Guan Yu took the initiative to retreat, and laid down a moon formation along the river, not to mention that Cao Ren didn't expect it, and Zhang Xi didn't expect it either.

The second master actually took the initiative to retreat?!

Originally, Zhang Xi was still thinking about sending troops to rescue the second master at the right time, or persuading the second master to retreat appropriately and shorten the distance of the supply line. As a result, the second master retreated simply, and retreated directly to the Han River, using the moon array to meet the enemy.

The 20,000-strong Moon Formation, as well as the naval army, did not say that the second master would break the enemy, and there would be no problem in holding on, Zhang Xi also slightly let go of his uneasy heart.

It's when did this second master know how to be so "flexible"?!

Nonsense, Guan Yu is in his fifties, a handful of old people, how can Zhang Xi compare his experience in the polemic array.

In the past, most of the second master's conquests were in a position where they could not "retreat".

Guarding Xuzhou, can he retreat?!

As soon as you retreat, you have to be like Romance, surrounded by people on the dirt mountain, and you can't retreat.

The Battle of the White Horse, can he retreat?!

As soon as Cao Cao retreated, he was defeated, and he estimated that he would have to die.

In the first half of his life, the foundation of the eldest brother Liu Bei was too weak, and Guan Yu was always responsible for guarding the most critical position, he couldn't retreat, and if he retreated, everyone would end up together.

But for now. Xiang Fan is in his hand, he has the strategic initiative, and he Guan Yu has to fight with the enemy with his neck, which is a bad brain.

In history, Guan Yu defeated Maicheng, it was really not that he didn't know how to advance or retreat, no one thought that a person with Mi Fang's identity would also rebel, and he surrendered without even fighting.

At the beginning, although the second master was in love with Xiangyang City, he finally chose to return to Jiangling, and even he had already reached Linfang, and it was only a few days away from Jiangling.

As a result, Mi Fang actually opened the city and surrendered.

But as long as Mi Fang can hold on for seven or eight days, Guan Yu's reinforcements will arrive, and with the city defense of Jiangling, it is impossible to lose it.

But the current Guan Yu is far from the embarrassing situation of Guan Yu in history, he holds Xiangfan in his hand, occupies the strategic initiative, as long as he sticks to it, why bother to fight Cao Jun.

And strictly speaking, Guan Yu only retreated to the edge of the Han River, and met the enemy with the moon formation, and did not give up Zhang Xi's defense of Fancheng, which was not a retreat in the real sense.

All in all, the second master didn't feel that he was afraid of Cao Ren before retreating, anyway, I'm here, if you have the ability, Cao Ren will lead the troops to attack.

Cao Ren really didn't dare, how could he not get his 10,000 cavalry, Cao Ren knew too well in his heart.

The density of the rain of arrows can't escape at the speed of the cavalry, you have to let the infantry attack, this is not an attack, this is to let the soldiers die.

Anyway, Cao Ren would not do such a heartless thing, as soon as he saw Guan Yu put on this formation, he decisively stopped the march, camped on the spot, and thought about the next countermeasure.

The current Cao Ren is indeed a little difficult.

Let's go to fight Fancheng, it's too difficult to attack the city.

Go fight Guan Yu, I always feel like I'm going to die.

But you can't let the 60,000-strong army do nothing in the field in the winter, and consume grain and grass in vain.

And what makes Cao Ren feel most hateful is that as long as he leads his troops to move a little in the direction of Fancheng, Guan Yu will send soldiers to threaten his flanks, and when Cao Ren tries to set up an ambush and surround these Guan Yu soldiers who threaten the flanks, Guan Yu is very cunning and never loves to fight, and quickly withdraws, and when Cao Ren continues to march, Cao Ren quietly appears disgusted and half dead.

In the end, there was no choice, Cao Ren had to lead the troops by himself, go to Guan Yu's camp, and curse loudly.

What kind of general scolded the war for losing his identity, Cao Ren couldn't care about it so much, and if there was no progress, his own patience would be exhausted.

Therefore, Cao Ren didn't care about any facelessness, and personally came forward to scold the battle, trying to provoke Guan Yu to fight in the field.

Cao Ren knew that this trick was not good for Zhang Xi, but for a person like Guan Yu, who had a good face in his life, it might have a miraculous effect.

Sure enough, three days after Cao Ren scolded him shamelessly, Guan Yu sent a letter to Cao Ren's military camp.

In the book, he accused Cao Ren of not having the demeanor of a general, and at the same time said that if he fights more and fights less, then even if he comes to attack, he Guan Yu will accompany him to the end, but if he does not accept the contract, the two sides can agree on a time, each lead 10,000 foot soldiers, and compete.

Guan Yu still has to face after all, especially Cao Ren is so unparticular about scolding in person, if Guan Yu doesn't agree again, it seems that Guan Yu is afraid of Cao Ren.

However, Guan Yu is not stupid, if you ask me to give up my defensive advantage to fight a field battle with you, I will have 20,000 people, and you will only agree to this kind of field battle when you turn around with 50,000 people who are not willing to do so.

So Guan Yu's meaning is very simple, if you want to fight normally, then you can attack, let you taste the power of the Moon Array.

But if you Cao Ren just don't accept it and want to challenge, then it's okay, 10,000 people against 10,000 people, and they all have to be foot soldiers, let's go one-on-one, see the real chapter on the battlefield, this can also be.

