Lu Bu came with anger and rushed forward. The painting halberd in his hand suddenly stirred up a sharp sound of the wind, and the sound was so powerful.

Zhang Fei on the opposite side was also aware of it. The moment he spoke out and angered Lu Bu, he was prepared for the peak bloody battle.

In this life, Lu Bu and Zhang Fei and Guan Yu had never fought each other. The incident of the Three Heroes fighting Lu Bu did not happen at all. After all, when he was debating Dong eight years ago, Liu Bei was already the genuine Yizhou master. How could he still charge himself?

At that time, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun were in charge of the army. In the end, Zhao Yun got Zhu Jun's support. When Hu Zhen and Lu Bu were ambushing at Zhuyuan Pass, they secretly crossed Taigu Pass and attacked the Sun family's father and son.

That time, Lu Bu was fighting fiercely with Sun Jian, Sun Ce and his son Cheng Puhan as four generals for more than 200 rounds, and injured several people. Because of the collapse of the morale of the army, he was exhausted and Zhao Yun was on the retreat fashion. As a result, he fought for 30 rounds of blood and escaped, which made Lu Bu bear the stain of a cavalry and general who had been his lifelong battle.

However, everyone knew in their hearts that Zhao Yun had gained a bargain and both sides were in full swing, they obviously could not beat Lu Bu. In the next few years, although Lu Bu also killed many generals, he did not have the opportunity to show his power to the world with his personal courage.

In this life, he didn't even have the scene of "shooting the halberd at the gate". The highest moment when Lu Bu later regained his dignity was just killing several famous generals from the second-tier Cao camp during the "Battle of Guandu", and seriously injured Xu Chu, who played the battle with him for life.

All of this made Lu Bu a little frustrated and depressed, and also made Zhang Fei more eager to try to have a fight with Lu Bu alone.

On the other hand, because it has been eight years since he was a 25-year-old young man, and his physical strength has not decreased. However, Lu Bu has gone from his peak at 34 to more than 40 years old, and his endurance has increased and decreased. If he fought for 200 rounds in real blood, Lu Bu's endurance would have no advantage.

The two sides were so powerful that they were thunder and they collided with each other with their own secret confidence of winning.

The spears and halberds intersected, and the loud noises of tooth-acid metal rubbed, even the cavalry on both sides who were surfing dozens of steps away felt a slight discomfort in the eardrums.

The war horses on both sides were still so steady, and did not tilt and sway at all because of the huge force transmitted from the horse's back. It seemed that the eight horse's hooves were welded to the ground.

"This horse of Zhang Fei is not worse than mine. Why is the explosive power so amazing? This move is very open and close, and it depends entirely on horsepower to carry the power. This weapon is also a masterpiece of the world. If my painting halberd is also made of such good steel iron, it would be a pleasure. Well, today I will treat it as a refreshing battle, regardless of life or death!"

Lu Bu realized that the other party's strength was not inferior to him at first glance, but instead stimulated his fierceness. After just a dozen moves, both sides completely warmed up and entered a state of selflessness of shouting and fighting. It seemed that nothing in the world deserves their attention and interference in their minds.

...

The bloody and hearty battle is enough to illustrate many problems.

In addition to physical fitness, time can also change a lot of things on both sides of the war.

For example, the weapons of both sides in battle are no longer the old things of the past. In the real world, there is no drama of "novice village blacksmiths create magical weapons and weapons."

Zhang Fei's snake spear was once lost during a bloody battle with Yan Xing, and Lu Bu's painting halberd also severely damaged Xu Chushi's branches. In recent years, the advancement of steel filling technology and new forging technology have allowed all the generals of Liu Bei's camp to replace with more sophisticated weapons.

Now Zhang Fei has more advantage of the opponent's physical strength being slightly declining, and his weapons, armor and war horses have been significantly improved. About one stick of incense has been completely burned, and half of the second stick of incense has been burned, and the two have fought for more than a hundred years, and Zhang Fei can still completely stabilize the situation.

Lu Bu still beat Zhang Fei a lot in terms of fighting experience and finding trick flaws. Unfortunately, under the protection of Zhang Fei's new full-body armor, Lu Bu finally found two opportunities that he had completely failed.

It turned out that Lu Bu was used to attacking strong enemies. If the main attack of the Huaji and the opponent's weapons were opened and opened, and stabbed hard and could not win, he would use the Huaji to hold the enemy's weapons, and then drag the cutting and search for the machine to hurt people with the Huaji branch, and then finish the battle when the enemy was suffering from pain and was slightly injured and distracted.

