When Wei Yan saw Liu Pan, he asked about the achievements of the past two days, and Liu Pan smiled bitterly, except for picking up and catching five hundred horses.

Wei Yan was just joking, after entering the camp, he asked someone to send more than a dozen war horses as a meeting gift, it turned out that these war horses were scattered last night, Wei Yan brought all the infantry, and there were not many who could ride horses, and it took the boss's strength to catch these horses.

Now that he has kept up with Liu Pan, he naturally handed over the horses to Liu Pan, and of course Liu Pan smiled.

The next three of them discussed how to clean up the situation, and today Xiahoudun and Liu Bei were fighting, presumably losing both. When Cai Mao gets the news, he will definitely send troops to come, not that Liu Pan is worried that Cai Mao will make trouble, but he really doesn't want these war horses to fall into Cai Mao's hands.

Therefore, the three of them agreed that they must solve it before Cai Mao sent troops, but they could not expose it too early and increase unnecessary casualties.

Liu Pan has been in the army for many years, has quite rich experience in this kind of field warfare, and is Liu Cong's brother, and his official rank is higher than Wei Yan.

"Brother Hansheng, stay for a while, you take a thousand people to lure those Cao soldiers, I ambush on both sides, be sure to kill with one blow, and quickly solve these five hundred cavalry. After dealing with these Qing soldiers, he asked Wen Chang to take 2,000 men and horses to arrange for the people to rest by the river as soon as possible, and if there is a ferry, they will be sent there. Han Sheng was responsible for leading 2,000 men to the east to set up an ambush, also to cut off Liu Bei and Cao's army from continuing to flee east. I took the rest of the troops myself to clean up the battlefield from north to south. ”

There is nothing wrong with Liu Pan's arrangement, but where is Wei Yan willing to let go of such an opportunity to make meritorious contributions, seeing that the two sides are fighting, they will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and they will definitely be able to catch the big fish at this time.

He hesitated in his heart: "General Liu, it's not that Wei is greedy, the five hundred cavalry of the Cao army will take strict care of these people, and now we are just guiding them to Xiangyang, we don't need so many people, just send two armies to lead a thousand soldiers, just let me fight with you!" Wei Yan's attitude was sincere, and he looked pitiful.

But Wei Yan is also really anxious, Gan Ning has an innate advantage, no one in the navy robs him, and he is already the actual governor of the 20,000 navy, and in terms of foot cavalry, there are a group of veterans such as Wen Ping, Liu Pan and Huang Zhong, if he doesn't seize the opportunity to make some achievements, I'm afraid that Huo Jun, Jiang Wan and others will rise faster than themselves.

Liu Pan hesitated for a while, and then agreed to Wei Yan, after all, Wei Yan brought three thousand foot soldiers, without these people, Liu Pan really didn't dare to attack too early. Liu Pan is the elder brother of the lord Liu Cong, if he doesn't give Wei Yan any military merits on the battlefield, it is inevitable that he will have opinions.

Wei Yan saw that Liu Pan agreed, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and secretly saved up his strength in his heart, whether he would manage things and meet Guan Yu or Zhang Fei must capture them alive in order to show his martial arts.

After the discussion was completed, he began to prepare to deal with the five hundred cavalry, first Huang Zhong slowly approached the Cao army with a thousand horseless cavalry, and the Cao army rode on the horse and saw these people from afar, and looked at the banner, no, Liu? Could it be Liu Bei's reinforcements. Regardless of whether it was or not, of course, we couldn't let them get close, let alone let them pass, and at that moment, five hundred cavalry hurriedly got on their horses and rushed towards Huang Zhong.

Seeing this, Huang Zhong stopped, and when the cavalry was still four or five hundred paces away, Wei Yan and Liu Pan led a large army to kill from both sides at the same time. Five hundred men could be plunged into a sea of misery, and in the face of an army of seven thousand, even if they fought hard, it was to no avail.

Soon the 500 cavalry were cleaned up, and due to the prior explanation, more than 400 of the 500 war horses were beaten and captured by Liu Pan's subordinates.

After a battle, Liu Pan's side only lost 200 people, but got 450 war horses. The soldiers who caught the horses were not to mention how happy they were.

And those Xinye people were also stunned in the face of the sudden change, what is going on, yesterday it was looted, and if it is looted again today, it will not even be left with bottoms.

But soon they put their minds at ease, and Liu Pan personally came forward to do ideological work, asking them to follow the troops to the Han River and find an opportunity to go to Xiangyang, now Jiangbei has entered a state of war, but Xiangyang is safe.

These people were originally going to follow Uncle Liu Huang wholeheartedly, and they didn't know where to go.

