Hearing that Zhao Yun only brought three thousand cavalrymen, Cheng Pu's fear that had been stagnant six years ago finally dissipated slightly.

He himself couldn't help but condemn his timidity, almost like conditioned reflexes, without having to pass through his brain.

It can only be said that the psychological shadow left by the Battle of Broken Arm six years ago was too strong. The three of them besieged Lu Bu and still had one of them disabled, but Zhao Yun picked up a bargain and defeated Lu Bu who had fought for many battles.

This is similar to the suppose that Pan Feng, who escaped from Hua Xiong's sword, felt like Guan Yu.

After calming down a little, Cheng Pu warned himself in his heart: "There is nothing to be afraid of! There are only three thousand people! What's more, our army was exposed in Hanyang and Jingling area the day before yesterday, and the enemy's troops must have been dispatched after this.

Li Su was in Xiangyang, and even within half a day, she received an urgent report from Pegasus who traveled five or six hundred miles a day. She immediately sent Zhao Yun to rescue him. Zhao Yun's troops rushed from Xiangyang to Dangyang for 300 miles in one or two nights!

No matter how strong a cavalry is, it cannot penetrate Lu's silk at the end of its strength. What kind of combat power can it have when running for 300 miles? Moreover, Zhao Yun's cavalry must not be very heavily armored cavalry, otherwise it would not be able to run so fast.

Our army has 27,000 people, and there are only two thousand soldiers from Huang Zhong's Nanjun County and three thousand cavalry of Zhao Yun. If these five thousand people meet in Dangyang City, then even if the Dangyang City is not strong, it will be fine if 5,000 people defend the city and withstand 27,000 people siege the city for ten days and half a month.

Even if thousands of reinforcements from our army who left Xiashui tomorrow will arrive, the 65,000 governors of Zhou will be able to arrive in Jiangling in three days. However, if Li Su is given time for the subsequent infantry force, Xiangyang can still have 20,000 to 30,000 people in a few days. At that time, we still do not have the confidence to take Dangyang immediately...

Therefore, the most important thing at the moment is to surround Dangyang and block Zhao Yun outside the city while fighting aid, and defeat Zhao Yun severely in the field. Then, we will concentrate our troops and strive to capture the county town guarded by Huang Zhong in three days, and end the work before Li Su's main force set out from Xiangyang arrived!"

Cheng Pu is worthy of being the oldest veteran in the Eastern Wu camp. Although he is disabled and has no force, his talent in commanding troops and his experience in evaluating the situation between the enemy and us is still very sufficient.

He quickly made the most correct decision for the Eastern Wu army at the moment: to surround the points and defeat each one. If he can damage reinforcements in the field, try to rely on field battles.

Cheng Pu didn't want to be a man of justice, and he also wanted to work together to discuss strategies. However, the qualifications and status of the generals around him were much worse than that of him. He felt that he had no wisdom, so he evaluated and made decisions in his mind.

At the same time, he was a little self-aware and dared to think about severe damage and defeat from beginning to end, but he never thought about annihilation of Zhao Yun.

After all, Zhao Yun is a cavalry and has the absolute advantage of maneuvering speed. Three thousand people can still run if they can't beat 27,000 people. As long as they retreat to the north, Cheng Pu can't catch up at all.

After all the plans were stopped, Cheng Pu immediately ordered the entire army: "Lu Meng, Song Qian, you two are the commanders of the left and right Yamen. I will lead the main force of the Central Army's flag formation to go to the north of the city to fight and intercept Zhao Yun.

Xu Sheng, you can leave three thousand people to surround the other three gates of Dangyang, just stare at Huang Zhong. If Huang Zhong wants to run, let him run away. Anyway, as long as you leave the city, it is better to deal with it than staying in the city and shooting arrows to death.

Ling Cao, you bring two hundred cavalry scouts, and you brought a hundred people who reported the news last night. You can whistle to detect Zhao Yun’s traces and return them in time. But don’t fight with Zhao Yun, just keep an eye on him from afar.”

