Lying on the yellow earth, Liu Wei looked at the pure black battle flag in the distance that was hunting and flying in the wind without blinking.

Dozens of battle flags fluttered in the wind, looking at the battle flags, Liu Wei whispered to Zhou Cang, who was lying beside him, and asked, "Yuanfu, look at the number of thieves, how many are there?" ”

"There are more than 30 battle flags, and if you count 100 people and one big flag, at least 3,000 people!" Lying beside Liu Wei, Zhou Cang looked at the black flag fluttering in the wind in the distance, and replied in a low voice: "The thief army is powerful, Your Highness, ...... this battle?" ”

"Of course you have to fight!" Through Dong Zhuojun's camp, Liu Wei saw seven or eight royal blue flags flying in the wind farther away, he frowned slightly, and said to Zhou Cang: "The Huainan Army is strong, if you can take them for your own use......"

"Your Highness is thoughtful." Zhou Cang nodded, and said with a little hesitation in his expression: "It's just the Huainan Army, can it be as ...... as the soldiers and horses of Dongjun?"

"Definitely not!" Without waiting for Zhou Cang to finish speaking, Liu Wei said with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth: "The stronger the army, the more difficult it is to subdue, but once it is subdued, it will definitely be a great help to us!" ”

"Please make it clear to Your Highness!" Turning his head and looking around, the area where they were dormant, except for loess or loess, there were no extra trees and weeds at all, with such terrain, it was completely impossible to use fire attack like the previous times.

"Sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight!" Liu Wei turned his head to look at Zhou Cang, lowered his voice and said to him: "Tell everyone, don't act rashly, they can't fight tonight, early tomorrow morning, when the two armies clash and the Huainan army is about to be defeated, I will kill it in one fell swoop!" ”

"No!" Zhou Cang replied and slowly retreated back.

The two armies in the distance were still facing each other, and neither side took the initiative to attack. Dong Zhuo's army was far outnumbered by the Huainan army that confronted them, but they were not as careless as they were in attack on the Dongjun army.

Just from Dong Zhuojun's reluctance to attack, Liu Wei could see that the Huainan army confronting them must be extremely difficult!

The sky grew darker, and the setting sun finally set below the horizon, gathering its last rays of light, and the earth was once again shrouded in endless darkness.

The two armies facing each other in the distance also set up camp, and if Liu Wei chose to attack at night at this time, Dong Zhuo's army was very likely to suffer a heavy blow.

But Liu Wei didn't plan to do that!

In terms of the military quality of the Huainan Army, although they were small in number, they would never admit defeat in the face of a confrontation.

The only way to subdue this army is to wait until they are completely defeated and desperate.

In Dong Zhuojun's camp, there were sporadic fires, which should have been bonfires lit by the soldiers in charge of vigilance.

Since coming to this era, Liu Wei has not seen a large-scale battle launched at night. Dong Zhuojun and Huainan Jun were obviously waiting for dawn.

Lying on his back on the flat yellow earth, Liu Wei put his hands behind his head, and looked at the starry sky without blinking.

On moonless nights, the stars appear unusually bright.

A figure was in the starlight, crawling towards Liu Wei.

"Your Highness!" The figure approached Liu Wei, lowered his voice very low, and said to him, "Brother Fang heard Qiao Zhen......"

Without waiting for the man to finish speaking, Liu Wei took out a hand from the back of his head, made a stop gesture at him, and whispered, "Yuanfu, do you think we can defeat the thief army tomorrow?" ”

"This ......" It was Zhou Cang who crawled next to Liu Bian, he wanted to tell Liu Bian that someone heard Qiao Zhen instigating the Dongjun soldiers to leave, but he didn't expect Liu Bian to let him continue.

"With such a team, if you want weapons or no weapons, you want morale but no morale, and the combat cooperation between soldiers can be said to be zero!" Liu Wei sighed lightly, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to Zhou Cang: "But I believe that I can lead them to defeat the thief army!" ”

"Your Highness!" Listening to Liu Wei's words, Zhou Cang furrowed his brows slightly, hesitated for a moment, and then continued as if he had made a great determination: "When I was in Bishan, the brothers were even weaker than now, didn't Your Highness lead me and others to fight their way out of the encirclement in the pursuit of strong enemies?" But now, our backyard is about to catch fire......"

"Tomorrow, the Huainan army will fight with the thief army, and when they are defeated, we will cover up and kill them from behind!" Liu Wei didn't seem to hear Zhou Cang's words, and was still arranging the task by himself: "Yuanfu and Dian Wei lead everyone, follow me to rush and kill, and let Qiao Zhen select a hundred Dongjun soldiers to set up an ambush on the left side!" ”

"This ......" got Liu Wei's order, Zhou Cang was stunned for a moment, sighed lightly and said: "Your Highness is too benevolent, such an arrangement, wouldn't it be a tiger returning to the mountain?" ”

"Don't say more, go and arrange it." Liu Wei's eyes narrowed slightly, and he gave Zhou Cang an understatement.

Liu Wei had already made a decision, and Zhou Cang didn't dare to disobey, so he just sighed lightly, turned around, and crawled towards the place where everyone gathered.

