As the army approached Huainan, the vigilance of the ranger scouts also expanded on a large scale. So soon, the movement in the direction of Huliang was fed back to the army.

"The villains are really hateful, abusing me and the people, treating human life as a mustard, and deserving of death as a retribution!"

Hearing the scouts' return, the generals all changed color and their eyes cracked. And Shen Mu and Han Huang, who were the only ones in the army formation with high mobility, also got up and asked for battle with a fierce voice: "Peng Biao, the traitor, is nothing more than our army marching slowly, using this wall to clear the wilderness, and openly driving my Jin people into a flesh and blood fence!" The last general forced the battle, and vowed to capture and kill this thief in the wilderness, and cut off the people! ”

"The two armies are at war, each employing its own means. Isn't Peng Biao's doing this exactly one of the situations that was expected before? I know that you are fierce in your desire to fight, but if you dare to commit atrocities for this, isn't it precisely to disrupt the deployment of our army? This war has been prepared for a long time, and all departments in Jiangbei have moved. If our army is different, the consequences are really unpredictable, and there may not be another good opportunity in the future. ”

Shen Zhezi had no hatred in his heart for this, but after weighing it for a long time, he still did not agree to the generals' request for war. In the battle of Huainan, his biggest advantage was not that he far exceeded the enemy's equipment investment, but that the strategic center of gravity of Qianhu in Huaidi was biased.

The army marched north in winter, and this battle was already hard, and if it could not offset Peng Biao's field ability to the greatest extent, even if it was won, it would cause great losses. And if the loss is too great, this will directly affect Shen Zhezi's follow-up plan.

He is now a side general in charge, not only responsible for the lives of his subordinates, but also responsible for the large amount of investment in Liang County in the early stage, and the pressure is not small. In order to strive for an optimal situation, the safety of these people in Huaidi cannot be put in the first place.

This logic is a little cruel, but as the main general, Shen Zhezi has to make a trade-off. And for those Huainan people who are about to see on the battlefield, he can only regret and be helpless.

In the past few months, during the confrontation and infiltration between the two sides, Shen Zhezi had also sent rangers to try his best to recruit those Jin people who were hiding in the countryside. But unfortunately, with little success, those people either did not have confidence in Liang County, or lacked trust in Shen Zhezi, or were too jealous of the fierceness of Liang Hu, few people chose to move south, and most of them stayed in the local area, turning a blind eye to Liang County's appeasement.

Shen Zhezi couldn't complain that these people were short-sighted and stubborn, after all, since the Yongjia period, the will of the Jiangdong Imperial Court has rarely been felt here. Even if the Zu brothers ruled here for a long time, they each had no shortage of contradictions with the center, so that the people's centripetal force towards the Jiangdong court was very weak.

In the final analysis, Shen Zhezi did not reflect enough prestige that could make people's lives entrust him, and he could attract people to invest across the border.

Although the generals were indignant, they could only obey military orders. And because a battle could happen at any time, in order to ensure the physical strength of the soldiers, the marching speed was slowed down a little.

Another day, in the evening, the two sides encountered each other on the flat ground dozens of miles south of Huliangshu.

Thousands of ragged civilians were driven south by more than 1,000 cavalry, and there was almost no formation to speak of, and they were noisily looking at the front of the Yuzhou army. These people may be armed with wooden sticks and bamboo guns, but many of them are empty-handed, and they are like wandering spirits crying and rushing south. On both flanks, the tyrannical Qianghu cavalry restrained the team with whips, knives and guns, and controlled the direction.

In the face of such an opponent, the soldiers in the front were also slightly surprised and rioted, seeing that many people who could not run were slashed under the horses by the Qihu cavalry with a sneer, from the soldiers to the commanders and generals, their eyes were already cracked, the knuckles of the two fingers holding the blades were white, and the throat was full of angry roars!

"Array, meet the enemy!"

Although Shen Zhezi personally sat in the forward battalion, the specific person responsible for directing the battle was Hu Run, the commander of the Shengwu Army. The chariots were pushed forward to form a formation, and the soldiers boarded the chariots one after another, each drawing their bows and buckling the strings, waiting for the counterattack order to be issued.

Shen Zhezi's subordinate brought more than 400 chariots with the army, and after the front formation was set up to meet the enemy's position, the left and right wings also moved closer to the middle to protect the heavy grain and grass.

The soldiers in the middle carried bundles of arrows to the front chariots in an orderly manner, and compared with the immature battle, the armament was now more sufficient, the number of bows and crossbows was greatly increased, and the use of hammers, hammers and hammers was more sufficient.

The rangers were cruising in the gaps between several military formations, already wearing all their armor and twisting their horses, ready to rush to the opposing formation.

The crowd had already rushed into range, and the knights on both flanks had begun to retract their formations and drive away from the rear. Looking at the people on the other side who were so frightened that their faces were already distorted, the pressure on the hearts of the sergeants in the car formation was even greater than that of facing the real strong army, and many people could not bear to point their bows and crossbows at such a group of suffering people.

However, in the end, the shooting snare drum still suddenly sounded, shaking people's heartstrings! The fatal arrow seemed to be pouring rain, and it was like a locust pounce, completely covering an area in front of it in an instant!

