I have to say that Guan Yu knows his third brother very well. Zhang Fei is a little reckless, but he will never be vague when giving him tasks during wars.

It will only go too far and will never miss the opportunity.

Unfortunately, Xiahou Yuan on the opposite side was not very clear about this.

At noon that day, Xiahou Yuan received news from Yecheng, more than fifty miles south, and learned that the rebellion of Yang Xiu, Yin Kai and others in Yecheng was about to be lost.

Xiahou En, who delivered the letter, almost ran a group of horses, and only completed the journey in more than half an hour.

Xiahou Yuan immediately faced a serious choice.

He first asked carefully about the battle situation in Yecheng and judged that a city as big as Yecheng would not be able to be wiped out immediately. It is estimated that sporadic resistance will continue throughout the day, or the riots did not have time to receive news that Cheng Yu and Zhang He had escaped and did not know how to surrender.

So during the day today, Guan Yu and Ma Chao should have been restrained by a lot of troops and energy. If he runs right away, he should have the chance to abandon the city and break through.

As for the Handan County Town at his feet, to be honest, he rushed here to help to protect Yecheng. Since Yecheng has been lost, Handan, which has become a small county, is no longer important. If he should give up, he has to give up.

If we wait until night, although we can use the cover of night and organize more soldiers to follow us, Guan Yu and Ma Chao might completely resolve the battle in the south and free up their hands to organize the encirclement.

Under the power of the two evils, Xiahou Yuan would rather be chasing a small number of enemies during the day than wait until night to be attacked by the enemy troops from three sides.

Since he decided to break through immediately, Xiahou Yuan's subsequent deployment was surprisingly similar to Cheng Yu's measures when he was in Yecheng.

He also assembled all the cavalry troops of Cao's army in Handan, and immediately left the city to break through the encirclement from the east gate. At the same time, he organized a few thousand infantrymen, and the order given to them was to retreat with the army.

Such an order can give the fish-belly infantry a certain degree of confidence. At least they will not feel that they have been given up by the coach when they run, so they will run hard to escape and try their best to block the enemy when they encounter an enemy attack.

But in fact, Xiahou Yuan had already thought about it in his heart that these infantry were to cover the main force's retreat and attract the enemy's firepower. As long as they ran slowly and were caught up and entangled with the enemy, even if they were solved by the enemy, the cavalry troops would run far away.

Xiahou Yuan's preparations were very fast. The troops with more than 15,000 people left the city and only spent half an hour gathering the entire team to get dry food. They left the city before the afternoon.

Of course, there were Han troops on guard outside the city, so they directly hit Zhang Fei's blockade.

However, Zhang Fei only had 20,000 people. He had to observe the city walls on the east and north sides, and to slightly separate people to monitor the south gate (Ma Chao was originally responsible for it)

So when Xiahou Yuan broke through the entire army, he only encountered only seven or eight thousand people in Zhang Fei's army.

There were less than 15,000 Zhang Fei's troops, who were in other directions of the besieged city. After all, there were more than ten miles away. It took half of the Handan City to reach the battlefield.

Xiahou Yuan obviously observed this situation clearly before opening the door to break through.

He deliberately took advantage of the opportunity that local battlefields had more than twice the strength advantage over Zhang Fei in a short period of time to break through Zhang Fei head-on.

Moreover, Zhang Fei's troops were not all cavalry. There were less than three thousand cavalrymen on the front, and the remaining five thousand were infantry.

Xiahou Yuan broke through with cavalry. As long as he circled a little, he could still escape Zhang Fei's infantry.

Of course, it cannot be said that Zhang Fei's infantrymen are completely useless. They can at least form the formation and provide a solid line to support Zhang Fei's cavalry.

If Zhang Fei's cavalry charges and interceptions are not good, you can also move closer to your infantry and find a breathing support.

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"Xiahou Yuan really wanted to take advantage of his second brother and Bo Qi to chase Cheng Yu and Zhang He, and also broke through. Fortunately, his second brother took care of us in advance and was on guard."

Zhang Fei was always in a state of high war. Seeing Xiahou Yuan coming out of the East City of Handan, he immediately fought up.

