Wenpin followed Dr. Ren's gaze towards the hill, and sure enough he saw the flag waving behind him, and roughly someone's figure camping behind it.
But somehow, Wenpin always felt that something was wrong...
"Doctor Ren!"
"Here! General!"
Wenpin was extremely cautious, pointed to the hill and asked: "Didn't you say that Liu Bei fled in a hurry and gathered the remaining troops here? Why is this camp so clean and tidy?"
It turned out that the layout of the camp was too rigorous and could not be completed in a short time. No wonder it aroused Wenpin's suspicion.
Looking at this familiar way of setting up camp, Dr. Ren immediately understood that a certain obsessive-compulsive general named Yu insisted on showing off his skills here, but now Wenpin saw the flaw.
"General Wen!"
Shi Ren's expression became ferocious: "My lord has been a soldier for half his life, so he still knows how to set up camp!"
"Besides! Although my lord has not won many battles, hasn't he lost too many? From the Yellow Turban Rebellion to Qingzhou, then to Xuzhou, and then to Runan! No one can compare with how to deal with the consequences after a defeat.
My lord! General Wen, just learn from it!"
Wenpin: "..."
After a long moment of silence, Wenpin squeezed out a sentence through his teeth: "Liu Xuande... is really quite powerful!"
"That's right!"
The proud look on Dr. Ren's face made Wenpin slowly cover his chest.
"Liu Xuande is lucky to have a soldier like you..."
"Must drop!"
"..."
Taking advantage of the lack of blood supply to Wenpin's brain, He Yan... ah, no, it was Baoshi Ren who pointed to the camp ahead: "General Wen, then I go over and call Liu Yuzhou to come see you?"
"Um."
After receiving the order, Dr. Ren immediately rushed towards the camp, but after a moment, Dr. Ren returned to Wenpin dejectedly.
"General Wen, Liu Yuzhou personally led troops to explore the military situation near Xinye, but he is not in the camp. Why don't you wait here for a while?"
Wenpin frowned and said, "Not in the camp? What about Sun Qian, Jian Yong, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang?"
These people all followed Liu Bei to visit Liu Biao, so Wenpin had an influence on them.
"They were all scattered by Cao's army!"
Dr. Ren responded to this offer without blushing.
"It was precisely because Liu Yuzhou didn't see the other people that he risked his life to save others in the direction of Xinye regardless of his own safety!"
Wenpin yelled: "Nonsense!"
After finally escaping, how could there be any reason to continue fighting in? Didn’t Liu Xuande have a lot of experience in escaping? Why didn’t he even understand this little truth?
"Liu Xuande is such an old fool! Humph!"
Especially when Wenpin thought of Cao Jun's cavalry wandering in the south of Xinye, his whole body went numb: "No! I have to find Liu Xuande!"
"General Wen!"
Shi Ren pointed at the endless wilderness: "If you want to find Liu Yuzhou now, you will undoubtedly be looking for a needle in a haystack. It's better to stay here and wait for Liu Yuzhou to arrive."
Xinye is basically surrounded by plains. Once you encounter an enemy, it's basically a direct hand-to-hand fight.
Under such harsh combat conditions, Wenpin hesitated again and again, but ultimately did not order the pursuit, but instead left his troops stationed here.
In order to express his goodwill, Wenpin also specially allocated his military rations to Liu Beijun, who was resting next to him, so that they could replenish their physical strength.
When Shiren learned about this, he immediately took hundreds of soldiers from the camp to Wenpin's army to express his gratitude and praise his colleagues in Jingzhou for their benevolence and righteousness.
"There is no need to thank you. After all, they are all under Liu Jingzhou's command. You still need to restore your combat strength as soon as possible and coordinate with our army to fight!"
Dr. Ren repeatedly said yes, and took these soldiers to the side of Wenpin's rear army to have a meal with Wenpin's army.
Wenpin chose to camp here, but his mind never relaxed, and he kept looking in the direction of Xinye City.
"You said that Cao's army used the ant attack method to attack the city, so Cao's army must have suffered heavy losses... It stands to reason that taking Xinye is the limit, and there is no way to sweep away the remaining troops around him. Why did Liu Bei not come back after he left? ?”
Dr. Ren had already returned to Wenpin. After looking at the sky, he said to himself: "It should be soon!"
"Hurry to what?"
"Almost there."
Wenpin just thought that Doctor Ren was talking about Liu Bei, so he didn't pay attention and just waited in the tent.
Just when Wenpin was getting impatient, the sound of early warning in the camp made Wenpin immediately come back to his senses.
He rushed out of the camp he had just set up, and without waiting for the guards around him to report the military situation to him, he climbed up to the archery tower and looked out.
I saw that in the northern wilderness, an army with the banner of "Liu" was approaching. Judging from the size, there were at least one or two thousand people!
