Wen Chou gathered 30,000 horses and horses from Yingchuan County, Runan County, Chen County, and finally took away less than 1,000 people and horses, more than 3,000 people died on the spot, and more than 2,000 people were seriously disabled by arrows and knives. Most of them have been cured, and those who are seriously disabled have been assigned to the Yuzhou Construction Corps to do the simplest work such as raising ducks and geese, leaving more than 20,000 people to supplement the battle losses of the Central Army, and the rest are incorporated into the county and county soldiers of the Yuzhou Corps under the Central Army, and those who have anything to do with the big families have been cleared out and pressed into the labor reform brigade of the Yuzhou Construction Corps to receive labor education.

Wei Yan's Yuzhou Corps was supplemented by 20,000 surrendered troops, and its strength has grown a lot, and it is no longer afraid of the counterattack of the local clans.

The 20,000 cavalry brought by Jin Liang were only wounded in the battle just now, and Jin Liang left them all to Cao 'sex' to command to reorganize those surrendered troops, and Jin Liang led 18,000 cavalry to rest for a while, and then galloped towards Guangcheng Pass.

Jin Liang's 18,000 cavalry went around a big circle from the east of Guangcheng Ze before coming to Guangcheng Pass, at this time Guangcheng Pass has been reoccupied by Jin Liang's general Zhang Ren, and the generals who participated in the ambush of Yuan Shao, Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and Zhang Jaw were also waiting for Jin Liang's arrival in Guangcheng Pass, and Zhao Yun also urged the rear army to come to Guangcheng Pass.

The most surprising thing is that it was Yan Xing who was standing next to Zhang Ren.

Jin Liang was not surprised at all, because all this was expected by him, because all this was going on in an orderly manner according to the plan he had agreed with Guo Jiajia before.

But said that a few days ago, Jin Liang saw that Dian Wei captured Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang, and he had an idea, using Yuan Shao as bait to lure Wen Chou to take the bait and eliminate Yuan Shao's army in Yuzhou, when Jin Liang led 20,000 cavalry to leave Dagu Pass, Yuan Shao was stepping into the ambush circle that Jin Liang had already built for him.

Yuan Shao fled for four or five miles in a hurry, and found that the road ahead was getting more and more rugged, the mountains on both sides of the valley were becoming steeper and steeper, and the mountains and forests on both sides covered the sky and the sun, and the daylight in September gave people a gloomy feeling, but Yuan Shao breathed a sigh of relief, because the central cavalry that had been chasing them had given up tracking because the mountain roads were rugged and inconvenient for horses to walk, and the threat to the Jingzhou army from the infantry of the Central Army following them was not very great, because the central cavalry was personally led by Jin Liang, and the central infantry was led by Sizhou Mu Zhu Jun, Although Zhu Jun is a generation of famous generals, it is a pity that he is old, he has lost his sharpness, and he has not pursued it relentlessly.

Yuan Shao was very worried about Yan Liang's 8,000 cavalry, after all, Jingzhou lacked good horses, and these 8,000 cavalry were Yuan Shao's family foundation that he had managed to gather.

Xu You moved forward while holding his fat body, and at the same time stroked the mouse whiskers and sank**: "Now that I think about it, Zhao Yun's 4,000 cavalry can't enter the Dagu Pass, and they keep going west, just to lure Yan Liang away, so that Jin Liang's 30,000 cavalry can deal with our 70,000 infantry without cavalry escort." Lord, I'm afraid that Jin Liang has no conspiracy to deal with Yan Liang, presumably Yan Liang's eight thousand cavalry will not be able to come back! ”

Xu You expected it right, just an hour ago, Yan Liang's thousands of cavalry were attacked by the Central Army.

Yan Liang led the army to a place three miles away from Dagu Pass, which was the narrowest place on the road, with hillsides on both sides, and only a narrow road in the middle, but the grass and trees on the hillside were sparse, and there could be no ambush, so Yan Liang commanded his cavalry to pass with confidence.

Yan Liang led the army after walking a few steps, and suddenly found that more than a dozen carts suddenly appeared on the narrow mountain road in front of him, and a big flag appeared on the cart, which was the banner of Yuan Jun, and the soldiers in the cart shouted loudly: "General Yan, the lord sent us to meet you!" ”

Yan Liang's thousands of cavalry were sleepy and a little hungry, and they were overjoyed to see these large carriages that were suspected to be baggage carts, and they rushed over in the direction of the carts with their horses.

Yan Liang took the lead, when the distance from the cart was getting closer and closer, Yan Liang suddenly found that these ten carriages were four-wheeled carriages, which were very different from the popular two-wheeled carriages in Jingzhou, and the wood used in these carriages was very thick wood, and the design and appearance of the carriage were also very different from the general baggage carriages, which appeared to be unusually wide, and the carriages were all separated by thick wooden boards, and there were some small holes in the wooden boards.

