Liu Yi didn't know that Cao Cao's military horses were coming faster than he thought.

The main reason is that Cao Cao has been prepared early in the morning, after he received Cai Mao's express report, no, it should be said that Cao Cao got the news of Liu Biao's death, and he had already acted.

First of all, the army led by Cao Cao personally arrived at Xiangcheng to join Xiahou Yuan, and he did not stop, and immediately waved his army south.

Because he had been ambushed by the New Han army twice in a row during the march of their Cao army, the scheming Cao Cao would never be as careless as Xiahoudun, Xu Huang and other generals.

As soon as he arrived in Xiangcheng, he didn't let people know that he had arrived, and then immediately divided his troops into two routes, one way with military horses, that is, sent a small army of military horses, as a large army marching, first to the west, posing as if he was going to attack Wancheng, and then down the Yushui River, giving Wancheng a certain threat to the New Han Dynasty. He personally led a line of military horses, marched directly at speed, quickly crossed the plains between Xiangcheng and Lushan County, and then rushed straight to Xinye City.

It can be said that Cao Cao led his army to attack Xinye City quite carefully, and almost concealed the spies of the New Han Army. If there were no accidents, I am afraid that Cao Cao really crossed the Yushui River quickly, and led the army to Anzhong County to join Zhang Liao and other generals.

If Cao Cao is really allowed to lead the army to Anzhong County, Cao Cao's military horses take over the defense, and the Jingzhou army cooperates, Liu Yi will really have to spend a little more effort to seize Jingzhou.

What went wrong? Is it Xinye City or the military horse town left by Liu Bei to guard the city.

There are no impermeable walls in this world, plus. When Xiahoudun and Xu Huang were chasing and killing Liu Bei, they thought that they had been drunk by Liu Bei, and there was no need for them to hide it anymore. Therefore, the news that Xiahoudun and Xu Huang, who did not deliberately conceal their identities, killed Liu Bei soon came out.

Liu Bei's soldiers, who had been paying attention to Liu Bei, naturally knew that Liu Bei was killed by Cao Cao's people, although they hated Liu Biao, they also hated Cao Cao.

Jingzhou announced its submission to Cao Cao, which made Cao Cao anxious to lead his army into Jingzhou and ignore the fact that Jingzhou Xinye originally belonged to Liu Bei's garrison.

And in Shinno Castle. There is also Sun Qian.

In Xinye, Liu Bei showed people with the image of benevolence and righteousness, and. The implementation of some benevolent policies did make the people of Xinye return to Liu Bei, and the people of Xinye City were also very sad and indignant about Liu Bei's death.

Although Sun Qian could not be called true loyalty to Liu Bei. But after all, he was working under Liu Bei's account. Right now. Liu Bei died, and the soldiers and civilians of Xinye City were very sad and indignant, and he couldn't express it without a little.

In addition, Liu Bei is dead, and Sun Qian also has to think about his whereabouts.

It is impossible to return to Cao Cao, the only way to return to Liu Yi of the New Han Dynasty, not to mention, in his heart. In fact, he already had a good impression of Liu Yi and had a heart of obedience. Especially after getting the news that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei returned to Liu Yi. He naturally wanted to return to the New Han Dynasty.

Including Liu Bei's soldiers who did not have many soldiers left in Xinye City, they also planned to go to Wancheng to join Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and return to Liu Yi.

However, when they received that Cao Cao personally led the army to Xinye City to take Xinye City, they thought about fighting Cao Cao to the death and avenge Liu Bei.

Sun Qian didn't want to vote for Liu Yi alone, if he could take Liu Bei's military horse left in Xinye to join Liu Yi, he would also give Liu Yi a little meeting gift, hoping that he would be able to make a difference under Liu Yi's account in the future and get Liu Yi's attention and reuse.

Seeing that in Xinye City, the soldiers and civilians were all sad and angry, and they rushed to sue each other, resolutely resisting Cao Cao's capture of Xinye City. Sun Qian suddenly had a plan.

At this time, another strategist, Chen Zhen, because he was worried about his friend Sun Gan, rushed to Xinye and wanted to persuade Sun Qian to leave quickly.

It just so happened that Sun Qian told Chen Zhen about his plan, and the two hit it off.