The three parties received their orders and acted according to what Cheng Pu said.

Ling Cao turned over the horse and seemed to remember something before leaving. He couldn't help but remind Cheng Pu: "General Cheng, it may not be easy to intercept Zhao Yun in the north of Dangyang City, unless our army advances rapidly and seizes the valley entrance of Jushui and blocks Zhao Yun in a narrow place.

I am the vanguard of the lord, and I am the master of cavalry and scout. Before the army arrived, I first explored the surrounding terrain. The terrain here is slightly more familiar than you. Dangyang is on the verge of Jushui, Maicheng in the south, and Linju in the north.

The Ju River comes from Jingshan, and Jingshan spreads widely from north to south, starting from Shangyong Fangling and Xiangxi Longzhong in the north, ending in the south to the north of Dangyang, and facing the entrance of Jingmen Valley south of Ju.

The Jingmen Valley entrance is still more than 30 miles away. Zhao Yun's traces were discovered by our scouts just now. The distance between them will definitely not be more than fifty miles. In this way, he is only twenty miles away from the Jingmen Valley entrance.

Our army is an infantryman. We have to go north for another thirty miles to block the entrance of Jingmen Valley and fight with Zhao Yun in a frontal formation under the narrow terrain. At the same time, if Zhao Yun's cavalry goes south for twenty miles, it will definitely be Zhao Yun who will rush out of Jingmen first and cannot be blocked."

Cheng Pu carefully evaluated Ling Cao's judgment on the terrain and also recognized Ling Zhuo's professional qualities as the cavalry scout leader, but he still had to implement the original plan:

"Even if we don't have time to block Zhao Yun in the narrow area at the entrance of Jingmen Valley, let him go south out of the valley and fight in the open area south of the valley! As long as our army forms a stable formation, the crossbow and spear are matched strictly, and with eight times the crowd, we still have a chance of winning."

Ling Cao sighed, although he still felt worried, he could not resist his orders: "I'm afraid it's not that simple. After Jushui left the entrance of Jingmen Valley, he left the Jingshan Mountains. The terrain gradually became wide and flat. Zhao Yun's cavalry could use the open terrain to detour our army.

Moreover, Dangyang went north for more than twenty miles, which was a transition from Jingshan to the north and Jianghan Plain to the south, so it was Changban, which was high in the north and low in the south. Zhao Yun attacked from north to south. This terrain with a high slope was very gentle, just to exert the advantage of cavalry attacks. General Cheng should be careful."

Cheng Pu nodded solemnly: "Don't worry, Captain Ling."

Ling Cao then went there without looking back.

...

After Ling Cao and Cheng Pu went north, Xu Sheng was ordered to continue to bluff around Huang Zhong, and set up more flags in the temporary camp, and even had to launch several decent feint attacks on Dangyang County.

The reason why Cheng Pu arranged this was to prevent Huang Zhong's troops from immediately rising morale - Dangyang City was always surrounded, and although Zhao Yun approached, Huang Zhong didn't know.

The news of reinforcements can greatly encourage the defending troops, so the safest way for the siege is to continue acting and block the news. If the reinforcements are really defeated, then tell the city the bad news that the reinforcements were annihilated. It is best to take some reinforcements' flags and the heads of the reinforcements' generals, and carry them to the city with guns, so that they will be more persuasive.

Cheng Pu was sieging the city early in the morning. If he didn't really fight, he would just retreat first, how could Huang Zhong not be suspicious?

Xu Sheng had no siege equipment as soon as he arrived, so he made dozens of wooden ladders, and arranged a vanguard of hundreds of people on each side of the city wall, carrying the ladder and trying the waters. Anyway, it was a feint. If it failed, it would be a good thing to speak out, pretending to have to wait a day to build a heavier siege weapon, Huang Zhong would not have doubted it.

"The first one will receive three hundred golds! The official promotion will be two levels! In such a small city, there are only one or two thousand people in the city, and they can all get such a heavy reward. Brothers, it's rare to have the opportunity, so I'll fight for it!"

