Lu Bu: My wife comes from two thousand years later

Since the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, conflicts broke out between the Qiang tribes on the northwestern border and the Han Dynasty. Ma Chao's ancestor Ma Yuan was famous for pacifying the Qiang. In the following hundreds of years, the Han-Qiang conflict on the border continued. So for these Qiang and Di people, they were not afraid of fighting, but they were afraid of having no food to eat.

On the second day, the elderly, weak, women and children outside the city were driven to the rear, and the area outside Xingguo City was vacated. From Changli River to the foot of the mountain on the east side, the flat river valley was filled with tens of thousands of soldiers from both sides.

The powerful fighting capacity of the Tang army forced Agui to be cautious. He transferred 25,000 of the 30,000 defenders in Xingguo City and another 10,000 from Lueyang, totaling 35,000 to fight Lu Bu.

Although Lu Bu had 20,000 soldiers at this time, he did not send all of them to the front battlefield. Instead, he sent Cao Xing to lead 5,000 people to line up at a small slope northeast of Xingguo City. From here, they could cross the slope and go down to the Qingshui River Valley to intercept the remaining soldiers who wanted to retreat to Lueyang. At the same time, he sent a flying eagle to convey a message to Taishi Ci outside Longguan, ordering him to prepare to break through the pass.

The horns were blowing and the drums were rumbling. After the Qiang and Di people had almost gathered, Lu Bu immediately gave the order to attack!

"Your Majesty, you are sending General Cao to cut off the enemy's retreat now. Aren't you afraid that we might be defeated in the frontal battle?" Yang Qiu, who was currently serving under Ma Chao in the left wing cavalry formation, asked in confusion.

Ma Chao smiled confidently and said, "Your Majesty's cavalry has never lost a field battle. Let alone 35,000, even 50,000 would be enough to defeat them."

Yang Qiu looked around at the soldiers behind him and said with some concern, "If the Tang army was well-equipped, I would believe it. But apart from their sharper weapons than the Qiang and Di, they don't even have a pair of armor. Even if they are good at fighting, they are still mortal. With so many fewer soldiers than them, I don't think it's possible!"

"You don't know this, don't you? Every Tang soldier wears armor, and it's the finest armor in the world. The Di people's weapons can't hurt them at all."

Yang Qiu looked at the soldiers again and immediately understood, "They wear their armor inside?"

"That's right! You wonder why the two of us still have time to chat right now? It's because the king wants to completely annihilate this group of rebels. If all ten thousand cavalrymen were to attack, they would probably flee after a while."

Yang Qiu nodded in understanding. There were mountains of varying heights beside the Lishui River. The Qiang and Di people were very familiar with the terrain. If a large group of them fled, the Tang army would not be able to pursue them. Without completely destroying the Qiang and Di people's fighting power, the situation here would not be considered pacified, and the other side could come back at any time. If the men escaped, the King of Tang would not take his anger out on the women and children. Agui must have decided to fight if he could and escape if he couldn't win, so he dared to go out of the city to fight.

Ma Chao continued, "Of the 5,000 cavalrymen Your Majesty has assigned as the vanguard, 3,000 are Qiang soldiers surrendered from Beidi and Anding counties. Their combat power and equipment are similar to Agui's troops, but their banners are the Yongzhou banners. The real Yongzhou soldiers are actually flying the Qiang tribal banners. We're placing them on the flanks, using the weaker troops as the vanguard, hoping to lure Agui into a full-scale battle so we can annihilate him in one fell swoop!"

While the two were talking, the 5,000 vanguard cavalry had already been engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy's 10,000 vanguards. Seeing that the famous Tang army did not seem as scary as the legend said, Agui also sent the 7,000 flank troops distributed along the Lishui River into the battlefield, intending to overwhelm the morale of the Tang army with absolute superiority at the beginning of the war.

At this time, Lü Bu's central army also sent a military order to Ma Chao. Upon receiving the order, Ma Chao immediately said to Yang Qiu, "Take your men and go around to the left rear of the battlefield and hunt outside. The goal is to block Agui's way back to the city when the Di people are defeated."

"Understood!" Yang Qiu clasped his fists and immediately led his troops forward, while Ma Chao also led the Yongzhou cavalry to join the front battlefield.

