I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 527
The dark curtain is quietly pulled away, and the red sun rises slowly!
Liu Bei led his army to retreat slowly!He wanted to hit Huanglong hard. Obviously, it is difficult to fight in this state of confrontation across the river, so Liu Bei first retreated to the vicinity of Fucheng County and set the battlefield here!

Huanglong has news from Li Ru, Liu Bei's approach is exactly what he wants!
So after Liu Bei retreated, Huang Long was commanding the army to cross the Rushui River.

On the river, Dagan's engineering battalion quickly built ten pontoon bridges, and the fully armed soldiers of the Dagan army lined up in a neat queue. Under the leadership of their respective officers, they stepped onto the pontoon bridges in an orderly manner and passed quickly.After the vanguard passed through, they quickly arranged their formation and protected the ten crossing bridges. Although Huanglong knew that Liu Bei had left, he had to prevent Liu Bei from turning around and attacking Huanglong halfway across the crossing.

After the soldiers passed, behind them were carts of weapons and equipment, and the food, grass, and supplies were quickly sent to the other side with the efforts of the officers and soldiers of the soldiers.

Half a day later, all the [-] troops crossed the Rushui River, and then pursued in the direction Liu Bei retreated!
After Liu Bei's army retreated to Fucheng County, Liu Bei looked at the surrounding terrain and said, "We will fight Huanglong here. This battle will definitely hit Huanglong's army hard!"

After knowing that Luoyang City was occupied by Lei Gong, Liu Bei was also worried that the big army would attack Nanyang County and cut off his retreat, so he wanted to severely injure Huanglong's army so that Huanglong would not dare to delay his army so that he could lead the main force Back to Jingzhou!

Everyone saw the wide plains all around, and felt that there were hundreds of thousands of people fighting here!So Liu Bei asked the army to set up camp, and at the same time sent Zhao Yun to monitor the actions of Huanglong's army!
The army led by Huang Long also caught up with Liu Bei's army in the evening, and neither side took any action that night!
the next day!The red sun is rising!
As agreed, Liu Bei and Huang Long each brought all the troops in their hands to the battlefield!The two armies gathered for five miles and confronted each other like this!The passionate and majestic battle drums resounded through the sky in an instant, and the drummers on both sides wanted to suppress the sound of confrontation.Inspired by this battle drum, the morale of the soldiers on both sides is high!
Liu Bei placed Zhang Wei, who was poor in combat effectiveness, in the rear, and the remaining [-] troops lined up left, center, and right. Huanglong's formation was the same as Liu Bei's, but what he left behind was a reserve of [-] elite cavalry to launch a deadly attack on the enemy. One hit!

Liu Bei asked, "How are we going to fight this battle?"

Zhang Fei said: "There are a lot of Huanglong cavalry, we use long spear shields to defend, let Huanglong's cavalry charge forward, and then use heavy infantry to kill Huanglong's cavalry in large numbers. If Huanglong's cavalry is exhausted, our retreat will be safe. Already!"

It can be said that if the Han coalition forces want to retreat, the most important thing is to severely damage Huanglong's cavalry, otherwise Huanglong only needs [-] cavalry to hang behind, and it will be difficult for the coalition forces to retreat to Jingzhou safely and quickly!
Liu Bei thought for a while and said, "Let's use the Xuanwu Formation to fight Huanglong first!"

At the same time, let's go to the army!
Huang Long asked Li Rudao: "Zhang Ji, where is Hu Zhen's army?"

Li Rudao: "Zhang Ji deliberately placed his army not far from Yuan Tan so that they could attack Yuan Tan's army, but Zhang Ji was still a little worried that after he attacked Yuan Tan's army, Liu Bei would lead the Chinese army to attack him At that time, Zhang Ji's [-] people will be attacked by the Han coalition forces on both sides, and they won't last long!"

Huang Long said with a smile: "It's easy to handle. Let's attack Yuan Tan first to weaken the strength of Yuan Tan's army. When Yuan Tan's army is exhausted, Zhang Ji and the others will rise up again. Our coalition forces will encircle and suppress Yuan Tan's army together! And if Liu Bei If you dare to support Yuan Tan, I will send 2 cavalry to stop Liu Bei's reinforcements and ensure that it will be difficult for Liu Bei to attack Zhang Ji's troops!"

Li Ru bowed his hands and said: "The general has a high strategy!"

Huang Long smiled and said, "If it weren't for Li Canjun, our army would not have defeated Liu Bei so easily!"

Then Huang Long shouted: "Order Liu Shi on the right to take the lead in attacking Yuan Tan's army and completely disable Yuan Tan's army!"

After hearing this, the messenger rode his horse to deliver Huanglong's order!

After Liu Shi on the right got Huanglong's order, he ordered: "Attack, go to Yuan Tan's department!"

