Two days later, Gongsun Zhan's army and Liu He's army met a few hundred miles north of Fanyang.

As soon as he encountered it, Gongsun Chan ordered his cavalry to attack.

Because the generals under Liu Yu knew Gongsun Zan very well, they knew that this person was bold and reckless, and when he saw a small number of soldiers, he would not stop for a moment and immediately rush to kill, so in the process of marching, everyone was prepared. Now when I see Gongsun Chan ordering an impact, I don't panic.

Watching Gongsun Zhan's cavalry attack horizontally in a goose-shaped formation, like a spark burning the plain, Xian Yufu, Qi Zhou, and Xian Yu Yinshu each led a team of cavalry, like a trident, to meet the enemy vertically.

Tian Chou and Wei Dun, two of Liu Yu's old subordinates, immediately gritted their teeth with hatred after seeing Gongsun Zhan's enemy, and divided their troops into two ways to attack Gongsun Chan from the flanks. Gongsun Zhan, with his martial bravery, did not take everyone in his eyes at all, took the lead and rushed to the front, while the white horse Yicong beside him followed closely behind him, each of them controlled the horse with their legs, and their hands were free to draw a bow and shoot arrows.

Although it was in the galloping gallop, the bows and arrows of these archers were all arrows, and every time the bow and arrow was shot, someone would fall to the ground in response, and he could not afford to fall. However, a small number of soldiers of different races are also masters of horse warfare, and because they were inspired by their own generals, they also suppressed the fear in their hearts when they saw Gongsun Zhan, the evil star of a few different races, and fought bravely to kill the enemy. Immediately, the cavalry teams of both sides were stuck together and entangled.

Gongsun Chan is an invincible master in northern Xinjiang. Therefore, a spear will kill Xian Yu to assist in the hot sweat, if it were not for Qi Zhou and Xian Yuyin on the side. has long been picked off by Gongsun Zhan.

However, the soldiers led by Gongsun Zhan himself were not superior to Liu Hedi's large army. Therefore, it is difficult to achieve victory for a while. At this moment, two armies came to the right of Gongsun Zhan.

It turned out that this was the two armies of Yan Gang and Shan Jing discharged by Gongsun Zhan, and these two armies were originally chasing a cavalry from a grassland alien race that robbed the people at the border pass. Because he heard the scout's report, it was Gongsun Zhan who encountered Liu He's army, and hurriedly rushed to support.

The addition of the two armies of Yan Gang and Shan immediately tilted the balance of victory in favor of Gongsun Zhan's side.

As soon as Yan Zhi saw that the situation was not good, he immediately asked Liu He for instructions to withdraw his troops. Liu Heyi is a scholar who naturally knows nothing about military affairs, but this son is better than his father, he knows that leading troops to fight is his shortcoming, so he handed over everything to Yan Zhi to take care of. Hear it at the moment. Immediately give the order to scatter the army.

Yan Zhi ordered Wu Jin to withdraw his troops. Ordered Xian Yupu and the other three to retreat backwards.

Tian Chou and Otsu were responsible for protecting the flanks of the three armies and slowly retreated.

Yan Zhi ordered the archers in the army to stand by to prevent the red-eyed Gongsun Zan from pursuing. Gongsun Chan saw that there was no chance to take advantage of it. Only angrily shot a bow at the Chinese army of Liu He's army, but it fell halfway because of the distance.

The two sides that were separated retreated ten miles each. Camped.

The next few days. Gongsun Zhan's army came one after another. Yan Zhi wandered around. It also brought in a few teams of alien lands.

The two sides fought dozens of battles, each with its own losses, but it was still a situation where no one could help anyone. And at this very time. Xu Ji's army quietly arrived.

late at night

Gongsun Zhan's camp had settled down, and only the soldiers on the night vigil were still looking in all directions vigilantly.

Yan Gang is the night patrol officer tonight, and at this time he is patrolling all over the camp with his own personal soldiers, after all, the enemy he has faced is the grassland alien race, which likes to raid the army the most, and everything must be done carefully.

Seeing the soldiers on the night vigil, they were all in good spirits. Yan Gang was very satisfied.

But for some reason, Yan Gang's heart is very uncomfortable today, once he felt this way in the past, something very bad would happen.

But most of the night has passed, and the surroundings are still quiet, so Yan Gang also began to secretly scold himself for being suspicious. At this moment, a scream came!

It was from the south side of the camp.

"Enemy attack!" Terrible shouts came and went.

