The front line of Yiwu can be said to be related to the entire battle situation, considering that Xu Chu and others are brave and brave, but the wisdom and strategy are slightly insufficient, in order to ensure safety, before Dong Zhuo sent reinforcements, ten small troops composed of all the Tiger Guards escorted Chen Gong quietly out of Dazhai, and rushed to Yixian County by copying the trail, and the battle in Duyi County. Don't look at the fact that there are only ten accompanying protections, but almost all of the people who can be the leaders in the Tiger Guard Army are experts with one enemy and ten, and with their protection, one or two hundred enemy troops may not be able to defeat them.

Chen Gong rushed to Yixian with Liu Zhang's order, and after reading Liu Zhang's appointment in public, he officially took over the battle near Yixian. Knowing that Xu Rong was about to arrive with 50,000 elites, Chen Gong immediately ordered the encirclement of Hewu to be removed, the Tiger Guard Division and the 15th Division all entered Yixian County, and the 1st Independent Cavalry Brigade maneuvered near Yiwu. He set an eight-character battle policy for everyone - to avoid a decisive battle, make every effort to contain it, avoid a head-on battle with the enemy, and ensure that these 50,000 Xiliang elites cannot be allowed to return to the martial arts battlefield.

Xu Rong rushed to Yiwu with great momentum, but saw that Yiwu was as safe as Qinshan, as for the enemy army, but he didn't even see half a figure, and his heart was suddenly annoyed, at this moment he had completely believed what Li Ru told him before leaving, Wei Yan really didn't have the idea of breaking through Yiwu, and the reason why he put on a big show to capture Yiwu was to let Dong Zhuo divide his troops and reduce Liu Zhang's pressure. He remembered another sentence that Li Ru told him, if this is the case, then Li Ru asked him to immediately send 10,000 infantry troops into Yiwu and stick to Yiwu with Dong Min, and he immediately led the remaining 40,000 main forces to rush back to Wugong at full speed, Li Ru repeatedly warned that the future of the Xiliang army was in his hands, and he must make a decision immediately, if there is a delay, all the Xiliang army will fall into a state of no return! Li Ru's words were especially in his ears, and he also nodded and agreed at that time, and said that for the sake of the future of the Xiliang Army, he would rather commit the crime of disobeying military orders and never give up. But when it came to the end, he still hesitated, although Li Ru said that once he disobeyed Dong Zhuo's order and was held accountable by Dong Zhuo, Li Ru would use his life to ensure his safety, but could Li Ru's guarantee be effective? Although Dong Zhuo obeys Li Ruyan, what is Hewu? If Li Ru could really persuade Dong Zhuo to let him go, then why couldn't Li Ru dissuade Dong Zhuo from sending troops? It can be seen that Yiwu is more important than Li Ru in Dong Zhuo's heart, he was strictly ordered to rescue Yiwu, and was forced to make a military order, with himself and the families of the 50,000 army as hostages, to ensure the safety of Yiwu, this kind of thing has never been heard of in the past, once he really led the main force to leave Hewu, and Hewu was lost, can Dong Zhuo let him and the 50,000 army and their families go? Xu Rong was scared, he didn't dare to bet on this big bet! There is another point that he also has to consider, these 50,000 troops came to Yixian non-stop, marching all the way, they were already sleepy, but they didn't do anything, and ran dozens of miles back to martial arts, in the eyes of the soldiers, isn't this a joke with them? Can you not feel resentment? If it triggers a mutiny, it will really be doomed! Therefore, Xu Rong decided to temporarily let the army enter Yiwu to rest, and at the same time sent soldiers to report the situation to Dong Zhuo, indicating that the enemy of Yiwu had no plan to capture Yiwu, nor did he intend to fight a decisive battle, and his purpose was to induce the Xiliang army to divide his troops as Li Ru judged, in order to ensure the victory of the battle of Wugong, he hoped that Dong Zhuo would agree to let him leave his troops to help defend Yiwu, and he led the main force back to Wugong.

When Li Ru learned of Xu Rong's decision, he lamented Xu Rong's mistake again, and he didn't grasp the last opportunity, maybe it was really the sky that was going to die in the west!

