The cavalry led by Liu Hu became the key target of Lü Bu's archers, but instead became a burden to the Wenpin army, and the infantry needed to protect it and slowly force it into Lü Bu's cavalry. www.biquge.info The fact that Wenpin can't use Liu Hu's cavalry now doesn't mean that he can't use it later, once he encounters Lu Bu's infantry, there are Jingzhou cavalry to open the way and break the formation, and the Jingzhou infantry will be like a bamboo, and it is unknown if they enter Runan with a drum.

Lü Bu's archers were much more agile than Wenpin's infantry, and once they were unfavorable, they quickly left the battlefield, looked for an open area, and waited for Wenpin's army to arrive.

Wen Ping pressed forward and forced forward for about five miles, but he didn't expect Lu Bu to find a flat place in the South Xiangyang Basin to wait for, the cavalry in the mountainous area could not charge at all, there was a flat terrain to rely on, Wen Ping wanted to repel Lu Bu, a cavalry that could shoot arrows in the running of war horses, it was very difficult.

"General Liu Hu's cavalry attacked, and it was too late to attack Lu Bu's cavalry and capture this place." As long as Wen Ping forced Lu Bu's cavalry back into the mountains, Lu Bu's cavalry could not exert mobility at all, and Wen Ping's infantry drove straight into Deng City.

Liu Hu led the order to attack, and the spear was pointed diagonally at Lu Bu's cavalry, and he must be defeated with a drum.

Lu Bu took the archery battalion to avoid the charging momentum of Liu Hu's cavalry, and fled with the enemy cavalry behind him diagonally around the edge of the flat ground, turning back and releasing cold arrows as he ran. Liu Hu's cavalry had no shield defense, and was in an offensive state, unable to guard against the thousands of arrows that flew from the air one after another.

The heavy losses of Liu Hu's cavalry completely exceeded Wen Ping's estimate, but fortunately, the cavalry pursued Lu Bu's archers and cavalry to buy a short time for the Jingzhou soldiers to line up, and Wen Ping quickly recruited Liu Hu who was angrily pursuing because of the unilateral killing.

Liu Hu wanted to retreat, but Lu Bu, who was being pursued, was not happy, so he quickly adjusted his attack method and caught up.

When Liu Hu returned safely to the Wenpin battle array with the cavalry, the elite cavalry lost less than half, and most of the horses and cavalry were stuck with arrows, and even if they were slightly injured, they could not ride on horseback to fight. As long as the cavalry has a wound on its body, once the horse gallops up and pulls the wound, it is impossible to clamp the horse's belly for a long time and bump, let alone rush into battle.

"Set up camp first!" Wen Ping found that although the Jingzhou cavalry was far better than Lu Bu's cavalry, these two types of cavalry were not the same kind at all, and he was full of grievances and helplessness, and he had nothing to do with Lu Bu's cavalry.

"General Wen, the cavalry under my command has suffered heavy losses, but you don't want to forge ahead, do you want to support the army and respect yourself?" Liu Hu rushed to the Chinese army with his personal guards and questioned Wen Ping.

The major general was furious. Lu Bu's cavalry is full of grotesques, and it does not engage our army head-on at all, and it can't catch up and fight, so now it has to camp on the mountain first, and find a way to occupy the open space in front of you. Then send scouts to explore the open area along the way to Anzhong County, and only by avoiding the flat avenue within the reach of the cavalry can they live up to Liu Jingzhou's trust and reach Anzhong. As long as they arrive in Anzhong and there is a city to defend, no matter how weird Lu Bu's cavalry is, it will not be able to make big waves. Wen Ping said.

Wen Ping ordered the soldiers to stand in line to resist Lu Bu in front of him and harassed him to set up camp, and ordered the soldiers to set up a fortress over and over again.

The two walked and stopped, Wen Ping spent more than six days and finally pushed Lu Bu to the north of Deng County, Wen Ping's army entered Deng County, and he put his heart back into his stomach, although there was no fault and no work along the way, he thought hard about countermeasures.

