Cao Ren's thoughts are actually not difficult to understand.

Zhang Xi shrank in Fancheng like a turtle with a shrunken head and did not come out, and resolutely did not fight with himself in the field.

As for Cao Ren, because he was anxious for revenge, he set off with the cavalry first, if it wasn't for the need to camp, he probably wouldn't even bring the two thousand foot soldiers.

After coming to Fancheng, Cao Ren fell into a dilemma - he couldn't let the cavalry dismount and act as infantry for siege warfare.

The time and money for training a cavalry are enough to train a dozen infantrymen, and although Cao Cao has many cavalry, it is not such a waste.

Therefore, after Cao Ren heard that Guan Yu led the navy to land on the north bank of the Han River, he immediately led the cavalry and went to intercept it.

Cao Ren's idea was to kill Guan Yu by surprise.

In Cao Ren's impression, when the navy goes ashore, the combat effectiveness must be sharply reduced. This point, referring to the water army of Koto.

At that time, in Nanjun, the group of sailors in Jiangdong was killed by Cao Ren and led more than a dozen cavalry to retreat more than 100 steps.

Now Cao Ren has 8,000 cavalry, as long as Guan Yu is not allowed to set up a village in a hurry, it is possible to encircle and annihilate this group of sailors who have just landed on the shore.

The place where Cao Ren camped was about forty miles away from the north bank of the Han River, and if you judge by the regular speed of the infantry, it would take at least half a day, and if the march did not go well, it would be possible to take a day.

But now Cao Ren is leading the cavalry, and if the cavalry assaults, it won't take half a day to reach forty miles, and if it is a tiger and leopard ride, it may be faster.

It's a pity that now Cao Ren is only leading ordinary cavalry, but Cao Ren feels that it is not impossible to kill in front of Guan Yu in half a day, and to raid when Guan Yu did not establish a camp in time, and win a big victory.

Cavalry, the main thing is speed.

Therefore, Cao Ren led the cavalry to make a rapid assault in order not to give Guan Yu time to react.

Guan Yu really didn't expect that Cao Ren would give up the siege of Fancheng and come to the north bank of the Han River to find himself on the line.

I'm leading a navy, and I have a boat.

No matter how fast your cavalry comes, there will always be time for me to retire and get on the ship, can your cavalry still be able to kill on the water?!

Besides, I led the soldiers to help, how could I not send a ranger to reconnoiter the enemy first, although your cavalry is moving fast, it is not a difficult thing for my rangers to find out the movements of you.

Guan Yu really didn't understand, Cao Ren was also a veteran, how could he make such a low-level mistake.

Just when Cao Ren was still twenty miles away from Guan Yu, Guan Yu learned the news that Cao Ren led the cavalry to raid him.

To tell the truth, Cao Ren's troops were indeed sent quickly, although Guan Yu's rangers passed the news of Cao Ren's attack through some simple warning methods, but Guan Yu only knew the superficial news that Cao Ren led the cavalry towards him, and Guan Yu didn't know how many troops Cao Ren led and where he was going.

Therefore, from the perspective of safety, Guan Yu's correct response should indeed be to retreat first, avoid Cao Ren's cavalry, and then find other suitable places to camp ashore.

But. After all, it is not a long-term solution.

The current Guan Yu only received the news of the battle report from Zhang Xi, and learned that Cao Ren went south and brought a vanguard of 10,000 people.

Anyway, whether it was Guan Yu and Zhang Xi, they all felt that Cao Ren couldn't just bring such a few people to attack Fancheng, and even the walls of Fancheng might not be able to touch them.

Therefore, Guan Yu can judge that the cavalry led by Cao Ren should only be a vanguard force.

If Cao Ren took advantage of the mobility of these cavalry to cruise along the Han River and force himself not to let the navy land easily, Cao Ren let the follow-up Cao army's infantry troops besiege Fancheng, which would be troublesome.

Although Cao Ren's cavalry did not have a way to completely block Guan Yu's navy from going ashore, Guan Yu didn't think about just defending Fancheng, he still wanted to set up a camp in the field and form a horn with Fancheng, so that the defense would be more layered and they could support each other.

And Guan Yu wants to go ashore and set up a village, so Cao Ren's cavalry team must find a way to solve it, otherwise Cao Ren will sneak attack from time to time and run away after the fight, which will be very disgusting.

Therefore, Guan Yu decided not to retreat for the time being, let the soldiers move all the Wugang cars on the ship, set up a car formation, and let the soldiers and pikemen who were familiar with the mandarin duck formation establish a defense around the car formation, and the crossbowmen entered the center of the car formation, and this Cao Ren's cavalry arrived.

Guan Yu had already discussed this set of battle plans similar to the Moon Formation with Zhang Xi, and both of them felt that this plan was feasible, and now Guan Yu had just officially implemented it.

And Cao Ren obviously didn't know what kind of things were waiting for him in front of him, and he still kept urging the cavalry to advance quickly.

When Cao Ren led 8,000 cavalry and quickly rushed to the shore of the Han River, he was overjoyed when he saw Guan Yu's fleet and the fact that only a small number of soldiers had landed on the shore next to the fleet.

If Guan Yu had already landed with the whole army, 20,000 infantry against 8,000 cavalry, although Cao Ren also had a chance of winning, he would have to pay a lot of price after all.

But now Cao Ren found that only a small part of Guan Yujun's people went ashore, so what are you waiting for, a direct impact.

