Zhou Cang is a native of Guanxi, originally a general under the command of Zhang Bao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Thieves, who attacked Youzhou with the army, and it was precisely because of this encounter that he met Guan Yu for the first time in Jixian County, if it weren't for him, Zhou Cang would never escape, and he must have suffered the fate of being buried alive like other soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army.

Later, he went to Runan, and met Guan Yu by fate, this time he did not miss the opportunity, stalked, and finally joined Guan Yu's account, and it was only at this time that he knew that it was not Guan Yu who disobeyed and saved them, but Liu Lan risked killing his head and released everyone, but this is all a later story At that time, Zhou Cang only remembered the long-haired and red-faced Engong Guan Yu.

Since then, he joined Liu Lan, who was still called the Liaodong Army at the time, and served by Guan Yu's side, his requirements for himself are actually not so high, and he doesn't even value the position, he is a native of Guanxi, and repaying his kindness is what he values most, but after following General Guan for a long time, he found that he admired him more and more.

To be able to serve by his side, that is the luck of his life, now that General Guan has entrusted him with such a heavy responsibility, he will never let General Guan down, although even he can't guarantee in his own heart whether he can achieve the final victory against Yan Liang, but even if he can't win, he must stop them and wait for General Guan's main force to arrive.

Zhou Cang took the lead, leading the soldiers of the Setshan battalion to kill Yan Liang and his Jizhou army directly, beside him, but there were only 5,000 people, such an attack made them all very nervous, and felt that they were hitting a stone with an egg.

But this is the case with the military order, as long as the military order is issued, they have no choice but to obey the order, fearlessly rush forward, and kill the Jizhou army.

"Brothers, General Guan is behind, he will come soon, he will kill me fiercely, the first merit of this battle must not be left behind, follow me, kill!"

"Kill !!"

At the moment when Zhou Cang led the Setshan battalion to kill the Jizhou army, the Jizhou army also roared, like a strong wind, and swept across the border in an instant, they were still fighting with the Langya army not long ago, although they did not capture the camp from beginning to end, but there was no heavy loss of Taiguoda, except for a siege and breakthrough of the enemy camp.

This night for them, they have been holding back the fire, originally wanted to sprinkle it on the head of the Langya army, but they didn't expect it to turn into a retreat in the end, a little aggrieved, but they didn't expect to arrive in Ju County, they actually came to such a constant enemy army, this fire found a place in an instant, just at this time, General Yan Liang issued an order to attack, one by one immediately shouted, and killed the Setshan camp.

The sky was bright, and Yan Liang immediately found a mound, condescendingly, observing every move on the battlefield.

When he learned from Zhu Ling's mouth that the Setshan camp appeared, Yan Liang could actually already think that he would meet them on the way to retreat, especially when he was getting closer and closer to Juxian, the more worried he became, the more worried he was, afraid that they would suddenly kill from a certain direction, or that he would suddenly get into their encirclement, but now when Zhou Cang appeared, he was relieved, Zhou Cang's direct attack could only show that Guan Yu must be by his side, but he was still at a distance from them, otherwise Zhou Cang would never have taken such a risky attack.

And he, like Zhou Cang, has no choice.

If you want to return to Juxian, you must first break through Zhou Cang in front, and Zhou Cang must leave himself, also block the front, and block them, this battle cannot be avoided, it depends on whether they can eliminate it faster, or they can drag it to Guan Yu and lead the main force.

"Attack and destroy the enemy as soon as possible!"

Yan Liang gave the order to attack, and then the drum was beaten.

In the sound of drums, the Jizhou army began to attack, sweeping towards the Setshan camp like a tide.

At the same time, Zhou Cang had also been killed, and the shouts of both sides resounded throughout the world at the same time.

The soldiers of the Setshan battalion are all veterans of the battlefield, they attack in an orderly manner, although they take the initiative to attack, but the formation is not chaotic, the sword and shield hands have been rushing to the front, and the spearmen behind them are close behind, observing the Jizhou army wearing khaki uniforms, as long as they dare to approach, they will suddenly stab out the spears and assassinate the enemy in front of them.

