"Shen Chen!"

Under the command of the Chinese army in the distance, Li Tong rode on horseback, looking at the iron army rushing towards the southern periphery with tears in his eyes.

The general at the front of the Iron Army was imprinted in his heart like a nightmare of his life.

At that time, Li Tong was also a small prince in Runan, although he defected to Cao Cao in name, but more than 10,000 horses in his hands were his capital based on the troubled times.

As a result, Xiping was ambushed by Shen Chen halfway through the battle from Xiping to Dingying, and lost more than half of it, and even he himself almost died in the chaos.

This kind of hatred should be remembered in our hearts. But Li Tong didn't dare to take revenge at all, because Shen Chen was prosperous in the south and was deeply trusted by Liu Biao, and even Cao Cao couldn't help him.

But the appearance of the enemy, even if a few years have passed, he has never forgotten, even if he has grown taller and stronger, so Li Tong's eyes are red.

When the enemy sees each other, they are very red-eyed, how can they defeat him?

As far as Li Tong could see, his southern periphery had been scattered by the Yellow Gate soldiers, revealing a huge gap, and the Gan Ning army was close behind, if he didn't think of a way, I was afraid that even his Chinese army would not be protected.

"General, we have no reinforcements, should we evacuate to General Cao Hong's military formation?"

The lieutenant next to him asked.

Li Tong gritted his teeth and said: "Evacuate to General Cao's side, once the enemy's cavalry and foot soldiers are attacked at the same time, and the rollup occurs, the three armies will be affected, and I will become a sinner in this battle, we can only hold on." ”

"But."

The adjutant general looked at the iron army that was rampaging and getting closer and closer, and said anxiously: "Then how can we stop them?" ”

Li Tong glanced around, suddenly his eyes lit up, and shouted: "Order, change the formation, gather the main force in the west, and guard against Zhang Xiu's cavalry." Then order the cavalry to fight out from both flanks and charge at the enemy's front army! ”

"Charge?"

The adjutant general's eyes widened and said, "Isn't it a dead end for the cavalry to charge the heavily armored infantry formation?" ”

Li Tong looked at the deputy general with scarlet eyes, and said viciously: "Even if you sacrifice all the cavalry, you must stop the enemy, delay time, and wait for Sikong to defeat the army of Wenpin." ”

"Yui"

The adjutant was startled by his gaze and hurriedly carried out the order.

Li Tong turned his head and looked at the south with eyes like a wild wolf, his eyes revealing a hint of fierceness.

Although the cavalry charge is like a moth to a fire, the heavy armor foot soldier is not comfortable being hit by a horse, and the heavy armor, hammer and axe that cannot be cut into the knife can stun or even kill the people inside.

And a horse weighing hundreds of pounds and a terrible collision force, the best result is to lose both, just because the horse collision will affect the enemy's front rows at most, not only will it have no effect on the rear row, but it will even make the cavalry fall into the crowd and be hacked to death with random knives.

Therefore, Li Tong also prepared for the worst, that is, the heavily armored infantry withstood the impact of the cavalry, and even defeated the cavalry. However, in his opinion, even if the cavalry dies and he dies in battle, he must not let his main force collapse.

For the sake of victory, at all costs!

A moment later, Li Tong's order was conveyed to the whole army, and soon the circular formation began to change, and the circular formation that had originally protected the rear began to change to the right flank, that is, to the west.

This meant that Li Tong's rear, that is, the northern defense, was flawed, because he transferred most of the infantry to the west to defend against Zhang Xiu's cavalry, so that the Cao cavalry, which had been confronting Zhang Xiu's cavalry, was liberated to fight against the Huangmen soldiers with a suicide attack.

"Woooooooooooo

The desolate horn sounded pathetic, and all the Cao cavalry showed a touch of sadness on everyone's face.

Everyone knows what will happen if the light cavalry charges against the heavily armed heavy infantry, and not many people and horses will survive, but even so, under the strict military regulations of the Cao army and the system that harms his family, no one dares to be a deserter.

