The Han River runs from northwest to southeast, and the Huaishui River flows from north to south, converging in Xiangyang. Cai Yang is sixty miles east of Xiangyang, and a small army can pass through in one day, but a large army needs three or four days to arrive.

Cao Cao brought 30,000 troops from Xuchang and another 3,000 or 4,000 to Wancheng. However, the soldiers brought from Wancheng were all deployed and used on the way south, and hundreds of thousands of people were released in the areas of Jianyang, Yuyang, and Xinye to prevent people from robbing the grain road. Cao Cao took the soldiers and horses he brought from Xuchang to surround Caiyang, but because of some damage on the battlefield, there were less than 30,000, only about 27,000.

It is still possible for more than 20,000 people to surround a Caiyang City, but there is still Liu Yuanjing's camp outside Caiyang City, and if you want to surround this camp together, it will not be enough. Li Jing and Liu Yuanjing also had more than 10,000 soldiers, although the number was small, but it was not overwhelming.

Therefore, Li Jing had no intention of guarding at all, and he would send Qin Qiong from time to time to attack the weak points of Cao Cao's defense. With Li Jing behind him, Qin Qiong retreated after the last battle, constantly consuming Cao Cao's troops.

Cao Cao was passive, and after the head-on confrontation, Guo Jia's strategy was basically useless. Guo Jia also designed several ambushes, but Qin Qiong didn't fall for it. Cheng Yu and Zhang Xiu were left in Xinye by Cao Cao, Cao Cao was also afraid that Zhang Yi would take a back road, if Zhang Yi really crossed the Han River from Xiangyang, Xinye would bear the brunt, and Cao Cao would inevitably leave a way back for himself.

Yu Ban, who was sent by Cao Cao to camp for Liu Yuanjing, relied on his very powerful arrangement of troops to block Liu Yuanjing's six or seven thousand people in the camp. Liu Yuanjing was questioned by Li Jing because of his previous unauthorized construction of Su Fei's death, so he didn't dare to leave the camp easily, for fear of causing any bad effects again.

After several days of back and forth between the two sides, the power to break the deadlock finally came from the west of the Han River. Gao Changgong and Wang Yanzhang rushed over from Xiangyang, and they also brought thousands of soldiers and horses.

As soon as he crossed the Han River, Cao Cao discovered the army of the two, and Cao Cao immediately sent Li Dian and Li Tong to lead 5,000 soldiers to stop it.

Li Dian and Li Tong are also relatively powerful generals in the Cao army, but compared with people like Gao Changgong and Wang Yanzhang, they are still a lot worse.

Li Dian and Li Tong led their troops to meet them, and just happened to collide with Gao Changgong and Wang Yanzhang, and an encounter began.

Wang Yanzhang looked at Gao Changgong and said, "Captain Gao, the enemy army is coming to stop it, and this battle is inevitable." The lieutenant can command the whole army in the back, and I will charge into battle. ”

Gao Changgong nodded, this is the highest official position, and Zhang Yi appointed him as the chief officer, before he handed over the army to Li Jing, he was responsible for everyone.

"Alright then!" Gao Changgong said: "The enemy army is only four or five thousand, which is quite elite, and the front will be handed over to me to resist, Brother Yanzhang will attack from the flank, crush the enemy army as soon as possible, and then we will hurry." I will send scouts to closely observe the movements of Cao's camp, and if any more enemy troops come over, we will retreat. ”

"Well, I'll keep an eye on your orders!" Wang Yanzhang nodded, and moved to the flank with a thousand people from his headquarters.

As soon as Wang Yanzhang left, Gao Changgong immediately waved his troops to attack Cao Bing! Li Dian and Li Tong had not finished the formation before they were impacted, and the two of them could only organize the formation with all their might.

Gao Changgong rushed up directly to attack, that is, relying on the elite of his soldiers, when the soldiers were trained, they had trained flexible military formations, whether they were familiar with people or not, they could complete most of the formations in the process of charging, and the remaining small part was left alone because of the problems of the troops.

That's it, it's still much stronger than Cao Jun, and Cao Jun is still chaotic.

Just when Li Dian and Li Tong were still busy, Wang Yanzhang came out from the flank and broke through the fragile flank of Cao Jun in one fell swoop. The Cao army, which had no military formation, was even more chaotic, and Li Dian and Li Tong were both swaying from side to side by the impact.

"Retreat!" The two glanced at each other and retreated helplessly.

On the retreating land, Li Tong shook his head and said: "I now want to know how Zhang Yi's soldiers are trained, I used to be still comfortable with Liu Bei, but in the face of an unknown person under Zhang Yi, I couldn't beat it at all, all of them were the role of these soldiers." ”

"Don't talk about you, even the lord is looking for these solutions. Although we also captured some of Zhang Yi's soldiers, the training methods we received were not complete. These lords can be understood, but we will still be punished for our defeat this time. Li Dian said.

"That can't be helped." Li Tong said helplessly.

After Li Dian and Li Tong returned, they were indeed punished by Cao Cao.

"Defeated in less than an hour? Five thousand! Five thousand! Defeated so easily? Cao Cao looked at the two people kneeling in front of him and asked loudly, "What are you doing?" ”

Li Dian replied: "Back to the lord, we met the enemy head-on during the march, and the enemy general was very decisive and launched an attack directly, the enemy rushed to the front of our army, and our army's formation was not yet aligned, and it was very chaotic under the impact. Then another enemy army entered the flank, and one of them was very brave and easily rushed into the formation. The two of us couldn't resist at all, so we had to retreat! ”

Cao Cao took a deep breath, he was now wondering how Zhang Yi had found so many fierce generals! There is a fierce general in Caiyang City, there is a fierce general on the reinforcement side, and there is also a fierce general in Runan......

Guo Jia came over and persuaded him: "Don't be impatient, the defeat of the two generals is reasonable, just punish them a little." ”

Cao Cao nodded, and then asked, "Fengxiao, do you have anything else to do?" Now Zhang Yi has six or seven thousand reinforcements, plus the people in Caiyang City, there are more than 20,000, which is about the same number as our army, and it is impossible to break Caiyang again. ”

Guo Jia asked with a smile: "Was it possible for the lord to break Cai Yang before?" ”

Cao Cao was stunned, yes! It was not possible to occupy Cai Yang before! The probability of a successful siege with a larger number of troops is too low, unless the equipment is tactically able to crush it. But Cao Cao, who is now being crushed, has an absolute advantage in terms of soldier quality and advanced equipment.

After figuring it out, Cao Cao laughed and said self-deprecatingly: "I'm in a hurry, since this is the case, let's withdraw our troops!" ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "It's right for the lord to think like this, but please also ask the lord to want to guard Nanyang's people, I don't think Zhang Yi will let Nanyang go so easily!" ”

"What about Yu Wen?" Cao Cao asked.

Guo Jia looked at Li Dian and Li Tong, "One person is short, and two are long, it is better to leave the two Li generals in Nanyang and guard them with General Yu." ”

Cao Cao nodded, "Yes!" ”