After the drums sounded, Li Qian, who was ambushing on the right, also led his knights to mount their horses and attack the Han army's flank. They entered the formation from the right wing and swept through like a whirlwind, dividing the Han army in the reeds into two.
Li Qian's eldest son, Li Zheng, also known as Zhicheng, galloped into the battle formation to fight. Li Zheng wore two armors painted brown, and iron armor was also hung on the front of his horse to prevent arrows. He was less than seven feet tall and his body was relatively weak. He held a bow and three arrows in his left hand and lay on his horse to avoid the rain of arrows. He spotted a knight riding a horse, suddenly stood up, turned the horse's head, and let the horse run sideways facing the enemy. When he was about to get close, he suddenly turned to the left, held an arrow in his right hand and shot it out, hitting the knight in the face. The man immediately fell from his horse on his back. After charging like this several times, all the arrows in the quiver were used up, so he took out his sword to chop. Such a weak-looking young man was invincible on the battlefield. When the Han knights saw it, they shouted: : "This kid is very powerful, who can control him?"
At this time, Wei Gu of the Hedong Army was leading the invasion. Seeing Li Zheng's extraordinary bravery, Wei Gu commanded his troops and said: "Killing a good man is like killing a tiger. Don't be careless. Give me dozens of riders." Surround them and shoot them all together!"
Unexpectedly, when he gathered the knights, Li Qian, who was directing the fighting on the side, noticed the changes on the battlefield. He quickly said to the followers around him: "The thieves and knights are all gathering in one place. Apparently the high-ranking officials are among them. Follow me forward. If we can take advantage of the enemy's position to attack, and our army suddenly sends out surprise troops, and the owl takes its leader, our army will surely win!"
When the followers heard this, they all shouted brilliantly. So Li Qian ignored his old age and charged in front of everyone. He only led more than ten riders and rushed towards Wei Gu. Wei Gu was about to send people to rush west, but unexpectedly, these people came from the north and killed them. He originally wanted to order his subordinates to turn and respond, but the horseshoes were deeply embedded in the mud, making it difficult to use force suddenly. At this time, Li Qian and others were already separated. Within ten steps, among the fallen reeds, both sides could not help but look at each other. They saw that both the enemy and ourselves were covered in mud, water and blood, but neither could hide the murderous intent in their eyes.
Li Gan grasped the knife and followed the momentum of his mount. His hand sank slightly, and the knife immediately inserted into the belly of a Han cavalry. He immediately abandoned the knife and protruded from the enemy cavalry along the short gap. , before he could turn around, he felt a sharp pain on his back. The attendant on the side said: "My lord has been hit by an arrow!"
Li Qian knew that this was a critical moment, so he ordered his followers to cut off the exposed arrow shafts, tore off a piece of his sleeve robe and wrapped it hastily, and then turned his horse back to fight. Then amidst the panicked shouts of both armies, trumpets sounded to summon their troops.
However, the Han army's formation was more chaotic and they had no clear idea of the enemy's situation, so their actions were slower than Cao's army. When Li Zheng saw his father fighting in, his eyes turned red, and he led the cavalry around him to fight in from north to south. The Hedong Army was already in chaos, and now it was flanked from two sides, making it even more difficult to fight the enemy.
Wei Gu was overwhelmed by the defeated troops and almost formed a wave of chaos. But he knew that the army was behind and could not retreat, so he directly drew out his knife and beheaded three soldiers who were crowding southward, shouting: "The knights of Sanhe have been famous in Kyushu for decades, how can they be humiliated today? "He then whipped the tired soldiers around him with a horse whip, and finally managed to stop his decline.
But in doing so, he also exposed his identity. Li Zheng saw Wei Gu arranging his troops dozens of steps away. He immediately drew an arrow and nocked his bow. Suddenly, a cold arrow was fired among the crowd. The arrow was like a flash of lightning. Both Han and Cao had no time to react, so they saw Wei Gu cry out in pain. , folded his chest and leaned on the saddle. Seeing this, the attendants on the side quickly helped Wei Gu off the horse, but the Hedong prefect only had time to say a few inaudible words before his body stopped breathing.