When Yan Liang saw these strange carriages, he suddenly felt bad, and hurriedly rode his horse around.

At this time, the ten carriages quickly crossed the cross, unloading the war horses of the carts, and the ten carriages were divided into two columns, quickly forming a solid car formation, blocking the road tightly, and the crossbowmen hidden in the carriage raised their crossbows and shot at the Jingzhou cavalry who had no time to react.

Behind these dozen carriages, dozens of carriages came quickly, and three hundred crossbowmen and ten sappers and one hundred auxiliaries jumped down from these dozens of carriages, and with the support of those sapper auxiliaries, high ladders were quickly erected on both sides of the car formation, and the later crossbowmen followed the ladder and climbed the slopes on both sides, so that the six hundred crossbowmen formed a three-dimensional crossbow formation and carried out intensive blows to Yan Liang's thousands of cavalry.

Yan Liang hurriedly came to hide in stirrups, dodging the dense rain of arrows fired by the crossbowmen, but his war horse was shot into a hedgehog.

Under the cover and protection of the guards, Yan Liang quickly changed to another war horse, and the crossbowmen of the Central Army behind the cart formation shouted one after another: "Yuan Shao is dead, Yan Liang is not ready to be captured!" ”

Yan Liang's thousands of cavalry waved their weapons in embarrassment to block the crossbow arrows that came from the attack, and at the same time discussed in a panic: "Could it be that the lord is really defeated? You see, the flag hanging on the car array is clearly the banner of the Chinese army of the lord. ”

Yan Liang has followed Yuan Shao for many years, and has always believed that Yuan Shao is the true son of heaven, so he does not believe that Yuan Shao will die so easily, but he does not dare to conclude that Yuan Shao was not defeated by Jin Liang, because if Yuan Shao is not defeated, it is impossible for his Chinese army banner to be captured by the Central Army.

Yan Liang was anxious to return to the army to aid the lord Yuan Shao, and while wielding a big knife to block the crossbow arrows, he shouted loudly: "The lord is the destiny of heaven, how can the golden thief damage the lord in the slightest!" Jingzhou soldiers, rush out with the generals! ”

The cavalry's charge against the chariot array is nothing more than sacrificing hundreds of cavalry and war horses, and would rather be covered with arrow feathers, but also rely on the huge momentum of the high-speed gallop of the war horses to scatter the chariot array, if it is replaced by the general army hastily built up the chariot array, it will definitely not be able to withstand the repeated impact of hundreds of war horses, but the central army has used such a chariot formation to deal with the Huns and Xianbei cavalry many times, and practice has made perfect, refining a set of very successful tactics.

The carriages of the Central Army are all made of standardized operations, using the strongest and heaviest wood, which can withstand the impact of 500 horsepower, and the carriages are made of thick iron chains when they are connected horizontally, and there are long iron drills under each carriage. Unless the other side is equipped with catapults such as thunderbolts to smash the carriages, there is no way to get the Central Army's chariot formation.

Prior to this, in the battle of the Guanxi Army against Dong Zhuo, the vehicle formation of the Jinliang Central Army showed its might. The crossbow broke the Xiliang cavalry commanded by Xu Rong, because Yuan Shao did not take Yan Liang with him for his own use, and Yan Liang did not see the power of the central army's chariot formation with his own eyes. only then did he dare to urge his cavalry to make a suicidal assault without knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Zhao Yun's deputy general Lu Peng only brought 600 crossbowmen to snipe, which seemed to be very big, but it was enough to remember that Ju Yi defeated Gongsun Zhan's tens of thousands of cavalry with a shield array on flat ground with 800 first-ascending crossbowmen in the official history, which is enough to see the great lethality of strong crossbows to light cavalry.

The powerful crossbow arrows were launched, making a terrible sound of breaking the air, shooting into the bodies of the galloping Jingzhou cavalry and the war horses, making a dull and frightening pop, and the strength of the crossbow arrows was too strong. Even after shooting through the body of the previous cavalryman, he was able to wound the cavalryman behind him.

Those Jingzhou cavalry who rode their horses and charged into battle while wielding weapons and shooting crossbow arrows, most of them were Jingzhou people who had never fought a decent war with the central army, and they deduced from their previous combat experience with other armies that the central army's strong crossbow firing speed could not be very fast, and they could rush to the front of the car formation during the time period when the crossbowmen shot the crossbow and mounted the crossbow, and forcibly broke up the car formation with the galloping war horses. They didn't expect the crossbowmen of the Central Army to shoot crossbows so quickly, and there were only five hundred crossbowmen on the opposite side who could shoot crossbow arrows so densely.

