Early the next morning, Qi Tian led 40,000 Bingzhou troops and 20,000 Xiliang troops as the vanguard, to ten miles outside the city, camped on the road, and held the road to the capital. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Gao Shun and his subordinates' eight hundred traps did not go out with the army, and stayed in Qi Tianfu to guard Ruyu.

After setting up the camp, Qi Tian instructed Song Xian and Wei Xu to guard the camp respectively, and he took the three generals Yugong Xing, Hou Cheng and Xu Rong to lead 5,000 wolf horsemen and 10,000 Xiliang warriors out of the camp to challenge Yuan Ding and others. Xu Rong is not Qi Tian's subordinate, but Dong Meng's general, who is deeply respected by Dong Meng, and Dong Meng sent Xu Rong this time, not only to help Qi Tian, but also to imply the intention of monitoring Qi Tian.

Dong Meng's arrangement, Qi Tian is also well aware. Coming to two miles away from the camp of the princes' coalition army, Qi Tian ordered to set up a formation and sent a sergeant to call Yuan Ding for a battle.

Stretching out his hand to stop the sergeant who was about to call the battle, Xu Rong came to Qi Tian's side and said to Qi Tian: "General Wu Yong, has broken the hearts of all the princes, if the general goes to call the battle, I am afraid that Yuan Ding and the others will be shrunken turtles." Why don't you let a certain and the princes of all walks of life fight in formation?"

Qi Tian groaned slightly, and felt that Xu Rong's words were also reasonable, so he agreed, and led five thousand wolf riders to retreat a little, ready to charge at any time.

In the camp of the princes' coalition army, Yuan Ding, who got the news, laughed and said: "Dong thief is really unavailable, and he actually sent an unknown junior to be the main general, this Xu Rong, who is it?"

The other princes shook their heads one after another, saying that they had never heard of Xu Rong's name. Although Xu Rong is a well-known handsome talent in Xiliang, and his method of arranging troops and arranging formations is even more first-class in the world, Xu Rong is low-key, and Dong Meng's subordinates like Li Dao, Guo Yan and Hua Xiong, who was killed by Guan Wei, are all fierce generals with superior force, which leads to Xu Rong's fame is not very loud, and the princes from all over the Central Plains know very little about Xu Rong.

Seeing that everyone had never heard of Xu Rong's name, Yuan Ding arbitrarily thought that Xu Rong was just an unknown young general, and even thought that Xu Rong would be vulnerable under his own hands. Standing up, Yuan Ding said in high spirits: "Princes, in this first formation, the leader of this alliance will personally go out to meet this Xu Rong and win the jackpot for our coalition army." Since forcing Yuan Qi and the others away, Yuan Ding proposed to re-elect an alliance leader to preside over the overall situation, and in the end, the position of this alliance leader naturally fell on Yuan Ding's head.

Regarding Yuan Ding's proposal to fight in person, although the other princes were angry that Yuan Ding picked up soft persimmons and pinched them, after all, Yuan Ding was the new leader of the alliance, and everyone had to give Yuan Ding some face, so no one objected.

Accompanied by the princes of the Thirteenth Road, Yuan Ding wore gold armor, lit up the men and horses of his headquarters, and ordered the sergeants to beat the war drums loudly. When the three-way war drums sounded, Yuan Ding rode his horse to the front of the formation, put up a pergola with his hands, and shouted loudly to the Xiliang army formation: "Who is coming?"

Xu Rong replied coldly: "Xiliang Xu Rong." ”

Pursing the corners of his mouth, Yuan Ding's heart completely relaxed, and said teasingly: "The pearl of rice grains also shines? Don't you hear that our coalition army has broken through all the way, and the momentum is like a bamboo? Why don't you descend early?"

Xu Rong's cold face moved, as if he was smiling, but perhaps because he hadn't laughed for a long time, his smile was very stiff. Xu Rong's voice without the slightest emotion sounded in the array: "Dare to ask where did the words of breaking through the level come from?"

Yuan Ding snorted coldly, and said unashamedly: "You unknown young general, how can you know about the major military affairs?

Xu Rong said coldly: "Yuan Ding, you have such a thick dough. It was Guan Wei who killed Huaxiong, it was Yuan Qi who defeated General Qi, and it was Jia Yuan who used a plan to conquer the Tiger Prison, so does it have anything to do with you? But it's you Yuan Ding, who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and who is stuck in the Tiger Prison Pass, and has lost a great fighter plane in vain, and what face do you have to say in front of a certain person!"

Xu Rong's words, Yuan Ding's chest was about to explode, the horse whip in his hand pointed forward, turned back to the generals under his command and asked, "Who dares to lead the troops to charge into battle and capture this person?"

Yuan Ding turned out of his back and said loudly: "The lord humiliates the ministers to death!" Ju Yi is willing to lead the troops to charge into battle and capture Xu Rong. Yuan Ding saw that it was Ju Yi who came out of the battle, and his heart was settled. This Ju Yi, is Yuan Ding in the old land of Hebei recruited generals, although the martial arts are nothing particularly commendable, but leading the troops to fight, that is quite a hand, in just two months, to help Yuan Ding train three thousand elite foot soldiers, all brave and good at fighting, not afraid of death, Yuan Ding personally named this infantry army as the first to enter the camp, which means that this army must be the first to go in every battle, and win the first merit for the army.

