Zhang He led the cavalry to quietly approach the Han army camp, and saw from a distance that there were three horses in front of the Han army camp, two trenches, and two lookouts on the left and right.

Zhang He sneered: "The camp of the thief army is well arranged, and it is indeed a little tricky to attack it head-on, but it is ridiculous to think that it is ridiculous to sit back and relax just by relying on the strength of the camp. ”

Zhang He ordered 800 cavalry on the left and right sides to attack, and he led 3,500 men to attack from the south.

The three ways started together, Zhang Jaw led the army to penetrate the thief army, pointed directly at the middle army, and cooperated with the flanking attack on both sides, forcing the thief army to flee north, making proper arrangements, and acting separately.

Zhang He waved his hand, and more than 100 people of the Cao army dragged a big axe, carried a crossbow machine, and crawled forward, approaching the Han army to reject the horse.

Cao Jun pulled the crossbow string, put the crossbow arrow and shot it violently, and the string sounded, and the soldiers and horses guarding the door of the Han army camp fell to the ground in response. The rest of the Cao army quickly picked up their axes and split the horses, opening a road.

Zhang He shouted: "Fill in the trenches, rush into the thief camp, go straight to the Chinese army and the thief general, kill me!" Cao Jun responded in unison and stuffed the prepared wooden blocks into the trench.

The Cao army led by him smashed open the camp gate and entered, and the left and right sides of the camp sounded shouts and kills at the same time, and the Cao army on both sides cooperated to attack the Han camp. Zhang He entered the Han camp unimpeded, and the Han army pretended to panic and ran to both sides of the camp.

Zhang He killed in front of the Han army's big tent, and suddenly wondered in his heart: "How can the thief army seem to be prepared, many people are simply waiting in the tent to kill themselves, and then run to both sides, and compared to such a large number of camps and tents, the number of people is too small!" ”

Zhang He grabbed several Han soldiers and was about to ask, thinking of the neighing of horses and the shouts of Cao's cavalry, Zhang He shouted, "What's the matter?" ”

When his subordinates heard this, they hurriedly came to report: "General, for some reason, there is a layer of ice on the ground on both sides, and the horses are galloping, the horses' hooves are slipping, and many horses are falling!" ”

A bad feeling appeared in Zhang He's heart, and Cao Jun on both sides shouted fiercely: "There is an ambush, fight!" Bows and arrows were shot from all sides, taking turns without stopping, Cao Jun was caught off guard, many people were shot down, Cao Jun pulled the reins to control the center of gravity, stabilized his body, and held a shield to block the arrows.

Zhang He paid attention to the ground, and saw through the moonlight that there was a thick layer of ice on the ground. Zhang He was shocked: "It's not good, the thief army knows that our army is coming, and they sprinkle water on the ground into ice, so that my horses can't gallop, there is an ambush, I have fallen into a scheme!" ”

As soon as Zhang He's voice fell, hundreds of Han soldiers were divided into two teams, one team with a long ge, and the other team with a big knife from both sides. Zhang He shouted: "Don't mess up, stabilize your position, and engage in battle on the spot!" ”

Cao Jun stopped his horses as he said, wanting to take advantage of his condescending advantage to meet the Han army. However, it is obvious that the Han army has been prepared for a long time, and the Han army has a very long long army, and the first team uses the long blade to stab the horse without attacking people. The horses were afraid to dodge in a hurry, and the movement swayed.

The Han army of the second team took the opportunity to bully themselves and slashed the unstable Cao army with a long knife, and nearly a hundred Cao troops in front were cut down under the horse in a blink of an eye.

Zhang He was annoyed in his heart, and the sound of the cavalry of the Cao army on both sides shook the sky, and it seemed that they were killing into the camp, but the sound was endless, but the people did not come for a long time.

Zhang He said angrily to his soldiers: "Go and urge the soldiers and horses on both sides not to chase and kill the thieves, first meet the Chinese army, cooperate with the destruction of the thief army's camp, find out the hiding place of the thief army, so that the thief army cannot hide and release arrows."

We will be able to face the flanking attack head-on, give full play to the strengths of the cavalry, and defeat the thief army, and now it is too difficult for us to meet it all the way! The guards hurriedly agreed to go.

After Zhang He finished speaking, he shouted fiercely: "The soldiers in front dismounted and fought to meet the enemy, and first blocked the arrows with horses. The rest of the cavalry tore their cloaks and wrapped their horses to prevent them from slipping, stabilized their positions, regrouped their arrays, and fired back in the direction where the arrows were fired on both sides. ”

After that, Zhang He personally jumped off the horse, took the shield handed by the guards, blocked the arrows shot, avoided the long knife, and deceived himself to get close to kill three Han soldiers in a row.

