It's not that Liu Yi doesn't want to fight with Cao's army, but there is no need to make senseless sacrifices.

Not long after Liu Yi led his army back to the barracks, Cao's army was ready to attack.

There was a clang of bowstrings, and with a whine, countless long and powerful arrows flew towards the barracks of the New Han Army first.

This is Cao Jun's crossbow and bow.

This kind of strong arrow that is not fired by manpower is basically fixed in the direction and at a certain distance, so when they release arrows together with dozens or hundreds of crossbows and oxbows, they are indeed no weaker than when the bows and arrows of the New Han Army were in array. Even, its longer range and more powerful.

The weather has been pretty good these days, and the ground is quite dry, so when the rain-like arrows shoot down strongly, they stir up patches of dust on the ground, and the first strong arrow falls and brings up a piece of dust.

A powerful arrow, landing with a sound and a small vibration. It is estimated that even the most sophisticated infantry heavy armor of the New Han Army may not be able to block the impact of this kind of bow and arrow, and even some thick wooden shields may not be able to block this kind of strong arrow that breaks through the sky.

However, fortunately, Liu Yi and other generals of the New Han Army had already mastered the characteristics of Cao Jun's crossbow and ox bow, which could throw bows and arrows. Liu Yi had been calculating the distance between the crossbow and the oxbow of the Cao army, and after withdrawing into the camp, he directly ordered his soldiers to withdraw to the strike distance of this weapon far away from the Cao army, and the army withdrew to the second half of the camp, and kept retreating from the back of the camp to the mountain behind it. Therefore, the strong arrows radiated by the Cao army seemed to have great killing power, but they all fell in the first half of the camp of the New Han Army. Fall in the air.

However, countless camp tents that were not dismantled and taken away were shot into a hornet's nest by Cao Jun's strong bow at this moment. The ground was full of long arrows shot by Cao Jun and stuck in the ground.

At this time, he was looking at Cao Junqiang's arrows from a distance behind. Liu Yi's heart was also a little awe-inspiring. Thinking of fighting with the Cao army, if such a powerful bow of theirs really fell on the officers of their New Han Army, it would definitely bring considerable casualties to their own soldiers. Fortunately, Cao Jun's crossbow and oxbow had only been developed for a short time, and it was not produced in large quantities to equip it in various cities. Fortunately, now that the Cao army has been compressed back into a small area by the New Han army, there is no longer a chance for Cao Cao to vigorously produce this weapon.

Of course, in fact, Cao Jun's crossbow oxbow has actually caused some casualties to the New Han Army. Earlier, when the New Han army launched an attack on some of the cities of the Cao army, it often suddenly encountered the blow of this strong bow. Now the New Han Army's understanding of Cao Jun's crossbow oxbow is actually the data that the soldiers of the New Han Army used their lives to obtain back.

Seeing the power of Cao Jun's crossbow and oxbow, Liu Yi realized that he had really neglected to let his military industry graduate students produce similar weapons. However, this is not nothing, this kind of projectile strong bow actually has a lot of limitations. Like the bed crossbow, they are a bit bulky and not easy to carry. When releasing arrows, it also requires mules, horses, or a dozen or twenty soldiers to pull them to fire dozens or twenty strong arrows. Also, it's not because the arrows are projectile and difficult to aim. This depends on those who are very familiar with the performance of the crossbow to determine the approximate range of the landing point of the crossbow bow. But. It's hard to get to the point or the surface, after all. Each round of strong arrows will have a certain drop in the landing point of the arrows. If you shoot after a round. If the drop point is too different, you have to move the crossbow bow to adjust the landing point of the bow and arrows. This disadvantage will be fatal, as it will directly affect the continuity of their continuous firing of arrows.

You know, people are mobile, and by landing the first round of arrows they fire, they can quickly move to places that are difficult for their strong arrows to threaten. In addition, if you want to really form a threat to the enemy, or kill a large number of people, then you must fire dozens or hundreds of crossbow bows at the same time as now, covering a point with a rain of arrows, so as to deter the enemy.

It can be seen that the character ratio of the crossbow is not very high. Even, Liu Yi felt that it was more threatening than a bed crossbow.

