Listening to the words of the two, Xu Rong was quite speechless.

Dong Zhuo's order was to let Xu Rong take Hua Xiong and Li Meng to plunder the Yingchuan area and deter the coalition army of Yingchuan, he led 2,000 people, and Li Meng led 2,000 people.

Nominally, these two people are under his control, but in fact, Li Meng prides himself on being a hero in Liangzhou, and he doesn't look down on Xu Rong, a person outside the circle of generals in Liangzhou, and he doesn't obey orders very much, so when Xu Rong plundered Yingchuan, he deliberately let himself fight separately from Li Meng.

Hua Xiong is relatively obedient, but it is only relative, if Xu Rong orders to withdraw to the Guannai at this time, Hua Xiong will not agree.

Xu Rong had a headache, after going out of the pass to plunder the Lun clan and Yangcheng, he should have retreated to the pass and waited for the enemy to come. However, on the one hand, there was no letter in Luoyang, and on the other hand, Li Meng and Huaxiong saw that the 'Kwantung princes' were so vulnerable, so they immediately suggested that Xu Rong go south to Liang County and prepare to go to Nanyang to plunder again.

The defender of Nanyang is Sun Jian, who is worthy of a battle in Li Meng's mouth. Originally, Xu Rong thought that Sun Jian did not have many cavalry, and it was okay to tease the tiger's whiskers, but now Xu Chu was also rushing to Liang County, if the two fierce tigers attacked, then he would be in danger.

The difficulty is that Li Meng and Hua Xiong don't know the importance of it, and they have a 'high fighting spirit', so they have to fight. If he gives the order to retreat, if the two of them do not listen, they will tell him to ride a tiger and make it difficult for him to ride.

Although the situation is not good, Xu Rong is a famous general, and after a little thought, he immediately made arrangements.

"Huaxiong listens to orders."

"The subordinates are here!"

"You lead 500 people to garrison Zhucheng, and don't move lightly."

"......, huh." Hua Xiong hesitated slightly, and finally responded.

Xu Rong said again: "Li Meng listens to the order. ”

"Yes."

"Xu Chu's soldiers and horses and 10,000 will choose a place nearby as a grain storage place, and lead your cavalry to march eastward, waiting for the opportunity to act."

"General Xu, please rest assured, wrap it up on Meng!"

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At about the same time, Le Jin, who had been starting from Yangzhai for a day, pointed ahead and said to the play: "Forty miles ahead, you will reach the territory of Liang County." ”

Recently, the weather has been dry, and Xi Zhong licked his lips and put the letter in his arms.

The letter was sent by Xu Chu, at this time, it was already learned that Xu Rong was in Liang County, Xu Chu knew that Xu Rong had been in battle for a long time and was very old, so he was busy sending people to deliver the letter, telling Xi Zhong and Le Jin to be careful.

"Wen Qian, the prince told me to be careful of Xu Rong, what do you think?"

Le Jin thought for a while and said, "Xu Rong has been fighting with Dong Thief for many years, and there must be something extraordinary about it, which is quite tricky. However, Jin is not only a pioneer, but also can not weaken the momentum, if it goes out of the city to fight, Jin is also willing to compete with it. ”

Xi Zhong smiled, Le Jin meant that if Xu Rong could not come out of the city, then he would wait for Xu Chu's army outside the county; But if Xu Rong comes out to fight, he will not retreat.

"With all due respect, what Wen Qian said is only one of the vanguard essentials."

"Oh?"

"The pioneers must not only cut through obstacles and clear the way for the rear army, but also have insight into the enemy's situation."

"Insight into the enemy?"

"Yes, yes. Xu Rong's troops plundered Lunshi and Yangcheng, and now they have appeared in Liang County, it is conceivable that the task given to them by Dong Zhuo should only be to loot the counties and deter the coalition army. It was previously known that Xu Rong and Li Meng had a total of 5,000 men on foot and horse, and after plundering the two counties, they drove back to Luo, and they needed a certain number of foot guards to escort them. And we are waiting for more than 10,000 coalition troops, coming in a mighty way, how can the enemy generals not know? Since we knew that the crowd was inferior to us, and there was no order to garrison, why didn't we hear the news that the enemy army had withdrawn from Liangxian County? ”

Le Jin pondered: "Could it be that the enemy army won the victory in Yangcheng and Yangcheng before, so he despised us and others, and intended to take the opportunity to annihilate more than 10,000 soldiers and horses such as us?" ”

Dong Zhuo's army is the elite of the world, and most of the generals in the army are heroes of Liangzhou, and some arrogance is inevitable, not to mention that it is still after Yangcheng and Lun's victory is 'effortless'. But in Xi Zhong's view, there is a more important reason - Xu Rong's remaining troops are basically cavalry, and they should be around two thousand.