After three years of improvement by Zheng Hun and Ma Jun, the big yellow crossbow of the Central Army has been greatly improved, and the effective range of the big yellow crossbow is 300 steps, and it can carry five crossbow arrows each time. The link of entering the crossbow is very simple, a well-trained crossbowman can load five crossbow arrows into the crossbow machine in ten seconds, and another crossbowman can pull up the crossbow string to the firing position in ten seconds, and the six hundred crossbowmen are divided into three groups, one group of crossbows, one group of crossbows, one group of crossbows, and one group of crossbows, and every ten seconds they fire three thousand crossbow arrows.

And Jingzhou is far away from the northern prairie, and most of the war horses their cavalry got are the horses that the Xiliang Army eliminated before, and they can only be used as horses to pull heavy carts in the central army, and such war horses want to rush through the effective range of the rhubarb crossbow at least 200 steps, at least 20 seconds, and in these 20 seconds, the 600 crossbowmen under Lu Peng have fired 6,000 crossbow arrows. …，

If the field is wide, Yan Liang's more than 6,000 Jingzhou cavalry swarmed up, and the cavalry in front blocked the crossbow arrows for the cavalry behind, which may be able to achieve Yan Liang's tactical purpose, but this is on a narrow mountain road, with steep slopes on both sides, and only more than one zhang wide in the middle, only six or seven war horses can be paralleled at a time, and the crossbowmen of the Central Army have climbed the hillside that cannot be climbed by manpower with the help of engineering auxiliaries, forming a three-dimensional long-range attack on Yan Liang's cavalry.

Lu Peng judged that Yan Liang's more than 6,000 remnant cavalry, the quality of the cavalry was okay, but the war horse was obviously very poor, so he followed Jin Liang's previous instructions, in the case of the quality of the war horse, he shot the horse first, and the dense crossbow arrows were aimed at Yan Liang's 6,000 cavalry mounts, thousands of crossbow arrows broke through the air, the war horse under the crotch of the cavalry under Yan Liang kept neighing, the war horse in front of him fell to the ground violently, and the galloping war horse in the back was tripped by the corpse of the war horse in front, and the horse lost its front hooves and fell down, with Yan Liang's unreliable order, The 6,000 cavalry were in disarray.

More than a thousand war horses fell in front, almost blocking the mountain road, Yan Liang's remaining cavalry couldn't rush over, and Lu Peng's crossbowmen had already climbed the steep hillside along the ladder built by the sapper auxiliaries, and ran forward along a strange path along the hillside, shooting arrows at Yan Liang while running.

Yan Liang is now in a predicament, whether it is the crossbow arrows of the Central Army or the war horse that died on the road, it makes him unable to advance, since he can't move forward, then retreat, but where to retreat, if he goes to Dagu from behind, it is no longer a forty-mile journey, but more than a hundred miles, and when he arrives at Dagu, it is estimated that only the main prince Yuan Shao will collect the body.

Yan Liang fell into hesitation, but the central crossbowmen on the hillside did not hesitate, they shot from top to bottom, and shot Yan Liang's rear cavalry on their backs.

Yan Liang wanted to abandon his horse and go up the mountain, but found that although the slopes on both sides were sparse with grass and trees, they were very steep, and it was difficult to climb with manpower, and if he continued to stay in this valley, he would only become a live target for the central crossbowmen on the hillside.

Yan Liang was helpless, so he had to order a retreat.

The cavalry under Yan Liang had long been frightened by the powerful crossbow arrows of the central crossbowmen, but they were afraid that Yan Liang did not dare to escape, and now that they had received the military order for Yan Liang to retreat, they all turned around and fled in a panic, wanting to escape from the crossbow arrows of the central crossbowmen as soon as possible.

Yan Liang led these fleeing Jingzhou cavalry to run seven or eight miles in a panic, and then settled down and counted the number of people, only to find that they had been sniped by the crossbowmen of the Central Army just now, and they had lost nearly 3,000 people.

Yan Liang originally led 8,000 cavalry to pursue Zhao Yun, but under the attack of Zhao Yun's 4,000 cavalry, he lost seven or eight hundred people, and another seven or eight hundred people under Yique Pass, and this time he lost nearly three thousand people, and there were only more than three thousand people left, and most of them had arrow wounds.

Yan Liang has now made up his mind, no longer pass in front of Dagu Pass, or go directly to Guangcheng Pass, the most important thing is to bring these more than 3,000 cavalry back, Jingzhou lacks war horses, and there is a lack of good cavalry, the cavalry that has been trained for three years has lost one less than one, or try to keep more cavalry seeds for the great cause of the lord.

