For a long time, the judge felt that the smart and clever Yuan Shang was more promising than the brave and ruthless Yuan Tan, and as for the weak and incompetent Yuan Xi, it couldn't be compared. It's just that the judge didn't expect that sometimes it's not a good thing for young people to be too smart. Especially young people like Yuan Shang, who grew up in praise, can easily become arrogant.

Hongmen Banquet destroyed Cao Ying? It sounds beautiful, but Cao Ying is so easy to destroy. Now that Yuan Shang said such things, it was really fearless for the ignorant.

Not to mention the judgment in his heart, at this time, he heard Yuan Shang ask: "Mr. Zhengnan, why do you say that Prime Minister Cao Cheng has to wait for the soldiers and horses in the state, could it be that he has any elite soldiers in the state?" ”

The judge frowned and thought for a while, and finally said with some uncertainty: "Bingzhou produces horses, Cao Ying has occupied Bingzhou for more than a year, presumably he has trained some powerful cavalry in Bingzhou." Yuan Shang nodded when he heard this, and he didn't ask anymore.

A few days later, Yuan Tan, who was stationed under the city and was already a little crazy in a dilemma, heard the scouts report that there were soldiers and horses in Sizhou who had invaded the border.

"Sizhou?" Yuan Tan was a little surprised when he heard this. He just beat the full pet all over the ground in Sizhou to find teeth, why is he jumping up and down again now?

"Exactly, there are about 30,000 infantry and more than 10,000 cavalry, and you can reach Yecheng in less than two days." The scout replied.

"It's okay, Cao Thief has been silent for so long, it's good to have an opponent to fight a dozen!" Yuan Tan, who was already depressed to the point of egg pain, heard that the enemy was coming, and his mood was finally a little better. The frustrated professor on the side frowned when he heard this: "Cao Ying suddenly mobilized troops and horses this time, I'm afraid he wants to cooperate with the defenders of Yecheng." ”

"Regardless of what he should do with the outside, we have been stuck here for so long, it is good to be able to fight. There are only 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers from Sizhou, and I have more than 100,000 troops here, so I can break them in one fell swoop! Yuan Tan said with a smile. Frustrated and silent, it is true that the morale is getting lower and lower now, and if there is nothing to do, something will happen to the army's heart. At that moment, Yuan Tan ordered all the troops to reorganize and prepare for a decisive battle with the enemy from Sizhou.

The scout's intelligence was in place, and two days later, a black line slowly appeared on the horizon west of Yuan Tan's camp, and then this black line became thicker and closer, and there were bursts of roaring sound on the ground. Yuan Tan knew that this was the sound of the arrival of the army. As the distance got closer and closer, Yuan Tan gradually saw that this was an infantry phalanx, and it seemed that there should be about 20,000 people.

Looking at the slowly advancing enemy formation, Yuan Tan pulled out the long knife on his waist, and said sharply after slashing in the air: "Soldiers, these days, Cao Ying'er will only hide in the city and bully the old and weak, so we will slaughter his men and horses first, and then attack Yecheng and recapture Hebei!" If you want to make a contribution, kill it with me! After shouting this, Yuan Tan rushed forward in the lead, and the guards around him immediately followed, and the army under Yuan Tan rushed straight to Cao Tan's infantry phalanx.

At this moment, there was a sudden change in the infantry phalanx, and the entire phalanx suddenly split from the middle, and the foot soldiers ran to both sides. Although the speed is not slow, the pace is not chaotic. At the same time, a neatly arranged phalanx of cavalry was revealed in the center of the split phalanx.

"Hmph, carving insect skills, what can I do?" Yuan Tan saw that Cao Jun was hiding the cavalry in such a clumsy way, and he was also quite disdainful in his heart when he was galloping. But as the distance narrowed, after seeing the face of this cavalry clearly, Yuan Tan's heart suddenly sank for no reason. There is no other reason, this cavalry Yuan Tan knew at a glance that it was a rare elite cavalry in the world. The crotch was full of good horses, and the cavalrymen carried a spear long in their hands, a saber and a longbow at their waists, and the horses carried two full quivers. What's even more amazing is that all the cavalry in this phalanx are wearing iron armor, which is simply a group of iron-clad turtles.

