Compared with these soldiers who escaped death, Han Xian, Chen Lan and Yang Feng are undoubtedly extremely unlucky.

Especially Han Xian and Yang Feng, for the arrival of Li Li's army at this moment, they have been wandering among various forces for many years, and they have endured unbearable bitterness and suffering for ordinary people. Now they finally survived, but at the moment before they were about to see the dawn of victory, they died on the spot.

It's just a little bit of time, and it's only half a cup of tea.

As long as they survive this time, Han Xian and Yang Feng will be able to live, and they will live well, and they can get the qiē they once dreamed of. It's a pity that they once thought that glory and wealth were close at hand, but they just passed by them, and they were destined to be inseparable. The two of them are extremely unfortunate and ill-fated, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are tragic.

"Tom tom!"

Suddenly, behind Lu Bu's army, there was the sound of stumbling footsteps, the steps were hurried and messy, the sound was mixed, and it became louder and louder.

Lu Bu, who was in front of the Le Ma array, turned around when he heard the sound, and Huo Ran saw that the Xuzhou civil officials and gentry who followed him out of the city hurriedly retreated in panic, and retreated into the city gate without looking back, while the hundreds of carriages full of gold and silver that accompanied him out of the city had already retreated into the city silently. After seeing this scene, Lu Bu was suddenly full of indignation, his face was pale, he gritted his teeth in anger, and was annoyed.

The most helpless thing is that seeing these family gentry retreating, Lu Bu has no choice but to swallow this breath, turn his head indignantly, and face the Xiliang Iron Rider four hundred steps away again.

Under the illumination of thousands of torches, Lu Bu clearly saw that there were a large number of Xiliang iron horsemen on the opposite side. Although most of the cavalry was hidden under the cover of night. I don't look at it in detail, but with his rich experience in battle, Lu Bu can still estimate the approximate strength of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. The Xiliang Iron Cavalry in front of him is conservatively estimated to be no less than thirty or forty thousand war cavalry.

Seeing this, Lu Bu couldn't help but be suspicious, very puzzled, and muttered to himself: "Why does Thief Li still have such a huge war horse? Could it be that the news of Li Thief's fiasco in Yecheng is not accurate, and it is purely a false rumor? ”

Indeed, judging from the detailed investigation report that Lu Bu had received before, Li Li's soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses in the First Battle of Jizhou. All four soldiers and horses were defeated, and it was an unprecedented defeat. It is reported that Li Li successively dispatched eight cavalry battalions in the battle of Jizhou. They are: Zhang Liao's Wuwei Battalion, Zhao Yun's Wushuang Iron Cavalry, Zhang Yan's Feiyan Light Cavalry, Dian Wei's Tiger Battalion, Huan Fei's Flying Bear Battalion, Xu Chu's Qinglong Battalion, Gongsun Zhan's Youzhou Battalion and Li Li's personal guard Jin Yiwei. There were originally nine cavalry under Li Li's command, and the Youzhou battalion was a newly formed cavalry battalion recently, with a total of ten cavalry battalions.

In the battle of Jizhou, all eight cavalry under Li Li suffered heavy losses. Among them, the Youzhou Battalion, the Tiger Battalion, the Qinglong Battalion and the Flying Bear Battalion suffered the largest casualties. Most of the soldiers and horses were lost, almost completely destroyed. The other four cavalry also suffered heavy casualties, nearly half of their soldiers and horses were lost, and they were already wounded and unable to fight again. So far, after the First Battle of Jizhou, more than half of the 500,000 troops under Li Li were lost, and the main camp suffered huge casualties. More than half of the horsemen were lost in battle, and their strength was greatly damaged. The combat effectiveness has dropped sharply, the momentum is not as good as before, and it is no longer as strong as it used to be.

Therefore, Lu Bu thought that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry under Li Li was no longer capable of fighting, and the heavy casualties of hundreds of thousands of cavalry and the huge losses of hundreds of thousands of infantry troops made it difficult for the Xiliang Army to recover within two years. It is precisely because of this that Lu Bu will accept Cao Cao's gift, and is willing to secretly form an alliance with him to join forces to fight against Li Li, so that he can sit in Xuzhou safely and freely while protecting himself.

Therefore, when Lu Bu saw that there were so many Xiliang Iron Horsemen under Li Li's command at this moment, he couldn't help but be suspicious and puzzled, thinking that the news he got before was all fake, and Li Li was not greatly damaged after the defeat in Yecheng, and the so-called heavy damage was also false, which is not credible.

In fact, the news that Lu Bu got was very accurate, and the battle of Jizhou did cause heavy losses to the Xiliang Army under Li Li's command who participated in the Battle of Jizhou, and more than half of its troops were lost. However, Lü Bu ignored some extremely crucial factors, in the past two years, Li Li led his troops to the east to conquer Youzhou and Huainan to the south, and won nearly 200,000 troops of the two major forces of Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shu, and the total strength was no longer the 500,000 army after the Sili War, but as many as 700,000 soldiers and horses.

In the battle of Jizhou, the Xiliang army suffered a heavy defeat, and more than half of the eight cavalry with a total of more than 200,000 cavalry were lost, and the casualties were heavy. However, these war cavalry battalions were not completely wiped out, except for the Youzhou battalion, the commander of Gongsun Zhan, who was almost completely annihilated, the main forces of the other battalions were still there, and those who could survive were all the best of the best elite soldiers. The most important thing is that, in addition to the war cavalry battalion, almost all the infantry troops participating in the Battle of Jizhou were surrendered troops under the tent of Gongsun Zan of Youzhou and Yuan Shu of Huainan.

