Due to Sun Quan's many failures, Cao Wei originally did not arrange 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 the past few 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, Cao Pi and Cao Rui both held the idea that they would not use the Chinese army if they could.
After all, local field armies die in battle and can be recruited again after a few years.
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 troops in Luoyang 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 formed for confrontation, but it would greatly affect the mobility of the cavalry. Therefore, Zhang He 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 summons the remaining Han troops in the camp and goes out to fight in the field, it means that today's battle is 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 like this.
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 personal guards around him to place the 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 three thousand Han troops could gain an advantage in a battle with tens of thousands of Wei troops.
The combat effectiveness displayed by the Wei army is far worse than before.
It seems that except for Cao Wei's central army, Cao Wei's local elites were indeed beaten by the general.
This is also the greatest significance of Liangzhou's victory in the first battle.
A large number of elites are lost. 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 strength is 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 a defensive side, without a clear grasp of the number of Wei troops, it was impossible for all the more than 7,000 Han troops to leave the camp.
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, Deng Ai was the actual commander of the Han army camp in terms of seniority.
Deng Ai gathered 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 5,000 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 more enemies.
But when five thousand fresh troops joined, 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 surrounded 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 Liu Feng and Deng Ai's two Han armies 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 were not good at field combat faced five thousand elite Liangzhou troops. How could they be stopped?
Especially in Deng Ai's army, there are fierce generals like Jiang Wei.
Don't look at Jiang Wei when he faced Ma Chao, he was almost beaten by Ma Chao and was unable to fight back, but it 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 he cannot hide them from Jiang Wei and Deng Ai.
Since he knew Zhang He's intentions, 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 glows appeared in the thick dust, and several screams were heard one after another.
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 bodies 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 opened the shackles on 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?
He who can step on the enemy's formation and cause chaos in the army is this.
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, and quickly ordered the Han army to form a formation to 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.
Zhang He secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the reinforcements arriving.
If the Han army's bravery and his own side's pull were the first things he didn't expect, then Jiang Wei's bravery was the second thing he didn't expect.
Zhang He had heard of the reputations of both Liu Feng and Ding Feng.
Before Liu Feng was trapped, he was able to kill several Wei generals. Cao Cao was so angry that he asked Cao Zhang to challenge him in a duel.
As for Ding Feng, Ding Feng's bravery is not top-notch, but his desperate beating to death is scary to anyone who sees him.
Because he knew the abilities of Liu Feng and Ding Feng, Zhang He personally led his troops to besiege these two men.
Zhang He asked himself whether there was any problem with his command.
But what happened to this young player who suddenly appeared?
Zhang He didn't even know the name of this young player.
Being able to easily break into an infantry formation on horseback is only possible by a top-notch general in the world.
Otherwise, if the infantry formation was so easy to break through, this unit would have long since disappeared in the long river of history.
Nowadays, you can count all the powerful generals in the world on your fingers, and Zhang He basically knows them all.
It was obvious that among the powerful generals who had been famous for a long time, the young general who suddenly appeared in front of him was not included.
So where did he come from?
Judging from his military uniform and banner, his military rank is no more than a small Sima.
Is the Han army so powerful now?
Treat such a fierce general as a commander.
An unspeakable emotion stirred in Zhang He's heart, and this emotion caused Zhang He's anger.
Before today's battle, the information Zhang He received was that among the Han generals guarding the street pavilion, only Liu Feng and Ding Feng were somewhat famous.
Most of the other Han generals are mediocre and don't need to be paid too much attention to.
Even Jiang Wei's name did not appear in the intelligence.
That's why Zhang He wanted to see if he could plan a plan to lure the enemy with the help of a catapult today.
But what's the result?
Is this unremarkable?
The strategy of luring the enemy was as successful as expected.
However, the Huainan Army's reduced combat power had already made Zhang He deeply resentful.
Now an unknown fierce general suddenly appeared in the Han army, which made Zhang He feel like he was beating his chest and feet.
It seems that many things have developed in unpredictable directions.
Had it not been for the confirmation that Mi Yang was near Chang'an, Zhang He would have felt that today's battle was not a trick set by him to lure the enemy, but a trick set by Mi Yang.
However, the matter has come to this point, and it is useless to complain and lament. The next step is to fight vigorously.
Zhang He immediately asked Man Chong to lead 7,000 Wei troops to support the Wei army that was almost overwhelmed by Jiang Wei.
The remaining 3,000 Wei troops were put under Zhang He's personal command, hoping to use superior force to surround Liu Feng and Ding Feng's Han army first.
After receiving Zhang He's military order, Man Chong led 7,000 Wei troops to join another battlefield without hesitation.
But as soon as he arrived at the battlefield, Man Chong took a few steps back on his horse without hesitation.
Man Chong didn't hesitate for the first time because he hadn't seen Jiang Wei's bravery yet.
Man Chong did not hesitate the second time because he was frightened by Jiang Wei's bravery.
Man Chong felt that it was better for him to take command from behind.
Under the command of Man Chong, 7,000 Wei troops transformed into military formations and joined the battlefield against 5,000 Han troops.
With the addition of 7,000 Wei troops, the precarious formation of the Wei troops on this battlefield was finally stabilized.
Man Chong also knew that Zhang He wanted him to lead his army to hold back the Han army in front of him, so that he could lead his army to capture the Han army of Liu Feng and Ding Feng.
Once the Han troops of Liu Feng and Ding Feng were successfully defeated by Zhang He, the remaining Han troops would not be a threat.
After all, Liu Feng was the commander-in-chief of the Han army in Jieting.
It's just that he wanted to avoid it, but Jiang Wei didn't allow it.
Before the seven thousand Wei troops joined the battlefield, Jiang Wei had already jumped out of the Wei army's formation on horseback.
However, Jiang Wei did not want to be like a man of favor and think about avoiding the enemy's edge.
Jiang Wei changed his target of attack.
The new target in Jiang Wei's mind is Man Chong.
Looking at Man Chong's head full of white hair and Man Chong's hands constantly waving command flags, Jiang Wei's eyes lit up when his body was covered in blood.
There is a saying that to capture the thief first capture the king!
Jiang Wei is a very courageous and daring person.
When the idea of capturing the thief first emerged in his mind, Jiang Wei immediately drove his horse and led the nearly a hundred dead men around him to charge directly towards Man Chong's location.
Jiang Wei's actions were immediately noticed by Man Chong.
Seeing the young warrior covered in blood rushing towards him regardless, Man Chong's eyes were a little dazed.
This guy looks just like that Mi Yang!
The same lack of respect for elders, the same lack of martial ethics!
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(End of chapter)
