How dare someone ambush us?

Who's so blind? Can't they see our 8,000-strong army?

Needless to say, Liu Du must be looking at a series of question marks right now.

Three thousand cavalrymen have entered the city, and five thousand archers are entering from outside the city!

These archers were all ranged attackers, so it's easy to imagine how pathetic they must have been when they were attacked at close range.

The once orderly ranks were now in disarray, and the archers were fleeing in all directions.

"Duoyan Three Guards, halt your advance into the city! Front troops become rear guard, follow me!"

Hearing the growing chaos and shouts of battle from behind, Liu Du was furious and immediately ordered his guards to give orders to the three guards of Duoyan who had already entered the city.

The Duoyan Three Guards were originally composed of three thousand Xianbei cavalry under Liu Du's command, plus three thousand Xiongnu cavalry who had survived the infighting among twenty thousand Xiongnu people, including those killed by Xue Rengui.

This time, the Xiongnu cavalry leader Pugu Huaiyu did not go on the expedition, but instead temporarily took over Liu Du's post as the governor of Wuyuan Commandery.

These 6,000 cavalrymen, composed of Xianbei and Southern Xiongnu, were transformed into the Doyan Three Guards under Yao Guangxiao's training.

Along with them were 100 Imperial Guards and 3,000 battalions.

The predecessor of the Three Thousand Battalion was the three thousand laborers led by Li Su to dig open the Daihai Lake during the Great Battle of Shanwu.

Later, Yao Guangxiao went to Meiji to perform a ritual to appease the Southern Xiongnu tribes, bringing with him the 3,000-strong battalion, while Li Su took over the archer battalion.

One hundred Imperial Guards, three thousand battalions, and three guards of Duoyan were all training skills that Yao Guangxiao had acquired as an adjunct.

However, the three guards of Duoyan participated in many major battles in Yunzhong, Manyigu, and Shuofang, and their numbers were reduced from six thousand to three thousand.

This time, Liu Du took them all with him on the eastern expedition.

The places like Daqingshan, Yefuling, and Daijun were originally territories where the soldiers of the Duoyan Three Guards once roamed freely. Now, returning to these familiar places is like a fish returning to the sea.

Upon hearing Liu Du's order, the three thousand cavalrymen immediately turned their horses around, left the city, and headed towards the area where the disturbance was taking place.

At this moment, Li Su was disciplining his archers.

Five thousand archers, one thousand men in a square formation, waited to enter the city one after another.

They just used overwhelming force to shoot down all the Xianbei people on the walls of Gaoliu City.

The wind outside the city was biting cold. They were so focused on getting into the city as soon as possible that they completely ignored the more than 500 cavalrymen who suddenly appeared not far away!

These cavalrymen came swiftly, reaching their backs in just a few breaths.

They had just bombarded the city with arrows again, each man firing about ten arrows, leaving their shoulders aching, which allowed the cavalry to get close.

They would try to intercept us, so we had to scatter to save our lives.

Although no one was injured by the other side, it caused great panic and chaos in the team.

"Han Chinese cavalry?"

Liu Du arrived hastily with three thousand cavalrymen and found Li Su looking utterly bewildered. He asked, "Lieutenant Li, which unit are they from? How dare they attack us from behind?"

The enemy's arrival was so sudden that Li Su was also taken aback. He was busy getting his archers back and creating distance to counterattack, and didn't have time to think about who the enemy was.

However, the only people who appeared in Dai County and attacked them from behind were undoubtedly the cavalry from Bingzhou.

They had some minor clashes with the troops from Bingzhou while they were in the clouds.

Dai Commandery and Yanmen Commandery of Bingzhou are adjacent. If the enemy is Han Chinese cavalry, it is most likely Bingzhou troops.

"Lieutenant Liu, is that even a question? Who else could it be but the troops from Bingzhou?" Li Su said irritably.

It's them!

Upon hearing this, Liu Du flew into a rage. "These cavalrymen's warhorses might even have been raised by my people in the Sule River Valley!"

"Lieutenant Li, tell your men to go into the city first, and let my Duoyan Three Guards deal with them!"

"A mere few hundred cavalrymen dare to provoke us?"

Although the opposing side only had four or five hundred cavalry, they charged into his archer formation at close range, and the archers were helpless.

Although Li Su also considered the limited variety of his troops, he had one thousand archers trained to form a shield-bearing front-line defense.

Unfortunately, before he could achieve any significant success, he was summoned to lead an eastern expedition.

However, since they might encounter light cavalry from other tribes along the way, such a powerful long-range attack formation, coupled with the cover provided by Liu Duduoyan's three guards, would be enough to roam freely across the northern grasslands.

But to their surprise, they encountered Han cavalry at the foot of Gaoliu City, specifically the "Bingzhou Army"!

Beneath their fur coats lay sturdy, gleaming armor, demonstrating their superior defensive capabilities, far surpassing those of the Xianbei cavalry who wore only sheepskin coats.

Seeing Liu Du lead his cavalry, which surged forth like a dragon and a tide, Li Su nodded.

Let the cavalry handle the professional tasks!

Liu Du drew his sword and ordered: "One thousand men to flank from the left, one thousand men to flank from the right, and the remaining one thousand men to charge forward with me."

"In the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, I'll turn them all into a pile of minced meat!"

In an instant, the three thousand guards of Duoyan immediately split into three teams and charged towards the five hundred cavalrymen.

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"The enemy cavalry reacted too quickly!"

Zhao Yun, along with Zhao Xin and Zhao Kai, thirty loyal followers, and five hundred Guan Ning cavalry, charged left and right through the archers' formation, killing some before quickly retreating.

He discovered that these "Bingzhou Army" soldiers were exceptionally skilled; before Zhao Yun and his men even arrived, they had already retreated swiftly, leaving a large gap for close-range crossbow fire counterattacks.

Both sides suffered minor casualties.

Seeing that he hadn't gained much advantage, Zhao Yun decided to retreat.

To their surprise, the cavalry that had entered the city came out to surround and annihilate them.

Zhao Yun initially observed that the enemy cavalry had entered the city first, while the archers and crossbowmen blocked their way behind them, before deciding to launch an attack.

But now the enemy cavalry has quickly left the city, and all of them are coming.

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