The reason why Luan Yi spent a lot of effort to lay a net between Xiangyang and Xinye was to wipe out Sun Ce, or more precisely, Sun Ce's civil and military forces.

As a result, Koto lost its head and was paralyzed. Luan Yi then took the opportunity to move south in one fell swoop, breaking through Yangzhou, Jiaozhou and Jingnan.

Sun Ce clearly understood this, so before Luan Yi was about to complete the siege, he made a categorical decision to break the arm of the strong man - at the cost of the annihilation of the whole army, leaving a small force of cavalry to escort him and the core civil and military forces of Jiangdong to flee back to Jiangnan.

As the saying goes, a thousand armies are easy to get, and it is difficult to find a general, as long as he and this group of civil and military forces withdraw to Jiangdong, they will have the opportunity to regroup.

What's more, Cao Cao's hundreds of warships docked at Wulin Harbor were all burned in the battle half a month ago, and it will take Luan Yi at least two years to put together a decent fleet. In these two years, Sun Ce was able to raise another army and compete with Luan Yi on the river.

With this plan, Sun Ce resolutely abandoned most of his soldiers and horses, led more than 5,000 cavalry of Wu to quickly whip his horses, and jumped out of the narrow gourd mouth before the church army successfully joined forces and achieved a comprehensive encirclement, and before the gourd-shaped encirclement was sealed, he did not turn back and retreated southward.

This move obviously greatly surprised Luan Yi, and even more so Ma Chao and Ju Yi, who were responsible for encircling the south.

Seeing Sun Ceshuai's flag cross horizontally from the end of the telescope's field of vision, Ma Chao was so angry that he screamed and wanted to send troops to pursue.

However, the Jiangdong generals Lu Dai and Quan Cong commanded 10,000 Jiangdong soldiers, who launched a frantic offensive against the Templars and White Horse Yicong without counting casualties, entangled the two strong cavalry armies of the Church, regardless of casualties.

"Sons, protect the lord's retreat." Lü Dai and Quan Cong, one with a spear and the other with an axe, fought back and forth between the Templars and the White Horse Righteous Followers, and they were very heroic. In the blink of an eye, there were more than a dozen lives on each hand. The 10,000 elite soldiers led by them also showed admirable loyalty in times of crisis.

Knowing that after covering Sun Ce's retreat, he would be besieged by the church's soldiers and horses, but in order to show his loyalty, he spared no effort to protect Sun Ce's retreat. They shouted loudly: "Protect the son, the bloodline of the Sun clan in Jiangdong cannot be tarnished by the evil ning in Jiangbei." For the glory of Our Lady, may the merciful Holy Maiden bless us. ”

This argument similar to the Church of Our Lady comes from the Church of the Holy Maiden, which Sun Ce founded in imitation of Luan Yi's Church of Our Lady. According to the Church of the Holy Maiden, the Jiangdong Sun clan is the bloodline favored by the Virgin Nuwa, and has been blessed by the Virgin Mary for generations.

Unlike the Church of Our Lady, the Church of the Holy Virgin does not recognize the existence of the position of leader. They emphasized that the eldest daughter of each generation in the Wu lineage is the real spokesperson of the Holy Mother in the world, not the so-called sect leader - Luan Ziqi. They also preached in Jiangdong that Luan Yi was a liar who deceived the world and stole his reputation, and everything he preached in the Church of Our Lady was a falsification of the Gospel of Our Lady and a blasphemy against the orthodoxy of the Wu family and Our Lady.

After more than ten years of ideological indoctrination, Jiangdong believers are convinced of this, and while they are loyal to the Wu family in Jiangdong, they also hate Luan Yi to the core.

With this belief in mind, when Sun Ce's life was threatened, a group of Jiangdong soldiers resisted desperately, and the iron gate was stuck in the direction of the Templars and Bai Mayi from the right flank, blocking the passage for the church knights to pursue Sun Ce.

"For the glory of the Virgin, the sons fight!"

Hearing Jiang Dongbing say these words in a strong southern accent, the Templars and White Horse were furious, "Thief, heretic, dare to take the name of Our Lady." Brothers, cast these demonic bewitches into darkness and evil to hell. ”

The Templars and the White Horse erupted in a fighting spirit and clashed with all their might.

Although the morale of the Jiangdong soldiers under Lu Dai and Quan Cong is high, the number of people is limited after all, only 10,000. With a limited number of troops and horses, they faced the Church's best-equipped Templars and White Horse Followers, who were no match at all.

The number of casualties has increased exponentially, and it has been declining steadily.

At the same time, the Templar general Ma Chao quickly found Lu Dai in the crowd, and saw that Lu Dai was very heroic in the battle, and the spear was drawn, and the two Templars fell off their horses.

Seeing that the two robes were killed and one injured, the horse screamed angrily, and then slammed the horse's belly and pounced on it as if it was flying close to the ground.

Lu Dai heard the sound of horses' hooves from a distance, looked back, and was startled. When he saw the person who came, his face was like Fu powder, and his lips were like smearing Zhu - what a handsome man; He has the body of a tiger and the arm of an ape, and he has a wolf waist - he is definitely a fierce general. "Whoever came by name?"

"Nobody, you don't deserve to know your grandfather's name."

Receiving Ma Chao's arrogant response, Lu Dai was furious, "Young man Lang is rampant, grandpa and I went into battle to fight, you still don't know where to play with mud." ”

"Humph! Now I'm going to turn you into a puddle of mud. Look at the moves. Ma Chao raised his hand and shot Lu Dai is shot.

