Chapter Sixty: Fight to the Death

  "What right do they have to let them pass but not us!" People always have this kind of contrast, which is also a bad habit. They didn't consider that Liu Mang letting them pass would put the entire army in danger, nor did they think that Liu Mang had no choice but to stop them. All they knew was that Liu Mang let the people in front pass and blocked them outside, leaving them to die!

  So there really is a collision square array.

  Liu Mang's eyes flashed with a cold light, since you're looking for death don't blame me. Actually they still had a third way out, to build a defense line together with the city management army, the main purpose of Yu Zhou cavalry was the city management army, maybe they would let them off, and they could survive, but they didn't do it, instead they insisted on charging into battle, then prepare to die!

  "Kill!" Liu Mang gave the order without hesitation.

  "Pffft! Pffft!" Another pile of their own people's corpses. These logistics soldiers were finally scared, and they obediently stood to one side to help the city management army build a defensive line. Some were desperately lying on the ground, not daring to resist, knowing that if they didn't, they would definitely not survive.

  "Kill, kill, kill!" Zhang Kai's Yu state cavalry charged forward, and the first to fall were those logistics soldiers who had given up resistance. Blood and flesh fragments mixed together in the torrent of cavalry, and one by one, lives disappeared.

  "Rumble, rumble!" Liu Mang finally knew the power of cavalry in the cold weapon era head-on. This earthquake-like feeling could make people tremble with fear, let alone the slaughter of cavalry.

  Liu Meng had already seen many of the city management army's faces reveal a look of panic and fear, they were new recruits and this was their first time on the battlefield.

  Liu Mang was also afraid, this is the battlefield, this is war, it's either you die or I live. Liu Mang pretended to be calm, he couldn't afford to panic, if he panicked, the entire army would be doomed. A general is the soul of an army, if Liu Mang became flustered, the entire army would collapse.

  "Have you forgotten our oath? Have you forgotten our slogan? 'Together we share wealth and honor, together we share life and death.' This is our first battle, are you afraid just because of one fight? Are you forgetting our oath just because of one fight?"

  "United we live, united we die! United in wealth and nobility!" Cheng Yu led the charge with his personal guard battalion, their voices rising as one. The atmosphere was infectious, and soon the city guards were shouting along with them "United we live, united we die! United in wealth and nobility!"

  Looking at the city management army, these men's morale has been boosted. Liu Mang finally had a hint of a smile on his face. "Come on, come on!"

  Liu Mang waved his hand "First row hold up your shields, second row raise your spears! Third row prepare your long spears! Fourth row and beyond draw your bows!"

  "Lü Bu's army is really not worth fighting!" Zhang Kai charged and killed the baggage camp, becoming arrogant "Kill! Kill! Lü Bu is nothing but this under my hands, Zhang Kai!"

  The vanguard of the city's garrison troops was not even in Zhang Kai's eyes. "A mere thousand people dare to block my Yu State cavalry? You little boy, I've got your head on a platter!" Zhang Kai sat high on his horse and with one glance saw Liu Mang's figure among the formation. The honor of beheading an enemy general on the battlefield was something Zhang Kai had been craving for a long time.

  "Brothers, charge forward! They are honor and wealth haha!" Zhang Kai shouted loudly.

  "One hundred and fifty paces, one hundred and forty paces, one hundred and thirty paces, one hundred and twenty paces, one hundred paces, eighty paces!" Liu Mang suddenly shouted "Fire at will!"

  With Liu Mang's order, a rain of arrows filled the sky. Except for the Imperial Guards, the first row of giant shield soldiers, and the second and third rows of long spear soldiers, all the other city defense troops had one longbow per person, and they were densely packed cavalry charging forward, not needing to aim, as long as they shot out arrows, they would hit people.

  "Damn it!" Zhang Kai used the large knife in his hand to deflect one flying arrow after another. As a martial general, he could only defend himself in this rain of arrows! With a slight carelessness, an arrow directly pierced into his flesh. "Ahhhhh!" The pain from the arrow made him cry out. Zhang Kai was indeed a ruthless man, and with the arrow lodged in his arm, he gritted his teeth and violently pulled it out. Fresh blood gushed out, but Zhang Kai didn't care; instead, the fresh blood stimulated him, making him even more bloodthirsty.

