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Time back to the early morning of the first day of October in the fourth year of Chuping, when the sun rises on the plain of the long slope, the mist has not dispersed, the birds on the branches are singing happily, the crystal dew is still flowing slowly on the blades of grass, the hard-working people have just gone down to the fields to work, and the military camp is carrying out the daily routine exercises, this small place that was unknown before the end of the Han Dynasty is shrouded in a calm and peaceful.

"There's no news from Yiling yet?" In the Jingzhou garrison barracks, Huang Zu asked the general Su Fei worriedly: "Chen Sheng and Zhang Hu haven't sent some news yet?" As early as the early morning of September 29, Huang Zu received a detailed report that the whole army of Dong Zhuojun of Yongan was assembled, and there were signs of a nest dispatch, Huang Zu did not dare to slack off, while sending people to report to Xiangyang quickly, and on the other hand, he ordered Chen Sheng and Zhang Hu, who were stationed in Yiling, to step up their defense, and beware of Dong Zhuojun's sudden attack, but a day and a night passed, and Yiling had not heard back, and Huang Zu, who was the number one general in Jingzhou, could not help but feel a little weak.

Su Fei shook his head, clenched his fists and replied, "Back to General Hui, the two generals Chen and Zhang have not yet come to the book." Huang Zu was silent, sat on the handsome chair in disappointment, and sighed, Huang Zu's station has always been in Xiakou, but this time Liu Biao suddenly changed his station to Dangyang, Huang Zu understood that the war between Jingzhou and Dong Zhuojun was imminent, Dong Zhuojun occupied Yizhou, and the next target was Jingzhou, even if Dong Zhuojun wanted to recuperate and not attack Jingzhou for the time being, the Confucian scholars in Jingzhou would also encourage Liu Biao to take the initiative to attack Dong Zhuojun, but he didn't expect this day to come so quickly.

"The general doesn't have to be anxious." In order to comfort Huang Zu, Su Fei analyzed the situation and said: "According to what the last general saw, there are many factions in Dong Zhuo's army, the old Liangzhou faction of Li Urging Guo Yan, the new Liangzhou faction of Ma Chao Pang De and others, the Bingzhou faction of Lu Bu and Zhang Liao and others, and the new army faction led by Xu Huang Wei Yan and others, and now there are still beneficial state factions, when Dong Zhuo was there, the contradictions between them were suppressed by Dong Zhuo, so they can be united, now Dong Zhuo's life and death are unknown, although the Yongan garrison led by Ma Chao is assembled, it may not be to attack Jingzhou, It is likely that he will turn the gun around and go back to fight for power with other factions. ”

Su Fei's analysis is very reasonable, in fact, Kang Peng himself also understands the situation of many factions in Dong Zhuo's army, so when he transferred troops and sent generals, he deliberately disrupted the establishment, using Zhang Xiu, the old Xiliang, to monitor Ma Chao, using Zhao Yun to contain Lu Bu, the leader of the Bingzhou faction, Fan Chou, Zhang Ji and others to monitor Gan Ning, and the generals between the major factions contained each other, in a word, not to give the major factions a chance to hold together. Huang Zu also felt that Su Fei was reasonable, so he asked, "According to what you say, it is impossible for the Yongan garrison to attack our army alone?" ”

"It can only be said that it is unlikely, after all, Dong Zhuojun only has 30,000 iron horsemen in Yongan." Su Fei didn't dare to say no words, and continued to analyze: "Even if the Yong'an garrison really came to attack our army, they set off from Yong'an, and it only took one night for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to reach Yiling, but their logistics baggage team is not so fast, and the baggage team will at least slow down the speed of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry by half, if Dong Zhuo's army is attacking our army in an all-round way, it is estimated that according to the footsteps, they have just arrived at Yiling at most now." ”

"Makes sense." Huang Zu nodded and said that he agreed with Su Fei's analysis, but Huang Zu was still not at ease after thinking about it, so he got up and ordered: "Chen Yi, Deng Long listened to the order, and ordered the two of you to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses each to reinforce Yiling. ”

Chen Zuo and Deng Long came out and hugged their fists and said: "The last general will take the order." "Abi, the two of them went out of the tent to gather the soldiers, but before the people came out of the tent, they heard a faint thunderous sound from the west, as if it was the sound of ten thousand horses galloping, the faces of Huang Zu and others in the tent suddenly became iron-blue, the Jingzhou army is dominated by the naval army, lack of cavalry, there can be so many cavalry near Dangyang, who else can there be besides Dong Zhuojun?

