Chu Cheng's fall from the horse surprised everyone. Zhang Yan immediately rushed forward, but was hugged by Yu Yu on the side, and dragged Zhang Yan desperately to prevent Zhang Yan from entering the reach of Guan Yu's long knife. And Guan Yu, who was also surprised by Chu Cheng's bad luck, was after the initial shock, Danfeng's eyes narrowed slightly, and the corners of his mouth hooked a smile, not hiding his schadenfreude at all.

"Red-faced thief! Give me back my life! Guan Yu's attitude suddenly made Zhang Yan's eyes red, and he immediately shouted violently, and wanted to struggle to break free from the poison's stop, and stepped forward to fight with Guan Yu. Zhang Yan is really angry! In the early years, he followed the Yellow Turban to fight, and his relatives were all dead, so he left such a baby pimple-like son, until he erected a mountain in Montenegro and secretly worked for Cao Cao, for the sake of insurance, he even had to add a protective lock to Chu Cheng in the name of his uncle and nephew. Everything has been done on this, and I thought that my precious son could at least pass the incense without disaster, but unexpectedly, he was detained by Liu Bei last night, Zhang Yan endured it in order not to make Liu Bei suspicious, but in the end, it was still providence to make people, and he died on an inconspicuous boulder in the ridge. Zhang Yan can't make gas with the same stone, right? Guan Yu, who caused Chu Cheng to come here, became the first target that Zhang Yan hated.

"Humph!" In the face of Zhang Yan's sudden violent attitude, Guan Yu still looked light-hearted, and it seemed that Chu Cheng, who died next to him, was not qualified enough to make him Guan Erye have the slightest impact, that is, the surprise just now, the surprise was enough to give the thief father and son a lot of face. And for Zhang Yan's angry shouting, Guan Yu looked even more indifferent. There was a little contempt on his face, and there was even a feeling of regret that he couldn't personally avenge Xiao Qi, the pro-soldier who had escorted him to escape from the plains.

"Handsome! I heard that this red-faced thief once fought with Lu Bu back then, and he could support dozens of moves without being defeated! The handsome must not be underestimated! Zhang Yan's struggle almost caused Yu Yu to fall off his horse. At this moment, Yu Yu didn't care about being heard by Guan Yu about any important news, and shouted at Zhang Yan.

"Ahh The red-eyed Zhang Yan was finally persuaded by Yu Poison, and saw Guan Yu, who was close at hand but helpless at all, like a wolf king who had lost his young lamb, and let out a heart-rending howl. Retreat under the drag of the poison.

"Father-in-law, this Black Mountain thief leader retreats so easily, you must guard against fraud!" Seeing that Guan Yu didn't seem to care about Zhang Yan's hissing. was only sixteen years old, and Guan Ping, who was accepted by Guan Yu as a righteous son on the way to Youzhou, said to Guan Yu in a low voice with a touch of melancholy.

"It's okay!" Guan Yu stroked his beard. Said proudly in a deep voice: "It's just his subordinate, forgive him for not having a different heart because of such a thing!" Besides, even if he had a different heart. What am I afraid of? ”

"Father-in-law!" Guan Ping estimated that he was also speechless at this time for Guan Yu's arrogant temperament. He said in a very hurried tone: "But father-in-law, now outside Yecheng, there are nearly 60,000 thieves in the Black Mountain, which is more than three times the size of our army, and the distance between you and your uncle is very far away. If he has a different heart, he only needs to give an order, and my father and son are in the rear army, and they may still have the strength to fight. But my uncle is in front of the battle, and his life is in danger! ”

"This ......" listened to Guan Ping's words. Guan Yu's face also showed a little nervous look, and when he was about to speak, he suddenly saw Zhao Yun, who was supposed to be guarding Liu Bei's side, just near the left, Guan Yu's heart sank, and he hurriedly stepped forward, stopping Zhao Yun, who was wandering around looking for something, and asked, "Zilong?!" Why are you here? Big brother! ”

"Second brother! The lord ordered Yun to go to the rear army to urge the Black Mountain soldiers to march to the east and west sides of Yecheng, and not just stop blocking the north gate of Yecheng! But the Black Mountain soldiers only said that there was no Yan military order for his advocacy, and they did not dare to move lightly, and Yun easily said that the cavalry went first, but unexpectedly, these people were not in the same military formation, and they actually marched with the momentum of geese, Yun felt a little strange, and was about to go to the lord, how could these soldiers be congested, and they could not get closer, and separated Yun from the Chinese army. Zhao Yun was also anxious and depressed at the moment, and he was already sweating on his handsome face.

"Is there a guard on the side of the lord?" Guan Yu's face had turned purple at this moment, and his eyes were open, and he also asked with an anxious expression.

