The Cao army, which was guarding Chenliucheng, kept attacking, as if he wanted to force back the Xinhan army that had been killed under Chenliucheng, and did not want the Xinhan army to set up camp here. Such a crazy move does not seem to be Cao Jun's style at all.

Therefore, Liu Yi has to be suspicious of Cao Jun's crazy actions, and wonder if there will be any ulterior conspiracy behind his madness.

However, it seems understandable that Cao Jun is so non-stop. If Liu Yi is Chen Liucheng's defender, then Mo said that he is going to attack frantically now, even when he was guarding in Bishan, he should strive to take the initiative to harass the New Han Army everywhere, so as not to make the New Han Army's march in the mountains so easy.

What's more, the current New Han Army, the baggage has not been delivered so quickly, there are no trebuchets to attack Chen Liucheng, and the bed crossbow has not been delivered so quickly, as for the other siege equipment, I am afraid it will take a few days to arrive. In this way, it is understandable that the Cao army took advantage of the fact that the New Han Army was not ready to attack the city, and attacked the New Han Army frantically.

However, after experiencing the fiasco of the battle between the cavalry of the Cao army and the cavalry of the New Han Army earlier, and the fact that the Cao army that came to attack the camp of the New Han Army has been constantly losing troops and losing troops these days, knowing that such an attack could not repel the New Han army, Xiahoudun still had to come to attack like a moth to a fire, regardless of casualties. It's a bit intriguing.

As the saying goes, if something goes wrong, there must be a demon.

In this case, not only Liu Yi, but also the ministers and advisers of the court and the central government who came with him, have long seen that something is not right.

In particular, military advisors such as Xi Zhicai and Jia Xu had long discussed the matter of Cao Jun's frenzied attack on their own army in the past two days.

this day. It was Yan Liang and Xiahoudun who were defeated and retreated, and their Cao army waved their troops to kill. But after being forced to retreat by the bow and arrow array of the New Han Army.

Xi Zhicai, Jia Xu and other advisers invited Liu Yi to the Chinese army's big tent to discuss matters.

The current battalion of the New Han Army. In fact, it was only temporarily settled under Chen Liucheng, not to deliberately find a place to attack and defend and camp. The front of its camp faces Chen Liucheng, and the other three sides are plains.

This is also one of the main reasons why Cao's soldiers kept attacking and harassing, making the New Han army in the camp tired and unable to organize an attack on Chen Liucheng for a while. Xiahoudun's Cao soldiers, they came out of Chen Liucheng, they could attack from all sides of the camp of the New Han army, and they could also be random. You can see the situation in the barracks of the New Han Army, where the defense is weak, it will attack wherever it is. It seems that he will not give up until he captures the large camp of the New Han Army.

In fact, Cao Jun's attack and harassment could not break through the barracks of the New Han Army, because although the New Han Army had not yet been able to transport the baggage, the kind of thistle terrestris that was easy to carry had brought a lot of them and had been arranged around the camp of the New Han Army. Coupled with the defense of the soldiers of the New Han Army, it was really difficult for the Cao Army to attack the barracks. However, when the Cao army came to attack, the New Han army always had to send military horses to deal with it, right?

In the big tent of the Chinese army. Yan Liang had already undressed his armor, and one of his arms was hanging on his chest, which was injured by Xiahoudun. Injured his wrist.

"Brother Yan, the injury is not serious, right?" Liu Yi first asked with concern.

"Lord Lao is worried. Out of the way, though. That Cao General Xiahoudun is really good, his martial arts are exquisite, and his strength is amazing, and it is estimated that he can fight with Zilong and them. Yan conscience palpitated.

"Well, Xiahoudun was originally Cao Cao's clansman, and he was also one of the generals that Cao Cao relied on, so naturally he would not be a mediocre hand, you can fight with him dozens of times before you can come back defeated, and you can retreat with your whole body, which is already amazing." Lewi

"However, after Yan's injury is healed, he must fight with him again, if a Xiahoudun can't beat him, we don't have to mix with Lao Yan." Yan Liang said with a look of unyielding.

He usually competed with Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Dian Wei, Xu Zhu and other generals, and lost convinced, because he was friends and brothers with them, but Yan Liang would not be convinced by the hostile Xiahou Dun. This is also the attitude that a military general, a general of the New Han Army should have, if you obey the enemy and are afraid of the enemy, then you still need to fight the enemy in the future?

