It's really not that Liu Yi was not surprised, and almost capsized in the gutter.

Think about it, the current situation in the world is good for the New Han army, and it is only a matter of time before Cao Cao is defeated. However, if Liu Yi did not order the army and horses to retreat more than 20 miles back to the mountains last night, then he would definitely have to be besieged by Cao's army under Chen Liucheng.

Liu Yi's current New Han Army is said to be a lot less, not much more, an army of more than 100,000. However, in the face of Cao's hundreds of thousands of military horses, the strength was much weaker.

However, the outnumbered number of troops was not the main reason for the impact of the battle, Liu Yi was confident that even if he only had these 100,000 New Han troops now, he would dare to fight with Cao's army of about 400,000. But the problem is that some of the lethal weapons that the New Han Army possessed, the Cao Army, also possessed. They didn't just have the strong-bowed oxbow that could be fired, they also had a bed crossbow that fired straight fire.

Moreover, Chen Liucheng has always been an important front-line town of Cao's army, and there must be a lot of storage in the city. Xiahoudun did not use it two days earlier, probably because he was not sure of victory, so he did not dare to move these weapons in the city to attack the camp of the New Han army.

Now, the Cao army's army suddenly arrives, then it will form an encirclement of the New Han army in front of Chen Liucheng, so that the New Han army is completely trapped in a passive defensive situation, so that the Cao army in Chen Liucheng can calmly transfer their offensive weapons to form an absolute suppression of the New Han army.

Anyway, some of the strategies and tactics commonly used by the New Han Army may be used by the Cao Army at this moment to counter the New Han Army.

Therefore, this withdrawal is extremely important.

Who called the New Han Army to fail to transport the baggage quickly? Suppressed by Cao Jun. That's also something that can't be helped.

Not only Liu Yi, but also Yan Liang and Xi Zhicai and other military generals and ministers also shouted for happiness, if it is one night later, their army and horses may fall into a certain death situation.

War is really careless, no matter when, we must wake up the spirit.

As you can imagine. In case Liu Yi's army and horses were destroyed, even Liu Yi himself would be in danger, and they, the ministers of the New Han Dynasty who followed Liu Yi, would not be spared.

Suddenly losing such an elite New Han army and an important pillar of the New Han Dynasty court, then the entire New Han Dynasty is in danger. Even, it is possible for Cao Cao's army to kill directly in Luoyang, because Luoyang's troops are indeed empty, and the armies from all walks of life are beyond their reach. It was difficult to cross such a long distance at once, return to Jingshi to defend the town, and repel the Cao army that killed Luoyang.

However, the crisis has not been resolved. Because Cao Ren and Zhang He's Cao army, when they arrived at Chenliu, they learned that the New Han army had suddenly retreated more than 20 miles to set up camp, and, from Xiahou Dun's mouth, it was learned that Liu Yi was in this New Han army, and the strength of the New Han army. There are only more than 100,000 people.

Cao Ren's use of troops is indeed more resourceful than Xiahoudun. He can be compared to Zhang Liao's wise general. What's more, although Zhang He is a little greedy, he can barely be regarded as a wise general. Therefore, Cao Ren and Zhang He, the two generals invariably perceived that there was an opportunity. They all deeply feel that this is a fleeting fighter.

So. They did not enter Chen Liucheng at all, and immediately waved their troops and killed directly at the barracks of the New Han Army. In addition, Xiahoudun was also invited to lead the elite of Chen Liu. And carried some baggage equipment, and hurried to participate in the war.

To tell the truth, although the New Han Army withdrew more than 20 miles from Chen Liucheng, because when it withdrew to the bank of the Yellow River, it was already dark, and although the camp was settled, many of the fortifications had not yet been arranged.

Therefore, when Cao's army arrived, the two armies could directly face each other.

As soon as the sky dawned that day, Cao Ren and Zhang He, regardless of the fatigue of their army returning to Xudu from Yanzhou and then rushing from Xudu to Chenliu, just let their soldiers rest for an hour or two in the second half of the night, and as soon as the sky was bright, they beat the drums of war.

In addition, after being busy in the second half of the night, Xiahoudun also delivered some powerful long-range strike weapons.

I saw that Cao's army of more than 300,000 troops had set up a big attack formation, and its army was spread over the area of dozens of miles in the direction of Chenliu, and the military flags were dense.

Cao Ren's use of troops is indeed much more powerful than Xiahoudun, his military formations are layered and orderly, and all branches of the army cooperate seamlessly, one by one, the phalanxes are slowly approaching the temporary military camp of the New Han Army.

