"Infantry?" Cao Cao snapped the whip in his hand fiercely. "Yuan Shang really has such a sergeant who is not afraid of death?" Cao Cao began to doubt what he had heard. In recent years, he has been purchasing horses from Xiliang to train cavalry. , He clearly knows the terrifying speed and power of the cavalry when they charge, and any flesh and blood body will be trampled into a pile of meat sauce in front of him.
"Approximately how many infantry are there? Since you know it is an infantry, why don't you step on it?" Cao Cao calmed down and asked loudly.
"The enemy troops are lying in ambush in the fortifications, and there are about five or six thousand people." The spy replied, "the enemy troops are very cunning. They have pits dug before the fortifications. The horses will be broken when they fall into the pits when they move quickly. Legs, so the front army's charge is blocked, and the subsequent charge will be blocked by the sacked companions in front, so it is impossible to break through the enemy's line."
"Sure enough, it's a well-thought-out tactic. People have to admire it." Cao Cao couldn't help but exclaimed, and then asked: "Did the former generals command everyone to dismount and fight?"
"The enemy sprinkled iron briers on the ground, and it was blocked by the horse's carcass. Before the soldiers who dismounted the horse had no time to gather, they were stabbed to death with a long spear or shot with a bow and arrow. There was no chance to fight back." The spies were anxious. Said, "Master, the front army has suffered a huge loss, and it is bound to be unable to break through the enemy's position. Please make the decision quickly and lead the army to reinforce it, otherwise the tiger and leopard cavalry will destroy the entire army in this battle!"
Cao Cao didn't seem to hear the spies' words, he quickly sketched the battle on the front line in his mind. He and Guo Jia and others have studied the terrain of the cavalry crossing over a thousand times, and they are already very familiar with it. Even where Yuan Shang ambushes and how to set an ambush are in his calculations, and now everything is in accordance with His prediction happened step by step. Cao Cao quickly went through the entire process in his mind, because he knew that even a slight omission would lead to the defeat of the entire battle.
"Master." Seeing Cao Cao in a daze, the spy couldn't help but remind him, "Please send troops to rescue the tiger and leopard rider quickly!"
"The tiger and leopard rider?" Cao Cao raised his whip and laughed. "Who told you that my cavalry front must be the tiger and leopard rider?"
The spy was taken aback when he heard the words, and knelt before Cao Cao's horse at a loss.
At this time, on the north side of the river bank, Yuan Shang had already received the report of ambushing a great victory. He tried his best to suppress the ecstasy in his heart, and said to the spy in a deep voice: "Explore again, probe again, be sure that the tiger and leopard rider of Cao Cao is crossing the river!"
Tan Ma kept reporting the news, and the last spy who came back also brought a string of iron plaques worn with iron chains. Yuan Shang took the iron plate, squeezed it in his palm, and curled his fingers to flick the surface of the iron plate.
"The starting point is heavy and the voice is honest. It is really made of fine steel." Yuan Shang turned the iron plate over and saw the words "tiger and leopard" engraved on the iron plate. It was clearly Cao Cao's handwriting. Yuan Shang finally couldn't restrain himself, went up and grabbed the collar of the spy, and asked excitedly: "Are you sure that the cavalry who crossed the river all carry such iron medals?"
"These iron plates were ripped off from the corpse by the villain." The spy replied, panting. "The villain is sure that the enemy soldiers who crossed the river are wearing such iron plates. It must be Cao Cao's tiger and leopard. Ride undoubtedly!"
Yuan Shang pushed the spy away and yelled at his own soldiers: "Send the command arrow, the command arrow, let Qu Yi and Mayan start cleaning the battlefield!"
With the sharp roar of the arrow pulled straight into the sky, Qu Yi and Ma Yan led more than a thousand elite cavalry soldiers from the ambush and launched a charge towards the cavalry front army that Cao Cao had already crossed the river. After Qu Yi and Ma Yan led a brigade of cavalry into the battlefield, the battle situation has become a one-sided situation. Thousands of Cao's troops were firmly suppressed on the north bank of the Yellow River. They were unable to form a favorable formation for defense. The corpses of Warhorse and Warhorse piled up on the river bank, blocking their retreat, and the flowing blood dyed the water of the Yellow River a crimson red.
Cao's army on the north bank of the Yellow River was completely wiped out in a moment. Qu Yi and Mayan led their cavalry quickly across the Yellow River, preparing to cut straight behind the camp of Cao's army. As long as they rushed into Cao Cao's camp, they would be able to fight with allies on the north bank. The formation of a pinching force.
"Kill the past, kill the past!" Ma Yan yelled out loudly, "Cao Cao's leader will be rewarded with a thousand dollars, and thousands of households will be sealed!"
Among the cavalry rushing, Qu Yi held his broad sword upside down, and suddenly strangled the horse, because he heard the melodious horn coming from behind the defeated Cao army.
"There is an ambush!" He looked up and saw that at the end of his sight, an ink-colored banner was raised, flying against the wind and hunting, thousands of cavalry battalions approached with the horns and horses. . Five thousand horses clustered around the banner and stopped in the distance. The samurai on horseback wear the same standard black iron armor, holding sharp long knives in their hands, quietly like cast iron.
