After hearing this, Zhang Xiu said happily: "Wenhe, it turns out that this is how you can get your wife's food and grass. I will send someone to Jingzhou to report to Liu Biao to see how much food and grass can you cheat?"

General Xiahou Yuan, who made a feint attack, led 5,000 troops and horses to kill Wancheng in a huge way. The action was huge, fearing that others would not know that he was going to attack Jing. This place was going to fight, as if he was going to attend a wedding banquet. The soldiers were loose and chatting and laughing calmly during the march.

Qin Qi was very worried when he saw that the soldiers did not take war seriously. If such an army was attacked, it would definitely be in chaos and could not fight. Qin Qi didn't know that they were going to attack Wancheng as a feint, and they didn't really want to take Wancheng. Only Xiahou Yuan himself knew the intention of this battle in his heart.

Qin Qi was worried and thought about it. He knew that Xiahou Yuan had been fighting for many years and was very good at leading troops to fight, but this time he couldn't figure out why. For the safety of the army, Qin Qi came to Xiahou Yuan and said after saying, "General, our soldiers are loose in formation and will have no resistance when encountering emergencies. Please rectify military discipline, strictly enforce discipline, and make the soldiers highly vigilant and prevent them from being attacked."

Qin Qi was also a figure in the Three Kingdoms and was also the backbone of Cao Cao's later generations. He bravely entered the second-tier ranks and was slightly stronger, brave in combat, and had certain strategies. He was still a very good general. It seemed that his wife was forced to be a wife by Cao Cao, but Cao Cao still valued him very much.

After hearing this, Xiahou Yuan laughed and looked at Qin Qi instead, and then said slowly: "Don't worry, we will send a large number of horses in front of us. As long as there is news from the enemy, we will be delivered immediately. Our army will prepare later."

Xiahou Yuan did not tell Qin Qi the truth. Xiahou Yuan was ready to find out the situation of the enemy, as long as the opponent attacked, he would lead a large army to flash off. Xiahou Yuan did not want to fight, but just wanted to fool Zhang Xiu, which would play a restraining role. As for the attack on Wancheng, it would be something that would have to be considered after Cao Cao's army took Xuzhou. Now, with this little force, it is impossible to defeat Wancheng.

Qin Qi felt even more depressed after hearing this. What kind of tactics is this? Why did the leader and general fight back, and he was not worried about being attacked by the other party at all. I heard that Zhang Xiu had 50,000 soldiers, most of them were the Western Liang Iron Cavalry, and his combat power was very strong. Just because our army's 5,000 infantry wanted to fight head-on, wasn't it a cause for trouble?

Xiahou Yuan led his army to the edge of the Bing River. He saw that the water was very deep and urgent. If the floating bridge was not built, he would not be able to cross the Bing River at all. Xiahou Yuan was about to send soldiers to build the floating bridge, but Bian Xiqu next to him said: "General, the river water is not deep in several miles upstream, and soldiers can walk across the river, so there is no need to build a floating bridge here."

After hearing this, Xiahou Yuan thought about it and immediately sent a horse to observe it, figure out the geographical and geography there, and then strictly observe the surrounding situation. Then he looked at Bian Xi and asked, "How do you know the water is shallow?"

Bian Xi smiled slightly and said, "General, my home is from Nanyang. I am more familiar with the situation here. The people in that place are called Qianshuitan. It is the only place where people can cross the river. No one else can cross the river. Of course, if it is rainy or rainy, it is impossible to cross the river there. You can only use a boat to cross it."

After hearing this, Xiahou Yuan hurriedly asked again: "Since there are ships, why not come to cross our army to cross the river?"

After hearing this, Bian Xi shook his head and said, "General, how many ships will be there in this place? If you can find one, two will be good. If you use these two ships to cross our army across the river, it will take many days to complete it, but our army has time. Besides, it has already entered the area of ​​Wancheng, and enemy troops will attack at any time."

After a while, all the horses sent out came back and reported to Xiahou Yuan that the river water at the shallow beach was only two feet deep and that people and war horses could pass through. No situation was found around, and there were no ambushes, which were very quiet.

Xiahou Yuan didn't say much after hearing this. Since Bian Xi said this and had observed the horse exploration, then go there to cross the river. He immediately gathered the soldiers to advance to the shallow water beach. For safety reasons, Xiahou Yuan continued to send a large number of horse exploration ahead. After all, he is getting closer and closer to Wancheng and will be attacked by Zhang Xiu's iron cavalry at any time.

Xiahou Yuan was very cautious. He first asked Bian Xi to lead a small group of soldiers across the river. Seeing that Bian Xi and hundreds of soldiers arrived safely on the other side, he commanded the army to cross the river with all their might. Bian Xi used hundreds of soldiers under his command to immediately set up defenses to prevent sneak attacks by the opponent's army, especially if he was afraid that the opponent would attack halfway, that would be done.

