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Chapter 392 Zhang Liao vs. Cao Ren, Shi Xie's Decision
After Zhang Liao jumped over the shield, he did not charge forward, but turned around and killed the soldiers holding shields. As long as he could break through this row of defenses and make it impossible for the soldiers holding lances to attack under the protection of their shields, the lances would not be able to play their maximum role. As the commander of the cavalry, Zhang Liao was well aware of this.

So the first thing he thought of was how to break the opponent's spear and shield. That is, there must be a man who can fight a thousand men at once to rush in and disrupt the opponent's formation so that the cavalry can advance straight in. Otherwise, with just this row of spear and shield soldiers, they might have to sacrifice thousands of lives to fill this hole.

In fact, Zhang Liao's best approach was to let the soldiers risk their lives to break through the spears and shields. Not only would he be safe at that time, but he might also be able to trigger his commander skill. In this way, the subsequent battles would be particularly easy. However, Zhang Liao didn't think about this at all.

The first thing he thought of was to rush in and fight his way out of the desperate situation. He had no other ideas at all, and he did just that. After entering the crowd, he wielded the Yellow Dragon Hook Scythe to the extreme. Rays of sword light surged and spread around Zhang Liao's body. The powerful power even made Cao Ren feel a little nervous.

Cao Ren picked up a helmet from the side and put it on his head with a firm look in his eyes. Beside him, a black horse seemed to sense its master's mood and snorted a few times, its hooves constantly rubbing against the ground.

Putting on his helmet, Cao Ren picked up his sword and shield, took a deep breath, and the black horse Feiyuefeng rushed out at the moment Cao Ren exhaled, heading straight for Zhang Liao. He absolutely could not allow Zhang Liao to go on killing like this. In just a few breaths, three sections of spear and shield had been broken. If Zhang Liao was allowed to continue causing chaos like this, perhaps none of the 20,000 monk soldiers would be left.

Zhang Liao instantly felt the murderous intent coming from behind the enemy, but he still rushed forward. Only if he killed as many enemies as possible before Cao Ren arrived, would he have a greater chance of winning the battle.

Cao Ren looked at Zhang Liao who continued to rush forward with a frown on his face. He didn't expect that Zhang Liao had clearly seen him joining the battlefield, so why could he still ignore him.

Seeing that the spears and shields in the front row were broken in two again and the enemy cavalry had already rushed into the crowd, Cao Ren kicked his horse's belly several times to make Feiyuefeng go faster.

"Take your life!"

Cao Ren roared and stabbed Zhang Liao in the back with the Bagua Electric Blade. Only then did Zhang Liao turn around from his horse and dodge the stab sideways. The Yellow Dragon Hook Scythe turned at an unimaginable speed, bringing up a blade light, like a galaxy falling from the sky, making people dizzy.

The imagined scene of a powerful blow from a sword did not appear. The sword and shield in Cao Ren's left hand blocked the sword. The huge force caused a white mark to appear on Cao Ren's sword and shield. Cao Ren was a person who was good at sword and shield, and his strength was far beyond that of generals of the same level. Facing Zhang Liao's sword, although his body could withstand it, his shield could not.

Cao Ren took a deep breath. He had not heard much about this general named Zhang Liao before. The last time he heard about him was the incident in Xu Du last time. He killed Sun Li and Guo Huai alone, and rescued Liu Bei with troops. Now, he finally understood how helpless Sun Li and Guo Huai were facing him at that time.

Zhang Liao stopped attacking. The general in front of him was no ordinary man. Zhang Liao was even more grateful for his choice. He had just torn open five gaps for the cavalry. Many cavalry had already rushed through the spear and shield defense line, but facing the powerful monks, they had no way to gain an absolute advantage. The situation became tense for a while.

Cao Ren saw the problem of the enemy's insufficient military strength and smiled coldly. As long as they could hold on for another half an hour, at least 40,000 troops would arrive after half an hour. By then, facing such a large number of soldiers, Zhang Liao and his men would probably have no chance of resistance.

When the battle line between Zhang Liao and Cao Ren was opened, Shi Xie of Jiaozhou learned another piece of news that made him break his defense. Gu Rubing had already arrived in Cangwu County with tens of thousands of troops. When he learned the news, Shi Xie was still pointing at his nose and cursing.

After learning that Gu Rubing had entered Cangwu County with tens of thousands of troops, Shi Xie had no time to curse and immediately began to retreat.

