Kong Jie was also a senior general of the Liang army. Knowing that the Xiangzhou city was not a place to stay for a long time, he hurried back to the city to prepare for retreat. For a moment, the city of Xiangzhou was full of crying and shouting at her parents, which shocked the world. When the hungry soldiers in the city saw Kong Jie leading the fang soldiers and wealth to retreat first, they also wanted to follow him, blocking the city gate tightly, but were whipped by the fang soldiers and horses, and forcibly setting out a way. Wang Yanzhang outside the city also knew that this movement could not be hidden from the Wu soldiers on the east side of the city, so he asked the wounded soldiers to retreat first, and lined up the army towards the Wu army. He led two thousand cavalry to climb to a high place, thinking it was for cover.

When Xu Wuji saw the movement, he knew that the enemy was going to retreat, but his soldiers were extremely exhausted and had very few cavalrymen. He could only watch the Liang army in the city retreat one after another, and he could only do anything!

It was about an hour before dinner. The Liang army in the city had already left more than 5,000 people, but the last batch of wealth and Kong Jie's tooth soldiers were still behind. When Wang Yanzhang saw it, he was about to order the entire army to retreat one after another. The Liang soldiers in front suddenly made a sound of restlessness. When he looked up, he saw a big flag suddenly raised on the horizon southwest of Xiangcheng. It was the Wu army's black background and red-sided flag, and a big "Chen" character was sewn with white cloth!

It turned out that this was the main force of the Hannan Wu army led by Chen Zhang. After Wang Yanzhang defeated the troops of Li Fumin of the Wu army, he did not take advantage of the victory to rescue Xiangzhou. Instead, he led the main force to retreat westward and set off a special division to go south, directly attacking the former places of Jiangling and other Jingnan, which the Wu army had just captured, and many local tyrants raised their troops to respond, causing the Han family who stayed in Jiangling to be shocked overnight. The emergency text sent to the Wu army camp in Xiangzhou was like snowflakes. Chen Zhang had no choice but to lead the new army under his jurisdiction and some auxiliary troops to go south to prevent the Liang army from going south.

But Chen Zhang was also very serious. Although he did not guess that the group that was facing south was just a partial army of Liang, the speed of going south was not fast. He stopped leaving at Huweizhou, which was thirty miles away from Xiangzhou City. He set up an old camp and sent a battalion of troops to the south to Jingmen Army, but the main force remained in the old camp. After Chen Zhang went south, he used a trick to get out of the Wu army and lifted the siege of Xiangzhou. After Chen Zhang got the news, he hurriedly led the remaining new army of the third battalion and other auxiliary soldiers to Xiangzhou, and happened to meet Wang Yanzhang.

"Send the order and beat the drum! Arrange the array!" Wang Yanzhang made a quick decision. If the thousands of remaining soldiers in the East Gate were not enough to threaten the Liang army's retreat in the enemy's front, it would be stupid to play the enemy's retreat after the new force appeared. The only option in front of him was to fight the decisive battle. Although Wang Yanzhang has been cautious in avoiding confrontation with his elite since the war started, when the last moment came, he did not lack enough courage to face it.

With the sound of war drums, the Liang army began to set up orderly, with their left wing close to the walls of Jiacheng, so that they would not be detoured or side-striped by the enemy. In order to guard against the remaining Wu army at the East Gate, they still retained a reserve of 4,000 people in Jiacheng. The main force was deployed on the central army and the right wing. Especially the cavalry, Wang Yanzhang had a total of 5,000 cavalry under his command at this time, which was almost half of all the Wu cavalry in the battlefield in Jingzhou, and had a two-to-one advantage over the Wu army. He was preparing to repeatedly harass and attack the right wing of the Wu army to make it tired. After a gap appeared, he launched a fierce attack with the cavalry, defeated the right wing and then detoured the central army, thus achieving all the victory.

In contrast to the enemy, the Wu army did not stick its right wing against the city wall of Jiacheng. The reason is very simple. Now, except for a small section near the east gate, Jiacheng has fallen under the control of the Liang army. If it is too close to the city wall, it will be damaged by the enemy's firepower. The right wing of the Wu army is about two arrows away from the city wall. Unlike in the past, on the left wing, which is most likely to be attacked by the enemy, the Wu army did not set up the "Spanish large array" that was commonly used in the past. Both spearmen were the core, the four corners were the melee gun shooters, and the hollow square formation was the light cannon formation. On the left wing, the Wu army occupied an area of ​​about a high place.

On the edge of the high ground, there are more than a hundred large chariots. These large chariots are placed inclines, facing the enemy on the side, and the gaps of the large chariots are blocked by the chariots. Wang Yanzhang can clearly see the metal helmets shaking behind the chariots. The metal spire of the helmets of the chariots reflects strong light in the sun. Obviously, behind the chariots, there are many Wu army shooters. On the outside of the chariots, due to the hasty time, they did not dig trenches, but only inserted a row of wooden stakes to resist horses. All infantry, cavalry and artillery on the left wing of the Wu army are hidden in this fortress temporarily arranged by a large chariot.

