The unexpected blow made Cao De stunned, he never thought that the strong bow and crossbow oxbow that Cao Cao painstakingly spent a lot of manpower and material resources to research and manufacture would be destroyed so easily by one of the New Han Army.

What made Cao De have an invisible fear was that the rocket shot by Wen Chou, the general of the New Han Army, didn't know what it was carrying, and it would actually burst out with sparks, and those sparks were like magic fires, once they splashed on his soldiers, they couldn't be extinguished. One by one, in the blink of an eye, they became burning men, wailing, screaming, making his wall a sea of hellfire and a miserable cloud in an instant.

At this time, Cao De also saw very clearly, seeing that the New Han Army had advanced before the wall, and the sappers of the New Han Army were quickly removing the traps and traps they had placed before the wall, and were destroying the deer and horses they had arranged.

At this time, Cao De knew that he should give an order to the sergeants below, order the sergeants to prepare for battle, and give a blow to the Xinhan army outside the wall, so that they could not safely clear the obstacles and kill before the wall. Then, inform the Cao soldiers of the Cao army in the area of Wanzhongling to kill from the secret passage of the mountains and forests, besiege the new Han army in front of the eye, and defeat them.

However, Cao Cao was tantamount to being fixed at this time, his mouth was a little stiff, and when the words came to his mouth, he couldn't shout. The chaotic scene, the frightened Cao soldiers, crying and scurrying, intent on extinguishing the fire on their bodies. Under such circumstances, how could Cao De give the order to put his sergeants on guard for an attack?

What made him even more annoyed was that almost all the crossbows and bullbows placed on the wall were burned. A raging fire is burning. But, that damn enemy general Wen Chou. At the moment, he kept shooting rockets that could ignite the fire at his wall.

Cao De's heart was dripping blood, and he couldn't bear to give the order to let his soldiers risk their lives to attack the New Han army advancing in front of the pass. For the more men and horses he gathered at the wall, the more soldiers would be affected by the rocket.

Cao De also wanted to, so he immediately opened the gate and led the army out to fight for a while, but he knew that it was difficult to win a frontal battle with the New Han army, especially since he had just sent a signal to let the Cao army army near Wanzhongling attack. It is definitely impossible for them to kill and cooperate with themselves to attack the New Han Army in a short period of time. Leading an army into battle by oneself is tantamount to fighting alone, which is extremely unfavorable to one's own army.

"Retreat! Abandon the Ten Thousand Mountains and retreat to the next level! ”

Cao De gritted his teeth and ordered, then turned around and walked down the wall.

Cao De knew that there was no point in holding on any longer, and if he lost the weapon to effectively fight the New Han Army, he would be completely suppressed by the New Han Army. Don't say anything else. With just the kind of rocket of the New Han Army, he couldn't deal with it. If their military horses stay on the wall any longer, I'm afraid that Wen Chou, the general of the New Han Army, alone will be enough to use that kind of rocket. Burn them all to the ground.

Rather than continue to deal with the New Han Army here, it is better to take the initiative to retreat to another pass behind, and then rearrange the rockets of the New Han Army.

At least. Cao De believes that their crossbow bull bow. It can no longer be placed on a conspicuous wall. Because the crossbow can be projectile, it also has a long range. There is no need to place it on the wall to become the target of the kind of rocket of the New Han Army. Placing the crossbow and oxbow in the pass will make it more hidden, and use them to attack and kill the new Han army that comes forward. However, it all has to be experimented, and there is time for him to rearrange.

Therefore, Cao De simply abandoned the Wanzhongling Pass without the slightest hesitation.

Of course, he followed and ordered people to use the sound of bells and drums to signal to the men and horses of the Cao army's army village on the other mountain ridge that they had retreated, and asked them to act according to the situation.

Wen Chou and Li Ling, who originally thought that they would have to go through a hard battle, did not expect Cao Jun to be so simple and took the initiative to abandon Wanzhongling. They themselves didn't expect that the power of this kind of fire oil arrow that Liu Yi said would be so great, and a small fist-sized oil bag could ignite a fire that Cao Jun could not extinguish.

In fact, this time they didn't ask for many fire oil arrows from Liu Yi, and Wen Chou had almost finished shooting, if Cao De could hold on for a while, he would be able to hold on.

