Chapter 208: The stalemate

Cao Zhen looked at Xue Bing, who was not far away, shouting loudly from the scene, and an illusion arose in his heart, feeling that the person holding a halberd and shouting loudly in the field seemed invincible, especially when there were three dead bodies around him.

Because of Xue Bing, both Liu Bei's army and Cao's army were unconsciously shifting their attention to Xue Bing, so when Cao Zhen suddenly remembered that Xiahou Wei was fighting with Zhang Fei not far away, it was too late.

I saw Zhang Fei sitting on the horse with a depressed look on his face. He was placing the snake spear on his shoulders, and his big hands were placed on both ends of the snake spear. Looking at Xue Bing, he looked so unhappy.

As for the Xiahou Wei who was originally against him, he had already been tied back to his own formation by Liu Bei's soldiers.

It turned out that just when Xue Bing defeated Xiahou Ba and fought with the three generals under his command. Zhang Fei no longer wanted to fight with Xiahou Wei anymore, so he suddenly used all his strength and defeated Xiahou Wei in just two moves.

The huge impact force made the poor Xiahou Wei faint while flying out of the horse.

Seeing that Xiahou Wei was dismounted and unconscious, Zhang Fei immediately said to the soldier behind him: "Tie me back into the formation!"

Although the troops on both sides were all concerned about Xue Bing's place, there were several personal guards paying attention to their own heads.

Seeing that Zhang Fei knocked Xiahou Wei down, several soldiers rushed out of the formation without asking for his orders, and picked up the rope and tied him up.

Several people rushed out of the Cao army to rescue Xiahou Wei back to the formation, but Zhang Fei was in the middle, making it impossible for him to get close. Several small schools that wanted to forcibly rushed over were sent back to their hometown by Zhang Fei...

This is how. When Cao Zhen realized it, Xiahou Wei had long been tied back to Jingyang City by Zhang Fei's soldiers. Hearing this report, Cao Zhen was shocked and said to himself: "The two vanguard generals under him are now defeated by the enemy.

Xiahou Wei was captured, but Xiahou Ba was not aware of his life and death. The morale of the army suffered a severe blow, how can he still fight against the enemy?"

Then he said to Sima Yi beside him: "Now the morale of the soldiers has been greatly reduced and they are not able to compete with each other. You should retreat quickly!"

Sima Yi also nodded and said, "What the governor said is very good. You should retreat quickly and don't make any other discussion!"

After the two discussed, they immediately ordered the troops. After ordering them, more than 10,000 Cao's army formed a formation and slowly retreated, but did not give the other party any chance to pursue.

Let’s talk about Xue Bing, he immediately stood up. He waited for the generals in Cao’s army to fight. But he didn’t want to shout before he fell. Not only did he say that no one responded, Cao’s army actually retreated slowly.

Seeing this scene, I couldn't help but mutter: "Is this Cao Zhen here today just to fight these battles?" I couldn't understand it in my heart. So I stopped thinking about it.

When he saw Cao's army retreating, he wanted to send troops to cover up the killing, but he said in his heart: "It's better to take Cao Zhen's head from the chaotic army." He saw that although Cao's army retreated, his army was in a strict manner. The formation was not chaotic.

I also knew in my heart that this was not a good opportunity to cover up the killing! So I just rushed forward and took Cao Zhen's head to the head of the Xiang, thus forcing Cao's army to retreat.

As a result, Xue Bing and Zhang Fei could only watch Cao's army slowly retreating into the distance, but could not chase forward. Just when Cao's army went far, Zhang Fei then said, "It's the talented man Han who has made a big splash, I'm so depressed!"

Xue Bing was stunned when she heard this. Then she said to Zhang Fei with a smile on her face: "What did Yide say? When will Bing get into the limelight?"

Zhang Fei curled his lips and said, "I originally told Zi Han that I should not compete for me for me. Then I responded to Zi Han and asked you to scoop up for me."

But when he arrived on the battlefield, Zihan immediately forgot what he said, ran out, and snatched away all the credits of Lao Zhang.

Xue Bing hurriedly said, "How to take all the credits of Yide? Isn't Xiahou Wei still there..." At this point, he seemed to remember and asked, "Is Xiahou Wei dead or alive?" But it was when he was fighting against Cao's army just now.

He had no time to pay attention to Xiahou Wei's situation. Therefore, he didn't know that Xiahou Wei had been captured alive.

When Zhang Fei heard this, his face was slightly better. Yan said, "If I hadn't caught this kid, I'd probably have been in vain today and I wouldn't have made any contribution."

After hearing this, Xue Bing knew that Zhang Fei was unhappy, so she had to make some good things and finally made a promise to accompany Zhang Fei to have a good drink after returning to the city, which made Zhang Fei feel satisfied...

After leaving Xue Bing and Zhang Fei back to the city to drink and celebrate the achievements, Cao Zhen led his army back to the camp and hurriedly recruited Sima Yi to discuss it in the tent.

Cao Zhen looked sad and said to Sima Yi in front of him: "I don't expect that Zhang Fei and Xue Bing are so brave. The two generals Xiahou Wei and Xiahou Ba cannot support them for a few rounds, and both were defeated.

