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Chapter 61: The Rise of Liu Bei

How could the Huns Hu cavalry who dismounted the horse and fought were opponents of the black armored iron guards, Mo Dao Hands and heavy infantry soldiers? Rows of Mo Dao stabbed out from behind the horse as short spears, and cut open or pierced into the body of the Huns. The cold arrows shot from various corners and corners caused continuous casualties to the Huns.

Some brave Hun soldiers crossed over to resist the horse, but were soon killed by the Xuanjia Iron Guard. In the eyes of the Xuanjia Iron Guard, these Huns who were not on the horse were fish on the chopping board, with one knife and no chance to fight back.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Yu Fuluo was already wondering if this was a trap. He decisively ordered: "Retreat! Retreat quickly, we can no longer do such unnecessary consumption." The order was quickly transmitted to various units by the fast horses. After the Hun cavalry boarded the horse, they evacuated the earthen city. Outside the city, there were also 7,000 cavalry responsible for guarding the periphery and thousands of ox carts preparing to transport spoils.

Yu Fuluo was still unwilling to give up this operation now. The launch of this raid consumed much manpower and material resources of his tribe, and has damaged at least two thousand cavalry until now. He did not want to pay for this loss in vain.

Just as he racked his brains to think about how to get the hard bone in front of him, a cavalryman came to report: "Report to the Great Shanyu that the large cavalry of Lu Bu's army was coming towards us from the north! When I found out, it was only less than ten miles away! It should be less than five miles away now."

Yu Fuluo's heart trembled. He knew that Lu Bu was good at gags and Tiefutu. But he still maintained a calm expression and said, "Transfer our military orders and the whole army retreated in the same way!" Yu Fuluo's army began to retreat to the northwest. Now Yu Fulu could only pray for immortality and bless Lu Bu's cavalry not to turn around and intercept them westward. If Lu Bu bites it, he would definitely not be able to escape unscathed. At least more than a thousand ox carts would be gone.

However, Yu Fuluo had just retreated and rushed out of the Tucheng City to search for more than a dozen cavalry and scouts, following him from afar. Two cavalry heading towards reinforcements. The ten thousand cavalry tiger and Iron Cavalry who came to support were personally commanded by Zhang Liao. After receiving the pigeon flying letter, he immediately set off from nearby Gaoping. After nearly an hour, he ran more than forty miles. In order to accelerate, Zhang Liao ordered the gang to go first, and the slower Tiefutu followed behind.

After receiving the report from the scouts from Tucheng City, Zhang Liao quickly turned around and rushed towards Yu Fuluo's way. In the end, the Qiqian Gunzima finally encountered Yu Fuluo's team of troops. At this time, Yu Fuluo had to bite the bullet and go.

The war soon began in full swing. The cavalry on both sides began to attack each other, horses roared and arrows shuttled. Dust rose up on the battlefield. Zhang Liao waved his big sword and joined the battle group in person. The generals Xiahou Yuan and Yan Liang also urged the war horses and rushed towards the Huns with his subordinates.

A Hu general swung his sword to slash Zhang Liao, but was blocked by him with a knife rod. He slashed him horizontally, cut him in half, and his body was cut into two sections and dropped off his horse. At this time, a Hun cavalry quietly rode his horse behind Zhang Liao, raised his sabre in his hand and slashed him hard on the back. A cold light rolled over, and the head of the Hun cavalry had already landed on the ground. The master of the sword was Yan Liang. Xiahou Yuan stabbed one Hun cavalry after another with a spear and stabbed one Hun cavalry after another.

Soon the three of them were covered with blood-stained battle robes, and there were not a hundred or fifty Huns who were killed by them. At this time, the sound of horse hooves rumbling from the east came again. Yu Fuluo, who was still watching the battle behind the formation, squinted his eyes and complained in his heart. The one who came was the Tiefutu who had just arrived.

After the three thousand iron pagodas entered the battlefield, the situation immediately became clear. Not long after, the entire Xiongnu cavalry collapsed, and the remaining four thousand Hu cavalry fled around like floods after the collapse of the dam. Before this, Yu Fuluo had already begun to escape, but was caught by Zhang Liao, and slapped the horse and captured the prisoners alive. The Hu Hu cavalry who fled the squad of the guillotine horse team still chased him and gave him the greatest damage. The thousands of ox carts and tribal slaves left on the battlefield were captured by Zhang Liao.

