Outside Bowang City, Xiahou Yuan and Xu Huang set up a camp with an army of 50,000.

Master and apprentice Shang watched in the city and saw that a camp was being built outside the city, so Master and Apprentice Shang directly gathered 5,000 men and horses, wanting to take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to give the enemy a dismount.

Master Shang led the army and rushed to the enemy camp outside the city.

Master Shang and his apprentices were soon discovered by Cao Jun's scouts when they left the city, and they rushed back to report: "The defenders of Bowang City have left the city and are coming to our army!" ”

Xiahou Yuan was the main general, and he said to Xu Huang: "Gongming, you continue to preside over the camp, and I will meet this master and apprentice!" ”

Xu Huang nodded, "General Miaocai, be careful!" ”

Xiahou Yuan gathered 3,000 cavalry and set off in the direction of Bowang City. Xu Huang looked at the direction Xiahou Yuan left, and knew in his heart why Xiahou Yuan was so busy, he had always wanted to avenge Xiahou Yuan in the past two years, and always wanted to kill Zhang Yi's generals. Because Cao Cao had not used troops before, Xiahou Yuan's idea had never had a chance to be realized. Now that Master Shang and apprentice have sent it to the door by themselves, how could Xiahou Yuan hold back?

In this way, Master Shang and Xiahou Yuan met between Bowang City and Cao Ying. The two of them let the soldiers line up, and Xiahou Yuan shouted to Master Shang and his apprentices: "The enemy will come out and die!" ”

Master Shang was surprised, is this going to be a heads-up? Master and apprentice Shang really have no fear of heads-up! He has always been known for his bravery, and most of the rules and regulations that he relied on to lead troops to fight in war, that is, the basic regulations in the "Strong Soldier Drill Code". Other than that, he doesn't have much time to show his abilities personally, because relying on these basic rules alone has allowed him to defeat many people.

Now that Xiahou Yuan actually wants to fight him alone, of course Master Shang will not disagree, he also wants to kill Cao Cao's general, so as to avenge Jiao Zan.

So Master Shang and his apprentice also came out of the battle on horseback, and said to Xiahou Yuan, "Who are you?" ”

"I am Peiguo Xiahou Yuan! Master and apprentice, dare to fight me to the death! "Xiahou Yuan directly invited to fight.

"Why don't you dare?" Master Shang and apprentice responded decisively.

So the two men rushed at each other, each with a spear, and rushed towards the other. The two of them hedged directly, but both dodged before they could be stabbed. After the second horse pedaled wrongly, the horse circled and rushed over again.

The two fought for six or seven rounds in a row, and Master Shang was the best at the end, and a spear stabbed Xiahou Yuan's lower abdomen. However, it was blocked by Xiahou Yuan's armor, and although Xiahou Yuan had a sharp pain in his stomach, he was not injured, but he was just angry. However, Xiahou Yuan could no longer fight for a short time, and returned directly to his own formation.

Master Shang turned back the horse's head and looked at Xiahou Yuan again, but found that Xiahou Yuan had already fled. Master Shang was a little angry, and mocked loudly: "Xiahou Yuan, you are nothing more than that!" ”

Xiahou Yuan returned to the formation and held his lower abdomen to calm his breath. At this time, when I heard the words of Master Shang and his apprentice, I couldn't help but feel angry, and after waiting for half a cup of tea, my lower abdomen felt better. Master Shang and apprentice were still chattering over there, and the more Xiahou Yuan listened, the more angry he became, and he immediately waved his spear and ordered loudly: "Charge!" Kill Master Shang and apprentice! ”

The three thousand cavalry led by Xiahou Yuan immediately launched a charge and rushed towards the infantry of Master Shang's apprentice.

Master Shang saw that Xiahou Yuan couldn't beat him, and even looked for a helper, so he couldn't help but sneer: "You are just these two times." ”

As he spoke, Master Shang waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him immediately stepped forward and formed a military formation. The shield-bearer is in front, the spearman is second, and the crossbowman is last.

Xiahou Yuan rushed to the army formation of Master Shang with his cavalry, but before he could rush over, he was attacked by the crossbowmen, and thousands of arrows directly shot down the cavalry lineup, nearly a hundred cavalry were shot, and dozens of people fell off their horses.

Xiahou Yuan faced another wave of arrows and rushed in front of Master Shang's army formation, directly impacting Master Shang's army.

However, Master Shang and his apprentice were not nervous at all, although the cavalry restrained the infantry, it was because of the speed of the cavalry, if the infantry did not have time to react when attacking, the infantry would be disturbed by the cavalry. Without a military formation, the infantry could only be pursued and killed in the face of cavalry back and forth. But once the infantry army has formed a military formation, the cavalry wants to force the attack, and the losses will inevitably be very large.

You must know that the cavalry of the Central Plains Dynasty has not always been strong, so the Central Plains Dynasty has a lot of weapons to deal with cavalry, one of which is called a three-zhang spear, that is, a spear that is three zhang long. At this time, the three zhang is more than six meters, and such a long spear supports the military formation, what will happen if the cavalry rushes up? It will definitely be worn directly on it! As long as the people in front of the military formation do not dodge, the cavalry wants to attack such a military formation, which is basically looking for death.

How could the soldiers under Master Shang's command dodge? Therefore, many of Xiahou Yuan's cavalry were directly worn on the military formation. There is a spear in front and a bow and crossbow in the back, Xiahou Yuan didn't bargain at all, but it was miserable!

Seeing this situation, Xiahou Yuan immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops. There were only more than 2,300 cavalry withdrawn, and in the wave of attacks just now, Xiahou Yuan counted more than 600 people.

Seeing such a large number of casualties, Xiahou Yuan couldn't help it. He finally knew that he was arrogant before, and after calming down, Xiahou Yuan was no longer thinking about killing Master Shang, but thinking about delaying Master Shang so that Xu Huang could finish the camp smoothly.

Xiahou Yuan began to shoot arrows with the cavalry around the military formation of Master Shang and apprentices, and Master Shang was afraid that Xiahou Yuan would rush over again, so he never let the soldiers separate the general formation, and only let the crossbowmen return fire. The two were in a stalemate like this, until in the evening, when Xiahou Yuan's cavalry ran out of arrows, and then retreated!

Master Shang and his apprentices also cleaned up the battlefield, and then withdrew their troops and returned to Bowang City.

In this battle, the corporal under the command of Master Shang suffered about 1,000 casualties and nearly 100 deaths. However, the results of the battle were remarkable, killing six or seven hundred enemy soldiers and wounding countless others. He also captured 400 horses, more than 200 wounded horses, more than 600 spears, and more than 400 bows.

This battle can be regarded as a big victory, but Master Shang is not very happy, because he is in a passive state most of the time today. So he wrote a letter to Li Jing to Wancheng and reported the situation. He only had 20,000 people in Bowang, and Xiahou Yuan did bring 50,000, if he had been in a passive state, it was impossible to retreat from the enemy, so he could only ask for help from the rear.

When Li Jing received the letter from Master Shang's apprentice, Zhang Yi had already arrived in Wancheng, and Li Jing showed it to Zhang Yi after reading the letter.

After Zhang Yi saw it, he said with a smile: "Let Gao Changgong go over and take a look!" Without cavalry, Cao Cao would definitely be very passive. ”