Liu Yi nodded, put his hand on his shoulder, and Yuanyang True Qi quickly swam along the flow of internal qi in Yan Liang's body, and his injury did not hurt his muscles and bones, so he was relieved.

At this time, Xi Zhicai first said to Liu Yishi: "Lord, it seems a bit abnormal for Cao Jun to attack so wildly, we have to guard against it, beware that they will have a bigger conspiracy after them." ”

The New Han Dynasty is relatively straightforward in the DPRK and in the army, and if there is something to talk about, don't just talk about some things if you have nothing to do. In this way, you can increase your work efficiency.

The ministers were also used to getting along with Liu Yi in this way, so everyone didn't say much, and directly said their concerns.

Jia Xu followed and said: "Lord, our army has now arrived outside Chenliu City, only these more than 100,000 horses, originally plus the 100,000 or so cavalry led by General Yan Liang earlier, there are more than 200,000 horses, but after defeating the Cao army cavalry that day, killing Chenliu and setting up this military camp, the lord sent them out to reinforce other military horses. Now, it is even more difficult for our rear army horses to pass through the narrow mountain roads for a moment and a half, especially for the baggage troops. The fastest, our military horses, I'm afraid it will take several days to arrive. ”

Liu Yi nodded silently. In the direction of Bishan, although the road to the south along the bank of the Yellow River has been opened, it is not easy to walk, although his own military horses can pass through in an endless stream. However, it's impossible to come over a little bit of people and come to this Chenliu, right? Once the marching army column is stretched too long, it is a crisis in itself. Because the Cao army still has a lot of men and horses, it would be a bad thing to immediately send another cavalry army to bypass his military camp and directly attack the Xinhan soldiers and horses driving behind. Therefore, the New Han Army can also become an army, and it must not be careless all the way.

What's more, the Cao army, which has several other roads, is still behind the side, and the New Han Army dares to put up a long snake formation to stay behind, which is really self-defeating. But when the army completely passes through the mountain, it will be a few days before it can reach Chenliucheng, as Jia Xu said. In the middle. There is also although the army escorts the baggage team to come, so. Marching and fighting really can't be taken lightly.

"So. What do you think of this as our army should be? Liu Yi was silent for a while and asked.

"My lord, we have discussed, in fact, in today's general trend of the world, no matter what conspiracy Cao Cao has, it is useless. Because no matter what, he will no longer be able to resist our soldiers. What's more, we now still have that kind of weapon with great lethality, and we want to destroy Cao Cao. It's only a matter of time. Xi Zhicai continued: "However, for the time being, it is difficult for our army to pose any threat to Chen Liucheng for the time being. Unless the lord flew directly to Chen Liucheng as he did earlier, threw down the gunpowder bag and blew up Chen Liucheng. ”

Liu Yi waved his hand and interrupted Xi Zhicai's words: "That, flying to the sky requires specific environmental conditions to do it, not to mention." Even if you can fly over Chen Liucheng, throwing down the explosive bag may not be able to successfully blow up the gate of Chen Liucheng. Well, this, in fact, you can find it in the intestinal pass. The lethality of the explosives pack is indeed a bit large, but the intestine is fine. Some of the fortifications on the top of the hill were not destroyed much. This can be seen from this. We can't rely too much on powder packs. Especially, this thing. It is an indiscriminate attack, and once it is mistakenly thrown on the houses of civilians in the city, it will cause a large number of accidental injuries to ordinary civilians. Therefore, in the future, even if this powder bag is to be used, it depends on the situation and the occasion. ”

Gunpowder packs can only be used as a deterrent weapon, in other words, as if they were nuclear weapons for future generations, and cannot be used casually. Of course, the lethality and destructiveness of the gunpowder pack are far from comparable to that of nuclear weapons in later generations, but for the time being, it is indeed as deterrent as nuclear weapons.

In the bottom of Liu Yi's heart, he didn't want the gunpowder bag to become a popular weapon.