At this point, Lu Bu's army had deployed more than 10,000 troops, with only 4,000 men in the center and right wing remaining. Agui still had nearly 20,000 men left, and the battlefield continued to maintain a evenly matched situation. This made Agui feel that as long as he put all these last few troops forward, the Tang army would inevitably be defeated.

At this time, Agui was like a gambler at the gambling table, who had already staked all his belongings in Xingguo City. When he saw that both sides had similar cards, he couldn't help but want to bet all his remaining capital in order to win a big victory.

He really did so. Except for leaving two thousand trusted soldiers to guard the central army, he put all his remaining troops into it. He even had a crazy idea of ​​beheading Lu Bu.

"The fish has taken the bait, it's time for the Feixiong Army to be eliminated!" Jia Xu pointed to the battlefield in the distance and reminded from the center of the army.

Lu Bu nodded and ordered, "Send a message to Hua Xiong!"

The Feixiong Army has only two thousand people. When deployed on a battlefield of thirty to forty thousand people, they look like a small number and not scary at all. However, they are the elite selected from hundreds of thousands of people. The war horses they ride are also carefully selected, not to mention the equipment of each soldier.

Led by Hua Xiong, two thousand men rushed into the battlefield and acted like head-harvesting machines. In just half an hour, the situation on the battlefield was reversed.

For the Qiang people who fled from Anding County, they had neither relatives nor property here. When the war situation was good, they were naturally willing to join forces with Agui to defeat Lu Bu, but once the situation changed, they were unwilling to resist, and these Qiang people were the first to want to escape.

Xingguo City is located at the intersection of Changli River and Qingshui River. It is blocked by rivers on the west and south. Behind the valley in the north is the position of Lu Bu's central army. Further behind, there are 10,000 auxiliary soldiers watching the 20,000 to 30,000 civilians captured from the Di tribe. These people blocked the road tightly, and the only way to escape was to the east towards Lueyang City.

But running away was useless. When they rounded the small hill on the east side, they saw from afar a group of soldiers waiting for them in a well-rested state.

The five thousand men led by Cao Xing were all infantry. When Agui was dispatching troops to Lueyang yesterday, Cao Xing also had people cut down trees and made a lot of deer antlers and hid them behind the slope. When the enemy troops from Lueyang came today, they put the deer antlers out. In addition to the main road along the Qingshui River, the two mountain passes on the east side where people could escape were also filled with deer antlers. Behind the deer antler formation were all archers.

In this situation, rushing forward would only lead to arrows being thrown at them. The fleeing Qiang people could only retreat towards Xingguo City, hoping to escape into the city and defend it.

However, it was not easy to enter the city without anyone to cover their retreat. The moat and trenches that were originally used to block the Tang army also became obstacles for them to return to the city. Moreover, the Feixiong Army had already killed Agui's team twice. The collapsed Di people had to flee to the east instead of entering the city, and they happened to run into the Qiang team that had turned back.

The iron hooves trampled the ground, the chaotic soldiers rushed forward, countless people were buried under their own horses' hooves, and the Qingshui River was filled with the screams of soldiers and the neighing of horses.

Seeing that the situation had completely reversed in an instant, Agui was completely dumbfounded. He didn't care about anything else at this time. Under the protection of his personal guards, he turned around and fled to Xingguo City, but was intercepted by Yang Qiu who had been wandering on the edge of the battlefield.

At this time, Ma Chao also rushed to the back. Seeing that Agui was trying to escape, he was not willing to miss this good opportunity to behead him. He waved his spear like a whirlwind, and in an instant he broke out of the chaos and rushed towards Agui.

Agui knew Ma Chao and knew that he was fierce. When he saw that the other party was running towards him at a very fast speed, his face changed immediately.

"Quick! Stop that horse!"

He roared and ran towards the city, but Yang Qiu's men blocked his way in front, and no matter how good his horse was, it could not go any faster.

More than a dozen Di soldiers surrounded Ma Chao. Ma Chao stabbed left and right with his spear quickly, killing one person with one spear. In an instant, he killed several people. The man and the horse were like sharp swords, cutting a bloody path in the Di team and rushing straight behind Agui.

"Stop him! Quick!"

Agui looked back and was horrified. He shouted loudly, but Ma Chao was so brave that none of the soldiers who surrounded him could stop him. When he was about to run to the city, Agui felt a pain on the back of his neck. He looked down and saw the tip of a spear sticking out of his neck.