Agreeing on a field battle is equivalent to a half-open battle.

The two sides will agree on the time and place of the decisive battle, and the number of soldiers will be assigned in advance.

In this way, there will be fewer opportunities to use strategy, and there will be no ambush to lure the enemy into depth, and the victory will be decided purely by relying on the command ability of the commanders of both sides.

In this regard, Zhou Yu is full of confidence.

Therefore, Zhou Yu and Cao Ren agreed half a month later on the first day of the sixth month, outside the west gate of Jiangling City, each side sent 10,000 soldiers to fight it.

The reason why he chose the west gate instead of Zhou Yu was used to the south gate of Jiangling City was entirely because the south gate was completely plain, and outside the west gate of Jiangling City, there was a small dirt slope about fifteen meters high.

Zhou Yu didn't forget that Cao Ren still had hundreds of cavalry available, and if he didn't use the terrain advantage to find a way to block the cavalry, Cao Ren would use cavalry to advance as soon as the battle began. With only 10,000 Jiangdong Army foot soldiers, can't they all be used to defend Zhou Yu's Chinese army, right?!

It's really going to get to that point, and you've already lost half of it before you start fighting.

Therefore, the location was chosen the West Gate, and more bows and crossbows should be prepared, and Zhang Fei's soldiers should also be brought along by the way.

Allied forces, if Liu Beijun doesn't have anyone in this kind of decisive battle, wouldn't it be called a coalition army in vain.

Moreover, Zhou Yu was very unkind, and placed Zhang Fei's car formation in the most prominent place of the front army, which was called defending against Cao Ren's cavalry assault.

But everyone knows what is actually going on.

Cao Ren really wanted a cavalry assault, and it was impossible to assault the front army, the distance between the front army and the middle army was too far, and it was also the most heavily defended place. The most likely assault position of Cao Ren is still the two flanks of Jiangdong.

Zhou Dudu would not not understand this truth, but Zhou Dudu didn't care, arranged Zhang Xi and Zhang Fei in the front army, and handed over the task of attacking the arrow to Zhang Fei.

This seems to be a reuse, but according to general battlefield experience, the casualty rate of the vanguard is not low, if you attack unfavorably, you may be held accountable by the commander afterwards.

So, Zhang Xi received the order on the surface, but he complained vigorously in his heart - what kind of "elegant and elegant" Zhou Gongjin, sure enough, what Luo Guanzhong said was right, he was a cautious eye.

On the contrary, Zhang Fei did not raise any protest against this.

Or Zhang Fei understands Zhou Yu. No matter how elegant and elegant Zhou Dudu was, he "lost" four states and counties that should have been in his pocket in one breath, and no one could easily swallow this breath.

Back in the army, Zhang Fei first confirmed with Zhang Xi whether he wanted to go all out in this decisive battle to help Zhou Lang win that Cao Ren.

Zhang Xi thought for a moment, then nodded.

Now Liu Bei has taken the four counties of Jingnan and has begun to govern it, while Guan Yu is also working hard to eliminate the North Dao, and the effect is good.

Liu Beijun's goal has been fully achieved, so there is no need to grind foreign workers anymore. Otherwise, Zhou Yu will really give you small shoes to wear.

Although it is not really good for Zhang Xi and Zhang Fei, but for Liu Bei's soldiers, Zhou Yu will not be polite, and it is estimated that there will be no less things like this in the future.

It's better to directly hurt Cao Ren this time, let Cao Ren retreat, or have to close the city and defend it, which is less risky.

After listening to this, Zhang Fei said that he understood, and then went to arrange the ordnance baggage, train the soldiers, and then think about the attack plan in the decisive battle.

As for Zhang Xi, there is nothing to do at this time.

In the decisive battle half a month later, Zhang Xi still followed Zhang Fei as a staff officer, and the commander of the army was always Zhang Fei.

As for how to arrange Zhou Yu's decisive battle, Zhang Xi doesn't have to worry about it, this kind of battle of pure command ability, Zhang Xi doesn't believe that Zhou Yu can be inferior to Cao Ren.

Before you know it, the end of May is here.

