It turned out that Cao Cao had already thought that Liu Bei might send troops to fight, and also thought that Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others were too brave. Especially after hearing about Cao Ren and Xiahou Dun's victory over Guan Yu, he decided to still use their reinforcement method.

Let Xu Huang and Wen Chou each lead 5,000 men and prepare in the North City and South City. When the enemy troops in the city go out to fight, they can start to rush towards the West City.

When the time comes, they will appear behind the enemy soldiers, cut off the enemy soldiers' retreat route back to the city, and destroy all the enemy soldiers leaving the city.

"Prepare for war."

Cao Cao gave another order.

At this time, the general in the front line was Lu Qian, commanding five thousand soldiers and horses.

Cao Cao established his own central formation, which was divided into left, center and right. There were 5,000 soldiers on each side. Cao Cao's central army had 10,000 soldiers, and another 5,000 soldiers served as rear troops to guard against any ambush by the enemy.

Appear later.

After all, Zhou Wen'an has always been good at setting up ambushes.

"Hey, Zhang Fei is out too!"

After forming a formation on the opposite side, Guo Jia seemed a little surprised when he saw Zhang Fei.

"Haha, Liu Bei asked Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to fight at the same time, which shows that he is determined to win this battle." Cao Cao smiled and said, "That's good. If we can win this battle, Xiapi will be ours."

"Liu Bei wants to decide victory or defeat in one battle! Zhou Wen'an is definitely not such a person!" Guo Jia was puzzled. "With Liu Bei's power, the best strategy is to hold on to the city at this time. Even if he goes to war, he will not be able to win."

They shouldn’t send out so many troops and let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei go out to fight at the same time. Do they have the confidence to win?"

Cao Cao laughed again and said: "Haha, Fengxiao is too worried. Liu Bei is eager to repel us, so of course he will use all his elites."

"My lord, don't underestimate your enemy; beware of deceit."

"Filial piety can make you feel at ease, and you can only have the confidence to win."

Liu Bei and Zhou Ping stood on the city and watched, seeing Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Gan Ning already forming their troops.

Guan Yu divided his 10,000 men into front and rear formations. He and Gan Ning led 5,000 men in the front formation, and Zhang Fei led 5,000 men in the rear formation.

Zhou Ping stood silently, always feeling that this battle was too risky.

Although Cao Cao does not have many strong generals around him now, he has many soldiers and horses, and he mainly relies on soldiers to fight, so the role of strong generals has become smaller.

Ten thousand men and horses will soon get mixed up with the enemy soldiers after engaging in battle. If they do not have an absolute advantage, it will be difficult to retreat.

But it's different with a thousand men. After attacking, they can retreat before the enemy soldiers can react.

Just like Niu Jin led 300 men to attack Zhou Yu's forward troops in Jiangling, and Zhang Liao led 800 men to attack Sun Quan's tens of thousands of troops in Hefei.

Liu Bei was actually very worried, worried that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei would be defeated.

The two of them are the most prestigious in the army. If even they are defeated, the soldiers in the city will lose all hope of victory.

With the enemy's army surrounding the city on all sides, morale is particularly important.

Mi Zhu, Zhuge Jin and others also looked nervously outside the city.

"Sir, sir..."

Liu Bei called out twice before Zhou Ping reacted.

"Lord."

"Why are you so nervous, sir? With Yunchang and Yide here, and Xingba helping you, are you still afraid that you won't be able to defeat Cao Cao?" Liu Bei asked with a smile.

Zhou Ping smiled softly: "No, Yun Chang and Yide Xingba are both fierce generals. If they fight Cao Cao's 30,000 troops, they should be victorious. What Ping is worried about is whether Cao Cao will call reinforcements from elsewhere?"

"

Liu Bei looked into the distance: "Cao Cao's soldiers and horses have surrounded the city on all sides. Zhang Xiu's soldiers and horses in Nanyang have only reached Pengcheng at this time. How can he get reinforcements?"

"What if he sends reinforcements from the north and south? The defeat of Yunchang Pengcheng was precisely because Cao Ren led his troops to suddenly attack from the side. At this time, we have few soldiers and are already weak. If the enemy has reinforcements during the battle, we will only

I'm afraid that the troops outside the city will be confused!" Zhou Ping thought of Guan Yu's defeat in Pengcheng.

Liu Bei also thought about it seriously at this time.

Indeed, if the two sides are fighting fiercely and the other side suddenly arrives with troops and horses for reinforcements, their side will be frightened and may very well be defeated.

"If this is really the case, how should we deal with it?" Liu Bei became more and more frightened as he thought about it, and asked urgently.

Zhou Ping thought for a while and replied: "We can have a thousand troops from each of the southeast, north and south, and put them under the command of Zhong Kang. If the enemy really has reinforcements, they can also go out of the city to help and block the enemy's reinforcements to stabilize the morale of our army.

"

Now that there are no remaining troops in the city, we can only mobilize one thousand troops from each of the remaining three sides, leaving four thousand troops each to defend the city. Xu Chu was also asked to go down to the city to take command, and at the same time pay attention to the movements of the enemy troops on the other three sides, especially

It's the north and south sides.

After finishing his instructions, Liu Bei looked outside the city again.

At this time, the drums were beating, Guan Yu's long beard was fluttering, his eyes were glaring, he raised the Qinglong Yanyue Sword and pointed forward, shouting: "Advance the troops and kill the enemy!"

He clapped his horse and rushed forward. Gan Ning, unwilling to lag behind, followed suit and rushed forward, followed by the five thousand soldiers in the front line.

Five thousand soldiers and horses led by Zhang Fei also followed behind.
Chapter completed!