Cao Cao's army and the black cavalry army are not the first time to fight, familiar with the black cavalry's combat style that comes and goes like the wind and lightning, Cao Cao's order was just given, Zhang He and Xiahou Dun immediately led the army out, ready to drag the swept black cavalry, Cao Ren and Cao Hong took a small road and went straight to Liyang City, in a vain attempt to seize Liyang, the outer barrier of Yecheng.

Let's not talk about the actions of Cao Ren and Cao Hong, just say that Zhang He and Xiahou Dun led the army to attack, and it was only five miles out of the camp, Zhang He and others found that the dust was everywhere in front of them, and the sound of ten thousand horses galloping was deafening, Zhang He hurriedly shouted, "All the troops are arrayed, the horses and pistols are resisted, and the crossbowmen are ready." "Cao Cao's army, which lacks war horses, only has these few tricks available when facing the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and the Black Cavalry, and wants to attack against the Black Cavalry in the field, unless Zhang He and Xiahou Dun have three times the strength of the Black Cavalry.

The thunderous sound of horses' hooves approached quickly, and the dust brought up by the war horses could already float to Cao Cao's head, most of the Cao Cao soldiers were so nervous that their palms were sweaty, just waiting for Zhang He and Xiahou Dun's orders, and Zhang He and Xiahou Dun just silently watched the distance between the black cavalry and their own army, when the black cavalry was about to enter the range of Cao Cao's army, Zhang He's command flag was quickly raised into the air, but before Cao Cao's military command flag waved, the black cavalry suddenly split into two, because Cao Cao's army continued to charge forward around the arc around the center of the circle.

"Zhang Liao, play this set again." Zhang He scolded in his heart, this is already an old trick of the Black Cavalry, whenever the enemy's formation has been perfected, the Black Cavalry will give up the frontal charge, with the best cavalry and archery technology in the Central Plains to harass the enemy's two wings from the side, forcing the enemy to give up the formation to defend and attack, and the Black Cavalry can take advantage of the chaos to win. To deal with this trick, one is to charge the cavalry against the cavalry, and the other is to occupy favorable terrain and use the valley and woods to cover the two wings of the army, but the war horses in Cao Cao's army are less than the palace maids and concubines who Dong Boss did not spoil in the Luoyang Palace back then, and the Cao Cao army that rushed out to fight had no terrain to cover, which made Zhang He and Xiahou Dun feel a big headache.

The sound of "rumbling" horses' hooves surrounded Cao Cao's army, but the black cavalry still did not enter the range of Cao Cao's army, but continued to charge forward around Cao Cao's army, Zhang He and Xiahou Dun couldn't help but be shocked after seeing the actions of the black cavalry, it turned out that Zhang Liao and Xu Huang didn't want to entangle with themselves at all, their goal was to risk being surrounded to raid Cao Cao's army. Zhang He and Xiahou Dun hurriedly shouted, "Hurry up, stop them, stop them." "But it's late, the black cavalry is running like the wind, in a blink of an eye the team has passed most of the time, when Cao Cao's army charged again, the black cavalry army was like a locust in the arrow, quickly suppressed Cao Cao's army, and in an instant crossed Zhang He and Xiahou Dun's team, and went straight to the rear of Cao Cao's army, Zhang He and Xiahou Dun had no choice but to command the army to withdraw to the Chinese army to rescue.

The banner of Cao Cao's army camp could already be seen in the distance, and Zhang Liao shouted, "Brothers, make meritorious contributions, at this moment, kill!" The black cavalry roared neatly, swept up like a whirlwind, and the camp of the Cao Cao army was not stable from afar, and did not receive the battle report from the front when the defense was slightly lax, caught off guard by the black cavalry broke through the gate of the village, Dong Zhuojun swarmed into the village, killed people when they saw them, cut them when they saw soldiers, and killed Cao Cao's corpses all over the field, holding their heads and running around, for a time the roar in the camp shook the sky, and everywhere was the vigorous killing posture of the black cavalry, and the Cao Cao army was embarrassed by the surprise attack that caused chaos, although the soldiers and horses were more than the black cavalry, but they could not organize effective resistance.

Zhang Liao, who has always been bold, handed over the task of dealing with Cao Cao's chaotic army to Xu Huang, and led an army to rush straight to the main account of Cao Cao's army, and also rushed to the most densely defended place of Cao Cao's army, sparks splashed, Lu Qian's strength was not as good as Zhang Liao, the big knife flew out of his hand, Zhang Liao stabbed Lu Qian in the chest with a shot, and suddenly closed the account, Ren Jun next to him was so frightened that his soul flew away, and he fled to the side in a hurry, Zhang Liao immediately took out a meteor hammer and threw it out, like a flying star chasing the moon, right in the back of Ren Jun's head, and Ren Jun was beaten to the point of collapse and died on the spot.

