Chapter 1044: Driving the Sheep

Zhang Nan and Jiao Chu were both generals in Yuan Shao's army, but they had too little experience in fighting cavalry. Seeing that the troops on both wings suffered heavy losses in the cavalry's attack, Zhang Nan quickly ordered soldiers to be transferred from the front and rear formations to strengthen the two wings. The defense line was only in a hurry. What he never thought was that it would be such a simple thing to rashly mobilize troops and horses in a battle against the cavalry.

If the soldiers in the front and rear formations move, chaos will inevitably occur. How could Hua Xiong not see this situation? As soon as the soldiers in the front line moved, Hua Xiong's Xiliang cavalry began to dispatch, running towards the military formation.

Unlike the Baima Yi, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is a lance cavalry, and they are cavalry with iron armor. Although it is not the full-body armor of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, it is a bit stronger than the Baima Yi Cong's leather armor, so their combat Fa Ye is different from Baima Yi. Baima Yi uses cavalry and archery with a scimitar, while Xiliang cavalry directly charges into the formation.

The distance between the two was only a few hundred steps. As soon as Yuan Shao's troop mobilization started, Hua Xiong's cavalry was already close at hand.

Hua Xiong's goal was also very clear. He did not expect to directly enter the tens of thousands of people with just a few thousand Xiliang cavalry. Instead, he set his sights on a corner of the formation. Cut off a big piece of this fatty meat and enjoy it.

Sure enough, just as he expected, in a moment, thousands of Xiliang cavalry plunged straight in like red-hot knives into the congealed lard.

Thousands of Yuan Shao's soldiers in the southwest corner of the military formation were instantly separated from the main formation by the Xiliang cavalry, and then driven far away by thousands of ordinary cavalry behind them, making it impossible for them to join the main formation.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Nan and Jiao Chu were so shocked that their eyes almost dropped. In just one round, thousands of their own army were cut off alive. It seemed that these soldiers were no longer alive. There was no hope of survival.

Fortunately, the two reacted quickly enough. Upon seeing this, they immediately ordered the army to shrink their defenses and quickly filled up the gap in the formation that had already cut out a corner. Only then did the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, who had turned their horses and wanted to charge into the formation again, come back defeated. In this case, the soldiers in the formation broke out in a cold sweat.

In fact, what they don't know is that both Pang Tong Jushou and Zhao Yun's generals came to the battle this time with the purpose of making their journey more difficult, and had no intention of annihilating the entire army, otherwise they would have come. It's not just Zhao Yun who has more than 10,000 cavalry. You know, Wei County can now gather 20,000 cavalry and more than 40,000 horses. If we really want to fight with all our strength, Zhang Nan's 40,000 army will really I can't run back a few.

The only thing to consider here is that if Zhang Nan's army is really wiped out, it will definitely anger Yuan Shao. Now he has no worries. He just doesn't want to attack with all his strength when he is not fully prepared and lose his troops, so he doesn't attack in a large scale. Weijun. Once Zhang Nannan's 40,000-strong army was really wiped out, and Yuan Shao was furious and mobilized all his troops to attack, then Cao Cao would have been satisfied, and the idea of ​​recuperating the Eastern Army would be in vain.

Now that Zhang Nan has completely retracted his formation, Hua Xiong is not in a hurry to rush into the formation. He will first annihilate the nearly 4,000 isolated Yuan Shao's troops. Zhao Yun, on the other hand, led the white horse Yi Cong and watched eagerly around the formation. Once Zhang Nan's army made any movement, he rushed forward to serve with bows and arrows, causing the army that had just prepared to send troops to respond to retreat again.

In this way, the more than 30,000 soldiers in the large formation watched as the 4,000 soldiers hundreds of steps away from them were killed and wounded more than 1,000 people in less than half an hour, and the remaining 2,000 people were all captured without mercy. As a result, the morale of Zhang Nan's army was even lower. In addition, Zhao Yun's white-horse Yi Cong was like peeling an onion, riding and shooting around the formation, making the morale of the soldiers even lower.

After almost half a day of fighting, the Zhengdong Army's casualties were very few, except for dozens of casualties when the Xiliang cavalry charged into the battle.

In this regard, Zhang Nan and Jiao Chu had no choice but to secretly pray that it would get dark soon, and wait for it to darken.

He could then order the army to disperse and break through and enter Yuancheng, which was dozens of miles away.

Who knows, Zhao Yun and the two men already knew Zhang Nan's thoughts very well, but they didn't care about it. Instead, they thought about how to use this opportunity to make Zhang Nan's army peel off again.

Time passed by minute by second, and it was finally getting dark. Zhang Nan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. If it lasted for another hour or two, his army would probably collapse. You know, except for the thousands of soldiers who were directly beheaded, the number of casualties among the soldiers in the formation due to the cavalry fire of Zhao Yun's cavalry has exceeded a thousand. Especially the soldiers on the periphery are all nervous and look like It might collapse at any time.

As Zhang Nan expected, after the sky gradually darkened, with Zhao Yun's order, more than 10,000 cavalrymen turned their horses and headed towards Wei County in the west. More than 2,000 Zhang Nan soldiers were captured. They were also taken away together.

Watching the cavalry retreating, as the rumble of horse hooves disappeared into the silent night sky, Yuan Shaojun's officers and soldiers collapsed on the ground one by one, but Zhang Nan did not dare to relax at all, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to continue to line up. He then sent out all the dozens of cavalry under his command to follow the cavalry of the Zhengdong Army at a distance. After confirming that they had left, he safely ordered the army to head towards Yuancheng.

Dozens of Yuan Shao cavalrymen followed the Zhengdong cavalry army from a distance. As the sky got darker, they did not notice that some people in the cavalry team left the team from time to time and hid in the darkness. After more than 20 miles, the Yuan Shao cavalry stopped. The leading cavalryman sent a few people back to the army to report the situation, while most of the remaining people were on the spot to guard the direction where the Zhengdong cavalry left.

What they did not find was that soon after the cavalrymen left, hundreds of cavalrymen appeared between them and the army. The black shadows were surrounding them. Finally, when those people were only a few dozen steps away from them, a Yuan Shao cavalryman accidentally looked back and saw these people: "Who are they?"

The cavalrymen of Yuan Shao were shocked and looked back behind them. The Zhengdong cavalry saw that they had been exposed, and the leading general shouted: "Kill!"

More than a hundred cavalrymen followed closely, and soon, dozens of Yuan Shao cavalrymen were killed. Half an hour later, thousands of cavalrymen appeared in everyone's sight again, and the leader was Hua Xiong.

Seeing that Yuan Shao's cavalry had been killed, Hua Xiong waved his hand and laughed, "Let's go and herd the sheep!"