Liu Bei was hiding from the rain of arrows in his house, when suddenly an urgent message came from the messenger saying that there was something abnormal.

Liu Bei did not dare to delay and hurriedly followed the messenger.

At this time, the battlefield situation changed. After the enemy withdrew their crossbowmen, the infantry began to move out. The rebel soldiers drove the people to take the lead. The people, men, women, old and young, cried and cried and refused to move forward. If they walked a little slower, the thieves would

The soldiers would kill people with one sword strike.

When Liu Bei arrived, the Julu Army Chariot Formation was peaceful and quiet. The soldiers were unwilling to attack the people and did not make any mistakes.

The common people were afraid of the threat of the traitors and did not dare to step forward. They saw the scattered crowd of traitors and civilians getting closer and closer to the village. Seeing this scene, Liu Bei's face was gloomy and he delayed issuing an attack order.

The deputy general next to him couldn't help but ask for instructions, "General, fire your arrows. When the people rush up, they will inevitably fight."

Liu Bei looked at the enemy soldiers who were mixed among the people. The thieves and soldiers were hiding behind the people in an extremely despicable manner. They were clearly using the people as human shields. If they didn't attack, the enemy troops would rush up directly. If they attacked,

, the common people will block a lot of arrows for the thief army. This vicious move of the thief army is completely a conspiracy and cannot be solved.

(Unless he captures the thief and captures the king...) Liu Bei's gaze crossed the enemy's infantry array and landed on the enemy commander's position under the banner of the enemy's rear formation. Liu Bei immediately made a decision.

Liu Bei immediately gave the order.

A moment later, overwhelming shouts erupted from the Julu military vehicle array.

"Those who kneel will avoid death!"

"Those who kneel will avoid death!"

"Everyone kneels on the ground! Anyone who doesn't kneel will be shot to death without complaint!"

While shouting to the people, the soldiers raised their bows and arrows high and shot the arrows over the people's heads.

The crossbowmen specially used sharp-edged arrows with no sharp tips. The thunderous arrows flew randomly from the heads of the people. Listening to the frightening sound of the arrows, a commoner was hit by the sharp arrows and flew past his face. He was so frightened that his body trembled and his brain immediately went blank.

"Those who kneel will avoid death!"

"Those who kneel will avoid death!"

The shouts and shouts of the officers and soldiers went straight to his ears. When he was so frightened that his mind went blank, the common man could not think too much. His legs gave out and he knelt on the ground with a plop.

The movements of the Julu Army were closely connected. They started shouting. Just after shouting for a while, the car formation opened up and a group of fine armored cavalry rushed out. The leader was Liu Bei and Liu Xuande.

The cavalry of the Julu Army rushed in front of the common people with lightning speed. When the cavalry was overwhelming, the common people blocking the way turned pale with fright and could not run away.

"Those who kneel on the ground will avoid death!" Liu Bei shouted. He raised his sword and the reins violently, and the war horse jumped over the head of a kneeling civilian.

More than a hundred cavalrymen of the Julu Army rushed directly into the crowd like tigers rushing into a herd of sheep. Liu Bei, the leader, was unstoppable. Liu Bei's long sword stabbed left and slashed right. In the blink of an eye, he rushed forward dozens of steps, slashing continuously.

Killed seven or eight enemy infantry.

In an instant, Liu Bei broke through the enemy's scattered formation. The enemy general reacted in time and sent a small cavalry force to respond.

Seeing the enemy cavalry approaching, Liu Bei said without fear, "Drive!" He kicked the horse's belly and charged forward.

The horses' hooves rumbled like thunder, and the two sides approached instantly.

The enemy's charging cavalry group collided with Liu Bei, who was riding alone, and the two sides instantly merged into one.

Amidst the clash of swords and guns, Liu Bei swung out the heavy sword in his hand and smashed an enemy's cavalry lance to the side. Unexpectedly, another cavalry lance stabbed Liu Bei in the chest. Liu Bei couldn't hide in time and was killed.

The huge impact of the riding horse caused him to fall backwards on the horse's back.