Now that Liu Pan told them that Liu Bei may not be able to protect himself, coupled with the actions of Liu Bei's army yesterday, these people are no longer so stubborn to put their hopes on Liu Bei. Xiangyang City is the Jingzhou Governor's Office, there are hundreds of thousands of people living in it, whether Liu Cong surrendered to Cao Cao or went all out to resist Cao, presumably Xiangyang was safe, after the persuasion of Liu Pan and others, the people got up and walked to the Han River.

After emptying the field, Liu Pan immediately asked Huang Zhong to set up an ambush in the east, and he and Wei Yan prepared troops, ready to launch a final blow at the army fighting in front at any time.

At this time, the battlefield of Xiahoudun and Liu Bei's troops could no longer be simply described as tragic. Liu Bei's troops already knew that they had no way out, and that they were fighting a typical backwater. And Xiahoudun's tiger and leopard cavalry has the advantage of stationing combat power, and naturally refuses to give up easily.

As for what happened behind him, Xiahoudun didn't know at all. As a last resort, he did not intend to use the five hundred cavalry guarding the common people.

At this time, how did the two sides of the fierce battle know that on land and on the river, there were four or five sentry cavalry quietly watching the battle situation on the field. Every advance or retreat of both sides, a sentry rider will immediately send the news.

In the decisive battle of 15,600 people on both sides, more than 20,000 people were watching the battle. If Xiahoudun knew about this situation, he was afraid that no matter how big the advantage was, he would withdraw his troops and return to the north. Even both sides immediately made peace.

But now none of them know that an even greater catastrophe awaits them. In the eyes of the generals on both sides, it is now a matter of fighting for the will to see who collapses first.

Fifteen thousand, became ten thousand, two hours later ten thousand became seven or eight thousand, the troops on both sides are sharply reduced, but none of the sides wavered, and the sentry cavalry around is also dumbfounded.

Of course, Liu Bei was not unconcerned about the situation on the Yangtze River and the Han River, and he was now more worried that Liu Cong's troops on the river were in line with Cao Cao. , if they land and besiege themselves, then they will fly south today.

With the passage of time, the numerical advantage of Liu Bei's troops was gone, and there were originally two or three infantry against one cavalry, but with the increase in infantry casualties and the fatigue of Guan Yu and others, the local advantage also disappeared. The most terrible thing is the 3,000 soldiers sent by Liu Cong, Liu Bei has been worried about them these days, and at first let them serve as the rear team with Guan Yu, but they all worked hard, even if they were scattered, they all came back.

But today, I don't know why, when the two sides were inseparable, suddenly a few Xiangyang soldiers shouted in the formation: "Liu Bei Xiao'er, if you don't resist so that we will end up today, this kind of villain, what are the brothers still doing, let's go back to Xiangyang to find General Liu!" ”

Although it was only a few people, it quickly got a response from those surviving Jingzhou soldiers.

These people were not ambiguous, and immediately fled south after speaking, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and others were still able to manage their troops well, but the more than 1,000 surviving Jingzhou soldiers quickly stopped the pace of attack, and hesitated. Liu Bei saw that the cold sweat came out, he didn't know how many of these 3,000 people were left, if all of them fled at this time, then his troops would face a catastrophe, and they would definitely be demoralized under their influence.

Three or five, seven or eight, one after another people fled the battle line, Cao Jun saw this situation is even more energetic, they don't know the reason, since Liu Bei's army has fled, Xiahoudun is even more confident, and shouted at a general next to him: "Go and recruit the five hundred cavalry, I want to launch a final attack!" ”

Although there was a period of chaos in Liu Bei's army, under the intimidation of Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and others, calm was restored again, and there were only four or five hundred people who fled.

The battle continues, and everyone is red-eyed.

Liu Pan's troops were also at the most fruitful harvest at the moment, and there were constantly war horses escaping from the front line, and these hungry men often rode on horses at the first time, one thousand to two thousand, and two thousand to three thousand.

By noon, Liu Pan had harvested 1,500 war horses, plus the 4,000-strong cavalry troops he brought and harvested two days ago, and he was almost fully equipped!

After lunch, Liu Pan received a letter from Huo Jun, who was fortified on the Han River, saying that he had joined forces with the Jiangxia Navy and asked Liu Pan if he would attack. When Liu Pan heard this, he couldn't wait, and immediately asked the sentry cavalry to report back to Huo Jun, and his side was also preparing the troops at the moment, and he and Wei Yan led the troops out.

Three thousand five hundred cavalry were in front, and the cavalry without war horses continued to pick up leaks in the rear.

At this time, there were only six or seven thousand people left on the battlefield in front, and Xiahoudun's cavalry was also lost by most of them, but Liu Bei was even worse, only four or five thousand infantry remained, and the disadvantage was more obvious, and basically everyone was wounded, and most of them had reached the limit of the battle.