Zhu Long's actions in Zhujiazhuang did succeed in deceiving and misleading Hu Yanzhuo.

He got information from some traders last night, saying that Zhu Long was still in Zhujiazhuang that morning, and personally commanded the soldiers to dig trenches to prepare for battle.

So he judged that Zhu Long must defend Zhujiazhuang and not take the initiative to attack.

Out of caution, he was still cautious when crossing the argali, and judging from the results, he felt that he had been too cautious and completely unnecessary.

Out of the mountain pass, his eyes lit up, and a small rolling hill appeared in front of him.

The infantry in front was already under the leadership of Han Tao and Peng Xi, the main and deputy vanguards, along the road, marched to the foot of a hill, and he was about to lead the cavalry to catch up, when he suddenly saw an army emerging from behind the hill, and countless flags were raised.

Squeak!

Countless tooth-aching bows were pulled together, and then with a bang, a rain of arrows covered the ranks of officers and soldiers.

"There's an ambush!" Hu Yanzhuo's heart that had just been put down sank into the abyss again.

"Follow me!" He roared, his voice out of tune!

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Zhu Long was a little helpless, the distance between the front and rear teams of the enemy army was only less than two miles, and he could not surround them together, nor could they break them individually, which made him very uncomfortable.

But he still launched the attack according to the plan.

Fortunately, there are more archers under his command, among the infantry of the Zhujia Army, eight out of ten people are archers, four professional, four pikemen and archers, as for the water battalion, almost everyone is an archer, because the water exchange, the bow and arrow are the sharpest.

So when more than 2,000 archers on the hills fired arrows at the same time, the officers and soldiers who had just relaxed became a mess, and there were a large number of casualties!

"Defense! Defense! Han Tao shouted heartbreakingly, he jumped off his horse, afraid that his target was too obvious and would become a target for attack.

After a long period of training, this unit took advantage of the gap between the two rounds of arrow rain to turn around, reorganize the formation, and after five or six rounds of arrow rain, finally formed a formation, with the shield on their heads.

"Kill!" At the corner of the hill in front, an infantry force came out, all heavily armored and speared, and smashed into the formation of officers and soldiers.

Qin Ming wielded a mace, invincible, and there was no enemy under him. Sun Li had two bamboo tiger's eye whips in his hand, smashing left and right.

Like two sharp knives, the two fierce generals rushed into the enemy formation, tearing apart the already weak flank defense line of the officers and men.

The three deputy generals in the back, Ou Peng, Huang Xin, and Ma Lin, followed up with elite soldiers and continued to expand this crack.

Seeing that he couldn't resist it, Peng Xi saw this, and hurriedly carried a three-pointed two-edged knife and led a team of people to the top.

When he saw Qin Ming killing in all directions, he was immediately furious, and waved the weapon in his hand to stop Qin Ming.

Qin Ming saw that an enemy general was blocking in front of him, and he used all his strength to sweep over with a stick, and Peng Xi waved a big knife to block.

With a bang, sparks splashed, Peng Xi's arm was numb, and the weapon almost came out of his hand.

"Brothers, come on!" He hurriedly retreated into the soldiers, beckoning his men to resist the fierce Qin Ming together.

Although Peng Xi was not Qin Ming's opponent, with his supervision and command, the soldiers finally stopped his advance.

Then Sun Li killed again!

Peng Xi was furious, and said in his heart: I am not the opponent of this mace, and I can't beat you yellow-faced man!

Wielding a three-pointed two-edged knife, he stepped forward, and was forced to retreat again and again by Sun Li's several whips.

Peng Xi panicked, and hurriedly gathered his subordinates to go up together, and then saw Huang Xin, Ou Peng, and Ma Lin coming again, he was about to cry, so he could only command the soldiers to resist desperately and support it.

There are hills on both sides of this road, and thousands of men and horses are fighting here, so it is very crowded, and when the brave meets on the narrow road, the superior strength of the officers and soldiers cannot be deployed, but is killed by a thousand people led by the five fierce generals and retreats again and again.

Hu Yanzhuo didn't have time to form a chain of horses, so he hurriedly killed them, and when he passed through the argali, he was in a state of readiness, and everyone was wearing armor.

He did not rush directly to the battlefield, because there were officers and soldiers in front of him, and if he rushed up in this way, he would trample on his own people.

He intended to bypass the hills occupied by enemy archers and attack from behind the enemy.

With cavalry, he passed between the two hills, only to find that the army on the opposite side had been waiting for him.

"Rush over!" Hu Yanzhuo gave an order, and a group of 200 cavalry rushed out and went straight to the enemy formation!

Luan Tingyu's eyes were like goshawks staring at the roaring officers and cavalry, and the two battalions of Jin and Mu under his command formed a tight infantry phalanx, guarding the exit of the hills.

Three rows of shieldmen were in front, six rows of pikemen were in the middle, and behind were six rows of archers.

He rode his own horse, at the back of the phalanx, on the left was Xie Zhen and Jiebao, and on the right was Yang Xiong and Deng Fei.

In fact, Luan Tingyu was also a little nervous in his heart, this was his second time as a battlefield commander, the first time was in Liangshanbobian, against Chao Gai and Song Jiang. At that time, Zhu Long and Dong Ping pretended to be alone, ran to a distance to whisper, and he temporarily commanded the whole army.

That time was purely crushing, the arrow rain blow of the archers, the intrigue of the high-level of Liangliangshan, and the disorganization and indiscipline of the minions, so that the Liangshan army collapsed before rushing to the Zhujia army.

