Cheng Pu was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, trying hard to organize his subordinates to carry out an effective counterattack, but he could not succeed. Zhang Liao's battlefield intuition was very keen, and he led his soldiers to rush and kill bravely, so that Cheng Pu failed to organize an effective counterattack from beginning to end.

In the battle, the vanguard troops led by Cheng Pu were defeated and lost.

However, this Cheng Pu is also a person with rich battlefield experience, and he has also followed Sun Jian on the Xiliang battlefield, after all, he is not easy to match, and he is not a soft persimmon that can be slaughtered by others.

At the most critical juncture of the battle, Cheng Pu finally took out the real skills he had accumulated over many years of study in marching and fighting, this guy was also a ruthless character, at the critical moment, the strong man broke his wrist, commanded a group of men and horses, and after the desperate break, he led his troops to break through and buy a certain amount of time.

Zhang Liao led 2,500 cavalry, and when it was just dark, when Cheng Pu, the vanguard of Sun Jian's army, was leading the army to set up camp and relax his defenses, he suddenly launched an attack and raided the 5,000 men and horses led by Cheng Pu.

Zhang Liao won a great victory in this battle, and the losses of his troops were negligible, killing more than 2,000 people and capturing more than 1,000 people. Even the four fine works that were previously detained by Cheng Pu were rescued.

Cheng Pu only broke through with more than 1,000 people, and Zhang Liao saw that it was too late and the strategic purpose of this battle had been achieved, so he did not pursue. He led the army to escort the prisoners, as well as the captured grain and grass, and returned victoriously.

In this battle, Zhang Liao also made full use of the fact that Cheng Pujun was unfamiliar with the terrain when he first arrived.

The battlefield of this battle was in Linru Town, east of Liang County. Linru Town is hilly terrain, high and low, very suitable for cavalry combat, and Zhang Liao led the men and horses to hide in a small mountain col and low-lying place, not far from Cheng Pu's army, only a few miles away, just enough to block the rangers coming from the direction of Cheng Pu's army, so Cheng Pu will be fooled and relax his vigilance.

Originally, Zhang Liao still had a chance to annihilate Cheng Pu's army and kill Cheng Pu, but at the critical moment, he was blocked by Cheng Pu's deputy general and some people who dared to die, so that Cheng Pu had a chance to get on the horse.

Among the 5,000 men and horses in the vanguard led by Cheng Pu, there were 500 cavalry. Cheng Pu's lieutenant general, after giving Cheng Pu a chance, Cheng Pu immediately commanded the cavalry to get on the horse, and then broke through, along the way Cheng Pu commanded the cavalry, constantly turning back to harass the cavalry pursued by Zhang Liao, covering the main general Cheng Pu and some foot soldiers to break through.

Even so, only two hundred horsemen of the five hundred cavalry ran out.

On the contrary, it was the foot soldiers who were taken out by Cheng Pu and took out eight or nine hundred people.

Zhang Liao was also very annoyed by this, and commanded his subordinates to kill all the broken descendants led by Deputy General Cheng Pu.

In fact, it is not to blame Zhang Liao for being cruel, the people and horses left by Cheng Pu are all people who dare to die, with firm determination and very tenacious combat effectiveness, if they are merciful to them, it will inevitably cause some unnecessary losses, which Zhang Liao does not want to see.

After Zhang Liao's victory, he was very happy and happy.

This can be regarded as the first time that Zhang Liao led the troops to fight independently, standing alone. Although he had led two or three thousand, or even five thousand, men and horses before, he was under the command of others and cooperated with the battle by himself.

This time he sent out the army, Zhang Liao can be regarded as a good start, and he has been able to stand up in the army since then, and his righteous brother has a bright face, and he is not afraid of others questioning him when the time comes, saying that he is relying on the special relationship between him and Dong Shouye to serve in the army, so that his righteous brother can also be a good person.

So he led the men and horses back to the Chinese army Dazhai overnight.

Zhang Liao arrived outside the Chinese army Dazhai, the time was already past the hour (after eleven o'clock in the night), but found that Dong Shouye and Jia Xu were waiting for him at the camp gate, it was the third day of the second month, although it was already spring, and the sun shone in the daytime when it was warm and did not feel any chill.

But it's still very cold at night, similar to winter. This move immediately moved Zhang Liao.

At this time, after the secret sentry around the camp gate, the guards and the others confronted Zhang Liao, and put Zhang Liao's men and horses in.

So Zhang Liao clamped his legs between the horse's belly, trotted up under his mount, and ran towards Dong Shouye.

When he was about fifty meters away from Dong Shouye, he jumped off the horse, walked quickly in front of Dong Shouye and Jia Xu, knelt on one knee, and said: "The last general is fortunate not to be dishonored, defeated Sun Jian's vanguard Cheng Pu, returned victorious, and came to restore his life." ”

Dong Shouye helped Zhang Liao up and said: "Second brother, please hurry up, this time the second brother won the flag, and gave our Xiliang Army a good start, it really increased the prestige of our army, see if Sun Jian dares to be arrogant in the future, the second brother has worked hard!" ”

At this time, Jia Xu said: "Childe, now that General Wenyuan has returned victoriously, he can rest assured now!" ”

Dong Shouye was in a very happy mood now, and asked again: "Seeing that the second brother has won a complete victory this time, I don't know how the casualties of the second brother's troops were?" ”

Zhang Liao replied with a radiant look: "This time, the last general took advantage of the terrain to hide less than two miles away from him, conceal the spies in the Cheng Pu army, and take advantage of Cheng Pu's command to set up camp and attack when his precautions were lax. Cheng Pu was caught off guard and failed to organize an effective counterattack, so the losses were minimal, almost insignificant. ”

looked at Zhang Liao and found that there was no scar on his body, but there was a little blood on his face, which was estimated to be from the enemy, his eyes were bloodshot, and his face was excited and proud.

Suddenly relieved, the two brothers glanced at each other, and they were all silent.

However, it was said that Sun Jian led the army, which was also near Rushui, forty or fifty miles away from the vanguard army.

Therefore, when Zhang Liao attacked the vanguard led by Cheng Pu, he chose to fight quickly when it was dark, and after he succeeded, he did not pursue. Nor did they camp in the local area to rest, but returned decisively.

At this time, Sun Jian was not as happy as Zhang Liao, but was furious and roared in the Chinese military tent.

I saw that this guy was almost so angry that he was about to overturn the case of the handsome position, but fortunately he was persuaded by his younger brother Sun Jing.

Sun Jian said to his younger brother Sun Jing: "Youtai, I didn't expect that Dong Zhuo's old thief gave birth to a good son, so sharp-toothed, arrogant and arrogant, you look at the letter he wrote to me, what is the greeting to me, which sentence in this letter is to greet me, this is a naked provocation, this is simply a war letter!" ”

After speaking, he handed the letter written by Dong Shouye to Sun Jing in his hand.

Sun Jing took it and took a look, and sure enough, it was the same as what her eldest brother said.

Dong Shouye sneered at Sun Jian in the letter, and tried his best to challenge, so he persuaded: "Second brother, why do you bother with a hairy child, this Dong Bai is only nineteen years old now, not yet the crown, and Bo Fu is about the same age, and he is not a few years older than Bo Fu." ”