Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 265 Liu Cao's soldiers battle Luoyang ([-])
"Liu Bei dares to attack my army?" Cao Cao was also slightly taken aback for Zhang Fei and the others, who valued the aggressive approach.Although Liu Bei is more courageous, his fighting style has always been conservative.In the last battle in Xuchang, Guan Yu was used as a bait to hold back his own army. The [-] Jingzhou infantry dragged the tiger and leopard riders into the quagmire of positional warfare at the cost of nearly half of the casualties, and then dared to fight themselves. Down.Now that he is rushing forward for a decisive battle in such a hurry, is he so confident in the fighting power of his army?
The answer is yes.But what Cao Cao didn't expect was that Liu Bei didn't dare to be so confident at first, and he was still planning to use the strategy of defense and counterattack.The reason why he has the courage to do this now is because Zhang Liao's words emboldened him when discussing the military situation last night.

"Although Cao Cao sent more than 15 troops to attack, but in the previous battle of Xuchang and Dongjun, plus the battle of Guanlong, Cao's army was wiped out and captured no less than [-]. Today's Cao soldiers, of which a considerable part They are all newly recruited recruits. No matter how well he trains, Cao Cao has not experienced any battles in these years. These recruits may not be bad in combat, but they are extremely lacking in experience. Therefore, Liao boldly advises that tomorrow will be a battle. If we can make a frontal assault, we will definitely defeat Cao Jun in one fell swoop!" Zhang Liao remonstrated carefully, and Liu Bei and the others were also thoughtful after hearing this.

"Wen Yuan's words are true, but Cao Jun is also a rare elite in the world. It is not easy to challenge him head-on. I wonder which general is willing to go?" Liu Bei thought for a long time, and finally agreed with Zhang Liao's suggestion.As for the task of leading people to fight head-on, Zhang Fei took it away in the end.Zhang Liao and Ma Dai, as Liu Bei's most proficient cavalry commanders, led the Fengyun Cavalry and Xiliang Iron Cavalry to cruise around, looking for fighters.

"King Wei, wait for me to charge head-on with the tiger and leopard cavalry and defeat Liu Bei's infantry!" Cao Zhen, the new commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry, hurriedly stepped forward to remonstrate with Cao Cao who sent his infantry to fight against them.Cao Cao didn't answer him, just shook his head slightly, and then pointed at Liu Bei's cavalry army cruising in the distance.This is also one of Liu Bei's courageous capitals. Under the premise that Xia Houyuan in Guanzhong does not participate in the war, Liu Bei still has a slight advantage in cavalry alone.Cao Cao knew that as long as he dared to send tiger and leopard cavalry now, Liu Bei would forcefully charge his central army with Xiliang iron cavalry, and he would be quite passive at that time.Unanimously, both Liu Bei and Cao Cao regarded their cavalry as the last trump card, and they would never use this trump card lightly until the final moment of the battle.

"Pikemen, get stabbed!" Seeing Cao Jun's soldiers getting closer, Zhang Fei suddenly roared and gave an order.After yelling this sentence, thousands of pikemen behind him suddenly changed their formation. They held war guns more than one foot long and quickly assembled their formation. The people in the first row squatted down, and the second row held their war guns. Waiting for Cao Jun to bump into him, he took the initiative to rush and stab.However, Zhang Fei led his troops at this time, and in the short period of time before the two armies were about to contact, they withdrew to the two wings, and then formed a front arrow formation, piercing Cao Jun's infantry from both sides.This instant change of formation fully reflected Zhang Fei's commanding ability and Liu Jun's orders and prohibitions.

"Kill!" It was General Cao Jun who directly confronted Zhang Fei.Not daring to touch Zhang Fei head-on, Yu Ban ordered people to attack the spear camp that remained in place.But unexpectedly, this time he hit the iron board again.

These four thousand spearmen are the elite selected by Gao Lan from the Danyang soldiers.The long spear formation they formed is the sharpest arrow in the front arrow formation.The first row is stabbing, the second row is collecting guns, and when the second row is stabbing, the third row has already started preparations.Three rows in a row, each row of 1000 people, form a strangulation spear formation that works continuously, and the last 1000 people are ready to fill the vacancy at any time.In order to protect these precious pikemen, Zhang Fei specially equipped them with high-quality armor to strengthen their defenses. At the same time, not only did Liu Pan lead the infantry to protect the two sides of the pikemen, but even the cavalry cruising around would come to pay attention at any time.At the same time, Zhang Fei himself led his army to attack the enemy's flank to contain the enemy's impact.Under his well-distributed command, all arms cooperate tacitly in order to obtain the most effective display of combat power.

"What a powerful strangling formation!" Looking at the long spears that stabbed out and retracted mechanically, continuously harvesting the lives of Cao Jun, even Jia Xu, who has always been indifferent to life and death, couldn't help being moved.Such a sharp strangling lineup is simply a naked killing machine.How can we break through the defense of this long spear strangling formation?Cao Cao didn't speak, but seeing Yu Jin who was trying his best to command the army forward, a trace of regret appeared in his heart.

Yu Jin shouldn't be allowed to command the Chinese army, Cao Cao thought to himself.This kind of statement may be a little underestimated, but Cao Cao knew that he had made a small mistake.In fact, in most cases, Yu Jin is a good general.In terms of on-the-spot response and proper command, he is not inferior to Zhang Fei or Zhang Liao.But he has a fatal weakness: fear of death.

Therefore, although Yu Jin was trying his best to direct, he never dared to go up and challenge Zhang Fei face to face.In the era of cold weapons, the most direct result of generals' avoidance of battle was that the morale of Cao's army was somewhat low.At least, Cao Jun's morale was indeed not very good on the narrow battlefield where he was competing with Zhang Fei.The only plan for now is to rely on the soldiers from other places to make up for the losses caused by the ban.

