The Jiangxia army only had a total of 30,000 horses, and this had to be added to the 1,000 guards battalion that Yang Xi later assigned to each theater commander.

At this time, Huang Jie's 6,000 soldiers and horses guarded Xiling City, and the only ones who really fought were 12,000 from Maoluan's headquarters and 12,000 from Zhoutai on the North Road.

As for the 30,000 horses that came to the aid from the south road, it was almost the Tuntian army that had never been on the battlefield, led by Wen Ping, and Mao Luan didn't have much hope.

At night, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei led the army out of the camp first, and during the day, the flying ball had already detected the deployment of the Maoluan army, Zhao Yun went straight to the Maoluan camp, and Zhang Fei copied the mountain road and went around to Xiling City.

Zhao Yun ordered all the generals to wrap the horses' feet in cloth so as not to cause movement, and marched straight to the Maoluan camp, only three or four miles, when suddenly in the middle of the night a copper bell remembered, this is one of the several alarms that Yang Xi said in the military academy to prevent stealing camps at night.

Zhao Yun really didn't know where to go, and when he was marching, the military horse touched the rope on the ground, causing the bell hanging on the tree in the middle of the night.

Mao Luan's spies heard the situation and reported back, Mao Luan hurriedly put on his head, ordered the whole army to pay the account, and ordered someone to send information to the left and right armies, and the two armies did not move first, so as not to fall into the enemy's tricks.

When Zhao Yun heard the bell ringing, he secretly thought that it could still be like this, this Yang Xi was really difficult, so he let go of the horse's hooves and commanded the whole army to kill the Maoluan camp with great fanfare.

Mao Luan ordered the army to be stationed at the horse rejection stakes around the camp, two layers inside and outside, and Zhao Yunjun entered the firing range and waited with a crossbow.

But Mao Luan underestimated Zhao Yun's bravery, where the crossbow and bow went, they were all used to pull it, plus his crotch dismounted quickly, the jade lion led the military horse, only to kill, but the horse rejection pile was provoked by Zhao Yun's shot, flew up two feet high, and smashed towards the camp.

Mao Luan was shocked to see Zhao Yun so brave, but he also suppressed his position and commanded the crossbowmen to shoot fiercely, and for a time the two armies suffered huge casualties, and Zhao Yun also led dozens of horsemen back to the team.

"General Zhao! The generals of the other army are well commanded and cannot be broken, but what to do? The left and right guards asked Zhao Yun.

"It doesn't matter! When Wei Yan arrives, he will be able to rush into the other army by joining forces. Besides, even if the barracks are not destroyed, just attract soldiers and horses from both sides to rescue them, and it will be a great achievement. ”

Mao Luan saw that the other army retreated, and did not attack for the time being, but did not retreat, and was greatly puzzled, and then there were spies to report the time, and he was surprised that there were soldiers and horses attacking, and the number was said to be very large.

"Pass the order, order Wen Ping and Zhou Tai to lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to attack the left and right sides of the other army, and there is no need to save the Chinese army, just besiege the other army!"

The two military horses are only a dozen miles away from the Chinese army camp, and the carrier pigeon message is coming in a blink of an eye, so Zhou Tai and Wen Ping, each leading the army to besiege.

At this time, Wei Yan's army arrived, and the two armies of Zhao Yun were united, and they began to storm the camp.

Wei Yan and Zhao Yun didn't know that Mao Luan's military horses, there were 6,000 people, they were veterans of more than ten years, that was the real elite, coupled with their well-equipped, the bows and arrows of Wei and Zhao's military horses were shot back, and they did not hurt much, but Mao Luan's crossbow caused great damage to the two military horses.

A wave of attacks came down, leaving one or two thousand corpses, but they didn't break through the defense, Wei Yan and Zhao Yun were shocked.

At this time, on the left and right roads, Zhou Tai and Wen Ping led troops to kill, Mao Luan saw that the reinforcements had arrived, raised troops to kill, and besieged them in three times, Wei Yan and Zhao Yun had to command the army and horses to retreat, and Zhao Yun personally broke off.

was killing up, and suddenly shouted again, Mao Luan was shocked, he didn't set up an ambush, did the other party have a backhand?

