Preparing for a night attack on the camp of the New Han Army, because of Manpang's doubts, Yu Ban was like an earlier estimate of the New Han Army's march route, but in the end it was still unsuccessful, and did not reach an agreement on the action of sneaking up on the New Han Army.

In fact, sometimes it depends on whether they can grasp the fleeting opportunity, and at the critical moment, they can make up their minds, and when they have decisions and plans, they must take action. Otherwise, even if you have an idea, it will only be a thought, and in the end nothing will be accomplished.

That, let's not talk about whether the New Han Army is as Man Pang questioned, even if the New Han Army can really do it without leaking a drop and not give them the slightest chance to attack the camp, but they must also send some military horses to harass the camp of the New Han Army, so that the New Han Army's military horses will not be at peace all night, so that at least they can be a tired enemy's army.

Sometimes, you can't take it for granted and forget it. It's like someone who has a lot of ideas, but they always think too much, and when they think that if they do something according to the plan, and then in the process, all kinds of problems may arise, and when they think of the difficulties of the problem, it seems that they can't solve it, then they simply overturn the whole plan, and from the beginning, they don't do anything. How can you succeed? During the war between the two armies, if they have an idea, but fail to make up their minds to do it, then in the end they will definitely face an unfavorable situation of being restrained everywhere.

The New Han Army is also human, although it has always seemed to be winning, but it is not really invincible. When their bows and arrows were shot on the body of the New Han Army, the soldiers of the New Han Army would also be in pain. Even if you can't shoot through the armor of the soldiers of the New Han Army, you will still be shocked by the impact of the arrows and suffer internal injuries. is like Qin Jie's sword and shield soldiers. They used their flesh and blood to resist the onslaught of their cavalry, but in fact, the damage to them was also very great. A soldier, they definitely don't have that kind of physical strength to block the enemy's charge in a row, at most three or two times, and if they are hit by the cavalry, they can only end up in a situation of hatred.

This time, Qin Jie's vanguard troops, he did not carry the necessary thistles of the New Han Army's infantry army, they had to march quickly, just 2,000 cavalry, and the cavalry had to be responsible for carrying the spare military rations of the whole army. Where can I carry that hard-to-carry tribulus terrestris? Therefore, everything was full of utopian dreams, so that Yu Ban and other soldiers missed an opportunity to attack the camp of the New Han Army in vain.

Of course, not to mention the attack, Qin Jie's New Han Army, after a day or two of rapid marching, was going to fight with them as soon as it arrived, which was indeed a tired division for Qin Jie's New Han Army. Plus. Although the tens of thousands of Cao troops who repelled Yu Ban were defeated, the New Han Army also suffered losses and attrition, even if there were not too many soldiers of the New Han Army who were directly killed, there were still one or two thousand people. At least, the wounded soldiers numbered in the tens of thousands, nearly 10,000 in the whole army. A fighting style like Qin Jie. Without casualties among soldiers, that is unlikely.

Therefore, after Yu Ban returned to Xiangcheng. Dispatch the army again and have another night battle with Qin Jie. Qin Jie was afraid that he couldn't bear it. In fact, if Yu Ban was able to lead his army to attack again, Qin Jie probably would not fight them again, so he had to retreat overnight, waiting for the main army of the New Han Army to arrive before making plans.

Even, don't talk about this, just talk about this battle during the day. Among the generals in Xiangcheng, it was clear that the New Han Army had only one vanguard force more than 20 miles away from Xiangcheng. Within a radius of dozens of miles from Xiangcheng, there was no force that could threaten their Xiangcheng. Why did they send more than twice as many soldiers as the New Han Army to attack? Why don't you send 100,000 troops and horses? Not to send 200,000 troops?

In the face of the 200,000 Cao army, Qin Jie is afraid that he will have to order the army to turn around and flee immediately, where can he dare to form a formation against the enemy?

You must know that the rabbit should do its best and be able to do it fully, why do you have to make two efforts?

Therefore, this defeat, although it is said that the tactics of the New Han Army are too unexpected, so that Yu Ban and them are defeated. However, they never thought that why didn't they directly use the army and use the strength of the entire Xiangcheng to destroy Qin Jie, a new Han army, in one fell swoop? If they really let them destroy Qin Jie, a soldier and horse, it will deal a great blow to the New Han Army, and it will definitely shake the whole New Han Army, and it may even hit the morale of the New Han Army.

But alas, this is not the case.

This night, Qin Jie was actually a little worried, even if he had sent countless scout spies to keep an eye on the movements of the Cao army in Xiangcheng and the Cao army in the direction of Runan, Qin Jie was still worried that the Cao army would come to attack his camp at night. Once it was attacked by Cao's army, the New Han army would probably be tired of responding to the battle, and it was afraid that it would have to break through and retreat overnight.

