Chapter 57 Nansun Liu took three states and Sima Yi plans to slaughter the royal family 6

Xia Houde, who galloped, heard the bad wind behind him, but he didn't know how to avoid it at all. He just instinctively lowered his body and lay on the horse's back. But even so, the tip of Fang Tian's halberd still cut his armor and cut it fiercely on his left shoulder, leaving a wound more than ten centimeters long and several centimeters deep, and the blood instantly dyed red.

"Ah~" Xia Houde let out a cry of pain and clamped the horse's abdomen with his legs to prevent his left arm from being unable to grasp the rein and fall off the horse. He hit the war horse with his feet so that the horse could run faster.

Xia Houde's reaction was completely instinctive. His reaction was not bad on the flat ground, but he didn't pay attention, and the stone-paved ground was right in front of him.

"Shou~" Xia Houde's war horse was in pain and rushed towards the Stonehenge outside Xuchang City. As a result, the horse's hoof tripped over a boulder and flew out with his horse.

After Nanye controlled Lv Bu's halberd and stabbed Xia Houde, he controlled the red rabbit horse to slow down. Under the control of Nanye, the red rabbit horse is extremely flexible, not to mention drifting and stopping, even dancing is fine. The red rabbit horse stopped in front of the Stonehenge with a sudden brake, and then watched Xia Houde fall out. Nanye estimated that Xia Houde would be seriously injured even if he did not die. The halberd just now did not fall like this.

Nan Ye completely lost interest in Xia Houde, who was motionless from rolling down the dust. He controlled Lv Bu to turn into Cao's army and kill again. Although the effect of the three armies of Yongguan is good, it has a time limit. Nanye can increase the skill duration by one second for each additional star, that is to say, Nanye can maintain the skill state for about ten minutes, and there will be a weak period after time, so Nanye must effectively use these ten minutes to expand the results.

Even if Lv Bu did not join the Cao soldiers led by Xia Houde, they could only run for their lives. At this time, if there were more Lv Bu, there was no way to live, and they fled desperately one by one. Fortunately, the number of Tengjia army was small, and Lv Bu could not stop the defeated soldiers alone. Nearly half of Cao's army fled to Stonehenge.

A Cao Bing ran and tripped under his feet and fell a dog to eat shit. He got up and scolded that he was about to continue running, and he heard a weak voice behind him: "Help me back to the city!"

Cao Bing was shocked when he heard the sound, but then he reacted. It was estimated that it was the robe that fell to the ground that tripped him just now. Cao Bing hesitated for a moment and decided to look back. He is not a good man and does not intend to save anyone, but after being a soldier for a long time, everyone has several life and death friends. If he is a well-known comrades-in-arms, he will not be saved, but if he doesn't know him, he is sorry. No one can risk his life for people he doesn't know.

Xiahoude can be said to be very lucky. He not only woke up from a coma, but also struggled to trip a soldier with his only leg that he could move. The key was that the soldier recognized him. Of course, Xia Houde could not be the life-and-death friendship of Cao Bing, but the Cao Bing did not dare to save the commander, so Xia Houde was helped up by Cao Bing, and then stopped more Cao Bing, and finally took a life and fled back to the city.

Li Ru didn't expect that the south had the least shout of killing and the least soldiers and horses lost, but Xia Houde was the most injured. I didn't expect that Deng Yi, who went north, came back the latest without encountering the enemy. Of course, this also shows that the other three people are defeated too quickly.

20,000 soldiers left the city, and less than 10,000 returned, of which 5,000 did not participate in the battle at all. This result made Li Ru have to look at the combat effectiveness of the Jiaozhou army with new eyes. According to the information brought back by various soldiers and horses, there are indeed only Nanye soldiers and horses in the three large camps under the city, and there are absolutely no 100,000 people, but the combat effectiveness is absolutely not low. Li Ru estimated that even if the whole city was sent out, it would be a hard battle to take Nanye.

On the one hand, it is a huge interest to capture Nan Ye, and on the other hand, there is a risk that the whole army may be defeated. Li Ru must consider carefully, although he still has a card.

Li Ru took a look at Xia Houde, who was injured and still sat stubbornly in the hall to report the military situation and asked, "General Xiahou, can you be sure that the sergeants of Nanye Camp are less than 20,000?"

As soon as Xia Houde wanted to nod, there was a severe pain in his neck, so that he could only grin and say, "That's right! There will not be more than 3,000 people fighting with me. Lv Bu, Ma Yunlu and other generals will be there, and Nanye must be among them. The other three people are not close to the encirclement, and I haven't been able to see them in person, but the number will never exceed those led by Nanye.

Li Ru nodded when he heard the words, and Xia Houde's assertion was very credible. Judging from the timing of Nan Ye's ambush, the people Xia Houde met were definitely the strongest. If this team was less than 3,000, the remaining three teams would certainly be less than 3,000.

30,000 people! Based on the feedback from the enemy's horses on the three routes, Li Ru came to a conclusion that there were only 30,000 soldiers and horses outside the city. As for the ambush in the north, which has been automatically ignored by Li Ru, there are only more than 1,000 people at most, and the difference between 30,000 and 31,000 is negligible.

Li Ru thought for a moment and made up his mind: "General Xiahou and General Deng will lead people out of the city to defend the city tonight. Your Highness and General Niu went to reorganize the army quickly. General Bo Ren summoned the people who guarded the city and prepared to go out of the city with the army to fight against the 30,000 Jiaozhou army in Nanye.

