Lu Bu ordered 40,000 cavalrymen to set up two camps on the east and west wings of Xudu City, and then led the last 10,000 troops to garrison Xudu.
At this time, Cao Cao did not know that Xudu had fallen, so he went south with 50,000 troops summoned from Jizhou, Hebei, with the intention of intercepting Lu Bu and protecting Xudu.
At the same time, Zhang He, who was far away in Yangzhou, had received Cao Cao's order and was gathering more than 100,000 soldiers from counties and counties in Xuzhou and Yangzhou.
At this point, Cao Wei has invested and will invest nearly 300,000 troops in this battle, which is the limit of the mobile troops that Cao Wei can mobilize.
However, Lu Bu only used more than 100,000 troops, and Zhang Liao's 40,000 troops behind Tongguan were ready to enter the battlefield after annihilating the enemies in Hangu.
The war initiated by Lu Bu soon evolved into a decisive battle that determined the life and death of Han and Wei.
Cao Chun's tribe as far away as the Eastern Qinling Mountains has been in the ravines south of Wuguan for a long time.
Some time ago, he received news that Lu Bu's army crossed the Han River and attacked various counties in Nanyang County, including Wancheng.
At that time, Cao Chun didn't pay attention, thinking that the imperial court had made arrangements for Lu Bu's possible attack direction, and that even if he could not defeat Lu Bu's Han army, he could quickly repel it.
Unexpectedly, after some time, the supply of food and grass was no longer available.
At this time, Cao Chuncai became a little anxious, but he had not yet thought of withdrawing his troops.
He just sent a scout to Wancheng to urge for food.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, the scout reported back that Wancheng had been lost.
Only then did he realize the danger he was in.
If Nanyang County was completely occupied by Lu Bu, he would be completely surrounded and alone.
He had no choice but to order the entire army to withdraw towards Nanyang.
But it was not so easy to come and leave.
As soon as he broke camp, the Han army in Wuguanzhong began to pursue and harass him.
Just like this, I walked on Shangyu Road, stopped and walked, stopped and hit, and spent a week without leaving Shangyu Road.
Then I found that I couldn't leave because Qu Yi's troops blocked Shang Yudao's exit.
At this time, Cao Chunzhen was complaining that the sky was not working and the earth was not responding.
There are tigers in front, wolves behind, and mountains to the left and right.
Moreover, the soldiers have been without food for several days and are extremely hungry.
They are definitely incapable of fighting.
Despite this, Cao Chun, as a member of Cao Wei's clan, would not surrender.
He wrote several suicide notes and gave them to several soldiers, asking them to break out and flee after the war, and try to send his letters back to Yecheng.
Then, he prepared to fight to the death with the Han army.
However, Cao Chun wanted to die together, but his generals did not want to die with him.
On a windy and dark night, several of Cao Chun's lieutenants and captains launched a mutiny and killed Cao Chun in the Chinese army's tent.
Chun, several of his trusted generals and a group of soldiers controlled the entire army.
Finally, they surrendered to Li Su and Qu Yi with Cao Chun's head.
The destruction of Cao Chun meant the opening of the Shang-Wuguan Road.
The Han armies in Guanzhong and Nanyang can be mobilized more easily.
Shaanxian County, inside the main tent of the Han army camp.
Gao Shun received news early in the morning that the Wei army Cao Ren's troops were withdrawing dozens of miles away.
He thought to himself that the outcome of the battle was indeed as expected by His Majesty.
His army should have at least captured the entire Nanyang County by now.
At this time, Cao Ren led an army of more than 40,000 people to Ruyang again and marched towards Runan.
Retaking Runan can cut off the connection between Xu Dulu Bu's main force and the rear.
But when Cao Ren reached Yingcheng, he found a powerful Han army blocking their way.
It was the 20,000 Han troops left by Lu Bu to guard Yingcheng.
He handed over the important task of commanding this army to Wei Yan.