Yan Gang was shocked at first, according to the habit of doing this kind of thing to these aliens on weekdays, what is the situation this time. But Yan Gang immediately ordered his own soldiers to report to Gongsun Zan immediately, while quickly picking up his gun and getting on his horse, and running towards the south camp, but he was still strange in his heart: When did the enemy run to the south of his camp?

He had obviously sown a large number of scouts to reconnoiter the enemy's situation. Does the enemy have another helper?

Suddenly, a thought came to Yan Gang's mind: Xu Ji is now in Renqiu in the south!

At this moment, the soldiers of the large battalion in the south retreated to the rear like a tidal wave, and one by one they were wounded and covered in blood.

Yan Gang pointed a spear at a soldier's throat and shouted, "What's the matter? The soldier was originally anxious to flee for his life, but because of his own life now under this spear, he could only reply with a sad face: "General Yan Gang is the cavalry of Yanzhou. ”

Yan Gang was like being struck by lightning, and he was stunned for a while.

The soldier took the opportunity to run away, Yan Gang came back to his senses at this time, and hurriedly turned around and rode his horse towards Gongsun Zhan's camp and galloped away.

ran out not far away, and bumped into Gongsun Zhan. After Gong quietly asked about the situation, he was so angry that he gritted his teeth and said, "Xu Ji, my Gongsun Chan and you don't share the same day!" After that, Lian Sheng ordered the soldiers around him to assemble a team and fight Xu Ji to the death.

Guan Jing, the strategist beside Gongsun Zhan, said to Gongsun Zhan: "My lord, for the sake of today, we had better retreat to the southwest, after all, it is the closest to Yijing. ”

A sentence reminded Gongsun Zhan, and said in a loud voice: "Yes, yes, Xu Ji's mother is still in my hands, hum, I see how Xu Ji looks at me!" ”

Guan Jing saw that Gongsun Zhan, who had always been stubborn and self-serving, actually followed his advice at this critical moment, and immediately lifted his spirits. He said in a deep voice to Gongsun Zhan: "Also, the two brothers of the main land, Gongsun Fan and Gongsun Yue, are in the west. In the past two days, we have been speeding up our march to this side, and if we have the support of two generals, why should our army be afraid? ”

Gongsun Chan nodded. Yan Gang said in a deep voice: "Please take the first step." I'll break it off! Gongsun Chan said to Yan Gang: "Yan Gang, you have to be careful. The other party is the Yanzhou cavalry, and our army has suffered a big loss under the Yanzhou cavalry. ”

Yan Gang is not an arrogant person who does not know the height of the sky, of course he knows the horror of his opponent.

Originally, the number of Gongsun Zhan's white horse righteousness was far more than that, but in the series of battles with Xu Ji's army a few years ago, he was killed by the Yanzhou cavalry and lost his armor, which has always been a psychological shadow in Gongsun Zhan's army. After Yan Gang asked for a break this time, it was simply a lot of bad luck.

"Don't worry, my subordinates will be careful."

Gongsun Chan nodded, then lit torches and led the army to retreat westward.

Yan Gang immediately began to rein in the army at this time. began to fight back against the Yanzhou army that attacked him fearlessly. The army that was killed by the Yanzhou army in front and scattered Gongsun Zhan still came from the front like a tide.

Yan Gang organized his army and began to shoot bows and arrows at the opposite side.

Shoot indiscriminately!

The soldiers of Gongsun Zhan, who had been on the run, suddenly found that they were also dead in front of them, and they began to scatter and flee. Stomping on each other. Once the situation is out of control, it will also play a role in hindering the Yanzhou army.

Yan Gangdi didn't have the slightest joy in his heart, not to mention how much this kind of action would hinder the Yanzhou army, but only one thing. After all, these soldiers are their own people.

Look back. Yan Gang found that Gongsun Zhan's army was getting farther and farther away, so he was a little relieved.

On the steppe, once the horses gallop, it is difficult to catch up. The war horses in Yanzhou are all Liaodong horses. But the quality is also in Gongsun Zhan's war horses. Once running away. I can't catch up if I want to.

And he has seen the Yanzhou cavalry, all heavy cavalry, and they have suffered losses in terms of weight. A long-distance pursuit would only be detrimental to the horses of the Yanzhou army.

As far as he knew. Although the Yanzhou cavalry is powerful, it has not exceeded 50,000 people for many years, after all, building Yanzhou cavalry of this level is no longer a simple matter of money. According to the intelligence, Xu Ji came to Youzhou with only 10,000 Yanzhou cavalry, and the rest were 5,000 infantry.

Therefore, as long as Gongsun Chan and his two younger brothers, Gongsun Yue and Gongsun Fan, will be able to gain a foothold with the advantage of troops.

All he had to do was to delay as much time as possible, even if he might lose his life at the hands of Xu Ji.