Such an offensive not only ensured their own safety, but also eliminated the Jizhou army to the greatest extent, and in the direction of the rear army, the crossbowmen were not idle, their crossbows were constantly triggered, and the long arrows roared towards the Jizhou army, and the dense feather arrows covered the sky and the sun and fell towards the Jizhou army, round after round, Zhou Cang was very satisfied with the first wave of attacks, especially listening to the miserable howls of the soldiers of the Jizhou army, which made him even more excited, but just for a moment, he found out, The offensive of the Jizhou army that had been killed suddenly became fierce, and the sword and shield soldiers at the front instantly fell to the ground and were brutally slashed and killed, the scream deeply hurt him, and the cry of pain seemed to sound in his ears.

"Kill."

The Jizhou army shouted frantically, running wildly one by one, and their archers were not idle, in fact, their archers launched an attack earlier than the Setshan battalion, but the distance at that time could only allow them to cover the sword and shield hands, and often most of the arrows were bounced away by the shield hands, but as the two armies approached, the coverage of the archers was not only the sword and shield soldiers, but the spearmen and even the crossbowmen.

The two sides come and go.

The arrows fell from the shower to the rain, and both sides lost a lot of soldiers, but in terms of lethality, the crossbow machine of the Setshan battalion obviously had the upper hand, and in the Jizhou army, it was not that they could only rely on the archers, it was not that they did not have crossbowmen, but the crossbow machine was still the old-fashioned crossbow machine made in the Han Dynasty, and it was easy to shoot a arrow, but to draw up, either put the huge crossbow machine down and lean on the foot to lead it, or it would take two people to work together to lead it, there was such a time, although they would attack in batches, but compared with the crossbowmen of the Setshan battalion, the speed and scale were too small, Putting down is not as effective as the archer.

Although the accuracy and lethality of the archers are difficult to guarantee, the speed is not slow, and the crossbowmen of the Setshan battalion brought by Zhou Cang, after Ou Yejian's improved crossbow machine, lead with bare hands, one-handed fire, its convenience is even easier than that of archers, and the most important point is that after Ou Yejian's continuous improvement, a crossbow can send out five arrows at the same time, although it is still far from Liu Lan's expectation of ten arrows in a rage, it is much stronger than one arrow at a time or even three arrows at a time.

Every time the crossbowman fires a crossbow arrow, the enemy is relieved to lie down in a large area.

Such a crossbow machine is simply a killing machine, and even if five arrows are fired at the same time, his huge strength will not be weakened in the slightest, as long as he shoots the enemy, it must be a good situation will be deeply submerged in the body, and the tail feathers are inserted on the body, shaking, shocking.

Nowadays, the ordnance factory, there is a department specifically responsible for the development of crossbow machines, everything has become a scale, and the fuselage is constantly being reduced, making it faster and more powerful, but although these processes are constantly improving, but carrying arrows has become an eternal topic, especially now that the crossbow machine can fire five arrows at a time, the number of arrows carried by crossbowmen has become larger.

However, in this regard, the armory factory is not very good, and has not found a feasible way for a long time, just like the current crossbowmen, they carry up to five bags of arrows, after the arrows are used up, there is no way, if it is in the city, there is a large number of logistics transportation, which can ensure a continuous supply of arrows, but in this barren mountains and mountains, the crossbowmen who cannot be replenished can only stare dryly, and let them go to participate in the hand-to-hand combat like other infantry.

And at this moment, the problem is even more serious, because they have already fought with the Jizhou cavalry, and most of the arrows have been consumed, and the arrows will soon be completely visible after such crazy shooting.

The Setshan battalion's advantage in the rain of arrows soon became smaller and smaller, although it once turned the Jizhou army into a burial ground under the prison and paid a very heavy price, but now they have no threat to the Jizhou generals, and they are not even as threatening as the opponent's archers.

This is a current situation, and it is also a problem that Liu Lan and even Ou Yejian have been trying to change and overcome, if one day, the arrows can be carried more conveniently, then the threat of the crossbow machine will be powerful, not to mention shooting five at a time, even if it is more, there is no need to be afraid of running out of arrows, and you can always carry out continuous terrorist strikes on the enemy.

