Since Cao Ren decided to raise troops, he went up the Han River and reached Gucheng. Then take the water valley road and march towards Fangling County.

Zhushui Valley Road is a riverside path washed out of the mountains and mountains for water construction, but due to the steepness of Daba Mountain, the river valley road is very tortuous and circuitous, and it is hundreds of miles away.

In September, Cao Ren marched for several days from Gucheng to Zhushui. The whole army marched along the riverside, and ordered the scouts to set out for Shangyong in advance, telling Meng Da that he had entered the Zhushui Valley Road and would soon reach Fangling.

Along the way, with Shen Yi as the vanguard guide, Cao Ren marched very fast, and he didn't dare to delay time, for fear that Meng Da would not succeed.

Around mid-September, the Wei army, which was marching along the west bank of Zhushui, finally arrived at Mankou after more than ten days of marching.

Mankou is an estuary that injects Zhushui water into the tributaries of Mansu. It is about 100 miles away from Fangling County from Mankou.

The tributaries of the Manshui River flow in from the south bank of Zhushui, and this section of the river is 'C', with continuous trees on both sides and gentle hills. From the Mankou to the west, the march of two or three days can reach Fangling City.

However, when Cao Ren rode on a horse, his head fantasized about making meritorious achievements.

Suddenly, the soldiers of Cao Jun looked from afar, and saw abnormal changes in the barbarian forest, and countless birds and finches were startled and hovered for a long time; The hares and beasts were disturbed and scurried among themselves in the woods; The smoke and dust raised by the people and horses gradually drifted up with the wind.

Seeing that the situation in the forest of the barbarian mouth was abnormal, Shen Yi, as the vanguard, ordered the sergeant to stop and wait for the return of the scouts in front.

The army stopped, and the situation ahead was abnormal, which made Cao Ren feel bad.

Along the side of the queue, Cao Ren rode his horse and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"I don't know!"

Shen Yi's face was worried, and he said: "Birds and birds are everywhere, smoke and dust are filled, and there seem to be a large number of people and horses in the forest ahead?" ”

Cao Ren's face was not good, and he shouted: "Quickly let Deng Xian come and talk back!" ”

"General, Deng Xian went out to relieve his hands, and he hasn't returned yet!" The squire replied.

"Quickly send people to search for Deng Xian!"

Cao Ren's eager words did not fall, but he heard the sound of horses' hooves from a distance.

"Urgent!"

The scout sent out before hurried over and said in a loud voice: "General Qiyu, there are a large number of enemy troops in the forest ahead, and the Guanjing Banner Array should be the elite majority of the water thieves." ”

"Report!"

Another scout returned and shouted: "The enemy Kou Daxu Shu 'Guan', which is recorded as General Zuo, the governor of Nanjun." There are also 'Liu', 'Meng', 'Zhao' and other generals, and those who come are not good. ”

"Didn't Guan Yu go back to Wuhan to recuperate after illness?" Shen Yi exclaimed.

"Villain!"

Cao Ren's face turned red with anger, and he scolded loudly: "Mengda dog thief, insidious and treacherous, dare to deceive me like this." If I don't kill him, it's hard to vent the hatred in my heart. ”

Things have come to this point, if Cao Ren doesn't understand the current situation, his years of battle will be in vain. As previously speculated, Meng Daxian surrendered to deceive him into fighting.

As for the last letter, where is the fear of being transferred, it is obviously worried that it will not be able to eat itself. Therefore, they lure themselves to go deep alone, so that they can deal with themselves easily.

couldn't help but think of Cao Cao's fatwa, and Cao Ren was ashamed.

Shen Yi looked panicked and asked, "Meng Da designed a fraudulent surrender, and Guan Yu personally commanded the army to meet it. What is it good to do now? Did you lead the army to retreat? ”

"Smack!"

Cao Ren threw a whip in Shen Yi's face, and said angrily: "The Jingzhou army is here, what is there to fear? Do you know that if we withdraw our troops today, our army will inevitably be defeated. ”

"Guan Yu is old, and I have wanted to beat him for a long time. Fight now, just as I will! ”

Cao Ren galloped on his horse and shouted loudly: "The enemy is in front, and the whole army is in line to fight." ”

"No!"

