A Han army colonel came to Dong Zhuo's car, knelt on one knee, and reported in a loud voice:

"Twelve miles behind, I found a thief army, about a thousand people, attacking this formation!"

Dong Zhuo's eyebrows furrowed, feeling a little strange.

The decisive battle between the two armies is a matter of great importance, and everything must naturally be done carefully. In order to prevent accidents, Dong Zhuo sent all the scouts in his hands out, covering the surrounding twenty miles, to investigate every move around. On the open Jizhou Plain, this small army of 1,000 moths and thieves was able to avoid the Han army's tight scout spy network and came to a place only twelve miles away from the army, which can be called a rare elite moth thief army.

- So, let's let you die a glorious death!

After just a little thought, Dong Zhuo made a decision.

"Order, let Yan Liang's subordinates go to the battle!"

Yan Liang's character is beautiful, this person is a local tyrant born in Fuliu County, Anping State, more than eight feet five inches tall, and has extraordinary bravery, although he is only twenty-five years old, but the height of his strength is no less than Hua Xiong and Hua Boying.

Because of Yan Liang's amazing strength and great prestige in the countryside, most of the light heroes around him have taken refuge in him. Therefore, among the nearly 100 Jizhou heroes who flocked to fight against the Yellow Turban Army, Yan Liang's department reached 1,500 people. Although his subordinates are not the largest in number, they are definitely the strongest in battle, and they are highly valued by Dong Zhuo.

If it weren't for the fact that Yan Liang had no intention of leaving his hometown and seeking development under his own hands, Dong Zhuo would definitely write to the imperial court and remove Yan Liang from his command.

- With Yan Liang out of the horse, although the attacking moth thief is strong, it will not cause any storms. It's just that, in this way, your own reserve forces will inevitably be weakened a little......

Seeing that Yan Liang's troops began to mobilize, Dong Zhuo put his mind back to the battle on the front line. Under the leadership of Hua Xiong, the forward "Trap Warrior" has broken through the second defensive position of the Yellow Turban Army and is launching a breakthrough to the third position!

Hua Xiong's armor was full of enemy blood. He gasped for air, hurrying to regain his strength. Even a fierce general at the level of "1,000 people broken" or even "10,000 enemies" is not invincible in a large-scale battle with surging crowds. No matter how good a person's physical strength is and how high his force is, in the face of a bloody battlefield full of dangers, it is impossible for him to really be one of the hundred.

Hua Xiong was able to kill twenty or thirty people in a single assault, and only paid the price of a slight injury to his arm, and he was already the top general in the "Thousand People Break". But after a successful assault, he also had to retreat to the rear of the line to rest for a while. When he recovers, Hua Xiong can continue to participate in the next assault.

To be able to get such brilliant results, it is also due to the lack of brave and strong men in the Yellow Turban Army. The military formation formed by ordinary soldiers is of course unstoppable in the face of the assault of the "Thousand People Breaking" first-level powerhouse. However, if there is a "Hundred People Slash" in the military formation that is one level worse than the opponent as an opponent, even if it is a strong "Thousand People Break", it may not be able to break the formation smoothly.

Under normal circumstances, a "Thousand People Break" fierce general will kill a "Hundred People Chop" in a heads-up, which is about a matter of five or ten moves. However, with the help of a tightly integrated military formation, one "hundred people beheaded" was enough to drag down the "thousand people broken", and relying on the soldiers who were constantly replenished around him, he barely maintained his own military formation from collapsing.

If there are two "100 people slashing" in the face of the "1000 people breaking", then under the joint resistance of the two "100 people slashing", the "1000 people breaking" must have good luck or pay enough price to have the possibility of breaking through the opponent's military formation. It's a pity that most of the Yellow Turban Army are poor people from the countryside, and even if it is a "ten-person killing", it is possible to mix up to the level of Xiaoshuai.

In the face of Hua Xiong, who was at the peak of the "Thousand People Break", the Yellow Turban Army had no good players who could resist three or five moves, and the military formation drill was not skilled enough, so it naturally couldn't resist the breakthrough led by Hua Xiong.

However, Huaxiong's current situation can by no means be easy. Physical exertion is one thing, and the high morale of the Yellow Turban Army is the biggest threat to the entire "trapped soldiers".

With the prestige blessing of the "Tiangong General", the fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army has been greatly improved. In the face of the "trapping soldiers" who had absolute superiority in combat power, those fanatical Yellow Turban troops were not afraid and launched counterattacks one after another.

After fighting in these two positions, Hua Xiong struck one after another, and he alone killed no less than fifty enemies, which can be regarded as defeating the arrogance of the Yellow Turban Army. After a rough estimate of the casualties of the Yellow Turban Army, even those who were as brave as Huaxiong couldn't help but be shocked.

The collapse of these Yellow Turban Corps occurred when the casualties reached more than thirty percent!

It's horrible!

Hua Xiong has been in the army for nearly ten years, and he has never seen what army can achieve such a high casualty tolerance rate. Even if he thought that the most elite Liangzhou Iron Cavalry in his heart, once the casualties reached 20%, the morale would become uncontrollable!

