Under Jiangling City, Zhang Xi once again opened the small stove for Zhang Fei and told him about "the way of using soldiers".

Of course, it's just a little bit of nonsense, if you really want to teach Zhang Fei the art of war, you should let Zhuge Liang come, he is a serious person who has read the art of war, and Zhang Xi, all he knows is some skin.

It's just Zhuge Liang's teaching method, I'm afraid Zhang Fei can't accept it very much, but Zhang Fei is quite impressed by Zhang Xi's chatter-like explanation.

The two of them were chatting energetically, and suddenly Zhang Fei's cronies came to report, saying that Zhou Yu invited Zhang Fei and Zhang Xi to discuss matters.

Hawkers, I've been under Jiangling City for seven or eight days, and this Zhou Yu finally remembered that he still had to discuss things.

Let's go.

Zhang Fei and Zhou Yu are not familiar with each other, the two of them just met each other and said hello when Liu Bei brought them here.

But for Zhang Xi, Zhou Yu can be regarded as very familiar now.

"Yuan Chang is here. Come on, let's talk about it! Zhou Yu first greeted Zhang Xi quite enthusiastically, and then called the word to look cordial, and pulled Zhang Xi into the military tent with his own hands, I don't know what kind of good friends the two are.

Treating Zhang Fei, Zhou Yu just nodded slightly to say hello, and then handed Zhang Fei over to the soldiers to greet him, although it was in line with etiquette, but it revealed this unfamiliar taste.

Zhang Fei was not angry about this, one was that Zhang Fei trusted Zhang Xi very much, and he didn't realize what the intention was for Zhou Yu's small actions at all. Another well, all the scholars in the family this year are all this virtue, and Zhang Fei is used to being ignored.

After some politeness, Zhou Yu didn't beat around the bush and talked about serious things.

"I invited the two generals to come here today to discuss how to get rid of Cao Ren's cavalry."

Although Cao Ren failed to meet Cao Yong's camp last time, Cao Yong's camp was breached, and Cao Yong himself was killed in battle.

However, the damage of Cao Ren's cavalry was not large, and the remaining more than 800 cavalry retreated to Jiangling City, and Niu Jin also retracted to the camp and held on to the bad situation, and the loss was not large.

This cavalry is not broken, and Zhou Yu must always be wary of attacking the city, after all, the cavalry's restraint effect on the infantry is too great.

Breaking the cavalry, Zhang Xi said that he is not too professional, and the real professional is Zhang Fei.

Then, Zhang Xi pushed Zhang Fei out and asked Zhou Yu to ask Zhang Fei himself.

Don't think that Zhang Xi didn't notice the small action just now, in front of Zhang Fei. What do you want to do with me so warmly and so coldly to Zhang Fei?! Want to get separated?!

This Zhou Gongjin, at this time, is still making these small actions, now it's okay, you can ask Zhang Fei yourself.

Zhou Yu was also a little embarrassed, but fortunately, the person who was the coach was not too thin-skinned, Zhou Yu complimented Zhang Fei a few words in a blink of an eye, and then asked about the tactics of the foot soldiers to restrain the cavalry.

Zhang Fei was quite honest at this time, and he didn't care about Zhou Yu's attitude before and after, and directly began to talk about the difference between foot soldiers and cavalry, as well as the way for foot soldiers to defeat cavalry.

Theoretically, cavalry has a natural ability to restrain infantry, and it is almost impossible for infantry to defeat cavalry.

For the most part, this is true, but there are some exceptions.

For example. Battle of the Boundary Bridge.

A few years ago, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Chan competed for Hebei, when Liu Bei was on Gongsun Zhan's side, although he did not see it in person, Zhang Fei also heard about the general process of the Battle of Jieqiao.

To put it simply, it is the matter of Lu Yi in the boundary bridge, using 800 foot soldiers and 1,000 machine crossbows to destroy the Gongsun Zhan cavalry.

This is a typical case of infantry breaking cavalry, or winning more with less.

First of all, the infantry must be elite soldiers, after all, it is necessary to face the cavalry charge to achieve a non-chaotic formation, which is not something that ordinary soldiers can do.

This was followed by the first wave of cavalry charges, creating time for the crossbows behind to break through the enemy.

And these two things, Zhou Yu thought about it for a while, and it seems, as if, probably he can do it himself.