How many generals who had fought back and forth with Lu Bu were injured by Lu Bu's moves that were so easy to adapt to the situation. Even in the Battle of Guandu a few years ago, when Lu Bu seriously injured Xu Chu, he used the side blade branch to weaken the enemy first.

Unfortunately, at this moment, he found that facing Zhang Fei's full-body forged steel plate armor, the damage of cutting the halberd branches was almost reduced to completely ineffective. The original proven method of stealing damage to weaken the enemy's fighting style was no longer useful.

The only threat to Zhang Fei was the only one who had the main sharp blade, which was similar to the spear in front, pierced with all its strength. This kind of crazy poke without fancy, combined with Lu Bu's huge force, still stood aside in any steel armor.

But after the attack method was restricted, Lu Bu felt unaccustomed to it and was suppressed to perform, which was inevitable.

It was the end of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Although it had been a month since the hottest time of the year, the weather was still much hotter than the month when many heroes in history.

The two sides fought for half an hour, and they were completely sweating all over the top. If they continued to fight, they had to be dehydrated. Even if they could withstand the willpower, they would probably have to be completely destroyed.

Lu Bu tried hard to attack several times in the last few times to destroy Zhang Fei's defense, but it was still fruitless. Seeing that the bloody battle lasted until nearly two hundred, Zhang Fei stabbed a spear and then opened it with a feint, and offered to change the horse.

Because Lu Bu was not familiar with the characteristics of the Arabian horse breed, he did not know that the endurance of the Arabian horse was worse than that of the sweaty horse. He used his performance of "Red Rabbit Second Generation" to guess Zhang Fei's horse, so he used the donkey to agree to rest and drink water before fighting.

This break took the hottest time of the whole noon, and the two of them returned to the game before the afternoon was over.

Lu Bu hasn't fought such a fulfilling general for many years. He became obsessed with martial arts for a while and did not consider Zhang Fei's other conspiracy to delay time and continued to fight.

Moreover, if you see a chance to win, both sides will be slightly addicted. Because both sides know that the other party has a high status and a high position and power, if they kill each other, they may be able to extinguish the morale of tens of thousands of enemy soldiers. They will take advantage of the situation to pursue and achieve major results at a lower price.

On the first day of bloody battle, the two finally fought for nearly five hundred in two rounds, and the horses were replaced by several horses. The main reason was that the sun set and the sun cooled down. The two also prepared to drink a lot of water in advance to resist dehydration, and fully prepared to make the bloody battle longer.

The soldiers stood there for a day but didn't get the chance to take action. They couldn't relax and were also in a hurry.

However, Zhang Fei only had hundreds of cavalry out of the city to accompany him to stand. In order to find an opportunity to attack, Lu Bu brought several thousand cavalrymen and the rear army was on standby, which was really miserable.

Unfortunately, once the cost is invested, I always feel that I will have a chance if I add more effort. At this time, I am more reluctant to let go and I am too lazy to reflect on it.

The next day and the third day, Zhang Fei continued to make an appointment, and Chen Gong, the adviser around Lu Bu, felt something was wrong.

But Zhang Fei's way of making a fight became simpler and more crude. He directly learned the lines of Xiang Yu in "Records of the Grand Historian" that Liu Bang had a single fight, and changed a few words: "Those who are in Bingzhou who are storming for several years will only be with us! You can come to die together! Don't suffer the elders of the Three Jin Dynasties!"

To be honest, the statement that Xiang Yu had asked someone to fight one-on-one in history was quite righteous at first glance: everyone brought tens of thousands of people, and let the brothers fight to the death and die for nothing, why bother?

However, the difference in the military power between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang is too great, and people in their twenties are looking for an old man in their fifties to fight alone, so Liu Bang certainly cannot face the challenge, which makes Xiang Yu's challenge seem a bit nonsensical, and at most it will hurt Liu Bang's morale.

But there was no suspicion of Liu Xiang when Zhang Fei and Lu Bu were like this. Lu Bu ignored the persuasion of his advisers and, under the stimulation of "Can we come and die together! Don't just suffer the elders of the Three Jin Dynasties!", he fought with Zhang Fei for several days.

The two armies had a total of nearly 90,000 soldiers, and they either rested or stood on both sides of the Fen River every day. Looking at the protracted and long-lasting ancient style fighting generals, it seemed that they had returned to the state of fighting with rituals in the Zhou Li era. Everyone temporarily regressed to abide by the rules like Duke Xiang of Song.

