After Fang Yue was beheaded, Lu Bu laughed and said, "How dare such a loser come out to show his embarrassment.
Let me kill you brothers."
"Kill!"
Three thousand cavalry rushed towards the Hanoi army under the leadership of Lu Bu.
The Hanoi army was in great disarray because Fang Yue was beheaded.
It could not withstand Lu Bu's tiger and wolf army.
It collapsed at the first touch.
The soldiers scrambled to escape.
Fortunately, several other princes came to rescue them quickly, and Han Hao was allowed to lead the Hanoi army.
Having stabilized our position.
Several troops and horses lined up on the high hill.
Mu Shun, a general under Zhang Yang, the Shangdang governor, urged his horse forward to fight Lü Bu with his spear.
Lü Bu stabbed his horse under the horse with a halberd.
All the princes were shocked.
There was also Wu Anguo, a general under Kong Rong's tent, the prefect of Beihai.
This man used a meteor hammer to fly out to fight against Lu Bu.
The two fought until they were ten together.
Wu Anguo's wrist was cut off by Lu Bu's halberd.
He was so painful that he threw away the iron under his tent.
He slapped his horse and ran away, but Lu Bu pursued him relentlessly.
Only when all the princes' troops came out did they rescue Wu Anguo.
Gongsun Zan was angry that Lu Bu could not show off his power, so he raised his horse and fought against Lu Bu personally.
Within ten rounds of the battle, Gongsun Zan retreated in defeat and was almost overtaken by Lu Bu.
Fortunately, Zhang Fei, under Liu Bei's tent, came to rescue him.
Zhang Fei and Na Lu Bu fought for fifty rounds with no outcome, but there was a hint of defeat.
Guan Yu immediately mounted his horse and came up to fight with Zhang Fei in a fierce battle with Lu Bu.
The two teamed up to fight Lu Bu for thirty rounds but could not defeat Lu Bu.
Liu Bei Seeing this, he personally urged his horse to rush over with two swords in hand, and the three brothers besieged Lu Bu together.
The battle was extremely fierce, with flying sand and rocks, and all the princes were dizzy to see it.
When the battle was in full swing, they saw Lu Bu feinting a spear and stabbing Liu Bei.
Liu Bei hurriedly dodged.
Lu Bu waved his halberd, opened and closed the two weapons, and immediately urged his horse to stand out from the three.
They dragged the painted halberd and rushed towards Hulao Pass.
Liu Guanzhang was not willing to give up, so he immediately rode in pursuit.
Chasing all the way to the Hulao Pass, they saw arrows and stones falling like raindrops on the pass.
Liu, Guan, and Zhang kept waving their weapons to knock away the arrows and rocks, and then beat their horses back.
"Dong Zhuo, ordinary man, come out and die soon, your grandfather Zhang is here to take your life."
The next day, Zhang Fei came to the pass to fight with his horse.
Seeing this, Dong Zhuo was so angry that his beard and hair stood on end, and he shouted: "Here comes, prepare your horses, and all the generals will follow me to meet the enemy."
Li Ru hurriedly dissuaded him and said: "Prime Minister, wait a minute.
Marquis Wen suffered a new defeat yesterday and his troops have no fighting spirit.
Why don't we order people to hang up the no-war sign and rest for a few days before fighting again?
The terrain of Hulao Pass is dangerous, tall and strong, and it is short."
It will be difficult for the princes to break through within this time, and nothing major will happen.
Didn’t the Prime Minister send someone to ask Liu Cheng to send troops to attack the flanks of the princes’ coalition?
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Let’s see how the battle between Liu Cheng and the princes of Guandong is going before we make plans.”
Dong Zhuo said: "That's fine.
Come, hang up the war-free sign on the tower."
Hanging the battle-free card is still useful.
It means that I will not go out of the city to play with you today.
If you don't have the ability to attack the city, just go back and forth wherever you go.
Don't waste time and energy outside the city.
If you have the ability to attack the city, then Come on, I'll take over.
If the attacker does not have an absolute strength advantage and does not have sophisticated siege equipment, it will generally not forcefully attack the city.
It cannot afford such casualties.
The city wall was several feet high.
Not to mention climbing up to fight with troops, even climbing on the ladder was frightening.
Even a roar from the people on the top of the city might frighten the enemies on the ladder and cause them to fall down.
The princes saw the no-war sign hung on the city tower and could not attack the city for the time being.
They just retreated twenty miles and camped in the stronghold.
