Five miles outside the city of Xiaopei.

A few tattered battle flags were planted in the dirt, and the tattered banners fluttered in the wind.

The air was filled with a thick smell of blood, and the corpses that had been slashed to pieces after brutal fighting were everywhere.

Discarded blades reflected in the sunlight, as if to tell those who saw them how brave their masters had been on the battlefield.

Several corpses stacked together suddenly moved, and a hand reached out from under the corpses.

The hand was stained with dried blood and dust, and it looked filthy.

Maybe the corpses piled up on it were too heavy, or maybe the owner of the hand didn't have much strength, and the corpses on top moved for a while, and finally someone poked his head out from below.

What emerged from the corpse was a man with a bloody face, and the man's robe was already stained with blood, and the original color could not be seen at all.

Crawling out from under the corpse, the man staggered two steps forward, bent down to pick up a long sword from the ground, and staggered for a while before walking in the direction where Cao's army was stationed.

He had barely taken a few steps when there was a sound of horses' hooves behind him, and a war horse galloped towards him.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, the man hurriedly reincarnated, but his body was already very weak, and as soon as he turned his head, he fell to the ground.

He was ready to die, but when he looked at the war horse he rushed towards in the Qing Dynasty, he let out a long breath, lying on his back, looking at the blue sky, and gasping silently.

Rushing at him was an ownerless war horse, and there was no one on the horse's back at all.

As he was about to rush to the front of the man, the horse slowed down and walked around the corpse-strewn battlefield like a leisurely stroll.

When the war horse was about to reach the man's side, the man sat up, staring at the horse without blinking a pair of bloodshot eyes.

There were dead bodies all around, and the smell of blood in the air was a little breathless.

The appearance of the war horse made him see a glimmer of vitality on the battlefield that had just experienced a tragic battle.

called the war horse like a dog, but the war horse was not a dog after all, so he didn't pay attention to the man at all.

I wanted to step forward and grab the war horse, but the man had already lost a few taels of strength, and he couldn't even stand steadily, how could he catch a horse!

Just when he was very depressed, he reached out and touched it to the side.

This time, he actually touched a clump of grass under a dead corpse.

With all the strength of his body, he pulled out the grass that was still stained with the blood of this person, and Han Ziyong pinched the grass with one hand and handed the grass to the war horse that suddenly appeared.

Probably hungry and unable to find grass under the corpses everywhere, the war horse saw the man holding a clump of grass in his hand and turned around and walked towards him.

When the war horse opened its mouth to eat the grass, the man grabbed its reins, sat on the ground, stretched out his hand and gently stroked the mane on the side of the war horse, and whispered to the war horse: "I don't know which side you are, but since we are the only ones alive, we are on the one side." ”

I don't know if the war horse understood his words, or if the grass played a role, the war horse actually arched its head into the man's arms.

Just as the man stroked the mane of the war horse, a sound of slapping came from a distance.

Following the sound of the squash and looking ahead, the man saw that the black oppression was an endless army marching towards him in a neat procession.

When he saw this army, a majestic drum beat was heard with the sound of the squirrel.

In the direction of the drumbeat, another army also appeared in the man's field of vision.

The battlefield that has just calmed down is about to start a new battle.

Seeing that two large armies were heading towards him, the man knew that even if he wanted to return to his original army at this time, he would probably be shot before he reached the array.

Grabbing the reins, with the support of the war horse, the man struggled to stand up, turned over on the horse's back, leaned on the war horse, and clamped his legs towards the horse's belly, urging the war horse to run away from the battlefield.

The two armies that were advancing against each other suddenly saw a man and a horse suddenly popping out of the place where it was originally full of corpses, and the soldiers were stunned.

The smell of blood was thick in the air, and the soldiers on both sides knew what had happened here.

They also knew that what was about to happen to them was exactly what the corpses lying here had experienced earlier.

Although they were startled by the sudden burst of men and horses, the columns on both sides did not slow down in the slightest, and all the officers and men were still advancing towards the enemy on the opposite side under the guidance of the general.

In the arrays on both sides, the heavy infantry with large shields in the front row were at the forefront.

Except for the soldiers under Liu Wei's command, the shield in their hands is a round shield when fighting, and the heavy infantry of any other army is holding a large shield in all directions on the battlefield.

One of the advantages of a large shield over a round shield is that it has a large flat surface and is able to block more arrows.

However, it also has many drawbacks, such as the shield is too heavy, it is very inconvenient to wield on the battlefield, and because the shield is too large, it is destined to withstand gravity much worse than the round shield.

However, even so, many armies abandoned the use of round shields in favor of large shields, in order to be able to form a shield wall on the battlefield to defend against enemy arrows.