Among them, the bed crossbows, crossbows, oxbows, and some trebuchets and other heavy weapons that Xiahoudun transported overnight were placed on some flat wooden wheeled carts, pulled by mules, and under the protection of their sergeants, they also slowly approached the camp of the New Han army with their large array.

It can be said that the Cao army is now, I am afraid that it is really borrowing from the military formation combat method of the New Han Army, and their generals are in the forefront of some black iron-clad pikemen. They did this in order to guard against the counterattack of the cavalry of the New Han Army, and used pikemen arrays to block the cavalry that might charge them.

They were followed by sword-and-shield men or axemen at intervals, as well as a large number of archers. Behind them was Cao Jun's cavalry.

Cao Ren dispatched in the center, and when the opportunity came, he waved his command flag, and the cavalry behind could rush out of it and directly rush into the temporary camp of the New Han Army.

Cao Ren arranged the formation like this and put on such a posture because he wanted to defeat the new Han army in front of him in one breath.

On the side of the New Han Army, Liu Yi and a group of ministers had already stood on a high place in the camp, looked at the military formation of the New Han Army, observed the situation of the Cao Army, and then decided whether to fight.

At this time, Yan Liang ran to ask for battle angrily. Naturally, the injury on his arm was not yet healed, but he was overjoyed when he heard the battle, threw away the bandage, and came to ask Leo Yi for battle in armor.

Liu Yi waved his hand, so that Yan Liang could not be impatient. He was now using a monocular telescope to observe the situation of Cao Jun's great array.

The large array of the Cao army has been pushed closer to the distance of about two miles in front of the camp of the New Han Army.

At this time, if the two armies are generally facing each other, and there is no telescope in Liu Yi's hand, then I am afraid that he will really follow the path of Cao Jun.

However, now in Liu Yi's eyes, he has clearly seen that in Cao Jun's military formation, there must be at least dozens or hundreds of bed crossbows and other heavy attack weapons.

Saw these. Liu Yi's heart couldn't help but sink, if he suppressed Cao Jun's bed crossbow without a bed crossbow with a longer range in his own army, if his own army still fought, it would really be equivalent to giving away people's heads. This battle can't be fought.

Of course, because of this large camp of the New Han Army. Basically, it is equivalent to sticking to the mountain, so the camp is located in a slightly higher place, and there is no need to worry about the threat of Cao Jun's bed crossbow, but among Cao Jun, there are also trebuchets with crossbows and oxbows. Once they are allowed to approach the big camp, this simple big camp will definitely not be able to stop the attack of the Cao army.

"My lord! Hurry up and give the order. Who have we been afraid of in the Han Army? Wait for Yan to lead the army to rush and kill for a while. Yan Liang saw that Liu Yi had not given the order for a long time, so he asked Zhan Dao again.

"Well, the whole army has passed my order, and no one is allowed to fight!" Liu Yi suddenly gave an order contrary to Yan Liang's request for battle.

"Huh? What the? Yan Liang said puzzled.

Liu Yi did not answer Yan Liang, and continued: "Order, our army is infantry, immediately withdraw from the back of the camp and retreat to the mountains." The cavalry assembled in front of the battalion. Make a posture to go out of the camp to fight against Cao's army. But they were not allowed to leave the front three hundred paces before the camp. ”

"Well, my lord. This, this is retreating? What's wrong with this? Yan Liang looked confused.

Liu Yi handed him the telescope and said, "General Yan, you are still too anxious, aren't you issued a telescope like you?" Why don't you take it out and take a good look at the situation in the enemy position? ”

After Liu Yi finished speaking, he said loudly: "If the enemy's infantry rushes forward, the cavalry will shoot at them with bows and arrows for a while, but each person can shoot a maximum of one pot of arrows." Immediately the whole army retreated into the main camp, and then abandoned the horses and walked from behind the camp into the mountains. This is the order and must be carried out, in addition. Some of the inconvenient baggage of our army is also gone. Now, execute the order now! ”

Cao Jun will not give time for Liu Yi to evacuate safely, so he has to withdraw immediately, this big battalion will definitely not be able to hold it.

In addition, because of the problem of evacuating from the back of the camp and going up the mountain, it was difficult to walk with a baggage, and it was also difficult for the cavalry's war horses to go up the mountain, so Liu Yi could only order the cavalry soldiers to give up their war horses.

In the New Han Army, most of the cavalry had a certain relationship with their cavalry, and if they did not give a special order, many cavalry soldiers were afraid that they were really reluctant to leave their horses.

Sure enough, as soon as Liu Yi gave this order, many generals were a little commotion.

"Lord, how can we leave our war horse to Cao Jun?"

"Lord, why don't I wait to kill the war horse, I can't leave it to Cao Jun."

