Although Zhong Zhiming and Li Xiaofei have become marshal and deputy marshal, they only have more than 3,000 troops from Ling Yun. Opposite Li Yang, there are 230,000 Wu troops!

It's not that Zhu Yaoshi wanted to trap them, but Zhu Yaoshi didn't expect that Wu Zhenchang would dare to kill Zhu Bojiu and seize Liyang City, and Zhu Yaoshi really had no troops to send now.

Ling Yun led his men to burn Li Yang's ships, but for Wu Zhenchang, it would only take more than ten days to build another ship and kill him. After all, it was not difficult to cross the river, which was less than a hundred feet wide.

Ling Yun is not stupid either. Most of the men and horses under his command are brothers who were brought out from Juye. There is no need to fight Wu Zhenchang in Xinli City. The three thousand men and horses have been packing their belongings in the past few days and are ready to retreat at any time.

In fact, Wu Zhenchang on the opposite side is also riding a tiger and is in trouble. He has occupied Liyang with more than 200,000 people and gained a lot of wealth. But except for Liyang, he is surrounded by enemies. Some people persuade him to go south to Jinling, while others advise him to take advantage of the situation and go north.

, and some advised him to march westward and occupy Yecheng.

At this time, Wu Zhenchang suddenly woke up. He knew that there was no hope in going south. After all, Wang Tiezhu and He Wuji's armies were far more powerful than him, not to mention that none of his men could resist Wang Tiezhu. But if he went north, he would

They are all infantry. Even if they occupy various counties and counties, once they are divided into guards, the Yu army can defeat them one by one.

It seems that the only way out is to go westward!

However, the Qianyu Army from the west had already arrived at Liyang. Pajaqili gave death orders to Hudu Bili and Zada ​​Yuanxian, asking them to lead the five thousand Qianyu Army stationed in Xiangguo to attack Wu Zhenchang.

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Hudu Bili and Zada ​​Yuanxian had followed Hu Gao for several years and still had some feelings for him. They believed that as long as they obeyed the court's instructions and defeated Wu Zhenchang this time, the court would be able to eliminate its doubts about the Qianyu Army.

After all, the two of them and these soldiers of the Thousand Feather Army were all selected from a hundred, and they were very confident in their own combat power. Three thousand of the five thousand people of the Thousand Feather Army were equipped with heavy armor, and among the rest,

, one thousand people are heavy armored infantry armed with long shields, and then there are one thousand people of scouts and reconnaissance cavalry who are responsible for exploring the way, breaking off the rear and luring the enemy.

Hudu Bili personally led fifty people to explore the way ahead, and his opponents had all wiped out Ju Wuzhi, which made Hudu Bili not dare to take it lightly.

Hudu Bili met Wu Zhenchang's former army a hundred miles west of Liyang. Hudu Bili took a look and knew that this team was not bad in combat capability, so he already had an idea.

Wu Zhenchang's front troops quickly formed a circular formation, set up their shields, and fired arrows at Hudu Bili. Hudu Bili and his men galloped away, and when they were out of range of the Wu army, they stopped and continued to watch the Wu army's movements. No.

Every enemy army would come to die, but Wu Jun thought that the soldiers of Yu State were all like Ju Wuzhi. This time the enemy army deliberately provoked them, but refused to die. Wu Jun didn't know how to deal with it, so he had to stop and wait.

The Chinese army arrived.

Seeing that the Wu army stopped firing arrows, Hudu Bili hit his horse and came back to charge and shout. After the Wu army raised his bow and nocked an arrow, he quickly ran away. This was repeated four times, and the Wu army became a little slack. After all, the infantry could not catch up with the cavalry. They walked like this for a while.

The formation stopped again, which not only consumed physical strength, but also required adjustments to the originally planned camping location and route.

The commander of the former army, Ma Wenchang, quickly sent an order - the front army stopped on the spot and waited for the Chinese army.

This order is undoubtedly very correct. Hudu Bili originally planned to lead Wu Jun's front army step by step into the ambush that Zhada Yuanxian had arranged.

Hudu Bili saw that the Wu army had begun to set up camp. Knowing that the enemy general had seen through his plan, he prepared to leave a few scouts and return. But at this time, Wu's front army began to pack up their tents and move, and Hudu Bili was surprised.