Of course, Cao Ren is not Xu Chu's fool who doesn't know how to command, before the impact, he still has to organize an impact formation, nor is it the kind of impact that rushes up, scoring into several batches of continuous impact, so as not to give the other party time to reorganize the defense, in order to give full play to the maximum power of the cavalry

Cao Ren immediately ordered the cavalry to adjust to an attack formation as soon as possible during the march, divide into three echelons, and launch an attack on Guan Yu's shore naval army.

Although Cao Ren has been making frequent tricks recently, the quality of being a commander is still there, Cao Ren did not charge personally, but mainly commanded operations.

Seeing his cavalry rushing up, Cao Ren temporarily slowed down his advance and took command of the rear army while organizing a second wave of cavalry offensives.

But. Cao Ren saw the arrows in the sky and shot them at his first cavalry.

At this time, Cao Ren did not realize the seriousness of the matter.

After all, it is common for cavalry to encounter bow and arrow shooting when attacking, and the correct response at this time is to ignore these arrows, try to speed up the cavalry, and rush through the area covered by the arrows.

When the cavalry rushes in front of the enemy camp, using speed and impact to break through the enemy's defenses and kill the advance soldiers, there is no room for the arrows.

The rest is just one-sided killing.

Therefore, Cao Ren didn't care when he saw the arrows shot out of Guan Yu's camp, but directly sent the second batch of cavalry teams that had just been organized, allowing them to accelerate their sprint, and immediately behind the first batch of cavalry teams, to launch a continuous attack on Guan Yu's army.

But. The rain of arrows is still being fired.

Now Cao Ren is not calm, could it be that the first batch of assault cavalry did not break through the front defense of Guan Yu's army? !

Well, it's not impossible, after all, Guan Yu is a famous general, and the navy is ashore, it is impossible to have no defense at all, probably Guan Yu set up a long shield and a long spear array as a defense.

Since this is the case, let the first wave of cavalry retreat and cruise one after another, fight the enemy with cavalry shooting, let the second wave of cavalry attack, and then take advantage of the situation to form a third wave of cavalry to attack.

Cao Ren didn't believe it, with this improvised shield wall defense, Guan Yu could continuously block the impact of his cavalry.

Sooner or later, there will be a time to break through the shield wall and enter the Chinese army.

And then again. Cao Ren wondered, why did Guan Yu prepare so many crossbowmen?!

Generally speaking, the military configuration is still dominated by pikemen and long knife soldiers, although there are crossbowmen, but they are mainly used to suppress the enemy when charging or defending, and the ratio in the army is not too high.

But now, Cao Ren saw that Guan Yu's army was constantly shooting crossbow arrows, constantly killing and injuring his own cavalry, even if he let his cavalry roaming and shooting, because of the difference in range, Cao Ren's cavalry did not dare to get too close to Guan Yu's soldiers.

And Cao Ren was even more curious, why his cavalry had been attacking for so long, and he didn't break through even a little bit of Guan Yu's army. Guan Yu's soldiers, are they so good at defense?!

Cao Renhu was suspicious, so he let his cavalry temporarily retreat and carefully observe Guan Yu's military formation.

Now I finally saw clearly, Guan Yu arranged a car formation in the front army, and this car formation was arranged in an arc along the waterfront.

This means that unless Cao Ren can launch an attack from the water, there is no defensive blind spot in this car formation.

And when he looked at the car formation, some bad memories in Cao Ren's mind began to emerge again, and when his cavalry attacked Zhou Yu in Nanjun, he had enough of this kind of car formation.

Cao Ren knew the difficulty of this kind of car formation, and even more knew that if this kind of car formation was combined with enough bows and crossbows, it would be very lethal to the cavalry.

This put Cao Ren in another dilemma.

Regardless of this car formation, Guan Yu can rely on the car formation, unhurriedly let the soldiers go ashore and build a camp, and his cavalry can only watch from the sidelines.

In this way, he could not achieve the goal of quickly breaking through Guan Yu's reinforcements and isolating Fancheng.

If the cavalry assaulted regardless of casualties, it was possible to break through this car formation, kill the crossbowmen in the car formation, and even repel Guan Yu's reinforcements. But after all, the chariot formation is made of wood, and its own cavalry is piled up with flesh and money.

The car formation, Guan Yu has to build as many as he wants, although the loss of a little bow and crossbow can also make Guan Yu feel distressed, but Cao Ren feels even more sorry for his lost cavalry.

Cavalry, from people to horses, is not cheap, even if it is Cao Cao's family business, he can't afford to waste it so badly.

Cao Ren had to make a decision, whether to risk losses and continue to let the cavalry charge, or to retreat and wait until the reinforcements led by Xiahou Shang and even Zhang Liao and others arrived, and then find a way to attack the city.

Just when Cao Ren was hesitating, Cao Ren saw Guan Yu's handsome banner.

A huge handsome flag slowly disembarked from the boat and came to the middle of the car formation.

Obviously, Guan Yu, as the commander, personally came to the car formation to boost morale and organize soldiers to defend. Then Cao Ren has nothing to hesitate about.

As soon as Cao Ren saw Guan Yu's big sword, the anger in his heart couldn't be restrained again, and his mind, which had finally calmed down slowly, exploded.

"Soldiers, Guan Yu is right in front of you, and you don't want to move forward with all your might, avenge General Zhengxi, avenge Bendu, and avenge King Wei!!!"

Cao Ren roared, and then waved his hand, and the three groups of cavalry took turns to attack the chariot formation again.

(End of chapter)