Li Dian was hesitant and that Yu Jin's troops were deeply encircled. If he did not send troops to rescue him, he would be afraid that he would be in danger of fighting against the cavalry with his troops. But if he sent troops to rescue him, the barriers here would be without guards, and the supplies, grain trucks and the 300 civilians would inevitably be insured.

It is really a difficult thing to make a decision at the end of the battle.

Just as Li Dian was hesitating, a horse galloped from the northwest. Although the knight was hit by two arrows in the back, he did not delay at all. He ran to the range in front of Li Dian's car formation and shouted:

"I am a personal guard under the command of the Pinglu School Captain. The School Captain has ordered the General of the Central Army to line up and stand firm. The Chief of the School Captain has broken through the formation and come out. When he arrives to meet again, he will also ask the General of the Central Army to send troops to support him."

The knight was wearing Cao's armor, covered in blood, and was hit by two arrows behind him. He didn't look like a disguised military spy. Li Dian quickly sent him to the formation and sent someone to provide emergency treatment. At the same time, he ordered the army to speed up the deployment of vehicle barriers. He climbed up and looked at the northwest direction of the horns nervously.

The knight said that he broke out quickly and came to meet the convoy. However, when Li Dian's van barrier was roughly arranged, Yu Jin's troops still did not arrive for a long time. Instead, the sound of the horns of the enemy cavalry were getting closer and closer.

Just when Li Dian decided to send several Li family members who had recovered their horsepower to conduct a sentry again, Yu Jin's troops who had been waiting for a long time finally appeared.

The shaking Cao army flag was moving on the plain. The army formation of Yu Jin's troops was already fewer than when he first met. Yu Jin abandoned his horse and was in the middle of the army formation that was fighting and retreating. He commanded the infantry rushing out of the enemy cavalry and retreated along the Bian River to the direction of the formation of Li Dian's troops.

During the retreat, Yu Jin's troops still maintained a generally complete military formation. The soldiers holding spears were sanitation outside, with archers and short swords mixed in the back. In the middle was Yu Jin and his personal soldiers. Everyone fought and walked, without stopping for a moment, retreating back to back.

Because in order to keep the formation intact, stand up shields and spears at any time and anywhere to resist the enemy cavalry's sprint into the formation, Yu Jin's military formation was destined to be unable to roll his armor and move forward quickly when retreating, and could only retreat in small steps. This is not only a severe test for soldiers who are fighting and retreating, but also faces tremendous pressure for Yu Jin, who is commanding in the formation.

During the retreat, soldiers who were caught in arrows, fell behind or fell from time to time. Once they lost the guards of other comrades around them, they were immediately shot down by the Western Liang cavalry like wolves, knocked over and killed. Although Yu Jin saw it, he refused to allow his subordinates to rescue him. Everyone must keep the same pace and slowly retreat, and could not stop for a moment.

This practice is cruel, but it is also very effective, and at least more soldiers survived.

The Western Liang cavalry conducted several tests and wanted to charge and break into the formation, but Yu Jin's troops quickly reacted. They stopped in time as big as walls, spears like forests, bows and arrows, and short blades fighting hand-to-hand. The end was impeccable. After several light cavalry charges, they retreated in shame.

Li Dian, who was in the formation, saw that Yu Jin's soldiers were approaching and showed joy. He immediately ordered to move a corner of the carriage and put out the livestock that was pulling the carriage. He led 300 Li family troops to personally rush out of the formation. He braved the arrows of the Xiliang cavalry and quickly connected Yu Jin into the formation. Then the carriage barriers he moved were surrounded again, forming a closed-loop carriage array based on the Bian River.

Northwest, nameless highland.

"Wow—"

Zhai Hao, with a leopard head and swallow chin, a tiger back and a bear waist, rode his horse and ran to a slightly higher terrain. The bearded man trembled and looked at Cao Jun who had already set up a car barrier and yelled in anger:

"This group of Yanzhou thieves are very arduous!"

Since the Yanzhou troops marched into Henan, Zhai Hao has long asked Yan Xing for his orders, wanting to fight and lead his army to counterattack the invading Cao army.

However, on the one hand, all the Hedong army fought westward and were involved in the battle in Guanzhong. There were no reinforcements to be drawn to support Henan. On the other hand, these Yanzhou soldiers were very cautious in advancing all the way. No matter how the cavalry sent by Zhai Hao lure them, they never pursued them. Yu Jin's troops of the front army took the camp step by step, and by building camps along the way, they pushed the camps to Longcheng near Xingyang.

The defenders in Henan have always had the least number of land in Sanhe. Although there are six or seven thousand cavalry, except for the troops guarding Luoyang City and garrisoning Luoyang Eight Passes, Zhai Hao's only military troops with more than a thousand cavalry under him.

Among the Hedong army, the number of cavalry is more advantageous than the heroes of Guandong, but Cheng has not many cavalry units. After Ganling recruited and formed in Hexi, the Qiang and Hu cavalry that were previously recruited in Hexi were transferred by Yan Xing and split into various armies. At present, except for the elite cavalry of the Central Army led by Yan Xing, Cheng's organization has not changed, the only one thousand Xiliang cavalry under Zhai Hao's command has not changed.

