Guan Yu didn't know what Cao Ren was crazy about, why he was so persistent in attacking the car formation.

To tell the truth, if Guan Yu and Cao Ren's positions were reversed, when facing such an iron turtle, Guan Yu would definitely temporarily retreat to attract the enemy's position to move forward, as long as the enemy army left the water's edge, the matter would be easily solved.

Guan Yu would choose to get off the ship, on the one hand, it was indeed to boost morale, on the other hand, he also felt that Cao Ren was also a famous general, and it was impossible to kill a hundred enemies and lose a thousand of himself.

But Cao Ren really ordered the cavalry to launch an assault again, and Guan Yu, puzzled, naturally would not be polite and accepted this gift with a smile.

In the first Cao army attack, Guan Yu only let the two thousand crossbowmen in the car formation shoot, and the casualties caused to the Cao army's cavalry were not very large.

But this time, Guan Yu not only commanded the crossbowmen in the car formation to shoot arrows and shoot back, but also asked Guan Ping to command the warships to line up on the river, and let the soldiers attack indiscriminately with crossbows.

Anyway, the crossbow has a long range, as long as it does not shoot within the range of the car formation, no matter where it lands, it can be regarded as building an arrow array, which can effectively block the cavalry from approaching.

And the cavalry of the Cao army, this impact is simply blood mold.

Under the command of the military commander, Cao's army formed an assault formation, instigated horses, and began to attack the enemy's front.

When approaching the enemy three hundred paces in front of the formation, everything was normal. The distance of three hundred paces is a matter of tens of breaths for the cavalry, and soon the cavalry will be able to rush in front of the enemy's formation, attack the chariot formation with a cavalry spear, or kill the enemy with a saber.

Two hundred paces, the enemy's chariot formation shot a dense array of arrows. It is true that the arrows fired by the ordinary army formation are more dense, but it is not impossible to solve it, temporarily disperse the formation, dodge the attack of most of the arrows, regroup, and concentrate on attacking a car formation.

A hundred steps, huh?! Why is it dark?!

Cao Jun's cavalry raised his head slightly, and saw the arrows flying all over the sky, covering the sky and the sun, and before he could react to what was going on, he had already been shot through by four or five long arrows, and his eyes suddenly turned black, and he fell off his horse.

On the battlefield now, Guan Yujun is constantly outputting arrows from the ship to the car array, but in a few breaths, Guan Yujun has poured tens of thousands of arrows into the arc area in front of the car array, and this frequency is still continuing.

The density and speed of the arrows are quite rare.

And the Cao army cavalry group in front of Guan Yu's army felt that they were not attacking, but looking for death.

There was a rain of arrows all around, giving people the feeling that it was not their own cavalry that was attacking, but that they were riding a horse and actively hitting the arrows, no matter how they dodged, they couldn't dodge, and no matter how thick the leather armor on their bodies was, they couldn't stop so many arrows from firing, and they were killed and injured in an instant.

However, the current cavalry of the Cao army, the speed has been completely raised, and now they have to turn around to dodge the arrows, and there is no way to dodge.

I could only hold on to the idea of what to expect, and accelerated to rush to the front of Guan Yu's army.

If you can break through the car formation and enter the melee in Guan Yu's military formation, maybe there is still a glimmer of life, and running back is likely to be a dead end.

In this way, most of the cavalry soldiers of the Cao army, with the same idea, were either shot by arrows and fell on the way to charge, or were blocked by the chariot formation, and were killed by spears, only a few cavalry in the rear army found that the situation was wrong, quickly turned around and fled back to their own position, which barely escaped their lives.

Cao Ren was completely blinded by such a three-dimensional blow,

In the first impact, Cao Ren's losses were not large, that is, three or four hundred casualties, so Cao Ren didn't care about it, and launched a second attack with a hot brain.

But in the second attack, under the combined blow of the ship's crossbow and the crossbow in the car formation, Cao Ren only saw his cavalry constantly falling on the way forward.

