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Chapter 549: Capturing the Thief and Capturing the King Without Martial Arts(1/2)

Due to Sun Quan's many failures, Cao Wei originally did not deploy many troops in Huainan.

Before the Battle of Xiangfan, Cao Wei dominated the world and had about 20,000 standing troops in Huainan.

After the Battle of Xicheng and the Battle of Xiangfan, Cao Wei's Jingzhou Field Army suffered heavy losses.

Under this situation, in order to worry about Sun Quan taking advantage of the situation, Cao Pi continued to send more troops to Huainan in recent years.

After many increases, Huainan's standing army as of last year was about 30,000.

In recent months, these 30,000 Huainan standing troops have been gradually transferred to Luoyang by Cao Xiu, who was worried about Guanzhong.

After experiencing the lessons of the Battle of Xiangfan, both Cao Pi and Cao Rui had the idea in their hearts that they would not use the Chinese army if they could.

After all, local field troops can be recruited again after a few years if they die in battle.

But if all the Luoyang army is dead, then Cao Wei will basically have no chance to compete for the world.

But even though there were 30,000 Huainan standing troops inside and outside Luoyang, Cao Rui did not hand over all 30,000 Huainan troops to Zhang He.

Zhang He brought only his own 10,000 cavalry troops and 20,000 Huainan infantry troops from Luoyang to Jieting.

The battlefield where the Han and Wei armies fought was surrounded by horses and antlers.

This did not have a great impact on the infantry forming a formation for confrontation, but it would greatly affect the mobility of the cavalry. Therefore, Zhang Heping did not plan to mobilize 10,000 cavalry out of the camp.

Zhang He sent people back to the camp to mobilize the remaining 10,000 Huainan troops.

Zhang He's move of sending people back to the camp happened to be noticed by Ding Feng.

After Ding Feng killed several Wei troops in succession, he came to Liu Feng and said to him: "General, let's also send reinforcements!"

After listening to Ding Feng's suggestion, Liu Feng was thinking quickly in his mind while killing the surrounding Wei troops.

If he also summoned the remaining Han troops in the camp and went out to fight in the field, it would mean that today's battle was no longer a simple battle to defend the city.

In fact, it is a complete wild battle!

No one expected this before today.

Even Zhang He is probably the same.

Everyone thought that when the Han and Wei armies met at the street pavilion, there would be a tug-of-war siege. However, they did not expect that the first battle between the Han and Wei armies would be the most intense hand-to-hand combat in the field.

Events on the battlefield are indeed ever-changing and unpredictable.

But considering the current situation, does Liu Feng have any other choice?

So Liu Feng made a decision quickly.

Liu Feng ordered the guards around him to place the command flag on their spears and wave it high.

As the five-color flags continued to dance, Deng Ai and Jiang Wei, who had been watching the battle below on the camp wall, immediately received the signal.

The signal sent by Liu Feng was for Deng Ai and Jiang Wei to lead the Han army out of camp to support them.

After receiving this signal, Deng Ai and Jiang Wei quickly looked at each other, and then decisively went to the camp to order troops.

Both of them could clearly see the situation on the battlefield.

To be honest, at the beginning, the Han army did not expect that 3,000 Han troops could gain an advantage in a battle with tens of thousands of Wei troops.

The combat effectiveness displayed by the Wei army now is far inferior to that in the past.

It seems that except for Cao Wei's central army, Cao Wei's local elites were indeed wiped out by the general.

This is also the greatest significance of Liangzhou's victory in the first battle.

With a large number of elites missing, no matter how many soldiers and horses the enemy gathers, the Han army can rely on its own elite level to win every field battle even if its troops are inferior to the enemy's.

After realizing this, even Deng Ai, who had not supported rashly leaving the camp just now, decisively went below to gather troops.

After Liu Feng led 3,000 Han troops out of the camp, there were still more than 8,000 Han troops in the Han camp.

However, as the defensive side, it is impossible for all the more than 7,000 Han troops to leave the camp without a clear grasp of the number of Wei troops.

Finally, after careful consideration, Deng Ai decided to leave 3,000 Han troops in the camp to guard the camp, and he would lead the remaining 5,000 Han troops out of the camp to support Liu Feng.

Since Liu Feng, Ding Feng, and Zhang Yi were not in the camp, in terms of seniority, Deng Ai was the actual commander of the Han army's camp.

Deng Ai mobilized the Han army very quickly.

It didn't take long for the five thousand Han troops to gather under Deng Ai's order, then formed up from the opened camp gate and walked towards the battlefield outside the camp.

Because the battlefield where the two armies fought was not far from the Han army's camp, it was some distance away from the Wei army's camp.

Therefore, the five thousand Han troops arrived on the battlefield before the Wei army's reinforcements.

