Overlord!

As the ground trembled and the mountains shook, the wind and clouds changed color.

As Cao Jun's scouts let out a shrill scream, the hearts of countless soldiers trembled like hanging flags.

Everyone looked back and saw in the distance, the sky was crimson with red flags, and the sun was blocked by flags. The Song army's iron cavalry, in red robes and black armor, was like a sudden storm and thunder.

Tens of thousands of elite black armor cavalry, their armor shines brightly in the sun, their swords and spears reflect the frost, thousands of horses are silent, and the sound of hoofbeats shakes the sky. Its momentum is like a mountain collapsing and the earth cracking, and stars flowing in and out.

Cao's army, which was in the process of marching, had no time to form a defensive formation. Moreover, since ancient times, the cavalry has been dispersed and the steps should be coordinated. It is also a scale of more than 10,000 people. The majestic momentum of tens of thousands of cavalry is several times larger than that of infantry.

Cao Jun looked around and saw enemy cavalry all over the mountains and plains, sweeping in from the entire rear!

Compared with this majestic momentum, the scale of Cao's army was extremely small.

Many soldiers were unable to judge the situation. They only thought that the main force of the Song Army, hundreds of thousands of people, had arrived, and some of them immediately collapsed at the sight of the wind.

This is also very normal. The cost of raising tens of thousands of elite black armor cavalry may be more than one hundred thousand infantry.

In the flat wilderness of Yanzhou, more than 10,000 infantrymen encountered more than 10,000 elite cavalry. How could they withstand it?

It is normal to feel fear and shock. When the infantry saw this majestic momentum, they had no choice but to flee without wanting to die in vain.

Not every army can fight to the death for a day in the face of the impact of tens of thousands of cavalry with thousands of troops.

The kind of infantry that can hold its position, fight until exhausted, and then be attacked by waves of enemy cavalry, and finally return in defeat, even if they are defeated, they are definitely the elite of a dynasty.

Obviously, Cao Jun's infantry was not. Their drums were messy, their orders were inconsistent, and the soldiers' faces were earth-colored, and they were frightened.

Without strong incentives, the defeat of this army would be imminent.

At this time, the significance of the existence of strong generals is revealed.

Xu Chu was extremely powerful. Although he faced the sudden attack of tens of thousands of Song army cavalry, he was still roaring with fierceness. His beard and hair were spread out, he personally carried the spear, and rode his horse in front of the military formation, roaring like thunder.

"Stand still, don't panic! If you stand firm, the enemy will be helpless."

While calming the morale of the troops, he ordered the cavalry general Wen Ji: "You lead the cavalry to delay the enemy and buy time for our infantry to form their formation."

Xu Chu's plan can be regarded as the art of war. If Wen Ji had the kind of bravery like his grandson Wen Yang, he might not be able to accomplish extraordinary feats.

Sima Shi once ordered his most trusted Zuo Chang Shi Sima Ban to lead the Eight Thousand Wings of Xiaoqi to pursue Wen Yang's return. If Wenyang doesn't break his momentum first, he won't be able to return. Using a horse to enter thousands of riders, it often kills and injures more than a hundred people before it comes out. There are only six or seven like this, and no chasing horse dares to force them.

If Wen Ji could kill seven in and seven out among the tens of thousands of Song army's cavalry, he would not only buy time for Xu Chu to form the formation, but he could even destroy the front line formation and block the Song army's pursuit.

It's a pity that Wen Ji faced the most capable generals and soldiers of the Song army who were good at fighting.

Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, Chen Wu and other generals all held up their spears and leaped on their horses, marching forward in an indomitable manner.

Wen Ji was also known as a brave general in Cao's army and was renowned for his bravery in the army. After Xu Chu's order, he immediately led hundreds of horses out of the camp to fight, hoping to delay the Song army's momentum with all his strength.

When the two armies met, Wen Ji, wearing armor and holding a spear, took the lead, followed by others on his left and right, fighting bravely to kill the enemy.