However, Wen Chou and Li Ling did not have much joy about the lucky capture of Wanzhongling this time, because they all knew that Cao Jun would definitely grow wiser, and it was absolutely impossible for them to have the opportunity to win the next level so easily. And the future, there are still many passes, and the retreat of the Cao army at each level means that there will be more Cao army defenders in the next level, and when the time comes, the depth front will be longer, the more problems they will have to consider, and the more difficulties they will face.

This area, up to Zhongmu County, is full of mountains, dense mountains and forests, and it is very easy to hide the army, and under the condition that the Cao army has been prepared, it may be ambushed by the Cao army at any time. Therefore, even if they now occupy Wanzhongling, the main traffic pass, Wen Chou and Li Ling do not dare to continue to move forward easily. Without removing the Cao army's military village in the nearby mountains and ensuring the safety of their own army's flanks, Wen Chou and Li Ling could not rashly go deep alone.

In particular, when there are logistics troops coming one after another, they must also ensure the safety of the rear military horses.

Next, they were going to launch an attack on the nearby Cao Jun military village, and inform the lord Liu Yi in the back, so that Liu Yi could make the next action arrangement, and consider how many additional main forces of the army should be sent as their rear military horses.

The three routes of the New Han Army marched together, so the rear army horses had to be divided into three ways to respond, and how many military horses each road had to send had to be determined by Liu Yi.

The New Han army went out of the pass and forced the Cao army, and the other two vanguard armies did not have the same good luck as Wen Chou and Li Ling.

The New Han Army of Yan Liang, which marched from the Tiger Pass, suffered a surprise attack by the Cao army when it advanced downstream along the bank of the Yellow River. A few days later, Yan Liangcai led his army to seize a crossing on the bank of the Yellow River, which had to be helped by the Jizhou army on the other side of the river. took a warship from the other side to kill, so that Yan Liang succeeded. Captured a ferry camp of Cao's army.

But go on. Cao's army was strong and clear, making it difficult for the New Han army to advance.

Of course, if the New Han Army had to advance forcibly regardless of its own casualties, it did not mean that it could not advance quickly, but the Cao Army was also quite tenacious and fought to the death without retreating, bringing too many casualties to the New Han Army. And every war. The most basic requirement of the New Han Army is to win the final victory with the least casualties, and when he knows that the attack will cause great casualties, as the chief general, he still gives an order to ask his soldiers to attack strongly, which is to make a mistake.

Battles are fought by people, and how to fight them is something that people come up with, and there will always be a way to win the final victory. Why rush to attack? Why do you have to trade human lives for the final victory?

From the very beginning, Leo Yi came up with all kinds of tactics, as well as constantly developing newer weapons and equipment, and its purpose. I just don't want to be like those wars in history, and I don't want to be like the wars in history, where every time the world is in turmoil. It is necessary to calm the world at the cost of damaging the vitality of a large number of Han people.

Therefore, whenever the New Han Army encountered a difficult war. will be cautious and will not be in a hurry. It's important to rack your brains about how you can win with the least amount of money.

Of course, to be able to do this, it is natural to have the support of a strong imperial court, to be able to give enough support to the soldiers below, to be able to give people to people, to give things to things, and to be able to quickly provide them with whatever they want. For the New Han Army, there is only one requirement, to win the final victory at the least cost.

Therefore, Yan Liang's military horse, in the face of the situation that it was difficult to advance again, was very determined to stabilize first and did not rush to forge ahead.

In addition, the New Han army accompanied by Xu Rong and Hua Xiong, who left Xingyang Pass, encountered a strong enemy on the way to Changshe.

Xiahoudun actually personally led a military horse to inspect the area of Changshe.

Because Cao Cao had suffered a big loss in Xingyang Pass, Cao Cao also attached great importance to this aspect of the situation. Therefore, he also specially ordered Xiahoudun to pay attention to the situation in the Xingyang area, and beware that the New Han army would suddenly kill Changshe from the Xingyang area.

In this area, the topography is even more complicated, because of the relationship between the Songshan Mountain Range, those dense forests are almost equal to primeval forests. It is more conducive to the hidden army, so Xiahoudun did not dare to take it lightly, and focused on letting the defenders of Changshe always be vigilant and beware of the sneak attack of the New Han Army.

In order to rest assured, he deliberately led an army to inspect the passes in the area around Xingyang, and urged the Cao army in those passes to seize the time to improve their customs defenses.

