the planks.

Zhao Hui stood by the river, holding a Mo knife in his hand. When Gongsun Zhan's soldiers rushed to the middle of the dry river, Zhao Hui ordered: "Release the arrows!" ”

Fifty miles upstream!

Pei Yuanshao was fighting with more than a dozen people and the hundred people left behind by Liu Bei.

Before dawn, Pei Yuanshao finally saw the embankment built by Liu Bei.

Pei Yuanshao was about to destroy it as soon as possible, but after it was demolished a little, it was discovered by the people left by Liu Bei to guard.

Pei Yuanshao, who only brought more than ten people, faced more than a hundred enemies.

Pei Yuanshao did not flinch, so he took a dozen people and fought with the enemy at the embankment.

Although Pei Yuanshao's strength is not as good as that of Zhang Wangliaohua, he was also the number one Qu Shuai in the Yellow Turban Army.

Standing in the middle of the embankment, with a spear in his hand, he stabbed three enemy soldiers rushing towards him one after another.

A dozen people, back to back in a team of three.

The results of the training in the past few years were fully reflected in one moment.

Faced with an enemy several times their size, they did not panic.

It's just that although they cooperate with each other, more than a hundred enemies can surround them at the same time. Even if they are in a team of three, each of them will have to face multiple enemies at the same time.

Fortunately, the area on the embankment is relatively small, and Pei Yuanshao is in front, which makes the pressure on the other dozen or so people relatively relaxed.

Pei Yuanshao now has only one thought in his mind, and that is to tear down the embankment under his feet and let the river flow.

The spear pierced the body of an enemy, but Pei Yuanshao himself was also stabbed.

But Pei Yuanshao was unmoved, the whole person was like a demon, and continued to dance the spear.

One by one, the enemies fell, but the dozen or so people who followed Pei Yuanshao were gradually decreasing.

"Come on, come and kill me." The spear in Pei Yuanshao's hand was pulled out from the enemy, and he shouted loudly with his face covered in blood, and at the same time took the initiative to rush towards the enemy.

Liu Bei left these people, not elite, and in the face of Pei Yuanshao in the mad demon, they finally began to fear.

Although no one has fled, they are afraid in their hearts, and they cannot hold the weapons in their hands steadily.

Pei Yuanshao, who was rushed towards them, stabbed five people to death in a row.

But Pei Yuanshao was also shot in the shoulder.

Fortunately, this shot didn't go too deep.

"Kill!"

The wound on his shoulder did not make Pei Yuanshao stop, and the spear in his hand pierced into the body of the enemy in front of him.

Then quickly pull it out and stab it into the body of another person.

Whether it is a battlefield or an ordinary battle, when one side loses courage, it has already lost.

If Liu Bei left a general here, he might be able to block Pei Yuanshao.

But Liu Bei just left a centurion to guard here.

And this centurion has now been shot to death by Pei Yuanshao.

As soon as the centurion died, the rest of the people lost their fighting spirit even more.

And the few people who were still alive with Pei Yuanshao were also infected by Pei Yuanshao.

One by one, they began to chase and slash the enemy, and even if they were injured, they had to kill the enemy regardless of it.

On the embankment, corpses lay on them, and the water flowed over them, mixed with blood.

"Haha!" Looking at the corpse on the ground, Pei Yuanshao laughed, and the blood was falling down the corners of his mouth.

Of the dozen or so people who followed Pei Yuanshao, there are only five people left, and everyone has suffered more than one wound on their bodies.

"Qu Shuai!"

They were all the Yellow Turban Army who followed Pei Yuanshao back then, and at this moment, they shouted back to what they called Pei Yuanshao a few years ago.

"Dig the dike." Pei Yuanshao said with a spear.

Upstream of the levee, the water had overflowed the levee overnight.

Several people worked together to pry open a few stones, and they didn't need to take care of the rest.

The water above will continue to widen the gap.

It was just a temporary embankment, and it soon burst.

The river, which had been impounded overnight, rushed downstream with a roar.

Thirty miles below the embankment that burst the levee.

Dian Wei Zhoucang with 2,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry had also been killed with Liu Bei's 5,000 infantry.

Zhou Cang led the infantry to meet Liu Bei head-on, and Dian Wei led the cavalry, harassing on the flank, and attacking around the rear of Liu Bei's army.

Although the terrain here does not show the real superiority of the cavalry.

But harassing from the side can disrupt Liu Bei's formation.

Two thousand cavalry, not in one go, but as far as possible.

It was difficult for the two sides to decide the winner for a while.

But just when the battle situation was scorching, Liu Bei heard a rumbling sound, and then saw the rushing river rushing down from above.

Because the river was impounded overnight, after the dam was washed away, the excess water directly widened the previous channel.

The surface of the river, which was originally only a few zhang wide, has been increased by two zhang.

The soldiers leaning against the river were directly swept away by the river.

"The levee was destroyed?" Liu Bei was shocked.

"I left more than a hundred people to guard it, the embankment shouldn't be destroyed, could it be that Zhao Hui had already sent someone upstream last night?"

Looking at the originally dry river, it was instantly filled with river water, and the water flow was more and more urgent than yesterday, Liu Bei's heart was a little panicked.

He still didn't know how the battle between Gongsun Chan and Zhao Hui was going downstream.

Liu Bei's panic did not show on his face.

He did not give up the battle because of the bursting of the embankment, but began to attack Dian Wei and Zhou Cang at any cost.

He wanted to get to the battlefield downstream as soon as possible.

However, although the infantry led by Zhou Cang was less than Liu Bei in number, each soldier had been trained for many years.

Liu Bei's 5,000 soldiers were not his, but were temporarily handed over to him by Gongsun Zhan.

In terms of combat power, the infantry led by Zhou Cang was stronger than the 5,000 people led by Liu Bei temporarily.

Moreover, there was Dian Wei harassing on the periphery, and under Liu Bei's rapid attack, in addition to increasing his own casualties, he could not break through Zhou Cang's phalanx.

(End of chapter)