In order to leverage the advantage of cavalry over infantry on the plains, Zhai Hao, who was short of troops, failed to lure the enemy into a plan, and had another plan. He simply withdrew the households in Xingyang and left 800 infantrymen east of Chenggao to defend, intending to lure the enemy troops who were greedy and advance to attack Xingyang City. At that time, he would use his cavalry advantages to use it, and then attack Cao's army, and fight a beautiful annihilation battle outside the outskirts of Xingyang City.

Unfortunately, Yu Jin, who had already entered Longcheng, had not made any moves to march again.

At this time, Yan Xing had ordered the guards to find an opportunity to defeat the Cao army for a while to suppress the aggressive arrogance of Cao army. So Zhai Hao, who received the order to use troops, finally couldn't hold back than Yu Jin. After the cavalry, he found out that Cao's rations were transported to Longcheng. Zhai Hao, who was in Chenggao, decided to attack decisively and led the Xiliang cavalry to bypass the front of Yu Jin's troops and attacked in a roundabout way, intending to cut off the rear grain route of Yu Jin's troops.

However, Zhai Hao did not expect that after Cao's army encountered his Xiliang cavalry on the plain, they did not collapse at all. Instead, they fought and retreated all the way. Although they suffered nearly a hundred casualties, they still let them retreat into another barrier set up by Cao's army.

The tenacity of the combat effectiveness of the Yanzhou troops was beyond Zhai Hao's previous expectations. After all, when he attacked Baibo, Hedong rebels, and pursued Zhang Ji, and Guo Si defeated his soldiers, the Xiliang cavalry under his command were running lightning and moving forward. Unexpectedly, he cut off the food route today and encountered tough traits among the enemy on the plains.

Zhai Hao didn't know that while he sighed that Cao's army was a difficult enemy, Yu Jin behind the chariot barrier was also secretly frightened, smacking the light and fierce battle of the Xiliang cavalry.

To be fair, Yu Jin believed that the five hundred soldiers under his command were already elite in Cao's army.

Yanzhou is in the four battles in the Central Plains. At first, the Cao army fought against Yu Du and Bailuo, and later assisted Yuan Shao in fighting against Tian Kai and Liu Bei's Youzhou soldiers, defeated Qingxu Huang Turban, Yuan Shu soldiers, Tao Qian soldiers, and defeated Zhang Miao's rebels, Yingchuan, Runan Yellow Turban, and also fought against Lu Bu's Buqi. It is not an exaggeration for the old soldiers in the army to say that they have experienced many battles. Even the new soldiers, at least they have experienced the pacification of Yingchuan and the many battles in the Runan Yellow Turbans, and have seen the blood and swords on the battle formation.

However, Cao's army, which had few enemies in the Central Plains, was still feeling huge pressure when facing the Xiliang cavalry. Although they had few enemies on the plains and had more attacks on the cavalry, they were consumed by several rangers during the battle and retreat, which was something Yu Jin had never encountered since he joined the army.

If it weren't far from Li Dian's part, Yu Jin guessed that his 500 infantrymen would have exhausted their physical strength during the retreat, and then the Western Liang cavalry would have risen up and attacked them. In the end, these 500 elite infantrymen would not escape the fate of destruction.

Now that my own phone has withdrawn into the car array, although I have not escaped from danger, I can at least let myself breathe.

He was just fighting and retreating. During the retreat, Yu Jin shouted so hard that his throat was smoking. He was breathing for a while and quickly ordered his subordinates to drink water to quench their thirst and repair their soldiers. He also took out the water bag and poured some clean water into his mouth.

"Prince Yu!"

When Yu Jin was irrigating his dry throat with clear water, Li Dian had already walked over quickly. He pointed to the Xiliang cavalry not far away with worry and said:

"Person Yu, look at these cavalrymen, they are not like ordinary squadrons, and they are numerous, with about a thousand cavalry, they look like elite cavalry of the enemy!"

Yu Jin nodded and said with a palpitation:

"I'm afraid that this is the Xiliang cavalry led by the Henan garrison Zhai Hao. These cavalry are veterans with skillful bows and horses, and they fight very fiercely. If Man Cheng hadn't lined up to support him, I'm afraid Jin would really die in the battle."

"The captain is too humble. The captain is on the plain and has no danger to defend. He can still escape with his footsteps. Dian admires him very much. However, at present, we have only a thousand soldiers who can fight, and there are also food trucks. The people need protection, so they can only rely on the barriers to stand for help. Dian has just ordered to raise cigarettes and ask for help!"

Yu Jin turned around and looked at the formation and collected dry manure and firewood, nodded, and then looked back at the Xiliang cavalry cruising not far away, frowned and said:

"Longcheng is closest to this place, and there are still 1,500 elite soldiers. Unfortunately, they are all infantry soldiers, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to come in an instant!"

In fact, Yu Jin still had a layer of worry in his heart, that is, after the encounter with the Xiliang cavalry just now, he felt that on the plain where there was no danger, his army, which was simply infantry, was very passive and powerless when fighting against the Xiliang cavalry, which was even more difficult than when dealing with Lu Bu's cavalry in Yanzhou.

Although Lu Bu's cavalry was elite, Lu Bu was a stray dog ​​and had few cavalry under his command. He could only be used as the main general's personal guards and cavalry. The main force of the army was still Zhang Miao and Chen Gong's Yanzhou rebels. Like the Cao army, they were all composed of infantry.
Chapter completed!