Mao Luan guessed well, but this time it was Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei who went out of the camp in person, and led 10,000 soldiers and horses on the left and right with Liu Qi, and killed the future.

So it was all chaotic, fortunately the quality of Maoluan's military horses was high, under such chaos, they actually held the formation tightly and were not killed, and the Zhou Tai military horses were surrounded on both sides, some embarrassed, and the casualties were also large, and in half an hour, it was estimated that seven or eight hundred people died.

Zhao Yun and Wei Yan two groups of military horses, from the new return army to kill, want to break the Maoluan Chinese army, Mao Luan ordered the guard battalion to protect himself, not to fight in person, only to command the military horses to defend.

Everyone ignored that there were still Wenpin in the south, 30,000 soldiers and horses, only 10,000 came, and there were 20,000.

Just when Kong Ming and Liu Bei thought that Po Bi was only tonight, there were military horses behind them.

When Liu Bei and Kong Ming climbed to the heights, this wave of military horses came all over the mountains, and the number was probably more than 20,000.

Kong Ming said: "Who led this army? ”

Left and right morning newspapers come up.

"The leader is Wen Ping, a native of Nanyang Wan, who was under Liu Biao's account at the beginning, and was captured when Yang Xi conquered Wuling, and is now the deputy commander of the Jingnan Theater, only responsible for Tuntian."

Kong Ming shook his head and said: "Lord, you can't do anything, let's withdraw, I hope General Zhang can go well." ”

With such a large battlefield, it is not said that they will be withdrawn, but they will chase and fight all the way, and they will also kill most of the night, and until dawn they will collect their troops and count the battle losses, and the two armies will be on par.

Liu Bei's army lost four or five thousand people, and although Mao Luan's army lost only two thousand, six thousand were wounded.

If this is not well equipped, the wounded are dead.

The wounded could no longer fight, and the losses were great.

In the morning, Mao Luan just breathed a sigh of relief, and another spy came to report that Xiling City was lost, and Huang Jie, the county magistrate, only led the remnants of the army of 3,000 people to the camp.

Mao Luan asked the spy about the situation, and the spy's answer made Mao Luan very worried.

This Zhang Fei turned out to be Yang Xi's night stealing the city wall, ordering a few soldiers and horses to go up the city wall with hooks and ropes, kill the soldiers guarding the city, and open the door to take the city.

Liu Bei was only halfway when he received the news that Zhang Fei had taken Xiling, so he immediately returned to the army and went to Xiling City.

According to the past practice, Liu Bei's city, once the list is issued, when he enters the city, it must be full of people standing on both sides of the street, welcoming him, and the various families killing chickens and sheep are entertained on both sides of the road.

But Xiling City is different, Liu Bei and Kong Minghao are vast, the performance that was prepared for this was not an audience, the white-walled shops on both sides of the street, the doors of the shops were closed, and only occasionally from the glass windows upstairs, faces appeared, and pointed and pointed, Liu Bei was greatly surprised.

Kong Ming saw Liu Bei's embarrassment and explained: "Yang Xi has been operating here for a long time, and it is said that the population of Xiling City has exceeded 100,000, plus the population outside the city, the population of Xiling County is 300,000. Even in the entire Hanzhong, there are only more than 200,000, it is conceivable how deep Yang Xi has in his control area, and if the lord wants to really win the hearts of the people here, he needs to work hard. ”

Liu Bei listened to Kong Ming's words, and his heart was not happy, but Zhang Fei said: "Where is there such trouble, wait for me to arrest some of those big merchants and put them in prison, and pay tribute to them to see who dares to disagree." ”

Liu Bei heard a sudden burst in his heart, Zhang Fei's words, it was the difference between the princes and Yang Xi at this time, and his face became more and more ugly.

"Third brother, Hugh is talking nonsense! This city has a population of 100,000, and if you don't recognize us, you want to kill them all! He Yang Xi can do benevolence and righteousness, if we kill innocents indiscriminately, wouldn't it be worse than that Yang Xi? ”

Zhang Fei saw that Liu Bei's face was really ugly, so he shut up.