Xing Daorong fled all the way back to Lingling in embarrassment, and when he met the army led by Liu Xian, there were 5,000 soldiers and horses when he came, but at this time there were only more than 1,000 left, some were killed, but more were left by themselves in the process of fleeing, Guan Ping came out to pursue before, according to Liu Yi, he singled out those who took the lead to kill, and the leaders were all dead, how could the soldiers under the command of those leaders still be willing to follow Xing Daorong to continue to work? When he saw Liu Xian, there were only more than 1,000 people left behind him.

"How could General Xing be like this!?" Liu Xian couldn't help but be shocked when he saw Xing Daorong's embarrassed appearance, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

"That Liu Yi is extremely cunning, tricking the last general into going to the gate, but ordering the archers to shoot arrows." Xing Daorong was indignant and said Liu Yi's despicability and shamelessness.

Liu Xian sighed when he heard it, he didn't know what to say, so he could only appease Xing Daorong and let him follow him, and continue to march with the army, 20,000 troops, came to Liandao and began to camp in the village.

"Sir, with so many camps, I'm afraid its strength is no less than 100,000!" Liu Sandao and Liu Yi stood on the bucket arch, looked at the camp of the old man in the distance, and frowned and asked.

Huang Zhong on the side shook his head, pointed to the big camp and said: "It seems to be quite large-scale, but in fact there is no order, when it is those sect thieves and Shanyue soldiers, according to the end of the future, the thief army is only one or two thousand at most." ”

Huang Zhong has been in Jingnan all the year round, but he knows a lot about those sect thieves Shanyue, just glanced at the military camp, then shook his head and explained with a smile.

"In fact, if there is a fire at this time, all problems will be solved." Liu Yi looked at the other party's camp, and also smiled and said to Huang Zhongdao, which was quite similar to Liu Bei's formation method in the later Battle of Yiling.

"I'm afraid it's not easy." Huang Zhong shook his head and said: "The terrain here is open, even if the fire is successful, it is difficult to spread to the whole army in a short period of time, and the enemy army has enough time to escape." ”

Liu Yi thought about it when he heard this, nodded and didn't speak again, he just had a whim, and felt that the scene in front of him was similar to history, but Huang Zhong was an expert in this regard, and it was wrong to say more, so it was better to shut up.

"Does that gentleman have a plan to break the enemy?" Liu Sandao looked at Liu Yi expectantly.

Huang Zhong on the side also looked over, during this time he heard a lot of things about Liu Yi, the battle between Mocheng and General Cao's army, and now the pacification of the two counties, it can be seen that Liu Yi is not a mediocre talent, and he is also very curious about how Liu Yi will deal with the 20,000 troops of Lingling.

"Not yet." Liu Yi shook his head and said: "The thief army is strong, and the sharp spirit is also flourishing, no matter how you fight at this moment, our army will not be profitable, first consume the enemy's sharp energy, and then it depends on the situation." ”

Liu Sandao was a little disappointed when he heard this, and he was looking forward to Liu Yi's surprise again.

"Don't think about those messy things, if everything has a trick, then what do you need soldiers and horses for?" Liu Yi slapped Liu Sandao and said with a smile.

Huang Zhong nodded secretly in his heart when he heard this, this is the right reason, if the war is always won by tricks, then these generals will only have to wave the flag and shout, how can it be used?

Liu Sandao was a little bored, so he went to inspect the military camp according to Liu Yi's instructions, arranged for the sentry scouts to go, and left Liu Yi and Huang Zhong to continue to observe the enemy camp.

The layout of the camp, Liu Yi doesn't want to find any more faults, it should be said that the reasonable place, I'm afraid it's only the part of the Chinese army camp, the air in the south is humid, so this marching tent is mostly smeared with butter and the like to waterproof, fire attack is actually a good method, and the same is true on his own side, Liu Yi can avoid fire, when building the camp, he took a lot of fire prevention methods, but if it really started, Liu Yi didn't move.

The problem is that the opponent's military camp is too scattered, and the trick of arson is used, and if you don't borrow the wind, it is easy to cut off the fire source, and as for the wind, ...... The wind in early spring is mostly southeasterly, and it is almost the same when people set fire to their own side.

"Sir, why don't I take a team of men and horses tomorrow to explore the truth?" Huang Zhong watched for a moment and then asked Liu Yi.

"If the general is not injured, he can also give it a try, but the general has not recovered from his injuries now, so he can help me to sit in the Chinese army." Liu Yi shook his head, looked at the enemy camp and smiled: "Just like I said before, let's consume the opponent's morale first." ”

Huang Zhong was a little dissatisfied when he heard this, and always felt that Liu Yi was thinking that he was old, but people cared about him, and it was not easy to refuse, so he could only nod his head and promise, and he went down with Liu Yi.

Just when Liu Yi and the Lingling army fell into a confrontation stage, hundreds of miles away in Guiyang, Han Xuan also persuaded Zhao Fan because of the matter of sending troops.

"Why is Shi Xue still hesitating?" Han Xuan looked at Zhao Fan and said with some anger: "Liu Yuanjun has already assembled an army of 20,000 people, so there is no problem with Liu Yi's defeat, doesn't Shi Zemo think that Liu Yi can still defeat Liu Yuanjun with those thousands of rabble?" ”

"Xutong, don't get excited." Zhao Fan looked at Han Xuan with a smile, shook his head and said, "This is a letter sent by Liu Yuanjun, Xu Tong can take a look at it first." ”

Han Xuan frowned and took the bamboo slip handed by Zhao Fan, looked up at Zhao Fan and said, "Defect to Jiangdong?" ”

Zhao Fan nodded and said, "Yes, what does Xutong think?" ”

"We are the officials of the imperial court, how can we be thieves?" Han Xuan frowned and said dissatisfied, in his opinion, Cao Cao represents the imperial court, that is where justice lies, and the rest such as Liu Bei and Sun Quan are all traitors and traitors, whether Liu Bei or Sun Quan, they will all be defeated in the end.