The addition of five thousand Han troops greatly relieved the pressure on Liu Feng and Ding Feng's Han troops.

It is true that the Han army is elite, but it is also true that the Han army is at a numerical disadvantage.

This fact caused the Han army's physical strength to be rapidly consumed.

After all, a Han army may have to face two, or even three or more enemies.

But when five thousand fresh troops joined in, the difference in numbers between the two armies on the battlefield was not that big.

With eight thousand against ten thousand, the Han army's elite advantage was fully utilized.

Five thousand Han troops, under the command of Deng Ai, rushed towards the back of the Wei army that was encircling Liu Feng's Han army.

Zhang He, who was sitting on his horse, had already noticed signs of Han reinforcements leaving the camp.

Therefore, before that, Zhang He changed his order and asked the Wei army, which was originally going to outflank the Han army from the rear, to form a formation on the spot to resist the impact of Deng Ai's reinforcements.

Zhang He's idea was very simple, that is, to prevent the two Han armies of Liu Feng and Deng Ai from joining together.

As long as the two Han armies can be separated, when more than ten thousand Wei troops arrive on the battlefield, the advantage on the battlefield will still be on the side of the Wei army.

It's just that Zhang He subconsciously overestimated the combat power of the Huainan soldiers.

The number of Wei troops who were previously separated by Zhang He to surround Liu Feng's rear was about three thousand.

Three thousand Huainan troops who are not good at field battles are facing five thousand Liangzhou troops who are extremely elite. How can they be stopped?

Especially in Deng Ai's army, there are fierce generals like Jiang Wei.

Don't look at the fact that when Jiang Wei faced off against Ma Chao, he was almost beaten by Ma Chao and was unable to fight back, but that was Ma Chao.

In today's world, no one dares to say that he can defeat Ma Chao in terms of force.

Escape from Ma Chao's hands is not a failure, but an honor.

After all, Jiang Wei was still under Ma Chao and supported him for many rounds. Although there were reasons why Ma Chao did not make a fatal move, this also indirectly proved that Jiang Wei's force was not weak in this world.

Jiang Wei and Deng Ai are both good at strategy. Zhang He's intentions may be able to deceive Liu Feng, but they cannot be deceived by Jiang Wei and Deng Ai.

Since he knew Zhang He's intention, Jiang Wei would naturally not let Zhang He succeed.

Without waiting for Deng Ai's order, Jiang Wei drove his horses and charged towards the Wei army's formation that was not yet stable with a spear in hand.

Traveling with Jiang Wei were the more than a hundred soldiers who had been with him life and death.

Jiang Wei and the hundreds of dead soldiers turned into a sharp arrow with cold light, piercing hard towards the Wei army's formation.

After seeing this scene, Deng Ai was stunned.

Is Jiang Wei so tough?

But what happened next made Deng Ai's sluggishness even worse.

Jiang Wei and the hundreds of dead men were not just brave.

After approaching the Wei army's formation, Jiang Wei relied on his superb riding skills to move left and right, making it impossible for the spears thrust by the Wei army to stop his progress.

As soon as the Wei army in front of him entered the attack range of the spear in his hand, Jiang Wei immediately drove the war horse under his crotch to leap high, and that leap directly jumped into the Wei army's loose formation.

When the horse's hoof fell to the ground and caused a cloud of dust, a few cold lights appeared in the thick dust, and several screams were heard.

When the dust gradually cleared, both armies saw several sturdy Wei soldiers falling heavily into the air towards the rear under the sweep of a long spear.

The corpses of several Wei soldiers fell heavily to the ground, knocking down a group of Wei soldiers who had not yet reacted.

But Wei Jun didn't react, which doesn't mean Jiang Wei did the same.

After Jiang Wei swept and killed several Wei soldiers, he seemed to have unlocked his body. He drove his war horse to dash left and right in the Wei army's formation. Every time he charged, several Wei soldiers would fly out, as if they were entering.

A deserted place.

This scene made Deng Ai rub his eyes with his hands, and made thousands of Wei soldiers swallow their saliva secretly uncontrollably.

What is a strong general?

This is the person who can step on the enemy's formation and cause chaos in the army.

And isn’t that what Jiang Wei is doing right now?

After carefully rubbing his eyes several times to confirm that he had seen correctly, Deng Ai had a new understanding of Jiang Wei.

But before this new understanding could be realized, Deng Ai, who had more time to develop in his mind, knew that the opportunity could not be missed, so he quickly ordered the Han army to form a formation and continuously attack the Wei army's formation.

The soldiers were incompetent and the generals were incompetent. The Wei army's formation became increasingly precarious under the impact of the Han army.

However, just when the Han army led by Deng Ai was about to break through the blockade of the Wei army in front of them, tens of thousands of Wei troops led by Man Chong finally arrived on the battlefield.
To be continued...
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