Two days later, on the plain north of Mianzhu and Fu County, 30,000 Han troops and 90,000 Liu Yan troops formed a huge formation, and prepared for a dignified battle in great agreement.

Unfortunately, Li Su was not here, otherwise he would have sighed with surprise: the location of the battlefield here was the same as Zhuge Zhan's last battle against Deng Ai seventy-three years later in history, with a position of only one cent.

I can only say that there is only one battlefield suitable for large troops to launch on the Mianzhu Plain, so those who know the war will choose this together.

If Li Su is here, he will definitely have a better understanding of Zhuge Zhan's difficult strategy of "decisive battle out of the city" that needs discussion.

How similar is Zhuge Zhan’s dilemma to Liu Yan at this moment?

Many people in later generations complained: Zhuge Zhan didn't know the military. Since he couldn't block Deng Ai in Jiangyou, he would retreat to Mianzhu to defend himself. Why should he fight Deng Ai in the field? Shouldn't Deng Ai be more eager to fight than him?

I didn't see the first battle in the Mianzhu battle. Because of the unfavorable attack, Deng Ai was so anxious that he threatened that "if he could not win, he would behead Deng Zhong and Shi Zhuan to be punished." Only by urging him in this way could he successfully defeat the Shu army. It can be seen that Deng Ai is the one who should be anxious!

This statement cannot be said to be unreasonable, but it is undoubtedly a way to help Deng Ai open the perspective of God and sweep away the fog of war. Deng Ai was anxious because he didn't know that Shu Confucians had long been looking forward to the Nine-rank Zhongzheng system and hoped that Wei would liberate them from Zhuge's rule of law. If he knew that the morale of the people in Shu was so poor, he would not have to hurry.

Zhuge Zhan knew better about the conflicts in Shu than Deng Ai. He knew that except for him, he was willing to fight to the end, other locals were unreliable. Even if he was guarding Mianzhu, Deng Ai would not wait to die on the spot. He would definitely go to death and detour and find a way to get the enemy because of food. At that time, he would go around the surrounding counties, and maybe thousands of surrender factions like Jiangyou Ma Miao would snowball up. So he could only hope to fight quickly and destroy Deng Ai.

This point of people's support is clearly reflected in Qiao Zhou's later argument that Liu Chan could not go to Nanzhong: "Your Majesty still wants to go to Nanzhong? Your Majesty thinks that when Deng Ai catches up, will the soldiers and officials around Your Majesty still be willing to be with Your Majesty?"

And what Liu Yan thought today seemed to be the same: he knew that if he waited, the number of surrendered factions would only increase, and the number of troops would escape less and less? If he didn't fight, he wouldn't be able to do so.

It’s just that Deng Ai was holding a bait made by the ninth grade Zhongzheng in his hand? And Liu Bei was holding an imperial edict from the Emperor of Han, which is the difference between success and rebellion.

The cycle of reincarnation in heaven.

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"Yide? I will see your performance today."

Two battles were facing each other? The war drums shook the sky, and Liu Bei personally rode on the high-headed horse and looked around to observe the opposite side. He did not see any famous officials and generals in the enemy army, so he ordered Zhang Fei to command the main force in the front and prepare to advance.

"Don't worry, brother? I will definitely capture that old man Liu Yan today!"

Zhang Feihu roared and responded to his promise, waved his snake spear, and commanded the central army to move forward.

Today, the Han army has 30,000 main forces, which consists of about 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry? The cavalry is still led by Zhao Yun, the captain of Changshui? The remaining main forces belong to Zhang Fei.

Among these 20,000 infantry, because the Danyang system (including Jiujiang soldiers) was taken to the eastern battlefield by Guan Yu, the composition was about 10,000 Youzhou infantry, three thousand Hedong soldiers, two thousand Northern Army of the Capital (including the 800 Clan Camp), five thousand Banyan Man and Qingqiang soldiers.

As the main force of the central army, the Banyan Man and Qing Qiang soldiers were the vanguards, and the trap camp was the strategic reserve team.

"General Zhang Fei is here! Liu Yan's old man quickly sent a thief general out to die! Who dares to fight me!" Come to the front and back of the formation? Zhang Fei knew that the enemy was unlikely to send someone to fight one-on-one, but he still had to shout a few times.

