Chapter 512: It's okay to slow down
"General Wang, you immediately take two thousand men and horses to block Ye Chen, you only need to drag them." In a moment, Xu Rong made a decision.
The two thousand men were the reserves he left behind, the only reserves at present, and the Liaodong army came much faster than he expected, which made him very uneasy.
If you are attacked, you will be attacked on your back, and it will be very dangerous.
However, he was very unwilling to let Xu Rong give up the opportunity to annihilate Cao Cao.
"Attack with all your might, we're running out of time." Xu Rong ordered a storming of Cao Cao's army.
Cao Cao and they were already in a weak position, the army was poorly trained, and they were suddenly attacked and lost their command, and now Xu Rong ordered a fierce attack, and many Cao troops began to collapse.
On the other side, after Ye Chen ordered a rapid march, he quickly approached the battlefield, but it also deviated from his prediction.
Because they were not about thirty miles away from Xu Rong's team, but more than forty miles.
"I don't know if Cao Cao can withstand it." Along the way, Ye Chen was worried that Cao Cao would not be able to withstand it.
Now that the two sides have been fighting for more than an hour, time is of the essence, although Ye Chen had a premonition and ordered a rapid march early, he did not dare to run very fast, lest his physical strength would be overdrawn if he did not touch the enemy.
Half an hour ago, he ordered the army to slow down and regain some strength.
"Report, my lord, the enemy has been spotted ahead, and about two thousand men and horses are coming towards them." While marching, Ye Chen received a report from the scout.
"This must be the army sent by Xu Rong to stop us, but there are only two thousand people, so they underestimate us."
At this time, although Ye Chen brought all the infantry, there were 8,000 people and horses, this time he didn't have to leave half of the people on the boat to answer, only a small number of them were left, and most of them were brought out.
"Gongming, Ziyi, immediately lead your headquarters to meet the enemy." After all, the other party is a cavalry, so you still need to be careful to deal with it.
"No."
"Zilong is ambushed on the left, and Yunchang is ambushed on the right."
The enemy has 2,000 soldiers and horses, and it must be solved, so I can only hope that Cao Cao can hold on for a while longer, after all, Cao Cao also has more than 10,000 horses, and it is no problem to hold on for a little longer.
Zhao Yun and Guan Yu also led the men and horses to ambush, while Ye Chen took the remaining part of the people directly behind Xu Huang and Tai Shici and laid an ambush behind.
"Kill! Let the army in Liaodong know how powerful our Xiliang men are. ”
Xu Rong's lieutenant came over with two thousand men and horses, and when he saw that the Liaodong army was already arrayed, he was not afraid, and directly led people to charge the battle.
It's not that he is arrogant, but the style of the Xiliang army is like this, they always like to rush in battle, and use the sword in their hands to cut the enemy under their horses.
Liaodong's military formation was not so easy to break, and after rushing up, Xu Huang and Tai Shici stubbornly blocked their momentum.
"Trying to cut through my formation, delusional." Seeing the enemy rushing into formation, Tai Shici was very unhappy, it has always been the escort battalion that chiseled through other people's formations, when will it be the turn of others to rush into their formation.
"Boom, boom~" A series of collision sounds, the two sides collided together.
The four thousand guard battalions, in the case of preparing in advance, blocked the impact of the enemy without any suspense, and when the Xiliang army collided with it, it was firmly blocked.
"Rush, rush, keep rushing." Xiliang's generals were shocked to see that their cavalry charge had been blocked, and shouted for the soldiers to continue to charge, intending to break through the barrier of the guard camp.
"Dare to be rampant." Tai Shi Ci said in a deep voice.
Tai Shici's face turned cold, and he rode out on a horse.
"Ah~kill."
Tai Shi Ci burst out and killed Xi Liang's generals.
The spears danced continuously, and several soldiers along the road let Tai Shici solve them one by one, and even a few of the general's personal soldiers rushed up to kill, but they couldn't stop Tai Shici's footsteps.
"Kill." Zhao Yun and Guan Yu on both sides saw the two armies fighting together, and immediately killed.
General Na Xiliang was shocked, he didn't expect that the Liaodong army would still have an ambush in this short period of time, and wanted to retreat, but Tai Shici had already killed him, and he didn't even have the space to be distracted and command the army.
"Let's go." Ye Chen's overlord halberd lifted and led people to rush out.
However, Ye Chen did not immediately join the battle group, but directly bypassed the place where the two sides were fighting, wanting to intercept the enemy in front of them.
General Na Xiliang was out of his body after discovering this situation, if Ye Chen was allowed to intercept them in front, then none of them would want to run.
"Quick, block him, block him." General Xiliang shouted.
General Na Xiliang was directing his own soldiers to block Tai Shici.
Tai Shi Ci killed him like a killing god, and he kept retreating under the protection of his own soldiers, but Tai Shi Ci was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, and he couldn't get rid of it.
"Die."
Even though he was only riding alone, Tai Shi Ci had been killing until the Xiliang generals, and no one could stop him.
When he was killed, the spear stabbed quickly, and with one move, he picked the general of Na Xiliang off his horse.
"It's not good, get back."
Seeing that his general was stabbed under his horse, Xiliang's soldiers hurriedly fled.
It's just that if you want to run, it's so simple, Zhao Yun and Guan Yu stuck up tightly and attacked them.
"It's too late, kill it." Ye Chen ran for a while and found that the enemy began to turn around and flee, so he immediately led people to kill him directly, directly cutting off the enemy's formation.
"If I had brought cavalry, none of you would have been able to escape." Looking at the hundreds of Xiliang troops in the distance, Ye Chen shook his head helplessly.
Two thousand people wanted to block Ye Chen, and their eight thousand people were simply delusional.
The surrounded Xiliang Army had no suspense, and it didn't take long for it to be resolved.
"Sort it out, rest for half an hour, and then go on the offensive."
It was only a few miles away from the place where Xu Rong and Cao Cao were fighting, and it would be there in a while, but Ye Chen stopped.
At this distance, even if you don't rest, there is no problem in killing it in one go, but Ye Chen chose to stop.
It's not that your own army is surrounded, what is the hurry, wait for yourself to rest and kill it, the effect will be better.
Ye Chen would choose to rest, judging that Cao Cao could still hold on, and Xu Rong's team was defeated by himself, if he rushed over at this time, Xu Rong would choose to retreat immediately.
And he is not in a hurry to kill, Cao Cao's army has been surrounded by him, with a fluke mentality, or without figuring out his intentions, Xu Rong will not choose to retreat immediately, then the two sides will continue to fight and continue to consume the strength of both sides.
For Xu Rong, both sides are enemies, no matter whose army kills one more, for Ye Chen, both of them are competitors, and it is good for him to consume more strength.
"Ye Chen, what are you going to do?"
Sure enough, Xu Rong received the soldier's report and hesitated, but although he did not retreat, he also reduced the intensity of the attack and was ready to retreat at any time.