Zang Ba's original intention was to seek stability, hold on, and wait for backup to come, he knew that his 13th and 14th divisions were only the first batch of national defense forces to enter Dongping County and Lu County, and there were still large groups of people behind him.

Xu Huang has made great preparations in Qingzhou in the past two years, and he has already made a grand strategy with Zhao Yun in Xuzhou to destroy the Wei State, and has been approved by Lu Bu.

Lu Bu also felt that it was urgent to recover the Wei State, and he could not delay it any longer.

But how can Lu Kang and Gao Qi be worry-free? They passed through the scouts, always paying attention to the Wei army's every move, and soon captured a good fighter.

After Cao Zhang entered the territory of Dongping County, although he was worried about the decisive battle with the main force of the Han army, Zang Ba blindly sought stability, and the troops of the three brigades held on to the same place respectively, and did not fight with him in the field, so naturally he did not give his tiger and leopard cavalry a chance to play.

Cao Zhang had no choice but to gnaw through the county towns one by one, and he was now attacking Shouzhang County, which was held by the 38th Brigade.

There are 20,000 state troops fighting with his Tiger Army, so you can't let the Tiger Army do anything!

Siege warfare is suitable for state troops and musket infantry, and 10,000 tigers and leopards are temporarily useless.

With so many war horses, the amount of forage needed every day is also a huge number.

Cao Zhang is not a good person, he saw that there were large crops outside Shouzhang City that had not yet had time to be harvested, so he let the tiger and leopard ride to the farmland to graze horses, anyway, now this is an enemy country, no need to worry about the military discipline of the Wei army.

This is the fighter plane captured by Lü Kang and Gao Qi, they sent a thousand men to ride on war horses, and many of the infantry units of the Han army were mobile on horseback.

They disguised the 1,000 men as cavalry, attacked the tiger and leopard horsemen who were grazing horses in the farmland, killed some Wei troops and war horses, and stole 2,000 war horses.

Then it swaggered back in the direction of the saltless, leaving obvious traces along the way.

Cao Zhang, who got the news, was naturally furious, a thousand light horsemen dared to sneak attack the tiger and leopard horsemen, and the soldiers could not be killed!

Such a record is a great shame for Cao Zhang, and immediately he personally led 7,000 tigers and leopards with war horses to ride, chased down behind, vowed to recapture the robbed war horses, kill the Han army, and he left Cao Xiu to continue to command the army to attack the city.

Cao Zhang, who was carried away by anger, was easily put into the pocket that had already been prepared by Lu Kang and Gao Qi.

Seven thousand tiger and leopard horsemen were ambushed by the Han army in the suburbs of Wuyan, which had already dug trenches on the plain and waited for the arrival of the Wei army.

Lü Kang even came up with a vicious idea, the reason why Cao Zhang was so reckless and surrounded by the Han army was because he felt that on this plain, the Han army had no good way to deal with his tiger and leopard horse.

You can go when you want, and you can fight when you want, so uncomfortable.

And Lu Kang's idea was to secretly store water in the upper reaches of Wenshui, and wait until the tiger and leopard rode into the ambush circle, and then dig and release the water.

The water is not large, but it is enough to turn the plain into a Zeguo, unable to maneuver quickly, and the tiger and leopard riders struggling in the mud have become the best targets, although the Han army is still a flintlock gun, but it has been converted into rifled guns.

The range and hit rate are greatly improved compared to the smoothbore gun, and the Wei army's tiger and leopard cavalry is still a standard heavy armored cavalry, and there are no firearms, only a few grenades on the body are considered firearms.

Moreover, the heavy armor made the mobility of the tiger and leopard rider significantly reduced, struggling in the mud.

Although the heavy armor could effectively reduce the damage of muskets, the Han army also had mortars to help, so the tiger and leopard cavalry was quickly reduced by more than half.

In the end, only 2,000 tigers and leopards escaped from the encirclement by stepping on the corpses of the robes, Cao Zhang was lucky to survive, but there were 5,000 Wei tigers and leopards riding here, and there were only 37 brigades and one brigade of Han troops surrounding them.

Zang Ba couldn't delve into the disobedience of the two of them, after all, they won the battle, and they also created a good record of winning more with less, and fighting cavalry with infantry.

Xu Huang also received the good news from Zang Ba, and at the same time, after the Wei army in the direction of Dongping County suffered a heavy blow, Cao Zhang led the remaining 5,000 tigers and leopards to ride, 20,000 infantry and 20,000 state troops to shrink into one road, and he was not in a hurry to attack, but turned to Lu County, intending to join the army of Xiahoudun on the other road.

Xu Huang had also entered Lu County with the second echelon at this time, including the 18th Division of the National Defense Army, which was a newly established infantry division not long ago, and the division commander was Zhang Wei, and Xu Huang took them to brush up on experience.

There are also the 9th Cavalry Division, the 8th Division, and the 11th Cavalry Division, plus the two divisions that entered in advance, and the Han army of six divisions is enough to deal with these Tiger Army.

The two sides staged an offensive and defensive battle in Lu County, and the Han army first showed the enemy weakness and adopted a defensive posture to attract the attack of the Tiger Ben army.

The Tiger Army was also equipped with thirty guns with artillery carriages, and it was finally able to maneuver.

The two sides started a tug-of-war around Lu County, and Xu Huang consciously wanted to attract the attack of the Tiger Ben Army here, and use defense to consume the living force of the Tiger Ben Army, waiting for the best time to counterattack.

The Huben army learned the siege mode of the Han army to the fullest, with artillery cover, infantry digging trenches close to the city walls, and then establishing offensive starting positions.

Although their artillery performance was somewhat inferior, they had a range of 350 zhang.

Moreover, bayonets also appeared on the muskets of the Tiger Army, and hand-to-hand combat could be compared with the Han army.

Xiahoudun came to Lu County and Dongping County with 100,000 tiger troops and 50,000 state troops this time, and Cao Pi also knew that this tiger army would only fight less and less, and the national strength of Wei could no longer maintain such a large army.

Therefore, while the Tiger Ben Army still has the strength to fight, let them recover Lu County and Dongping County and make more contributions.

It's a pity that the gap between Han and Wei is getting bigger and bigger, and now the regular army of any national defense force can fight to the death with the most elite tiger army of Wei, and it is no longer necessary to restrain it from the elite to the elite.

When tens of thousands of Wei troops died in the city of Luxian, Xiahoudun couldn't bear it, so he had to order the withdrawal of the army in order to preserve the last seeds.

Although the Han army also had nearly 10,000 casualties, it was full of fighting spirit, and when they saw Xiahoudun withdrawing his troops, they attacked one after another and pursued dozens of miles behind him.

The battle between Dongping County and Dong County came to an end for the time being, but Zhao Yun of Xuzhou picked up the rhythm, and he led his army to attack Xiapi County and Pengcheng County, and also dispatched the 6th Division, 7th Division, 7th Cavalry Division and the newly formed 12th Cavalry Division.

The county guards of the two counties sent letters to Cao Pi asking for help, hoping that the imperial court would send reinforcements as soon as possible, but Cao Pi had no choice but to send the tiger army that had just returned to Qian County to Xiapi.

At the same time, he also sent a request for help to his ally Wu Guo, hoping that Wu Guo would send troops to help him.

(End of chapter)