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Chapter 2745 Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei under the walls of Ye City!
Cao Zhen led an army of 50,000, clearly preparing for a desperate counterattack. Back then, Xiang Yu's victory at the Battle of the Water directly turned the tide of the war. Although Cao Zhen was not as good as Xiang Yu, he could still take a big bite out of the Han Dynasty when he was about to die.

Without Wang Yue's plan, even if Cao Zhen were captured, the Han Dynasty would probably lose 50,000 to 60,000 men, and some of them would escape.

However, the Han Dynasty has only suffered five or six thousand casualties so far, most of which were injured or killed when Cao Zheng and a few fierce generals led their troops to break through the encirclement.

If we calculate it this way, the Han Dynasty actually saved 30,000 to 40,000 elite soldiers in one battle, so overall it still made a profit.

Therefore, Liu Bei accepted this method of warfare that relied on money, and naturally trusted Wang Yue's abilities even more.

After all, these stones and the improved catapults were supplied by the Bandit Suppression Command, and the money consumed was also from the Bandit Suppression Command.

Liu Bei also sighed, thankfully it was Guan Yinping who saved Wang Yue, the Han Dynasty is indeed destined to prosper!
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The battle to eliminate Cao Zhen had ended, but Liu Bei sent Wang Yue as reinforcements, while he himself went to Ye City with Zhang Fei.

Liu Bei felt that the final battle to unify the world should be fought by all three brothers together, and as for the younger generation, they could just help them hold off the reinforcements.

Moreover, Liu Bei felt that with such a large number of troops and catapults, he had never fought such a well-funded battle before.

He was also very confident that he could end this chaotic world together with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei!
When Wang Yue received the order, he immediately understood his role. He had no intention of competing with Liu Bei for credit, after all, his achievements were already great enough.

Wang Yue arrived in Chaoge, saw Fa Zheng off, and without hesitation began to mobilize more laborers from the vicinity of Chaoge to dig pits according to his requirements.

These pits appeared in specific locations in Chaoge City according to a pattern, which was actually to guard against cavalry.

As long as the cavalry is prevented from quickly approaching Chaoge, Wang Yue's strategy of using catapults and arrows to overwhelm the reinforcements coming from Luoyang and Guanzhong will surely be able to withstand them.

While Wang Yue was setting up defenses, Liu Bei also rushed to the outskirts of Ye City. At the same time, news of the siege of Ye City was also spread to other parts of Wei.

Therefore, the first wave of reinforcements from Wei came from Cao Ren, who had arranged the defenses of Luoyang and led an army of 20,000, including 5,000 cavalry, to quickly prepare to defend the king.

Meanwhile, Cao Xiu, who replaced Xiahou Dun in Guanzhong, immediately gathered 30,000 troops and rushed towards Ye City.

However, Cao Xiu was far away and much slower, so Cao Ren, who arrived first, encountered Wang Yue first.

Thus, Cao Ren also witnessed Wang Yue's strategy of throwing money at the enemy. The overwhelming amount of stones and arrows made it impossible for Cao Ren to even get close to Chaoge City.

In order to urgently rescue Ye City, Cao Ren had no choice but to leave Xu Huang with several thousand men to keep an eye on Chaoge, while he led the rest of his troops to Ye City.

However, Cao Ren wanted to leave, but Wang Yue would not let him go, and instead launched an attack on Xu Huang's army.

Xu Huang's archers couldn't hit him at all and could only retreat. Then he turned around and slowly approached Cao Ren's army. He was only on guard against Wang Yue's pursuit and had no intention of fighting Wang Yue.

Wang Yue had long been on guard against reinforcements, anticipating that they would leave without engaging him, and he had also calculated Cao Ren's intended route of advance. Therefore, as Cao Ren was on his way, wanting to quickly pass through the Chaoge area, he didn't expect that just as he approached a grove of trees, a hail of arrows would rain down from the forest.

After Cao Ren's army was caught off guard and lost over a thousand men, it slowly regained its formation. Then, a white-horse general stood in the center of the official road, and two or three thousand cavalrymen quickly gathered behind him.

Upon seeing this, Cao Ren did not hesitate to send his five thousand elite cavalrymen towards Zhao Yun's direction.

However, Zhao Yun unusually did not lead his troops to meet the enemy directly. Instead, he commanded his cavalry to circle around Cao Ren's army from the flanks through the woods.

The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry changed direction without hesitation, believing that the enemy was afraid of them and had chosen to avoid their sharp edge.

What the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry didn't expect was that as soon as they turned around, before they had even run a short distance, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry at the forefront fell to the ground one after another, and their warhorses neighed incessantly.

The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry had no idea what was going on. Why were people suddenly falling down? Then, after the cavalrymen who hadn't stepped into the pit had charged forward a short distance, they too fell down.

It was only at this point that the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry realized that there were pits in the ground, and floating grass had been specially arranged to make it impossible for them, the cavalry, to pass through smoothly.

The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry realized they were in deep trouble and immediately tried to retreat. However, Zhao Yun took advantage of the chaos in their formation, circled around, and attacked right behind them.

With Zhao Yun as the spearhead, the power of these cavalrymen increased several times. Although the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry were the elite among cavalry, they were still no match for them and were easily pierced in two, unable to defend both ends.

After Zhao Yun broke through the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, he continued to lead his cavalry in circles, killing the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry at the rear, completely ignoring the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry in front who were unable to form a proper formation.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the spearmen in the woods, protected by shieldmen, strode quickly toward the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

If the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry were in action, these infantry formations would have no effect on them at all. But now the cavalry can only be turned into infantry. Faced with this method of warfare, they have no power to resist and can only face slaughter.

Seeing the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry fall one by one, Cao Ren felt his heart bleed with pain and could no longer care about rescuing Ye City.

He understood that if they couldn't defeat this force blocking their way, they wouldn't be able to provide support, and they might even die here.

However, just as Cao Ren was preparing to besiege Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, who was covering the rear, was subjected to continuous attacks from boulders.

Although the number of boulders was far less than the number used in the previous sieges south of the Yellow River, and even their size was smaller, they still managed to disrupt Xu Huang's army formation.

Taking advantage of the chaos in Xu Huang's army, Wang Yue's remaining soldiers immediately went to engage the enemy. With well-coordinated archers and catapults, they began to cut off the enemy's lines, aiming to create a situation where they outnumbered the enemy in certain areas.

Wang Yue commanded a pursuing force of 2 men, while Xu Huang originally only had a few thousand. After being cut in two, the men at the forefront each had to fight ten men.

When one's fists are no match for four hands, they only managed to hold off Wang Yue for a quarter of an hour before being completely annihilated.

(End of this chapter)