Guo Jia analyzed his disadvantages. At the same time, the importance of military morale was also raised.

The victory of a war is determined by many aspects. For example, the arrangement of tactics, whether military supplies are sufficient, whether the generals are brave, and whether the soldiers dare to use their lives. In addition, the morale of the army is the most important factor.

Once an army loses morale, perhaps 10,000 people may not be able to be the opponent of 2,000 people, so it can be seen how important the military spirit is. What Guo Jia was worried about was that under the siege of a large number of cavalry, the state army would not be in turmoil, and this was true, and this battle was lost before the battle.

Guo Jiaheng was worried, Zhang Chao had indeed fought from his seat at this time and said: "Yes, what Feng Xiao said is very true, and the army's heart cannot be disturbed." And if you don't want to be watched by the enemy, there is only one way, and that is to fight with them, hurt them, and make them dare not approach us, so that the morale of the army will be revived, and the dawn of victory will appear in front of us. ”

"Yes, what the lord said is right, just hurt them and let these Xianbei people know how powerful I am." When Lu Bu saw that Zhang Chao had decided to fight, he immediately said excitedly.

After hearing this, Guo Jia frowned slightly and said: "Lord, but now the troops are not as good as the army, and the other party is all cavalry, I'm afraid it will be difficult to fight." ”

"I know what filial piety means, it doesn't matter. The other party doesn't fight, so I force him to fight. Zhang Chao said to Lu Bu with confidence: "Go, call Ziman and Zhongkang." ”

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Hou Luohou, who was south of the camp of the state army, was advancing with 40,000 Xianbei cavalry at this time.

It was said to be advancing, but it was not very fast, and it was still forty miles away when it was dark.

For the cavalry, this speed is very slow, and his subordinates also have some complaints about this, but Hou Luohou himself really doesn't care. He knows the deep meaning of his brother, all he wants is to watch Zhang Chao's army, and now the time for a decisive battle has not yet come, what they need to do is to deter the other party, when the army's heart is turbulent, it is the time for them to attack, and only in this way can they achieve the greatest victory at the minimum cost.

Kebineng's ambitions are great. He wants to use the war in the Central Plains to achieve the goal of becoming strong and humble. It's not about fighting with anyone, just like this, even if Zhang Chao can be injured, there will be opponents such as Yuan Shao's Cao Cao, if the loss is too big now, how can you compete with it in the future?

Zhang Chao is a newly rising generation, and in the eyes of Kebineng, he is not the most valued person. If it weren't for his son-in-law Yu Zhuyu being captured, he wouldn't have made a gesture of using a sword.

There were still forty miles away from the camp of the Bingzhou army, and the Marquis of Tho Luo gave the order to set up camp. With the defeat of Yu Zhuzhu the night before, he was much more careful, and personally arranged many horse rejection stakes in the four sides of the camp to ensure the safety of the camp.

After making these preparations, the army slept in plain clothes, which was also in preparation for a better fight in case of emergencies.

Hou Luohou doesn't look down on the Central Plains Han Army in his bones, but he is still very cautious in doing things, in his opinion. It's one thing to look down on it, but you can't slack off on the preparation you should make.

After arranging everything, Hou Luohou lay down in his tent and went to bed with his shut.

To say that Hou Luohou is really not a superfluous move, on this night, Lu Bu really led the army to the outside of the camp tent.

It is said that last night attacked Yu Zhu's camp, and when he appeared here today, it was a two-trick technique, and the effect would be very small. But this time, Lu Bu brought not only the 10,000 vanguard troops under his department, but also the 3,000 light cavalry of the Zhang family's army.

After Guo Jia knew that Zhang Chao was preparing for a night attack, he proposed that Hou Luohou was afraid of being prepared, so he could borrow the long-range bow and arrow role of the Zhang family's light cavalry.

In this way, the three thousand light cavalry of the Zhang family, one of whom brought a full hundred bows and arrows, came to the Hou Luo Hou military camp five miles away. On the other side of them, ten miles away, the 10,000 vanguard army led by Lu Bu was hiding here, and they were going to take advantage of the fire to rob.

Luring the enemy to rob the camp, this is Zhang Chao's strategy.

If you want to not be surrounded by the Xianbei cavalry and want to revitalize the morale of the soldiers, the best way is to hit the other party hard, one can use the victory to boost morale, and the other can also provoke Kebi to fight with one.

Zhang Chao didn't believe that Kebi could still endure under his cautious personality and repeated provocations?

The light cavalry of the 3,000 Zhangjia army, carrying enough bows and arrows, slowly advanced, until they came to a place two miles outside the Xianbei military camp, and they could already see the lights of the enemy's camp in the distance, and these 3,000 people came to 200 paces in a charge, and then 3,000 arrows were shot full of bows.

Under the strong bow, three thousand arrows shot out like meteors, shot into the Xianbei army camp, and rushed into the cavalry group of the night vigil.

The shooting of bows and arrows first caused chaos in the camp. But when the Marquis of Tho Luo came out of the tent and many cavalry with shields rushed out of the tent, the situation was greatly eased.