The two armies slowly pushed forward, and the soldiers' feet stepped on the ground, making a dull sound.

The army coming from the east walked in front of the formation with a general riding a red war horse under his crotch and a grim face.

This person is none other than Lu Bu, who personally led the army to relieve the siege of Xiaopei.

What Lu Bu didn't expect was that he led the army to the vicinity of Xiaopei, and he failed to directly attack the Cao army from behind, but was stopped by a Cao army with only half the number of soldiers under his command.

At first, he fought with Cao's army, and Lu Bujun still took some advantage, but later, the battle became more and more difficult.

The shouts of killing from the direction of Xiaopei's city wall made Lu Bu feel anxious.

If he had been blocked by the enemy army, the siege of Xiao Pei would not have been lifted, and Xiao Pei, who was only guarded by thousands of soldiers, would have fallen into the hands of Cao's army.

Walking in the opposite direction with Lu Bujun was Cao Jun, who was thinly clothed, but none of the soldiers had a resolute look on their faces.

Cao Jun's military rations were already running out, and at most they could only last another five or six days.

Now that winter is approaching, if they don't break through Xiaopei, they will soon face the situation of freezing and starvation.

The leader of this Cao army was Li Dian, who had earlier assumed the responsibility of leading the army to intercept Lu Bu.

With an army that had consumed two or three thousand people after several major battles, Li Dian also showed on his face the same determination as the soldiers when he marched towards Lu Bu's army.

Gradually, the two armies reached a distance of no more than forty or fifty paces, and Li Dian raised his arm to stop the march of the team.

At the same time that Cao Jun stopped marching, Lu Bu also raised his arm, causing the soldiers to stop.

The two armies faced each other from afar, and between them was a battlefield full of dead bodies that had experienced fighting.

Looking at the Cao army on the opposite side with a cold face, Lu Bu's eyes narrowed slightly, and shouted to the soldiers of the Xuzhou army behind him: "Soldiers, the Cao army in front is blocking the road, Xiao Pei is tight, if we don't break this Cao army, Xiao Pei will fall into the hands of the enemy!" Once Xiao Pei falls, we will all become ghosts under Cao Jun's sword in the future! ”

When Lu Bu mobilized the soldiers of the Xuzhou Army, Li Dian did not speak.

He silently stared at Lu Bujun opposite, and after a long time, he shouted to the soldiers of the Cao Army behind him in a very low tone: "Soldiers, General Ben's mood is extremely heavy at this moment, because General Ben knows that this battle will be a battle that will determine our life and death!" ”

When Li Dian spoke, the soldiers of the Cao Army behind him were all standing silently, none of the soldiers spoke, and not even a single war horse made a snort.

"Our army entered Xuzhou from Huainan and ran all the way, the soldiers were thinly clothed, and the army had no food and grass!" Looking at Lu Bujun on the opposite side, Li Dian continued to shout to the soldiers of the Cao army: "There are only three roads in front of us!" One is to fight to the death with the enemy army to buy time for General Xiahou to break Xiaopei! As long as we enter Xiaopei, we will have winter clothes and food, and the soldiers can also find some harmonious women in Xiaopei City to play! ”

When Li Dian said that the soldiers could find some folk women to play, the soldiers of the Cao Army behind him let out a burst of laughter.

After the laughter of the soldiers of the Cao army fell, Li Dian continued: "In addition, there are two more, one is that this battle is defeated, our army cannot break through Xiaopei, and we will freeze and starve to death in the harsh winter!" The other was to surrender to Lu Bu and be slaughtered by him like a pig and a dog! ”

When he heard the other two paths from Li Dian's mouth, all Cao Jun's expressions instantly became solemn.

Although Li Dian told them that there were two paths that could be taken, they all knew that they were just two dead roads, and they would definitely die!

"Tell General Ben, do you want winter clothes, grain and grass, women, or death?" Li Dian, who was riding on horseback, turned his head abruptly and asked the soldiers of the Cao Army behind him.

"I want winter clothes! Ask for food and grass! I want a woman! All the soldiers of the Cao Army responded to Li Dian with their voices in their voices.

"Good!" Receiving the response of the soldiers, Li Dian raised the spear in his hand, looked at the Lu Bujun array opposite, and shouted loudly: "For winter clothes!" For the sake of food and grass! For women! Kill! ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Under Li Dian's encouragement, all the Cao troops raised their weapons high in their hands and shouted in unison.

Although they are only less than 10,000 people, but the shouting is unusually majestic, the Xuzhou soldiers on the opposite side, when they heard their shouts, one by one has not yet started the war, they are already cowardly!