The situation was critical, with the enemy's shadows in confusion and the sound of hooves thundering. Liu Bei didn't care to stand up or check whether he was injured. In desperation, he arbitrarily struck out with his sword.

The sword seemed to have struck something, and there was a huge backlash, and there seemed to be screams from the enemy soldiers.

An instant later, it passed through the formation. Liu Bei stood up and felt pain in his chest. Liu Bei lowered his head and glanced down. He saw a dent in the armor on his chest, but the armor piece had not been penetrated.

Liu Bei secretly said, (Good armor!)

The fighting continues.

Liu Bei rode alone and charged into the enemy's cavalry, killing one of the enemy's cavalry in the chaos of horses.

Later, the cavalry of the Julu Army arrived and joined Liu Bei. Liu Bei led the cavalry and charged into many formations with the enemy's cavalry, killing more than half of the enemy's cavalry.

During the charge, Liu Bei was the sharpest man. He used his long sword to slash left and right and lead the attack. Whenever he drew his sword, the enemy would either have his spear broken or his halberd broken, or his men and horses would fall.

After several battles, Liu Bei achieved many results, and the sword in his hand was dripping with blood.

After defeating the enemy's obstruction, Liu Bei led his cavalry to attack the enemy commander's flag. Seeing that Liu Bei was unstoppable, the enemy commander hurriedly sent a soldier named Battuoer in the army to lead the elite cavalry to stop Liu Bei.

A Hu warrior named Battuo'er was brave, extremely powerful, and good at wielding an iron axe. This man led his troops to rush towards Liu Bei, hoping to kill Liu Bei off his horse. The two sides faced each other first.

Together, the cavalry versus the cavalry, the master against the master, the two horses are intertwined, the enemy general holds an ax to chop off Liu Bei's head, Liu Bei swings his sword to chop off the other's head, the swords of both sides collide with each other in mid-air, and then pulls off his head.

Lost.

As a Hu general with unmatched axe-wielding prowess, Ba Tuo'er was quite strong, but even so, he could not match Liu Bei's strength. The weapons of the two sides collided, and it was Ba Tuo'er's ax that was knocked upside down, and then

, Liu Bei returned the sword with his backhand and turned Ba Tuoer's head off from the back of his neck.

Liu Bei is good at using two swords and the technique of two swords. He is good at looking forward and backward, and counterattack is just an ordinary skill. The enemy general is not a chicken or a dog, but he is worthy of fighting Liu Bei in a duel.

When the enemy commander saw that the men in the army were not Liu Bei's enemies, he saw that Liu Bei was charging towards him unstoppably, so he quickly ordered the infantry of the front army to retreat, and at the same time retreated the cavalry formation.

The enemy commander was extremely smart. He avoided Liu Bei's sharp attack and ordered the cavalry to retreat while firing back with bows and arrows, never confronting Liu Bei head-on. In addition, the enemy infantry retreated and Liu Bei could not pursue him.

Enemy infantry was approaching from behind. We were in a dilemma and had to leave the battlefield.

Liu Bei circled back from the side of the battlefield, and when he returned to the village, Julu soldiers had already rescued the people who had been held hostage by the rebels.

Liu Bei, who had just finished the fighting, could not take a break and quickly called for military doctors to help the people.

After a long time, the people felt a little calmer, and they all knelt down and thanked Liu Bei profusely for not killing him.

A general count of the people showed that there were more than 400 men and women.

After Liu Bei calmed the people with his kind words for a while, he looked out of the village and saw that although the enemy army had moved away from the village, they were still not far away. The enemy troops were arrayed again and were still watching eagerly. The enemy commander was difficult to deal with.

Liu Bei couldn't help but frown.

Withdrawing his gaze and focusing on the people, Liu Bei became worried.

This time we were able to save the people by surprise, but our own cavalry also suffered a lot of losses. There were more than a few hundred people in the four fields. If the enemy captured the people and came to attack the villages later, wouldn't it be trouble again?

