Li Yan has been in Wancheng for more than ten months, during which he persuaded Zhang Xiu to give up Wancheng, withdraw his troops to Wuyin, and guard the gateway to Runan. However, Zhang Xiu coveted the land of Wancheng and refused to agree. Li Yan saw that Zhang Xiu had no intention of returning east, so he simply stayed in Wancheng and waited for an opportunity to persuade again.

Zhang Xiu saw that Jia Xu couldn't help him protect Wancheng, so he simply went straight to find Li Yan.

Li Yan has been in Wancheng for a long time, and his mind is inevitably impatient, and he sends several sergeants to investigate and deliver letters every day, always counting the situation around Wancheng in his heart. However, a few days ago, I heard that Cao Cao was out of the army, and I thought that Zhang Xiu would not be able to stop him, and if he did not ask Yuan Yao for help, he would ask Liu Biao for help.

In the past two days, the sergeant has visited three times a day, and he has never seen an army coming north from Xiangyang.

When the fish entered, Li Yan saw Zhang Xiu hurrying in, and hurriedly got up to greet him, and said secretly happy in his heart.

"Mr. embroidery", Zhang Xiu Li Yan got up to greet him, without saying a word, bowed down and bowed deeply, and pleaded: "I also hope that Yao Gongzi can help embroider a hand, resist Cao Jun, and defend Wancheng."

"......", there was a cyan color hidden in Li Yan's eyebrows, obviously he didn't expect Zhang Xiu to give up, and couldn't help but persuade with a sad face: "General, Wancheng is ruined, and it can't be defended."

In the past month, Li Yan has discussed with Zhang Xiu several times about Shouwan, but every time he always breaks up.

When Li Yan and Yuan Yao were planning, they had already set the strategy of Wancheng, and the best policy should be to take Zhang Xiu's people for their own use, and order to retreat to Wuyin, and the two cities of Yang, so that Zhang Xiu could be ordered to ride from Wuyin, and come out of Yang, and attack Xiangcheng and Xuchang in the north. The retreat can be based on the two cities, with the danger of Jingshan to guard the gateway to the south of Runan.

If it is according to Zhang Xiu's words, send troops to help defend Wancheng, not to mention that many of Zhang Xiu's troops are not good at defending the city, they will inevitably rely on Yuan Yao's army, but the Runan army has been in army for less than a few months, even if the city is defended, it may not be the opponent of the elite Qingzhou battalion of the Cao army. Once Wancheng is broken, the Runan army will fall to death, and Zhang Xiu relies on fine cavalry, where will he go when the time comes, how can Yuan Yao be determined?

"Xiu is willing to send the dog to Huainan as a hostage, and I hope that Gongzi Yao will send troops to save me", Zhang Xiu knew that if he didn't pay some price, Yuan Yao would never take the risk of sending troops at this time, so he gritted his teeth and pleaded.

A few days ago, Yuan Shu sent an envoy to recruit Zhang Xiu, who only needed Zhang Xiu to send his son-in-law Zhang Quan to Shouchun as a hostage, and the money and food needed by the remnants of Xiliang in Wancheng could be supplied by Yuan Jun. Zhang Xiu was funded by Liu Biao at that time, so he never agreed, and now the situation in Wancheng is urgent, but he has to bring up the old things again.

"If this is the case, Gongzi will definitely send troops to help", Li Yan stared at him and hesitated for a moment before replying. If he can accept Zhang Xiu's son-in-law as a hostage, Zhang Xiu will never abandon his son-in-law and take refuge in others.

"Report to the general, Xiahou is leading the army to cross the river and march on the shallow winter water", a soldier hurried forward, hurriedly reported.

"The general led his troops to block the enemy from crossing the river, I immediately repaired the book and reported to the son, from the Wuyin trail to Runan, it will arrive in three days, as long as the general supports half a month, the reinforcements will definitely arrive in Wancheng", Li Yan heard that Cao Jun was already planning to attack Wancheng, and hurriedly suggested.

"Embroidery has thanked Yao Gongzi first", Zhang Xiu thanked him.

Zhang Xiu turned around and shouted, "Come on, beat the drum!" ”。

The sound of heavy drums echoed in Wancheng, and all the knights in the city immediately turned over and got on their horses when they heard the sound, the horse's hooves flew up, raising endless sand and dust, and three thousand Xiliang elite horsemen continued to pour into the school field.

There are now only more than 3,000 cavalry troops left in Xiliang, and every 100 people are a song, led by the military marquis; Every two songs have an army of Sima, all of whom are served by Xiaoguo knights, and then there are four front generals, all of whom have followed Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew for many years. And Hu Che'er is Zhang Xiu's personal guard, he has the strength of a thousand catties in his arms, and he can run into the fly, but he is a step general.