Cao Jun was inspired to jump off their horses and fight, and the Han army saw Cao Jun dismounting, did not fight hard, turned over and retreated.

Zhang He hurriedly chased after him, but the ice was slippery, and he staggered, and was almost shot by a stray arrow, and glanced behind him, dozens of Cao soldiers chased him too quickly and slipped.

Zhang He looked up and saw that the Han army was running fast, and looked closely at the Han army putting a few loops of hemp rope on his shoes.

Zhang He rolled in his heart and said: "I underestimated the thief army, I was calculated, and I used the weather that dripped into ice to make the cavalry unable to exert its power, if it was ambushed on weekdays, it was not difficult to stand out with the advantages of the cavalry, and now I was caught off guard and was suppressed and fell into passivity!"

If you think about it, I'm afraid that the ice on both sides is blocked, and it is difficult for the cavalry to rush in. ”

Zhang He didn't have time to regret and ordered: "Pile up the corpses of the horses that will be killed, so that the thieves from ambushing on both sides will not be killed!" ”

Then he mounted his horse again and concentrated the cavalry general, and ordered: "Set fire everywhere at once, and light up the surroundings." In addition, the thieves did not freeze in the camp, so they galloped back and forth in a circle to shoot arrows in the uniced area, and gradually withdrew slowly when they reached the exit of the camp. The generals and colonels ordered the cavalry to set off their horses and arrows.

Zhang He called his personal guard and said: "You go and order the flanks not to break through to the Chinese army again, bluff on the spot to drag the enemy, cover us after we withdraw them, quickly!" The guards agreed.

Zhang He was well arranged, he understood that the Han army would not let them withdraw safely, and when they detected their retreat, they would immediately kill and counterattack, and he was reluctant to engage in battle at the moment just to use arrows as much as possible to reduce melee casualties.

Whether or not most of the soldiers and horses can be retained and withdrawn depends on whether the two sides can block the Han army. Zhang He decisively divided a thousand Cao troops on each side, drove the horses behind him, and collected all the shields and half of the arrows.

All infantry shoes are wrapped in cloth and grooved into the ice. Zhang He personally commanded, holding a shield to block the incoming arrows.

The cavalry of the Cao army shot as they went, releasing arrows to cover the retreat, and the Cao army smashed the camp gate and expanded the exit, so that the Cao army withdrew side by side with many people at a time.

The Han army saw it clearly, and Du Luan, the deputy general of the Han army, said to Ling Bao: "General, the Cao army is withdrawing, should we attack?" ”

Ling Bao stared at Cao Jun and said: "General Cao is very powerful, in such a short time, the Cao army who dismounted and fought on foot has already stood still, and the horses are wrapped in cloth." And the cavalry did not retreat in a disorderly manner, but shot arrows in an orderly manner to suppress the retreat of our army, which was not simple. ”

After thinking about it, Ling Bao said: "General Du, you go to the flank to supervise the battle now, to ensure that the Cao army can't come in, and you can't let them withdraw, in short, you have to entangle the Cao army, and wait for Zhao Dudu's soldiers and horses to come and attack the Cao army from behind!"

When the time comes, you wave your troops to cover up and kill, cooperate with the annihilation of the flank Cao army, and I will deal with the Cao army in the camp! Du Wei promised and rushed to supervise the battle.

The flank Cao army was only 800 people, and when the buds were arranged, they did not know where the Cao army would attack from, so there was a gap in each camp gate, and the flank Cao army successfully entered it, and their experience was the same as Zhang He, the horse's hooves were slippery, and they could not gallop.

General Cao, who led the troops, did not react as quickly as Zhang He, but he also stabilized his position, and the Han army figured out that the number of these two troops was not large.

In order to prevent the Cao army's three-way soldiers and horses from forcibly attacking and penetrating the camp, the Han army formed a glaive formation to force the Cao army to retreat.

Cao's army was subject to the ice, and the dismounted infantry soldiers suffered more losses, and they were forced to keep retreating.

Ling Bao gave an order to Guo Hua on the other side, and formed a formation to threaten the Cao army led by Zhang He. The shield soldiers of the Han army were in front, and the spears and halberds followed, and they were killed in an orderly manner. sheet

Seeing this, He knew that the Han army was going to attack left and right to keep himself. It is roughly estimated that nearly 3,000 soldiers and horses were killed on each side of the Han army, far better than the 1,000 soldiers and horses deployed by themselves.

