Zhang He's 100,000 Huainan Army finally arrived near Xudu, and he received Cao Cao's edict halfway.
When he was still fifty miles away from Xudu, he detached 20,000 cavalry, led by Xiahou Shang, to attack Yingcheng.
He led the remaining 80,000 troops to attack Xudu.
Cao Cao was overjoyed to learn that Zhang He had arrived as scheduled.
Immediately sent Cao Zhang and 20,000 troops from Xingyang south to join Zhang He and besiege Xudu.
Now Xudu can only besiege, but cannot encircle, because Lu Bu's 50,000-strong army is not only stationed in Xudu.
In addition to Xudu, there are also two surrounding camps and a county with 10,000 Han troops stationed each.
They echo and support each other and are each other's horns.
Although Cao Wei's troops in the Xudu area had an absolute advantage, they were not large enough to surround all these fortifications and cities.
Therefore, we can only form corresponding camps for confrontation.
There is Cao Zhang's camp in the north and Zhang He's three camps in the south.
They only form a situation to surround Lu Bu's 50,000 army.
But as long as Xiahou Shang captures Yingcheng, Lu Bu's 50,000-strong army can only rely on the food stored in Xu Capital City and several fortresses.
Sooner or later, food will run out.
Xia Houshang rushed to Yingcheng day and night and began to build siege equipment.
Yingcheng is backed by a flat-topped mountain, and the other three sides are plain terrain.
Easy to attack but difficult to defend.
After the siege equipment was built, Xiahou Shang deliberately chose a day of haze and showers to launch the attack.
Such weather can prevent siege soldiers from enduring the scorching sun, and can also use the moist air and rain to prevent the enemy from using fire attacks to damage their siege equipment.
With the sound of drums and trumpets rumbling, the Wei army pressed towards Yingcheng.
There were only five thousand defenders left by Wei Yan in Yingcheng.
They had received orders many days ago to prepare for battle and defend Yingcheng to the death.
Now they are gearing up, waiting for a decisive battle with Wei Jun.
The huge trebuchet threw large rocks and repeatedly bombarded Yingcheng's weak city wall.
The first suicide squads in the Wei army braved arrows, rolled trees and knocked rocks to gradually fill up the trenches outside the city.
The trench had just been filled, and many Wei soldiers carried ladders to climb the city and launched an attack.
At this critical moment, southwest of Yingcheng, a black line appeared on the horizon from the direction of Nanyang.
There were 10,000 Han cavalry, including Kaizi horses, iron pagodas, and ordinary county cavalry.
It turned out that just before Zhang He arrived in Xudu.
Lu Bu then detached five brigades from the Huben Cavalry Division and returned to Nanyang, stationed in Fangcheng adjacent to Yingcheng.
At the same time, he ordered all the cavalry in the Nanyang County garrison to gather in Fangcheng and integrate them with the five Huben cavalry brigades, under the unified command of Li Su, to wait for the opportunity to annihilate the enemies who invaded Yingcheng.
Xiahou Shang looked at the rolling Han cavalry and heard the sound of iron hooves kicking like thunder, and he was trembling with fear.
He knew very well that the proportion of cavalry in his army was very small, and now it was too late for the soldiers to form a defensive formation against the cavalry, and they were in the plains.
This is a catastrophe.
It is lucky to be able to save these 20,000 people from being completely wiped out.
Thinking of this, he hurriedly ordered the gong to be sounded and the troops withdrawn.
The charging Wei army heard the gong sound inexplicably, but the military orders were overwhelming and they began to retreat.
When they turned back and ran, they discovered that a large group of cavalry was coming towards them.
Only then did they understand why the general was sounding the gong, and they began to rush towards the camp one by one.
But it was too late, the Han cavalry arrived in an instant, and a massacre unfolded on the plain south of Yingcheng.
