Although Xu You's personal guards were desperately defending Xu You, they still let the enemy rush in front of Xu You. Xu You pulled out the long sword in his hand in an attempt to save himself, but it was obvious that his long sword was not in the hands of his personal guards. The sword of the enemy had the same ending, and it couldn't withstand the impact of the enemy's sword at all.
Soon Xu You's long sword became two halves. Although this sword is not the best weapon like Yitian Qinghong, it is also made of high-quality fine iron, and it has been by Xu You's side for a long time.
But today it was broken, which made Xu You's heart sink.
"Haha!" The Yuan Jiajun soldier who was facing Xu You became excited. Although he didn't know who Xu You was, Xu You was wearing this kind of general school uniform, so he was very excited. As long as he killed the enemy in front of him Yes, he needs to be promoted to at least three ranks.
"My lord, be careful!" A personal guard rushed over. He couldn't stop the enemy, so he could only use his body to resist the sword that rushed like Xu You. His armor was torn and his body fell down.
The blood made Xu You's face dirty, but Xu You didn't feel distressed or sad at all.
"My lord, go!" The guards protected Xu You again.
Xu You was struggling, and the guards on the side thought that Xu You was going to fight to the end, so he couldn't help persuading Xu You, "My lord, we have been tricked, the enemy is too strong, we must avoid it." His sharpness, the future will last forever, as long as the green hills remain, there will be a time of victory."
"No, no, those swords and armor!" Xu You shouted to his subordinates, it turned out that Xu You didn't want to fight to the last moment at all. That's what stupid generals do. And Xu You wouldn't put his precious life in it. He yelled loudly because he wanted those weapons and armor.
"Weapon and armor?" The head of the bodyguard still doesn't understand, now that his life is almost gone, and the soldiers and horses have been scattered by the enemy, are you still thinking about weapons and armor? Do you really want money or life? "My lord, as long as we retreat, Cao Sikong will replenish our armor and weapons."
"It's the enemy's armor and weapon, the enemy's." Xu You continued to roar.
At this moment, the leader of Xu You's personal guard finally understood that Master Xu You wanted to take the enemy's weapons and armor back to study. They also know that it's not that they are incompetent, but that the enemy's weapons and armor are too elite.
"Yes!" The leader of the personal guard nodded, and immediately commanded seven or eight of his hot men to surround one or two enemies. After paying the price of three casualties, he killed these two enemies and took off their armor. snatched their swords.
Xu You touched the saber snatched from the enemy, and immediately knew that the saber was sharp. The cold light was still showing, and it was covered with blood, but it didn't affect his sharpness at all.
"Let's go! Break through!" Xu You shouted loudly to his subordinates. With these weapons and armor, he could confess to Cao Cao. It was not because he was not good enough, but because the enemy was too strong. These weapons and armor are too elite, let alone Xu You for such an army. It's the same no matter who is replaced. If you lose the first battle, you must find a step to come, otherwise you will be finished if you don't get down.
"Xu You is over there, don't let him escape! Whoever kills Xu You will be honored by Wan Huhou and rewarded with a thousand gold." On the city wall, the Yuan family brothers looked down at the battlefield below, and Yuan Shang saw Xu You who was running away over there at a glance. , loudly shouted to the soldiers under the city, hoping that they could catch up and kill Xu You directly, which relieved his headache. Perfect. The enemy has already broken under their attack, and now it is just a pursuit battle.
"I can't chase any more!" Yuan Xi was much more rational. He also wanted to kill Xu You as much as possible, but he also knew that this was simply unrealistic, not to mention that Xu You's personal guards were desperately protecting Xu You. Those soldiers and horses are all the elite of the Jizhou Army. After the current Jizhou Army surrendered to Cao Cao, there will naturally be factions wherever there are people. The Yanzhou faction is one. The Jizhou Army is also a faction from Hebei, and behind them are Hebei The gentry, and the representative of Hebei is Xu You. With Xu You's status, he can naturally seek benefits for him. People like Zhang Yun are only obedient, which is hard to convince.