With these cognitions, Hua Xiong couldn't help but feel a chill rise from the soles of his feet.

It's not fighting people, it's fighting a bunch of crazy people!

"Huang Tian should stand!"

"The world is lucky!"

Another wave of Yellow Turban troops swarmed up and launched a tidal attack on the Han army.

"Ball!"

After all, Hua Xiong was a fierce general who was killed in the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, spit out a mouthful of spit, cursed, beckoned his subordinates, and killed fearlessly again. Hua Xiong didn't believe that these moth thieves were really not afraid of death. As long as you kill hard enough, enough and enough, you can finally crush the enemy!

The war drums in the rear rumbled, driving the soldiers on the entire front to move forward steadily. First there was a point of coincidence, and then there was contact in many places, and with the collision of the two armies' fronts, the Han army and the Yellow Turban Army finally started a battle on the whole front.

The Han army was significantly more elite than the Yellow Turban Army, and the casualty ratio in positional battles was much lower than that of the Yellow Turban Army. The military literacy of the Yellow Turban Army is relatively poor, and it can only be lined up in a simple basic formation. Fortunately, with the blessing of the name of "General Tiangong", the Yellow Turban wrestlers were brave and fearless, and for a while, they were on par with the enemy.

For a while, the war fell into a stalemate.

Zhang Liang sat on the handsome platform, methodically directing the advance and retreat of tens of thousands of troops. However, his expression was not very good. The combat effectiveness of the Han army in this battle was quite unexpected by Zhang Liang.

Although the number of people was only one-third of the Yellow Turban Army participating in the battle, in the face of the high morale of the Yellow Turban Army, these Han troops, who had just experienced the turmoil of changing commanders, still showed great tenacity.

The Yellow Turban Army on the front line, from time to time, had battalion leaders one by one, but they withdrew because of too many casualties and demoralization collapsed. Although at the moment, because the battalion head in the rear was replenished in time, and then on top, it was able to keep the battle line unchanged. However, as time goes on, the situation continues, and the whole situation will slide in an unfavorable direction.

But what can Zhang Liang do?

In addition to adding fuel to the front line, Zhang Liang also had nothing to do about adding the reserve forces in the rear, one battalion after another.

This is a head-on battle.

There's no room for strategy. The victory or defeat of the two armies depends entirely on the strength of both sides. What kind of ghost schemes such as outflanking the two wings and attacking the east and the west will not work at all at this moment.

For example, the two 10,000-strong armies sent out by Zhang Liang in advance to return to the flank of the Han army will be able to enter the combat position at least two hours later. Until then, the flank outflanking army, which had a combined number of 30,000, had no effect on the entire battle situation at all.

In a head-to-head battle, only the strongest man wins.

So much for.

However, although there was some anxiety on his face, Zhang Liang did not show any panic. This battle is actually a must-win. Because, his eldest brother Zhang Jiao has already made it clear that he will personally take action to turn the tide of the war.

With the guarantee of the eldest brother, Zhang Liang had no doubts about the final victory. His anxiety is nothing more than a kind of self-blame for his lack of command ability.

In the battle just now, Zhang Liang looked at the gradually decreasing banners in the rear, and couldn't help but regret the tactics of sending 30,000 troops on both wings to outflank the enemy. After all, the infantry walked too slowly. The most suitable thing to do in a roundabout way is the cavalry known as the "clutch soldiers".

It's a pity that in the entire Jizhou Yellow Turban Army, even if you add the number of generals and colonels at all levels and their own soldiers, the total number of all cavalry is only in the early 5,000s.

- Perhaps, it would be more beneficial to the situation of the war to send out the troops on both wings, leaving 10,000 more troops?

In this kind of self-blame, Zhang Liang suddenly remembered his nephew Zhang Yan, who attacked recklessly and returned with serious injuries. It's a pity that there are too few horses, otherwise if you send a cavalry of 5,000 people, the effect of roundabout flanks will be much stronger than that of 30,000 infantry!

It's strange to say. Just when the drums of war were noisy and the soldiers on both sides were fighting for their lives, Zhang Liang's thoughts could still spread like a cloud of green smoke.

In Zhang's next generation, there are not many talents. This nephew Zhang Yan can be regarded as a rare talent in the younger generation. If he dies in this battle, it can be regarded as a big loss for the Julu Zhang clan.

Thinking of Zhang Yan, Zhang Liang couldn't help but jump his thoughts to another Zhang disciple.

——I heard from the second brother that the arrogant kid seems to be quite famous in the Xu and Yan areas recently. Legend has it that the kid didn't know where to find a "10,000-strong enemy" as a subordinate, and in the Xu and Yan areas, he made a lot of majestic achievements......

ps: 1 removal, also known as "repellent", "recall". It refers to the system of appointing subordinate officials to high-ranking officials in the Han Dynasty. The supreme chief executive of the central government, such as the three dukes, and the magistrates, such as the governor and the county guard, could appoint their own subordinates and then recommend them to the imperial court. Dong Zhuo, as the commander of the first army, naturally has the right to get rid of his subordinates.