Just as Lü Bu expected, on the same day, at the same time as he attacked Yidu, the Second Army led by Gao Shun and Zhang Liao also launched an attack on Xiangyang City.

Similar to the defenders of Yidu, the defenders of Xiangyang City did not expect that the danger would come from the west, from the Blood Banner Army, which had always been looked down upon by everyone in Jingzhou.

Where is there any real response in a hurry, it can only be seen as a move. Even the situation was even more uncomfortable than Lu Bu's attack. Because the guard of Xiangyang City had his throat cut at home the night before. It wasn't even until the Blood Banner soldiers approached the city that the soldiers of the defenders found his body.

The furious Liu Biao naturally directly attributed the death of the guard to the Blood Banner Army, and he didn't know how many swear words he scolded under his anger.

Urgently send additional generals to the city wall to garrison, and spread out to wait for the enemy to be reconnoitred. Then the answer was that the total strength of the Blood Banner Army was only 30,000. Among them, the cavalry was less than a thousand.

How bold would it be to dare to attack Xiangyang, the seat of Jingzhou, with only 30,000 people?!

The angry Liu Biao ignored the prudent methods of his advisers, insisted on transferring the 2,000 elite cavalry in the military town in the north outside the city, and closed the 8,000 foot soldiers drawn from the city to go out of the city to meet the battle. He wants to teach these "despicable" Blood Banner Army a bloody lesson.

Twenty miles outside the city, Gao Shun led his army to meet the battle, with the main force of the 5,000 Blood Banner Army and 10,000 militiamen. Among them is the trapping camp that Gao Shun has been leading for more than ten years.

The trap camp today is very different from what it was ten years ago. It was the elite of Lu Bu back then, famous all over the world, and then it was cultivated as a core combat force after being attached to Liu Xie. After several screenings in seven years, a thousand people were left, each of whom was a strong man with one as a hundred, and in other places it was a force that could be used as a general.

And the weapons in the hands of these trapped sergeants have changed. From the very beginning of the small shield long knife to the current long handle Mo knife. This weapon is the only one in the entire Blood Banner Army that they are qualified to equip. And the Mo knife came from Lord Yama's suggestion, and it was terrifying, and Liu Xie gritted his teeth to make up a thousand.

Arranged in a military formation, diamond-shaped. All infantry.

Infantry against cavalry, this seems to be a pebble to the stone to ask for trouble. However, Gao Shun believed in these soldiers in his hands, and firmly believed that after this battle, the name of the fallen camp would once again resound throughout the world! Therefore, he was stubborn and rejected Zhang Liao's suggestion that he should bring cavalry to help.

The trapping camp acts as the tip, and the rest of the army is entrenched. Zhang Xu spears were like a forest, and their expressions were calmly waiting for the first wave of the cavalry of Xiangyang City.

"Kill, tear them apart!" the cavalry galloped with a roaring shout of killing, and the momentum was like a rainbow.

In the face of the Xiangyang City army, the formation of the Blood Banner Army was silent. The killing intent in their eyes also showed the desire in their hearts.

The waves crash on the shore! The idea of the cavalry was naturally to crush the military formation in front of them with the highest impact force. As long as the general's array is scattered, the rest will naturally be easy killing.

But the result was completely unexpected by the cavalry of Xiangyang City. Not only were they unable to break through the two large shields in front of them, but they were greeted by the terrifying blades of White Flowers.

Mo knife, the strongest single weapon of the Tang Dynasty in the original world, each Mo knife is two meters long, and the blade part is half a meter. The blade is two palms wide and two fingers thick, the handle is iron and wood, and the tail of the handle is equipped with a matching iron ornament. The total weight is more than 60 catties. Every time you swing the knife, you follow the beat of the war drum, slashing diagonally from the top of the right to the bottom of the left diagonally, and so on.