So, Sun Gan first gathered the military horses left by Liu Bei and told him of his plan, and the soldiers felt that Sun Gan's plan was feasible, so they cooperated with Sun Gan and Chen Zhen to act.

Sun Gan's plan is to burn Xinye.

Originally, in history, the burning of Xinye was the second fire of the "three fires" set by Zhuge Liang after he followed Liu Bei. almost burned Cao Cao's love to Cao Ren to death.

Well, the historical event is like this, Cao Cao first sent Xiahoudun to lead an army of 100,000 to attack Xinye, but his army was in Bowangpo, and Zhuge Liang burned Bowangpo and defeated Xiahoudun. Then, Cao Cao personally conquered, and the vanguard general Cao Ren killed Xinye City, but found that Xinye was already an empty city, so he waved his army into the city, occupied Xinye, and stationed in the city. Who knows, in the middle of the night, there was a sudden fire in the city, and it was ambushed by Liu Beijun, Cao Ren fled and was almost killed by Zhao Yun.

However, now that the history of the Three Kingdoms has completely changed, although the plan to burn the new field still appeared, it was not the historical burning of the new field.

The people who make the plan and the people who carry it out are no longer what they were in history.

Sun Gan also thought of it when he saw the soldiers and civilians of Xinye, who were very sad and indignant about Liu Bei's death, and the whole city wailed.

Well, the people of this ancient era are so simple, Liu Bei was good to the people of Xinye City during his time in Xinye, and the people were good to Liu Bei, it's that simple. Of course, the people of Xinye City were also afraid that Cao Cao's arrival would bring them disaster, and they were worried that they would not have the same good life as under Liu Bei's governance.

Sun Qian took advantage of such a popular mentality, and then let the military horses in Xinye City, who were bent on avenging Liu Bei, cooperate, and encouraged the people in Xinye City.

As a result, once the people of Shinno City were instigated, the vast majority of the people were willing to cooperate. The small number of the people, seeing that the vast majority of the people had already acted, had no choice but to follow suit.

Well, Sun Gan asked people to encourage the people, first of all, how Cao Cao's army was so cruel, how he slaughtered the city, and where he passed, there were no chickens and dogs left, so that the people in the grief and anger were a little panicked. Then, Sun Qian asked people to propose that now they want to leave Xinye City, follow Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, two generals, to return to the New Han Dynasty, and let the people of Xinye City. If you want to return to the New Han Dynasty together, you can pack up and follow them.

Return to the New Han Dynasty. It is the common people who are willing, but most people are reluctant to let them leave their hometown where they have lived for generations to join the New Han Dynasty. And Xinye City, at this particular time, made the people of Xinye sad and a little panicked. actually all expressed their willingness to go with Sun Qian.

As a result, in Xinye City, hundreds of thousands of people. Men and women, dragging their families with them, left Xinye City together. This makes Shinno Castle an empty city.

Actually, Sun Qian's plan. It's just a coincidence. A plan to burn down the new wilderness that I came up with by chance. His plan, which has not been implemented for much time, seems to be a bit hasty, and the whole plan is actually quite imperfect. Even, a little deceiving the people of Shinno City.

Because, Sun Qian wanted to take refuge in the New Han Dynasty and submit to Liu Yi. And didn't notify Lewy beforehand, so. There is no arrangement at all for how to resettle the more than 100,000 people. Even, Liu Yi failed to send people to meet him, so Sun Gan with more than 100,000 people, the movement was very slow, and it was difficult to say whether he could escape to Wancheng, especially if he wanted to cross the Yushui River, none of these were arranged.

However, Sun Qian didn't think too much, he just wanted to use Xinye City to block Cao Cao, lead Liu Bei to leave the few military horses in Xinye City, and let out the evil breath in his heart, and then, so that these horses could obey his orders and submit to Liu Yi with him.

Well, this is also to blame Cao Cao's bad luck, together with Xiahou Yuan, he rushed to Xinye City, only to find that Xinye City was an empty city. The army came all the way to Xinye City, and it was already tired. Cao Cao's concern was the section of the route between Xiangcheng and Lushan County, and Cao Cao's vigilance was greatly reduced when it was safe to pass Guò and reach Xinye City along the way.