"Report ......!" A scout with a feather arrow on his body shouted, stumbled into the big tent, and said with a crying voice: "Report to the general, a large number of cavalry appeared thirty miles to the west, it is Dong Zhuojun's Xiliang Iron Cavalry, the number is about 30,000, the speed is extremely fast, and they are also carrying the heads of the two generals Chen Sheng and Zhang Hu. ”

"What do you say? Chen Sheng and Zhang Hu are dead? Huang Zu jumped up from the handsome chair in surprise, Tie Qing's face became paler than a dead man, and he lost his voice and said: "Yiling has 20,000 troops, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry wiped them all out in one day?" No one in the big tent could answer Huang Zu's question, Su Fei was already quietly dodging back, and the voice in the west was getting louder and louder, almost like the sky was falling apart, Huang Zu didn't say a word, he grabbed it with a black face and slapped Su Fei twice, and then shouted: "The whole army meets the enemy." ”

There are 80,000 Jingzhou troops stationed in Dangyang, although the number is far more than Dong Zhuo's army, but Huang Zu knows very well that most of the Jingzhou army is infantry, and the area around Dangyang is flat. The only way to do this is to hope that the soldiers will use their lives, try to block Dong Zhuojun from afar, and wait for the arrival of reinforcements before making plans.

"Woo——!" The horn sounded, the panicked Jingzhou soldiers began to stumble to find their own team, many soldiers didn't even have time to go back to the tent to pick up weapons, more soldiers were scurrying around like headless flies, crowding each other, the time for a pillar of incense stipulated by the military law was approaching, and the army formed was less than half, and at this moment, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was less than three miles away from the Jingzhou military camp.

The dust is flying, the sound of hooves is shaking the sky, the black iron cavalry is swept in a neat horizontal line, the dust brought up by the horse's hooves will shroud the iron cavalry team, 30,000 iron cavalry looming in the dust and mist, this raid, Dong Zhuojun did not bring a slow baggage team, each soldier only carries three days of dry food, if he does not break through the enemy's camp today, then the Xiliang iron cavalry has no way to retreat!

The Xiliang Iron Cavalry was getting closer and closer, but half of the Jingzhou Army was still in a state of chaos, and Huang Zu had no time, so he had to order the barely assembled Jingzhou Army to go out to battle first, trying to gain time. Chen and General Deng Long each led an army out of the camp, and before they could set up their formation, the choking dust had already shrouded their heads, and the sun and moon were gone.

"Pitch up!" Chen was so anxious that he stomped his feet and yelled, but his voice was immediately drowned in the heart-rending screams of the self-army, and the dense Jingzhou army fell down in pieces, layer by layer like cutting wheat and fell backwards, and in a moment, the three Jingzhou army thousand people phalanx had become a dark red carpet paved with three pieces of flesh and blood, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry did not hold back in the slightest, and the horse's hooves continued to rush towards the Jingzhou army camp with flesh and blood powder.

"Shoot the arrows! Vertical rejection of the carbine! Hurry up and put up a rejection pistol for Lao Tzu! Chen saw that there was no longer a self-military phalanx at the forefront of the army, and the Chinese army he was in had been exposed to the enemy, so he was so anxious that he scolded, and he tore his throat and shouted in front of the earth-shattering shouting and killing sound of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which was not much stronger than the mosquito humming, and the Jingzhou soldiers who were already stunned also forgot to raise their guns to meet the enemy, and only cared about scattering and fleeing for their lives, Chen was angry and anxious, waving his knife and slashing at the fleeing soldiers, trying to restrain the troops.

The sound of thunderous hooves was deafening, and the cold light of steel flashed from time to time in the dust and mist, and in an instant, the dust had completely enveloped the Chinese army led by Chen Zuo, and almost at the same time, the sound of screams and screams came from the Chinese army of Chen Zuo's department, and many Jingzhou soldiers, including the general Chen Zuo, were torn to pieces by knives and guns, turning into flesh and blood. In the Battle of Yizhou, because of the terrain, the light of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was completely covered by the Infantry Flying Bear Army, and every Xiliang Iron Cavalry soldier held a breath in his heart and put it on the head of the unlucky Jingzhou Army.