Therefore, the elite soldiers of the Jizhou Army can protect Xu You even if they die in battle. If they are finished, there will be pensions. If Xu You is finished, then the Jizhou Army will be finished. At least it is impossible to form an army alone. They will be scattered and rushed into those Cao Cao's Yanzhou Army or Qingzhou Army.
If these defeated troops were forced hard, they would all die anyway, and it might be a battle of trapped beasts, and the gain would not be worth the loss, not to mention that Cao Cao's army on the periphery also started to move.
"My lord, let the tiger and leopard riders and the euphorbia warriors give up the Qingzhou iron cavalry and Xiandeng camp, and rescue Xu You with Xu Huang and others!" Guo Jia ordered to the people under his command. Cao Cao trusted Guo Jia very much, so Guo Jia could even directly bypass Cao Cao and issue orders to his troops.
"Slow down!" Cao Cao stopped Guo Jia.
"Huh?" Guo Jia frowned. Although Xu You was trying to break through, if no one helped him, he would not be in the army sooner or later.
Cao Cao murmured to Guo Jia, "It's time to forget the name Aman."
Hearing Cao Cao's words, Guo Jia's pupils narrowed, and he finally understood why Cao Cao slowed down his subordinates. He wanted Xu You to die in the battle.
Guo Jia shook his head. Although Xu You is annoying, it's not time for Xu You to die yet. "My lord, don't!"
"Feng Xiao, have you forgotten how rude he was to you?" Cao Cao asked suspiciously.
"My lord, one of the reasons why you and I can be friends is that we share the same goals. If you don't like it, I won't like it either." Guo Jia said calmly to Cao Cao. He was telling Cao Cao that you hate Xu You, and I also hate Xu You. Same, you want to kill him, so do I.
"But now is not the time, he can lose, but the vanguard of our army cannot be lost!" Guo Jia continued to add. Guo Jia's words are that Xu You can die. But the 30,000 army as the vanguard could not be completely wiped out. Because once the 30,000 army is wiped out by Yuan's army, the blow to the morale of the entire Cao army will be terrifying.
"Okay, I see!" Cao Cao nodded, and issued an order to his messengers, and soon the semaphore was sent out, and the tiger and leopard riders and the euphorbia warriors were struggling to beg their enemies, the tiger and leopard It's a bit of a hassle to ride. After all, their opponent is the biggest trump card in the hands of Yuan Shang and the third son of the Yuan family, and they will go to the camp first. There is even a commander like Wen Chou, just like a dog skin plaster, it must be painful to pull it off after sticking it on.
On the other side, Zhang Yun's euphorbia warriors are much better. To be honest, the Qingzhou Iron Cavalry is still not as good as the euphorbia warriors, because the euphorbia warriors were elite soldiers under Yuan Tan's father Yuan Shao. , but the Qingzhou iron cavalry is the soldier and horse in the hands of Yuan Tan, the son, and Yuan Shao used the whole of Hebei to raise the euphorbia warriors. And Yuan Tan just relies on the land of one state.
The euphorbia warriors also followed Yuan Shao to conquer the east and west, and the Qingzhou cavalry just guarded Qingzhou.
So there is still a lot of difference in combat effectiveness. So it was much easier for Zhang Xi to leave.
"Boom!" Zhang Yun's euphorbia warriors quickly got rid of the Qingzhou cavalry and charged towards the Yuan's army over there.
Heavy armored cavalry doesn't need skills at all to fight footsteps, as long as there is one thing, it's just speeding up and speeding up.
The horse galloped up and rushed towards the heavily armored square formation over there.
"Boom!" The acceleration of the war horse pump directly hit the heavy armor squares, like a heavy hammer directly bombarding the city wall.
Although the heavy armored footsteps have heavy armor and giant shields as barriers, the impact force is internal damage, so many of the heavy armored footsteps of Yuan Jiajun vomited blood. They received internal injuries, and there were still more than a dozen of them on the spot. It was hit and flew directly.
The Euphorbia warriors were not much better, the horses in their front row actually crashed into those huge shields, after all the horses were made of flesh and blood, not iron, even if they were made of iron, he crashed into the city wall I also have to hold back.