When they arrived in Xinye, tomorrow they could cross the river along the river and go to Anzhong County to join Zhang Liao, and his army would officially take over the Jingzhou defense line. As long as you hold this line of defense north of Jingzhou, you can resist the attack of the New Han army, then Jingzhou is Cao Cao's wrapping.

Therefore, when Cao Cao and Xiahou Yuan led the army to Xinye City and saw that Xinye City was actually an empty city, Cao Cao didn't pay much attention, but just thought that the people in the city were afraid of him Cao Cao and fled the city early.

That night, fortunately it didn't rain, so the fire finally broke out.

This was a fire set by the soldiers lurking in the city under Sun Qian's order, and in order to prepare for this fire, thousands of military horses prepared all day. So, as soon as the fire burned, it spread quickly.

In particular, several city gates caught fire at the same time, and the fire trapped both Cao Cao and Xiahou Yuan in Xinye City.

Sun Qian did not send an ambush army to attack as he did in the historical time of burning Xinye. However, he had all the gates of Xinye City set on fire, so that the Cao army who entered the city had no way to escape.

In ancient times, most houses were made of wood, so if a fire was started, it would cause disaster to the whole city, especially if it was deliberately set on fire.

The Cao army was stunned by the sudden fire, thinking that they had been ambushed by the New Han army again.

Therefore, the sergeants of Cao's army were in chaos, and everyone wanted to escape from the city.

The soldiers of the Cao Army, who were as good as flies, were running around the city, but they couldn't find a gate that could safely get out of the city.

When Sun Qian encouraged the people to follow him to flee Xinye, he also made a special effort to let the people pile up the flammable materials in their homes, and even let the people smear some of the grease that they could not take away into their houses. Therefore, after the fire burned, the whole city was really on fire, and many Cao soldiers were burned alive by the fire in their sleep.

But it's a pity that Sun Qian failed to leave a city gate without setting fire to it as the plan to burn Xinye in history, and then set up an ambush to attack, so that the Cao soldiers in the city, because they knew that there was a city gate to escape, panicked, all rushed in one direction, so that the Cao soldiers splattered each other and killed and injured countless times, plus the attack of the ambush soldiers, and also killed countless Cao soldiers. Sun Qian didn't do this, he just set the fire.

Cao Jun did have casualties, but because there were no ambushes to attack them, the weather at this moment was not the season of high autumn and crisp weather, and the spring and summer seasons were full of rain and humid air, so it was really not a suitable season to use fire meters.

Therefore, although Cao Jun understood the chaos, and many Cao soldiers were burned to death, it did not cause much harm to Cao Jun.

The more than 100,000 and 200,000 Cao troops who entered the city suffered more than 10,000 casualties at most.

The fire caused chaos in Cao's army. However, the space in the city is still relatively large, those Cao soldiers. Seeing that no one was attacking them, as long as they did not run around and stood together in an open place, they would not be affected by the fire in the city, and at most they would be affected by some smoke and be baked by the fire.

Because of the dampness, the fire didn't burn for long. It did not cause too many casualties to Cao's army.

However, he also stopped the pursuit of Cao's army, so that Sun Qianshun led more than 100,000 people to the Yushui River.

It can also be regarded as Sun Qian's luck. He found the New Han army led by Dian Wei and Xu Zhu on the other side of the river, and after shouting, Dian Wei ordered people to control the river and take Sun Qian and the people across the river. Meantime. also urgently ordered the fast horse to inform Liu Yi. Sue Liu Yi that Cao Cao had personally led his army to Xinye City.

On the other side, Qin Jie and them were on the night when Cao Cao was burned in Xinye.

Qin Jie did not wait for Liu Yi's instructions for a long time, but waited for a petition from some people outside the Jingzhou defense line.

It turned out that in order to build this line of defense to protect the safety of Jingzhou, the Jingzhou Army requisitioned hundreds of people to do labor, so to speak. Around this line of defense, especially the area south of the Jingzhou line of defense. The people within hundreds of miles were all requisitioned by the Jingzhou army. This made these people of Jingzhou miserable, and in order to repair this defense line to protect Jingzhou, the people could not catch up with the spring ploughing.

And the people in these areas, because of the neighboring relationship with the New Han Dynasty, and even, many people are watching how the people of Wancheng live a good life, and their hearts have long been yearning for the rule of the New Han Dynasty.

