While seizing villages, ponds, dikes and other places, Lü Bu's army sent many rangers to isolate the scouts of the Western Liang army, and by the way, to explore the movements of the Western Liang army. After obtaining a sharp increase in the number of rangers of Lu Bu's army several times, Chen Cheng also sent more light cavalry.

Although this time, the Qiang people who were lost in eight miles and eight miles were all assigned to the Xiongnu light cavalry who went to Beibei under the command of Xu Rong on the North Road, but Chen Cheng still had many light cavalry in his hands that could be used for reconnaissance. There are countless tribes of the Qiang people in Xiliang, and he has a great reputation among the Qiang and Xiongnu, even if he does not pass through the county guards, he can still pull out a lot of light horses.

With the return of the light cavalry of the Western Liang Army, skirmishes to the east of Anhanyi suddenly became more numerous, and both sides wanted to control the situation on the battlefield and keep the other side in the fog of war. As a result, the battle between the hussars became fierce and bloody, with great attrition on both sides.

Even if there are only a few casualties of a dozen people at a time, the number of casualties will be considerable. On the one hand, the light cavalry of the Lü Bu army came from the cavalry brought by Ding Yuan from Bingzhou, and on the other hand, it came from the annexed Huangfu Song's old department, not to mention the quality, it was much less than the Xiliang army in terms of quantity.

Such a bloody consumption was already a little unbearable for them, and when the Xiliang army threw the assault cavalry in the county soldiers into the battlefield, the light cavalry of the Lu Bu army could only flee from the wind. The cavalry of the Lu Bu army was less than 20,000, which was the result of counting those who rode mules, while although the Xiliang army only had 70,000 people, the number of cavalry exceeded 40,000, only 20,000 were infantry, and the rest were baggage battalions, engineer battalions, medical battalions and other units.

After gaining control of the battlefield, the Xiliang cavalry cut off Lü Bu's army's exploration of the west, and unscrupulously passed through the open spaces and fields between the villages, making it clear about Lü Bu's army's deployment. Even after Lu Bu personally launched a surprise attack with the cavalry and killed more than twenty Xiliang light cavalry, it could not completely change this unilateral and transparent situation.

After hearing that Lu Bu was in battle, Chen Cheng also joined the battlefield with his guards, but the scope of the battlefield was too large, and the cavalry came and went too quickly, once a large-scale enemy cavalry appeared, the cavalry on both sides would leave immediately. The light cavalry and the rangers fought for a day, and Chen Cheng also attacked two or three times, but he failed to capture the main force of Lu Bu's cavalry.

If in the past, when this situation was encountered, Lu Bu would definitely rely on the elite cavalry under his command and directly rush out to seek a decisive battle. After being defeated once by the dense cavalry attack of the Xiliang people, Lü Buzai also trained this attack method in the army, and achieved good results.

Dong Zhuojun has always been strong, but he was also beaten by Lu Bujun's cavalry and could only cower in the city. But now that he has encountered the Xiliang Army, Lu Bu is cautious. Although he is unruly and arrogant, he is still a little jealous of the Xiliang army that once defeated him.

As a result, the battlefield within a radius of dozens of miles became strange, Duan Xuan's army was surrounded by the smaller Lü Bu army on the banks of the Weishui River, and the Lü Bu army, after seizing some places, confronted the Xiliang army entrenched in Anhanyi. Chen Cheng was not in a hurry at all, now there was only a small contact between Lu Bujun and Duan Xuan's army, and there were not too many casualties on both sides, so he stood still, wanting to wait for the two sides to fight.

He wasn't in a hurry, but Lu Bu began to get anxious. Lu Fengxian was not a patient person in the first place, and after the soldiers and horses under his command swelled to an unprecedented level, his little patience had long been exhausted. If it weren't for Chen Cheng, if it weren't for facing the world-famous Xiliang Army, he would have been unable to hold it back.

Lu Bu was in a hurry, and Duan Xuan, who was surrounded, was even more anxious than him. They were constantly harassed by the light cavalry of Lu Bu's army, and although there were not many dead or wounded, the soldiers began to stir. The soldiers below didn't care about the nonsense of someone behind them, all they could see was that they were surrounded by the enemy on the edge of Weishui, and they couldn't escape if they wanted to.

As the sun set westward, the commotion of the soldiers grew. Duan Xuan was anxious, but he had to pretend to be confident on his face. He rode his horse back and forth everywhere, loudly cheering up the soldiers under his command, "Don't be afraid, Chen Yuanjun is behind us!" ”

"We brought a lot of grain and grass, enough for us to eat for five days!"

Duan Xuan's efforts to appease still had some effect, and after the soldiers saw the main general, their nervous hearts calmed down a little, even if they might not be able to hear what Duan Xuan was shouting at all. On a noisy battlefield, his little volume is easily drowned out by all sorts of other sounds.

In a village, Lu Bu drank anxiously and asked, "Thief Chen still hasn't moved?" ”

The soldier on the side replied, "Not yet!" ”

"Made!" Lu Bu slammed the wine bowl on the ground, gasping in his nostrils and said, "The dog thief can bear it!" ”

He thrashed twice, roared, and felt like everything was boring. Draping his clothes on his body, Lu Bu didn't care that his furry thighs and other parts were exposed to the atmosphere, he walked out and looked into the sky, only to see that the sun was about to sink in the west.

He wanted to go into battle and fight hard, but what little sense he had told him was that now was not the time. After waiting for a whole day, Zhang Liao led his army into Duan Xuan's army several times, but only made Duan Xuan's army more dense. When the main force cannot be committed, that little harassment is not enough to break the army of 40,000.

