Although Bowang is in the northwest of Xinye, in fact, this place is closer to Nanyang County, so if Liu Beijun wants to set up an ambush in Bowang, he must set off earlier than Cao's army.

Therefore, as soon as Liu Beijun found that Cao Jun had signs of departure, he immediately reported back to Liu Bei, and Liu Beijun had to set off immediately to rush to Bowang before Cao Jun.

It took Zhang Xi three days to leach out the first batch of rockets, and the effect was still very poor, and it was almost lethal except for being frightening.

But time waits for no one, Zhang Xi has no time for the second improvement, they must set off to meet the enemy.

This time, Zhang Xi did not receive a separate combat mission, he was the deputy general in Zhang Fei's army.

In order to take care of him, Zhang Fei was afraid that Zhang Xi would encounter any danger, so he specially arranged for Kou Feng's school of people to obey Zhang Xi's dispatch.

Zhang Xi, the deputy general, can be regarded as having soldiers under his command.

But the daily marching work is still in charge of Kou Feng, after all, Zhang Xi doesn't understand this.

After another three days of marching, Liu Bei led his army to the vicinity of Bowang, and then Zhao Yun led more than 100 rangers he had finally formed to go out to inquire about the movements of Cao's army.

At this time, Xiahoudun had indeed led the army out of Wancheng and was heading towards Bowang.

The people who led the troops this time, in addition to the main general Xiahoudun, also had two generals, Yu Ban and Li Dian.

Cao Ren, an unlucky child, was transferred north by Cao Cao to bully Wu Huan.

According to the military situation that Zhao Yun's rangers heard about it, Xiahoudun's march was quite rigorous, and he was quite disciplined along the way, and he was not an incompetent person.

It's just that the marching speed is a little fast, so the army's march seems to be a little hasty, and the phenomenon that the team is relatively long makes Liu Bei a little puzzled, and makes Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu laugh slightly in their hearts.

Zhang Fei didn't understand why, but Zhang Xi probably guessed it.

"Xiahoudun is a general who is Cao Cao's cronies, every time Cao Cao goes out to fight, he will leave Xiahoudun to guard the rear, which shows Cao Cao's trust in him!" Zhang Xi smiled slightly and explained to Zhang Fei, "However, who doesn't want to go out to fight and follow Wei Huo to establish immortal feats, how can he die in the rear?!" ”

As soon as he said this, Zhang Fei understood.

"Yuan Chang is saying, this Xiahou Xuan, he is in a hurry to make meritorious contributions?!" Zhang Fei frowned and said, "But Zilong also said that this person is quite disciplined in setting up camp, and he doesn't seem to be an incompetent general?!" ”

"I don't know if it's incompetent, but it's not contradictory to be in a hurry to make meritorious service and set up camp, right?!" Zhang Xi continued to explain, "Moreover, this time to send troops, although Xiahoudun is the chief general of the Cao army, the deputy generals of the Cao army are banned and Li Dian, these two are generals. Li Dian is cautious and cautious, extremely good at defending the city, and never rushes forward. Yu Ban is even more in danger, Cao Cao Wancheng was defeated, and the Qingzhou soldiers took this opportunity to mutiniin and loot, thanks to this person to collect the defeated army in time and rectify military discipline, which gave Cao Cao a chance to turn the tables. With these two people here, if Cao Jun's camp is not good again, it will be a fraud. ”

Zhang Fei understood that it was Xiahoudun who was anxious to make meritorious contributions, but he had two good helpers, and the marching rules along the way were rigorous, and Liu Beijun still did not find any chance to sneak attack.

"If this is the case, Zhuge Kongming's plan is afraid that it will be difficult to fulfill!" Zhang Fei sighed and said.

Zhang Xi shook his head and said, "But not necessarily." The main general in the army, after all, is Xiahoudun, and this time the lord personally went down as a bait, even Cao Cao came in person, I'm afraid he will have to be tricked! ”

Zhuge Liang's strategy this time, what really makes people can't refuse is that he dares to use Liu Bei as bait.

And Liu Bei is ruthless enough, he really dares to go on his own.

To some extent, this can be regarded as a kind of conspiracy.

