Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 266 Another Secret Weapon

In the last battle between Xuchang and Dongjun, although Cao Cao was successfully defeated.But the terrifying fighting power of the tiger and leopard cavalry also made Liu Beisi horrified.In fact, at the beginning, Liu Bei was a little disapproving of Pang Tong's virtual advance.But whenever he thought of that battle later, Liu Bei was still terrified.Especially in East County.The Fengyun cavalry and the tiger and leopard cavalry met head-to-head, and they lost two thousand cavalry all at once, and were strangled instantly.Even if Liu Bei thought hard enough, he even did not hesitate to recruit Xiliang iron cavalry from the west to help in the battle, and Ma Dai also took advantage of the opponent's underestimation to kill Cao Chun, the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry, but at the end of the day, there were only more than 6000 tiger and leopard cavalry left. Leopard rides.The price Liu Bei paid for it was nearly [-] cavalry.If you count the pawns who died in the tiger and leopard riders in the positional battle, the number will be even more astonishing.

In view of this, this tiger and leopard rider is also a serious problem in Liu Bei's heart.In this battle, Liu Bei gave Pang Tong a death order before the battle, and he must find a way to severely damage or even wipe out the tiger and leopard cavalry.In order to complete this impossible task, Pang Tong thought hard day and night, referring to various classic battles, and finally his hair almost turned gray, so he came up with a unique trick and was going to try it this time.

Now that Cao Cao has dispatched the tiger and leopard cavalry, Liu Bei knows that the time has come.Since Ma Dai can't get away for a while and can't count on it, let Zhang Liao go first.Seeing the semaphore raised by the Chinese army, Zhang Liao knew that the real test was coming.

"Brothers, come with me!" Zhang Liao gave an order, and behind him, the [-] Fengyun Cavalry and Baima Yicong, who had been making soy sauce, followed and stopped the tiger and leopard cavalry on the only way.This time Cao Cao only brought [-] Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, but Fengyun Cavalry had a full [-], plus [-] Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which is almost half of Liu Bei's family property.On the contrary, because Cao Cao still has [-] to [-] Guanzhong fine cavalry that have not been mobilized, and the Hu cavalry army is also being led by Shao to garrison the northern border, so in terms of the number of cavalry alone, Cao Cao is at a disadvantage this time.

Of course, Cao Zhen didn't care about the opponent's numerical advantage at all, because even if the tiger and leopard cavalry faced the cavalry, they were enough to defeat two with one.Only [-] riders more than himself, this advantage in numbers is almost better than nothing in Cao Zhen's eyes.Looking at the cavalry formation formed by the opponent, Cao Zhen had a flash of disdain in his eyes.Cavalry is different from infantry, so what about formation?On the contrary, the advantages of flexibility will not be brought into play.If Zhang Liao rode and shot like before, fighting with him, Cao Zhen would still feel a little headache.But Cao Zhen was also overjoyed to see that his opponent chose to confront him head-on without knowing his life or death.It's just that he still has a doubt in his heart, Zhang Liao is not a person who doesn't understand the art of war, why would he do such an unwise move?
After thinking about it, maybe it was because he was worried that if he intervened in the battle, Wenpin would not be able to hold on. After all, he was already in danger.Cao Zhen's thoughts are long, but they are just a matter of moments.At this time, the tiger and leopard cavalry were only a few hundred steps away from Zhang Liao's cavalry formation.

"Brothers, lock and attack!" Seeing the enemy army getting closer, Zhang Liao suddenly shouted.Following his order, the 500 cavalry behind him each took out two iron chains from their saddles.These iron chains are about eight feet long, with hooks at both ends.After taking out the iron chain, hang the hooks at both ends of the iron chain on the iron ring on his own saddle, and the other end on the iron ring on the saddles of fellow robes on both sides.The whole process lasted only tens of seconds, and all the Fengyun cavalry had been connected into a cavalry chain with [-] people in a row.