While ordering the soldiers to rest, they ordered people to continue building siege equipment.
However, it is said that Liu Cheng set out from Xingyang City with 20,000 cavalry and approached the army of Tao Qian, Zhang Chao, Yuan Yi and Qiao Mao.
After receiving the news, Tao Qian and others felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy and immediately organized their troops to prepare for war.
The two sides arrived in Aocang.
They met head-on twenty miles to the west, and each formed a formation to confront each other.
The weather was getting hotter and the military formations of both sides had been facing each other for a long time.
There were beads of sweat on the foreheads of the sergeants.
Chen Dao cupped his fists at Liu Cheng and said, "Lord, my subordinates invite you to fight."
Liu Cheng raised his head and looked at the sun, waved his hand and said: "No hurry, the time has not come yet."
Zhao Yun seemed to feel something and asked: "Brother wants to delay the time until the sun shines brightly and the weather becomes hotter.
Our army is well-trained, while the coalition army is mostly new recruits who have not been drilled and will certainly not be able to withstand long-term exposure to the sun.
Then When the morale of the coalition forces is low and dispirited, our army can win in one battle."
Liu Cheng smiled and said: "It seems that Zilong has made a lot of progress during this period.
Yes, that's what I planned.
But the coalition forces are not all stupid people, and they are not all people who don't understand military affairs at all.
They must be Someone will see my intentions, let’s wait and see what happens.”
"promise" Sure enough, it didn't take long for the newly recruited soldiers of the coalition forces to be exposed to the sun for a long time.
They soon became impatient.
Many of them couldn't stand the heat and became irritable.
Even the veterans couldn't bear it and sweated non-stop.
Drip down.
Chen Deng, who was working under Tao Qian, saw Liu Cheng's intentions at this time and hurriedly said to Tao Qian: "My lord, Liu Cheng's troops are elite, and our army is mostly new soldiers.
They cannot withstand the sun.
If this continues, Sooner or later, morale will plummet.
Look at the soldiers around you, you must find a way to reverse this unfavorable situation."
He apologized for not understanding military matters, so he had to ask Chen Deng: "How does Yuanlong think we should respond?"
Chen Deng couldn't think of any good ideas for a while.
Although Liu Cheng had few soldiers, they were all well-trained and elite divisions.
They also had a large number of cavalry, which was suitable for field battles.
The surrounding area was open and flat, and the cavalry could come and go. , he was not optimistic about letting the coalition soldiers and horses fight Liu Cheng in the field, but it was impossible not to fight at this time, and he was already riding a tiger.
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Chen Deng thought for a while and suggested: "It is better to send a group of soldiers and horses first to test the combat power of Liu Cheng's army.
In addition, it can also refresh the soldiers."
Tao Qian nodded and said: "That makes sense.
Generals, who can go forward and fight Liu Cheng?"
"The last general is going to fight Liu Cheng."
They saw a general behind him galloping forward on his horse.
When Tao Qian and Chen Deng saw it, it was the school captain Sun Guan.
But they saw Sun Guan holding a big sword, slapping his horse and galloping to the front of the two armies, shouting: "I am Sun Guan, the general under Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou.
Why doesn't Liu Cheng come out and die quickly?"
Liu Cheng looked at Sun Guan and asked, "Zang Ba, do you know this Sun Guan?"
Zang Ba cupped his fists and said, "We know him.
He, Wu Dun, and Yin Li all came from the Yellow Turbans of Mount Tai.
At that time, I was the Cavalry Commander and was ordered to conquer them.
After defeating them, I surrendered them."
"How are these people's moral character and martial arts skills?"
"Back to my lord, the martial arts of these three people are just ordinary, they are capricious, and they are not loyal people."
"In this case, I will not let you face your colleagues.
Zilong, go fight Sun Guan and take his head."
"Accept the order."
Zhao Yun clasped his fists and agreed.
He galloped towards Sun Guan on horseback, holding a spear and shouting: "Zhao Zilong from Changshan is here to take your head!"
"Hahaha!
How dare a young boy say such arrogant words?
Killing you is as easy as killing a chicken."
Sun Guan yelled, clapped his horse and stepped forward to fight.
After three battles, Sun Guan was stabbed under his horse by Zhao Yun.
After a long spear fight, Sun Guan's head was cut off.
Zhao Yun stabbed the head with a spear and provoked him to shout to the coalition forces: "How dare such ordinary martial arts I don’t feel ashamed to call for formation in front of the two armies.
