Chapter 226: The Iron Cavalry Decisive Battle
A few days later, northeast of Wei Township, Taoying. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"General Yu, the enemy general Zhang Xiu Cao Hong has led four thousand iron horsemen to kill our camp." The scouts rushed to report the latest information.
Hearing the news, the generals of the Tao army in the tent were not shocked, but showed excitement on their faces.
The enemy took the initiative, and this was exactly what they wanted.
The corners of Huo Quzhi's mouth were slightly raised, and a confident smile appeared on his young face.
Gao Shun also looked excited, and arched his hand: "General Huo's expectations are really good, Zhang Xiu and Cao Hong were fooled, and they attacked in a big way, and General Zhengzhong was in his arms." ”
Huo Qubing didn't say too much, he only waved his hand and drank coldly: "Send the order, the whole army will immediately pull out the camp and retreat in the direction of the Puyang siege camp." ”
The order was handed down, and the two thousand Taojun knights immediately abandoned the camp and retreated to the northeast.
Not long after the Tao army withdrew on the front foot, Zhang Xiu led four thousand iron horsemen on the back foot, rushed to kill, and easily captured an empty camp left by Huo Quai.
When Huo Qu was about to leave, he deliberately abandoned a lot of ordnance, grain and grass to create a false impression of retreating in a hurry under fear and panic.
Zhang Xiu and Cao Hong, after seeing the mess of the Tao camp, their self-confidence exploded, and they decided that the Tao army was afraid of their soldiers and horses, and retreated in fear of battle.
The two of them immediately ordered the whole army to continue the pursuit, determined to enter Puyang in one go, together with the cavalry of the pottery merchants, as well as the infantry siege outside Puyang, and defeated them in one fell swoop.
Liu Bei, who was behind, led an army of 2,000 infantry and followed up.
From Weixiang to Puyang, on the road of 100 miles, 4,000 Cao troops chased 2,000 Tao troops and ran wildly all the way.
In the evening of that day, Huo Qubing led his soldiers and horses and withdrew to a distance of thirty miles south of Puyang, and the whole army stopped retreating and lined up to meet the enemy.
The wind came from the north, and in the wind, the smell of blood was rolling.
Huo Quai's horse was stationed, motionless as a mountain, exuding an innate calmness and determination.
Behind him, two thousand Tao army iron cavalry stood solemnly, and a group of soldiers were quietly burning with blood and eager to fight.
After retreating for three days in a row, today is the decisive moment.
Two thousand pairs of sharp blade-like eyes stared coldly ahead, staring at the rolling and approaching dust storm.
Suddenly, the corners of Huo Quai's mouth raised a cold smile.
Cao Junzhong came.
Gao Shun glanced at Huo Quai, looked around at the surrounding terrain, and sighed secretly in his heart: "No wonder the main guild chose him to lead the army, and didn't let me bear this burden, this person can choose the battlefield here, he really has the magic of riding battle, the lord's vision is really extraordinary, no wonder Lu Bu Yuan Shu will be defeated in his hands......"
In Gao Shun's heart, his admiration for the potter became stronger and stronger.
Just as he was thinking about himself, the dust storm on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, and the figure of the galloping Cao army cavalry could be vaguely seen.
The four thousand Cao troops, like tigers and wolves out of the cage, slaughtered wildly.
At the beginning, Zhang Xiu and Cao Hong's two generals were high-spirited and confident.
Zhang Xiu was anxious to make meritorious contributions, but fortunately, Cao Ying gained a firm foothold, while Cao Hong was anxious to take revenge and wash away the shame of the Cao family.
Both were anxious to fight and destroyed the potter's cavalry.
The scouts in front rushed and sent back information that the Tao army had stopped retreating and was arrayed several miles away, putting on a decisive posture.
This was exactly what Zhang Xiu wanted, and he immediately urged the army to march quickly, hoping that he could immediately sweep away the enemy.
As far as the eye can see, I saw that the endless plain in front of me gradually began to have ups and downs, and the original wide road gradually converged into three or four miles wide, and the ups and downs on both sides began to appear and were not too high and low.
Zhang Xiu once suspected that Tao Jun chose to fight him in such a terrain, because he wanted to take advantage of this terrain to fight an ambush battle.
But although the road was narrowing, it was at least three or four miles wide, and the slopes on both sides were not too high, so that even if there were crossbowmen, such a terrain would not be of much use.
Under caution, Zhang Xiu still sent scouts to parallel along the slopes on both sides, and reconnoiter whether there were Tao army ambushes on the top of the slope at any time.
The detectives never found the Tao Army's crossbowmen, and Zhang Xiu's worries gradually disappeared.