It turned out that Li Zheng's arrow had penetrated Wei Gu's breastplate, penetrated into his body from his right breast, and hit his heart.
The Hedong Taigong Guard Gu Yi died, and the morale of the entire Hedong Army was in chaos. Li Qian took advantage of the situation to lead the army to fight again. The Hedong soldiers who were originally scattered on the edge completely collapsed. Wei Gu's body was also obtained by Li Zheng, who cut off his head and threw it on the left side of the saddle. At this time, he saw that the Chinese army was being broken into by the Han army, so he led more than 20 people to rush eastwards and reached Cao Cao's central army. He asked the sergeant: "Are you aware of the public security?"
When Cao Cao heard that Li Zheng had beheaded Wei Gu, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. He came out of the reeds with a knife and met Li Zheng. When Cao Cao saw that Li Zheng's knife was stained with blood and had many gaps on the blade, and the horse he was riding had arrow feathers on its chest armor, like a hedgehog, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "You will know how many enemies you have killed when you see this knife. A true man." No matter how tall you are, if you are wise and have a heart as strong as iron, who can say you are a man of character?" Immediately, he gave Li Zheng the knife in his hand and a quiver filled with fifty armor-piercing arrows. Li Zheng took the knife and arrows. After that, Wei Gu's head was left behind, and he rushed into the formation again.
When the generals and commanders under Cao Cao saw Li Qian leading the right wing to disrupt the Han army, they all fought bravely with their swords.
After Lu Zhao avoided Guan Yu, he felt extremely ashamed, so he pursued the Han army and fought without regard for life or death. At this time, the Shangdang army led by Zhang Yang was already in front of them. After Zhang Yang originally followed Guan Yu's troops, he thought that he was finishing off the elite troops and had no intention of fighting to the death. Unexpectedly, Guan Yu had just led his troops to rush west, and he became the vanguard of the Han army. He had to face the desperate attack of Cao Jun's elite, and his offensive immediately fell into decline.
"The Sword Comes"
After Lu Zhao charged back and forth, he realized that the enemy in front of him could be bullied, and immediately asked for orders to counterattack. He said to the only thirty knights under his command: "In this fight, don't take away the heads. If you win, you will win, and if you lose, you will be defeated." The fate is certain!" So he led the crowd to attack and repeatedly charged and killed the Shangdang army dozens of times. After the sticks broke and the arrows were used up, they temporarily retreated to rest.
When Cao Cao saw that the war horse he was riding was foaming at the mouth and trembling on its hooves, he would trade his war horse with him. Looking at the attire of the group of people, the road is white, so they are wearing white military uniforms and light-colored armor, but now they have been dyed red, and the blood and sweat are mixed on their faces, making it difficult to distinguish their faces. It's a pity that although they killed many people, they were not as good as beheadings, and there was still nothing beside the saddle. Cao Cao was moved by his bravery and encouraged him: "Looking at the king's armor, you can see that you have killed many enemies, so why bother to count the numbers! After this battle, you will all be killed with a hundred kills!"
Thanks to Li Qian's cross attack on the right wing, the Han army's attack has been contained. Zuo refused Chunyu Qiong's army and was attacked by the Han army.
The Han army led by Wei Yan led more than a hundred cavalry into the formation and braved the arrows. The cavalry struck back and forth, and those who failed to dodge were quickly knocked away. Such ravages made Cao's army unstable and the situation tended to be a melee. Fortunately, the terrain was narrow, so Cao's troops gathered into small square formations and used long halberds and thick shields to block the cavalry charge. Although the Han army has many cavalry, they cannot launch a siege. They can only rotate into the formation, come out and come back, and fight back and forth.
