The Yecheng Pass in front of you is not Yecheng, but a fortress on the periphery of Yecheng, which was built by the Taishan Army as a southwestward barrier.

Sun Jian led 1,300 horsemen, and when he arrived here, it was early afternoon, the weather was warm, and the Zhangshui not far away was flowing thin ice.

Then not far away was a strong barrier, which was already guarded, and two beacon fires were ignited.

The young general Chang Diao has taken five rangers to rush forward around the bar, from time to time to test the arrows of the Taishan army, and finally the whole big stone is finished, and Chang Diao will come back with people.

Chang Diao was born in Hedong and was the elite of the Han army in Hedong. However, after the first battle of Yingyang, the Hedong Cavalry Corps suffered heavy losses and was no longer an army. Most of the rest of the troops were divided among the armies, and Chang Diao and others were reassigned to Sun Jian in this way.

At this time, Chang Diao was still a teenager of eighteen or nineteen, but he already had deep experience in battle formations. In just one circle, he had already led people to test the reality of the Taishan Army's barriers.

He rode the jujube red horse, and reported to Sun Jian with a little breath:

"Captain, just now we took the first ten attacks, and the thieves fired eight times, all of them with hard bows and crossbows. Circling the camp again, the four walls are full of halberd armor soldiers, but the standing is not dense, and there is only one person in one step. There are four banners of thieves, called Zhang, Niu, Guo, and He."

Under the red banner, it was the resolute Sun Jian, who nodded to Chang Diao, and then motioned for this person to return to the battle.

Looking at Chang Diao's back, Sun Jian was a little complicated.

Changdiao ability is not strong, strong! Skilled in archers and horses, brave and wise, and most importantly very young, at least able to fight on the battlefield for twenty years.

But he Sun Jian can't use this person.

This can be known from the name Chang Diao gave him just now, such as Lu Fan and others, calling him the lord, that is, he is the master. And what Chang Diao called him was the captain, and he was a Han official, which means that the reason why he Sun Jian was able to mobilize this person was because of the authority of the Han family.

This phenomenon is not only a common situation for Chang Diao alone, but for most of the horsemen in the army. In the final analysis, half of the 1,300 horsemen brought by Sun Jian at this time were northerners, or Youzhou people, or Bingzhou people, and even some miscellaneous horses.

Most of the Jianghuai children of his own army are not good at horses, that is, he barely organized 700 children.

However, Sun Jian didn't think much about it, he knew that as long as he had been with these people for a long time, what if they were from the Northland? As usual, he will become the loyalty of his grandson's family.

Chang Diao tried to find out the reality of the barrier, and Cheng Pu on the side said to Sun Jian:

"My lord, although this is strong, there are few soldiers. We can quickly cover up and pull this out. Otherwise, if it is too late, enemy reinforcements will come."

After Cheng Pu finished speaking, Han Dang also added:

"Demou is right, if you guess correctly, those two wolf smoke are to tell the Taishan army behind us the number of troops. I want to come to the other side's reinforcements right in front of you."

But Sun Jian shook his head, and he said:

"This is not attacked, we are here waiting for reinforcements from the opposite side to come."

Subsequently, when he did not listen to the generals, he ordered the whole army to dismount and rest, and eat.

……

Eating dry food, Han Dang found Cheng Pu and asked quietly:

"Isn't our lord too trusted? We are a light attack, and the fight is a fast one. Now we have to fight to the death here, and if we are not careful, the whole army will be overturned. Thou shalt no longer exhort the Lord?"

Cheng Pu took a bite of the cake hard, and retorted unhappily:

"Why don't you go? I'm not going! I went, and it was useless except to be scolded."

Cheng Pu didn't cooperate, Han Dang was a little anxious, he pointed to the whole army who were resting, and said eagerly:

"What's wrong with being scolded, how do you know if you don't try. You can't bear to see so many people die with us?"

Han Dang still ignored Cheng Pu, no matter what he said, he was eating bread by himself.

It wasn't until he finished eating all the cakes that Han Dang said slowly:

"What's the hurry, let me ask you a few questions."

Cheng Pu's neck said to Han Dang:

"You ask."

Han Dang wiped his hand and asked:

"Who can fight you and your lord?

Who cares more about the life or death of your brothers? Who is more strategic, you or your lord?"

Cheng Pu, who asked these three questions directly, was dumbfounded.

He tried to say something several times, but he couldn't, and at last he slammed his whip on the ground and cursed:

"The donkey begged, so that you might let your brother gamble with you. The donkey begged, the donkey begged."

Cheng Pu, who was already a little crazy, chopped the frozen soil hard, venting his inner timidity.

To be honest, Cheng Pu was scared. He couldn't understand what Sun Jian said about putting death and then living. In his opinion, the only chance of this trip is to avoid the barriers, pray that the attacking army will not be discovered, and then take the opportunity to rush into Yecheng, otherwise he will die.

