"Second Battalion, withdraw!"

Although he was very unwilling, Zhang Fei didn't dare not listen to Zhang Yi's order, and Zhang Yi still shouted with the megaphone, and all the troops could hear it clearly, so Zhang Fei could only give the order to withdraw the army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Brothers, they want to run, wrap up with me, bite them!"

Du Xiang, who also heard Zhang Yi's order to withdraw the army, immediately turned on the amplification function and gave the Yellow Turban Army an order to attack, because in Du Xiang's opinion, as long as the order to withdraw the army was given, the Dingping Army would definitely fall into chaos because it wanted to retreat, but he didn't expect that after the soldiers of the Dingping Army heard the order to retreat, only a few of them fell into a panic, and the others covered each other and retreated alternately.

The Dingping Army's alternate retreat surprised the Yellow Turban Army, but Du Xiang's order had been issued, and they could only concentrate their forces and try to leave a part of the Dingping Army, but at this time, the Golden Sword Guard in charge of the palace arrived.

"Wow yes ......"

With a strange roar, Dian Wei raised a hammer in his left hand and a halberd in his right hand, and rushed into the enemy formation on his horse.

The pair of eight-sided hammers, was specially built by Zhang Yi for Dian Wei, Dian Wei also likes to use, but he did not give up his double halberd, but the use is relatively small, but will still be with the army, this time with Zhang Yi to fight, Dian Wei on a whim wanted to try the effect of a single hammer and a single halberd, so there is now Dian Wei's nondescript appearance, but don't say, Dian Wei's hammer and halberd, hit quite fiercely, after he rushed into the enemy formation, the enemy on the left was splashed by his smashed brains, and the enemy on the right was flying with severed limbs, under the leadership of Dian Wei, the Golden Sword Guard killed the Yellow Turban Army and retreated, and it was powerless to entangle the soldiers of the second battalion.

Seeing that the second battalion was withdrawn like that, and even the Golden Daowei could not stay, Du Xiangqi's eyes were red, but there was no way to do it, so he could only urge the rear army to cross the river as soon as possible, while following the second battalion and the Golden Daowei, all the way to Pingling City, until the day was noon, the Yellow Turban Army's brigade all crossed the Weishui River, and when they crossed the Weishui River, a team of bee stingers quietly swam across the Weishui River, and the place where they crossed the river was the place where Li Damu crossed the river.

It turned out that where Li Damu and they crossed the river, there was a stone bridge underneath, but the stone bridge was too low, and once it reached the flood season, it would be submerged by the surging river, but even if it was submerged, the bridge could still pass people, because the bridge deck was actually only half a meter deep from the water.

Shortly after the stingers had dived across the river, a pigeon covered in red paint flew up from the south bank and headed straight for Pingling City.

The blood-red pigeon, like a signal light, stands out in the air.

"General, look, it's a pigeon!"

After seeing the pigeons, Gao Shun's lieutenant Gan Mo whispered excitedly.

"Well, I see," nodded, Gao Shun lowered his voice and said to the herald behind him: "Inform the front and rear teams, prepare to cross the river, let the soldiers be careful, and don't fall into the water." ”

"No!"

After whispering a promise, the herald immediately assigned the task to his men, and then flew to the front on his own horse.

It turned out that Zhang Yi's purpose from the beginning was to let Gao Shun lead his troops to steal across the Weishui River, and Zhang Fei led his troops to fight with Du Xiang, in order to lead the Yellow Turban Army to cross the river as soon as possible and create conditions for Gao Shun and them.

Also acting with Gao Shun were Lu Bu, Han Zhong and Cheng Yuanzhi, who brought cavalry, a total of 20,000 people, including 3,000 trapped camps, 5,000 wind battalions, 5,000 shower battalions and 2,000 Tiefutu, all of which were the most elite cavalry units in the Dingping army, and the task given to them by Zhang Yi was to attack Yingchuan.

In order to successfully complete the strategic purpose of the surprise attack on Yingchuan, Zhang Yi can be said to have racked his brains and thought of all the conceivable emergencies, the first thing he thought of was what if the plan was leaked, what if Peng Tuo led the army back to help? In order to solve this problem, Zhang Yi did not hesitate to let Zhang Fei lead the troops as bait to lure the Yellow Turban Army to cross the river as soon as possible, and then feared that the Yellow Turban Army had a secret post on the opposite bank, Zhang Yi also asked Bai Zhan to personally bring people over to do reconnaissance, and in order to let Gao Shun and them reach Yingchuan as soon as possible, Zhang Yi also unified the excellent war horses of the whole army to Gao Shun and them.

Speaking of which, the most important thing in Zhang Yi's hands now is the war horse, since he subdued Budugen and Kebineng, the war horse in Zhang Yi's hands has multiplied several times, from the original more than 40,000 horses, and expanded to 130,000, but because the Eastern Alliance that moved north has always been a thief, always want to fight back to regain the territory they lost, and the Southern Xiongnu has always been ready to move, Zhang Yi had to leave half of them to Kirby Neng and Budugen, in order to prevent the Eastern Alliance and the Southern Xiongnu from joining forces to endanger his rear, Therefore, when he set out to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Zhang Yi only had more than 70,000 horsemen in his hands, of which 30,000 were transferred to Huang Zhong.