"Could it be that Liu Bei is back?"
Wenpin was overjoyed, and all his previous complaints about Liu Bei turned into praise: "Being able to gather 60 to 70% of the soldiers in such a short period of time is indeed quite capable!"
But as the "Liu Bei Army" continued to approach, this surprise turned into fear again!
"Enemy attack!"
The "Liu Beijun" rushed straight towards Wenpin without losing any speed. The most terrifying thing was that as soon as the soldiers came within the shooting range, they took out countless big ones from their crotches. Wen Pinjun shot out.
"They are Cao Jun's crossbowmen!"
Wenpin, who had been fighting against Cao's army all year round, immediately recognized that those big guys were crossbows that were unique to the Central Plains army, and quickly got his soldiers ready to face the enemy.
At this moment, Wenpin's rear army broke into another commotion.
A moment later, a blood-stained scout came running from the rear army and said with a hoarse voice: "General Wen! That group just now is not Liu Bei's army! It's Cao's army!"
Wenpin blinked his eyes so hard that even the lines on his forehead appeared: "Cao Jun!?"
"It's Cao Jun! They are led by a general named He Yan, and they are besieging us in the rear!"
"He Yan???"
Wenpin recalled the "Liu Bei soldiers" he had seen today and shook his head in disbelief: "There is no He Yan among those soldiers as described by Dr. Ren!"
etc……
Doctor Ren?
Wenpin looked around and realized that Dr. Ren, who had been hanging around him since they met today, had completely disappeared.
"Where's Dr. Ren? Dr. Ren! Let him come to see me!"
Wenpin's mind was in a mess at this time, and it wasn't until he saw "Doctor Ren" riding a fast sail from the rear to come to him that Wenpin realized that Booshi Ren was all nonsense!
"You are He Yan!"
"General Wen, you no longer recognize me in Xinye after only a year apart. It really makes He feel very uncomfortable!"
He Yan had wiped the blood off his face and was riding on Kuaihang's back, looking down at Wenpin.
"Is it you?"
After He Yan's reminder, Wenpin finally remembered that he had indeed seen He Yan next to Cao Ren when he went to meet Liu Bei last year.
Realizing that he had been deceived by He Yan for a day, Wenpin was ashamed and angry, so he directly raised his weapon and went to kill He Yan.
"Don't hurt Lieutenant He!"
Wenpin rushed forward, and Lu Meng, who had been accompanying He Yan, also started to jump into the wolf at this time, and faced Wenpin head-on.
"Go up and kill He Yan!"
Wenpin's skills were entangled, but his mouth was not idle, and he ordered the soldiers on the left and right to continue to kill He Yan.
Fortunately, He Yan's two pendants, Xu Hu and Xu Bao, are no longer acting. They each hold a sword and shield, and they firmly protect He Yan behind them, resisting the enemy's attack.
While the two sides were fighting fiercely, another Cao army came from afar. Since then, the forces of He Yan, Xiahou Dun, and Yu Jin have completely gathered here.
Because of the previous incident of Wenpin's army, Wenpin's army camp was thrown into chaos. There was no time and opportunity to command the army. Wenpin's army was not only defeated in the battle with Cao's army, but also gradually.
Fall into disadvantage.
While Xiahou Dun was leading his troops to attack, he was always paying attention to He Yan's position.
By the time Xiahou Dun used his one eye to find the location of He Yan and others, Lu Meng and He Yan were already in a hard fight, and could only rely on some antlers and tents to resist Wenpin's attack.
"Wenpin! Die!"
Seeing that the situation was urgent, Xiahou Dun galloped towards Wenpin.
Wenpin saw that Xiahou Dun had already killed him in front of him in just a few breaths. No matter how unwilling he was, he knew it was time to retreat.
"Ming Jin withdraws the troops and leads the troops to retreat!"
A rapid and sharp sound sounded, and the Wenpin army retreated towards the south like a tide, leaving behind a messy battlefield.
"Yu Lang!"
Xiahou Dun came to He Yan's side and carefully wiped off the blood on He Yan's armor with his hands: "Are you injured?"
"Uncle Yuanrang, don't worry, I'm not seriously injured!"
Facts have proved that Xu Hu and Xu Bao are indeed the tiger warriors who followed Xu Chu. With the protection of this pair of bodyguards, He Yan remained as stable as a rock in the midst of the chaos.
"Uncle Yuan Rang, quickly collect Wenpinjun's armor and flags! We are going to complete the second step of the plan!"
The first step of the plan was naturally for He Yan to pretend to be the escaped Liu Bei soldier Dr. Ren, bring Wenpin to the encirclement of Cao Jun, and trap Wenpin on the plain.
The second step is to use the banner of Wenpin's army to deceive Liu Bei after defeating Wenpin's army, in an effort to deceive Xinye.