When the sun was about to set to the horizon, the battle was completely over. The battlefield was full of corpses, and the horses who had lost their masters could finally rest, run aside, and quietly ate the vegetation that had not yet been completely yellow on the ground. In this battle, Zhang Liao's Tiger Cavalry also suffered a lot of casualties, but for the Southern Xiongnu, this battle was fatal, and almost all the main forces were annihilated, the Great Shanyu was captured alive, and nearly 10,000 war horses, thousands of cows, and five or six thousand slaves were also lost.

A week later, Zhang Liao escorted Yu Fulu back to Chang'an, and the remaining tribes of the Southern Xiongnu surrendered again. Lu Bu placed all the high-level nobles in the Xiongnu in house arrest, and then broke up most of the remaining tribal civilians and slaves and distributed them to various counties to settle for a living. Only a small number of soldiers from the border counties and counties were mixed with the county soldiers of the border counties and continued to camp and grazed in the Hetao area, providing military and horses for the Lu Bu army. At this point, the Southern Xiongnu Rebellion in the Hetao area was completely put down.

The Huben Cavalry Division rested in Chang'an for two months. After receiving the supplement, it was transferred by Lu Bu to Dingxiang County, where the two generals Ma Chao and Pang De had been fighting with the Xianbei army for a long time. Although they had more victory and fewer defeats, the Ma Chao army, which lacked cavalry, also relied on the fort, and used mobile defense as the main method of annihilation of the enemy. Therefore, although it caused considerable losses to the Xianbei Kebi Neng army, it could not cause a fatal blow to it.

In the early summer of the ninth year of Jian'an, the momentum of Cao's southern expedition was finally curbed. Zhou Yu, on the order of Sun Quan, led 30,000 elite troops from the Eastern Wu to station in Chibi, upstream of Xiakou. The vanguard navy, who advanced eastward, was defeated on the river surface and had to retreat to Wulin on the north bank of the upper reaches. After more than a month of confrontation between the two armies across the river, Liu Bei, who had 20,000 troops, finally sent 2,000 soldiers to aid Zhou Yu, and was not under Zhou Yu's control.

The Cao and Wu army broke out in small-scale battles on the river surface many times, and the Eastern Wu army won. At this time, Cao Cao faced a bigger problem than [the skills of the navy are inferior to those of others]. That is, the northern soldiers of the Cao army were not adapted to the local environment, and more and more Cao army soldiers began to fall ill in the Wulin. In the autumn, these unacceptable conditions turned into epidemics, and the entire battalion of Cao army soldiers were plagued by epidemics.

Zhou Yu, who obtained this situation through careful work, immediately launched a general attack. In order to allow Huang Gai, who was the vanguard, to successfully attack Cao Cao's water camp, Huang Gai also let Cao Cao surrender. He filled with flammable objects such as tinder oil, gunpowder, dry firewood, straw, etc., the fighting ship disguised as a surrendered ship and approached Cao's water camp. Then, under Huang Gai's command, despite Cao's warning, he rushed towards Cao's fleet docked in Wulin Port, and the fire quickly burned in the port. After Zhou Yu's main force following behind landed, he launched an assault on the Cao's army camp in Wulin.

The 100,000 Wulin Cao army, with a low morale, was quickly completely defeated, and Cao Cao was forced to retreat to Xiangyang. Then Zhou Yu's army began to sweep the Cao camps around Wulin. The leaderless Cao army was defeated like a mountain, and tens of thousands of troops collapsed. This is the famous Battle of Red Cliff. The only biggest winner in this battle was Liu Bei and Liu Xuande. After the war, he quickly captured the other four counties in Nanjingzhou.

While the Battle of Chibi was going on, in the far north, in Dingxiang County, Bingzhou. Ma Chao, who received reinforcements from the Huben Cavalry Division, finally seized an opportunity to defeat the main force of Kebineng's troops, and seized the heads of Kebineng and his brothers. Kebineng's remaining troops fled eastward and no longer had the ability to come to harass Bingzhou.
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