Xinye, Zhang Fei and Guan Hai are resting here for a while today, during this time they have swept the county seat in the south of Nanyang County along the Han River, and now basically no one still thinks about Yuan Shu coming back.

Xinye is the central position in the south of Nanyang County, and it is also because of the arrival of Wei Xuan, Wancheng Gaopo, and more cavalry will join the battle to seize the city.

It's just that as soon as the two of them entered the city, news came from Cai Yang that Liu Biao sent 30,000 troops, and Cai Yang lost it! Guan Hai was annoyed and wanted to take someone to snatch Cai Yang back on the spot, but he was stopped by Zhang Fei and said with a smile: "We are cavalry, and 30,000 infantry are guarding the city, do you take a war horse to hit the wall." Besides, even if someone gives you the city, when we leave, they will take it back, isn't that a waste of time? The lord is in Wancheng, and the scouts have only been coming and going for a day, so it is better to ask the lord to immediately send light cavalry to join us, and then give Liu Biao a surprise. Only by catching their infantry in the field can they be killed. ”

Guan Hai thought for a while, and his eyes lit up: "Captain Zhang, you must find an open space for the sons and daughters to run, these days they have just gone back and forth between the cities and have not met a single one who dares to resist, which can be regarded as suffocating." ”

Zhang Fei nodded, that's what he meant, so he sent scouts to Wancheng to ask for instructions, and at the same time returned to the military tent to get a map of Nanyang County, and then pulled Guan Hai out of the city to check the scene, he wanted to find a suitable assault location to surprise Liu Biao.

Wei Xuan, who was rectifying the troops and horses in Wancheng and pacifying the people, was also very surprised that Liu Biao would choose this time to send troops. However, without too much hesitation, he directly agreed to Zhang Fei's request, and asked Wen Ping and Yang Ling to quickly go south with the cavalry of Wei Yanbu and Xu Rong respectively to obey Zhang Fei's dispatch.

A day later, on the road from Huyang to Xinye, Liu Pan and Liu Qi and Wang Wei's 30,000 troops were driving to Xinye, after they crossed the Han River in Xiangyang, they went to the place where they were also looking at the wind, and the three cities had been connected in two days, especially after occupying Huyang, the three of them were full of confidence, and the three of them were ready to occupy Xinye first to threaten Wancheng, and then the troops were divided into three roads, all the way to the northwest and all the way to the southeast to seize the city, all the way to the north.

30,000 people walked dozens of miles on the empty plain, Liu Pan also has experience in marching and fighting, although Liu Biao's designated commander is Liu Qi, but he volunteered to be the vanguard, and let Wang Wei be the queen, let Liu Qi walk in the middle of the team carefree.

However, such an arrangement made Liu Qi suffer the first fiasco in his life, and he may not have the opportunity to lead troops to fight again in the future.

It was only two hours after the team set off from Huyang, and Liu Pan in front was very cautious in letting the scouts out for more than 20 miles. Liu Qi had never led troops before, but this time he was supported by his brother Liu Pan and in-law Wang Wei to become the commander of the three counties, and after these two days, he knew that it was not difficult to fight.

It was indeed refreshing to ride a horse in the 10,000-strong formation, but soon he noticed that the procession was gradually stopping, and many veterans looked around nervously. Then more and more people looked panicked. Liu Qi was very puzzled, and asked the soldiers around him, "What happened?" ”

The soldier hurriedly ran to some experienced Sima to inquire, and soon came back with the same panicked expression and whispered beside Liu Qi: "Cavalry, they said that a large number of cavalry appeared on both flanks in the direction of our march, and it should be Zhang Fei's department sent by Wei Xuan in the south. ”

Liu Qi frowned: "The enemy is only four or five thousand cavalry, why should we panic if our army has 30,000 people, just send someone to contact the front and rear armies quickly." ”

The cavalry around him immediately conveyed Liu Qi's order, but he was not as calm as Liu Qi, they were also on horseback, and of course they knew the advantage of cavalry over infantry. Even if it was five thousand against ten thousand, their infantry did not have any advantage this night.

Boom, boom, the sound of horses' hooves on both sides became louder and louder when Liu Qi's department stopped in panic, and everyone understood that they had encountered a large force of enemy cavalry, and a fierce battle was inevitable.

Some experienced Sima and military marquis immediately invited Liu Qi to the front of the team, let all the cavalry protect them, and then the 10,000 men divided into two parts and began to face the direction from which the horses' hooves came from.

It's just that obviously the enemy's cavalry came too fast, and soon a black spot appeared in the farthest part of the horizon, then two, three, then a line, and then a black press, and the dust rolled up by thousands of cavalry was more than seven feet high, and all the Jingzhou infantry began to tremble.

This is true on the left, and the same is true on the right, and when a person who looks like a lieutenant sees such a situation, he originally wanted to make ???????????????? Liu Qi commanded in the center, and now he commanded all of Liu Qi's personal soldiers: "Escort the eldest prince to join General Liu!" ”

Liu Qi was no longer as calm as he had been before, because the enemy's cavalry on both sides seemed to be far more than four or five thousand people. Although Liu Qi left as soon as he hit the horse, he was stopped by someone as soon as he walked out and had not caught up with Liu Pan for a few miles, so he could only follow back in a gloomy manner, and then he saw a scene that he would never forget.

Ten thousand men of infantry lined up on the wide plains, but they were no match for the heavy cavalry, armed to the teeth.

