Shen County, Runan County, Yuzhou Thorn History Department.

This is a county town near Yingshui, the population of the people in the city is not very much, because Runan County is located in Yuzhou, Yuzhou has been occupied by Cao Cao in the early years, and now Yuzhou has been under the governance of Cao Cao, well-organized, rich and rich.

But in the wilderness outside this county, the two armies met in a narrow way.

The 20,000 Qin army led by Lu Bu has been advancing in the direction of Xudu since leaving Xia Cai.

Xudu is not far from Luoyang, but there is some distance between it and Xia Cai.

The reason why Jia Xu chose Xudu as the target of the attack, and gave up the army to fight for Xuzhou with the Cao army, was that the Cao army in Xuzhou was the main elite of the Cao army.

Most of the Cao troops around Xudu were Qingzhou troops with poor combat strength.

Although the Qingzhou army was numerous, compared with the main force of the Cao army, they had almost no combat power.

Choosing such a route, on the one hand, was to avoid direct confrontation with the main force of Cao's army, and on the other hand, because Xu Du was Cao Cao's base camp.

Even if he couldn't break through Xudu, the arrival of a large army under the city was a deterrent to Cao Cao.

The 20,000 Qin army led by Lu Bu advanced to Shen County, and was about to directly bypass this city that was not very important, but a large army suddenly appeared in front.

It was none other than Cao Cao, who had earlier ordered him to lead his army to intercept Lu Bu's Sun Guan.

Sun Guan was born in the Yellow Turban, and he can be regarded as a brave general, who led the Yellow Turban Army to fight many victories in the past, especially after serving Cao Cao, in the Battle of Xuzhou, he led the Qingzhou Army back and forth, which also made the miscellaneous cards in the Cao army play a majestic role in that battle.

The Qingzhou army, which followed Sun Guan to intercept Lu Bu, only had more than 30,000 people in total.

The Qingzhou army has already changed into the clothes and armor of the Cao army, but their equipment is still a little shabby compared to the main force Cao army.

The leather armor was relatively thinner, and even the short spears looked very old, and if it weren't for the soldiers who often polished them, I am afraid that many of them would have rusted.

The Qingzhou army, which led this 30,000-strong army, advanced all the way in the direction of Xia Cai, Sun Guan wanted to advance until he was stationed less than a hundred miles away from Xia Cai, but he didn't expect that when he arrived in Shen County, Lu Bu's army had already arrived.

The two armies lined up in line with each other and had been serving Cao Cao for several years, and the Qingzhou army today was not as scattered as the Yellow Turbans in the past.

The 30,000 Qingzhou army lined up against the Qin army, and most of the Chinese army were infantry, while the two wings were guarded by cavalry, and the array was set up to meet the enemy.

Seeing that the Qingzhou army appeared on the opposite side, Lu Bu knew that there must be a bloody battle today, so he hurriedly stopped the pace of the army's march and faced the Qingzhou army.

Unlike the Qingzhou army, the Qin army put out an array in which the Chinese army was dominated by cavalry, while the two wings were guarded by infantry.

This kind of array is suitable for the Chinese army to attack on all fronts, and when the enemy rushes towards the Chinese army, the infantry can inflict heavy damage on the enemy from the flank.

The Qin army is strong and has long been known all over the world.

Although the Cao army had also defeated the Qin army earlier, the main soldiers of the Cao army who could fight with the Qin army were all the main soldiers of the Cao army, not the Qingzhou army that was not relied on in the Cao army sequence now.

In the Qingzhou army array, all the soldiers looked at the Qin army lined up on the opposite side, and they were a little apprehensive in their hearts.

In the past, the Yellow Turban Army fought battles, including the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Qingzhou Army won with a large number of people, although the number of the Qin Army in front of them was less than that of the Qingzhou Army, but the gap between the two sides was not very large.

When looking at the Qin army, the 30,000 Qingzhou army actually had a feeling that this battle would definitely be lost.

This feeling is born from the bottom of my heart, and it is a kind of fear that even if the officers and soldiers of the Qingzhou Army try their best to suppress it, they will never be able to suppress it.

Unlike the Qingzhou army under Sun Guan, the 20,000 Qin army led by Lu Bu had been holding back in Xia Cai City for many days, advancing all the way to Xudu, and what they hoped most was to meet Cao's army earlier and start a fight.

Now there happened to be a Cao army in front of him, for the 20,000 Qin army soldiers, this Cao army, which was significantly more numerous than them, was just used to give them sacrificial swords and strengthen the military might!

The two sides lined up more than 200 paces apart, riding on horseback, looking at the array of the Qin army opposite, Sun Guan knew that if this battle was launched, the 30,000 soldiers under his command would not be the opponent of the Qin army.

With such an estimate of the combat strength of the two sides, Sun Guan would not order the army to attack lightly, but silently looked at the Qin army opposite, waiting for the Qin army to attack first.

Sun Guan's consideration is not wrong.

The Qin army came from Xia Cai and entered the territory of Yuzhou, even if Sun Guan was defeated, he only needed to find a nearby city to settle down, and the whole army would not be annihilated.

But the Qin army is different, in the territory of Yuzhou, the Qin army has no backup, stay here for one more day, the grain and grass they carry will cost a little more.

When the army goes out, grain and grass are always the soul and support of the army.

As long as Sun Guan can trap the Qin army here, for the Qingzhou army, this battle will already be won.