"Therefore, we can't immediately launch a siege battle against Chen Liucheng for the time being. At the very least, we will have to wait until our army is fully arrived and the baggage equipment is delivered. In this way, there is a problem with the installation of our current large camp, and when we camp here, we can make the enemy attack and threaten on all sides, and make our army exhausted. I think, under the current circumstances, should we avoid Cao's troops first? ”

Xi Zhicai glanced up at Liu Yi, and saw that Liu Yi didn't say anything, so he continued: "My opinion, we can first allocate the camp to retreat a little, and then withdraw to the north side of Chen Liucheng about twenty miles. There, it is already close to the Yellow River, and to the northwest, there are mountains, among which there are also mountain roads opened by our New Han Army. We can set up a fortress with our backs, so if Cao's army still wants to attack, it can only come from the east and south. ”

"Actually, on the other side of the Yellow River, Hanoi, our army's military rations can be transported directly across the river from Hanoi."

After Liu Yi heard this, he nodded and said, "More than twenty miles away from Chen Liucai?" This is not too far, if we want to attack Chen Liu in the future, we can kill it in more than an hour. Yes, then do as you have agreed. ”

Xi Zhicai breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and they were a little worried that Liu Yi would not agree to withdraw some of the New Han Army. After all, now the situation is favorable to the Xinhan army, and it is about to launch an attack on Chen Liu, at this time, is it necessary to withdraw the army? Although it was only a retreat of more than 20 miles, it was also a withdrawal, right? If it is a good and great achievement, in good times, the lord who cannot listen to the words of the people below will show weakness like this, and when he is about to attack the enemy, can he still agree to retreat his military horse a little? Therefore, all the advisers, seeing that Liu Yi could agree to such a plan, all nodded secretly, feeling that Liu Yi was still the same Liu Yi, and he was not carried away by the current victory.

"Lord, there is also that, in this case, no matter what conspiracy Cao Cao will have next, we can be in an invincible position, we can take a wait-and-see attitude first, wait for them to be chaotic for a while, and wait for our army to come and make all the preparations, to capture Chen Liu, it is just a matter of a snap of a finger." Xi Zhicai added.

"Well, that makes sense, we don't care about this day and half a day." Liu Yi agreed with Xi Zhicai's statement and said: "It's a pity, our spies, I don't know why there is no news of Cao Cao's latest movements, to be honest, Liu is really a little worried about the liaison personnel who are still in Xudu......"

"Hehe, my lord, are you worried about that phoenix girl? Rest assured, our liaison staff has done a good job of protecting the impatiens. Guarantee that she will be fine. Xi Zhicai made fun of Liu Yi meaningfully.

Usually, some "old men" who follow Liu Yi still dare to make fun of Liu Yi with some things. Come here occasionally, you can also enhance your feelings for each other, at least, you can intuitively let those who are ministers see whether Liu Yi is still the same Liu Yi back then. If Liu Yi's attitude changes, then they know that in front of Liu Yi in the future, they have to be careful about some things, and they can't joke with Liu Yi casually anymore.

Liu Yi naturally wouldn't mind them making fun of the matter between himself and the woman, after all, his affair with Fengxian was not a secret among some close ministers.

Liu Yi laughed with them for a while, then stopped talking, frowned and said, "Actually, even if you don't say it, I feel that we have some problems now." Since you have all proposed it now, then without further ado, hurry up, while Xiahoudun has just returned to the city after a victory, we will immediately set up camp and retreat more than 20 miles later. Camp by the Yellow River tonight. ”

Just do it, Liu Yi personally led the few cavalry troops left by Yan Liang to suppress the formation, so that the sergeants in the camp could dismantle the barracks and take them away.

Before dark, the whole army withdrew to the bank of the Yellow River behind Chen Liu's side.

This, I don't know if it's Liu Yi's luck, it's such an ordinary worry, a decision in a thought, but it allowed Liu Yi to escape a catastrophe.

Because that night, Cao Cao asked Cao Ren and Zhang He, who secretly led the army from Yanzhou to Xudu, to lead an army of 200,000 to Chenliu. If Liu Yi's military camp is not withdrawn more than 20 miles back, then it may be besieged by Cao's army.

It is estimated that there will be about 200,000 Cao troops in Chen Liucheng, plus 200,000 cavalry troops and 400,000 horses, to besiege Liu Yi's Xinhan army camp with less than 200,000 military horses. Moreover, this military camp is still on the plain, and there is no danger to defend on all sides.

Also, the baggage of the New Han Army has not yet arrived, so if the Cao army launches their crossbow and ox bows and attacks the barracks of the New Han Army on the plane, then this will be the end of this New Han Army.

When Liu Yi learned that Cao Jun's reinforcements had arrived in the middle of the night, he was also shocked into a cold sweat. (To be continued.) )