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Zhang Liao touched the depression on his chest and couldn't help but take a long breath. Fortunately, the armor on his body was of good quality, otherwise the arrow would have shot through his armor just now and hit his heart!

He frowned slightly and asked Shi Gang, the Duke of Jiangdong Army who had just surrendered, "Shi Gang, tell me the truth, where did this cavalry emerge?"

Shi Gang smiled and said, "General, I really don't know about this. We didn't bring cavalry when we set out from Jiangdong. We only got more than a hundred war horses in Luyang some time ago. Sun Jian regarded them as treasures and was not allowed to go to the front line to fight. This time, after we set out from Dagu, Sun Jian assigned Huang Gai ten war horses to facilitate contact. The young man really didn't know where these cavalry came out!"

"You are lying!" Hao Meng next to him raised his whip and whipped hard on his cheek, leaving a clear whip mark.

Shi Gang was pulled off his horse by him and fell heavily into the small puddle on the side of the road, splashing mud and water. But he didn't care about climbing out of it, nor did he cover the wound on his face with his hands, but just knelt in the mud and water and kowtowed repeatedly: "God, please spare me, please spare me!"

Hao Meng looked at his soft egg appearance and couldn't help laughing and said to Zhang Liao contemptuously: "Wenyuan, you still treat him as a treasure. Having such a soft egg is such a bad person, it's really a shame for us people in Bingzhou!"

Zhang Liao shook his head gently, "Brother Hao, even a dog has its uses. Besides, beating a dog depends on the owner!"

Hao Meng snorted coldly: "Isn't there only one hundred iron cavalry? What's there to be proud of? I have more than two thousand people in my hands!"

While muttering, Hao Meng rode his horse away.

Zhang Liao shook his head gently again, sighed, and said to Shi Gang who was kneeling on the ground: "Think about it again, what can be supplemented? You have also seen that the army is very dissatisfied with me saving your life and official position! If you have no value, then..."

Shi Gang broke out in a cold sweat and said repeatedly: "I remember the general, those people must be Cao Ang's subordinates!"

"Cao Ang? Cao Cao's eldest son?" Zhang Liao asked in surprise: "He has no territory at all, so where can he have the money to buy cavalry?"

"It is said that Wang Kuang gave him a lot of money, and the entire Hanoi County provided him with logistics support!" Shi Gang quickly replied, including the news he had learned and his own speculation: "We three armies headed north together, and the cavalry in Bao Xin's army was only used as scouts and sending messages, and only Cao Ang had an elite cavalry under him!"

Zhang Liao nodded, "So that's it. No wonder those cavalrymen evacuated immediately after rescued Huang Gai, and they didn't care about you little soldiers. Shi Gang, since you have joined our Bingzhou Army, you can change your name. Sun Jian and the others are all bandits!"

"Yes, yes!" Shi Gang answered quickly.

"Go, try your best to persuade the captured soldiers to surrender. You are now Du. As long as you persuade 100 people to surrender, I will be promoted to you as a general of the army. If you persuade 200 people to surrender, I will be promoted to you as a military marquis, and if 500 people to surrender, I will be promoted to you as a chief of Qu!"

Shi Gang asked in surprise: "General, really? OK! I will definitely work hard!"

Seeing Shi Gang leaving happily, Zhang Liao shook his head gently and rode his horse to Lu Bu's tent to report the situation. Zhang Liao was unwilling to do everything by himself, which made Lu Bu suspicious of him, thinking that Gao Shun wanted to plan. Since he chose Lu Bu, he had to show respect for him.

When he arrived in Lu Bu's tent, Zhang Liao found that Hao Meng, Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Song Xian, Hou Cheng and others were all in the tent, and only Gao Shun was not there. He couldn't help but shake his head gently and tell Lu Bu what he knew.

After hearing his story, Lu Bu nodded repeatedly: "No wonder there are more cavalry in the Jiangdong Army. So that's it! Although Huang Gai ran away in this battle just now, the entire Jiangdong Army was destroyed, which is a gratifying congratulations! Each of the generals here rewarded ten gold!"

"Thank you for the reward of lord!" The generals quickly stood up and thanked him loudly. Although the ten golds were not much, they were mainly face. As for the lone Gao Shun, everyone subconsciously avoided his existence. Who made him so dissatisfied!

Lu Bu said in a deep voice: "Since Cao Ang's cavalry appears here, his troops are likely to be nearby. Hou Cheng, you will immediately dispatch the scout team to reconnaise the enemy's cavalry. Song Xian brought more than a hundred cavalry to chase the enemy's cavalry remnants. The remaining troops will continue to march after resting for an hour, and do not delay!"

All the generals followed the orders and came out one after another. However, Lu Bu called Zhang Liao and said to him: "Wenyuan, go and see Gao Shun and find him some big carts to check out the armor. This guy just doesn't know how to deal with him. I guess no one is willing to help him with it!"

Zhang Liao hurriedly said: "The lord takes care of him so much, Gao Shun's camp will definitely be more loyal to the lord!"

