Ningyang.

"Swordsmen, shields, spearmen, dense formations. The crossbowman, holding but not firing, waits for orders. Tai Shi Ci held a strong bow and walked slowly in the formation.

Three thousand soldiers are arranged in a circular array, shoulder to shoulder, shield to shield, dense and unventilated, and the triple spear array is densely gathered, which is daunting.

Cheng Yu sat upright on the horse, looking at the circle formation not far away, his face was pale.

He was ordered by Yuan Tan to gather more than 10,000 people from Jibei and Dongping, and was preparing to go south to respond to Cao Ang, just arrived at Snake Hill and heard that more than 30,000 Taishan thieves had entered Dongping Kingdom, and in the blink of an eye, the counties of Bianqiu and Ningyang were looted. He didn't dare to slack off, quickly marched into the army, won consecutive battles, defeated several rogues, beheaded more than a thousand, and then met Tai Shici.

Cheng Yu knew that the culprit was Tai Shici in front of him, only he was Sun Ce's subordinate, and only he had the motive to respond to Sun Ce. As long as they can kill him, Ji Ling, Zang Ba and the others will be defeated. But Tai Shi Ci was different from the Taishan thieves he had met before, although there were only three thousand people, he was a real hard bone. In the face of his attack of more than 10,000 people, Tai Shici was not in a hurry and quickly lined up to defend.

Cheng Yu had heard of Tai Shici's name before, and knew that he had caused Yuan Xi a lot of trouble, but he felt that it was just Yuan Xi's incompetence, and he didn't necessarily know how capable Tai Shi Ci was. Now after seeing the speed of Tai Shi Ci's formation, he realized that he had met an opponent. These three thousand people are not comparable to those Tarzan thieves, this is a well-trained elite.

In the face of such a formation, a quick victory is no longer possible, and the best way is to besiege but not attack, and wait for Tai Shici to reveal his flaws. Tai Shi Ci came from afar, his baggage was limited, and he couldn't support it for too long, and in two days at most, he would collapse without a fight. But this is by no means the result that Cheng Yu is willing to see. Once he is restrained by Tai Shi Ci, no one will be able to stop the other Taishan thieves, who will swallow the Dongping Kingdom like locusts crossing the border.

The only way at the moment is to rely on the superiority of troops to fight a quick battle, let the army surround it in all directions, first use an arrow array to gather fire, and then send foot soldiers to force a breakthrough. He has already defeated several opponents in a row with this tactic, and he is very proficient.

Cheng Yu raised his hand and gave the order to attack.

The war drums sounded, and the crossbowmen stepped forward first, and a rain of arrows poured down, shooting at Tai Shici and the others in the circle. Cheng Yu stared at Tai Shici to see how he could deal with it. He had more than 16,000 people, more than five times the size of Tai Shici, and he had plenty of arrows. If Tai Shi Ci shot at him, he couldn't ask for it.

But Tai Shi Ci did not order the crossbowmen to shoot, he made the crossbowmen crouch down, hide behind the shield bearers and spearmen, and gave up shooting. Only Tai Shici raised his bow and fought back under the cover of several shields, obviously relying on his archery skills to counter-suppress.

It seems ridiculous to fight thousands of crossbowmen on his own, but Cheng Yu is not at all easy. He ordered the generals of all departments to pay attention to safety, especially the generals who rushed to the front and were responsible for the front-line command, so as not to be targeted by Tai Shici. In this case, the lethality of a sharpshooter is still amazing.

Cheng Yu said in a timely manner, the strong crossbow captain and others were all prepared and did not fall into Tai Shi Ci's target, but the crossbowmen who were shooting were not so lucky, several crossbowmen with outstanding archery skills and also undertook sniper tasks were first targeted by Tai Shi Ci, even if there was a special shield hand to protect them, they were not completely spared, and they were hit by arrows one after another. As for those ordinary crossbowmen, it was even worse, they could only pray that they were not too good and would not be targeted by Tai Shi Ci, but all those who were aimed at were basically shot by Tai Shi Ci.

