Xuchang is very close to Shouzhang, only thirty miles away. Xia Houyuan left the city before dawn. When he arrived at Xuchang, it was just dawn.
Looking at the strong camp built by Yuan Tan's army in front of him, Xia Houyuan's eyes seemed to have flames shooting out. Why did Yuan Tan come back? Xia Houyuan no longer wanted to ask, but Yuan Tan's return caused a morale blow to the Shouzhang defenders.
One, Xia Houyuan has much more experience than others.
He really wanted to chop that Yuan Tan into pieces. If he didn't kill him, it wouldn't be enough to calm his anger. If he didn't kill him, it wouldn't be enough to pay homage to the soldiers who died on the battlefield because of Yuan Tan.
However, this person cannot be killed!
Xun You made it very clear that he couldn't kill before, and he couldn't kill now. He was full of anger, but he could only suppress it in his chest and not vent it. Xia Houyuan looked at the obviously reinforced camp wall in front of him and sneered with disdain. It turns out that you can do the same.
Afraid, you know you’re afraid!?
The darkest moment of the day had just passed, and the mental state of the soldiers guarding the camp was the most exhausted. Xia Houyuan did not stop charging, and just rushed straight towards the military camp.
He needed to vent his anger, and even had the urge to destroy everything at all costs. The outline of the military camp was getting closer and closer in his field of vision. He could even see the soldiers on the camp gate raising their horns and blowing the horns in panic after noticing them.
As a warning, the military formation rising from the camp was a bit messy, in stark contrast to the condensed and restrained military formation.
Yuan Shao's son is a waste!
A smile appeared on Xia Houyuan's face, but this smile was a bit ferocious and cruel.
The long spear was already in hand, and the endless power of the army gathered together and turned into a ten-foot-long spear. The moment it approached the military camp, it crashed into the camp gate.
Although it has been reinforced and has the blessing of military formations, it is still vulnerable to Xia Houyuan's spear.
"Boom~"
In the muffled thunderous explosion, the gate and the gun gang were shattered into pieces, and in the turbulent currents, they rushed in all directions like clusters of arrows.
What made Xiahou Yuan even more ridiculous was that there was no one stationed behind the gate, and the Cao army brought by Xiahou Yuan rushed straight into the enemy camp.
Xia Houyuan wanted to laugh, but before he could laugh, he felt something was wrong. He sat down and his horse sank suddenly. Xia Houyuan, who had rich combat experience, knew what this was.
The next moment, a deep pit with a length and width of five feet appeared behind the camp gate. The soil around it shattered with the camp gate, and the whole cave collapsed. Looking down, I saw a cold light flickering at the bottom of the pit, and spears standing upside down in it.
Xia Houyuan's expression changed and he shouted angrily. Above the long pole, the spear gun reappeared, this time it hit the bottom of the hole fiercely.
Countless spears were blown away by the turbulence caused by the spear. At the same time, with the force of the counter-shock, one person and one horse flew directly over the five-foot-long pit in a way that ordinary people could not imagine.
However, he could jump over traps with his unparalleled strength, but the soldiers charging behind him did not have this ability. Moreover, his speed was too fast and he could not stop for a while. Even if he saw Xia Houyuan jumping over the potholes, the soldiers behind him wanted to stop.
The soldiers at the rear didn't know it, and pushed many people directly into the pit. However, most of the spears in the pit had been scattered by Xia Houyuan, which did not cause too many casualties.
Xia Houyuan waved his hand, and the soldiers in the rear stopped quickly. Almost at the same time, fierce shouts of killing came out from both directions in the rear. Cenbi and Zongwang led two men and horses to attack from two directions. At the same time, a large number of bows and arrows were fired at the military camp.
Shoot it this way.
"Don't panic!" Xia Houyuan's eyes were gloomy, but the anger in his chest was quickly suppressed at this moment. He looked coldly at the rain of arrows flying towards him, and Chang Shan pointed forward, condensing the power of the military formation.
, turned into an invisible barrier, and the arrow clusters landed densely on the barrier and were bounced to the ground.
Then Xia Houyuan turned the long spear in his hand and slammed it on the ground. In an instant, the entire military camp began to shake. Spider-web-like cracks started from Xia Houyuan's spear and spread rapidly towards the interior of the military camp.
As the traces of cracks spread, the cracks also expanded rapidly. In less than three breaths, the entire camp quickly collapsed like an enemy formation. Many of the soldiers hiding in the camp were directly swallowed by the cracks, and the military formation had already been destroyed.
It was broken into pieces.
"Trash!" Xia Houyuan did not find Yuan Tan, but he was not in a hurry. He immediately turned his horse's head, pointed his head forward and shouted: "The rear team will change to the front team, and we will line up ten steps forward!"
In Yuan Tan's astonished eyes, the soldiers and horses brought by Xia Houyuan quickly retreated under such circumstances and reorganized themselves when Cen Bi and Zong Wang were encircling them.
This is not a small force like Chu Nan's, but three thousand soldiers and horses. How did they manage to change their formations so quickly!?
In fact, if he had changed his opponent, Xia Houyuan would never dare to do this, but if his opponent was the Qingzhou Army that he had already fought against, it would be different.
Xia Houyuan jumped out of the camp on horseback, looked at the two groups of men and horses encircling him, pointed at Cenbi, who was charging the most fiercely, and said: "Arrow formation, three companies, release!"
Rows of archers quickly came to the front of the array, bent their bows and set arrows, and fired three consecutive rounds at Cenbi's army.
