The strength of Liu Fengbu's army is already difficult to defeat in the world, especially the Jingzhou army, which is even more unstoppable.

However, it was such a strong infantry army, but in the battle of Heyang, it suffered heavy losses from Ma Chao's army, and even the general Shamoke died in that battle.

This is one of the few victories that Liu Bei and Liu Feng have fought several times, and the person who completed this victory is the Xiliang Lion Ma Chao.

Therefore, Ma Chao has confidence in himself, he is convinced that if he can defeat Wei Yan, he will definitely be able to defeat Liu Feng.

The 100,000 army seems to be vast, but as long as it is broken through by his Xiliang Iron Cavalry, it is not impossible for the entire line to be defeated.

Ma Chao's self-confidence gave Liu Bei hope, and at this moment, his eyes flashed with excitement, and he asked, "Meng Qi, are you really confident in defeating Liu Feng's family?" ”

Ma Chao said proudly: "Liu Feng is my defeated general, as long as the king dares to fight to the death, I, Ma Chao, will take Liu Fengxiang's head to repay the king's kindness." ”

With Ma Chao's assurance, Liu Bei's confidence doubled, and he stood up suddenly, and the fire of revenge of resentment rekindled in his eyes.

"The new and old hatred between me and Liu Feng's traitor, it's time to settle the account. Liu Feng, if you want to fight, I will fight with you! ”

Liu Bei drew his sword vigorously, split the case into two with a sword, and shouted angrily: "Pass my order, and it is clear that the whole army will attack, and I will fight Liu Feng to the death." ”

Liu Bei's fighting spirit was high, which more or less stirred up a little wave in the hearts of the generals, although these people were still uneasy, but seeing Liu Bei so impassioned, they couldn't help but express something.

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

The generals echoed in unison, and although their voices were not so loud, they were enough to inspire a little.

On the same day, Liu Feng's decisive battle reply was delivered to Liu Feng's camp.

Liu Bei's reply was very simple, there was only one word "war".

The word "war" was written vigorously and powerfully, as if it was showing his resentment towards Liu Feng, but Liu Feng vaguely saw a little lack of confidence from it.

Liu Feng showed Liu Bei's reply to everyone, and said with a smile: "Everyone, Liu Bei has replied that the decisive battle will be fought, how to fight this battle, you can speak freely." ”

Liu Feng's voice fell, and Wen Ping said: "Liu Bei's army has few major generals and low morale, if it is judged by the art of war, it is not suitable for a decisive battle with our army at all." Now Liu Bei is glad to respond to the battle, and with Liu Bei's old strategy, I think there must be something to worry about. ”

The veteran Yan Yan sneered: "What else can Liu Bei have to worry about, it's nothing more than Ma Chao's 10,000 Xiliang cavalry." ”

Western Liang cavalry.

When he heard these four words, Liu Feng immediately remembered Shamoke, the death of this righteous brother made Liu Feng hate Ma Chao deeply.

"General Yan shouldn't underestimate Ma Chao's Xiliang cavalry, have you forgotten how General Wei was defeated by the hands of this Xiliang cavalry when he was on the north bank of the Yellow River, and how General Shamogo died at the hands of Ma Chao?"

In that battle, Wen Ping also participated in it, but he led the naval army to ensure the smooth flow of the pontoon bridge on the river.

On that day, Wen Ping witnessed with his own eyes on the river how Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry easily defeated Shamoke's elite infantry army, and he still has lingering fears about the power of Ma Chao's army.

The veteran Yan Yan smiled and said: "General Wen should not be bitten by a snake once, he is afraid of the well rope for ten years, although Ma Chao is powerful, but compared to our Song Guogong, he is just an ant." ”

Yan Yan's words seemed to be suspicious of sycophancy, and Wen Ping didn't know what to say for a while.

At this time, Liu Feng smiled faintly and said: "The old general has won the award, Ma Chao is still very capable, his fish scale shield array and javelin fighting style are really amazing, but fortunately, this is not our first time fighting." ”

As soon as he heard this, Wen Ping's expression was shocked, and he hurriedly said: "Doesn't the prince of the country have a strategy to crack the Ma Chao cavalry?" ”

Liu Feng nodded: "When Shamoke was defeated, I have been thinking of a way to solve it, but this time we came prepared, just to avenge Shamoke's revenge." ”

I heard that Liu Feng had a strategy to break the enemy, not only Wenpin, but also Zhang Wei, Ma Zhong and other generals in the account, all of whom were in high spirits.

Liu Feng now arranged the countermeasures and all the matters of the decisive battle, and the generals received their own orders.

After the division was over, Liu Feng looked at the old and young faces in front of him, his eyes were full of determination, and he said loudly: "Everyone, can the world be unified, can I share peace with you, just say a battle in the future, I hope you will work side by side with me, and we will have a happy kill!" ”

In the big tent, the passionate shouts of killing sounded like thunder.

#####次曰天方一亮, 100,000 troops all left the camp and slowly advanced in the direction of Lantian.

Countless scouts traveled back and forth between Lantian and the direction of the army, relaying the latest movements of the enemy as quickly as possible, and all the intelligence showed that Liu Beijun had also poured out.

It seems that Liu Bei's determination to fight to the death will not change.

