The next morning, Lu Bu led 40,000 Bingzhou Army and 20,000 Xiliang Army as vanguards, and camped ten miles outside Luoyang City, blocked the road to Luoyang. Gao Shun and his subordinates did not go out with the army, and stayed in the Wenhou Mansion to guard Diao Chan.

After setting up the camp, Lu Bu ordered Song Xian and Wei Xu to guard the camp separately. He led the three generals of Cao Xing, Hou Cheng and Xu Rong to lead 5,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry and 10,000 Xiliang warriors to the camp to challenge Yuan Shao and others. Xu Rong was not Lu Bu's subordinate, but Dong Zhuo's general, and was highly valued by Dong Zhuo. This time, Dong Zhuo sent Xu Rong to help Lu Bu, but also implicitly implying the surveillance of Lu Bu. Xu Rong implemented this very well. During the march, Xu Rong did not let Lu Bu out of his sight.

Lu Bu knew Dong Zhuo's arrangement very well, but he did not expose it. He pretended not to know anything, and kept a good atmosphere with Xu Rong while chatting and laughing. Two miles away from the camp of the vassals, Lu Bu ordered the formation to be set up and sent soldiers to call Yuan Shao.

After reaching out to stop the soldiers who were about to call the formation, Xu Rong came to Lu Bu and said to Lu Bu: "Wen Hou Wuyong has already shaken the courage of all the princes. If Wen Hou goes to call the formation, Yuan Shao and others will probably be turtles with their heads. How about letting someone fight with all the princes?"

Lu Bu pondered for a moment and felt that Xu Rong's words made sense, so he agreed and led the five thousand Bingzhou wolf cavalry to retreat a little, preparing to rush forward at any time.

In the camp of the coalition of princes, Yuan Shao, who received the news, laughed and said, "There is no one available to Dong Zhe. He actually sent an unknown person to be the leader. Who is Xu Rong?"

The other princes shook their heads and said that they had never heard of Xu Rong's name. Although Xu Rong was a famous general in Xiliang, his method of placing troops was first-class at the time, Xu Rong was low-key. In addition, Dong Zhuo's subordinates like Li Jue, Guo Si, and Hua Xiong who were killed by Guan Yu were all powerful generals, which led to Xu Rong's fame not being very loud. It is not surprising that the princes from all over the Central Plains knew very little about Xu Rong.

Seeing that everyone had never heard of Xu Rong's name, Yuan Shao arbitrarily believed that Xu Rong was just an unknown general, and even believed that Xu Rong would be vulnerable under his own hands. Standing up, Yuan Shao said with great enthusiasm: "My husband, in this first round, this alliance leader personally went to meet this Xu Rong to win the first prize for our coalition." Since forcing Ao Lie and others away, Yuan Shao proposed to select a new alliance leader to preside over the overall situation. In the end, the position of this alliance leader naturally fell on Yuan Shao's head.

Regarding Yuan Shao's proposal to fight in person, although the other princes were irritated and angry that Yuan Shao picked up soft persimmons, Yuan Shao was the new leader of the alliance, and everyone wanted to give Yuan Shao some face, so no one opposed it.

Accompanied by the thirteen princes, Yuan Shao wore golden armor and lit up his troops, and ordered the soldiers to beat the war drums to the sky. When the three-way war drums sounded, Yuan Shao rode his horse to the front of the formation, put on a shed in his hand, shouted loudly to the Xiliang army formation: "Who is coming?"

Xu Rong replied coldly: "Xiliang Xu Rong."

After curling his lips, Yuan Shao's mentality completely relaxed and said teasingly: "The pearl of rice grains also shines brightly? Don't you hear that our coalition forces have broken through the barriers and killed the generals all the way? Why not surrender early?"

Xu Rong's cold face moved for a moment, as if he was laughing, but perhaps because he had never smiled for a long time, his smile seemed very stiff. Xu Rong's voice without any emotion sounded in the array: "Where did you dare to ask the words of breaking through the barriers and killing generals?"

Yuan Shao snorted coldly and said shamelessly: "How can you, an unknown general, know about the military affairs? We killed Hua Xiong, defeated Lu Bu, and conquered the natural danger Tiger Prison in one day, and 200,000 soldiers were directed to Luoyang. Haven't Dong Thief mentioned these to you?"

Xu Rong said coldly: "Yuan Benchu, you have such a thick face. Guan Yu, who killed Hua Xiong, Ao Lie, who defeated Lu Bu, and Jia Wenhe, who conquered Hulao, has nothing to do with you? However, you, Yuan Benchu, is greedy for life and afraid of death, and is unable to move forward in Hulao Pass, and has lost the opportunity for great war. What kind of face does he have to speak shamelessly in front of someone!"

When Xu Rong said that, Yuan Shao's chest was about to explode. He pointed the whip forward in his hand and turned to the generals under his command and asked, "Who dares to lead troops to capture this person?"

A man turned around from behind Yuan Shao and said loudly: "The Lord was humiliated and died! Ju Yi was willing to lead the troops to attack and capture Xu Rong." Yuan Shao felt relieved when he saw that Ju Yi was coming out of the battle. This Ju Yi was the general recruited by Yuan Shao from the old land of Hebei. Although there was nothing particularly commendable in martial arts, he was quite good at leading troops to fight. In just two months, he helped Yuan Shao train three thousand elite infantrymen. They were brave and good at fighting and were not afraid of death. Yuan Shao personally named this infantry army as the first to enter the camp, which meant that this army would first arrive in every battle and win the first contribution for the army.

