Xiahou Yuan sent troops to stay in Chen, and Liu Bei had already received the news. In fact, after Xiahou Yuan sent troops from Xu County, Liu Bei knew about it in just one day. These days, Liu Bei is not in a good mood. Since the first day of the siege was undefeated and undefeated, the Xuzhou side has not made substantial progress in the attack for nearly ten consecutive days. Although the loss of troops in the city is not small, and the arrow tower on the city wall has been burned out a lot, but there is a top for a dead person, and Cao Cao can always magically build another one between the **, Chen Liucheng is still solid, and the morale of the soldiers in the city is still high.

Xiahou Yuan's attack may be an opportunity for Liu Bei, an opportunity to regain the initiative on the battlefield. As long as the opponent's 8,000 reinforcements were swallowed under Chen Liucheng, Liu Bei believed that Chen Liucheng's morale would definitely plummet. So after consulting with the generals, he decided to give Xiahou Yuan a set.

According to Xiahou Yuan's marching and combat style, Chen Gong, Chen Deng and others thought that it would take him less than three days to rush from Xu County to Chenliu. Xiahou Yuan is known as General Fei, and the marching speed of five hundred in three days and one thousand in six days is not a joke. Therefore, Liu Bei decided to send scouts to monitor Xiahou Yuan's movements while arranging the siege of the city. Of course, the siege was fake, and the purpose was to lure Xiahou Yuan to attack him. However, Cao Cao was not a fool, and Xiahou Yuan was not a fool, so Liu Bei demanded that the army in charge of the siege must play with momentum. At the same time, he sent Zang Ba to lead his troops to stop the road of Xiahou Yuan's rescue, making a desperate posture.

In a word, if you can confuse Cao Cao, you must also be able to confuse Xiahou Yuan, so that Cao Cao has no kung fu to go out of the city to cooperate, and Xiahou Yuan needs to feel that this battle has been fought.

This day was the expected day when Xiahou Yuan arrived, and the scout also sent news that Xiahou Yuan was only forty-five miles away from Chen. For cavalry, forty-five miles is only a short distance, and it does not take an hour to march at a moderate speed on horseback.

Zang Ba led 30,000 soldiers out twenty-five miles forward, and set up a formation between a valley six or seven miles wide, waiting for Xiahou Yuan. This is the valley area of the Langtang Canal, which is said to be a valley, but in fact, the mountains on both sides are very low, but the forests are dense and the road surface is smooth, which is very suitable for large army battles. The two sides of the Langtang Canal were originally fertile fields formed by the siltation of the river, but because of the war, the summer planting was delayed, and it was very desolate, and there was no rain for a while, and the silted soil near the river valley was blown by the wind, blowing up bursts of dust, adding a little bleakness to the earth. Not far from the southeast, is Gaoyang Pavilion, and thirty miles to the south is Yu County.

Today the weather is overcast, and the clouds are obscuring the sun, but the clouds are not thick, and it does not look like it is going to rain.

Zang Ba was in the middle army and looked at the direction of Xiahou Yuan's arrival, and his heart was gloomy like the current weather. Liu Bei's order to him was to resist for a while and then be defeated, to give up Xiahou Yuan's army to Chenliu, and then to encircle and destroy it. For Zang Ba, who is arrogant and thinks that he has a high level of leadership, it is better not to let him fight. But he has been following Liu Bei for a few years, and he has not participated in a decent war at all, although this time it is a fraud, he does not want to give up this opportunity. Although he accepted the order, it did not delay him to be depressed. The task of exterminating Xiahou Yuan fell on Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, and Zang Ba thought that he couldn't compete with them, so he didn't fight.

asked the marching Sima, the current hour is said to have arrived Xiahou Yuan, why hasn't he come up yet?

At this time, a scout came on a horse and told Zang Ba that Xiahou Yuan had set up camp and looked like he was going to spend the night.

Zang Ba was even more depressed, you said you are Xiahou Yuan, can't you be happy? Why are you procrastinating, you don't look like a gentleman!

There was no way, he could only send an order to camp, hey, a military order, a military order, if it wasn't a military order, Zang Ba felt that with his army of 30,000 tigers and wolves, he could completely swallow Xiahou Yuan's army. It's a pity that with Liu Bei's military order, it's like Sun Wukong has been put under a tight spell, and he can only stare dryly.