However, the Song army's cavalry was well-trained, their armor was strong, their troops were powerful, and their numbers were large, making them unstoppable.

The moment they met, more than ten cavalrymen of Cao's army were stabbed off their horses. At this time, General Zhang Liao of the Song army rushed out and took Wenji directly.

Zhang Liao was the most brave general in the Song army. He roared and thrust out his halberd, which instantly made Wen Ji's blocking arms tremble. The next moment, Zhang Liao took advantage of the momentum and attacked fiercely, piercing Wen Ji's chest with his halberd and killing him. Knocked off the horse.

Cao Cao's cavalrymen were all frightened by this shocking scene. Their most valiant general, the cavalryman Wen Ji, known as a brave general, couldn't even block a single blow from his opponent?

The frightened soldiers immediately fled one after another. When the cavalry saw that their general had fallen from their horses, their morale was greatly depressed and they had no intention of fighting again. Instead of delaying the Song army's offensive, they staged a scene and collapsed when they encountered the enemy!

In any army, cavalry is the elite of the army. The cavalry collapsed when they encountered the enemy, and the infantry who were reorganizing their formation broke up and fled.

The charge of the Song Army's cavalry was unstoppable. In a short while, the Song cavalry had rushed to the front of the formation, with spears thick and cold light threatening. Cao's army was like a lamb meeting a fierce tiger, and could only let it be slaughtered, and howled across the land.

The Song generals were so brave that they were invincible and disintegrated wherever their cavalry passed.

There is no doubt about the outcome of the war. Cao Jun was suddenly unprepared. Facing this sudden attack, they could only respond hastily. The charging speed of the Song Army's cavalry was too fast and the impact was too strong. Cao Jun's formation was shattered to pieces in an instant.

After only an hour of fighting, Cao's army was completely defeated and had no fighting spirit. The soldiers fled or surrendered, and no longer formed an army. The Song cavalry chased for more than 20 miles, and as if they were in a deserted area, they beheaded more than 3,000 people and captured more than 4,000 people. Xu Chu only escaped with his own life!

In this battle, the Song army moved quickly, was powerful, deployed properly, and was determined to fight, so the results were very impressive.

In one battle, they completely defeated Cao's army, captured all of them, and returned to Guangzong.

Since the beginning of the war, Cao Cao's advantage of being unprepared has been completely lost, and he can only be blocked under Guangzong's walls.

In Guangzong City, the generals on both sides were particularly confused.

As the commander-in-chief, Zhuge Liang stood on the top of the city and could clearly see the flags of the enemy troops flying below the city. Cao Jun's general Guan Yu was showing off his power below the city.

All the generals gritted their teeth and wanted to challenge Zhuge Liang to fight.

So Zhuge Liang led his soldiers to the city head. He stared at the distant view of the capital covered by weeds and said: "How many storms have gathered in Guangzong City since the end of the Han Dynasty? Since the chaos broke out in Zhangjiao, troops gathered in Guangzong, and were captured by Huangfu Song. Defeat, he built a capital to guard the world, in an attempt to stop rebellion and control the chaos, but it ushered in troubled times. When Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan clashed on the bridge outside the city, the heroes began to separate themselves. Perhaps under Guangzong City, this troubled world of disputes will finally be ended."

And this is what countless soldiers all over the city are thinking about.

Is there really God's will in the dark?

The troubled times started in Guangzong, and twenty years later, they came to an end in Guangzong.

As long as the Song army defeats Cao's army in this battle, no one in the world can stop Song Gong from unifying the world.

Even after defeating Cao's army, Song Gong could ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

Although the generals in Guanzhong have not been defeated, Wuhuan in three counties has not yet been expelled, and a corner of Shu has not surrendered.

However, these are all three-sided lands and can no longer affect the situation in the Central Plains. As long as the Central Plains completes the transformation of the Yuan Dynasty, it will inevitably clear away the separatist regimes, expand externally, and eliminate foreign aggression.

