The two sides faced each other not far apart for a long time.
Liu Yu wanted to cope with all changes by remaining unchanged, and he did not dare to act rashly because of his numerical disadvantage, lest he expose his flaws.
The situation on Ju Peng's side was indeed a bit complicated. Some people in the coalition were timid and did not dare to take the initiative. They only wanted to let Liu Yu's side attack first.
Some people want to press the entire army immediately, without giving the rebels a chance to breathe.
Of course, there are also old Mr. Chun Yuxian who shouted to kill the enemy and punish the evil before the battle, but before the battle, he kept urging Ju Peng to be mature and prudent, and repeatedly delayed Ju Peng from ordering the attack.
At this time, Liu Yu had ordered the entire army to sit down and rest. He himself dismounted and retreated to the back of the low hill, and began to drink water to quench his thirst.
At this time, the sun has slowly risen, and the temperature has also risen. If the confrontation continues like this, both sides should retreat by almost noon. Otherwise, with this hot summer temperature, I am afraid that many more soldiers will suffer from heatstroke and lose their numbers. Fighting.
After Liu Yu drank the water, he discussed with several generals that if the enemy did not take the initiative to attack today, then the battle would not be fought. At that time, he could only try to find opportunities to see if he could carry out sneak attacks and rob camps. s method.
Suddenly, a slight commotion came from the side. A soldier who was staying behind to observe ran to Liu Yu and told him that the enemy on the opposite side had moved.
Liu Yu quickly threw away his water bag and ran to the top of the hill to check, and saw that the coalition forces in the distance had indeed begun to take action.
Among them, a part of the coalition army was walking down the hill towards its left flank.
Liu Yu took a look and found that the enemy on the opposite side wanted to take advantage of the wide terrain on his left wing, fully expand it, give full play to his numerical advantage, break through and crush his left wing, and win.
As the coalition forces approached, the skirmishers from both sides who had been fighting each other in the open space between the two sides also lost space and retreated to the rear of the infantry array.
Both sides lacked enough archers, and apart from a few flying arrows, there was almost no large-scale archery exchange.
Because they felt they had a numerical advantage, the coalition's morale was very high and they were marching very fast. However, after entering the bow and arrow range, as people fell to the ground after being hit by arrows, their marching speed also slowed down.
At this time, the powerful coalition forces intending to outflank Liu Yu's left wing had already formed several columns and crossed the wide space in the middle.
Ju Peng, who personally led the army, was at the front of the team. Ju Peng saw from a distance that the rebel left wing had tilted back to cope with the siege after he launched a horizontal formation.
However, the actions of the rebels had already been expected by Ju Peng. The soldiers led by Ju Peng personally numbered 3,000 people, more than twice the number of rebels on the left wing. It was impossible for the rebels to withstand their own attack. .
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On the noisy battlefield, there were figures running for their lives everywhere, and screams filled the surrounding area.
Ju Peng fell to the ground, clutching his abdomen in pain, and struggled to stand up, but several attempts exhausted his last strength and failed. He breathed heavily, trying to relieve the pain on his body. Painful, he vaguely guessed that his ribs must have been broken by the rebel cavalry just now.
Ju Peng was lying on the ground, and all he could see were the legs of the rebels running forward in pursuit. At this time, these rebel infantry had no time to care about Ju Peng, the wounded soldiers who had lost the ability to resist. They ran wildly to chase the fleeing powerful coalition forces.
The powerful coalition forces fleeing in the distance were knocked to the ground one by one by the pursuing rebel cavalry and infantry. More and more people knelt down and begged to surrender after exhausting their strength.
Ju Peng painfully thought that he was responsible for the defeat of this battle. He led his army to attack the rebel left flank from three sides with several times the force. Unexpectedly, the rebels relied on their excellent armor and did not collapse at the first touch as expected by the coalition forces.
Instead, the coalition forces encountered a slight setback and fell into a fierce stalemate.
At this moment, a group of armored cavalry with men and horses suddenly shot out from diagonally, and the powerful coalition's front line was instantly penetrated.
Even Ju Peng, who was supervising the battle behind the formation, was wounded by the rebel cavalry that broke into the rear formation. The rebel cavalry knocked down the general with the first impact. Seeing the general's flag disappear into the chaotic crowd, he was already in trouble. The coalition forces with different fighting intentions were shaken.
When the cavalry made its second attack, a general retreat occurred, and soon the unorganized retreat turned into a general rout.
The powerful coalition forces, which were still fighting a bitter battle with the rebels' center and left wing, initially thought that Ju Peng had succeeded in attacking the rebel left wing. However, they soon saw that the rebel left wing had rushed down the hillside and was chasing the fleeing coalition forces behind. And you can also see many cavalry formations attacking from a distance.
They originally thought of driving the rebels to death with a diagonal strike, but they never expected that Ju Peng would attack with several times the force and be defeated first.
The other coalition commanders were cursing in their hearts. Ju Peng Xiao'er was indeed weak in what he said. Now the rebel left wing counterattacked with a great victory. If they turned right after expelling Ju Peng's defeated troops, Attack, then the coalition forces attacking the rebel center and right wing are already in danger of being attacked from both inside and outside.
Chun Yuxian, who commanded the central army of the coalition, quickly dispatched a force to support Ju Peng's defeated troops in an attempt to stem the decline.
However, as soon as this army took the lead, it was attacked by the rebel cavalry who had been well prepared. Not only did it not stop the retreat of the right wing, but it also shook the morale of the entire army.
The powerful military commanders who had been watching the situation felt that something was wrong. These rebel infantry were outnumbered and outnumbered, and they did not fall behind at all. The fierce cavalry kept driving the defeated troops to flee towards the middle, and soon they were separated from the coalition forces. The middle road is about to fall into a situation of being attacked from both sides, and the failure of this battle seems to be doomed.
Several powerful commanders quickly pulled their troops back from the front and fled backwards, no longer paying attention to any friendly forces. At this time, the most important thing was to escape with their lives and preserve their own strength.
The first snowflake falls and the avalanche begins.
The powerful forces in the coalition who originally wanted to continue fighting have been shaken by this time. The morale of the army is in chaos. It is futile to continue the attack. It is impossible to defeat the rebels when they have a numerical advantage, and it is even more impossible now.
With the sound of the three-way drum, the rebels who had seized the fighter jet shifted from holding on to their original position and launched an all-out counterattack. After the bravest soldiers in the front row of the coalition forces were killed, the coalition forces fell into a complete rout across the entire front.
At this time, Liu Yuzheng led the cavalry to the hillside behind the coalition forces and began to attack the coalition forces fleeing here from a high position. The defeated coalition forces who suffered a head-on attack turned their heads and fled towards the depressions with dense rivers and ditches to the south.
However, many of the defeated troops still passed through both sides of Liu Yu's cavalry, climbed over the hills and fled back. Among them, the first to escape had disappeared far behind the hills because he had horses.
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