When Zhang Xi launched the charge, batches of ambushed troops rushed across the embankment.

Roughly estimated, their number was more than two thousand, wearing various ragged clothes, holding long and short weapons in their hands, climbing over the embankment like a rolling tide and rushing downwards.

They had no flags, no orders such as gold drums, but they just roared wildly and charged fiercely. These people were undoubtedly bandits!

The cavalrymen who had just gotten up their horses when the beach between the embankment and the river was filled with bandits. There was no array on both sides, and they instantly got into a mess of each other.

With the advantage of numbers, the bandits often surrounded a cavalry of Cao's army and used swords and guns from several directions. The cavalry neither had the protection of armor, and could not exert the impact of the war horses in such a situation of entanglement between the enemy and us, and almost had no choice but to deal with the bandits. Although they also killed many enemies, fewer and fewer horse knights immediately.

At this time, Zhang Xi led the subsequent cavalry to jump onto the river beach. During the sprint in the river, they were covered by several waves of arrow rains, with a reduction of more than 40%, but in the end hundreds of knights still arrived.

Once the hundreds of war horses they were driving entered the charge, they would be beasts that reap their lives for infantry!

Zhang Xi scolded and led the cavalry team to fight back and forth in the chaotic battlefield. Although the number of bandits had an advantage, they could not stop them at all.

They rushed towards each dense direction of the bandits, and after defeating them, they quickly turned to the next place. The bandits resisted fiercely one after another, and tried several times to hinder the speed of the cavalry and stagnate them, but they were always dispersed by the cavalry and made way for the blood to go out again and again.

As they achieved small victories, many trapped cavalry slowly joined the cavalry, making their power more and more terrifying when they rushed. Hundreds of horses trampled on human bodies that were dead or crawled on the ground and struggled. The sound of thunder-like hooves and the terrifying sound of bone shattering gathered together to form a thrilling echo.

But Zhang Xi did not feel relaxed at all. In fact, he became more and more nervous.

These bandits are so brave that they can't retreat!

Over the years, Zhang Xi followed Cao Gong to fight south and north, and had a rich experience in fighting with the bandits. He had faced the Yellow Turban Army in Black Mountain and the White Bo thieves in Runan. In his memory, these bandits were all mobs. Although they were famous when they had the upper hand, their morale was low if they had a little stalemate. As long as there were more casualties, their speed of dispersion was even beyond anyone's imagination.

But the bandits in front of them were not the case. If Zhang Xi's estimate was correct, the number of casualties and injuries caused to them by the few shocks just now had exceeded 200, but these bandits did not look at all shaken and were still fighting hard!

If this continues, both sides will have to consume each other. Even if they win, how many people can reinforce Hefei? This is definitely not the situation Cao Gong hopes to see!

Zhang Xi slightly tied the reins and slowed down the horse's running. In this gap, he looked around, trying his best to see where the leaders of the bandits were. Finding the enemy's leader and killing him was what Zhang Xi thought of, and the only way to quickly defeat the enemy.

His search quickly turned out, and there was an isolated team at a height of the dam half a mile away from him.

There were more than a hundred soldiers with relatively neat uniforms, surrounded by several knights. Among the knights, some even pointed in their own direction!

It's them!

"Follow me!" Zhang Xi wiped the blood-stained sword on the horse's back, clamped the horse's belly with both legs and began to accelerate. His subordinates followed him closely, and first walked around the edge of the battlefield, and then shot towards the height of the embankment like a huge arrow.

Several knights who seemed to be the leader of the bandit quickly discovered Zhang Xi's charge direction. What was disappointing was that they did not have the intention of fighting to the death like other bandits, but instead quickly retreated behind the dam.

This action further confirmed Zhang Xi's judgment. They were undoubtedly the leaders of the bandits!

"Run! Rush! Kill them!" Zhang Xi urged the horse to speed up frantically, and the arrow-shaped queue gradually lengthened in the Mercedes-Benz.

The moment he crossed the embankment, Zhang Xi found that the small army had stopped. They arranged in a tight defensive formation and raised the spear in their hands high. Several knights surrounded a young man in light armor in the middle of the queue. The young man looked at Zhang Xi with a bit of compassion.