Their action this time was originally intended to cut off one of Liu Bei's right-hand men. The strategy was that Cao Cao would stop Gu Rubing and not give him the chance to provide support. But now, Liu Bei actually appeared with his troops in the southernmost part of Jingzhou and had already entered the territory of Jiaozhou. How could Shi Xie not panic? Two people who should not have been here anyway, Huang Zhong and Liu Bei, are now both here, and Shi Xie is already numb.

However, Huang Zhong and Wei Yan seemed to have learned the news in advance and actually sent troops to block their retreat. With troops blocking them in front and pursuing them behind, Shi Xie had never thought that such a situation would occur before the war.

His mind raced. Ever since they decided to attack Jingzhou, it seemed as if a huge hand had been hovering over them. Nothing they did seemed to escape its eyes. He attacked Cangwu County himself, but there were no guards in the military towns and county towns along the way, not even militia.

At the beginning, Shi Xie thought that it was because Jingzhou was short of manpower, so he withdrew all his troops to the county city. Now he is old, and the other party has clearly learned all his information in advance and made responses in advance. Otherwise, how to explain why Huang Zhong suddenly brought all his troops to Cangwu County to support Wei Yan before his attack.

You know, Yuzhang County, with its rich resources and vast land, is much more important than Cangwu County. However, Huang Zhong left Yuzhang County undefended and sent his entire army to support Wei Yan, the desolate Cangwu County. This shows that he must have known the news in advance and knew that someone would launch a large-scale attack on Cangwu County, so he did this.

Thinking of this, Shi Xie fell into confusion again. However, if such a remote place as his place had been infiltrated by the other party, then there was no reason not to infiltrate Cao Cao and Sun Jian. After all, no matter from which angle, the difficulty and effect of infiltrating Cao Cao and Sun Jian were much more cost-effective than infiltrating himself.

Then there is only one way to explain this, that is, Cao Cao and Sun Jian have been infiltrated, and after infiltrating the two of them, he still has enough strength to infiltrate himself. Thinking of this, Shi Xie was already sweating coldly, and his expensive gold-threaded clothes were completely soaked with sweat.

If this is the reasoning, then everything seems reasonable. Liu Bei, who should have returned to Qingzhou early, stayed in Nanchang County all the time. He was looking for a suitable opportunity to stage a substitution drama to make them mistakenly believe that Huang Zhong was guarding Nanchang and Liu Bei's Bai Li Army. In fact, they didn't know how many troops they had transported in, just to wait for them to lose patience and launch the first attack.

At that time, Sun Jian, who was originally attacking Nanchang City, was shocked to find that the city was full of Liu Bei's army and was wiped out in one fell swoop. Sun Jian, who was waiting for support in Jiangxia, never got it, and had no way to attack Jiangxia. He would also be slowed down by Huang Zhong who volunteered to come, and would not be able to capture Cangwu County as soon as possible. What's more, Liu Bei now brought a large army to support him, which meant that Sun Jian's troops responsible for attacking Nanchang had failed.

Although Cao Cao in the north is powerful, he is responsible for blocking Liu Bei in Jingzhou and Yangzhou. No one knows how many troops Liu Bei has, and he can't leave at all. The situation they set up is that only Liu Zhang can attack again, but Liu Qi is not a soft persimmon.

If any of the three parties responsible for the attack did not follow the established strategy, it would be acceptable, but what if two of them had problems? Or think more deeply, he and Sun Jian had their own arrangements, so would Liu Zhang have no arrangements? Of course he would.

Shi Xie no longer dared to think about it. If it was really as he thought, then this was Liu Bei's strategy of taking advantage of the situation. This meant that Liu Bei might have the strength to destroy the four of them alone. Shi Xie did not want to think this way, but he had to think this way, because in this way, everything would be revealed.

After sorting out everything, Shi Xie took a deep breath. He didn't plan to leave. If he really left, they would not even have a chance to turn things around.

"Shi, Shiwu, Shihui, Shisong, the four of you bring 80,000 infantry and catapults to attack Changxin City. Don't tell me you can't get in. Even if you have to carry them, you must carry the catapults in! If you can't take Changxin City before Liu Bei attacks, you don't have to come back."

Shi Xie gave the order. "Yes, my lord!"

The four men took the order and left, and began to gather the troops, preparing to attack Changxin City. Shi Xie continued.

