Chapter 194: Heroic Sacrifice
The soldiers stepped forward to support him, found a simple sedan chair made of bamboo poles, and carried Cao Cao to walk.
The soldiers rushed away, and Cao Cao's internal organs were twisted together...... Looking at the strong men of Cao Jun who were struggling in the flames, gradually falling down in pain, and being burned to black charcoal, he couldn't help but close his eyes in pain......
"Bypass the fire ahead, be sure to catch up with them and hack them to death! Crush them to ashes......"
So Cao Hong, Zhang Ji and other generals led the army to chase after them......
Jingzhou soldiers and horses launched a wave of arrow rain to block, how can the Cao army impact bravely, coupled with the protection of the giant shield, it seems that it is about to be crushed by the enemy, the warriors of Jingzhou soldiers and horses brandished the blue light of the sword, and began to fight with the enemy.
The crossbowmen knew that they could not escape this time, so they calmly gathered their heavy crossbows and compound bows together, and lit a fire. Then they withdrew their long knives and began to fight with the scriptures.
After two or three hours of fighting, 5,000 soldiers and horses in Jingzhou died heroically.
Their general's name was Liu Bu, who was the son of Liu Xuande, and when Liu Xuande was under Liu Biao, he temporarily stationed troops in Xinye, and took in an orphan among the southbound refugees. He is only 18 years old.
Liu Bu was carrying more than two dozen orphans at that time, but he stood out among the dirty and smelly homeless people, because although they were wearing clothes made of various rags and bark, their heads and faces were clean!
They had sharpened hardwood sticks in their hands, and Liu Bu even had a wooden stick with a spearhead in his hand!
They are very cautious, and they are completely obedient to Liu Bu's orders when they do anything......
Liu Bei liked this teenager very much, and took this group of people to bathe them, change their clothes, and raise them in the army, although they were only thirteen or fourteen years old at that time, and they were malnourished for a long time and were very thin......
However, although Liu Bu is thin, as long as he is full, he has a lot of strength!
He told Liu Bei that he had killed people, and there were some evil old bachelors among the homeless people, and when they were hungry, they would catch some children who were unattended to eat!
The child they had taken in was also coveted, and in order to protect themselves, they all carried sharpened sticks, or sticks tied with sharp stones......
Together, they had slain three of these cannibal demons, and the spearhead had been snatched from one of them!
Zhang Fei likes Liu Bu very much, thinking that this kid will have a future and a promising person, who has been different from others since he was a child, very eye-catching and outstanding!
Liu Bei then accepted Liu Bu as a righteous son to raise, Zhang Fei personally taught him for three years, learned a good martial arts, Zhang Fei's marksmanship is true, and he is a little tiger general. Later, he fought with Zhuge Liang, learned the art of war, was good at strategy, and at a young age, he also experienced the test of real battlefield fighting.
This time, Liu Xuande received Zhuge Liang's request to cooperate with the action, and when he asked the generals for advice, Liu Bu took the initiative to ask for help.
Liu Bu thinks that this kind of play of cutting off the head and pinching the tail is really a clever plan.
It's just that Liu Xuande still wants to hold Li Dian by the river and let him delay his eastward advance for a while, so that Ling Tong can fight at ease in Yuzhou, fight more fiercely, and force Cao Cao to withdraw his troops as soon as possible.
So Liu Bu put forward his own strategy, Liu Xuande felt that although this plan was a bit risky, but it was not impossible, since this kid had the heart to make contributions, he couldn't stop him, and he had to fulfill him, not to mention that in terms of the overall strategic situation, Zhuge Liang needed to bite Cao Cao hard.
So Liu Xuande approved Liu Bu's plan of action, gave him 5,000 men, and asked him to arrange his own actions.
Liu Bu then ordered the soldiers to bring enough saltpeter, sulfur, pine resin, anointing oil and other things that ignited fire, and immediately set out for camp, cutting down some trees along the way, finding some straw and thatch, and every night when they set up camp, everyone set up fire and light, and began to tie these straw men, burned the wooden stakes black, and dyed the straw men black with these black charcoals, in order to look more realistic, they even made some straw helmets and mud helmets, and all of them were dyed black.
This effect looked absolutely realistic from a distance, and then each soldier had to carry four or five of these straw men and wooden stakes, and finally arrived at the preset battlefield, and they put these straw men and wooden stakes on the ground according to the formation of the troops, and smeared the fire-causing things on the straw people and wooden stakes, and the ground was also sprinkled with fire-causing things.
The scout reported that Cao Cao's vanguard was about to arrive, and that the deployment had just been completed.
Liu Bu ordered that there should be a real pawn between four or five straw men and wooden stakes, and all the soldiers waved their flags and shouted together, so that a very magnificent situation was formed.
It just so happened that this situation was encountered by the vanguard led by Cao Mao!
Cao Mao really inspected it, and then came to the conclusion that the enemy had forty or fifty thousand people, and he could not attack rashly, so he reported to the Chinese army.
So Cao Cao encountered this situation of being cut off by others.
In the end, he called back and forth, which made Cao Cao feel a deep sense of powerlessness.
Cao Cao was close to collapse, and finally he ordered to catch up with all odds, no matter what the cost, to annihilate the enemy who was in front of him.
This time, as Cao Cao wished, it was true that the 5,000 people brought by Liu Bu were all killed by them without exception.
However, the fire in the grass and wood people in front of them burned five or six thousand people of Cao's army, and the whole army rushed up desperately, wanting to destroy these five thousand people, and they also paid the price of nearly 10,000 people, plus the rear army was cut off by the water flow, and was burned to death in the mountains by the fire or had surrendered, calculated that Cao Cao lost more than 25,000 people.
And the enemy's losses are a fraction of their own. When the battle damage was reported, Cao Cao spurted another mouthful of blood, and arched his hand to the north and said: "Your Majesty, if you knew this, you should have listened to your words early and withdrew to preserve your ......strength."
At this time, Cao Cao felt deeply trapped in the quagmire and was bitten hard...... When I think of the soldiers and horses scattered everywhere, I don't know how much the battle damage is!
I thought of Xiahoudun, Zhang Liao and others who were left to attack Xiangyang (Cao Cao integrated the troops and horses, left Zhang Liao's troops behind, and took care of each other with Xiahoudun!) My heart burned like frying......
Wang Zhirong and Zhuge Liang definitely didn't hold back any good fart! I have fought all my life, and now I am careful everywhere, but I capsize everywhere...... Those young generals...... Alas!
Cao Cao squirted a mouthful of blood...... The complexion is dark!
"Lord, you have to take care of your body, you can't be angry or worried about the battle situation! You must take the rest of our soldiers and quickly go down to Jiangdong to force Ling Tong to return to the army, thus relieving the crisis in Xudu........." Zhang Ji bowed and said.
"You're right, now is not the time to be angry, and it's not the time to complain!
Cheer up, our strength is still there, we must take everyone through here to attack Jiangdong! That's the real thing!
Tell everyone that the Jiangdong thieves are all short and weak vegetable melons, and everyone goes east to cut melons and cut vegetables to annihilate them...... Don't get entangled with the thieves in Jingzhou! ”
"My lord! What should I do next, you give orders!"
"Command the whole army, speed up! Liu Bei's thieves sent more than 8,000 horses to intercept the attack, indicating that they were fighting with Li Dian by the river, and we would speed up and attack back and forth, maybe we could annihilate the 20,000 people under him and avenge our dead soldiers! Then the two armies will join forces and attack Jiangdong together!"
"Whoa!"