Three Kingdoms: I choose Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao, why are you crying, Diao Chan?

Chapter 408: Perfect! (Thanks to the two monthly tickets from book friend 2023…8142~)

Lu Bu looked at the rapidly approaching enemy troops and guessed that it must be the army led by Guan Yu that had ambushed Wei Xu before!
I didn't expect it to appear at such a critical moment...

Lu Bu turned around and looked at Zhuge Liang's defeated army.

If we miss this opportunity and let Guan Yu's army join forces with Zhuge Liang's army, the chance of capturing the city will become increasingly slim!
Therefore, they must delay Guan Yu's army, and then let the people here launch an attack on the city as soon as possible!

As long as we can delay Guan Yu and prevent him from providing support to this side, there is a high probability that Xiaopei City can be captured!
Thinking of this, Lu Bu immediately said to Ding Feng:

"I will personally lead 8,000 men to stop the army, and you and other generals will continue to use the Thunderbolt Chariots to coordinate with the army to attack Xiaopei!

"I will do my best to hold back the enemy, and you must capture the city as quickly as possible!"

After saying this, Lu Bu did not wait for Ding Feng to respond. He immediately took 4,000 Bingzhou cavalry and 4,000 infantry and headed towards the enemy in the southeast direction.

Seeing this, Ding Feng had no choice but to lead the remaining nearly 38,000 troops to launch a fierce attack on the enemy!

After the army chased all the way to the bottom of the city tower, they began to attack the city!
With the Thunderbolt Chariot in place, stones and gunpowder jars were once again thrown at the city wall.

Zhuge Liang had no choice but to retreat from the city wall.

But what was different from the previous time was that this time the army had just been defeated and fled back into the city, making it difficult to organize an effective counterattack.

Except for a dozen of the twenty sidecars that were damaged in the explosion, the remaining few were forced to be abandoned on the spot because they could not turn around in time.

There were originally 30,000 troops in the city, but after the fighting during the day, only more than 27,000 were left.

However, they were bombed by the enemy's mines and then chased, and lost nearly nine thousand people in an instant!
At this moment, the remaining 18,000 people were all in low morale.

Under Zhuge Liang's personal command, everyone was able to calm down.

As the drawbridge was raised and the city gate was closed, Lu Bu's army was temporarily isolated outside the city.

Since they couldn't defend the city wall anymore, they could only defend inside the city.

Just now, on the city wall, Zhuge Liang had seen Guan Yu's army coming to support him from the southeast.

As long as they can hold out until Guan Yu's army arrives near the city, they can cooperate inside and outside to repel the enemy's siege forces!

Of course, the prerequisite is that Guan Yu can defeat the 8,000 troops led by Lu Bu.

However, Zhuge Liang believed that Guan Yu had a thousand Wudang Flying Army and three hundred Iron Buddhas.

With the addition of another 9,000 troops, they should be able to easily defeat Lu Bu's 8,000 troops!

the other side.

Lu Bu led 8,000 men and quickly approached Guan Yu's army.

Looking at a familiar green-hatted figure among the enemy army, Lu Bu knew that he was not wrong.

It was indeed the army led by Guan Yu!
Although there was no head-on collision with the enemy's army last time.

But according to Wei Xu's subsequent report, the enemy army actually replicated the Iron Pagoda he invented!

He was indeed a little surprised when he first heard the news.

But then I felt it was understandable.

The difficulty of making the Iron Pagoda full body armor is not high at all, it is just a matter of armor wearing rate.

In his previous life, Zhuge Liang was skilled in craftsmanship with the help of Huang Yueying.

Coupled with his experience in training soldiers in his two lifetimes, it is entirely possible for him to build an Iron Pagoda army of hundreds of people.

At this moment they are facing such an iron army.

Even if there were only more than 300 Iron Pagodas, it would be difficult for them to kill them.

Lu Bu looked at the nearly three hundred Iron Pagodas who were at the forefront of the enemy army.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly had an idea and ordered the army to split to the two sides, bypass the Iron Pagoda directly, and attack the army behind the Iron Pagoda! Guan Yu looked at the enemy army split to the two sides and attacked, and snorted coldly.

He immediately ordered the Wudang Flying Army to use Zhuge Crossbow to shoot poison arrows!
When Lu Bu heard the familiar sound of Zhuge Crossbow being activated, he knew it.

The thousand-man army behind the Iron Pagoda should be the other special force mentioned by Wei Xu!
Wei Xu naturally didn't know what this special force was called.

However, when Lu Bu heard the other side say that this army was wearing iron armor, was good at field battles, could shoot crossbows at a distance and use scimitars at close range.

He guessed that this should be the Wudang Flying Army trained by the barbarian soldiers recruited by Zhuge Liang in the southern barbarian area in his later years in history!

Now seeing it, it was just as he expected.

First it was the Iron Pagoda, then it was the Wu Dang Flying Army...

Either of these two special forces would be extremely difficult to deal with.

Not to mention that I am encountering them at the same time now.

Lu Bu knew very well that the crossbow arrows of the Wu Dang Flying Army were highly poisonous.

Therefore, Lu Bu immediately ordered the shield soldiers to charge forward with shields.

While the shield soldiers were attracting the firepower of the Wu Dang Flying Army, Lu Bu ordered the soldiers in the rear to form a regular square formation.

He himself commanded in the center of the phalanx, and let the shield soldiers at the outermost edge to resist the enemy's attacks.

The spearmen behind the shield soldiers are responsible for covering the shield soldiers.

The Bingzhou cavalry in the rear were shooting on horseback!

The phalanx is an obvious strong defensive formation.

When facing an enemy army with two special types of troops, this formation is undoubtedly the most suitable for dealing with and delaying the enemy.

Guan Yu obviously did not expect that Lu Bu would set up a formation to deal with his side so quickly.

However, he was well aware that Xiaopei City was in great danger at the moment, and he did not think that he could defeat the army led by Lu Bu head-on in a short period of time.

Just when he was about to bypass the square formation of Lu Bu's army, Lu Bu suddenly changed the formation, ordering the soldiers to switch from a square formation to a "sparse formation".

The soldiers who had been huddled together suddenly dispersed.

While expanding the defensive area, it shrank back into a square formation like a wriggling leech and once again blocked the front of Guan Yu's army.

Guan Yu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

This Lu Bu is really tough to deal with. I didn't expect that he is not only extremely brave, but also has a superb command of the formation!
If it continues to drag on, Xiaopei City might not hold on until he gets there.

Guan Yu tried hard to think, while his eyes kept wandering over the enemy.

At this moment, he suddenly discovered that when the enemy changed its formation, the cavalry team inside would become a little chaotic.

After all, riding a horse is not as convenient as walking on the ground.

If we can find a breakthrough in the enemy's cavalry, perhaps we can successfully break the formation!
After thinking for a moment, Guan Yu suddenly ordered the army to split up and march to the left and right!

When Lu Bu saw the enemy troops split into two groups, he was obviously stunned.

If we intercept one side now, the other side will most likely break through.

In desperation, Lu Bu was forced to split his troops into two groups to block the two enemy teams respectively.

As the formation was forced to separate, Guan Yu's mouth curled slightly, and he suddenly spurred his horse to rush towards Lu Bu!

As long as they can hold Lu Bu back and prevent him from commanding the army, then their army will definitely be able to break through!

(End of this chapter)