In this way, Xiahoudun's military horses, and Xu Rong and Huaxiong's military horses, met in a dense forest, and the two armies immediately started a big battle.

Xu Rong had a battle with Xiahoudun back then, Xu Rong was almost killed, and when he met Xiahoudun again, it was natural that the enemy was very angry when he saw each other.

In addition, when Hua Xiong showed off his martial arts in Bishui Guan, it coincided with Xiahoudun's absence, which made Guan Yu famous in the world. For this matter, Xiahoudun was actually a little unconvinced in his heart, and he always felt that if he was in Bishui Pass at that time, he would definitely be able to destroy Huaxiong, then the person who became famous in the world was him, and there was nothing to do with Guan Yu.

Xiahoudun and Xu Rong, who had made great progress in martial arts, fought again, Xu Rong was naturally invincible, but Huaxiong and Xu Rong together, the two generals and Xiahoudun tore apart.

As a result, the three generals fought for nearly 100 rendezvous, and in the end, the two generals were still defeated by Xiahoudun and led the army to retreat.

This battle made Xiahoudun feel very happy, and finally found a kind of pleasure to raise his eyebrows.

However, in the face of the retreating New Han army step by step, he did not dare to wave his army to chase and kill, because he still had lingering fears about the defeat in front of Xingyang Pass, and he was worried about being ambushed again.

In this way, the three-way vanguard of the New Han Army, only Wen Chou and Li Ling's military horses, took the lead and seized the advance of Wanzhongling from Bishui Pass.

The situation of the vanguard army from all walks of life was quickly transmitted back to Liu Yi, who was still in the Tiger Prison, and Liu Yi did not say anything, and he was also psychologically prepared for such a situation.

After all, Cao Cao has been in business for so many years, and it is impossible to easily let his army advance in a big way and easily kill Xu Du. If you easily let your army kill Xu Du, then it will not be Cao Cao, the hero of that generation. There is no need for Liu Yi to send troops to attack Cao Cao for a long time, Cao Cao can be destroyed a long time ago.

When Liu Yi went to Guanzhong to rescue Emperor Xian, he was put on a position by Cao Cao, although it was not a loss, but after that incident, Liu Yi knew that it would not be easy to be an enemy of Cao Cao. Therefore, Liu Yi will not be careless to Cao Cao because he took advantage of Cao Cao many times earlier.

Now, the army of the New Han Dynasty sent troops from Luoyang has put on a posture of attacking Cao Cao in a big way, so that it is enough to contain Cao Cao in Xu Du, so that he does not dare to easily transfer troops from under his nose to other battlefields.

Therefore, Liu Yi's heart is very calm now, and he is not in a hurry to seize greater achievements, and first waits for progress on other battlefields to disrupt Cao Cao's military spirit before considering further attacks. In the meantime, Liu Yi asked the generals below to study in detail the strategy and tactics of capturing Cao's Pass, and asked the generals to formulate a more perfect attack plan before letting them attack. Be sure to let them be fully sure of every step and reduce the casualties of their New Han Army as much as possible.

I believe that at this time, all military horses have also received the news that Liu Yi sent troops from Tiger Prison Pass, and I believe that soon, all military horses will also take action, and they will never be left behind.

In fact, it is.

Qin Jie, Wei Yan, and Chen, who came out of Wancheng, to the military horses of their subordinates, they first killed Xiangcheng and caught the Cao army guarding Xiangcheng by surprise. They immediately expanded their results, first let the army contain the more than 200,000 Cao troops in Xiangcheng, and then sent troops to attack other towns without stopping, and asked for the support of the cavalry of Ma Chao's department in front of Runan City, helping them to raid several Cao army towns in a company.

In this way, the area of two or three hundred miles from Wancheng to Xiangcheng was completely in the hands of the New Han Army. Swept away the remnants of Cao's army in this large area. In this way, the road between the two cities is secured.

Subsequently, the mountains of armaments piled up in Wancheng began to be continuously transported to Xiangcheng, and the logistics preparations for the onslaught on Xiangcheng were prepared.

When the news of Liu Yi's dispatch from Jiaohu Pass reached the ears of Qin Jie, Wei Yan, Chen Zhi and others, they were also ready to storm Xiangcheng.

In order to be able to capture Xiangcheng smoothly, they also specially invited Ma Chao to overwhelm the formation, and this siege battle was about to break out. (To be continued.) )