But now, Zhang Chao did say that once Liu Bei's army was defeated and he didn't keep his promises, he would abandon his body in the wilderness, which was tantamount to the biggest insult and disrespect, how could Liu Bei not be angry? Immediately, he pointed at Zhang Chao and said with an ugly face, "Zhang Zhiyuan, dare you?" ”

"I don't need to be blamed for what I will do. Now you just have to say whether you accept the challenge or not. Of course, if you don't accept the challenge, then I will order the army to attack, presumably, with your strength of only 30,000 men, you can be defeated in two days at most, and at that time you are still a prisoner. Zhang Chao ignored Liu Bei's verbal accusations, and now the initiative is in his hands.

The heavy cavalry of the Zhang family is indeed famous and very powerful. But Liu Bei also has his own self-confidence, that is, his trust in the Qilin Army. Of course, he didn't have any choice now, because if he didn't accept the challenge, he wouldn't even have the slightest chance to escape.

"Okay, I accepted. I just hope you can do what you say you will do, and once I win, let me go. Liu Bei pointed at Zhang Chao and said.

"Don't worry, I'm the most trustworthy person, but I hope you can keep your promise too, otherwise, I promise to do what I just said." Zhang Chao sneered, and then turned around, even if he couldn't conquer the other party by words, then he could only use such a means, which was also the way to exchange the smallest casualties for the greatest victory.

Zhang Chao and Liu Bei both fought their horses and turned around, and then the cavalry in the two armies began to surge, and only half an hour later, 40,000 people sent by each side came to the battlefield.

After the heavy cavalry of the Zhang family received the military order, the two generals Zhang Feng and Zhang Shou all came out, each with 10,000 heavy cavalry on the battlefield.

Black clothes, black armor, black masks, black knives and spear weapons, and even the horses are wearing layers of black and heavy armor, looking from a distance, it looks like a torrent of steel, giving people a very shocking feeling.

Compared with the visual impact of the heavy cavalry of the Zhang family, the Qilin Army does look very pitiful.

Originally, it was supposed to be 20,000 people wearing a yellow military uniform, not to mention that the military discipline was not in order, and not everyone could get a batch of war horses.

The previous Qilin Army was not like this, as Liu Bei's most valued army, wherever they appeared, they were the strongest representatives of the Xishu army. However, after days of fighting, and without sufficient supplies, they were already riddled with holes, and even insufficient personnel, and among the 20,000 people, there were still 3,000 ordinary sergeants, that is, the number of war horses could not reach one per person, so it looked like it naturally gave people a sense of decline.

The two armies are fighting, the strength of the army is the basis of victory, morale is the magic weapon of victory, and confidence is the additive of victory, but now it seems that the two sides are not at the same level at all, and this battle was lost before Xishu was defeated.

"War Horse One-word Impact!" General Zhang Feng divided the 10,000 soldiers and horses into five echelons, each team was 2,000 people, after setting up the formation, with his shout, the first echelon of 2,000 horses immediately roared and rushed out like arrows from the string.

In conjunction with the bow and arrow raid ordered by their general Zhang Shou, the long-range bow and arrow, which could reach four hundred paces, flew out at this moment and rained down like raindrops towards the place where the Qilin Army was.

Zhang Feng led the heavy cavalry of the Zhang family, like a tiger descending the mountain, rushed straight out, before anyone arrived, the momentum arrived first, and a murderous aura also diffused out.

"Arrow-shaped attack, follow me." Chen Deng, the leader of the Qilin Army, also shouted, and then rushed out first with the spear in his hand.

For Chen Deng, this battle can only be won but not defeated.

There is still a glimmer of hope to survive if you win, and if you lose, you can only die in battle. It is precisely because of this reason that as soon as he attacked, he had a resolute look on his face, a momentum that the general would not be able to fight back.

After all, the Qilin Army is a strong army that Liu Bei is proud of, and its combat power is still very strong, even if it is a little inferior to the past under the continuous battle, but it really goes to the battlefield, and it still has its own momentum, at least it is far from being comparable to some rabble, under Chen Deng's order, the 20,000 army formed an arrow array, and rushed straight forward in a surprise way.

The distance between the two armies was not far away, but after just one impact, the two sides came into contact with each other, and then the swords came out, and the battlefield was a cloud of dust and smoke.

Zhang Attack rushed to kill the formation with a word, like an open palm, wrapping the opponent's arrow-shaped attack, but the murderous aura of the Qilin Army was too heavy, and the strength was also very strong, just the palm of two thousand people was not enough to wrap it up, but fortunately, Zhang Attack had already prepared, one echelon was not good, just two echelons, then three, four, until the five were all up, which suppressed the momentum of the opponent's impact.

Liu Bei in the rear was watching this scene with wide eyes, and when he watched the Zhang family's heavy cavalry vainly surround the Qilin Army with his palms including fists, a smile appeared on his face. He laughed at the Zhang family's heavy cavalry for being too big, and he actually underestimated his unicorn army so much, so he had to make the other party suffer some.