Even if Xiahoudun really saw that there was fraud in this, but his current mood and meritorious service were not to mention, it was Liu Bei who was facing each other, and Liu Bei only had 3,000 people, and he had 20,000 people. Even if Liu Bei has an ambush, what's the matter?!

Is it possible that 3,000 people can surround and kill him, and 20,000 people?!

If you don't chase this, then you will lack the heart.

And Liu Bei is also big-hearted, he really dared to cheat in front of 20,000 people, and the defeat was quite decent.

In the official history, Liu Bei burned his own camp, which means that he fled back all the way, and the camp was burned.

In the romance, Liu Bei also personally led the army to fight Xiahoudun, and then retreated without defeat.

No matter which link goes wrong, if Liu Bei is really defeated or surrounded by Xiahoudun, the consequences will be unimaginable.

With Liu Bei's open-minded performance, not to mention Xiahoudun, even if Cao Cao came, I am afraid he couldn't help but pursue.

Zhang Xi is still confident in the success of Zhuge Liang's plan this time, what he really doesn't have confidence in is whether he and Zhang Fei can intercept the Xiahoudun army that is eager to survive, and whether they can block Cao Cao's rear army.

But when the matter came to an end, retreat could not be retreated, Zhang Fei took his headquarters soldiers and horses, and set off for Anlin to ambush.

The frontal battlefield is basically the same as in the romance, first Zhao Yun came forward to lead the battle against Xiahoudun.

At this time, Zhao Yun did not have the later fame, so Zhao Yun led the army to resist Xiahoudun, and Xiahoudun had no doubts at all.

After all, he is an "unknown general".

Even this time, even Li Dian didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Xiahoudun choosing to pursue.

But when Zhao Yun retreated into the mountain and forest path, Li Dian sensed that something was wrong, and stepped forward to persuade Xiahoudun, saying, "The terrain here is quite evil, and you need to be careful of Liu Bei's ambush!" ”

Xiahoudun was still very calm at this time, and felt that what Li Dian said made sense.

But at this time, Liu Bei personally led the army to fight and commanded the army to fight against Xiahoudun's forward team.

Xiahoudun was immediately overjoyed when he saw Liu Bei, and then saw that although Liu Bei led the army to kill, he was firmly suppressed by his forward army, pressing step by step, and he was about to close the siege.

Now Xiahoudun still wants to be a fart, directly wave the flag, the whole army presses it, and must capture Liu Bei alive.

Li Dian didn't persuade him at this time, and when he saw Liu Bei himself appearing and was about to lose at any time, it was impossible for Li Dian to keep a cool head.

In addition, the commander-in-chief ordered it, and he, the lieutenant general, had to obey.

It's just that Li Dian left a back hand, he called Tai Ban, and said, "Wen Ze will follow General Xiahou, and if there is anything wrong, quickly retreat." I led the rear army and answered for the public. ”

"Man Cheng rest assured!" Yu Ban agreed.

And at this time, Liu Bei began to retreat, Xiahoudun and Yu Ban hurriedly led the front army to pursue, and Li Dian also began to command the rear army to keep up, trying not to be out of touch.

But Li Dian never expected that Xiahoudun would run so fast in pursuit of Liu Bei, and he didn't care whether the rear army followed or not.

Li Dian had no choice but to repeatedly urge the rear army to keep up, and because of this, the Cao army's formation was stretched longer and longer.

The Cao army of the front army only cared about pursuit, and even the basic marching army was gone, and it had completely dispersed.

Although the Cao army of the rear army barely maintained the formation, in order to keep up with the pace of the front army, it was also in a state of rapid marching.

Therefore, when it was close to evening, Xiahoudun pursued to Liu Beijun's ambush place, and was attacked by the ambush soldiers led by Guan Yu with fire and arrows, Cao's army was completely chaotic.

The Cao army of the front army had no formation at all at this time, and they were all blocked in the mountain road in a chaotic manner.

On the mountain were the archers led by Guan Yujun, and the valley was full of sulfur hay and other fire-causing things, once ignited, the entire Cao army was in chaos.

And here in the rear army, Li Dian saw that there was a sudden smoke and fire in front of him, and immediately knew that it was not good, so he hurriedly reorganized his army and tried to meet Xiahoudun, but at this time, he killed a group of men and horses from An Lin, blocking his way.

