After Wan Bing received Wu Huan's urgent report, he didn't think so, and said with a smile: "It's just a small trick of carving insects, how can it be difficult to hide from Ben Shuai?" The main force of officers and soldiers is stationed in Linyi, and the ferries are gathered in Chiping, how can they cross the river in Baima? It's just the plan of the old thief of the emperor to attack the west, so he wants to trick the marshal into returning to the white horse, transferring the tiger away from the mountain and then crossing the river in Chiping, how could the marshal fall into his plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain? The white horse is only a thousand officers and soldiers crossing the river, and Wu Huan's subordinates still have tens of thousands of troops and horses, why can't even this thousand people be handled? Go back and tell Wu Huan, quickly pacify this small group of officers and soldiers, so that he doesn't have to worry, the real intention of the old thief of Huangfu is still in Chiping, don't be confused by these little tricks of the officers and soldiers. Wan Bing determined that the main direction of attack of the officers and soldiers was Chiping, so he did not send a single soldier to Baima.

Wu Huan couldn't wait for Wan Bing's reinforcements, but the soldiers and horses of several ferries in the east were ordered to come, and there were almost 30,000 people in his headquarters, and 30,000 people were used to fight 1,000 people, Wu Huan was also full of confidence, and with an order, the Yellow Turban soldiers attacked the beachhead held by Liu Ze in a mighty way.

At this time, Liu Ze had already controlled the highest high ground on the north bank, condescendingly, seeing the Yellow Turban soldiers gathering like ants, and his team had already fought hard all night and was slightly tired, but now was not the time to rest.

Liu Ze shouted: "Array!" A few days before crossing the river, Liu Ze specially arranged a set of formations, Huangfu Song appointed 500 people to come, Liu Ze specially selected 250 pikemen and sword and shield soldiers, and the sword and shield soldiers formed a circle with shields, and the pikemen put the spears on the shoulders of the sword and shield soldiers, and the archers stood on the high place behind them. Because this formation resembles a barrel, Liu Ze named it "Iron Bucket Array".

Huge shields were erected. Construct a shield wall, once the Yellow Turbans approach. The archers in the formation can fire their bows and arrows with impunity, even if any of the Yellow Turbans can rush under the shield wall. Spears pierced from behind the shield wall killed souls. The Yellow Turbans had no armor protection, no large numbers of archers and cavalry, and for such an iron bucket array, even a large number of soldiers could hardly break through its defenses.

Liu Ze's choice of such a formation seems clumsy, but it is quite practical, and there is also an open space in the center of the formation, which is specially used to free up for the wounded soldiers to recuperate and let the soldiers in front take turns to rest and eat. Here there were more than a dozen hours of continuous fighting, if the soldiers did not get rest and food replenishment. Even an iron man will collapse. Liu Ze organized all the fighters into three shifts, two shifts on duty and one shift for rest, and one hour of rest after two hours of combat. Liu Ze ordered Guan Hai and Wu Anguo to command the formation, fought hard all night, and rushed to kill Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in front of them to eat and rest.

The shields were quickly erected, and a huge circular position was built in an instant, and the Yellow Turban soldiers who came like a tide surrounded this iron bucket array, and Wu Huan gave an order, and the Yellow Turban soldiers rushed up with a shout. Arrows rained down from the array. The Yellow Turban soldiers who were charging in front were immediately shot over countless times, and many Yellow Turban soldiers who were afraid of death retreated, trampling on each other and making a mess. Wu Huan was furious. It took a few deserters to stop the retreat of the Yellow Turbans.

Braving a rain of arrows, the Yellow Turbans rushed under the shield wall with the corpses of their companions. Only then did they sadly find that with the rudimentary weapons in their hands. And how can this strong shield wall be broken? And behind the shield wall, there are sharp spears. As soon as they approached the shield wall, they would suddenly stab through the cracks in the shield wall, pierce their flesh, and take their lives, and the shield wall became a literal wall of death.

After a whole day of fierce fighting, the iron bucket array stood still, and the corpses of the Yellow Turban soldiers in front of the battle were already piled up like a mountain, only within the range of the archers, they were lying full of corpses, and the corpses in front of the shield wall were even more layered. Wu Huan's voice was almost hoarse, 30,000 people attacked in turn, and after a day, he was actually blocked by this shield wall, and he couldn't move forward, he couldn't believe it, was there still flesh and blood behind this shield? Don't they have to eat, they don't have to drink, they don't have to sleep?

Wu Huan couldn't know that Liu Ze lined up in three classes, and now it was Class A and Class B that were lined up, and Class C, who had just retreated, was sleeping on the soft sand, although the Jin Ge Iron Horse outside shouted to kill the heavens, but it did not affect the sleep quality of the soldiers of Class C at all, and they fought to the death for two hours in a row, and the soldiers' bodies were already strictly overdrawn, and timely supplemental food and sleep became a powerful guarantee for restoring combat effectiveness. At this time, after an hour's rest, the soldiers of Class A, who had just taken over from the front line of the battle, were now high-spirited and energetic, fighting side by side with the soldiers of Class B who had not yet shown their fatigue, blocking the enemy from outside the shield wall.