Before, Sun Jian and Lu Fan said that there was no way to retreat this time, and his heart was half cold, and now he waited until Sun Jian said that he would wait for the thief army reinforcements to arrive. Cheng Pu's whole heart was cold.

Don't say anything about absolute loyalty. You must know that he Cheng Pu has only joined Sun Jian's Jianghuai Warrior Group for less than half a year, and he is not the No. 1 Huchen of Jiangbiao who will serve the three of the Sun family in the future.

Is Cheng Pu's mentality just him? No, I'm afraid not in the minority. But as Sun Jian said, they went deep into the enemy territory, and they had been discovered by the Taishan army, and now they still have the strength to fight together, if they run alone, they can only die.

Perhaps, this is Sun Jian's purpose.

At this time, Sun Jian didn't know the inner hesitation of his subordinates, but even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care, he picked up his red flag, then tied it again, and carefully counted the weapons in the horse bag.

Then, in this tense atmosphere, the pennant swayed in the northwest, and a cavalry had come to help.

At this time, in the eyes of all the people, Sun Jian rode his horse to the front of the army, looking at the various emotions of the soldiers, Rao is indomitable temperament like Sun Jian, and he was worried.

But looking at the thousands of troops and horses on the opposite side, Sun Jianfu was full of pride.

At this moment, it is here, he Sun Jian is about to create a legend, he raised his sword, and rode his horse in front of the battle, his blood surging.

Under the big sun, Sun Jian is like a warm fire, burning in this cold winter. His passion, his courage, prompted the Han army, who were also dressed in crimson uniforms, and they raised their blades in their hands and cheered in response to the man opposite.

This is the power of a general, if you don't experience the real battlefield, you won't know the role of excellent generals on the morale of the entire army, and you won't understand that war is never predestined!

In the enthusiastic cheers, Sun Jian took out a small shield, and then slapped it with a knife and shouted:

"Will!"

The three armies shouted in unison:

"Will!"

One husband begged for death, and three people made changes. The three armies begged for death, and the five mountains were overturned. This is the power of man, this is the power of courage, this is the power of faith.

At the same time, the cavalry who led the army was Yan Gang, who gave the giant clam banner.

When the two beacon fires in the southwest of Yecheng came, Yu Ban, who stayed in Yecheng, immediately convened the generals to discuss the matter. After the general left, there were only more than 3,000 soldiers and horses in Yecheng.

Among them, there are 2,000 on the left side of the forbidden middle guard, 500 on the cavalry side, and 500 on other troops.

So when the beacon fire in the southwest came, everyone was a little panicked. Apparently they did not anticipate the presence of enemy troops in this direction.

In order to be on the safe side, Yu Ban Yan Gangshuai's cavalry set off first, and then he led a thousand soldiers to slowly press the formation. Before Yan Gang set off, Yu Bante instructed him that this trip was focused on exploring the enemy, and not to lose the strength of the cavalry.

Because of the field battles later, his armored corps needed to be covered by a strict cavalry.

In this way, Yan Gang came with five hundred horsemen, and as soon as he came, he saw Sun Jian's scene!

Seeing that the morale of the enemy army was greatly boosted, and that they were more numerically than their own army, Yan Gang's adjutant Li Duo couldn't help but persuade:

"General, the enemy is outnumbered, and I am exhausted. It's better to retreat to the back first and join forces with Captain Yu. It's safer."

Yan Gang sneered when he heard this, and he asked rhetorically:

"Have you ever fought with Qu Shuai? Do you know that if Qu Shuai is here, he will retreat? I followed Qu Shuai for a long time, and I got a sentence, the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road

。 Besides, if we withdraw, what will happen to the brothers in the wall? They see that the reinforcements have withdrawn, and they can still hold this wall?"

Deputy General Li Duo very much wants to say, General Yan, can you also compare with Qu Shuai? But alas, the second half of what Yan Gang said does make sense.

If the brothers in the fortress saw the reinforcements arriving and withdrew without a fight, how could they still have morale?

So, no matter what, in the end, you still have to touch it.

Therefore, Li Duo no longer persuaded him, and began to return to the queue, reorganize the military officers, and began to charge.

On the other side, Sun Jian has the means of drum formation, and Yan Gang, as a seasoned horseman, also has his own means.

He raised his iron halberd, crossed in front of the formation, and shouted:

"Drums!"

The turks carried small horse drums, and with Yan Gang's order, they picked up the stick and began to beat the drum face:

"Boom!"

Yan Gang felt that it was not enough, and shouted:

"Drums!"

Then there was the whole army of drummers beating, and this time it went on and on.

In this way, ten miles of frozen soil, the two armies held their guns and hung halberds, and they were about to explode.