Zang Ba shook his head, it was only forty-five miles away from Liu Bei's camp, and it wouldn't take long to scout back and forth, if it weren't for the distance being too close, Zang Ba really wanted to make a general outside the king's life!

Just after nightfall, two scouts came from the front and back of the camp, and the scouts from the back brought Liu Bei's military order, and really praised him a few words, saying that he had done a good job and had the wind and clouds of a general. The scout from Xiahou Yuan in the south sent a message that Xiahou Yuan sent an army of 1,000 people to the direction of Kaifeng, and saw the generals who were headed by him, waving a big banner with the word "Cao", and he didn't know who it was.

Zang Ba asked about joining the army, and learned that there were 2,000 Cao soldiers in Kaifeng City, so he didn't think much about it. Even if Xiahou Yuan brought all the troops in Kaifeng, what was the use? It's just that an army of 8,000 people will become 10,000 people, and for your own army of 130,000, the only difference between 8,000 and 10,000 enemy troops is that there are 2,000 more heads of military merit to divide.

However, out of his usual caution, Zang Ba still sent scouts to pay close attention to the direction of Kaifeng.

In the middle of the moon, Zang Ba was woken up, and none of the scouts he sent to Kaifeng came back alive.

Zang Ba frowned, and called a group of subordinate officials to discuss this matter.

It's very strange, what level of scouts does his own Zang Ba know, he doesn't think that Cao Cao's cavalry can leave them behind. Although he knew that the cavalry three-piece suit, bilateral stirrups, Gaoqiao saddles and horseshoes had also become popular in Cao Cao's army, it was not long, and there was still a gap between him and the cavalry who had been playing with him for several years, let alone scouts?

Without exception, the subordinate officials knew nothing and looked at each other, including the person in charge of the dark night sent by Liu Bei to Zang Ba.

Zang Ba touched his chin and looked at the person in charge of the dark night, and said, "Let's not care where Xiahou Yuan got so many elite cavalry, if he can kill all the scouts we sent out, let's think about his purpose first." Since Xiahou Yuan killed all our scouts, he must be trying to hide some secret. Let me ask you, what is there in Kaifeng City that we don't know? ”

The person in charge of the dark night is called Qu Gan, a young man in his thirties, hearing this, his face was as gloomy as ever, and he said: "General, we have limited manpower, and we can only monitor some relatively large cities or more important places, and cities like Kaifeng, which are not too big and are not in important positions, are not among our key monitors. So, for Kaifeng City, you should ask what we know, not what you don't know! ”

Zang Ba was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Then tell me, what do you know!" ”

Qu Gan said: "Not much, I only know that there are 2,000 soldiers in the city, and I don't know the combat strength." In addition, in recent months, Kaifeng has gathered a large number of grain and grass materials, and there are many horse-drawn carts and ox carts going to Kaifeng. There are also many horse-drawn carts and ox-carts from Kaifeng. We have investigated and found that most of the people pulled by these vehicles were implicated in the case of Dong Cheng's rebellion by his uncle, and were forcibly relocated from Chenliu County and Yingchuan County by Cao Mengde, including ordinary people and large families. However, Kaifeng was only a transit station, and after a short rest in Kaifeng, Cao Mengde transported these people and materials into Luoyang and Guanzhong through the new Zhenghe Tiger Prison. ”

Zang Ba nodded and did not speak. The case of Dong Cheng's rebellion intensified, and it was not over until the beginning of the war, and many people were implicated in Yingchuan County and Chenliu County. Cao Cao moved them and the hermits they controlled to Luoyang and Guanzhong Tuntian, which Zang Ba had known for a long time, so he didn't think much about it.

Shaking his head slowly, he frowned and said, "It's strange, what does Xiahou Yuan want to do?" ”

Qu Gan hugged his fists and said, "General, let my people take a look?" ”

Zang Ba glanced at him, nodded slowly, and said, "It's okay!" Be sure to find out what Xiahou Yuan wants to hide, I think it's very important for us! ”

Qu Gan nodded, and went to arrange it without mentioning it.