Qin Jie's night, in fact, really didn't dare to close his eyes.

It wasn't until dawn that he slowly closed his eyes for a while, but after a while, he was awakened by the chirping of some early birds.

As soon as he woke up, the first thing he did was to run to the high place in the camp to inspect the outside of the barracks, and found that there was no Cao army to attack, so he really put his mind at ease.

In this way, it was not until almost noon that the army of the New Han Army arrived, and the Cao army in Xiangcheng did not move. It seems that the defeat in the First World War has made Cao Jun lose his courage, and he didn't even dare to come to call for battle.

But the Cao army didn't dare to fight, and as soon as the army of the New Han Army arrived, they were not polite to them.

Especially Wei Yan, as soon as he heard that Qin Jie and Cao Jun had a big battle and won a complete victory, he didn't want to be resigned, so he immediately discussed with Chen Zhi, and immediately led the army to kill outside Xiangcheng, set up camp less than five miles away from the city, and immediately led a group of men and horses to fight in front of Xiangcheng.

Li Dian fought again, but in the face of Wei Yan, who was better in martial arts, Li Dian was not as easy as when he fought against Qin Jie, it was just more than ten rendezvous, Li Dian almost died, and was directly slashed off the horse by Wei Yan, if he didn't run fast, abandoned the horse and fled, and Wei Yan's riding skills were indeed not very good, and Li Dian's personal soldiers would desperately save each other, so let Li Dian escape back to Xiangcheng. Otherwise, Li Dian will become the first military general of the era to fall in this decisive battle with the New Han Army.

Other than that. At the same time, Chen Zhi also fought against Cao's army from another city gate, and Yu Ban went out of battle. However, Yu Ban was actually no match for Chen Dao, and the two generals fought for forty or fifty rendezvous, and Yu Ban retreated weakly.

In this way, after the confrontation between the generals, Cao Jun was deeply disturbed by the fact that the generals of the New Han Army who appeared casually could win the battle with their commanders of the three armies. It hit the morale of Cao Jun even more. had to hang up the exemption card and did not dare to fight again.

The Cao army in Xiangcheng did not dare to fight, and Wei Yan and Chen Dao simply arranged their troops. Xiangcheng faintly formed a situation of encircling three and missing one. Began to launch a siege war against Xiangcheng.

However, the baggage has not yet arrived, and it can only be tentatively attacked for the time being. And Xiangcheng is indeed a city with high walls and thick walls, and in a short period of time, I am afraid that it will be difficult for the New Han army to capture it.

The Cao army in Xiangcheng, they naturally can't be too passive to defend the city, and they are also racking their brains to find a way to see how to repel the new Han army outside the city, thinking about how to ensure the safety of Xiangcheng.

They are all a little worried that Xiangcheng will be lost if it is defended for a long time, so. They decided that they would defeat the Xinhan army that had repelled the city outside the city no matter what. But how can this be attacked?

In the end, the result of the discussion was to immediately send someone to Xudu to ask for help. Ask Cao Cao to send another general to lead an army to help. At the same time, fast horses were also sent to Runan. Inform Zhang Liao, who was guarding the town in Runan, of the situation in Xiangcheng. I would like to ask Zhang Liao to lead the army under his command before the enemy army attacks Runan City. Rushed to Xiangcheng and joined the Cao army who Xu Du came to support. cooperated with their military horses in Xiangcheng and wiped out more than 200,000 New Han troops outside the city in one fell swoop.

Their appetite is a bit big, but it is normal to have such thoughts, because this New Han army is a lone army that has penetrated more than 200 miles into their sphere of influence, and its supply lines are too long. If they could concentrate their superior forces to attack the 200,000 or so horses of the New Han Army, they might not have no hope of victory.

But how could the world be as they expected? And how can they do what they want?

Because almost at the same time as the military horses of Wancheng, there were also military horses from Xiangyang, Jingzhou.

Guan Yu had already assembled almost 200,000 Jingzhou troops, and as soon as the time came, he immediately broke through the Xiangjiang River.

In order to cross the river, Guan Yu asked Huang Zu, who had returned to Jiangxia, to transfer a part of the navy to him, mainly to requisition boats and transport troops across the river.

Compared with the Xinye area, the Cao army on the Xiangjiang River has fewer troops left, because this area is too close to Xiangyang in Jingzhou, and too far away from their Xudu court. If there is anything, it is difficult to know the situation at the first time, and in addition, the defense line of the Xiangjiang River is longer, and Cao Cao does not have so many troops to defend along the river, so the Cao soldiers on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River did not cause much resistance to the New Han Army under Guan Yu, who crossed the river.

