To the south of the battlefield, Zhang Liao took more than 300 guards to tear open a hole and rushed into the valley.

As he expected, the enemy did not have time to dig a trap in the valley road, but only prepared stones on the high ground, and now that the enemy on the high ground had exhausted them, the valley road after rushing through the defense line could be described as unimpeded, and the enemy behind could not catch up at all.

Rushing out of the valley road five or six miles long, there were no ambushes on the other side.

Looking at the scarred and heavy losses of the guards around him, Zhang Liao endured the grief in his heart, looked back at the pursuers on the other side of Gu Dao, a violent killing intent flashed in his eyes, and then turned his head, he was the boss, and it was not the time to be impulsive in front of him.

Killed 10,000 enemies and lost 8,000 themselves, now Zhang Liao's personal guards and enemy casualties are almost 1 to 15, or under the disadvantage of being ambushed, such a record is enough to boast on other princes, but Zhang Liao can't be proud.

He is walking the way of elite soldiers, and each of the six hundred guards he brought this time is the elite of the elite, and it is distressing to lose one, not to mention that nearly three hundred died at once, and it is not an exaggeration to cut his heart like a knife.

Out of the valley road, galloped south for more than ten miles, and when he reached a stream, he could no longer see the pursuers behind him, and Zhang Liao stopped.

Because many of the guards' injuries are no longer allowed to continue galloping, they must stop and deal with them, otherwise they will be disabled at least or die due to excessive blood loss, resulting in secondary casualties. And in the hot noon, the continuous high-intensity fighting, both men and horses need to be hydrated.

More than 300 guards did not delay after dismounting, and let the war horses go to drink water by themselves, while they quickly took the wound medicine and bandaged each other's wounds, and their movements were skillful and well-trained.

At the moment, they are still in crisis, and any more delay will have unpredictable consequences.

The number of people was counted, and there were three hundred and sixty-four.

Two guards came over to bandage Zhang Liao's wounds, and after wrapping them, Zhang Liao was not idle, and started to bandage the wounds of the soldiers.

There was no need for Zhang Liao to cheer up, although nearly half of the losses were lost, the three hundred and sixty-four guards did not have the slightest sense of frustration, but because of the sacrifice of their comrades, they all held their breath and were fierce.

Zhang Liao's face showed bitterness, this time he could be regarded as a loser, and before he could save anyone, he almost put himself in it, and he lost so many brothers, he felt very uncomfortable.

He was completely unexpectedly ambushed this time, after all, he set off from Chaohu Lake without stopping, and his actions were fast, and it was only half a day, and the enemy was able to lay such an ambush in front of them, which was completely unexpected by him.

Because according to common sense, the enemy is infantry, not faster than the cavalry, even if a secret report is received, it is absolutely difficult to gather so many soldiers and horses to set up an ambush here in half a day.

Therefore, Zhang Liao speculated that it is very likely that these ambush soldiers originally planned to go to the Chaohu battlefield, but received information on the way and happened to be ambushed here.

This is an unforeseen accident on the battlefield, the so-called fog of war, not a mistake in decision-making, not based on human will as a transfer, there is a great factor of luck, but he suffered a big loss, buried nearly 300 elite cavalry, and even suffered a lot of injuries himself, and almost died here.

However, he was relieved to see that the surviving soldiers were not discouraged.

Although he rarely suffers defeat, he usually pays attention to cultivating the resilience of his soldiers, and the most common thing he says to his soldiers is that if you win a battle, you can afford to lose a battle, and you should never give up at any time, and the real defeat starts after giving up completely.

Zhang Liao felt uncomfortable in his heart, but he didn't show it, seeing that the soldiers had already bandaged their wounds, checked their knives and bows, the war horses had also drunk water, and the injured ones had been treated, he immediately got on the elephant dragon and said in a deep voice: "To the south!" ”

Three hundred and sixty-four guards flew up and rode up, shouting in unison: "Order!" ”

At this time, the only way to go south, whether it is to save Zhang Jian or to get rid of the enemy's encirclement, is to go south quickly.

This is not Zhang Liao's obstinence, in fact, after this ambush, Zhang Liao is reflecting.

The enemy can set up an ambush in their path so quickly, in addition to the shadow betrayal and the coincidental passing by of a large number of enemy soldiers, there is another very important factor, that is, the speed of message transmission, very fast!

With such a fast transmission speed, there is only one possibility, the enemy is using the flying pigeon to transmit!

Otherwise, this time the enemy's ambush reaction would definitely not be so fast!

Zhang Liao attaches great importance to the flying pigeon message, but the flying pigeon message is not unique to him, nor is it created by him, as early as the former Han Dynasty, some people began to use the flying pigeon to pass the book, but the people did not pay attention to it, and it was not used on a large scale for military purposes.

Now that the people behind the scenes have started to use carrier pigeons, then the news of their breakthrough from the valley road will spread quickly, which means that there is likely to be a series of ambushes ahead.

It is necessary to get out of the sight of the forces behind the scenes before the enemy in front receives the news.

What Zhang Liao didn't know was that the crisis didn't stop there.

Although Yuan Shu was defeated and the 200,000 army disappeared, the backhand he left behind was not over, one ring after another, and he never died.

Otherwise, those families would not have decided that Zhang Liao would definitely die in Yuzhou, and Cao Cao and Dong Cheng, who had received some news, dared to seek to capture Luoyang, because they were both familiar with Zhang Liao's character, and concluded that it was very likely that Zhang Liao would die in Chaohu in order to save Zhang Jian, which was enough for them to fight.