"Rush!" Following Zhang Liao's order again, the Fengyun Cavalry launched and charged towards the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.That's right, this is Pang Tong's unique trick: serial horses.

The last time Xuchang besieged Cao Cao, there were hundreds of thousands of Cao soldiers in Hebei, but because they couldn't break through the blockade of the Jingxiang Navy and cross the Yellow River, they almost got soy sauce.Later, if it weren't for Guo Jia's plan before his death, whether Cao Cao could escape from the sky, I'm afraid there would be a big question mark.However, there are gains and losses in everything. While Guo Jia rescued Cao Cao, he also provided Pang Tong with a new idea: serial horses.

The reason why the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry is terrifying lies in its unparalleled impact.In terms of positional warfare ability alone, the Fengyun Cavalry is not inferior to the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.In fact, no matter how good the tigers and leopards are riding horses, no matter how strong the soldiers are, if they really want to wrestle with the Fengyun Cavalry one-on-one, the Fengyun Cavalry is not an opponent one-on-one, but two-on-one should be able to win the opponent .The problem is that group armies do not fight one-on-one or two-on-one. Tiger and leopard cavalry can knock one of you into the air, and then hit the next one. How can you honestly wait for a few of you to hit me?
Since you won't wait, I'll force you to hit me.Under Pang Tong's suggestion, Liu Bei began to build this iron chain chain horse.In fact, Zhao Feng once proposed the prototype of the serial horse.But what he wanted was an armored serial horse. Most of the horses in the Central Plains could not bear the weight of the iron armor, so he was forced to give up.This time Pang Tong told Liu Bei that the armored chain horse was just to enhance the defense.Now that I have removed the iron armor, although the defense has been weakened, it will only appear when facing dense crossbows.Now it is only used to intercept tiger and leopard cavalry, which should be enough.

Of course, in order to verify this point, Pang Tong still conducted several confrontation exercises, accompanied by Ma Dai and his five thousand Xiliang iron cavalry.It turned out that the Xiliang iron cavalry, whose impact force was far greater than that of the Fengyun cavalry, was also stopped in the face of the iron chain chain horse, and even its own formation was confused because of this.Encouraged by this, Liu Bei made up his mind to use iron chains to chain horses to deal with these terrible tiger and leopard riders.

Now Zhang Liao led this group of cavalry, went up and collided with the opponent.Although Cao Zhen was surprised at first, it was too late to change his formation at this time, and he really didn't take the opponent seriously, so he suffered a big loss after the collision.

The Fengyun cavalry in the first row were almost completely smashed by the tiger and leopard cavalry in an instant, and the same was true for the second row.But their sacrifice was not without value.After colliding with a row of Fengyun cavalry, the speed of the tiger and leopard cavalry inevitably gradually slowed down.Finally, after hitting the No.12 row, the formation of the tiger and leopard cavalry was completely chaotic. Many people in the front row were knocked off their horses, and their chaos blocked the advance route of the rear army.Squeezing forward and back, the tiger and leopard riders also became chaotic.

"First row, shoot javelins!" Seeing that the tiger and leopard rider's footsteps were inevitably slowed down, Zhang Liao immediately gave the order to attack.These armored tiger and leopard cavalry, ordinary bows and arrows are only enough to scratch them, so Zhang Liao came up ruthlessly, letting the iron armored chain horses completely surround them, while throwing javelins at them frantically.The sharp tip of the spear pierced the armor of the tiger and leopard cavalry warriors and knocked them off their horses.Cao Zhen didn't care to arrange the formation, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to fight back with bows and arrows, but although the trapped tiger and leopard cavalry could counterattack smoothly, the effect was quite mediocre.At least, compared to Zhang Liao's high-density javelin strikes, he was definitely at a disadvantage.