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It turned out that Wu Zhenchang's personal soldiers came with an order, blaming Ma Wenchang for being too slow to advance the troops, and asking Ma Wenchang to lead the front army to advance quickly.

Ma Wenchang wanted to refuse, but when he thought that Wu Zhenchang dared to kill even the emperor's uncle, he had no choice but to continue to lead the front army westward.

If you advance westward, you will have no choice but to fall into an ambush by the Qianyu Army.

Ma Wenchang led 30,000 front troops and walked for another two hours, then found a high ground to stop and rest. Knowing that there must be enemy troops nearby, Ma Wenchang ordered the soldiers to be divided into four groups to take turns guarding. He originally thought that he would rest for an hour.

Set off again.

But Zada ​​Yuanxian and Hudu Bili had been waiting for them to camp here for a long time. Seeing Wu's army resting on the high ground, Hudu Bili led a thousand cavalry and rushed over from the west.

"There are enemy troops!" "Cavalry!"

The Wu army immediately became alert. Chief Ma Wen immediately ordered 3,000 shield bearers and 4,000 spearmen to form a formation on the west perimeter. 3,000 archers were ready to fire arrows, and the rest were on guard as a reserve force. The Wu army was experienced in dealing with the Yu cavalry.

Seeing that Hudu Bili's thousand cavalry were approaching the range of the archers, Ma Wenchang was about to give the order to fire arrows, but Hudu Bili reined in his horse and stopped the thousand cavalry.

Ma Wenchang shouted at Hudu Bili: "The barbarians on the opposite side! You dare not come to charge with the cavalry, why not go back to the grassland to herd sheep!"

Hudu Bili smiled but did not answer. He took the water bottle from the saddle and drank water. All the soldiers around him also started drinking water.

When Ma Wenchang saw this scene, his heart tightened. It turned out that the enemy army did not want to confront them head-on. They just wanted to trap them here and wait until they had finished drinking the water before making any plans. Wu Jun, who originally only planned to rest for an hour, brought them with him at this time.

The water was barely enough to drink for half a day. But at this time, the enemy army took out a kettle to drink water, and Wu Jun also started drinking water. This time there was basically no water to drink.

"Stop! Don't drink the water! Keep the water!" Ma Wenchang immediately stopped his men from drinking water, but it was already too late.

Now there is only one way left, which is to defeat these thousand cavalry head-on, and then go to the front to find water.

The four thousand people led by Zhada Yuanxian were waiting for the Wu army to loosen their attack formation. Ma Wenchang waved the command flag in his hand: "Charge the formation!"

Wu Jun's front army then approached Hudu Bili's thousand cavalry. Wu Jun thought that Hudu Bili would continue to run, so he rushed faster and the formation began to loosen.

But this time Hudu Bili not only did not run away, but instead charged forward with a thousand cavalry with a wave of his scimitar.

The Wu army was not prepared for the attack, and the thousand men of Hudu Bili rushed into the Wu army's formation in an instant. Thanks to Ma Wenchang, who led his soldiers to fight to the death, they did not collapse. But at this time, firing arrows was no longer possible, because the two sides were entangled.

Fight together.

The Qianyu Army were all strong, battle-hardened elites and cavalrymen, and they all thought they could defeat the Wu Army one to ten. Because the Wu Army had defeated Ju Wuzhi's cavalry before, and because of its large number, the Wu Army was not only unafraid, but became more courageous as they fought. Many of them were

He held Qian Yujun tightly and died together.

Ma Wenchang firmly believed that he could annihilate these thousand enemy troops, so he led his own soldiers to the location of Hudu Bili to kill them.

Zada Yuan appeared! To the south! Three thousand heavy cavalry opened the way, and one thousand light cavalry quickly moved toward the location of Hudu Bili to reinforce.

Three thousand heavy cavalry came trampling over, and the ground was filled with dust. Together with the south wind, the wind swept the dust and rushed towards the Wu army.

Ma Wenchang looked back and knew something was wrong. At this time, there was no hope of escaping. The only way to survive was to resist the enemy's cavalry and wait for reinforcements from the Chinese army.

"Array up! Shoot arrows! Shoot arrows!"

The Wu army began to fire arrows at the heavy cavalry in the south, but it was of no use. Apart from being blown away by the wind, they knocked up and fell off the armor of the heavy cavalry.

