Another day later, outside Xiping City, Zhao Jiu, according to Zhang Shihua's order, led 5,000 elite soldiers and soldiers to be stationed on a slope two or three miles away from Xiping City. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After all, a city like Xiping City is just a small county town, and it is enough to have 2,000 soldiers in the city to garrison, and if the remaining soldiers continue to garrison in Xiping City, it is nothing more than a waste of troops. Besides, defending the city is not more important than defending the field, Zhang Shihua asked Zhao Jiuqin to lead 5,000 elite soldiers to garrison outside the city, which can also play a role in helping each other in attack and defense.

Therefore, those Tartar armies who were killed, in the face of Zhang Shihua's formation, did not dare to act rashly for a while.

After all, the defeat of Gong Buban's army by Zhang Shihua is now known to all the Yuanmeng officials. In the face of such a strong opponent, Har Banda, a Yuanmeng general who also commanded 20,000 soldiers, naturally did not dare to act rashly.

But it is clear that such a stalemate will not last long. Because for today's Yuanmeng officers and soldiers, there is nothing more powerful than defeating a support army like Zhang Shihua and fighting those stubborn red turban thieves in Shangcaicheng.

Therefore, after Halbanda built the camp, on the third day when he led his army to Xiping City, he finally let his subordinates, led almost 3,000 men and horses, to kill Zhao Jiu and them who were stationed on the slopes outside the city with great fanfare.

"Kill the thief!" Nearly 3,000 officers and soldiers roared, and under the scolding and urging of the generals behind the battle, these soldiers wielding weapons were like a group of beasts, frantically charging towards Zhao Jiu's camp.

But what kind of person Zhao Jiu is, relying on the 5,000 soldiers under his command, how could he be afraid of this mere 3,000 officers and soldiers.

Therefore, when the 3,000 officers and soldiers were about 200 steps away from Zhao Jiu's camp, Zhao Jiu asked the soldiers under his command to operate the 80 trebuchets that had been prepared long ago, and with the help of the terrain, condescendingly, they smashed stones weighing dozens of catties at the 3,000 officers and soldiers who had been killed.

"Bump! ~~"The huge stones, under the action of the tall trebuchet, smashed to the ground like meteors, and the huge sound was so loud that it even covered the three thousand officers and soldiers who roared and killed.

Although these eighty trebuchets are not accurate at all, there are eighty trebuchets after all. Eighty stones fell from the sky, even if he was blind, he could still hit a few unlucky people.

Therefore, when the eighty tall trebuchets finished throwing stones in one round, dozens of bloody corpses suddenly appeared in the formation of 3,000 officers and soldiers. Thankfully, the hapless bastards who were hit by the trebuchets didn't let out a morale-waking scream.

Because the moment the stone hit them, they were already dead and could not die again. Therefore, the 3,000 officers and soldiers who came to kill frantically were afraid of the stones that fell from the sky above their heads. But because most of the people didn't hear the screams and didn't see the body of the person who was hit, their frenzied offensive didn't suffer much.

And because the trebuchet was more troublesome to operate, after being attacked by two waves of catapults and killing dozens of unlucky people, the three thousand officers and soldiers also roared and rushed to a place sixty steps away from Zhao Jiu and them.

However, when Zhao Jiu saw this, he had a cruel smile on his face. He slashed down with the saber he held high, and roared loudly: "Archers listen to the order, release the arrows!" ”

"Shoot the arrows!" Hearing Zhao Jiu's order, more than 300 crossbowmen with divine arms and nearly a thousand archers with strong bows shot the arrows in their hands at the 3,000 officers and soldiers who were roaring and killing.

"Ahh ~~" The terrible screams finally sounded from the military formation of 3,000 officers and soldiers. The more than 100 armor-clad soldiers who rushed to the front were shot to the ground by the three hundred divine arms in an instant. And the archers who made nearly a thousand good bows also shot a large number of officers and soldiers without iron armor with the help of the condescending terrain.

Seeing this scene, the offensive of these 3,000 officers and soldiers was finally hit by the Red Turban Army. Fearing death, their charge slowed down suddenly.