And Zhang Liao first broke Yuan Shu's army of tens of thousands in Yuzhou, and then cut off all the bandits in Chaohu and broke the Chaohu crisis, which was completely unexpected by those families, making those families panic and crazy, and also beyond the original expectations of Dong Cheng and Cao Cao, Dong Cheng died naturally can't be seen, and Cao Cao is far away in Luoyang, although he has been paying attention to here, it is still difficult to receive news from Chaohu.

It's just that although Zhang Liao broke the situation of Chaohu, Yuan Shu's killer weapon is still there, and he has secretly cultivated a dead cavalry specially designed to deal with Zhang Liao, staring at them like poisonous snakes, and with his familiarity with the road, he has already taken a shortcut to catch up with them.

The three hundred and sixty-four horsemen continued unabated, crossing an unknown river and a ravine, and after passing a mountain pass, the first wave of the enemy appeared.

A large group of people are piling stones and branches on the mountain road, trying to block the way.

"Don't fight with love, kill the past!"

Zhang Liao roared, and with more than 300 horsemen, he didn't make any stagnation, and directly trampled and slashed the past.

Soon after this group of people received the news from the flying pigeon, they just arrived here to set up a roadblock, and they didn't want Zhang Liao's cavalry to arrive, and dozens of people wanted to rush up to stop them, but they were killed by the cavalry like chopping melons and vegetables, and they had no power to resist, and the rest panicked and avoided.

Zhang Liao rushed over with three hundred horsemen.

After running for several miles, there was a village in front of me, which had been eroded by wind and rain and destroyed by war, and as far as the eye could see, there was a ruined wall, and the grass was overgrown and ruined.

Zhang Liao had no time to be compassionate, and a large group of people had already rushed out of the village, carrying guns and sticks and rushing towards them.

"Kill it!"

Zhang Liao didn't say a word, and rushed through with the cavalry.

On the next road, he encountered two more enemy interceptions, although they were not strong, but there were so many enemies, Zhang Liao was secretly frightened, the enemy really had a channel to transmit news, and there were people everywhere, obviously not a day's work.

What he didn't know was that when Yuan Shu formed the Liao Guard, the commander Yuan Kill Liao was just a doorman with force, and his real name was not Yuan Kill Liao, it was in the selection of the commander that this person put forward the strategy of gathering the bandits and setting up points all over the place, and suggested that all the bandits in the Chaohu area be secretly subdued, and then in sending out the leader, each leader led some bandits to be distributed everywhere, once Zhang Liao was transferred to the Chaohu area, no matter where he went, he would be in their eyes, monitoring everywhere, and blocking everywhere.

When Yuan Shu heard this strategy, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and appointed this person as the commander of the Liao Killing Guard, and gave him the name Yuan Kill Liao.

After the news of Zhang Liao's detour came out, Yuan Jiliao ordered all places to be ready at any time, but he still missed a move, but he didn't expect Zhang Liao to break through from the siege of tens of thousands of people with six hundred cavalry on the battlefield south of Longshushui, which caught him a little off guard, otherwise if he let the strongholds block the road early, it would inevitably bring great trouble to Zhang Liao's breakthrough.

But even so, these temporary harassments also achieved Yuan's goal of killing Liao and delayed Zhang Liao's trip.

When Zhang Liao led 300 horsemen after several battles, when they arrived at a boulevard, they were intercepted by a force of men and horses.

This group of people was only a little more than the previous ones, about five or six hundred, but Zhang Liao's expression became solemn.

In order for the generals to learn to observe the enemy when the two armies are facing each other, Zhang Liao is keenly aware that these five or six hundred centaurs are completely different from the previous ones, if it was a rabble that blocked the way before, these five or six hundred centaurs are definitely trained!

"Kill it!"

At this time, there is nothing to say but war!

Three hundred and sixty cavalry rushed directly into the enemy formation, and the most effective, powerful and fastest attack of cavalry against infantry was to charge the formation!

rushed into the enemy formation and fought, as Zhang Liao expected, this team of men and horses was quite combative, and all of them were fierce.

However, this level of combat effectiveness is considered strong for ordinary soldiers, but it is nothing in front of Zhang Liao's elite cavalry, if it only stops there, this pass can be rushed through.

But as soon as he entered the enemy formation, a buzzing sound in the woods on both sides suddenly came into his ears, Zhang Liao's face changed greatly, and he said sharply: "Beware of arrows!" ”

The speed of the arrows was so fast, even if Zhang Liao reminded him, it was still too late, dense arrows poured out from the dense forests on both sides, and the enemy soldiers who blocked the way screamed and fell in large numbers, but at the same time, the war horses neighed in pain, and Zhang Liao's personal guards were also falling.

Zhang Liao never thought that the enemy would be so ruthless, disregarding the lives of his own people and indiscriminately firing arrows!

Even though his cavalry had been trained to block arrows, in the melee, the soldiers' attention was all on fighting with people, how could they notice the arrows, and they were densely packed with arrows, and the soldiers did not expect that the five or six hundred enemy soldiers blocking the road were all outcasts and would die with them.

Moreover, the angle of the arrows in the forest is extremely vicious, not throwing, but crouching, and more aiming is not at people, but at war horses.

The elephant dragon was also hit by two arrows, and it was no longer critical, but it screamed in pain.

Seeing the guards falling one by one, with unprecedented casualties, Zhang Liao's eyes turned red, blocked a few arrows, and shouted: "Rush over!" Those who fall off their horses block arrows with the corpses of their enemies! ”

In the woods, a young man with a gloomy face stared at Zhang Liao, he was the leader of this archery, one of the five deputy leaders of the Liao Guard, Yuan Shu, who was the best at bowing and arrows.

Yuan Archer held a bow in his hand, took three arrows, squinted his eyes, and aimed at Zhang Liao.

At the moment when Zhang Liao turned to look at the guards behind him and roared, the bowstring buzzed, and three arrows came out of the string like lightning, heading straight for Zhang Liao!