Even some cavalry couldn't stand this density of arrows and planned to scatter and escape, but they still couldn't run out of the arrow circle formed by Guan Yu.

In this attack, Cao Ren invested half of his troops, except for more than 200 cavalry who luckily did not enter the arrow rain circle and fled with their lives, none of the rest of the cavalry could escape, and all of them died in the arrow rain circle.

Cao Ren was completely dumbfounded, and Guan Yu was also very annoyed now.

Really, it would be nice if you could have a thousand cavalry on hand.

In view of the current morale of Cao Ren's army, if he has a thousand cavalry on hand, he will launch a pursuit of Cao Ren's cavalry, even if he can't completely annihilate Cao Ren, at least he can defeat Cao Ren, and in this way, the siege of Fancheng will be completely solved.

But it's a pity that Guan Yu didn't have cavalry, so he could only watch Cao Ren pack up his mood, gather his remaining cavalry troops, and slowly withdraw.

After losing 4,000 people, Cao Ren finally calmed down, and with his current strength, it was no longer possible to think about defeating Guan Yu's reinforcements and killing Guan Yu.

But fortunately, he is a cavalryman, coming and going like the wind, and it is unrealistic for Guan Yu to want to stay with him.

It's just that Cao Ren can't always take the cavalry to eat and drink in the field, the purpose is to stalemate with Guan Yu here, and there is no shortage of supplies at all, and he can't consume him.

Therefore, Cao Ren, who calmed down, finally decided to retreat to his camp in the north of Fancheng first, and wait until Xiahou Shang led his troops to come to help, and then make plans.

Cao Ren, who figured out his current situation, finally slowly recovered the demeanor of some famous generals, broke off when he was broken, led the cavalry, and slowly retreated.

And Guan Yu didn't dare to pursue, on the one hand, he couldn't catch up, and on the other hand, he was afraid that Cao Ren would kill him.

Although Cao Ren's performance before was really not very clever, Cao Ren's reputation was placed there after all, and he could be regarded as the only two generals in Cao Cao's family who could fight well, Guan Yu really didn't dare to be careless.

By the way, the other one is named Xiahou Yuan, who was just beheaded by a veteran named Huang Zhong in Dingjun Mountain.

Well, anyway, Guan Yu didn't pursue, let Cao Ren retreat, and he organized the rest of the soldiers to go ashore, choose a suitable place to set up a camp, and become a horn with Fancheng.

Cao Ren retreated all the way, and finally when it was dark, he retreated to his camp north of Fancheng.

But Cao Ren had just entered the camp, and no one got off his horse, and suddenly found that something was wrong, why was the camp so quiet?!

I left 2,000 people to garrison the camp, as the chief general of the first army, now I go back to the camp, not to mention that everyone comes out to greet it, at least the deputy general Chang Diao and some of the remaining lieutenants and others should come out. What about people?!

Cao Ren's suspicion suddenly found a problem. Why do some parts of the camp look so strange, and why is the ground still full of potholes?!

Cao Ren immediately reacted that something was wrong, and hurriedly shouted to stop the cavalry who were still continuing to enter the camp, but it was too late.

The rear of Cao's camp suddenly caught fire, and the fire quickly became bigger, and outside the main gate of Cao's camp, a team of people and horses quickly appeared, and the leading general was Zhang Wei.

Seriously, Cao Ren left a camp of 2,000 people to defend, and if Zhang Xi didn't do something, he would really be sorry for such good conditions.

Cao Ren scolded the formation, relying on the 8,000 cavalry as a support, Zhang Xi pondered, there were a total of 7,000 soldiers in his city, and they were all infantry, and there was a high probability that they would not be able to defeat Cao Ren's 8,000 cavalry.

So no matter how you Cao Ren scolds, we just won't go out.

As a result, early this morning, Cao Ren led the cavalry to the east, and Zhang Xi sent a ranger to reconnoitre, saying that Cao Ren had run out for more than 20 miles in a while.