"Arrange the formation and fight out with me!" Cao Zhen knew that if he didn't think about it, he would be trapped here for life and death.At this time, the tiger and leopard cavalry were surrounded by almost all the horses of the Fengyun cavalry that had been killed by them.But although the man is dead, the horse is still connected.It is extremely difficult to rush out face to face.This is like a ferocious shark, a piece of aquatic grass cannot stop it, but once the grass grows, it is enough to stop it from moving.What's more, the iron chains of the serial horses are not those weak aquatic plants.Cao Zhen knew that it would be impossible to rush out as the way was blocked by more than a dozen rows of war horses.The only plan for now is to take advantage of the fact that the opponent's encirclement has not yet been completely closed, and make a detour from the two sides and the rear army first, and then make plans.

"Zidan was actually tripped?" Cao Cao, who was in the distance, saw this scene and muttered to himself in disbelief.This time is different from the last time. Last time, Cao Chun was killed accidentally, which caused the defeat of Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.This time, he was stopped face to face, and Cao Cao was also very depressed.At the same time, on the other battlefields, Xu Huang of the right army was still able to support; but Yu Jin of the central army was retreating steadily under Zhang Fei's terrifying attack.As for the part of Zhang Jaw, which was still in the upper hand, just before he was about to defeat Wenpin, Ma Dai finally led the army to intervene in time, so that Wenpin could continue to support him.Now there are four battlefields, and the three are barely stalemate, but the most important Chinese army, Cao Cao, can no longer hold on.

"Wei Wang, I'm afraid it's too late!" Seeing this, Jia Xu stepped forward and said softly.Cao Cao nodded silently. Although today's battle was fought rather hastily, Cao Cao never expected that Liu Jun's combat power would be so powerful.The infantry trained by Chen Dao and Gao Shun, and the cavalry trained by Zhao Yun and Ma Dai are indeed rare and elite troops in the world.

"Prime Minister, don't worry, Liu Bei is left to be rampant now. When the time comes, Liu Bei's hundreds of thousands of troops will be wiped out!" Cheng Yu on the side comforted.Cao Cao nodded silently, but Jia Xu said with a trace of worry: "King Wei, according to reports from Ma Lai, Liu Bei's army did not all station in Luoyang City, but ordered Pang Tong to lead an army to station in the camp outside the city. I'm afraid Zhong De's strategy is unlikely to be fully effective!"

"It doesn't matter, as long as Liu Bei dies, the rest of the people are insignificant!" Cao Cao said disapprovingly.Seeing that it is difficult to win today, Cao Cao also ordered to withdraw his troops as soon as possible.After the tiger and leopard cavalry and other elite troops were cut off, Cao Cao's army began to retreat to Cao Yang in an orderly manner.Liu Bei pursued for a while, seeing that the opponent's defense was tight, he didn't take it too seriously.In this battle, fortunately, Cao Cao saw that the opportunity was wrong and ran away, so he was able to retain most of the army horses.Otherwise, it will inevitably be the same as in Xuchang, and the skin will be peeled off if you don't die.

"My lord, Cao's army was killed, wounded and captured in this battle, never less than 6000. Our army's casualties were almost [-], but more than [-] Tiger and Leopard Cavalry were left behind!" Simply report to Liu Bei.Liu Bei nodded in satisfaction when he heard the words, and then asked Pang Tong: "Shi Yuan, in your opinion, what should we do next?"

Pang Tong heard this, but he smiled strangely, and then said: "If Cao Cao is smart, he will definitely withdraw from Hebei or Guanzhong, give up the land of Luoyang, and fight against us in Guanzhong or across the river. Otherwise He has hundreds of thousands of troops stranded in Henan, and with my Jingxiang navy stationed in Guandu, it is inevitable that he will repeat the mistakes of Xuchang."

"I feel the same way!" Chen Gong and Xu Shu nodded upon hearing this.Seeing that the three counselors said so, Liu Bei felt relieved and simply waited patiently for Cao Cao to retreat on his own.But this time, Pang Tong and the others were completely defeated by Cheng Yu.What was even more unexpected was that neither Cheng Yu nor Cao Cao was the final winner.The ending of the matter turned out to be such a mess.

(End of this chapter)