Go back to the cave.

Yue Fei said to the generals in front of him: "Cao Ren only attacked the northern and eastern cities, he wanted to concentrate the main force and break the city faster. At the same time, I was worried that I would go out of town to fight him. So in the northeast corner, 70,000 Yuzhou troops were left. ”

"Jiangpu listens to orders."

"Yes."

Jiang Pu stood up with his head held high.

Yue Fei said: "Give you 10,000 soldiers and horses to face Xiahoudun." ”

"Huh? Just 10,000? This.... Jiang Pu's face turned white all of a sudden.

Yue Fei continued: "When you fight with Xiahoudun, I will let Gao Pei lead 20,000 troops to attack Xiahoudun's flank. Besides, I'm still in Xicheng, I won't watch my army be defeated by the Yuzhou army. So just go, I'll support you at any time. ”

"Yes."

Hearing Yue Fei's words, Jiang Pu was relieved.

"Wu Lan, Lei Tong." Yue Fei continued to order.

"The end will be."

Yue Fei said: "With the two of you, each will receive 10,000 elites." Go out from the southern city and go around to the eastern city. Wait for the opportunity to attack and attack the enemy's flanks in batches. Remember, the 20,000 elites you have at your disposal are my most elite troops. Not only do I need to win, but I also need them to come back alive. ”

"No..."

Wu Lan and Lei Tong felt very surprised.

They knew that Yue Fei had 10,000 Wudang Fei troops and 30,000 elites under his command. The Wudang Flying Army is a unit of vulture bones, and they know a little bit about it. I also know that the relationship between the vulture bone and Yue Fei is very good. And the 30,000 elites were left in Yizhou by Lu Bu, and it is said that they were selected from the new army to dare to fight, and they had the ability to use one as ten.

They all thought that this elite was Yue Fei's personal guard battalion, but they didn't expect to give them the command to face Cao Ren.

Wu Lan and Lei Tong both said secretly: "The opportunity to establish a great achievement has come..." ”

"Qian Zhou, Lu Yi."

"The end will be."

Yue Fei said: "Each of you will lead 5,000 crossbowmen and lie in the streets of the city. Turn our western city into a fortress. If you really can't hold the city and let the enemy attack and kill you, you will give me a hard shot, kill them, and don't leave any of them! ”

"No."

"Old General Yan Yan." Yue Fei walked up to a veteran with a white beard on his face and said, "You lead the remaining soldiers and horses to meet Cao Ren's Liangyi Taiji Array. I'll give you a way to break the formation, but I'm afraid that he will change formations at any time, so the general should be extremely careful. ”

"Yes."

Yan Yan is a respected veteran in Yizhou. When Lu Bu occupied Yizhou, he was incognito, it was Yue Fei Aicai, who repeatedly looked for him, and promised to only protect Yizhou, and only invited him out of the mountain until he fought in the Central Plains.

Everything is arranged...

Yue Fei's 100,000 Yizhou army, and Cao Ren, Xiahoudun, and Xiahou Yuan's 220,000 troops, launched a great battle in Xicheng with a huge disparity in the number of soldiers and the disparity in strength.

This battle...

It lasted two whole days.

Yue Fei's Yizhou army used 10,000 Wudang Fei's army as spears to meet Xiahou Yuan's 50,000 Yuzhou army.

As Xiang Yu said a few days ago, the army under Cao Cao is the softest in the Yuzhou army, and its combat effectiveness is not even second-rate. Fighting against the most elite Wudang Flying Army, it only took half a day for the 50,000 army to be defeated. And the 70,000 people under Xiahou Yuan's command in the northeast corner, which were supposed to go to support, were restrained by Jiangpu and Gao Pei, and they couldn't pull away, seeing that Xiahou Yuan was defeated, and they couldn't save them.

After the Wudang Flying Army of the Vulture Bone defeated Xiahou Yuan, they only rested for a stick of incense.

Had dinner and lunch.

They continued to advance in a southeasterly direction.

rushed to the aid of Jiangpu and Gao Pei, and defeated the other 70,000 Yuzhou troops.

But...

