Since Xue Rengui crossed the river, he began to gather a large army by the river, and then rushed to Liyang.

Although Liyang Caoren had many soldiers, he cut down all the surrounding trees.

But Xue Rengui had already prepared, and this time he brought not only 50,000 troops, but also new weapons made in various workshops.

Xue Rengui brought hundreds of carriages, which were equipped with new ballistas. The ballista was larger than the one installed on the ship, and had a wooden plank in front to shield the arrows. Each ballista had to pull the arrows in a carriage, and the arrows were placed in an arrow box, and the arrows were easily loaded.

At first, Cao Ren didn't understand what the situation was, so he sent people to attack these ballista carts. But at the time of two hundred paces, these ballistas began to start, one arrow after another, without stopping at all, each one was a zhang long, each ballista shot twenty arrows in one go, and hundreds of ballistas shot ten thousand crossbow arrows in twenty breaths.

Cao Jun suddenly suffered such a blow and immediately collapsed. Only then did Cao Ren know that the enemy's strong crossbow could be fired in bursts.

Yes, it's a repeating ballista. This is a new invention after Zhuge Liang's crossbow, a crossbow cart that shoots twenty rounds in a row. As soon as this invention came out, Zhuge Liang was directly made a townsman.

You must know that these generals on the front line are at most township marquis, and among the generals, Di Qing has the highest title, but he is only a county marquis. It can be seen how much Zhang Yi attaches great importance to Zhuge Liang's invention, and he wants to encourage people to pay attention to scientific inventions, after all, science and technology are the primary productive forces.

Although Qubei and the others were also afraid of the ballista, they thought that as long as they were mixed with Zhang Yijun, their ballista would not be able to play.

Cao Ren didn't attach much importance to this opinion, it wasn't that he couldn't think of it, but he didn't dare to fight Xue Rengui in the field. Although his soldiers are veterans, they have not experienced war after all. And Xue Rengui's soldiers, that is very elite, five years ago he had been taught, the tiger and leopard cavalry is such a powerful army, if it is extinguished, it will be destroyed, and he does not have a stronger army than the tiger and leopard cavalry.

But Qubei and others are not very convinced, and the nomads themselves are also competitive. Xue Rengui was named the god of arrows by the Qiang people, and the Huns were quite unhappy, the title of the god of arrows should of course be used to describe the Hun warriors, and the Han people were just relying on good equipment.

So these nomadic cavalry did not listen to Cao Ren's orders and directly challenged Xue Rengui. As long as they defeat Xue Rengui, they can suppress the Qiang people, and they will have the upper hand in the next battle for territory.

So outside Liyang City, the two sides began to fight. Xue Rengui made Ma Chao hidden, the first two days were completely closed and fighting, and on the third day, Xue Rengui led the cavalry to attack the place where he was humiliated as soon as the battle began.

Many teams came to block, but many of Xue Rengui's commands were equipped with repeating crossbows, and at close range, the nomadic cavalry could not resist the power of the repeating crossbows at all, and they would shoot down a wave when they came.

To humble himself to see this, he can only scold the Han people for being cunning.

But Xue Rengui had already rushed to his front, and if he dodged, he could only cause chaos in the whole army. So he rushed forward hard, wanting to repel Xue Rengui, but was stabbed off his horse by Xue Rengui with a spear, and he couldn't die anymore.

As soon as he died, the morale of the nomadic cavalry plummeted, and Xue Rengui immediately sprinted left and right in it.

At this time, Ma Chao also killed from the flanks, constantly picking up the weak points and rushing in, then killing out, and then rushing in and out.

Two hours later, the war was over, and the ground was full of corpses, human corpses, horse corpses, broken spears and broken bows, and the horses without their masters were neighing, and on both sides of the battlefield were the camps of the two sides.

Outside Cao Ying, Ma Chao galloped wildly, constantly challenging inside.

Ma Chao's hatred for Cao Ying was too deep, Cao Cao used a strategy to kill his whole family, and he wanted to kill Cao Cao. But Cao Cao didn't wait for him to kill, and he died. Then he will kill Yecheng and kill his whole family.

Xue Rengui looked at Ma Chao like this, and he didn't stop him, he had a good relationship with Ma Chao, so he naturally knew the hatred in Ma Chao's heart. Cao Cao did some things that were not authentic, and it was nothing for Ma Chao to vent.

Xue Rengui asked people to clean up the battlefield and collect the spoils of war. In this battle, more than 10,000 enemies were killed, more than 20,000 horses were obtained, and spears, bows and arrows were not counted.

Their own casualties were not very large, only more than 1,000 people died, most of them died at the beginning of the charge. These people were not old cavalrymen, but were recruited first.

During these five years, Zhang Yi used Zhai Changsun to train Xuanjia cavalry, and also trained many ordinary cavalry. Most of these cavalrymen were recruited from the Qiang people, and as long as they were trained a little, they were a good cavalry.

Although the Qiang people refused to be a soldier, Zhang Yi was not compulsory, but voluntary, and still got more than 10,000. Coupled with the Han people who lived with the Qiang people and the poor families in the four prefectures of Henan, Yan, Xu, and Qing, Zhang Yi finally recruited more than 40,000 people.

Except for some who can't ride horses, all of them can ride horses.

More than 40,000 cavalry lasted five years, some of them became the most elite Xuanjia cavalry, and some of them became archers.

These cavalry allowed Zhang Yi to equip almost all the war horses he had gotten, and then to train the cavalry, he could only board for a few years.

This cavalry battle allowed Zhang Yi to establish a cavalry advantage, and also allowed Zhang Yi to establish all the advantages. Now, Zhang Yi has an all-round advantage in infantry, cavalry, bows and crossbows, or a naval army, and he only needs to eliminate the advantage of Cao's army before he can fully occupy Hebei.

Cao Ren looked outside the camp and his face became gloomy. This is not enough to achieve more than defeat, and honest defense will not be good soon? After seeing that Zhang Yijun's bow and crossbow were powerful, he dared to attack, isn't this looking for death?

In order to prevent Xue Rengui from building more siege equipment, he had already cut down all the trees within a radius of more than ten miles. The strategy he had stubbornly held in Liyang was destroyed by him at once.

With 30,000 less nomadic cavalry, Xue Rengui's troops would not have to be much less, and he could attack the city with confidence.

The entire Liyang City cost Wei County five years of taxes, raising the city and digging a deep moat, in order to defend. To go to the humble but to attack, this pig brain.

As Cao Ren expected, Xue Rengui took advantage of the great victory and began to attack the city.

There weren't too many stones around Liyang, so Xue Rengui burned branches to weave cages and put dirt on them, and the effect of smashing them out was even better than stones.

Ma Chao led the cavalry to cruise north of Liyang every day, specifically cutting off grain and grass. For more than ten days, the grain transport team from Yecheng was crushed by Ma Chao, and successfully plundered nearly one million grains.

There is also a lot of food hidden in Liyang City, but no amount of food can withstand the consumption of tens of thousands of troops, and the number of thousands of Hu is decreasing every day.