However, time is cold and unforgiving, and it is impossible for Zhang Xiu to think.

knew that continuing to move forward might be a dead end, but Zhang Xiu still did not hesitate. Because Zhang Xiu knew that if he chose to escape, then he really chose a dead end that no one could save.

The five hundred knights were silent, and although they did not know the specific situation after a long battle, they all knew that their side had been completely calculated by the enemy.

Taking a deep breath of the air mixed with the smell of blood and fire, Zhang Xiu raised the tiger's head golden gun and shouted behind him: "Maybe we may be a strong man and never return, but now you tell me loudly, who is the person who is fighting in front?" ”

More than 500 knights, including Zhang Liao, shouted in unison: "It's our brother!" ”

"That's right," Zhang Xiu raised his head and shouted in a higher voice, "Then today, do you dare to go with me to save our brother Paoze and fellow countrymen who have gotten along day and night?" ”

"Dare!" The five hundred knights replied with their chests puffed up, as if they had been instantly rekindled and extinguished.

Zhang Xiu didn't say anything anymore, he didn't even look at the five hundred remaining light horses behind him.

He didn't want to, and didn't dare to look at the faces of these soldiers, most of whom would die in the next moment.

Those faces are still full of admiration and trust for themselves.

And he is about to send them to the end of life with his own hands.

Five hundred light horsemen of the embroidered army rushed towards the dense Cao army. Fortunately, Cao Jun didn't seem to have thought that Zhang Xiu could escape from the valley, and did not leave a mobile garrison on the periphery, so Zhang Xiu led 500 cavalry directly into the Cao army's battle formation.

The Cao army, which was blown up with chrysanthemums, naturally caused a lot of commotion, and the Cao army's foot soldiers, who were surging forward to kill, never thought that there would be enemy cavalry behind them.

Fortunately, there were too few cavalry under the command of Zhang Xiu, only 500 tired and wounded lightly armed cavalry, and the impact was really unsatisfactory. If it is replaced by one or two thousand Xiliang iron cavalry that is neatly ready to go, it can definitely tear a hole while the Cao army is unprepared, and play a role in turning the tide of the battle.

Zhang Xiu, who entered the Cao army's array, struggled to get closer to the main army surrounded by his own house, and the light cavalry visible around him was less than 300 people left after the Cao army reacted and counterattacked!

The greatest role of light cavalry in war is to pursue and destroy the enemy's defeated army and rout, and to kill and injure the enemy's living forces in a mobile way. And it is really not a climate to fight a tough battle in the front, and sometimes there is no need for a spear formation, and only a shield array can easily block the light cavalry to charge and kill.

The weak protection of the light cavalry doomed them to be drastically attrition once they fell into a melee melee!

Fortunately, they also have a certain advantage, that is, they are extremely mobile, and the battle-proven horses do not even need to be controlled by knights, and will jump and dodge themselves to avoid the spears that come out. And this is something that heavy cavalry with heavy armor can't do.

Therefore, although Zhang Xiu's 500 light cavalry caused extremely limited damage and impact on Cao's army, they were able to assault the target in a very short time.

Zhang Xiu, like all the cavalry who assaulted into the center of the battlefield, was covered in blood. There are their own streams, and more are splashed by the enemy.

Zhang Xiu soon met Li Feng, a general who was also in bloody command.

It's just that it's okay not to see Li Feng's command, but when he saw Li Feng's way of commanding, Zhang Xiu almost had a cerebral infarction. Li Feng's goods, Zhang Xiu handed over 4,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry to him, and he actually used the Xiliang Iron Cavalry as infantry to resist the attack of Cao's army.

Seeing that Zhang Xiu was looking for where the mounts of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry had gone, Li Feng said in shame: "General, don't look for it, Cao Jun has already scrapped all our war horses." ”

After Zhang Xiu listened to Li Feng's report, four big words flashed in his mind in an instant-the general trend is gone!

According to Li Feng's report, after Zhang Xiu led the light cavalry to continue the pursuit, Li Feng led the Xiliang Iron Cavalry into the Cao army camp and fed the war horses with fodder and water. Of course, the war horses ate and drank all the things in the Cao army camp, but after eating, the war horses all had symptoms of weak legs and fell to the ground.