Dong Zhuo regretted not believing Li Ru's judgment, and was in Wei Yanwei's plan to save Zhao, but now it is useless to regret it, and he can only continue to ask Li Ru's opinion whether he agrees with letting Xu Rong lead the main force back to help. Li Ru sighed, "I'm afraid it's too late", Dong Zhuo asked why, Li Ruyan now the situation is clear, Wei Yan feigned to attack Yiwu, just to let the Xiliang army divide his troops to support Liu Zhang from the side, in this case, how could Wei Yan easily let Xu Rong's army return to martial arts? If Xu Rong first arrived in Yiwu, he immediately decided to lead the main force back to the martial arts, the enemy was difficult to react for a while, there was still a great opportunity, and now the news exchange is two days, two days is enough time for the enemy to arrange, and then want to withdraw, almost desperate!

Dong Zhuo didn't believe it, and ordered Xu Rong to lead 40,000 people back to his martial arts.

After Xu Rong got the order, he immediately reorganized his soldiers and horses, bid farewell to Dong Min, and went to martial arts.

Chen Gong had already instructed Li Dian, who was outside the guerrillas, to immediately divide the 1st Independent Cavalry Brigade into ten units, and constantly harass the enemy troops along the way, killing and wounding the enemy troops in second place, mainly to delay the enemy's march. At first, Xu Rong also sent cavalry to meet him, but every time the Xiliang cavalry was dispatched, the soldiers of the first independent cavalry brigade ran away, and they couldn't catch up at all, so Xu Rong had to send out all the cavalry and escort the brigade left and right. Seeing this, Li Dian immediately changed his mind, and sent more than 1,000 horsemen to dig traps on the road to Wugong, cut down trees, chisel stones to block the enemy's advance, and even stacked firewood and grass in some places where they must pass...... In a word, in order to rank Xu Rongjun's forward speed, Li Dian did everything.

Chen Gong of Yixian County was not idle, after learning that Xu Rong was pulled, he left three thousand barbarians to defend Yixian, and personally led the main force to bite Xu Rongjun's ass and chase after him.

Xu Rong found that the main force of Chen Gong was chasing after him, so he had to send cavalry to block it, but he gave Li Dian another chance, and he rushed to kill him, killing countless people and then showing off his might......

After walking for half a day, the army only walked ten miles, and on the contrary, another figure was very remarkable - more than 5,000 dead and wounded, of which more than 4,000 were definitely lost (many of them were actually seriously wounded, but in this case, they were unable to take care of it at all, so they had to be abandoned).

Xu Rong knew that it was impossible to continue advancing, so he had to order the whole army to retreat to Yiwu.

Seeing this, Chen Gong immediately led his troops to retreat slowly, and Li Dian also gave up the attack, and closely monitored Xu Rong with Chen Gong.

"I regret not listening to Wen You's words......" Xu Rong couldn't help but sigh when he saw this.

After Xu Rong's whole army entered Yiwu, Chen Gong also retreated to Yixian a few miles away, and Li Dian remained outside the city after replenishing grain and grass.

After Dong Zhuo learned that Xu Rong was harassed by the enemy army during the retreat, suffered heavy losses, and had to retreat to Yiwu, he couldn't help but be angry, thinking about whether he should send troops to take him back, but thinking that Wei Yan had 100,000 troops in his hands, how many people would he have to send to take them back to Wugong? Although there are only about 40,000 people in the vicinity of Yixian, as long as these 40,000 people are slightly contained, Wei Yan will definitely transfer troops to support, and at that time, I am afraid that as many as I go, I will have to be left behind.

Li Ru reminded Dong Zhuo that maybe Xu Rong could be allowed to withdraw under the cover of night, although the chance was not great, but it was also the only feasible way.

Dong Zhuo had no choice but to agree to Li Ru's plan. But after yesterday's defeat, he himself knew that even at night, the enemy might not give him much chance, and now, his only chance was to attack Liu Zhang head-on, and defeating Liu Zhang in one fell swoop could reverse the entire battle!

Dong Zhuo immediately made a decision, leaving 5,000 soldiers and horses for the camp and Wugong City to defend, and leaving the seriously wounded in the previous battles, Dong Zhuo personally led an army of 140,000 to Liu Zhang's camp.

On Liu Zhang's side, Li Dao's two attacks caused more than 3,000 casualties to Liu Zhang, but Liu Zhang received the support of Li Yan's department, and the total number of troops was still protected at about 60,000 people, and there were 10,000 people, and the ratio of troops was about 1 to 2, as a defensive side, this force ratio was not too great.

