Chapter 39
In full view of everyone, before the two armies faced each other.
On the side of the country soldiers, Wei Shi personally beat drums for Wei Yan to help him fight, and on Cao's cavalry side, the generals also shouted loudly.
Hou Cheng's face looked ugly at this time.
He had learned Wei Yan's skills as early as his last breakout.
To be honest, if it weren't for the help of his subordinates, he really wouldn't be Wei Yan's opponent.
In terms of age alone, Wei Yan is now about 25 or 6 years old, which is in the young adult period, while he, Hou Cheng, is already over forty, almost fifty years old. His peak period has passed, how can he be Wei Yan's?
opponent.
"Kill the thief!"
"Kill the evil thief!"
After two shouts, Wei Yan and Hou Cheng each urged their horses to charge forward facing each other.
Hou Cheng knew that he was not as strong as Wei Yan, so when he raised his sword, he only made a feint move, and then made a half-turn with the sword, slicing Wei Yan's elbow straight from an unexpected angle on the left side.
This move is similar to the halberd move. It was a move learned by Hou Cheng from Lu Bu Fangtian, the Marquis of Wen, who painted a halberd. It is extremely powerful.
Wei Yan's black-patterned sword slashed straight down, but did not hit Hou Cheng's weapon. He glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw a cold light coming towards him. He immediately got wise and moved the blade horizontally, just in time to stop Hou Cheng's blade.
"Choke!"
The handover of weapons made a crisp sound.
On Wei Yan's side, the blade of the black-patterned sword only moved slightly, and there was nothing serious.
At Hou Cheng's place, the edge of the iron knife collided with the thick and strong black-patterned knife shaft, but a gap suddenly burst out, which made Hou Cheng feel heartbroken.
This sword has been with him in battles for many years. Although he has killed countless enemies, the internal wear and tear of the sword has reached its limit.
Just now he was only focused on winning, but he didn't expect that Wei Yan would block this sudden attack.
The two of them went back and forth, and the battle lasted for more than twenty years, and the decision was made.
There is no opponent in terms of weapons.
In terms of strength, he is no match.
Hou Cheng was extremely frustrated in this battle.
Just when he was about to make a feint and prepare to escape, he suddenly heard a rapid beating of war drums. It turned out that Wei Shi saw Wei Yan showing off his power in front of the formation, and the sound of beating the war drums became louder and louder.
Wei Yan's fighting spirit rose, he urged his war horse, raised his sword, and immediately chopped Huashan.
Hou Cheng was so frightened that he had no time to dodge, so he crossed the iron sword and was thrown into the air. Later, Wei Yan was even more unreasonable and struck Hou Cheng off his horse with a sweeping sweep of his sword.
Then, before Hou Cheng could get up, Wei Yan slashed off his neck with a knife, and blood suddenly shot up into the sky. His head rolled to the side of the road, while Hou Cheng's eyes were still staring with reluctance.
"General Wei is mighty!"
"Cai! Cai Cai!"
"Wan Sheng!"
"Wan Sheng!"
In the formation of the rural soldiers, cheers could be heard one after another. When Wei Shi saw that he had won the duel, he immediately ordered his men to let go of the cart and lead all the local soldiers to come forward to kill the general.
Behind Cao Qi, Hou Yin heard the tsunami-like shouts from the mountains in front of the formation. When he learned that Wei Yan had defeated Hou Yin, he immediately gathered over with the Xiong'er Mountain bandits.
After Hou Cheng's defeat, the situation on the battlefield suddenly reversed.
Wei Shi, Wei Yan, and Hou Yin advanced in three directions to encircle and annihilate Hou Cheng's remaining troops. At this time, Cao Qi, who had lost his fighting spirit, fled one after another. Even if his back and horse's buttocks were exposed to the enemy, he was unable to take care of them.
This chase lasted for nearly an hour and a half.
It ended with Cao's cavalry being wiped out more than 700 cavalry. The remaining 100 cavalry were considered fast and managed to escape back to Xiahoulan's camp, but they were already soaked to the skin, wearing armor, robes, and war horses.
It's all blood.
In this battle, Wei Shi's local soldiers first defended with merit, and then attacked quickly and surrounded a group of Cao's cavalry. After the war, the results were counted, which made Wei Cheng, Wei Gong and others smile.
They were used to being poor, but this time they finally got rich.
The last time on Jun Mountain, although Cao's army failed to attack the mountain, they snatched away many dead soldiers when they retreated down the mountain. Therefore, although the rural soldiers had their first battle, they had not yet received real benefits.
Among Cao's cavalry, no fewer than four hundred died in the chaos, and more than a hundred were captured. The rest either fled back or were scattered.
The seizure of war horses, including wounded horses, totaled 311 horses, and 93 dead horses.
There are also more than 400 pieces of armor, weapons and other baggage belonging to the deceased Cao Cao.
This was only captured by the local soldiers. Hou Yin's side also benefited from taking advantage of the retreat.
Wei Cheng, Wei Gong and others looked at the mountains of seizures, and they all smiled from ear to ear.
"Come here, load the corpses of these Cao soldiers onto carts and sell them at a good price when they arrive in Xinye City?" Compared to others, Wei Shi was a little dissatisfied with the results of this battle.
Although war horses are good, he can't afford to keep so many now.
It seems that these seizures can only be brought to Liu Biao and Liu Bei to try to sell them at a good price, so as not to let the fellow country soldiers work in vain.
It was precisely because they were busy capturing prisoners and war horses that neither Wei Shi nor Hou Yin could reach the outside of Xinye City in the first time, giving Xia Houlan a chance to escape.
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Outside Xinye City, Cao Camp.
Near evening, Xia Houlan learned that Hou Cheng had been defeated and more than half of his eight hundred elite cavalry had been lost. He was so shocked that he could not speak for a long time.
He went on this expedition with a total of 1,500 men and horses, but half of them were lost in the blink of an eye. Although there were still 700 to 800 infantry left, how could he resist with this small force and no mobility advantage?
Wei Shi lives like a wolf and a tiger.
Thinking of this, Xiahoulan quickly set up camp overnight. In order to confuse the defenders of Xinye City, Xiahoulan deliberately left Wang Xian to guard the camp and ordered the captured healthy women and minzhuang to make noise all night in preparation for the attack.
This mobile phone strategy made the Xinye defenders, who were unaware of the changes outside the city, nervous all night.
Fu Wei went to the city several times to look around. Hearing the movement in Cao's camp, he wanted to lead his troops to fight out, but was stopped by the frightened Liu Yan, Mi Fang and others.
"Cao's camp must be deceived if there is any abnormal movement. It is to lure our troops out of the city to gather and annihilate them. The top priority is to defend the city. When General Zhao Yun arrives, Cao's troops outside the city will definitely be defeated."
Xinye was besieged.
Mi Zhen sent Wei Yan to ask for help from Wei Shi. Liu Yan and others did not hesitate and hurriedly called for help from Liu Bei in the direction of Wancheng.
After receiving the urgent report that Xinye was besieged and the military situation was extremely urgent, Liu Bei urgently discussed with military advisor Xu Shu and finally decided to dispatch Zhao Yun's troops from the Bowangpo front line to return to Xinye.
Xiahou Lan hurriedly retreated to Ye County, and his marching direction was exactly opposite Zhao Yun.
When the two armies met north of Wancheng, Zhao Yun's white horses and silver spears rushed like tigers into the flock of sheep, and immediately killed Xiahoulan's army, which had long lost its fighting spirit, and fled in a rout. Even Xiahoulan himself was captured alive by Zhao Yun.
However, the subsequent war has nothing to do with Wei Shi.
Chapter completed!