Therefore, those people, seeing that they were about to survive, let people secretly pass through the Jingzhou defense line, reach the other side, and report to the New Han Army, asking the New Han Army to fight over. Those people, they all wanted to live under the rule of the new Han Dynasty.

What surprised Qin Jie was that these petitioning people, when they repaired this line of defense, they kept some eyes on it, and they secretly left some secret doors in the walls of the wall.

In other words, the New Han army can pass through these secret gates, and can directly wave the army to kill them, and directly break through the Jingzhou defense line.

This is really a bonus.

However, these people who escaped, they opened the secret doors of the wall, because they fled in a hurry, they could not repair it, if they waited until dawn, the defending Jingzhou army might find out the situation and block those secret doors.

Qin Jie couldn't sit still.

He knew that this was an excellent opportunity to break through Jingzhou's defenses. He didn't care if there was Liu Yi's instructions, and immediately, he ordered the military horses to act overnight, send a surprise attack team, pass through the secret gate, and directly enter the Jingzhou defense line and seize the county seat of Jiaxia.

Qin Jie's order immediately made the whole army excited, all the soldiers and soldiers, waiting for this moment is really too long.

Qin Jie ordered Xiong to boldly lead a raid army, let those people lead the way, and kill them in the dark.

Qin Jie was also a little worried that these people were deliberately sent by the Jingzhou army to lure his men and horses to death, so he didn't dare to send too many military horses, just sent thousands of men and horses.

But having thousands of men and horses is enough, as long as he captures a section of the Jingzhou defense line and captures a gate, his army can go straight in.

There is no surprise, what Qin Jie was worried about did not happen, those people are indeed the people who want to be ruled by the New Han Dynasty.

After midnight, a section of the wall not too far from Jiaxia County suddenly burst out with a burst of passionate shouts and killing.

When the shouts of killing sounded, the New Han army had already slaughtered the city.

The door was closed and opened, and Qin Jie personally led the army, rushed in, and then rushed straight to the county seat of Jiaxia.

The Jingzhou army, which had no fighting spirit, saw that the defense line was actually broken by the Xinhan army, where did they dare to resist? Immediately, without waiting for the New Han army to be killed, they hugged their heads and fled for their lives. The New Han Army naturally took the opportunity to expand its gains.

The secret door under the wall is actually when the people were building the wall, taking advantage of the fact that the Jingzhou soldiers guarding the construction of the wall were not paying attention, they deliberately left the foundation of the city wall empty and set aside a passage, but the two armies built it with stones, so that the appearance could not see that the city wall was empty.

To build the city wall, the foundation will generally be several meters wide, and the people who are building will be able to leave a secret passage if they have the intention to leave a secret passage.

This may also be a matter of much help for the righteous and little help for the unjust.

Huang Zu was in Jiaxia County, and a group of defenders were discussing how to fight the New Han Army in the future, and they dispersed to rest not long before they learned that the New Han Army had broken through the defensive line.

He was taken aback, but he was not as panicked as the average Jingzhou general. Because he rushed to the Jingzhou defense line this time, it was to seek a battle with the New Han Army, regardless of victory or defeat, but for a battle.

Therefore, not only was he not surprised, but he was also a little expectant.

In Jiaxia County, there are still more than 100,000 military horses, even if the defenders of other defensive lines are defeated, Huang Zu thinks that with his current military horses, he can also fight with the New Han Army.

He urgently invited Wang Wei, Wen Ping and other generals to discuss how to fight with the New Han Army.

In the end, it was decided to leave Wang Wei to guard the county seat of Jiaxia, while Huang Zu and Wen Ping led the army to take the initiative to attack the New Han army that had killed the defense line.

To say that among the Jingzhou army, there are still generals who want to fight with the New Han Army, there are really not many, in fact, they are the generals who stayed in Jiaxia County to guard.

The flames soared into the sky, and the shouts of killing were loud.

The Xinhan army was divided into two routes, one way, along the wall of the Jingzhou defense line, all the way to Jiaxia County to attack the past, and the other way, led by Qin Jie himself, also followed the wall to attack Jiaxia County. The two military horses echo each other. (To be continued......)