"What's the situation, how many people are on the other side?" When the armor-clad Hou Luo Hou appeared, he immediately asked the general in charge of the night vigil.

"Report to the general, judging by the number of bows and arrows, the number of opponents will not be very large. It's just that this is a strong bow and arrow, and under these waves, it has caused hundreds of our casualties. The Night Watch said, looking out with rage. For a long time, only the Xianbei cavalry sneaked up on others, when was it so sneak attacked and suppressed by others?

"Only thousands?" After hearing this, Hou Luohou's brows couldn't help but squeeze into a ball, and he locked deeply. He knew the troops led by Zhang Chao, 15,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry. If this time it was only a few thousand people who were brought in, then where were the other people's armies, could it be that they were deliberately luring themselves out?

Hou Luohou has the same caution as his eldest brother Kebineng. After knowing that there were only a few thousand people on the other side, he aroused deep suspicions, and he decided to wait and see.

The bows and arrows were still in rapid fire, although there were shield soldiers resisting, but when facing the most elite archers and cavalry, after the cavalry of the Zhang family's army, there were still casualties under the random arrows.

From time to time, someone would fall down, which made the anger of the Xianbei cavalry grow stronger, and the Marquis of Tho Luo rode on his horse, standing in the crowd with a red face.

"General, it can't go on like this, let's send someone out to have a look." Seeing that they had to be beaten passively, several other generals also couldn't help it.

"Okay, let's go out and have an army, and remember to be careful." Hou Luo Hou decided to send someone out to take a look, if even if there was an ambush of the Bingzhou army outside, the loss would only be a small part of himself, it would be better than being beaten passively here.

Hou Luo Hou gave the order, and immediately a thousand-strong cavalry team came out of the gate of the barracks.

After these people rushed out of the moonlight, they soon saw three light cavalry of the Zhang family's army.

Seeing these light cavalry, thousands of Xianbei cavalry rushed forward.

Seeing the Xianbei cavalry appear, the light cavalry of the 3,000 Zhangjia army retreated while shooting arrows as agreed before. The range of the bow and arrow in his hand was longer than that of ordinary archers, and in just a short time, more than 500 enemies were wounded.

"Go back and inform the general that the enemy is only a few thousand people, and he has not found any ambushes." Seeing that his cavalry was wounded by bows and arrows one by one, the young Hun cavalry general who led the troops was furious, but the number was too small to make a frontal breakthrough, so he arranged for someone to go back and report to Hou Luohou.

Hou Luohou, who was waiting for news in the barracks, did not hear the shouting of killing, and when he was guessing to himself, he saw a cavalry returning, and when he saw him far away, he dismounted and knelt down and said: "General, there are only a few thousand troops outside, but their bows and arrows are sharp, and please send reinforcements to the general." ”

"Oh, only a few thousand, that's right." Hearing that there were only thousands of cavalry outside, Hou Luohou was relieved. He didn't think that Zhang Chao still had any ability to take the initiative to attack him at this time, presumably it was just a small group of enemies to harass him.

Even if it is a small group of enemy harassment, Hou Luohou must eat the other party, and it is best to capture the enemy's main general, so that there is a possibility of negotiating conditions with Zhang Chao and rescuing Yu Zhuqi. "Come, leave 5,000 men to stay in the camp, and the others will go out with me to destroy these enemies."

After hearing this, the Xianbei cavalry, who had already walked out of the tent, got on their horses, took their weapons, and rushed out of the camp with the Hou Luohou and rushed towards the Zhangjia light cavalry outside the door.

At this time, the light cavalry of the Zhang family had already retreated the remaining 500 cavalry they were facing. Under the arrows, less than two hundred of the five hundred remained.

When the two hundred cavalry were forced to retreat by the bow and arrow, the Hou Luohou behind him finally arrived with more than 30,000 troops, and immediately joined forces and rushed towards the Zhangjia light cavalry.

Seeing that the enemy army came out of the main force, the Zhangjia light cavalry, under the shouting of the leading general, shot while retreating, and a large number of bows and arrows were fired, causing a piece of Xianbei cavalry that rushed to the front to fall to the ground.

"Catch up and kill them." Seeing that there were only 3,000 troops in the state, and they were so arrogant, the Marquis of Tho Luo was furious, and he rushed up with a large number of Hun cavalry.

However, the light cavalry of the Zhang family had superb riding skills, and the horses used were all healthy horses, which were far from being able to be chased by ordinary people.

And not long after Hou Luohou left with his army, Lu Bu appeared, and he took the vanguard army of his department and suddenly launched an attack on the Xianbei camp.

No one thought that at this time, there would be the appearance of the Bingzhou army, and there was no defense at all, and they were caught off guard, coupled with the martial arts of Lu Bu and the vanguard army, they quickly defeated these Xianbei cavalry, and in the end less than 500 people escaped.

"No need to chase. Immediately they set fire to their tents, and burned their grain and grass. Lu Bu rode on the red rabbit horse, and the vanguard army under his command began to get busy.