This is the arrogance of the second master, although it is not in the interests of Liu Beijun to do so, if Zhang Xi is in the country, he will definitely have to persuade for a while. But the second master, there is always the pride that belongs to the second master.

As for Cao Ren's 10,000 against 10,000, it was already the best result.

There are two people in front of you, one is guarding the turtle shell and not coming out, and the other is guarding the hedgehog array waiting for you to attack. If you consume it, won't you still suffer the loss?

How many people are on the other side, how much grain and grass are consumed every day, how many people are on my side, and how much pressure my grain and grass supply is, do you know?!

Putting down the main general's shelf and personally scolding the battle, it is already a very good result to attract 10,000 people to fight.

As long as these 10,000 people are defeated in the field battle, it can not only kill and injure the living force of Guan Yu's army, but also effectively hit the morale of Guan Yu's army, why not do it.

It's just that you have to command the army one-on-one and promise Guan Yu, which is a bit troublesome.

It stands to reason that Cao Ren is the commander of the First Army, and as a result of him personally scolding the formation, these 10,000 people must be commanded by Cao Ren.

But. Cao Ren is still self-aware, one-on-one field combat, whether it is personal martial arts or command ability, he does not seem to be Guan Yu's opponent.

In fact, the most suitable candidate for the leader here is Zhang Liao.

But if Cao Ren lets Zhang Liao lead the troops into battle, on the one hand, it is disrespectful to Guan Yu, and on the other hand, it is tantamount to directly admitting that he Cao Ren is not Guan Yu's opponent, and even Zhang Liao under him is not as good as him, and he does not dare to personally command the battle? !

Coupled with the name of "slippery side too shou" that circulated earlier, do you want Cao Ren's reputation anymore? !

Therefore, there is no way, Cao Ren must go into battle head-on, and he must personally command. The consequences of losing the battle are better than the consequences of letting Zhang Liao go into battle.

It's really not a shame to lose to Guan Yu, but I'm afraid that Guan Yu still thinks that he is not as good as his subordinates, and that's really a shame.

After Cao Ren thought about the plan, he sent a letter back to Guan Yu, agreeing that three days later, the two sides would compete ten miles outside Fancheng.

There is no way, the turtle does not go out of the city, but the turtle must be shown to win or lose this battle. If this wins, won't it also be able to severely damage the morale of the defenders of Fancheng?!

In this way, three days later, the two armies each sent 10,000 men to start a "covenant battle" ten miles outside Fancheng.

Both sides are infantry dispatched, and there is no cavalry involved, after all, the arms are too powerful, if Cao Ren dispatches cavalry, then Guan Yu will not agree to any appointment, just use the moon array to wait for you to attack.

10,000 infantry versus 10,000 infantry, depending on the commander's command ability and even this battle, may affect the victory or defeat of the entire battle that follows.

One thing to say, Cao Ren's command ability is not weak, in Zhuxiahou Cao, he is already one of the best existences, except for Xiahou Yuan, who has just died in Dingjun Mountain, Cao Ren should be the Cao clan general with the strongest command ability.

But in the face of Guan Yu, after all, he was still a little weaker in terms of strain, and from the beginning of the war, he was led by Guan Yu by the nose.

As soon as the two sides started the war, they each left 3,000 people to prepare, and the remaining 7,000 people were directly engaged in the battle, but while fighting, Cao Ren found that he always seemed to be making adjustments in response to Guan Yu's attack, and never took the initiative to attack Guan Yu.

Cao Ren didn't try to find his offensive rhythm by adjusting it, but the soldiers of Liu Bei's group opposite, isn't the ordnance in your hands a bit excessive?!

It doesn't matter if the short soldier is longer than his own ring head knife, why is it so hard, two knives and one touch, basically my family's soldiers suffer. Why?!

Could it be that their own quartermaster is corrupt and corrupt, and all they produce are substandard ordnance?!

In fact, at this point, Cao Ren can still endure it, although there is a gap in the weapons of short soldiers, but in terms of long weapons, Cao Ren's army is equipped more, and Guan Yu's army is less, so in terms of medium and long-distance combat, Cao Jun still has an advantage.

After discovering this flaw, Cao Ren immediately made adjustments, allowing his soldiers to quickly widen the distance between him and Liu Beijun, allowing the pikemen and Changge soldiers to rush forward, taking advantage of the long offensive distance to kill and injure Liu Beijun's soldiers, and not giving Liu Beijun room for hand-to-hand combat.

As long as you don't get a chance to get close, no matter how sharp your short soldier is, it's useless if you don't have room to play.

But then, Cao Ren found out that the three thousand reserves left by Guan Yu began to install long poles on the handles of their big swords. Park Daobing came on the field.

In an instant, he changed from a short soldier to a long soldier, although the attack distance was worse than that of a spear or a long ge, but after all, it made up for some distance disadvantages. How can this battle be fought?!

To tell the truth, the gap between Cao Jun's combat power and Liu Beijun's combat power is really not too big in terms of personal soldier quality, but the gap in ordnance is really too big.

At the beginning, Cao Ren was able to rely on the attack distance advantage of Changge and Long Spear to let the soldiers pull away and avoid hand-to-hand combat with Liu Beijun, but with the entry of the three thousand Pu sword soldiers, this distance advantage was effectively shortened, and then combined with the length advantage of Miao Dao. Cao Jun gradually couldn't hold on.

(End of chapter)