  Zhang Kai was able to deflect the flying arrows, but the other cavalrymen on his side did not have his good martial arts skills and one by one they were hit by arrows and fell off their horses.

  "How bold!" Zhang Kai's eyes were about to crack, these cavalrymen were his subordinates, and also the capital of his future promotion. Now, in an instant, no less than a hundred riders fell, their warhorses trampled to death!

  "Charge! I'll tear that commander apart!" Zhang Kai roared in a frenzy.

  The cavalry was originally very fast and arrived in an instant, just a hundred steps away.

  "Kill them!" Zhang Kai's bloodthirsty expression deepened, every step forward had resulted in the death of Yu State cavalrymen, which had already severely irritated Zhang Kai.

  "Boom!" The cavalry's torrent directly slammed into the front row of giant shields of the city guard army, and the horses' impact made the shield soldiers stumble, fortunately there were long spear soldiers supporting from behind.

  "Hoo-ah!" Like a string of candied hawthorns, the 2.8-meter-long spear pierced through one after another of the charging cavalrymen, nailing them to the front.

  The first row of giant shield soldiers also suffered significant losses. With the protection of their giant shields, the cavalry could not harm them, but the impact force of the horses caused internal injuries to several unsuspecting giant shield soldiers, who spat out a mouthful of black blood mixed with shredded flesh, which were fragments of their internal organs.

  "Second row, abandon the long spears, alternate with giant shields!" Liu Mang shouted again. The giant shield soldiers in the first row would immediately be replaced by the long spear soldiers in the back row whenever someone was injured, holding up their giant shields to block the cavalry charge.

  "The third row of long spear soldiers presses up! The fourth row of crossbowmen raises their guns in preparation!" The second row of long spears had all been stabbed, and the cavalry was no longer able to exert its effect, so they were decisively abandoned. The third row of long spear soldiers pressed up.

  "What kind of battle formation is this?!" Zhang Kai was not brainless, his vanguard troops had just made contact with Lü Bu's army and instead of tearing open a huge gap as he had imagined, they were unable to advance and the battlefield was in a state of chaos.

  In front of them were giant shields and long spears, as if a mountain was blocking the cavalry's way.

  The war horses' mournful neighs and the casualties of the personnel presented a dismal scene across the entire battlefield.

  "Charge, charge! Charge!" Zhang Kai gritted his teeth. The loss of the Yu State cavalry was painful for him, but he had to charge forward. He could see that although the enemy's formation had blocked his cavalry charge, it had a huge weakness - insufficient personnel. Normally, 2,000 cavalrymen could hold off 10,000 infantrymen, and even heavy armored infantrymen could only exchange one for one with the cavalry! Moreover, the cavalry had mobility, which was something that infantrymen couldn't replace.

  Although the battle formation formed by Zhang Kai in front of him cannot be broken, he knows that the opponent has fewer people and the impact of war horses may break through the defense line sooner or later. With less than a thousand men, how can they block two thousand cavalry?

  Moreover, there were also three thousand Chen Lan troops on the flanks of this battle formation.

  "Kill, kill, kill!" The cavalry charged again and again, and the city defense army withstood the impact time and time again.

  "Hold on, hold on!" Liu Mang was also desperate. If the cavalry broke through their lines, none of them would survive.

  "Kill!" On the side of the road, Chen Lanjun finally ran down the mountain. The 3,000-strong army charged towards the city defense army from the flank. If they were allowed to join forces with the cavalry in front, the city defense army would be doomed!

  "Cheng Yu, you stay here and command the brothers!" Liu Mao shouted, pulling up his horse reins. " Imperial Guards, follow me to meet the enemy!" Now only these hundred Imperial Guards can be used, one hundred against three thousand! Ha ha, just thinking about it is enough to know what the outcome will be, but Liu Mao has no choice, this is an impossible battle to win, he only needs to delay time and let Lü Boss of Baigong Mountain send troops to rescue him!

  "General, you are the commander-in-chief! How can you personally go to battle? Let me go instead!" Cheng Yu knew that even if a hundred cavalrymen clashed with three thousand infantrymen, it would be a desperate fight. As the commander-in-chief, how could he take such a risk?

  "You just stay here! As long as you hold on, I won't die! Imperial Guard, charge!" Liu Mang raised the long sword in his hand and was the first to charge towards Chen Lanjun.