When Zhou Cang left, Liu Wei put his arms behind his head again, looked at the stars in the sky without blinking, and sighed secretly in his heart: "Am I really too benevolent?" ”

Throughout the night, except for the occasional cough or two from the soldiers on duty at night, the place where more than a thousand people hid was quiet only the sound of the wind passing through the wilderness.

"Kill!" Liu Wei was sleeping deeply, and there was a burst of shouting and killing in his ears.

He quickly rolled over and lay on the ground, staring at the smoke and dust in the distance without blinking.

As soon as the sky was bright, Dong Zhuojun, who had rested all night, launched a general attack on the Huainan army, which was waiting for the battle.

"Qiao Zhen, you pick a hundred people, go around to the left side of the battlefield to hide, wait for the thief army to retreat, and intercept and kill head-on!" Looking at the smoke and dust raised in the distance, Liu Wei said to Qiao Zhen, Dian Wei, and Zhou Cang who climbed to his side: "Dian Wei, Zhou Cang, let the soldiers get ready, and when the Huainan army is defeated, we will fight from behind the thief army!" ”

"No!" The servants responded in unison, and a touch of pride flashed in Qiao Zhen's eyes.

In the distance, Dong Zhuo's army and Huainan army had already started a fight, and the three thousand Dong Zhuo's army advanced almost on the entire front, and only two or three hundred people guarded the Chinese army and did not join the battle group.

On the Huainan Army's side, because the number was less than Dong Zhuo's, they defended on the whole line and collided with the charging Dong Zhuo's army.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although there were cavalry on the battlefield, the cavalry was only used to outflank and mobile combat troops, and basically would not charge as the main force.

The Dong Zhuo army that pursued and killed the Huainan army was all composed of heavy infantry. With solid armor and sharp weapons, they are the absolute workhorse on the battlefield.

The Huainan Army, which fought against Dong Zhuojun, was also a team composed of heavy infantry. They were made up of local villagers recruited by Yuan Shu in the Huainan County area.

Huainan County, from Xia Cai in the north to Jiujiang in the south. There are continuous mountain systems in Zhinai, and it is an important town to intercept the middle and lower reaches of the Huai River, and it has always been a battleground for soldiers.

Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there have been continuous conquests here, and the population has also been rapidly depleted. After the establishment of the Great Qin Dynasty, in order to prosper the Jianghuai area, the First Emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty moved many people from the Central Plains to the Huaihe River Valley, and a large part of the population was moved to Huainan County.

Since most of the population had to travel long distances to get there, the people of the county were fierce and aggressive, and they were also well prepared to build a strong army.

At present, this Huainan army of only seven or eight hundred people is the township warriors recruited and tempered by Yuan Shu in the governance, although they are small, they have not shown the slightest defeat because of Dong Zhuo's large number and fierce attack.

Looking at the battle between the two armies from afar, Liu Wei's brows were always slightly twisted.

He was waiting for the Huainan army to lose, but the two armies of the war were entangled in one place, and he couldn't see which side had the upper hand, and even sometimes, he would see the Huainan army suddenly launch a wave of fierce ****, pushing Dong Zhuo's army back a lot.

"Did Joe really get to the designated location?" Looking at the battlefield that was being fought in the distance, Liu Wei asked Zhou Cang beside him softly.

"Back to Your Highness!" Lying on the ground, Zhou Cang turned his head to face Liu Wei, and also replied in a very small voice: "He has already left with someone!" Yuan Fu just didn't understand why His Highness knew that he was going to defect, so why did he give him the opportunity to leave with his troops alone? ”

"Defection?" Liu Wei glanced at Zhou Cang, and said with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth: "He was originally under Qiao Mao, and now I am just the King of Hongnong, not the real Ninety-Five, how can he be considered a defector if he leaves us?" ”

"What does Your Highness mean ......?" After listening to Liu Bian's explanation, the expression on Zhou Cang's face became more and more dazed, he first glanced at Dian Wei, who was also at a loss, then turned his head to look at Liu Bian, and asked in a low voice, "Your Highness deliberately let him go?" ”

"Of course!" There was a faint smile on the corner of Liu Wei's mouth, and he said to Zhou Cang: "After this battle, we still have a battle to fight, in order to hide people's eyes, they left, just to attract the attention of the thief army, but it created conditions for us to lurk forward!" ”

After listening to Liu Wei's explanation, Zhou Cang and Dian Wei on the side glanced at each other again, and then praised: "Your Highness is really thoughtful, and even the next battle after this battle has been carefully considered!" ”

Liu Wei didn't speak again, nor did he reveal to Zhou Cang and Dian Wei where his next battle would begin, but his eyes narrowed slightly, carefully observing the two armies that were fighting in the smoke and dust in the distance.

The Huainan Army launched another wave of fierce attacks, and Dong Zhuojun was once again suppressed and retreated, but this time, Dong Zhuojun did not retreat much, and after the offensive launched by the Huainan Army subsided, Dong Zhuojun immediately launched a counterattack.

At the moment when Dong Zhuojun launched a counterattack, Liu Wei drew out his long sword, stood up violently, raised the long sword high, and shouted to the more than 800 people lurking behind him: "Soldiers, the thief army has lost its sharpness, follow me to charge and kill the enemy!" ”