Cao Jun's Sima Wangzheng was an old corps of Zhang Ju, the emperor of Youyan. Later, he was inspired by Liu Yu to assassinate Zhang Chun, the "Mitian General and King of Anding" who was one of Zhang Ju's comrades. He took his head and surrendered to Liu Yu, and was introduced as a confidant by Liu Yu. Even when Liu Yu lived in seclusion, he did not care about his official salary and served around him. At this time, Liu Yu's troops and Chunyu Qiong were fighting on the left. Seeing that Cao Jun's euphorbia soldiers were difficult to kill in formation, the Han army attacked Liu Yu's troops instead. Liu Yu's front formation could not hold up, so he had to send him into the formation to resist the enemy. .
When Wang Zheng went to battle, he led nearly 500 men. However, as he advanced a little south, he was divided and outflanked by the Han army's knights, and soon lost contact with each other. He looked around, Han cavalry surrounded him, and around him there were only more than 20 colleagues who had been members of Zhang Ju's department since then, and a miscellaneous Hu Cangtou branch.
Wang Zheng carries more than two hundred arrows on his back, all of which were made by Youzhou before. They are specially used to break armor. The arrows are extremely long and extremely sharp. He opened his bow and fired straight, and all those who hit him were killed immediately. Zhidu was holding a thorn horse beside him, so that the Han army did not dare to approach.
At this time, several ownerless horses ran over and stared blankly at Wang Zheng and his party. Wang Zheng saw that the arrows had been shot in half, so he dropped the bows and arrows, tore off two pieces of the dead man's trousers, and pulled off his legs. He tied up his trousers, turned over and got on his horse, took out his knife and engaged the Han cavalry in close combat. When the Han cavalry saw him rushing over, they stabbed the horse he had snatched with their long halberds. The horse's chest was covered with bloody holes. He had no choice but to jump off the horse again and get into the reeds that had not been trampled beside him.
Among the hooves of passing horses, Wang Zheng noticed that a horse was moving extremely slowly, and it happened to pass by him again, so he suddenly jumped up and broke the horse's leg. The man on the horse fell off his horse and before he could get up, he jumped on him and pinned him to the ground. The person who fell was actually Qin Yilu, the governor of Xihe. He was pinned to the ground by Wang Zheng, and his face was immersed in the mud and covered with mud. Although he struggled hard, his opponent was too strong and could not break free.
When Qin Yilu saw Wang Zheng reaching out to stab his neck with a sharp knife, he shouted painfully: "Beast! Thief! You will not die well!" Wang Zheng ignored his scolding, shouted "Wan Sheng" repeatedly, and finally forcibly cut off his head. , and threw it into the puddle of blood nearby.
At this time, he stood up straight and looked around, only to find that all the subordinates who came with him had been slaughtered, leaving only Cangtou Zhidu struggling to support himself.
The Han knights around him were all shocked when they saw that the prefect was assassinated, and then swarmed forward to avenge their lord. Wang Zheng grabbed a long tree, and with a pair of enemies, they stood with their chests pierced. And the breath is still there. In order to save their brother, the Han army used a knife to split his shoulders and chop off both his arms before he died.
Zhidu suffered more than ten wounds on his body, and his whole body was red. Then he was shot into his left eye by an arrow. Blood suddenly flowed all over his face and he lost all sight. He swung his sword and struck randomly until his breath was gone. When he died, he was holding a long sword in his hand without falling. . Even Sergeant Xihe was moved by this and said to him: "I heard that there were warriors in the Xiongnu who died with dozens of wounds on their heads, especially with a spear. Unexpectedly, they can be seen here. I heard that there are many warriors among the thieves. This person should be it!"
Little did he know that he was just an ordinary military slave.
The rest of Liu Yu's troops also resisted with all their might, but none surrendered. Although the Han army killed more people, unknowingly, nearly an hour had passed since the battle started. Cao Jun still fought hard and was still not defeated. .