In an instant, Zhang Liao beheaded the three generals of Cao Cao's army, Cao Cao's army was all frightened, and the black cavalry army was full of morale, sacrificing their lives and swarming up, killing Cao Cao's soldiers on their backs, someone had already reported to Cao Cao, Cao Cao hurriedly escaped from the main tent, hiding in the rear army, Zhang Liao saw from a distance, the spears were swinging, and the Cao battalion soldiers in front of them would be like waves and tides, and they scattered one after another, so that Zhang Liao could take Cao Cao directly. Zhang Liao was running, and a man bumped into him next to him, shouting: "Zhang Liao'er is rampant, Xu Yang is also here." Zhang Liao didn't answer, the steel gun swung away, and Xu Yang fought together, the battle was not counted, the black cavalry behind everyone had arrived, countless guns and halberds and swords all rushed to Xu Yang to parry, completely ignoring the Cao Cao army next to him, Xu Yang couldn't parry so many people, and fled out with a false move, Zhang Liao took the opportunity to lead the army to break through the main camp of Cao Cao's army and cut down the handsome banner. As soon as the flag fell, Cao Cao's army was even more chaotic, the defeat was like a mountain, and he fled for his life in the camp, trampling on each other, and the dead were countless.

Zhang Liao succeeded in front of him, and Xu Huang was not to be outdone, in a moment, Xu Huang also killed several Cao Cao's generals, and the rear shouted to kill, obviously Zhang He and Xiahou Dun's troops have caught up, according to the military custom, if the troops are likely to be surrounded, the first choice of tactics is to concentrate forces to break through to one side, but the black cavalry is not, Xu Huang roared, and actually led his own army to catch up, and in the case that the strength was not as good as the enemy, he also divided his troops to resist the enemy, Zhang He and Xiahou Dun were shocked, and had to fight with Xu Huang's army, Xu Huang shook his spirit, actually dragged Zhang He and Xiahou Dun to the death, and bought precious time for Zhang Liao behind.

Let's not talk about Xu Huang's efforts to fight Zhang He and Xiahou Dun's two generals, just say that Zhang Liao led more than 100 horsemen to chase Cao Cao in the chaotic army, Cao Cao was chased by the madman Zhang Liao and was cornered, and hurriedly shouted, "Who will save the orphan?" Who will save the orphans? In the chaotic army, Yu Ban and Li Dian heard Cao Cao's shout, and hurriedly rushed over, and happened to stop Zhang Liao, but the high-spirited Zhang Liao was not afraid at all with one enemy and two enemies, and rushed to kill with his life. After fighting again, Zhang Liao saw that it was difficult to find Cao Cao, so he turned his horse's head and killed back, Yu Ban and Li Dian still wanted to chase, but Zhang Liao suddenly turned around and stabbed indiscriminately, and the two generals were afraid of Zhang Liao's bravery, so they hurriedly retreated, and watched Zhang Liao go away.

Zhang Liao quickly gathered the army, and killed back according to the way he came, in front of Xu Huang and Zhang He, Xiahou Dun was fighting fiercely, Zhang Liao slapped the war horse, the war horse under the crotch ran wildly, immediately Zhang Liao roared, almost like a landslide and the ground cracked, the steel gun stabbed Zhang He without hesitation, the power is unparalleled, the unprepared Zhang He faced Zhang Liao's condensed full strength of a shot flashed, and rolled off the horse, the poor crotch war horse was stabbed in the neck by Zhang Liao, the blood collapsed from needless to say, even the horse's neck was broken, it can be seen that Zhang Liao's gun is huge. Xiahou Dun didn't dare to face Zhang Liao and Xu Huang who were close to the point of madness alone, and fled in a hurry, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang didn't chase him, but just killed Cao Jun in one go.

Zhang Liao and Xu Huang played the tactics of attacking them to the extreme, from the first black cavalry soldier to rush into the Cao army camp, to the last cavalry of the black cavalry to kill the Cao camp, the time only passed a tea time (PS: equivalent to twenty minutes), but broke through the Cao Cao army's Chinese army tent, cut off the handsome flag, beheaded nine, killed more than 2,000 enemies, Cao Cao's army trampled on each other in chaos to death and wounded countless, it can be seen that the speed of the black cavalry. It wasn't until the Black Cavalry disappeared into the distance that the stunned Cao Cao Army came to its senses, but it was obviously too late to send another army, and even the Xiliang Iron Cavalry couldn't catch up with the Black Cavalry Army, which was the fastest in the world, on flat ground, not to mention the Cao Cao Army, which lacked war horses.