The current bed crossbow of the new Han army is equipped with a device on the chassis, so that the bed crossbow can easily allow the soldiers of the new Han army who are responsible for the launch of the bed crossbow to adjust the orientation more easily. In this way, it is easy and quick to move. In fact, in Liu Yi's heart, there was a plan to use the bed crossbow as a heavy mechanism for future generations. It is true that the current bed crossbow is too bulky, and it must be improved in the future to make it lighter.

The threat of the crossbow can only be directed at one point, while the bed crossbow is a face in front. The threat of this cannot be mentioned.

Because the camp of the New Han Army also had a wooden fence blocking the view of the Cao Army, the Cao Army did not know how the New Han Army retreated to the camp. In addition, the sound and movement of the crossbow bow and arrow were indeed relatively loud, so they could not hear the movement in the camp of the New Han Army. Whether they were killed or injured by their crossbows and bows, or the screams of the soldiers of the New Han Army, they couldn't hear it for a while.

And after the crossbow and the bow were released, Cao Jun's trebuchet also opened the crossbow and threw stone bullets.

The movement is naturally more powerful, and one by one the stone bullets fall in front of or inside the camp of the New Han Army. In a moment's effort, the wooden fence of the New Han Army camp had been shattered by Cao Jun's trebuchet, showing gaps in the staggered teeth.

However, at this time, the barracks of the Xinhan Army had been dusted by their strong arrows and stone bullets, and they still could not intuitively see the situation in the barracks of the Xinhan Army.

But for the Cao army, this is a sour place for them, once upon a time, they were able to suppress the New Han Army to attack like this? This is not? The New Han Army seemed to have no power to fight back at all. In the camp of the New Han Army, there was not even a single bow and arrow to fight back.

This kind of situation made Cao Jun extremely comfortable to look at, and his blood was angry.

Cao Ren saw that the wooden fence on the periphery of the New Han Army's camp had been destroyed. I also faintly saw that the camp was already in a mess. There was no hesitation at the moment, and an order was given. The drums of war in the charge are playing. The soldiers of the Cao army seemed to want to vent all the depression that had been suppressed and beaten by the New Han Army in recent years, and burst out with a shout of killing that shook the sky, and everyone bravely took the lead and rushed towards the camp of the New Han Army.

In order to avoid being counterattacked by the military horses in the camp of the New Han Army and rushing to kill the Cao army that went forward, their archers also quickly set up their formation, and they first went to the camp of the New Han Army to conduct a crazy salvo. Then, let their spearmen, swords and shields rush in, and then the cavalry behind them also launched a charge with a bang.

Soon, the camp of the New Han Army was killed by the Cao army like a tide. The roaring shouts of killing, the sound shook the sky, and the voices of people were boiling. It's really overwhelming. The torrent is surging.

However, Cao Jun's shouting and killing sound slowly stopped from the excitement at the beginning.

Though. In the camp of the New Han Army, there are countless Cao troops running back and forth, and the cavalry of the Cao army. He kept rushing left and right in the camp, and from time to time pushed the barracks of the New Han Army to the ground. It seems to have made a crowd turn on their backs. But, in the end. But there were no soldiers of the Cao army shouting to kill again, but the neighing of the war horses was one after another, endlessly.

Cao Ren, Zhang He, Xiahoudun and other Cao generals also entered the camp of the New Han Army.

They noticed something was wrong almost at the same time.

Because they have discovered that in the camp of the New Han Army, there is no shadow of the New Han Army at all, and in the camp, although the military tent is still there, and there are even a large number of war horses of the New Han Army behind the camp, but no soldiers of the New Han Army have been found. Even, they also noticed that their seemingly powerful crossbow bows and trebuchets were also salvos of archers' bows and arrows, infantry charges, cavalry charges, and all actions failed to bring them even the death of a new Han soldier.

All of a sudden, these generals of the Cao army rode their horses to meet in the camp of the New Han Army, looking at each other, everyone's faces were ugly, and their hearts were extremely depressed and uncomfortable. It's as if they held back their strength and threw a heavy punch at the enemy, but the punch they struck with all their strength was in the air, like a ball of cotton, without any force. That feeling, I'm afraid it's as uncomfortable as it is, and if it's not good, it will really cause you to hurt yourself.

"It's so cunning!"

After a while, Xiahou scolded sullenly.

