For a whole hour, the princes and the Xiliang army arrived in Loudiyuan one after another, and the two armies arranged troops and arranged troops five hundred steps apart.

The decisive battle is ten miles away from Hangu Pass and ten miles away from the Allied camp. It is impartial and neither side suffers any loss.

This is the consensus reached by the two sides during the truce at the end of last year. It was clearly recorded in the War Book. The War Book is in two volumes, and both sides hold one volume.

No matter whoever wants to unilaterally break the contract, the letter of war will be made public immediately. In this way, the party who breaks the contract will be breached by the world and will be despised by the world, ruining its reputation and becoming the most untrustworthy person in the world.

The reason why the Allies took the initiative to issue a letter of war to Li Li was not out of public interest, but because the situation forced me to come up with this bad strategy.

After all, this is fighting on Li Li's territory. The longer the delay, the more unfavorable it is to the Allies. Food, supplies and weapons are all under tremendous pressure. Any mistake in any link may leave Li Li with an opportunity to take advantage of, thus causing the Allies to suffer unnecessary huge losses; the previous robbery of Feiyundu Food and Grain Camp was a living example.

In addition, there is another reason that prompted the Allies to take the initiative to issue a letter of war, that is, Li Li and his Xiliang army have been guarding the gates and avoiding fighting. This invisibly gave the Allies a lingering illusion, believing that Li Li did not dare to fight the Allies head-on, and was determined to use the benefits of the city to drag down the Allies.

In view of this, after repeated discussions between the princes of various towns, they finally unanimously decided to formally submit a letter of war to Li Li, and the two armies fought decisively in Loudiyuan on February 2nd in the spring.

It is precisely because the two sides signed the letter of war that there was a truce for more than a month, and today is the agreed day of the decisive battle.

As time approached Si (that is, it was close to nine o'clock in the morning), the two armies finally completed their formation, and the two armies combined with nearly 500,000 people gathered on this twenty-mile radius of Loudi.

To the west of Loudiyuan, the 160,000 Xiliang Army's formation was not as complicated as the Allied Army. The entire formation was obvious at a glance, which was an ordinary goose-shaped formation.

The soldiers of the camp were in front of the central army with a huge shield. Cao Xing's 10,000 bow and crossbow battalions followed the camp and formed a defense line in front of the central army. The central army was guarding the central army. The Feixiong Camp and Jinqiu Guard, which had more than 45,000 people, were the central army, and the Shuofeng Camp and Qinglong Camp were the right wing. Zhang Liao was the main general of the left wing, and the two battalions were in the middle commanded the battle; Longxiang Camp was the left wing, and the main general was Dian Wei, but he had Fa Zheng assisted by him. Bo Cai was the main general of the rear army. Unified command of all infantry and heavy attack equipment. This is the battle formation of the Xiliang Army. It is very simple. The 130,000 combat cavalry was the main force of the attack in this battle. The remaining crossbow battalions and infantry were all auxiliary attacks and did not undertake the main attack tasks.

If you stand at Hangu Pass at this time, you can clearly see that the Allied battle formation is like a roc. The formation is very large, but the central army is slightly bloated, and the wings are a bit thin. Such a roc with a plump body and thin wings is difficult to fly, just like a big rooster with degenerated wings. Its body is too strong and cannot fly even with two wings.

In contrast, the battle formation of the Xiliang Army looks like an ordinary goose-shaped formation, but in fact it is a very attacking wing arrow formation. The central army has 60,000 combat cavalry, 40,000 on the right wing and 30,000 on the left wing. Once the two armies attack in full, the left and right wings only need to move closer to the central army, and the 130,000 combat cavalry will form a huge wing arrow impact formation, thus completely giving up the attack on both wings and focusing on the central army.

The reason why the two armies' battle formations are so obvious is that the force composition of the princes' army is too complicated. The Xiliang army is a complete army. The entire army has a unified order, and can be moved according to the order with one order, which is mobile and flexible without any interference. The Allies are different, with many soldiers and horses. Moreover, the members are complex, with cavalry divided into two and infantry divided into six square formations. There is nothing on the surface, but in fact, each of these pieces represents the people of the princes. Fortunately, Yuan Shao held the food, grass and supplies of the Allies in his hand, and his control over the Allies was not weak. The troops and horses that remained after repeated battles were all elite and had strong combat power.

Therefore, although the Allied Forces' battle formation was complicated, it was not necessarily inferior to the Xiliang battle formation. Although the Western Liang army's vanguard formation was very aggressive, it was only after the war that it could break through the Allied Forces' Vientiane Formation.

Overall, the Xiliang Army has the advantage of combat cavalry and the Allies have the advantage of military strength. It is still unknown which one is stronger and which one is weaker when the two collide violently.

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"Da da da da!"

When the Allied Array was completed, Yuan Shao rode his horse into the central army at the right time, and six princes including Lu Bu, Zhang Yan, Liu Bei, Cao Cao, Sun Ce and Zhang Yang followed closely in front of the Allied Array.

Although the decisive battle had no direct relationship with Zhang Yang and Sun Ce, they were ordered to station in Hedong County, and the troops had already been handed over to Yuan Shao to unify the troops; but in such an unprecedented battle, they naturally had to come and join in the fun. Moreover, they were also members of the alliance of princes after all, so how could they stay out of such a battle?