Nearly half of the Wei army commanded by Cao Ren were tiger and leopard cavalry.
In order to prevent Cao Ren from using cavalry to bypass Yingcheng and harass the rear, he blocked the grain transportation channels in the rear.
Wei Yan could not adopt the strategy of holding on to the fortified city.
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Because this grain transportation channel not only supplies Yingcheng's grain and grass supplies, but is also responsible for supplying Xudu's 50,000-strong army.
Therefore, the only option is to pull out the team and stop Cao Ren's army in the southwest direction of Yingcheng.
Both sides quickly set up camp and faced each other in military formations.
Cao Ren's 40,000 troops formed a square formation with a front width of four miles, while Wei Yan's 20,000 troops only formed a square formation with a front width of two miles.
However, Wei Yan's 20,000 Han troops were all Huben divisions, one of which was a pure cavalry division composed of Guaizima and Tiefutu.
Wei Yan placed the Huben Cavalry Division on both wings of the military formation.
The central square was a hollow square composed of Mo Dao soldiers and sword and shield heavy infantry.
In the center of the hollow square were two hundred crossbows and Huben archers waiting for opportunities.
The battle began at noon.
Cao Ren's Wei army was overwhelming, and the forest of banners slowly came towards Wei Yan's army formation like a high wall.
The sound of the Wei army's drums and trumpets became increasingly clear.
When the Wei army advanced only a few hundred meters away from the Han army, Cao Ren ordered the tiger and leopard cavalry on the left and right wings to ride towards the Han army.
But what surprised Cao Ren was that Wei Yan didn't react to his move.
Cao Ren sneered in his heart and said that his 20,000 tiger and leopard cavalry would come back to your rear and you would look good.
Only when the tiger and leopard cavalry galloped into the formation, Wei Yan also issued a military order for the cavalry to charge in a roundabout way.
He did not let the tiger and leopard cavalry intercept the tiger and leopard cavalry, but asked them to directly attack the rear of the two wings of Cao Wei's infantry phalanx.
The cavalry of the two armies staggered past each other in a short period of time, each rushing towards the flanks and rear of the other's infantry.
The Han army's ballistae opened fire.
Like flying fireballs falling into the Wei army's infantry phalanx, the explosive bombs ignited huge flames reaching into the sky, quickly causing chaos in these phalanxes.
When the Wei army's infantry phalanx was still a hundred meters away from the Han army's formation, the two sides began to shoot at each other with bows and crossbows.
The range and shooting speed of the Han army's crossbows are obviously higher than the former, coupled with the advantage of the Han army's turtle shell shield formation.
In this exchange of fire, Wei Jun suffered a lot.
At this time, the cavalry of both armies had approached the opponent's infantry phalanx and launched an attack.
Cao Ren had an intuition that something was wrong.
He thought that he should have used his own cavalry to stop the opponent's cavalry, instead of using the back of someone else's phalanx.
But why it should be like this, I can’t explain why.
Now he can only hope that his tiger and leopard cavalry will defeat the opponent's infantry phalanx as soon as possible, and then return to attack the opponent's cavalry, in order to save his more than 20,000 infantry.
The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry began to accelerate toward the Han army's formation.
Only then did the knights rushing at the front realize that there was no front or rear in the phalanx.
The soldiers in the back rows of the hollow phalanx all turned around and transformed at the command of the school officer.
Became a forward.
The first row is still a shield wall formed by heavy infantrymen with swords and shields in a half-crouching posture.
The long swords of the second and third rows of swordsmen protrude from the top of the shields, and the back end of the swords is pressed against the small pit that has been dug.
The last row is the sword and shield soldiers again.
The hollow phalanx is full of roaming Tiger and Ben shooters, as well as Mo Dao soldiers and sword and shield soldiers as backup.
Of course there are also two hundred ballistae.
But at this time, it was too late for the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to turn around, and they could only fight head-on
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