Zhang Niujiao saw his soldiers being chopped and killed by the enemy's cavalry, without any strength to fight back, and his heart was as if he was twisted.

He ordered the golden gong to be ringed and ordered the soldiers in the valley to quickly withdraw into the carriage.

Within a hundred steps from the bottom of the hill to the chariot formation, the soldiers who had not had time to escape were immediately killed by the Leopard Army cavalry.

Li Hong on the hill saw that the cavalry was about to rush into the range of the Yellow Turban Army's bow and arrow, and immediately ordered the horn to stop the attack.

Dusk has arrived. The vast earth in the twilight is gradually shrouded in a thin layer of mist, and the dark curtain is about to rise.

On the hillsides and on the river valleys, there are dead bodies everywhere. The strong smell of blood floats everywhere with the bleak cold wind.

"Minister, Zhang Niujiao used his terrain advantages to build a defensive chariot with large baggage trucks. If you want to completely annihilate him, it is best to tear the gap with infantry and use cavalry to attack the tough. Our losses are too great." Yan Rou looked at the position of the Yellow Turban Army and said helplessly.

"Black Panther Yicong and Yan Wuwei's troops chased the enemy and attacked fiercely, but failed to break their chariot formation, but were beaten back. It can be seen that Zhang Niujiao is prepared for this battle. He put some effort into this chariot formation." Li Hong pointed to the Yellow Turban Army position on the Jiuli River and said to the gang of officers standing behind him: "Look, the slope here is one hundred steps long, and the valley below is two hundred steps. But half of the valley was occupied by his chariot formation, leaving us with only two hundred steps, and there are still one hundred steps within the range of his bow and arrow. The longitudinal distance and horizontal distance are not suitable for our cavalry to launch an attack."

Li Hong smiled and said, "Do you have any tricks to defeat the enemy?"

Hu Zi was full of anger and shouted loudly: "When we were in Guangning, we had trained infantry combat. We changed half of the cavalry to infantry, and the infantry and cavalry cooperated and attacked at the same time, so we could definitely take it down."

Xian Yuyin immediately retorted: "No. We cannot fight attrition with them. The advantage of cavalry is to run long distances and charge into battle, rather than attacking enemy fortresses. Now we use cavalry to fight the Yellow Turban Army's chariot formation, which is simply a death sentence."

Tie Yue said, "I agree with Lord Xianyu's opinion. Now we have an absolute advantage, and there is no need to fight with the enemy to consume. The Yellow Turban Army has been trying to capture the hills and break through. After a long fierce battle, their losses are far greater than ours. According to my estimate, there are at most half of them left. You can tell if you look at the dead bodies on the battlefield. Now it seems that there is no place to find the front. We can keep surrounding them until they starve to death here."

Yan Wuwei continued: "It is not a solution to surround this way. Once the Yellow Turban Army at Dingxing Ferry arrives, we are very passive. We will fight reinforcements without any force to surround Zhang Niujiao. If we hit Zhang Niujiao, we will be attacked by enemy reinforcements."

Yan Rou nodded and said, "It's indeed very passive. Zhang Niujiao is shrinking the chariot array, obviously because the loss of troops is too great. But the smaller his chariot array is, the harder it will be to attack us. Now the Yellow Turban Army is like a turtle with its head-reducing head, and we have no idea how to start."

Li Hong smiled: "Yes, yes. It's like we gnaw the bones of cows. Let's gnaw it, we're so tired that we don't gnaw it. There's bone marrow inside and a little cow tendon on the surface. It's a pity to throw it away."

Everyone saw that he looked stingy and burst into laughter.

"Do you really like to gnaw on cow bones? I'll treat you next time." Fist screamed.

At this time, Yan Liang hurried over.

"How is Black Panther's casualties?" Li Hong asked immediately.

Yan Liang was full of sadness and whispered: "I broke more than two hundred brothers."

Li Hong was shocked.

In just one short meeting, Black Panther Yicong and Yan Wuwei's army lost more than 500 people. Although the enemy paid a greater price, Li Hong was still very angry.

He yelled: "Fight."

Zhang Niujiao looked at the darkening sky and felt heavier and heavier.

Zhang Baiqi must have eaten the leopard. Otherwise, he would have crawled even if he crawled.

"Pinpu, it seems that something happened to Ziyin?" Zuo Yan, who also felt something was wrong, sighed and said softly.

Zhang Niujiao shook his head, as if he wanted to throw all his thoughts out of his mind.

"It's dark, what do you think the leopard is going to do?" Zhang Niujiao asked coldly.

Zuo Yan looked sadly at the battlefield where corpses were everywhere in front of him, without saying a word.

"Junyi..." Zhang Niujiao raised his tone slightly and called him.

Zuo Yan shrank his head, as if he could not resist the cold wind on the river bank, and walked to the side of the cart. Zhang Niujiao looked at him intently, waiting for his answer.

"When we set out from Zhongshan Kingdom, there were 150,000 people, a mighty man." Zuo Yan smiled bitterly and said self-deprecatingly: "Now there are only more than 10,000 of us left. Even if we kill the leopard and destroy his cavalry, we will be defeated miserably, and the entire army will be defeated."

Zhang Niujiao glared at him angrily and said loudly: "Junyi, we still have 10,000 Fang Biao's troops, what are the entire army being destroyed? As long as we destroy Leopards, the entire army will be wiped out. Next year, next spring, we can conquer Youzhou without any damage."

Zuo Yan seemed too lazy to talk to Zhang Niujiao, and sat alone under the wheel of the car and closed his eyes.

