Chapter 889

Under the leadership of Li Yan, three thousand Xiliang steeds were like a wolf pack in joint hunting. They did not rush to attack their prey. Instead, they walked slowly around Cao Renjun and observed the movement of "prey". Once they found the flaw of the prey, they would rush forward without hesitation.

At the same time, Cao Ren is also observing his opponent. The Xiliang iron horse has one man and two horses. The cavalry on the horse's back has exquisite vision. Obviously, he has been fighting for a long time. He has taken the cavalry himself and naturally knows the elite level of the cavalry.

"Stop it. The enemy is in a tight formation. If we attack by force, we will fall into it and be hard to extricate ourselves."

Li Yan shook his head. Anyway, the purpose of his three thousand steeds was only to save Jiangling city. As long as he could save Jiangling City, even if he had made great achievements, he did not have such a big appetite to swallow Cao Ren's nearly 20000 troops.

"Return to the camp and gather the generals for discussion."

Cao Ren looked at the 3000 steeds standing opposite him. His face was cloudy and sunny. He snorted, and then he waved his hand. Twenty thousand troops remained in the same position, and slowly withdrew to the camp.

After seeing the enemy troops back to the camp, Li Yan sighed with a sigh of relief: "come to the city to report to Wei Yan, the rest of the people will follow me to the woods in the west of the city and have a rest."

Li Yan's emissary flew to the city and yelled at the head of the city: "can Wei Yan's captain be here?"

"Ben will be here to thank General Li Lang for me." Cried Wei Yan.

"No problem, our army is stationed outside the woods in the west of the city, and we will not enter the city for the time being. Please excuse me, Wei Xiaowei."

According to reason, there are few soldiers in Jiangling City, and Li Yan, a fresh force, should enter the city. However, Li Yanjun is a cavalry, the key to the use of cavalry lies in the mobility. The 3000 iron cavalry stationed outside the city can attack Cao Renjun at any time, effectively restraining Cao Ren's 20000 troops.

Once in the city, Cao Ren's army surrounded the four gates for a while, and 3000 iron cavalry could not get out of the city, and their mobility would be limited, which was equivalent to being abandoned.

Therefore, after hearing that Li Yan's three thousand cavalry were stationed outside the city, Wei Yan was relieved. It seems that Jiangling, who came to reinforce him, at least knew how to fight with cavalry.

"Well, say hello to Li Lang for me."

After seeing off the emissary, Wei Yan is still busy. He wants to visit the wounded soldiers and renovate the city defense. A lot of things are waiting for him to deal with.

In Cao camp, Cao Ren is calm.

"Damn it, I didn't expect that Xiliang iron cavalry would come to reinforce us. I was about to take Jiangling in half an hour at most. I didn't expect it would fall short. Alas!"

Niu Jin sighed and smashed the table.

Cao Tai sighed and shook his head.

Cao Ren didn't say much. He just looked at man Chong and said, "berning, do you have any strategies to win Jiangling city?"

Man Chong shook his head: "the enemy can't just send iron cavalry to come here. It must have followed the army behind the cavalry. At that time, our army will be surrounded by the enemy."

"What can I do?"

Man Chong's eyes were bright: "the reason why our army attacked Jiangling was to cut off the food supply channel of the Xiliang army and divide Jingzhou into two. Now that our army is surrounded by Jiangling, it is impossible to cut off the enemy's grain and grass transportation."

Cao Ren understood the meaning of man Chong and nodded: "well, in this case, our army will be consumed with the enemy in Jiangling city!"

Since Li Yan led his cavalry and stationed outside the city, which posed a serious threat to Cao Renjun, Cao Ren did not continue to attack Jiangling, but stationed outside Jiangling city. At the same time, he sent troops everywhere to intercept the transportation of grain and grass to Jingnan.

It's impossible for Cao Ren to send his troops in all directions?

...

Xuzhou, Pengcheng.

Because he fought in Jiangdong, Cao Cao stayed in Shouchun most of the time. Shouchun was connected with Jiangdong in the South and Qingxu and Xuzhou in the north.

Therefore, Xunzi, Cao Cao's most trusted counsellor, had been sitting in Pengcheng, acting for Cao Cao.

"Prime minister, why are you here?"

Xun Yu, who had just finished his political affairs in the government office, returned home and was surprised because an unexpected person suddenly appeared in his home.

"Wen Ruo, ha ha, the government has been working hard for you in the past few days."

Cao Cao patted Xun Yu on the shoulder with a smile and said a few words of comfort.

"The prime minister returned to Pengcheng, but would you like to meet the emperor?"

"No, the prime minister has already mobilized Jiangdong, Qing and Xu to attack Liu Ye!" Cao Cao was ambitious.

Xun Yu was shocked, and hastened to persuade him: "the prime minister, listen to me. The strength of our army is far from that of Liu Ye. How could the prime minister want to launch an all-out war?"

An all-out war is extraordinary. Once launched, it will never die. We must spare no effort to determine a victory or defeat before we give up! For example, in the battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao, it was said that after Baiqi blocked up 400000 Zhao troops, King Zhaoxiang of Qin immediately went to the front line and mobilized all men over the age of 14 in the state of Qin to participate in the battle, and thus won the battle of Changping. It can be said that Bai Qi's command level is very high, but without the full support of the king of Qin, it is difficult to win a great victory.The same is true of the three years that Chu and Han fought for hegemony. Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fought each other and fought endlessly, killing and injuring hundreds of thousands of soldiers. As a result, when the Western Han Dynasty was founded, the loss of national strength was serious. According to the rules, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty wanted four horses of the same coat color, but he could not find them. This shows the serious loss of national strength caused by the struggle between Chu and Han.

Now the Xiliang army is far superior to the Cao army in terms of territory, population and military strength. If the war is rashly launched and the war is turned into a war of attrition, the pressure faced by the Cao army is naturally conceivable.

Cao Cao waved his hand: "don't worry, Wen Ruo. I have arranged for Zixiao to raid Jiangling in order to attract Liu Yuqing's attention. This time, Benxiang sent out his troops to attack Yanzhou

Xun Yu frowned and seemed to have guessed: "is the prime minister planning to raid Luoyang?"

Cao Cao nodded and laughed: "if Wen is worthy of being my ovary, I really know what I mean!" And

Yes, Cao Cao's strategy was to mobilize his troops everywhere and order Cao Ren to attack in Jingzhou to attract Liu Yuqing's attention. However, he secretly returned to Xuzhou, led the elite troops to attack Yanzhou, broke through the Hulao pass and killed Liu Xie!

Today, two emperors coexist in the world. Cao Cao and Liu Ye each hold a son of heaven. They attack each other and think they are Orthodox, and the people in the world are confused.

If there is only one emperor left in the world?