Zhang Xiu, the Overlord of the Three Kingdoms

The moon on this day was very large and round, and the gentle moonlight seemed to drape the earth with a light veil.

Time passed quickly, and soon it was the third watch.

At this moment, Lu Bu and the rest of the soldiers were staring at the city gate tower with wide eyes, waiting for the signal to appear.

In anticipation of everyone, the agreed three bonfires suddenly rose up in the city gate tower.

Seeing this, Lu Bu immediately became excited, and immediately lifted Fang Tian's halberd and stepped onto the war horse, and said in a loud voice: "Brothers, follow me into the city and kill Dong Zhuo!" Then he rushed towards the city gate first, followed by 30,000 elites.

When Lu Bu led 30,000 elites to the city gate, the city gate had already been opened.

Lu Bu immediately didn't think about it, so he led 30,000 elite fish into Tianshui City. Although Jia Xu had already arranged everything, Lu Bu's fierce approach was really a bit reckless, and he should have sent a small force into the city to explore the way first.

Fortunately, there were no surprises.

As soon as Lu Bu entered Tianshui City, he saw a familiar figure. At the same time, the man also saw Lu Bu, and as soon as he saw Lu Bu, he hurriedly greeted him.

"Brother Fengxian, don't come unharmed!" the man hugged his fist at Lu Bu on Gao Zhi's war horse, and smiled all over his face.

Lu Bu saw the face of the person who came, and couldn't help but be slightly surprised, "Li Su, it's really you!" Then Lu Bu continued: "Now is not the time to catch up on the past. You immediately send someone to lead my men and horses to the other three gates, Li Su, you will lead the way for me, and I will raid Dong Zhuojun's camp before Dong Zhuojun can react!"

Lu Bu's tone and demeanor were actually a bit rude, but Li Su, who understood Lu Bu's character, did not take this to heart.

As soon as Lu Bu's words fell, Li Su immediately agreed: "No problem, I will do what Fengxian tells me immediately!" Immediately, Li Su called his cronies and asked them to lead a northern expedition to the other three city gates.

Subsequently, Li Su personally led the way for Lu Bu and rushed straight to Dong Zhuojun's camp in the center of the city.

At the same time, the careless Dong Zhuojun didn't know that the Northern Army had entered the city, and the vast majority of people were still deeply asleep.

The reason why Dong Zhuojun was paralyzed and careless, in addition to the reason that the morale has been discharged, there is a more important reason, the Northern Army was outside the city during this time, but it has not attacked the city, which unconsciously made Dong Zhuojun relax, everyone subconsciously thinks that the Northern Army will stay like this, and the generation of this kind of thinking is inseparable from people's habitual thinking.

With the help of Neiying, the Northern Army quickly took control of the other three city gates, and then the main force of the Northern Army swarmed into the city from these three gates.

At the same time, Lu Bu led 20,000 elites to Dong Zhuojun's camp under the leadership of Li Su. At this time, Dong Zhuojun's camp turned out to be very quiet.

The appearance of Lu Bu's 20,000 men immediately alarmed the sentinels at the gate. The sentry suddenly saw so many troops rushing towards him, and before his mind could react for a while, he subconsciously thought that this army was his own people, and couldn't help but wonder what was going on.

The sentry was surprised when he suddenly felt a chill in his throat, and then he was shocked to find that a sharp arrow had pierced his throat, and the tail feathers of the arrow were still trembling slightly. The sentry struggled twice, as if to scream, as if to grasp something, and then collapsed, and there was no more movement.

After clearing out the sentries, Lu Bu immediately led 20,000 elites into Dong Zhuo's camp.

Dong Zhuojun, who was caught off guard, was unable to resist at all, and the Northern Expeditionary Army set off a bloody storm in Dong Zhuojun's camp. Many Dong Zhuojun soldiers didn't even have time to put on their pants, so they were hacked to death in tents by the Northern Army.

In the face of the surprise attack of the Northern Army, Dong Zhuojun, who was unprepared, did not do much resistance and bombed the camp. The soldiers of Dong Zhuojun, who reacted in a hurry, didn't want to resist at all, they panicked when they saw the swords and fires around them, heard the thrilling shouts and killings around them, and the first thought that rose in their hearts was to quickly escape from the barracks.

The 20,000 elites of the Northern Army led by Lu Bu only took half an hour to finish off Dong Zhuo's army camp. In the whole process, 70,000 Dong Zhuo's troops were completely annihilated, of which more than 10,000 were killed and the rest were captured, while the northern army only paid the price of less than 1,000 casualties. Such a result is an absolute miracle.

At the same time that Lü Bu led the army to sweep Dong Zhuo's camp, the battle of Simen was also going on.

Dong Zhuojun had a total of more than 30,000 troops in Simen, and these troops, like the army of the big battalion, did not expect that the Northern Expeditionary Army would enter the city silently.

Moreover, among these Dong Zhuo's troops, about one-third of the troops had already defected under Li Su's instigation.

Under the cooperation of the inside and the outside, Dong Zhuojun of the four gates was quickly purged, and most of them were captured.

The offensive operation of the Northern Army was carried out very smoothly. In just one hour, Dong Zhuo's 100,000-strong army was annihilated, and at the same time, most of the entire Tianshui City was already under the control of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

However, the Northern Expeditionary Army ran into a nail in Taishoufu. Taishou Mansion is located in the north of the center of Tianshui City, and is currently Dong Zhuo's temporary administrative place.