According to the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao promulgated the "Law of the Death of Soldiers", and all the families of soldiers were relocated to Xudu and now Chendu as hostages, and once soldiers escaped or disobeyed military orders, their parents, wives, brothers, and children were killed.

Therefore, every Cao Jun knew that they would definitely die, but in order not to affect their families, they could only choose to fight to the death with their lives like moths rushing towards the flames.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The general Cao Jun, who led the team, let out a crying cry.

All the cavalry of the Cao army also seemed to be pathetic.

Many people's faces go from numbness, to sadness, and finally back to numbness.

Human life is sometimes cheaper than grass and trees.

With a shout, the cavalry of the Cao army in the distance began to gallop on horseback.

The cavalrymen in the front row stabbed their horses so hard that the horses themselves were too afraid to charge at the dense array of spears.

But in the sting, they ran forward desperately, blood spilled on the ground, and the neighing of war horses resounded in the sky.

Shen Chen looked at the Cao Army soldiers who were attacking them in an extremely tragic form in front of him, and a trace of pain flashed in his eyes.

How could they not be victims of Cao Cao's harsh methods?

But fighting on the battlefield, either you die or I die, mercy can only harm others and yourself.

So Shen Chen raised his knife and roared: "Big Tiger! ”

"Big Tiger!"

"Big Tiger!"

"Big Tiger!"

All the Yellow Gate soldiers roared angrily.

The charging cavalry was in front of them in the blink of an eye, and the galloping iron hooves crashed into the ironclad soldiers in the front row.

The soldiers in front were struck by lightning, but the spears in their hands also pierced the knight's body or the horse's body, and in an instant the two men turned on their horses, and the first man fell to the ground.

But the cavalry came one after another, and they went forward one after another, not afraid of death. Then it crashed into the Yellow Gate soldiers over and over again, many vomiting blood and flying upside down, while many more struggled to stabilize their bodies and slashed down the enemies who rushed into the formation one by one.

Blood flowed, horses wailed and neighed, and after a large number of cavalry charged, even if they were not assassinated by the spears erected, they fell under the horses because they could not stabilize their bodies without the help of stirrups, and then they were trampled and killed by the horses behind them, and there were corpses everywhere.

The Yellow Gate soldiers are like a rock in a river, holding their positions firmly, stubbornly resisting the erosion of the tide. The Ganning division in the rear also rolled in like a torrent, and after the cavalry lost their mobility, they were swept into the mud and chopped into pieces.

Seeing this scene in the distance, Zhang Xiu was in awe and said: "Cao Jun's strict governance of the army is embarrassing. ”

"Shen Chen is not bad."

Jia Xu said lightly: "The Yellow Gate soldiers are worthy of being the first-class strong soldiers in the world, except for a few soldiers in the front row, the cavalry of the Cao army rushed in, and it was just a dead end." ”

"It's time for me to do my part."

Zhang Xiu perked up a little, looked around, and said to the cavalry around him: "Everyone, the south will be obtained by General Zuo, if we want to continue to gain a foothold in the south, today is the opportunity to fight for General Zuo, are you willing to fight to the death for your family?" ”

The Xiliang Army under his command was generally between thirty and forty years old, and even some of the middle and lower-level generals in the Zhang Ji era were in their fifties, and they had already started a family, and their families had also moved to Nanyang.

In Nanyang for more than ten years, taking root and sprouting, if they run again, there is no place for them in heaven and earth, so they have raised their swords and shouted angrily: "Fight to the death!" ”

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

At first, the sound was small, but then a terrifying roar erupted from the Xiliang Iron Horse.

Zhang Xiu's big knife in his hand pointed at Li Tong's main formation and shouted: "Soldiers, the honor and disgrace of the Xiliang Army, whether the family can be healthy or not, it must be proved today, and I will rush to kill!" ”

"Kill!"

The Xiliang army slaughtered forward like a tide.

Although light cavalry rarely attacked the enemy's large formation, attacking the enemy's weak points from the flanks was a trick used by all light cavalry generals in ancient times.

