The two righteous servants rushed over, and couldn't help but say, stripping off the fish scale armor on Yuan Shu's body and replacing it with heavy armor. Dian Wei bent down and carried Yuan Shu on his back.

Yuan Shu shouted: "Boy, don't be righteous, I will drag you down, none of us can get out!" ”

"Kill it!" Sun Ce ignored Yuan Shu, jumped up, and killed the sword and shield men and crossbowmen on the flanks.

At this time, Beidou Feng has already clashed with the spearmen, the spearmen are intensively arranged, the spears poke like a forest, the righteous servants wave the thousands of troops to break the frontal battle, the thousands of troops are still sharp, but the spearmen are not weak, one after another, the righteous servants are fighting very hard, and people are constantly falling to the ground.

Even if it is heavily armoured, it is inevitable to be injured in the face of spears, once injured, the movement of the hand is slow, more spears will pierce in, and no matter how elite the warrior is, he will not be able to withstand the continuous stabbing of the spear, and the casualties will increase rapidly. In order to cover Sun Ce and Yuan Shu to break through, Beidou Feng fought to the death and did not retreat, and struggled to attack, hoping to tear a gap and counterattack Cao Cao, but he has not been able to do so.

Sun Ce took the lead. He is the best equipped here, not only with heavy armor, but also with brocade armor. He covered his face with a small shield, rushed to the sword and shield hand in one breath, threw out the small shield, waved a thousand troops to break and slash and kill, cut down several people in a moment, rushed to the front of the crossbowman, and the thousand troops broke and swept away, and several people were killed in an instant. The crossbowmen panicked and fled.

Seeing this, Cao Cao sneered, shook the battle flag, commanded more foot soldiers to surround him, and set up a triple formation in front of Sun Ce.

"Bo Fu, let me go, without Dian Wei to help you, you will die." Yuan Shu screamed.

Sun Ce gritted his teeth and was silent, answering Yuan Shu with actions. Thousands of troops broke and waved, killed more than ten people in a row, and broke a heavy formation.

Encouraged by Sun Ce's courage, the righteous servants called for a kill, and followed suit, and when one person fell, someone immediately made up for it, protecting Dian Wei and Yuan Shu from any danger.

"Are you stupid?" Yuan Shu let out a long sigh and closed his mouth. He remained motionless, trying not to cause trouble for Dian Wei.

Sun Ce stepped forward, swung his sword to kill the oncoming spearmen, the thousand troops broke left and right, swung two spears, the middle palace rushed, the tip of the knife pierced into the chest of a spearman, a low roar, raised him high, shook his arms, and threw him far away. In an instant, two spears pierced through the gap, Sun Ce fell on his shoulders and elbows, opened one spear, flashed the other sideways, stepped forward, kicked the spearman in the lower abdomen, kicked him back a few steps, and crashed into his companion. Sun Ce immediately cut off half of his body with a knife.

Without Dian Wei, Sun Ce's pressure increased greatly, although he broke through the triple formation one after another, and there were several more injuries on his body. He didn't realize it, he became more and more heroic, and the blood in his body flowed, so that he couldn't control his emotions, he didn't want to do anything, he just wanted to kill and poke, and he just wanted to drink the blood of the enemy.

"A thousand troops!" Sun Ce yelled.

"Broken!" The righteous servants roared.

Cao Cao looked at Sun Ce, who was indomitable and broke the triple array in an instant, and shook his head. "He is worthy of being the son of the Jiangdong Tiger. It's a pity, it's a pity. ”

Cao Hong was so frightened that he couldn't stop licking his lips and couldn't say a word. Cao Ren didn't speak, but his bloodshot eyes looked at Sun Ce in the distance. He was conceited and brave, and he had always refused to convince others, but when he saw Sun Ce today, he was shocked. He was convinced of Cao Cao's evaluation. No wonder Cao Cao wanted to lay this trap, it turned out that it was not for Yuan Shu, but for Sun Ce.

If this person is not removed, he will be a fierce enemy.