Just thinking about it, the Yanzhou cavalry had already arrived. At this time, Yan Gang's archers immediately put away their bows and arrows, because according to experience, they knew that the armor of the Yanzhou cavalry was very good, and the ground bow and arrow in their hands did not hurt it much, and now that the Yanzhou cavalry had come to the front, it was no longer meaningful to shoot with bows and arrows.

Therefore, Yan Gang's soldiers put away their bows and crossbows, picked up their swords and guns, and prepared to attack.

The Yanzhou cavalry on the opposite side was wrapped in thick armor, like a lifeless demon, and the whole body exuded the breath of death. This Yanzhou cavalry was trained by Chen Zhi and followed Gao Shun to fight in the north and south for many years, and he was already a person who had experienced a hundred battles, and as a professional soldier, he had already ignored life and death, and even took slaughtering the enemy as the highest happiness.

In their eyes, war has become a commonplace that can be taken lightly, so the psychological pressure they cause to the enemy can be imagined.

They can make people feel a sense of despair like a moth to a fire, and anyone who sees them will be shocked and want to fight them, although they know that their hearts are dead, but they want to make a big splash at the last moment of their lives. Seeing the Yanzhou army gradually approaching, Yan Gang's soldiers were eager to try it one by one, although they themselves clearly knew that their impact was likely to hit the stone with an egg.

Therefore, in the blank space where the two armies have not touched, a strange sense of depression has been formed, and the mountain rain is about to come and the wind is full of buildings.

But the soldiers under Yan Gang's command obviously couldn't stand the pressure of this cavalry, and they finally couldn't hold it anymore, "Kill-!" Yan Gang also saw that his subordinates were under great pressure, so he shouted loudly and rushed forward first. The relatives around him followed.

The two cavalrymen collided like a stormy wave. Yan Gang bumped into Xu Ji head-on.

"Who's coming?" Yan Gang shouted.

What answered him was a rain of gunfire, as if goose feathers and heavy snow were blowing one after another, blowing towards Yan Gang under the strong wind.

Yan Gang's breathing immediately stopped. I felt that my eyes were silver. In the next moment, Yan Gang only felt that his two wrists lit up in no particular order. The whole body lost all its strength.

The weapon has been taken off.

Subsequently. The whole person rose up in the clouds and fog, and fell heavily to the ground in a trance, and Venus rose straight in front of him.

"Tie it up!" A clear voice came. Yan Gang was about to struggle, but he was held down. Then he was arrested by the Yanzhou army.

"Who the hell are you!?" Yan Gang looked at this opponent who had only fought with him for one round and asked in disbelief.

"Xu Ji!"

When Yan Gang heard this, he sighed, and his heart was already darkened.

Yan Gang was captured, and his soldiers fled to all directions under the leaderless group. Xu Ji looked at Gongsun Zhan, who had already gone away, and knew that it was useless to chase more, so he immediately ordered his soldiers to retreat. Look at it and it's already dawn. He set up a camp next to Gongsun Zhan's camp.

The location chosen by Gongsun Chan to set up camp is still good.

And Gongsun Chan was raided by Xu Ji. Reverse West retreated far away, and met his two brothers, and the two sides were united. Look at the army, more than 50,000 people. Gongsun Zhan's heart was a little at ease. Subsequently. One after another, many soldiers returned to the unit. Gongsun Chan's soldiers will be as many as 60,000 men.

Gongsun Chan was very difficult to escape, but he couldn't be happy, of course, because his general Yan Gang was captured.

suffered such a big loss. Where can Gongsun Chan swallow this breath? So he set up camp on the spot, after all, he now has the main way back to Yi Yingjing, which gives him the capital to fight with Xu Ji, not to mention that even if he loses in the end, Gongsun Chan also believes that he can return to Yi Jing. What's more, take a step back and say that Xu Ji's army here is only 10,000 people, but he himself has 50,000 people. In terms of strength, it is enough to fight.

Moreover, Xu Ji suddenly appeared here, which proved that Xu Ji bypassed Fan Yang City and directly attacked his southern camp.

Therefore, Gongsun Zhan immediately sent people to Fanyang City and ordered the defenders in Fanyang City to be ready to go out of the city at any time to flank Xu Ji's army with him. With these conditions, Gongsun Chan was ready to fight to the death with Xu Ji on the grassland, of course, he even ordered Yi Jing's defenders to strictly guard Yi Jing and take Xu Ji's mother well, after all, this is a magic weapon for Xu Ji to win.

In this way, there are a total of three large camps on this grassland, which belong to the three different forces.