Yan Liang led the remnants of more than 3,000 cavalry, and traveled two or three miles, and a group of men and horses suddenly appeared in front of them, stopping them, as the first general, white horse and silver spear, silver helmet and silver armor, white as jade, tall and handsome, it was Changshan Zhao Yun Zhao Zilong.

Zhao Yunyou smiled and said, "General Yan Liang, Changshan Zhao Zilong has been waiting here for a long time, how about we fight again." ”

If it were a different moment, Yan Liang would definitely be full of fighting spirit and gladly accept Zhao Yun's challenge, but now that others are sleepy, most of the soldiers under his command are injured and demoralized, and they can't compete with Zhao Yun, who has been recuperating for a long time.

Yan Liang didn't answer, waved his big knife, instigated his war horse, and shouted: "Jingzhou soldiers, let's rush over!" ”

Zhao Yun instigated the white dragon horse, waved the bright silver spear, and went straight to Yan Liang, but Yan Liang turned the horse's head, avoided the fight, and ran to the weakest point of Zhao Yun's 3,000 cavalry defense, because Yan Liang clearly saw from the battle with Zhao Yun not long ago that Zhao Yun was cheating, Zhao Yun's strength was not below him, and with his current state, he was looking for death by confronting Zhao Yun hard, he rarely got wise, let his personal soldiers entangle Zhao Yun, and he charged from the ordinary central cavalry soldiers.

Zhao Yun was unwilling to let go of Yan Liang easily, he clamped the white dragon horse under his crotch forcefully, like a white lightning rush towards Yan Liang, the bright silver spear in his hand emitted a dazzling white light, and the white light pierced Yan Liang's heart.

Yan Liang saw that there was no way to avoid it, so he had to fight hard, clenched the big knife in his hand, and raised the knife to slash at Zhao Yun. Because Yan Liang had already guessed that the lord Yuan Shao had been defeated, he might have been killed by Jin Liang, Yan Liang, who was Yuan Shaozhong's dog, was quite a little loveless, and seeing that Zhao Yun was really too pressing, he simply played with Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun has always liked to be clumsy with skill, originally his marksmanship was enough to restrain Yan Liang, and he could even take advantage of Yan Liang's current sleepiness and poor mental downturn to take Yan Liang's life within a hundred rounds, but Yan Liang fought for his life, Zhao Yun was a little uncomfortable, because Zhao Yun was unwilling to exchange his precious life for Yan Liang's reckless life.

The most important thing is that it makes more sense to keep Yan Liang than to kill Yan Liang. Zhao Yun remembered that the lord Jin Liang and the military advisers Guo Jia, Jia Xu, and Fu Zhu had previously analyzed that in Yuan Shao's camp, the strategists brought by Yuan Shao from other places, such as Feng Ji, Xu You, Guo Tu, and Xianpei, had contradictions with the local family advisors such as Kuailiang, Kuai Yue, and Pang Ji, and Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and Han Meng, who were brought by Yuan Shao from other places, and Huang Zu, Cai Mao, Zhang Yun and other local military generals from Jingzhou, and the contradictions between them were in Yuan Shao, the lord who was not good at handling the contradictions between his subordinates, and the harm was magnified exponentially, if Yan Liang died, foreign generals may not be able to fight against local generals, which is not a good thing for the central army that is bent on internal strife in Jingzhou.

After Zhao Yun had this thought, under the desperate fight of Yan Liang and the desperate protection of Yan Liang's personal soldiers, Yan Liang barely escaped with his life.

Yan Liang barely escaped with his life under the protection of his own soldiers, and fled to Guangcheng Pass, but before he arrived at Guangcheng Pass, he heard that Guangcheng Pass fell into the hands of Jin Liang, and Yan Liang had to flee to Xiangyang again.

Of the more than 3,000 cavalry under Yan Liang, only more than 300 escaped, more than 1,000 were killed, and more than 2,000 surrendered, while only 3,000 or 400 of Zhao Yun's 3,000 cavalry were killed or wounded, which can be described as a complete victory.

After Zhao Yun surrendered the more than 2,000 Jingzhou cavalry, he left the battlefield to Pang Shu, the general of Yique Pass, to clean up, and continued to the east to round with the deputy general Lü Peng, and then continued to the east, and to round with Zhu Jun, the pastor of Sizhou, to integrate all the cavalry left by Jin Liang to him, and assist Zhu Jun to continue to pursue Yuan Shao. However, it was said that Yuan Shao fled four or five miles in a hurry, and found that the cavalry led by Jin Liang was no longer chasing after him.