"Be careful of the Grand Marshal! We are so many enemies that we should not rush to kill ourselves!" Pang Tong, who was in charge of the army, couldn't help but persuade Zhang Fei to calm down.

But Zhang Fei was unmoved and ordered his deputy general Wei Yan to command the infantry to form a formation. He personally led three thousand cavalry to rush to meet Xiahou Yuan:

"The enemy is large and we are few, so we must use the elite cavalry of our army to seize the hearts of the people so that we can have hope of annihilation of more enemies. Now Xiahou Yuan is eager to break through and his morale is falling.

As long as you attack a little, instead of forcibly trying to encircle the enemy, the enemy around you will only think of escaping as soon as possible and will not fight in love. Even if the enemy cavalry seems to be at least three or four times more than ours, it is not scary."

Although Zhang Fei is already in office as the Grand Marshal and is thirty-seven years old, he is as brave as ever. At most, he will no longer make appointments with enemy generals, but he will still be able to lead the iron cavalry to rush.

Zhang Fei also relied on the advantages of the Han army's iron cavalry equipment, and the heavy cavalry all popularized plate armor and Parthian half-body metal horse armor.

It would be safe to have a thousand heavy cavalry protecting their bodies from left to right and rush to the enemy formation.

The remaining two thousand thunder cavalry only have breastplate and sabre to ride the bow, just support me from the side.

When Xiahou Yuan saw Zhang Fei coming back, he was also afraid of being brave.

Although he was defeated and broke through, the defenders of Handan did not suffer the devastating attacks like the defenders of Yecheng. How could he say there were more than 10,000 cavalry! There were three or four thousand tiger and leopard cavalry alone.

It was just because it was meaningless to continue to rescue friendly troops that he had to break through and retreat. Zhang Fei dared to lead three thousand cavalry to rush forward?

Xiahou Yuan also knew that Zhang Fei was brave and would not fight with Zhang Fei alone, so he used a big banner to make the accompanying guards sound the horn and call on the Cao army to siege the formation. The two sides quickly strangled each other.

The other brave generals of the family around Xiahou Yuan also fought for their own efforts, protecting Xiahou Yuan to break through the siege. Xiahou En on the left and Xiahou Jie on the right, protecting Xiahou Yuan's big star, forming an arrow and sharply piercing towards Zhang Fei.

Unfortunately, Xiahou Yuan quickly realized that something was wrong.

Xiahou Yuan knew that the combat power of the elite cavalry of the Han army was far better than that of the Cao army's cavalry. But he thought that if he piled more than three or four times the number of enemies and if he had tiger and leopard cavalry on his side, he could still completely subdue Zhang Fei.

But after the actual fight, as Zhang Fei expected, when Zhang Fei aimed at the Xiahou Yuan flag formation like a sharp cone, the cavalry on the left and right wings of Xiahou Yuan had no intention of gathering to siege!

Many Cao's cavalry chose to scatter their own ways and continue to break through!

Obviously, Wei Yan's infantry formation was ready and still played a certain role.

Although they could not follow Zhang Fei's steps and rush together, their solemn and steady state still made Cao's army frightened. They tried their best to walk around, which to a certain extent forced Xiahou Yuan's formation to disperse.

Xiahou Yuan secretly complained in his heart: "Oh no! The order given to the soldiers before leaving the city was to bypass the heavy enemy and try to avoid the battle and break through. Unexpectedly, Zhang Fei brought this little man to retaliate against our central army. There was no way, so he had to fight to the death and seek to break through himself!"

Although some troops in the mobile warfare cannot be commanded smoothly, resulting in the advantage of the number of people on the local battlefield is not that big, Xiahou Yuan can still make up more than twice the number of people on Zhang Fei at the front.

All of them have reached this point, and neither side has a way out, just a brave man wins when they meet on a narrow road.

The two sides shouted a fierce battle, especially in this life, Zhang Fei married the third lady of the Zhen family. None of the women from the Xiahou family were his wives. He would have no psychological burden if he wanted to kill the people from the Xiahou family.

Between the iron armored war horses, hundreds of cavalry screamed and fell off their horses, were either dismantled by rifles, or were knocked down by the horses, broken by the bones and broken bones, and then trampled to death. The scene was extremely bloody.