However, the deputy Wanhu who commanded and supervised the battle behind the 3,000 officers and soldiers was a person who knew the soldiers. He knew that in such a situation, the soldier's fear would be tantamount to suicide. Therefore, after seeing the speed of the front-line soldiers slowing down, he couldn't help waving his horsewhip and shouting: "If you don't die if you don't fear the enemy, the first person to enter the battle will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver, give me a rush forward!" ”

Hearing such coercive and tempting words, the officers and soldiers on the front line finally mustered up the few courages in their hearts, roared again, and rushed towards Zhao Jiu's army formation against the arrows they shot. Seeing this, Zhao Jiu roared after letting the archers under his command shoot a wave of arrows, and when the nearly three thousand officers and soldiers rushed to a distance of thirty paces from him, the nearly a thousand armored soldiers and thousands of spearmen standing behind the archers stood up.

Looking at a red-turban soldier with bright armor in front of him, the deputy Wanhu who commanded the soldiers to fight, couldn't help but scold Gong Buban fiercely in his heart. Because in his mind, if it weren't for the defeat of Gong Buban, this group of poor and poor red turban thieves would not have been equipped to fight such a good armor.

However, perhaps because he was supervising the battle behind the battle, he didn't notice that among the nearly a thousand red-scarf soldiers in front of him, there was also a heavy armor soldier wearing plate armor with a number of about two hundred. Because of this, the deputy Wanhu who commanded the operation even saw that there were nearly a thousand armored and red turban troops in front of him.

But in order to make a major contribution in this battle, he still roared, commanded the three thousand officers and soldiers under his command, and rushed to the group of "red turban thieves" on the opposite side like a desperate person.

"Kill! ~~" The armored soldiers on both sides couldn't help but let out an earth-shattering roar after getting close.

In this way, on this small slope, the bravest group of soldiers on both sides suddenly broke out into an extremely fierce white-knuckle battle.

The blood of a warrior spurted out, and the lives of a warrior became the cheapest thing at this time, and almost every minute, someone fell heavily in a pool of blood.

"Bring these Tartars down to me!" At the front line, Zhang Shihui, who was covered in plate armor and covered in blood, held a fierce steel knife, and after killing two officers and soldiers with one sword, he couldn't help but shout at the guards beside him.

And when the guards beside him saw this, they naturally followed their own generals and rushed forward to kill like a desperate person.

You must know that the officers and soldiers have a small number of troops, and in the face of such a desperate offensive of the Red Turban Army, how can they be opponents. Therefore, after only two quarters of an hour of fighting between the two sides, these 3,000 officers and soldiers were killed by thousands of red turban soldiers and retreated.

"General Batu, this group of red turban thieves has too many troops, and their bandits are too brave, and the soldiers of our army are not their opponents at all, so let the front-line soldiers retreat to avoid their edge for the time being!" Looking at the front-line soldiers who were defeated and retreated by the Red Turban Army, a personal guard next to the deputy Wanhu Batu, who commanded the battle after the battle, couldn't help but advise him like this.

And when Batu heard the words of the guards beside him, he couldn't help but grit his teeth and nodded when he looked at the soldiers under his command who couldn't raise their heads who were killed by the Red Turban Army on the front line.

After all, he is just here to test the waters this time, and if he suffers a defeat and suffers losses because of this, it is not necessary. After seeing that the soldiers under his command were not the opponents of these thousands of red turban thieves, he also asked the guards beside him to give the soldiers on the front line an order to retreat.

And the nearly 1,000 officers and soldiers who were fighting in the front naturally did not dare to fight such a terrible opponent again after receiving the retreat order issued by their own general.

As a result, these front-line officers and soldiers, as soon as they received the order to retreat, gathered under the banners of their respective generals, saying that the defensive formation slowly retreated backwards.

But on this battlefield, it's easy to understand. If you want to go, it's not so easy. After all, Zhao Jiu is not the kind of good old man who has been beaten and still doesn't fight back. Therefore, after seeing that the officers and soldiers wanted to retreat, Zhao Jiudang even gave the order to pursue, and entangled the group of officers and soldiers at the front line.

However, seeing Zhao Jiu and them like this. Instead of panicking, Batu, who was commanding the battle behind the formation, sneered and said to the guards beside him: "See, a thief is a thief, and he doesn't even know the simplest art of war." ”

"Didn't the thief chief who commanded the battle on the opposite side see that there were still a thousand elite soldiers in the plundering formation? If you dare to pursue in this way, you are really looking for death! After saying this, Batu waved his hand and gave the order to flank the 1,000 elite soldiers who plundered the formation.