Lu Bu watched unwillingly as the Wenpin army entered Deng County, he only had a thousand archers in his hands, and he was helpless against the well-equipped Jingzhou army in the field, and once the other party had a city to defend, he had no choice. As for wanting to capture Wen Ping alive, it is only a dream, Wen Ping will not make any mistakes at all, so that Lu Bu has no chance to take advantage of it, even if he recruits the army in the hands of Zhang Liao and others, he may not be able to use the elite army in the hands of Wen Ping in the front.

"Let's go, cross the river and go to Xinye on the other side to learn about the grain transportation situation." Lu Buchao Wei Yue commanded. Most of the places from Dengcheng to Anzhong are mountains and hills, and the combat power of the cavalry is not as good as the infantry, Lu Bu does not plan to continue to stop the Jingzhou army, and intends to shrink all the combat power to Wancheng, if the Jingzhou army pursues Wancheng, Lu Bu concentrates on fighting to the death with the Jingzhou army.

His current soldiers in the area of Wancheng and Xinye are divided into two parts, even if the number is far greater than that of Jingzhou soldiers, the gap between equipment and soldier quality needs a greater numerical advantage to make up. However, he concentrated his forces, and the two armies of Jingzhou Zhang Yun and Wen Ping would also be combined into one road, but with Wancheng Jiancheng and Lu Bu having a city to defend, slowly looking for fighters to break the enemy in one fell swoop was a few points higher than the victory rate of a field battle with the Jingzhou army.

After crossing the pontoon bridge built by Hao Zhao, Lu Bu immediately ordered the pontoon bridge to be destroyed and went straight to Xinye City.

Outside the west gate, an army was quietly waiting at the city gate to meet Lu Bu.

Entering Xinye City, Lu Bu went straight to the county office, Xu Shu, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Hao Zhao and others gathered together, and when they heard that Lu Bu had arrived, they were already waiting in the hall. Seeing Xu Shu, Zhang Liao, and Gao Shun here, Lu Bu knew that the grain from Pingchun, Yiyang and other counties had already arrived in his bowl.

"How much grain did you grab in the southern part of the new field?" Lu Bu was the first to ask. This is the problem he is most concerned about, the soldiers and horses have not moved the grain and grass first, he has not planted for a year, and in two or three months it will be time to plant wheat, he has not even won Wancheng, there is no time to plant wheat, and he will have to live by drinking the northwest wind next year.

"A total of 670,000 stones were harvested." Xu Shu said: "With the 100,000 stone sesame seeds in Xinye City, the grain stored in the warehouse is almost 800,000 stones. If you add the grain from the county near Wancheng, it should be enough to make up 130,000 or 400,000 stones. ”

"So little?" Lu Bu's heart was half cold, and there was still a gap of at least five or six hundred thousand stones from the grain expected to be used next year, not to mention the food consumed by the Jingzhou army in the next rebellion. The war was fought on food and population, both of which Lu Bu lacked.

"It's a lot, and it's unexpectedly that a few barren counties on the east bank of the river can harvest so much grain." Zhang Liao explained.

"Let's put aside the issue of food for now, let's talk about the recent movements of the princes of all parties. Did Sun Ce send troops to Jingnan? Did Cao Cao and Liu Bei and Yuan Shao go to war? Lu Bu couldn't rush the matter of grain and grass, so he could only pin his hopes on the sale of books. The food in the Minxin Mall is not a last resort, and Lu Bu will not exchange it, this is one of his killer features, and he has to pretend to be a god and a ghost at the most critical time to turn the tide of the war.

"Let's talk about Zhang Xiu first. According to the detailed report, Zhang Xiu's cavalry was defeated by the last general, which was completely out of his military plan, which caught him off guard. Now Jia Xu has set up a large camp in Bowangpo, piling up dry firewood on the official road, and I will cut off the road of our army's return to the north. Hao Zhao said first.