Xiahou Yuan and several brave generals of our family flew away their swords and guns, fought to the death one after another, and instantly killed dozens of Han cavalry.

Xiahou Yuan's iron spear was curled after being assassinated. He had no choice but to take out his cavalry bow and fired a bead at a very close distance.

Although his shooting skills are not as powerful as those of the top famous generals Lu Bu and Huang Zhong, because the combat distance is often five to ten steps, he still shot several Han cavalry in succession. Because there is no iron armor on his face, all those shot are seriously injured or killed by force.

When Xiahou Yuan was fighting with bows, Xiahou Enxiahou Jie and the other two worked harder, protecting the commander from close range, and slashing and stabbing all Han generals who wanted to get close to Xiahou Yuan.

Xiahou Yuan actually breathed a little relieved during the chaos and was able to focus on using his bow and arrow to kill the enemy at a very close range, and rushed out a gap.

Unfortunately, as the elite guards led by Zhang Fei became closer and closer, this state quickly became disillusioned.

"Xiahou Dog Thief died!"

The personal guards around Xiahou Yuan fought with Zhang Fei's personal guards. Zhang Fei danced wildly with snake spears, and several people were picked flying.

Seeing that he was coming in a fierce manner, Xiahou Yuan also realized that his martial arts skills were far inferior to the other party. The outcome depends on the moment of his life.

As his thoughts turned, a thought flashed through Xiahou Yuan's mind: "Zhang Fei is not good at bows and arrows. Now both sides are less than ten steps. Xiahou Enxiahou Jie dragged him down and took the opportunity to shoot him and then pulled out his spear and rushed!"

This is also a choice that has no choice. It is easy for the fierce generals to judge the gap in martial arts between us and us. Xiahou Yuan knew very well that if he didn't get Zhang Fei seriously injured, he would have almost no chance. It would be better to bet.

When Xiahou Yuan drew his bow and aimed, Zhang Fei had already met Xiahou En and Xiahou Jie. When he saw the snake spear flying, Zhang Fei only rallied and shouted loudly, pierced Xiahou En who was caught off guard and flew into the air.

Then he took advantage of the situation to shake the spear, slashed Xiahou En's body from the air, and smashed it at Xiahou Jie.

With one move, he picked first and then threw it, and actually killed Xiahou En and Xiahou Jie in seconds. The speed was so fast that it was completely beyond Xiahou Yuan's expectations.

Xiahou Yuan originally thought that no matter how brave Zhang Fei was, he would have to kill one person with one move? That would be enough for him to aim and release the arrow, and then abandon the bow and get the spear.

How could it be possible to kill two people in one move?

But this happened.

The two sides are only seven or eight steps apart. If the horse is leaping, it will be enough to run three or four times. Who makes the horse's legs longer than human's legs?

Xiahou Yuan was still using the moment when Zhang Fei picked Xiahou En's body to the highest point, he completed his aim and instinctively shot with an arrow.

Because the distance was too close, Zhang Fei really couldn't dodge, not to mention that his snake spear was hung by Xiahou En's corpse at that time, and it was too heavy to block it.

Zhang Fei turned his head with all his might, but he just avoided the door. He was shot into the gap in the side of the helmet, cutting a bloody mouth on his face and shooting his left ear, leaving behind a broken scar.

However, this injury did not seriously damage Zhang Fei's combat power, but instead made him more fierce and stubborn.

Zhang Fei's left face was covered with blood, and an arrow was tied into the side of his helmet, like a hideous Shura Yaksha, thrusting violently.

Because Xiahou Yuan was too short, he had just thrown away his bow and arrow and held the spear pole. Before he could wield the weapon to block it, he was directly pierced by the snake spear.

"It's still slow! Zhang Fei can kill three generals in two moves... I'm careless, I just have one move to pull the spear..." The last unwilling thought flashed through Xiahou Yuan's mind, and he died of anger.

It was indeed a two-way killing three generals, because Xiahou Jie next to him was already dead, but he was half-hit and half-scared by Zhang Fei's move to throw the corpse. He was hit by the double blow of physics and spirit and died without courage.

It just saved the trick of killing Xiahou Jie, which made Xiahou Yuan miscalculated and had no time to pull out his spear to resist.
Chapter completed!