Liu He, Xu Ji, and Gongsun Zan each hold one end of the force. Of course, Gongsun Chan and the other two parties are incompatible, but the ridiculous thing is that Xu Ji and Liu He have no room for cooperation. In terms of the views on the treatment of the grassland aliens, Xu Ji and Gongsun Chan are surprisingly consistent.

Of course, Gongsun Chan doesn't know this, and even he is still wary of this, but for Gongsun Chan, as long as he has the trump card of Xu Ji's mother in his hand, Xu Ji is not afraid.

At least for now, he is not worried about any cooperation between Xu Ji and Liu He, because when Xu Ji attacked him that night, Liu He's army was silent, which means that Xu Ji has not planned to cooperate with Liu He at least until now. Otherwise, the night would have been a flank situation. Now the only person who doesn't know what's going on is Liu He.

On the night of the melee between Xu Ji and Gongsun Zhan, Liu He's people only noticed that Gongsun Zhan's camp was on fire, and there was a sound of killing, it seemed that Gongsun Zhan's camp had been robbed, and Liu He's generals asked for battle one after another, and wanted to lead troops to attack Gongsun Zhan, but Tian Chou and Yan Zhi both thought that this might be Gongsun Zhan's strategy to lure the enemy into depth, and it was not appropriate to act rashly when the situation was unclear. It's better to send scouts to scout before making a decision.

Therefore, Xu Ji and Gongsun Zhan fought feverishly for a short time, and Liu He's people stood by there. Who knew that it was not until dawn that the scouts who had been sent out came back with a sad face.

It turned out that this scout had just come to Xu Ji's camp and was caught by the scouts sent by Xu Ji. After Xu Ji caught him, after asking who he was, he detained him and didn't release him back until it was almost dawn.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this.

As we all know, Xu Ji came to Youzhou for his mother, which means that Xu Ji and Gongsun Zan are in a situation where they will rest until death. In this case, Ji Fang and Xu Ji should be on the same front.

Only Tian Chou doesn't think so, he thinks that Xu Ji's weakness lies in the fact that Gongsun Chan has Xu Ji's mother in his hands, and although Gongsun Chan hates Xu Ji, he hates Liu Yu and the grassland aliens even more, so now he is most afraid that Gongsun Chan will use this to coerce Xu Ji to attack Ji.

Although the strength of the Yanzhou soldiers is famous all over the world, it would be terrible if Xu Ji and Gongsun Zhan attacked Jifang together in order to save his mother.

Tian Chou's words made everyone frown, of course, the few generals of the foreign race on Liu He's side didn't think so, they didn't know much about Xu Ji, so they didn't have the slightest fear of Xu Ji.

But after Liu He heard this, he was a little dispossessed, and hurriedly asked Tian Chou and Yan Zhi for advice.

Tian Chou thinks that for today's plan, he must first contact Xu Ji, seize the opportunity and take the lead in the alliance with Xu Ji, everyone knows that Xu Ji is the most trustworthy, as long as he forms an alliance with Xu Ji, then even if Gongsun Chan wants to blackmail Xu Ji and Xu Ji in the future, they will only have two to help. Liu He thought so, and in order to show his sincerity, Liu He decided to personally take Yan Zhi and Tian Chou to Xu Ji's camp.

And all this, of course, was expected by Xu Ji and Xun You.

In the early morning of the third day, Liu He, Tian Chou, and Yan Zhi came to Xu Ji's camp with a team of soldiers. When Xu Ji heard this, he went out of the camp to greet him. In fact, it is not the first time that the two sides have met, after all, at the time of the Chang'an Rebellion, the two sides have already met. It's just that the two sides didn't speak at that time.

After a polite exchange between the two sides, they came to Xu Ji's Chinese army tent.

Xu Jixian expressed his condolences for the misfortune of Liu He's family, which caused Liu He to cry again. Xu Ji looked at Liu He quietly, and felt disappointed in his heart: this Liu He is really not an outstanding talent.

However, the lost brother Yan Zhi of Tian Chou and Yan Rou is extraordinary, and at first glance he is a rare talent, so that people dare not take it lightly.

Liu He cried for a while, and then gritted his teeth at Xu Ji: "Gongsun Zhan, is my enemy, I heard that this dog thief detained the adult's mother, as a child, the biggest sorrow is 'self-desire and unfilial piety and not in the absence of relatives', it can be said that you and I are sympathetic to each other, and we should try our best to work together." Kill Gongsun Zhan, this dog thief! Xu Ji was a little surprised, he didn't expect this Liu He's eloquence to be quite good.

But just a few words just want to impress yourself? Isn't that a bit naïve? (To be continued......)