The tall horses knocked down Wei soldiers one after another, trampled the corpses of Wei soldiers one after another with iron hoofs, chopped off the heads of Wei soldiers one after another with their swords, and the arrows shot by the crippled horses shot through the bodies of Wei soldiers one after another at the speed of the horses.
Armor.
As Xiahou Shang expected, the Wei army was defeated, and defeated miserably.
Nearly half of the 20,000 people were killed by the opponent in less than two quarters of an hour.
Even the camp was taken away by the opponent, and the remaining 10,000 people began to flee in all directions.
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Xiahou Shang knew that he was unable to save the situation and fled on horseback.
However, he was soon chased by two kidnappers, who fired several arrows and shot him under the horse.
The gates of Yingcheng were opened wide, and large groups of Han infantry poured out of the city and joined the pursuit.
Zhang He, who was confronting Lu Bu in Xudu, found that there was still a steady stream of food and supplies being sent to the Han army in Xudu from the direction of Yingcheng, and he knew that the situation was not good.
Sure enough, news of Xiahou Shang's defeat was received a few days later, and 20,000 soldiers were lost.
A depressive atmosphere enveloped the Wei army camp.
Angry, Zhang He began to send out cavalry to look for opportunities to intercept the Han army's baggage and grain from the direction of Yingcheng.
Lu Bu also sent the remaining five cavalry brigades to raid the Wei army's baggage and grain transport teams.
Lu Bu's advantage was that a large amount of food and grass had been stored in Xudu City and surrounding fortresses, so that the supply of food and grass would not be temporarily cut off.
On the contrary, Zhang He was new here, and if his baggage train was robbed once, his army might starve for a day or two.
The hot summer is almost over and the weather is no longer so hot.
The Han army located west of Bishui Pass suddenly crossed the Yellow River north in large numbers during this season and attacked Cao Wei's Hanoi County.
At present, more than hundreds of thousands of Cao Wei's troops were annihilated by the Han army, and the remaining main force was concentrated on the front line of Xudu Xingyang to confront Lu Bu.
This Hanoi County was extremely empty.
After the Han army broke through the defense line deployed by the Wei army along the Yellow River, it was like entering an uninhabited country.
In just over a month, it conquered all the counties and cities in Hanoi County.
After Cao Cao received the report, he quickly ordered the defenders of Sishui Pass to attack.
However, the attacking Wei army was quickly defeated by Zhang Liao, who was prepared, and retreated to Sishui Pass.
Cao Cao knew that this was going to be a bad time.
If the Han army that captured Hanoi attacked the hinterland of Cao Wei along the north bank of the Yellow River, Xingyang would be cut off from the rear.
But now he can't retreat.
If he retreats, he will abandon the 100,000 troops besieging Xudu.
After discussing with his advisers, the only thing they could do was to block the Yellow River waterway.
In this way, if the Han army wanted to penetrate deep into the hinterland of Cao Wei, they would have to bear the risk of too long a front and insufficient supplies.
Cao Cao immediately ordered to add more iron cables to the Yellow River waterway near Sishui Pass and strengthen the river defenses.
These measures had no effect.
The Han army that penetrated deep into the hinterland of Cao Wei did not need supplies at all, because they were all cavalry with a large combat radius.
After the Han army captured Hanoi County, a newly trained Huben cavalry division in Bingzhou, led by Pang De, came to Hanoi through the Baixing Mountain Road and joined forces with the Wei Yan tribe who crossed the Yellow River north.
The Han army from Wei Yan to Hebei also had a Huben cavalry division.
More than 20,000 of the most elite cavalry of the Han army, based in Wen County, Hanoi County, launched a raid on Cao Wei's empty hinterland within a radius of 500 miles.
They do not aim at occupying the city, but only aim at burning the opponent's war resources and destroying the opponent's transportation lines.
But as long as it is a surrendered city, the Han army will not loot it, and will give absolute trust to these surrendered counties, and they will still be managed by the original officials.
However, if it is a false surrender, there is only one chance, and the person who falsely surrenders will be regarded as a treason Judge the three tribes of Yi
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