"On the side of the lord, there are 1,000 guards led by Shu Zhisuo, 1,000 Bai Wei soldiers and 13,000 cavalry. But ......," Zhao Yun said with a guilty face.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Guan Yu looked up at the black pressed human head, where Liu Bei's Chinese army was rooted, and breathed a sigh of relief. But before Guan Yu could finish his breath, he heard the second half of Zhao Yun's sentence: "In front of the north gate of Ye City, there are not only 2,000 Montenegrin soldiers, but the Chinese army is also close to 30,000 Montenegrin bandit infantry, and there are 10,000 cavalry on both sides......

"Not good! The Montenegrin thieves have bad intentions! Guan Yu didn't have the heart to care about what Zhao Yun said now, because Liu Bei didn't want Zhang Yan to know about Chu Cheng, and made a reckless decision to let the Black Mountain thieves come to Yecheng with Zhang Yan with their own army to the "little thing" outside Yecheng City. Thinking of Zhang Yan's appearance just now, which almost wanted to swallow himself alive, and when he was dragged away by the leader of the Black Mountain Thief Rider Yu Poison, he looked at his vicious gaze, even if his heart was as steady as Guan Yu, he was in a cold sweat at this moment: "Ping'er, hurry up, gather your troops, and go with a certain Savior!" ”

"Father-in-law, ......" Guan Ping, who had never seen Guan Yu have such a nervous expression, was also stunned, but seeing Guan Yu's anxious appearance, Guan Ping didn't dare to ask anything more, and hurriedly arched his hand at Guan Yu Zhao Yun and took the order.

"Second brother, you mean, the Black Mountain Foot Riding Club ......" Zhao Yun still didn't understand Guan Yu's intentions at the moment, Zhao Yun, who had no good impression of the Black Mountain thief, also showed a strong sense of anxiety on his face, and his eyes were almost bleeding. Now is no longer the time to investigate how Guan Yu is so sure that the Black Mountain thieves will rebel. Although Liu Bei now has Chen Zhi, Bai Wei's soldiers and Youzhou soldiers on his side, after all, the current situation is really surrounded by three times the strength of the Black Mountain thieves. If he really has a different heart, I'm afraid that even Lu Bu won't be able to win a favor with these tens of thousands of enemies at his side.

"It's all feather's fault!" Guan Yu didn't care about explaining anything at the moment, he just hated that Zhang Yan was in front of him just now. Why didn't you cut him down with a single sword! The Qinglong Sword in his hand was already clenched tighter, and he was about to rush to the Black Mountain Thief Formation in front of him, who had already turned around.

As if to verify Guan Yu's "inference", Guan Yu had just laughed at Yuan Xi's words shouted by the loud soldiers in Yecheng. Once again, it spread far away, and was heard by Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and a group of Youzhou soldiers: "Liu Bei Pifu!" Ignoring the laws of the Great Han! Unprovoked offense against my state and county! God hates it! Anyone who has insight, why not fight it together! ”

"Montenegrin volunteers, on the orders of Yuan Xigongzi, kill the traitor Liu Bei! Don't attack now, but when! "The last thing Guan Yu wanted to see finally happened. The Black Mountain thieves who were still pretending to be crowded and blocking Zhao Yun's return to the Chinese army before. After listening to the anti-water signal shouted by the commander of his own house, Deng Shi bared his fangs one by one and pointed his blade at the "friendly army" at his side.

"Kill, kill, kill! Ha ha! Kill all these thieves who dare to covet my Yuanjiazhou County! "Yuan Xi, who is on the wall of Yecheng at the moment. He didn't care about drinking and having fun, so he got up and lay down in the female wall, and through the wall stacks, as if he was enjoying a wonderful show. Staring at the two troops under the city that had gradually become chaotic.

The war in the rear is not yet obvious. There are still many Montenegrin bandits who will look at the Youzhou soldiers on the same side, and they have not recovered from the transformation from allies to enemies for a while, only the rear army led by Guan Yu and Zhao Yun at this moment is facing the Black Mountain bandits who are blocking the way, intending to get infinitely close to the location of Liu Bei's Chinese army, and rescue Liu Bei and others who are already trapped in the Chinese army at this moment. But the two thousand Black Mountain thieves who were originally placed in front of the Yecheng city wall by Zhang Yan knew Zhang Yan's order early on, and when Yuan Xi shouted the first agreed signal. There were many Black Mountain thieves who couldn't help but draw their blades before they got Zhang Yan's order. It was this small abnormal movement that was discovered by Chen Zhi, which made Liu Bei withdraw from the front line as soon as possible and sneak into the Chinese army, but he was not immediately injured by the Black Mountain bandit front army that was only a few dozen steps away. However, despite this, after hearing Zhang Yanming's order, the Montenegrin thief front army, which reacted quickly, still caused great casualties to the soldiers of Liu Bei's army who were caught off guard.