Cao Ren has been using troops for so many years, how can he not know what kind of chain reaction will be caused if he withdraws his troops now.

When the great armies marched, they mostly marched in a queue, stretching for several miles. If the army is withdrawn now, it is not such a simple matter as changing the front team to the rear team. Once the march is uneven and the enemy is pursued, the Wei army marching in the narrow river valley will trigger a chain of routs, and your own soldiers will suffer heavy casualties.

Now Cao Ren can only block Guan Yu's onslaught for the time being, and then think about the withdrawal of troops.

Under the command of Cao Ren, the golden drums of the Chinese army sounded loudly and the flags flew. Wei Pawn lined up under the banner of his own army amid the urging shouts of the generals. Then, according to the deployment of the training, the officers commanded the spearmen, sword and shield men, and crossbowmen in order.

Wei Jun behaved like this, it can be seen that Cao Ren's mouth called them elite soldiers, which was not an exaggeration.

Guan Yu stationed his horse on the gentle slope, saw that Cao Ren did not retreat but advanced, stroked his long beard, and said with a smile: "Cao Ren is advancing in a plan, like a sheep entering the mouth of a tiger." Now I know that our army is prepared, but we are brave and do not retreat, in order to bring about our own destruction! ”

"Ordered Liuzan, Zhao Lei, and Meng Da to march together, and ordered Guan Ping to lead the cavalry to the side of the formation, and defeated Cao Ren for me."

"No!"

The Han and Wei armies met on the west bank of Zhushui, with the winding Zhushui in the east and the undulating mountains and forests in the west.

Cao Ren ordered Nanxiang Taishou Fu Fang to seize the high point of the gentle slope in the west, and fiercely arranged the elite of Niu Jin's rate in the front, and most of them slowly lined up in the rear.

The two armies met in a hurry, and the follow-up sergeants were mostly unguarded. In order to avoid a big defeat today, Cao Ren could only rely on Niu Jin's bravery, cooperate with the depth of the army, and use the thickness of the lineup to block the attack of Guan Yu's troops.

At this time, if you look down from the air, you can see that Cao Ren's department first changed from the column and then under the command of the banner into a phalanx. And the Han army's infantry and cavalry had already been prepared in an orderly manner, lined up in a phalanx, and pressed forward violently.

Nowadays, the wind is cold, the flags are swept in the phalanx, and the sergeants either hold shields and spears, or bow and crossbow in their hands; The cavalry cruising around followed the flank, and although they were few in number, they were well armed with bows, crossbows, knives and spears.

Among the 15,000 Han troops, more than 10,000 people are elite sergeants of Nanjun, who have been trained by Guan Yu for a long time, have strict military discipline and fierce combat effectiveness. Guan Yu dared to pull it out and have a hard time with the elite under Cao Ren's account, which shows the elite degree of this group of sergeants.

As the Han and Wei armies continued to approach, several arrows of varying range suddenly shot out between the two armies, and they fell in front of the phalanx almost at the same time.

"Shoot!"

Coincidentally, the officers of both sides shouted military orders back and forth.

In the next moment, there was a sound of breaking the air, and thousands of arrows shot out from the Han army's array, and fell into the Wei army's formation.

The shield in the front row is raised, accompanied by the sound of arrows entering the wood, which is part of the arrow blocked by the shield. However, some of the arrows crossed the shield and landed at the crossbowmen who had no shield but had armor. However, the arrows are blocked by the armor, making it difficult to penetrate the flesh and cause damage.

Ever since mankind was at war, almost all of them have pursued a long-range, harmless mode of warfare.

The core of why the regular army can form a dimensionality reduction attack against the upper peasant army lies in the bow and crossbow and armor shield. Most of the rogues lacked elite equipment, and basically the regular army's bow and crossbow were baptized several times, causing a lot of damage to them, and they could not use hand-to-hand combat, so they were directly routed and left.

Therefore, the words of the three arrows in battle, in another way, within the three arrows, either the enemy army is shot, or the next step is to fight hand-to-hand.

However, for the elite of the Han and Wei dynasties, it was almost impossible for the three arrows to shoot through the other party. During this period, several waves of arrows hit, and there were many screams, but under the strict military law, neither the Han army nor the Wei army dared to stop.

