Xu Rong was slightly stunned, put it to death and then live, isn't it written in the book of war, why would the lord question it?

Liu Ze smiled slightly and said: "If you want to live on the battlefield, in addition to letting the enemy fall, you can also live by bending your knees and surrendering." Now the Huainan army lacks food and clothing, morale is low, the army has no belief in victory at all, even if Ji Ling cuts off the back road, it is not enough to improve morale, but it increases the soldiers' fear of death, as long as our army succeeds in a battle, let Yuan Bing feel the strong strength of our army, feel the threat of death, and then shout the slogan of 'those who surrender will not die', the collapse of the Huainan army will only be in a moment. ”

Xu Rong came to his senses, and said convincingly: "The lord has a high opinion." ”

So Liu Ze ordered that anyone who laid down his arms in Yuan Jun was not allowed to be tortured and killed.

At this time, the Chinese officer came in and reported: "Qi Lord, the enemy general Ji Ling led the army to call for battle in front of the battalion." ”

Liu Ze nodded, and said in a deep voice: "The armies listen to the order and go out of the village to fight!" ”

The two armies faced each other, and Lei Bo took the initiative to ask for battle: "General, the last general is willing to go out to battle first to find out the reality of the enemy's army." ”

Ji Ling snorted coldly and said: "Today's work is done in one battle, if this general does not go out in person, how can he boost morale, you two are right and suppress the formation, see how to break the enemy today!" As he spoke, Ji Ling took out a three-pointed two-edged knife, and Pegasus rushed to the front of the formation, shouting loudly and shouting.

Zhao Yun was about to raise a gun to fight, Xu Rong said: "Use a knife to kill chickens, General Zhao will rest less, and Xu will meet this Ji Ling." With Liu Ze's consent, Xu Rong shot his horse and took Ji Ling directly.

Ji Ling squinted and said, "Liu Ze Xiao'er, dare to offend my Dachen national boundary." I really don't know whether to live or die! You report your name, and a certain knife will not kill the nameless! ”

Xu Rong took a sip and said: "Traitorous thief, dare to be so rampant, my lord is in the edict of the Son of Heaven to fight against thieves and rebels, if you know the current affairs, hurry up and get off the horse and surrender early, otherwise you will be guilty of the same crime as the traitor Yuan Shu, and the crime will be unforgivable!" ”

Ji Ling was furious and slapped his horse and danced with a knife. Take Xu Rong directly. Xu Rong raised his gun and returned the fight, and the two of them fought together. Both sides were shaking and shouting, beating drums and cheering,

The two fought for more than 30 rounds. Xu Rong shook a shot. Turn the horse's head. Deceived and left.

Ji Ling laughed and said, "A group of rats! Raising the three-pointed two-edged knife high, and with an order, the Huainan soldiers rushed up like a tide. rushed towards the position of the Xuzhou army.

The Huainan soldiers took advantage of the situation and came with a fierce momentum, Liu Ze was not in a hurry, and ordered the rear team to become the front team, and the front team to become the rear team, and slowly retreated. The First Army is all veterans of the plains, who have been in battle for a long time, and there are rules for advancing and retreating. When retreating, the sword and shield soldiers of the rear team are at the end, slowly retreating, effectively defending against the attack of the enemy archers, and the pikemen are covering behind the sword and shield soldiers, once the enemy infantry is approaching, the spears can instantly penetrate through the gaps in the shield, giving the enemy soldiers a plan, and the archers are lined up behind the sword and shield soldiers and pikemen, waiting for the opportunity to shoot a qiē pursuing enemy.

If the Yuan army pursues according to the established phalanx formation, the shield soldiers and spearmen cooperate with each other, and they can effectively resist the threat of archers, but in this way, the speed of the attack will be greatly reduced, Ji Ling saw that Xuzhou wanted to retreat, so he ordered the Yuan army to attack the whole line and launch a fierce attack on the rear guard of the Xuzhou army. In this way, the phalanx formation of the Yuan army can not be maintained, each team of men and horses fights separately, the pikemen and archers and crossbowmen have become the live targets of the opponent's archers under the protection of the shield soldiers, although the retreat speed of the Xuzhou army is not fast, the forward troops of the Yuan army can be pursued very lightly, but these stragglers seem to be difficult to approach the rear of the Xuzhou army, just approaching within the range of 100 steps, encountered a dense arrow blow like a rainstorm, rushed to the front of the muffled snort, have been hit by arrows to the ground. Even if a few lucky soldiers were able to dodge the rain of arrows, they had no chance to break through the defense when they rushed under that row of strong shield walls, and were killed by the opponent's elusive spears.

The Xuzhou army fought and retreated, and a large area of the battlefield was full of soldiers' corpses, and the corpses of these soldiers were mostly from the Huainan army. The attack of Yuan's army was blocked, and the momentum that had just risen was depressed again, and many soldiers began to cower and retreat, not daring to rush to the front again.

Ji Ling was so angry that his nose was crooked, it was obviously his own strength that was superior, and it was obviously his own side that took the offensive, but Liu Ze's army was like a thick turtle shell, no matter how you beat it, it couldn't break through this layer of defense. Ji Ling has fought countless battles, but he really hasn't fought such a bad battle, it seems that he is pressing the Xuzhou army to fight, but it is his own team that has suffered heavy losses, and he has attacked desperately for a long time, and he has not hurt the fur of the Xuzhou army.