Two thousand cavalry, it doesn't sound very scary, but once they encounter it on the battlefield, they find that two thousand war horses are roaring, and the earth is shaking, and its power is like a mountain torrent, and there is no step formation of ten thousand people, and it is difficult to resist. Moreover, even if you can resist, the cavalry comes and goes like the wind, and it is impossible for you to catch up with him.

Xi Zhong had lofty ambitions in his early years, and he knew the power of cavalry, in fact, Le Jin also knew that cavalry was powerful, but he was eager to fight for a while, and he didn't expect it.

Xi Zhong pondered for a while, and said to Le Jin: "Wen Qian, is Wang Yan's department now in the Yin Cultivation?" I'm afraid that Xu Rong will send cavalry to cut off our army's food route, or...... Directly look for the place where our army is stockpiled with food. ”

The current situation is: Wang Yan's department escorted the grain and grass baggage, so he walked very slowly, and Lejin, as the forward, came first, and had already thrown it away for fifty or sixty miles to the territory of Yin, Henan. Because of the large number of people on Xu Chu's side, he didn't walk fast, and now he may have just arrived in the Yangyinli area, which is thirty or forty miles away from Lejin.

At this time, if there was a cavalry of the Dong Army marching eastward out of Liang County, crisscrossing the plains, repeatedly attacking and harassing, just thinking about it would be quite a headache.

"The army is impermanent, Wen Qian, you and I jointly signed a letter, suggesting that the prince send more troops to guard the grain and grass, and order Wang Yan's troops not to stay in Yangyin, but directly follow behind the troops, so that Dong Jun is not easy to start."

The two were discussing, and Li Quanze arrived.

"Xijun, Wen Qian! I heard the news from the front that there were Dong army cavalry coming out of the city in the direction of our department! ”

Xi Zhong and Le Jin were shocked.

Xi Zhong asked carefully: "How many rides are there?" Is it fast or slow? Who is the leader? ”

Li answered the three questions one by one.

Dong Zhuo's cavalry was about a thousand, and the scouts didn't dare to stay longer when they saw it from afar, only knowing that there was no intention of galloping when they went out of the city, and the font number on its banner was vaguely a Li character, and it was not difficult to guess that it should be Li Meng.

Xi Zhong suddenly laughed, Le Jin and Li Cheng said strangely: "What are you laughing at?" ”

"There is no intention of galloping out of the city, when I have not learned that our department has reached forty miles outside the city; As for that Li Meng, although he has the courage of a horseman, he can be defeated with a little trick. ”

At that moment, he talked to Le Jin and Li Cheng about the strategy, and the two of them were overjoyed: "If you can win the first victory, you should invite the drama to get drunk!" ”

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Not long after, Li Meng was ten miles out of the city. He walked in the forefront, glanced back at the military appearance behind him from time to time, and thought in high spirits: "In winter, the grass is yellow, Xiao Se kills, and gallops on the battlefield with light horses, which is exactly the wish of my generation of warriors." It's a pity that the Kwantung princes have a false name, I led the troops into the city, and the Yingchuan Taishou didn't send a single arrow, not a single soldier, it was really not happy...... I hope that Xu Chu Jing will fight some. ”

Just as he was thinking, he caught a glimpse of smoke and dust rising in the distance, and a cavalry rushed towards him, shouting and killing.

Li Meng was old in the army, learned a set of 'dust watching' methods, looked at it a few times, looked left and right and was furious, and said: "This thief only has hundreds of horsemen, and he dares to provoke my department, pass on my orders, and gallop to attack and kill him!" ”

Under the order, the thousand horsemen roared restlessly, and the cry was loud like thunder for a while.

Li Meng is far ahead, his crotch war horse is all black, only the four hooves are as white as snow, the divine horse is very, it is said that it is the descendant of the mount of the overlord of Western Chu 'kicking the clouds and black horses' - this black horse was obtained by Li Meng when he accompanied the army to conquer the Qiang tribe, when his superior Fan Chou wanted to dedicate the horse to Dong Zhuo, Li Meng loved horses like his life, so he bribed Fan Chou with a thousand gold, and finally took this horse into his pocket. Because of the famous horse, Li Meng regarded himself as brave, and rode the dust, throwing off the thousands of horsemen behind, wanting to take the head of the enemy general.

The hundreds of cavalry on the opposite side were the two hundred cavalry led by Li Quan.

Li Quan was shocked when he saw a person rushing over, and wondered: This person is that Li Meng? It's really impressive. Seeing that the war horse under Li Meng's crotch was extremely fast, and it was like a black cloud stepping on the snow during the gallop, he was even more surprised, and said in his heart: If this horse can be captured and dedicated to the prince, it will also be a good thing.