Zhang Fei also made arrangements after receiving the support of Wen Ping and Yang Ling, that is, using heavy cavalry to charge the formation, and then using light cavalry to chase and kill the fleeing enemy, making sure to kill the Jingzhou soldiers as much as possible.

Zhang Fei had 3,000 men in his headquarters, Guan Hai led 2,000 men to attack Liu Qi's infantry from both flanks, and Yang Ling and Wen Ping scattered the light cavalry on both sides of the heavy cavalry.

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Then a battle between heavy cavalry and light infantry unfolded under Liu Qi's witness. Strictly speaking, this is not a battle, this is a one-sided slaughter! Those infantry didn't even have armor, and when the heavy cavalry threw short hair, a large piece fell, and the originally rigorous phalanx instantly collapsed and loosened, and then the heavy cavalry cut the Jingzhou infantry like a knife cutting tofu.

The light cavalry that followed closely was also unrelenting, chopping sabers or spears danced, and each time they could take the life of a Jingzhou infantryman. Some timid Jingzhou soldiers tried to escape before the cavalry approached, but without exception they were chased by the light cavalry on both flanks and killed on the spot.

The large array of 10,000 people was quickly killed by Zhang Fei and Guan Hai with heavy cavalry. Zhang Fei also has rich combat experience, as soon as he penetrated the infantry phalanx, he immediately had a very tacit understanding with Guan Hai and Guan Hai to go forward and backward again.

The good 10,000 people earthquake was directly cut into four pieces. The light cavalry of 4,000 men also quickly completed the encirclement and came up to kill the Jingzhou infantry.

All this happened too suddenly, too tragically, Liu Qi was dumbfounded. This noble son, who has been clothed and fed since childhood, went to the battlefield for the first time and witnessed the scene of flesh and blood. He wanted people to stop, he wanted to stop the killing on the battlefield, but no one would listen to him, and he watched ten thousand people become eight thousand, then five thousand...... And he himself and more than a hundred of his own soldiers were surrounded by several times the enemy's cavalry, unable to move an inch.

These Jingzhou soldiers were worthy of the 10,000 elites that Liu Biao specially allocated to Liu Qi's command, and it was not until less than 4,000 were killed that someone remembered to kneel and surrender. Zhang Fei also left 2,000 men to collect weapons and guard the prisoners, including Liu Qi, and the rest turned around and headed in the direction of Wang Wei's army.

Wang Wei in the rear had already heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, and he also received a messenger sent by Liu Qi for help, but the cautious Wang Wei did not immediately march quickly to rescue Liu Qi, but constantly sent scouts to investigate, and at the same time began to set up a formation in the same place.

When Zhang Fei arrived with his troops, Wang Wei's 10,000 men had already completed the deployment, but under the impact of nearly 5,000 heavy cavalry led by Zhang Fei, the 10,000-strong infantry was crushed at the touch of a button, and then fled on all sides, and Yang Ling had to go out again to pursue and kill on all sides.

Wang Wei slipped away from the team as soon as he saw Zhang Fei's 5,000 heavy cavalry appear, and he took his own soldiers to desperately go in the direction of Caiyang, this battle could not be fought, he had to find a way to return to the city as soon as possible.

???????????????? Zhang Fei and the others did not chase and kill frantically when their goal was achieved, but turned around again and returned to Liu Qi's location, at this time Liu Pan in front had already received the news that Liu Qi was attacked by the enemy, and he originally came to the rescue with a team, and halfway through, the scouts came to report, the enemy's cavalry was about 10,000 people, so frightened that Liu Pan was stunned on the spot, didn't he say 5,000 people, after so many days of consumption, it should be less than 4,000. How did it suddenly become 10,000.

Liu Pan immediately asked the army to stop, and then sent all his personal soldiers to the battlefield to investigate, but the news continued, Liu Qi was captured, 10,000 people were trampled by the enemy cavalry, most of them were killed, and the rest were captured!

Although Liu Pan had the intention to rescue Liu Qi, after careful consideration, he still took 10,000 people directly to the south. Soon he was glad that he had made the right decision, for they had only run four or five miles south when the sound of horses' hoofs rumbled behind them.

Liu Pan was confident in his own strength, so he chose to break the team and left at the rear with more than fifty cavalry. And the front of the heavy load is still Zhang Fei and Guan Hai, Zhang Fei saw that the enemy left part of the cavalry and naturally knew that there might be the enemy's main general, so he slapped the horse forward, and the Zhangba snake spear stabbed Liu Pan over, Liu Pan waved the spear to block, just a confrontation he felt bad, turned the war horse and fled, and the cavalry next to him saw this and desperately blocked Zhang Fei, but it was really desperate, because Zhang Fei Zhangba's snake spear danced and squeezed to die if it was touched.

The panicked infantry naturally scattered and fled, but under the frontal impact of the heavy cavalry, the light cavalry followed and pursued, and only 2,000 people could really follow Liu Pan to escape to Caiyang, at least 4,000 people were killed on the spot, and a small number of them were taken prisoner, and some fled into nearby villages or rivers to escape death.

Liu Pan rushed all the way back to Caiyang, and after a while, Wang Wei also arrived, and the two of them looked very ugly when they lost Liu Qi's face, 30,000 people crossed the river to the north, and now only four or five thousand people can return here, and there may be people who continue to flee back here in the next few days, but at most it is only 10,000 people. There was no decent resistance at all, which can only be described as a fiasco.

The two really wanted to cry without tears, and while asking people to pack up their equipment and cross the river back to Xiangyang at any time, they sent someone to Xiangyang to send a letter to Liu Biao.