In late April of the fourth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jiyin County, Yanzhou, became Wucheng. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li E suspected that she had misheard, and she pointed to the scout and asked, "Have you seen clearly?" Is it really Cao Cao's cavalry? ”

The scout replied in the affirmative, "It's definitely a tiger and a leopard ride, and it won't be wrong." ”

"Cao Cao's tiger and leopard riders are only 3,000 people, why did they pop up so many at once?" Li E thought it was strange.

Although this battle was the first major battle after she entered the Central Plains, Li E knew the situation of the Central Plains princes very well. Today's Northern Frontier Army has the most complete intelligence system, that is, the Shadow Group in charge of Li Yi's other wife, Li Ying. The situation of the princes basically can't hide the eyes and ears of the Shadow Group.

Among the rebels, Yuan Shao had the largest number of cavalry, and there were cavalry in Guanzhong and Luoyang. Although Cao Cao has been in Yanzhou, it took several years to establish a tiger and leopard cavalry because of the continuous disasters and wars in Yanzhou and the lack of financial resources.

This tiger and leopard cavalry had fought with the Northern Xinjiang Iron Cavalry on the Jizhou battlefield the year before last, and it is said that it is still very sharp. Now it suddenly appeared on the south bank of the Jishui River, obviously to contain its own forces and prevent itself from supporting the Dingtao battlefield.

It seems that Cao Cao is going to start a big war in Dingtao.

Li E thought about it for a while, and gave several orders in a row:

"Urgently tell the general, saying that Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry appeared in the direction of Chengwu, it is estimated that Cao Cao will make a desperate bet in the near future and fight hard."

"Tell General Lu Bu of Liangqiu City again, ask him to go out and try to encircle and annihilate the tiger and leopard cavalry with me." Li E smiled and said to Yuwen Chengdu, "This is Cao Cao's strongest army, let's not miss the opportunity." ”

"What if the lord wants us to support the Dingtao battlefield?" Yuwen Chengdu hesitated.

"The general has already said that no matter what happens on the battlefield of Dingtao, we must stick to the vicinity of Changyi City and not cross the Jishui River." Li E said with a smile, "When you arrived in the Central Plains, you have been idle, and now it's time to move your muscles." ”

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Li E, Lü Bu, and Yuwen Chengdu each led a large army to roar out, chasing and killing the rebel cavalry in all directions.

Cao Chun and Xu Chu flickered east and west, wandering uncertainly, and circled around the Great Plains with the cavalry of Northern Xinjiang.

Li E's anger came up. She immediately decided to expand the attack range to 200 li, and ordered Lu Wenlong to lead the cavalry close to the Surabaya River to protect Changyi. Mu Shun, who was stationed in Changyi, was ordered to be on guard.

Lü Bu felt that if the army was too far away from Changyi, it would take time to return reinforcements, and it was necessary to strengthen the defensive forces in the city.

Li E agreed with Lu Bu's opinion, and she immediately sent a message to Gao Shun, asking him to dispatch troops to Changyi City in a hurry, and at the same time urging him to defeat Zhu Ling as soon as possible, not to waste time in Rencheng, and to put the main forces into attacking the front line of Fangdong and Bocheng, so as to help the main force of the army quickly kill Chen Liu after the end of the Dingtao War.

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Sixty miles west of Dingtao City, Ming Pavilion.

Since Cao Cao received that the Northern Xinjiang Army had surrounded Jiyang and cut off his retreat, he immediately slowed down the pace of his attack and patiently waited for the moment when Cao Ren broke through.

Cao Jun and Liu Beijun gradually explored a set of methods to deal with the Northern Xinjiang Army during the attack. The northern Xinjiang army used trenches, deer barriments, and horse rejection as arrays, supplemented by dense arrow arrays to block the opponent's attack, and they used temporary felled trees to tie up huge rafts to block long arrows, burned deer and horse rejection with extra-long torches, and used cloud ladders as bridges to climb over the trenches. Although the battle scene was far less bloody and tragic than at the beginning, the advance of the Cao-Liu coalition army was getting faster and faster.

Bian Xi and Sun Guan, who were in charge of the frontal blockade, saw that the blocking formation was losing its power, and immediately summoned their subordinates to discuss countermeasures. The military commanders and military candidates came up with ideas one after another. The enemy uses a giant raft to block the arrow array, then shoot it with a rocket and burn its giant raft. The deer and the horse are easy to ignite, so they are soaked in the river water after they are made, and the wood is soaked and will not burn in a short time. When the enemy crosses the trench with a ladder, he spreads flammable grass and trees in the trench, does it with oil, and when the enemy crosses it, he ignites the grass and trees in the trench with rocket shots, and burns the enemy along with the ladder.

Bian Xi and Sun Guan reported the countermeasures to the camp urgently. After Li Yi discussed with Guan Yu, Zhang Yan, Xu Huang and others, on the one hand, he asked Dong Zhao and others to urgently arrange for the people to prepare materials and implement new blocking methods, and on the other hand, he told Bian Xi and Sun Guan that they would not use these methods to deal with the enemy for the time being, and first gradually attract the rebels in the direction of Dingtao, and then give the rebels a fatal blow when the rebels in the city broke through and the rebels outside the city launched a fierce attack with the intention of breaking through the blockade.

Three days later, Cao Cao and Liu Bei commanded the army to advance to Xiping Pavilion, thirty miles away from Dingtao City.

Li Yi gathered four corps of infantry here, Zhang He's Second Cavalry Corps, 30,000 Hu cavalry, a total of 80,000 troops. Cao Cao gathered an army of 80,000, 20,000 Liu Bei's army, and 20,000 troops trapped in the city, a total of 120,000 troops.