The Han army was well prepared, and the slippery ice did not affect them much. Zhang He had prepared early, and after the distance was about the same, Zhang He pulled out the horse behind him and whipped it violently, and the horse moved forward in pain, although the horse's hooves were clothed but still swayed.

Cao Jun kept drawing, and the horses could only move forward, blocking in front of the Han army. Ling Bud ordered the horses that could rush to both sides to rush to both sides, and stab them to death on the spot if they couldn't.

For a while, the horse corpses were horizontal between the Han army and the Cao army, and Ling Bao tried his best to ensure that the formation was neat and stepped past the horse corpses. Zhang He released five times in a row, each time with 100 horses, which greatly slowed down the advance speed of the Han army.

The left and right sides add up to thousands of war horses, Zhang He is distressed but can't help it, after all, it is important to protect people.

The two armies of Han and Cao approached and were just about to fight, when torches were lit outside the Han camp, and Cao's army hurriedly reported that the Han army was coming from the periphery.

Zhang He actually expected in his heart that the Han army was well arranged, and the soldiers and horses were ambushed, but it was really shocked, and he was dizzy, and he was afraid that the five thousand cavalry would be wiped out here, and Bao Ying didn't know what to do.

Ling Bao also got the news and shouted: "Listen to Cao Jun, I have already prepared an ambush, the beacon tower outside the city is just a pretense, now no one in the village and Cao Jun outside the village can escape, surrender quickly!" ”

Zhang He fought hard to meet the enemy, and the deputy general hurriedly pulled Zhang He to put him on the horse and said: "The general quickly leads people to rush out and make plans again, I will lead the soldiers to break off, quickly!" ”

Zhang He knew that the situation was urgent, so he couldn't take care of it, so he rushed to the camp gate. Zhang He's departure somewhat made Cao Jun slightly shaken, and Cao Jun and Han Jun were short combat.

Ling Bao commanded the Han army to use the shield to constantly hit the Cao army, so that the Cao army could not stand, and the violent action still made many people in the Cao army slip, and the Han army took the opportunity to break through the Cao army's defense line.

Zhao Rong on the periphery divided his troops into three routes, and cooperated with the three Cao armies, and the Cao army began to rout.

In Nanyang City, Xiahou Shang received a messenger sent by Zhang He, and after proving his identity, Xiahou Shang immediately ordered 10,000 soldiers and horses and took wood out of the city.

Since the siege of the city by the Han army, many trenches have been dug under the city of Nanyang, which are arranged in a staggered manner to prevent the defenders in the city from sneaking out of the city.

Every time Xiahou Shang led his troops to block the trench when it was about to be dug, the Han army did not give up, continued to fight, and continued to dig.

Xiahou Shang thought that this move could greatly consume the physical strength and energy of the Han army, and constantly sent troops to fight on the trenches.

In fact, this move was deliberately done by Ling Bao to distract Xiahou Shang's attention. Ling Bao only had more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under his command, plus the 3,000 militia recruited by Pang Tong, not only did not provoke a large-scale conflict, but also showed the momentum of 60,000 troops stationed.

Xiahou Shang simply blocked the trench and went straight to the Han army in the south. The messenger Zhang He hurriedly reminded: "General, General Zhang's sneak attack is Xizhai and Beizhai!" ”

Xiahou Shang said indifferently: "I know that General Zhang is very well arranged, enough to grasp the situation, and the thief army in the south has built a house, which can withstand the severe cold, and it is a place where the army can be stationed for a long time."

If you can break through this village and destroy the house, the thief army will lose its support, its morale will decline, and it will retreat, and the rout of the south village, the west village and the north village will be wiped out! ”

Xiahou Shang still has a reason not to say, he has doubts about the reality of Nanzhai, he estimates that there are about 10,000 people in the camps on all sides, so there should be at least 20,000 or 30,000 people in the northwest village.

Because Nanzhai did not use tents at the beginning, but grass huts built with tree branches, and then cut down trees to build wooden houses, Xiahou could not see the approximate strength of the other three villages.

Nanzhai had the least number of troop moves, and the number of troops in and out had never exceeded 10,000, Xiahou Shang kept doubting in his heart, feeling that the Han army was a little eager to cover up.

But looking at it from a distance, there are indeed many figures in the camp wearing helmets and armor. The importance of Nanyang made Xiahou not dare to take the risk of temptation, he was worried that it might be a trap.

Now that there is an opportunity, Xiahou Shang's first reaction is to attack Nanzhai, if Nanzhai does not have so many soldiers and horses, then the Han army is bluffing, the situation is reversed, if there are really twenty or thirty thousand people, then entangled the Han army, in order to cooperate with Zhang He to break the West Village and the North Village.