Cao Ren never expected that the Han army, who was at an absolute disadvantage in military strength, would dare to use more than a thousand cavalry to attack the flanks of his army. Therefore, his 20,000 tiger and leopard cavalry were stationed in a camp fifty miles away and did not bring it out to participate in the battle.

He wanted to order the Wei army to form a defensive formation on the spot, but it was too late. One thousand kidnapped horses and five hundred iron pagodas swept over like an iron brush. Before these cavalry, the arrows released by the gidnapped horses were shot down, and a large number of Wei soldiers fell down after shooting. Immediately after, the Tiefutu, who was running in the front, broke into the military formation.

But there were three tiger generals in front of the Tiefutu, Huang Zhong, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. They stabbed left and right with two swords and one gun, and in a few breaths, they opened a gap on the flank of the Wei army's military formation. Following them, the five hundred Tiefututus quickly tore open the gap. The saber made of Uzigang flew up and down, and countless Wei soldiers' heads and limbs fell to the ground. Some Wei soldiers were directly knocked down by iron horses all over their bodies. Behind these Tiefutus were another thousand crutch horses, and these crutch horses rushed left and right in the already chaotic Wei army formation.

In a moment, the Wei army formation had been drilled through several times by the Han army. The crutch horses began to shoot around the already chaotic Wei army, and the Wei army was constantly being knocked to the ground by the arrows. Tiefutu was repeatedly rushing several times, and the horses in thick armor were no longer able to attack, but ran aside from a distance to watch the battle. Huang Zhong, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, the three followers, were full of fighting spirit and continued to rush into the Wei army formation.

Although Cao Ren was a general, his strength was that he had no courage like Xu Zhu. Therefore, he definitely did not dare to swing his sword to fight Huang Zhong, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, the three tiger generals, but only sent several deputy generals to come forward to meet the enemy. However, these deputy generals were quickly killed by the opponent. In this way, the morale of the Wei army dropped rapidly. Although he still maintained an overwhelming advantage in terms of military strength, every soldier had no intention of fighting again.

Seeing that the Han army's Tiefutu and Guaizima no longer stepped forward to fight in close proximity, Cao Ren took this opportunity to issue an order to retreat. Soon, under the continuous pursuit and attack of the Han army's Guaizima, the Wei army slowly retreated to the east. Although the Wei army was in chaos at this time, under the efforts of Cao Ren, there was still no sign of defeat and fleeing.

Cao Ren also gathered the scouts, lieutenants, and commanders who had only horses to launch a counterattack against the chasing and harassing Guaizima. Although the result of the counterattack was that his side was killed and injured again, it finally stabilized the general trend and did not let the army get out of control.

In the end, Cao Ren successfully returned to the camp and counted the casualties. After losing more than 7,000 soldiers and school officials, all the baggage and siege equipment were lost. Cao Ren had to temporarily retreat into the camp for rest and confront the Han army garrison in Shan County.

For a moment, both Luoyang and Hongnong were temporarily in a deadlock. This situation was soon reported to Cao Cao.

[How could this happen?] Cao Cao muttered in his heart. Now he felt upset and uneasy, but he couldn't find anyone to discuss it. Xun Yu was sick at home, and the Grand Marshal Jia Xu temporarily led Nanyang County because Cao Ren went on a war.

What made him uneasy was not that the two armies were in a stalemate in Hongnong and Henan Yin battlefields, but that Lu Bu only invested less than 30,000 troops in these two places. So where was his remaining 270,000 troops? Cao Cao ordered people to calculate that, besides the county soldiers necessary to maintain public order in the local area, Lu Bu had at least 150,000 troops able to mobilize troops, but now the other 120,000 troops have not been put into the battlefield for a long time.

In fact, his worries were not redundant, but a little late. At this time, Lu Bu had personally led an army of 80,000 across the Han River and attacked Wancheng with all his strength. The 70,000 troops included three Tiger Ben Divisions, two Tiger Ben Cavalry Divisions, and another 20,000 county soldiers. In order to ensure the victory of the War of Anti-Wei, Lu Bu used the main mission reward points obtained in the War of Anti-Shu to supplement the lost system soldiers, and newly generated two thousand crossbow gunners, one thousand Viking long ship sailors, two thousand black armored iron guards, and eight hundred hero hunters.

This time, the attack on Wancheng brought thousands of black-armored iron guards. The Han army, which was full of crows, forced to cross the Han River day and night, and the Zancheng opposite the valley had already reported the information to Jia Xu. Not long after the fast cavalry that reported the news, the Han army vanguard arrived at the city of Zancheng. In just half a day, he used several giant counterweight catapults to collapse a low wall of Zancheng. Then a large army rushed in. Thousands of Wei soldiers in the city surrendered without long resistance.

After receiving the report from the scout, Jia Xu, who was stationed in Wancheng, smiled calmly to himself, "It's true! I've been waiting for you for a long time." While ordering to strengthen the city defense, he sent troops to send messages to the Wei army stationed in various parts of Nanyang, asking them to move closer to Wancheng. At the same time, he also sent a message to Taishi Ci, the general of Jiangdong who was stationed in Yicheng, asking him to act according to his plan.

Jia Xu believed that Lu Bu could mobilize a large army so quickly to Zhugu, which had inconvenient transportation, must have mobilized nearby troops. Then most of the Xiangyang defenders would have been transferred by Lu Bu, so he asked Taishi Ci to take the opportunity to seize Xiangyang. Not long after the fast cavalry who sent the letter left the city, Lu Bu's army was overwhelmed.

Jia Xu climbed the Wancheng Tower and looked at the Han army camps far away below the city. Although he was mentally prepared, he was still shocked. He quickly calmed down. He defended him with the strong city of Wancheng for a month. When Taishi Ci took Xiangyang, the Jiangdong Navy entered the Han River Channel and cut off the connection between the Han army in the eastern expedition and the rear. Then everything would be fine. Lu Bu would be defeated in Nanyang, which would lead to the disaster of defeat. This would be a great contribution.

At present, this Wancheng has been built as a military fortress by Cao Wei for many years and is indestructible. Even if the enemy attacked the wide, tall and strong city walls of Wancheng, there were still several forts in Wancheng and connected by trenches. The garrison in Wancheng is the most elite Tiger Guards specially used to defend the city, with more than 10,000 people in the city. Except for the Wei army in other counties in Nanyang, they are moving closer to Wancheng, so Jia Xu is not worried that Wancheng will not be able to hold on for a month. Thinking of this, Jia Xu feels relieved.

After Lu Bu's Han army was silent for three days, the general attack on Wancheng began. It was more like a "general bomb". Lu Bu actually built thousands of giant counterweight catapults, and thousands of large crossbows arranged around Wancheng.

With Lu Bu's order, the huge flying stone weighing 100 kilograms hit the walls of Wancheng like hail, and the sky was covered with burning fireballs, and almost all of them fell into Wancheng City accurately.
Chapter completed!