On the other hand, hearing the enemy's attack drums, Guo Jia, Le Jin and others were unmoved, and the fortifications in front of the Xiyuan Gate were enough to resist for a while. And during this time, the battle at the East Gate is the one who decides the outcome of this battle.

"Wen Qian, can you see how many enemy troops are in the east?" Guo Jia asked.

Le Jin groaned: "The number of foot soldiers is about three thousand, and the number of horse soldiers is about five or six hundred. ”

Those who are old enough to do so have a way of estimating the number of enemies. It is either to 'watch the dust', or to 'watch the flag', or even worse, a cursory look at the situation can roughly draw the number of enemy troops. At this time, not long after the heavy snow in Jiujiang stopped, there was no dust on the ground, so Le Jin roughly swept the banner in the enemy formation and came to this conclusion.

Seeing the word 'Chen' embroidered on the banner of the Yinling Army, Guo Jia said: "Soldiers, treacherous." Liu Miao's troops will line up in front, and those with dense trees on the left and right can be ambushes...... In this way, you can first feint and test, if the enemy retreats at the first touch, there will be deception. ”

Le Jin nodded silently. The way of using soldiers, Qi Zheng is one, the main soldiers are in front, and the strange soldiers are behind, and the enemy general may indeed use the blind method to confuse his own side.

Guo Jiasui ordered Zhang Fei not to move lightly for the time being, and asked Le Jin to send a vanguard force to attack the enemy formation.

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In the enemy formation, the main general Chen Heng rode on a horse, because he saw the five hundred foot soldiers under the banner of 'music' slowly approaching, step by step, frowned and said: "I know that Guo Jia is cunning, but he is so cautious, and he sent me an order: let the cavalry in the forest on both sides return to the team." ”

Chen Heng is a native of Jiujiang County, in the early years of the ranger county, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he pulled up a group of people, because of his martial bravery, he was recruited by the county government as a soldier, and now he is the third person in charge of the county government in addition to Liu Miao and Liu Guang, and the generals around him are also county heroes who have been working hard with him.

After he finished saying this sentence with a gloomy face, there were people left and right: "Guo Jia is okay, Le Jin, Li Quan, and Zhang Fei are all famous martial artists, and those fierce stars under Dong Zhuo's account have never been favored by them." General, if the ambush fails, if we fight head-on, our chances of victory are not great. ”

Chen Hengdao: "Then what do you say?" ”

"Wait for Captain Liu's side to capture the enemy camp, and then we will attack."

"Nonsense!" Chen Heng shouted, "Let's wait for Captain Liu, Captain Liu waits for us, how can this battle be fought?" You go to the rear team and ask the sergeant to bring out all the hard crossbows that he brought out this time. ”

There were not many wars in Yangzhou, but bandits, water bandits, and barbarians still made trouble from time to time. In order to deal with these turmoil, the state capital, Jiujiang County Government, in previous years from Xuzhou, Yuzhou and other places purchased a batch of hard crossbows, arrows have a force of nearly 100 catties, against the cavalry is very lethal, this time Chen Heng led the troops to attack Guo Jiabu, Liu Miao gave him this batch of hard crossbows.

It is not a new thing that Xu Chu has an elite cavalry army in his army, and in Chen Heng's opinion, as one of the heroes of Dong Chu, the scale of the cavalry under his command is actually smaller than expected, that is, in Yangzhou, if it is replaced by the state and county of the Central Plains, these cavalry are really not worth paying too much attention to.

Chen Heng thought that the five hundred hard crossbows given by the county government were completely enough to resist the cavalry under Xu Chu's command.

He began to change the formation here, and sent a large number of Zhang Shi to the front of the formation, and the movement was very large, which naturally fell in the eyes of Guo Jia and Le Jin.

Le Jin groaned: "At the beginning of the Liangzhou infantry formation, the spear and shield hands were lined up in front and back, and the crossbowmen were in the middle, resisting the cavalry captured by Sun. Looking at this Yin Tomb Infantry Formation...... The front row is full of shield soldiers, and there are no spearmen as auxiliaries, how can you protect the crossbowmen in the rear? Joining the army, Zhang Sima rubbed his hands, and the cavalry camp had a high fighting spirit, so let them make a move at this time! ”

Guo Jia looked relaxed and said with a smile: "What Wen Qian said is extremely true. ”

After a series of turmoil in the late Han Dynasty, today's military system has long been no longer formal. No matter which side the princes are, the army under their command is presented to the world in the state of private soldiers. That is to say, the elite part of a trilogy is often under the orders of the generals of the trilogy, such as Li Quan's cavalry army, the backbone is Li Quan's righteous servants brought out by Li Quan's home in Shanyang County, and such as Li Tong, Chen Gong and Gan Ning, etc., the elite main forces are Jiangxia Erlang and Shujun rangers who followed him in the early years. The bad side is not mentioned for the time being, but the good side has formed a healthy competition in Xu Chu's army, and the elites of each department secretly compete and work hard, so gradually Li Tong's Jiangxia Baiyi, Li Quan's Shanyang Yicong and other special troops began to appear.