Such a dignified battle in a row? If you can hit the enemy's morale, you will hit the enemy's morale more.

In addition to Zhang Fei's single challenge, Liu Bei's army also asked the swearing troops to continue to receive imperial edicts. The imperial envoy of the court told the matter? Even the former Left General and the current infantry captain Wu Kuang went to the front of the battlefield to express his identity and speak out for the first time.

Wu Kuang even openly condemned Liu Yan for forcibly hiring his niece as Liu Mao's fiancée, saying that the Wu family would definitely not marry a traitor? If Wu had been defiled by Liu Mao, then Wu Kuang would rather destroy his niece than let her live in the world as a relative of the Liu Yan family!

This open insult caused a huge blow to Liu Yanjun's morale. Because many senior officials around Liu Yan knew Wu Yi, how much Wu brother and sister were once respected by Liu Yan, and how deep Liu Yan had with Wu Yi's deceased father.

Now Wu Yi's brother, who was deceased, ran out and scolded him in person to break up his friendship. This proves how much Liu Yan has betrayed his relatives?

Moreover, the Wu family also came from the capital and followed Liu Yan, and it was quite related to the Dongzhou forces, so this move was not only shaken by the morale of the Yizhou soldiers, but also the morale of the Dongzhou soldiers was hit.

Liu Yan was immediately angry and said, "Wu Kuang's husband! I'm a good friend to me, I'm doing nothing! I want you to endorse your deceased brother! The whole army charges! Charge quickly! Kill Zhang Fei first, and then kill Wu Kuang!"

After saying that, Liu Yan forced two or three generals and senators in the army who were known for their bravery, and asked them to fight Zhang Fei, defeating the spirit of the Han army, and those who violated the orders were killed!

Under such strict orders, there were a few young generals who were not very knowledgeable and did not know that Zhang Fei's famous generals were brave enough to face the challenge, or bypass Zhang Fei and head for Wu Kuang.

"Good come!" Zhang Fei was overjoyed and raised his gun to fight. He didn't expect that Wu Kuang's scolding made the enemy's army fight one-on-one. It was so cool.

"Drink!" Zhang Fei joined the horse together, and roared violently, directly lifting the enemy general on the fork blade of the snake spear. After the fork blade penetrated through his back, Zhang Fei twisted the spear rod ninety degrees.

Just like inserting the key into the keyhole and turning it half a circle so as not to fall out of the keyhole when it is pulled back. This is how to swing the enemy corpse in the air, throw it up twice like a big flag, and then turn the snake spear fork blade back to the angle of the keyhole and throw the corpse out.

After flying, Zhang Fei seemed to remember a question and turned to his second opponent: "Who is here just now? You have learned his name together! Alas, I'm sorry, you said it was too slow, forget it, don't ask."

I can only blame Zhang Fei for his muscle memory before the brain's language center. Although he remembered to ask the second enemy general what the two were called, his arms were already very familiar and spilled out again, but he didn't have time to listen to the other party's mouth and then instantly.

The third supporting enemy general had a high IQ from the beginning, so he chose to go straight to Wu Kuang who was shouting out of the formation. Wu Kuang seemed to be in his forties or fifties, and should have a low martial arts skills and much easier to deal with than Zhang Fei.

There was a guard standing beside Wu Kuang, but the guard didn't look gorgeous. He was wearing the armor of ordinary grassroots officers at the level of Qu Junhou, rather than scales. Even the helmet was a ball of cast iron, without the helmet tips and tassels, so there was no need to worry about it.

Unfortunately, when he rushed to more than ten steps away from Wu Kuang, the simple-armored guard officer came up and fought with five or six gatherings with great force and cleanliness. The Liu Yan army's Dragon Suit General was stabbed to death with one shot.

He can only blame him for bullying Gao Shun for not having any decorations in his armor. He thought Gao Shun was a fish belly, so he naturally had to pay the price.

With the three generals of Liu Yan's army being killed, the main infantry forces on both sides have also rushed to a distance that is about to break out.

Because Liu Yanjun was unable to hold back and was in a more proactive charge, he naturally suffered some losses in the three arrows in the front. The archer could only have one to two rounds of shooting and shooting opportunities during the rushing process, while the crossbow was completely unconditional.

