Cao Ren never expected that the Han army, which was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength, would dare to use more than a thousand cavalry to surround the flanks of his own formation.
Therefore, his 20,000 tiger and leopard cavalry were still stationed in the camp fifty miles away and were not brought out to participate in this battle.
He wanted to order the Wei army to form a defensive formation on the spot, but it was too late.
One thousand kidnap horses and five hundred iron pagodas swept in like an iron brush.
What preceded these cavalrymen were the arrows released by Guaizima, which felled a large number of Wei soldiers in a wave.
Immediately afterwards, Tiefutu, which was running at the front, broke into the military formation.
But there are three tiger generals in front of Tiefu Tu, namely Huang Zhong, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.
With two swords and one spear, he stabbed left and slashed right, and within a few breaths, he opened a gap in the flank of the Wei army's formation.
The five hundred iron pagodas following them quickly tore open the gap.
The sword made of Utz steel flew up and down, and countless heads and limbs of Wei soldiers fell to the ground.
Some Wei troops were directly knocked down by armored iron horses.
Behind these iron pagodas were another thousand kidnapper horses, which rushed left and right in the already chaotic Wei army formation.
In a short time, the Wei army's formation had been penetrated by the Han army several times.
The kidnappers began to circle and shoot around the already chaotic Wei army, and Wei soldiers were constantly knocked to the ground by powerful arrows.
As for Iron Buddha, due to repeated attacks and killings several times, the heavily armored horses were already exhausted and did not attack again.
Instead, they ran to the side to watch the battle from a distance.
However, the three generals Huang Zhong, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei were full of fighting spirit and continued to charge and kill in the Wei army's formation.
Although Cao Ren was a general, his strength lay in commanding troops, and he did not have the courage and courage like Xu Zhu.
Therefore, he absolutely did not dare to personally wield his sword to fight the three tiger generals Huang Zhong, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.
He only sent many lieutenants to meet the enemy.
But these lieutenants were quickly killed by the opponent.
In this way, the morale of the Wei army dropped rapidly.
Although it still maintained an overwhelming advantage in strength, every soldier was no longer interested in fighting anymore.
Cao Ren saw that the Han army's Tiefutu and Guaizima no longer came forward to fight at close range, so he took this opportunity to issue an order for the entire army to retreat.
Soon, under the constant pursuit and harassment of the Han army's guaizima, the Wei army slowly retreated to the east.
Although the Wei army was in chaos at this time, with Cao Ren's efforts to maintain it, there was still no sign of defeat and escape.
Cao Ren also gathered the scouts, school captains, and captains who only had horses, and launched a counterattack against the chasing and harassing Guaizima.
Although the counterattack resulted in a large number of casualties on one's own side, the situation was ultimately stabilized and the army did not lose control.
In the end, Cao Ren successfully returned to the camp.
After counting the casualties, he lost more than 7,000 soldiers, officers, and baggage, and all siege equipment.
Cao Ren had no choice but to temporarily retreat to the camp to rest and recuperate, and faced off with the Han garrison in Shaanxi County.
For a while, the two fronts of Luoyang and Hongnong were temporarily in a deadlock.
This situation was quickly reported to Cao Cao.
How could this happen?
Cao Cao murmured in his heart.
Now he felt upset and uneasy, but he couldn't find anyone to discuss it with.
At that time, Xun Yu was ill at home, and Taiwei Jia Xu left Nanyang because of Cao Ren's expedition, so he temporarily took charge of Nanyang County in Cao Ren's place.
What made him uneasy was not that the two armies were deadlocked in the Hongnong and Henan Yin battlefields, but that Lu Bu only invested less than 30,000 troops in these two places.
So where should the rest of his 270,000 troops be mainly placed?
Cao Cao ordered his people to calculate that apart from the county soldiers necessary to maintain local security, Lu Bu still had at least 150,000 troops who could mobilize troops on the move, and now the other 12 Tens of thousands of troops have yet to be deployed on the battlefield.
In fact, his worries were not unnecessary, they were just a little late.
At this time, Lu Bu had personally led 80,000 troops across the Han River and attacked Wancheng with all his strength.
This 70,000-strong army included three Huben divisions, two Huben cavalry divisions, and another 20,000 county soldiers.
In order to ensure victory in the war against Wei, Lu Bu used the main mission reward points obtained in the war against Shu to replenish the lost system soldiers, and created two thousand new crossbow gunners, one thousand Viking longship sailors and two thousand new Named Xuanjia Iron Guard, eight hundred heroic hunters.
And this time they attacked Wancheng with thousands of black armored guards.
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Lv Bu's Han army, filled with crows and crows, was forcibly crossing the Han River day and night.
The Zan City Order on the opposite side of Zhugu had already reported the information to Jia Xu on Pegasus.
Not long after the cavalry who reported the news left, the Han army's vanguard arrived at the gate of Zancheng.
In just half a day, they used several giant counterweight trebuchets to blow down a section of the low city wall of Zancheng.
Then the army poured in, and inside the city Thousands of Wei soldiers did not resist for long before they all surrendered.
After Jia Xu, who was stationed in Wancheng, received the report from the scouts, he calmly said to himself with a smile: "Sure enough, I have been waiting for you for a long time."
While he ordered the city defense to be reinforced, he sent out soldiers to the Wei army stationed in Nanyang.
The news asked them to move closer to Wancheng.
At the same time, a message was also sent to Jiangdong general Tai Shici stationed in Yicheng, asking him to act according to the plan.
Jia Xu believed that Lu Bu could mobilize a large army so quickly to Zhugu, which had inconvenient transportation, because he must have mobilized nearby troops.
Then most of the Xiangyang garrison must have been transferred by Lu Bu, so he asked Tai Shici to take the opportunity to capture Xiangyang.
Not long after the messengers came out of the city, Lu Bu's army came overwhelmingly.
Jia Xu climbed up to the Wancheng tower and looked at the overwhelming Han army camps in the distance below the city.
Although he had been mentally prepared, he was still frightened.
He quickly calmed down.
I relied on the strong city of Wancheng to defend him for a month.
When Taishi Ci captured Xiangyang and the Jiangdong Navy entered the Han River waterway and cut off the Han army on the eastern expedition from the rear, everything would be fine.
Lu Bu was defeated at Nanyang, which led to the disaster of defeat.
This will be a great achievement.
The current Wancheng was built as a military fortress by Cao Wei for many years.
It can be said to be indestructible.
Even if the enemy invades the wide, thick, tall and solid walls of Wancheng, there are still several forts in Wancheng, and they are connected by trenches and corridors.
The garrison in Wancheng is the most elite Tiger Guard soldiers who are specially used to defend the city.
There are more than 10,000 people in the city.
Except for this, the Wei troops in other counties in Nanyang were moving closer to Wancheng, so Jia Xu was not worried that Wancheng would not be able to hold on for a month. , thinking of this, Jia Xu felt relieved.
After Lu Bu's Han army was silent for three days, the general attack on Wancheng began.
It was not so much a general attack as a "general bombardment".
Lu Bu actually got thousands of giant counterweight catapults and thousands of large ballistae arranged around Wancheng.
Following Lu Bu's order, huge flying stones weighing hundreds of kilograms hit the city wall of Wancheng like hailstones.
The sky was filled with burning fireballs, and they almost all fell into Wancheng City accurately.
Wancheng's disaster has come
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