There were not many people, only about a thousand people, but the timing of their appearance was too good, not only blocking the mountain road when they were in a hurry to reorganize the army, but also putting up a defensive formation at the first time.

Li Dian was very anxious, just looking at the army blocking the road in front of him, he knew that Xiahoudun was a trick.

But Li Dian knew that he couldn't be in a hurry now, he had to calm down - he was now Xiahoudun's last hope, and he had to find a way to break through the sergeant standing in front of him and answer Xiahoudun.

But now because of the rapid march, Li Dian's rear army is also a general to maintain a formation, and if he launches an attack immediately, the effect is not great, not to mention that if he frustrates his spirit, it will be troublesome.

It is necessary to first transfer back the troops, rearrange them, and try to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

But Li Dian didn't have much time, he didn't know the situation ahead, and he didn't know how long Xiahoudun could last, although he repeatedly warned himself to be calm, he couldn't use too much time to organize the attack.

And his opponent, Li Dian also knows.

The last time General Cao Ren personally led 5,000 elite soldiers to attack Xinye, Li Dian was by Cao Ren's side, and he had seen how powerful this army with bamboo poles was.

The elite soldiers trained by Cao Ren personally were not opponents, and Li Dian did not dare to underestimate the thousand men and horses in front of him.

Therefore, as soon as Li Dian got started, he was 3,000 soldiers, with a three-to-one offensive and defensive ratio.

It's not that Li Dian doesn't want to send more people to attack, the key is that this mountain road is so wide, and the slopes and dense forests on both sides make Li Dian very jealous, for fear of ambushes, so he only dares to send so many soldiers.

At this point, in order to launch an attack formation, Sergeant Cao had already expanded his team to the halfway up the mountain.

The conventional offensive routine starts with a rain of arrows that consumes the opponent's soldiers.

However, the gap in the formation of Zhang Feijun was very large, and the unit was as a unit, coupled with the protection of the long-card soldiers, the effect of the arrows was not great, and the opponent's formation was not shot.

Li Dian saw that he had no choice but to use local methods, and the sergeants pressed on him, relying on crowd tactics to win.

But before Sergeant Cao could advance a few steps, he saw a sudden fire light in the opposite formation, followed by a rain of fire flying towards Cao Jun's formation.

Sergeant Cao has not seen the rain of arrows, and the first step in attack or defense is archery, which everyone is used to, and there are corresponding preventive measures.

But this fire rain. What's this?!

Could it be that the other party has ghosts and gods to help?!

Not to mention that the soldiers of Cao Jun thought so, even Li Dian was dumbfounded, and such a thought came out of his heart.

In these years, most of the things that people can't understand themselves will be attributed to ghosts and gods, not to mention Li Dian, even if Cao Cao comes.

In addition, it is now approaching evening, the sky is getting dark, Zhang Feijun's archery Li Dian didn't really see it, all he could see was a little bit of sparks slowly growing bigger in front of his eyes, and finally fell in the middle of his attacking soldiers.

Because he didn't know what it was, Li Dian forgot to command for a while, and even if he commanded, it was useless, and the offensive formation of the front army was completely messed up.

The soldiers didn't know what was shooting, but the instinct of people was that when they saw the fire falling, they would subconsciously run away.

If this is a bow and arrow, the soldiers still know how to defend it, but this fire is falling from the sky, how to prevent this?!

The Cao army immediately had a chaotic formation, and the front army changed from an offensive formation to a chaotic blind run, and if Zhang Fei couldn't seize the opportunity at this time, he would not be the future general of Ji Han's chariot cavalry.

Zhang Fei commanded his 500 soldiers to rush forward to pursue and kill the enemy, and the remaining 500 soldiers held down the position to respond.

In this way, one chased, one ran, Zhang Fei easily repelled Li Dian's first attack, and even if Li Dian was not calm, he ordered the military law team to kill a lot of running sergeants in time, Zhang Fei could even lead the army to drive away the Cao sergeant to disrupt Li Dian's formation, and then defeat Li Dian at one time.

But it's a pity that Li Dian is really a famous general as Zhang Xi said, and he is not so easy to deal with.

But no matter what, in the first round, Li Dianjun was defeated.

(End of chapter)