Cao Zhen chose to face Zhang Xi head-on, which was somewhat of a top-notch decision.

In fact, when it is impossible to know exactly whether Wang Chang can be rescued in time, choosing to take the risk of fighting the enemy coach is somewhat desperate and does not meet the quality of a calm coach.

However, on the battlefield, this is the case, no one can predict the possibility of everything happening, and sometimes looking at the decision of a momentary brain fever can have a pretty good effect.

Today, this is a classic example of this.

Zhang Xi's prediction of Cao Zhen was that Cao Zhen would choose to divide his troops to flank to block Zhao Yun's cavalry attack, so the response plan he chose was to command his soldiers to launch a strong attack in the direction of Cao Zhen's flank, trying to hold Cao Zhen back.

But Cao Zhen suddenly commanded a change of formation, launched a strong attack on Zhang Xi, and chose a head-to-head duel, which was completely beyond Zhang Xi's expectations.

That is, the soldiers commanded by Cao Zhen spent a little necessary time in the process of changing the formation, so that Zhang Xi had the opportunity to adjust the response, otherwise, the side that was now completely passively beaten was Zhang Xi's side.

Because of the different offensive focuses, Zhang Xi's main attack direction was the flank of Cao Zhen's army, which led to the frontal battlefield, Zhang Xi's offensive formation was somewhat shifted to the flank.

Cao Zhen grasped this very keenly, and commanded his soldiers to change to an offensive formation and attack directly from the front.

And although Zhang Xi began to retract the formation when Cao Zhen commanded the soldiers to adjust the formation, it was a little too late after all, and he couldn't completely retract it in place.

Therefore, the current battlefield situation is as if a sharp blade of the Wei army was inserted into the waist of Zhang Xijun's offensive formation.

Once it can't be stopped, the Han army commanded by Zhang Xi may be cut off by the Wei army and fall into the point of fighting on its own.

This was very unfavorable to the Han army, and Zhang Xi was desperately adjusting to increase the defensive thickness of the Wei army's attack focus. But the first-mover advantage is gone, and the effect of later adjustments will naturally not be too good.

In addition, in terms of organizational ability and combat effectiveness, the Wei army was still somewhat stronger than the Yongzhou army soldiers commanded by Zhang Xi, although it was not much stronger, but in this local battlefield, it was very likely to cause decisive results.

Of course, Cao Zhen was not a 5,000-strong infantry without any dangerous flanks, and under Zhao Yun's back and forth impact, there was already a situation where the formation was loose and could collapse at any time.

At this time, Zhao Yun naturally saw Cao Zhen's response, and knew that in this case, Zhang Xi's side would definitely have to bear a lot of pressure.

Therefore, while Zhao Yun was attacking the Wei infantry on the flank, he was also consciously driving these Wei infantry and moving in the direction of Cao Zhen's army.

The purpose is not to increase the defensive strength of the Chinese army for Cao Zhen, but to use these flank routs to attack Cao Zhen's Chinese army, completely break up Cao Zhen's Chinese defense, and plunge Cao Zhen's Chinese army into chaos.

In this way, once Zhao Yun broke through the blockade of the Wei army on the flank, he could directly take advantage of the chaos to kill Cao Zhen's Chinese army.

With the speed advantage of the cavalry, Cao Zhen couldn't run even if he wanted to.

It's not that Cao Zhen can't see the current battlefield situation, but Cao Zhen is gambling - betting on whether he will break Zhang Xi in front first, or Zhao Yun will kill his own Chinese army first.

Cao Zhen felt that he was still the one with a relatively high winning rate, after all, he still had Wang Chang as a backhand, and the Shu thief had no backhand at this time.

And Wang Chang. Wang Chang, who was unlucky, was in a hurry at this time and ordered the Wei troops who were attacking Tongguan to retreat quickly.

The 5,000 troops on the flank could not stop the cavalry attack for too long, and the 10,000 infantry led by Dai Ling may take about a quarter of an hour to return to the defense, during this time, Wang Chang must organize a support to help Cao Zhen block the attack on the flank.

But the withdrawal of the army is not something that can be withdrawn for a while, and the soldiers who are still climbing the hook ladder to attack the city with their front feet are not realistic to let them withdraw immediately, and it is easy to be counterattacked by the rolling stones and crossbows of the defending army.

Therefore, for a while, Wang Chang could only barely gather 6,000 soldiers, and the remaining soldiers were still in the process of retreating.

At this time, the defensive line composed of 5,000 soldiers on the flanks had already appeared in a loose formation, and there was no time for Wang Chang to organize more troops.

Wang Chang had no choice but to grit his teeth, and took these 6,000 soldiers to Cao Zhen's flank immediately to set up defenses.

And the only thing Wang Chang could count on was that he could rush to the flank in time before the 5,000 soldiers dispersed, and through his own command adjustment, he re-established a defensive front.

But. A veteran like Zhao Yun has extremely rich battlefield experience, can he still not understand the real purpose of Wang Chang's rush to help?!