When the black cavalry army quickly followed the road back to Liyang City, Cao Ren and Cao Hong's troops who were sent by Cao Cao to sneak attack only began to attack the city, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang shook their spirits, and entered the rear team of Cao Cao's army in two ways, and once again killed Cao Hong and Cao Ren, who were also caught off guard, and the Dong Zhuo army in the city took the opportunity to kill, inside and outside, Cao Cao's army was defeated, and the troops of Cao Ren and Cao Hong brothers were lost nearly half, and fled back to Cao Ying.

That night, the joy in Liyang City continued, Dong Zhuojun, the commander of the Jizhou Legion, Dong Chong was usually a generous person, after receiving the good news from Zhang Liao and Xu Huang, he was so happy that he jumped up and down Dong Chong immediately ordered to reward the three armies, and tripled the reward awarded according to the law, and the black cavalry army was all happy.

At the celebration banquet, Zhang Liao was still sober-minded after the victory, and raised his glass to the generals: "Gentlemen, although our army has won a great victory today, it has not injured the enemy's muscles and bones, defeated the enemy, and I hope that the monarchs will continue to sacrifice their lives and fight bravely to kill the enemy." The generals said yes together, and Zhang Liao said: "In order not to delay the military affairs, from now on, I will specially add two military regulations, one is not to drink more than three glasses, and the other is not allowed to sleep in the armor. Dong Zhuojun's generals nodded one after another, all admiring Zhang Liao's calm composure.

In the early morning of the next day, Cao Cao, who was thunderous, personally led the army to attack Liyang, and the 70,000 army surrounded Liyang City like an iron barrel, attacking on all sides, but Dong Zhuojun, who had always been greedy for life and afraid of death, Dong Chong, the commander of Jizhou, in order to keep his life in Yecheng, usually mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources to build the fortifications of Yecheng Barrier Liyang City, not only the moat is wide and deep, the city wall is also much higher, the city wall is densely covered with antlers, and the ladder of Cao Cao's army is difficult to get forward, plus Dong Chong, who knows that he is incompetent, dares to delegate power, The 30,000 army and enough food for two months were handed over to Zhang Liao, and Xu Huang didn't even snort, and never interfered with Zhang Liao and Xu Huang's army command, giving both generals a lot of room to play.

With strong fortifications, abundant materials and high morale, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang calmly commanded the troops to repel Cao Cao's army for several days of repeated sieges, although Cao Cao also had gunpowder in his hands, but did not know the nitrate purification method and accurate formula, the power was extremely small, and it was impossible to blow up the city gate to Dong Zhuojun, after six consecutive days of siege warfare, Cao Cao's army paid a heavy price, just filled the moat outside Liyang City, and it was still far from breaking through the city.

On the morning of the seventh day of the siege, Cao Cao did not send troops to attack the city, but came to Guo Jia to discuss, but Guo Jia had already gone out of the camp to investigate the enemy's situation, and finally when Guo Jia came back, Cao Cao said to Guo Jia with a sad face: "Fengxiao, I didn't expect this small Liyang City to be so difficult, attacking for six days, it didn't move at all, our army didn't have much food, and then they dragged it down, I'm afraid the situation is not good." "Cao Cao understands that the current situation is urgent, now Cao Cao's army and Liu Beijun have done their best, and Dong Zhuojun has not done his best at all, not only the Yongzhou Army and the Jingzhou Army of the four major legions have not been dispatched at all, even the Jizhou Army and the Jiangnan Army have not gone all out, and even the second-line troops have not been mobilized, if Cao Cao's army can no longer seize this last opportunity to seize Jizhou and gain strategic space, then when Dong Zhuojun exerts all his strength, Cao Cao's army and Liu Beijun will have to be crushed.

"The king doesn't have to be anxious." Guo Jia smiled and said: "Guo Jia has been inspecting the enemy's city defense for several days, and he has already planned to break the city. Cao Cao was overjoyed and hurriedly asked for details, and when Guo Jia whispered in his ear, Cao Cao couldn't help but be overjoyed, and urgently ordered the army to follow the plan.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang in Liyang City received an urgent report that Cao Cao's army was dispatched to carry soil and stones and transport them to the east of Liyang, probably to build steps to attack the city. Zhang Liao and Xu Huang hurriedly went to check, and sure enough, the people outside the east of Liyang City were like ants, Cao Cao's army transported a large number of stones and wood, and put the soil into cloth bags and piled up outside the city.