An hour later, Tao Jun's figure had already appeared in their field of vision.
Zhang Xiu and Cao Hong raised their eyes and saw Tao Jun in the sky under the banner of the word "Huo".
"It turned out to be a leader surnamed Huo, I haven't heard of it, General Zhang, are you still afraid that you won't be able to defeat this nameless man?" Cao Hong sneered.
"General Cao, let's win a big victory for Cao Sikong today."
Zhang Xiu's confidence exploded, he laughed wildly, and shouted: "The whole army will attack, follow me to level the enemy, and make meritorious contributions to Cao Sikong!" ”
Woo woo woo ~ ~ The horn sounded, and the horn of attack resounded throughout the wilderness.
In the earth-shattering sound of killing, Zhang Xiu and Cao Hong rushed out first, and the four thousand cavalry of the Cao army accelerated their running speed, rushing towards the Tao army.
Looking from the sky, the road three or four miles wide was full of Cao Jun's iron cavalry, and the dust and mist raised covered the sky, and Cao Jun was like a mountain torrent, which could not rush forward for a lifetime.
The earth rumbled and trembled, and the sound of shouts and hooves of horses stomping on the ground was already filling the ears.
In the face of such a slaughtering situation, the two thousand Tao Army knights did not have the slightest fear, and all they had on their faces was resolute killing intent.
Seeing that the enemy cavalry was approaching, Huo Quai's war spear slashed forward and shouted: "Heavy cavalry attack, crush the enemy army for me!" ”
Thunderous cheers rang out, and more than a thousand light cavalry in the front row quickly opened like a wave, showing the heavy cavalry armed to the teeth.
Huo Quai's horse and whip, the spear galloped out, and he was the first to kill.
With the loud sound of the sky and the earth cracking, five hundred heavy cavalry roared out, carrying the momentum of the landslide and the earth cracking, and rushed out with him.
The sound of the 500 heavy horsemen was overwhelming the 4,000 enemy horsemen.
Gao Shun followed closely behind, led 1,500 light cavalry, and followed the heavy cavalry to kill out.
Heaven and earth are slaughtered, and the wind and clouds change color.
In an instant, Zhang Xiu was stunned, and those originally rampant Cao army cavalry were all stunned.
In the Tao army, there were five hundred heavily armored iron horsemen!
Zhang Xiu was extremely terrified, and all the arrogance and fighting spirit were easily destroyed in the moment when the heavy cavalry of the Tao Army appeared.
Looking at the torrent of steel in front of him, looking at the terrain on the left and right, and thinking about the previous signs, Zhang Xiu suddenly realized at this moment that he had fallen for Tao Jun's annihilation.
Tao's retreat was only an illusion, and the purpose was to lure him into this unfavorable terrain and crush his light cavalry with heavy cavalry.
Zhang Xiu was shocked, and he was so shocked that he lost his square inch.
"Heavy armor iron horse, the pottery thief actually used heavy armor iron horse, and he was tricked!" Cao Hong was also shocked to change color, and his previous madness collapsed in an instant.
Late.
Huo Qubing didn't give them a chance to breathe at all, wielding big guns, carrying a killing intent, leading him to five hundred heavy horses, iron horses, with the power to destroy everything, and rushed wildly.
The heavy cavalry opened the way, the light cavalry was behind, and rushed towards the Cao army in front of him in a wedge-shaped impact formation.
Cao Jun's light cavalry had also accelerated to the extreme, and he couldn't catch the horse's hooves at all, and the two torrents collided with each other at a rapid speed.
Although the Tao army is small, it uses heavy horses as arrows, and although the Cao army has many light horses, how can it withstand a head-on collision.
"Retreat, the whole army retreats-" In fright, Zhang Xiu roared loudly and hurriedly restrained his horse.
Zhang Xiu's shout was drowned in the rumbling sound of iron hooves, and his four thousand cavalry, when it was too late to collect the troops, the Tao army's iron cavalry had already collided.
"Blindfold!" Huo Quzhi swirled the big gun, waved a black cloth, and blindfolded the eyes of the war horse under his crotch.
When the five hundred heavily armored knights received the order, they raised the black cloth in their arms one after another, blindfolding the war horses.
The war horse in front of him was dark, and he could no longer see the front clearly, only under the whip of his master, he desperately moved forward without any fear.
Two torrents, colliding in an instant.
Boom!
The earth-shattering crash, the sound of people falling to the ground on their backs, and the hoarse screams were instantly intertwined into a terrible death movement.
Endless blood was like a waterfall flowing backwards, splashing high for half a day, and dispersing into a blood mist in the sky.
Then, Cao Jun collapsed.