Before the decisive battle, Zhou Yu held the last military meeting and assigned the combat tasks of each army, among which Zhang Feijun's combat mission was to attack Cao Ren's Chinese army at the beginning of the war.

Zhang Xi was still slandering in his heart, this Zhou Gongjin was not a son of man, and he used Liu Beijun as a consumable.

But after the military discussion, Zhou Yu chatted with Zhang Xi alone for a long time, and Zhang Xi left Zhou Yu's Chinese military tent with a sigh on his last face.

On the first day of June, the weather was sunny and warm.

Outside the west gate of Jiangling City, the Cao army and the Sun and Liu coalition armies of 10,000 people each confronted each other three miles apart.

Zhou Dudu rarely put on his silver helmet and silver armor, held a spear, and personally commanded, that is called a majestic and heroic, that is called a heroic.

On the other side, Cao Ren was not far behind, with his armor on his body, holding a big knife, awe-inspiring, and solemn.

Today, these two will be outside the west gate of Jiangling City, not relying on stratagem, not leaning on the city wall, relying on their own means, and winning the battle.

The two commanders were in place, Zhou Yu took the lead in waving his order flag, and as soon as Zhang Fei saw the command flag waving, he immediately commanded his 500-man front army to attack with a sharp arrow.

Zhang Xi led the remaining 500 men to form an arc-shaped defensive formation with 300 Wugang chariots to prevent the surprise attack of Cao's cavalry.

The Sun-Liu coalition army took the lead in the attack.

Cao Ren did not dispatch his cavalry immediately, but let the infantry engage in a circle formation, and met the front army commanded by Zhang Fei head-on.

At the same time, Cao Ren ordered that the Cao army on the left and right flanks began to rush forward, intending to eat the front army commanded by Zhang Fei in a roundabout way.

Zhou Yu naturally would not let Cao Ren get his wish, and waved the flag again, and the left army led by Lü Meng and the right army led by Ling Tong also marched forward, intercepting the left and right flanks of Cao's army, and began to fight.

For a time, the three-way armies of the two sides met in the center of the battlefield and fought.

So far, it is just an ordinary and common battlefield battle, whether it is Cao Ren or Zhou Yu, they don't have the intention of winning by surprise from the beginning, and they all know that the other party must have a back hand.

Cao Ren's back hand is basically obvious, that is, his cavalry, this Zhou Yu must know, but Zhou Yu does not know when and in what way this cavalry will appear.

Zhou Yu's backhand, Cao Ren also carefully considered, he felt that what Zhou Yu relied on should be the crossbowmen of the Jiangdong Army.

Cao Ren had already seen how powerful the Jiangdong Army's strong bows and crossbows were, but under the Jiangdong Army's strong bows and crossbows, he lost seven or eight hundred cavalry.

That's the cavalry, although it's not as fully armored as the tiger and leopard cavalry, but it's the best armed and most well-protected unit in Cao Ren's army now, so the losses are so big, and those soldiers with a lower armor coverage rate are not looking for death when they encounter this kind of strong bow and crossbow.

Therefore, Cao Ren formulated a corresponding response plan.

After the two sides started the war, Cao Ren would immediately ask the Cao army on the left and right flanks to engage the Jiangdong army quickly, and the two sides would be strangled together, entangled the Jiangdong army as much as possible, and asked the soldiers to press in time, so that the formation of the two wings would be as flat as possible.

No matter how powerful your Jiangdong Army's crossbowmen are, in the face of such an entangled situation, you can't just carry out a range attack regardless of your own casualties.

In this way, the Cao army on the left and right roads could avoid being hit by the bows and crossbows of the Jiangdong army.

And in the middle of the road, Cao Ren also made his own arrangements.

He didn't plan to let the middle route army advance at all, but defended in place, so that it was outside the range of the Jiangdong Army's bow and crossbow, and there was no possibility of being threatened by the Jiangdong Army's bow and crossbow.

And Cao Ren also knew that Zhang Fei was now under Zhou Yu's hands, and he knew how difficult the thousand people commanded by Zhang Fei were, after all, it was not the first time they had fought each other, and Cao Ren had suffered a loss when he was in Xinye.

But no matter how powerful Zhang Feijun is, the soldiers are also people, and there will be casualties.

