Liu Qi came to the Zhongjun tent, and when he saw that everyone had arrived, he said with a smile: "The general has received a report from the scout, Cao Cao has already led the army from Yuxian, and will return to Da'an at noon tomorrow, I don't know what plan you have to break the enemy?" ”

As a military advisor, Pei Qian naturally wanted to speak first, but he stood up and said slowly: "The last general thinks that he can show the enemy weakness. ”

"Oh? Let's talk about it specifically. A different color flashed in Liu Qi's eyes, and he said with a smile.

"Nuo, general, the last general thinks that Cao Cao has always looked down on our Jingzhou army, and this time we deliberately show the enemy weakness to further reduce their vigilance.

"What do you think?" Liu Qi glanced at the others and said with a light smile.

Liu Qi saw that everyone else also nodded in agreement, so he smiled and said: "Wen Xing's words are exactly what I want, this time we will give him a humble and arrogant face." Cao Cao is not an ordinary person, and the arrival of the army this time must have expected us to be prepared. Cao Cao saw that I was not in order, and the number was small, and he did not know the courage of the chief, although he knew that our army was deceitful, he would definitely come, and then I would break it with an ambush, and I would be able to slightly frustrate its sharpness. Then our army will be able to defeat Cao Cao again. ”

When the generals heard this, they were all impressed, so they went to prepare according to Liu Qi's request.

At noon the next day, Liu Qi really found out that Cao Cao's army had arrived in Anzhong, but Cao Cao did not take the initiative to attack, but instead stationed troops and set up camp.

Liu Qi liked to read the Three Kingdoms before crossing over, so he naturally knew this allusion, and couldn't help but sneer secretly in his heart, so he sent Wei Yan to lead his five hundred cavalry to provoke, asking for defeat or victory.

Wei Yan received the order, and immediately led five hundred cavalry to Cao Ying, shouting loudly; "Cao Xuan, I am the lieutenant of Liu Jingzhou's tent, Yiyang Wei Yan, dare to come out and fight me?"

However, it was said that Cao Cao led his troops to besiege Yuxian, after more than a month, and suffered countless losses, but he still could not capture Yuxian, and heard that Yuan Shao was ready to send people to besiege Xudu, so he waved his troops and retreated, but he did not expect that Liu Qi, the eldest son of Liu Jingsheng in Jingzhou, led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and rushed to Anzhong through a hurried march. Guarding dangerous places, setting up antlers all over them, blocking their own way back.

"I really didn't expect that Liu Jingsheng's son of the dog would be able to march four hundred miles in three days, such a speed can be compared to Zhao Hao, a famous general in the Warring States Period, how can a waste like Liu Qi do this? It's really confusing. Cao Cao's face was surprised, and he talked with Xun You about the incredible Liu Qi.

However, Cao Cao was not in a hurry, because he already had a plan to break the enemy in his heart, so he did not take the initiative to fight after coming to Anzhong, but set up a camp and garrisoned it.

At this moment, Cao Cao suddenly heard that Liu Qi led his troops to provoke, and naturally knew that the other party was deliberately provocative, so he ignored it, but then he thought that he could just use this to confuse the other party and help break the enemy, so he ordered Xu Chu to go to battle, and explained that although he could pursue, he must not ride deep.

Xu Chu agreed, so he led three thousand cavalry to Cao Ying, and when he saw that Wei Yan's army was in disarray, he couldn't help but laugh at the other party's incompetence in his heart, so he stepped forward and shouted: "Prime Minister's nickname, is it also something that a nameless rat like you can shout?" Don't go, fight with me Xu Chu for three hundred rounds. ”

After finishing speaking, he brandished his broadsword and rushed towards Wei Yan's army in the lead. The three thousand cavalry behind him also followed, pressing towards Wei Yan's army like a dark cloud.

Wei Yan stood still, and after the enemy army came to the range of the bow and arrow, he immediately ordered the arrow to be released, and immediately saw that the arrow was like a flying locust, and quickly fell into Xu Chu's army, although the power of these bows and arrows was not strong, but it also shot dozens of cavalry off the horse's back, and these fallen cavalry were suddenly trampled into a blurred flesh and blood by the horse's hooves behind them.

When Xu Chu saw that there were casualties, he was immediately furious and chased after him even more.

Wei Yan smiled faintly and immediately ordered a retreat.

"Haha, Wei Yan, I thought you had any skills? I escaped like this, but how can it be so easy for you to escape if you killed my people? If I don't let you pay a little price, I won't call Xu Chu. ”

Xu Chu glared and scolded while directing the army to chase closely.

Wei Yan led the army to escape from the land of three miles, and when he came to a forest, he no longer fled, but quietly waited for the arrival of the pursuers.

Xu Chu chased a short distance, saw a jungle in front of him, and thought of Prime Minister Cao Cao's explanation, so he was about to return, but he heard Wei Yan say: "Xu Chu, do you dare to fight with me?" ”

Xu Chu said angrily when he heard this: "Didn't I know that you had laid an ambush here? But even if there are 10,000 ambushes like you, the generals will swallow them all for you. Then he ordered the pursuit to continue.

After Wei Yan waited for Xu Chu's army to approach, he immediately ordered the army to disperse to both sides, revealing the antlers that had been prepared behind his back, and then ordered the crossbowmen hiding behind the antlers to attack.

"Huh? It turns out that you have laid antlers and crossbowmen here, which is really shameless. Xu Chu scolded angrily while striking the crossbow arrow.

I only heard a sharp sound of breaking the air, Xu Chu's cavalry fell to the ground one after another, and the originally menacing cavalry suddenly panicked, desperately dodging the crossbow arrows that broke through the air.

