As a battle-hardened general Zhang Liao, especially in the first half of his life, he has a lot of experience in the aftermath.

The number of soldiers and horses after the break is usually one-twentieth of the whole team, and after the defeat of Cao's army for a while, it is theoretically no more than 30,000 people, so it is unlikely that the number of men and horses after his break will exceed 1,500 people.

Moreover, this is still a broken rear soldier and horse set up when the cavalry is full.

After all, their task is to cover the withdrawal of the army, not to fight, even if the ambush is won, it is only to scare off the pursuers, and they dare not chase and kill, because the food and grass of the army are generally only about three days.

But the scout told Zhang Liao that there were 800 stoves, that is, 8,000 soldiers and horses, which was obviously impossible.

When he led people to the Maple Leaf Trail and found the stove left by Cao Jun, he was startled, and after careful counting, it was really no more, no less, eight hundred stoves.

"Damn, Cao Thief's soldiers and horses are not very good at fighting, eating is a top trick, can the Broken Rear Army that can't last two or three thousand people actually have to eat the food of eight thousand people?" Yan Liang directly kicked over a stove and cursed.

"What are you talking nonsense, this must be the suspicious tactic of the Cao army, an army of twenty or thirty thousand people, it is impossible to exceed two thousand people, besides, in the night attack, we have captured so many horses of the Cao army, where are the thousands of cavalry broken, this is obviously to scare us!" My stupid brother, it's not okay to learn your ugly brother's art of war.

Zhang Liao squatted in front of the stove and looked at the burnt black stove intently, picked up a twist of soil and rubbed it slowly, and fell into contemplation.

"Such a simple plan for suspicious soldiers is enough for a partial general to see through, but why are there eight hundred stoves, just for the sake of suspicious soldiers, three hundred is reasonable, eight hundred, isn't this deliberately self-defeating?"

Yan Liang on the side leaned over to Wen Chou and muttered quietly, "Brother, Wen Yuan said that you are a partial general." ”

"Shut up, let you have less contact with Guo Tu, and learn from him to say something inconsequential." Wen Chou glanced at him.

Zhang Liao didn't pay attention to the bickering of the two brothers, and didn't understand why Cao Jun deliberately exaggerated the soldiers and horses after the break, this trace was too obvious, and it looked more like deliberately exposing their shortcomings and leading himself to pursue.

But soon, Zhang Liao was relieved again, he learned from Jia Xu's confidant and knew his opponent, substituted himself into Cao Jun's position, and soon understood what the reason was.

Because Jia Xu made a move out of nothing, in Cao Jun's view, his soldiers and horses were no longer 20,000, but more than 40,000, and the exposed cavalry alone had six or seven thousand, so at this time, three hundred stoves could not deter him at all, so he built eight hundred stoves.

Yes, that's right.

Although he couldn't be sure how many ambushes Cao's army had, the more the other party showed that he was ready for battle, the more convinced he was that the other party actually didn't have many soldiers and horses at all.

Therefore, he decisively ordered everyone to rest in place, and continued the deep pursuit after an hour.

These stoves were left a day ago, and they could catch up with them tomorrow at the latest.

Next, although Zhang Liao continued to send scouts to explore the way ahead, the speed was obviously faster than before.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Liao held a sheepskin map and said to Yan Liangwen: "There are two mountain valleys and a hill ahead, both of which can ambush soldiers, but if we send scouts to survey one by one, we are afraid that we will not be able to keep up with the footsteps of Cao Jun, so be careful that everyone should be careful." ”

"Whoa." The two nodded earnestly.

Is it possible to be ambushed if you continue to be so reckless?

The answer is yes, but Zhang Liao believes that Cao's army does not have many ambushes, and even if they lose the first move, as long as the army's morale is not broken, the three thousand cavalry can easily kill them.

The rested army marched all the way through a mountain depression without any problems, and as it walked around the mountain along the maple leaf path, a sudden rain of arrows poured down from the hill, and the startled vanguard horses swayed from side to side.

"Not good! There are ambushes, preparations, preparations! Yan Liang yelled.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of Cao Jun's banners were suddenly erected on the hill, and the sound of the battle shook the sky.

According to the establishment of a song of 500 people with a military flag in the army, seeing that there are at least seven or eight thousand people in this banner, the Lu army, which was prepared for the ambush, also panicked for a while.

Zhang Liao, who was later in the position, looked at the banner on the hill, and then looked at the rain of arrows in front of him, and said in a deep voice: "Wen Chou, lead the troops to rush up with me, Yan Liang leads a thousand horses, and when the Cao army on the mountain escapes, you will lead the army to kill again!" ”

"Wenyuan, why is that?" Wen Chou clenched his hand to break the soul gun, and did not dare to withdraw his gaze from the hill.

"Don't be nervous, if the Cao army really wants to ambush us, we should wait for our army to pass half before attacking, but now the front army has not passed through them and is in a hurry, isn't this fake?"

