The backward means of communication in this era, just when Wang Hou got the news, in fact, the battle of Xiangyang had actually begun! Taking advantage of the autumn when the water of the Yangtze River began to surge, more than 30,000 troops were sent from Jiangling, and Guan Yu led the army to Fancheng, an important border town in the north of Cao Wei, and pounced.

Later generations are often to unify the south with the north, except for the Ming Dynasty, it seems that there are few cases of unifying the north with the south, which makes sense, first of all, the quality of the soldiers, the northern soldiers to the south of the Yangtze River, take off their clothes when it is hot, the hot people are more southern, and the south also has winter, but the southern soldiers and horses to the north, the frozen people are one by one.

And there is an important reason, there is too little war horse in the south! When Sun Ce raised his army, the Sun family had a thousand war horses, and they beat the large and small forces around Wu County.

Now Guan Yu is not much stronger than Sun Ce back then, he has 30,000 people, and the whole army only has 2,000 cavalry.

In contrast, Cao Ren's army has 30,000 troops, although the quality of the infantry is poor, but the cavalry has 8,000 people, so Guan Yu's protrusion in the middle did not cause much shock in today's Cao Han, and Cao Ren did not even ask Cao Cao for help who was fighting fiercely with Sun Quan in Misukou, but just sent a messenger to inform and remind him.

And against Guan Yu, Cao Ren did not defend the city, but took the initiative to attack.

On the riverside, the lineup of the Cao army is really extraordinarily chic, the forward, eight thousand cavalry swing forward, and many of them are also equipped with tortoise shell plate armor from Liaodong! The 17,000 Xiangfan infantry behind him can be regarded as a camp, but on the opposite side, by the Yangtze River, driving a hundred-zhang three-story building boat, Guan Yu's army is a little cramped, the ships are like a group of warmers, and the infantry who get off the boat are like fearing the enemy, trembling and hugging a bunch, like a nest of quails.

In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the heads-up before the army is actually fake, after all, it is not easy to train a general, and looking at Xiahou Yuan, he took the lead in personally going to the front line to command and repair Luzhai, but he was cut down by Huang Zhong with a knife, and although it was difficult, the Wei army, which still had the strength to fight, immediately collapsed on the whole front.

However, it is true that there is a small group of elite troops and the brave among the junior officers who are dispatched to attack and harass the sneak attack first, and it is true that it is true to cut off a few heads to improve morale, watching Guan Yu's army land, Cao Ren is triumphant and the first to raise a big sword.

"Ma Bo, Liu Jian, where is Xiahou Qing? First raid the thief formation for our army, and frustrate the thief's spirit! ”

Anyway, a while ago, Guan Yu sent Cao Yuwen first, which is not a rude sneak attack, listening to Cao Ren's drinking order, the three Cao army generals who are extraordinarily five big and three thick are neatly hugging their fists, and then they whipped their horses, and galloped out like chicken blood.

The cavalry fights the infantry, it is really an advantage, not to mention the impact power, the flexible infantry can't be compared, a team of about 30 cavalry, three teams of more than 100 people and three angles of wolves surrounded the past.

When they arrived at the place, the cavalry of the Wei army was not stupid, and they really rushed over according to the thousands of Jingzhou legion infantry, hanging more than fifty meters away, and as soon as the bow and arrow were pulled, they shot at the Jingzhou army's head.

In the sound of crackling bowstrings, bursts of arrows rained down, which really knocked over seven or eight soldiers of the Jingzhou army, and even caused the wolf riders of the Cao army to raise their bows and shout excitedly.

However, in this kung fu, in the midst of a drum noise of the Jingzhou army, facing the pair of Xiahou Qing's cavalry in the middle, ten Jingzhou infantry actually played a big shield, wrapped themselves like a big turtle and greeted them, fighting cavalry with infantry, the other party was thirty, and he was only the tenth, looking at the slow-moving big shield, Xiahou Qing obviously showed a contempt, he didn't let go of the arrows, just waiting for the other party to lean here.

