As dawn approached, Cai Yang's two sleepless armies fought, and Deng County, on the other side of the northern shore of the river, was also caught in the battle, but the attackers were on the opposite side.

The mission that Liu Biao handed over to Wenpin was to defend Deng County, and the strategic purpose was to use Su Fei of Cai Yang as horns to defend Xiangyang behind him from the water, so as to wait for Cai, Zhang and others to lead the army to the north to lay the foundation for the counterattack on Nanyang. But Wen Ping was not worried about Cai Yang's Su Fei, the two places were only a hundred miles apart, and now that the enemy army had entered here, Cai Yang had no news.

On this day, the southeast suddenly burst into flames, and the night soldiers on duty in the city were shocked, and the news was reported to his subordinate Wang Wei, who hurriedly informed Wen Ping.

Wen hired and climbed the city to watch at night, just looking at it was shocked, Wang Wei said: "Most of the enemy army is not in Deng County, it is besieging Caiyang, now they are attacking the city, how can we sit at the head of the city?" ”

"You can't help it, if Cai Yang falls into the hands of the enemy, Deng County can't be protected." Wen Ping shook his head, and then asked his subordinates, "Where are the Xiliang soldiers outside the city camping tonight?" ”

There has always been a Liangzhou cavalry outside the city of Dengxian City, and the scouts in the city were miserable because of the strict defense in the first two days, and they did not relax until yesterday, but they still made Wen Ping dare not send troops to find out Cai Yang's truth. Leading this Xiliang side is Zhang Xiu's subordinate Hu Che'er, who is known for his courage in Tu all ethnic groups, although he is also a deputy general, but in this battle he led two thousand fine cavalry, and Zhang Xiu ordered the blockade of the main road to cut off the connection between the two cities, but the ability of the Liangzhou cavalry to gallop was just right.

Although there were only 2,000 cavalry, it was obviously enough to block the road, not to mention that since the enemy's battalion had rushed to help for at most half a day, no one dared to risk sending a large number of troops to attack this Liangzhou army.

Deng County is also scarce of horses, and the cavalry can only send most of them out of the city when attacking with foot soldiers, and it is one thing that they may not be able to fight, and it is another thing whether the enemy can catch up after they run.

Attacking Hu Che'er is more than worth the loss for Wenpin. In case most of the enemy's cavalry rushes to help, the city gate will be blocked at that time, and the soldiers sent out will not be able to escape, and the situation will be even worse. However, the situation at this moment has made Wen Ping see some light.

"Now that the enemy's main force is attacking Caiyang, I can't take care of this Liangzhou army, I want to take the crossbow out of the city and ambush them." Wen Ping's adjutant general said a few camps where the Liangzhou soldiers rested, and Wen Ping said in a deep voice: "Captain Wang, and temporarily lead the soldiers in the city, and wait for Wen to return." If the exit from the city goes well, I will break through the blockade and send troops to observe the situation in Caiyang up close. ”

The so-called saving Cai Yang, Wen Ping does not have the ability, but if he can kill the cavalry of Hu Che'er Department tonight, it will kill two birds with one stone for Wen Ping. First, it can detect that the enemy's situation is close to Cai Yang, and secondly, it can also release the lost soldiers to make most of the enemy army suspicious, thinking that Deng County is going to attack them, so as to give Cai Yang some respite.

Another point is that you can grab some horses. There are many horses in Jingzhou, but there are not many durable and long-galloping war horses, after all, in the land of four battles with many mountains and rivers, war horses may not be able to play a decisive role in the war, which is also the reason why boat warfare and foot warfare have always prevailed in Jingzhou. But now Wen Ping needed a cavalry to distract the sight of the powerful enemy in the north, and he had many soldiers and horses in his army, and he could always find knights who were good at controlling horses. A good war horse naturally has to be obtained from the people of Liangzhou!

Time, for these two cities, what they need most is time.

The gate of Deng County opened silently, and from a distance, it looked like a beast in the dark opened its huge mouth slightly, Wen Ping led three thousand crossbows out of the city softly, without raising torches, and each Qu Department sent Nanyang soldiers or local people in Deng County in front, and they led the way silently across the moat and divided into three teams outside the city to go in different directions.

In order to show them the way, the worried Wang Wei built a fire platform on the city, and illuminated the city as bright as day.

This was the darkest hour before dawn, Wang Wei held the torch and looked at the black shadow that could no longer distinguish whether it was the woods or the robe in the distance, and shook his head silently.

Wen Ping's luck was mixed, at least after half an hour of groping forward, he led a thousand crossbows to finally find the camp where the Liangzhou soldiers stayed at night before dawn, and Hu Che'er, these Liangzhou soldiers, were similar to those soldiers and horses outside Caiyang City, and did not build a camp.

Merely...... The scout who was sent out to observe the night vision cautiously touched it back, and whispered to Wen Ping: "General Wen, many of those Liangzhou soldiers have woken up, and hundreds of people have run to the mountains. ”

What do Liangzhou people do without sleeping in the middle of the night and climb to the mountain? They were watching, looking at the firelight under Caiyang City from afar.

The vigorous firelight on Cai Yang's side can barely be seen in Deng County, let alone here. The people of Liangzhou already knew the news of the start of Caiyang's siege, which was by no means a happy event for Wenpin.

"General, attack, the sergeant is ready!"

"Don't care about those enemies on the mountain, attack the camp with all your might, send a hundred and ten people to guard the crossing at the bottom of the mountain, and use the shouting of killing as an order, and attack the enemy with a bow and crossbow!" The arrow had to be sent, Wen Ping nodded and gave an order, and said to his subordinates: "Kill!" ”

"Kill!"

With Wen Ping's order, the crossbow teams in the fields and ridges roared in unison, almost shooting towards the camp where the Liangzhou soldiers were resting in the dark. The Jingzhou soldiers who pulled the crossbow machine themselves didn't know whether there was an enemy in the place where they hit, and the approximate location was only roughly pointed out to them by Pao Ze before the battle, but they knew one thing very well, that is, they couldn't see the enemy clearly, and the enemy couldn't see them clearly.

If you have a mental calculation or not, you must be the one who survives.

Arrows were like locusts, and they rained down on the enemy camp. The Liangzhou soldiers sat on the ground, they must have the capital to sit on the ground, their horses were beside them, and there were piles of carrying baggage and warm skins around them, even if the Jingzhou soldiers ambushed with bows and crossbows, they could not cause much damage to the Liangzhou soldiers. However, the indiscriminate firing of more than 600 bows and crossbows put a huge pressure on the enemy army - they had no idea that the enemy army would ambush them!

At the moment, the Liangzhou soldiers were crushed crying and shouting, some people rode on horses and ran, and some even didn't want their mounts and fled, and only two or three hundred people really stayed in the camp to guard, followed by Wen Ping led a charge and fled.

The reason why the combat power declined was because Qu General and Tun General were called by Hu Che'er to the mountain to see the battle in Caiyang, and it was too late to go down the mountain when the mountain made a shouting of killing.

He had three songs around here, and he was about to flee to the other side to gather troops and horses to fight back against the enemy, but what awaited him was only the news that the other two groups had been ambushed. Overnight, all the Liangzhou soldiers under Hu Che'er were defeated, and they had to flee to Caiyang in embarrassment.

Wen Ping laughed heartily, since the people of Liangzhou like to see Cai Yang, then go to Cai Yang to see it!