Li Dian hesitated in his heart, he was deeply encircled in the forbidden place, if he did not send troops to rescue, he was afraid that he would resist riding with foot, which would definitely be more auspicious, but if he sent troops to rescue him, the car barrier here would be without guards, and the baggage grain carts and the three hundred people would inevitably be lost.

How to choose in the battle is really a difficult matter.

Just when Li Dian hesitated, a horse galloped from the northwest, and although the knight was hit by two arrows in the back, he did not hesitate to ride his horse at all, and he galloped to the range in front of Li Dian's chariot formation, and shouted:

"I am a personal guard under the command of the captain of Pingyu, the captain has an order, please Zhonglang will stick to the formation, the captain has broken out of the formation, and when he will come to meet, please also ask Zhonglang to send troops to respond."

This knight was wearing Cao Jun's armor, his body was stained with blood, and he was hit by two arrows in the back, not like a disguised military spy, Li Dian hurriedly asked people to welcome him into the formation, sent people for emergency treatment, and at the same time ordered the troops to speed up the laying of car barriers, and he himself climbed high and raised his eyes into the distance, nervously looking at the northwest direction of the sound of the horn.

The knight said that he quickly broke out of the formation and rushed to meet the convoy, but when Li Dian's barrier was roughly completed, the Yu Forbidden Department still did not arrive, but the sound of the enemy's horn was getting closer and closer.

Just when Li Dian decided to send several Li family disciples who had recovered their horsepower to conduct sentry again, the long-awaited Yu Ban Department finally appeared.

The swaying banner of Cao's army moved on the plain, and the military formation of Yu Ban's department was already a lot less than when he first met, Yu Ban abandoned his horses, and was in the middle of the military formation that was fighting and retreating, and hissed and commanded the foot soldiers who rushed out of the enemy's cavalry encirclement, and retreated to the direction of Li Dian's army along the Bianshui.

In the process of retreating, Yu Ban's department still maintained a roughly complete military formation, with the armor soldiers holding spears and big swords outside, and the archers and short swordsmen mixed behind, and in the middle was Yu Ban and his own soldiers, everyone fought and walked, without stopping for a moment, and retreated back to back.

Because in order to keep the formation intact, stand shields and spears anytime and anywhere, and resist the enemy cavalry rushing into the formation, Yu Ban's army formation is destined to not be able to roll up the armor and walk quickly when retreating, and can only retreat backwards in small steps, which is not only a severe test for the soldiers who fight and retreat, but also for Yu Ban, who is in command in the formation, is also facing huge pressure.

In the process of retreating, from time to time there are arrows, fallen behind, fallen soldiers, once they lose the protection of other comrades around, they are immediately shot down, knocked over, and slashed by the Xiliang cavalry like a vicious wolf, although Yu Ban saw it, but resolutely did not allow his subordinates to rescue, everyone must maintain the same pace and slowly retreat, can not stop for a moment.

It was brutal, but it was also effective, and at least more of the soldiers survived.

The Xiliang cavalry tried several times, wanting to charge into the formation, but the forbidden department quickly reacted, they stopped in time to line up, the big ones were like a wall, the spears were like a forest, the bows were arrows, the short blades were hand-to-hand combat, and the end was invulnerable.

Li Dian, who was in the formation, saw that the soldiers of the forbidden place had approached, his face was happy, and he immediately ordered according to the plan, moved a corner of the barrier, and let the livestock pulling the cart out, and he led three hundred Li family troops to personally rush out of the formation, braving the arrows of the Xiliang cavalry, and quickly took the forbidden one into the formation, and then the removed car barrier was re-encircled again, forming a closed-loop car formation relying on Bianshui.

To the northwest, unnamed heights.

"Phew—"

Zhai Hao, who had a leopard's head and a swallow's jaw and a tiger's back and a bear's waist, rode his horse and ran to a slightly higher terrain, his beard shook with a snort, looking at Cao Jun, who had already laid the car barrier, and scolded angrily:

"This class of Yanzhou thieves is very resistant to war!"

Since Yanzhou's soldiers and horses marched into Henan, Zhai Hao has repeatedly asked Yan Xing for his life, wanting to go into battle and lead the army to counterattack the invading Cao army.

However, firstly, the Hedong army all marched westward, and they were all put into the battle of Guanzhong, and there were no reinforcements to support Henan, and secondly, these Yanzhou soldiers were also very cautious all the way to march, no matter how the rangers sent by Zhai Hao lured, they never ventured into pursuit, and the former army's Yu Ban Department was a camp step by step, and by building a camp all the way, the camp was forcefully advanced to Longcheng near Xingyang.

The defenders of Henan have always been the least in the land of the three rivers, although there are six or seven thousand horsemen, but in addition to the soldiers and horses who defend Luoyang City and garrison the eight passes of Luoyang, Zhai Hao's command can be used as flexible and mobile soldiers and horses, and only he has more than 1,000 cavalry in Xiliang.

In the Hedong army, the number of cavalry was superior to that of the Kwantung heroes, but there were not many cavalry units. After Ganling recruited the Qianghu cavalry in Hexi before returning to Hedong, it was transferred by Yan Xing and split into the various armies.

In order to give full play to the advantage of the cavalry on the plain over the foot soldiers, Zhai Hao, who had insufficient troops in his hands, failed to lure the enemy, and had another plan in mind, so he simply withdrew the households in Xingyang, and left 800 foot soldiers to defend east of Chenggao, intending to lure the greedy enemy army to attack Xingyang City.