This kind of individual heavy weapon, not a strong man can't dance at all, even if he can dance two or three times, he can't last. But these monsters trapped in the camp didn't feel that there was anything wrong with the weight of sixty catties, and even felt that it was extremely comfortable. Each swing brought up a large area of rain and blood.

This is the case with the diamond-shaped assault formation, because there is no straight contact surface for the cavalry to use as an impact target, which will inevitably have the effect of piercing into the enemy's formation. As long as the big shield soldier at the top can resist, what remains is the terrifying sword of the trapped camp sergeant holding the Mo knife on both wings at the tip of the diamond.

The first cavalry charge left behind more than 300 corpses of men and horses. When the charge passed, the cavalry who was about to turn the horse's head again to speed up and kill again had just lowered their speed, but the diamond-shaped formation changed its formation, lined up, with the front trapping camp and the pikemen behind, the formation was compact, like a thorn wall, and slowly rushed towards the Xiangyang City cavalry who were just about to speed up.

The infantry took the initiative to attack the cavalry? This is not unusual, but it has never been seen before.

But when he lost his speed advantage, he didn't arouse vigilance at all, and he was still immersed in the cavalry of Xiangyang City, which was about to crush the enemy, and faced the Blood Banner Army advancing like a wall, the result was enough to subvert all the views of these soldiers on "infantry" at this stage.

"Advancing like a wall, one step at a time, everyone and horses are broken!"

This is the scene of all the trapped camp sergeants armed with Mo knives being instilled with the blood-burning Mo knives to kill the enemy when they receive the first training. And now they can finally try it for themselves.

Not only the thousand traps, but the rest of the pikemen and sword and shield bearers also had cold faces, their eyes staring at the enemy's neck. Once pierced by pikemen, a frenzied sword and shield hand pounces and slashes.

The whole process lasted for half an hour before the infantry array of Xiangyang City followed. It was a relief from the cavalry. At this time, they withdrew, and there were only more than 900 cavalry left behind their own infantry array. More than 1,100 cavalry men and horses remained in front of the death-like army formation.

Then, the two armies faced each other again. This time, the remaining cavalry in Xiangyang City learned to be obedient, no longer rushing, but flanking guerrillas, and the main battle side was handed over to the phalanx of 5,000 infantry.

Compared with the cavalry, the infantry was even more unbearable in the face of the Blood Banner Army, the moment of contact, it began to fall on one side, facing the assault ability of the strong camp and the strong fighting power of the rest of the Blood Banner Army, the army was defeated, and the two generals who led the army were cut off their heads by several sword and shield men before they even had time to give the order to retreat.

"Quick! Hurry up to Liu Bei in Xinye, and ask for help from Jiangling! Quick!" Liu Biao, who had been watching the entire field battle on the city wall, turned pale, and eagerly shouted at his subordinates.

The 5,000 Blood Banner Army and 10,000 militiamen almost wiped out the defenders of Xiangyang City who ran out of the city to provoke. But there were also many casualties. More than 1,000 militia members were killed, more than 300 Blood Banner troops were killed, and 30 of them were killed by the sergeants who were trapped in the camp.

Gao Shuntie blushed and led the defeated soldiers to retreat to the back to repair. Then came Zhang Liao's performance moment. Siege of the city, with him as the master.

"Beat the drums!" the militia pressed, and the Blood Banner Army followed. Put the Yama Divine Thunder on Lao Tzu, and today I want Liu to explain what it means to be "mighty as a prison"!"

To be honest, it was similar to Lu Bu's siege scene in Yidu. The only difference is that the guard strength in Xiangyang City is several times that of Yidu City. Even if a large area of the city wall was blown up by the Yama Divine Thunder, it was necessary to grind if it was necessary to completely break the will of the defenders to resist. And what can be ground out can only be the blood of both sides.

Zhang Liao knew very well that the key to this battle was not to be lost at all. Liu Biao can be let go, so there is a lack of one of the three sieges, but Xiangyang City must be taken within three days. If he can't take it down, his Zhang Liao's head will fall under military law.

(End of chapter)