After listening to Zhang Liao's analysis, he saw the banner of the Cao army flashing in the hill, but no one rushed down, and Wen Chou, who reacted, laughed and said, "I understand, they don't have many ambushes, but they are just suspicious soldiers, kill!" ”

Zhang Liao and Wen Chou led their troops up the hill, and just as they expected, the banners in the mountains fell one after another, and a group of Cao's cavalry fled in panic from the other end.

At first glance, it is only seven or eight hundred cavalry at most, Zhang Liao's heart is relieved, this is in line with common sense, Cao Jun is probably the only cavalry left.

It seems that the other party understands the truth and the truth, and he used so many blindfolds to deceive himself along the way.

Now, the fog has lifted, and Zhang Liao can pursue unscrupulously.

Along the way, the slower Cao army was constantly chased by the cavalry of the Lu army and cut down to the ground one by one.

After breaking out of the second depression, they changed direction and went around to the east, breaking away from Cao's withdrawal route all the way north.

But because the other party was close at hand, as long as this cavalry was completely dispersed, the infantry chasing the other side behind would move unimpeded, and Zhang Liao decided to follow their escape direction and pursue them to the end.

I don't know how long I have been chasing, Cao Jun has already folded more than 100 horses, obviously running for his life, but he is always only a few dozen steps faster than Lu Jun, giving people the appearance that they can catch up quickly.

In normal times, Zhang Liao may not be able to see through the problem, but Zhang Liao, who has eaten three or four blindfolds along the way, finally became enthusiastic and desperately pursued and killed.

Of course, the biggest reliance is because he keeps the terrain of this area in mind, and there is no place around to ambush troops, so there is no major problem.

It wasn't until they chased across a riverbed that Zhang Liao suddenly remembered something and hurriedly ordered him to stop.

The enormous inertia forced them to rush forward a hundred steps before they stopped.

"Wenyuan, what happened?" Yan Liang, who turned his head, asked a little hurriedly.

"There should be a river here!" He hurriedly took out the sheepskin drawing from his bosom to confirm.

"Isn't that the one you just had?" Wen Chou turned his head to look at the riverbed that he had just waded in.

"Anfeng has just rained heavily, even if the water level has dropped, it is impossible to just pass the horse's hooves."

When Zhang Liao saw the river called Lishui on the parchment map clearly, his heart sank, his pupils suddenly gathered, and he exclaimed: "Retreat!" ”

Before the soldiers could turn their horses' heads, there was a loud rumbling sound above the riverbed.

Immediately afterwards, the turbulent water rushed like a fierce beast, and the cavalry of the Lu army standing on the riverbed was as fragile as falling leaves, and was directly swept away, without even having a chance to struggle.

The sudden flood swept away more than 20 cavalry of the Lu army, and the casualties were not large, but the problem was that it divided the team of 3,000 men in two.

There were only seven or eight hundred horsemen from Zhang Liao, Yan Liang and Wen Chou on the north bank of the water, and the rest were all blocked on the south bank.

Looking at the surging water is four or five zhang wide, coupled with the turbulent current, it is impossible to pass at all.

Rao is Liao Shen, who has been fighting for half his life and has won 800 and 30,000, is also nervous at this moment, he finally understands that the previous blinding methods are actually deliberately used to kill his patience, and Cao Jun's real purpose is to lead himself here, so as to win more with less.

"Zhang Liao, today is your death date, take your life!" Before Zhang Liao could make up his mind, Xu Chu had already led the cavalry back to kill him.

He rushed into the crowd, stabbed one of the Lu cavalrymen directly with his iron broadsword, and knocked down two cavalrymen with his body convulsed from pain.

At the same time, Xiahoudun, Zhang He, and Xu Huang also rushed up with people, their numbers were not large, but their morale was like a rainbow.

On the other hand, Lu Jun, who was originally a passionate pursuit, was so rushed away from the water that he was already frightened, and the team was divided into two, and the back road was cut off, and he immediately fell into a panic.

"Brothers, the net is broken, fight with them!" Yan Liang was reckless, not stunned at all, after seeing Zhang He, he didn't care about the desperate situation, so he raised his knife and killed the past.

Wen Chou also gritted his teeth and stabbed at the attacking Cao Jun, not afraid.

Han Xin in history used to be a battle against the water, winning more with less, adding a lot to his name as a soldier.

But the situation in front of him is obviously different, Han Xin's back-to-back battle is ready, and everyone knows what situation they have to face.

Lu Jun was in the midst of a passionate pursuit, and suddenly he was washed away from the water, and then looked at Cao Jun who rushed towards him, and he felt that he could not escape death.

Although Zhang Liao, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were fighting desperately, Lu Jun was still falling at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The more than 2,000 Lu troops on the other side of the river bank were anxious in their eyes, wanting to help, but they didn't know how to help, like ants on a hot pot were uneasy.

