"General, the people are in a hurry!" The messenger hurriedly rushed in and saluted Cui Geng.

"Ji Ling is not the people?" Cui Geng frowned.

"I don't know the last general, but Anzhong is really in a hurry, the thief army is fierce, if you don't rescue again, I'm afraid Anzhong will not be safe!" The lieutenant shook his head and said.

Cui Geng nodded and said: "Our army is insufficient, you quickly bring a thousand soldiers and horses to Anzhong, remember, there is no need to fight with the thief army, just make a huge gesture to scare away that Ji Ling!" If Na Ji Ling retreats, you can lead your troops back, if Na Ji Ling does not retreat, you wait for him to collect his troops and return to the camp, and then lead his troops into the city to defend Anzhong. ”

Cui Geng's headquarters is only 5,000 people, plus more than 10,000 soldiers and horses left behind in Nanyang, and they have to guard the cities, and now the Yuyang battalion is assembled, but it is only Cui Geng's headquarters of people, although he has the right to dispatch Nanyang soldiers and horses for the time being, but after all, he is not his own soldiers, it is not very easy to use, and it is impossible to concentrate here, so Cui Geng is very cautious in using troops, even if he feels that Xinye is empty at this time, he did not rush to send troops.

If you win, you will have a Xinye City, but if you lose, Nanyang will not be guaranteed, this comparison, not to mention that the enemy situation is unknown now, even if Liu Bei opens the door of Xinye for him to take now, Cui Geng will not take it.

As long as Zhang Liao and Wei Yan come back and Nanyang has enough troops, he can do more, so Cui Geng hopes more to scare off Ji Ling and keep Anzhong from losing, this Yuyang is not a lonely city,

"Whoa!" The adjutant general agreed and hurriedly retired.

After the deputy general left, Cui Geng found another general and said in a deep voice: "You immediately send someone to find the main force of General Zhang Liao, tell him that Liu Bei has moved troops, and ask him to rush back as soon as possible!" ”

"Whoa!"

After arranging these, Cui Geng began to arrange people to strengthen the city wall, preparing to meet Liu Bei, the current situation is a little wrong, no matter how you think about it, Ji Ling should not pull all the soldiers and horses of Xinye out and run to attack Anzhong, although the fine work failed to find out useful news, but Cui Geng felt that if he attacked Xinye at this time, I am afraid that there are a lot of soldiers and horses waiting for him in Xinye City.

On the other side, the deputy general took a thousand soldiers and horses out of the city, all the way to Anzhong, and when the sun set, Kankan rushed to Anzhong, Ji Ling had not yet withdrawn the army, and was still waving his troops to attack, looking at the posture as if he wanted to fight Anzhong.

Anzhong is not a small city, and it is rare for 800 soldiers to be able to defend for a day, and the deputy general does not dare to slack off, and immediately makes a posture of a large army coming to help here.

Soon, Ji Ling learned the news of the Nanyang Army's coming to help from the scout, but he was not too surprised, as if he had known it for a long time, and after getting the report, he hurriedly asked: "How many soldiers and horses are there from the other party?" ”

"It's too far away to see clearly, but judging from the dust, I'm afraid there are 3,000 subordinates!" The scout didn't come close to count them, and could only give an ambiguous answer at this point.

"Three thousand?" Hearing this, Ji Ling nodded and said, "Mingjin will withdraw his troops and fight again tomorrow." ”

3,000 people on the side, Ji Ling can't let go of his hands and feet to attack the city, and in today's battle, his own side has suffered a lot of losses, and now that the enemy reinforcements have arrived, he is now fighting, and it may be him who suffers, so it is better to collect the troops for the time being, and then fight with the other party after raising enough morale tomorrow.

"Whoa!" Immediately, someone began to send orders to all parties, and Mingjin withdrew his troops.

After Ji Ling returned to the camp, he immediately summoned his personal guards and said: "You set off immediately, rush back to Xinye, and inform the military division that the thief army has sent troops to rescue An Zhong, and the military division can send troops to attack Yuyang." ”

"Whoa!"

This is also the strategy set by Chen Gong, no matter how the other party chooses, their side has a military advantage, and they can break the opponent's defense line as quickly as possible, and maximize their own military advantage.

The guards quickly got up and rushed to Xinye overnight to report to Chen Palace.

"Without further ado, go out and merge immediately, and take Yuyang directly!" After Chen Gong learned the news, he looked at Chen Zhi beside him and said: "Uncle Zhi, you take the first step, attack the city immediately after rushing to Yuyang, and I have a detailed work in Yuyang, if you think you can break the city, you can send a signal to contact the city to help break the city, in short, this battle, be fast!" ”

Chen Gong's goal is Wancheng, as the county seat of Nanyang, the significance of Wancheng is not only political, but also military, Wancheng is also of great significance, as long as you get Wancheng, south of Hengshan and west of Zhongyang Mountain, most of Nanyang will fall into the hands of Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang wants to seize these places, there are two mountain ranges of Zhongyang Mountain and Hengshan, it is easier to defend, Wancheng is very important here.

"Whoa!" Chen Zhi received the order, turned around and left, and sent troops to Yuyang overnight, in order to fight Yuyang.