Now that Xiahou Wei is captured, General Xiahou Ba is seriously injured and unconscious. There is no general under his command. How can he capture Jingyang?" After saying that, he sighed and was worried about Xiahou Ba's injuries, and he was worried about how to attack Jingyang.

Sima Yi on the opposite side looked relaxed and said to Cao Zhen: "The governor forgot his original intention? We don't want to seize the Jingyang, and we can't capture it, so what's the harm?"

Cao Zhen said, "However, if Jingyang can be taken down and the two generals Xu will be more confident in retreating.

After all, if we can control the entire area north of Chang'an, it will make our army's advance and retreat more satisfactory in the future!"

Sima Yi shook his head and said, "From Yi's perspective, it doesn't matter if he takes this place or not. Even if he takes this place, he will give it to Liu Bei in the future.

Since this place will definitely not belong to us, why should we spend more soldiers and seize that Zhuyang City?"

After hearing this, Cao Zhen knew that Sima Yi was saying so much, so he nodded and stopped talking. But at the end, he couldn't help but sigh and said to Sima Yi: "Now it seems, how should our army act?"

When Sima Yi heard this, he said: "I still act according to the original plan, and delay!"...

Since this day, the battle situation outside Jingyang City has been stalemate.

Because of the huge difference in military strength between the two sides, neither Xue Bing nor Zhang Fei had any plans to go out of the city to fight the Cao army. Because the combined troops of Xue Bing and Zhang Fei were less than 10,000.

This kind of force conflicts head-on with enemies several times their own in the plains is very stupid. Therefore, both of them made up their minds. Try to rely on Jingyang City to delay the opponent and drag the army to help, and then Cao's army will naturally retreat.

It just made Xue Bing unable to understand that it was logical that Cao's army, which should have been in a hurry to seize the Jingyang and then occupied this area, seemed to be less anxious than him.

Although they would run outside the city to challenge the city every now and then, or send some troops to attack the city. But every time they attacked, it seemed like they were scratching their feet, and it didn't hurt at all. Not to mention attacking the city, there were not even a few people who could climb up the city wall.

Rather than saying that Cao's army came to attack the city, it is better to say that it is besieging the city.

"But it's not right to siege the city! How could there be a siege that can stand a big village more than ten miles away and then only guard one gate?" Xue Bing stood at the head of the east city and looked at the distance with a question.

Zhang Fei stood aside, posing with a bad face and said, "I think this Cao Zhen is a timid person. Knowing that we are here, he dare not attack.

Cao Cao didn't know how to recognize people, so he actually sent such a coward to come. It seemed that he wanted to send all the Yongliang and Liang prefectures to his elder brother."

This Zhang Fei was originally unintentional.

But when Xue Bing heard this, she couldn't help thinking in her heart: "Send it to the king? Could it be that Cao Cao predicted that the defeat was irreversible and that the two states of Yongliang could no longer be defended, so she was ready to give up all the two states? However, since she was ready to give up the two states.

Then why did such a soldier come?"

His head was spinning around, all about guessing Cao Cao's thoughts, but his guess made his head hurt and he couldn't think of any clues.

Finally, I had to say in my heart: "Forget it! What do I want to do? Anyway, I am just a soldier. As long as I lead my soldiers, I will care what Cao Cao thinks!"

Just as I thought about it, I saw another Cao army gradually coming from afar. Seeing this, Xue Bing and Zhang Fei could only look at each other and smile bitterly. Finally, Zhang Fei said with an angry look on his face: "These Cao soldiers said they would fight, but they ran away as soon as they hit them. They said they would not fight.

It was so annoying that I ran over to curse the enemy every now and then! I will definitely kill this Cao army this time!" After saying that, he led three thousand soldiers out of the city and wanted to fight with the Cao army.

Xue Bing looked out from the city and saw that the Cao army and Zhang Fei's troops were still far apart. He immediately ran away and fled to the distance, causing Zhang Fei to chase after him for a while and killed a few Cao soldiers who were running slowly to vent their anger.

Then he led his troops back to the city. He didn't dare to chase the ground too far. If he chased the army deeper and fell into ambush, it would be a bit unworthy of the loss.

This was the case. According to Xue Bing's intention, he ignored him and let him scold him.

It was just a few times in less than a day. Even Xue Bing felt a little unhappy. He didn't say much about Zhang Fei's lead army out of the city, but just asked Zhang Bao to lead a army and then respond to prevent Cao's army from setting up an ambush.

In this way, the Jingyang battle situation lasted for a long time. And Xue Bing felt very puzzled, Cao's army suddenly disappeared for some reason.

At first, Xue Bing said that Cao Zhen wanted to really attack Jingyang, so he hurriedly ordered the soldiers in the city to guard his posts well. At the same time, he sent a lot of horses to inquire about Cao's army's movements.

However, Cao's army did not react for several days. Moreover, according to what the explorer said, Cao's army did not retreat. This made Xue Bing confused for a long time, and he became more and more confused about Cao Zhen's purpose.

In the 215th AD, the autumn of the 20th year of Jian'an.
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