After the sun rose the next day, Lu Bu's patience finally ran out.

"No waiting!"

Lu Bu ordered the soldiers to put armor on him, and then ordered: "Defeat Duan Xuan's army first, and then fight to the death with the Chen thief!" ”

The sound of the horn sounded outside the village, and Zhang Liao, who was leading the cavalry to constantly harass Duan Xuan's department, retreated when he heard the sound. Seeing that the enemy cavalry had disengaged, the soldiers trapped on the banks of the Weishui River cheered. Duan Xuan's face became even heavier, although he was not a peerless general, but he had been in the army for more than ten years, how could he not know that the enemy was about to launch a strong attack?

But knowing is knowing, and it can't help the current situation, so you can only let the generals below be careful.

Soon after the order was issued, Lü Bu's army in the distance began to assemble. Thousands of infantry and cavalry gathered together, and it looked like a large area of Wuyang.

The desolate horn echoed, Hao Meng, Wei Xu, and Hou Xuan, these three generals each rushed up with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. Duan Xuan's army hedgehogs gathered by the river, stretched into a semicircle several miles long, very close to each other. In this way, the soldiers and horses were gathered together, and the density of troops was very large, and the strength of the defense was strengthened, but they were also nailed to the spot, and there was no room for turning.

When Lu Bu's army began to attack, Duan Xuan's crossbowmen immediately began to fire a volley. Everyone is the remnant of the Guanzhong army, and the weapons and equipment are actually not much different, and there are a lot of strong bows and crossbows in Duan Xuan's army, and the dense rain of arrows "rained" on the heads of the attacking and defending sides.

Many soldiers on both sides fell to the ground screaming, but Lu Bujun immediately adjusted the formation, selected a few weaker places, and launched a tentative attack. Previously, Zhang Liao had found some weak links in the defenders in repeated temptations, and at this time, Lu Bujun killed them from those places.

The defenders on the embankment, under the command of the officers, launched round after round of volleys, killing many of the attacking Lu Bu troops. But relying on arrows alone could not stop the mixed infantry and cavalry Lu Bu's army, after seizing Chang'an, Lu Bu obtained more than 200,000 armors in the arsenal, and had already armed all the soldiers under his command. This is also one of the reasons why Lu Bu can suppress Dong Zhuo. After seizing the largest arsenal in Guanzhong, Lu Bu's strength was already far above Dong Zhuojun's.

In a short time, some places were already in the middle of hand-to-hand combat. The soldiers in the front row of Lu Bu's army had more or less arrows stuck in their bodies, but those people rushed into Duan Xuan's position as if they didn't know the pain. Although the number of Duan Xuan's army was large, the attacker could concentrate its forces in certain places and accumulate more archers and infantry in local positions.

A barrage of arrows rained down, wounding or killing a platoon of defenders, and the spear-wielding infantry then rushed forward. With just one charge, the defenders' outlying position showed signs of collapse. On the river embankment, Duan Xuan's right eye jumped, and then he ordered to transfer the infantry up.

Several places were in an emergency at the same time, and Duan Xuan continuously transferred troops and horses from places where there was no battle, blocking the broken opening. Just as the formation had just stabilized, the earth suddenly shook. Duan Xuan's face immediately changed color, and this kind of movement that even the ground began to tremble, which was clearly only emitted when a large-scale cavalry charged.

He turned his head sharply, and saw that the enemy cavalry had finished forming a dense formation and rushing along the river embankment. The cavalry spears that seemed to be like a jungle of steel were put down, and in the cavalry array in the front row, many of the war horses reflected the luster of metal.

Suddenly, someone in the battle array screamed, "Armored cavalry!" ”

The strongest class of troops passed from Xiliang, the ultimate force that wraps both cavalry and war horses in steel, suddenly appeared in the field of vision of the defenders! Seeing the armored cavalry charging at them, many of them were so frightened that they forgot where they were.

Beads of sweat rolled down Duan Xuan's forehead, and he shouted loudly, "What are you afraid of? Just some steel? ”

However, the agitation of the soldiers continued to grow, and the morale of the soldiers engaged in the battle with the enemy plummeted again, and the beaten soldiers retreated. Duan Xuan's heart was full of fear and shock, just like when he first went into battle, he shouted loudly: "Zhang Jie! ”

Zhang Jie, who was draped all over his body, squeezed over and shouted, "Lord, I'm here!" ”

Duan Xuan pointed to the armored cavalry that had changed from trotting to a charging posture, and said quickly: "Rush forward with the cavalry and buy time for the army!" ”

Zhang Jie's heart trembled, and he shouted loudly: "No! ”

Duan Xuan has guarded Chencang for many years, and there are still a number of elite soldiers and strong generals under his command. At this time, Zhang Jie took Duan Xuan's old troops to beat the horses and pierced out of the archers who had avoided one after another, and launched a desperate charge in the direction of Lu Bu's army.

The earth shook more and more obviously, and thousands of hoovers struck the ground with a thunderous roar.

The thousands of cavalry led by Zhang Jie collided head-on with Lu Bu's six thousand elite iron cavalry, splashing a little wave, and then being drowned in the seemingly endless enemy iron cavalry. Duan Xuan clearly saw that Zhang Jie was pierced by Lu Bu with a shot, and then his body was lifted high and smashed into the dust.

Even if he is wearing iron armor, he can't stop the cavalry charge when the two horses are hedged.

The crossbowmen on this side were still struggling to shoot the last round of arrows at the oncoming iron horse, but Duan Xuan knew that it was all in vain. He closed his eyes in despair and said bitterly in his heart: It's over!

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