Liu Bei's actions here are not unpleasant, from the decision to send troops under the persuasion of Zhuge Liang, to Chen Gong's secret sending soldiers and horses into Xinye, to Ji Ling's deliberate dispatch of troops to calm the crowd and lure Cui Geng to attack, it was only ten days before and after, but Chen Mo's reaction exceeded Chen Gong's expectations, Cui Geng's appearance in Nanyang is not good news, and it also makes Chen Gong have a sense of urgency, Chen Mo has obviously noticed or begun to pay attention to the problem of Nanyang, this Cui Geng is likely to be just an army that came earlier, if there are reinforcements arriving in Nanyang in the future, that's not good news for Liu Bei, Nanyang must take it.

This time, Xinye is even more empty, Liu Bei's main force has not officially hit the road yet, Chen Gong and Chen Zhi brought five thousand vanguard troops and then cooperate with Ji Ling's soldiers and horses, this is all the troops that Xinye can mobilize at present, if Cui Geng suddenly sends a team of men and horses to kill at this time, then Xinye will really be intercepted by the other party.

It's a pity that Cui Geng can't be so accurate, guessing the deployment of the other party's troops, it is rare for him to be able to take precautions.

Chen Zhi took five thousand elite soldiers to take advantage of the night to hurry, before dawn rushed to Yuyang, did not stop, but directly chose to attack the city, the darkness before dawn, it is the darkest time of the day, but also the most sleepy time, Yuyang City, the soldiers in charge of the vigilance were in a daze, noticed that something climbed up, almost instinctively waved the weapon and cut over.

"Bang~"

The piercing sound of weapons woke up the surrounding soldiers, a surprise attack turned into a strong attack, the combat quality and vigilance of the Guanzhong army exceeded Chen Zhi's estimates, in this case, the other party was able to respond in time, and the resistance in the city was concerned, the other party had a lot of troops, Cui Geng was even more after hearing the siren here, he put on armor and rushed to the city wall to command the soldiers to fight.

Although Chen Zhi is powerful, but the strength of the soldiers defending the city is not as empty as imagined, a killing battle, until dawn, failed to capture the city, although the city wall of Yuyang is not high, but Chen Zhi in order to hurry, did not bring too many siege equipment, naturally suffered, after seeing that it was difficult to overcome, Chen Zhi decisively ordered to collect troops.

Looking at the retreating Jingzhou army, Cui Geng breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered someone to clean up the battlefield.

On the other side, Chen went to the army and looked at Yuyang, which was heavily guarded in the distance, and a general frowned and said, "General, there are a lot of defenders in this city." ”

"Let the military advisor inform him of this." Chen Zhi nodded, the number of Yuyang defenders It seems that Chen Gong obviously guessed wrong, as for whether the other party's reinforcements have arrived, or whether Ji Ling was deceived yesterday, Chen Zhi does not know, but at this moment, there is not enough siege equipment, and it is obviously not appropriate to continue the siege.

Chen Zhi sent all the scouts out in the barracks, and now that the enemy situation is unknown, he must first determine the approximate strength of the other party, as well as the specific strength of the troops who went to support Anzhong yesterday, Chen Zhi estimated that Ji Ling should have been deceived, if the main force of the enemy army came to help, if the opponent's troops were sufficient, it was impossible to just hold on, at least he should send troops to test Xinye's strength.

On the other side, after Chen Gong heard the news, he was ready to come to the front line to supervise the battle in person, his judgment was similar to Chen Dao, but Yuyang must be taken as soon as possible, and before Chen Mo's army to aid Nanyang arrives, Wancheng must be taken first.

At the same time, in order to avoid the emptiness of Xinye and be cut off by the enemy, Chen Gong sent two letters in a row, urging Liu Bei to send troops to Xinye as soon as possible, at least not to let the rear be empty.

After Liu Bei got the information from Chen Palace, he quickly ordered Liu Hu to lead 2,000 soldiers and horses to Xinye first, preparing to meet the army, and at the same time, Liu Bei personally led the army with Zhang Fei, Liu Pan, Wen Ping, Wang Wei and other generals.

Nanyang must be taken.

As long as Nanyang is taken, Zhuge Liang can use a lot of strategies, to the east can enter the Central Plains, to the west can attack Hanzhong, Shu, west, out of Wuguan, but also to threaten Jingzhao, the strategic significance of this land is too important, once this opportunity is missed, it is almost impossible to encounter it again.

"Brother, Kong Ming is too careful, as long as Wancheng, in my opinion, now that Chen Mo's rear is empty, we might as well take Luoyang directly, wouldn't it be happy?" On the road to Xinye, 40,000 Jingzhou troops plus the people responsible for transporting materials, there are more than 100,000 people, and the momentum is quite magnificent.

"We didn't even sit down in Jingzhou, if it weren't for this opportunity, Kong Ming wouldn't have made this move, as for Luoyang's ......" Speaking of this, Liu Bei sighed, Luoyang is really so easy to take, Cao Cao has already succeeded, and it is his turn to pick up the cheap?

Today's Liu Bei has already passed the prime of life, Nanyang won, Liu Bei feels that it is feasible to have his own troops in Nanyang's current state, Liu Bei is not a fool, if Zhuge Liang directly praises Haikou and says that he wants to take Luoyang, Liu Bei has to wonder if he is looking for the wrong person, and wants to further seize Luoyang, at least now Liu Bei does not dare to think about it.

"Brother, don't worry, it's just Nanyang, don't say that Lu Bu is gone, even if he is here, I have to see what he is capable of, dare to call himself the first in the world!" Zhang Fei patted his chest and said, Zhang Fei was a little regretful that he couldn't fight Lu Bu, and now Nanyang doesn't even have Zhang Liao, which makes Zhang Fei's self-confidence burst~