Three Kingdoms: I have a job transfer palace

Although Xun You concluded that Zhou Yu had used a plan to reduce the number of stoves in the Dragon Kingdom's army two days ago, Xia Houyuan did not believe it.

He believed that it was normal for the Long Kingdom to have problems with the supply of food and grass during the expedition. The reason why there were fewer stove pits day by day was because they had insufficient food and grass, and it was not a plan to reduce stoves at all.

However, Xun You tried his best to dissuade Xia Houyuan on the grounds that the two armies were fighting and the soldiers and horses had not moved the food and grass first, and said that if there was really a shortage of food and grass, Zhou Yu would definitely hide this obvious weakness and not let the enemy know.

However, now that the scouts had found out so easily that there were fewer stove pits, it was most likely that Zhou Yu deliberately let the scouts see this, and his purpose was to trick Xiahou Yuan into leaving the city to fight with the Dragon Kingdom army.

After Xun You's death remonstrance, Xia Houyuan thought about it carefully and finally thought that what Xun You said made sense, so he decided to stay in Pingchun City and wait and see for a while.

And Zhou Yu also knew that although he could deceive Xia Houyuan with this plan, it was impossible to deceive Xun You.

Therefore, in order to make Xia Houyuan more convinced that he was indeed short of food and grass, Zhou Yu ordered the army to retreat quietly on the third night.

Zhou Yu knew that although Xia Houyuan was persuaded by Xun You and did not go out of the city to fight for the time being, as long as he retreated, his impatient character would make him even more convinced that he was indeed out of food and grass and would definitely go out of the city to pursue him.

Even if Xun You tried to persuade him, he would not listen.

The commander of the Wei army in Jiangxia is Xia Houyuan. As long as he is fooled and gets rid of him, Jiangxia will not be defeated even if Xun You is still there.

Therefore, even if he really retreated, Zhou Yu kept the army on alert at all times and explained to all the soldiers that Xia Houyuan might lead his troops to pursue him at any time.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Dragon Kingdom were very energetic and retreated in an orderly manner without any disorder.

When the Dragon Kingdom's army retreated to the vicinity of Xiling City, Xia Houyuan's 50,000-strong army finally caught up with the Dragon Kingdom's troops and launched a direct attack.

In Xia Houyuan's imagination, since the Dragon Kingdom army had been short of food and grass for three consecutive days and the soldiers were eating less and less every day, they must all be hungry and their morale was low.

So even if he only brings 50,000 cavalry, and the Dragon Kingdom has a full 100,000 army, as long as his army rushes back and forth a few times, the Dragon Kingdom's 100,000 army will definitely be defeated.

However, what he didn't expect was that the morale of the Dragon Kingdom's soldiers seemed not to be affected by the lack of food at all, and they still maintained a strong fighting capacity.

In particular, those placed at the rear of the Dragon Kingdom army by Zhou Yu were the three thousand dragon warriors under Dian Wei. As a heavy infantry unit, the dragon warriors could be called the nemesis of the cavalry!

Even before Xiahou Yuan's cavalry showed up, the scouts sent by Zhou Yu had already given an early warning.

Therefore, Dian Wei had already ordered the Longwu soldiers to be ready. The soldiers in the front row thrust their shields, which were almost as high as a person, diagonally into the ground and leaned on them with their bodies.

The soldiers in the second row stretched out the spears and halberds diagonally from the gaps between the shields, and the tail ends were also poked into the ground.

The soldiers in the third row took out their crossbows from between the soldiers in the first two rows, and were ready to start shooting as soon as the enemy troops arrived.

Long Wuzu was so carefully prepared that when Xia Houyuan's pursuers appeared, they were greeted by powerful crossbow arrows.

The crossbow arrows fired by Long Wuzu Pingping are so powerful that they can penetrate the bodies of more than three people. They will not stop until they hit the fourth person.