More than 100,000 troops of both sides stopped their advance at a distance of miles.

Under the empty sunny day, countless heads were densely crowded on the wilderness of the Guanzhong Plain, and their black and red robes were set off on the yellow and green land, which was particularly eye-catching.

Standing on a makeshift hill of dirt, Liu Feng looked down at his soldiers.

These soldiers, since they set out from Yecheng, their mental and physical strength have been at a high concentration. Because it was not suitable to transport grain from Nanyang to Wuguan, before the war, Liu Feng could not even let them have a full meal, and now, the word exhaustion is written on the faces of each of them.

But these are no longer important, Chang'an City is just around the corner, and for many of them, this will be the last battle of their soldiers' careers.

That is to say, this is their last chance to make a meritorious contribution.

The great merit of dominating the world is enough to make every soldier show 12 points of spirit and work hard to complete their final performance.

With Tushan as the center, Liu Feng laid down the most perfect formation for his life.

The 30,000 Jingzhou legions under the supervision of Yan Yan were across the front of Tushan, forming a large array of his front army.

The first row was 5,000 well-trained crossbowmen, the second was a large shieldmen, and the next few rows were spearmen.

These spears were specially made, three or four feet longer than ordinary spears, and were arranged in layers, and the latter person rested the spears on the shoulders of the previous one, forming an impenetrable jungle of steel.

The attack method of the Ma Chao Legion is to throw javelins at close range, which is a very lethal weapon with extremely strong penetration and a wide range of damage.

In order to deal with Ma Chao's javelin warfare, Liu Feng began to order the craftsmen of Luoyang to quietly make a special shield since last year.

This large shield is composed of three layers, the outermost layer is cowhide, the second layer is wooden planks, and the innermost layer is iron.

Liu Feng had done many experiments, and this three-layer hybrid shield was enough to resist the javelins thrown by cavalry javelins within twenty paces.

In addition, the crossbow matched this time is also the hardest crossbow that Liu Feng ordered to collect from all over the country, and its string force is enough to shoot through the iron shield, these strong crossbows are Liu Feng's sharp weapons specially used to deal with Ma Chao's fish scale shield array.

Ma Chaoxiliang's combat method was not the same as that of ordinary cavalry, but with the cover of the fish-scale shield array, slowly advanced to the front of the enemy formation, and then the cavalry hidden in the formation suddenly attacked, launching javelin strikes against the enemy at close range.

Liu Feng's arrangement of such a strong crossbow and hard shield happened to be used to restrain the two strengths of Ma Chaoxiliang's cavalry.

Despite this, in order to prevent the meal, Liu Feng still made arrangements for the backhand.

He knew that after the start of the war, the Chinese army where Tushan was located must be the direction of Ma Chao's cavalry's main attack, so he had a more careful deployment of the defense around Tushan.

In the center was the Yizhou army led by Ma Zhong and Zhang Wei, composed of countless small phalanxes, with spearmen as the main force, stabbing the enemy from a medium distance, mixed with sword and shield hands in the middle, protecting the spearmen, and at the same time supplemented by a small number of crossbowmen for long-range killing.

The only 3,000 cavalry that came with the army were also arranged in the formation, but Liu Feng did not let them mount, but each led the war horse to form a column and hid it in the hands of the spearman.

Once the time is ripe, these 3,000 cavalry will definitely be able to launch a fatal blow to Liu Beijun's army.

The sound of war drums sounded like thunder, and when I looked into the distance, I saw that in the enemy formation opposite, the military flag was waving, and the fish scale array composed of more than 10,000 horsemen slowly advanced towards the direction of the Chinese army where Liu Feng was.

The huge iron shield, layered on top of each other, like impermeable fish scales, reflected a dazzling silver light when the sun shone brightly.

From a distance, it seemed that dozens of giant turtles were slowly creeping up, and the hard tortoise shells composed of iron shields hid all the enemies under them.

"Is this Ma Chao's fish scale array, it's really amazing......"

Liu Feng secretly praised, but calmly ordered: "Pass my order, and the whole army is ready to fight." ”

The banner of the Chinese army swayed, and the military marquis scouts rushed back and forth, conveying the commander's orders layer by layer.

100,000 soldiers clenched their weapons tightly, and they were apprehensive, but determined, ready to meet the onslaught of the enemy cavalry.

300 steps...... Two hundred steps...... The Xiliang Legion soon entered the range of long-range weapons, and as the sound of war drums intensified, the archers drew their bows and fired diagonally, and the first wave of arrows roared out.

As Liu Feng imagined, the rain of arrows as dense as flying locusts could not penetrate the enemy's iron shield at all, and after the enemy shield was clanging, it was shot off one after another.

This was expected, although Liu Feng knew that it was ineffective, he still pretended to let the archer launch a long shot, in order to confuse Ma Chao and make him not know that he was prepared.

Giant turtles are moving forward easily in the face of the rain of arrows, as if enjoying the baptism of raindrops.

One hundred steps...... Seventy steps...... The fish scale array has finally entered the effective killing range of the strong crossbow.

The flag swayed, and the beat of the drums suddenly became urgent.

Five thousand crossbowmen lifted the powerful crossbow that had already opened the strings, and in the blink of an eye, countless crossbow arrows burst out of the air.

(To be continued)