Ma Wen suddenly thought: "Shoot the surrounded enemies first!"

This order was to shoot all the own soldiers who were fighting with the enemy, but at this time there was no better option.

The Wu army fired all their arrows at Hudu Bili and Yu's light cavalry.

Hudu Bili was hit by dozens of arrows and fell down along with his horse. Thousands of Wu troops and more than a thousand cavalry were all killed.

Those who were not dead were wailing on the ground, and the wind carried the wailing sound and echoed in the wilderness. Ma Wen had no time to mourn and sigh, because the heavy armored cavalry had already arrived.

Zhada Yuanxian was furious and blamed himself. He thought he could save his comrade Hudu Bili, but the enemy wanted to kill Hudu Bili even if he shot one of his own men. However, he was so close that he could not save him.

Zha Dayuanxian waved his machete and shouted: "Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!"

After three calls for revenge, three thousand heavily armored cavalry shouted revenge and rushed to the Wu army's position.

Ma Wenchang laughed wildly: "Brothers, we have already killed one enemy general. If we kill another one, it will be worth it for us today! We can't run anyway, so keep an eye on the enemy general and charge forward!"

In normal times, these people would have fled long ago, but today everyone knew that they couldn't escape. The enemy was cavalry, and he only had two feet, so running was useless.

While eager for revenge, Zha Dayuanxian thought that the rest was harvested when he saw Wu's army being knocked to pieces by heavy armored cavalry.

But Wu Jun, who had fallen to the ground, stood up again and continued to charge towards Qian Yujun. Some of them, who were lying on the ground unable to get up, grabbed the horse's leg and refused to let go, and some even bit the horse's calf with his teeth.

Zha Dayuanxian did not expect that the weak Wu troops in front of him could fight so hard, so he raised his scimitar again: "Don't be careless, line up and charge again! Charge until they all lie down!"

But at this moment, Ma Wenchang jumped up in front of Zada ​​Yuanxian's horse and threw Zada ​​Yuanxian to the ground. In an instant, Ma Wenchang had been slashed dozens of times in the back.

But Ma Wenchang still refused to let go, but roared with red eyes: "Brothers, you will bite this enemy general to death!"

Zhada Yuanxian's soldiers dismounted one after another to rescue Zhada Yuanxian, and chopped off both of Ma Wenchang's arms. However, Ma Wenchang's legs were still entangled with Zada ​​Yuanxian's feet. One of the soldiers beheaded Ma Wenchang and pulled him out.

When the head was removed, Zhada Yuanxian shouted: "Don't pull it out!"

When everyone saw it, Ma Wen's long teeth even bit through the iron armor on Zada ​​Yuanxian's shoulder, biting Zada ​​Yuanxian's shoulder.

The remaining Wu troops rushed towards the place where Zada ​​Yuanxian was, but in the end they still failed to break through the Qianyu Army's defense, and were killed one after another by the Qianyu Army.

The strong wind stopped and a red sun set in the west. Zhada Yuanxian sent an order to transport the tiger capital back to Heren City, and sent people to bury Ma Wenchang's head and arms together.

Qian Yujun took inventory of the battlefield and found that only about 80 of the 2,000 light cavalry survived, and more than 500 of the 3,000 heavy armored cavalry were lost.

Zhada Yuanxian looked eastward: "Retract troops! Return to the city!"

When Wu Zhenchang's Chinese army arrived at the battlefield, they saw corpses of Wu soldiers everywhere and countless crows and wild dogs.

"How could the entire former army be wiped out? Where is Ma Wenchang?" Wu Zhenchang asked to the left and right

"Report, General Ma's sword was found on the mound over there!"

Wu Zhenchang led his men over. The soldiers were digging up the mound of soil, and Ma Wenchang's broken body was clearly visible.

Although Wu Zhenchang had fought several battles, this was the first time he saw someone he knew being chopped into pieces. At the first glance, he fainted and fell to the ground.

The first thing Wu Zhenchang said when he woke up was: "Go back to Liyang quickly!"

Wu Zhenchang's army returned to Liyang. Everyone understood that Wu Zhenchang was frightened by the disastrous defeat of the former army, but Wu Zhenchang could not continue to show cowardice. Since there were still terrifying and powerful enemies in the west, he had no choice but to go south.
Chapter completed!