The remaining forces are all illustrious martial arts that will be wiped out one by one in the next few decades by the new dynasty.

Generals like Guanzhong and Liu Zhang may be mentioned in history books in just one sentence.

However, how to expand the territory, how to defeat the Xianbei, Xiongnu, Wuhuan, and Goguryeo in the north, and how to reopen the Western Regions may be written down a few times. Because it is difficult to eliminate these border troubles overnight, and it will take several years of preparation.

While Zhuge Liang was meditating, Xu Huang, the general following him, said: "Guan Yu is so arrogant that he has encircled the city with a large number of troops. This is because he has lost his spirit. Someone thought that he could enter his siege and defeated it in one battle, and then drove straight in. It will definitely be a success."

Lu Meng also nodded slightly and said: "Guan Yu is proud of his bravery, arrogance and ambition, so he will be unprepared for attack. Now that his main force is defeated, he will be suddenly unable to defend himself."

Regarding Xu Huang and Lu Meng's suggestions, Zhuge Liang shook his head slightly and said: "The Duke of Song Dynasty has sent three armies to us now because he wants to complete his achievements in one battle. We must be cautious and not rush to raise troops."

Zhuge Liang also admitted that Xu Huangyi's strategy of marching straight in had its merits.

Guan Yu defeated the Song army several times in a row. He was arrogant and wanted to attack with all his strength, but he may not be very careful on the defensive line.

It is not impossible for the Song army's generals to defeat more than 10,000 of Guan Yu's elite troops in one battle, and then defeat the main force and return, and then attack with a large army, pulling out more than ten battalions in a row, and achieving a long-distance advance.

But Zhuge Liang thought this was completely unnecessary. At this time, he didn't care at all what others thought about him, whether he was a leader in military affairs and a mastermind in a clever way.

Now he can rely on national power to kill Cao Cao and Guan Yu. As long as he can't hold on, the enemy will be defeated.

So Zhuge Liang also said to everyone: "In such a crucial battle, whether to advance or retreat, we must respond carefully. Liang sent a letter to Jiankang and asked Song Gong for a battle."

Needless to say, the generals and commanders in the city all know what it means to fight thousands of miles away.

Zhuge Liang didn't want to directly refuse the generals' invitation to fight, so he pushed everything to Jiankang and used Song Gong to suppress the generals.

If Zhuge Liang can defeat the enemy in one battle, why should he travel thousands of miles to fight?

When he marched from Qingzhou to Jizhou and attacked Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, he did not think about whether to be cautious. In a few days, he marched his army for hundreds of miles, fought consecutive battles, destroyed the army and expanded the territory, and was full of ingenuity and changes. Wanfang. It has nothing to do with caution. He was closer to Song Gong at that time, and Song Gong was in Yanzhou, so he didn't even ask for a fight. As a result, now he was waiting in Hebei and Song Gong was in Jiangnan, nearly two thousand miles apart. He suddenly remembered that he had to wait for Song Gong to make a decision!

There is no need to wait for the result, everyone knows that Song Gong's reply must be that he is not allowed to fight.

Since the Duke of Song had entrusted the military affairs of Hebei to Zhuge Liang, Jiankang also knew very well what Zhuge Liang meant by asking for a battle. If he wanted to fight, he would have fought already. Why wait for Jiankang's consent before he attacks?

However, the reply from the messenger came much later than everyone expected.

There is only one reason. In the midsummer of May, while Hebei is experiencing unbearable heat, it also begins to rain heavily!

At the beginning, it was just heavy rain, which made the road condensation, making it difficult for cars and horses to pass.

Cao's army's grain and grass supplies were transported hundreds of miles from Liyang, which was extremely difficult. The carriages and horses were confined to mud pits and could not travel more than twenty miles in a day.

The food and grass that used to be delivered in four or five days are still on the way after ten days have passed.

Cao's army on the front line suddenly ran out of food and grass and had to cut back on supplies.