It was basically difficult for the cavalry in the front row to survive, but this also opened a small hole, and the heavy armored cavalry behind continued to bombard the hole. Xu Huang's footsteps also rushed over, assisting the heavy cavalry in the direction of the flank.
"Why don't we let go of this gap and put Zhang He's euphorbia soldiers in, and swallow them all together!" Yuan Tan's taste over there has become stronger. The 30,000 Jizhou army here has not yet digested it, and the other side has already marked it. It was the idea of the heavy armored cavalry euphorbia in Zhang He's hand.
And the judge on the side is simply embarrassed to look at his lord and the second son over there. Although you have a plan to swallow Xu You's 30,000 soldiers and horses, and the weapons are sharp, there is also a prerequisite, then Even if the strength of the two sides is about the same, three thousand heavy armored feet are fighting against five thousand, and they still have a battle formation to rely on.
But if you put these 5,000 heavy armored cavalry in, you are ready to die. What is the role of heavy cavalry on the battlefield? In fact, it is not the heavy armored cavalry that kills the most enemies in the true sense, but the lightly armored cavalry. The heavy cavalry is more of a deterrent, and it is used to tear apart the enemy's army.
The huge impact of the heavy armored cavalry can easily tear apart any battle formation and divide the enemy into pieces. If one foot meets a heavy armored cavalry in the wild, then just sit and wait for death. Unless you have a battle formation, there is no way to survive. Once you let the heavy cavalry tear your entire army apart, even if the God of War is alive, there is no way.
Now you really want to put this heavy armored cavalry into your own army formation, isn't it because you hate yourself for being impatient and looking for death.
But after a while, Yuan Tan no longer had this idea. Under the back and forth impact of the heavy armored cavalry over there, the heavy armored infantry battle formation in front had a tendency to be broken up.
"Withdraw troops, we can't fight anymore!" Yuan Xi said with a serious face.
If this fight continues, it will become a real battle. Once it becomes such a scale, it will be difficult for Yuan Xi and Cao Cao to end, because the two sides have invested more and more troops. The sky also began to darken, and once it got dark, it would be of no benefit to either party.
"It's almost there, it's almost there!" Yuan Shang over there was still shouting, he desperately wanted to kill Xu You over there.
Yuan Xi's words to him didn't work at all, and he continued to chase and kill Xu You with his heavily armored footsteps.
"Hey!" Yuan Xi sighed, he knew that he couldn't stop his third brother, who made these soldiers not belong to Yuan Xi, who made Yuan Xi's strength the lowest.
Yuan Shang didn't listen to his words, and the three thousand men under his command wore the new armor and swords sold by Liu Mang's army in Yangzhou and continued to chase and kill Xu You. Unable to hold on any longer, Xu Youjun's defeated army over there was already in contact with Xu Huang's army.
Later, Yuan Shang's three thousand soldiers and horses were still charging, relying on their excellent armor and swords, but they cried immediately, because they might be defeated by Xu You's army division one by one, and it would be no problem to fight two by one. If you play three one against four, it will be a tie or even at a disadvantage. Once you play five, it will be unlucky for Yuan Shang's soldiers and horses. Coupled with the impact of the heavy armored cavalry and euphorbia behind, the three thousand new soldiers will soon be defeated. The heavy armor can't bear it.
"This!" Yuan Shang was also a little dumbfounded. Fortunately, at this time, the Qingzhou iron cavalry, who had been thrown off by the Euphorbi warriors, rejoined the battlefield.
Yuan Xi glared fiercely at the third younger brother next to him, "Come on, beat the drums and ring the gold, and retreat!" He said as he walked down the city wall in embarrassment.
"Beat the drum and sound the gold!" Countless arrows rained from the city wall to support the Yuan family army below the city, and they were thrown into the positions of the two armies. At this time, no matter what enemy or friendly army, it was an indiscriminate attack.
Cao Cao's army suffered heavy losses, and Yuan's army was not much better. They lost thousands of troops on both sides, and finally formed a vacuum zone, and the two armies were also cut off.
Part of the Yuan family's army entered the city under alternate cover, and part of the army stepped into the camp that was at an angle to the city wall. (to be continued..)