Cao Cao successively ordered to mobilize people and horses to set up one heavy formation after another, blocking Sun Ce's way. The war drums thundered, the battle flags flew, and more people poured up the hillside, lined up in heavy formations, and surrounded Sun Ce and the others. The casualties continued to increase, one after another fell from the fall, one after another to make up, but the whole formation slowly shrunk, like solid ice constantly melting under the exposure of the sun, and like mulberry leaves being constantly eaten, getting smaller and smaller.

But the crossbowman never came.

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Qin Mu was in a hurry, and with the constant impact and shooting of the knights, he wanted to break through Xiahoudun's defense line and respond to Sun Ce.

But Xiahoudun defended very steadily, did not give him a chance, and used spearmen to form in front of the formation, and as soon as he saw the cavalry approaching, he ordered the crossbowmen to concentrate their fire. The crossbow is the natural enemy of the cavalry, especially when there is a numerical advantage, the lethality of the set shot is extremely great, several charges, Qin Mu lost thirty or forty people, he was also injured, his voice was hoarse, but he still refused to give up, and tried his best to rush and kill.

Xiahoudun was also helpless. Cao Cao was besieging Sun Ce and was in dire need of his reinforcements, especially strong crossbowmen. Cao Hong couldn't react in time, and a large number of crossbowmen were killed by Sun Ce's surprise attack, and almost all the remaining strong crossbowmen were with him. Without a strong crossbowman, Cao Cao could only command his soldiers and Sun Ce to engage in short-handed combat, and the casualties were staggering. If there is a strong crossbowman with long-range sniping, it is possible to quickly resolve the battle and reduce casualties.

These thousands of people are Cao Cao's only team, some of them are county soldiers from Dongjun, and some of them are recruited by Cao Cao at his own expense. In the first battle of Xingyang, the 5,000 soldiers recruited by Weizi were all wiped out. went to Yangzhou to recruit troops, Yangzhou assassin Chen Wen, Danyang Taishou Zhou Xin supported Cao Cao 4,000 people, but just arrived in Longkang there was a mutiny, even Cao Cao was almost killed, and in the end there were only more than 500 people left, these more than 500 people and more than 1,000 people who were later collected are Cao Cao's descendants.

Losing consecutive battles has not only lost confidence, but also money. The Cao family is rich, but Cao Cao's father, Cao Song, does not think that Cao Cao is the material for leading troops to fight, and refuses to pay for it, and even refuses to follow Cao Cao, preferring to hide in Xuzhou with his family. If he loses again this time, he will lose all his money, and it is estimated that Cao Cao's confidence will collapse.

As Cao Cao's good brother, Xiahoudun knew Cao Cao's mood best, and he couldn't wait to kill Qin Mu in one go, and immediately rushed to reinforcements.

But he couldn't. Although Qin Mu only had more than 100 cavalry, once he was rushed into the formation by these cavalry, it would cause a major setback to morale, and it was likely to cause the collapse of the entire formation. He could only grit his teeth and hold on, fighting with Qin Mu until Qin Mu took the initiative to retreat.

But Qin Mu didn't seem to have the intention of retreating, he was like crazy, no matter how few people around him were getting fewer, he launched an attack again and again. It's faint, but it never stops. There are constantly people who fall off the horse, and there are also people who keep joining. The stragglers arrived one after another, and seeing that Sun Ce's battle flag was still fluttering on the hillside, they joined Qin Mu's team one after another, desperately attacking Xiahoudun's position.

Xiahou couldn't stop, so he could only grit his teeth and insist.

The battle is at a stalemate, and no one can retreat.

The shouts of killing shook the sky, and the drums of war thundered. People are falling, people are dying. Corpses littered the hillsides, blood flowed and stained the land. The dead grass had long been trampled on, the soil had become soft and slippery, and thousands of people were fighting together, fighting selflessly, not even knowing for whom, just mechanically raising the weapons in their hands and slashing at the people they didn't know in front of them.

Cao Cao sat on horseback, looking at Sun Ce, who was rushing left and right in the battle formation, fighting endlessly, and sighed softly.

If it weren't for the war, we might have been friends.

It's a pity that I have to kill you now. When the crossbowman arrives, it's when you die. Enjoy these last moments.