Liu Bei originally planned to borrow the 50,000 Black Mountain thieves as cannon fodder, so most of the Youzhou cavalry he brought with the army this time was to take precautions to ensure that they could protect their lives on the battlefield. But now on this crowded battlefield, not to mention the Youzhou elite cavalry that Liu Bei is proud of and has helped him gain great prestige in Youzhou, he can't play his due power in the crowd tactics of the Black Mountain thieves, and these Black Mountain thieves are worthy of being entrenched in Hebei for many years, and the thieves who have been entangled with Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan for more than ten years are actually well aware of the weaknesses of the Youzhou cavalry. Many Montenegrin thieves and soldiers ignored the advantage of Youzhou soldiers in slashing and killing on horses, and they also had to leave some marks on the mounts and horses of these soldiers!

This trick is too ruthless! Due to Liu Bei's decision-making mistakes, at this moment, the cavalry outside Yecheng, plus the thousands of soldiers and horses ridden by the Black Mountain thieves, there were nearly 30,000 cavalry. It is almost comparable to the decisive battle between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan back then, which made the Xiandeng battalion led by Lu Yi famous in the first battle.

It's a pity that the battle was on the vast Youji Plain, and the cavalry charge was so strong, if it wasn't for the first camp to be ordered, Yuan Shao at that time would have had the mind to surrender. But now, in this corn field outside Yecheng, let alone a cavalry charge, if you run a little faster, you will easily be trampled by the soft soil. And the obscene tactics of being killed by the Black Mountain thieves and soldiers to leave a mark on the mounts and horses of the Youzhou soldiers made the war horses that had been trained for a long time, and even some of them were deaf in the ears in order to learn from the advanced experience of Yanzhou, and they were also inspired by the severe pain and splashed blood. Now Youzhou is still popular from the Xiongnu simple unilateral stirrup, that is, a hemp rope tied to the saddle of the straw mat, for the stability of the cavalry. But now, this could have been used as an excellent "sharp weapon" for the Youzhou cavalry to stabilize the world, but at this moment, it has also become the urging of the Youzhou cavalry.

It is true that the unilateral stirrup is easy to keep the cavalry on horseback from being bumped off by a galloping horse, but when faced with a frightened horse, the inferiority of this instrument is revealed. The soldiers of Youzhou who were accidentally dismounted from their horses had a chance to escape, but many of them were entangled in the unilateral stirrups that seemed to be simple and could be replenished at any time, and they fell on the side of the horses. If it were just that, it wouldn't be anything. Dealing with frightened horses is also a compulsory "subject" for cavalry, but after the frightened horses, there are also Montenegrin thieves who are already hostile to each other because of the food and other problems of the two armies in the past few days.

These Montenegrin bandits are both in combat power and equipment. The distance was carefully cultivated by Liu Bei and used as the Youzhou soldiers of the headquarters, which is not even as good as shit. But who let this rabble fight unprepared? What's more, people don't have horses! What's more, for the Black Mountain thieves who run in the mountains all the year round and play hide-and-seek with the officials and soldiers who come to encircle and suppress from time to time, they are simply tossing and turning in the chaotic battlefield.

When the Youzhou soldiers were becoming more and more chaotic, this gang of thieves was even more like a fish in water, so that on the battlefield outside the north gate of Yecheng, such a scene appeared. It was originally a Youzhou soldier who was changed into a mess because the horses seemed to be contagious, and he was a strong soldier who could be famous in the world. In an instant, it was a mess, not to mention, and it was even pressed and beaten by a group of black mountain thieves who were ragged and many of them didn't even have shoes. For a time, it was said that the casualties were heavy, and they were all light.

"My lord. Zhang Yan thief chief really reversed! These Black Mountain thieves who killed a thousand knives did not dare to engage our army head-on, but instead tried hard to attack our cavalry and horses, and many horses were frightened. Large-scale roaring has already begun. Lord, you can't stay here for a long time, and the end will send you out desperately! "Chen Dao, who was used by Liu Bei as the commander of the Baiwei soldiers and trusted the pro-guard general, was also red-eyed at this moment after getting the sudden unexpected and reasonable anti-water incident of the Black Mountain Thief, and he was about to rush to pull Liu Bei, who was guarded by the personal guards in the middle.

"Finished? That's it? What about my second brother and Zilong? Where are they? Liu Bei's face was strangely tight. The "reputation" of joy and anger is on Liu Bei at this moment. There is the most perfect interpretation. Liu Bei's face didn't have a look of surprise at all, as if he was fighting in all directions. It's as if it has nothing to do with him. There was also a smile that seemed to be self-deprecating, and even the thoughts of Guan Yu and Zhao Yun were concerned, and he muttered.