"Tiger and Leopard Cavalry!" Qu Yi only felt like falling into an ice cave. Although he himself was not afraid to confront this terrible male soldier, he clearly understood that the team behind him had become a lamb to be slaughtered.
The five thousand tiger and leopard riders ignored the friendly soldiers fleeing in front of them and adjusted their formation methodically. The general with the troops swung the long sword forward violently, and the five thousand horses launched a charge at the same time, and a large amount of smoke rose in the formation, accompanied by the sound of horses hoof hitting the ground, Koji and Ma Yansuo The cavalry led by him was like a small piece of gravel, instantly submerged by the rolling iron current. Xiahoudun raised his sword to the sky and shouted: "Charge! Charge! Let the cowards of Hebei see that this is the real tiger and leopard rider!"
Cao Cao’s Tiger and Leopard Cavalry attacked Yuan Shang’s defenses in the Yellow River area. Even though Yuan Shang ambushed 5,000 dead soldiers here, he also reinforced nearly a thousand cavalry, and led the army to support him, but he could not stop the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. The charge. The Xiahou brothers, who were famous for their cavalry tactics, easily surpassed the double resistance of Yuan Shang’s cavalry and infantry and landed on the north bank of the Yellow River. After that, the two led their troops straight to the base camp where Yuan Shang confronted Cao Cao in the Yellow River and the southern bank. The infantry formed a trend of flanking from front to back. Yuan Shangjun was defeated by the enemy and couldn't hold back all the way. It was not until he retreated to Yecheng that his position was stabilized.
Outside of Yecheng, in Cao's army tent, almost all the counselors and generals who accompanied the army to conquer Hebei were present. Only the place belonging to Cao Cao in the hall was empty. Jia Xu stroked his long beard and looked at the door of the military tent with indifferent eyes. The breeze blew in through the gap of the curtain. The coolness did not make people happy, but a feeling of desolation could not help but rise in his heart.
Ever since Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shang in the First World War of the Yellow River, Cao Jun has been so powerful all the way, and counties and counties under Jizhou have returned. No one can stop him. Cao Cao led his soldiers to fight until Yecheng City to stop his advancement. However, after Cao Jun surrounded Yecheng Tuantuan, Cao Cao was silent for nearly half a month, and no one in the army could guess. Through his mind. Every time the advisers and generals came to ask Cao Cao to discuss matters, the second son Cao Pi always came out to greet him. Everyone talked for a long time and couldn't reach any conclusions. Although they were anxious, they had nothing to do.
Cao Ren gritted his teeth and stared in a loud voice: "Now we have been under Yecheng for more than half a month. The lord hasn’t issued an order. He neither enters the army nor attacks the city. The soldiers are disturbed and wonder whether the lord will fight. What's your idea. Fengxiao, you are a close minister next to the lord, and you are most valued by the lord. Tell me, what should we do?"
"General Cao Ren, it's not the style of keeping secrets like Rushen, not to mention that you are all generals of the army. If the lord has any orders, how many dare you to conceal?" Guo Jia shook his head and laughed bitterly, and then said: "Moreover, like everyone else in the past few days, I haven't seen the lord's face. General Cao Ren asked me to solve my doubts. It would be too difficult for me to get off."
"Yecheng is the governing place of Jizhou, the strongest city in the world, where the money and grain are stored in Hebei. If there is no good strategy, it would be a waste of life to attack the city rashly." Jia Xu finally took his eyes off the account and joined the discussion. in.
Guo Jia nodded and sighed: "Wen He is right. Yuan Shang sticks to the city, and there are two people from Qu Yi and Mayan to help each other. It is easier said than done to break the city!"
"What's wrong with Ye Yi Ma Yan?" Cao Ren patted the armrest of the seat and stood up. "If the two of them had not relied on their horses in the First Battle of the Yellow River, they would have been captured by Yuan Rang and I. It's not worth mentioning!"
"Able to escape from the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry with one's own strength and escape into the sky, these two are worthy of the name of the enemy." Jia Xu glanced at Cao Ren, and then added coldly: "Even though. To be a defeated general is also brave enough."
After hearing this, Cao Ren was furious, his eyes rounded, the foul language almost blurted out, but Xiahou Dun held his shoulders, and had to swallow the foul language that came to his mouth. Xiahoudun said with a respectful look: "Feng Xiao, Wen He, are just a reckless man, naturally I don't understand what the lord is thinking. But according to the practice of the main public soldier, is it because the siege is a suspicious strategy, and there are actually other plans? "
Jia Xu spread his hands, and Yun said lightly: "General Yuan Rang, it's better not to think too much about things that you don't understand."
"I really don't understand..." Xiahou Dun finally couldn't help it, and shouted.
Cao Pi listened to the quarrel among the people outside the tent, sighed lowly, turned and walked towards the camp where Cao Cao was resting.
Cao Cao was wearing a thin Shu brocade robe without armor. At this time, he was lying on the army couch and leaning on the small table beside him to read. Cao Pi opened the curtain of the tent, bent down and walked in. A breeze followed. Cao Cao felt a little cool, put the book aside and smiled: "Zi Huan Wuer, I have been standing outside for so long and it’s hot. Right, tired? Come here, there are ice cubes here, cool off." Cao Cao said as he straightened up...