Zhang He also looked dead, obviously seeing that Liu Yi was still in this camp when they attacked, but he fled in a blink of an eye, leaving them in the air. This feeling of being calculated by others really hit their self-confidence.

"Report! Ladies and gentlemen! The New Han army fled from behind this camp and is fleeing to the mountain behind the camp, do you want to pursue? ”

At this time, its own spies came to report.

"Chase! Wherever they flee, chase after General Ben! Xiahoudun shouted angrily, and the prancing horse left.

"Slow!" Cao Ren stopped Xiahoudun in time.

"Zixiao (Cao Renzi), don't chase it? If he didn't chase anymore, he let Liu Yi run. Xiahou said hurriedly.

"Chasing? How to chase? The mountain road is difficult to walk, don't you see that they left all their horses in the camp? In the mountains, our forces could not be unleashed, and we rashly pursued into the mountains, fearing that we would be ambushed by the Xinhan army. ”

"That'...... Is that all? Xiahou said angrily.

"What if you don't forget it? If our army can be the enemy of the New Han Army in the mountains, we don't have to be so passive. This time, Liu Yi was forced to give up this military camp, and even so many heavy military rations and war horses were not needed to flee in embarrassment, which can be regarded as our harvest. It can barely be regarded as raising the prestige of our army and raising the morale of our army. It directly proves that the New Han Army is not invincible, and as long as our army has proper tactics, it can also defeat the New Han Army and flee in disarray. This battle may become a successful case of our future war with the New Han Army, and in the future, if we fight like this against the New Han Army, we will not believe that they are really invincible. Cao Ren said.

"Well, it makes sense, our lord is also about to arrive in Chenliu, the next battle with the New Han Army, let's ask the lord for instructions first, our army should clean up the battlefield first and return to Chenliu, after all, the New Han Army has other military horses, in case they attack our Chenliu City, it will not be good, it is not appropriate to stay here for too long." Zhang He also agreed with Cao Ren's opinion and spoke out.

Xiahoudun nodded silently and agreed to forget it.

In fact, this battle can only be regarded as Cao Jun's luck. Because the time was too short, Liu Yi ordered his army's military horses to withdraw from the camp immediately, and he didn't have time to arrange anything in the camp. If he could have more time, Liu Yi ordered the soldiers of his army to set up some traps in the camp, even if they sprinkled a piece of thistle in the camp casually, and the unknown Cao army rushed into the camp, it would definitely bring them some casualties.

If Cao Jun really dared to pursue in the mountains, then there would be hardships for them to eat. In the mountains, the Cao army's strength could not be unleashed, and the New Han army could generously engage them in the mountains.

This battle, compared to Cao Jun, can only be regarded as a rehearsal and tentative attack. Even if the Xinhan army lost some baggage, it was nothing, because in the mountains, there was an endless stream of military horses from the logistics department sending military rations, baggage and other utensils, which could be replenished soon.

A day later, Cao Cao personally led the army of Cao's army to Chenliucheng, and at the same time, Emperor Xian was also under Cao Cao's coercion and drove to Chenliucheng.

Cao Cao came to Chenliu and heard that the three generals had just won a battle, and forced Liu Yi, who had already killed Chenliucheng, to retreat, and captured a large number of supplies and war horses, which made him happy for a while.

And just when Cao Cao was considering whether to send troops to recapture the passes around Pishan, he took the initiative to seek a battle with Liu Yi, or stay in Chen Liucheng, set up a position, and wait for the army of the New Han Army to come to the decisive battle. Unfavorable news reached Chen Liu again.

It turned out that the Cao army on the line from Xingyang Pass and Bishui Pass to Changshe and Zhongmu was finally defeated on the whole line, and the route in those areas was opened up by the Xinhan army. The armies of the New Han Army have passed through all directions, and they are constantly coming to Changshe, Zhongmu, and his current Chen Liu.

In this way, Cao Cao had no choice but to fight to the death with the New Han army in Chenliu.

He immediately adjusted his military horses and ordered all generals to camp in front of Chen Liucheng, and set up a decisive battle at any time to fight with the New Han army.

Of course, if the New Han army did not come to fight him, he planned to advance his army, take the initiative to attack, recapture the pass taken by the New Han army, and kill all the way to the tiger prison and threaten Luoyang. (To be continued.) )