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Even so, Zhang He, who was shocked by the huge force, was almost fallen off his horse, and his iron spear was lost. His right arm, which had lost his weapon, was limp and drooping, his right hand was bleeding, and he was obviously suffering severe damage.

When his life was at stake, Zhang He took advantage of the moment when the war horse was retreating and pulled the horse with his left hand. After staggering, he immediately rushed to the army, trying to get rid of Li Li's pursuit as soon as possible.

While shocking Zhang He with one sword, Li Li beat up and missed the best opportunity to take advantage of the situation to kill Zhang He.

Just at this moment, a "whizzing" rain of arrows whizzed past the sky above his head, fell into the Yuan army formation, and instantly shot hundreds of giant shield soldiers and archers. Obviously, this was caused by the Jinqiu guards' cavalry shooting. Due to the distance too far, the arrows and Li Li arrived in front of the Yuan army formation almost at the same time. If Li Li had not been blocked by Zhang He, he would have been in the attack of the wandering arrows.

"Where can the enemy general escape? Dismount quickly and die!"

Among the three-wheeled arrows, Li Li killed dozens of giant shield soldiers alone, and forced a naked ground in front of the Yuan army formation, tearing a large gap through the huge shield formation that was not covered with the cracks. After the arrows, Li Zhi had led 20,000 combat cavalry to rush behind him. At this time, Li Li jumped into the Yuan army formation, and saw that the enemy general who was injured by him shouted loudly, slashed Yuan soldiers while slashing at the same time, and headed straight for the enemy general's escape.

The reason why he kept chasing was not because he insisted on killing the enemy generals who fled in panic, but because he tried to follow the enemy general's escape path to the war cavalry behind him and break through the enemy formation as quickly as possible. Then he took Yuan Shao's central army and joined forces with Zhang Yan's troops to intercept Yuan Shao.

As Cao Cao said, in this decisive battle in Loudi, Li Li did not care how many allied princes and generals the Western Liang army could kill. What he really cares about was the victory of the entire decisive battle. In other words, Li Li was based on the overall situation and aimed at achieving the final victory of the entire battle, not just targeting a certain prince or a certain unilateral force, and wanted to kill him.

Therefore, in Li Li's eyes, the most urgent task now is to defeat Yuan Shao, the leader of the princes and his Jizhou army, as for whether they can kill the Allied generals, it has nothing to do with the overall situation. After all, as long as hundreds of thousands of Allied troops are defeated, what can more than a hundred generals do? They cannot make a big fuss at all. It is not worth worrying.

While rushing and chasing, Li Li took the lead. The Jinli battle sword flew left and right, and as the sword fell, a bloody storm was stirred up, and blood mist filled the blood. Wherever the Jinli Beast King went, Yuan soldiers avoided them one after another. Those who could not avoid them became dead souls under the sword, and their bodies and heads were different. Thousands of Yuan soldiers had no one in a single general under the Li Li sword. The sword light was flying and flashing, and they died when they hit each other, and they were invincible.

The Xiliang war cavalry that arrived later did not disappoint Li Li. Li Zhi personally led the Jinqiu Guard to the front. Before Yuan's army blocked the gap in front of the formation, he led the army into the formation. More than 3,000 Jinqiu Guard war cavalry were just a charge, and they rushed into the giant shield formation in front of the formation to clear the road for the subsequent Black Mountain cavalry. Immediately afterwards, the Jinqiu Guard war cavalry rushed into the camp of archers hiding behind the giant shield formation like a tiger, causing thousands of Yuan's archers to retreat. In an instant, they fell under the iron spear of the Jinqiu Guard cavalry, and were killed and injured.

At the same time, the Black Mountain cavalry who followed the Jin Qiwei also performed well. Under the leadership of Wang Dang, the three leader of the Black Mountain Army, the 20,000 Black Mountain cavalry were all brave and fierce, like hungry wolves, and they scattered the giant shield formation in one fell swoop, killing the archers who fled in a hurry, and then rushed into the enemy formation with unstoppable momentum.

The next battle was exactly the same as Li Li expected. Because the more than 20,000 infantry under Zhang He was suddenly attacked before the formation was completed, Yuan's army was caught off guard and the battle formation did not play any role at all. In addition, his chief general Zhang He was injured with a blow and then panicked and retreated, which directly led to the formation not only not exerting its due attack and defense, but was dragged down by Zhang He's defeat and fleeing, and they gave way to him. Li Li then chased and killed him, causing the already very fragile formation to chaotic before the battle, and tens of thousands of soldiers were crowded into a group and in chaos.

In this way, more than 20,000 soldiers under Zhang He's tent could not form a joint force, let alone cooperate with each other to kill the enemy. The combat power can be imagined. Faced with the more than 20,000 Western Liang Iron Cavalry as fierce as a wolf, these Yuan army soldiers could not stop the rushing cavalry at all, and could even be said to be vulnerable.

In addition, it was late at night, and all the people and horses on the battlefield were illuminated by torches. The scenery over fifty steps was blurred and it was impossible to see clearly. Therefore, the soldiers of Yuan's army had no idea how many people and horses there were in the Xiliang Iron Cavalry they were facing, and they only felt that they were all the figures of the Xiliang cavalry.

People in the world have an instinctive fear of unknown things, and this is the case with more than 20,000 soldiers under Zhang He's tent.

Seeing that the Xiliang war cavalry rushed over like a flood and a beast, Yuan Bing, who was in the crowded and chaotic, did not resist to the death, but instinctively chose to escape. Moreover, the direction of their escape was different. There were no Xiliang cavalry, so they ran there. It was a panic and fleeing in a panic.

