The tenth round: Avoid the ban and attack halfway

Yu Ban began to think of a way to cross the river, but he could not withdraw his troops directly, but sent Sun Li back to Huai County to collect boats, and even to the east.

Yu Ban did not attack the city in Wen County, but rested outside Wen County, and after Sun Li got the boat, he quickly withdrew to Huai County and crossed the river to Luoyang.

How could Sun Li lead his troops away to hide from Wei Rui, Wei Rui saw Yu Ban dividing his troops out, and knew Yu Ban's plan, so he secretly sent people along the river to find Yu Ban's crossing point.

Wei Rui said to these people, don't alarm the forbidden people, just confirm it.

After resting in Wen County for more than ten days, Yu Ban finally received Sun Li's report, and the ship was almost done.

Yu Ban acted at this time, but he did not retreat directly, but chose to confuse Wei Rui.

Yu Ban began to attack the city again, which was beyond Wei Rui's expectations. However, Wei Rui soon discovered Yu Ban's thoughts, this is first raised and then suppressed!

After Wei Rui figured it out, he knew how to cooperate with the ban on acting, and he made the soldiers defending the city more courageous, bringing greater casualties to Cao Wei's soldiers and horses.

After Yu Ban attacked for a day, he stopped attacking, the casualties were too great, and he was afraid that he would rest in vain for more than ten days.

On the second day, Yu Ban withdrew his troops. At first, he withdrew slowly, wanting to see if Wei Rui would chase after him. As a result, Wei Rui was still nested in Wen County, not moving at all, and only sent some scouts to check the location of Yu Ban. Yu Ban sent people to intercept and kill these scouts, and accelerated his evacuation to Huaixian.

Yu Ban's speed was fast, Wei Rui's side also began to prepare, he first let the boat ferry cavalry cross the river, to the south bank to march, and then he himself led the fleet down the river, to the forbidden place to cross the river five miles away to hide.

When Yu Ban arrived in Huai County, he immediately asked the soldiers to step up his efforts to cross the river, and then sent people to constantly see the direction of Wen County to prevent Wei Rui from chasing him.

After an hour of forbidden crossing the river, he saw Wei Rui's scout, which made him feel a little at ease. But in less than half an hour, he heard the thunder on the south bank, and Yu Ban immediately ran to the river in surprise and threw his sword on the ground angrily.

Naturally, there will be no thunder on the south bank, it is Wei Rui's cavalry.

Yu Ban had already sent nearly 10,000 soldiers to the south bank in an hour and a half, because without good generals, they could not camp at all. Now it is being attacked by cavalry, and the result can be imagined.

As expected by Yu Ban, after Wei Rui's cavalry rushed over, he immediately routed the soldiers on the south bank. Even if Yu Ban let the three thousand veterans take the lead just in case, he still did not withstand the impact of Wei Rui's cavalry.

There were so many recruits that they were not trained in cavalry shock at all. In addition, the previous casualties were too large, and many people were afraid of Zhang Yi's soldiers, and many people dispersed in a hurry as soon as they came into contact.

The cavalry scattered the soldiers on the south bank, followed by a one-sided massacre, which pursued for more than ten miles, and dispersed everyone.

The purpose of this battle was not to kill people, but to intimidate these soldiers and make them flee far away, so as to reduce the number of soldiers under the ban as much as possible.

Yu Ban watched the soldiers being defeated on the north bank, so he could only temporarily retreat to Huai County to rest. The scene just now was too demoralizing, and this river crossing point had already been known to Wei Rui, so it was necessary to choose another river crossing point.

When Wei Rui saw Yu Ban withdrawing his troops, he temporarily stationed troops in Chenggao on the south bank to inquire about Yu Ban's movements at any time.

Yu Ban rested in Huai County for five or six days and re-found a place to cross the river. In order to avoid the situation of the last time, he handed over the army to Sun Li, and he took 3,000 veterans to the opposite bank, quickly set up camp, and then let the rest of the army continue to cross the river.

Wei Rui had long been watching Yu Ban's every move, and after Yu Ban crossed the river, he let the cavalry cross the river to the north bank, and after Yu Ban camped on the south bank, he completed the assembly of the cavalry.

As soon as the order to cross the river almost arrived, the cavalry began to approach the crossing point.

Sun Li is a general newly promoted by Cao Pi, and he is still very young. Although there is a spirit of not admitting defeat, there is not much experience.

It was the first time he commanded 30,000 men, and he was very inadequate, and the team crossing the river was somewhat chaotic. Sun Li saw that the team was in chaos, so he took his own soldiers over and personally went to the river to command, which made the situation much better.

In half an hour, Sun Li sent more than 3,000 people to the other side of the river, and just as he wanted to transport some grain and grass over, he heard a rumbling sound.

Sun Li remembered this sound very well, and a few days earlier, shortly after this sound, Wei Rui's cavalry appeared. Now the voice came again, and so close, it must have come for itself.

Sun Li hurriedly shouted: "Everyone stop, quickly form a formation!" Formation! Pull the car to the front and form a formation! ”

Sun Li's words had a lot of effects, and many people really formed a military formation quickly. But these are veterans and very experienced.

Although those recruits also knew that they were enemy cavalry, they were more still panicked, and they had long forgotten where they were standing. You pushed me and bumped into it, and it was a mess.

The cavalry began to charge, rushing directly into the chaotic formation of recruits, many of whom fled in fright, not wanting to be killed like their comrades on the other side.

Escaping is contagious, because the officers did not stop it in time, and many people managed to run away. Some of the recruits were afraid of military law, but when they saw that nothing happened to those who had escaped, they immediately followed. Some people want to run from a distance, while others run towards their own military formation, thinking that as long as they can enter the military formation that has already been arranged, they will be able to worry about everything.

Seeing that the recruits wanted to attack the military formation, Sun Li immediately ordered: "Those who dare to attack the military formation will be killed!" ”

Sun Li's order was quite fast, and after killing some people, he was able to deter these recruits and keep the current military formation.

But the recruits outside the military formation basically couldn't be saved, and they were attacked back and forth by the cavalry several times, and they either died or fled.

After the cavalry withdrew, Sun Li counted the soldiers and horses, and only a few more than 10,000 remained, and nearly 20,000 others were either killed or fled.

Sun Li looked at these troops and wanted to cry without tears, this was a big defeat, enough to cut off his head.

After seeing the soldiers on the north bank being attacked, Yu Ban also crossed the river to the north. But in the middle of the river, he was stopped by more than twenty boats.

These were Wei Rui's subordinates, and when they saw Yu Ban like a big official, they wanted to arrest him. Fortunately, the ban was brave and good, so he rushed out of the interception. But he was also re-intercepted back to the south bank, and could only watch as the soldiers on the north bank were driven out little by little.

After the cavalry retreated, Sun Li had no choice but to suspend the crossing of the river and retreat to Huaixian again. And Yu Ban didn't dare to stay on the other side of the river anymore, and immediately retreated to the east.