There was already a military camp outside Xingyang City, so Liu Cheng did not need to build another camp.
He only needed to increase the defensive facilities of the camp before the coalition forces arrived, heighten and thicken the wall, add some archery towers and lookout posts, and dig a line outside the wall.
The trenches were three feet wide and one foot deep, and a large number of caltrops were sprinkled outside the village wall, and traps were arranged, leaving only a safe passage for entry and exit.
Although these defensive arrangements did not play a big role in the coalition's attack, they were no match for the victory.
Moreover, the main function of this camp was not to defend, but to compete with Xingyang City and Aocang.
In the triangular formation, if any one place is attacked, the other two places can be attacked in time.
The camp is located in the northwest of Xingyang City.
It is the only place that the coalition forces must pass when coming to Xingyang.
After a day of intense construction, more than 10,000 people finally built a strong and tall camp.
Of course, its defense power is not as good as that of the city. of.
On April 16, the allied forces of the Kwantung princes arrived.
Flags that covered the sky were fluttering, countless men and horses neighed, and smoke and dust rose straight into the sky.
The lookout post on the camp immediately rang a bell to warn them, and Liu Cheng immediately ordered the army to assemble and leave the camp.
Within a short time, 20,000 troops were assembled in the camp.
Liu Cheng left 5,000 troops to guard the camp and ordered Chen Dao to take command.
He and Zhao Yun led 10,000 troops out of the city camp, including 10,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry.
"Bao" rode a flying horse towards the coalition princes.
Yuan Shao and others reined in their horses and stopped, and saw the Tanma saluting Yuan Shao and others and reporting: "To the leader of the alliance, gentlemen, Liu Cheng's army built a camp on our way to Xingyang City.
It is strong and tall, and has an archery tower for observation.
The tower, as well as the defensive moat, are surrounded by traps, making it difficult to get close to them.
They also form a triangular formation with Aocang and Xingyang City, allowing each other to reinforce each other."
Yuan Shao and others frowned after hearing this.
Yuan Shao said to Cao Cao and others: "Although Liu Cheng holds a high position and serves as the right general, he is only a bodyguard after all.
How does he know how to arrange troops?"
According to the formation he deployed, if we want to attack any one of them, we must surround the other two with absolutely superior troops and horses, otherwise we will inevitably be attacked from behind."
Cao Cao said to everyone: "Benchu, gentlemen, if you still underestimate Liu Cheng because of his birth, then we will definitely suffer a big loss.
After the Baibo Army in Hedong rose, Dong Zhuo sent Niu Fu to lead an army of 30,000 people. went to quell the rebellion, but Niu Fu was quickly defeated by Guo Da, the bandit leader of the Baibo Army, and Liu Cheng led his army there After that, he defeated the bandit leaders Yang Feng, Han Xian, and Hu Cai one after another, and finally forced Guo Da to retreat to Shaanxi.
If you say that he doesn't understand military affairs, I absolutely don't believe it.
Even if he has wise and sophisticated counselors around him, he can't do it.
So perfect, after all, counselors are just counselors and cannot replace the role of generals in the army."
Gongsun Zan nodded and said: "Meng De's words are reasonable.
It seems that we really can't underestimate Liu Cheng, but what should we do now?"
Cao Cao smiled, turned to look at Liu Bei next to him and asked, "Xuande, what do you think?"
Liu Bei touched his horse's mane, pondered for a moment and said: "Although I don't want to let others downplay my own prestige, I have to admit that the combat effectiveness of our coalition army is not as good as Dong Zhuo's Xiliang Army and Liu Cheng's Northern Army.
We must use our strengths and avoid our weaknesses. , the advantage of our coalition lies in the strength of numbers, so why don’t we take advantage of this advantage?”
"Hahaha, yes, yes."
Cao Cao laughed and said to Yuan Shao: "At the beginning, we had nearly 200,000 troops here.
We sent 50,000 to surround Xingyang City, and then sent 30,000 to surround Ao Cang, the rest will be used to attack Liu Cheng's camp, I want to see how he will respond."
Yuan Shao asked the detective who reported the news: "How far is Liu Cheng's camp from here?"
The spy reported: "Twenty miles away from here, the enemy may have learned of the arrival of our army, and 15,000 people came out of the camp to meet them, under the banner of Liu."
"It seems that Liu Cheng personally led the army to attack us."
Yuan Shao also smiled and touched his beard, agreed with Cao Cao's suggestion and said: "Okay, then send 50,000 people to detour to surround Xingyang City, and send 30,000 to besiege Aocang Meng De, you lead the people to set up camp here, and the other princes will follow me to meet Liu Cheng.
What do you think?"
Cao Cao agreed: "Okay, leave the matter of setting up camp to me."
Everyone knows that it is impossible without camps.
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With so many armies fighting outside, there must be camps as a place to rest and avoid enemy attacks.
Liu Cheng's army and the coalition forces of the princes met an hour later.
Liu Cheng occupied a certain geographical advantage and the entire army lined up on a high ground to wait.
There were so many coalition troops that it was not easy to arrange them into a military formation in a short while.
Liu Cheng rode a red rabbit horse and observed on the high ground.
Taking advantage of the unstable footing of the coalition forces, they had not yet formed a military formation.
He immediately ordered: "Zilong, lead three thousand light cavalry to attack the leading troops of the coalition forces.
Remember, don't be trapped by the coalition forces."
"Yes," Zhao Yun agreed with clasped fists, and immediately waved to the three thousand light cavalry behind him: "Light cavalry, follow me."