Liu Bei thought about it for himself. He thought, if he was the commander of the bandit army, although the enemy's official army was small, but its soldiers were strong, and in addition, it was entrenched in the village, supported by chariot formations, and could not be attacked for a long time. At this time, if he captured the people in the countryside,

, forcefully drive the people to attack the village, the people are endless, and eventually the defenders in the village will lose all their arrows, and then they can fall in one fell swoop.

If the enemy commander really uses this method, the situation will be difficult.

Then, is there any way to prevent the enemy from driving the people away to attack? Liu Bei began to think about it.

(…Yes!) Liu Bei had a plan in mind.

Liu Bei immediately took out the soldiers and weapons seized from the army. He went to find the common people and exchanged a few words with them. Then, the Julu Army left the village.

Liu Bei led the army out of the village, went to a place where the enemy's line of sight was visible, and set up a battle formation. Just before the battle formation, Liu Bei and the people worked together to put on a good show.

Liu Bei deliberately denounced the enemy's brutality in front of the battle line and asked the people if they were willing to take up swords for revenge. The people were excited and wanted to fight back with red eyes.

Liu Bei ordered his soldiers to bring vehicles with swords and guns, and distributed the vehicles full of weapons to the people on the spot.

On the enemy side, the enemy commander watched the actions of the officers and soldiers in front of the formation from a distance. When the enemy commander saw the captured people listening to the officers and soldiers honestly, the enemy commander frowned; when he saw the civilians, the enemy commander frowned.

Pointing here and swearing angrily, the enemy commander frowned even deeper; when he saw the officers and soldiers distributing the entire truckload of swords, guns and weapons to the common people, the enemy commander's brows were already furrowed;

When the big flag with the word "Qian" written in blood on the pole was erected, the enemy commander could no longer raise any fighting spirit.

"Retreat!" The enemy commander immediately ordered a retreat without any hesitation.

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Liu Bei's plan was successful. He deliberately sent troops to the people in front of the battle array, deliberately distributed armor and weapons to the people, and deliberately told the enemy commander, "Have you seen it? It doesn't matter how many people you arrest, the people just need to come over to me and take them."

If you equip yourself with a weapon, I can hit you with my backhand."

This is a psychological tactic. Use psychological tactics to make the enemy commander know that every civilian captured will increase the strength of the Julu Army. Of course, the enemy commander knows that capturing civilians will not only not reduce the combat power of the Julu Army, but will also increase the strength of the Julu Army.

When the Julu Army's combat power is increased, the enemy commander will no longer arrest civilians.

The enemy will no longer send civilians to die, and the goal will be achieved.

Liu Bei's psychological tactics were used extremely well, and he achieved his goal without spending a single soldier.

In fact, there is a deviation in this.

Liu Bei thought that the enemy army saw that the people could be used by the Julu Army, and then they were unwilling to do useless work. This was only part of the reason. The other part of the reason was that the enemy commander was afraid that when Liu Bei had enough manpower, he would drive the people to attack the city.

The enemy commander thought about this and was afraid that Nanpi City would not be protected, so he was no longer willing to send people to the army.

There was a big misunderstanding between the two sides. Liu Bei misunderstood that the rebels were afraid of increasing the combat power of the Julu Army, and the rebels misunderstood that Liu Bei would drive the people to attack the city. By a combination of circumstances, the strategic goal was achieved.

Liu Bei would not drive the people to attack the city at all. This involved a sense of morality and practical considerations. Liu Bei knew how difficult it was to attack a city. He also knew that well-trained soldiers were better at attacking a city than soldiers without any training.

If the people go to attack the city, how big the gap can be.

In short, if the people are allowed to attack the city, they will climb on the siege ladder. They will be afraid to climb up slowly, and will lose speed. The deployment of manpower will be extremely slow, which will lead to the fact that because there are no people on the siege ladder, the siege ladder will be blocked by the enemy.

The overthrow of the army again and again will cause a lot of damage to the siege ladder. The gap between the siege efficiency of well-trained soldiers and ordinary people is more than ten times. Ten times the efficiency means ten times the cost, which means,

If you force the people to attack a city, you have to prepare ten times more siege ladders and ten times more time to attack the city. You even have to calculate the people's ration consumption.

Driving people to attack a city is useful, but not that useful.
To be continued...