"Be careful, lord!" Just as General Yuan Tan was within the range of the bow and arrow of the group of cavalry, the 10,000 cavalry suddenly began to draw their bows and arrows at the same time, the speed was dizzying, and in the blink of an eye, 10,000 long arrows had already been shot head-on. Yuan Tan was shocked, and several guards around him hurriedly stepped forward with shields to block arrows for him, and finally escaped. The rest of the soldiers were not so lucky, and this first round of arrow rain took the lives of more than a thousand Yuan soldiers.

After four rounds of arrow rain, Yuan Tan's army formation was no more than a hundred steps away from the cavalry army of this Cao army. At this time, the cavalry lowered their longbows and advanced at full speed with their spears. Yuan Tan knew that it would not be good to meet hard, but now there is only a hard encounter on the plain, and at most, he expects that his army can have a little advantage, and when he gritted his teeth, he ordered his military horses to rush head-on.

The fierce fighting sounded, and the Hebei army sadly found that their opponents were too strong. With spears from afar, slashes from close, this cavalry is extremely skilled. Even sometimes the soldiers of the Hebei Army collided head-on with them, and they were directly knocked into the air, and then trampled to death by tens of millions of feet of people and horses.

Only one back and forth, the military formation of the Hebei army was crushed by this cavalry, and the two sides rushed to kill each other and then reorganized the formation, Yuan Tan's eyes almost didn't fall out: the thousands of corpses lying on the ground, their own family actually accounted for ninety percent. Without waiting for him to react, the enemy attack began again.

"Zihe's tiger and leopard riding is really powerful, in the past, Lu Bu and Ding Yuan's Bingzhou iron cavalry was already the elite of the world, but compared with the tiger and leopard cavalry, it was simply far behind!" Among the people watching the battle at the head of Yecheng City, Cao Ying, who was in the center, sighed.

"Zihe General is the best among the children of the Prime Minister's clan, and the training of the current generation is no match for Lu Bu's generation." The Hua Mo on the side is funny. To say that although this Hua Ji is a famous man in the world, his greatest ability is not his talent, but his ability to meet the horse. With the posture of Cao Ying's generation of heroes, he was also coaxed by his just right sycophancy.

"Order, the whole army will be dispatched, and two ways will be attacked to break Yuan Tan!" Cao Ying is Cao Ying after all, and after reveling in it for a while, he realized that he had something more important to do. Under his mobilization, the defenders in the city were led by various generals to fight out and go straight to Yuan Tan's rear army. This time, Yuan Tan was attacked by the enemy on his back, and he was even more passive.

"Euphorbia, protect the lord!" Seeing that there were more defeats and fewer victories today, Zhang Jaw also hurriedly ordered his ace infantry halberd warrior to hurry forward. This euphorbia is an elite soldier trained by Zhang Jaw, since the death of Ju Yi, the first to die in ashes, this euphorbia warrior's combat effectiveness is the leader of the Hebei army. But there is a saying that the general is pulled out in the sting, and the euphorbia used to say that he couldn't help the white horse, and now he said that when facing the tiger and leopard riding, he also seems a little powerless.

However, for Zhang Jaw, he didn't expect to defeat Cao Ying by relying on the Euphorbia, he only wanted Yuan Tan and himself to get out of the battlefield smoothly, so that he could run away. With his efforts, Yuan Tan finally led tens of thousands of remnants of soldiers to escape with Fu Zhu, Guo Tu and others, and rushed all the way to the north. But Cao Ying this time was fighting with the spirit of beating the water dogs, and he personally led the tigers and leopards to ride behind and chase after them. Yuan Tan and others were almost bitten by Cao Jun several times, if it weren't for the party's leading troops to the south to support in time, Yuan Tan and others would have been reduced to prisoners. However, this southward move meant that the Yuan clan had completely given up control of the state. Yuan Tan gathered the defeated army, but there were still 30,000 or 40,000 people, so he could only retreat to the river first to hold on, and wait for the time. At this point, the strength of the Yuan family in Hebei has been greatly reduced. In the original land of the four states, only the three counties of Hejian, Zhangwu and Zhongshan in Youzhou and Jizhou remained. However, the land in these places is barren, and they are also backed by foreign races in northern Xinjiang, and there will always be foreign enemies to intrude, which is really not the foundation of the business. While Yuan Tan was holding on to the river, he sent someone to inform Yuan Xi in Youzhou that he was ready to hold on to this last land.

