Chapter 58: First Battle (1) First Update

  "Damn it! Old Chen, you deceived me!" Liu Mang was almost in tears. Chen Gong had promised that he wouldn't go onto the battlefield, promised that he wouldn't have to fight and kill, promised that all he would do was create a diversion.

  But what's this? The cavalry is rushing down from the mountain, and there are horsemen chasing after them! What's going on?!

  "The whole army welcomes the enemy!" Liu Mang roared, and at the foot of the mountain, there were only his city defense troops and logistics units, without any other reinforcements. However, the dense cavalry charging down from the mountain was absolutely no less than 2,000! Liu Mang couldn't see the exact number, but it wasn't smaller than when he was forced to retreat to Kaiyang by the Hu and Bao cavalry in the past!

  At that time, less than 2,000 Tiger and Leopard Riders had trapped General Lü's army of over 10,000 in Kaiyang.

  Now that's all, Liu Mang only has 1,000 usable city management troops on hand, and the logistics department also has 5,000, but can these old soldiers be used?

  "Brothers, ahead of us is Lü Bu's army. If we kill them, we can survive!" Lei Bo shouted frantically. The Eight Public Mountains were gone, his old nest was gone, and the beautiful woman who had been pressed down and the hidden treasure were all gone.

  Lei Bu has now vented all his anger on Liu Mang's body.

  "Crush them!" South of Huainan, there are many plains and lakes, basically no horses are produced, so getting horses is very expensive. Only a few vassals can form cavalry with war horses, and Lao Yuan is one of them.

  If Liu Bei looked carefully, he would find that these cavalry and the ones he saw in Lao Yuan Shouchun were from the same unit, and Lao Yuan also had a small eight thousand cavalry before being defeated by Cao Cao.

  Of the two thousand, there were already under Chen Lan and Lei Bo's command. When Chen Lan left Yuan Shu, he also took away two thousand cavalrymen. After Old Yuan was defeated by Cao Cao, the Yu Province cavalry had less than a thousand men left, not as many as Chen Lan and Lei Bo had in their hands.

  "General, let's retreat!" In front of them were the heavy armored cavalry, and behind them were the thieves led by Lei Bu. The new recruits of the city guard army were frightened, and they all looked at Liu Mang with a longing expression, hoping that he would say to escape, and immediately scatter and run away.

  "Retreat? Where to retreat?" Liu Mang had never commanded troops before, but he had watched a lot of TV. When infantry encountered cavalry in the wilderness, if they faced the enemy head-on, there was still a chance of survival. But once they retreated and turned their backs on the enemy, how could two legs outrun four? At that time, it would be like putting themselves at the mercy of others.

  The Song Dynasty was defeated by the Jin and Yuan Dynasties because of the collapse of its infantry, originally a large army, but in the end it was driven and killed like ducks.

  "The whole army is forbidden to move without orders!" Liu Mang shouted with his last bit of courage.

  The new city management soldiers couldn't get Liu Mang's command, so they could only wait for the enemy's arrival with bated breath. In contrast, the vanguard camp was different, they didn't have unified command, they were just the remaining ones among the new soldiers, so when the cavalry sounded, they scattered and fled desperately.

  There was even a crowd of nearly three thousand people running towards Liu Mang's direction.

  "Kill, kill, kill, haha!" Chen Lan's cavalry under Zhang Kai's command. Zhang Kai was a bandit who had surrendered to Chen Lan and Lei Bu before, and he was notorious for his cruelty and bloodthirstiness, having committed all sorts of evil deeds. It was precisely this ferocity that caught Chen Lan's eye, leading him to put Zhang in charge of the Henan cavalry.

  How can the cavalry under a bloodthirsty ruler be kind?

  Zhang Kai's cavalry had caught up with the slow-moving baggage train, and with a burst of horse power and a swing of their sabers, they instantly swept through, bringing up a bloody flower, and flying together with the blood flower was a living human head.

  Zhang Kai licked the fresh blood that had dripped to the corner of his mouth, and it was still this taste. Zhang Kai's excited expression became even more apparent.

  "Kill! Kill! Kill!" The horses ran even faster.

  "Haha, kill them all!" The commander was like this, and the soldiers below became cruel too. At that time, the logistics camp suffered heavy casualties.