It was the Xiliang Iron Cavalry that suffered heavy losses in the Jizhou fiasco, weakening one-third of the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Army in one fell swoop, but these losses were not enough to shake Li Li's foundation. After all, he has long been the hegemon of the first prince in the world, and his strength and many soldiers and horses are far from what the princes like Lu Bu can imagine, at least they can't detect the entire military strength of the Xiliang army.

Lu Bu knew that after Li Li took over Youzhou, he formed as many as 50,000 Youzhou battalion iron cavalry, but he didn't know that Li Li had also formed another war cavalry battalion in Hanzhong, the hinterland of Liangzhou. This unknown war cavalry battalion is the Eagle Guard with Li Xian as the main general, Hu Che'er, Yu Ban and Shi A as the deputy generals, and its soldiers are the control of the Wuhuan and Xianbei tribes who migrated to Liangzhou, and Zhuge Liang is responsible for the whole army and assists Li Xian to form 30,000 Eagle Guard Iron Cavalry.

Therefore, Li Li did not have only ten cavalry battalions, but eleven cavalry. In addition to the eight cavalry battalions that participated in the battle in Jizhou, Li Li also had three fully staffed cavalry, namely: Shuofeng Battalion stationed in Chang'an Sanfu, Ma Chao's Longxiang Battalion stationed in Wudu County, Liangzhou, and Li Xian's Eagle Guard stationed in Hanzhong.

And what appeared in front of Lu Bu at this moment was 30,000 Shuofeng Battalion War Cavalry and 10,000 Jin Qiwei, a total of 40,000 Iron Cavalry. At the same time, there are also a number of battlefield generals who followed Li Li to fight in Xuzhou, on the left are more than ten generals such as Huan Fei, Xu Chu and Xu Huang, and on the right are generals such as Li Zhi, Qubei, Kebineng and Ji Ling.

These more than 30 generals in front of the Le Ma formation are all famous generals of Xiliang. Among them, the weakest generals can also fight with Lu Bu for twenty or thirty rounds, and more than half of the generals are capable of resisting Lu Bu for more than fifty rounds, and Huan Fei, Li Zhi and Xu Chu have a strong combat power that is not inferior to Lu Bu, and even surpasses it.

Because of this, when Lu Bu saw the arrival of Li Li's army, he would have mixed feelings, his face was pale, and he was sweating profusely. And the wolf cavalry under his account was brave and unmatched when they fought against Han Xian and Yang Feng's rebels before, and they were as fierce and unstoppable as wolves predatoring; However, the moment the Xiliang army appeared, the wolf-like wolf cavalry stopped abruptly, one by one not advancing but retreating, as if facing a great enemy, and did not dare to move.

Just now, Lu Bu dared to take the lead in attacking the heavily defended rebel army, and won the battle, cutting off Han Xian, Chen Lan and Yang Feng. But at this moment, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was not defended at all, and set up a position to face it head-on, but Lu Bu and his more than 10,000 wolf cavalry troops and more than 10,000 infantry troops were stunned and did not dare to take a step forward. Not only that, Lu Bu's army did not advance but retreated, shrinking its forces, gathering nearly 30,000 cavalry together and guarding the drawbridge behind him. This move is obviously to leave a way back for himself, and in case he can't break through, he can retreat to the city.

Obviously, Lu Bu really didn't have the courage to lead the army to break through at this moment. In the face of Han Xian, Yang Feng and others blocking him before, he could lead the army to rush and kill without fear, that was because he was 100% sure that he would be able to kill the rebels, and he didn't take Han Xian, Yang Feng and other unpopular characters in his eyes at all. But now that Li Li's army is blocking the road out of the city, Lu Budun feels powerless, in a dilemma, and is worried. Even so, he still clearly felt that Huan Fei, Li Zhi and Xu Chu were already eyeing him, and as long as he made the slightest move, these three people would quickly pounce.

In the silence, Lu Bu repeatedly weighed the current shape, but the more he weighed it, the more anxious he became, and the more pessimistic his heart became.

At this moment, there were less than 30,000 soldiers and horses behind him, but Li Li had 40,000 iron cavalry behind him, and he was completely at a disadvantage in terms of troops. In addition, it is the third watch in the middle of the night, lightning and thunder, wind and rain are coming, at that time there are lightning and whistling winds, at this time standing in front of the city gate does not feel the darkness, once away from the city gate torches will be completely useless, then the wilderness will be dark, stretch out your fingers and not see the five fingers.

Under such bad weather conditions, even if he led the army to break out of the siege of the Xiliang army, he could not escape the pursuit of the Xiliang iron cavalry. What's more, Huan Fei, Li Zhi and Xu Chu were firmly staring at him, if he was entangled by the three of them, he Lu Bu would definitely be more auspicious, and I am afraid that he would die here tonight.

"Li came from afar, and Wen Hou Tian is the landlord, don't you want to do a little bit of the friendship of the landlord?" Just as Lu Bu was racking his brains to think of countermeasures, Li Li drove the Golden Lion Beast King to step forward slowly and shouted loudly.

Up to this moment, Li Li has been calling Lu Bu Wenhou, which is a casual title that has a deep meaning, obviously with the meaning of taking into account both public and private interests. Yu Gong, he and Lu Bu have clashed several times, they are both rivals and old acquaintances, and not long ago they were both members of the Yuan Alliance; In private, Lu Lingqi, Lu Bu's only pearl in the palm of her hand, married Li Li as a concubine, and this love for her son-in-law cannot be erased. It was Li Li who gave Lu Bushi an honorific title and called him "Wenhou", instead of calling him by his first name or speaking ill of him.

It's a pity that this pair of Weng sons-in-law have never been all the way, and their respective identities and positions determine the hostile relationship between them. In other words, from the moment the two of them served under Dong Zhuo's account, their unsubordinated nature made them a pair of fateful opponents.

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