Face a strong enemy. Leading a force that has not yet formed the spirit and faith of the army, Wang Lu not only offered extremely generous conditions in order to boost morale, but also took the lead in killing the enemy army, which can be regarded as doing everything that the commander should do.

Wang Lu's army only has 30,000 people, but he has to face the 50,000 elite troops of Yizhou who are ferocious and only want to break through, just like a thin embankment trying to intercept the sudden flood peak, and there is a danger of dam failure and bursting at any time.

Fa Zhengtong led 50,000 elite troops, and happened to be led by five generals Zhang Yi, Zhang Wei, Meng Shu, Wu Lan and Lu Kai each led 10,000 people.

Fa Zheng has already seen that Wang Lujun is not the elite under Tai Shici. Although the Jiaozhi and Yizhou soldiers now wear the same clothing as the Jin soldiers, they still cannot hide their physical features. In any case, there are still some obvious differences between the overall appearance of the soldiers north of the Yellow River and the Huai River valley and the soldiers in the southwest of the Han Dynasty.

Wang Lujun came in a hurry, and the Jiaozhi soldiers and Yizhou soldiers had not been trained in the use of artillery, so they naturally could not carry the Shenwei cannon, a big killing weapon that could turn the situation on the battlefield, so they could only rely on hand-to-hand combat between soldiers to decide whether they won or lost. Fortunately, when the Jin army went south, it prepared enough spare weapons and armor, and the 30,000 soldiers under Tai Shici did not hesitate to blood for Wang Lu also changed into the standard equipment of the Jin State, and the overall protection level of the troops was still superior to the Yizhou army led by Fa Zheng.

As long as it is not easy to be hacked to death, then the soldiers under Wang Lu will not be defeated easily, after all, the core backbone of these soldiers is still composed of grassroots officers of the Jin State. Although the combat strength of the indigenous soldiers of Jiaozhi is not as good as that of the Jin lineage, they are not afraid of life and death, some of them have no status in the clan, that is, ordinary serfs and coolies, and now they have the opportunity to completely change the fate of themselves and their families, so they burst out with an amazing desire to fight.

10,000 Yizhou soldiers, facing their former colleagues and current fellow villagers, the hesitation and contradictions in their hearts are naturally indispensable. However, their hesitation does not mean that the Yizhou army, which has become an enemy, will also hesitate, in the eyes of this group of Yizhou soldiers who are like arrows, it is precisely because of the betrayal of Yizhou by their former colleagues and fellow villagers that this led to the danger of Chengdu, so the hatred in their hearts is even stronger than that of the Jiaozhi soldiers.

There was no time to explain on the battlefield, so the 10,000 Yan Yan old troops were instantly engulfed in the torrent of tragic battles, and in order to survive, they had to pick up the knives and guns in their hands and fight desperately with the Yizhou army.

In the midst of the struggle, Wang Lujun didn't know who shouted: "Brothers in Yizhou, let's pick the barbarians brought over by the Southern Barbarian King Meng Shu, so that you don't have to worry about hurting your fellow villagers!"

Meng Huo, who was fighting bravely, heard this sentence, and had the urge to go berserk at that time. What the hell are these words! Together with our Nanban soldiers, they weren't raised by their fathers and mothers?

On the first day of the battle between the two armies, Wang Lu's army lost 8,000 men, and the Yizhou army also lost 10,000 men, but Wang Lu insisted on holding the road and did not let Fazheng break through smoothly.

On the morning of the second day, the two armies buried their stomachs and fed their stomachs, and after the soldiers had eaten their fills, they fought fiercely again. At dusk, another corpse was left on the battlefield, and after a rough light, Wang Lu's army lost more than 12,000 people, and the Yizhou army lost another 10,000.

The battle came to this point, and Wang Lujun was not defeated, I have to say that it was really a miracle.

On this day and night, Fa Zheng gathered all the generals to deliberate, and he said with a heavy face: "It is not suitable to stay here for a long time, if our army continues to fight with Wang Lujun, I am afraid that the reinforcements sent by Tai Shi Ci from Yuxian County will arrive tomorrow." Now there are only more than 30,000 people left in the army, and they can no longer withstand the losses. Therefore, we must break through tonight and completely get rid of the entanglement of the king's road!"

Regarding Fazheng's analysis, the generals expressed their agreement. So after some division of labor, the army pulled out of camp at the third watch and launched a fierce attack on Wang Lu's army for the last time.

Wang Lujun, who had been fighting hard for two days in a row, was physically and mentally exhausted at this time, and he had to take care of his injured and undead brothers, so his vigilance at night naturally decreased a lot. By the time it was discovered that the Yizhou army had broken into the camp overnight, it was already late, so there was no effective interception, so that Fa Zheng was finally able to break through with the army.

Fortunately, the Yizhou army did not have special night combat training, and was eager to break through, so the lethality of Wang Lu's army was also limited, and thousands of soldiers' corpses were left in the chaos, and the casualties were comparable to those on Wang Lu's side.

In the early morning, Guan Ping, who was out of breath, finally arrived at Niu Pi, looking at the dense and crooked corpses on the battlefield, even the Qinghuai soldiers who had just won the battle against Zhang Renjun felt a little chill in their backs. What kind of terrible battle must have been to leave behind the corpses of 30,000 or 40,000 people?

When Guan Ping found Wang Lu, he couldn't hear Wang Lu's voice anymore. Wang Lu, who was covered with hemostatic bandages, fell into a coma yesterday night because of his injuries and rapid fire, and only a faint breath was left at this time.

The bloody battle of the South Route Army in the past year has already made Guan Ping recognize Wang Lu, the silent and honest eldest brother. Seeing Wang Lu's tough guy style who did not hesitate to shed the last drop of blood in order to intercept the main force of Yizhou, Guan Ping's eyes were full of tears. He hurriedly called the medical officer who was traveling with the Qinghuai army, and asked this medical officer to take an extremely precious life-sustaining pill prepared by Hua Tuo for Wang Lu, hoping to save Wang Lu's life.

The pill Guan Ping was carrying, it was a gift from Zhao Xing when he celebrated his twentieth birthday, it is said that this thing is so precious that it cannot be exchanged, and even the father Guan Yu only has one left for the crisis to save his life.

Several hours have passed since Fa Zheng and his troops broke through, and it is useless to pursue them at this time. Guan Ping commanded the Qinghuai Army to seize the time to treat the soldiers who had not yet died, and at the same time sorted out the remains of the soldiers who died on the battlefield on both sides of the war, and dug two 10,000 pits on the spot to bury the remains of the soldiers.

According to Guan Ping's statistics, in the first battle of Niu Pi, more than 17,000 of the 30,000 soldiers of the right army on the right army of the South Road were killed, 5,000 were seriously wounded, and 6,000 were lightly injured.

At such a heavy price, Wang Lu and the troops he led left 20,000 people from Fa Zheng, so that these Yizhou soldiers could rest in Niupi, and from then on accompanied the fallen officers and soldiers of the Southern Route Army.