I won't attack you this time, I'll form an army to defend, and this will be fine.

1,000 Zhang Fei's soldiers attacked, and Cao Ren defended with 2,000 Cao Fei's elite soldiers, not to mention defeating Zhang Fei's soldiers, as long as they firmly stuck to this army and didn't give them a chance to do anything else.

In this way, the three-way army of the Cao army can not only avoid being hit by the strong bow and crossbow of the Jiangdong army, but also entangle the three-way army of the Jiangdong army.

Although at first glance the three-way Cao army is passive defense, it seems very cowardly. But don't forget, Cao Ren has cavalry in his hands, and this is Cao Ren's real killer weapon.

At first, it was indeed a passive defense, but that was to wear down the sharpness and physical strength of the Jiangdong army, and when the soldiers on both sides were exhausted, Cao Ren would suddenly send his cavalry to assault Zhou Yu's main formation.

This is Cao Ren's plan.

This plan was not brilliant at all, and even Zhou Yu had already expected Cao Ren to adopt this plan.

The real trouble with this plan was that Cao Ren's cavalry was almost incomprehensible in front of the foot soldiers of the Jiangdong Army.

The chariot array commanded by Zhang Xi can only passively defend and meet the enemy head-on, while the advantage of the cavalry lies in speed, he can change direction at any time and make a detour, enter the battlefield from the place where Zhang Xi's chariot formation cannot defend, and directly take Zhou Yu's Chinese army's main formation.

Zhou Yu was also not sure when Cao Ren would send his cavalry, although Zhou Yu also had corresponding measures, but Cao Ren's cavalry did not move, and he would not easily show his hole cards.

In this way, a battle continued, and the Cao army and the Sun and Liu coalition armies on both flanks could almost be said to be mixed together, resulting in the archers on both sides not daring to shoot arrows easily, and one would accidentally shoot his own people.

As far as the quality of soldiers is concerned, Cao's army is better than Jiangdong Army in land warfare after all, and the reason why it can still be so entangled is mainly because of the gap in the level of commanders on both sides.

Niu Jin is already the most capable general in the current Cao Ren army, but he is still drawn by Lu Meng's command against Lu Meng, and can only follow Lu Meng's offensive rhythm to defend passively.

Although Chen Jiaoma also led the army, he was more engaged in civilian work, and his experience was seriously insufficient, but he met the young Ling Tong.

Ling Tong's command ability was lacking, but he had momentum, superb martial arts, personally led his own troops as the vanguard, and took the lead in the front line, Chen Jiao was really suppressed by Ling Tong for a while, and in the end, it was also because Cao Jun's individual soldier quality was stronger, which stabilized the defense line.

Although the left and right armies were a little at a disadvantage, on the whole, they still achieved Cao Ren's expected goal, entangled with the Jiangdong Army, and did not give the Jiangdong Army's strong bows and crossbows a place to exert their power.

But on the side of the Middle Route Army, Cao Ren was really a little anxious.

Two thousand people, he arranged a full two thousand people, and he is still the invincible elite Cao army in Hebei, not a second-line army like the remaining troops in Wancheng. No matter how strong Zhang Fei's "beggar army" is, there should be some limits, right?!

Cao Ren originally thought that he didn't underestimate the enemy at all this time, two thousand against one thousand, not seeking victory, only seeking entanglement, it should be foolproof.

But now Cao Ren found that Zhang Fei only commanded the attack of 500 soldiers, and he himself did not even lead the army himself, and Cao Ren's 2,000 soldiers were in danger of being in a messy formation.

It's one to four. Can't beat this?!

Cao Ren was anxious, and looked at the car formation behind Zhang Feijun's forward formation, there were still five hundred Zhang Fei soldiers who had not been dispatched, and Zhang Fei himself was still in the car formation to command, and this 10,000-strong enemy did not attack.

Cao Ren hesitated and was impatient, but soon decided to throw his last reserve, a thousand soldiers, into the Chinese army.

In this way, he finally resisted Zhang Feijun's attack, and faintly, there was a hint of suppressing it.

This made Cao Ren hesitate again. Do you want to push forward along the middle lane?!

(End of chapter)