Lu Bu sighed, did not respond, and waved to Zhang Liao to leave. Although everyone was from Bingzhou, Lu Bu killed Ding Yuan to take over the position of the head coach. Although some Bingzhou people followed his orders, they always complained about him, such as Gao Shun.

An hour passed in a flash. At this time, Hou Cheng also came to report and said that he had discovered Cao Ang's camp. Lu Bu immediately led the generals to go for reconnaissance in person.

Not only did everyone come to Cao Ang’s camp, but they found that Cao Ang was prepared, the camp gate was closed, and the archers had already stood at the standby. Hou Cheng and the cavalry tried it and were soon forced to retreat near an arrow.

Lu Bu couldn't help but frown. The other party had relatively strong camp as support, and he could do everything he could to resist horses. Compared with Huang Gail, who was caught off guard, he had the strength to stick to his feet.

Zhang Liao frowned, leaned over to Lu Bu, and whispered: "Lord, Cao Ang seems to be ready. Look at his village walls, they are made of two layers of thick wood. If it weren't for time, I guess they would have been filled with earth and stone!"

"I didn't expect Cao Ang to be so well prepared!" Lu Bu sighed and asked loudly: "Have Song Xian returned? Have you ever captured the other party's important personnel?"

Song Xian quickly rode his horse and ran over: "Report to the lord, a total of 17 enemy cavalry were captured on this trip. After interrogation, nine people were left. According to their confession, the enemy generals Han Hao and Huang Gai have escaped into the dense forest and it is difficult to capture them. However, Huang Gai's serious injury has just recovered, so he should not be able to withstand too much trouble! It's either a serious illness or a life. Don't worry, lord!"

Lu Bu nodded, "If you take advantage of him, let them feed mosquitoes in the jungle. You take all the cavalry you caught to the formation, let them shout to surrender and shake the morale of the enemy!"

Song Xian immediately agreed and soon took nine prisoners covered with bruises to Cao's camp and asked them to kneel down one by one. Then he heard the prisoners crying and begging for mercy, and kept calling out the names of soldiers in the camp they knew, asking them to put down their weapons and raise their hands to surrender.

But at this moment, one of the prisoners suddenly shouted loudly: "I am Han Laoqi, Han Hao, Huang Gai is safe and sound!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was kicked to the ground by a soldier in Bingzhou and even whipped hard on his shoulder. But the Han Laoqi was still shouting: "Han Hao, Huang Gai is safe, lord, please rest assured! Don't worry!"

At this moment, Song Xian stabbed into his back heart with a knife. Han Laoqi groaned, twisted his body into shrimps, and kept trembling! Blood kept pouring out of his wounds, but at this moment of dying, Han Laoqi was still shouting hard: "Don't worry, lord..."

Cao Ang wiped his wet eyes and shouted angrily: "Rocket is ready to release!"

Hearing his orders, dozens of archers immediately ignited the rockets in their hands and shot them forward. However, the position of Song Xian's troops was just outside the ground, and the rockets could not hit them at all.

Song Xian laughed loudly. Such a big camp had only such a few archers, which was really a joke. Seeing Lu Bu signaling, Song Xian shouted loudly: "Attack!"

Hearing his orders, hundreds of soldiers immediately rushed up with wooden shields.

At this time, the camp remained silent. Seeing that they were rushing closer and closer, Li Dian, the commander of the camp, shouted loudly: "Archer, shoot!"

Hearing his order, five hundred archers shot arrows at the same time, and listened to the arrows falling from the sky, nailing them to the wooden shield, making a loud and tick sound. From time to time, arrows drilled into the gaps of the wooden shield, and pierced into the soldier's body with a puff. But all the soldiers who could still move rushed forward and no one dared to stay in place, because staying in place means death!

Song Xian's subordinates rushed closer and closer, and soon ran to the edge of the village wall. At this time, the soldiers in charge of guarding the village wall also raised the bows and arrows in their hands, aimed at the rushing soldiers, and kept firing.

Song Xian's subordinates were all elite soldiers who could take on the vanguard of the entire army. However, even the elite soldiers could not easily climb a two-meter-high village wall without the help of tools.

Song Xian's subordinates kept chopping the wall blocking the road with their swords. However, before they could cut a few cuts, they were taken away by arrows shot from the slanted piercing, or were stabbed into their chests by Cao's guards on the wall.

The soldiers were just busy slashing, but the soldiers gathered in front of the village wall became thinner and thinner and fewer! Soon someone noticed that the comrades on both sides were lying on a pool of blood, shouting loudly, crying, turning around and running, and then being shot to the ground by the Cao army archers without any hesitation.

Song Xian's personal soldiers waved the sword in their hands and supervised the battle loudly, but the defeated soldiers ignored their plans and just lowered their heads and ran back. Seeing that Song Xian did not make any decision, these soldiers who temporarily acted as the supervision team also stood by and watched.

The first test attack was declared a failure!
Chapter completed!