Obviously, he decided to leave behind all the band thieves who were rashly pursuing the Red Turbans.

However, things are unpredictable. Just as he was about to give the order to flank the attack, out of nowhere, he suddenly killed a cavalry of about 800 people.

Moreover, the target of this cavalry was none other than Batu, who was commanding the battle behind the formation.

Looking at the nearly a thousand knights of the Red Turban Army who were roaring over, the disdain on Batu's face completely dissipated. "Obviously, he Batu has been in the way of this group of red turban thieves from the beginning. At the beginning, he didn't plan to defend at all, but wanted his life. ”

Therefore, after thinking of this, the colorless Batu couldn't help but roar, wanting to command the nearly 1,000 elite soldiers who were sweeping in front of him to return to protect and support him.

But how could two legs run over four legs, and before the more than 1,000 elite soldiers who swept in front of him could react, the fierce general Guo Yu had already led the eight hundred cavalry under his command to enter the rear of the Chinese army where Batu was.

"Poof! Strike! ~~" Two voices came. looked closely, but it was Guo Yu who made a charge, and he cut off the head of Deputy Wanhu Batu, and cut off Batu's Chinese army general flag with one sword.

You must know that in the era of cold weapons, the flag of the generals set up in the military array is actually equivalent to the belief of an army. The belief in fighting is gone, and even in the brave soldiers, the courage to fight is gone.

After seeing that his flag was cut off by a cavalry that suddenly came out, those officers and soldiers who were fighting on the front line suddenly dropped their weapons and became deserters.

"Kill the Tartar!" The opportunity to beat the water dog, Zhao Jiu naturally will not let it go. Therefore, after seeing Guo Yu and them succeed, Zhao Jiu should also lead his soldiers to chase the north after him.

"Kill the Tartar!" The shouting and killing sound of thousands of red turban soldiers roaring together can be described as earth-shattering. And when Harban, who led the troops for Batu and their overseers a few miles away, answered this, he couldn't help frowning and scolded: "Rubbish, Batu, damn waste. ”

"No, I can't go on like this, if I let the Red Turban Army continue to fight like this, it is estimated that none of the 3,000 men and horses under my command will come back." As soon as he thought of this, Har Ban couldn't help but hurriedly shouted to a general beside him: "Enhe, you quickly lead your cavalry to support Batu and them, and try to save as many soldiers as possible to come back no matter what." ”

"The last general obeys!" Hearing Harbanda's words, the black-faced general named Enhe couldn't help but roar, and immediately led a group of knights under his command to kill the fierce battle on the front line.

"Kill the thief!" More than 1,500 knights also shouted, and immediately followed their general to the front.

"Pass my military order, Mingjin withdraw the troops!" Where to command the battle Zhao Jiu saw that in the large array of Tartars on the opposite side, more than 1,500 knights rushed out, and he couldn't help frowning, and shouted at a herald beside him.

"Yes!" Hearing Zhao Jiu's words, the herald immediately rang the sound of the withdrawal of troops. "Wow~Wow~Wow! ~~~" The loud sound of gold was heard by every soldier on the battlefield in an instant, and hearing such a sound of gold, Guo Yu, who led the troops on the front line, couldn't help but spit on the ground.

"Damn, it's just a little bit done." Looking at the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers and knights who were rushing towards them, and looking at the officers and soldiers who had already collapsed, Guo Yu couldn't help but say unwillingly. However, hearing Guo Yu's words, Guo Yu's deputy general and Guo Yang, who is also the general of the Guo family, persuaded him: "General, now is not the time to love war, we have few soldiers and many Tartar soldiers, once we are entangled by the group of knights of the Tartars, it will not be good." ”

When Guo Yu heard his lieutenant general's persuasion, he couldn't help but suppress the unwillingness in his heart, and ordered the horse lance in his hand: "The whole army listens to the order, must not fall in love with the war, and withdraw immediately!" ”

After saying this, after Guo Yu took a deep look at the Tartar knights who rushed over, he couldn't help but turn his horse's head and led his eight hundred cavalry back to his own camp. And after a while, Enhe, who led the troops to kill, saw this, and naturally did not dare to attack the camp alone, so he had to scold a few words, gathered up the defeated soldiers on the battlefield, and returned to his own camp.

(To be continued............ ）