Today for Ji Ling, it is definitely a victory that cannot be defeated, with his back to the river and the battle, it can be said that Ji Ling has no way to retreat, and if he can't win, there is only a dead end! So today Ji Ling was the first to go to battle, and the morale of his army was to drum up the morale of his army, that is, he wanted to take down Liu Ze in one go, and sure enough, as soon as he entered the fight, Ji Ling won the first battle, and then attacked the whole line, in a vain attempt to defeat the Xuzhou army in one fell swoop.

But according to Liu Ze's intention to confront Mai Mang with him, as soon as the Huainan army attacked on all fronts, his side immediately retreated on the whole line, and when the army retreated, the army was neat and tidy, step by step, leaving no flaws for the Huainan army. The feeling to Ji Ling was that he was holding a blunt knife to cut the meat, and there was nowhere to exert force, and the knife that seemed to be bright and dangling was raised high and fell on the piece of meat, but it only left a shallow trace, and even the flesh skin was not cut.

Ji Ling was unwilling, he knew that if he couldn't win all the victories today, his fate would be miserable, so Ji Ling shouted angrily, waved his knife and slashed two military marquis who were afraid of the battle and retreated, and ordered the armies to press on the whole line, in a vain attempt to use the tactics of the sea of people to break the defense line of the Xuzhou army.

Under the supervision of Ji Ling, the Huainan Army regained its morale and desperately attacked the rear of the Xuzhou Army, braving the rain of arrows, and finally broke through the rear guard defense line of the Xuzhou Army, and the two armies were finally strangled in one place.

Ji Ling secretly let out a long breath, as long as he entered the melee, no matter how high the individual soldiers of the Xuzhou Army were, it would be difficult for them to defeat the four hands with two fists, and the advantage of their own soldiers could be fully brought into play, and the balance of victory and defeat would inevitably tilt towards their side.

The battlefield has fallen into a melee, the Xuzhou army fought and retreated, the Huainan army pursued the longer the battle line was stretched, and unconsciously, the Huainan army had chased out several miles away, and between the front team and the rear team, it was also stretched into the shape of a long strip. Ji Ling was bent on directing the army to pursue the Xuzhou army, and he didn't realize that there was a huge loophole in his camp.

At this moment, but in the direction of the east, as soon as the cannon sounded, thousands of horsemen swarmed out, like a ninth-level whirlwind blowing between the flat ground, blocking the waist and rushing towards the line of Yuan's army. The commander of this cavalry is the chief soldier Guan Hai of the First Cavalry Division of the Xuzhou Army, and the First Cavalry Division is also the world-famous Liu family archer cavalry.

The speed of the archers is as fast as lightning, but what is faster than the archers is the arrows they shoot, from entering the range of the longbow to the time of entering the Yuan army, the archers can use the longbow to shoot two arrows and three arrows with the compound short bow in a few dozen breaths. These arrows are as dense as a shower, by virtue of the horse speed of the archers, more fierce and more penetrating, at this time the Huainan soldiers are under the order of Ji Ling, quickly moving forward, attacking the rear guard of the Xuzhou army, the front is too long, the flanks are also lacking protection, and the archers appear on the flanks like a nightmare at this time, just five rounds of arrow rain strikes, has caused a dead fan.

Before Yuan Bing could come to his senses, the archers had already put away their compound bows, drew their sabers, and crashed into Yuan Jun's camp with a roar. The cavalry has an innate advantage against the infantry, and if the infantry is in a neat line, it can barely resist the impact of the cavalry with a spear formation. But at this time, the right flank of the Yuan army had not formed a formation, and with the blows of those rounds of arrow rain, the archers had not yet rushed up, and the right flank of the Yuan army was basically disabled. The archers did not give Yuan Bing any respite at all, and slashed and slaughtered in Yuan's camp like a whirlwind, as if entering a no-man's land.

At the same time, Chen Zhi led the 2nd Infantry Division from the West Bread and launched an attack on the left flank of Yuan's army. The Yuan army on the right flank was quickly thrown into disarray under the blows of the archers, and at this time, the left flank was attacked again, and the entire Yuan army was completely disorganized.

Ji Ling, who received the report, was taken aback, and urgently ordered to shrink the formation and counterattack.

The front team received the order to retreat, and the pursuit offensive against the Xuzhou army was immediately stopped. At this time, Xu Rong's 1st Infantry Division also immediately stopped retreating and launched a counterattack at the first time. These soldiers were all well-trained, and from retreat to counteroffensive, it only took a few breaths to complete the transition, and there was hardly any sense of pause, and the overall front pressed up against the Yuan army line like a tide.

The movements of the Xuzhou army were swift, and several armies were like a few sharp knives, blistering and dissolving cattle, and in an instant, the 50,000 Yuan army was dismembered into several pieces that were not connected with each other, and they were eaten away one by one.

Although Ji Ling gave the order to shrink the formation, this order could not be conveyed at all, and the Yuan army, which was divided and surrounded by the Xuzhou army, could not receive Ji Ling's order at all, and even if it was received, it could not be executed. (To be continued......)