Under Xiangyang City

The Yulin Cavalry and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry set off one after another, as if they were taking this opportunity to compete to see who was the most elite soldier in the imperial court.

Lu Bu didn't care much about this, and continued to prepare his troops and horses in a leisurely manner, then left the people guarding the camp behind, and led three thousand soldiers straight to Xiangyang.

Lu Bu had more than 10,000 imperial troops at hand, but he only brought 3,000. This was not because there were already two troops of Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and Yulin Cavalry in front of him, and the camp needed to be defended in an emergency, but because he felt that even if he only brought one

With a thousand men, Xiangyang City can be captured.

This is because he has absolute confidence in his own strength.

"A mere Xiangyang city wants to stop me?"

The three soldiers and horses were divided into three parts: front, middle and back. It didn't take long to reach the gate of Xiangyang City, and then formed their formation to make final preparations before attacking the city.

Cao Ren's tiger and leopard cavalry arrived first, but he did not take advantage of the situation to launch an attack on the city, although that would have allowed him to enter Xiangyang City earlier.

But since the Yulin Cavalry has already caught up, there is no need to be so anxious.

The movement speed of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was the slowest among the elite cavalry. In addition, the Yulin Cavalry was running wildly, so it was already behind them. While Cao Ren was cleaning up the formation, the Yulin Cavalry had also arrived.

The general at the head was wearing white robes and silver armor, and had a handsome face. The spear in his hand was a little different from ordinary people. Not only was the blade a little longer, but the back half of the blade had sharp teeth on both sides.

Somewhat ferocious.

This silver-armored general was none other than Ma Chao. After thinking that the credit might go to Cao Ren alone, he was the one who was most anxious, so he charged the hardest. In addition, the horse under his crotch was already a superb horse. If he hadn't thought of it, he would have to carry it with him.

The soldiers and horses, I am afraid that he will gallop all the way to Cao Ren and reach the foot of Xiangyang City first.

"Why is General Cao leaving in such a hurry? It's useless to come here early!"

In addition to considering his own soldiers, Ma Chao also remembered that Lu Bu must be in charge of this battle personally, so the order to launch the attack must be given by the general himself, so it would be useless no matter how early it comes - General Lu had previously given the order

The order was to send troops, but it did not mean to launch a direct attack on Xiangyang.

And if there is no accident, Lu Bu, as the leader of the vanguard army, must have personally fought in this battle, especially in order to determine Jingzhou in the first battle. Lu Bu had to wait for a long time before letting Sun Ce and others enter Xiangyang City. As long as this

After the First World War, not only Jingzhou could be secured, but also Jiangdong was in the bag.

How many soldiers and horses are there in Jiangdong? Although there are not many soldiers and horses in the imperial army now, that is because the imperial army follows the route of "elite soldiers". Although the number is not large, the combat power of these soldiers is as strong as ten of the Jingzhou Army.

Not only that, even if Jiangdong Army's strength is slightly better, the generals of the imperial army do not think that they are stronger than the Imperial Forbidden Army.

In addition, the Jiangdong Army has no advantage in terms of numbers. After all, Jiangdong is not yet a fertile land and the population is limited, which limits the possibility of large-scale expansion of the Jiangdong Army.

In this attack on Jingzhou, the Jiangdong Army brought out all the available military forces. If they were all deployed here in Jingzhou, then Jiangdong would become an undefended area - the imperial army could just rush in, and there would be no need to fight again.

Think of something else.

While they were talking, the two cavalry armies had already formed their formations, leaving room for Lu Bu who would arrive later.

With nothing to do, several generals, captains and lieutenants all rode to the front of the formation and looked at Xiangyang City from a distance.

At this time, due to the arrival of himself and others, the walls of Xiangyang City were crowded with people. Soldiers with swords and guns kept running on the wall. Some people could even be seen carrying various things. Those should be

Used to defend the city.

Ma Chao also noticed thick smoke rising in several places, which was regularly distributed on the city wall.

"They're boiling oil in big pots!"

He curled his lips, if before he would have been worried that these methods would cause great trouble to his soldiers, but now he didn't need to worry about the city walls at all.

There are countless ways for the imperial army to break through the city wall. Whether they use superhuman bravery to scale the city wall and kill, or directly blast through the city gate and enter the city, it is not difficult for them.

At this time, everyone in Xiangyang City was also looking at the lineup of the imperial army. This was the first time that Sun Ce saw the military appearance of the imperial army with his own eyes. He only felt that the two cavalry armies in the distance were neatly arrayed, with bright armor, and they were wearing armor.

One black and one silver are both extremely impactful colors.

However, he was not too worried, because he did not think that the imperial army was really strong enough to use cavalry to attack the city, so he calmly discussed the appearance of the imperial army with Zhou Yu at this time.

"The armor is bright, and even the mount on the crotch looks quite majestic. I heard that the lands under the imperial government have had good harvests in recent years, and the refugees are encouraged to settle down and engage in various kinds of work. Now it seems that these rumors are true

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Common sense told them that it would have cost a lot to have such a handsome cavalry army. The fact that the imperial court was able to form two of them at once showed that the imperial court was still quite wealthy in recent years.