However, the fleeing Yuan soldiers forgot that the more they fled in the face of the battle cavalry, the faster they would die. Because they gave up resistance, they would let the cavalry kill, but how could a person with two legs run past a four-legged war horse? Unfortunately, people were in panic and could not make the right choice. They just kept thinking about escaping their lives, but they didn't know that the more they were panic, the more likely they would make mistakes. The price of making mistakes at this time would be extremely heavy, and a difference in thought would make life.

In just two cups of tea, more than 20,000 soldiers under Zhang He's tent fled, and more than 60% of the soldiers were easily killed by the Western Liang war cavalry on the spot. Less than 30% of the soldiers actually escaped from the pursuit of the war cavalry, and the remaining adults followed Zhang He to flee directly to Yuan Shao's central army.

After defeating Zhang He's troops, Li Zhi and Wang Dang's cavalry joined forces again and caught up with Li Li who was leading the way.

Under the night sky with the flashing flames, Li Li stopped and looked coldly at the battlefield of Yuan Shao’s central army two hundred steps away.

There, the 50,000 Heishan Army under Zhang Yan's troops were fighting head-on with Yuan Shao's direct troops. At the moment, the two sides were fighting fiercely. Judging from the flags flying in the night sky, the Heishan Army had obviously fewer flags than the Yuan army. It was obviously at a disadvantage, and the situation was worrying, and it was always facing the danger of being surrounded, annihilated and destroyed by the Yuan army.

However, Li Li did not rush to lead his army to rush over at this time, nor did he pursue the enemy generals who fled in a hurry, nor would he rush into Yuan Shao's central army alone without hesitation. Li Li is no longer the prefect of Wuwei who was alone in danger. Like the situation of escaping from under the horse's hooves in the Battle of Dongshankou, it would never happen to him again.

Before, the reason why he led the army to fight was because the situation required that the entire army needed an example to drive morale, and thus bravely rushed forward. Therefore, he stood up without hesitation, one man, one rider, one sword, one rider, and one rider was beyond the limit, and was unstoppable.

But at this moment, Li Li no longer led his army to fight. Because the morale of the entire army had reached its peak, the soldiers were full of enthusiasm and fighting spirit, and he had done everything he deserved to do. As the commander of the entire army, there was no need for him to continue fighting, and there was no need for him to lead the way and take risks in person.

In addition, until now, Li Li didn't know that the enemy general who fled in panic after being injured by him was Zhang He and Zhang Junyi, one of the four pillars of Jizhou. Otherwise, I'm afraid that Zhang He would not have escaped from him so easily. If he could not be captured alive, he would be killed by him.

"Lord, our army's cavalry lost 5,000 people in one battle, and all the mixed cavalry were killed, that is, the 5,000 cavalry under the tents of Zhang Yang and Sun Ce, who were temporarily handed over to Zhang Yan's command. However, our Jinqiuwei camp only lost more than a hundred people, and the Feiyan Light Cavalry led by Wang Dang also suffered little loss. Only more than 1,000 people were killed in battle, killing more than 16,000 Yuan's army, and all the remaining thousands of remaining soldiers fled."

Taking advantage of the short rest, Li Zhi quickly gathered his troops and roughly estimated the results of the battle.

"More than 6,000 casualties?" Li Li frowned slightly after hearing the sound, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that the Yuan army we just met is not simple, far from being vulnerable as we see. Looking back at this moment, our army really won a lucky chance, and unexpectedly attacked him, caught Yuan army off guard; otherwise, our army's casualties would have been far more than 6,000 cavalry, and there would have been heavy casualties."

Li Zhi nodded in response: "My lord is right. This infantry with 30,000 people is very powerful. If they are allowed to complete the formation, it will be difficult for our army to break through the battle formation within an hour. Fortunately, the lord took action in time and defeated his commander as soon as possible, disrupting the enemy's position. This will give our army an opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to defeat him in one fell swoop."

While speaking, Li Zhi paused and his tone turned sharply: "However, our army lost more than 6,000 combat cavalry in this battle. In addition to the more than 1,000 casualties of the Jinqiuwei Camp and Feiyan Light Cavalry, the last general suspected that the other 5,000 mixed cavalry were not all killed in battle, and at most half of the cavalry were killed, while the other half of the cavalry took the opportunity to escape. After all, these cavalry were not the soldiers under Zhang Yan's tent, but the soldiers who were left in the Allied camp by Zhang Yang and Jiangdong Sun Ce. Now the situation on the battlefield has changed suddenly. I believe that these people dare not resist us and are unwilling to join our army, so they sneaked away while the two armies were fighting."

"Well, Zicheng's words are not unreasonable." Li Li nodded slightly, with a smile on his lips: "In fact, these soldiers left by themselves, so that we would have to worry about it after the war. In particular, most of the cavalry under Sun Ce from Jiangdong came from the south, which was a bit unacceptable. It would be useless to force them to stay in the army, and it would even leave hidden dangers. Now they are secretly running away by themselves, which is worry-free. Hahaha!"

"????Oh, by the way, the general Yuan army who escaped just now has good martial arts skills and is very well-organized in the arrangement of troops. Who is he?" Li Li asked with a chuckling.

"Zhang He, whose courtesy name is Junyi, is one of the four pillars of Jizhou. He is skilled in martial arts and is good at leading troops and deploying troops. He is a general in the Jizhou army who has become famous in recent years." Li Zhi replied without hesitation.

"Zhang He and Zhang Junyi? It turned out to be him." Li Li pondered in surprise, and then his face suddenly changed, and he waved: "No, Zhang Yan is in danger! Immediately send an order for the entire army to set off and attack Yuan Shao's central army! I hope it's not too late??????"

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Chapter completed!