In such a situation, the most fierce confrontation between the enemy and us has changed from the arrow crossbow to the short hand of the infantry in front, and both sides are engaged in the most complete formation, although Zhou Cangxiang claims to be a military general, not good at commanding troops to fight, but after following Guan Yu for so long, in addition to commanding the mountain battalion, the maintenance of the formation type does not need him to remind and change anything, of course, his disadvantage lies in the change of the formation type, if the battlefield is stalemate or disadvantaged, He didn't have the ability to change the battlefield situation by changing the formation like Guan Yu.

But because the soldiers of the Setshan Battalion themselves are the elite of the elite, in the head-to-head duel, they did not fall behind in a short period of time, but the battle situation was a little tragic.

At this time, after Guan Yu sent Zhou Cang, the large army was also rushing towards them at the fastest speed, but when he heard that Zhou Cang had taken the initiative to attack, he urged the troops to speed up their advance.

Guan Yu is not familiar with Chengyang County, and has never even been there, and he does not know the road conditions here, and when he turned to the official road in the hope of arriving at the battlefield as soon as possible, he found that the situation here was extremely bad, perhaps because Zhuqi from Ju County to Donghai County in Xuzhou was completely a no-man's land, and the road conditions here were simply miserable.

It's no wonder that no one will take care of this section of the road, even if there are passers-by or even caravans, they often take the official road from Juxian County to Langya to Linyi, how can they choose this no-man's land to go south.

There are few people walking, and there are no people living there, so this official road is at best a little stronger than the wasteland that Guan Yu walked before, at least there is no need to overcome obstacles along the way.

But for the first time, it didn't make Guan Yu and his party speed up the march by much, and they walked very slowly, especially when the five thousand people in Zhou Cang walked, the speed was not so obvious, and his more than 30,000 people walked up, it was as simple as a slow word.

However, the soldiers of the Setshan battalion did not complain at all, and walked away one by one. It was under such circumstances that they continued to hurry, and finally got closer and closer to the point of engagement.

At this time, between the plains and wilderness, the killing sound of the Jizhou army and the Seshan camp shook the sky.

The phalanx of Zhou Cang and the soldiers of the Setshan Battalion was broken through by the enemy, and the Jizhou army killed the Setshan Battalion unscrupulously.

As a last resort, Zhou Cang had to take the lead in person, dismounted and held the shield at the forefront, this is not the first time he has done this, it can be said that when there is an unfavorable situation in the Setshan camp, or even when there is an unfavorable situation in the exercise with the Dragoons, he will come to the front line in person, so as to turn the tide of the battle.

And his arrival did improve the original precarious situation of the Setshan Battalion, of course, this is also related to the obvious weakness of the combat effectiveness of the Jizhou Army.

It's not that they don't have good combat effectiveness, it's just that compared with the Cao army and even the Setshan battalion, if they have the strength of the Cao army now, let alone one Zhou Cang, even if they come to ten Zhou Cang, it will not change the direction of the war.

After all, the Setshan Battalion has been trained by Guan Yu for several years, under Guan Yu's formal and strict training, the Jizhou Army really can't compare with them, which is not only the degree of cooperation and tacit understanding between each other, but also the quality of individual soldiers.

Can you imagine how good the days of being a soldier are, can they not be as strong as a calf?

But this is also a way to do it, after all, Liu Lan's high-intensity training, how can people in this era afford to eat, once or twice is okay, every day, the body has to be trained, in the early years in the mine, not only did a similar situation occur, Liu Lan later found the reason, and saw that he was furious, it turned out that the soldiers had two meals a day, ate several bowls of rice during the day, ate pancakes at night, and couldn't even see oil and water, how could they withstand such intense training, a few days, not to mention what muscles to enhance what physique to strengthen individual soldiers to kill group combat, all of them have to climb down tiredly.

Since then, the amount of soldier training can only be reduced, but at the same time, Liu Lan instructed Jian Yong and Yan Rou to find a way to solve the problem of soldiers' eating, and at the worst of all, let the soldiers have a little oil and water in their stomachs, even if they have one meal of meat a week, such a high-intensity training, this amount is the most basic.

It was also from this moment that the food of the troops was continuously improved, and among the troops, large-scale production began, and the Huotou Army not only had to cook, but also to breed, chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, and later encouraged the people, so that the troops were able to eat meat from the first seven days to eat meat every day, and the quality of training became more and more effective, and finally there was such an elite unit as the Setshan Battalion.