In contrast, all the soldiers of the Han army have been through war for a long time. They did not lose their lust in the face of the enemy's rushing forward, nor were they afraid of fighting 30,000 to 90,000. The three waves of arrow rain in the crossbow formation were also released strictly at the pace, and there was absolutely no waste outside the effective range because of nervousness.

Liu Bei's army had always had many bows and crossbows. Wu Kuang brought two thousand strong crossbows when he left Beijing. Today, all of them were lined up to the front line of the military formation. After three rounds, he could retreat from the gaps in the corridors in an orderly manner, and everything was in order.

"Buzz--" A series of crossbow strings that were dragging long sounds and echoing, shaking in an orderly manner, thousands of powerful crossbow arrows shot out in a low and flat trajectory.

The biggest advantage of flat shooting is that it can achieve line killing rather than point killing. Once there are no enemies at the landing point, it will be in vain. Even if the flat shooting arrow does not hit the enemy in the first row, as long as there are other enemies on the subsequent ballistic trajectory, it will not be wasted. However, this kind of shooting method is difficult to achieve without a strong crossbow with strong enough power.

"Puchi-Puchi-" Fengdi entered the flesh and the shrill sound of howling intertwined. Hundreds of people were shot in each round. Before Liu Yanjun rushed in front of him, a total of 2,000 people had been shot in the ground after several waves of powerful crossbows!

The momentum of the charge suddenly faded, and at the beginning, he blindly followed the storm, and the courage of the brain was cooled down.

Once a person cools down from the unconscious fanaticism, fear will soon follow.

However, after the Han army shot the last wave of arrows in an orderly manner, taking advantage of the enemy's 20 or 30 steps away from the front row, they also launched a recoil and could not fall at a disadvantage in the impact force.

As a result, Liu Yan's army started running up from more than 200 steps away. At the moment of the final collision, the impact force and speed advantages were not as good as the Han army who had just helped.

"Quick! Come on the rear army! The front army finally rushed up! Entangled Liu Bei! The left and right wings continued to spread!" Liu Yan sat on the command chariot with a padded cushion, and saw this, he hurriedly directed the reservist team himself.

After all, Liu Bei had much more sophisticated crossbow formations and good equipment brought from the capital arsenal. Every time Liu Yan's army had to fight with the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, he had to pay a considerable price.

The more than 2,000 soldiers from the Dongzhou area were in exchange for this comprehensive melee. Of course, the front army could not be defeated, and they had to increase their troops immediately to maintain their morale.

Liu Yan's army had many soldiers, and his biggest advantage was that after sticking to the front, the two wings could be spread farther. If he could finally achieve a three-sided double-team against the Han army, he would still have to fight.

Unfortunately, Liu Bei would not give them such a chance.

Zhang Fei was like a mainstay, holding the front and standing still, while Liu Bei was standing in charge of the rear army and watching. When he saw Liu Yan's reserve team movement, he immediately ordered Zhao Yun to attack and cut off the detoured troops on both wings of Liu Yan's army from their weak spots.

If you don’t have cavalry, you still want to go around? So what if you have too many people!

Liu Yan's army was Pang Xi supervised the battle, and he led the main force of the Dongzhou soldiers. The left and right wings were Zheng Du and Huang Quan who had just been promoted, and the soldiers he led were also Yizhou soldiers. These people had no experience in commanding large corps to fight, and they had to ensure that tactical maneuvers were in place in a hurry. The difficulty can be imagined.

Liu Yan also knew that the Yizhou soldiers were relatively unable to fight tough battles, so he did not dare to let them rush to the front of the central army, for fear that they would be shot by the Han crossbows that were waiting for the battle at the beginning. In that case, if they turned around and fled, they would also lead the rear army to chaos.

Even Wang Lei, who had finally been fed with a loss of soldiers and had just become a little wise, was captured by Zhao Yun in Wuyang. Liu Yan was really no one available, just like when playing "The Three Kingdoms 14", he asked a bunch of guys with a commandership of fifty or sixty to resist Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun. (Huang Quan's commandership in the game is over 70, but Huang Quan, who was just in his early twenties, obviously has not reached this level yet)

During the roundabout process, Huang Quan and Zheng Du quickly became disconnected and were cut off by Zhao Yun. The fighting will of these Yizhou soldiers was not good at all, because they thought that "our soldiers are many, and they can stand with Liu Yan when they are too many, and they can be more powerful than the other side." They barely followed Liu Yan.