I saw Zhao Yun leading three thousand light cavalry to charge into the high ground and charge towards the oncoming troops of Zhang Miao, the prefect of Chenliu.
As he galloped forward, he shouted loudly: "Zhao Zilong of Changshan is here.
Who dares to come and die?"
" When Zhang Miao's general Chen Liuren Weizi saw that Zhao Yun was just a young man, he started to look down upon Zhao Yun.
He laughed and said: "How dare a young boy say such arrogant words?
Let me, Chen Liuweizi, come to kill you."
After that, he patted his horse and led the troops.
Welcome Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yunting held his spear and stabbed him, shouting: "Die!"
Wei Zi also raised his spear to stab Zhao Yun.
The spear heads of the two spears passed by and caused a large string of sparks.
Wei Zi's spear head pierced Zhao Yun's shoulder, while Zhao Yun's spear pierced Wei Zi's chest.
In just one round, Wei Zi was stabbed to death by Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun picked up Wei Zi's body and smashed it forward, shouting: "Kill me!"
Zhang Miao was horrified when he saw Wei Zi being beheaded by the young general as soon as he met him.
He immediately turned around and fled.
Chen Liujun and the prefect had all run away.
Who dared to stay and fight with these cavalrymen?
So he turned around and ran away.
Escape.
This escape immediately formed a rout, and Qiao Mao's men and horses behind them were also scattered.
Yuan Shao and others who dared to come over were shocked.
Yuan Shao pointed at the unstoppable Zhao Yun who charged among the defeated troops and shouted: "Who are you?"
"I am Changshan Zhao Zilongye" a high-spirited answer echoed among the rebellious army.
Gongsun Zan, who was next to Yuan Shao, was surprised and said: "Zhao Ziliang, I heard about him when I was in Youzhou.
Zhao Zilong is very brave.
He has a spear that appears and disappears, and he has few opponents.
I was about to send someone to conquer him, but I didn't expect that he turned to Liu Cheng."
My subordinates, it’s a pity, it’s a pity.”
Zhang Fei next to Liu Bei shouted: "What nonsense is there?
It's rare that he has an opponent when he meets me, Lao Zhang.
Look at me, Lao Zhang, taking off his head and using it as a chamber pot."
Liu Bei hurriedly stopped him and shouted: "Yide, please don't be reckless.
So many rebels are sweeping in.
How can you get close to Zhao Zilong?
I'm afraid that the rebels will take you away as soon as you pass by."
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Having said this, Liu Bei immediately said to Yuan Shao: "Leader, let's rush to rescue Zhang and Qiao.
Otherwise, if they continue to flee like this, we and hundreds of thousands of troops may be overwhelmed."
"That's right."
Yuan Shao nodded and immediately called his name: "Brother Bogui, take your people to the right wing to support you; Grand Administrator Kong, take your people to the left wing to support you.
Others are ready to reinforce at any time."
"Yes," Gongsun Zan and Kong Rong agreed, and each took their troops to meet Zhang Miao and Qiao Mao.
Until the coalition forces' follow-up troops protected the two wings of Zhang Miao and Qiao Mao's army, Zhao Yun knew that he could not continue the pursuit, otherwise he would be surrounded by the coalition forces on the left and right wings of the rebel army, so he turned around and led the army back to the main formation.
Three thousand The cavalry did not lose a single person, but they killed thousands of enemies.
The result was remarkable.
At this time, Zhang Miao and Qiao Mao's army finally got rid of the pursuit of Zhao Yun's army and were finally safe.
The princes were finally relieved.
Zhang Chao, the governor of Guangling, said with lingering fear: "The same Zhao Yun killed two of Tao Governor's men the day before yesterday.
General, he is extremely powerful."
Tao Qian couldn't help but beat his chest and said: "Why have such powerful generals become the lackeys of Dong Zhuo and Liu Cheng?
The laws of heaven are unfair, the laws of heaven are unfair."
Under the orders of Yuan Shao and others, the coalition forces began to arrange military formations to prevent Liu Cheng's army from rushing over to take advantage again.
Only by forming a military formation can they be both offensive and defensive.
Otherwise, once the chaotic formation is attacked, if one unit cannot withstand it , will inevitably have an impact on the coalition as a whole.
After half an hour, the coalition forces finally completed the deployment of their military formations.
However, the military formations were all arranged in square formations.
They did not form a true formation, and they were still in a mess.
This is no wonder, after all, the coalition forces Coming from different places and not under each other's control, it was really difficult to impose orders and prohibitions like the soldiers of the Northern Army under Liu Cheng.
Under Liu Cheng's order, Zhao Yun once again led 3,000 cavalry to rush to the opposite side of the coalition and called for formation: "Changshan Zhao Zilong is here, who dares to fight?"
Zhang Miao's son Zhang Xu was swept away by the defeated troops just now without even understanding what was going on.
He was holding a bad breath in his heart.
When he saw Zhao Yun coming to call for formation again, he was furious.
He clapped his horse and rushed towards Zhao Yun with a big sword in hand. .
Zhang Miao was anxious and shouted: "Xu'er, come back quickly, come back quickly" Before Zhang Miao could finish his words, Zhao Yun rushed in front of Zhang Xu and stabbed him with a spear.
The speed of the spear was so fast that Zhang Xu was knocked off his horse without even reacting.
The horse ran a few steps and stopped, turning around to look.
Look, trotted away again.
"My son, my son, why are you disobedient?"
Zhang Miao cried loudly.
He turned to the generals in the coalition and shouted: "Whoever kills Zhao Yun for me will be rewarded with a thousand pieces of gold and a thousand acres of fertile land."