In short, it is - "Pretend to be Liu Bei to fool Wenpin, and then pretend to be Wenpin to fool Liu Bei!"
There was no time to repair, so after taking off the armor of Wenpin's soldiers who died in the battle and wearing it on his body, He Yan put on Wenpin's flag again and set off towards Xinye.
On the way, He Yan also told Lu Meng who was standing beside him: "Liu Bei had a chance encounter with me in Runan. That time was different from when I met Wenpin. When we were in Runan, Liu Bei had seen me up close.
, you must be very familiar with my appearance, so this time you will be the commander-in-chief to make Liu Bei believe that we are coming to support his Jingzhou army!"
There is a difference between deceiving Liu Bei and deceiving Wenpin.
Liu Bei's army had been defeated before, and being a deserter could easily make Wenpin trust him.
But the army coming from Jingzhou must be well prepared. If there are no documents and tiger talismans, it may be difficult to gain Liu Bei's trust.
Therefore, to deceive Liu Bei, it is better to be subtle!
Cao's army was divided into three groups again.
All the cavalry were handed over to Xiahou Dun, who was responsible for staying in the southern part of Xinye to observe the situation in Xiangyang and prevent Wenpin from killing a carbine.
Yu Jin acted in his true colors and directly led his troops to surround Xinye.
He Yan and Lu Meng, of course, acted as civil servants and stopped garrisoning a certain distance from Xinye to prevent Liu Bei from clearly observing the actual strength of the army.
Liu Bei, who fled back to Xinye, was always frightened. He breathed a sigh of relief after hearing that the Jingzhou army was coming from the south.
But when Liu Bei climbed onto the city wall of Xinye County, his heart trembled again.
"Why were Wenpin's troops unwilling to come immediately to relieve the siege of Xinye, but instead stationed themselves far away?"
Liu Bei sent scouts to inquire, but the reply he received made Liu Bei very dissatisfied.
"Wenpin actually said that Cao's army was too strong and he didn't dare to approach?"
The Jingzhou troops who came for reinforcements were very cowardly, hanging so far away from the outside, unwilling to get close to the new field, which made Liu Bei's violent temper rise again.
"The soldiers in Jingzhou are all cowards!"
Liu Bei was far away, but he could still tell that the size of the Jingzhou army was about ten thousand.
With the same army of ten thousand people, the Jingzhou army did not dare to fight against Cao's army. Isn't this cowardice?
However, although Liu Bei scolded him, the army was not under his control. He could only let Xinye, Cao's army, and Jingzhou army fight.
After waiting for three days, and seeing that Cao's army was getting ready to launch a general offensive, Liu Bei finally received military orders from outside.
"Cao's army is powerful, Wenpin specially invites Liu Yuzhou to attack Cao's camp tonight!"
Liu Bei was surrounded for several days, and his mood became more and more restless day by day. When he saw "Wenpin" inviting him to attack Cao's camp together, he agreed without saying a word.
That night, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Chen Dao and the remaining 800 soldiers in the city gathered in front of the east gate. They were just waiting for the "Wen Pinjun" outside the city to give him a signal, and he was about to open the city gate and follow Wen.
Attack Cao Ying!
The idea is beautiful.
The reality is cruel.
As shouts of killing came from outside, Liu Bei immediately ordered the gates of Xinye City to be opened.
But unfortunately, after opening the city gate, Wenpin's army, who had been "fighting" with Cao's army just now, immediately turned their guns and rushed towards Xinye City.
Liu Bei had previously imagined that he and Wenpin's army could work together to annihilate Cao's army outside Xinye City, but now he was trembling all over.
The war drums were beating, and Yu Jin and Lu Meng from outside the city led their troops into the city.
Yu Jin saw Liu Bei, the most conspicuous person in the crowd, at a glance. He patted his horse and rushed towards Liu Bei with murderous intent in his eyes.
Lu Meng, who entered Xinye City with Yu Jin, was rarely too excited.
After Lu Meng and a few cavalry broke through the defense line formed by Liu Bei's soldiers, they immediately threw away a group of enemy soldiers and rushed towards the Xinye County Government Office.
"Captain He has an order! Capture an old white-faced man and Liu Bei's wife and daughter alive! Everyone, keep an eye on me!"
"Here!"
When some cavalry heard this, they noticed something was wrong: "Lü Sima, I can understand why you want to capture Liu Bei's wife and daughter, but why do you want to capture that old white-faced man alive?"
Lu Meng glared at the other party: "Is it something you should ask about Captain He?"
The cavalryman quickly fell silent and did not dare to ask any more questions.
It wasn't until they successfully broke into the Xinye County Government Office that they were all dumbfounded: "Hiss!!!"
"Liu Bei...how come there are so many old white faces?"