It's a pity that Yu Ban, who has already entered Longcheng, has not moved to march again.

At this time, Yan Xing had ordered the guards to find an opportunity to defeat the Cao army for a while, in order to suppress the aggressive arrogance of the Cao army, so Zhai Hao, who received the order to use troops, finally couldn't hold it back than Yu Banxian, and found out by the rangers that there was a Cao army grain truck that would be transported to Longcheng, and Zhai Hao, who was sitting in Chenggao, decisively chose to attack, and led the Xiliang cavalry to bypass the Longcheng in front of the forbidden department, and attacked in a roundabout way, intending to cut off the rear grain road in the forbidden department.

It's just that Zhai Hao didn't expect that after the Cao army encountered his own Xiliang cavalry on the plain, he didn't collapse at the touch of a button, but fought and walked, retreating all the way, although he also paid nearly 100 casualties, but still let them retreat into the car barrier laid by another Cao army.

The tenacity of the combat effectiveness of Yanzhou's soldiers and horses exceeded Zhai Hao's previous expectations, after all, when he fought Baibo and Hedong rebels before, and pursued Zhang Ji and Guo Yan's rout, the Xiliang cavalry under his command was galloping and indomitable.

Zhai Hao didn't know that while he lamented that Cao Jun was a tricky enemy in front of him, Yu Ban behind the car barrier was also secretly frightened, smacking his tongue at the light plagiarism of the Xiliang cavalry.

In all fairness, Yu Ban thought that the five hundred old soldiers under him were already the elite of Cao's army.

Yanzhou is in the Central Plains four wars, Cao Jun at first with Yu Poison, Bai Huan battle, and later assisted Yuan Shao and Tian Kai, Liu Bei's Youzhou soldiers to fight, defeated the Qingxu Yellow Turban, Yuan Shu soldiers and horses, Tao Qian soldiers and horses, extinguished Zhang Miao rebels, Yingchuan, Runan Yellow Turban, and Lu Bu's cavalry confrontation, the old pawn in the army is not an exaggeration to say that he has experienced a hundred battles, even if it is a new pawn, at least he has experienced many battles in the pacification of Yingchuan and Runan Yellow Turbans, and he has already seen the blood and sword soldiers on the battle array.

However, the Cao army, which has few opponents in the Central Plains, is still under great pressure when facing the Xiliang cavalry, although they are on the plain with fewer enemies and more enemies, and resist the cavalry with foot, but in the process of fighting and retreating, nearly 100 soldiers were consumed by several rangers, which has not been encountered since Yu Ban joined the army.

If it weren't for the fact that he was not far from Li Dian, Yu Ban guessed that his 500 foot soldiers would definitely be exhausted by the rangers during the retreat, and then the Xiliang cavalry would definitely attack them in groups, and in the end, these 500 elite foot soldiers would not be able to escape the doom of destruction.

Now that one of them has withdrawn into the car formation, although he has not yet gotten out of danger, he can at least allow himself to breathe.

Just now fought and retreated, during the retreat, Yu Ban shouted smoke in his throat, and he quickly ordered his subordinates to drink water to quench their thirst and trim their armor, and he also took out a water bladder and poured a few mouthfuls of water into his mouth.

"Captain Yu!"

When Yu Ban was irrigating his dry throat with clean water, Li Dian had already hurried over, he pointed to the Xiliang cavalry cruising not far away worriedly, and said:

"Captain Yu, you see that these cavalry are not at all like the rangers of ordinary sentinels, and there are many of them, about a thousand horsemen, this is like the elite cavalry of the enemy!"

Yu Ban nodded, and said with palpitations:

"I'm afraid this is the Xiliang cavalry led by Henan guard Zhai Hao, these cavalry are veterans who are skilled in arches and horses, and the battle is very fierce.

"The captain is too modest, the captain is on the plain, there is no danger to defend, and he can still retreat with his whole body by resisting riding on foot, and he is very admired. However, at present, we and the other two combatable soldiers are only a thousand people, and we have grain trucks and people who need to be guarded, so we can only rely on the car barriers to hold on and wait for help. The pawn has already given the order, raising a cigarette for help! ”

Yu Ban turned his head to look at the soldiers who were collecting dry dung and firewood and grass behind the formation, nodded, and then looked back at the Xiliang cavalry cruising not far away, frowned and said:

"Longcheng is the closest to here, and there are still 1,500 elite soldiers, but unfortunately they are all foot soldiers, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to come in an instant!"

In fact, there was still a layer of worry in Yu Ban's heart, that is, after the encounter with the Xiliang cavalry just now, he deeply felt that on the plain where there was no danger to defend, his own army, which was mainly based on foot soldiers, was very passive and powerless against the Xiliang cavalry, which was even more tricky than when dealing with Lu Bu's cavalry in Yanzhou.

Although Lu Bu's cavalry is elite, Lu Bu is a lost dog, and his subordinates have very few cavalry, and can only be used as the main general's personal guard cavalry, and the main force of the army is still the Yanzhou rebels under Zhang Miao and Chen Gong, and like Cao's army, they are all composed of foot soldiers.

In the final analysis, Zhai Hao dared to personally lead the cavalry to cut off his own grain route, because he saw through the lack of cavalry units in the Yanzhou army that could pose a threat to the Xiliang cavalry, so he boldly detoured around and picked on his own rear weakness to fight.