"Lord, stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood, General Guan and General Zhao must be struggling to kill here in the rear army at this moment, but there are too many thieves, I am afraid that I will not be able to wait for a while, the lord will quickly break through with the last general, and it will be too late if you don't leave!" Seeing that they were all on this, the big-eared brother was still chirping here, holding his horse forward, Chen Zhi's face suddenly turned straight, and he hugged his fist at Liu Bei and said, "A word of lord, the last general will be offended", so he stepped forward and drew a sword fiercely behind Liu Bei's horse, and then shouted that Liu Bei's Baiwei soldiers who had secretly practiced in the past few years were protecting Liu Bei, and they were about to rush to the direction of the rear army to kill Tongguan Yu and Zhao Yun "meet".

As for Chen Zhi's actions, Yuan Xi, who was watching himself above Yecheng, was a little unclear, so he didn't know what Liu Bei was going to do. It stands to reason that at this time, the Montenegrin bandit soldiers after Liu Bei's army were more than 30,000 Montenegrin soldiers brought by Zhang Yan, and the remaining thousands of Youzhou soldiers under Liu Bei and Chen at this moment who were not affected by the previous chaos were not very easy to say which was stronger or weaker in terms of combat strength, but it was difficult to break through for a while. Unless it is to advance towards the two wings that are stretched out by the wild goose marching army ridden by the Black Mountain thieves, although they will face the rapid attack of the Black Mountain thief cavalry, but after all, it is much easier than resisting the 30,000 Black Mountain bandits, Yuan Xi suddenly wanted to know why Liu Bei, who was looking at himself in his own death, why did he abandon the easy and seek the difficult!

At this moment, Chen Dao, who was protecting Liu Bei, who was relieved and was holding a double-strand sword to police himself, did not think that it might be relatively easy to assault from both sides. But the problem is that although the battle is scorching at the moment, Chen Zhi still relies on the survival instinct of the battlefield to veto the action of assaulting on both sides.

To the west of Yecheng is Yuan Tan's territory. Now Yuan Tan is facing Cao Cao's troops, and there is a bit of ambiguity in the tension, God knows what kind of "chances" Liu Bei will have if he rashly gets involved with the defeated soldiers, and what will happen to his own family when the Youzhou soldiers meet with the Bingzhou soldiers.

And the east of Yecheng can't go. Because of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's raid on the plains before, God knows what Lu Bu will do now, will he also take advantage of the battle in Yecheng to pick up dried fish and come to get a piece of the pie, whether it is Chen Zhi or Liu Bei, they will not believe that Lu Bu's army, which has long coveted Jizhou, will be indifferent to such a good opportunity and flee eastward, isn't that just to send a fat sheep meal to Lu Bujun, a hungry tiger.

In contrast, although there is a large army of Black Mountain thieves in the north, after all, this rabble has the advantage at the beginning of this battle, whether it is a single soldier or an army, the combat power is worse than the Youzhou soldiers, which is not an ordinary section. What's more, at this moment, there are 7,000 troops led by Guan Yu, who is used by the rear army to protect Liu Bei's military adviser Wenchen, and under the attack of the two sides, the victory or defeat of the Black Mountain thief army and the Youzhou soldiers is not yet known.

It can be seen that God still favors the lucky ones who are shrouded in the halo of pig's feet. Chen Zhi's choice is undoubtedly the most correct for Liu Bei at the moment. The 30,000 black mountain thieves who were originally blocked between Liu Bei's army and the rear army were really crispy. With the assistance of the Black Mountain thieves who had already pretended to be dispersed on Liu Bei's orders, and at the cost of nearly 10,000 people, they still did not resist Liu Bei and Guan Yu's two armies, who were eager to meet. So much so that it was only half an hour, and Guan Yu, who had already been red-eyed and soft-handed, and Zhao Yun led the rear army, and finally discovered the location of the Chinese army's anvil that Liu Bei's Zhongjun deliberately lowered. The Youzhou generals whose morale has rebounded significantly can be regarded as barely relieved.

"Marshal, do you want to continue to increase troops!" Zhang Yantong, who did not participate in this battle, was watching the situation from a towering place on the west side of the Yecheng battlefield at the moment. Yu Poison cautiously glanced at Zhang Yan, who was gradually regained by Liu Beijun and his face was pale, paused slightly, and asked in a low voice.

"Humph! Let him Liu Bei survive for a few more days! Zhang Yan's gloomy face didn't know what she was thinking. With the angry expression of the present moment when he had just seen the tragic death of his baby son, he looked at the two of them resentfully, although the losses were obviously heavy, but they had successfully connected with Guan Yu's rear army, and Liu Bei's army was breaking through to the northwest at this moment, Zhang Yan gritted his teeth and spit bloody spit on the ground, and said fiercely: "I have more important things to do!" (To be continued......)