There were not many archers, only 500, but they moved very quickly. In the first round, the 500 arrow clusters did not change. They seemed a little ridiculed, but their power was terrifying. Each one easily penetrated the army on the wall.
formation, nailing a Qingzhou soldier to the ground.
The second and third rounds were based on quantity. The moment the arrow formation soared into the air, it turned into a rain of five times the arrows, falling down towards the Cenbi military formation like a gust of wind.
The military formation had already dissipated a lot under the first round of arrow rain, and nearly half of the second round of arrow formation was blocked by the military formation. But when the third round of arrow formation fell, his military formation was already riddled with holes, and there was no more
Before they could reach the front, the soldiers of the three armies had already begun to flee.
Xia Houyuan did not take another look at the wall, but looked at Zong Wang who was rushing towards him. Zong Wang had already taken advantage of this moment to rush within a hundred steps and saw that the wall on the other side had been defeated, but at this moment
Even if he ran away, he couldn't escape, so he could only grit his teeth and attack Xia Houyuan.
Xia Houyuan sneered and turned the army around without haste. When Zong Wang led his army to kill, Xia Houyuan raised the horse high, with endless murderous intent in his eyes, and said solemnly: "Kill me!"
Last time, in order to avoid getting into trouble with Yuan Tan, he broke the formation but did not go on a killing spree. However, Yuan Tan came back and shook the morale of Cao's army. This made Xiahou Yuan unbearable. This time, he
No more holding back.
The soldiers of the three armies rushed out with Xia Houyuan and ran into Zong Wang's battle formation without any hesitation.
"Move like a mountain!" Zong Wang subconsciously changed the formation. However, changing the formation at this time was almost seeking death.
"Boom~"
The moment the military formation collided, Zong Wang's military formation was completely shattered. When Zong Wang raised his head, he saw a ten-foot-long spear beam surging towards him. The soldiers he encountered along the way were turned into flesh and blood, which scared Zong Wang to the point of hair loss.
Ma, he quickly rolled over and jumped onto the horse.
"Boom~"
The surging spears directly smashed the war horse into a pulp, splashing all over Zong Wang, and at the same time, a large number of the surrounding soldiers were also killed.
They had never seen such a killing formation before. Not only the soldiers were stunned for a while, but Zong Wang was also stunned.
However, Xia Houyuan obviously did not stay still. Zong Wang only reacted when he heard the rapid sound of horse hooves. He got up and wanted to run away. But the moment he got up, a cold light flashed in front of his eyes. A long spear had already penetrated his chest, and the long spear was pressing against his chest.
The body crashed directly into the crowd, but when Xia Houyuan gave him a hard swing, the soldiers' muscles and bones were broken due to the impact.
When Zong Wang landed on the ground, his eyes widened, but his life had been cut off by this force.
The battle array collapsed and the general died in battle. The fate of Zong Wang's Qingzhou army can be imagined. Xia Houyuan's three thousand infantry almost killed the effect of the cavalry. They went back and forth three times and killed Zong Wang's troops to pieces.
If it wasn't enough, I chased him for more than ten miles before giving up.
On the other side, Yuan Tan's camp was broken. Two generals led an army to attack, but they were crushed and defeated. Who dared to fight again? After Cen Bi dug Yuan Tan out of the soil, he quickly ran away with the defeated generals who joined the army.
My parents lost two legs.
Naturally, Xia Houyuan did not pursue him. Yuan Tan could not die, so he just took it out on Zong Wang. Seeing him running away, he just snorted coldly, reorganized his formation, and led his troops into the city.
On the hills outside Xuchang City, Chu Nan and Zhou Cang witnessed all this. It was his plan to ambush the camp, and the facts were just as he expected. Cao Jun sent Xia Houyuan back for reinforcements.
I thought that my ambush trap would create some trouble for Cao Jun, but I really didn't expect this result.
"Lord, this Yuan Tan is so incompetent!" Zhou Cang said speechlessly as he looked at the direction Yuan Tan was escaping.
Just now, you still want to share Cao's army's land with them. I'm afraid even if it's free, you may not be able to hold it!
"It's not that he is incompetent, but that his opponent is too strong!" Chu Nan shook his head. His strategy was right. When he realized that Yuan Tan's luck was not right, he took advantage of the situation and changed the reinforcement of the military camp into a trap for the general. In fact,
Xia Houyuan did fall into the trap.
It's just that Xia Houyuan, Yuan Tan, Cen Bi, and Zong Wang are obviously not on the same level. The response just now can be called a textbook response to an ambush.
After judging the true and false in a very short period of time, the Cenbi charged fiercely, but the battle formation was relatively scattered, so they used an arrow formation to break it, and then after breaking the Cenbi, they turned around and focused on dealing with Zong Wang, who was supposed to be the strongest.
Zong Wang's troops were almost wiped out by Xia Houyuan in one fell swoop. At the same time, Yuan Tan was completely discouraged and ran away, forgetting even the agreement he made with himself.
"What should we do now?" Zhou Cang asked. They originally planned to attack the city after a successful ambush, but who knew it would end like this.
"What else can we do? Let's meet up with General Zhang and the others. We can't have two hundred people attacking him, right? Although Yuan Tan has left, his usefulness has been fully demonstrated. It doesn't matter if he leaves now, the promised territory will belong to us.
!" What can Chu Nan do? Even if they are equal in strength, they are no match for each other. What else can they do? Run away!