is not the same as the Romance Line, this time it was not the suspicious soldiers led by Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang on the north side of Xinye who came first, but the 5,000 soldiers and horses of Cao Ren's headquarters on the south side.

These 5,000 soldiers and horses are also the key to Liu Bei's breakthrough.

If these 5,000 soldiers and horses can't be broken in a short period of time, then Cao Ren will attack together before and after, and it will be difficult to block the attack of Cao's army with the city defense of Xinye County.

If he can quickly break through the 5,000 soldiers and horses, then Cao Ren can only cross the river and retreat to Wancheng, and he will not even dare to return to Fancheng.

Behind Fan Cheng is Xiangyang, Liu Biao will not watch Xiangyang City exposed to Cao Jun's sight, he will definitely send troops to recapture Fancheng, if Cao Ren retreats to Fancheng, it will be he facing Liu Bei and Liu Biao's front and back attacks.

Cao Ren is now confident in himself.

Liu Bei has been defeated by Cao Cao many times, so Cao Cao's generals have some contempt for Liu Bei.

Although his own lord has always said that Liu Bei is a hero in the world, he cannot be underestimated..... But have you ever seen a hero who is defeated and flees for his life every time?!

Cao Ren investigated very clearly, Liu Bei's Xinye City, there were only 3,000 soldiers and horses, and what he brought was the 5,000 elites of his headquarters that he had trained for a long time.

Moreover, Cao Ren almost effortlessly attacked the strategic town of Fancheng and cut off Liu Bei's back road, and Liu Bei's army was completely unprepared, knowing that his own back road was cut off, it would definitely shake Liu Beijun's military heart, maybe as soon as he arrived in Xinye, Liu Beijun would be scattered.

5,000 to 3,000, to be prepared to fight unprepared, the advantage is in me.

Therefore, Cao Ren also had the idea of finishing his work in one battle, and marched to Xinye non-stop.

Although Li Dian, who had been cautious all his life, persuaded hard, Cao Ren didn't listen at all, and only wanted to take down Liu Bei and ask Cao Cao for credit.

Li Mancheng is also an unlucky one, whether in history or in romance, this guy has always been very cautious, and he has seen through the tricks of many enemies, but the only person who can listen to him is Zhang Liao, who is not in agreement with him......

Cao Ren marched quickly, and soon reached a place less than fifty miles from Xinye.

After that, it's not good to move on.

In a hurry to send troops, he walked too fast, and he didn't bring any important siege equipment, so now he can only set up camp, cut down trees and build ladders or something.

As for Liu Bei, he would not wait for the enemy soldiers to come to the city before making any moves, but led the troops out of the city early, camped outside Xinye City, and waited for the arrival of Cao Renjun.

In ancient times, defending the city was not like in the TV series, where one side was outside the city and the other party was all shrunk in the city...... If it really comes to this point, it is a sign that the city is almost untenable.

In the real defense of the city, almost half of the battles were fought in the field.

The reason is simple: almost all the arable land in these days and months is outside the city.

If it's just a month or two of confrontation, it's okay, you can survive on the food in the city, but if you besiege the city for more than a year, no matter how much grain and grass is accumulated in the city, it will not be enough for the army to eat.

Therefore, we must go out of the city to protect our grain harvest.

can hold on to the city for more than a year after being completely besieged, except for Zhang Xun in history, it seems that there is really no second case.

And Xinye County is not to mention, the city is small and there is little food, and if you really have to rely on the city wall to defend it, I am afraid that you will not be able to hold on for a month.

So it is necessary to go out in the field.

And this is what Cao Ren wants.

If Liu Bei can be defeated in the field, then the next thing will be easy.

Both front and back were Cao troops, and once Liu Bei was defeated, he could only flee back to Xinye County to make the last struggle, and a small Xinye County would not be difficult to conquer at all.

Cao Ren calculated very well, and the next day he took the initiative to lead the army to challenge Liu Bei's army, and Liu Bei's army also went out to fight.

Then Cao Ren was a little dumbfounded, and then laughed.

"Everyone says that Liu Xuande is benevolent and righteous, but in my opinion, it is just fake benevolence and false righteousness!" Cao Ren laughed and said to Li Dian beside him, "Man Cheng looks, Liu Bei's army is so short of weapons, and he actually uses bamboo poles instead, but he drives such soldiers to fight against our elites, isn't it a big joke in the world!" ”

Li Dian also looked strange...... There are really sergeants with bamboo poles.

Isn't it, the dignified Liu Bei, a hero in Cao Cao's eyes, can't even be able to complete the ordnance of 3,000 people, right?!

Li Dian was very cautious, so he said to Cao Ren, "General, don't be careless...... Xu is Liu Bei's arrogant strategy. ”

"Man Cheng is too careful, how can he be so arrogant?!" Cao Ren sneered coldly and said, "The soldiers on both sides are already in formation, we just need to rush to cover the killing, how can he be arrogant, relying on the bamboo pole in his hand?!" ”

"This ......" Li Dian couldn't speak.

Also, if such a soldier appears in a fortification, it can be said that he shows the enemy weakness and paralyzes the enemy.