At this moment, Li Tong's cavalry went to attack the Huangmen soldiers, and the infantry had to guard against Zhang Xiu and the Ganning army, and the defense was extremely thin.

Soon the Xiliang army collided with Li Tong's foot soldiers, and the fighting gradually started, and the total number of enemy and enemy soldiers here exceeded 20,000 people, and there were surging crowds everywhere.

From morning to mid-afternoon, after two full hours, Li Tong's soldiers were getting fewer and fewer, and he even personally rushed to the battlefield with his personal guards, fighting with the Ganning troops who had already killed him on the periphery.

Shen Chen cut down the last cavalry of the Cao Army, and rode on the horse covered in blood, the original white jade horse was bright red, and there were a few wounds that were not too fatal, and the mouth was rough, and the corners of the mouth were foaming at the mouth, obviously for the war horse, the physical strength was also overdrawn a lot.

Surrounded by the corpses of enemy and enemy soldiers, under the cover of the Gan Ning infantry soldiers, this battle was actually equivalent to 5,000 Cao army cavalry, launching a death-like suicidal charge against 3,000 heavily armored infantry soldiers and at least 4,500 unarmored ordinary soldiers.

Although it did delay the footsteps of Shen Chenjun, under the strangulation of a large number of infantry, these Cao cavalry were tantamount to death. Although they also killed hundreds of Yellow Gate soldiers and one or two thousand ordinary soldiers, they were all wiped out.

No one surrendered, and no one fled. As opponents, they are respectable. But for them, who were threatened by Cao Cao's "death law", and their families, this is a little too sad.

There were still more than 2,000 Yellow Gate soldiers left, but now almost all of them were paralyzed. They didn't actually move, they just mechanically waved the swords in their hands, they didn't run or slash hard, and when one came, they raised their spears and stabbed forward, and that's it.

But even so, even if they were all special soldiers who had undergone severe training, they were so tired that they couldn't even lift their arms after two hours of mechanical sword-wielding soldiers, and their whole bodies were trembling, and they couldn't stand on the ground.

This armor is already bulky, and although it provides defense, it puts a great burden on the soldiers. Li Tong's strategy was undoubtedly successful, and the death of 5,000 cavalry was exchanged for the Yellow Gate soldiers with almost no combat effectiveness.

But he also failed.

At this moment, there are not many more than 10,000 people left who he brought out.

The 5,000 cavalry was wiped out.

Under the impact of the Ganning army and Zhang Xiu's cavalry, the foot soldiers died and scattered.

There were less than 2,000 people left around him and they were still in formation.

But everyone was too tired to walk.

If you look down at the wilderness from a high altitude, you will see that on the vast land, whether it is Li Tong's department, Shen Chen's department, Ganning's department, Zhang Xiu's department, or even further afield, Cao Hong, Zhuge Liang, Cao Cao's Wenpin, their troops are also exhausted.

Li Tong is already desperate.

Because even if he delayed with his life, he didn't wait for Cao Cao's horn to defeat Wen Ping.

Without reinforcements, almost all of his troops would have died here.

"Li Tong!"

Shen Chen had already dismounted, and Yu Yu's physical strength was exhausted, and he could no longer fight.

He took the hundreds of soldiers around him who were barely able to move, and Gan Ning, who was also panting loudly, slowly walked forward.

These soldiers were actually Gan Ning's troops, and none of the Yellow Gate soldiers could continue to stand.

But even if it wasn't the notorious Yellow Gate soldiers, no one dared to stop the Cao soldiers who were already tired and paralyzed.

Except for the dozens of guards around Li Tong, who staggered and barely stood up to protect him.

Shen Chen approached step by step, the white cloak fluttering in the southeast wind, and the surrounding Cao Jun avoided one after another, even if he climbed, he had to climb beyond the road he was walking on.

"Shen Chen!"

Li Tong was covered in blood, panting heavily, the war horse had already fallen, and he barely held on to a large five-foot-high stone in the wilderness to prevent him from falling to the ground.

He could feel his legs trembling, and the fight was at its limit for any of them.