After that, Yan Gang in front of the crowd yelled:

"Rush!"

Then the five hundred horsemen rushed away against the Han army.

Yan Gang rushed here, and Sun Jian on the opposite side didn't say a word, and directly charged. Then Cheng Pu and Han Dang followed.

In this way, with the Yecheng Pass as the center, the cavalry corps of nearly 2,000 people began to rush and fight.

The chaotic horses' hooves trampled through the frozen ground, and the remnants of the snow were invincible. The continuous drum horns resounded through the sky and shook people's hearts.

Sun Nut is worthy of the Jiangdong Tigers, and he takes the lead as usual. He held a round shield to shield the arrows from the opposite side, and the whole person was bowed on the back of the horse, pulling the horse up to the highest speed.

The arrows of the thieves on the opposite side were really accurate and ruthless, and they were the most ferocious arrow rain that Sun Jian encountered in the cavalry battle. Only charging this way, dozens of horses have fallen from their horses.

Most of Sun Jian's wave of cavalry were the impact tactics of the Han army, and there were only a dozen or so miscellaneous beards with bows and arrows to shoot scattered arrows.

And the cavalry on the opposite side turned out to be a bow and crossbow at a distance, a short halberd at a medium distance, and a lance at close range. Therefore, before the first round of confrontation and collision began, the Han army lost dozens of people here.

But fortunately, they were already close to the thieves on the opposite side.

"Bang~"

The men and horses flew over, screaming and howling, breaking bones and tendons, and the battlefield was quiet for a moment, but after the mistake of the two armies, the most tragic voices in the world rose one after another.

At the first moment of Sun Jian's impact, Ma Jin overturned the cavalry on the opposite side. But with this rush, Sun Jian found that the formation on his side was not as tight as the one on the opposite side

Don't look at them there are a thousand people, but in the small space of the charge, there are more people on the opposite side. Sun Jian didn't care to figure out why they were all sharp and arrowy formations, and why the opposite side could be so densely arranged.

Now he can only rely on his own martial arts to lead people in one go.

The cavalry collided, relying on not being afraid of death. This is not afraid of death is not something else, but that the most important thing for the cavalry is the speed of impact, but the faster it rushes, as long as it hits, it will also die the worst. Therefore, only the most fearless cavalry warriors have the courage to race their horses to the fastest.

and is not afraid of death, he Sun Jian has, and the Jianghuai Erlang under his command has even more.

They raced the horse to the fastest speed early, that is, they wanted to use high-speed impact to overturn the opposite formation.

Therefore, Sun Jian gritted his teeth, covered his crotch mount with his hand, and then crashed into the rest of the cavalry opposite.

At this moment, Sun Jian regarded himself as a soldier, and this collision was to open the way for the shock cavalry behind.

But at this moment, a dramatic situation occurred.

It's the same as the group of monkeys that Sun Jian encountered. When Sun Jian rushed suddenly, the assault cavalry on the opposite side was unexpectedly instigated. Or more precisely, the war horse on the opposite side was instigated.

The war horse on the opposite side saw that Sun Jian's horse was stupid and hit itself, and it immediately tilted its neck obediently and pierced through the thin slit on the side.

But this one wears, no

It wore Sun Jian, but Sun Jian single-handedly penetrated the Taishan Army's assault horse.

Many war horses pierced into the cracks along with the horses in front, which directly caused Sun Jian to penetrate the whole way, causing chaos in the formation.

This accident made Sun Jian ecstatic, and he shouted:

"The brave live, and the cowardly die." Today, I will die with Sun Jian!"

Han Dang and Cheng Pu in the back also went berserk, and each led a team of cavalry to penetrate and directly cover Sun Jian's sides.

And not far away, the more witty Lu Fan had already led five hundred cavalry around the left rear of the opposite thief horse, directly around a big circle, and then straight into the waist of the Taishan army.

The Tarzan Cavalry is indeed good at war, but they are also human beings, and they also conform to the principles of physics. When the flanks and rear flanks that they couldn't see were chiseled, the outcome of the battle was already decided.

For a time, the people of the Taishan army were turned on their backs, and Lu Fan's cavalry directly cut them off.

The sound of bones smashing skulls, the sound of broken blades slashing at the golden iron body of the armor, the sound of war horses stumbling to the ground, everything covered the fighting spirit of the Taishan army, and also covered their vitality.

At this time, Yan Gang, who was fighting at the head of the horse, was exhausted, and he pushed away the three barking horses, and then a bone smashed on his mount on the bevel.

The blow of his war horse directly paused to the ground with compassion. The huge horse tears flowed through the trough of his eyes, full of raw affection.

Yan Gang rolled off his horse at the end, strangled an enemy soldier who pounced on him, and then saw his beloved horse die in front of him.

Yan Gang roared:

"You're all going to die!"