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The sound of horses' hooves pierced the quiet night, like a war drum, and each approach was exciting.

More than 2,000 of the 3,000 soldiers had already crossed the river, and now only 300 cavalry were left at the Mengjin Ferry, plus less than 100 archers. Chen Nuo and the others did not know whether the other party was friend or foe, and listened to the sound of horses' hooves, and in a hurry, they did not dare to be careless, but ordered the left and right to move together, and piled up all the baggage carts that had not yet been carried across the river, forming a protective net, so that hundreds of archers could hide behind them, and the three hundred horsemen were under the leadership of Chen Nuo, standing majestically on horseback, holding halberds with horizontal spears and halberds!

"The person who comes is friend or foe, report the name quickly!"

Dian Wei's voice was loud, and his words were full of energy, like a broken drum, buzzing out.

However, when he was about to get closer, Chen Nuo had also noticed that this group of cavalry was in front, only a few dozen people, and a series of infantry followed closely. But seeing that the cavalry did not form a phalanx and the infantry did not form a formation, Chen Nuo probably knew that this group of people was only afraid that they were fleeing, and they were not coming for him. It's just that if you let the opposing cavalry rush like this, I'm afraid that the morale of your side will also be affected, and even the formation will be destroyed. Chen Nuo was helpless, looking at these crazy cavalrymen, he didn't hear the shouts at all, let alone that they could stop in an interesting way. At the sound of an order, hundreds of archers divided into three waves, round after round, watching the opposing cavalry shoot down.

Brush brush brush, and soon three or five people were hit by arrows and fell off their horses. And the cavalry that caught up behind was also so frightened that they turned their horses' heads when they saw an ambush in front of them, and did not dare to rush forward further. But in the middle of this slight delay, the infantry catching up behind cut off the road, and the men and horses suddenly became cramped, and they were even more chaotic than before.

After the three waves of arrows were fired, Chen Nuo didn't let people shoot again, after all, he had already given the other party a deterrent, and the other party had no intention of breaking through, so there was no need to shoot again.

And over there, after a period of panic, someone seemed to shout to this side, asking Chen Nuo and the others who they were and why they were blocking their way. After all, this place is not Chen Nuo's territory, and Chen Nuo doesn't want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings with these people, so he asked Dian Wei to reply to them. I heard over there that it was Yuan Shao's subordinates in Jizhou, so someone asked, but General Chen Nuochen? Chen Nuo was also slightly surprised when he heard him call out his name, who is this person and how do you know mine? But it is called Dian Wei and said yes.

Someone over there immediately shouted that he had misunderstood and reported his name, and it turned out that it was Heyang County Ling Duan who had arrived.

Although this place is not far from Heyang, Chen Nuo would never have thought that Duan Xuan would come here, and he didn't know what happened? Over there, Duan Xuan was afraid that Chen Nuo would misunderstand that there would be a fake, so he came out in person, shouted on horseback, called the subordinate official, and asked the soldiers next to him to light the torches, according to his own face, and was afraid that Chen Nuo would not recognize him.

Duan Xuan's voice was heard at once, but Duan Xuan's old face was shining under the torch, and his hair was scattered, like a ghost, which was very infiltrating. Chen Nuo was slightly stunned, and immediately ordered people to move the baggage cart away and personally beat the horse forward. Over there, Duan Xuan also rushed up with all the officials to meet him, and when he arrived, he quickly dismounted and saluted Chen Nuo.

After all, Duan Xuan was the order of a county, and Chen Nuo intended to accept him, although he was in trouble, he was not easy to slack off. Chen Nuo also immediately dismounted, stretched out his hand to support Duan Xuan, and asked Duan Xuan what happened? Hearing Chen Nuo's question, his face was ashamed, and he said: "It's hard to explain this matter!" The general didn't know, general, as soon as you left, a group of thousands of bandits hit me under Heyang City. My Heyang City, now it has been occupied by bandits, and the lower officials have to flee here, but I didn't expect to meet here. General you. ”

Chen Nuo frowned, looked at the officials behind him, and had already arrived one after another at this time, and even the cavalry was afraid that there were two or three hundred. There are so many people and horses, and they can't even stop thousands of bandits, and let people occupy the magpie's nest, isn't it a bit unreasonable? Thinking that Heyang is not an ordinary city, even if there are many bandits, they only need to close the city gate, and then send a cavalry to break through to Zhang Yang of Yewang City for help, I am afraid that they can also support the arrival of reinforcements on Yewang's side.

Moreover, looking at the posture of these people, they should abandon the city before the battle, which may not be unreasonable. What's more, even if the thief is powerful, he can't stand it, when he runs to the wild king to ask Zhang Yang for help, why would he rush to Mengjin? Do they want to cross the river? Even if they cross the river, the other side of the river is Dong Zhuo's Xiliang forces, they don't even dare to engage the bandits, do they dare to compete with the Xiliang forces?