Fortunately, Xiahoudun only had one or two thousand cavalry under him, and only one or two thousand copies of horse material were prepared. There were still more than 2,000 war horses that had not yet eaten and were preparing new forage, and the horses that were the first to eat and drink had already shown symptoms, so more than sixty percent of the war horses survived.

It's just that Cao's army came too fast, and when they came up, there were thousands of archers, and they fired rockets around the camp. Li Feng and the others were not prepared, and the hay and grain stacks scattered in the Cao army's camp were burned.

Especially near the stables, near the rear camp of the Cao army, there are grain stacks nearby. The fire was raging, the horses were frightened, and less than 2,000 of the remaining more than 2,000 horses were burned to death and frightened and fled.

Then, Cao's brigade emerged on the horizon. Because the camp was on fire everywhere, and there was chaos, the assembly and rectification of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry was very slow. By the time Cao's infantry was about to complete the encirclement, the queue had not yet been completely organized.

Li Feng had no choice but to lead less than 1,000 Xiliang iron cavalry to launch a counter-encirclement charge, but because the Cao army's anti-cavalry sprint was extremely well prepared, the losses were extremely high, but there were few results.

Li Feng, who was unwilling, organized the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to charge again, although there were more Xiliang Iron Cavalry participating in the charge than the first time, but because the starting sprint distance was compressed by Cao Jun, the results were not ideal.

At the same time, Hou Cheng, Wei and Song Xian also led their respective soldiers out of the camp to engage in battle, after all, the Cao army camp that was on fire everywhere was no longer suitable for defense.

Their situation was similar to Li Feng's, they all encountered an extremely strong Cao army, and the Cao army of the Xiahou Tang Department who fought an hour or two ago was not of the same level at all.

General Hou Chengsan, who also hastily assembled his army to attack, suffered the same defeat as Li Feng.

Li Feng and Hou Cheng, who could not win, were forced to retreat to Cao's army camp and put out the fire while reorganizing their troops. In the end, it was agreed that the four of them would each lead 20,000 foot soldiers, and each hand would be in one direction, waiting for Zhang Xiu to come back for help.

The menacing Cao army even carried a large number of offensive equipment and launched an attack on the camp held by Zhang Xiu's army in an orderly manner.

Pity Li Feng and the others, only to break through the camp that Li Dianle defended. The camp was still in a dilapidated state, and it was about to meet the stormy attack of Cao's army.

The Cao army is a Cao general, and I don't know which Cao general is in charge of the troops, but his ability to use troops is really much higher than Hou Cheng, Li Feng and others. Although the superiority of Cao's army was not very large, under the command of this person, it played twice as many as Zhang Xiu's army.

Fortunately, the 80,000 main foot soldiers of Zhang Xiujun's army gathered here. Not to mention the 20,000 Xiliang foot soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the remaining 60,000 former Liu Pigong soldiers is not low. And they are also good at melee warfare, so they can temporarily ensure an undefeated situation.

But it's only temporary, now there is no grain and grass in the whole camp, and the water is there, but if people drink it, it will be hehehe.

And the encircled Cao army did not really want to storm the camp, but tried to cause panic and effective casualties as much as possible, so as to facilitate them to continue to complete the encirclement.

When Zhang Xiu learned of these reports, he also knew that his 80,000 main army was in trouble.

It's just that I still don't know where Cao Cao came out of these more than 100,000 people?

Now that Cao Cao has basically abolished his trump card troops, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, what else can he rely on to fight against these three or four hundred thousand Cao troops?

Jiang's is still old and spicy, and he thought he had played Cao Cao's hand, but now it seems that everything he did was led by Cao Cao's nose.

Having temporarily taken care of the Gao Shun Department and the Ji Ling Department of the West Daying that could not be taken care of in Qiyang City, Zhang Xiu knew that if he didn't make a decision, the 80,000 main forces in front of him would have to be destroyed first.

Between the electric light and flint, Zhang Xiu still made a choice and concentrated the elite to the ** circle!

This time, Zhang Xiu left 10,000 foot soldiers in each of the three directions in the north and southwest, and concentrated 50,000 foot soldiers in the east as an assault force.

