The battle of Junshan was not smooth, the Tukou under his command were afraid of the battle, and Wei Shi's hard bone was difficult to gnaw, Xiahou Lan had a lot of thoughts, so he had the intention of retreating.

After besieging Junshan for three days, Cao's army bluffed and led his troops to attack again, but after a little contact, he led his headquarters to take advantage of the situation to pull out the camp and leave, and turned back to Neixiang County.

The deputy general Hou Cheng was still staying in the city, and Xiahou Lan wanted to listen to his advice.

After Wei Shi hit a wall here, he finally recognized his ability, instead of holding on, it is better to put down his body and plan with Hou Cheng, what should I do next?

Neixiang County Ya.

The two generals of the Cao Army rarely sat together calmly.

In order to appease Hou Cheng's heart, Xia Houlan also specially ordered his soldiers to send fine wine and roasted wild things, drink opposite Hou Cheng, and eat rich food together.

After a bit of wine and vinegar, Hou Cheng's mind began to heat up, and the accumulated unhappiness also dissipated, and in the face of Cao Jun's current predicament, Hou Cheng proposed a new strategy to Xiahou Lan.

"General Xiahou, General Jianwu sent us to the south, the purpose is to cut off Liu Beijun's grain route, judging from the current situation, Liu Beijun's rear supply is mainly in Xinye, not in the inner countryside ......"

"Therefore, our next focus is not to continue to besiege Junshan and entangle with small officials like Wei Shi, but to turn east and go straight to Xinye."

"If we take Xinye City, it will be equivalent to us occupying the Black Nest, and the general must know the credit at that time. Even if we can't defeat it, we can also loot the surrounding area of Xinye to feed the war and replenish supplies. ”

Ginger is old and spicy.

Hou Cheng followed Lu Bu all the way to the battle, and he experienced many battles large and small.

His admonition made Xia Houlan's depressed mood brighten up again.

Liu Beijun passed through Wancheng and entered Bowang, and the generals and strategists under his command were also not pulled, and they all went into battle.

Originally, the cover in the rear should have been protected by Cai Maojun, who followed up and set off from Fancheng, but due to Liu Biao's negative attitude towards the Northern Expedition, Cai Mao's army shrank in Xiangcheng and Fancheng for a month.

The front and back are disjointed, and the new field is empty.

Except for a small number of garrison troops, and Wei Shi, a native of the inner countryside who accidentally joined the battle group, there were no other reinforcements.

"General Hou, this general has been slacking off before, please forgive me, General Jianwu let the general be the deputy general, presumably he also knows the general's skills, now that the war is imminent, our army really can't stay in the inner countryside for a long time, and must immediately turn to Xinye."

"Now, Ben will order, General Hou Cheng, you will lead 800 elite cavalry to set off quickly and attack Xinye City, and then, Ben will lead the rest of the troops to protect your back road."

Xiahou Lan laughed and raised the wine bottle towards Hou Cheng.

At this time, he finally understood why Xiahou Tang wanted Hou to become a deputy general when he sent him on the expedition, judging from the strategic calculation ability of the advice just now, Hou Cheng was obviously much higher than Wang Xian and others.

He has been in the Lu Bu army for many years, and the iron army style of the iron cavalry rampant in the Central Plains has been deeply rooted in the bones of Hou Cheng and other athletes.

"Brothers, I, Hou Cheng, am a general, you may look down on me, but what I want to say is that you are not qualified, I think back then, when Hou followed Wen Hou, advanced thousands of miles, and crisscrossed the Central Plains, where were you?"

"Before the Tiger Prison Pass, the heroes of the Kanto region crusaded against Dong Zhuo, Wenhou Red Rabbit Horse, Fang Tian painted halberds, no one was invincible, I, Hou Cheng, was behind him for the ..... of the athletes."

"Now, our opportunity to make meritorious service has come, as long as we break Xinye City, we will be heroes in the army, and after we go back, General Jianwu will ask for merit for us."