Once such troops are discovered that "the side with a large population may not be safe", the temptation of the imperial edict will be fully exerted.

After several battalions of Yizhou soldiers cut off the contact with Huang Quan and Zhengdu flag formations by Zhao Yun, they turned against each other for less than half a stick of incense.

"We surrender! Don't kill us! We were all recruited by Liu Yanqiang!"

After a burst of trouble, Zhao Yun himself couldn't believe that tens of thousands of new recruits from Yizhou had directly surrendered. These people were recruited for less than half a year and were completely indecent and qualities. They were forced to come from the farmers.

Zhao Yun himself commanded the left wing and handed over the right wing to the generals under his command, so Zhao Yun directly faced Huang Quan. When he saw that the enemy's morale was so low, 20% of them had fled and turned against each other. He no longer held back and directly concentrated his strength to rush towards Huang Quan's flag formation.

The troops led by Huang Quan still had 20,000 people, but they were already too wide and were not in depth. Zhao Yun took a desperate gamble, and no one stopped him. Zhao Yun saw that Huang Quan looked like a civil servant. Although he was wearing armor, his weapon was just a sword. Zhao Yun was not very good at it. With the advantage of the length of the silver spear, he directly knocked out the gun and tied it up neatly.

As Huang Quan's banner fell, Liu Yan's left wing completely collapsed, as if collapsed and had a headless fly.

Zhang Fei observed the victory of the left wing in the central army and shouted: "Zilong succeeded! The whole army was pressing forward! Gao Shun, it's time for you to show off. Send the trap camp and attack the formation of the Pang Xiqi, the chief general of the Dongzhou soldiers!"

Gao Shun's camp has always been a strategic reserve team. He has been nurturing his energy these days, and he has been tired of it. He finally can show his skills after hearing this.

"The ambition to fall into battle is to die but not live! Kill!!!"

Eight hundred people led the way, and the northern army of Wu Kuang, who followed Wu Kuang's more than a thousand people, were all equipped with elite equipment of iron armor and cast iron helmets. The trapped camp's hands were a horse-slashing sword and a small round shield, tearing a hole in the front army's anxious and intertwined front line and heading straight for Pang Xi's flag.

Pang Xi led the Dongzhou troops, and the battle was two miles wide in front, with nearly a thousand people in one row, and the thickness of the front was forty or fifty rows. He was still trying hard to support him, but in a blink of an eye, he saw a terrible reserve team of the Han army suddenly tore in.

The Mass Sword is a one-sided thick-backed sword with a blade length of five feet (1.15 meters) and a handle length of three feet. It was also the predecessor of Mo Dao in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but the sword body was very straight. Obviously, it was because the soil-burning blade quenching technology had not been used, so there was no different thermal expansion and contraction curvatures of each section. The Mass Sword is very expensive and cannot be afforded by the elite troops of the capital.

Pang Xi looked at the eight hundred horse-slashing swords, and everyone was slashing and slashing up in an orderly manner. The Dongzhou soldiers' front line was as bright as charcoal, rolling soup and pouring snow, and the fire was flying, and it was broken into two pieces at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Pang Xi saw Gao Shun coming to the front, but he wanted to surrender, but Gao Shun came too quickly. He had no chance to speak in the chaos, so he could only seize the horse and run away and flee. Fortunately, Gao Shun led the camp to form an array of infantry battles, and the enemy generals rode their horses and fled but could not catch up, but he also easily captured Pang Xi's big flag and occupied the flag formation.

"I can't fight anymore, retreat quickly! Escape back to Mianzhu City!" Liu Yan, the rear army, knew that the situation was going to go, and ordered his left and right to drive back to the city quickly.

Sixty thousand Yizhou soldiers are expected to completely turn against each other, and the 30 thousand Dongzhou soldiers are unknown to whom they can escape back to defend the city.

The Han army rushed up and captured prisoners all over the mountains. Gao Shun and Zhao Yun rushed to the north gate of Mianzhu City one after another. The defenders on the city were afraid that Gao Shun would seize the city, so they closed the city gate from afar. Even the Dongzhou soldiers and rear troops who had not had time to enter the city were abandoned.
Chapter completed!