The biggest advantage of forming an iron bucket formation is that your casualties are greatly reduced, the Yellow Turban soldiers cannot break through the shield wall and naturally cannot cause damage to their own personnel, and the archers with long-range attack capabilities have no worries at this time, and do their best to open their bows and arrows. The weakness of archers is that they cannot get caught up in melee combat, once they get into hand-to-hand combat, they will not be able to use their bows, and their protection is extremely weak, and they cannot defend themselves against attacks from other classes in melee combat. At this time, the sword and shield soldiers and pikemen formed an impermeable defense line, building a safe barrier for the archers behind them, and the archers no longer had to fall into close combat, they could effectively hit the enemy with arrows at will, and for a whole day, Liu Ze's five hundred archers had shot tens of thousands of arrows, causing terrible damage to the Yellow Turban Army.

After nightfall, the battle continued, Wu Huan was unwilling to lose, and ordered the Yellow Turban soldiers to light torches, and once again launched a group charge, pouring all his strength to tear a hole. Liu Ze also ordered someone to light the torch, which shone like day. The Yellow Turbans carried the trunks of a few freshly cut trees and sprinted towards the shield wall. Arrows like locusts kept knocking down the charging Yellow Turbans, but some of the Yellow Turbans rushed in front of the shield wall, carrying their thick tree trunks and crashing into the shield wall. After several impacts, finally this piece of shield wall could not hold on, and collapsed in an uproar, forming a gap.

Wu Huan was overjoyed, as if he had seen the dawn of victory, and ordered the Yellow Turban soldiers to rush towards the gap. Before they could rush to the gap, they heard a loud shout from the array, Zhang Fei rushed out first, and the Zhangba snake spear was in his hand, and he stabbed and skewed, stringing the few yellow turban soldiers who rushed to the front with sugar gourds. Zhang Fei strode forward, he didn't cut anyone for a day, and now he came to the spirit, like a mad tiger, blocking the Yellow Turban soldiers who came like a tide out of the shield wall.

The shield wall, which had been quickly crushed, stood up again, tightly fitting and impermeable. Zhang Fei, under Liu Ze's order, stabbed several people one after another and then reluctantly retreated into the formation. After doing this several times, Wu Huan gradually lost confidence, and it seemed that the death squad that wanted to eat Liu Ze was undoubtedly a fool's dream. After midnight, the Yellow Turban Army's offensive became weaker and weaker, and the shouts of killing gradually became inaudible.

At the beginning of the dawn, Min Gong sighed, and after twelve hours of day and night fighting, the ten-mile pontoon bridge was finally built. Cao Cao led his troops and horses to be the first to cross the pontoon bridge and rush to the north bank of the Yellow River.

At this moment, the Yellow Turban Army has already been dragged by Liu Ze's iron bucket array is exhausted, and has no fighting spirit, and now the officers and soldiers of the brigade have been killed, how can they resist it, and before Cao Cao's men and horses are killed, the Yellow Turban Army has already been overwhelmed and fled. Wu Huan saw that the general trend had gone, and he understood that if he resisted now, it would be tantamount to a moth to a fire, and led his troops to flee to Liyang in a hurry.

Huangfu Song also crossed the river at this time, Liu Ze dispersed the iron bucket array, and replied to Huangfu Song's horse: "Return to the general, the last general is fortunate not to be dishonored." ”

Huangfu Song said happily: "This time the white horse crossed the river, Runde has made the first contribution. There is also Min Taishou, who also made great contributions, and fortunately thanks to the generals' lives, our army was able to cross the river with the whole division. ”

Liu Zedao: "Although the last general has a small merit, but he does not dare to specialize, this time thanks to Brother Mengde's plan to attack the east and west, the main force of the Yellow Turban Army Wan Bingbu was transferred to Epingdu, otherwise how could our army win." ”

Cao Cao said on the side: "Runde should not be humble, if it weren't for Runde leading thousands of people to resist the 30,000 Yellow Turban army alone, how could there be today's victory?" ”

Huangfu Song smiled and said: "Don't shirk it, but for those who have merit, the official will play the court and reward the meritorious deeds." Wu Huan fled to Liyang, Wan Bing's commander Huang Turban's main force is still in Leping, our army has now crossed the river, and these two remnants of the bandits must be annihilated as soon as possible. Especially Wu Huan, after escaping to Liyang, he must defend the city and block our army's northward advance to relieve the siege of Yecheng, so first of all, we must solve Wu Huan, take Liyang, and open up the road to the north. ”

When the generals heard this, they said in unison: "Please ask General Huangfu to give an instruction!" ”

Huangfu Song said in a deep voice: "Yanzhou Assassin Shi Zheng Tai listens to the order!" ”

Zheng Tai stepped out and arched his hand: "The end will be." ”

Huangfu Song said: "Order you to lead an army of 30,000 to the east into Leping, and enter the Yellow Turban Wan Bingbu." ”

Zheng Tai received the order and said: "The last general will take the order." ”

Huangfu Song said again: "Cao Cao listens to the order!" ”

Cao Cao turned around and said, "The last general." ”

Huangfu Song said: "Order you to be the vanguard of the front, lead the headquarters of 5,000 people, and set off immediately to take Liyang." ”

Cao Cao said respectfully: "The last general is ordered!" ”

Huangfu looked around at the generals and said, "Generals, return to the camp and quickly count the troops and horses, and march into Liyang with this official." ”

The generals took the order and turned away.

Huangfu Song said to Liu Zedao: "Runde, you have a lot of hard work in this battle, rest in place for a day, and march with the rearguard troops." Liu Ze wanted to say something, Huangfu Song smiled and said: "I know that you and your brothers are iron-blooded warriors, but no matter how strong the warriors are, they also need to rest, you have fought for a day and a night, it is time to take a good rest, let's see you in Liyang City." ”

Since Huangfu Song said so, Liu Ze didn't insist anymore, and arched his hand: "No! (To be continued......)