This time it's different! The enemy army was all heavily armored cavalry, with men and horses in armor, which was established by Hu Yanzhuo following the example of the Tiefu Tu of Western Xia.

With such a terrifying army of as many as 3,000, can a mere 1,000 infantry under his command withstand it?

He wasn't sure! But he's desperate to win this one.

As the old man of Zhujiazhuang, his qualifications are very old, and Zhu Long also trusts him, and has let him be alone many times, and he has always ranked first among the generals with different surnames.

With Lin Chong, Qin Ming, Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, Hua Rong, and other well-known masters in the rivers and lakes joining, he also felt the pressure, and became more and more eager to prove his ability, instead of just relying on seniority.

He trained during the day, practiced martial arts diligently in the morning and evening, and studied military books at night.

In today's battle, if he withstands Hu Yanzhuo's cavalry, even if he has made great achievements, he can continue to sit in the position of the first military general with a well-deserved position.

The distance of the cavalry of the official army was getting closer and closer, he took out his bow, drew an arrow, and bent his bow to shoot the arrow, but he did not shoot it for a long time!

His eyes were fixed on a wooden stick in front of the battlefield, a marker inserted after a test shot, representing the effective range of the bow and arrow.

Bang, a wooden stick was kicked away by the horse's hooves, rolled in the air, and before it landed, Luan Tingyu shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”

His fingers swept away, and with a "whoosh" sound, the arrow flew like a meteor into the chest of a cavalryman, who fell backwards and dismounted.

In the next moment, 400 arrows flew out of the phalanx, streaked across the sky, and rained down on the heads of officers and soldiers.

Ding-ding-bell......

The rain of arrows was dense, but it did not kill the enemy like Luan Tingyu's arrows.

This is a heavily armored cavalry, all men and horses are armored, and arrows are difficult to penetrate, except for a few unlucky people who are shot in the eye and throat, where these armor cannot protect, ordinary archers cannot hurt these cavalry.

The archers of the Zhujia army were stunned, they had never seen such a cavalry, and the bows and arrows were ineffective against them!

"Keep firing the arrows!" Luan Tingyu said loudly, and he shot another arrow, shooting down a cavalryman, reminding the archers who stopped their movements because of shock.

Even if he couldn't shoot, he couldn't let this group of cavalry rush too comfortably.

The archers reflected, whether it was useful or not, and continued to release their arrows.

With a stark contrast, these soldiers admired Luan Tingyu very much.

After three rounds of arrows that did not have much of a lethal effect, the cavalry rushed to within forty paces.

The soldiers of the Zhujia army can clearly see the appearance of the other party, those cavalry iron armor and iron helmets, wearing hideous iron masks, and the war horses are also wearing horse armors, no matter the people and horses, they only show their eyes, like monsters killed in hell, rushing over, the momentum is terrifying!

The sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and the earth trembled!

The legs of the soldiers of the Zhujia Army are also trembling!

But the usual rigorous training, the powerful generals behind them, so that they did not turn around and run away.

Knock knock!

When the cavalry stepped over another mark inserted in the ground, Luan Tingyu ordered people to beat the drums!

The shield soldier, who heard the sound of the drum, drew his javelin from behind the shield, leaned back, like a curved bow stretched to the limit, suddenly straightened, and the javelin flew out.

Heavy javelins, with great kinetic energy, crashed into cavalry and horses, tearing through armor and flesh.

The cavalry seemed to hit a wall, and suddenly people turned over on their backs, people screamed, and horses screamed!

I wish the morale of the family army to be greatly boosted!

The cavalry continued to rush forward, but they did not have the indomitable momentum they had just now.

At this time, the Zhu Jiajun changed again, the shield soldier bent down and used his body to resist the shield, the shield of the Zhu Jiajun was made of strong thick wood, and the outside was covered with a layer of cowhide, and four horizontal iron pieces were nailed up and down, which was very strong.

There are also two wooden sticks on the back of the shield to help the shield-bearers resist the impact.

The pikemen in the back set up their four- or five-meter-long spears on their shields, and the conical armor-piercing spear heads shone with cold light, which was daunting.

The attacking cavalry suddenly found that the infantry phalanx on the opposite side suddenly turned into a huge hedgehog, making their group of vicious wolves unable to speak, and the momentum of the charge was overwhelming!

Some of the cavalrymen who rushed too violently crashed into the spear formation, and like a string of sugar gourds, they were pierced through the body by several spears at the same time, and died a very tragic death.

Wow!

The horse became frightened, kicked the ground with its hooves, and refused to move forward to die.

At this time, the archer finally came into play, and at a distance of less than twenty paces, the power of the bow and arrow was greatly increased, and even the eight-bucket bow could break through the armor. After two waves of arrows, the group fled back in a hurry, leaving behind more than 40 corpses and horses that had lost their owners.

Luan Tingyu breathed a sigh of relief, ordered someone to lead the war horse aside, picked up the javelin on the ground, and handed it back to the shield soldiers, the corpses on the ground were still there, at least it was a shock to the officers and soldiers.

Hu Yanzhuo's face sank like water, and he observed the hills on both sides, and the right front was occupied by the archers of the Zhu family's army, who condescendingly threw arrows to the rain.

The hill in front of the left, although higher, is more gentle, and horses can run up it.

But instead of sending any more precious cavalry, he drew a thousand soldiers from the infantry and ordered them to climb over the hill and attack Luan Tingyu's infantry phalanx from the flank.