Dong Zhuo's army covered the sky and the sun, lined up in a huge military formation in the north of Liu Zhang's camp three miles, the front of the military array is 30,000 crossbowmen, the back of the bow and crossbow array is 30,000 sword and shield hands, condescending can clearly see the sword and shield soldiers carrying countless ladders, and then there are 40,000 soldiers with guns, Ge, Yu, halberds and other long-pole weapons, the back of the military array is nearly 100 huge trebuchets, Dong Zhuo's handsome flag is in the trebuchet array, and there are 15,000 cavalry guards on the left and right sides of the military array.

Liu Zhang and the others, who climbed the wall to inspect the enemy's situation, were all shocked when they saw this, Dong Zhuo's situation was relatively clear, why did the Xiliang Army, which was dominated by cavalry, come to a big change this time, there were only 30,000 cavalry among the 140,000 troops, and the other cavalry went there? And what about the surge of infantry?

Liu Zhang and the others didn't know that Dong Zhuo was ruined this time, and he knew that the cavalry had little role in attacking the fortifications, so he ordered a large number of cavalry to be driven down from the war horses and became an infantry army advancing on two legs.

"Could it be that Dong Zhuo has new reinforcements?" Full of uncertainty, Dong Zhuo's war potential is in his eyes, if Dong Zhuo can suddenly increase tens of thousands of infantry unconsciously, he doesn't believe it very much.

Liu Zhang, who came from later generations, quickly guessed the reason, the cavalry at this time because the horse pedal had not yet appeared, and the battle was mainly based on cavalry (different from the kind of running shot used by Genghis Khan in later generations, the cavalry at this time was mainly equipped with crossbow bows, and the crossbow had been loaded with arrows before launching a charge, and when it was about to rush to the range, he held the reins with his left hand while grasping the saddle, clamped the horse's belly with both legs to keep it stable, and shot with a crossbow in his right hand...... Supplemented by hand-to-hand combat, it was obvious that the cavalry's combat methods could not play a role at this time, and Dong Zhuo was unwilling to give up this huge force, so it was very likely that he would order the cavalry to dismount and participate in the attack.

Liu Zhang said his guess, and everyone felt that it should be so, otherwise it would not explain why the number of Dong Zhuo's cavalry had plummeted, but the infantry had swelled rapidly.

"This Dong Zhuo is really willing to spend the money, and the cost of cultivating one cavalry is enough to train five infantrymen......" Li Yan said.

Xi Zhicai said: "He is also helpless, with the number of his infantry troops, it is difficult to break through our army's battalion, on the one hand, the number of infantry is insufficient, on the other hand, the huge number of cavalry is not strong, rather than this, it is better to be ruthless, to ride instead of walking, to increase the intensity of attack and the advantage of troops." His abacus is not good, even if the losses are larger, as long as he can break our army, this investment will be earned! Everyone, please see, Dong Zhuo attacked the north gate as much as possible, and even the east, west, and south sides were exempted from feints and containment, it seems that he ordered and determined to break through our army's camp with one blow! ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Fang Jin's Weishui camp has been lost, as long as we break through our army's camp, our army will have no way to escape, I have to say, Dong Zhuo's dream is perfect!" ”

Li Yan, who was next to him, suddenly darkened when he heard this, and a trace of shame rose in his heart.

Liu Zhang stepped forward and patted Li Yan's shoulder gently, signaling that he didn't have to take it to heart, abandoning the camp was originally in Liu Zhang's plan, no wonder Li Yan, not to mention that Li Yan still brought out 3,000 soldiers after facing a powerful enemy army and killing and wounding thousands of enemies, which is enough to be proud.

Xun You said: "Although it is not impossible for the cavalry to dismount and fight on foot, but the cavalry and infantry tactics are different after all, and there is no long-term joint training, there will be chaos in the cooperation, which can increase the combat power, I have doubts in my heart, if I want to easily break through our army camp based on this alone, I think it is very difficult!" ”

Liu Zhang said: "Don't care about his cavalry and infantry, as long as you do your own thing, victory will be ours in the end, and I will tell the officers and men of the whole army to strictly guard their posts, and be sure to fight until the last breath. ”