Obviously, Zhao Yun did not intend to give Wang Chang such a chance, and as soon as he saw Wang Chang leading his troops to help, Zhao Yun gave up the safer way of killing the enemy by cavalry and shooting, but organized a charge again, and personally led the army in the front army to charge and kill.

In this way, the cavalry under Zhao Yun will naturally have certain casualties, but the impact effect is the largest, and the infantry that is already loosely formed is the largest.

Zhao Yunzai paid the price of more than 200 cavalry casualties, and finally broke up the defense of the 5,000 infantry on the flank, and began to chase and drive these soldiers to move in the direction of Cao Zhen's Chinese army.

When Wang Chang finally rushed to the flank battlefield, he was greeted not by Zhao Yun's cavalry, but by his own defeated army.

As soon as Wang Chang saw this situation, he immediately knew that he had no other choice, and he didn't even have the opportunity to organize a defense line on the spot.

The only thing he can do now is to let the more than 6,000 soldiers he brought this time rush forward to block the scattered Wei army, and risk the army he brought to be scattered, and block this wave of chaotic army impact for Cao Zhen's Chinese army.

However, the risks of doing so are still significant.

If the 6,000 people brought by Wang Chang could not intercept this group of routs, and even his own formation was broken up and became a rout, then the impact on Cao Zhen's army would be doubled.

Therefore, Wang Chang had no choice but to be ruthless and ordered the soldiers to shoot and kill the fleeing soldiers, in this way to deter the fleeing soldiers, so that they could escape by recourse and not attack the Chinese army of their own commander.

But. When fleeing, where is it possible for the soldiers to remain calm, and there is also the possibility of choosing other roads to escape, they will only choose the safest place within their field of vision to escape, and Cao Zhen's Chinese army was originally the safest place they thought was the safest.

Then in the formation of his own army, a burst of crossbow arrows suddenly fired, and many Wei soldiers who fled were killed by arrows while running towards their own army in this defenseless situation.

And Wang Chang's subordinates must therefore bear the danger of being forced to rout the army, and are destined to fall into a fratricidal battle.

What's even worse is that even if Wang Chang can stabilize the defense line and scatter these routs to other places. Immediately behind the rout, there were also four thousand cavalry led by Zhao Yun.

6,000 infantry versus 4,000 cavalry, Wang Chang didn't have to think about it to know what the consequences would be, but he was just delaying time.

But Wang Chang had no choice but to hard-top, and then hoped that General Cao Zhen could make a timely response.

At this time, Cao Zhen naturally saw the decisions and sacrifices made by Wang Chang, and also knew that Wang Chang was creating time for himself. Cao Zhen was also ruthless, did not avoid arrows and went to the front line in person, and ordered his soldiers to attack on all fronts.

Certainly, we must defeat the enemy in front of us before the soldiers led by Wang Chang completely collapse.

Cao Zhen was ruthless, and Zhang Xi suddenly felt uncomfortable.

Cao Zhen had seized the opportunity to attack the position of the flank, and it was very difficult for Zhang Xi to adjust the deployment of troops, coupled with the gap in combat power between the soldiers, Zhang Xi was just barely maintaining.

And Cao Zhen was so ruthless that he began to attack with all his strength regardless of casualties, and the Han army troops commanded by Zhang Xi suddenly fell into a comprehensive passivity.

The most terrible thing is that Zhang Xi no longer has any backhand, and the adjustment of command has reached the limit. He even released the last hundred guards on his hand to strengthen his defense, and there was no room for adjustment.

Now Zhang Xi can only command the soldiers to hold on until Zhao Yunneng defeats Wang Chang's troops and begins to attack Cao Zhen's Chinese army.

The situation on the battlefield has come to the moment when the winner is decided.

And at this time, Zhao Yun turned on the Wushuang mode again.

In fact, Zhao Yun didn't want to do this, he was almost seventy years old, and his physical strength and force were no longer at his peak.

But there was no way, the battlefield situation that Zhao Yun saw really didn't allow him to continue to use cavalry and shooting to kill and injure Wang Chang's troops, and when the formation of Wang Chang's troops he fought collapsed, it was estimated that Zhang Xi's side should not be able to withstand Cao Zhen's attack.

Therefore, Zhao Yun did not choose to continue to deal with Wang Chang's army, and after basically clearing the way forward, Zhao Yun still chose the mode of cavalry charging into formation, leading the cavalry, and launched a surprise attack on Wang Chang's army.

The purpose was to concentrate on breaking through the defense line of Wang Chang's army, and then lead the cavalry to directly attack Cao Zhen's Chinese army.

This is actually a very risky thing, in the case that Wang Chang's army did not collapse, even if he could rush in, it would not be so easy to rush out, after all, Cao Zhen's Chinese army was not unguarded now.

But Zhao Yun had to do this, when he was in the Dangyang long version, Zhao Yun with two hundred rangers dared to rush five thousand tigers and leopards to ride, there was no reason why he didn't have the courage now.

Anyway, I'm almost seventy years old, even if I die on the battlefield, what are I afraid of?!

(End of chapter)