The shouts and drums of the sergeants on both sides were much lighter, and when they saw that this group of infantry was more than 40 meters away from the main formation and was about to force in front of the Cao cavalry, their pupils suddenly became ruthless, and they reached out to carry the axe and gun produced in Liaodong, and shook the horse whip violently, and the 30th Cao cavalry launched a charge together.

This is an opportunity, it must be the warriors of the Jingzhou Army who will go out to meet the battle, if they can behead the other party, they will not inadvertently greatly increase their morale, and they will go down for a while, and the merits and reputation they get are also extraordinarily rich, with a cold light in their eyes, Xiahou Qing even saw his axe falling, and the other party's head was flying.

But! Without three thirds, how dare you go to Liangshan? Since the other party dared to come out, he naturally had the means in it, and he had the same idea as Xiahou Qing, the ten-meter cavalry arrived in a blink of an eye, seeing Xiahou Qing slashing with an axe, and suddenly, the Jingzhou shield hand actually grabbed the shield and leaned back suddenly, and in the roar, the heavy axe was not cut.

But the horses and feet of the Cao army can be exposed, and in the famous infantry and heavy cavalry war in the battle of Yuncheng in later generations, isn't the tactic of the Yue family army to cut the cavalry up and the horse's feet down! Here Wang Hou should probably be proud, because what Guan Yu Jingzhou Army used was actually his Xuanhua axe! The cavalry went out from the end of the axe, and in the clicking sound, the sharp axe hook bruised the horse's leg, Xiahou Qing and the Cao army cavalry under his command four or five couldn't contain the horse and fell down, the horse lost its front hooves, and the heavy Cao army pioneer lieutenant rolled out like a ball, don't underestimate the fall off the horse, this impact is enough to fall a big man.

Without waiting for Xiahou Qing, who was heavily armored, to stand up, behind the shield array, it was a Jingzhou swordsman who slashed over with a ring sword.

Click~

Stealing chickens and rice, Xiahou Qing and the four Cao army cavalry had their heads picked up by the flagpole, swaying in front of the Jingzhou army, and Guan Yuyizi Guan Ping, who personally led the army to fight back, didn't even return to the military formation, arrogantly standing in front of the army and beating his chest like a gorilla and screaming.

Feeling embarrassed, Cao Ren, who was embarrassed and angry, suddenly pulled out his sword and shouted, and as he shouted, more Cao cavalry rushed forward with whips.

However, in the sound of crackling cavalry hooves, they still do not charge head-on with you, and one by one the light cavalry of the Cao army are obscene at a distance of more than 50 meters to shoot you with bows and arrows, and in the sound of uproar, the front army of Jingzhou Army raised a shield, but in the face of more than 2,000 arrows crackling and shooting, after all, there are gaps that cannot be prevented, and the screams of arrows come and go.

If this is a game, this casualty is a drop in the bucket compared to the 30,000 army, but war is not a game after all, people have feelings! Just bow your head and shoot the arrow, not knowing when the arrow will fall on your head, people will panic and be afraid! The morale blow is particularly severe.

Shot far, even the building boat by the river suffered a few arrows, it seems that the Jingzhou army finally can't stand it, a shout, the shield soldiers in the front suddenly get out of the way, behind, in the sound of footsteps, the archers with quivers behind their backs ran out in large numbers, facing the light cavalry of the Cao army in front of those military formations, in the sound of hula, a full four or five thousand southern bows were violently pulled away!

Skills are intensive, no matter how you move! A large salvo of hula fell like raindrops, and in the terrible screams, the light cavalry of the Cao army, which was still in the crazy waves, was shot down a large area, and some of the war horses were even hung like hedgehogs, neighing and retreating, two thousand light cavalry were defeated again, and the Jingzhou archers were in hot pursuit, and even behind the Jingzhou army, there was a rumbling military drum.

But seeing this scene, this time Cao Ren was not only angry, but overjoyed, he also shouted an order, Cao Jun also beat the drum in response, crackling horses' hooves, Cao Jun with a Xuanhua axe halberd spear under his crotch, black like a wave, rushed up.

Before the archers of Guan Yu's army could recover from their senses, a large number of Cao Army's fighting cavalry had already been killed!