"Looking for death!" Zhang Xi scolded sternly, and the cavalry around Zhang Xi urged the horse forward without hesitation. This dense formation is indeed used to deal with the cavalry, but the enemy's troops are too small, so it is easy to solve. As long as the horse is urged to crash into it violently, it can easily break the enemy's array. Horses, even the bodies of dead horses, are not human flesh and blood at this high speed.

Crush! Crush! A hideous joy appeared on Zhang Xi's face. He held his breath and waited for the loud noise of the cavalry to crash into the queue.

The roar sounded, but it was not in front, but on the side!

Zhang Xi turned his head violently and found a team of cavalry in shock. They rushed out of the shadow below the dam and smashed into their own queue like an iron hammer.

Zhang Xi did not expect that the bandits would actually hide an iron cavalry armed to the teeth. His subordinates were even more panicked and shocked. They tried their best to stop the horse and wanted to stand up to meet the enemy, but the entire cavalry team was attacked on the side at the moment of high speed and could not make effective defenses. The queue collapsed like a dead vine and rotten wood under an iron hammer!

Some of Zhang Xi's subordinates had no time to dodge and were knocked out by the iron cavalry, and their muscles and bones were broken in the air; some were slashed by long swords and halberds, and blood was sprayed out from the wound, just like a red fountain. In the blink of an eye, they were seriously injured, and the remaining troops were all disintegrated.

After defeating the Cao army's cavalry, the armored cavalry surrounded the two wings without delay and continued to slash and kill. Only one person in the queue rode his horse around and ran towards Zhang Xi quickly.

Zhang Xi's eyes were full of tears, but he still maintained his basic calmness. He immediately put away his sword and pulled his bow and arrow.

The knight on the opposite side also set off his bow and arrows. The two of them aimed at each other almost at the same time, raising their hands and shooting.

The two arrows flew out almost at the same time, as if two silver lines were intersecting in the air and flying towards their respective targets. But the knight was moving quickly, and the arrow shot by Zhang Xi passed by him by him. Instead, it hurts on his waist. The arrow shot by the knight was fast and accurate, and suddenly pierced into the flesh on the rib side. Fortunately, it was protected by leather armor, and the arrow was not deep, so the injury would not endanger life for the time being.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was only about a meter, so it would be too late to shoot arrows again.

Zhang Xi endured the severe pain and tried hard to pull the sword forward to assassinate. The knight on the opposite side seemed to have no time to draw the short soldiers, so he could only pull the reins to the right and ride his horse to avoid it.

However, when the two horses crossed, the knight suddenly spread his arm and grabbed Zhang Xi's shoulder. Then, with the force of the two horses being wrongly driven, he pulled Zhang Xi away from the saddle!

Zhang Xi felt that her shoulders seemed to be pinched by an iron clamp, and her body rose into the air, and her eyes were spinning. The next moment, a severe pain in his waist came, and it turned out that it was the knight who was suddenly pressed on the horse's back. The knight suppressed Zhang Xi, who was struggling with one hand, and pulled out a short knife for cutting meat on the back of his waist with the other, aimed the tip of the knife at the position of Zhang Xi's side neck blood vessel, stabbed it in, and flipped left and right, stirring it twice.

The thick blood gushed out along the wound, dyeing the short knife and the knife-holding hands red. A piece of darkness immediately enveloped Zhang Xi's vision, and Zhang Xi's limbs twitched a few times, then lowered weakly and never moved again.

The knight slowly stopped his horse, threw Zhang Xi's limp body to the ground, and whistled. Not far away, he came from the rider, jumped off his horse, cut off Zhang Xi's bloody head, and hung it on the edge of the saddle.

"Little General, good skills!" The confidant praised happily.

Witnessing Zhang Xi's death, the Cao army's cavalry were terrified, and their resistance became weaker and weaker. Many people gave up fighting and wanted to urge their horses to escape from the battlefield. However, there were obstructions from dams and rivers on both sides of the battlefield. It was not easy to escape, and they were simply the target of being chased. The Cao army's cavalry, who had lost their fighting spirit, were chased and killed like lambs; they were pulled off their horses by their legs, and then stabbed by long spears, chopped by knives and axes, and even beaten by sticks, and almost instantly became invisible.

The scattered cavalrymen who were already in the siege were even chopped and slaughtered one by one. Some of them took the initiative to abandon their weapons and surrender, and were also killed mercilessly.

