Zhang Xun pointed to Jiangxia: "There are rivers and lakes everywhere in this place, and it is difficult for our cavalry to play a big role. Let's first kill Xiahou Dun, find a small city to settle down, and then persuade Huang Zu to surrender."

Cheng Lian had a different view: "If you want me to say, our main purpose is Xiahou Dun. Because it is difficult for our navy to go up the river and it is difficult to display it in this place with many rivers. It is better to destroy Cao Cao's vitality here and aim at the endless Nanyang, where cavalry will fight."

"What you said makes sense. Let's wait a moment and see how Xiahou Dun's battle will be in the next step. If Xiahou Dun's battle is good, we will divide the troops into two groups, taking Nanyang and fighting Xiahou Dun all the way."

"I am willing to lead the work to investigate." Cheng Lian asked for his order to investigate.

"Then be careful and be careful in your business."

"yes."

Cheng Lian had experience in battlefield reconnaissance and brought three people out. In addition to the fine works he had already scattered, there were more than one hundred people in total.

The cost of detailed training is very huge, far exceeding the cost of ordinary elite cavalry.

In the northern part of Jiangxia, Xiahou Dun was fighting against Huang Zu. After several days of trials, both sides gradually lost their patience.

Deputy General Huang Zu Gan Ning pointed at Xiahou Dun's camp: "Sir, Cao's army is too powerful and reinforcements are not coming yet. We want to attack Xiahou Dun's momentum so that we can win."

Huang Zu asked: "Xingba, what are you planning to do?"

"As long as the adults promise each of them fifty knots of money, they will recruit a hundred suicide squad in the future, and take advantage of the night to rush into the Cao army camp. If you charge, you will definitely disrupt the Cao army camp."

"Xingba's words are serious? There is no joke in the army."

"Of course, take it seriously. If it succeeds, I will come back to award the award. If it fails, I will die in Cao Cao's army, and the lord will not punish me."

"Okay, then as you said. But Jiangxia is not short of money. A dead soldier is rewarded with 100 stalemates. You go recruit and set off at dark."

"yes."

Gan Ning was a typical gangster when he was a teenager. He worked as a Yellow Turban Army and a Water Pirate. Later, he defected to Liu Biao. Because of his exaggerated personality, he was not liked by Liu Biao and arranged to Huang Zu. However, Gan Ning was really capable and was not afraid of death.

Soon Ganning recruited a hundred suicide squads, each of whom prepared horses, armor, weapons, and torches.

It was not until midnight that the Cao camp was silent. Gan Ning prepared his manpower and started to set off.

The reason why Gan Ning rushed to attack was not without judgment.

Because Xiahou Dun is a man who is quite arrogant, the fences of the camp are very ordinary and not particularly strong.

"superior."

More than a hundred cavalrymen walked slowly until they were ten meters away. Cao Bing discovered an enemy army.

Gan Ning didn't hide it at this time.

"rush."

A hundred-meter sprint is only a few seconds for the war horses. They smashed the fence and threw the torches into the barracks.

Fight and set fire all the way.

The Cao camp was in chaos and did not form effective resistance in time. The most important thing was that at night, Cao's soldiers did not know how many enemy troops came, and they scared themselves and did not dare to move around.

Now Gan Ning took a big advantage, and the entire camp was five or six places.

Gan Ning led the people to rush over and turned to see that the brothers were still there.

"withdraw."

The whole process was very slow, but it was very fast at that time. It took only ten minutes to deal with Xiahou Dun's armor. Gan Ning had already rushed out before he could finish it.

Not far away, Huang Zu was overjoyed after seeing it: "What a great Gan Xingba, it's really amazing."

After a while, Gan Ning came back, his body was covered in blood, and there were a few arrows inserted into his armor.

"Gan Ning met with the Lord, and a hundred people went and a hundred people returned, which severely damaged Cao's army."

"Okay, okay, Xingba is powerful, it's really good."

Xiahou Dun was so angry that he couldn't rush out at night.

"Hurry out the fire and clean up the wounded."

He worked hard until dawn before Cao Jun finished organizing it.

After taking stock of the losses, I was shocked. More than a thousand people were killed and more than 3,000 were injured. Even more annoying, there was no body of an enemy army.

After dawn, Xiahou Dun ordered a strong attack, tens of thousands of infantrymen attacking Jiangxia City, but the small city was not big, but it was difficult to fight.

From morning to afternoon, they attacked the city wall three times and were driven down.

There were many casualties, with more than 3,000 people killed.

Li Dian had no temper: "General Xiahou, you can't fight like this. If you fight for two more days, the army will be over."

"Then what good will you do?"

"Retreat, find wood to build a catapult cart, and use stones to attack the city walls, the effect is much better than the attack of troops."

"Okay, retreat tomorrow morning."

Xiahou Dun's army was so miserable. The 40,000 troops were left in succession, with 33,000 left. Among them, there were thousands of wounded soldiers, and the actual combat force was less than 30,000.

The army retreated thirty miles and found a dense area of ​​villages.

The army spread out and looked for wood.

If fresh trees cannot be used, then the house can only be demolished. The people will suffer, and the beams of the house are used to build threshing cars.

Countless people fled their homes and were displaced.

Cheng Lian put on makeup and became the common people, took everything in his eyes, and returned quickly.

Other detailed works from various walks also came back to report. Lu Bu was very happy when he heard this: "The opportunity has come, Xiahou Dun was frustrated and was building siege equipment. We will send troops tomorrow."

"yes."

At this moment, the general who held the whistle came to report: "General, Zhuge Military Advisor, Niu Dali is back and is waiting at the gate of the camp."

"Oh, I'll be back so soon, arrange to join the camp immediately."

"yes."

After a while, Zhuge Liang came and once he entered the room, he would bow to Lu Bu and greet his colleagues.

"Kong Ming, happy wedding. I didn't drink your wedding banquet. I will hold another one for you when I settle down."

Zhuge Liang was quite anxious: "That's all a trivial matter. Now Nanyang is empty and has very few troops. I would like to ask the lord to send troops to Nanyang quickly. At this time, it's just what the people want."

"Nanyang wants to take it, and Jiangxia also wants to do it. Wenyuan leads your 6,000 cavalry to Nanyang. Don't worry about anything else. Just take down Nanyang City and don't divide the troops."

"yes."

Zhang Liao took the order and went there, but the infantry of Zhang Liao's troops stayed and followed the large army to capture Jiangxia.

Zhang Liao's six thousand cavalry, Yishui's Hun horse, was not big, but had great endurance and ran very quickly. He had been rushing in the jungle for several days, and had already breathed a sigh of relief when he came to the plains and ran away. He marched for more than 150 miles a day, but he did not set up camp.

Three days later, the army arrived near Nanyang City, and Nanyang was not alert at this time.

It was very troublesome for cavalry to attack the city, so Zhang Liao sent Zhang Xun to lead 100 infantrymen to replace the flag of Cao's army and to steal the city gate.

Zhang Xun led the team and walked slowly.

Soon he arrived at the city gate, and the soldiers guarding the gate shouted, "Stop, which part of it."

Zhang Xun was wearing a military uniform of a village chief and replied: "After ordering General Xiahou to order the carpenters to come and send support."
Chapter completed!