"I also have this intention, because I am reluctant to send troops to support, besides, Liu Du is powerful, and now that the prime minister is defeated, I am afraid that it will be difficult to take care of this Jingnan land in a hurry, if I wait to help, then if Liu Du defeats Liu Yi, he takes the opportunity to annex the four counties of Jingnan, how can I parry?" Zhao Fan smiled.

Han Xuan also hesitated when he heard this, originally his idea was very simple, the union of the four counties could always drive Liu Yi out of the four counties of Jingnan, but after Liu Yi captured Changsha, he quickly took Wuling, which made Han Xuan panic, and he also wanted to promote the union of Liu Du and Zhao Fan, but he never thought about the problems that Zhao Fan said.

"What do you think?" Han Xuan looked at Zhao Fan and asked, you can't do nothing, if Liu Du wins this battle, he really wants to annex the four counties and become the overlord of Jingnan himself, Han Xuan doesn't want to see it, as for Liu Yi to win...... That's impossible.

"Now that Liu Yi and Liu Du are facing off in Lingling, Liu Yi's rear must be empty, why don't we gather a group of soldiers and horses and take the opportunity to recapture Changsha?" Zhao Fan looked at Han Xuan and smiled.

"That's a wonderful way!" Han Xuan said happily when he heard this: "In this way, you and I join forces, no matter who wins or loses in this battle, we can be invincible." ”

"If Brother Xutong is willing, I can borrow your 2,000 soldiers and horses, and you can take this opportunity to retake Changsha." Zhao Fan said with a smile.

"Two thousand soldiers...... Han Xuan hesitated for a moment, nodded and said: "That's enough, Changsha has many of my old departments, then Liu Yi is just new to Changsha, the people's hearts are unstable, two thousand men and horses are enough for me to recapture Changsha County." ”

At the moment, the two discussed the details, Zhao Fan helped Han Xuan select two thousand Guiyang elite soldiers, and selected two generals for Han Xuan, early the next morning, Han Xuan led the soldiers and horses to kill to Changsha violently, the army just set off, Han Xuan wrote several letters to Changsha to contact the old department, ready to cooperate with the outside, according to Liu Yi's original practice, Changsha counties one by one, cut off Liu Yi's back road.

Han Xuan's side sent troops with great fanfare, so naturally he couldn't hide Wei Yan, who had been sending people to monitor Guiyang's movements.

"Han Xuan leading the troops?" Chaling, after Wei Yan received the detailed report, he looked at the person who came with some nervousness, this Han Xuan still dared to lead the troops?

"Yes, there are about 2,000 people, menacing!" The detailed work that came to report bowed.

Menacing?

Wei Yan felt that these four words were so incongruous when used on Han Xuan? He followed Liu Yi before, watched Han Xuan's several operations, and had already classified this person into the ranks of the rice bucket, but now he heard that Han Xuan led the army to take advantage of the situation to seize Changsha, but he was not in a hurry at all, and immediately convened a group of generals under his command to discuss the matter.

"General, we only have more than a thousand soldiers and horses, so Han Xuan's troops are twice as many as our army, why don't you avoid the edge for the time being, and then rely on the city to consume the opponent's troops?" One of the subordinate marquis proposed.

"Just Han Xuan, don't say that there are 2,000, but if you come 20,000, you are not afraid!" When Wei Yan heard this, he laughed and said: "Help me make this meritorious feat this day, order troops and prepare horses, and prepare to break the enemy with me!" ”

"Whoa!" Under Wei Yan's command, most of them were low-level generals such as military marquis and generals, and now that they saw that Wei Yan had made up his mind, it was difficult to persuade them again, so they went to prepare their troops and horses according to Wei Yan's instructions.

Wei Yan was also big-hearted, and before the battle was fought, he directly wrote a good news for Liu Yi to send over, and then led the soldiers and horses, and after hearing the general direction of Han Xuan, he set up an ambush on the way he had to go.

The process is basically similar to the process of Liu Yi's ambush of Jin Xuan that day, after Han Xuan led the soldiers and horses over, Wei Yan came out halfway, led the soldiers and horses to directly cut Han Xuan's soldiers and horses into two sections, and then led the guards to attack Han Xuan.

Although Liu Yi promised to release Han Xuan three times that day, it was Han Xuan who fell into Liu Yi's hands, Wei Yan did not have this restriction, he personally charged into battle, took the elite soldiers to kill Han Xuanshuai, and beheaded Han Xuan off the horse.

As soon as the main general died, those Guiyang soldiers and horses didn't want to lose their lives with Han Xuan, so they fled directly, Wei Yan chased people all the way out for more than ten miles, and collected and surrendered Guiyang soldiers and horses There were seven or eight hundred people, so he was satisfied and cut off Han Xuan's head, let people use lime for embalming, packed a box, and sent someone to Liu Yi to report again, and at the same time asked Liu Yi what to do next?

Although he destroyed Guiyang's soldiers and horses who wanted to take advantage of the situation to sneak attack Changsha, it also gave Zhao Fan a precaution, and it was unrealistic to want to capture Guiyang at once with only this little force in his hands, and Zhao Fan was unwilling to risk sending troops again after this battle, and he was cowering in Guiyang, Wei Yan didn't want to be idle, so he hoped that Liu Yi could assign him another task, preferably a task like this one.