The infantry phalanx, which had not been fully deployed, lost its protective power after a breach was made.
The Xuzhou Army soldiers within the formation were hacked to death, knocked to death, and trampled to death in panic.
At this time, the Xuzhou Army's left and right wings detached a portion of infantry to move closer to the Northern Army's First and Second Tunnels.
These two camps did not entangle with them, and directly approached the Xuzhou Army's cavalry on the left and right wings to kill them.
The Xuzhou Army's cavalry on both wings could not Don't fight.
Seeing that they had no opponents, the two groups of Xuzhou Army infantry immediately moved towards the central army's position, trying to cover Liu Cheng's retreat from behind and trap them in the formation.
Upon seeing this, the third commander immediately said to the fourth commander: "Look, my lord has led his army into the Xuzhou Army's formation.
It would be bad if these infantrymen block the way back."
The fourth commander immediately said: "I will lead the team to defeat these infantry, you stay here and adapt to changes."
"Okay, be careful" "Brothers, fight with me, overwhelm the Xuzhou troops in front, and join the Lord."
The commander of the fourth camp shouted with a sword in his hand, clapped his horse and rushed forward.
"kill" Although these infantry blocking the gap had blocked Liu Cheng's cavalry in the military formation and were prepared for possible attacks from behind, when the attack from behind actually came, the Xuzhou Army still failed to withstand it.
With just one charge, the Xuzhou Army infantry blocking the gap were defeated, and their dispersion led to the expansion of the gap in the military formation.
As the soul commander of the military formation, Zang Ba naturally could not escape Liu Cheng's eyes.
When he killed two people in the Xuzhou Army formation, he finally found the general in charge.
"Kill" Liu Cheng roared, slashed several Xuzhou soldiers blocking the way with several consecutive moves, and rushed towards Zang Ba, who had no protection in front.
Zang Ba knew in his heart that it was time to see Zhenzhang.
He laughed evilly, held an iron spear in his hand, clapped his horse to meet Liu Cheng, and stabbed him with the spear.
Liu Cheng stabbed the Pojun boring machine in his hand.
With a clang, Zang Ba's iron spear penetrated into the dragon's tooth blade on the side of the Pojun boring head and got stuck.
Liu Cheng exerted his arm force and pushed down suddenly.
The tip of Ba's iron spear was instantly pressed to the ground, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pull it out.
Liu Cheng stared at Zang Ba coldly.
He exerted force on his arm again and waved upward.
The iron spear flew away from Zang Ba's hand.
Zang Ba was frightened.
When he looked up, the iron spear had already flown to nowhere and disappeared.
Iron spear, but saw Liu Cheng's broken army boring head split open.
Zang Ba was frightened and immediately drew his sword to block.
With a "dang" sound, a huge force hit him.
Zang Ba felt his arms go numb and instinctively fell to one side.
With a "clang", Zang Ba's helmet was knocked to the ground.
He rolled to the ground on the spot, rolled continuously to avoid Liu Cheng's follow-up attacks, and when he got up again, he immediately pulled down a cavalryman next to him, got on his horse and ran towards the rear. , but the war horse he just rode was not spared.
It was hit in the head by Liu Cheng's boring machine, and the horse's head was split into two.
Zang Ba had disheveled hair at this time.
While galloping on his horse, he turned his head back to see if Liu Cheng was catching up.
He felt a pain in his shoulder at this time.
When he looked again, he found that his shoulder had been cut off in the fatal blow just now.
There was a large piece of meat, and blood was flowing wildly at this time.
Cold sweat was pouring on his forehead.
He was glad that if he hadn't instinctively fallen to the side and rolled off the horse just now, he would have been split in half by now.
With Zang Ba's defeat, the Xuzhou Army had lost its leader.
Tao Qian, the governor, did not understand military matters.
When he saw Zang Ba running away, he could only run away.
The rest of the Xuzhou Army collapsed at this moment.
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Liu Cheng took the opportunity to command his army.
Covering up the killing, they pursued for more than 20 miles and killed thousands of people.
Xuzhou soldiers and generals scrambled for their lives, trampling each other and killing countless people.
They also seized thousands of stones of grain and grass and five carts of money.
After the battle, Liu Cheng led his men back to the battle scene and ordered the battlefield to be cleaned, losses and seizures to be counted, but no prisoners were captured, and all the Xuzhou troops who caught up were killed.
By evening, the battlefield had been cleaned, the bodies were buried, and the battle damage and seizures had been counted.
Xu Jing walked in and took a look at Liu Cheng who was wiping his weapons.
He bowed and said, "General, the battle damage and seizures have been counted.
One hundred and eighty-six of our troops were killed and two hundred and twenty were injured; Seized 20,000 shi of grain and grass, 22 carts of military supplies, 2,000 gold, and 3 million yuan of money.”
Liu Cheng smiled and said: "Oh, this Xuzhou is indeed a rich place.
Tao Qian brought so much money and food with him on one expedition.
It seems that he is very rich."
Twenty thousand shi of food is indeed a lot.
This is enough food for 20,000 soldiers and horses for four months.
In the Han Dynasty, thirty kilograms was equivalent to one jun, and four jins were equivalent to one stone.
The Han jin was about 250 grams, which was equivalent to half a kilo in later generations.
In other words, one stone of grain in the Han Dynasty was equivalent to about 60 kilograms or 20,000 shi in later generations.
That is 1.2 million catties.
A soldier needs to eat one catty twice a day, and 20,000 people can eat it for four months.
Xu Jing cupped his hands and said: "General, there is too much food seized.
We cannot take away that much without affecting the marching speed.
We can only take away half at most."
Liu Cheng waved his hand and said: "Since we can't take it away and it would be a pity to burn it, then we should leave it to the people nearby.
