Queen Guo came back to Yecheng with a letter for a few days, and when she went back, even Yuan Xi came to deliver it. It would be good for this woman to bring Cao Pi's tragic situation back to Yecheng, which could increase the sense of urgency over there.

However, Cao Cao's army still responded. It had just entered winter and the weather was a little colder, and Zhang Liao's troops were found on the outskirts of Nanpi City.

It seemed that it was only the vanguard, but when they got to the place where they could see the city, they walked around and went back. However, the word "Zhang" on the banner still gave Nanpi an unobstructed view.

The next day, Zhang Liao's large army arrived from the south, and within the field of vision, there were only a small part, and small black dots extended out, and I don't know how many people came.

Yuan Xi took a closer look at the city, and his henchmen were also there, and everyone nodded and said, "It seems that Cao Jun's side still has to fight Nanpi first." ”

There is nothing to say about this, if Nanpi's position is in Cao Cao's hands, then it will not matter at all. But in Yuan Xi's hands, it is equivalent to a large part of the junction of Youzhou, which is vulnerable to attack no matter what, and it is a strategic location.

It's just that sending Zhang Liao's troops from the plains to attack is a bit contemptuous......

Zhang Liao's troops immediately settled outside the city, and after a day's rest, they came to the city the next day to scold the battle.

Yuan Xi's group was still at the head of the city, looking at each other's loud voices roaring, and they could hear it clearly at the head of the city. The content of the scolding is also vulgar and easy to understand, but its connotation is still limited to the culture of this era, so to Yuan Xi's ears, it is regarded as watching a play. Tian Chou and the others beside him were also relatively calm. However, a few generals of the People's Army, such as Xu Dayan, are more popular.

Scolding warfare is psychological warfare, and it can be of limited use. However, as far as the defender of the city is concerned, the only way to take is to defend the city and go out of the city to fight in the field. There are large wheat fields outside the city of Nanpi, and if they are allowed to be attacked by the other side, it is naturally impossible to spoil the fields and crops. But now that it is winter, the fields outside the city are empty, and the only farmers have been evacuated into the city.

After a siege battle, the damage is even greater. Therefore, Zhang Liao asked people to come out to scold and provoke, but also to attract Yuan Xi out.

Who knew that Yuan Xi was unmoved now, and only threw down a sentence: "Go to bed first." Then he returned to Fuchu. made his staff stunned one by one.

Zhang Liao naturally will not rashly come up to attack the city, in this period of the Three Kingdoms, all kinds of siege equipment are really not powerful, and the siege is actually a pile of human lives. However, during the Three Kingdoms period, human life was the most important, and without more than ten years, there would not be many soldiers and horses accumulated at all. Cao Cao's old book was exhausted in the first battle of Chibi, and he was unable to help Sun Quan in Jiangdong until his death. There was no way, during this period, the agricultural productivity was not good, and the plague and locust plague were raging, and the population plummeted by seven or eight percent in the Western Jin Dynasty, which directly affected the rule of the Han people in the Central Plains.

Therefore, Yuan Xi expected that Zhang Liao would not be able to defeat Nanpi, and he was unwilling to pay attention to him at all.

Xu Dayan is a relatively anxious person, he should have been the battalion commander because he violated military regulations several times before, and later he was demoted to a company commander, and he didn't give preferential treatment at all because he was Yuan Xi's sworn friend. Later, it took a long time to be promoted back to battalion commander, but during this period, many of his former subordinates were already older than him. This is all thanks to the expansion of the people's army. After developing in Youzhou for three or four years, the reputation of the People's Army is still good, and many young people in Youzhou have been absorbed into the People's Army barracks. Under the hard training, coupled with the actual combat to clear the bandits on the border of Youzhou, and the survival of the fittest, this army has gradually grown, and now it has grown to 20,000 people, of which more than 90 people were brought out from the Xiandeng camp at the beginning, as long as they did not make any mistakes, they were basically high-ranking generals.

Xu Dayan is often teased, and when everyone meets, as long as Xu Dayan is present, they always have to exchange each other's military ranks, which makes him disgraced. The bandits in Youzhou were all changed careers by them, and they couldn't squeeze out any oil and water in their military merits, Xu Dayan saw that he couldn't rise, and finally Zhang Liao called, and Yuan Xi also urgently transferred his troops, which made him suddenly hopeful.