In order to supply food to the front line, Cao Jun could only brave the heavy rain, recruit strong men from various counties and counties, and organize more batches of food transportation teams.

However, the recruitment of a large number of civilians made Cao Cao's already precarious food supply even worse.

This has almost become the norm for Cao Cao. Cao Cao's wars always seem to be accompanied by the embarrassment of lack of food.

But this kind of thing is not insurmountable. Cao Cao killed a grain official and blamed all the embarrassment of food shortage on the grain official's corruption, which successfully stabilized the morale of the army.

But unfortunately, he opened the granary and was about to destroy the ship, inspiring the soldiers to fight to the death and capture the city.

Continuous heavy rains caused floods in Hebei, and the Qinghe River surged, invading counties and counties, destroying 40,000 official pavilions and houses, and more than 30,000 hectares of farmland!

This flood disaster lasted for three years and became even more severe. From the south of the Yellow River to the north of the Yellow River, and even along the Yishui River in Youzhou, everyone was affected by the floods.

The cities and towns in various places are ruined, the grains of rice are drifting, the people live in trees, and there are no houses for thousands of miles.

Originally, this kind of disaster was not an earth-shattering event. Compared with the cruelty of human beings themselves, natural disasters are still too mild.

Humanity's war disaster has long left Henan and Hebei empty of ten houses.

Especially in Yanzhou, Henan, it was really overgrown with weeds and tigers and leopards were seen. This flood did not even drown many people. On the contrary, the tigers and leopards couldn't even escape by swimming in the water.

Even in Hebei, only more than 30,000 hectares of fertile land were destroyed. This scale is not as prosperous as Wuxian County.

But the problem is that Cao Jun gathered more than 50,000 troops under Guangzong City. They stormed the city and did not expect that a sudden flood would flood the entire army.

Although the walls of Guangzong City were flooded and four walls were lost, the defenders still relied on the city and houses to gain a safer position.

In particular, the Song Army has always had the advantage of the navy. There are more than a hundred warships of the Song Army stationed on the Qinghe River, as well as hundreds of watercrafts that transport grain, grass and baggage back and forth.

The Song Army's walking boats could even drive directly into the city from the gap in the city wall to rescue wounded soldiers and transport military rations and medicinal herbs.

Cao's army outside the city was not so lucky. They moved to high ground and were not flooded, but they were trapped in this corner by the flood.

Cao's army was not only short of food and grass, but also suffered from an outbreak of disease. In just a few days, the number of Cao's troops was reduced by tens of thousands.

What's more important is that they are not gathered in one place, and a military camp of 50,000 people cannot be accommodated on a high slope.

They were scattered on several surrounding highlands, and there were also forts built on nearby commanding heights. But now they were completely separated by floods, and the number of troops at each place ranged from thousands to hundreds.

Cao Cao could only stand on the gate and watch the Song army's naval forces surrounding a place where Cao's army had taken refuge in the distance. Arrows and arrows rained down like arrows. In despair, Cao Cao's army rolled up its flag and fell to the ground, asking for surrender. .

Witnessing this scene with his own eyes, Guan Yu's eyes were split open, he gripped his spear tightly, and said in a solemn and solemn voice: "Is this the result of God's desire to destroy the Han Dynasty?"

Countless soldiers around him looked numb and sad. Compared to God’s will, the manpower gap is even more disappointing.

The commander-in-chief of Cao's army is not a mediocre person who does not know astronomy and geography.

When the summer rain surged in May, Cao Jun had already considered the possibility of encountering floods.

Especially as the heavy rain continued and flooded the three armies, Cao Cao also considered it.

Both he and Guan Yu moved their armies to the highlands in advance and went all out to recruit a number of ships.

But in the face of the overwhelming advantage of the Song Dynasty, all this was simply a fearless struggle.

When the Song army's large navy approached, all resistance of Cao Jun's army seemed weak and pale. All the soldiers looked at Cao Jun's ships. It only took one morning to be led by the Song army's general Lu Meng. A devastating defeat and capture. (End of chapter)