"Boom, boom, boom!" The attacking drums shook the sky, and Liu Shibu took the lead in launching the attack on Yuan Tan.The [-] troops approached Yuan Tan's army with neat steps!

And marching at the forefront is Dagan's artillery army. After a distance of one mile from Yuan Tan's army, the captain of the artillery battalion shouted: "Fire!"

"Boom boom boom!" Hundreds of projectiles shot out, leaving bloodstains in Yuan Tan's army!
Yuan Tan yelled angrily: "Counterattack!"

Yuan Tan conquered Yuzhou for more than a year and produced more than 300 cannons. Although most of these cannons were lost in the previous battle, there are still hundreds of cannons in Yuan Tan's hands!
In this way, the artillery of both sides went through an hour of bombing. In the end, Xu Wei's artillery was the largest and fired far away, completely suppressing Yuan Tan's artillery. !
This is exactly what Liu Shi wanted. He didn't believe that Yuan Tan's [-] remnant soldiers would be his elite opponents. The [-] troops lined up in six square formations, advancing steadily in a character-shaped formation, approaching Yuan Tan's army majesticly !

The soldiers of Yuan Tan's army lined up in front of the formation with giant shields and giant spears. These shields are connected together like a city wall, and they are used to defend against the rise of the main army. They also restrain the infantry. It is densely packed to resist the cavalry of the main army, but there are very few people in the rear, showing a hollow state. This is the artillery for defense against the main army. Even if the artillery attacks in this state, it is difficult to kill many soldiers.

This set of military formations is an formation that Yuan Tan and the others have studied over the years of fighting Dagan. They have summed up many improved methods. The square formation is used in conjunction with the use of giant contradictions to curb the charge of Dagan's cavalry.The hollow phalanx weakens the power of the artillery, and even the artillery placed inside can also play a role in counterattacking the cavalry!

It's a pity that the army formation researched by Yuan Tan was useless on the front battlefield. As soon as the big army attacked Yuzhou, Yuan Tan's soldiers would collapse at the touch of a touch, and there was no effective counterattack at all. There are many soldiers who dare not fight, just like the 300 cannons he worked so hard to collect from the people in Yuzhou, but 200 of them were soldiers from Yuan Tan who directly surrendered with the cannons, making him a veritable warrior. Captain of the transport team!
And these are the first time this army formation has appeared on the battlefield!
The Dagan army is similar, with giant shields and spears in the front row, sword shield soldiers, and giant axe soldiers in the back. In short, they are all heavily armed armor-piercing heavy infantry. It has the advantage of artillery, so Dagan's army does not need to guard against artillery, but it is sparsely arranged. From the battlefield, Yuan Tan's soldiers seem to be more numerous, so the two armies are getting closer and closer.First shoot with a bow and arrow, and then collide with each other for the cruelest hand-to-hand killing!

At this time, the giant shield array revealed its hideous and ugly face. The soldiers at the front were devoured by the shield array without hesitation, and the fresh lives disappeared like this.The sound of war drums soared into the sky, shaking the sky, and soon the earth was stained red with blood.

After the two sides fought for an hour, Yuan Tan's army was beaten and retreated steadily. Although Yuan Tan brought his elite, but the battle has reached the current level, even Yuan Tan's veterans don't have much morale , everyone didn't want to give their lives to Yuan Tan, who had become a bereaved dog. Under such circumstances, even [-]% of Yuan Tan's soldiers could not play half of their strength. How could they be the opponents of the elite army!
Seeing that his army was about to be defeated, Yuan Tan immediately said to his messenger: "Go and ask for help from the general, and say that we are under fierce attack from the main army. If we don't come for reinforcements, our army will be defeated and return." Already!"

The messenger immediately passed Yuan Tan's words to Liu Bei!Liu Bei wasn't surprised either, after all, if Yuan Tan could fight, he wouldn't be reduced to the level he is now!
He immediately said to the messenger: "Order Zhang Ji to support Yuan Tan!"

Now Zhang Ji is the closest to Yuan Tan's department, that's why Liu Bei issued this order!

And Zhang Ji, who had been waiting for a long time, was overjoyed after receiving the order: "The whole army is dispatched! March towards Yuan Tan's department!"

Zhang Ji's [-]-strong army marched for a quarter of an hour to the periphery of the battlefield, and then he walked to the front of the army and said: "Brothers, it was the Yuan family who rebelled and killed the Prime Minister of the State and many brothers from our Xiliang army. It's time for revenge, raise the banner of Dagan for me, and the army will attack Yuan Tan's department to avenge the prime minister!"