Among them, there are some more ruthless guys, who propose to kill the war horses first, so as not to let Cao Jun get this batch of war horses.

"The war horse and things will be left to Cao Jun first, and it will not be ours in the future?" Liu Yi suppressed those voices and said: "That, now, it's not that we don't dare to fight with Cao Jun, nor is it defeated, but Cao Jun has learned our tactics and used our tactics to attack us in turn." But now, we have not yet transported the baggage weapons, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties and sacrifices, so we will avoid the edge of Cao's army first. ”

"Cao Jun is now dying, I believe it won't take a few days, when our army can all be driven out, then they will be dead."

Liu Yi explained and asked the generals to act as ordered immediately.

Liu Yi asked the men and horses of the women's army to escort a group of courtiers from the back of the camp first, and he and Yan Liang went to the front of the camp together.

More than 100,000 military horses are not withdrawn all at once. The Cao army is about to attack the camp, if it is not delayed for a while, so that the Cao army can see the situation of their army clearly, I am afraid that the cavalry of the Cao army will rush over immediately. When the time comes, the new Han border soldiers who have not had time to evacuate the camp will have to suffer.

Cao's army was already approaching the camp of the New Han army more than a mile away.

The door of the camp of the New Han Army was wide open, and a cavalry army opened according to Liu Yi's previous order. At the same time, Liu Yi and Yan Liang also went directly to the front of the cavalry formation.

Of course, there was a reason why Liu Yi let his military horses only go out of the camp within 300 steps from the camp, because, visually inspecting the terrain, within 300 steps of the camp, Cao Jun's bed crossbow should not be a threat, if their bed crossbow was radiated, at most it would only shoot on the slope in front of his sergeant.

At this time, the distance of more than a mile was already the range that Cao Jun's bed crossbow could hit. Liu Yi had already noticed that the bed crossbow in the Cao army had already begun to arrange a formation, and it was possible to attack the camp of the New Han Army at any time.

However, Cao Jun saw that the cavalry of the New Han Army had opened a military camp to set up a formation, and he was really stunned.

Liu Yi took the opportunity to shout: "Who is the Cao army in front of the army?" It won't be Xiahoudun like a lost dog, right? Hehe, Liu Yi is here, and he kind of came out to fight with me. ”

"Liu Yi traitor! The house arrest of the young emperor has bad intentions, and now he dares to raise troops to invade my Xu Du court? It is everyone's responsibility to kill traitors, so if you want to fight, come and fight! The whole army will attack me! ”

Cao Ren didn't wait for Xiahoudun or Zhang He to answer, he immediately gave the order to let his military horses advance slowly again.

Who doesn't know that Liu Yi is invincible in martial arts? Who will go head-to-head with Lewy? Now that Cao Ren is unforgiving, he can directly defeat Liu Yi's new Han army in one fell swoop, is it still necessary for him to compete with Liu Yi for a long time?

Therefore, Cao Ren didn't want to pay attention to Liu Yi's battle at all.

"They are all some gutless bandits, they don't even dare to fight with Liu, do you want to rely on more people?" Liu Yi saw that General Cao was not excited, so he couldn't make Cao Jun stop, so he had to continue to call the formation.

"Humph! Your New Han Army's millions of troops have launched an attack on our dynasty, isn't this bullying more than less? Leu! Don't think that our total strength is inferior to your New Han Dynasty, but I will wait for the soldiers of the Cao Army to fight to the death with your New Han Army. Not to be outdone, Cao Ren shouted.

"Haha, it's just a short time, your lord Cao Cao's general trend has gone, and Xu Du will be broken by my New Han Army sooner or later, what's the point of waiting here to fight to the death? It's better to surrender early. ”

"Let's talk about your victory over our army today!" Cao Ren responded.

Stomp, stomp!

Cao's neat military formation had already advanced to a mile or so.

Cao Ren gave an order, and the army stopped, but some of the soldiers in the Cao army's army were busy quickly.

The distance of about a mile is already the range that Cao Jun's trebuchets can threaten, and their crossbows and oxbows can directly threaten the barracks.

Liu Yi saw that Cao Ren didn't enter the oil and salt, but he was just preparing for the attack by himself, and there was no way to take Cao Jun.

If he and the others stayed any longer, they would only have to withstand Cao Jun's long-range attack.

This kind of tactical play was originally commonly used by the New Han Army, but now, it was used by Cao Jun to attack his own New Han Army, which did make Liu Yi a little depressed. However, Liu Yi also knew that this was only temporary, and soon, the new Han army could also make Cao Jun feel so depressed as he is now.

With a wave of his hand, Liu Yi ordered the cavalry in front of the camp to withdraw into the camp. (To be continued.) )