Half an hour later, the entire river beach returned to silence, while the strong bloody smell continued to rise, and the red river water slowly flowed downstream.

The knight strangled the reins with one hand and slowly rode his horse through the center of the battlefield. A bloody cavalry suddenly lifted the dead body covered by his body and rushed towards him. He picked up a spear beside him and flew over, immediately pierced the chest of the cavalry and nailed it to the ground. The cavalry held the spear with both hands and struggled for a long time before he died.

This situation seemed to remind the knight, so he said to the left and right: "Come on cleaning the battlefield quickly and carefully. Kill all of you, don't leave a living!"

The left and right answered in a deep voice, and then a cavalry divided into a queue and summoned several small teams of infantry to carry out the order. More than a dozen Cao army soldiers had been tied up with their hands behind their backs and ordered to kneel down and wait for treatment. At this moment, they were directly pushed to the ground, and someone cut them to death with a knife.

Not far from the knight, the young man who was mistakenly considered the leader of the bandits by Zhang Xi held his shoulders and stared at the battlefield. When the infantry team killed every Cao army soldier on the battlefield in an orderly manner, he showed an unbearable look, but said nothing; when the infantry looked at the wounded people everywhere and killed some seriously injured people who seemed difficult to treat, he still said nothing, but stood a little further.

War can change everything. These infantrymen were originally honest peasants, but now they have become evil ghosts who kill without blinking. And those soldiers of the Cao army are also evil ghosts who kill without blinking. There is no difference between the two. In the past, he was suffering from this situation, but now he gradually realized that indifference to human life is a normal situation in the war-torn era. What kind of mercy and tolerance will only be mentioned in peacetime. In the chaotic times before us, you only need to consider whether you die or others die. In addition, too abundant feelings are unnecessary.

At this time, the knight saw the young man, so he took off his helmet, revealing his resolute and courageous face, and the thick and hard beard covering his cheeks and chin. He grinned, jumped off his horse, and walked towards him with great strides.

The knight patted the young man on the shoulder and laughed and said, "The killing was so exciting today, thanks to my second brother's good plan!"

The young man nodded slightly: "If the reinforcements of Cao Zhe were intercepted, his father could explain to the Marquis of Wu."

When the two of them stood together, they could find that they looked quite similar. The knight was a little older, with extremely tall and majestic figure and wide shoulders. His skin was dark, his beard was dense and hard, and there was a strong black bow painted in the bow bag on one side, and a long knife was hung on the other side. The long sword was obviously longer and heavier than the ordinary model. Compared with the knight of the martial arts, the young man looked a little literary. Not only was he thin, but his skin also looked fairer. He was not like a warrior, but he looked like a scholar who had less experience in wind and sunlight.

They were two brothers. The older knight was named Lei Xiu, whose courtesy name was Xingzhi; the younger one was named Lei Yuan, whose courtesy name was Xuzhi. Their father was Lei Xu, the leader of the Jianghuai local tyrant who raised an army to respond to Sun Quan's call.

The Lei family was a giant clan of Lujiang. In the past, when the rebel Yuan Shu usurped the Zhong family and established his capital in Shouchun, the generals under his command were named Lei Bo. After Yuan Shu was defeated, Lei Bo's clan brother Lei Xu gathered many of the dispersed Yuan Shu tribes and retreated to the vast mountainous areas west of Mount Yu. Over the years, the momentum has gradually recovered. Now he is the most powerful among the heroes between the Jianghuai River. He has come from far away to seek refuge with more than 10,000 troops. Even Yuan Shu's old subordinates Chen Lan, Mei Qian and others were nominally allies, but in fact they were dependent on Lei Xu.

Because Lei Xu and others promised to echo Sun Quan's rebellion, they sent more than 2,000 of their elite subordinates to intercept Cao Gong's reinforcements westward. These more than 2,000 people were the families that the Lei family in Lujiang had been united in decades of war and chaos. They were all the people who were dying and were desperate to rebel.

Lei Xu has four sons, two youngest sons are underage. The eldest son Lei Feng is known for his extraordinary courage and is the one who led the army this time. The second son Lei Yuan has always been weak in literature, so he does not take the military position. He has devoted himself to mountains and rivers for many years and travels around the Jianghuai River. However, he has a close relationship with his brother, and has made many plans recently, and has received attention from his brother, so he was invited to come together.
Chapter completed!