This battle was not like the previous one, the damage was great, and seven or eight out of ten cavalry were gathered, and nearly half of them were killed or wounded under complete defense. Lu Bu's arm arrow penetrated three points into the bone, and he had to retreat in a hurry, withdrawing from the range of the bow and arrow at the head of the city.

The Jingzhou army at the head of the city was naturally cheering, and the Bingzhou cavalry, which had high morale, once again fell to the bottom of the valley at this time, and it was impossible to attack the city while the enemy's position was not stable. Let's not talk about low morale, but just because of the disadvantage of the troops, there is no possibility of success in attacking the city.

First of all, without siege equipment, it was impossible for the soldiers to climb the walls with their bare hands. Secondly, without logistical support, it is simply impossible to fight for a long time, even for a day. Third, most of the generals were wounded, and when they were hungry and poor, how could they still have the possibility of fighting. Another important point is that Lu Bu was injured, although it was only a flesh wound, but it was a particularly serious blow to the whole army.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Lu Bu could only temporarily withdraw his troops to Yiyang City. Yiyang City is only the county seat, and the scale of city defense is far inferior to Nanyang, but Yiyang, as a necessary place to go south to Xiangfan, has always been an important stronghold for the army's grain and grass logistics. Yiyang is not far from Wancheng, and it only takes half a day for the cavalry to go at full speed.

And now, Lu Bu is even more worried about Zhao Yun's situation. Zhao Yun left from the outskirts of Nanyang and was responsible for cutting off the retreat of the Jingzhou army, but until now there was no news, and the lack of information made Lu Bu even more worried.

The war was stalemate, and Lu Bu was unable to attack Nanyang, so he had to consult the county town on the periphery of Nanyang first, as for the strong defense of Wancheng, there was nothing he could do about it for a while, and Wei Yan was just cowering in the city, not daring to come out for half a step.

Ten days later, news of Zhao Yun finally came.

It turned out that Zhao Yun went all the way south, looking for Zhuge Liang's main force, and wanted to give him a salary from the bottom of the kettle, but Zhuge Liang had already mobilized all the troops around Wancheng, and wanted to hit all the forces to annihilate Lu Bu's main force, so even if Zhao Yun had the ability to reach the sky, he could not find the main force in the south of the city that did not exist at all.

Therefore, Zhao Yun went all the way to the south, as if entering a no-man's land, successively took Xinye and Fancheng, and made the army quickly surround Xiangyang with a thunderous posture, Xiangyang guard Mi Fang was mediocre and incompetent, just wanted to sit on the strong city to protect himself, and ignored Xinye, Fancheng's request for help, and finally ended up in a lonely city without help.

Zhao Yun had no idea where to start with Xiangyang for a while, he was facing the same predicament as Lu Bu, and he was also less siege equipment, and he couldn't fight for a long time, and finally Zhao Yun used the strategy of the general Pang De, and threw a letter of persuasion to surrender to the city, falsely reporting that the Jingzhou army was defeated, Zhuge Liang died, and the Bingzhou army was about to go south, and the cavalry was just a vanguard. It is more deterrent to the officers and soldiers in the city, if they do not surrender, there will be no chickens and dogs left after the army breaks through the city.

Mi Fang was not valued by Liu Feng in the first place, and he always did some insignificant errands, and he had nothing to do in this Northern Expedition, leaving him to raise grain and grass for the front line in Xiangyang. At this time, when he heard that the army had been defeated, Mi Fang was convinced. If it weren't for the defeat of the military division, how could there be countless large armies going south, and in a few days I saw more than a dozen cities in Lianxia, and until now there is no news of the eldest prince and the military division, which shows that what the enemy said is true.

After several trade-offs, Mi Fang finally surrendered. After Zhao Yun entered the city, he found that there were countless grains and grasses in Xiangyang City, and there were more than 10,000 defenders with a complete structure. It can be seen that Zhuge Liang was also afraid of a sneak attack in the rear, so he left enough men and horses to garrison Xiangyang.

Lu Bu was overjoyed to receive Zhao Yun's military report, since the back road of Zhuge Liang and others to the south was cut off, then they must be in Nanyang City, in the current situation, Nanyang City is already a lonely city, I am afraid they are still waiting for reinforcements from Xiangyang and Xinye;

These days, Lu Bu has not been idle, ordering the army to make simple siege equipment for future use, the geographical location of Nanyang City is very important, Lu Bu will never sit back and watch Nanyang fall into the hands of the enemy.

On another ten days, Lu Bu finally launched a general attack on Wancheng, due to the mobilization of all the superior forces, and Wancheng is not a defensive city, but in three days, Wancheng was broken by Lu Bu's army.

After the city was broken, Lu Bu ordered people to screen the whereabouts of Zhuge Liang, Liu Feng and others, and never let them escape. However, Lu Bu did not find any trace of Zhuge Liang and the others, and only after knowing it a few days did he deduce their whereabouts from all aspects of intelligence.

It turned out that Zhuge Liang knew that he would be defeated, so he made Wei Yan attack Wancheng, and contained all the main forces of Lu Bu in Nanyang, and he and Liu Feng and others went south, but in the process of retreating, they found that the cavalry of the Bingzhou army had broken through the counties along the way, Zhuge Liang and others blatantly went south was tantamount to throwing themselves into the net, and Zhuge Liang had to change his outfit and cross south from Jiangxia in civilian clothes to Chaisang of the Sun clan in Jiangdong.

Since then, Zhuge Liang's vigorous Northern Expedition still ended in failure, paying the price of the death of the general Huang Zhong in battle, the surrender of Wei Yan and Mi Fang, and Xiangyang, which Lü Bu had never set foot in before, also became Lü Bu's sphere of influence. Now that Nanjun has lost the Xiangyang barrier and has no waterways to rely on, it is only a matter of time before Nanjun changes hands.

And Lu Bu's Bingzhou army also suffered heavy losses, the military division Tian Feng was killed, the general Yan Liang also died in the chaotic battle, and only half of the tens of thousands of iron cavalry remained, although this battle was won, it was also a tragic victory.