Who knew that it was such a tepid situation?

Xu Dayan hurriedly caught up with Yuan Xi at the head of the city, and took the initiative to ask him for his life, saying: "It's not always a way for them to provoke like this, they have to send people up to kill and kill, otherwise the army's heart will be floating." ”

Yuan Xi said: "Zhang Liao has been going north all the way, and now his morale is booming. We call this avoiding its edge. ”

Xu Dayan has also learned a lot of military knowledge this year, and he has been mixing for a lot of time with the senior generals' seminar, and he has also said a set, just listening to him: "Just because their morale is high, we have to pour cold water on them to cool them down." The first battle is particularly important, and it's off to a good start. ”

Yuan Xi said: "Hmm...... You have a point, who do you think is appropriate? ”

Xu Dayan patted his chest and said, "Of course it's the last general." ”

Yuan Xi thought for a while and said, "Can you do it?" It's not that I don't believe you, big eyes, it's just that Zhang Liao is also a famous general, and he has the role of Megatron Xiaoyaojin...... Ahem...... I mean, my brother folded it in his hand too, so be careful. ”

Xu Dayan suddenly became anxious, and said: "I set up a military order, and if I lose, I will deal with it casually." ”

Yuan Xi was embarrassed: "Since you said so......"

Zhang Liao's troops scolded and scolded for half an hour, and when they saw that there was no response in the city, the troops of several hundred people were replaced. Tian Chou and the others patiently observed the city for a long time, and came to the same conclusion, let's go back to sleep and recuperate. So they also came down.

Who knew that at this time, he saw Xu Dayan going to the city gate with a happy smile on his face, and gathered all his troops. Then they were all puzzled. Just now Yuan Xi said that he would not send people, why is he going to take the initiative again at this time.

After a while, the sound of drums sounded at the head of the city, and as soon as the soldiers on both sides heard the drums, their spirits immediately perked up, and the nerves that had been numbed by the boring scolding battle were also suddenly excited.

The city gate opened, and Xu Dayan led his reinforced battalion of about 500 people to appear in the open space in front of the city.

"Who is Zhang Liao? Come and die! ”

Xu Dayan stood at the front of the team and shouted arrogantly to the people opposite.

Three partial generals with troops immediately ran out of the team that scolded the battle. They were about to return to the camp, but they had been fighting for an afternoon without gain, and they were also in their calculations. It's just that I didn't expect the other party to send someone to challenge them at this time when they were tired.

Seeing that the person who called out for the battle was a stunned young man, the three of them also stepped forward and said, "Who is coming?" ”

Xu yelled: "Kill everyone!" ”

The hundreds of soldiers who scolded the war couldn't help but be stunned, this is too unsophisticated, and they rushed over to fight without saying anything? According to the rules, shouldn't it be the main general who has made the move first?

But it was too late, and in the blink of an eye, Xu Dayan had already led people to kill him in full view of the guards at the head of the city. These people still wanted to lead people to resist, but they found that the other party actually came straight towards the three of them, how arrogant is this?

One of the three people stepped forward, what kind of combat effectiveness Yuan Jun had, he had already seen it when he was in the plains, and seeing that Hebei was about to be pacified, this person was also in a hurry to make meritorious contributions. He was riding a horse, while Xu Dayan was walking with a knife, and he seemed to be a leading general, and his head should be valuable.

But he didn't expect that when Xu Dayan was about to approach, he rolled on the spot and cut off the horse's legs. The trick of cutting off the horse's leg is one of the effective tricks for dealing with cavalry summed up in the people's army's actual combat teaching class, and the corresponding manual has long been distributed and popularized as a textbook for individual combat. For the officers and men of the common army, it is just a part of daily training. But for Cao Jun, it can really be regarded as an obscene trick.

Cao Jun, who was bent on making meritorious contributions, was caught off guard, his mount was in pain, and he knelt forward, and he was also shaken off his horse, and then Xu Dayan's knife was accurately wiped on his neck, and his eyes were dark, and he lost consciousness.