Ju Yi, with three thousand first-camp deceased soldiers and five thousand ordinary infantry, lined up and walked out of the camp. Ju Yi raised his long sword and roared: "Come first!" The dead soldiers behind him responded in unison: "Every battle must be first!"

Ju Yi nodded with satisfaction and shouted again: "Array!" The eight thousand infantry soldiers who followed Ju Yi to fight immediately turned around like a lantern. Ten people and ten groups formed a small fish scale formation, and ten small arrays formed a large array. In the front, back, left and right directions, two large arrays were listed respectively, surrounding Ju Yi in the middle.

When Xu Rong saw Ju Yi's change of formation, he had a sneer on the corner of his mouth and said softly, "Fish Scale Formation?" As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Rong quickly raised the flag in his hand, kept placing the banner, and conveyed the order of the change of formation according to his thoughts.

After receiving Xu Rong's banner, the ten thousand Xiliang warriors behind Xu Rong quickly adjusted their positions and formed five columns in the form of a multi-way column. Each column standing in front of him was all the sword and shield hands. At this moment, they had raised the round shield in their hands high and made barriers for the comrades behind him. The columns were five feet apart, and from a distance, they looked like five arrows composed of crowds pointing directly to the center of Ju Yi's fish scale formation.

Ju Yi, who had been watching Xu Rong's formation carefully, said in surprise: "What kind of formation is this? Five long snake formations side by side? But what's the use of this arrangement?"

Without leaving Ju Yi to think too much, the five columns of the Xiliang Army, under Xu Rong's order, began to attack Ju Yi's fish scale formation with neat steps. When they were about to contact Ju Yi's army formation, the Xiliang Army in the front row suddenly accelerated its pace, protected the round shield in its hand, and slammed towards the other party.

Ju Yi did not expect that the Xiliang army would be so fierce and fearless. Once the Xiliang army in the front row crashed into its own formation, it would inevitably cause the situation where both rebels were unstable. When the two armies fought and stood unstable, they would often die. Although they were surprised, Ju Yi had no fear on his face. He slashed a sword to each other's left and right, shouting loudly: "Spin!"

The eight thousand infantrymen quickly turned as if they were a huge millstone, and they began to strangle the Xiliang army that was hitting them in a clockwise direction.

Pupp, the sound of the body colliding was connected. Before the fish scale formation could really rotate, the sword and shield hands in the front row of the Xiliang Army had already collided into the fish scale formation. With the strength of the shield, the soldiers in the two square formations in front of the fish scale formation were hit by blood.

Under the force of collision, the soldiers of Xiliang also fell, but because they were the main attackers, they had already prepared themselves. In addition, with shields to protect themselves, most of them were not injured, but they could not stabilize their bodies and were brought down by inertia. After their bodies touched the earth, the fallen Xiliang army immediately curled up and raised their shields to protect their whole body, preventing them from being cut by Ju Yi's subordinates. This action effectively reduced the casualties of the Xiliang army.

Seeing this situation, Ju Yi roared in anger: "Long spearmen come forward and pick their shields!" Just as Ju Yi's order was issued, the formation of the Xiliang army suddenly changed. The Xiliang army, which was originally a five-column column, quickly transformed into three columns and two columns under Xu Rong's flag command, forming a cross formation, and crashed into the fish scale formation that was in a rotating state, like a pickaxe, which suddenly stuffed into the rotating wheel, leaving the rotating fish scale formation in an instant at risk of collapse.

It was not until this moment that Ju Yi realized that what Xu Rong had put out was not a five-dimensional long snake formation, but a crisscrossing Hengyo formation. The characteristic of Hengyo formation was to start with the vanguard erecting a shield wall, so that the soldiers following behind calmly cut off the connection between the opponent's battle formation. It was really a mistake, every step was wrong, Ju Yi thought regretfully. However, since it had become like this, regret was useless. Ju Yi could bring out a dead soldier like the first camp, which showed that his subordinates still had two tricks. Seeing that the crisis was settled, Ju Yi simply gave up the fish scale formation, pointed his sword forward, shouted loudly: "Re-arrange the front arrow formation, target, enemy army!"

In the situation of unfavorable form, Ju Yi placed the first camp in front of the array, trying to use the first camp as an arrow to forcibly break through the yoke formation set up by Xu Rong and directly kill Xu Rong. But Ju Yi would change the formation, wouldn't Xu Rong? Although Xu Rong was far away from Ju Yi and the noise of fighting on the battlefield, he could not hear what Ju Yi was saying, but Ju Yi's idea was judged from the action of Ju Yi raising his sword in front and the movement of the sergeant under Ju Yi's subordinates. Xu Rong held up the order flag and slowly drew an arc in the air.

As the flag moved, the formation of the Xiliang Army changed again. From the three-row yoke array and two-row rows, it quickly transformed into a wheel array. The Xiliang soldiers gathered together to form a large circle with heads and tails, and crushed towards the enemy army that had not yet been completely formed.
Chapter completed!