A crooked stray arrow flew in front of him, and was slapped away by Ran Xing's scabbard. Then he looked up and saw the spearmen in the Wei army's array poking their straight spears forward in several rows. The sharp iron spear tips are densely packed like a forest of spears, and they shiver in the midday sun.

"No stops!"

Ran Sheng, who entered the township as the pavilion chief and enlisted in the army as the tun chief, held a long knife and shouted.

In the front row, there may be Han troops who stopped because of fear, and under the squeeze of the foot soldiers behind them, they did not dare to stop, but they could only keep moving forward and directly confront the Wei army array.

"Wan Sheng!"

Ran Xing shouted in the middle of the formation, and the spearmen under his tent strode forward sharply, spear stabbing at their opponents. Wei Zu was not afraid, and he also came forward with a spear.

"Kill!"

In the shouting of killing, dozens of soldiers on both sides were stabbed to death in this extremely short period of time. They fell to the ground, their bodies like punctuated ballballs of water, spurting blood out of their wounds.

Or a Wei sergeant who was angry after being shot and killed his opponent with a spear, but was also stabbed to death by the rest of the Han soldiers. Those who are timid and dare not fight, and are slow to hold a spear, will be stabbed to death by their opponents.

In addition to high-level stratagems in the war, the two sides fought each other in spear formations, striving to break through the opponent's army formation, causing the defeat of the opponent's army formation.

In the narrow space, the spears of the two sides collided with each other, and you poked me to block, making a crisp sound caused by the collision.

"Whoosh!"

Armed with a longbow, Ran used his superior archery skills to find enemies in the crowd to deliver a fatal blow and help his men relieve the pressure in front of him.

Another arrow was sent, wounding a Wei pawn, and Ran Xing shouted: "Sword and shield hand!" ”

"No!"

As the battle between the two sides became scorching, the spear-oriented front faltered, and the gap between the two sides became wider and wider. Spearmen who lack flank cover are very dangerous in hand-to-hand combat when they are approached by sword and shield soldiers. Ran Province, as the commander of 100 people, needs to deal with this situation.

Swords and shields surged up from the formation, holding shields to protect the left and right of the spearmen, forming a small area of coordination.

The battle continued, and the fifty arrows on Na Ran Province's body had long been used up, and the arm that had exerted too much force was sore, and his fingers were trembling slightly.

Looking at the Wei army in front of him, who did not retreat at all, Ran Xingxing counted the sergeants in Xiatun, and couldn't help but secretly complain. This batch of Wei pawns is too difficult to gnaw, and more than a dozen of the soldiers in his tun have died, and if they continue to fight, I don't know how many people will die.

As everyone knows, the sergeant in Ran Province and his opponent is the army commanded by Niu Jin, the beloved general under Cao Ren's account, and it is well-equipped, and it is a strong soldier for Jingxiang Wei.

Niu Jin had Cao Ren's high hopes, so he couldn't easily retreat, so he directly led the sergeant to join the battle.

"General Zhou is on!"

Gai or felt the pressure of the front line, and Zhou Cang led his personal guards to go directly into the battle like that Niu Jin.

Looking at the battle on the battlefield, Guan Yu squinted and commented: "Cao Ren's soldiers are elite, they are not panicked in danger, and they can fight hard in battle." If you lure him into battle, how difficult it is to break Xiangfan! ”

"Father, what should we do now?"

Seeing that the situation was anxious, Guan Ping asked, "It's better to send someone to inform General Lu and let him attack the rear of the enemy." ”

"No!"

Guan Yu stroked his long beard and said: "Ziming's department is used to intercept and kill the defeated army, how can it be easily used!" ”

Saying that, Guan Yu seemed to have discovered the loophole in Cao Ren's military formation, and pointed out: "Cao Ren hastily arranged the formation, and it is difficult to say that the formations are close to each other. If you want to defeat its army, you should cut off your wings. ”

"Come on, order Zhengming to send troops and besiege the flank of the enemy's right position."

"Ping'er, you lead the cavalry to cover for the general!"

"No!"

(End of chapter)