After a few days of appointment, Zhang Fei and Lu Bu fought for more than a thousand rounds, and he had never been so happy in his life. Zhang Fei encountered dangerous situations five times, but he was not stabbed in front of the halberd, so he could not break the slight internal injury of the forged steel plate armor on his body.

Even Lu Bu was slightly stabbed and scratched twice, and he actually had two bloody mouths on his body. Especially on the second and third day, Zhang Fei also figured out some tricks and knew that his armor defense was obviously very high.

Sometimes when Lu Bu subconsciously uses old moves to force Zhang Fei to rescue him, Zhang Fei could barely dodge and take a little while, and take the opportunity to fight back, which caught Lu Bu, who had formed muscle memory, off guard.

Lu Bu has to admit that Zhang Fei's martial arts can also hurt him. Even from the overall perspective, Zhang Fei's martial arts are indeed not as good as him.

Although this kind of war has never appeared again in the history of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and in the eyes of those wise men, they always feel that it is incompatible and not worthy of advocacy.

But I have to admit that Zhang Fei and Lu Bu’s noble moral integrity on the issue of the fight are still a bit retro, and it is a special highlight of an era, even if it doesn’t last long.

The soldiers of both armies were also full of passion and had never been so motivated, full of heroic spirit to witness the heroic epic.

...

The Gu Feng's appointment lasted for three days. Later, Zhang Fei realized that he could not hold it back. Moreover, the advisers around Lu Bu tried to persuade him to hold him back and not be delayed by Zhang Fei for delaying time.

After recalling the taste, Lu Bu finally gave up Zhang Fei's continued entanglement. Faced with Zhang Fei's challenge again, he just replied that if Zhang Fei wants to fight, the whole army will leave the city and fight in a dignified manner! Don't play this retro trick of one-on-one challenge! In fact, it delays time!

Anyway, Lu Bu would definitely not be accused of being timid and unscrupulous. If he refuses to fight alone, he must have a dignified reason. He should in turn make an appointment for a bigger and more vigorous full-scale battle.

At the same time, during the three days of the battle, Lu Bu was not really idle. His troops who took turns to rest were also building siege weapons in case of unexpected surprises.

Now, it is true that Zhang Fei has not been taken down in the battle, so we will adopt the second plan to allow the troops to attack Houma County, which is far more devastating than Linfen, which is the county town where Xu Huang set up a grain land for Xu Huang after entering Wangwu Mountain to block Zhangliao's rear road.

Houma's defense facilities are very weak. It is a small county town of very low level. It is located on the land passage between the Fen River tributary, Wushui and the opposite Qinshui Xi Branch, and is located at a low pass on the ridge of Wangwu Mountain.

If Guan Yu had not wanted to open up the Qinshui Grain Road before, there would be no need for defense in broken places like Houma County.

Lu Bu was not sure to break through Linfen, which Zhang Fei defended, and even the generals could not kill the opponent, it took a lot of time, so he used the Houma to force Zhang Fei to fight in the field.

Of course, when fighting Houma, even if the Han army faced the field battle, the scale of enemies Lu Bu would face would increase because this means that Xu Huang had already left the defenders in Houma, and Zhang Fei could also reinforce the inside and outside cooperation.

If Lu Bu did not have the field strength to obviously crush Zhang Fei, Xu Huang's men could have opened the city gate of Houma County and attacked Lu Bu with Zhang Fei when the two sides were in a stalemate.

Therefore, Lu Bu had to be prepared to "hold up Zhang Fei and Xu Huang's joint counterattack in the field battle" in order to do this.

Moreover, when Lu Bu attacked Houma, he could not suppress the entire army. He still had to leave some of Wei Xu's men to block the intersection of Zhang Fei's north along the Fenshui River Valley, otherwise he might have been cut off from food by Zhang Fei.

From this perspective, even if Lu Bu uses this to force a field battle, it will be a field battle after the strength of both sides has increased and decreased, and his side cannot participate in the battle in a full state.

What made Lu Bu even more depressed was that after he began to attack Houma, Zhang Fei actually stopped, changed his arrogant desire to fight a few days ago, and just defended Linfen City very steadily and did not leave.

Lu Bu was furious and ordered the attack on Houma, making Zhang Fei anxious and let Zhang Fei see clearly, "If you don't have field rescue, I will be able to take Houma in a few days"!

Zhang Fei was still so sure that it was actually because he was persuaded by Fa Zheng. Fa Zheng repeatedly warned him not to hurry. Even if the defense in Houma County was very broken and Xu Huang was there, it would be no problem to persist for three or four days, so that Xu Huang would consume another wave of Lu Bu's army's spirit. And to calculate the days, Ma Chao should be in place soon.