It is still the only remaining more than 1,000 Xiliang iron cavalry as the vanguard impact force, then the most elite Xiliang foot soldiers, and finally 40,000 relatively elite foot soldiers.

Cao's army was only 30,000 or 40,000 more than Zhang Xiu's army. The art of war is cloudy, "ten times surrounded". Cao Jun is now only half more than Zhang Xiujun, and the encirclement is actually quite weak.

Of course, the average quality of Cao's non-commissioned officers is very high, and they are good at fighting in formations, which can make up for the lack of troops to a certain extent. And Zhang Xiujun's 80,000 main forces, the predecessors were all Xiliang Army and Yellow Turban Yu Party, and the battle was naturally not the opponent of Cao Jun. But he is good at Cao Jun in melee warfare.

In order to fully show the strengths of his own army, Zhang Xiu must use the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to break through the enemy's military formation, and then he can start a close melee. However, once the help of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is lost, no matter how strong the personal combat effectiveness of Zhang Xiu's soldiers is, it is in vain that they cannot disperse the enemy formation.

This is why Xiliang Tieqi is of great significance to Zhang Xiu. Similarly, if Ma Chao didn't have the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, he wouldn't have the strength to compete with Cao Jun at all.

But now, Cao Cao is clearly targeting the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. Not only did they use forage soaked in special potions to make Zhang Xiujun's war horses incapacitated, but they also prepared a considerable number of giant shield pikemen. Zhang Xiu personally commanded more than 1,000 Xiliang iron cavalry to charge the formation this time, but the effect was only to break through the spear shield array on the front line, and there was a horse rejection formation behind him, so he was really unable to continue to sprint.

However, Zhang Xiu didn't expect that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which only had 1,000 left, could directly penetrate the 40,000 Cao troops garrisoned in the east. The Western Liang Army's infantry and cavalry coordination tactics were extremely proficient, and when the war horse sprinted, the Xiliang athletes in light equipment also sprinted. When Xiliang Tie rode up, they also ran to him. As soon as there was a gap, these Xiliang soldiers swarmed in and directly launched a hand-to-hand fight.

Cao Jun, who was wearing heavy armor and weapons with giant shields and spears, was the opponent of Xiliang foot soldiers wearing light leather armor and holding scimitars. Without waiting for the other Zhang Xiujun foot soldiers to follow, the vigorous Xiliang infantry had already killed the sluggish Cao army's heavy armor troops.

Next is the wooden antlers and horses arranged by Cao Jun. The crossbowmen of the Cao army hid behind and stretched their bows and arrows, and the light soldiers of the Cao army behind were also waiting for them.

The Xiliang infantry soldiers are all veterans of a hundred battles, and when they encounter this situation, they don't need Zhang Xiu to give more orders, so they reacted directly.

Some three or two people raised Cao Jun's giant shield together, blocking arrows and advancing at the same time. Some directly relied on their agility and the advantage that the distance was not very far, rolling to avoid rushing forward to kill.

The most amazing thing is that some veterans in their forties and fifties, Yauzi, are as agile as monkeys. also deliberately left a part of the Cao army alive, following behind the butts of these fleeing Cao army heavy armor soldiers to avoid Cao Jun's arrows.

As a result, the last of these veteran oilers reached the front of the antlers and the rejection of horses.

The reason is that they followed the fleeing Cao Jun to a similar position, and directly stabbed the Cao Jun in front, and then carried the corpse of the Cao Jun as a shield. Then wait for the other Xiliang soldiers to advance before continuing to charge.

What is a similar position? That is the distance from Cao Jun that is still twenty or thirty meters, and it is a distance that can be reached by sprinting in a few seconds. These veterans stopped charging, and some even slept directly on the ground, letting Cao Jun's body lie on him. Regardless of Cao Jun's bows and crossbows, the arrows were all over the corpses above, but few of them hit him.

Seeing the performance of these veteran oils, Zhang Xiu instantly felt that the whole person was not good. It's no wonder that these soldiers can live so long. It turns out that I know the truth that whoever rushes up first dies the fastest!

To Zhang Xiu's relief, the Xiliang athletes were really brave. went up or suppressed Cao Jun's fighting, and held on until the follow-up troops came up. So that Zhang Xiujun has maintained an advantage in this breakthrough.

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