Deng Long's department, which was located on the right rear side of Chen Qianjun's army, saw that Chen Qian's army was broken by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and the generals and soldiers were torn to pieces. "General, are you going to stop the enemy?" Deng Long's lieutenant asked Deng Long in horror, but he hoped that Deng Long would give the order to withdraw the army. He was greeted by Deng Long's heavy slap, "Stop your mother!" Give Lao Tzu a tactical transfer, it's important to save your life! Deng Long's subordinates ran to the right as if they had been amnestied, and fled far away - of course, this was just a tactical shift. Rao was like this, and hundreds of soldiers of Deng Long's troops, who couldn't escape, still collided with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and immediately turned into pieces.

The thick fence of the bowl slightly blocked the pace of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry's advancement, but in the blink of an eye, the fence was cut off and broken, uprooted, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry directly entered the Jingzhou Army Camp, at this moment the chaos in the Jingzhou military camp far exceeded the time of assembly, Huang Zu took the lead, and tactically transferred out of the camp under the escort of his own soldiers, leaving the chaotic Jingzhou camp in disregard, and the Jingzhou soldiers followed suit, overturning the camp tactics of the army and transferring out, only a few dizzy soldiers raised their weapons to meet the enemy, but they were quickly cut down by the condescending steel knife, The steel spear provoked and pierced, and was finally trampled into flesh by the war horse, and the blood flowed like a river.

At two o'clock in the morning of the first day of October in the fourth year of Chuping, 30,000 Xiliang iron cavalry broke through the Jingzhou army camp for the second time in one day and went eastward, Huang Zu's army suffered countless casualties, Huang Zu had no choice but to pack up the defeated army and return to Maicheng, ready to meet Dong Zhuojun's comprehensive counterattack.

At noon, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry quickly broke through the mouth of the gourd valley, swept the defenders like a broken bamboo, and disappeared.

At the beginning of the Shen period, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry swept twelve miles north of the Nanjun City, and Yang Ling, the guard of the Southern County, did not dare to fight, and closed the city gate and watched the Xiliang Iron Cavalry pass by like a storm.

At two o'clock, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry broke through Huarong Avenue, and two hundred Jingzhou defenders were ordered to go to Huangquan.

At the end of the day, the sun was setting, and the almost exhausted Xiliang Iron Rider finally saw the fire in the sky above Huangjiazhuang, and Zhang Xiu was the first to shout, "The enemy is burning the village, speed up and save the Taishi!" Thirty thousand Xiliang Tie rode out the last gourd with wine on their bodies during the run, drank it with their necks up, threw it away with all their might, and shouted: "Kill!" ”

The earth is trembling, and the Jingzhou soldiers who are surrounding Huangjiazhuang tightly and slaughtering the poor people who helped Kang Peng escape from the firewood pile just now under the command of the Shi clan are also trembling, on land, the Jingzhou Navy is most hated and feared by the cavalry, and the soldiers who have no war experience do not know why the ground trembles, at least Fan Fan, one of the eight horses of Jiangxia, asked Zhang Yundao: "General, dare to ask what is the person from afar?" How earth-shattering? ”

Zhang Yun's teeth trembled, looking at the dust flying in the distance in horror like a devil, after Fan Fan asked again and again, Zhang Yuncai trembled and said: "Maybe it's Dong Thief's Xiliang Iron Horse, I hope I guessed wrong." ”

And in the blazing Huangjiazhuang, at the entrance of the Huang family's cellar, Lu Bu also felt the iron horse that made the heavens and the earth tremble, and he swung his halberd hard, and beat the Jingzhou soldier who was squeezed in front of him by his own people into the air. Lu Bu took the opportunity to turn around and shouted at Wen Lu, who was guarding the entrance of the cellar with more than a dozen poor people: "Stepmother, tell my father-in-law that our reinforcements are coming, and they are Xiliang Iron Cavalry!" ”

After finding that he was completely surrounded by the Jingzhou army, although Lu Bu was sure to break through alone, Kang Peng's injuries were too serious, and Wen Lu's injuries were not light, Lu Bu and Kang Peng and others had to flee to the Huang family compound under the guidance of Huang Yueying, find the cellar where Huang Yueying usually stored machinery, and let the seriously injured Kang Peng hide in the cellar, but Lu Bu and Wen Lu stayed in front of the cellar with a group of poor people, waiting for reinforcements. From the bloody battle in the afternoon to the evening, although Lü Bu was almost exhausted, he did not let a single enemy kill into the cellar, and the land in front of the cellar was also littered with the corpses of Jingzhou soldiers.