Xiahou Shang was shocked when he heard the words and said, "Is it that Mr. Fei wants to make the people of the whole city go out of the city to fight against Nanye?"

Li Ru nodded and said, "Exactly! If not, it's really uncertain."

Cao Zhang has been in Xuchang for so long and has not seen Li Ru use the people in the city to defend the city. Of course, Li Ru has no chance to use it. In the case of a Thunderbolt car bombardment, even regular Cao soldiers do not have to go to the city to defend. Cao Zhang's first expedition is. His understanding of the militia is limited. He seems to think that these people are the key to victory or defeat. Some disdainfully said, "How much courage can the people in the district have? Wen Shousheng still ordered him to defend the city. We waited for the 80,000 troops to sweep away 30,000 soldiers in Nanye.

Without Li Ru's explanation, Xiahou Shang said, "The soldiers in Jiaozhou are the best in the world. Not to mention that one can be ten, they can also be defeated by two. 80,000 soldiers in the city are not necessarily won. Does Your Highness know how many strong people there are in the city?

Cao Zhang shook his head and said, "I don't know."

Xiahou Shang glanced at Li Ru and nodded and said, "The people in the city are 150,000 strong. Although there is no armor, there are knives and guns. Wenxiansheng can keep Xuchang from doing nothing for many years, and the people in the city have contributed a lot. In their spare time, they all train together with soldiers, and they are not far from our soldiers. If you can get this help, Nan Ye can be captured in the first battle.

Hearing this, not only Cao Zhang took a breath of cold air, but also the unwitting Deng Yi and Niu Jin were amazed. They didn't expect that the number of people in the city was comparable to that of the regular army. Only Xiahou De looked as usual, and obviously knew about this as early as Xiahou Shang.

Cao Zhang was surprised and then he was overjoyed. 80,000 regular troops and 150,000 people were 230,000, while Nan Ye's soldiers and horses were just a fraction. How could this battle be invincible?

The absolute numerical advantage cannot guarantee victory. There are countless battles to win more with fewer. Therefore, Li Ru decided to go out of the city together to avoid several generals being tricked by Nanye. Moreover, Li Ru also has a layer of consideration, that once there is a disagreement in the team, Cao Zhang and Xia Hou Shang with a high official position are likely to not accept anyone, and only he can make them all obey the order.

As soon as Cao Zhang and other generals were about to gather soldiers and people, a soldier entered the hall to report: "All three camps outside the city ignited fire!"

The generals in the hall looked at each other when they heard the words and didn't understand why the soldiers and horses had left the city before they left the city. Only Li Ru patted the table and said, "It's not good! Nanye wants to withdraw. Come on, go and mobilization the army and horses."

It is not a moment for 230,000 troops to be mobilized, not to mention the untrained people. When the army gathered and left the city, the sky was already slightly bright. After Li Ru left the city, he found that it was not the three camps that caught fire, but the Thunderbolt car in front of the camp. The fragrance of wheat in the air showed that a lot of grain and fodder were also burned together with the Thunderbolt car. This made the generals more determined to withdraw from Nanye's army, because it showed that Nanye left in a hurry and didn't even have time to set fire in the camp, only to burn the strategically materials that were inconvenient to carry.

Cao Zhang looked at a Thunderbolt car that had burned into black charcoal and had not turned into ashes and asked Li Ru, "Wen Xiansheng, Nan Ye has gone far away. Are we still going to chase it?"

Li Ru narrowed his eyes and said, "Chasing! Nanye's army has gone north, and southern Henan is the boundary of Liu Bei. Where can he retreat after burning grain and fodder? I observed that Nanye pretended to retreat and came back to attack Xuchang when we waited for the north to rescue, so we didn't burn the camp.

The generals nodded and said yes. Li Ru ordered Cao Zhang to lead 30,000 troops as the striker. 50,000 regular troops and 100,000 people were mixed into the Chinese army, headed by Li Ru and Xiahou Shang. Niu Jin led 50,000 people as the back team. 230,000 troops marched south along the road.

Cao Zhang has a great responsibility as a striker. In addition to repairing bridges and paving roads, he also needs to explore the enemy. Cao Zhang, who had been ambushed by Nan Ye, was very careful and sent Tan Ma far away. He searched the mountains and forests one by one, tracking the traces of Nan Ye's march and exploring whether there were any ambush.

Cao Jun traveled for a few miles and found that Nan Ye fled south from the forest. Cao Zhang hurriedly told Li Ru when he heard the newspaper. Li Ru smiled and said, "It can be seen that Nan Ye has not gone far yet! I'll keep moving forward."

Cao Zhang moved forward again and saw that the road was getting narrower. Suddenly, he was injured and reported: "Hundreds of Jiaozhou cavalrymen in front of him blocked the road and shot our army to explore the horse." Cao Zhang heard that he came to report to Li Ru again.

Li Ru smiled and said, "Nan Ye's steps are not far from here. The cavalry blocking the road is a way to delay. You can continue to move forward, prepare more long guns and shields, and be careful."

Cao Zhang moved forward according to the plan. Sure enough, he saw a group of cavalry in front of him blocking the way. He was the first white horse and silver gun. It was Zhang Baiqi who he met in the Wu military camp when he robbed the fortress.

Zhang Baiqi made his debut when he saw Cao Zhang fight: "Cao Zhang, do you dare to fight with me?"