After the destruction of Shen Zhiyi on both sides of the Zhangshui River, Wang Rong continued to wave his army south, and there was no Ji army to stop him along the way. Not long after the state army went south, Chu Luxu, who was the first to be wrong, finally met the Ji army troops outside the city of Gauntlet.

After the defenders of Yangshi County retreated to Cherry City, the number of troops in the hands of Zhao Yu, the general of the Ji State, reached 60,000, including 20,000 Ji forbidden troops brought from Xindu, 20,000 Zhao Wei reinforcements, and 10,000 gall Tao Qingzhuang.

In order to be able to detect the movements of the Bingzhou army in time and block the Bingzhou army in the city of Gatao, Zhao Yu sent his close general Li Zhiliang to lead 4,000 cavalry of the Hebei Army to the north to investigate the enemy.

However, Bingzhou Yicong made rapid progress, and before he reached Hushui, he encountered the cavalry of the Ji army. The two sides met suddenly in the field, and each had no way to escape, and a big battle immediately began.

Both sides were cavalry, each with four or five thousand men and horses, and the strength was almost the same. Chu Luxu knew very well the truth of fighting fast and slow, and took the lead, and when he saw that the cavalry of the Ji army on the opposite side had not yet lined up the battle formation, he wanted to take the lead and rush into the enemy formation. The lieutenants on the side stepped forward one after another to persuade him not to put himself in danger.

Of course, Chu Luxu would not listen, he roared loudly: "When we meet the enemy today, both sides do not understand the enemy's strength, once our army hesitates, but shows cowardice, this momentum will fall to the Ji army."

Sure enough, as Chu Luxu expected, Li Zhiliang saw the Bingzhou army attacking in a big way, and thought that the other party had a lot of people, so he hesitated. The generals and colonels under his command have said: This is a large state army, depending on the situation and the formation, I am afraid that there are no less than 10,000 people, and we should avoid its edge as soon as possible.

Li Zhiliang heard so many people say this at this time, and then looked at the wolf-like momentum of the Bingzhou army, and suddenly felt frightened, so he was ready to retreat.

At this time, Chu Luxu had already entered the Ji army with a horse lance, and the state Yicong fought hard to attack, as brave as a tiger in the lower mountain, the cavalry of the Ji army could not stop it at all, and Li Zhiliang ordered to retreat, and the entire Ji army immediately fell into chaos.

Chu Luxu took the Yicong of Bingzhou to chase after him, and chased for more than 40 miles before he stopped the pace of pursuit, and the battle beheaded more than 2,000 people and captured countless people. Chu Luxu saw his results and happily went back to Yangshi County to report his merits.

When Wang Rong saw Chu Luxu making another meritorious service, he praised him and named him a male in Anguo County. This is the only one in the Bingzhou Army, and even Lang Zeqing, who has followed Wang Rong for many years, is still just a village man, one level lower than Chu Luxu.

The army opened victoriously, and the state army continued to the south, approaching the city of Gauntlet. The gall pottery is the seat of Julu County, which is located in the plain, with developed agriculture and is a large grain-producing county. Because of the war, a large amount of grain and grass was gathered in the city.

Wang Rong was anxious to attack the gall pottery, in addition to giving Ji a profound and unforgettable lesson, he also wanted the grain and grass in the gall pottery city. In this way, the war between the state and the state of Hebei will be able to seize the initiative.

But Zhao Yu is not stupid, after getting the news of Shen Zhiyi's defeat and death, he was taken aback, and quickly reacted, Shen Zhiyi's soldiers and horses are already very strong, but they still can't resist the state army, this is not only the gap in the ability of the commanders of the two sides, but also in terms of the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, the two sides are not on the same level.

Therefore, in addition to sending Li Zhiliang out of the city to investigate, Zhao Yu also continued to improve the city defense of Gauntao, preparing for a decisive battle with the Bingzhou army here.

Two days later, Wang Rong led the Bingzhou army to the city of Gauntao, and Zhao Yu's strength increased from 57,000 to 80,000 with his best mobilization, preparing to hold the city.

The circumference of the gall pottery city is six miles, the terrain is not much dangerous, it is built according to the hills, it is winding and circuitous, the wall is high and the pond is wide. The walls were five to eight meters high, built with stone bars, and protruding square horse-faced walls were built every forty meters. Drawing water along the city wall, the momentum is overwhelming.

There is a high platform built on the commanding height point in the city, about five meters high, for command, there is an inner city with a length of more than 40 meters and a width of more than 30 meters around the high platform, standing on the high platform, the scenery inside and outside the whole city is in full view.

Zhao Yu did not shrink all his forces in the city, but built another camp outside the city, and the gall pottery was a corner of each other.

In order to prevent the trebuchets of the Bingzhou army from approaching the attack, the Ji army dug two more trenches on the periphery of the camp and communicated with the moat to divert water into it.

On the channel through the trench, Zhao Yu also arranged three wooden fences to prevent the cavalry from rushing

and gathered thousands of crossbowmen to stand behind the fence. At the same time, the trebuchet was dismantled and transported to the city wall, where it was reassembled and erected at the head of the city.

When the Bingzhou army arrived, Wang Rong found that Zhao Yu had used trenches, horse rejections, fences, and moats to guard the city of Tao and the city tightly, and it was difficult to approach it at all.

This Zhao Yu, as the general of the Ji State, is worthy of being a veteran of a hundred battles, and in terms of the defense of Gauntao City alone, what he has done is admirable.

The state army rushed to the foot of the city of Gand Tao and set up camp fifteen miles away from the city. Because the cavalry of the Bingzhou Army had been monitoring the city of Gauntland, Zhao Yu could only give up the initiative to attack and take the Bingzhou Army by surprise.