But these are all arrayed, as long as the army is waved to kill, these soldiers with bamboo poles can't escape, so what kind of show of weakness to the enemy.

Cao Ren was triumphant and said, "This must be because Liu Bei has been cornered, so the people have become soldiers to strengthen their reputation...... It's never too late for me to break it! ”

After speaking, Cao Ren waved his hand, and immediately another soldier stepped forward to carry out a tentative attack.

Cao Ren is also an old soldier, although he looks down on Liu Bei, he will not take it lightly at this time.

First, send a song of 500 people to come forward to test, if you can rush in, the whole army will follow, if not, you will retreat and start again, and you don't have to worry about hurting morale.

But what Cao Ren didn't expect was that his five hundred pawns held spears and marched forward, and when they encountered the group of "people" with bamboo poles in their hands, they didn't even turn out a single wave.

The other party was a rain of arrows at the beginning, and this was expected, this is like this in the war, if you are far away, you will come first with a rain of arrows, and you will fight when you are close.

Cao Renjun also raised his shield to cover it according to the custom, and after paying more than a dozen casualties, he broke through the range of the arrow rain and approached Liu Beijun, preparing to fight in close quarters.

Then the script changed.

Originally, according to Cao Ren's imagination, once his soldiers approached, this group of "peasants" with bamboo poles would disperse in a hurry, and when the time came, he would take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, and he could defeat Liu Bei in one fell swoop.

As a result, what Cao Ren saw was that the group of peasants raised bamboo poles and stabbed at Cao Jun who ran over.

At first, Cao Ren was still thinking about what this was for, but the next second he saw that the attack speed of his army stopped and gradually slowed down.

Then, there was some confusion in the formation of the army, as if the soldiers were avoiding the threat of bamboo poles, unconsciously disrupting the offensive formation.

Cao Ren sensed that something was wrong at this time, but out of confidence in his army, he still continued to watch patiently.

Then he saw Liu Beijun take the initiative to attack, and there was a row of long-card soldiers in front of him.

Cao Ren is still wondering, this is all hand-to-hand combat, and there are no arrows, what do you want a long-card soldier for?!

Then Cao Ren discovered that his own soldier's spear Changge could not penetrate the shield of the long-card soldier at all, and the opponent attacked his own soldier with a spear in the gap between the upper and lower levels.

Finally, someone was able to get close to the long-card soldiers, and when they were about to fight these turtle shells in close quarters, they found that a few long-knife soldiers came out of nowhere to block the way, and then they were either killed by the long-knife soldiers, or they were knocked to the ground by the spears that came out of nowhere.

All in all, each of the 500 attacking soldiers experienced all kinds of bad luck, the lucky ones were wounded and retreated, and the unlucky ones died directly on the spot.

As for whether they killed the other party's soldiers..... There should be, but as far as Cao Ren's eyes can see, it is too limited.

After less than a quarter of an hour of fighting, Cao Ren had to order the attack formation to retreat and retreat to repair.

There is no way to fight anymore, and none of the 500 soldiers of his own will come back if he continues to fight.

Even if Cao Ren quickly ordered to retreat, after counting the soldiers who came back, he found that 130 of the 500 soldiers were killed, more than 200 were wounded, and only more than 100 people were left who could fight.

This is basically equivalent to announcing that these 500 soldiers have withdrawn from this operation and have no combat effectiveness.

And the other side...... Zhang Fei was happy to have snot bubbles.

Originally, in the face of Cao Ren's challenge, Zhang Fei didn't want to bully Cao Ren, and planned to send five hundred people to fight.

But Zhang Xi disagreed.

Now Liu Beijun's situation is indeed not good.

There was a total of 3,300 people, Liu Bei took 500 people from his headquarters as the Chinese army, and the remaining 2,800 people and 1,000 people were taken away by Guan Yu to attack Fancheng, leaving the 1,800 people headed by Zhang Feiying.

If this is not good for the first battle, the impact on morale will be too great.

Therefore, Zhang Xi persuaded Zhang Fei bitterly, except for leaving a small team of soldiers as a reserve, the remaining 800 people were all in battle, and Zhang Fei's troops and Kou Feng's team were used as the first formation.

These people are the most proficient in the Mandarin Duck Formation, and they must be centered on them to build a core defensive formation.

But Zhang Xi really didn't expect that the level of soldiers in these years was so different, and Cao Ren's so-called elite was not half a star worse than Liu Bei's Bai Yu soldiers.

At the same time, Zhang Xi didn't expect the power of the Mandarin Duck Array to be so strong...... The 500 people on the opposite side left their bodies on the ground and retreated, while on their own side, only eight were killed and nineteen were wounded.

This battle loss ratio, let alone Cao Ren, even Liu Bei was taken aback when he heard it.

Originally, Liu Bei was still a little worried, thinking that if he really couldn't do it, he would let his Bai Yu soldiers go into battle, and he would stop Cao Ren after fighting all the Bai Yu soldiers, but now it seems that he ...... Hehe, Cao Ren Xiao'er, you will have no return today.