After defeating the 70,000 Yuzhou army, the Wudang Fei Army, known as the elite of Yizhou, had already suffered more than half of the casualties. The 30,000 soldiers and horses of Jiangpu and Gaopei also lost half of their troops.

So.

Defeating the Yuzhou army can be regarded as a narrow victory.

The Yizhou army also paid a heavy price. The 120,000 troops of the Yuzhou army were said to have been defeated, but there were not many casualties or captures, and most of them scattered in a hurry and fled outside the battlefield.

In the evening of the next day.

The eastern part of the western city was breached.

Cao Ren's army stormed into the city and was ambushed by Qian Zhou and Lü Yi.

The two sides fought fiercely for more than an hour.

Cao Ren's soldiers and horses suffered heavy casualties and withdrew from the city. The remaining soldiers and horses of Vulture Bone, Jiangpu, and Gao Pei, who happened to participate in the siege, all gathered in Dongcheng and launched an attack on Cao Ren.

The 20,000 elites of Wu Lan and Lei Tong also blocked the gap.

Yue Fei and Yan Yan jumped outside the West City, and formed a flanking attack with Wu Lan and Lei Tong against Cao Ren's tens of thousands of troops.

At this moment, Cao Ren was besieged within a few miles of the eastern city of Xicheng, unable to move, and his soldiers suffered heavy losses again. Cao Ren knew that the situation was irreversible, and fearing that all his troops would be lost in Xicheng, ordered a breakthrough.

The battle of the breakout also lasted a whole day...

Cao Ren organized four or five collective charges, but they failed to break through the iron bucket-like formation arranged by Yue Fei and were blocked back into the West City. It wasn't until Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan gathered up the tens of thousands of fleeing Yuzhou troops and attacked Yue Fei's flank that Cao Ren took the opportunity to break through.

After the end of the war.

Yue Fei hurriedly counted the results.

He had a hunch that although Cao Ren was defeated in this battle, the Yizhou army suffered a lot of casualties, and it must have been greatly injured. Whether or not Hanzhong can be held depends on the development of the situation.

On the evening of the third day.

Yan Yan counted the results.

"In this battle, our army lost more than 34,000 casualties, and more than 60,000 were lightly and seriously wounded..." Yan Yan said.

"Doesn't this mean that all my 100,000 people have been killed or wounded?" Yue Fei's eyes couldn't help but widen. He had already guessed that there would be a lot of casualties, but he didn't expect to bring 100,000 people, all of whom were hung up.

"Yes."

Yan Yan continued to report: "According to the statistics of our soldiers who cleaned up the battlefield, there are more than 76,000 corpses of the enemy. Most of them were Cao Ren's troops. The Yuzhou army did not suffer many casualties.... ”

Hearing this, Yue Fei felt a little better in his heart.

In the three days of the battle, hundreds of thousands of casualties were lost. It's the biggest battle! Yue Fei was overjoyed, wrote a detailed memo and reported it to the Military Aircraft Department.

..................

After Cao Ren was defeated and fled, he went straight back to Yuzhou.

Because he received a report when he fled halfway to the road, Wancheng, the seat of Nanyang County, had been conquered by Bai Qi. Now Wancheng, there are 100,000 Jingzhou Army and Bai Qi's 2nd Group Army, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.

Cao Ren could only abandon Wancheng and flee to Yuzhou to garrison.

A few days later.

Lu Bu was pleasantly surprised when he received the good news from Jingzhou.

The first is the good news of Fancheng, capturing Li Dian alive, eliminating and capturing the 30,000 Cao troops in Fancheng. Then came the good news of Wancheng. Bai Qi and the more than 10,000 ambush soldiers who stayed in Wancheng joined forces with the outside to recover Wancheng in one fell swoop.

In the end, Yue Fei's Yizhou army defeated 220,000 Cao troops!

This made Lu Bu feel incredible.

In addition to the 30,000 elites he left behind, the 10,000 Wudang Flying Army in the Yizhou Army can be regarded as a good fight. The others are all weak brigades, and they are not as good as Luo Cheng's Jingzhou army. He was able to defeat twice as many enemies as himself.

(End of chapter)