Chapter 267 The Skirmish at Northern Anping (2/2)

The archers were preoccupied firing their arrows and forgot to defend themselves. Glaives, halberds, spears, and other polearms made their way towards their bodies, mincing them apart.

The two fangs arrays of Lu Bu gnawed the flanks of Wen Chou's loose formation.

In the middle of the fight, Lu Bu sensed an omen, just like when Yan Liang sensed Gao Shun.

Lu Bu gestured with his hands, which his subordinates understood it.

*WHOOSH*

Flag bearers of Lu Bu force waved their signal flags. Both fangs that were charging into Wen Chou archers did not bite, but they went straight toward the east, ignoring the existence of the archers.

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

*BOOM*

Archers of Wen Chou ignited their bomb bags, which were placed in the corner of their formation.

”Tsk!”

Lu Bu clicked his tongue as he watched his men at his rearguards got caught on the explosions. Had Lu Bu did not move away from the Wen Chou archers, the entire army of 5,000 heavy cavalries would have been crippled by the explosive bomb trap.

'Foolish scums! I sensed that you're using a coward tactic. You can't catch me with that!'

Lu Bu regrouped his men and turned his back toward the field which was barraged by the fire attacks.

Wen Chou also clicked his tongue. He had planned to bait Lu Bu using his men, which he believed that the reckless monster among men should have fallen for this delicious defenseless archers.

'I see, you're the same type as Yan Liang!'

As a tactician general and the secondary brain of Yuan Shao Army, he analyzed that Lu Bu had relied on his instinct to detect the omen and escaped from the trap by a hair breathe.

The ignited trap managed to take down a few hundred horses along with their riders, but the threat of the joint attack of Lu Bu and Li Feihong had not ended.

*BANG* *BANG*

The thunderous bang sounds of gunshot alerted Wen Chou as he recognized this weapon.

'Thunder magic! Is Zhang Tong here?'

The horror of Tong's magic still haunted Wen Chou since the day Tong shot his feet and captured both Yan Liang and him as hostages.

”General! Both our 2000-man commanders have been killed!”

Wen Chou did not look at his messenger, but he glared at the direction of Li Feihong, who had pulled his right hand and his gun back from a portal.

The killing intent of Wen Chou locked on Li Feihong at full force, yet Li Feihong ignored it and turned to his men to maneuver his troops.

'That's not Zhang Tong, but he's experienced! From Tian Feng's intel and that Li flags, that should be Li Feihong. To think that a young strategist has this mentality.'

'Zhang Liao should still be inside the fort. If this guy comes out, we will have a chance to strike down the north fort!'

'I'll bait this young strategist. If he's still a greenhorn, he will fall for this.'

Wen Chou looked back toward the bridge. Lu Bu had regrouped and formed two-row formation, getting ready for a sweeping charge. 400 Meters behind Lu Bu, Yan Liang's armored cavalries were crossing the reinforced bridges, creating arrays and getting prepared to pincer Lu Bu from behind.

On the other side of the moat, a reinforcement of 20,000 soldiers rushed at their location while another 40,000 men form ranks in front of the north fort, getting ready to attack it.

”All archers, turn around and aim at the horsemen behind our back! Get ready to defend against their charge! Anyone with a spear, group with others that have shields. Form a 10-man porcupine and endure their onslaught!”

Wen Chou bellowed. He rode back to stood behind his men, facing Lu Bu and his armored cavalries and showing his back to Li Feihong.

All soldiers under Wen Chou were elites. They completed their roles and arrays in 10 seconds, and they were ready to send their arrow barrage at Lu Bu Cavalry units.

Seeing the back of Wen Chou force, Li Feihong did not want to let this chance slip away, ”Archers, dash forward 50 steps and fire at will! Now!”

Wen Chou smirked and shouted, ”Archers, turn around and fire immediately! Empty your clip! Porcupine squads, stay in your formation!”

Wen Chou's elites made a 180 degrees turn and launched their barrages without looking at the enemies.

The running archers of Li Feihong did not expect a sudden arrow rain as they were out of their range a moment ago, they ran into the range of the fired arrows.

'I was tricked!' Li Feihong wanted to shout to stop all of them, but he was too late.

”Shields up! Shields up!” Shouted Li Feihong, but a thousand of his men had already fallen by Wen Chou's archers.

”Protect your friends and shoot back! Lu Bu will pincer them from behind! Keep them occupied!”

Surviving Julu archers return-fired, which also caused damages back to Wen Chou's archers.

*BWOO*

Lu Bu blew his horn, signaling his troops to charge at Wen Chou.

*BWOO*

Yan Liang, who was getting ready, also blew his horn, signaling all of his horsemen to pursue Lu Bu from behind.

*BWOO*

A third horn sounded from the north, which surprised Wen Chou and Yan Liang.

*RUMBLE*

The sounds of galloping horses came from the northern direction, and the [Gao] flags could be seen in among the troops.

Gao Shun crossed back the moat to assist Lu Bu!