Liu Bei, who was originally not optimistic about his Qilin Army, also had a hint of fantasy at a moment, that is, this battle was likely to be won, and he also began to look forward to the results.

It is obviously not so easy, or even difficult to do, if 10,000 people want to block the impact of 20,000 people and surround them. If it weren't for the heavy cavalry of the Zhang family being protected by heavy armor, it is estimated that I don't know how many deaths will be killed in this first battle.

Fortunately, there is also heavy armor to protect the body, so that the Qilin Army's various swords and guns hit the body, and there are no major casualties.

It's just that although they relied on the advantage of equipment and were not hit hard, the obvious Zhangjia heavy cavalry also fell into the disadvantage, and when the number was inferior to the other party, they seemed to have the intention of being counter-surrounded.

"The whole army is fanning out of the way, get out of the way." The main general, Zhang Feng, responded calmly, and did not show a little panic because of the lack of troops to be counter-surrounded, on the contrary, when the other side was about to form an encirclement, he suddenly ordered the army to retreat to both sides.

The most important thing for the heavy cavalry of the Zhang family is to order and prohibit, which is exactly what Zhang Chao requires. Now at the sound of the order, the team of 10,000 people quickly moved to both sides, they gave up the fight with their opponents, and now they were completely under the orders of the commander.

Zhang Attack's behavior caused the Qilin Army to lose its target for a while, and when they found that the opponent was retreating on both sides, Chen Deng also reacted, and ordered everyone to fight to prevent the opponent from escaping.

The heavy cavalry of the Zhang family, who only had orders in their eyes, took advantage of the heavy armor on their bodies to defend against ordinary swords and guns, and they did not care about the opponent's obstruction at all, and they simply took advantage of this equipment advantage to forcibly break through, even if they were injured by swords and guns on the way, no one would stop their behavior.

Zhang Jiazhong's cavalry began to withdraw to both sides at all costs, which made the Qilin army completely exposed, so that most of them were concentrated in the center of the battlefield, and at this moment, General Zhang Shou, who had long been ready to draw his bow, after an order, ten thousand arrows were fired at the same time, and they were shooting towards the ranks of the Qilin army.

Because of the impact of both sides, the position of the Qilin Army is now less than three hundred steps away from Zhang Shou's archers, this distance is the effective distance of the bow and arrow, so under the fire of ten thousand arrows, I can only hear the sound of countless sighing bows and arrows breaking through the air, and then I saw the Qilin Army in the field falling from the war horse to the ground one after another.

This is the tactics of the Zhang family's heavy cavalry, and this is also the battle method discussed by Zhang Feng and Zhang Shou, the two generals.

Zhang Chao has always asked his soldiers to pay attention to cooperation, in his opinion, no matter how strong the opponent is, as long as the army can be ordered and prohibited, well-equipped, and coordinated in place, then there is no enemy that cannot be defeated.

For these words, the soldiers of the entire Celestial Empire took it seriously. Zhang Feng and Zhang Shou, as Zhang Chao's most favored generals of the Zhang family's heavy cavalry, did not hesitate to carry it out. This time their opponent is the strongest Qilin army in Xishu, which makes them not show the slightest contempt from the beginning, in his opinion, no matter what kind of opponent, even if it is an enemy, it is worthy of respect, they will definitely not underestimate any enemy, so as to do something that capsizes in the gutter.

Therefore, from the time when the battle had not yet begun, the two generals Zhang Feng and Zhang Shou had carefully discussed.

It is said that they have the advantage of this battle, and even if it is a direct impact, they are confident that they can defeat the Qilin Army. But they didn't make such a choice, because if they did so, it was likely that even if they won, it would be a miserable victory, if the first emperor Zhang Chao was in front of them today, of course they wanted to perform well.

In this way, it seems that the enemy is surrounded carelessly, but in fact it is indeed a method of concentrating the opponent's forces and then attacking it with a bow and arrow.

As soon as he did this, the Qilin army was really fooled, including the leading general Chen Deng, who also thought that the other party was because he looked down on himself to engage in this one-word attack encirclement array, so he gathered all the Qilin army together and carried out a surprise attack in the form of a fierce fist, he believed that in the case of superiority in troops, he would definitely be able to break the encirclement of Zhangjia's heavy cavalry, so as to achieve victory.

In fact, the encirclement of Zhang's heavy cavalry was indeed dispersed. But this was not done by the Qilin Army, but on their own initiative, in order to let them concentrate their troops on their own, so that the next 10,000 archers of Zhang Shou could be shot as targets.

Now Zhang Feng left with the army, and when only the Qilin Army was left in the center of the battlefield, Zhang Shou was naturally not polite, and seized this opportunity to launch a fierce attack.