After finishing speaking, Zhang Ji asked his flag bearers to hang up the banner of the Dagan Army on behalf of the sky!
Zhang Ji and Hu Zhen looked at the flag that was standing up for the heavens in the sky, and the depression in their hearts was gone, and they could finally do what they wanted to do, and they could kill the enemies they wanted to kill!
Hu Zhen couldn't help laughing and said: "Finally, you can kill Yuan Tan, the bastard. The time has come for brothers to avenge the prime minister. From now on, we will be the great army to do justice for the heavens!"

Hu Zhen shouted loudly, and struck the horse's back with a sword.With a long hiss, the war horse jumped up and rushed towards Yuan Tan's army.
And the [-] Xiliang army began to change their formation, attacking Yuan Tan's army with a sharp cone-shaped attack!

Zhang Ji raised his knife in front of the battle and shouted, "Brothers, avenge the Prime Minister!"

"Revenge for the Prime Minister of the country, kill Yuan Tan!" Tens of thousands of soldiers raised their weapons and shouted loudly, shaking heaven and earth.

If you want to say when the soldiers of the Xiliang Army had the best life, it must be the time when Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang City was the best time for them, so even after 10 years, they still miss that time in Luoyang City Days, and now the Xiangyang court, even if they have Liu Bei's care, they are still third-class troops, and they have long thought of such days.

"Kill!" Zhang Ji shouted hoarsely and charged behind Hu Zhen!

"Kill!" The morale of the Xiliang Army soldiers was like a rainbow, and they followed the two leaders Zhang Ji and Hu Zhen to kill Yuan Tan's troops!

And on the battlefield!

Yuan Tan was overjoyed to see Liu Bei's [-] reinforcements. He thought this large army was here to support him, but he didn't expect that after the support army came near the battlefield, they would actually raise the banner of "doing justice for the sky" and even shouted : "Avenge the prime minister, kill Yuan Tan!"

This made Yuan Tan dumbfounded, with a horrified and painful expression. The Xiliang army had actually rebelled at this time. Not only were there no reinforcements, but there were even more enemies!His army is about to be attacked from both sides by the Dagan Army and the Xiliang Army!
At this time, Xu You immediately said angrily: "The general is too careless. He actually sent the Xiliang army to support us. Now it's all over! Xiansi, let's run away quickly, and if we don't run away again, wait until the Dagan army and the Xiliang army surround us After that, there will be no escape!"

At the same time, Liu Bei and the others also found out about Zhang Ji's rebellion, and they were shocked and said: "No, Yuan Tan's army is in danger, Zilong, you lead an army of 1 to stop Zhang Ji's army immediately and support Yuan Tan's army." The army, we must not let the [-] army collapse!"

If Yuan Tan's army collapses, plus the 1 troops taken away by Zhang Ji's uprising, Liu Bei will lose half of his army, and they are all elite troops. If Huang Long kills him at this time, he will only have less than 3 elite troops Now, in the face of an enemy that is three times stronger than Daqian, it is really possible that Huanglong will defeat the army!
But Yuan Ji pointed to the smoke and dust in the distance and said: "The general is already late, the cavalry of the Dagan Army has come to support Zhang Ji and the others. It is impossible for our infantry to outrun Huanglong's cavalry!"

Zhang Fei said viciously: "I just said that the Xiliang army is unreliable, they have killed us now, this must be the trick of Li Ru, a poisonous man!
Jian Yong was even more nervous and said: "Now is not the time for rescue, but we should take advantage of Huanglong's attack on Yuan Tan and find a way to escape from the battlefield. If we are held back by Huanglong, our [-] army will not be able to escape!"

At this time, Zhao Yun was surprised and said: "General, Zhang Wei and the others have escaped!"

Liu Bei and others followed the direction Zhao Yun pointed, and they found that the Hanzhong Army's 2 troops were fleeing to the rear!

Faced with such a situation where disaster is imminent, Liu Bei doesn't know what to say. He still wants to hit the big army, but he didn't expect that his coalition army would collapse before he fought Huanglong. He couldn't fight Lei Gong before. It's fine to win, after all, Lei Gong is considered the number one general in the world, but now their allied forces can't even defeat Huang Long, the leader of the army.

You must know that Huang Long was just a young commander of the Yellow Turban Army at the beginning. Liu Bei and the others could kill them and flee in embarrassment with 1000 cavalry, but now he can't even defeat Huang Long. The gap between the two sides is already so big. Time Liu Bei also disheartened!
At this time Yuan Ji shouted: "My lord, now is not the time to be disheartened. You should organize the army to retreat immediately. If you don't retreat, you won't be able to escape! If the lord dies in Yingchuan County, maybe the big army will fight Annexing Nanyang County and even reaching Xiangyang City, what will His Majesty do then?"

Liu Bei was awakened by these words, and he immediately said: "Zilong, you have cut off the rear for the entire army, and the rest of the army will retreat!"

(End of this chapter)