"Jia Xu means that if our army enters Bowangpo, he will set fire to the mountain?" Lu Bu asked. Jia Xu surprised Lu Bu again, Lu Bu never expected that Jia Xu would cut down trees and pile up firewood in Bowangpo, he only thought that Zhang Xiu's defeat was not in a hurry to rush back to Wancheng and return to Anle to garrison the city, otherwise Lu Bu would have sent people to attack Anle and cut off Zhang Xiu's retreat.

Lu Bu said worriedly: "Jia Xu surprised me again, he pinched Bowangpo to the death, but we didn't do a good job of countermeasures, resulting in Xinye's grain and grass and army unable to go north, how is it good?" ”

"I also learned the news not long ago, and Jia Xu stopped in Bowangpo without fear. I heard that Jia Xu sent people to give Xiangcheng to Cao Cao, Cao Ren is leading a large army to gather in Xiangcheng, looking at Runan and Wancheng, if our army and Jingzhou are not in a good war, Cao Ren will definitely fall into the ground. Xu Shu said.

No wonder Jia Xu is not worried about the back road being cut off, Jia Xu is really ruthless, it seems that he is optimistic about Cao Cao and wants to mix with Cao Cao.

"What about Koto?" Lu Bu continued to ask, he needed to understand the overall situation in order to grasp the next strategic arrangement.

"Sun Ce has signs of reorganizing the army, and the army is gathered in Moling and Wuhu, and it should be expanding westward along the river." Zhang Liao said.

"Send people to Jingzhou to spread the news that Sun Ce is going to send troops to Yuzhang to attack Jiangxia and Changsha and other places." Lu Bu said. Now that Sun Ce moved, and Lu Bu showed that he was invincible to Jingzhou and began to move north, Liu Biao should not continue to transfer Jingnan's army to Jingbei, so as to reduce Lu Bu's pressure as much as possible.

"Is Cao Cao still not moving?" Lu Bu was a little skeptical. Cao Cao put Cao Ren in a very awkward position in Xiangyang, and Cao Cao's intentions could be guessed. Cao Cao should have been unwilling to take the initiative to attack himself or Liu Biao, pushing the two of them to Yuan Shao's alliance. If any of these two people can be killed directly, then Cao Ren is likely to strike a direct thunderbolt.

"Cao Ren can attack and defend well, and Cao Cao is on the one hand wary of our army, and on the other hand, he is waiting for our army to make a major mistake. In this way, when the crops are harvested, Cao Cao will use troops against Xuzhou or Jizhou when he has grain and grass. Xu Shu said.

"From this point of view, the current enemy of our army is only Liu Biao in Jingzhou, as long as Cao Cao does not intervene, our army's chances of victory are still very large." Lu Bu said: "Right now, we only need to defeat Zaoyang Zhang Yun's army and Wenpin's army. As long as our army retreats, does not continue to march in the direction of Xiangyang, and does not touch the bottom line of Jingzhou, Liu Biao should not continue to transfer troops to Jingbei and fight to the death with our army. ”

"Zhang Yun's 10,000-strong army was defeated by General Zhang Liao, with more than 2,000 dead and wounded, and the soldiers looked at our army and retreated, so there is no need to worry." Gao Shun said: "However, according to the detailed report, Huang Zhongzheng, who was worried by the lord, led his troops through Baqiu Jingling and went straight to Zaoyang, and he will definitely be able to join forces with Zhang Yun in less than ten days." ”

Lu Bu very much hoped that Liu Biao would send Wen Ping, Huang Zhong and others, and it was best to send Wei Yan as well, but he couldn't eat it, and the frontal battlefield might not be able to defeat any of these three people, mainly because the general quality of Lu Bu's soldiers was far inferior to that of Jingzhou soldiers. If you want to recruit them, you can only capture them alive, and the premise of wanting to capture them alive is to defeat them first.