"Shi Yi, take 30,000 heavily armored soldiers and defend the valley. Do not let them enter the valley at all! Do you understand?!"

"Yes, my lord!"

"Sir, it's time to bring out the special forces we have carefully trained, so that the world can see their power."

Shi Xie turned around and smiled and said to Shi Xin. Shi Xin was his son and also his real trump card. Originally, this was a trump card he would use after he captured Liu Bei and turned against Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Liu Zhang. But now he had to take action. Otherwise, even with this powerful trump card, he would not be 100% sure that he could deal with Liu Bei. He had to get rid of Liu Bei now before he could talk about the future.

"Father, that's our last trump card. Are we going to use it now?"

Shi Xin asked with some confusion. He obviously didn't want to reveal his cards so early, but Shi Xie shook his head.

"Don't worry. Even if we spend some time and fight a few battles, they will never find out what this army is made of."

After hearing what Shi Xie said, Shi Xin nodded, clasped his fists and turned away. Shi Xie turned his head to the north in the direction of Liu Bei, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth. Did he think that Shi Xie was a soft persimmon that could be easily manipulated? He really thought too much and didn't take him seriously.

After entering the game for so long, he did not just make money by smuggling in Jiaozhou, nor did he just build heavy armor and strengthen the army. He did something that others dared not even think about, let alone do it, but he did it, and he did it very successfully.

Gu Rubing and his army soon arrived ten kilometers north of Changxin County. From here to Changxin County, they had to pass through a long canyon. At this moment, the canyon was very quiet, so quiet that it was unspeakable. Before entering the valley, suddenly a roving crossbow captain came to Taishi Ci and whispered something to him, and then Taishi Ci came to Gu Rubing.

"My lord, we just received news that there are about 30,000 soldiers lying in ambush in the canyon. It looks like they are Shi Xie's heavily armored troops. What should we do?"

"Oh? Heavy armored troops? I really want to see how heavy their heavy armored troops are."

Gu Rubing said with a smile, because when he mentioned the heavy armored army, he couldn't help but think of the modern heavy armored combined brigade. He heard that the heavy cavalry in ancient times was equivalent to the heavy armored combined brigade. He didn't know how the heavy armored soldiers would perform. Gu Rubing was still very curious.

After hearing what Gu Rubing said, Taishi Ci immediately nodded, turned around and was about to command the soldiers to advance. Fortunately, Gu Rubing reacted quickly and stopped Taishi Ci.

"Ziyi, what are you doing?"

Gu Rubing asked with some confusion. Taishi Ci was even more confused and looked at Gu Rubing with a puzzled look.

"Ah? What's wrong, lord? Didn't you say you wanted to see those heavily armored soldiers? How can you see them if you don't go in?"

"Why do you want to fight hand-to-hand with a group of heavily armored soldiers in such a narrow place?"

Gu Rubing explained patiently.

"Those heavily armored soldiers are not mobile, and there is no way they can stay in ambush in the canyon for a long time. It will take them a long time to go in and out, back and forth. We just need to wait outside the canyon, and when they can't hold on any longer, they will leave naturally."

"I see. I thought we were going to go in and fight them."

Taishi Ci had enjoyed fighting so much in the past two days that he couldn't help himself when he saw the heavy armored soldiers and wanted to try it with them.

Just like that, Gu Rubing and his men set up camp outside the canyon, and even started to cook. At the end of the canyon, Shi Xie, who was waiting for Gu Rubing to arrive, was stunned. What was going on? They set up camp for no apparent reason?
"Wait, keep waiting for Liu Bei. Even if he doesn't come in for a month, you still have to wait for a month!"

Shi Xie said with gritted teeth. For him, as long as Liu Bei did not join the frontal battlefield, he would have hope of capturing Changxin City. The reason he did not attack before was simply because Shi Xie did not want to lose too many troops, so as not to affect him in the future. But now it is different. He no longer feels sorry for these soldiers, because once Liu Bei and Huang Zhong complete the encirclement, the losses will not be small.

At the same time, Shi Xie hoped that Gu Rubing could stay for a while longer. After all, Shi Xin had already mobilized the special forces. As long as the special forces arrived here, he would be able to fight even if Liu Bei's army came. This was Shi Xie's confidence.

Outside Changxin City, with the soldiers' transportation at all costs, a total of five catapults were transported to the front of Changxin City, and a siege on Changxin City was launched.

(End of this chapter)