On the snow, several sparrows were working hard to search for the seeds under the stems of dead grass. Suddenly, the sparrows looked into the distance as if they were aware of it. Then, they didn't know which one was wearing their heads. The sparrows suddenly flew up and quickly stabbed towards the blue sky, and disappeared from sight in the blink of an eye.

There were only some delicate or messy little claw marks left on the snow. The withered grass stems swayed gently in the wind, and then gradually became rhythmic and trembled faster and faster. A sound of muffled thunder came from the sky. Then some black shadows appeared on the vast horizon and quickly magnified. It was a cavalry!

"General, the scout discovered 10,000 cavalry of Han Sui's army, twenty miles away from the city. Judging from the flag, it should be Yan Xing's troops."

"position?"

“Close from the north.”

"Order the guards to the city, and the four gates are closed."

"promise!"

Pan Feng's brows were tight, but he was not nervous. The reason was that this situation was not the first time. It had been two times today, and three times last night. Han Sui's cavalry was very arrogant. After defeating Zhang He's cavalry north of Dangyin, Han Sui's cavalry went around Wei County, as if he had entered a no-man's land, looting and killing, which made Wei County feel in danger now.

But Yuan Shao had no choice but to deal with Han Sui now. The reason is that Yuan Shao's main cavalry is now in Henan. Zhang He's cavalry was not fully supplemented after the Battle of Lin Lu, but was completely destroyed by Han Sui in one battle. However, Gongsun Yue, who had originally agreed, was only playing around Lin Lu, and did not play the role that the cavalry should have.

As for the 10,000 cavalry in Pan Feng's own hands and the 20,000 cavalry directly controlled by Yuan Shao, they did not dare to easily go out to chase Han Sui, for fear that Han Sui would be surrounded and annihilated by the wolf pack tactics. As a result, this was an embarrassing situation. Fortunately, it was winter now, and after being looted, the aristocratic relatives outside the city fled into the city one after another, and the losses were nothing but food and houses that could not be moved.

However, if this situation continues and cannot be improved by spring plowing, the production conditions of the entire Wei County and even Guangping will be affected by Yanshen.

Pan Feng sighed and said without looking back: "How has the information been sorted out?"

"Reporting to the general, in the accurate information we have obtained now, Yan Xing, Cheng Gongying and Han Sui's team have all discovered that Liang Xing's troops are still missing."

"Yan Xing's army should have 20,000 cavalrymen, right?"

"According to General Zhang He, Yan Xing's troops suffered the most losses in the last battle in Anyang, and it is likely that there were only 10,000 troops. The supplement of the Xiliang cavalry should be more problematic now."

"Where is Cheng Gongying's location?"

"It appeared in the west of Yuancheng this morning. It is moving towards the north of Yuancheng."

"Where is Han Sui?"

"The news I just received is in the eastern part of Anyang, not far from Anyang."

"Liang Xing's troops remembered moving in the south of Yuancheng last night. They arrived in Pingyang today in the afternoon."

“In theory.”

"Posted a mission to Yiren, looking for the location of Liang Xing's troops, and the movements of Han Sui's army in Dunqiu."

"promise!"

"Order the cavalry to assemble immediately, and after completion, leave the east gate and ambush the Yangcun five miles away from the northeast. Order the heavy infantry and crossbowmen to prepare for battle!"

"General!"

"If we don't leave the city, Han Sui's army will not attack the city. If this continues, it will be very unfavorable to our army, especially the time is in the hands of the other party!"

"But, didn't Han Sui attack Dangyin and Dunqiu?"

"That's because these two cities are empty. Now Pingyang and Yuancheng are all stationed in large numbers, and Han Sui will not attack the city. His purpose is to destroy production and consume the war potential of our army. Therefore, we must take the initiative to lure the other party to attack!"

When Yan Xing came to Pingyang City again, he suddenly found that Pan Feng had already set up an infantry formation about two miles north of the city.

"General, why not attack us bypass the enemy's formation. The distance between two miles is enough for us to intersperse!"

"Idiots, what if they set up traps there? Also, this triangle array can become a triangle array in another direction with just one move. When we go around, we still have to face the same formation."

"Uh! Then are we rushing forward?"

"Divid into three teams and take turns to mobilize the enemy from one side. The enemy's periphery is full of heavy infantry, and it won't take long to lose energy!"

"promise!"

Yan Xing's tactics are aimed at heavy infantry tactics. They attack from the side and constantly mobilize the enemy's troops to move and consume the opponent's physical strength. When the opponent's rhythm cannot keep up with his own rhythm, they penetrate through the gaps fiercely. This is how cavalry can deal with heavy infantry.

The rumbling sound of horse hooves galloped back and forth, from Pan Feng's perspective, it was difficult to see how the enemy troops were mobilizing, but with flying eagles over the battlefield, the changes in the entire battlefield were immediately clear.

"The left army retreated one hundred steps back, the front army moved fifty steps left, the central army moved fifty steps right, the right army moved one hundred steps forward, and the rear army moved fifty steps right."

Pan Feng calmly gave the order. Yan Xing knew very well that he had 20,000 infantry and 20,000 crossbowmen in his hand. Yan Xing would definitely not dare to rush forward. Yan Xing's purpose was to mobilize his formation to move. Only when the soldiers were exhausted would the cavalry enter the gap in the formation.

Even if Yan Xing saw Yan Xing's plan, Pan Feng's formation still had to move. Yan Xing would use the joint of the infantry formation to launch an attack. Therefore, Pan Feng must always block his joint.

