() Liu Qi easily solved Ma Teng and Xiahou Dun's men and women. It also made Liu Biao feel much more at ease. At the same time, he asked for a fight and fought against Cao Cao in Nanyang. Liu Biao approved and did not interfere with Liu Qi.

The battle between Jingzhou and Jiangdong has just been three or four months, and its strength has not recovered. However, Cao Cao was not feeling well and he barely went to fight. After the battle between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, the food and grass have not been restored, and the food and grass of the 200,000 troops were also pieced together. This time, Cao Cao was really consumed with Liu Qi, and the two sides did not have the ability to annex each other.

Liu Qi's situation was not easy, and Jingzhou's food and grass still had to support Jiangdong, which was even more difficult. Fortunately, Jiaozhou was relatively rich after Shi Xie's governance, and he did not want Jiangdong to be so destructive. Zhuge Jin hurriedly led 20,000 troops and brought Jiaozhou's food and grass to support him.

Cao cao's path is the core of the three routes. As long as he can defeat Cao cao, the other two routes will retreat without success. On the contrary, if Liu Qi is defeated, the other two routes will take advantage of the situation to step up the attack. Then Jingzhou is really in danger.

In order to defeat Cao Cao in one battle, Liu Qi has been preparing for the news since he received the news. Food, grass, weapons, and soldiers have been prepared in one month.

In May of the sixth year of Jian'an, Cao's army arrived first and reached Qiaotou Town and Yecheng in Jingzhou. According to Liu Qi's policy, the defense line must be tightened in the first stage. Therefore, there were not many defenders in Yecheng. When Cao's army came, they immediately surrendered.

At this time, the 60,000 army led by Liu Qi also arrived in Wancheng, and the original Wancheng garrison had about 80,000 people. Among them were Li Yan and Huangxu who were stationed in Lujiang; Zhuge Jin 20,000 Jiaozhou soldiers; Zhang Xiu 10,000 cavalry and Hu Cheer 3,000 cavalry; newly recruited Jing Zhuang 20,000; Wancheng garrisons had a total of 80,000.

Among them, Liu Qi brought all the generals who could fight. Generals Huang Zhong, Zhang Xiu, Wei Yan, Zhuge Jin, Li Yan, Huang Zu, Hu Jun; Deputy Generals Liu Pan, Hu Cheer, Su Fei, Xu Sheng, Zhu Ran, Lu Meng, Ling Tong, Liao Hua, Liu Pi and others followed Liu Qi to fight against Cao Cao.

Liu Qi, the general of the Southern Expedition, led the commander of the three armies, Pang Tong, the governor of Jingzhou, was the deputy commander, Jia Xu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was the military advisor, Yang Yi, was the military clerk, and Liao Li was the employed, Zhang Zhao, the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, and Zhang Hong, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, was the counselor. Zhao Lei, the secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, was responsible for supervising the transportation of grain and grass, and the secretary of the minister ordered Kuai Liang to stay in Xiangyang to govern the rear affairs, and Liu Xian was responsible for assisting. The veteran Wang Wei led 5,000 troops to guard Xiangyang strictly prevent fire from catching a fire in the rear.

Cao's vanguard Xu Chu and Gao Lan even arrived in Bowang City. Xu Chu was eager to take revenge. A few years ago, Liu Qi defeated Cao Cao, but Xu Chu had a secret hatred. Now he can finally defeat Liu Qi in one battle. He raised his head to vent my hatred. Xu Chu thought that everyone who dared to oppose my lord would die. It was as simple as seeing that the lord led an army of 300,000 and conquering Jingzhou was like killing an ant.

Xu Chu led the 5,000 vanguard army to discuss with Li Tong, saying that it was actually Xu Chu's decision alone to capture Bo Wang before Cao Cao arrived and achieved the first contribution. Li Tong's opposition was invalid and Xu Chu rejected it.

"If you see the lord's army and the enemy is thousands of soldiers in the world. Now the first contribution is right in front of you. If you don't go, I will conquer Bowang and you can't compete with me in front of you." Xu Chu said with dissatisfaction. He is not a fool. Bowang has only two thousand defenders. That small city can be destroyed with just one thousand sharp edge.

Li Tong was helpless and was even more afraid that Xu Chu would be in trouble. If Cao Cao, the confidant in front of the account, would be difficult to be a human being in the future. He had to go with Xu Chu. At this time, Xu Chu smiled like a child, and then turned anger into joy.

Bowang is the only way to Wancheng, Nanyang. However, because the city is small, few people garrison here. Liu Qi went against the rules and stationed two thousand troops here in order to resist Cao Cao for a while and make some preparations for Liu Qi to integrate the troops in the rear.

Bowang City.

However, it is indeed a bit troublesome to defend the city with two battles. The defending general Huo Jun is not famous among the generals of Jingzhou, so Xu Chu is not afraid of him. However, Xu Chu did encounter a tough nail.

Cao's army was three miles away from here. So Xu Chu had time. Five thousand vanguards took a short rest and carried the siege ladder that had just been laid, and with the heavy sound of trumpets, he started the siege battle.

"Arrowman preparation." Huo Jun saw Xu Chu's army gradually entering the process, drew his sword and signaled.

Three hundred steps.

Two hundred steps.

One hundred steps.

Ninety steps.

Fifty steps.

In fact, the Jingzhou standard bow and arrow are one stone, with a range of 120 steps; the crossbow invented by Zhuge Liang is eighty steps. However, in Huo Jun's experience, only when the enemy entered fifty steps, the power of the arrow rain could penetrate the leather armor and kill the enemy. So at this time, Huo Jun shouted loudly: "Shoot the arrow!"

In an instant, thousands of arrows were fired at once, and arrows like drizzle fell from the sky, but not sweet rain but death-taking arrows. Xu Chu's army fell one after another.

Seeing this, Xu Chu shouted, "Come on, as long as you can climb the city wall, the archers will be useless." He beat the drums and cheered. Xu Chu's soldiers rushed to the city wall with no chance. There were only fifty steps. According to the convention, the defenders could do more than two more times. Xu Chu's soldiers were all fierce and very experienced.

However, this time they were destined to disappoint them. Not only were the three hundred archers, but also the three hundred archers. When they were with Liu Qi, Zhuge Liang made a kind of crossbow called Yuanrong Crossbow. It can fire ten arrows at a time and has strong firepower. By firing ten eight-inch-long iron crossbow arrows at a time, it improved the killing effect of strong crossbows. However, it also has a disadvantage that it is its size and weight, which is not available for individual soldiers, and is mainly used to defend cities and camps. Later, it was widely manufactured by Liu Qi, and Huo Jun brought 300. When attacking Jiangdong, most of them were field battles, or were not used for siege, so it was not known. It can be regarded as using it today, but Xu Chujun, who was the target, felt that it was not that good.

In just fifty steps, the distance that can be reached in three breaths has now become the road to death for Xu Chu's army. Fifty steps, three waves of bow and arrow rain, and ten waves of crossbow arrow rain, the Xu Chu's army was killed and injured. About four thousand arrows were released in just three breaths. Xu Chu's 500 vanguard army had almost no more left when it reached the city wall.

Seeing this situation, Xu Chu's eyes cracked and he said angrily: "How dare you?" Before he attacked the city wall, one-tenth of the people had been damaged. You must know that this is a small city without a moat. It is not necessary to fill the river with human lives.

Then he arrived at Xu Chu's central army and saw such casualties, but he was a little palpitations, and there was not much chaos. This was the advantage of the fierce battles. If the recruits had seen such a tragic situation, they would have turned around and fled.

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