These crossbow arrows are all fired mechanically, and they are several times more powerful than ordinary bows and arrows. Hugh wants to say that ordinary soldiers, even horses, can shoot to death, which is the biggest nemesis of cavalry.

Therefore, Xu Chu's army immediately fell into a panic, and the originally neat march immediately became chaotic.

"The back team becomes the front team, and retreat quickly." Although Xu Chu was heartbroken that the two hundred warriors under his command had died in this way, he still decisively ordered the withdrawal of the army, because if he did not retreat, he would definitely cause greater losses.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Wei Yan ordered the cavalry scattered on both sides to attack immediately.

Although the number of these 500 cavalry was small, they were rampant in the chaotic Xu Chu cavalry, and soon cut Xu Chu's army into two sections.

After the cavalry, there were 200 troops led by Wei Yan, these troops were the elite of Wei Yan's training for many years, and they could fight both on horse and foot, and now they were all carrying spears as infantry, and launched an attack on the nearly 300 cavalry who were surrounded.

I could only hear the sound of knives and guns entering the flesh, accompanied by wails from time to time.

"Kill." Wei Yan brandished his broadsword, drew a graceful arc, and directly cut off the head of a cavalryman in front of him, ignoring the blood splashed on his face, the tiger roared and slashed at another enemy soldier.

Wei Yan's killing efficiency is very high, his hits are very accurate, and he can always cut off the opponent's head with a single knife, so that the opponent has no room for resistance.

"I really didn't expect this Wei Yan to have such a good sword technique, it turned out to be a warrior, it seems that I am underestimated this time." Xu Chu stared at the murderous Wei Yan, and he really wanted to slap his horse and fight to the death with him, but when he saw the defeated soldiers, he remembered Prime Minister Cao Cao's explanation, so he had to forcibly resist such an impulse, rode back, and killed an enemy cavalryman.

Although Xu Chu was unwilling, because his morale was taken away, he had to grit his teeth and lead the army to retreat, and he could no longer care about the 300 cavalry who were surrounded. Because once he led the army to kill, he could only cause more losses to the prime minister.

When the encircled cavalry saw that the main general was about to retreat, they were desperate and threw down their weapons and surrendered.

Wei Yan no longer pursued, collected the defeated soldiers of Cao's army, laughed and waved his army to retreat.

Although Liu Qi's estimate of Cao Cao was wrong this time, and he almost made himself useless, but fortunately, in order to implement the strategy of arrogance against the enemy, Cao Cao finally ordered Xu Chu to send troops and sent Liu Qi a small victory.

In this battle, Wei Yan killed more than 200 Cao troops and surrendered nearly 300, all of which were elite cavalry, which can be said to be a victory, which greatly boosted the morale of Liu Qi's army.

"Hehe, this is the first time in my Liu Qi's two lives that I have commanded a victory, and I actually defeated Cao Wei's famous general Xu Chu, which can be regarded as a good start for my Liu Qi in the first battle of the fledgling."

When Liu Qi heard that Wei Yan had won, he was overjoyed, and personally went out of the camp to greet him, and ordered Cao Sima Zhi to write down Wei Yan's merits, and ordered Wei Yan to be rewarded with 100 catties of gold and 100 horses of silk.

Wei Yan hurriedly thanked him, and distributed the reward to the soldiers, who were even more enthusiastic, gearing up, ready to find an opportunity to teach each other some lessons.

Liu Qi encouraged everyone a few more words, and then made arrangements for the next battle, Wei Yan and the others did not dare to slack off, and immediately made arrangements.

said that Xu Chu fled back with the defeated soldiers, and he was ashamed to ask Cao Cao for his guilt.

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Victory and defeat are commonplace, Zhong Kang does not have to blame himself, and this defeat is a strategy specially arranged by the prime minister to pride the enemy, then Liu Qi Xiao'er won a battle, he must be complacent, do not put our army in his eyes, the prime minister will use the other party's contempt to lure the enemy, tomorrow will be able to break the thief soldiers, this is the art of war called 'humble and arrogant'." ”

Xu Chu hurriedly said: "The prime minister is clever, but the end will not be as good." ”

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Zhong Kang, the prime minister is going to use you, you wait until night, secretly lead the army to open up a road in the rocks next to the Anzhong Pass, and we will secretly transport the military assets, the thieves must think that our army has escaped, and then lead the army to chase me, I am convenient to lay an ambush at the exit, and when the thieves chase after them, they will be able to defeat the thief army." ”

"No." Xu Chu immediately led a team and ordered them to prepare tools early, and excavated mountain rocks overnight, and it only took most of the night to dig out a mountain road.

After Xu Chu completed the task, he immediately reported to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao sent the general to retreat first with the grain and grass baggage, but he and Xu Chu quietly laid an ambush, preparing to attack Zhang Xiu and Liu Qi's army.

At that time, Yu Ban didn't know that at this time, Liu Qi had already quietly crossed the Anzhong Pass with Wei Yan and others with the main force, and laid an ambush not far away, leaving only Liu Shi to lead 3,000 troops, falsely playing his own banner, and staying in the camp of Anzhong Pass.

In fact, Hugh said that it was forbidden, even Cao Cao couldn't imagine that someone could guess his intentions and make arrangements in advance.

Of course, this is not to say how strong Liu Qi is, but that he is a traverser, and he knows the ins and outs of this battle well, and he has long known that Cao Cao will chisel through the mountains and rocks overnight to lure the enemy, so he has made arrangements for Cao Cao's strategy.

Yu Ban led the grain guards to quietly move forward through the newly dug mountain road, because this time it was his own newly dug mountain road, and Cao Cao had already expected that Liu Qi's army would definitely be guarding Anzhong, so Yu Ban relaxed his vigilance and did not send scouts to explore the road at all, which made it more convenient for Liu Qi to win and create a zào.