The news of Ma Chao's retreat was quickly detected by the scouts, and then this was sent to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao looked at the news of Ma Chao's retirement, laughed heartily, and said to his subordinates: "Liu Yu is really naïve, and loneliness is not the beginning. I had long prevented him from giving Lone such a hand. ”

Hearing Cao Cao say this, Cao Cao's henchmen all smiled.

Next, Cao Cao said solemnly: "Liu Yu is very cunning, although our army has cracked his conspiracy, but we still need to be cautious and not careless. ”

"Don't worry, my lord, we will keep it in mind." Everyone knew what Cao Cao meant, and they would not be arrogant because of a momentary victory.

"Fengxiao, what are we going to do next?" Cao Cao asked Guo Jia about further plans.

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Our army and Yuan Shao have formed a situation of encirclement on all sides, and now as long as they advance steadily, they will compress Liu Yu's space, and at the same time, they must cut off the connection between Liu Yu and his territory and gradually encroach on it." This is a plan to catch turtles in the urn. ”

"The words of filial piety are deeply meaningful." Cao Cao was very satisfied with Guo Jia's plan.

Cao Cao advanced steadily according to Guo Jia's strategy, but Liu Yu made arrangements for such a situation.

After receiving Liu Yu's order, the defender of Luoyang Town felt that the situation was urgent, and without any hesitation, he immediately transferred 20,000 soldiers and horses from the defenders around Luoyang to support. And these two soldiers and horses rushed to Chenliu just before Cao Cao blocked Liu Yu's contact with the outside world.

Finding that he was a little slow, Cao Cao secretly screamed a pity.

With this newly added 20,000 soldiers and horses, Liu Yu's troops on hand became sufficient.

Ma Chao and Jia Xu soon joined Pang De with their soldiers and horses, all three of them were born in Xiliang and also had a common language with each other. Jia Xu has the highest status among the three, so Ma Chao and Pang De are also headed by him. Jia Xu has always been vicious in his tactics, no matter what unimaginable consequences, he only seeks victory. In the face of Cao Cao's steady and steady strategy, Jia Xu exhausted all means and made Cao Cao suffer a lot of losses.

Ma Chao and Pang De's troops were mainly cavalry, and Jia Xu took advantage of their strong mobility to constantly harass Cao Cao's troops, and sometimes cut off Cao Cao's grain routes several times, which affected the speed of Cao Cao's march.

Cao Cao also counterattacked, sending cavalry troops to fight against Ma Chao, but the result was either Ma Chao and they fled, or they were defeated by Ma Chao and returned.

Cao Cao realized that the cavalry in his hands could be regarded as elite, but it was not on the same level as the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. Cao Cao decided that he must form the most powerful cavalry force in the world in the future, otherwise he would be very passive.

The harassment of the enemy made Cao Cao very helpless, and the shortage of food and grass led to low morale of the army, and Cao Cao had no choice but to postpone the march.

At the same time, Liu Yu took Zhao Yun and Gao Shun, the second general, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and fought a battle with Xiahou Yuan's troops who came to rescue Xiahoudun on the plain near Xiangyi.

Xiahou Yuan felt that Liu Yu himself was not very brave, and Zhao Yun and Gao Shun were not well-known, Xiahou Yuan bullied the weak, and actually ran to Liu Yu's military formation to ask for a one-on-one fight.

Liu Yu almost thought that Xiahou Yuan was crazy, but later found out that Xiahou Yuan didn't know how powerful Zhao Yun and Gao Shun were. Thinking of this, Liu Yu happily arranged for Zhao Yun to go and teach Xiahou Yuan to be a man, and said: "Zilong, that Xiahou Miaocai looks down on this king a little, you go over and teach him a good lesson." Be sure to be majestic. ”

"Yes, my lord." Zhao Yun happily took over the task. He originally thought that Liu Yu would let Gao Shun play, but in the end he let him go. Zhao Yun is very confident in his martial arts, but Liu Yu has many fierce generals, and Zhao Yun has not had much chance to become famous, but now that he has such an opportunity to become famous, he will not let it go.

Xiahou Yuan kept shouting and scolding in front of Liu Yu's array, and finally found that Liu Yu actually sent a young general who looked as handsome as a woman out, and secretly laughed in his heart that Liu Yu had no generals in the army.

Someone came to send him to death, how could Xiahou Yuan let it go, he was ready to hit Liu Yu's morale and let the enemy know how powerful he was.

There is a saying called don't pretend to be forced, pretending to be forced to be struck by lightning.

Xiahou Yuan confirmed the correctness of this sentence. Xiahou Yuan didn't talk about heads-up routines, and rushed up to prepare for Zhao Yun before he could report his name.

Zhao Yun received Xiahou Yuan's attack very steadily, and constantly counterattacked in defense.

Xiahou Yuan was shocked in his heart, the young martial artist in front of him, who looked weak, was so good in martial arts, and his own attacks were blocked by him. No matter how Xiahou Yuan attacked, Zhao Yun would be able to follow. Since Zhao Yun and Lu Bu went head-to-head, they knew their own shortcomings, and constantly strengthened their training every day, and now Zhao Yun was ready to verify his training results on Xiahou Yuan, and the strength and speed in his hands had accelerated a few points.

In the end, Xiahou Yuan was accidentally stabbed in the shoulder by Zhao Yun. The injured Xiahou Yuan didn't dare to fight any further, and hurriedly ran to his own troops.

Liu Yu took the opportunity to rush forward with a large army, and Xiahou Yuan's troops were routed on all fronts.

Seeing that he was about to be defeated, Xiahou Yuan regretted it to death. Maybe God favored him more, and his good brother Xiahoudun arrived in time when he was in the most danger and saved his life.

Due to the rout of Xiahou Yuan, even if Xiahou Yuan came to help, they could not reverse the situation, they could only fight and retreat, and finally retreated to Xiangyi, relying on the defense of the city to stabilize the situation.

Seeing that he could not expand the results of the battle, Liu Yu ordered the army to set up camp on the edge of Xiangshui and confront Cao's army in Xiangyi.

The summer heat scorched the whole earth. The two sides attacked and defended each other several times, and because of the impact of high temperatures, they chose a truce very tacitly.

Liu Yu's side is better, he stationed his army by the river to prevent hot weather, and many soldiers who know water are still swimming in the river.

The Cao army in Xiangyi is not so good, although the two sides have ceased fighting, but the Cao army does not dare to take it lightly, who knows if Liu Yu will come to attack suddenly. Cao Jun defended on the city wall against the sun, and many soldiers fell to the ground because of this heat stroke.

Liu Yu has found a cool place to cool off during this time, and looks forward to the arrival of night every day.

Liu Yu can't stand being waited, let alone ordinary soldiers, although there is river water to cool down, but the continuous high temperature still makes the combat effectiveness of Liu Yu's troops drop a lot. Liu Yu was studying how to break through Xiangyi every day, but unfortunately many ideas were overturned by Liu Yu himself.

According to the news found by the scouts, Cao Cao ordered all counties in Yanzhou to send troops to support Xiangyi, and many soldiers and horses were already on the way, and if he continued to persist like this, it would be very detrimental to Liu Yu. 22