Zhang Fei let Lu Bu attack Houma for three days. More than three or four thousand people were killed or injured by the siege troops, and more than one thousand were injured by the defenders. The Bingzhou Army was suffocated, not only because the attack failed, but also because the enemy was so calm. Is there any other conspiracy?

After so many days of consumption, coupled with Lu Bu's rest when he arrived and the three days of war, since Lu Bu arrived in Linfen, his troops have been wasting eight days.

Early in the morning of the ninth day, Lu Bu thought that he would definitely wipe out the Houma defenders in just two or three days, or force Zhang Fei to come out to fight the field, so his morale slowly encouraged the entire army to continue to work hard and attack the city quickly.

But shortly after he mobilized the troops, Zhang Fei released a group of prisoners of Lu Bu's army, and all of them cut off their ears and noses to show their military power to Lu Bu.

When Lu Bu was captured, he was furious and immediately refused to take revenge on Zhang Fei. However, the military and counselors around him tried hard to persuade him to figure out the situation first.

Lu Bu suppressed his anger and asked, and suddenly found that there were some confidant officers around Cheng Lian, who were quite familiar with him.

Therefore, the news that "Cheng Lian was killed, and Ma Chao's cavalry crossed the Yellow River from Lishi to the east, and raided the hinterland of Taiyuan along the Fen River" inevitably spread among Lu Bu's army.

Lu Bu was shocked and wanted to attack Houma again, but he realized that it was meaningless. And as long as the news spreads, the morale of the army will never have the will to fight such meaningless battles.

But what should Zhang Liao do? After Lu Bu arrived in Linfen, the stalemate was delayed until the ninth day. There was no military ration in Zhang Liao. I am afraid it has been fifteen days, which is only half a month.

I don’t know how much food the 60,000 to 70,000 people in the valley were blocked before the attack on the wolf city of Guanglang, and how many days could the rations they had when Zhang Liao was blocked in the valley. Half a month passed, and how many days could he eat the food with the army.

Lu Bu was like a wild beast who chose people to eat, paced back and forth fiercely, and finally made a decision: "It made Zhang Fei feel that I had no intention of saving Zhang Liao. Our army slowly retreated, and I broke the back personally. If Zhang Fei pursued, the whole army must work hard and fight together!

We were trying to seek opportunities to fight Zhang Fei in the field, but Zhang Fei refused to leave the city. Now Zhang Fei knows that we are eager to rescue Taiyuan. Ma Chao has succeeded. Will he be able to resist chasing us? He wants to chase us, and we ask Zhang Fei to fight in the field! No matter whether we retreat in the end or not, at least we have the chance to fight the whole army quickly!"

Lu Bu also hoped that he would lead more than 50,000 people to fight against the enemy in a dignified manner, seduce the enemy to chase him and then turn around and kill and annihilate the pursuers.

...

After Lu Bu made the decision to withdraw his troops, he did not hide his itinerary, so Zhang Fei found out early the next morning. Zhang Fei was still afraid of fraud, so he confirmed for another whole day and sent a scout to search for nearly a hundred miles away. He confirmed that there was no fraud. More than 50,000 enemy troops looked like they were slowly retreating north, because there was a fire in the rear.

"Whether Lu Bu is chasing? Although Lu Bu is brave and the Bingzhou soldiers are fierce, Taiyuan is threatened, and all counties around him are at risk of being plundered by Bo Qi. Lu Bu should have no intention of fighting, right?" Zhang Fei asked Fa Zheng to express his opinion carefully.

Fa Zheng thought for a while: "With Lu Bu's wisdom, he can't think of any strange plan. However, it is too unusual for him to not hide his determination to rescue him. He must have felt that he had spent many days to seek field battles before. Now he is following the situation and taking advantage of the situation to fight with you. He probably feels that he is still better than our army under his morale."

Zhang Fei laughed proudly: "Morality is so severe, and he still has the confidence to ensure that the people will not disperse when the troops are chased? Since he is like this, he still wants to fight in the field, we will fulfill his wish!"

Fa Zheng sighed: "General Zhang, we have a safer way, why not a good day to arrive on the same day as General Ma Chao, contact Lu Bu's main force, and then we will attack from front and back?

Moreover, General Xu Huang's troops can also be drawn out to chase us. There is another advantage in drawing Xu Huang's troops, that is, it can find an excuse for our slow pursuit, so that Lu Bu will undoubtedly have him."

Zhang Fei touched his nose: "Xiaozhi, you really don't want to take any risks. You are too boring."
To be continued...