Zhang Niujiao looked at Zuo Yan sarcastically and continued, "We are now like a bloody goat, dying, and Li Hong is like a very evil leopard, surrounding us. What he is waiting for is an opportunity to kill one blow and completely end our lives."

Zhang Niujiao's mouth raised a trace of murderous aura.

"Now is his most negligent time."

Zuo Yan suddenly opened his eyes wide and asked in surprise: "There is still a way?"

Li Hong is preparing to attack again.

Xian Yufu heard Yan Rou say that Li Hong insisted on starting a joint attack between infantry and cavalry. Xian Yufu was shocked and barely supported him to arrive at the front line.

On the hills, dense sounds of oxen horns rose and resounded through the battlefield. The battle flags of each group were moving rapidly and interchanging. The cavalry lined up on both wings, and the infantry gathered in the middle, and the entire hill was standing in a dark place. The tense atmosphere of the war was approaching made people almost breathless.

The night is about to be pulled up.

In the Yellow Turban Army's chariot formation, the soldiers were full of anger and energetic. They stood in their own defensive positions, waiting for the battle, and vowed to fight the Fengyun Iron Cavalry to the death.

Li Hong was covered in blood, with disheveled hair, holding a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, standing at the forefront of the infantry outrage troops.

Xian Yufu ran towards the horse. All the wounds on his body burst out due to the violent bumps of the war horses, and blood oozed out, dyeing his clothes that had already been mottled.

"People, don't be reckless, just slow down. After you fight, there are almost no cavalry in our Youzhou. It is impossible to raise so many cavalry in the short term." Xian Yufu said loudly, "You don't consider the future of Youzhou, I have to consider it. Although I can't order you, don't forget your promise to Lord Liu. Before leaving, Lord Liu hopes that you will form a cavalry and a cavalry to protect the northern border. But this cavalry is not your own, it is from the Han Dynasty, Youzhou. For the sake of more than 10,000 people in front of you, a Zhang Niujiao, you want to make the Fengyun Iron Cavalry a bright light. Are you for your own military merits, for your own reputation, or for Youzhou?"

"We have eliminated more than 30,000 Yellow Turban Army members, and the purpose has been achieved. Even though Zhang Niujiao brought more than 10,000 people back to Fanyang, his main force has been fought, and it is very difficult for him to stay in Zhuo County. If the Jizhou army fought fiercely and fiercely, he would still have to withdraw from Zhuo County. He must return to Changshan and Zhongshan, the old nest of the Yellow Turban Army, to reserve a piece of territory for the survival of the Yellow Turban Army."

When Li Hong saw Xian Yufu getting angry, he hurriedly said with a smile: "Isn't it better to wipe it out now? Don't get angry, I promise to wipe out Zhang Niujiao before dawn."

"No." Xian Yufu said firmly: "In order to cooperate with you in the battle, we brought out 4,000 soldiers from Zhuocheng, and almost all of them were killed in this battle. Now there are very few troops in Youzhou, and we cannot lose another four or five thousand men for a battle that has nothing to do with the overall situation. It is absolutely not possible."

Xian Yufu was an official in charge of military affairs in Youzhou Governor's Office. His opinions represent the opinions of the Governor's Office, so naturally they must be taken seriously. Li Hong scolded him and felt a little annoyed.

"Yu Xing, if Zhang Niujiao is destroyed, there will be no war in Youzhou. Can the troops be rebuilt?"

"We know nothing about the situation in Jizhou now. We don't know if they attacked the Yellow Turban Army, we don't know how many troops they have, and we don't know if Jizhou has agreed to our request. The Yellow Turban Army's sudden withdrawal is unknown. All kinds of reasons are our guesses and there is no basis. If it weren't for Jizhou, maybe something happened to them inside, causing Zhang Niujiao to withdraw his troops?"

"We must never lose the big picture because of small things. In order to ensure that in case, we must retain enough troops to deal with emergencies. This is not a problem of commanding the army to fight wars, it is a problem related to Youzhou's security."

Li Hong understood what Xian Yufu meant. He was considering whether he could wipe out the enemy completely and whether he could regain the entire Zhuo County in the shortest time. For this purpose, he could do anything. But Xian Yufu was considering the entire Youzhou. He had to consider whether this battle was to be fought from the perspective of the entire Youzhou, and how to fight would be more beneficial to the future of Youzhou.

Li Hong had nothing to say. He admired Xian Yufu's knowledge very much. A few words explained the status quo and pointed out the key points. Indeed, no one knew the reason why Zhang Niujiao suddenly withdrew. Now, based on his own guesses, what if Zhang Niujiao is eliminated? The Yellow Turban Army still has many leaders and many armies, and they can still attack Youzhou and drive in.

The purpose of the battle has been reached, and there is no need to fight again.

"Okay, listen to you." Li Hong returned to the sheath of the sword, patted Xian Yufu hard, and said with a smile: "You washed your face and immediately returned to your original state. I'll accept you."

Xian Yufu sighed and said gratefully: "Thank you for saving my life."

Li Hong shook his head indifferently, "Next time you remember to save me."

Then he turned around and shouted: "Order all the troops to surround Zhang Niujiao immediately and monitor closely to prevent him from breaking through at night."

"Send someone to notify the Yu Junhou and hand over the prisoners to Tian Junhou in the rear guard and suspend the attack."

"Tell Zheng Junhou and immediately send out the scouts. The scouts are spread within thirty miles."

As he was talking, he saw Zheng Xin running towards him on a horse.

"Shouyan, are you going down the mountain to fight Zhang Niujiao alone?" Li Hong shouted loudly as he looked at Zheng Xin without any intention of stopping the horse.

"Since the situation is critical, Chu Feiyan's troops suddenly appeared in Jiuliting."
Chapter completed!