This is for Xu Chu, Liu Miao, and Chen Wen, most of the main forces in their armies are still recruited from the people in the name of the state and county governments, so that the sources of soldiers recruited by one are uneven, and the cohesion of the two is not as strong as that of Xu Chu, and the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides can be imagined.

It was precisely because of this section that Guo Jia made up his mind to personally lead his troops to fight a decisive battle with the enemy in the field.

After a short time, the herald rushed to Zhang Fei's exit, and Guo Jia's military order came: order Zhang Fei's troops to immediately storm the enemy formation, and the rest of the cavalry was divided into two divisions, and responded from afar - obviously, this was a tactic stolen from Lü Bu's Bingzhou cavalry.

After the order was given, Le Jin Mingjin recalled the advance team sent before, and Zhang Fei saw the friendly troops retreating, and shouted: "Drumming!" Charge! ”

The drums beat loudly, and for a while smoke and dust rose everywhere.

Two hundred men roared and ran, and two full cavalry armies of four hundred followed behind them, like three sharp knives, stabbing at the enemy.

Seeing this, Chen Heng snorted coldly, and ordered the cavalry to attack from the left flank to block the enemy's cavalry - he also knew that his infantry formation of this size could not resist the cavalry charge, not to mention that there was an elite infantry behind the enemy's cavalry.

After a while, the two armies came into contact, and Chen Hengyu watched the battle situation while dispatching troops.

As soon as he finished arranging an order, he suddenly saw a burst of earth-shattering cheers erupt in the battlefield, and Chen Heng asked, "What's the situation?" His doubts did not last long, and soon a scout came to his horse and said with a panicked expression: "General Yu, Vice Admiral Wang is dead!" ”

"Huh? How...... How so? ”

The deputy general surnamed Wang in the scout's mouth was a small man of Chen Heng, known for his bravery, so he supervised the cavalry, but unexpectedly went to the battlefield and was killed by the enemy general in an instant.

Chen Heng's eyes were red, and he didn't know whether he was angry or sad, and said hoarsely: "Rapid cavalry retreat? ”

Hearing the words left and right, I didn't know what to say for a while. The main generals are all dead, how can the cavalry fighting in front have time to retreat? I'm afraid that if I wait a while, I will either die or flee, and all of them will collapse.

The slightly more sober person immediately reminded: "General, for the sake of today's plan, you should order Zhang Shi to shoot arrows forward, regardless of whether he is the enemy or me, or there is a turn." ”

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Guo Jia was pleasantly surprised when he heard that Zhang Fei had slashed the enemy general. recalled that Xu Chu once said to him: 'Guan and Zhang both have the courage of ten thousand people, charging into battle, attacking the city and pulling out the village, which is unparalleled in the world. Guo Jiaxin said: At the beginning, Liu, Guan, Zhang, Jian Yong and several other people came to vote, and Zhicai and I didn't pay much attention to it, and the chief public Lixian corporal took it for his own use, and he really knew the hero with a discerning eye.

"Wen Qian is here!"

"The end will be."

"The enemy's cavalry is about to be dispersed, and those who are worried now are the only ones who can use their crossbows, so that you will be the first to board the dead soldiers to help the cavalry and attack the enemy formation."

On the battlefield paved with light snow, the soldiers of the two armies crisscrossed it, and the falling horses and soldiers dyed the snow-white ground an ugly dark red. Zhang Fei can't remember how many people have become ghosts under his spear, after defeating the enemy cavalry, cruising in front of the enemy infantry formation, arrows keep shooting out of the enemy formation, and the bearers around him also continue to draw arrows from the arrow bag to counterattack, after half a pillar of incense, Zhang Fei looked back, the thin and short Le Jin ran in the front, and behind him were five hundred first-class dead soldiers, each of whom had a look of death as home.

Seeing this, Zhang Fei pointed his spear diagonally in the air, shouted a few times, and rushed towards the enemy's front row shields.

The two partial divisions were still cleaning up the mess in the battlefield, and only the bearers, seeing the main general rushing towards the enemy formation, put away their crossbows, and the front hooves of countless war horses were raised, and the neighing was endless.

The torrent of war horses collided with the hard giant shield of the foot soldiers, and the dull impact sound was mixed with the sound of shattering at intervals, and it didn't take long for the first soldiers to arrive, unlike Jiangxia's white clothes floating over the defense and smashing the enemy formation, the first soldiers were dressed in light armor, and the hook and ring knife tore the defense line frontally, crushing the enemy's already crumbling military heart.

Chen Heng's face was like earth, and he stood for a long time with a gun, after all, he was unwilling to sacrifice his life for righteousness.

The head of the gun slowly drooped, and Chen Heng turned the horse's head and urgently ordered the rear army to retreat.