Chapter 61: Taishan First Battle

"Report!" A thin and yellowish man walked in from the outside and cupped his hand to Liu Bei and Chen Xi, directly extinguishing Chen Xi's intention to instill thoughts in Liu Bei.

"Yu Jin escorted the grain and grass to the warehouse?" Liu Bei looked at the man and asked with a serious expression.

"80,000 stone of grain and grass have been stored in the warehouse, but the Zhen family hopes to see Liu Bei to thank for his help." Yu Jin cupped his hand, his expression was solemn without the slightest smile, and he did not feel proud that he had led the new army to defeat the Taishan bandits.

Liu Bei glanced sideways at Chen Xi, only to see Chen Xi nodding slightly, he understood that this was Chen Xi's plan.

"Alright, I will go to meet the Jizhou Zhen family, who is known as one of the five largest merchants." Liu Bei said with a smile, "Yu Jin, since you are here, talk with Chen Xi. He has something to ask you." After saying that, Liu Bei left. From Chen Xi's expression, he understood that the Zhen family was planning to bet on him. Although he was not able to attract the nobles of the aristocratic family, the rich and powerful merchants were still willing to bet on him.

Chen Xi looked at Yu Jin. Although this guy was promoted from the army by him, he actually only saw Yu Jin once or twice. He gave an order, and an appointment letter to Yu Jin to follow Liu Bei. Training the new army, it can be considered Yu Jin test. It is obvious that Yu Jin completed it quite well, worthy of being one of the five elite generals.

"Yu Jin, sit there, I want to know how the new army fighting power is? Of course, what I am asking is not to deal with a regular army, but to deal with the Taishan bandits, and to gather the defeated Taishan bandits. If there is a rebellion... …" Chen Xi sneered and made a gesture of killing without mercy. He is now accustomed to his position. He only understood this when he sits in this position in troubled times.

"If it is to deal with ordinary Taishan bandits, there is no problem, but the four biggest bandits in Taishan, name: The Four Bandits of Taishan, the bandits under them are not weaker than regular army due to military management and formation. The regular army of Taishan now can only not be defeated but difficult to win." Yu Jin did not say any big words and said truthfully, and did not underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Taishan bandits.

"Don't worry about Chang Ji, Sun Guan, Wu Dun, and Yin Li. Someone else will take care of the four bandits. I want you to gather the regular bandits, not fight those guys. After defeating the four bandits, their men will scattered around. As for Zang Ba, I think he has been defeated by now." Chen Xi smiled and said.

Just before Chen Xi said this, Zang Ba was smashed off the horse by Zhang Fei with his snake spear. It is estimated that his ribs were broken in half. Zang Ba's guard, who was known as the elite of Danyang, was beaten by a group of mentally ill people led by Hua Xiong. Coupled with Zhang Fei's frequent beating on the drum, Hua Xiong just split Zang Ba's army into several pieces in the mountain battle, and the helpless Zang Ba fell into Zhang Fei's hand and lost.

Zang Ba's army is not weak. Hua Xiong and Zhang Fei attacked Zang Ba's camp with five thousand bandits, but they did not directly defeat Zang Ba's army. Although Zang Ba did not react for a while. and the army was suppressed, but when Zang Ba appeared and he started to make commands, and soon recovered from the suppression.

After that, there was a competition between bravery and commanding. In the collision between formations, Hua Xiong connected all the soldiers, the clouds were wide and dense. They continued to rely on the formation to squeeze the living space of the Zang Ba's army.

In other words, Hua Xiong's commanding skill is actually very general. His cavalry can only play the front arrow formation, but they are very proficient and can change front instantly, even while on the move. This is why Hua Xiong became Xiliang cavalry commander, because the change is too fast, so fast that you have no chance to counter it.

Now Hua Xiong finds that the new troops under him are average but they are also terrifying. They follow the order to the letter. If you say change formation, they change formation. Even if there is a knife in front, and the change requires going through the knife, these people under him will not hesitate. They will go though the knife and complete the change abruptly.

After discovering this, Hua Xiong hardly hesitated. Various formations were played, whether they were large, medium, small, split, combined, or scattered. They were not chaotic at all. Forced to fight Zang Ba's army with a small number of people, it took almost 20% of the soldiers death to accomplish this goal. Zang Ba's army only lost 10% of their soldiers but their morale was gone.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Fei's whole body felt cold, and the eyes looking at Hua Xiong were like looking at a god. In ancient times, the army that fought and lost 10% of the soldiers without collapsing could be called elite soldiers. And now Hua Xiong had lost 20% of his soldiers and continues to fight Zang Ba's soldiers with high morale. This is no longer what a good general can do.

Naturally, Zhang Fei didn't know that the group of people under Hua Xiong had been mentally broken by Hua Xiong. The fear of death was less than the fear of Hua Xiong, so as long as Hua Xiong's orders were absolutely obeyed, their morale would not collapse. It can be said that there is no morale at all, so the high morale to fight Zang Ba's army was actually entirely because Hua Xiong didn't order to stop.

Not to mention Zhang Fei's felling cold, Zang Ba is already dumbfounded. To be honest, part of the Taishan bandits are directly Danyang soldiers. The combat power of the bandit army brought out by the veterans is almost equal to the prestigious Danyang elite soldiers, and currently the Danyang soldiers have completely collapsed. As a result, they were now defeated by an army with less than one-third of their own soldiers, and it was defeated without any suspense.

It's not that Zang Ba's army has never been defeated. He was defeated by the Four Bandits of Taishan when they recaptured Taishan. Later, he was defeated by Xuzhou soldiers. But there was no clean defeat with no room to maneuver at all. Starting from the opponent's command, his failure is like a rolling stone landslide moving faster and faster, finally unable to stop.

Zang Ba wanted to know who he had offended, and why anyone would send this kind of army, which can be said to be a world's elite, to destroy him. Although he is king of this mountain, he is obviously not as big as the yellow scarf. This kind of elite corps did not go destroy the Yellow Turban but actually came to him. 20%, a full 20% of the soldiers fell to the ground, but the opponent is still as calm as water, and there is no intention to flee. Instead, his own army was already on the verge of collapse because of the lost of 10% of the soldiers.

Zang Ba knew that he had reached the point where he had to retreat. The opponent was too strong, so strong that the opponent could change the formation repeatedly. The opponent broke up his formation with just a few orders. This is already an asymmetrical battle. He seems to have met a great commander in the world. It's not that he is boasting. He thinks his own command is not bad, but facing the pale yellow and indifferent guy on the opposite side, there was no room to display his skills.

Knowing that he was bound to lose, Zang Ba stopped struggling. What he had to do now was to break through, defeat a part of the encirclement, and then gather the soldiers to combine their strength and abandon the formation to break through the weakest part of the army. As for the opposite commander, he never wanted to face him again.

Zang Ba did it. He easily gathered about a thousand soldiers. After that, he prepared to implement the strategy of breaking the wrist of the strong man without any hesitation. He directly took these thousand people to go through the weak area in the northeast corner. Knowing better than everyone else that if you continue, you will be encircled and wiped out by the opponent.

The breakthrough was very simple, as if the other party had deliberately released them. After seeing this scene, Zang Ba felt cold, but he was unable to retreat, so he had to bite the bullet and rushed up. There was only one person on the opposite side, a burly man carrying a snake spear, and Zang Ba remembered a person vaguely in his mind, but before he could think clearly about the other party's snake spear, he was smashed down.