"Why is this? Use a large cart to strengthen defense? The enemy general also guessed that I would start from the left first?" Wang Yanzhang squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the enemy's formation, trying to judge the intentions of the enemy general from these strange performances. "No, but this also blocked the way forward of his infantry spear phalanx! Just relying on this large cart defense line, you can't stand it if you only defend but not attack!"

"Taiwei Wang, Wu thief has to conspire to set up this strange formation. Why not let my subordinates test it first and then make a decision!" Kong Jie, who was standing beside him, was grateful to Wang Yanzhang for helping him, so he took the initiative to be the person who stepped on the mine to repay the favor of the rescue. Wang Yanzhang nodded and said, "Then please please Mr. Kong!"

With the rhythmic drumming, Yi Rong led the more than a thousand fang soldiers and began to slowly advance towards the small highland where the left wing of the Wu army was located. Most of the people in the Liang army did not ride horses, and many of them carried long axes, ropes, and iron hooks. These were used to remove the fences outside the large chariots. Behind them, there were more than two thousand cavalrymen. When the fang soldiers cleared the road barriers for them, these cavalry would rush to the high ground and sweep the Wu soldiers into nothing.

When the vanguards of the tantrums were about eighty steps away from the Wu army, a burst of white smoke ejected from the Wu army, and then a gunshot came. Some of the tantrums immediately fell to the ground. These unlucky guys were hit by lead bullets. They rolled on the ground in pain, trying to stand up again, but the scorching lead bullets had smashed their bones and tore their muscles. Life flowed out of their bodies with blood. The wings of the god of death quickly covered their eyes. But the remaining tantrums remained as order as possible and moved forward with great strides.

The elites of the Xiangcheng defenders were already used to the power of the Wu army's firearms and were not as scared as they were at the beginning. At this time, they were less than fifty steps away from the wooden fence. The drum sound of Liang army became rapid. The fang soldiers made a frenzy shout and rushed towards the fence as fast as possible. When they rushed to the edge of the fence, they used long axes to chop the fence with force. Some people used ropes to siege the wooden fence, and then pulled down the wooden fence with cavalry. The rest used firearms and crossbows to shoot fiercely at the gaps between the big chariots and shields to protect their companions.

Behind the shield and the cart, the raiders and auxiliary soldiers aimed the crossbows and firearms at the tooth soldiers who destroyed the fences and firearms. The lead bullets and arrows were like hail, sprinkling on the heads of these poor guys. The ground beside the fences, the moans of the wounded were resounding. In less than half of the tea, half of the people had been knocked down, but the rest were still alive, insisting on destroying the wooden fences and shooting at the Wu army alive. Their faces were choked by the fireworks, their hands became soft due to fatigue or blood loss, their eyes were filled with blood, and their vision became blurred, and even the big trucks that were about twenty steps away became blurred and shaking, and most of the firearms became hot and burned due to continuous shooting, but these crazy people did not stop as long as they had a breath.

At this time, with a terrifying sound, a large row of fences fell down, splashing smoke and dust. The two thousand cavalrymen who had been impatient behind had long waited to make rough and terrifying shouts and rushed forward. Countless horse hooves trampled on the earth, making terrifying sounds, as if the entire earth was sinking. The essence of these Liang army fiercely approached the cart and began to gallop around the cart parallel, while sporting the cart.

When they were familiar with aiming at the archery holes of the cart and the gaps between the oars and shields, Wu Jun immediately screamed in the formation. Compared with the arch bow, the riding bows used by these knights were slightly larger than the arch bows, and the arrows were longer and heavier than ordinary arrows. Many people simply used square-headed arrows or shovel-shaped arrows. These arrows could easily penetrate iron armor, cut off tendons, and even cut bones within twenty steps, and were amazingly powerful.

Inspired by the cavalry, the remaining fang soldiers rushed to Liang's chariot formation fiercely and began to smash the shields and chariots with heavy weapons such as long axes and Guduo. Many cavalry also jumped off the horses to help them, trying to open a passage. But they soon discovered that the Wu army had buried many wheels with soil, and it was impossible to move in a short time. After half a quarter of an hour, the Liang army finally opened several gaps and rushed into the chariot formation. In front of them, there were another row of the same chariots. In the gaps between the chariots, there were Wu soldiers holding various weapons.

The cruel battle then unfolded. In the narrow space of the two rows of chariots, the formation and cavalry lost their effect. The Wu soldiers rushed over with long axes, bones, and long wooden sticks wrapped in iron sheets. They tried their best to protect the crossbowmen and the raiders of the large chariots. The Liang army rushed into the formation to fight fiercely. Sometimes the Wu soldiers also used iron chains to connect several adjacent large chariots to form a small defense unit to prevent the impact of the Liang cavalry.
Chapter completed!