  "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The ground shook and the sounds of slaughter and wails were heard all the way up to Mount Bagong.

  "What's the source of that killing sound?!" The battle at Bazhong Mountain was still raging, but the overall situation had already been decided. As long as Lü Bu's troops continued to charge up, they could completely break through Bazhong Mountain.

  Lü Bu had just beheaded a Chen Lan soldier and asked.

  "Kill!" The soldiers of Lü Bu's army on the side also turned red-eyed, how could they care about their own lord?

  "Down the mountain?!" Lü Bu, as a top general, had extremely keen hearing; otherwise he wouldn't be able to hear everything within eight directions and see through all roads of death.

  "Chen Lan and Lei Bu have escaped to the foot of the mountain?!" Lü Bu had a hunch, Lei Bu had almost died at his own hands just now, but he let him escape. Now the sounds of fighting coming from the foot of the mountain must be those two who have escaped.

  Bakong Mountain can no longer be defended.

  "Not right!" Lü Bu shook his head and suddenly lay down on the ground, pressing his ear against the side of the mountain.

  "Rumble! Rumble!"

  Lü Bu's eyes widened "Cavalry! Where did the cavalry come from!" Lü Bu was a top-notch general among the cavalry, and the sound of horses running could not be hidden from him.

  "Han Yang! This is bad!" Lü Bu suddenly realized that the only ones left at the foot of the mountain were Liu Mang's City Guard Army and 5,000 heavy infantry.

  This commotion was at least two thousand cavalrymen. Liu Mang's city guard army had only one thousand people. The Pingzhou Wolf Cavalry and the Trap Array Camp were all here.

  "Quick battle and quick decision! Full force charge!" Lu Bu shouted loudly, only by defeating the remaining Chen Lan army in Bao Gong Mountain could he support the city defense army.

  "Hold on, Han Yang!" Lü Bu muttered to himself.

  He and Chen Gong let Liu Mang guard the mountain pass below, not only to confuse Chen Lan and Lei Bu, but also to leave a backhand to prevent these two from escaping. Baigong Mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as the passage at the foot of Baigong Mountain is guarded, it will be impossible for Chen Lan, Lei Bu and others to come down the mountain.

  So he felt at ease, leaving only Liu Mang and the heavy camp, relying on these six thousand people to absolutely block Chen Lan and Lei Bo, also giving Liu Mang a merit, a boost to his prestige in Lü Bu's army.

  But who would have thought that there were cavalrymen. Six thousand soldiers and horses were basically old, weak, sick and disabled, even if Liu Mang's city guard army was robust, but they were also new recruits.

  Even Lü Bu did not have the confidence to take 6,000 men into a field battle against 2,000 cavalry.

  Kaiyang was forced into the city by the Hu and Bao cavalry for this reason as well.

  "Cavalry!" Zhang Liao shouted loudly, Chen Gong and Cao Bao also felt it. These commanders couldn't possibly be unaware of the changes on the battlefield. At first, they thought it was just an illusion, but Lv Bu's loud roar confirmed everyone's idea.

  "Quick battle and quick decision!" This is Chen Gong's most urgent concern, letting Liu Mang stay behind was his plan, if Liu Mang really died here, would Chen Gong still have the face to live on?!

  "Quick battle and quick decision!" The general is always the fighting spirit of an army. Watching the actions of Lü Bu and others, these elite soldiers from various states also burst out.

  Among them, the old and state wolf riders and the trapped camp were the most powerful. Why? Because Liu Mang had brought them buns before! For them, anyone who can provide food is a good person, let alone that Liu Mang brought such delicious things, and some people even kept them and couldn't bear to eat them. These simple Han men knew what it meant to repay kindness, so now that Liu Mang was in danger, how could they not be anxious?

  "Kill, kill, kill!" Lü Bu's army on Mount Bagong was pressing down Chen Lan's army.

  Down the mountain, Lü Bu's army was being pressed by Chen Lan's army! Same location, same time period, one battlefield, two outcomes! (There will be another update tonight! No! There are three more updates! I have something to do tomorrow so I'll upload tomorrow's today!) Recently, the update time has been a bit unstable, sorry about that!