"Lord!" In Yecheng, Cao Ying, who was intoxicated by the prosperity of Hebei, suddenly heard a familiar voice behind him, and looked back at Guo Jia, who was staying in Xuchang to recuperate, followed by Jia Xu.

"Why didn't Fengxiao recuperate in Xuchang, but came to Hebei to blow the wind?" Cao Ying was a little distressed. The strategist Xi Zhicai when he made his fortune has died, and now Guo Jia's health is not very good, which makes Cao Ying quite worried.

"Jia's body is fine for the time being, congratulations to the lord for the first battle in Hebei!" Guo Jia said with a smile.

"Sima Zhongda's six-way army marches together, Feng Xiao also knows it, right?" Cao Ying suddenly changed the subject.

"The minister has heard that Sima Zhongda has such a strategy at a young age, and his future is really limitless! However, it is also too conceited, and it is not easy to defeat a hero like Liu Bei with a single battle," Guo Jia smiled.

"Zhongda is young after all, and it is better to use tricks than to be so experienced as Fengxiao. By the way, I heard that Sun Quan's kid is making trouble again? Cao Ying suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked Jia Xu, who was in charge of intelligence.

"Exactly, Sun Quan used Liu Bei's army to go north, and when Jiangdong was empty, he suddenly sent troops to occupy Huiji, Wu County and Luling, and Sun's old minister Tai Shici offered Poyang again. In the past, it was said that there were seven counties in Jiangdong, but in the tenth month, there were four counties under the rule of Sun Quan. Jia Xu said with some surprise. No matter how he poisoned Jia Wenhe to anticipate the enemy's opportunity, he never expected that Sun Quan had already stationed an army in Yizhou, when the Yangzhou army came to the aid of Shangyong and Jingnan, Huiji County Cheng Lu Fan sent a carrier pigeon to inform Lu Meng who was in Yizhou, and then contacted Pan Zhang and Sun Jiao, and then Lu Meng raised troops to attack Huiji with lightning speed, Sun Jiao then took advantage of the opportunity to meet his mentor Zhang Zhao to kidnap this Yangzhou pastor, plus Tai Shici and Pan Zhang made trouble, and actually let them do this big thing. Lü Fan also told Lü Meng that Nanhai Taishou Gong Zhi was a quick surname, but Lü Meng immediately decided to send Ding Feng to challenge and behead him, so that Nanhai could easily take it. If it weren't for the hoarding of heavy troops in the three counties of Yuzhang, "What do you think of the situation in Jiangdong?" Although Cao Ying didn't quite understand how Sun Quan managed to send troops so quickly, what was more important now was how he could maximize his interests in this chaotic situation. Jia Xu and Guo Jia glanced at each other and made eye contact. It's also strange to say, Jia Xu is gloomy and silent, Guo Jia's surname is uninhibited, these two people are incompatible, even Cao Ying is amazed, and can only sigh that there is a common language between wise people.

"The Sun family has been away from Jiangdong for more than three years, and it is difficult to return to Jiangdong now. Moreover, the three counties of Lujiang and Danyang Yuzhang are still in the hands of Liu Bei, and it is not easy for Sun Quan to protect himself. Jia Xu said first.

"Although the lord has captured Jizhou, but now that midwinter is approaching, there are too many losses in the war, and at most at most, after taking Jizhou, he needs to recuperate and wait for the next year, so it is difficult to intervene in the matter between Liu Bei and Sun Quan." Guo Jia added.

"So do I." Cao Ying nodded. At this time, someone came to report that Liu Bei ordered Zhang Fei and Zhao Feng to lead an army to conquer Sun Quan. "Sun Zhongmou will definitely be defeated!" Cao Ying sighed when he heard this. In this way, Liu Beike has no worries at all, but on his side, he still has Yuan Tan, who is not dead, and those alien races in northern Xinjiang.

Wait, interracial? Thinking of this, Cao Ying suddenly had an idea. smiled at the moment and said: "Come on, prepare pen and ink quickly, I want to write a letter to Mrs. Liu!" ”

(To be continued)