The two sides fought fiercely for two hours, and more than 1,000 people were killed in each.

The battle loss ratio was almost the same, but the total strength of Cao's army was less than that of Jiangdong, and it continued to suffer losses for Zhang Liao.

The battlefield is located in the south of Chaohu Lake, there is no danger on the Great Plains, if the tiger and leopard cavalry break through the siege and flee back to Shu County with all their might, Lu Fan's foot soldiers will not be able to keep it at all, but that will push Zhang Liao into the abyss.

Cao Chun did not choose to leave, he and the tiger and leopard cavalry left behind to cover the retreat of the foot soldiers, which could also give Cao Cao time to prepare.

Now there are only more than 1,000 defenders left in Shu County, and leading the flames of war over will make Cao's army passive.

In the case of inferior troops, it is not easy to smoothly withdraw from the battlefield, because the enemy troops and their shouts from all sides will put pressure on the psychology of the inferior side, and it is easy to cause morale collapse if they retreat in a hurry.

Zhang Liao, as a famous man of the Cao army, has not panicked when encountering a crisis this time, even if there are many soldiers under his command, he can still keep the formation intact.

After a fierce battle until the afternoon, Zhang Liao suddenly found that behind Zhou Yu's army, a support army was rapidly approaching.

There is no need to guess, it is Chaohu to increase troops.

Zhang Liao took a rough look at the scale of the reinforcements, and estimated that they were close to the strength of Lu Fan who was blocking the road, and if this support army was allowed to join the battlefield, it was very likely to form an encirclement of his own side.

By that time, there was no room for the tiger and leopard riders to break through.

Zhang Liao found Cao Chun and said solemnly: "Zihe, Zhou Yu's reinforcements have arrived, and it seems that there is no hope for my foot soldiers to break through, so it is better to let your cavalry retreat." ”

"Are you sure?"

Cao Chun's brows tightened, and reminded Zhang Liao: "Wen Yuan has fought bravely and made many meritorious contributions in the past two years, and has won the trust and love of the lord, if he really destroys these old departments, he will inevitably reduce the opportunity to recruit in the future, and Yu Wen has lost too much of the old Taishan department because of the hard battle in Guandu, so he has not caught up in the next few battles, and has stayed in Xu Capital to train new soldiers."

"If you fall for Zhou Yu's plan, there is no way to do it, and now you can only survive with a broken tail."

Zhang Liao shook his head and sighed, and then said undoubtedly: "I immediately adjusted the deployment of troops, resisted Zhou Yu from the north, divided a part to the south to contain Lu Fan, and Zihe led the tiger and leopard cavalry to raid the weak position in the southwest, I believe that I should be able to easily break through." ”

"That's far away from you." Cao Chun stopped abruptly and looked at Zhang Liao with a worried expression.

Zhang Liao smiled open-mindedly: "I have two hundred personal guards and cavalry to protect me, Zhou Yu has not yet had the ability to leave me, and he will definitely kill and converge." ”

"Okay, take care!"

Cao Chun clenched his fists and bowed solemnly, turned around and went to order the tiger and leopard to break through, he knew that Zhang Liao was going to give up all the foot soldiers and the elite troops accumulated over the years, including the hundreds of soldiers who had fallen into the camp to take over Gao Shun.

Although I feel that it is a pity, we must face the reality.

After a short time, Cao Jun's formation began to change, changing his previous steady style of play and becoming impatient and wild.

Cao Jun's sudden change of tactics was not as good as the attack of casualties, which made the opponent extremely uncomfortable.

The various departments of the front army complained to Zhou Yu one after another, and Zhou Yu then personally rushed to the front line with his own horse, and encouraged the generals: "The more crazy the enemy is, the more it shows the necessity of blocking, Zhang Liao must have found out that our reinforcements are coming, and at this time he is just fighting the trapped beasts, pass on my orders, and contain the enemy at all costs." ”

"Yui."

Zhou Yu stretched out his hand to signal Huang Gai and Han Dang to come closer, and said softly: "The two generals immediately led their troops and horses, and went around the left and right wings to reinforce Ziheng, Cao Thief's tiger and leopard cavalry is well-equipped, especially those war horses are all good horses outside the Saiwai, and it is worth the price we pay." ”

"Obey the orders of the Grand Governor."

The two of them hugged their fists sonorously, and Han Dang was the most excited.