There are elite soldiers, and the 1,000 people led by Zhang Fei have intercepted Cao Ren's cavalry by relying on those big carts.

There are also machine crossbows, but there is no shortage of machine crossbows and crossbow archers, after all, fighting on the river, if you don't have crossbowmen, you will suffer a big loss.

The question now is, how to lure Cao Ren's remaining cavalry out of the city to fight a battle of annihilation, and Zhou Yu instantly thought of the camp in Niujin outside Jiangling City.

Zhou Yu was suddenly a little glad that Chen Wu and Pan Zhang did not succeed in the sneak attack, but let Niu Jin retreat to the camp.

It's simply a natural, too good bait to be better.

Zhou Yu immediately decided to transfer 1,000 crossbowmen from the rear army, and by the way, at Zhang Xi's suggestion, he transferred 500 crossbowmen as backup, and then began to formulate a battle plan.

In fact, there is not much gold content, it is nothing more than besieging the camp of Niu Jin, forcing Cao Ren in Jiangling City to send troops to rescue.

If Cao Ren did not send troops, then Niujin's camp would definitely not be able to be saved, and Zhou Yu could be regarded as pulling out a stronghold outside Jiangling City, killing and injuring a large number of Cao's army's living forces.

But if Cao Ren sent cavalry to the rescue, then just like the last siege of Cao Yong's camp, let Zhang Fei lead the army to cut off the rescue route and block the way of the cavalry, and then Zhou Yu let the crossbowmen and crossbowmen who had been ambushed in advance kill and wound the cavalry with arrows.

After formulating the battle plan, Zhou Yu decided to launch an encirclement and suppression operation against the Niujin camp two days later.

Zhang Xi and Zhang Fei also returned to the camp to prepare, after all, in Zhou Yu's plan, whether they could stop Cao Ren's cavalry was the key, if they couldn't stop it, those cavalry would come and go like the wind, and bows and crossbows would not be easy to effectively kill.

Two days after everything was ready, Zhou Yu began the siege of Niujin Camp.

The number of Cao soldiers in the Niujin camp is not large, that is, about 2,000 people, and the last time they went out of the camp to rescue Cao Yong, they also lost some of them, and they killed 1,500 people.

This time, Zhou Yu sent Chen Wu to lead 3,000 troops to besiege the Niujin camp, while the others responded on the periphery.

The soldiers of the Jiangxia army under the command of Zhang Fei and Zhang Xi set up a defensive line in the direction of Niujin Camp and Jiangling City Gate early, just to prevent the cavalry of Cao Ren's army from rushing to the rescue.

As for the crossbowmen and crossbowmen, they were hidden in the Jiangdong Army's response team, as long as Cao Ren's cavalry went out of the city and approached Zhang Fei's car formation, then the crossbowmen and crossbowmen would quickly form a formation and kill the enemy with arrows.

All the arrangements were ready, Zhou Yu observed the entire battlefield from a high place, and confidently waited for Cao Ren to be fooled.

A morning passed, and Chen Wu was still trying to attack Niujin's camp, but Niujin's camp was very firmly guarded, relying on Chen Wu's 3,000 people, it seemed that he really couldn't shake Niujin's camp.

Zhou Yu sighed in his heart.

Guan Yu commanded 3,000 people, and easily shook Cao Yong's camp, forcing Cao Ren to go out of the city to respond. But now, Chen Wu's 3,000 people are actually guarded by others.

Zhou Yu knew that Chen Wu couldn't be compared to a famous general like Guan Yu, but. I don't feel happy in my heart.

Call Pan Zhang and ask him to lead another 2,000 people to help in the battle, so that it will always work.

Sure enough, after Pan Zhang's 2,000 men joined the siege, Niu Jin's camp began to look precarious, and some of the wooden walls of the camp had collapsed and could be lost at any time.

Cao Ren in Gangneung City really couldn't sit still, and opened the gate of Gangneung City again, sending his killer weapon - cavalry.

The corners of Zhou Yu's mouth sneered slightly, intending to just watch Cao Ren's cavalry fall into the trap. But something unexpected happened to Zhou Yu.

Cao Ren's cavalry did go out of the city, but they did not form a formation to come directly to meet the Niujin camp, but divided into two groups after leaving the city and divided their troops along both sides of the city wall to break through.