After a round of shooting, more than 3,000 Jiangxia cavalry fell to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the surviving cavalry finally rushed to the defense line of the dragon warriors. They raised their weapons and wanted to kill the dragon warrior soldiers, but they were surprised to find that their weapons could not penetrate the first row of dragon warriors at all. shield.

Then, the war horse couldn't stop and collided with the dragon warrior's shield. If it were an ordinary infantryman, it would be impossible to resist the high-speed attacking war horse and would have been knocked away long ago.

However, the shields of the dragon warriors and their armor weighed hundreds of kilograms, and even with the strength of the war horses, it was difficult to break them open.

But this was not the end. The spears and halberds between the shields became sharp weapons for harvesting the lives of Jiangxia cavalry.

In this way, Long Wu's soldiers blocked Xia Houyuan's pursuers, and then Dian Wei led the Dragon Kingdom's army to fight out.

At this time, Xia Houyuan finally knew that Xun You's guess was completely correct. The Dragon Kingdom army was not short of food and grass at all. All this was Zhou Yu's plan.

But it was obviously too late to react now. He had to break out with the remaining army and hid in Xiling City nearby.

Xia Houyuan only brought 50,000 cavalry with him to pursue Zhou Yu and Dian Wei's army. After being ambushed by Long Wu soldiers and the Long Kingdom army, he lost nearly half of them, leaving only more than 20,000 cavalry.

Dian Wei wanted to lead his army to attack the city and capture Xia Houyuan, but Zhou Yu stopped him.

Facing Dian Wei's confused look, Zhou Yu said:"Xia Houyuan only has more than 20,000 people left. It is not difficult to catch him, but he has a high status among Cao's army. We can use him to encircle and mobilize reinforcements as much as possible." Destroy more Wei troops."

After hearing Zhou Yu's plan, Dian Wei said in a vague way:"I, Lao Dian, didn't understand what Military Advisor Zhou said about encircling the point for reinforcements, but I will just do it as you tell me.."

After hearing this, Zhou Yu smiled slightly, and then ordered the army to surround Xiling City, but he only besieged but not attacked, attracting more Wei troops to come to rescue.

In the hills and woods outside Xiling City, Zhou Yu set up numerous ambushes, especially Long Wu soldiers and all the archers in the army.

As long as the Wei State sends troops to rescue Xiahou Yuan, they will be greeted by a barrage of arrows.

Early the next morning, Xun You received news from the scouts in Pingchun City and learned that Xia Houyuan had indeed been ambushed and was now besieged in Xiling City.

So Xun You quickly organized a force of 20,000 people and went to Xiling City to support Xiahou Yuan, hoping to attack Xiahou Yuan's troops from both sides and capture him.

As a result, scouts came to report in the evening, saying that the reinforcements were ambushed by the Dragon Kingdom army outside Xiling City, and the entire army was wiped out. Xiahou Yuan was still besieged in the city, and the Dragon Kingdom army seemed to have no plans to attack the city for the time being.

Xun You knew that this was Zhou Yu's plan to encircle and mobilize reinforcements, but Xia Houyuan held a high position in the Wei State, so he had to save him, so he sent out all the 50,000 troops in Pingchun City.

As a result, these 50,000 troops were besieged and killed by Long Wu soldiers and other Dragon Kingdom troops who were ambushing outside Xiling City, and fled.

Xia Houyuan watched the reinforcements being massacred twice in the city, and knew that he could not continue like this, so he personally led Wei's elite cavalry to break out of the encirclement.

However, his actions had been planned by Zhou Yu, and when he broke through, he was intercepted and killed by Long Wu soldiers led by Dian Wei.

This time, in order to prevent Xia Houyuan from escaping, Dian Wei personally fought against him.

However, Xia Houyuan, who was only a first-rate general, was the opponent of the super general Dian Wei. The two fought for fifty rounds, and Dian Wei split Xia Houyuan's man and horse in half with a halberd.