Han Dang was originally a native of Lingzhi in western Liaoning, and was born in the northern borderland like Cheng Pu, and met Sun Jian when he was in the Yellow Turban of the Imperial Court, and was attracted by Sun Jian's combat bravery, so he followed Sun Jian to fight in the south and north to Jiangdong.

Han Dang himself is skilled in bowing and horses, but when he arrives in the land of Jiangdong, he is often with the ship, and he has the feeling that Li Yunlong is the director of the quilt factory.

Now that there is a chance to capture Cao Junliang's horse, Han Dang's enthusiasm in his chest was aroused.

With both sides changing formations, an orderly war became chaotic.

The formations of Sun Cao's two armies were scattered, and they turned from the original moves between masters to a large-scale weapon fighting scene.

The shouts of battle were endless, and swords, guns, swords, and halberds frequently collided together.

Zhang Liao was covered in blood, and he also watched more and more of his comrades fall, and when his own soldiers reminded him to evacuate, Cao Chun, the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry, went and returned.

"Zihe, what are you doing? Said that you don't care about us, can you still go back at this time? ”

Seeing Zhang Liao asking bitterly, Cao Chun was excited: "What are you going to go?" Wenyuan, our reinforcements have also arrived, Lu Fan is retreating from both flanks, and the tiger and leopard cavalry has begun to cover in reverse. ”

"There are no soldiers in Shu County" Zhang Liao was stunned: "Could it be that the lord transferred soldiers from Anhui County?" It's coming too fast, isn't it? Will the reinforcements be Komeito or Junyi? ”

"Hey, hey, it's all here."

"What?"

"Anhui County has been conquered the day before yesterday, except for Shi Jian and Zhang Xiu who stayed to clean up the mess, the lord and Miaocai and other generals are here, this time Zhou Yu will not be able to eat and walk around."

Zhang Liao's mood was like a roller coaster, this battle was full of twists and turns, and he couldn't help but sigh:

"It's fun! Enjoyable! This battle is getting bigger and bigger! ”

Cao Chun echoed: "It is a matter of course that the movement is big, this should be the final battle in Huainan." ”

Zhang Liao looked up at the sky, and then frowned again: "It's a pity that the sun is already setting in the west now, and it won't be dark for long, so we can't deal a fatal blow to Zhou Yu, unless we keep it at any cost."

"Forget it." Cao Chun interrupted Zhang Liao and said: "Our main force still has half an hour to arrive, and now there are only 4,000 Xu Gongming's vanguards, and the total strength is still inferior to Zhou Yu, we don't need to fight with it at this time, and your troops have suffered serious losses today, don't beat them up before victory."

Zhang Liao nodded bitterly: "It has to be like this." ”

The original plan was to use the advantage of many soldiers to eat the elite soldiers of Zhang Liao and Cao Chun, but now there was an accident.

Lü Fan originally resisted the tiger and leopard cavalry head-on, but was suddenly attacked by Xu Huang's reinforcements, even if Huang Gai and Han Dang helped in the battle, he couldn't stop it, so he decisively retreated north to join Zhou Yu's main force.

Cao Chun and Xu Huang pursued Lu Fan until they rescued all the remnants of Zhang Liao.

At this time, Zhou Yu had re-completed the formation, and there was no point in attacking again, so the two sides temporarily stopped fighting.

Then Zhou Yu led the army to withdraw to the camp, and demolished Zhang Liao's original camp by the way, and found that Cao Cao personally led the main force on the way, so he did not retreat to Chaohu overnight, but set up an ambush in the camp to wait for the camp.

Depending on the situation, Huainan should not be able to stay.

Zhou Yu worked hard to lay such a big net, but failed to kill Zhang Liao and Cao Chun, although he made some gains today, it could only be regarded as a small victory, so he planned to withdraw and Yin Cao again.

Cao Cao led the main force to arrive that it was already dark, and also learned that Zhang Liao's original camp had been destroyed, while Zhou Yu's camp was lit with fire.

"Lord, do you want to rob the camp? Zhou Yu hastily withdrew, and the deployment must not be tight."

Cao Cao interrupted Xiahou Yuan and said in a deep voice: "Zhou Lang is quite capable of scheming, not to be underestimated, we can fight head-on, there is no need to rob the camp and take risks, the summer is hot, it doesn't matter if there is a camp or not, the whole army is ordered to strengthen the garrison and camp on the spot." ”

"Oh"

(End of chapter)