As more and more Cao Jun ants gathered, the Lu army on the north bank was forced to stand on the riverside, and the Lu army was constantly forced to fall into the water, stirring up bursts of splashes.

Some people want to use the war horse to swim over to help, if the water is not urgent, this is possible, because the war horse itself can swim, even if the speed is slower, it may not be able to cross the river.

But this water had just been discharged, and the turbulent water swallowed up the Lu army who tried to swim one after another.

At this time, they no longer dared to go into the water, and could only watch their robes fall one after another, frightened and frightened.

It's over, today, here, none of the Lu Jun on the north bank of the river can escape, including him Zhang Liao, Yan Liang and Wen Chou.

"Give me arrows, if you die, you will die, release arrows!" It is almost impossible to break through head-on, and the turbulent water behind it has blocked the way out, in this case, Zhang Liao chose what Yan Liang said, the fish is dead and the net is broken!

With Zhang Liao's military order, the soldiers on the south bank dismounted one after another, took bows and arrows from the saddle, and wound them to aim at the opposite bank, and the arrow rain was very sparse, because they had to worry about not hurting their own people.

Seeing this, Zhang Liao roared angrily, "Give me arrows, no distinction between the enemy and me, those who disobey the military order will be killed!" ”

The brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and since they have reached the end of the road today, they will live to die!

"Put!"

The rider roared hysterically.

The next breath was a dense rain of arrows and beckoned directly towards the chaotic battle circle.

Cao Jun fell a lot, Lu Jun also had those who were hit by arrows, and even Zhang Liao's own arm was hit by an arrow.

In a desperate situation, the will to survive made the Lu army burst out of the battle spirit of fearless death, they did not look at the arrows on their backs, only followed Zhang Liao, Yan Liang and Wen Chou to rush forward, plus the rain of arrows came in bursts, for a while Cao Jun was blinded by this kind of play that ended up together, and some people began to instinctively want to dodge and block the oncoming arrows.

Even Xu Chu wanted to kill Zhang Liao, but he was interrupted by this rain of arrows.

Seeing that the effect was better than expected, the cavalry lieutenant shouted: "Shoot the arrows, if you don't want to eat military law, shoot them all!" ”

On the other side of the river, some of the Lu Jun were choking back tears, and some were vomiting, because they clearly saw that their arrows were shot at the robe.

But they can't stop, they must be executed in accordance with military law!

Seeing that they were about to eat the remaining more than 200 cavalry of the Lu army, thus forming a close encirclement of Zhang Liao, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, but every rain of arrows forced them to stop.

There is no way, Cao Jun is attacking head-on, and he can watch those oncoming arrow rain with his own eyes, and the survival instinct will make them give up fighting and dodge and block.

On the other hand, Lu Jun became more and more courageous, Zhang Liao was hit by three arrows in his arms, back and thighs, and Yan Liangwen was also pierced with two arrows on his body, but they were already determined to die, regardless of the rush.

Finally, when the Lu army was dead and there were more than 80 horsemen left, there were several openings in the iron bucket-like encirclement of the Cao army.

"Brothers, rush out with me!" Zhang Liao's tasseled helmet was shot over, and the whole person was distributed, and the blood on his body dripped down the armor.

But all this, he seemed to forget the pain, and rushed towards the mouth that represented the hope of living.

"Don't let them go!" Xiahoudun had just finished shouting, and the war horse was hit by an arrow, and the whole person rolled down.

If the boss is like this, what can you expect others to do to do something earth-shattering, in the face of a salvo of more than 2,000 people, no one can be indifferent.

Xu Chu was also very angry and wanted to chase, but because the Lu army had lost too many casualties, this allowed the cavalry on the other side of the river to shoot more accurately, and even Xu Chu himself needed to constantly block in order to shoot down the pouring arrow rain.

Rushed out.

Zhang Liao took Yan Liangwen and Chou, and rushed out head-on in the encirclement and desperate situation of more than 3,000 Cao troops.

Xu Huang hurriedly shouted: "Don't run away Zhang Liao, follow me to catch up!" ”

He went in pursuit with a few hundred cavalry, and Xu Chu and Zhang He also followed.

Xiahoudun was annoyed, and directly got on a war horse that he didn't know which side it was, and also followed.

Are there many Lu Jun who ran away?

Not much, only twenty or thirty horsemen, they originally had seven or eight hundred horsemen, so it was a big victory at the crushing level.

But Xiahoudun knew that Guo Jia's seamless plan was to ambush Zhang Liao, and if he let him go, it would be a victory.

What's more, a lot of my own people have died.

If you really want to compare, Xiahoudun has no doubt that Cao Jun may have died more, and in the indiscriminate shooting, it is obvious that the denser Cao Jun has suffered more.

"Whoever kills Zhang Liao, a reward of 10,000 gold, and a school captain!" Xiahoudun yelled angrily, he must kill this guy!

There is one more chapter, before the evening.

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