Under the city of Jiangling, the confrontation between the Sun-Liu coalition army and the Cao army has reached a white-hot stage.

Cao Ren's cavalry had already killed Zhou Yu's Chinese army, temporarily blocked by the wall of fire, and the cavalry could not cross the wall of fire to attack Zhou Yu's Chinese army on the hillside, but they could run around the wall of fire and attack with bows and arrows.

Although the effect is not great, but it is a bit lethal, as long as the fire of the fire wall is a little weaker, Cao Renjun's cavalry will try to cross the ravine and kill directly up the small slope.

And Cao Ren's side was also attacked by the "beggar army" led by Zhang Fei.

After the previous half an hour of fighting, there were only more than 600 capable soldiers left on Zhang Feijun's side, and Cao's 3,000-strong army was now only about 2,000 people.

That is, it is thanks to the fact that both sides are elite, otherwise the formation would have collapsed long ago and dispersed in a hurry.

But even so, Cao Ren still fought very hard.

Before two thousand against five hundred, Cao Renjun was pressed and beaten by Zhang Feijun, but now the ratio has been reduced to one to three, so he has to continue to be pressed and beaten.

Fighting a war in these years is not a numbers game, and it is impossible to fight until the soldiers of one side become zero.

Cao Renjun fought more and fought less, and was actually killed and injured by the other side nearly 1,000 people, and the blow to morale was huge.

Therefore, although Zhang Fei has few soldiers, in terms of morale, Cao Renjun is the worst.

Cao Renjun is now relying on one breath to hold on, once this breath can't hold on, or continue to suffer such casualties, Cao Renjun will collapse sooner or later.

Of course, Cao Ren also knew this, so he was in a hurry now, and even took his own soldiers to the front line, inspiring morale by taking the lead, and telling Cao Jun that he, the main general, was still there, so that everyone could breathe a sigh of relief and hold on.

As a result, Cao Ren was stabbed in the arm by Zhang Fei's spear and had to retreat to the Chinese army in embarrassment.

Zhang Fei is also happy, if this Cao Ren has been staying in the Chinese army, then Zhang Fei will have to spend time and effort all the way to attack this guy Okay, go directly out of the Chinese army to fight, isn't this sent to the door.

Just because Cao Ren's own martial arts are not bad, he didn't let Zhang Fei kill him in seconds, otherwise this battle would have ended on the spot.

But the problem is that Cao Ren was wounded and returned to the Chinese army, which once again hit the morale of Cao Ren's Chinese army, causing the formation of the Chinese army to be greatly shaken, and Zhang Fei took the opportunity to find a vacancy to kill in.

Now Cao Ren didn't dare to continue to hold on like this, don't look back, his cavalry didn't kill Zhou Yu, but he was killed by Zhang Fei.

At that moment, Cao Ren changed his decision, no longer fighting hard with Zhang Feijun, but ordered Niu Jin and Chen Jiao, two strong men, to quickly return to the Chinese army like broken wrists, and delay time with the Jiangdong army.

Now the Jiangdong Army is attacking its own Chinese army, and none of them have returned to Zhou Yu's aid.

In this way, he will shrink his forces and defend with all his might, as long as he waits until the wall of fire of Zhou Yu's army is extinguished, his cavalry can take advantage of the situation to kill the hillside and solve Zhou Yu.

In this way, in the end, he won, and the Jiangdong Army will retreat.

After Cao Ren ordered the defense to be contracted, the three-way army of the Sun-Liu coalition finally converged in front of Cao Ren's Chinese army after some fighting.

Cao Ren commanded the army to fight and retreat, and slowly formed a circular formation to defend during the march, and delayed time with his back to the west gate of Jiangling City.

Of course, at this time, if the remaining Cao army in Jiangling City shoots arrows, it is estimated that they can hit the Sun-Liu coalition army fiercely, but after that, Cao Ren will not go to the battlefield in the future, and he can't afford to lose that person.

This is an appointment battle, not a siege field battle on weekdays.

On weekdays, siege and field battles are based on strategy, and those who lack virtue can use the means of not lacking virtue, which will affect the wind at most.

But the war will not work.

Although the people of this era are no longer as "simple" as they were in the Spring and Autumn Period, they will no longer salute each other before the war, and they will not stop at the end of the war, but they still retain some of the views of honor and disgrace in the Spring and Autumn Period, and they will not easily break through the bottom line rules.