In addition, Guan Yu asked Ma Chao to help him seize Runan first, and then develop in depth throughout the Yuzhou Plain, echoing the New Han army and horses under Zhang Fei's headquarters along the Yangtze River to the south.

Therefore, when 100,000 Xiliang iron horsemen crossed the Xiangjiang River and set foot on Yuzhou with iron hooves, the entire Cao army in Yuzhou was shaken.

The Cao army of Xinye City simply fled from the wind, and did not dare to defend the city at all.

And Zhang Liao, who was in Runan City, learned that the army of the New Han Army had finally crossed the river, and he did not dare to lead the army to meet the battle easily. Because he knew that in the southern part of Yuzhou, the areas of Zaoyang, Yiyang, and Pingchun, there was no danger to defend at all, and it was simply difficult to resist the advance of the New Han Army based on those areas. Unless, he thinks that the Cao army he leads is strong enough to not be afraid of the New Han army and dare to fight a decisive battle with the New Han army at any time, otherwise, he must get a stronghold and defend the city, and he can't attack easily.

Of course, Zhang Liao didn't do nothing, what he had to do was to collect the Cao troops who had withdrawn from all over the country as much as possible, and immediately reorganize those Cao troops, so that those Cao soldiers could directly join his Runan garrison ranks, and add a little more bargaining chips for himself to defend the city.

And when Zhang Liao was busy collecting the Cao soldiers who had fled back, he received a request for help from Xiangcheng, and asked him to send troops to attack the New Han army in front of Xiangcheng, and first destroyed the more than 200,000 New Han troops in front of their Xiangcheng.

To be honest, Runan is not too far from Xiangcheng, which is equivalent to the distance from Xuchang to Xiangcheng.

If it was Zhang Liao in the past, he would inevitably seize the opportunity and take advantage of the fact that the New Han Army had not yet killed Runan for a while, and poured his elite to Xiangcheng to fight this battle.

But it's a pity that the current Zhang Liao is very different from the historical Zhang Liao. Zhang Liao in history, after he surrendered to Cao Cao, he served Cao Cao wholeheartedly and had no two hearts. But what about Zhang Liao now? I'm afraid that in response to that sentence, people are in Cao Ying's heart in Han. He usually pays more attention to the situation of Gao Shun and others, the brother of the New Han Army, and pays attention to the various battles of the New Han Army.

Of course, most of the time, Zhang Liao is indeed a little depressed, in Cao Cao's army, he can only be in a professional spirit, do his own thing, for Cao Cao in front of the performance of merit or something, he never thought about it. In particular, whenever he thought of the tense situation between Cao Cao and the New Han Dynasty, and that he might have to face the New Han army sooner or later, and to engage the New Han army, he would feel at a loss and not know what to do.

In particular, when Zhang Liao remembered that when he was attacked by Cao Cao and Liu Bei, Liu Yi and Gao Shun risked death to save each other, he felt that he had this sincere feeling of saving his life, and it was difficult for him to really fight to the death with the New Han Army. Now, Manpang and Yu Ban asked him to send troops to help in the war? Zhang Liao hardly thought about it.

Will not grant the order of the foreign monarch, even if it is Cao Cao's order, Zhang Liao is afraid that he will have to think twice, not to mention the request of Man Pang and Yu Ban and others?

Therefore, Zhang Liao just ordered someone to reply that he was in Runan City, and he had to face the attack of Guan Yu and Ma Chao, the generals of the New Han Dynasty, and it was difficult to draw troops to help in the battle. Runan cannot afford to lose, if they repel the New Han army, please send troops to aid Yunyun......

Anyway, in a word, Zhang Liao's heart didn't want to send troops to help the war. He didn't reveal their plans to the Xinhan army, knowing that they were already worthy of them. It's just that with Zhang Liao's loyal character, he naturally won't do that.

In fact, Zhang Liao is such a person.

Cao Cao ordered him to guard the city of Runan. In fact, he also guessed in his heart that it was because Cao Cao didn't trust him enough at all, so he guarded the city of Xiangnan, which he knew was difficult to defend.

But he still let him defend it, that is to say, he and Runan are actually equivalent to chess pieces abandoned by Cao Cao.

It's just that no matter what Cao Cao thinks, Zhang Liao's heart, even if he is towards the New Han Dynasty, will still defend Runan for Cao Cao. He already has the will to die, at most, to thank Cao Cao with a death, to thank the world, to tell Liu Yi his determination, his mind.

Therefore, if the New Han army arrived, Zhang Liao would have to do his best. It really didn't work, the New Han Army had to storm Runan City, and he could only repay Cao Cao with death and come to Liu Yi Mingzhi. (To be continued.) )