"Hey!" The big ax blocked the Jiufeng Chaoyang Knife, Xu Huang was already out of breath, but Huang Zhong on the opposite side was still calm and composed.Holding the big ax in his hand, Xu Huang could clearly feel that his hands were trembling a little.

On the side of the right army, Xu Huang faced Huang Zhong.Xu Huang knew that Huang Zhong's arrow skills were excellent, if he didn't fight him in close quarters, he might be assassinated by an arrow at some point.As soon as they fought, Xu Huang took the initiative to pull Huang Zhong into a close fight.I thought that the other party was old and weak, even if he was skilled in swordsmanship and archery, his energy was not as good as his own in his prime.Unexpectedly, this Huang Zhongshi is a strange person born in the world. Although he is old, he is vigorous and vigorous, but he is not inferior to young people.The two fought for more than 50 rounds, but Xu Huang lost some strength.

Behind him, his right army of more than 4 infantry was fighting fiercely with Huang Zhong's [-] Changsha soldiers and thousands of Wudang flying troops.In terms of combat effectiveness, Xu Huang's soldiers are by no means inferior to Changsha soldiers, but the addition of Wudang Feijun broke the balance of the battle.Under the leadership of Sha Moke, this elite soldier from Wuxi was covered in oil paint all over his body, like ghosts on the battlefield, skillfully stabbing the weapons in his hands into their bodies through the gaps exposed between the opponent's moves .

"Wenhe, what kind of military horse is this, why is it so weird?" Cao Cao couldn't help being moved when he saw the Wudang Feijun who killed people as easily as killing chickens, and quickly asked Jia Xu, who was in charge of intelligence.Jia Xu looked at it carefully for a while, and then said softly: "I have heard that Zhao Botao used to recruit Shanyue, Wuxi barbarians and Nanzhong barbarians into five armies, known as the Wudang Flying Army. He is extremely vigorous and brave. , I think it’s them.”

"Won't be a flying army? Zhao Botao is thoughtful, and actually incorporated these barbarians into the army!" Cao Cao didn't know what he was thinking, and said to himself.But he forgot that he also formed an army of Xianbei people in northern Xinjiang, this kind of thing is not Zhao Feng's patent.He even didn't expect that not long ago in Hanzhong, another brother of his clan was slapped by the Unprecedented Flying Army again.

"This savage, what strength!" Cao Xiu's weapon almost flew away after receiving Sha Moke's barbed thorn Guduo.Sha Moke's moves are so wide open and closed, and Cao Xiu's martial arts have not reached the point where he can break through thousands of strength with cleverness, so he is extremely passive now.In fact, in terms of martial arts Samoke is only slightly stronger than Zhou Cang, but Cao Xiu was obviously shocked by his unkempt appearance. After the battle, he did lack courage, but he didn't realize it.

"Wen Lie be careful!" Seeing that Cao Xiu was a little bit unstoppable, his cousin, Captain Xia Houba hurried forward to take a move.The two cousins ​​joined forces to fight Samoko, Wudang Flying Army could not allow them to bully the few with more, and the school captain Fu Tong also hurriedly stepped forward to stop the fight.But on the whole, Liu Jun also has a slight upper hand on the Youjun side.

Only on Zuo Jun's side, Zhang Jaw had a slight advantage when facing Wen Pin.This famous general, one of the four court pillars in Hebei, took his fierce two thousand euphorbia soldiers as the vanguard, and the Jingzhou army that killed Wenpin was hard to parry for a while.Fortunately, Ma Dai led the army to give some support from time to time, otherwise, Wenpin might have been defeated by this time.Although the two thousand euphorbia soldiers could not do anything to the cavalry, they had a very obvious advantage in the face of the ordinary infantry led by Wenpin.

"Damn it, being an old man is easy to bully?" Wen Pin also cursed in a low voice when he hacked to death an enemy soldier.In other places in the audience, Liu Jun did not lose the wind, but he was dragging his feet here, which really hurt people's self-esteem.And Liu Bei and Cao Cao, who were watching the battle from a distance, also saw that if Wenpin couldn't hold on first, then Liu Bei would die today; if Yu Jin and Xu Huang couldn't hold on first, then Cao Cao would be in danger today.

1:2, theoretically Liu Bei has the advantage.But Cao Cao is Cao Cao, and he will never be willing to be defeated by theory.After seeing the situation clearly, Cao Cao immediately arranged countermeasures. "Ziwen, Zidan, and I lead the tigers and leopards to ride, and go to help Junyi defeat Wenpin and Liu Pan!" Cao Cao quickly issued an attack command.At this time, Zhang Jaw had firmly gained the upper hand, but Ma Dai, who was in charge of restraining him, was unable to return in time because he wanted to gather and annihilate some of Yu Jin's infantry who had just left the main battlefield.Cao Cao keenly seized this opportunity, and immediately sent tigers and leopards to ride forward, trying to defeat Wenpin and Liu Pan first in one fell swoop.

In terms of experience, although he has been on the battlefield for a long time, Ma Dai, who is used to chaotic fighting in Xiliang, is still a little less sure of the battle situation than these veterans on the battlefield.

"Father, General Junyi already has the upper hand, why not go and defeat Liu Bei's central army first?" Cao Zhang didn't understand his father's actions, so he put forward his own opinion before setting off.Cao Cao smiled slightly when he heard the words, and just said: "Ziwen, on the battlefield, it is not about the gains and losses of a city or a place, but the overall situation, understand?"

"The child will understand!" After Cao Zhang said this, he hurriedly led his army to catch up with Cao Zhen who had already left, and went straight to kill the left army.

Seeing Cao Cao's move, Liu Bei laughed, and Pang Tong also laughed.

(End of this chapter)