The Yuzhou army can be said to be the best in Jiangbei, even if it is a well-equipped elite infantry rider in front of the Hu, the lethality is amazing, not to mention the group of people who are not sheltered at all. The rain of arrows came like a violent wind, and the hundreds of people who rushed to the front were instantly hit by arrows and fell down, paving a line of death blood in the front formation!

The deadly arrows, the scarlet blood, completely crushed the people's hearts, everyone shrunk in fear, and no longer dared to run forward, and the momentum completely stopped for a while!

"Those who rush into battle live, and those who retreat die!"

Such a fierce rain of arrows struck Peng Biao's mind, and those chariots formed an iron wall of copper across the ground, giving people a sense of heaviness that could not be broken through.

And within the range of these arrows, the elite cavalry of his descendants are just mobile targets that are slightly covered, and it is difficult to shake the opponent's car formation head-on!

Therefore, he ordered his knights to step up their drive of those Jin people, hoping to inflict some impact on the opponent's formation, and at the same time consume the opponent's sharp energy and arrows.

With a rain of arrows in front of them and a deadly iron cavalry in the back, the people were surrounded by hellish conditions. One by one, their consciousness was already chaotic, and their six senses were annihilated, some curled up on the ground and hugged their heads and cried, and some of them recognized one direction and buried their heads in yelling and rushing, and the scene was tragic for a while, making people feel desperate and painful!

Hu Run's eyes twitched slightly at this time, and a resentful light burst out of his single eye, and after a round of arrow rain was slightly deterred, he didn't give the order to continue shooting, but just turned to look at Shen Zhezi, the main general on the chariot not far away, with an inquiring look.

"Shoot the enemy formation on your back and cover the creeping people approaching!"

Shen Zhezi immediately gave an order after a slight change of thought, so the soldiers roared in unison in the front formation: "Lie on the ground to avoid death, crawl forward!" ”

At this time, the opponent's formation was already chaotic, although some people received the order to lie on the ground, but they were soon trampled by those who rushed and collided.

However, after shouting this order, the Yuzhou army no longer left more time for them, and the arrow pointed upward, and the second round of arrow rain came in the air. This time, there were many people who fell to the ground with arrows, but most of the arrows were concentrated in the rear.

Especially the part that was entangled with the Kahu cavalry, in order to drive the people to rush into battle, some of the Kahu cavalry had already probed into the firing range. Previously, there were few casualties due to the chaotic formation of the people, but as more and more people fell to the ground, these forward cavalry began to suffer casualties.

At this time, there was no shortage of people who kept the legs and feet of the slave soldiers or the body of the horse because of the chaos, plus a few rounds of arrow rain throwing, most of the nearly 100 cavalry in the slave formation who did not withdraw in time were shot and fell off their horses!

"Keep shooting!"

Although the slave soldiers had already distanced themselves, Shen Zhezi did not order to stop shooting, although they no longer concentrated on shooting, but those arrows were still intertwined into an arrow curtain to cover the people who had already crawled forward, and completely cut off from the slave horses.

And because the opponent's cavalry has been separated from the rebel team, the number is clear at a glance, Shen Musuo led the knights to rush out and kill the opponent's slightly chaotic cavalry formation! At the same time, under the cover of hundreds of rangers, the flank car formation slowly panned forward, surrounding and protecting the people who were still crawling in front.

Peng Biao didn't dare to fight, and the reined team swam to the edge of the battlefield before the opponent's cavalry rushed in. Shen Mu and other knights desperately rode their horses in pursuit, and the other party was slightly behind, and they were immediately pierced by arrows full of hatred, or rolled off the horse, or were directly nailed to the horse's back, and the horse that lost control carried the corpse and ran aimlessly in the wilderness.

Fearing that there would be ambushes on the other side's back road, after chasing for several miles, Shen Mu and the others collected their troops and returned.

By this time, the troop carts had already crossed the battlefield and continued to form formations in front, and the soldiers in the back began to clean up the battlefield, and the corpses were all picked up and piled aside, and the arrows that fell on the ground were also picked up. As for those who survived, they were driven to one place, and one by one those who survived the catastrophe hugged their heads and cried.

At the same time as the camp was set up, the battle report was quickly sorted out, this round of skirmishes, more than 100 slaves were shot and killed, but there were four or five hundred civilians killed, most of them were killed by the first round of arrows, and many were hit by stray arrows or trampled to death.

As for the survivors, there are still more than 800 people left on the battlefield at present, and the number of those who fled in all directions in the chaos cannot be counted, but if those people are allowed to roam in the wilderness, it is really difficult to survive in the end.

After winning the small battle and easily repelling the slave soldiers, there were people from various families in Jiangdong who came with the army in the Chinese army, and some wanted to come forward to congratulate Chu Jie, but when they saw that the generals, including Shen Zhezi, were all gloomy and terrible, they also shut up with fun.

"Scatter the rangers, and be sure to drive the scattered people back here as much as possible."

The real battle didn't last long, and now there was still some distance before it got dark, so Shen Zhezi immediately ordered. The recovery of arrows on the battlefield takes up too much time, and today I can only choose to stay close to them, and by the way, I can appease the surviving people a little.