Hou Cheng rode on a black horse, holding an iron gun and loudly encouraging morale.

Take the experience of following Lu Bu as an example, because Hou Cheng believes that although he betrayed Lu Bu in the end, at that time, he was already trapped in the lonely city of Xiapi, and there was no room for maneuver.

Moreover, after voting for Cao Cao, Hou Cheng has nothing to boast of, it is better to talk about Wen Hou Lu Bu, so that these Cao generals who are eager to kill the Quartet will be angry.

Rush forward!

Hurry forward again!

Reckless march.

Hou Cheng, who held his breath and wanted to prove himself, led Cao's army to rush forward with light cavalry and rushed straight to Xinye from the inner countryside.

Along the way, although Wei Yan carried out layers of blockades, the infantry resisted the cavalry head-on, and the effect was Liao.

In fact, in terms of the comprehensive ability of the generals, Hou Cheng and Wei Yan are not much different.

Judging from the growth in the future, Wei Yan will be even more powerful, but the problem is that it is the future, not the present.

In the vast plains of Xinye, there is a gap in the lack of troops, the speed of action cannot keep up, and there are also disparities in armor and weapons, etc., all of which make it very difficult for Wei Yan to deal with.

In just two days, Wei Yan's five hundred soldiers were lost in half.

If it weren't for the fact that he happened to meet Fu Wei's reinforcements in the middle of the road, it was really impossible to guess how many people would be left in Wei Yan's small army.

Fu Wei led Liu Bei's general orders and stationed in Xinye with more than 2,000 people, including the old and weak, auxiliary soldiers and servants.

These 2,000 people are quite a lot, more than Wei Yandu.

But the real combat effectiveness can't even beat a single song of the Yu Army and the Flying Army.

Wei and Fu fought hard, and finally relied on their own combat strength to rush into Xinye City before Hou Cheng entered the city.

Subsequently, Hou Cheng blocked the passage with cavalry outside the city, and sent a messenger to report to Xiahou Lan, and after the two Cao armies met in Xinye, they sent elite cavalry to begin to sweep the periphery.

Before Liu Bei settled in, Xinye was only a county seat, and the scale of the city was not large.

Therefore, when Liu Bei's army was on the Northern Expedition, there were quite a lot of villages outside Xinye City, such as Yushuwan and Hanjiawan.

In peacetime, there was no hidden worry about the existence of these villages, but when the war came, they were not protected by city walls, and they immediately became the object of Cao Jun's anger.

Elm Bay was looted, and the villagers who remained, the strong and strong, were conscripted into the Cao camp as coolies, and the old and weak were either killed, or robbed, wailing and starving to death.

At the beginning, the in-laws of the Han family, who persuaded Aunt Han to stay in the village, also lost their lives in this disaster.

Leaving only the fifth aunt and son Han Jin, they were escorted to Hou Chengjun's rear camp, one as a healthy woman, and the other as cannon fodder for the siege.

At this time, the people of Yushuwan Village, who insisted on staying, finally regretted it.

If they had followed Wei Shi, they might not have suffered such a fate.

The outside of the city was ransacked by Cao Jun's partial division, and Liu Beijun's family in the city was also in a mess at this time, one by one panicked, Mrs. Gan was a small family, she had never seen much of the world, and she was even more frightened when she heard the news.

In contrast, Mi Zhen and Xiahou Juan reacted better.

One of the two is from the Mi family, and the other is a side branch of the Xiahou family, and they have seen a lot of the melee scene like this.

When Xiahou Juan heard that the leader of the troops outside the city was a general with the same surname Xiahou, he also volunteered to write a letter and sent his cronies and servants to the outside of the city.

Mi Zhen is Liu Bei's wife, sitting in General Zuo's mansion and listening to the reports of Wei Yan, Fu Wei and others.

When he heard that Wei Shi was holding on to Jun Mountain and repelling Xiahou Lan's Cao army, Mi Zhen's beautiful eyes lit up, and the hand hidden in his sleeve couldn't help but clench.