Qu Gan left, but Zang Ba didn't feel the slightest sleep. Liu Bei once said that Dong Cheng's rebellion case came from the weirdness, the beginning was weird, and the process was also weird. Zang Ba also feels weird, and it is precisely because of the weirdness that Zang Ba pays special attention to the information related to this rebellion case. Now, after learning from Qu Gan's mouth that Kaifeng City is a transit point for transporting personnel and materials related to this case, Zang Ba's heart has been raised.

boiled until the east was white, and Zang Ba finally waited for the news.

The general surnamed Cao sent by Xiahou Yuan was very careful, and he sent many people to open the way in front. These people are very good at riding, and some of them have very good riding and archery skills, in groups of ten people, in groups of twenty people, once the spies get close, there is almost no chance of being spared. However, in order to find out reliable information, the spies in the dark night had to get close enough, and the vicinity of Kaifeng itself was a plain, and there was no terrain to rely on, so they suffered heavy losses. However, their sacrifice was not in vain, after a fierce battle, they brought reliable news, Xiahou Yuan wanted to desperately cover up a group of people, a group of cavalry of about 3,000 people. However, these 3,000 cavalry are more special, they are disheveled, their clothes are tattered, mostly made of fur, each of them carries bows and arrows, and there are as many as four pots of feather arrows on their horses, and they are definitely not Han Chinese. A dark night spy who had been to Bingzhou in his early years said that these cavalrymen were all Huns.

Zang Ba's frowning brows loosened and nodded slightly. Three thousand people, or the Huns who are nomads, are the Huns who have lived on horseback since childhood, although the number is a little less, but the combat effectiveness is definitely not inferior to the eight thousand cavalry under Xiahou Yuan, no wonder Xiahou Yuan has to cover up desperately. Thinking of this, Zang Ba's hanging heart was put down. The unknown is the most terrifying, since I know Xiahou Yuan's killer weapon, it's just that the soldiers will block the water and cover it. He immediately asked his subordinates to send a letter to Liu Bei, and at the same time ordered the whole army to set up a position and prepare for battle.

After Liu Bei heard the news, he asked Cao Yong beside him: "Yuanji, where did Cao Mengde come from the Hun cavalry?" ”

Cao Yong shook his head blankly and said, "General, my subordinates don't know...... Oh, I remembered! At the end of last year, when Cao Mengde sent the general Xiahou Yuan to attack Anyi in Hedong, it seemed that the Wei family had prepared 3,000 Southern Hun cavalry. At that time, those Huns were captured by Xiahou Yuan's subordinates, and then disappeared. Now these cavalrymen are probably those people, right? ”

Liu Bei thought about it, vaguely remembered this incident, and said: "Well, three thousand Hun cavalry, and stirrups, saddles and other things to complement each other, it is really a threat to us." But...... Tell Wu Da and Zhou to come over, hehehe, he has a good plan, I have a wall ladder, I will use the crossbow battalion and the ballista battalion to deal with their cavalry! ”

As Liu Bei made up his mind, one order after another was passed out. Dispatch Zhang Fei and Guan Yu to attack Chenliu urgently, and when attacking, they must play with momentum, and then when Xiahou Yuan comes, they will leave enough troops at each city gate to prevent the army in the city from coming out to join Xiahou Yuan, and then eat the army led by Xiahou Yuan with Liu Bei. Liu Bei directly set up a formation to meet Xiahou Yuan within Chen Liucheng's line of sight, and the crossbow battalion led by Wu Da and the crossbow battalion led by Zhou Ting were arranged fifty steps inside the front of the large array, and there was a big shield blocking it, presumably Xiahou Yuan couldn't find it. And the four thousand Liangzhou iron horsemen led by Zhang Xiu hid behind the battle, waiting for Liu Bei's order at any time, ready to beat the water dogs.

After the soldiers received the order, a group of people drove out of the camp, and everything seemed to be proceeding in an orderly manner according to Liu Bei's expectations, just waiting for Xiahou Yuan to rush over and crash into his pocket after the "defeat" of Zang Ba.

But Liu Bei didn't know that Zang Ba, who was twenty-five miles away from him, turned pale at this time, and looked at Xiahou Yuan's big array in front of him with round eyes, and couldn't close his mouth anymore when he opened his mouth wide......