Therefore, the battle is still fought by these people under the city, and the defenders of Gangneung City can only watch, and they can't even go out of the city to support.

Fortunately, after Cao Ren returned to defend, he finally stabilized his position, even Zhang Feijun was temporarily blocked by Cao Ren's army, and there was really no way to break through Cao Ren's circular defense for a while.

Cao Ren breathed a sigh of relief at this time, looking at the direction of Zhou Yu's army from afar, hoping that his cavalry would be able to kill Zhou Yu and end this decisive battle.

Zhou Yu also can't let his remaining army come to support, rules are rules, the consequences of bad reputation in these years are very serious, Zhou Yu will change from a famous general in the world to a villain that everyone scolds.

But Zhou Yu is also a little anxious now.

The attack on the front has not been smooth, and on his side, the fire is almost burning.

There was no way, Zhou Yu had to order his personal guards to prepare for battle, but if he couldn't do it, he had to go into battle in person and kill the enemy.

Zhou Yu is also a military general, although later generations praised him as a "lupine scarf", which is a scribe's style, but Zhou Yu's own force value is not low, and he has also taken the lead in fighting.

But. After all, the other party is cavalry.

Zhou Yu didn't know the bottom of his heart at this time, so he could only hope that his army would break through Cao Renzhong's army before the fire weakened.

Even if he couldn't kill Cao Ren and force Cao Ren to retreat to Jiangling City, it would be regarded as his own victory.

The Sun-Liu coalition army in front was busy attacking Cao Renzhong's army, while Zhou Yu frowned and began to command the remaining three hundred soldiers to defend.

As for Zhang Xi, this will make him rush to Zhou Yu's Chinese army with a hundred soldiers and thirty carts.

It's not that Zhang Xi is slow, it's that it's really inconvenient to disassemble the car array, and in order to ensure combat effectiveness, Zhang Xi doesn't dare not bring the car array.

Even if the soldiers who have trained the Mandarin Duck Formation, in the face of cavalry assault, they will not be much better than ordinary soldiers.

Before the invention of the machine gun, everyone was equal before the cavalry.

Therefore, Zhang Xi hurried slowly, and finally rushed to the left front of the soil slope where Zhou Yu's army was located before the wall of fire weakened.

Then Zhang Xi ordered his soldiers to immediately form a circle formation and stand by under the slope of Zhou Yu's army.

When Zhang Xi formed a formation, Cao Renjun's cavalry actually saw it, but the cavalry leader at this time obviously didn't understand why Zhang Xi wanted to form a formation under the hillside, and Zhang Xi brought a hundred people, which was really not a reinforcement.

The order of Cao's cavalry was to attack Zhou Yu's Chinese army, and as long as Zhou Yu did not move on the hillside, the cavalry leader did not bother to care about Zhang Xi's hundred people and chariot formation.

In this way, the Jiangdong Army in the front was stepping up its attack on Cao Ren's central army, while the Cao Ren cavalry in the rear was waiting for the fire to weaken or even extinguish.

After all, it was still Cao Rending's time long enough, and the fire on Zhou Yu's side gradually weakened, and the cavalry of Cao's army began to try to urge the war horses to cross the ravine and attack Zhou Yu's Chinese army on the hillside.

Zhou Yu didn't panic at this time, because he also saw Zhang Xi's receiving troops.

Zhou Yu's original plan was to take advantage of the slope, so that the Cao cavalry had to attack on the back and reduce the impact speed of the cavalry.

On the top of the slope, he formed a simple defensive position with antlers, and used archers and crossbowmen to kill the enemy, delaying as much time as possible.

But now it's different, Zhang Xi came to answer and brought a car array.

Zhou Yu had seen the defensive capabilities of these car formations, although Zhang Xi did not bring many soldiers and had few car formations, but blocking the six hundred cavalry should be more effective than his own antler formation.

But as the fire waned, more and more Cao's cavalry crossed the ravine and came down the hillside.

As soon as Zhou Yu saw this situation, he immediately ordered the whole army to shoot bows and arrows and shoot all the arrows, so that the cavalry of the Cao army did not dare to easily form a formation and attack.