In the dense forest several miles upstream, Jia Xu hid in it with dozens of guards. When Jia Xu saw Xiahou Yuan's army begin to cross the river, he smiled sinisterly and did not speak. He paid close attention to the dynamics of Xiahou Yuan's army. He wanted to give Xiahou Yuan a fatal blow at the best time.

As early as more than ten days ago, Jia Xu asked Zhang Xiu to transfer 10,000 troops to cut off the water from more than ten miles upstream. It took only a few days for the water to accumulate enough, so that the water was released normally, making it impossible for the downstream to know that there was a new situation in the upstream.

Xiahou Yuan was very happy to see that his army had crossed half of the other side, and less than half of them had crossed the river. He could cross the entire army in a moment and he was very happy. He despised Zhang Xiu in his heart. If it were him, he would definitely set up an ambush here so that the other party could not cross the river. As long as you guard the river of Wushui, no matter how many troops you come, it would be useless.

Just when Xiahou Yuan was happy, he could only hear a huge sound coming from the upstream, like thousands of horses galloping, and a white rolling cloth came. The formation was extremely dangerous. Xiahou Yuan looked up and looked pale and could not speak for a long time. The guard next to him shouted: "General, the flood is coming!"

Xiahou Yuan, who woke up from the shock, shouted vigorously: "Get back quickly, come back quickly."

However, the surging water flow was too fast and too fierce, and the stormy waves made people breathless. Before the soldiers in the river could run back to the shore, many soldiers were flooded by the fierce flood. The soldiers in the river could not resist the impact of the huge flood. Although they struggled desperately in the water, their role was too small and basically had no effect.

Xiahou Yuan, who was stunned, saw with his own eyes that nearly 2,000 soldiers under his command were flooded by a huge flood and buried in the water. He was crying blood and was extremely angry, but he was powerless. Shi Neng watched his soldiers die.

Qin Qi and more than ten guards standing beside Xiahou Yuan were also shocked by the sudden situation. They cried and wiped their tears. They watched their comrades bury in the flood. The comrades in the water screamed, and the screams were gone in just a moment, which meant that the soldiers standing in the river had died.

Bian Xi and more than 3,000 soldiers who crossed the Bingshui River on the other side of the river were also frightened by the scene in front of them. They screamed one after another. Some soldiers wanted to help and rescue their comrades in the water, but that was all busy. The water flow was too fast and too fierce, and it was not something that humans could resist.

Bian Xi and the three thousand soldiers who crossed the river were still panicked, but there was a violent vibration coming from the ground ahead, and the dust rose several feet high, and the black cavalry was quickly galloping towards them.

The violent vibration of the earth woke Bian Xi up. He looked up and saw that I was in my mother! More than 20,000 cavalry were rushing towards them like lightning! "Changing the formation! Hurry up the formation! Don't panic, hurry up, hurry up, gather the formation!"

The soldiers were still shocked, and many soldiers were not fully awake. Even a few soldiers who had just woken up suddenly saw so many iron cavalry rushing towards them fiercely, and were shocked again, and there was no reaction. No matter how Bian Xi shouted, the soldiers were in chaos, and the smarter soldiers were indeed running away. They knew that they would lose their lives if they were late.

Under the leadership of Zhang Xiu, 20,000 Western Liang Iron Cavalry rushed towards Cao's army on the bank of the Bingshui River. Zhang Xiu adopted a geese-shaped formation, and he was the geese head, Hu Cheer and Diao Linxiang, and the horses were in front of the geese, and the rear feet were on the left and right, respectively, and they flanked the second company. Such a formation was a tactic to completely wipe out the Cao army. Moreover, the infantry was against the Iron Cavalry, and the troops were so disparate, so the Cao army basically would not have any chance. They didn't even have a chance to escape. They could only fight to the death, causing only some casualties to the other party, and then kneel down and surrender, and there was no other way out.

Bian Xi brought a knife to meet Zhang Xiu, but he was no match of the same level at all. Bian Xi was picked off after just resisting Zhang Xiu's five moves, and was stepped on by the iron cavalry behind Zhang Xiu. Twenty thousand iron cavalry against three thousand infantry in chaos was not called a fight, it was a unilateral massacre, a bloody killing.

There was no suspense in the battle. After Bian Xi was killed, most of the Cao army soldiers took the method of saving their lives and kneeled down to surrender. Only in this way can they save their lives. Needless to say, the result of resistance must be to lose their lives. Zhang Xiu defeated this very easily. He killed nearly 3,000 Cao soldiers, and less than 2,000 were all captured. Only Xiahou Yuan and Qin Qi escaped with more than a dozen personal soldiers. Zhang Xiu's iron cavalry basically had no casualties, that is, the soldiers who fell off their war horses were slightly injured, and the others were intact.
Chapter completed!