Shen Chen slowly walked to less than ten zhang away from Li Tong, he was tall, looked down on the enemy, and said softly: "As an enemy, you are a respectable person. But is it worth it that you put on the lives of all the cavalrymen to delay? ”

Li Tong grinned, revealing his blood-stained white teeth, and said, "As long as Cao Gong can defeat Wen Ping, everything will be fine, and what I want to do is to stop you, even if I die." ”

"It's a pity."

Shen Chen shook his head: "Everything is in vain, Cao Cao's defeat is decided." ”

"Cao Gong will not be defeated!"

Li Tong shouted hoarsely: "He will soon defeat Wen Ping!" ”

Shen Chen pointed to his bloodstained face and asked, "Do you know why I was supposed to be in Baqiu, but I suddenly appeared here?" ”

It should have been in Baqiu, but suddenly appeared here?

Li Tong was stunned.

Shen Chen's appearance was so abrupt that he didn't even have time to think about it.

Now that he was reminded by Shen Chen, he remembered that something was wrong.

And then.

Li Tong's eyes widened, and he said in a voice that trembled to a sharp voice: "You defeated the Jiangdong Army? ”

Shen Chen nodded, looked at the east with deep eyes, and said softly: "Yes, now there are more than 30,000 Jiangxia naval troops, and they should have launched an attack on Cao Cao." Although they are a naval army, they are stronger than fighting on the water, but no matter what, there are 30,000 people, which is enough to deal with Cao Cao. ”

Li Tong trembled all over, gritted his teeth, pulled out the knife in his hand, and slowly walked towards Shen Chen: "You can't serve Cao Gong, you can only fight to the death, and you will die to the death, Shen Chen, fight me to the death." ”

"General Lee should have died with dignity."

The Tiger Courage Sword in Shen Chen's hand was full of blood, and his physical strength was also about the same, and this battle was fair, so he said indifferently: "After the general dies, I will bury it thickly, whether it is an enemy or a comrade-in-arms, it is worthy of my respect." ”

"Die!"

Li Tong pounced with red eyes like a jackal.

Shen Chenqiang cheered up, and with the last bit of strength, he also rushed towards him like a tiger.

After counting the numbers, Li Tongdao fell to the ground, looked down at the tiger guts knife that stabbed him in the chest, a miserable smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and then slowly tilted his head.

"The enemy will give the head!"

Shen Chen struggled with his knife and looked around like a tiger.

Every Cao soldier who looked at him lowered his head, threw down the weapon in his hand, and did not dare to look at him again.

"Win!"

"Victory!"

"Ho ho ho ho!"

At this moment, violent shouts erupted all around.

And farther east.

More than ten miles away from the westernmost battlefield, the piercing sound of gold resounded in the sky.

Su Fei and Huang Zhong led 30,000 Jiangxia sailors to raid Cao Hong's army and Cao Cao's own army respectively.

Originally, Cao Hong was already at the end of the strong crossbow, even with the help of Xun You, he only fought with Zhuge Liang for four or six times, and was pressed and beaten by Zhuge Liang.

At this moment, Liu Bei's reinforcements arrived, and they collapsed in an instant.

Cao Cao's side also played very hard, and Wen Ping was extremely good at defense, and when he had a degree of command, he couldn't get the job for a long time.

And when he was about to break the defensive circle of civil employment and completely eliminate the civil recruitment department.

The Jiangxia navy all over the mountains is coming.

So with the elimination of Li Tong's troops and the heavy losses of Cao Hong's troops, Cao Cao could only be forced to give the order to withdraw his troops.

Liu Bei personally led the reinforcements with sufficient physical strength, pursued Cao Cao to Ye County, killed and captured countless Cao troops along the way, and won a complete victory!

About the fifth and sixth days of the first six months from the township back, this is the last chapter of the manuscript, originally scheduled to be sent in the afternoon of the second day of the new year, but in order to avoid breaking the chapter, so now send, after tomorrow I will take a half-hour car to the town to code words, and when I go back from the township, I will resume the daily 10,000 word update, waiting for my good news brothers.