Liu Biao fled for four or five miles in a hurry, and now the road ahead is getting more and more rugged, the mountains on both sides of the big valley are becoming steeper and steeper, the mountains and forests on both sides cover the sky and the sun, and the daylight in September gives people a gloomy feeling, but Liu Biao breathed a sigh of relief, because the Wei cavalry who had been chasing them had given up tracking because the mountain roads were rugged and inconvenient for horses to walk, and the Wei infantry following them did not pose a great threat to the Jingzhou army, because the Wei cavalry was personally led by Wei Yan.

Liu Biao was very worried about Huang Zhong's 8,000 cavalry, after all, Jingzhou lacked good horses, and these 8,000 cavalry were the family funds that Liu Biao had managed to gather.

Kuai Yue moved forward while holding his fat body, and at the same time stroked the rat's whiskers and muttered: "Now that I think about it, Zhao Yun's 4,000 cavalry can't enter the Great Valley Pass, and they keep going west, just to lure Huang Zhong away, so that Wei Yan's 30,000 cavalry can deal with our 70,000 infantry without cavalry protection." Lord, I'm afraid that Wei Yan has a conspiracy to deal with Huang Zhong, presumably Huang Zhong's eight thousand cavalry will not be able to come back! ”

Kuai Yue expected it right, just an hour ago, Huang Zhong's thousands of cavalry were attacked by the Wei army.

Huang Zhong 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 Huang Zhong commanded his cavalry to pass with confidence.

Huang Zhong led the army and walked a few steps, and suddenly 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 the Jingzhou Army, and the soldiers in the cart shouted loudly: "General Huang, the lord has sent us to meet you!" ”

Huang Zhong'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 towards the direction of the carts in a hurry.

Huang Zhong took the lead, when the distance from the cart is getting closer and closer, Huang Zhong suddenly appeared, these ten carriages are four-wheeled carriages, very different from the popular two-wheeled carriages in Jingzhou, and the wood used in these carriages is very thick wood, the design and appearance of the carriage is also very different from the general baggage car, it seems unusually wide, the carriage is all separated by thick wooden boards, and there are some small holes in the wooden boards.

When Huang Zhong 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, the ten carriages were divided into two columns, and quickly formed 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 rushed forward, and three hundred crossbowmen, ten engineers, and one hundred auxiliaries jumped down from these dozens of carriages, and with the support of those engineers and auxiliaries, high ladders were quickly erected on both sides of the car formation, and later crossbowmen climbed the slopes on both sides along the ladders, so that six hundred crossbowmen formed a three-dimensional crossbow array, and carried out intensive blows on Huang Zhong's thousands of cavalry.

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

Under the shelter and protection of the guards, Huang Zhong quickly changed to another war horse.

The crossbowmen of the Wei army behind the car array all shouted: "Liu Biao is dead, Huang Zhong is not going to be captured soon!" ”

Huang Zhong's thousands of cavalry waved their weapons in embarrassment to block the crossbow arrows that were being fired, and at the same time commented in a sad manner: "Could it be that the lord is really defeated? You see, the flag hanging on the car formation is clearly the banner of the Chinese army of the lord. ”

Huang Zhong has followed Liu Biao for many years, and has always believed that Liu Biao is the true son of heaven, and does not believe that Liu Biao will die so easily, but he does not dare to conclude that Liu Biao was not defeated by Wei Yan, because if Liu Biao was not defeated, it would be impossible for his Chinese army banner to be captured by the Wei army.

Huang Zhong was anxious to return to the army to help the lord Liu Biao, and while wielding a big sword to block the crossbow arrows, he shouted loudly: "The lord is the destiny of heaven, how can Wei Yan's thief damage the lord in the slightest!" Jingzhou soldiers, rush out with me! ”

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 war horses galloping to scatter the chariot array, if it is replaced by a chariot formation hastily built by the general army, it will definitely not withstand the repeated impact of hundreds of war horses, but the Wei army has used such a chariot formation to deal with the Xiongnu and Xianbei cavalry many times, and it has been practiced to make perfect, refining a set of very successful tactics.

The carriages of the Wei army are all made of standardized operations, using the strongest and thickest wood, which can withstand the impact of 500 horsepower, and the carriages are connected with thick iron chains when they are connected together, and there are long iron drills under each carriage, at the beginning of the war, the auxiliaries in the carriage will pick up the sledgehammer and smash the iron drill into the ground, and the carriage will be firmly nailed to the ground, unless the other party is equipped with a catapult such as a thunderbolt cart to smash the carriage, otherwise there is no way to get the carriage of the Wei army.

Zhao Yun's lieutenant only brought 600 crossbowmen to snipe, which seemed to be very big, but it was enough to think of the tens of thousands of cavalry of Gongsun Zhan who defeated Gongsun Zhan with 800 crossbowmen on flat ground with 800 first-mounted crossbowmen, which is enough to see the great lethality of strong crossbows to light horses.

The powerful crossbow arrows shot out, with a terrible sound of breaking the air, into the body of the galloping Jingzhou cavalry and the war horse, making a dull and frightening pop, the strength of the crossbow arrow was too strong, and even after shooting through the body of the previous cavalry, it could injure the cavalry behind.

Those Jingzhou cavalry who rode their horses and charged the battle while wielding weapons and drawing crossbow arrows, most of them were Jingzhou people who had not fought a decent war with the Wei army, and they deduced from the previous combat experience with other armies that the Wei army's strong crossbow shooting could not be very fast, they could completely rush to the front of the car formation during the time period when the crossbowmen shot the crossbow and the crossbow, and forcibly broke up the car formation with the galloping war horses, they didn't expect the Wei crossbowmen to shoot crossbows so fast, and only five hundred crossbowmen on the opposite side could shoot crossbow arrows so densely.