Xu Sheng waved a solid iron-clad wooden shield on one side and an ancient ingot knife in the other hand. After scrambling in front of the siege crowd to boost morale, he waved his sword and forced the soldiers to flock forward.

The soldiers approached with loose formations. When Yang City was too small, there was no moat, there was not even a dry trenches, nor did they have deer antlers and horses, so they could directly reach the rammed earth wall without any preparation.

The city gate is just a simple thick wooden door, with no iron round nails on the door, let alone the urn city.

Dozens of ladders were scattered between the female walls, and the simple barb tip cone on the top of the ladder pierced into rammed earth, making it difficult for the defenders to push them away for a while. After the number of soldiers attached to the ants was too high, they could not push them away.

Xu Sheng was in the distance, watching his soldiers rushing so fast. As he approached the city wall, there were very few casualties caused by feather arrows. He even had an illusion:

Could it be that the defenders in the city are really not elite enough and the dispatch of the last battle is chaotic, so that although Huang Zhong has excellent archery skills, it is difficult to save them?

Unfortunately, this illusion lasted only for a few seconds. As the ladder was placed on the wall, a rain of crossbows shot and splashed arrows soon appeared, and the gold juice of the rolling wood lime bottle was splashed wildly, and even expensive boiling oil was poured down and then ignited with a rocket.

Almost in a flash, the city became a Shura field where poisonous smoke and boiling filth were mixed.

Huang Zhong did not fire at the beginning, not because he was incompetent in the military, but because he saw that the scale of this wave of offensive was not large, and even if he was put closer, there would be no risk of being washed up on the wall. So he deliberately put closer and attacked, and many people were crazy to output for a while.

"Oh no! I heard from the old general Cheng's explanation that Cai Mao seemed to have told his lord that when Zhang Song used the excuse of transporting supplies from Jiangling north, he transported away a large number of expensive weapons. Dangyang City is probably an arsenal now! So many expensive and consumable city-defense weapons are pouring down like this?"

Xu Sheng was so cold that he was about to order to retreat quickly, but suddenly a powerful arrow came with a buzzing sound of breaking through the air.

Fortunately, Xu Sheng's shield was always well covered. He immediately curled up his body further when he heard the sound. The shield also subconsciously raised it. Then, with a "bang", a cone-headed armor-breaking feather arrow was shaking on the heavy shield with its tail feather. He tore open the iron sheet and an inch thick wood, and the cone-head exposed the back of the shield and was stuck there.

Xu Sheng was so shocked that he let out a cold sweat, as if he was interrupted to chant, delaying the issuance of the retreat order. Huang Zhong had already taken this opportunity to shoot arrows and kill several front-line officers at Qu Junhou and Tuncheng Chief level who were urging to climb the city.

The siege troops were in chaos and retreated directly before Xu Sheng could formally issue a retreat order.

Of course, the other two walls were neither Xu Sheng nor Huang Zhong had to supervise the battle personally. Instead, the siege was not defeated so quickly and miserably.

In just half an incense attack, Xu Sheng left hundreds of corpses outside the southern city and retreated in a panic. There were more than one hundred corpses in the other two sects.

The only blessing is that Xu Sheng is quite dedicated and retreated so miserably, and he still lets the soldiers shout and hide it before leaving:

"Don't be rampant, old man Huang Zhong! Today is just that our army's siege equipment is not strong! One or two days later, our army's ladder rushing car is completed, just wait and kill me!"

Huang Zhong stood at the top of the city, twisting his slightly white beard and laughing smugly.

Next to Huang Zhong, Zhang Song, with a friendly look on his face, was there to yell at the business: "People Huang was really talented in their early years and had no chance to make a contribution. Now, they have followed His Majesty and assigned to Li Sikong to serve. Finally, they have shown their strengths, which is a joyful congratulation."