Send people to tell the people around you to come and get the food.
Each household can only take one package."
Xu Jing looked at Liu Cheng with surprised eyes and agreed: "Promise" At this time, a guard came in and clasped his fists to report: "To inform my lord, the scout camp captured a Xuzhou Army general, who was the one who fought against my lord before."
"Oh" Liu Cheng was quite surprised and immediately ordered: "Let them bring people in quickly" "promise" Liu Cheng was deeply impressed by Zang Ba.
This man was able to organize his troops into a long snake formation to defend against the enemy in such a short period of time.
His command was measured and extremely calm.
He was a rare general.
Although this man was His martial arts skills are not very strong, but they are still above average, only slightly worse than Wang Shuang, which is very rare.
The injured Zang Ba was quickly escorted in.
Liu Cheng noticed that the person escorting Zang Ba in was actually Xu Huang.
Xu Huang had been captured by him in Linli before and assigned him to serve as a scout in the scout team.
Unexpectedly, he unexpectedly took him this time.
The general of the Xuzhou Army was captured.
Liu Cheng pointed at Zang Ba and asked, "Xu Huang, you caught this man."
Xu Huang held up the big ax and clasped his fists and said, "The villain caught it together with the brothers from the scout team."
The scout team is just a team with only fifty people, but all of them are the best of the best.
The captain's official position is captain, which is only one level lower than a school captain.
It can be seen that the scout team is an important part of this army. .
Liu Cheng nodded and asked: "Where is your captain?"
Xu Huang said in a deep voice: "During the pursuit of Tao Qian, the captain was shot dead by Tao Qian's guards.
His whole body was shot like a hedgehog.
The body has been brought back and is outside the tent."
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"Bring it in" Four soldiers carried the scout captain who was covered with arrows.
Liu Cheng stood up, walked over, knelt down and looked at it for a few times.
He stood up and sighed: "I sent an order to bury him richly, and reward his family with one hundred gold, one hundred thousand gold, and one hundred pieces of cloth."
Let his heirs study in Taixue or promote filial piety and integrity as officials."
"promise" Liu Cheng looked at Xu Huang again and said: "Xu Huang, you have performed well during this period.
I have appointed you as the acting captain of the scout team and promoted to deputy captain.
Come on down."
Xu Huang cupped his fists and said, "Thank you, General, and I will leave."
Liu Cheng sat down slowly and looked at Zang Ba.
Seeing that he was holding gauze on his shoulders, he asked, "Tell me, what is your name, and what position do you hold under Tao Qian's account?"
Zang Ba had his arms tied and looked at Liu Chengdao: "I am the captain of Tao Governor's tent.
My surname is Zang Mingba and my courtesy name is Xuangao.
You are the one who wears the devil's mask on the battlefield."
"Zang Ba" Liu Cheng was stunned and suddenly said in his heart, it turns out it's this guy.
I said how could Tao Qian have such great ability?
It turns out it's Zang Ba who is commanding.
No wonder.
Liu Cheng nodded and said: "My name is General Liu Cheng.
I was recognized by the emperor and was granted the title of Marquis of Anyi and General Right.
The person wearing the devil's mask is my general.
Zang Ba, you are a thief and rebelled against the imperial court.
Do you know whether you are guilty?"
"General Liu Liuyou" Zang Ba's expression changed.
He didn't expect to meet Liu Cheng here.
Although Liu Chengcai had only been an official in the court for a few months, his reputation had already spread throughout the world.
This was also in The only person in the court who could compete with Dong Zhuo.
Zang Ba swallowed his saliva.
He didn't want to die and be accused of being a traitor, so he immediately said: "General, when I joined the army with Governor Tao, it was not to rebel against the imperial court, but to attack Dong Zhuo."
Liu Cheng waved his hand: "I know what you want to say, general.
It was Cao Cao who sent the article to challenge Dong Zhuo.
He failed to assassinate Dong Zhuo and fled back to his hometown to recruit troops and start an uprising.
Who gave him the right to do this?
It was he who wanted to do it.
Yes, the emperor did not issue an order for him to raise troops to attack Dong.
Without the emperor's order, he recruited troops and horses to unite various princes to attack the prime minister.
This is rebellion."
"This" Zang Ba opened his mouth wide and said immediately: "But we heard that Cao Cao has a secret decree issued by the emperor."
Liu Cheng slapped the desk and said angrily: "I am by the emperor's side every day.
Why don't I know that your majesty has a secret decree for Cao Cao?
Cao Cao was just a small councilman before.
Why did the emperor give him the secret decree?"
Are those royal family princes and feudal officials insignificant in the eyes of the emperor?"
"Dong Zhuo is indeed bringing trouble to the court and deceiving the emperor.
What's wrong with the princes of the world raising armies to attack him?"
Liu Cheng asked back: "Who told you what others said is the truth?
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Do you believe what others say?
You have no brains.
Even if Dong Zhuo is such a person, the princes of the world are committing the following crime by launching an army to attack without authorization.
The emperor has not spoken.
The princes of the world have not spoken.
What is the name of crusading against Dong Zhuo without righteousness?
It is rebellion."
Now Zang Ba was speechless.
Liu Cheng looked at Zang Ba and asked, "Do you want to die or live?"
Zang Ba smiled bitterly and said, "General, this question is a bit redundant.
If you can live, who would want to die unless that person is already impatient with life?"
"Okay, I will give you a chance to make atonement by making meritorious service, and stay with me.
If you make meritorious service, I will suggest to the court that you be exempted from your crime.
If you still want to be a traitor, I will not spare you." you" Zang Ba thought for a while, then bowed and said: "Zang Ba is willing to be loyal to the general":