Who else wants to come and die?”
Xuzhou general Zhang Kai raised an iron spear, slapped his horse and rushed up, shouting: "Zhang Kai has come to fight you!"
Liu Cheng heard, isn't Zhang Kai the same Zhang Kai who killed Cao Cao when he escorted Cao Cao's father Cao Song back to his hometown, and killed people to seize the money.
When he was surprised, Zhang Kai was stabbed to death by Zhao Yun.
After being silent for so long, it finally began to show its prowess.
When the soldiers of the coalition army saw that Zhao Yun had killed two of his own generals in a row, they were so majestic that they were frightened.
No general in the coalition army dared to fight against Zhao Yun anymore.
Liu Cheng looked up at the sun and saw that the morale of the coalition forces was low again.
He realized that the time had come and immediately ordered: "Generals, if you don't attack now, wait until you follow me to kill."
"Killing" 20,000 soldiers and horses followed Liu Cheng and launched a full-line attack.
Tao Qian and others immediately organized troops and horses to resist the enemy.
However, at this time, the coalition soldiers had no morale and no fighting spirit.
They barely resisted for a while and then collapsed.
Tao Qian, Zhang Chao, Yuan Yi and Qiao Mao each brought their own troops.
The men and horses fled at full speed, but Liu Cheng's army caught up and killed them, trampling on each other and killing countless people.
After Tao Qian and others retreated thirty miles and went to the stronghold to count the number of soldiers and horses, they found that they had lost seven to eight thousand people.
They all felt like mourning, so they had to send people on flying horses to report to Yuan Shao and others at starry night.
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Yuan Shao and other princes were shocked when they heard the messenger's report.
Why did Liu Cheng suddenly attack?
Zhang Miao snorted coldly and said: "Humph, I thought Liu Cheng and Dong Zhuo were not from the same group, so we didn't pay much attention to him.
Unexpectedly, he actually took the initiative to attack our coalition forces.
It seems that this person is the same as Dong Zhuo."
Gongsun Zan said: "Now that Tao Qian and others have been defeated and their morale is completely gone, they are afraid that they will not be able to defeat Liu Cheng, and we are also in a situation of being attacked from both sides.
In my opinion, it is better to leave a force to contain Dong Zhuo, and then we The main force of the coalition forces will first deal with Liu Cheng and capture Xingyang, and then use all our strength to deal with Dong Zhuo, otherwise we will always be restrained and cannot use our strength in one place."
Kong Ni cupped his hands and said, "That's right.
Only by taking down Xingyang and dealing with Liu Cheng first will we no longer have any worries."
Yuan Shao asked Cao Cao: "Mengde, what do you think?"
Cao Cao sighed: "It seems that this is the only way."
So the coalition forces left Han Fu, Zhang Yang, and Han Hao to stay in the camp, keeping the size of the camp unchanged.
Dong Zhuo's army at Hulao Pass could not find out the clues, but Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Gongsun Zan, Zhang Miao, Kong Min, Kong Rong, Yuan Shu and other princes from Guandong led the main force of the coalition to attack Xingyang.
That night, Zhao Rui hurried to the prefect's mansion to see Liu Cheng and handed him a secret letter.
Liu Cheng was surprised.
He opened the secret letter and looked at it.
He frowned and said: "It seems that we hurt the coalition forces yesterday.
Yuan Shao and Cao Cao They decided to deal with us first and capture Xingyang, and then attack Dong Zhuo with all their strength to summon the generals and officials to discuss the matter."
The generals and officials arrived quickly.
As soon as Liu Cheng told the news, Xun Yu held his hands and said, "My lord, it is a bad idea to hold on to the city.
If the coalition forces surround the city and attack day and night, and Dong Zhuo does not send troops to rescue, Xingyang will be defeated." sooner or later If we are defeated by the coalition forces, we will become prisoners of the coalition forces sooner or later.
From the perspective of my subordinates, we should send another army to station outside the city to form a triangle with Xingyang City and Aocang.
If we can fight in the field, Never defend the city” Liu Cheng thought for a long time, wrote a secret letter and handed it to Zhao Rui.
He whispered a few instructions.
Zhao Rui nodded in agreement and left with the secret letter.
Liu Cheng looked at the generals and ordered again: "Wen Ruo, Wen He, Du Kai, Xu Shu and others will lead 10,000 troops to garrison Xingyang.
The others will follow me out of the city to fight the coalition forces":