Huang Zhong waved his hand and pretended to be modest: "Hey, Zhang, the clever clever one who deliberately showed weakness and put the enemy who was not threatening closes, played a significant role, otherwise he would not have killed so many Wu soldiers today.

Today is just a small battle. As long as we drag the Wu army and wait for Sikong’s reinforcements to arrive, we will show our skills.”

In the city tower behind Huang Zhong, Dian Weibai was lying bored and slept. Anyway, the wave just now showed that there was no enemy who could rush to the top of the city to gain a foothold, so it was not the turn of him, who was responsible for the melee, to warm up himself up.

As the Central Guard, Dian Wei has the most noble status in Dangyang County. If he doesn't want to fight, no one can invite him. He is simply itchy in his hands and wants to kill some enemies to find out his feel.

...

The words are divided into two ends.

While Huang Zhong repelled Xu Sheng's feint attack in Dangyang City, the vanguard of reinforcements led by Zhao Yun, the 3,000 steel-armored cavalry, had also slowly advanced with a vigilant attitude and walked out of the Jingshan Mountains.

The cavalry team walked along Jushui and walked out of Jingmen out of the valley. The terrain in front of them suddenly became clear. It was the Changban area south of Jingmen and north of Dangyang.

Because the marching speed in the final stage was not fast, and there were two horses in front of the road, the horse's horsepower was well preserved and the people were not very tired. Before leaving the valley, people unloaded their armor and led their horses along the river, and the steel armor was temporarily carried on the horse. After leaving the valley, they entered the open area and then put their armor on the horses.

Cheng Pu's prediction of Zhao Yunjun's physical strength was obviously wrong.

Because all Cheng Pu's judgments were based on "Zhao Yun's troops were two nights and one day in the middle, and they rushed through the three hundred miles from Xiangyang to Dangyang."

But in fact, Zhao Yun set out shortly after Huang Zhong headed south. Li Su didn't wait until Zhou Tai urgently reported that the Wu army had crossed the border before sending Zhao Yun, but he sent him when he received Zhang Song's warning.

Zhao Yun walked on the road for only one and a half more than Huang Zhong. After entering the Jushui Valley, he also took a boat to flow for seventy or eighty miles, so both the people and the horses were rested, and only after they were about to enter the state of war readiness.

The whole trip to the south was one day longer than Cheng Pu estimated, so he wouldn't be so tired, not to mention that one-quarter of the mileage was still sleeping on the boat.

It is a world of difference from Cao Chun who took the tiger and leopard cavalry from Xiangyang to chase three hundred miles a day and night after going south.

After putting on his already very exquisite and flexible plate armor, Zhao Yun moved his fingers and felt the grip effect of the leather gloves with iron pieces nailed on the back of his hand. He waved the gun blade made of exquisite iron, and a sense of confidence arose.

He looked at the condescending terrain in front of him, which was easily surrounded by condescending and easily circumventing, and felt that even with three thousand iron cavalry, there was no chance of defeating tens of thousands of powerful enemies. It seemed that the battlefield in front of him was created for him.

The original meaning of the word "塹" is a hillside with a relatively gentle slope, which is between the junction of mountainous areas and plains. Changban is a long slope with a very long distance and a very flat slope.

Under such terrain, the Iron Cavalry dives from the edge of Jingshan to the Jianghan Plain, and there is a feeling similar to the heavy-duty truck driver driving a long downhill highway section. Long-term brakes will make the brake pads overheated, and when water splashes on the wheels, it will "heat" dry.

If you don't step on the brakes and completely let yourself go, then the enemy infantry blocking you will be hit by a brake failure truck on a long downhill section, using the enemy's body as a brake.

Seven or eight miles ahead, a large formation composed of 24,000 Eastern Wu infantrymen by Cheng Pu had appeared on the horizon.

Obviously, Cheng Pu also noticed Zhao Yun and was nervous. He asked the troops to stop moving forward in advance and formed a formation on the spot.

Zhao Yun swept across the front with a cold look, and had already figured out how to save brake durability and who would use to use the downhill brake pads.
Chapter completed!