After Ma Jun's improvement, the Wei army's big yellow crossbow has been greatly improved, the effective range of the big yellow crossbow is 300 steps, each time you can get on five crossbow arrows, the link of entering the crossbow is greatly 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 shooting position in ten seconds, 600 crossbowmen are divided into three groups, a group of crossbows, a group of crossbows, a group of crossbows, every ten seconds to shoot three thousand crossbow arrows.

And Jingzhou is far away from the northern prairie, and most of the war horses obtained by their cavalry are the horses that the Western Liang Army eliminated before, and they can only be used as horses to pull heavy carts in the Wei army, and such war horses want to rush through the effective range of the rhubarb crossbow at least 20 seconds, and in these 20 seconds, the 600 crossbowmen of the Wei army have shot 6,000 crossbow arrows.

If the site is wide, Huang Zhong'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 Huang Zhong'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 Wei crossbowmen have climbed the hillside that cannot be climbed by manpower with the help of engineering auxiliaries, forming a three-dimensional long-range attack on Huang Zhong's cavalry.

Zhao Yun's deputy general Wei Peng judged that Huang Zhong's more than 6,000 remnants of cavalry, the quality of the cavalry was okay, but the war horse was obviously very poor, so he followed Wei Yan'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 Huang Zhong's mount of the six thousand cavalry, thousands of crossbow arrows broke through the air, the war horse under the crotch of the cavalry under Huang Zhong kept neighing, the war horse in front of him fell to the ground, and the galloping 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 Huang Zhong's unreliable order, The 6,000 cavalry were in disarray.

More than a thousand war horses fell in front, almost blocking the mountain road, Huang Zhong's remaining cavalry could not rush up, and Wei Peng's crossbowmen had already climbed the steep hillside along the ladder built by the sapper auxiliaries, and along a strange path on the hillside, they rushed forward, and shot arrows at Huang Zhong as they ran.

Huang Zhong is now in a predicament, whether it is the crossbow arrows of the Wei army or the war horse that fell 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 Liu Biao will collect the corpse.

Huang Zhong hesitated, but the Wei crossbowmen on the hillside did not hesitate, they shot from top to bottom, and as a case, Huang Zhong's rear cavalry was overturned.

Huang Zhong wanted to abandon his horse and go up the mountain, but 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 crossbowmen of the Wei army on the hillside.

Huang Zhong was helpless, so he had to order a retreat.

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

Huang Zhong led these fleeing Jingzhou cavalry, and ran seven or eight miles in a panic, before he settled down and counted the number of people, but now he was sniped by the crossbowmen of the Wei army just now, and nearly 3,000 people were lost.

Huang Zhong 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 only more than three thousand people remained, and most of them had arrow wounds.

Huang Zhong 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.

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

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

If it were a different moment, Huang Zhong 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.

Huang Zhong didn't answer, waved his big sword, instigated the 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 Huang Zhong, but Huang Zhong turned the horse's head, avoided fighting, and instead ran to the weakest point of Zhao Yun's 3,000 cavalry defense, because Huang Zhong 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 Wei cavalry soldiers.

Zhao Yun was unwilling to let Huang Zhong go easily, he clamped the white dragon horse under his crotch forcefully, like a white lightning rush towards Huang Zhong, the bright silver spear in his palm shot out a dazzling white light, and the white light pierced Huang Zhong's heart.

Huang Zhong 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 Huang Zhong had already guessed that the lord Liu Biao had been defeated, and he might have been killed by Wei Yan, Huang Zhong 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, originally his marksmanship was enough to restrain Huang Zhong, and he could even take advantage of Huang Zhong's current sleepiness and poor mental state to take Huang Zhong's life within a hundred rounds, but Huang Zhong fought for his life, and Zhao Yun was a little uncomfortable, because Zhao Yun was unwilling to exchange his precious life with Huang Zhong.

Zhao Yun had this thought, and under the desperate protection of Huang Zhong and Huang Zhong's own soldiers, Huang Zhong barely escaped with his life.

Huang Zhong barely escaped with his life under the protection of his own soldiers, and fled to Guangcheng Pass, before he reached Guangcheng Pass, Huang Zhong heard that Guangcheng Pass fell into the hands of Wei Yan, and Huang Zhong had to flee to Xiangyang.

Of the more than 3,000 cavalry under Huang Zhong's command, only more than 300 escaped, more than 1,000 were killed, and more than 2,000 surrendered, while Zhao Yun's 3,000 cavalry only suffered three or four hundred casualties, which can be described as a complete victory.

After Zhao Yun surrendered the more than 2,000 Jingzhou cavalry, he left the battlefield to Fu Tong, the guard of Yique Pass, and continued to the east to round with the deputy general Wei Peng, and then continued to the east, and Chen to round, integrate all the cavalry left by Wei Yan to him, and assist Chen Zhi to continue to pursue Liu Biao.

However, it was said that Liu Biao had fled for four or five miles in a hurry, and now the cavalry under the command of Wei Yan was no longer chasing after him, and seeing that Chen Zhi, who was leading 20,000 infantry behind, did not chase after all the killings, he felt relaxed in his heart, and saw that most of the generals under his command had gathered, and there was not much sadness in his heart, after all, with such a team, Jingzhou had a large population of thousands of miles, and he could make a comeback.

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