When the Northern Army launched an attack on all parts of Tianshui, of course, it would not let go of the very important goal of Taishoufu. There was a sword and shield army of about 5,000 people who went straight to the Taishou Mansion, and their task was to capture and kill Dong Zhuo.

At the beginning, the operation of this northern expeditionary army was still very smooth, and it soon defeated the nearly 2,000 Dong Zhuo army guarding the front yard of the Taishou Mansion. But when the Northern Army invaded the backyard of Taishou Mansion, something happened about it.

As soon as the Northern Army entered the backyard, there were thousands of fierce warriors wearing heavy armor, beast-faced helmets, and long-handled broadswords, lined up in a neat formation and shouted at the Northern Army.

The image of these warriors was completely different from that of ordinary Dong Zhuojun, they were extremely well-equipped, and they were burly and unusually imposing. This Dong Zhuojun is absolutely extraordinary.

Suddenly seeing these Dong Zhuojun with very different momentum, the soldiers of the Northern Army couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. However, the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army did not feel timid, and after being stunned, they immediately lined up the battle formation under the order of the leading general, and met Dong Zhuo's army without showing weakness.

This northern expeditionary army was a sword and shield soldier, so in the battle formation they discharged, the shield was at the front. This formation uses a shield squeeze to ram the opponent at the beginning of a melee encounter.

The two sides battled each other, like two monsters about to break out into a fierce battle.

A moment later, when the two armies were only ten paces apart, there was a sudden shout from both sides. Almost at the same time, the soldiers at the forefront of the two armies suddenly launched. The soldiers of the Northern Army held their shields in front of them and rushed towards each other with their shields in front of them, and the opponents also charged in the same stance, but instead of using shields, they used the thick armor of the horns on their left shoulders as their impact weapons.

In the blink of an eye, the soldiers on both sides slammed into each other. Then there was a dull loud bang. Almost at the same time, almost all the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army were knocked into the ground and lay on the ground, and the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army were completely at a disadvantage in this round of confrontation.

It turned out that when the soldiers of the two sides collided together, the sharp horns on Dong Zhuojun's shoulder armor easily broke through the shields of the soldiers of the Northern Army, and then plunged into the bodies of the soldiers of the Northern Army.

At this moment, the soldiers of Dong Zhuojun, who had succeeded in the attack, suddenly raised their long knives and slashed at the soldiers of the Northern Army who were powerless to fight back on the ground. Suddenly, blood flew everywhere, screams were repeated, and hundreds of soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army were in different places.

The soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army were very shocked, but they only paused for a moment, and then rushed towards Dong Zhuojun with a shout. At this moment, the Northern Expeditionary Army had changed its formation, turning the phalanx with the shield in front into a two-wing formation, so that it could avoid the opponent's sharpest forward, wedge into the enemy's formation from the relatively weak sides, and then start a melee with the enemy.

Seeing this, Dong Zhuojun quickly dispersed the formation, and three to five people gathered together as a combat unit.

The Northern Expeditionary Army rushed into Dong Zhuo's army formation, and the shouts of killing suddenly resounded in the night sky.

The soldiers on both sides got into a scuffle, and from time to time some soldiers fell to the ground with blood spilled. The soldiers on both sides roared and waved their weapons desperately, their eyes blood-red, and no one flinched.

The Northern Expeditionary Army fought very tenaciously, often fighting with several wounds in the body until the last breath was swallowed. The performance of the Northern Army is definitely worthy of their title.

However, the Northern Army did not gain the upper hand, and the situation became more and more unfavorable.

About two quarters of an hour later, the Northern Army retreated to the vicinity of the courtyard gate. At this moment, the ground in the backyard was full of corpses, most of which were killed soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Under the situation of superior numbers, it was defeated by the other side and suffered heavy losses, which was the first time that the northern army encountered a situation.

Although the situation of the Northern Army is becoming more and more unfavorable, it is still fighting desperately. Although Dong Zhuojun had an absolute advantage, it was impossible for them to solve the problem in a short period of time in the face of the Northern Army, which was fighting for their lives.

The Northern Expeditionary Army died one by one in the bloody battle, and it seemed that it was about to be unable to hold on. At this moment, a signal rocket was raised from outside the Taishou Mansion. Seeing this scene, the exhausted soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army cheered up again.

Dong Zhuojun noticed the changes in the Northern Army, and they wanted to solve the problem as soon as possible, but they had no chance.

Just a moment after the signal rocket was raised, a large number of soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army poured into the backyard with torches and weapons in hand.

The sudden arrival of a powerful stream of troops instantly routed Dong Zhuo's army that was attacking.

Seeing this scene, Dong Zhuojun immediately retreated, stood up about 20 steps away from the Northern Army, lined up in battle, and waited for the battle.

In the face of the Northern Expeditionary Army, which was several times larger than itself, this Dong Zhuojun did not show a trace of timidity.

The large troops of the Northern Expeditionary Army poured into the backyard, and then quickly lined up one battle formation after another on the side of the courtyard gate. In a short time, tens of thousands of northern troops poured into the backyard.

At this time, a heroic military general holding Fang Tian's painting halberd and wearing a hundred flowers robe appeared at the gate of the courtyard. This general is none other than Lu Bu, the commander of the northern army in the south. A large group of people gathered around Lu Bu, including Li Su, Lu Bu's fellow countryman.