Therefore, in terms of emotion and reason, neither Sun Ce nor Zhang Yang could be absent. As for the matter, they would come to watch the battle.

You read that right, they did come to watch the battle this time, not to participate in the battle. Until yesterday afternoon, they rushed to the camp and only accompanied them with hundreds of personal soldiers. All the generals under the tent remained in Hedong County. Such behavior seemed to have a clear attitude, and undoubtedly told the Allied princes that they had two major generals and had taken on the important task of stationing in Hedong to protect the Allied Farm Road. They had the rest of their affairs but were unable to do anything.

"Ho huh huh——!"

Just as Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and other princes were riding their horses, they heard a roar of shocking beasts coming from behind the Xiliang army formation opposite. Then they saw the Xiliang Central Army cavalry moving closer to both sides along the direction where the flag was in charge, giving way to a passage more than one meter wide and several miles long.

Immediately afterwards, a golden shadow swept across the passage at a speed that was hard to find in the naked eye, and rushed towards the Central Army's commander flag as fast as lightning.

"Bang-roar!"

In an instant, with a sound of stopping sound, the golden shadow stood with his head raised and roared with a loud bang.

Until this time, the princes and soldiers in front of the Allied Forces finally saw clearly what the golden flowing shadow was. In fact, they had long guessed that this flowing shadow was Li Li and his mount, the Golden Beast King, but the guess was a conjecture. When they saw this scene with their own eyes, they still couldn't help but exclaim in secret and were shocked.

Although the princes of each town would not admit that they were afraid of Li Li, when they saw Li Li appearing in front of the formation again, they subconsciously remembered Li Li's shocking sword in front of Hangu Pass. Although more than three months have passed, the scene of Li Li killing Han De and uncle and nephew of Han Meng are deeply imprinted in their hearts, and they are still vivid in their minds and still remember them freshly.

In fact, not only the princes of various towns did not forget that scene, but the 320,000 Allied soldiers standing behind them at this moment also remembered Li Li's majesty and a deep memory of Li Li's sword at that time. Perhaps this memory will accompany them for the rest of their lives until the moment when their lives ended. This unforgettable memory will accompany their lives to sink into desolation.

"Li Zhe is still so arrogant, but after today, this Zhe will never have a chance to be arrogant again!"

In front of the Allied Forces, Yuan Shao glared at the huge figure of Li Li and the Jinniu Beast King who were standing in front of the formation, and said in a deep voice in a sinister voice.

"What the leader said is very true." A middle-aged man with extraordinary appearance on Yuan Shao nodded when he heard the sound, staring at Li Li five hundred steps away, and said in a deep voice in a bad tone: "I have never seen Li Zhe before. When I saw him today, I realized that the rumors were true. Li Zhe was indeed arrogant and arrogant. Facing my army of more than 300,000 princes, he dared to be so arrogant. I really don't know how such a arrogant person can live to this day!"

It is true that this handsome man who can stand side by side with Yuan Shao and claims to be "Bi" was Liu Bei and Liu Xuande, the plains of the six counties of Xuzhou from the late Tao Qian last year.

The position Liu Bei has established has always been Cao Cao's exclusive, but since Liu Bei led his troops to the camp a month ago, Cao Cao immediately gave up his position to Liu Bei. Since then, he has been taciturn and rarely expressed his opinions. Just like at this time, Cao Cao stopped at the far left, joining Zhang Yang and Sun Ce and other people who came to watch the battle, completely away from the decision-making level of the Allied forces. Yuan Shao, who had always been close to him, has been busy preparing for the decisive battle recently, and has no time to take care of these trivial matters. He has even gradually gotten used to Cao Cao's taciturn appearance, and he turned a blind eye to it and ignored it, which is equivalent to acquiescing the fact that Cao Cao was squeezed out of the decision-making level.

Under such circumstances, Liu Bei, who had recently participated in the decision-making of the Allied Army, invisibly replaced Cao Cao's position and often discussed wars with Yuan Shao. His humble and polite conversation, neither humble nor arrogant, also made Yuan Shao very appreciated. In addition, Liu Bei had rich combat experience and had no strange strategies, but his decision-making ability was quite extraordinary in the battle, which coincided with Yuan Shao's ideas on many issues. This made Yuan Shao feel that Liu Bei had extraordinary abilities and often praised Liu Bei for his both civil and military affairs, and was a hero of the world.

Faced with Liu Bei's fierce fight with Yuan Shao when he first arrived, the princes of each town watched coldly, but they were very displeased with Liu Bei. However, they also knew that Liu Bei could indeed be regarded as both civil and military. Just by martial arts, among the seven princes of the Allied Army, Liu Bei's martial arts may be only under Lu Bu and Sun Ce, and even almost the same as Sun Ce.

The reason why they came to this conclusion was not without basis. In the past, when Chenliu met, Liu Bei's three brothers and three cavalry went to join the alliance, and there was no soldier under his command. Therefore, no princes looked down on them and thought that the three brothers were unknown. However, the three brothers then joined forces to fight against Lu Bu, fighting for hundreds of rounds, and finally forced Lu Bu to retreat. After this battle, all the princes in the world knew that Liu Bei was extremely powerful, a pair of double-stranded swords were extremely weird, and they were very skilled in martial arts, and could be regarded as a grassroots hero.

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Chapter completed!