Lu Bu, who also knew this, stood in the middle army, looking at Sun Guan's army in the distance, his brows were slightly twisted, and he was thinking about where to launch an attack.

The formation of the Qingzhou army is relatively strong, but the cavalry mobility on both flanks is excellent.

No matter from which angle the Qin army took the lead in attacking, it seemed that it could not take much advantage in this battle.

"Crossbow formation!" After looking at the Qingzhou Army array for a long time, Lu Bu finally gave an order.

With his strong crossbow array, the strong crossbowmen in the army immediately ran out of the array, and in front of the army, they were divided into two phalanxes, and they lined up to meet the enemy.

There was movement in the Qin army's large array, and Sun Guan also raised his arm and shouted to an officer behind him: "Pass the order, the cavalry on both wings will respond at any time, the Chinese infantry will advance forward, and the archers will follow closely behind the infantry formation!" ”

The officer who had received Sun Guan's order answered, turned around and made a set of gestures backwards.

Seeing the officer's gesture, the flag bearer of the Chinese army also waved the flag.

With the movement of the standard-bearer waving the flag, the heavy infantry of the Qingzhou Army immediately lined up in a neat formation and approached the array of Qin Army's strong crossbowmen.

In the rear column of the heavy infantry of the Qingzhou army, the archers with longbows also strode and closely followed the heavy infantry to advance towards the Qin army array.

The Qin army's strong crossbowmen are divided into two arrays.

When they moved forward, they did not converge in one place, but each maintained an array and advanced towards Cao's army.

The heavy infantry sequence of the Qingzhou Army stopped after advancing twenty or thirty steps.

The Qin army's strong crossbow array was divided into two arrays, and when it was advancing forward, the distance between the two arrays swung wide, and the heavy infantry of the Qingzhou army did not know which one to deal with in the face of the two arrays advancing forward.

Seeing the array of heavy infantry stop from a distance, Sun Guan swiped his hands in front of him and made a gesture of distribution.

Seeing Sun Guan's gesture, the standard-bearer of the Chinese army once again played a set of flags.

The banner of the standard-bearer gave instructions to the heavy infantry array, and in an instant, the heavy infantry of the Qingzhou army divided into two phalanxes and advanced towards the strong crossbowmen of the Qin army.

While the heavy infantry was divided into two phalanxes, the longbowmen who followed them immediately divided into two groups and advanced against the two strong crossbow phalanxes of the Qin army.

Seeing the formation of the Qingzhou Army parting from a distance, and under the banner of the Qin Army, the corners of Lu Bu's mouth showed a smile.

If the Qingzhou Army does not send troops to meet the battle, he really doesn't know how to fight this battle.

Since the Qingzhou army sent troops and divided the heavy infantry and longbow soldiers into two phalanxes, the Qin army had already won most of the battles.

Lu Bu did not give the next order to the Qin army, but silently looked at the Qingzhou army in front of him who was advancing towards the strong crossbow array.

Since the heavy infantry of the Qingzhou army left the Chinese army, the strong crossbow formation of the Qin army stopped.

One by one, the strong crossbows were all raised, aiming at the Qingzhou army that was advancing towards them.

The sharp arrows shimmered in the sunlight, pointing at the Qingzhou army that was approaching them.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and they saw that the heavy infantry of the Qingzhou Army was about to advance to a place that was only seventy or eighty steps away from the Qin Army's strong crossbow array.

At this distance, the range of the strong crossbow can be fully reached, but the strong crossbowmen of the Qin army did not pick off the machine spring.

One by one, they aimed at the Qingzhou army that was advancing towards them, and in the hearts of each Qin army's strong crossbowmen, they were expecting Lu Bu to give the order to shoot the Qingzhou army.

But at this time, Lu Bu, who was in the middle army, suddenly raised his arm and shouted to the Qin army behind him: "Cavalry attack!" ”

The Qin army was in a strong crossbow formation, and it was only twenty or thirty steps forward from the main formation, but the Qingzhou army advanced more than a hundred steps.

At this distance, if the heavy cavalry of the Qin army launched a charge and rushed to the front of the Qingzhou army array, it could just reach the strongest value of the cavalry's charging impact force.

Although Lu Bu didn't know how to calculate these accurately, his experience was to tell him that the current distance of the Qingzhou army was the best distance for the Qin army's heavy cavalry to attack.

With Lu Bu's order, the cavalry of the Qin army of the Chinese army clamped their legs towards the belly of the horse, and rushed out towards the array of heavy infantry of the Qingzhou army.

As soon as the cavalry rushed out, the strong crossbowmen of the Qin army, who had already put the crossbow arrows on the machine springs, also pulled off the machine springs.

I didn't expect the heavy cavalry of the Qin army to suddenly charge, and found that the Qin army's array was pouring out like a tide of black pressure and suppressing a cavalry, and the heavy infantry and archers of the Qingzhou army were stunned for a moment, and their hearts were becoming more and more panicked.

But before they could understand what had happened, the arrows fired by the Qin army's strong crossbow array had already flown towards them.

The sound of the arrows breaking through the air with a strong wind was completely drowned out by the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, but even so, the killing power of the arrows did not diminish in the slightest.

Countless arrows flew towards the array of the heavy infantry of the Qingzhou Army, and the heavy infantry of the Qingzhou Army, which was not fully prepared, was suddenly shot to the ground, and even the longbowmen behind their array, many of them were shot by the arrows of the Qin army.