That day, there was no incident, and both sides spent a quiet and long night. Li Sujie suggested that Wang Rong could take advantage of the night to attack and harass the city of Gland, but Wang Rong refused: "The decisive battle of hundreds of thousands of horses and horses between the enemy and us, such an act is not appropriate, and the momentum is weakened in front of Zhao Yu. And the enemy is outnumbered, and every soldier of the state army is precious."

Early the next morning, the two sides lined up in the north of the city to prepare for a big battle.

Wang Rong knew that Zhao Yu really couldn't bear the pressure, and this big battle was just a test of the strength of the Ji forbidden army.

On the side of Ji State, Zhao Yu is the commander of the army. He took Zhao Fan as the main general, leading 10,000 forbidden troops and 20,000 Zhao Wei reinforcements as the vanguard; Li Zhiliang and Lin Xue each led 5,000 Yang defenders and 10,000 gall Tao recruits as the left and right armies, which were listed on the two wings. And Zhao Yu led 10,000 forbidden troops of the Ji State to line up, and Song Mingbu, a confidant general, led 10,000 gall Tao recruits to guard the city and camp.

On Wang Rong's side, he took Xiandeng and Trapping as the main force, lined up in front, and ordered Chu Luxu and Wuluo to lead and Zhou Yicong and wolf cavalry as the left and right flanks, and Wang Rong led the seventh division to line up behind the formation, thinking that it should be supported.

The north of the city of Gall Tao is very vast, so more than 100,000 troops are spread here, and there is no sense of urgency. The terrain of the gall pottery city is higher, and the Ji army is in a condescending situation, and the state army attacks the gall pottery city, which is in a disadvantageous position.

As soon as the battle began, Zhao Fan led the Ji *** team to attack.

As a general in the army, Zhao Fan couldn't hold back the mood of breaking the enemy, and personally led the troops to charge. Zhao Fan fought against Youguo, Yi and Yu all the year round, winning more and losing less, and he had a sense of arrogance. Moreover, the Central Plains countries attach great importance to heavy cavalry, and the forbidden army of Ji under Zhao Fan is the most elite ironclad cavalry in Ji State. As a cavalry general, Zhao Fan was born to charge, but he didn't like to defend the city.

Zhao Fan drew his saber, pointed in the direction of the Bingzhou army, and shouted, "Sons, use the knives in your hands to cut through the enemy's chest, and crush the enemy's body with your horses' hooves!"

The forbidden army of the Ji State under the command of Zhao Fan shouted and rushed towards the Bingzhou army, with the potential energy from top to bottom, and there was a sense of indomitability.

and the state army forward, the main generals will be Yuan Tiangang and Meng Song. They followed Wang Rong to fight in the south and in the north, the grassland cavalry of the Qiang, the camel cavalry of Pusha, the plateau cavalry of the Qiang people, what kind of cavalry have not been seen. And the cavalry led by Zhao Fan is the most ordinary Central Plains elite cavalry, there is nothing special, the method of battle is one, rushing and fighting, as long as the first wave of charges is blocked, it will be easy to do later.

"Array!"

In this case, it is indispensable for Meng Song, the general of the trap, and the trappers have set up shields and spears. Yuan Tiangang picked up the crossbow, and the first soldiers turned into crossbowmen, holding bows and crossbows, and lined up behind the trapped army.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The trappers roared loudly and angrily, their shields on their hands, their spears clenched in their hands, their sharp blades glittering in the cold white of the sun.

Soon the two sides collided together, and immediately there was a sound of "poof, poof", blood splattered, and Meng Song's face was all over the sky.

But Meng Song didn't feel the pungent smell of blood, and the guards behind him held high Meng Song's general flag and followed Meng Song in the military formation. In front of Meng Song were all trapped warriors, as well as the cavalry of the Ji army mixed with the trapped. Some of the cavalry of the Ji army were thrown into the battle by the war horses and fell in front of him, but he was not afraid, and stabbed them to death as soon as he mentioned the lance.

The cavalry of the Ji army had already found Meng Song running left and right behind the main formation, and more than a dozen cavalry of the Ji army at the back of the cavalry formation drew their bows and arrows one after another, and shot with their bows.

Meng Song's personal guard

Hurry, quickly raise the shield and surround it in the middle.

There was even a brave Ji army general, who fell into the formation from his war horse, rolled a few times, and after unloading his strength, he stood up and went straight to Meng Song, holding a spear and poking it in Meng Song's chest. Meng Song raised his hand and slammed into the spear, immediately shattering the opponent's spear. The tip of the lance swirled and swept right past the enemy's neck.

Then another general of the Ji army came, and he squeezed Meng Song's waist from the side. Meng Song did not return his lance, but bowed forward, and the spear swept past Meng Song's chest. Meng Song grabbed the spear violently, pulled it hard, and broke the spear, and the man threw himself into Meng Song's arms. Meng Song smashed the back lance into the waist of the enemy general, smashing him to the ground, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

At this time, a trapped defense line was broken by the Ji cavalry, and more than a dozen Ji cavalry rushed in, their horses had died, and these more than a dozen Ji cavalry walked into the battle with spears.

Meng Song rushed to the gap with his personal guards, and several Ji cavalry in front of him held spears and barked at Meng Song together. Meng Song's lance swung violently and swept past, and it was a scene of spears breaking and people dying.

"Where will the enemy go?"

Seeing that someone in front of him was coming to stop him, Meng Song didn't say a word, raised the lance and smashed it, directly smashing the other party's head to a shattering head.

Wang Rong watched from the tower behind the battle, and had to admire: "I didn't expect the mountain high martial arts to be so high, what a bear general, enough to be called ten thousand enemies."