If you want to eliminate the junction of the war formation, it is just a big square or circular formation. However, in that case, the attack and defense on the front will not be too strong. When encountering a strong impact force like a cavalry, it is easy to be broken into the hard shell, which is bad.

Yan Xing was not in a hurry, and surrounded the circle slowly, waiting patiently for the opportunity. It was not until Pan Feng's heavy infantry gradually could not keep up with the movement speed of the cavalry and revealed increasingly larger flaws that Yan Xing sounded the horn and launched the assault.

"Send a signal. Let the cavalry attack!"

"The crossbowmen shoot and move out of the periphery, and the heavy infantry defends on the spot!"

"kill!"

Pan Feng's trap comes at a cost, and this cost is the crossbow soldiers in the formation. Although Pan Feng tried his best to command the crossbow soldiers to get out of the impact of the cavalry, the losses were still heavy. Yan Xing, who rushed into the battle formation, suddenly discovered that the heavy infantry quickly gathered on the periphery, trying to trap himself in the formation!

"Keep the formation! Don't disperse! Follow me!"

Yan Xing gritted his teeth, waved the spear in his hand and assassinated frantically, and straightened out a straight passage in the enemy formation. He tore a bloody path from west to east, and Yan Xing, who desperately came out of Pan Feng's battle formation, had not had time to be glad, but what was coming towards him was Pan Feng's cavalry.

"kill!"

At this time, Yan Xing had no choice at all. He turned to the truth and was looking for death, so he could only rush over with his teeth.

Before Pan Feng could be happy for his successful ambush of Yan Xing, a large number of cavalry appeared from the west. The infantry formation that had been chasing by Yan Xing had no time to reorganize. The enemy's cavalry rushed to the front of him!

It's Liang Xing!

Liang Xing's cavalry rushed into Pan Feng's infantry, and specifically looked for crossbow soldiers to chase them, driving them away the barely formed heavy infantry formation. Then the iron hooves of the war horses crazily flattened the heavy infantry that dispersed the formation, causing greater chaos to Pan Feng's battle formation.

Yan Xing rushed past Pan Feng's cavalry. Yan Xing, who was covered in blood, looked back and saw that his cavalry had basically been broken, but Pan Feng's cavalry was not necessarily good. Yan Xing then circled left and right with the remaining soldiers to the periphery, chasing the scattered infantry while avoiding the pursuit of the enemy cavalry team.

More than half an hour later, Cheng Gongying's cavalry also arrived at the battlefield. Although Cheng Gongying's cavalry's horse horse was not strong enough, Cheng Gongying immediately entered the battle and immediately completely destroyed Pan Feng's army, who was still resisting. The defeated army attempted to rush back to the city, but the defenders on the city did not dare to open the door. In the end, these defeated soldiers were either shot to death or surrendered.

Pan Feng's personal guard saw the opportunity early and took Pan Feng around the south gate to retreat to the city early, but Cheng Gongying then besieged the city. Although Pan Feng, who had lost his main force, had a strong fight, his morale and combat power were much worse. At night, Pingyang finally lost.

Pan Feng took advantage of the darkness to escape and retreated to Ren Ping. However, Pingyang's defeat destroyed the defense line that Yuan Shao had finally set up again. The people gathered in Pingyang City, as well as various combat supplies and food piled up in the warehouse, all fell into Han Sui's hands this time.

‘Click!’

The long sword in Yuan Shao's hand cut off the map frame in front of him with one knife and two swords. Yuan Shao, who was still unsatisfied, glanced at everyone's faces with blood-red eyes. Everyone couldn't help but tremble, and his eyes quickly avoided Yuan Shao's sharp gaze.

"It's useless to be upset at first, so now I'd better think about how to clean up the situation!"

"Pan Feng is incompetent, and should be severely punished!" Guo Tu's statement made everyone feel terrified, but they all agreed, especially Han Fu's subordinates were unwilling to be supportive of others and severely punished Pan Feng!

Hearing everyone's condemnation of Pan Feng, Yuan Shao calmed down instead: "This official has his own opinions, let's talk about how to deal with the current situation first."

"Benchu, is Han Sui now occupying Pingyang and not leaving, or is he transporting Pingyang's things and population to Dunqiu?"

"It's been transported to Dunqiu! Pingyang only has troops stationed!"

"Hmph! Smart! Han Sui's troops are limited, so he tried not to disperse his troops. After all, Han Sui still focused on harassment. It is not a big deal to lose a Pingyang. As long as he is in Renping, Liaocheng will reorganize the defense line. The trouble is that because of the insufficient cavalry of our army, there is no way to effectively stop Han Sui's destruction. Now restricting Han Sui's actions is his own logistics line. If you want to change this situation, you can only turn the defense into offense, take the initiative to attack Dunqiu and Dangyin, and destroy Han Sui's logistics support point. Otherwise, this passive situation will continue, and even affect the spring plow next year, and affect your reputation in the beginning!"

"Reverse defense is an offensive, but if we gather our forces to attack south, it is difficult to guarantee that Han Sui will not take the opportunity to go north to invade the empty rear."

Xun Chen said with great concern, and this statement also received a lot of approval.

"As long as you take back Dangyin and Dunqiu and defeat the source of Han Sui's attack, why should Han Sui be entrenched in the hinterland of our army? If you are afraid of smashing bottles and jars, you will be able to do nothing!"

"But"

But to put it simply, it turns out that Han Sui didn't kill Xu You's relatives, and he stole Xu You's wealth and land! (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!