Chapter 95: Dian Xu’s defeat, Xing Daorong’s long-distance sliding tackle!
The conceited Yuan Shao certainly dared to fight Ji Hao. With a million troops at his disposal, he would never show weakness.

Therefore, both sides sent out their troops and launched their first confrontation in the open space in front of the city gate: the coalition side was led by Lu Bu's two generals, "Evil Dragon" Dian Wei and "Tiger Fool" Xu Chu, each leading 2,000 men to fight.

The actual amount is 2,500 per person, for a total of 5,000 people.

Yuan Shao sent his generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou to fight, each leading 2,000 soldiers, which was actually 2,500, for a total of 5,000.

The two sides have equal forces, but Lu Bu's generals are stronger.

Lu Bu was a little worried: "I know their martial arts well. If we win but fail to kill the enemy general, then our strategy of showing weakness to the enemy will fail, right?"

He really thought he would win.

He doesn't have many soldiers.

There are only a few thousand of them, and there is no difference in the military strength itself. I am slightly better in equipment, and my generals Dian Wei and Xu Chu are also more capable fighters. The advantage is on me, so what can I use to defeat you?
With Dian Wei and Xu Chu's brains, they couldn't feign defeat.

If you act a little, it will be noticed.

But Ji Hao looked at Guo Jia who looked calm, and chose to believe him. He shook his head and said, "If the strength on paper could directly determine victory or defeat, then most wars in ancient and modern times would not have to be fought. It would be much better to just negotiate terms of surrender!"

Lu Bu was dissatisfied with this and said, "Then let's make a bet!"

"What are you gambling?"

"If I win, you can lend me your Black Horse for a month, so that I can try out the power of the greatest horse in history!" Lu Bu said, "If I lose, I will give you ten of the Red Hare Cubs I have bred over the years."

After saying that, he smiled.

He added: "In other aspects, I admit that I am not as good as you, but when it comes to training war horses, I, Lü Fengxian, am second in this world, but no one dares to claim to be first, including you!"

These words made Ji Hao's eyes light up.

Lv Bu's horse breeding skills are really amazing. Even if he uses modern technology to train horses, they are not as good as Lv Bu. This is partly because modern times do not develop war horses, but more importantly, Lv Bu is as abnormal as Hua Tuo in this regard.

He was able to train the second generation of Red Hare, which was not of the best quality, but was also of the best quality.

Ji Hao can't do it.

The former Red Hare and now the Chiwu are both lustful horses with many wives and concubines, but the offspring they gave birth to have very low genetic inheritance and are ugly to look at.

But after Lu Bu got Red Hare, the Eight Generals and the Two Generals Dragon and Tiger all rode on the top-grade Arabian horses.

"Okay, I'll make a bet with you!" Ji Hao said, "Regardless of whether I win or lose, I can lend you the Chiwu for breeding. If you can breed a top-quality Wuzhui, we'll split the profits in half!"

"happy!"

At this time, the four people below have already started fighting.

Dian Wei and Xu Chu were not very good at arranging troops, but they also had the "fool's strategy" taught by Lu Bu, which was the "pointed-headed poisonous snake" variation of the "long snake formation".

That is, he used himself as the "fang" and arranged two subordinates beside him, and the three of them charged in a "品" formation.

He was followed by two thousand men.

Relying on their own super-powerful martial arts, they forcibly tore open the enemy's formation - this trick was very useful. The two of them, like two long snakes, rushed into the enemy's formation as soon as they fought, and the defense was almost useless.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou tried to resist, but it only slowed them down.

There's no way to stop it.

"These two are indeed worthy of being the top warriors in folk songs, no weaker than Guan, Zhang, and Ma Chao!"

I suffered a loss in the first collision.

However, the two did not panic. Instead, they led their troops and changed the original defensive formation into a strangulation formation. The two of them rationally formed a "Double Dragons Out of Water Formation" to use two to overcome one.

The army of Dian and Xu was immediately surrounded.

The formation was disrupted.

"kill!"

Upon seeing this, Yan Liang and Wen Chou charged forward with all their might and quickly gained the upper hand.

On the other hand, Dian and Xu were both a little confused. If they were ordinary generals, they would have been defeated if they fought like this.

But both of them were top-notch generals. Even after falling into a disadvantage, they were still not afraid. They simply gathered all the soldiers behind them and created a "round hedgehog" that was not included in the tactics to defend and counterattack.

For a moment, the two sides were deadlocked again.

"Change again!"

"it is good!"

As they were talking, they joined forces and in a very short time, they turned the "Two Dragons Emerging from the Water" into the "Nine Bends of the Yellow River", arranged it in nine squares, and made the battlefield "nine bends and eighteen turns".

This caused Dian and Xu to lose their direction.

After several charges, it seemed like the enemies were endless and there were more and more of them.

They tried to break out from the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest, but could not get out of the "Nine Bends of the Yellow River" and their forces became fewer and fewer.

Finally, when the time was right, Yan Liang and Wen Chou took the initiative to attack.

He held Dian Wei and Xu Chu back, while the soldiers quickly strangled them. After a fight... In the end, Dian Wei and Xu Chu relied on their own martial arts to break through.

However, the soldiers who followed them into battle were either dead or captured.

Not a single one is left.

Back in the city, Dian Wei stood there like a wooden stake, motionless.

And Xu Chu burst into tears.

The two-meter-tall strong man cried like a 200-pound child, sobbing: "It was all because of my carelessness and underestimated the enemy that I ruined the troops given by the lord!"

Both sides have equal military strength and have an advantage in equipment.

But in the end, the entire army was annihilated. How embarrassing was that?
Lu Bu's face also darkened.

Everyone looked at Guo Jia evasively, fearing that he would be ridiculed.

However, Guo Jia did not ridicule.

Ji Hao consoled him by saying, "Victory and defeat are common in the military, and a temporary win or loss is nothing. Yan Liang and Wen Chou are at least Yuan Shao's trump card generals, and they are in full force. Unless you and Zilong go to battle, it will be hard for anyone to defeat them at this stage!"

The generals who were beheaded did not deserve to have their names recorded in history, but these two were exceptions.

Is it because of Guan Yu?

Not at all!
The two of them beat the soldiers in Cao's camp so hard that they could not even raise their heads, and then they were killed by Guan Yu!

"What's next?"

"Hold on and don't leave. Act as if we think defending the city is victory!" Ji Hao said with a smile: "After all, I am the king of the city. I am good at defending but not attacking!"

……

When the allied forces met for battle, before Liu Bei even saw the enemy, bad news arrived: Dian Wei, who was ranked third in the world, and Xu Chu, who was ranked eighth in the world, were unable to defeat Yan Liang and Wen Chou together, and five thousand people were killed in one battle.

This caused the coalition forces to lose morale and retreat to the city without fighting.

Luoyang was besieged.

"A bunch of trash, they can't even win against Yan Liang and Wen Chou. It seems that unless Ji Hao takes action himself, there will be no one left in Luoyang." Xing Daorong said, and turned to Liu Bei, "You stay here, I'll take people to rescue Luoyang!"

At this moment, he was full of passion and also took the overall situation into consideration.

This made Liu Bei like him even more.

He nodded and said, "General, go without worry. I will stay in Chang'an to ensure sufficient food and grass supply. When we win the battle and return, I will prepare to ask the emperor to confer a title of nobility on you!"

Hearing this, Xing Daorong was delighted and became even more elated.

He patted his chest and said, "Yuan Shao is afraid of me, Xing Daorong, and doesn't dare to attack here. But it doesn't matter. I can rush thousands of miles and take his head!"

(End of this chapter)