Zhou Yu didn't quite understand it at first, but when he looked at the direction of the cavalry advance, he immediately sensed the other party's purpose - to use the mobility of the cavalry to bypass the chariot formation arranged by Zhang Fei, and enter from the two wings of the Jiangdong Army in a roundabout way to meet Niu Jin's camp.

Zhou Yu suddenly knew that it was not good, his brows furrowed, and he stared at the changes in the field.

Now Zhou Yu can only hope that the Jiangdong Army on both flanks can block the impact of Cao's cavalry and buy time for Zhang Fei's car formation to shift direction.

And Zhang Fei's reaction was much faster than Zhou Yu's.

As soon as Zhang Fei saw the cavalry going out of the city and dividing their troops and breaking along the city wall, he knew Cao Ren's purpose.

Zhang Fei made a quick decision, and without waiting for Zhou Yu's order, he began to prepare to split the car formation and divide it into two groups to support the two wings of the Jiangdong Army.

After all, if the cavalry of the Cao Army was allowed to enter from the two wings of the Jiangdong Army, then the thousand soldiers led by Zhang Fei and Zhang Xi would also be greatly impacted.

Once the cavalry of the Cao army entered from the flank, in the face of the impact of the cavalry, Zhang Fei's soldiers were not much different from ordinary Jiangdong soldiers.

But just when Zhang Fei was about to order the car formation to be split, Zhang Xi always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it for a while, so he could only suggest that Zhang Fei split the car formation into three parts.

The two parts quickly moved towards the two flanks of the army, trying to set up a chariot formation before Cao Ren's cavalry attacked the flank of the Jiangdong Army, and the other part was used as a reserve, depending on the situation, which side could not withstand it would go to the side to support.

The situation on the battlefield changed rapidly, and Zhang Fei was not allowed to think too much, and Zhang Fei's trust in Zhang Xi was also high, so he directly adopted Zhang Xi's suggestion at the moment and split the car formation.

But the movement speed of the chariot soldiers is really slow, slower than the infantry changing formations, even if Zhang Fei gives the order in time, the chariot formation will be disassembled, moved, and reorganized, which will take time.

And the speed of the cavalry does not give you this time at all.

At this time, what is tested is the command ability of the generals of the Jiangdong Army.

Fortunately, the generals of the Jiangdong Army had a poor level of land warfare and little experience in siege, but there was no problem at all with their command ability in battle.

Ling Tongyi, who was on the left flank, saw that the cavalry was roundabout, and without saying a word, he let the pikemen in the army rush forward and put up a front arrow formation to meet the enemy, and he led his own soldiers to personally press the formation.

Don't want to win, just delay time and create time for Zhang Fei's car formation transfer.

Lu Meng on the right flank let the shield soldiers in the army advance at about the same time, and set up three shield defense lines in a short time, the purpose was also to delay time and wait for Zhang Fei's car formation to be in place.

It can be said that in the short term, the Jiangdong Army made the best way they could deal with it, even if Zhou Yu personally commanded it, it could only do so.

Today's purpose is to eliminate these cavalry, so the position of the bow and crossbow cannot be exposed, otherwise the Jiangdong Army on the left and right flanks should not only defend but not attack. This was just to cover the crossbowmen so that they could follow Zhang Fei's position and move into position.

I have to say that the Jiangdong Army on both flanks reacted in a timely manner, and at the same time, they were also blocking the cavalry assault with their lives.

But fortunately, after the Cao army divided the troops, there were only four or five hundred cavalry on both sides, and the pressure seemed to wait, four or five hundred cavalry?!

Zhou Yu finally noticed that something seemed to be wrong.

The cavalry that Cao's army retreated to Jiangling last time was probably about 800 people, including wounded cavalry.

But this time, the cavalry of Cao's army out of the city seems to still remain at a scale of about 1,000 people.

Could it be said. Is this Cao Ren sending out his own personal soldiers and cavalry?!

If that's the case, it's fine, but Zhou Yu always has an ominous premonition.

And soon, Zhou Yu's ominous premonition came true.

The gate of Gangneung City opened again, and another cavalry rushed out of Gangneung City, led by the Jiangling guard, Cao Ren.

This damn Cao Ren, he still has cavalry available.

(End of chapter)