The two sides were evenly matched, and a big battle was imminent.

The Northern Xinjiang Army placed the infantry army in the front, supplemented by cavalry on both wings, and met the enemy in a "product" shaped battle formation.

At the front of the battle formation were 1,500 crossbow carts with bloody mouths. In front of the crossbow cart array, there was an obstacle composed of trenches, deer barricades, and horse-repellent horses.

At the rear of the battle formation, there were catapults with their heads held high. Stones coated with fire oil piled up and emitted an unpleasant smell. The soldiers and men of the chariot battalion stood solemnly, waiting for the war drums to beat for the attack.

The war drums exploded, and the Cao-Liu coalition army, under the command of Cao Cao, launched a tidal attack on Xiping Pavilion.

Suddenly, the shouting and killing sound was earth-shattering, soaring into the sky.

Li Yi stood on the high place of the horse, looking at the attacking army in the distance rolling over with the momentum of overwhelming mountains and seas, like layers of huge waves set off by a shocking tsunami, his heart suddenly boiled with blood, and he ordered loudly: "Beat the drums ......"

The drums of "Dong Dong ......" are fierce and dense, like a hundred spring thunders blasting into the sky, which is extremely powerful.

As in the previous days, the rebel soldiers, under the cover of the huge rafts in the front row, carried the ladder all the way, erected a ladder bridge over the long and wide trench, and laid wooden planks. The only difference is that there are too many attacking soldiers today, and on a battlefield hundreds of paces wide, there are at least tens of thousands of soldiers running, shouting, and shouting hoarsely.

The huge rafts trembled and groaned excitedly under the fire of dense long arrows, and struggled to stride towards the target.

With an order, hundreds of extra-long torches stretched out from the gap in the giant raft and placed directly on the deer and the horse. Many of these improvised barriers are made from nearby houses and are very easy to ignite. The smell of burning wood rose in the wind, and billowing smoke began to rise.

The battle is getting fiercer.

Xu Huang turned his head to look at the blue sky behind him, and a burst of melancholy passed between his eyebrows.

The lord only put 16,000 foot soldiers and 12,000 cavalry on the western battlefield of Xipingting, and the remaining 52,000 troops were distributed within 30 miles from Xipingting to Dingtao City, preparing to encircle and annihilate the rebels who broke through and fled.

The lord pinned his hopes of stopping the main force of the rebel army on the body of these 28,000 cavalry, did he despise the opponent too much? Cao Cao and Liu Bei, with their absolute superiority in troops, really couldn't break through our resistance? With a close distance, the slightest mistake would allow the rebels to break through, and this battle was too tense.

A ride to the dust.

Xu Huang's heart contracted suddenly, and the strong feeling of suffocation made him shake a few times involuntarily.

The scout reported loudly: "My lord, the enemy has broken through, and the enemy is out of the city......"

Li Yi waved his hand excitedly, pulled down the horsewhip in his hand, and said loudly: "Order Zhang Yan to withdraw from Xicheng immediately and let Cao Ren break through." ”

"Order Guan Yu and Li Zhong to prepare to encircle Cao Ren, ...... quickly"

The rebels cleared the obstacles faster and faster, and the dense crowd of enemy soldiers gathered behind the giant raft, swinging their weapons and slashing at the burning deer and horses. There were too many of them, the attack was too fierce, and the roar was so loud that even the arrow array of the Northern Frontier Army seemed to have become trembling and weak under their roar.

The deafening sound of killing deeply irritated these soldiers who had been fighting for many days, and they couldn't wait, they couldn't wait to fly over the obstacle and smash their weapons into their opponents' chests. The passionate emotions made them gradually lose patience, and many people rushed up to forcibly demolish the embers without waiting for the deer to refuse to burn the embers.

The Northern Frontier Army spent several days of effort on this blocking position, and it took a great deal of effort, and the density of the deer and the rejection of horses exceeded the enemy's imagination.

As time went on, they found that the deer and the horses were getting bigger and bigger, some of them were made of whole freshly cut trees, some of them seemed to have been soaked in water for a long time, and they were still wet, and it was impossible to set them on fire.

The Northern Frontier Army seemed to know that they were in trouble, and the long arrows in the sky suddenly disappeared, as if to help them cross the obstacle unimpeded.

Without the threat of arrows, the enemy's advance increased suddenly, and more enemies followed closely behind the front of the protrusion across the trench.

On the position of the "Dong Dong ......" Northern Xinjiang Army, the war drums of a hundred faces suddenly beat together, and the huge war drums suddenly swept the entire battlefield like a stormy wave.

The arrow array rose again, and a huge burning black cloud looked extremely strange against the blue sky. The flaming stones dragged their long black tails and roared overwhelmingly, thrilling.

The trench burned in an instant, and the flames rose to the sky, and then the flames burned more and more, unscrupulously devouring the ladders on the trenches, and many of the enemy soldiers who were crossing the ladder bridge were caught off guard, turned over and fell into the flames.

In a short period of time, a huge wall of fire rose into the air, cutting the battlefield in two.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei were dumbfounded and at a loss.

Nearly 20,000 attacking soldiers were overwhelmed by the raging fire in an instant, and the rebel soldiers were stunned.

The deafening sound of killing and the fierce sound of war drums came to an abrupt halt, and the soldiers who were running and shouting suddenly stopped, and half of the battlefield suddenly fell into a deathly silence.

Screams of pain could be heard from the fire.

With a loud bang of "boom ......", the rebel soldiers did not wait for the golden gong to sound, turned around and ran, and one by one wolves rushed to the pigs, and the terrifying shouts tore apart the blood on the battlefield and made people's souls scatter. (To be continued.) )