This posture obviously does not mean to use empty camps to set up an ambush to lure Zhang Xi to send troops, so as to defeat Zhang Xi in the field.

In that case, it is true that my 7,000 infantry cannot defeat your 8,000 cavalry, but if I can't even do the 2,000 infantry in your camp, then I really don't want to be a general.

After Zhang Xi was sure that Cao Ren was not using a trick to force himself out of the city, he immediately asked Zhang Wei to gather 5,000 men and horses, take five catapults, and go to attack Cao's camp.

Hawkers, when someone uses it, Zhang Xi rarely goes into battle in person, after all, this product is very afraid of death.

One thing to say, Cao Ren is not careless.

According to common sense, a camp defended by 2,000 people, even if the enemy army sends 5,000 men to attack, at least it will take a few days to attack, and it is not so easy to break through a camp.

And with the speed of Cao Ren's cavalry, from marching to defeat Guan Yu to returning to the military camp, Cao Ren felt that about two days should be enough.

If Chang Diao, the deputy general who stayed in the camp, couldn't hold it for two days, then Cao Ren really had nothing to say.

Chang Diao also thinks that he can hold it, but who knows that Zhang Xi is a person who doesn't talk about martial arts.

not only sent Zhang Wei, a general who is good at attacking cities, to lead 5,000 men and horses to attack the camp, but also equipped him with a catapult.

Young, who have you ever seen attacking the camp and using catapults?!

No matter how strong the camp is, its outer walls are only made of wood, and it is not at the same level as the city wall at all.

Zhang Wei didn't do anything, and the five catapults kept bombarding the outer wall of the camp, and in half an hour, the outer wall was blasted through a big gap.

And Chang Diao didn't do nothing, he saw the other party dispatch catapults, and he was also very brave enough to organize soldiers to fight out of the camp, wanting to defeat the enemy army and burn the catapults.

Chang Diao personally led a thousand soldiers out of the camp to fight, which can be said to be the first soldier.

As a result, he didn't even touch the side of the catapult, and was blocked back to the camp by the other party's general commanding 2,000 soldiers.

What's even more aggrieved is that Chang Diao found that even if he didn't return to the camp, he was likely to not be able to defeat the enemy's soldiers.

Although the opponent fights more and less, the weapons of the opponent's soldiers are too sharp, and many of their own soldiers are killed or injured in the battle because of the loss of their blades.

Even Chang Diao found that his spear had several openings on the head of the spear, and there were obvious marks on the barrel of the spear in several places, and a layer of veneer was directly cut off in some places.

This is an ash gun. It's hard, okay?

The subsequent battle in the camp further proved Chang Diao's point of view, even with the same strength, Cao's army could not gain the upper hand, and was suppressed by the enemy.

In such a battle, the Cao army could not hold out for long, and after a large number of Fancheng troops poured into the camp, the Cao army collapsed.

Chang Diao panicked, and hurriedly ordered someone to collect the scattered remnants, so he relaxed his protection. Zhang Wei saw the opportunity, led the guards to make a surprise attack, suddenly came to Chang Diao's side, and cooperated with his own guards to easily capture Chang Diao.

The battle lasted less than two hours before Zhang Wei broke through Cao Ren's remaining camp.

After Zhang Wei broke through the camp, he found Zhang Xi to restore his life, and at the same time suggested that Zhang Xi burn the camp, so that Cao Ren would have no place to stand even if he returned to the army, so he had to retreat and wait for help.

But Zhang Xi thinks that well, in fact, it can be burned a little later.

Then Zhang Xi hurriedly made arrangements, asking Zhang Wei to repair Cao Ren's camp first, try to erase some traces of battle, and prepare sulfur and other fire-causing things in the camp in advance.

After doing this, let Zhang Wei lead 3,000 troops to ambush outside the camp, and he led 2,000 troops to observe the timing in the back camp.

As long as Cao Ren returns to the camp, he will light a fire to create chaos, and Zhang Wei will kill from outside the camp. I can't say that I can send Cao Ren a big defeat.

(End of chapter)