In just one drum time, Tai Shici shot a pot of arrows, killing seventeen people, seriously injuring eleven people, and only two arrows missed.

Such a record is simply chilling.

Although Cheng Yu didn't get accurate statistical results, he had already guessed from Tai Shici's momentum. Under the cover of random arrows, he can shoot unhurriedly, and choose valuable targets with ease, this person's heart is terrifyingly calm. He didn't want to delay any longer and ordered the death squad to come forward and assault.

Without the blocking of the arrow array, the soldiers who were responsible for the assault mission successfully rushed to the front of the formation, but in the face of the intensive defense of the Taishi Ci Department, they had no means to break the formation, although the battle was very brave, and the conflict of forgetting life and death was quickly killed in front of the formation. Cheng Yu was unmoved and ordered to continue the attack. No matter how elite the fighters are, there will be times when they are tired, Tai Shici has so many people, they don't change **, they attack continuously, they always have a time to get tired.

Team after team of soldiers launched a charge, and the battle lasted for half a day, there were thousands of corpses in front of Tai Shici's formation, and blood flowed everywhere, but Cheng Yu never saw a chance to break the formation. He was a little restless, even more uneasy. Tai Shici's subordinates are stronger than he expected, and the battle situation may get out of control.

Just when Cheng Yu was considering whether to continue the attack or retreat temporarily, Tai Shici issued an order to counterattack. The tight circular formation spread out and quickly transformed into an attack formation. Hearing the passionate sound of war drums, Cheng Yu was overjoyed, and then his heart was shocked. Tai Shici launched a counterattack at this time, and he must rely on it. Before he could figure it out, he heard the sound of an alarm horn in the distance.

Cheng Yu stretched his neck and looked into the distance as much as possible. When he saw the smoke pressed low on the horizon, he knew trouble was coming.

There is an enemy approaching, and there are extremely large numbers.

Under normal circumstances, he didn't need to worry, but now the situation is different, after fighting hard for half a day without results, morale is low, Tai Shici launched a counterattack again, and at this time, he will suffer heavy losses if he is flanked. Cheng Yu didn't say a word, and immediately ordered to change the formation, and fought and retreated.

He had no problem coping with it, but Tai Shi Ci refused to give him such a chance. Tai Shi Ci rushed to the front with his personal guards and rushed straight to Cheng Yu's main formation. He easily broke through the blockade and killed in front of Cheng Yu, shooting out one arrow after another, shooting one after another military marquis and tun commander to the ground, although Cheng Yu was tightly guarded by his own guards, he still felt the murderous aura coming to his face. Seeing that the guards battalion who rushed up to intercept it couldn't stop Tai Shici's forward assault, Cheng Yu sighed and ordered a retreat.

The piercing gong sounded, Cheng Yu's subordinates looked at the Chinese army, and when they saw the Chinese army's general flag moving, they panicked, and they couldn't take care of Tai Shici anymore, and led their troops to retreat.

Ji Ling, Zang Ba and others killed them from all directions and chased after them.

Cheng Yu tried to save the defeat, control the situation, and led the guards to the back of the camp hall to repeatedly rush to kill. But in the face of Tai Shici's strong attack, he was unable to turn the tide in the end, but was surrounded several times. In desperation, he had to leave the others behind and lead the guard battalion to break through.

As soon as Cheng Yu left, his subordinates completely collapsed, no one was willing to fight anymore, they only cared about fleeing for their lives, and those who couldn't escape simply surrendered on their knees, and only more than 2,000 people fled to Dongpinglu with Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yu stayed in Dongping Land for a short time, collected a part of the defeated troops, and then rushed back to Dongping to Wuyan, strengthened his vigilance, and at the same time urgently reported to Yuan Tan.