In the hunting wind, the horses neighed, and the three thousand iron horsemen were already standing in solemn suits, with a longbow hanging from their waists and a large spear in their hands.

Before the military formation, Zhang Xiu had put on the iron armor of the falling leaves, a red silk silk silk around the neck and tied the dark iron helmet firmly on his head, with a fierce battle intent in his eyes, and the iron cold spear was raised, Zhang Xiu shouted: "Xiliang Iron Cavalry"

"Break the formation! Break the formation! Break the formation! Break the formation! The three thousand iron horsemen raised their guns and responded in unison, and the shouts were so loud that they could be heard anywhere in Wancheng.

"Rush", Zhang Xiuhan waved his spear, and a horse was currently running outside the city, and the three thousand iron cavalry had been divided into four columns to follow.

In the water, the river is gentle, not yet knee-high, the elite Qingzhou battalion of the Cao army is slowly crossing in formation, a general in the formation is yellow-faced, it is Yu Ban, at this time is looking up to the Wancheng not far away, the ear seems to have heard, after looking at it for a while, he whispered to the main general Xiahoudun beside him: "General Xiahou, Zhang Xiu seems to be riding out."

Xiahou Chun, the general of the Cao Army, heard Yu Ban say, and shouted loudly: "The captains obey the order, strictly abide by the formation, and those who mess with the formation will be killed!" The sword and shield hand stepped forward and raised the shield to protect the array! ”

Cao Jun's Qingzhou camp was orderly and changing, although he waded through the water, the formation was not scattered, and he was almost on the south bank of the river at this moment.

"Draw the bow!" , Xiliang Iron Cavalry galloped out of Wancheng, galloped straight to the water, after more than ten breaths, less than 1,000 steps away from the front camp of the Cao Army, Zhang Xiu shouted, pulled the big bow full, and aimed at the front of the formation to reveal the Cao Jun Colonel from between the shields.

"Shoot", with a loud shout, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was like a rain of arrows in the formation, and rushed straight towards the front camp of the Cao army.

The Cao army's military formation was originally tight, but when the soldiers marched into the water, it was inevitable that some of their bodies were staggered, and when they raised their shields to block arrows, they unconsciously revealed many gaps.

The Xiliang cavalry is good at shooting, and the arm strength is strong, although the Cao army's front camp big shield is erected, blocking most of the arrows, but many arrows pass through the gaps in the shield, and shoot Cao soldiers again and again. And Zhang Xiu's arrow had been firmly nailed to the door of the Cao Jun school.

"Rush!" , Zhang Xiu saw that Cao's army had crossed to the south bank, and the formation of the front camp was slightly chaotic, revealing flaws, and shouted loudly with his gun raised. Behind him, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry collected their bows and grabbed them, accelerated with their whips, and rushed directly towards the front camp of the Cao army.

"Trespasser!" , Xiahou shouted angrily, urging the horse to walk quickly to the front camp, but seeing the panicked and scattered soldiers, he slashed down with a knife, and saw that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry had approached, and shouted urgently, "The front camp is in formation, the shield hand is in front, and the spearman is in the back!" ”

When the Xiliang Iron Cavalry rushed to the front, the front camp of the Cao army had hastily erected a barrier in front of the case, and Xiahou Chun had already led the elite troops to the back of the shield and pikemen.

"Together! Retreat, kill! Xiahou Chun immediately shouted at the shield men of the front camp with a horizontal knife, and his cronies stood behind the spearmen with a horizontal sword, both as a supervising team and as a second line of defense.

"Kill", Zhang Xiu was in front of the horse, Hu Che'er was holding two golden gourd hammers and galloping to the side, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry crashed into the shield array of Cao's front camp.

Zhang Xiu's big gun stabbed at several big shields again and again, and stabbed the big shield straight into a hole, and Cao Jun's shield behind the shield also revealed a bloody hole in his chest. And Hu Che'er's two gourd hammers seemed to have the strength of a thousand catties, and the shields smashed under one blow were all torn apart.

"The shield hand is replenished, and the retreat is killed!" , Xiahoudun saw that the situation was not good, Xiliang Tieqi did not go away, if it continued like this, he would return to the river, and he couldn't help shouting angrily.

The follow-up shield hand was made up one after another, but the spearman was unable to hold the shield hand because the first wave of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was too strong, and most of them had been stabbed to death by the Xiliang Iron Horse.

"Kill Zhang Xiu, everything will be self-extricating", Xiahou looked at Zhang Xiu who was rushing left and right in front of the second layer of shield array, his heart lit up slightly, Xiliang Iron Cavalry was dominated by Zhang Xiu, and there was no need to kill Zhang Xiu, only Zhang Xiu was injured, and the momentum of the Xiliang army charging into the formation was self-extricating.