The sun is still on the top of the mountain selflessly radiating a golden light, the overwhelming iron cavalry wrapped in dust and murderous rush into Huangjia Village, the Jingzhou army has those who dare to stop it, all of them were chopped into flesh and mud blood clots by the angry Xiliang iron horse, more Jingzhou troops hugged their heads and scurried, Zhang Yun saw clearly that it was indeed the Xiliang iron horse, and immediately left the scholar students to be protected behind, and escaped from the village with a personal army.

When Ma Chao saw Zhang Yunqi, he shouted at Zhang Xiu and Pang De: "You go to find the Taishi, and I will hunt down the thief!" After that, Ma Chao rode his horse straight to Zhang Yun's banner, and a team of iron horsemen followed, chasing out two or three miles from the village, Zhang Yun's personal soldiers had all been chased and beheaded by Ma Chao's team, only Zhang Yun was a good horse under his crotch, and always kept a distance from Ma Chao.

After chasing for several miles, Zhang Yun could already see the warship he was riding on, and shouted with great joy: "Hurry up and open your sails, cut the rope!" "Even if he escapes into a small boat, Zhang Yun is sure that he will escape from the Xiliang Iron Riders. Ma Chao saw it later, put down the spear in a hurry, took the bow and arrow, and put an arrow away, like a meteor catching the moon, right in Zhang Yun's vest, Zhang Yun screamed, knocked off the horse and went to a life, only two horse bodies from the nearest boat. Seeing that Zhang Yun was dead, the Jingzhou Navy on the river fled without bothering to retrieve Zhang Yun's body, completely forgetting that there were still 8,000 of his own brothers and thousands of Liu Biao's personal soldiers in Huangjia Village.

In the village, Zhang Xiu and Pang De easily found Lu Bu, and the Jingzhou soldiers who surrounded Lu Bu scattered in a hurry, Zhang Xiu and Pang De shouted at the same time, "Wenhou, is the Taishi here?" ”

At this moment, Lu Bu was so tired that he couldn't stand steadily, and the pestle pointed to the cellar on the halberd and gasped: "My father-in-law is in the cellar and is seriously injured. Zhang Xiu and Pang De were overjoyed, rolled the saddle and dismounted and rushed into the cellar, while Lu Bu used his last strength and yelled at Xiliang Tieqi: "Kill all the Jingzhou army!" Kill all the Jingzhou scholars! Don't kill the people! Finally, Lu Bu still remembered Kang Peng's confession and did not let Xiliang Tieqi do it to the people.

Huangjiazhuang's terrible screams resounded in the sky, from evening to late at night, the scholars in robes and green shirts, the Jingzhou soldiers in yellow military uniforms, whether they surrendered or resisted, and whether they were wronged or not, were all cut down and trampled by the thunderous Xiliang iron cavalry, blood flowed like a river, even the water surface of the Xiangjiang River was dyed bright red, the corpses were piled up like a mountain, the incomplete corpses took Huangjiazhuang as the center of the circle, covering the land of more than ten miles, the Shilin and Jingzhou army in Huangjiazhuang, Except for a few Liu cousins such as the Kuai brothers and Yi Yuan, who escaped first, only Huang Chengyan, Cai Yong and Fu Wan were captured alive, and the rest of them all turned into souls under the knife.

On the second day of October in the second year of Chuping, the seriously injured Kang Peng was still in a coma, and the remaining anger of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry washed the nearby Weiyang Shi clan with blood, and the 63 large families of the Shi clan in Chuyang, more than 400 men, women and children were all wiped out, none of them were spared, and their land was also rewarded to the poor people who helped Lu Bu rescue Kang Peng. In the afternoon, Jia Xu, Pang Tong, Lu Su, Gan Ning, Hua Tuo and others also rushed to Chuyang, bringing more than 300 large and small warships, including three motherships, and more than 20,000 Dong Zhuojun's sailors who had not yet completed their training.

Knowing that Kang Peng barely saved his life, and seeing the scene of Huangjiazhuang's corpses piling up like a mountain, Jia Xu was glad and sighed, "It's too impulsive, after so many killings, our army can only fight Jingzhou in advance." ”

To find out what happened next, see the next chapter, "The Decisive Battle in Advance".