Ju Yi took 3,000 soldiers who had died in the camp and 5,000 ordinary infantry troops, and walked out of the camp in a queue. Ju Yi raised his long sword and shouted: "Go first!" The dead soldiers behind him responded in unison: "Every battle must be the first!"

Ju Yi nodded with satisfaction, and shouted again: "Array!" The 8,000 infantry army that followed Ju Yi to fight immediately turned around, ten people in a group, ten groups formed a small formation in the shape of fish scales, ten small formations formed a large formation, in the four directions of Ju Yi's front and back, left and right, each listed two large formations, and surrounded Ju Yi in the middle.

Xu Rong saw Ju Yi's change of formation, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he whispered to himself: "Fish scale array?" As soon as the words fell, Xu Rong quickly raised the order flag in his hand, kept waving the flag, and conveyed the order of the change of formation according to the concept in his heart.

After receiving Xu Rong's banner, the 10,000 Xiliang warriors behind Xu Rong quickly adjusted their positions, adopted the form of multi-way columns, and formed five columns in front of Xu Rong. The columns were separated by a distance of five feet, and from a distance, they looked like five arrows composed of a crowd, pointing directly at the center of Juyi's fish scale array.

Ju Yi, who had been carefully watching Xu Rong's formation, said in surprise: "What kind of formation is this? Five long snake formations side by side? But what is the use of this arrangement?"

Without leaving much time for Ju Yi to think, the five columns of the Xiliang Army, under Xu Rong's orders, took neat steps and began to attack Ju Yi's fish scale array. When he was about to come into contact with the Juyi army formation, the Xiliang army in the front row suddenly sped up his pace, protected the round shield in his hand in front of him, and rushed towards the other party.

Ju Yi didn't expect the Xiliang Army to be so fearless of death, once the Xiliang Army in the front row rushed into his own formation, it would inevitably cause chaos in the formation, the two armies would fight, and the end of the unstable formation would be death in many cases. Although surprised, Ju Yi's face did not show any fear at all, and the long sword in his hand slashed out to the left and right, and shouted loudly: "Turn!"

Under Ju Yi's shout, the eight thousand foot soldiers quickly turned, like a huge grinding disc, and began to strangle the Xiliang army that rushed over in a clockwise direction.

Puff, puff, before the fish scale array really rotated, the sword and shield hands in the front row of the Xiliang Army had already rushed into the fish scale array, and with the solidity of the shield, the soldiers in the two phalanxes in the front row of the fish scale array were knocked into the head and bleeding.

Under the force of the collision, Sergeant Xiliang also fell, but because they were the main attackers, they had already prepared in their hearts, plus they had a shield to protect themselves, so most of them did not suffer any damage.

Seeing this, Ju Yi roared angrily: "Spearmen step forward, pick up their shields!" As soon as Ju Yi's order was issued, the formation of the Xiliang army suddenly changed. The Xiliang Army, which was originally a five-column column, quickly transformed into three columns and two columns under Xu Rong's banner order, forming a cross formation, and slammed into the fish scale array that was in a rotating state, as if it was a cross pickaxe, and suddenly stuffed into the rotating wheels, so that the rotating fish scale array was in danger of collapsing in an instant.

It wasn't until this moment that Ju Yi understood that what Xu Rong posed was not a five-vertical snake formation at all, but a criss-crossing yoke array. The characteristic of the yoke formation is that the vanguard army erects a shield wall as the beginning, so that the sergeants who follow behind can calmly cut off the connection between the opponent's battle formations. It's really a wrong step, a wrong step, Ju Yi thought regretfully. But since it has become like this, remorse will not help, Ju Yi can single-handedly bring out such a dead soldier as Xiandeng Ying, it can be seen that he still has two brushes under his hands, seeing that the crisis has been decided, Ju Yi simply gave up the fish scale array, pointed forward with a long sword, and shouted loudly: "Rearrange the front arrow formation, the target, the enemy army!"

In the unfavorable situation, Ju Yi put the first camp at the front of the array, trying to use the first camp as an arrow to forcibly break through the yoke array laid by Xu Rong and kill directly in front of Xu Rong's eyes. Although Xu Rong couldn't hear what Ju Yi was saying because he was far away from Ju Yi and because of the noisy fighting on the battlefield, he had already judged Ju Yi's thoughts from the movement of Ju Yi's sword and the movement of Ju Yi's subordinate sergeants. Xu Rong held the command flag high and slowly drew an arc in the air.

The flag moved, and the formation of the Xiliang Army changed again. From the three vertical and two columns of the yoke array, it quickly turned into a wheel array, and the Xiliang sergeants gathered together to form a large circle that was connected from end to end, and crushed towards the enemy army that had not yet been fully formed.