Although the total number is only more than 70,000 horsemen, but in the Eastern Han Dynasty, an era of horse scarcity, 70,000 cavalry troops, that is a fairly large cavalry force, you must know that the current Eastern Han Dynasty court, there are only 100,000 available cavalry in total, like Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Jian, the number of cavalry is in thousands, even Dong Zhuo of Xiliang has only 30,000 Xiliang iron horses in his hands.

Later, in the process of the campaign, the Dingping army successively captured 30,000 war horses in Zhuojun, Hejian and Gaoyang, and later Zhang Liang attacked Lu Bu and sent more than 10,000 horses, so the number of war horses in Zhang Yi's hands was abundant again, even if he lost some of the war horses in the battle, Zhang Yi still has about 60,000 war horses available in Pingling City.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan to attack Yingchuan, Zhang Yi gave the 20,000 cavalry to fight, each with an extra war horse, which required heavy armor Tiefutu, Zhang Yi also equipped one more horse, that is, four, which led to the fact that now in Pingling City, except for the Golden Sword Guard, there are almost no cavalry in each battalion, of course, the three thousand cavalry in Guan Yu's hands are not counted, because they are not in Pingling City, but outside a dense forest a hundred miles away from Pingling City.

How could Guan Yu's 3,000 cavalry appear outside the dense forest? It all started yesterday.

Li Damu was forced by Guan Yu to have no choice, so he had to use the strategy that Du Xiang gave him, Du Xiang once said that Li Damu led the army to cross the river, such a large-scale operation, it is impossible for the Dingping army not to know, it is just a matter of time or time, if it is late, it is fine, but if it is early, things will be a little troublesome, the trouble is not to be afraid of Zhang Yi sending an army to encircle and suppress, to be honest, Peng Tuo and Du Xiang wish that Zhang Yi sent an army to encircle and suppress it, because Zhang Yi's overstretched troops must be careless, and a dozen heavy troops will be sent to encircle and suppress Li Damu, The frontal battlefield of the Weishui River will definitely reduce the pressure on their own side.

Therefore, Peng Tuo and Du Xiang were not afraid of Zhang Yi's heavy troops to encircle and suppress Li Damu, but they were afraid that like Guan Yu, they would send a small team of men and horses like kraft candy, neither retreating nor fighting, and they would just stick to you and disgust you, so they formulated a way for Li Damu to deal with it, that is, Ming Xiu plank road dark Chen Cang, they asked Li Damu to find a dense forest once he encountered this situation, the dense forest is not conducive to cavalry action, but it is conducive to infantry action, with the help of the cover of the dense forest, when the time comes, only a part of the people will be left to set up a suspicious formation, and the main force can enter Gaoyang.

Peng Tuo and Du Xiang's idea is good, but where is the dense forest so easy to find, Li Damu and his soldiers searched for most of the day but did not find it, knowing that it was only at noon today that Tanma found a dense forest, so Li Damu led the army into the dense forest, leaving only a few hundred people on the periphery.

Guan Yu saw all the actions of the Yellow Turban Army, and he also roughly guessed Li Damu's intentions, but Guan Yu did not dare to rashly lead his troops to attack.

Squinting at the yellow turban soldiers dangling around the periphery, Guan Yu stroked his beard and said to himself: "There are clouds in the book of soldiers, and you can't enter the forest, but if you don't go in, if those thieves really sneak out to attack Gaoyang under the cover of the dense forest, it will be bad." ”

Thinking that the thief army might attack Gaoyang, Guan Yu gritted his teeth, turned his head and asked, "Brothers, are you willing to live and die with Guan?" ”

At this time, Guan Yu's expression was awe-inspiring, and all the soldiers immediately realized that they might have to risk attacking the woods that were unfavorable to their own side next, but everyone did not flinch, but instead hugged their fists at Guan Yu together, and said in unison: "We are willing to live and die with the general!" ”

"Good!"

After nodding heavily, Guan Yu pointed to the dense forest opposite, and said in a loud voice: "We can't give this Yellow Turban Army a chance to attack Gaoyang, so I decided to use fire attack!" ”

After listening to Guan Yu's words, all the soldiers were stunned one by one, with obvious fear on their faces, it is no wonder that if they use fire attack at this moment, they must rush into the forest and set fire, this fire-fighting force will not say whether they can rush into the forest, even if they rush in, they will also face the siege of the Yellow Turban Army in all directions, and what is even more terrifying is that once the fire rises in the woods, the flames will be in the sky, and the troops who rushed into the forest and set fire have almost no chance of survival.

Seeing that the soldiers showed the intention of retreating, Guan Yu smiled, stroked his beard indifferently and said: "This matter is nine deaths, I, Guan Mou, will not force you, but if you retreat today, you will always be just cowards!" ”

After speaking, Guan Yu said to Yang Kai, who was waiting by the side, "Give me the torch!" ”

"Huh?"

Hearing that Guan Yu wanted a torch, all the soldiers were shocked, and Yang Kai asked urgently: "General, ...... are you?"

"Hehe," sassy smiled, Guan Yu stroked his long hair, and said proudly: "Look at how I, Guan Yu, can defeat the enemy alone!" ”

After speaking, Guan Yu took the torch in Yang Kai's hand and snatched a bundle of hay from his back.

"Drive!"

With Guan Yu's loud shout, the Shadow Divine Horse stood up and let out a hiss, and then raised his four hooves and rushed towards the Yellow Turban Army.