Chen Nuo nodded quietly, and asked deliberately: "Oh, I see, but I don't understand a little, the county lord didn't go north to find General Zhang, why did he come here?" ”

When Duan Xuan heard this, his face changed, and he was about to speak, but when he saw a panic behind him, he heard that the bandits were about to catch up. When the county order was heard, it was strange, Heyang City was lost to this gang of thieves, and this gang of thieves caught up for a while, why do you still want to chase us, they are all to the river, do you have to force me to jump into the river? But he was also flawless, he thought, and quickly looked at Chen Nuo with an innocent face and asked Chen Nuo for help.

Chen Nuo sighed lightly and said, "Unfortunately, although there are ships on Mengjin's side, they have all been temporarily requisitioned by me. More than half of my thousands of men have reached the other side of the river, and the rest are probably still in the middle of the river, and I am afraid that it will be too late for them to arrive. At the moment, it seems that the county lord has broken off the idea of crossing the river, and the matter has come to this point, and he can only fight with all his might. If you can trust me, please leave these horses under your command to me for the time being, what do you think? ”

Duan Xuan was originally counting on rushing to Mengjin to cross the river, but now that he heard Chen Nuo say it, he knew that it was impossible, and it seemed that he could only bet the last bit of hope on Chen Nuo.

Duan Xuan nodded hurriedly, turned around and ordered, and the official behind him agreed.

The torches in the distance are connected from afar, and looking at this formation, I am afraid that there are about a thousand people. In this way, the thieves are out of the nest. This is a bit strange, if it weren't for Duan Xuan having a deep hatred with this gang of thieves, how could he let the county town go, and still chase after him so far, there is a sense of not dying, it is really unnecessary! Chen Nuo didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly took Duan Xuan's men and horses into the formation again, put the baggage cart back on, and the archers put it behind the baggage cart as before.

It's just that after all, the county commander brought two or three hundred people this time, except for the cavalry, most of the rest of the foot soldiers had some spears and halberds in their hands, so they arranged these people in front of the archers, hid under the baggage cart, put the guns and halberds in the gap of the baggage cart, and waited for the battle.

There were more than a dozen cavalry of the thieves, but they didn't dare to pull too far from the pawns behind them, because after waiting for a while, the thieves rode so big that the torches shook people's eyes. Although the simmer was still sitting on horseback, missing half of Chen Nuo's shoulder, he still couldn't stop the palpitation in his heart for the surging momentum of the thief.

Duan Xuan looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but sigh: "General Chen, you see, although you can't see the appearance of thieves clearly in the dark night, judging from these torches and footsteps alone, this group of thieves is well-disciplined and knows how to arrange formations, where does it look like an ordinary thief, it is clearly not much worse than the regular army!" ”

Duan Xuan was not wrong at all, although he couldn't see the face of the other party's thieves clearly because of the darkness, but judging from the torches and the pace of movement of these people, it was indeed a formation in the dark night, where did ordinary thieves know this? Although it is not yet possible to understand whether these thieves belong to Montenegro or Bai Bo's gang, Chen Nuo will inevitably mumble from the perspective of the formation alone, and he also has a faint answer in his heart for the leader of this gang of thieves.

"Kill!"

The infantry was in front, the cavalry roamed on both sides, and the thieves launched the first charge. The earth trembled timidly as he walked down. 100 zhang, 50 zhang, 20 zhang, 10 zhang, 8 zhang...... Ooh! Arrows rained down. Under round after round of shooting, the thieves did not fall, they still maintained their formation, and rushed up one after another. After a few rounds, when the blow of the arrows was no longer enough to deter the opponent, the spear halberd hidden under the baggage cart did its job, and the thieves who tried to break in were suddenly stabbed in the knee by the spear poked out of the opposite baggage cart, cutting their stomachs, and had to fall down with a wail.

Another round of attacks came down, leaving piles of corpses on the ground. And the baggage cart formation was not much better, and it was swept around by the arrows fired by the thieves from behind, also leaving a pile of dead bodies. But in the end, the losses of this group of thieves were far greater than those of Chen Nuo's side, but they did not retreat, but continued to organize the next round of attacks. Duan Xuan saw it in his eyes, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "The thieves are nothing more than that, they have almost died two or three hundred in this round, but they still don't know how to organize an attack, so he is not afraid of destroying the only bit of family foundation?" ”

Chen Nuo did not express optimism, yes, if according to the current situation, the morale of the thieves has been low after losing so many people, and they should retreat, but why are they still in a hurry to attack? You know, if you continue to fight, I'm afraid they won't get any benefits. Besides, there are still more than three hundred cavalry behind him who have not moved, they are not blind, of course they can see, they are not afraid of the strength of this cavalry? But why do you still insist on fighting to the death?

At this moment, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves came from the direction of Heyang, like a thunderbolt that wiped out everything, and swept towards this side. Chen Nuo understood that the thieves were far more than these people in front of them, and it turned out that they had more partners behind. They are desperately rushing to kill in front of death, but they are just delaying, and the real killer has not yet been revealed!