These people, against the soldiers and horses of Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, Liu Dai and others, naturally have no disadvantages at all.

After all, among the three sides of the enemy army, most of Zhang Miao's subordinates were some county soldiers, and they were also the township warriors who had just been recruited last year, trained and acted as soldiers and horses, and Liu Dai was also the same.

The only ones who are more powerful are these horses under Cao Cao, some of these people are soldiers and horses who followed Cao Cao when he fought against the Yellow Turban Army before.

can be regarded as a veteran, and naturally his combat power on the battlefield is much more powerful than that of ordinary county soldiers and recruited village warriors.

It was precisely the elite of the 5,000 Cao army led by Cao Hong who fought from the front, making it a little difficult for Liu Zheng's men and horses to resist, so that they could fight with the enemy army without a win.

"Huang Zhong! Let your shooters shoot accurately, aim at the rear of the enemy army and take out those shooters first! ”

Seeing that this battle could not be ended in a short time, Liu Zheng immediately withdrew from the fight, and then approached Huang Zhong in a few steps, ordering Huang Zhong to shoot accurately.

Most of the soldiers under Huang Zhong were archers, and if they only relied on infantry to fight the enemy on the frontal battlefield, although Liu Zheng could be invincible, it was still extremely difficult to end the battle in a short time, and even if he won, it would be difficult to win.

If it doesn't work, even if he defeats these horses, his own soldiers and horses have also suffered heavy losses, and he has no strength to support Yuan Shu at all.

After all, Liu Zheng's men and horses traveled a long distance, rushing for two days in a row, and their physical exertion was serious, and they could still hold on for a while to stimulate their combat potential in a short period of time, but if they were long, they would inevitably be suppressed.

Therefore, Liu Zheng wanted to end the battle as soon as possible, so he could only order Huang Zhong to lead the archers to shoot and kill part of the enemy's men and horses, so that the enemy army was afraid.

Liu Zheng was able to find an opportunity to withdraw from the army and take a temporary rest.

After having Liu Zheng's order. Huang Zhong didn't hesitate at all, immediately put away the bow and arrow in his hand, and began to wave it a few times at the archers behind him. Let the remaining archers begin to gather.

Huang Zhong's archers were well-trained and well-organized, and with a few waves of his hand, the remaining archers quickly gathered into a phalanx.

After Huang Zhong's order, the arrows began to rise into the sky, and thousands of sharp arrows rushed towards the enemy formation.

At first, the men and horses on the battlefield were a little afraid, and they didn't know who these arrows were aimed at.

But after figuring out the direction of these arrows in the blink of an eye, the soldiers and horses on Liu Zheng's side breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the shooters on his side began to come up to suppress the other party, and they also had a trace of confidence in their hearts, and their attacks were even more ferocious.

In Liu Zheng's army, the morale is high, because there are no worries, there are few deserters, most of them are fierce generals who do not want to die, and the main general orders the charge, and they will fight with their lives and charge ahead.

The fall of the arrow caused more casualties on the side of the officers and soldiers.

Cao Hong, who originally thought that he would win this battle, began to frown, and the infantry he led was dealing with the Zhou Cang army under Liu Zheng.

Zhou Cang's character, Cao Hong still heard a little, is one of the first few generals to follow Liu Zheng, in Liu Zheng's army, has a relatively high status, thought that a battle can defeat the other party, but after a frontal round of charge, Cao Hong soon realized that Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses were not so easy to repel.

Compared with the battle in Runan three years ago, the strength of these soldiers and horses under Liu Zheng has become stronger, and they are no longer the yellow turban thieves at the beginning, they have a unified scheduling, close cooperation, fighting, and can form a solid phalanx, it is not easy to break the opponent's formation.

Even if he used some advantages to break the formation in one of these places, the soldiers in the rear would quickly make up for it and re-strengthen the blockade area, so that Cao Hong's initial charge would be a little futile.

Especially after the shooters led by Huang Zhong began to launch a series of shooting, the 5,000 men and horses under Cao Hong lost a little faster, and soon there were 5,000 people, and only 3,000 people remained.

And Liu Zheng's side, although there are also some losses, it is not so huge.

looked at the black and oppressive enemy army in front of him, as well as Zhang Miao's army and Liu Dai's army, which were also suppressed by Liu Zheng on both sides.

Cao Hong believed that as long as he was given some more men and horses to replenish the follow-up troops, he would definitely be able to fight with Liu Zheng heartily, but now, obviously suffering from the crazy counterattack of Liu Zheng's army, Cao Hong retreated a little.

He wondered in his heart, obviously he and the other people's soldiers and horses had caught the convenience of the sneak attack, and used the terrain to fight an ambush battle, why the advantage of the battle was still on Liu Zheng's side.

Perhaps he can only blame it on his own lack of troops.

Seeing that Liu Zheng's counterattack was becoming more and more powerful, Cao Hong saw that his people had already killed many soldiers of Liu Jun, and it was not good to continue to fight to the death here.

Immediately waved his hand and asked Cheng Yu, the commander of Liu Dai's army on the side.

"General Cheng Yu, the enemy army is fighting desperately, morale is rising, it is not good for our army, retreat temporarily, anyway, we have killed a lot of Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses, we have achieved our goal, we can go back and resume our lives."

Cao Hong is unwilling to put all his men and horses here, Liu Zheng's counterattack is too fierce, and if he doesn't retreat now, he will really be wiped out.

Cheng Yu thought the same as Cao Hong at this time, after seeing the crazy combat power on Liu Zheng's side, he also retreated, but it was difficult to say it alone at first.

Now that I saw Cao Hong put it forward, I naturally reconsidered it immediately.

"Well, our soldiers and horses are already less than Liu Zheng, this battle is just to catch the ambush, a slight advantage, now Liu Zheng's men and horses have recovered from the panic, it is very disadvantageous for us, continue to fight will not take any advantage, retreat."

Cheng Yu's answer satisfied Cao Hong, but he didn't say it directly, but looked at Zhang Chao on the other side.

After all, this is the decision of the three parties, and the opinions of the two of them cannot directly affect the overall situation, and they still need to ask Zhang Miao's side to do it.

And Zhang Chao didn't want to fight, everyone advocated retreating, so he naturally had no opinion.

immediately agreed with Cao Hong and Cheng Yu's opinions.

In this way, before Liu Zheng's crazy counterattack arrived, the three parties sounded the horn of retreat at the same time.

They were withdrawn from the official road one after another.

Liu Zheng's side, in fact, is already the end of the strong crossbow, if he doesn't launch the last wave of charges and let the other party retreat, Liu Zheng will have to retreat first.

Fortunately, he was right, and in the last attack, the enemy retreated first.