After shooting the last arrows, Zhou Yu ordered the whole army to retreat, descending from the rear and retreating to Zhangxi's chariot formation.

Cao Ren's cavalry was shot in the face by a rain of arrows, and they could only scatter and dodge when they were really shot, and they didn't dare to form a formation easily, and even if the arrows stopped, they didn't dare to organize an attack immediately, for fear that as soon as they formed a formation, Zhou Yu would be a rain of arrows.

But after waiting for a while, I found that there were no arrows coming down from the hillside.

The leader of the cavalry didn't dare to waste time at this time, his own lord was still being beaten, so he gritted his teeth and decided to form a formation immediately, fighting for casualties and attacking the hillside.

But by the time these cavalry climbed to the top of the hillside and found that it was an empty camp, Zhou Yu led his soldiers to withdraw to the hillside and interrupted, and their goal was Zhang Xi's car formation.

Now the cavalry leader finally understood why Zhang Xi had formed a chariot formation at the bottom of the hillside, it turned out that he was here to meet Zhou Yu.

The leader of the cavalry was in a hurry, and finally waited for the fire to be extinguished and attacked the hillside, but found that Zhou Yu was about to run away.

At the moment, it didn't matter what the formation was, he ordered the cavalry to dive down and pursue the whole army, and it was bound to pursue Zhou Yu before Zhou Yu entered the car formation.

But after all, Zhou Yu is also the commander of the First Army, and as a general, he is also a horse.

If it weren't for taking care of the three hundred foot soldiers around him, Zhou Yu would have been able to run into Zhang Xi's car formation a long time ago.

The cavalry of the Cao army just stopped again, and attacked up the mountain on the back, wasting a lot of time, although it is now a downhill pursuit, there is a speed advantage, but it still failed to intercept Zhou Yu, so that Zhou Yu smoothly entered Zhang Xi's car formation.

It's just that I pity the three hundred soldiers who followed Zhou Yu.

Although Zhou Yu had tried his best to be thorough, after all, the speed of the cavalry was too fast, and it was downhill, and Zhou Yu couldn't take care of all of them in the end, and only brought more than 100 people into Zhang Xi's car formation, and the remaining 100 people, Zhou Yu could only watch them scatter and be slaughtered by the cavalry.

Zhou Yu blamed himself for this, but this was something that could not be helped, he was not only responsible for these three hundred people, but also for the thousands of coalition troops who were still attacking Cao Renzhong's army in front.

Therefore, Zhou Yu quickly cheered up and began to command calmly in the car formation, relying on the car formation formed by Zhang Xi to continue to drag out time.

And at this time, the attack in front has gradually entered the time to divide the winner and loser.

Of the 1,000 sergeants commanded by Zhang Fei, there are now less than 500 left.

And it was these 500 people, under the leadership of Zhang Fei, who infiltrated all the way, and finally reached the center of the circle and gradually approached Cao Ren's Chinese army.

At this time, Ling Tong and Chen Wu of the Jiangdong Army also followed behind Zhang Feijun and drilled in along this gap, gradually expanding the gap, allowing more Jiangdong Army to enter through the gap and attack Cao Ren's Chinese army.

At this time, Cao Ren was already thinking about whether he should admit defeat and command the remaining thousands of soldiers to retreat to Jiangling City to reserve the vitality for defending the city in the future.

Just before Cao Ren made his decision, the battle situation on the battlefield suddenly changed.

Zhou Yu's handsome flag fell.

On the battlefield, if one of the commanders falls to the ground, it naturally means that the boss retreats or dies. All Jiangdong soldiers know that their own commander is not unharmed and stays behind to watch the play, he is also besieged by cavalry.

As soon as Cao Ren saw that Zhou Yu's handsome banner had fallen, he naturally thought that his cavalry had made a contribution, and immediately ordered, taking advantage of this opportunity, to shout that Zhou Yu was dead, to hit the morale of the other party, and at the same time to launch a full-scale counterattack.

But after Cao Ren made this adjustment, he hasn't seen the specific effect yet. Zhou Yu's handsome flag was erected again.

This time, it was the turn of the generals of the Jiangdong Army to make a noise, telling everyone that Zhou Yu was still there, and encouraging everyone to fight bravely to kill the enemy.

Cao Ren's depressed, the formation I just adjusted.

(End of chapter)