This gun, the power is up to a thousand jun, the tiger's head chisels the golden spear as if it is alive, the sharp gun wings are like the sharp rays of a tiger, and the sun shines with a terrifying light, so that Lu Dai does not dare to look directly. The blood-stained white tassel behind the blade, like the mane of a white tiger, is waving in the wind and is majestic. Correspondingly, the tip of the spear is the tiger's minions, sharp and ferocious, facing the prey close at hand to achieve precise and ruthless unity, straight to Lu Dai's chest.

At this moment, Lu Dai panicked. Choose to dodge...... Ma Chao's shot was exquisite, sealing all his retreats. Hide, you can't hide categorically. Choosing a hard ...... This shot is infinitely powerful just by hearing the sound of the air, plus Ma Chao is rushing over, coupled with the momentum of the war horse, with Lu Dai's current physical condition, it is absolutely impossible to resist. In addition, Ma Chao's move is full of ever-changing potential, after a shot, there must be a back move, without thinking about blocking, it is easy to land, and he will be led by the nose in the subsequent battle, until he is defeated and falls.

Lu Dai racked his brains to go through the experience accumulated from more than ten years of battlefield fighting in a short period of time, but he could not find an effective way to deal with the current situation. He watched as the tiger's head chiseled the golden spear and got closer......

At the critical juncture, Lu Dai had no choice but to move out of the simplest and most passive way of resistance - blocking.

The spear stood flat on his chest and swung to the right, intending to knock Ma Chao's tiger-headed golden spear aside. However, as soon as he raised his spear, he was shocked to find that Ma Chao's already extremely fast speed suddenly climbed, and it became faster and faster, faster and faster.

"How so!"

As a result, there was a huge mistake in Lu Dai's previous prediction, misestimating the time when Ma Chao stabbed his body, causing the blocking action to slow down by half a beat.

In just half a beat, it doesn't even take time to blink, but the ending is very different.

"Poof" There was a crisp sound of the cloth bag breaking, Lu Dai was pierced by Ma Chao, and the kite with the broken line flew off the horse, and there was still a shocked look in his eyes before death after he lost his breath.

Different from Lu Dai's strategy of taking the initiative to fight and actively fighting, his colleague Quan Cong adopted a more shrewd combat method - dragging, with a very clear intention, uniting all the troops, and delaying as long as he could, so as to gain enough time for Sun Ce to retreat.

He gathered his men and horses to form three large circular formations, and he himself stood in the center of the central core of the large array to command. The outer circle is responsible for facing the enemy head-on, and the inner circle is mostly archers, throwing arrows outward. If there are casualties in the outer circle, the middle array of soldiers and horses will be supplemented, and when the replenishment is not timely, the military array can also rotate clockwise, so as to avoid the enemy's edge.

However, Quan Cong thought that the turtle would shrink into a hedgehog form, and the Templars and White Horse would not be able to get out of the way of the wolves. But he never thought about it, but it provided convenience for Ju Yi to end the battle quickly.

"Pass my generals, and all of them will retreat twenty steps." Ju Yi gave an order, and Bai Ma Yicong, who was fighting hard with Jiangdong's pawns, stopped the offensive and retreated decisively.

Just when more than 7,000 Jiangdong soldiers wondered why the enemy suddenly retreated. "Boom!" Ju Yi came out of his mouth.

The three thousand white horses immediately took out the handmelons wrapped in the net pocket from the backpack at the horse's waist, as well as the lighters uniformly equipped in the army. "Dang dang dang" followed by a series of crisp lighter flip clamshell cracks.

"Ignition."

"......"

"Vote."

Three thousand handmelons shot at the same time and landed in the Jiangdong army formation that was in a daze.

"Ah...... It's a hand melon! "The Koto soldiers, who have personally used and witnessed the power of the handmelon, are in a mess." Boom, boom, boom......, boom" The explosion then sounded, and the Jiangdong soldiers turned on their backs, and the appearance was like a string of two kicks inserted into the belly of a curly hedgehog, and the "crackling" was a blur of flesh and blood.

"Boom!" "Ignition" "Cast!" ”

It was another round of throwing, and the Jiangdong Circle Formation became incomplete in an instant.

As soon as Quan Cong saw this posture, he didn't need the enemy to rush into battle, and it didn't take a few rounds for his own soldiers and horses to be blown up by the other party. In desperation, he had to choose a counterattack.

However, the White Horse had a clear numerical advantage, and the Jiangdong Army was no match in the first place, and there was a Templar who was eyeing him closely.

His resistance can only be said to be stubborn resistance and mantis arms blocking the car.

After half an hour of fierce fighting, all 10,000 Jiangdong soldiers under the command of Lu Dai and Quan Cong were wiped out, of which 4,763 were killed, more than 3,000 were wounded, and the rest disarmed and surrendered. The main general Lu Dai was beheaded by Ma Chao, and Quan Cong died in the random arrows.

Since then, more than 200,000 troops on the eastern, western, southwestern, and southern roads of the church have successfully closed the siege. Except for Sun Ce and his entourage, who escaped from Ascension, the rest of the people were deeply encircled and became lambs to the slaughter.

After the Templars and White Horse Yi defeated Lu Dai and Quan Cong's army. Luan Yi's main army of the Church, Cao Cao's Jingzhou Army, and Guan Yu's Xuzhou Army fought against their respective enemies one after another.

Under the fierce attack of the 200,000-strong army of the church, although the Jiangdong soldiers resisted hard, they still ended up defeated.