"Pass the order, transfer 20,000 troops to concentrate in Dongcheng, and defend it tightly." Zhang Liao did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the army to move.

"It's far and slow." Xu Huang hurriedly stopped Zhang Liao's personal soldiers from giving orders, and said suspiciously: "Wenyuan, have you noticed anything wrong?" ”

"Isn't that right?" Zhang Liao asked rhetorically.

"Look at the West Gate of Liyang." Xu Huang pointed to the direction of the west gate of Liyang City, and said in a low voice: "Back then, Jia Junshi once made people use ox carts to load gunpowder to blow up the west gate, and then the west gate was repaired firmly, and now it has been three years, because the west gate is newly built, and later the second general built the Liyang fortifications, and only built the east, south, and north three gates, after several battles, the strongest west gate back then, is now the weakest section of Liyang City, Cao Cao and Guo Jia are not stupid, will they not see this, give up the easy and take the difficult?" ”

Zhang Liao closed his eyes and stared for a moment, and suddenly remembered a report from the soldiers patrolling the city this morning......

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At the same time, Dong Zhuojun's Jiangnan Legion ushered in a special guest - Liu Bei's messenger, after the messenger crossed the river with a white flag, he held a wooden box and asked to see Dong Zhuojun's Jiangnan Legion Commander Lu Su, Lu Su knew what Liu Bei wanted to play to provoke him to fight, and held the psychology of watching Liu Bei's dying struggle, and sure enough, the first thing Liu Beijun's envoy did after entering the camp was to hand Lu Su a battle letter, and agreed that the two armies would fight a decisive battle two days later.

"Please ask the messenger to report back to the puppet king Liu Bei." Lu Su smiled and said: "Lu Su occasionally contracted a wind disease, he can't be a director, the decisive battle in two days is too urgent, if Liu Bei wants to fight a decisive battle with our army, please ask him Liu Bei to wait for Lu Su to recover from his illness, and then discuss the date is not too late." ”

"The king knows that the governor will say so." The messenger held the wooden box in both hands, and said respectfully: "So the king sent a villain to tell the governor that if the imperial court Jiuqing, Shaochang, the governor of the Xiliang Water Army and the commander of the Jiangnan Corps of the Xiliang Army Lu Su are still a man, don't pretend to be sick to avoid the war, if the governor of the capital who commands more than 100,000 troops continues to be greedy for life and death, do not want to forge ahead, and are afraid of dying under the sword and arrow in the decisive battle, please wear this dress." ”

After speaking, the envoy of Liu Beijun knelt down on his knees, opened the wooden box, took out a set of Han women's clothes, raised his hands above his head, and said in a loud voice: "Please choose whether to be a man to fight a decisive battle, or to be a woman who continues to be greedy for life and afraid of death." ”

At that moment, Lu Su's forehead was bruised, his teeth were clucking, his hand was pressed on the sword, and he almost jumped up and stabbed the Liu Beijun envoy to death with a sword, Dong Zhuojun next to him was already angry at the bullfight, and many people took their swords out of the sheath and pointed to the face of the Liu Beijun envoy, just waiting for Lu Su's order, the Liu Beijun envoy didn't plan to go back alive when he came here, just looked at Lu Su closely, waiting for his decision.

"Metropolitan Governor, we are desperate for life and afraid of death, please give the order to fight, we are willing to fight to the death with Liu Bei!" Huang Gaiyi, who is usually relatively low-key, couldn't help it, and took the lead in shouting, and Dong Zhuojun's generals shouted together, "Metropolitan Governor, we are willing to fight Liu Bei to the death!" ”

In the face of the shouts of the generals, Lu Su's face changed and he couldn't make a decision, and the atmosphere in the big tent was so heavy that Lu Su couldn't breathe.

Sima Yi didn't say a word, in front of Liu Beijun's envoy and Dong Zhuojun's generals, he slowly put on the Han women's dress, Sima Yi also made a few proud gestures, and finally said to the stunned Liu Beijun envoy: "I am Sima Yi, Sima Zhongda, the righteous son of King Kang, I accept this dress on behalf of my father-in-law." Please report back to the puppet king Liu Bei, if you want a decisive battle, let him send someone to Chang'an to get my father's consent first, as long as my father-in-law nods, I will fight a decisive battle with the puppet king Liu Bei. ”

Lu Su finally calmed down, and a thought flashed in Dong Zhuojun's hearts at the same time, "This kid is thick-skinned, and he is comparable to the king." ”