"It looks good, but I don't know what it would be like in a real fight!"

Sun Ce was very curious about how strong these two cavalry armies were, which the imperial court had spent a lot of money to build. But Zhou Yu next to him smiled: "I guess they can't be seen today. Unless the opponent's general is a madman, there is no way."

Who would use cavalry to attack a city, no matter how elite the cavalry is!"

While the two of them were talking and laughing, Ma Chao couldn't wait any longer and even wanted to pull out his javelin and hit it directly at the top of the city. Even if he couldn't kill anyone, he could just scare them.

But Zhang Liao stopped him: "On this trip south, Your Majesty has a task to entrust to General Zhengxi. Meng Qi must not act rashly!"

As General Yulin, Zhang Liao knew some inside stories, including the fact that the emperor asked Lu Bu to capture Sun Ce alive before him.

Since he wanted to capture him alive, he couldn't alert the enemy before the war started. He had to take advantage of the fact that Sun Ce still didn't know much about the imperial army and launched a sudden attack. Only then could he have the greatest possibility of catching Sun Ce.

In order to complete this task, Lu Bu must definitely take action himself.

As the strongest combat force in the imperial court, Lu Bu's strength is comparable to that of Yu Ji. He is concerned about mental arithmetic but not care. Sun Ce probably won't be able to escape this time.

Just as he was thinking about this, Lu Bu arrived with his troops and horses, formed a formation between the two cavalry armies, and faced the east gate of Xiangyang City from a distance.

As soon as Lu Bu arrived, the atmosphere in Xiangyang City suddenly changed, and a war seemed to be about to break out. Only Sun Ce and Zhou Yu secretly wondered: "Why are there only so few infantry on the opposite side?"

Lu Bu brought out three thousand soldiers and horses, one thousand of which were cavalry from the Forbidden Army, which meant that there were only two thousand infantry. Compared with the ten thousand cavalry next to him, this arrangement did not look like an attack on the city.

It's more like going into a field battle.

"Is it just a test?"

It seemed that this was the only way to go. Two thousand infantry launched a tentative attack to see if there were any traps and ambushes outside the city, how the defensive measures on the city tower were arranged, and then launched an attack based on these arrangements.

This is common sense and not unusual.

"Okay, we can also take a closer look at the strength of the imperial army. I just heard about it before, but those rumors always feel unbelievable!"

It's not that Jiang Dong didn't collect information about the Imperial Army, but what he collected was a bit too horrifying. How could a person raise his hand and shoot a bow a thousand steps away, and the arrow would explode and blow all the nearby soldiers to pieces.

Someone holds a spear upside down in his hand, then throws it with a flash of white light, and a brilliant beam of light comes out of his hand, directly blasting a city into dust - this is indeed an exaggeration, in fact it just smashed the city gate.

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Or someone stood in the midst of thousands of enemy troops and stamped his feet, causing the ground to shake, making the people around him unable to even stand, while that person harvested the lives of these people as if they were walking on flat ground...

Remarks like these left Zhou Yu and Sun Ce speechless and helpless. They found with embarrassment that as they realized that the world was not as simple as it originally was, they were unable to make accurate judgments on many things.

They didn't completely believe this information, but they couldn't disbelieve it all: most of the situations were true, but they would never be so exaggerated! This was their final conclusion.

With such a judgment, they would certainly not be too nervous. As for Cai Mao? Although he had reminded Sun Ce that the imperial army was very powerful. After all, he had experienced it personally and lost his younger brother because of it.

But... Sun Ce doesn't have the slightest fondness for this guy who would even dare to kill his master to protect himself. Even if he doesn't say anything now, if he takes control of Jingzhou, no one in the Cai family will end well.

After all, if Cai Mao could do something to Liu Biao today to protect himself and the Cai family, he could do the same thing to himself tomorrow.

Sun Ce is not a good-tempered person, nor is he a guy with a reputation for benevolence and righteousness. What is the point of killing people to ensure his authority?

Just as he was thinking about how to deal with the Cai family, he saw the formation of the imperial army on the opposite side changing one after another, and then a general came out.

Looking from a distance, I saw this man wearing a purple gold crown with hair tied on his head, gold armor, a red cloak behind him, and a group of majestic war horses under his crotch that were also all red. Look at the square-shaped painted halberd in his hand.

"Is this Lu Bu?"

This was the first time Sun Ce saw Lu Bu. Although he could only see a figure from a distance and couldn't see his face clearly, he still vaguely felt the momentum of the most powerful general in the world.

He secretly praised in his heart, and also had some thoughts of competing with one, but he felt that both sides were full of generals, and it was an siege battle. He was afraid that there would be no such opportunity. Although he was unconscious in his hands,

He grabbed the ancient ingot knife on his waist, but in the end he smiled.

But at this moment, Lu Bu on the opposite side unexpectedly rode out of the army and rode straight to Xiangyang!

"Huh? What is this going to do?"

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