Chapter Eighty-Three: A Great Victory
The cavalry under Li Chen's command, relying on the power of the saddle and stirrups, not only sprinted fiercely, but the most important point was that he was still durable. As we all know, cavalry fights by nothing more than two kinds, one is long-range guerrilla, which is commonly speaking, rubbing. Relying on his mobility, he rubbed on the outside and did not rush inside. Such a method of warfare is disgusting, but in reality it does not inflict great casualties on the enemy.
The other is to charge, relying on the impact of cavalry to chisel the enemy's camp hard. However, this is a physically demanding job, and many cavalry don't last much time, so they soften, no, they should be weak.
Once the cavalry weakens in the middle of the way, it is a fatal act, and the cavalry gets caught in the infantry, and if it loses its mobility, it is really at the mercy of others.
Li Chen equipped the cavalry with stirrups and saddles, which could make the cavalry charge faster and fiercer, and on the other hand, it could also make the cavalrymen's staying power stronger. It can be said that stirrups and saddles have completely changed the ecological environment of the cavalry, so that the cavalry has staying power when it has explosive power.
As soon as Li Chen's cavalry was born, the first one to suffer was Cao Cao. Cao Cao's 20,000 infantry, which was killed, lost their armor and fled in all directions. is just this embarrassment, and it's not as good as the big girl after the big battle in bed.
Of course, whether it is Liu Bei or Cao Cao, these two are both talented in escaping. When they saw the unstoppable rout of the army, the two looked at each other and smiled, and then coincidentally changed into the clothes of ordinary soldiers. Then they all took a few cronies and went into the dense woods.
The actions of the two of them escaping are the same as before, and they can even be said to be exactly the same. If outsiders see it, they will definitely think that these two people have escaped from the same school.
Those who know the times are junjie, and those who know that they can't beat and don't run away are pure fools. Backbone, how much is backbone worth. As for the face, people like Cao Cao and Liu Bei, do they have things?
Li Chen, under the city of Xuzhou, defeated Cao Ang, Cao Zhi's army of 100,000, and now the army led by Cao Cao and Guo Jia is also in a rout. It can be said that Cao Cao's conquest of Xuzhou was basically at a big disadvantage.
The army still in Cao Cao's hands now is nothing more than the 100,000 rear army used by his second son Cao Pi to guard the grain road, and the routs collected in these two battles.
However, it is important to know that Cao Cao no longer has an advantage in terms of troops. However, Li Chen, as the defensive side, obviously now occupies the initiative in the entire battle situation.
On the one hand, he ordered his generals to pursue Cao's army, and on the other hand, he captured Cao's rout. In this era, soldiers have no place for faith or opinion. Whoever gives them food to eat, who pays them military salaries, whose banner hangs over their heads, then they are loyal to whomever they are.
Therefore, as long as these captured soldiers are domesticated a little, they can be quickly added to their own camp.
At this time, Lu Lingqi was still looking at her father's corpse and crying. Also, there is nothing more regrettable in the world than this. Almost, just a little bit to be able to save Lu Bu.
"Lingqi, stop crying."
"Your father doesn't want to see you like this in the spirit of the sky, your father died at the hands of Cao Liu and the second thief, remember this hatred, sooner or later, one day, this revenge will definitely be avenged." Li Chen looked at Lu Lingqi and said solemnly.
Li Chen could see that Lu Lingqi had a deep affection for Lu Bu, and at this time he had to give her a desire to live, and she couldn't let her think about it for a while.
After all, the little girl is quite handsome, and she is useless. If you find a short-term view, then you can only take advantage of the heat. (No, if you don't see it, cross it out, cross it out.) )
Lu Lingqi raised her head, looked at Li Chen with a firm gaze, her tone was solemn, and she said word by word: "The revenge of killing my father is not the same as Dai Tian, I, Lu Lingqi, will kill Cao Liu and the two thieves in this life." ”
"Wen Yuan, let's take the corpse of your lord back to Xiaopei first, and prepare it first, and plan for the next step."
"Brother Feng Xian entrusted my wife and son before he died, what a trust this is, I, Li Chen, will definitely not live up to Brother Fengxian. I swear that one day I will destroy Cao and Liu and sacrifice their heads in front of the grave of my brother. Li Chen solemnly promised.
"Thank you, Marshal." Zhang Liao bowed his hand to Li Chen and thanked him.
The group of people simply cleaned up Lu Bu's body, put his body on the back of the red rabbit horse, and rushed towards Xiao Pei under the escort of more than a thousand personal soldiers.
The Horse Leather Shroud seems to be the final destination of every general.
On the way back, the atmosphere was very dull, although Li Chen could be said to have won a big victory in this war, but it seemed that everyone was not as happy as they imagined.
At this time, Xiaopei was under the city.
Li Chen withdrew the cavalry, and the 40,000 infantry led by Liu Bowen and Guan Sheng rose up. In terms of troops, there is not much difference between the two sides, but you must know that Cao Jun has been fighting Xiaopeicheng for seven or eight days. Not to mention the low morale at this time, the most important thing is that Cao Jun is exhausted at this time.
Looking at Li Chen's side, he had just defeated Cao Ang's 100,000 army, and his morale was high, and in terms of physical strength, he was also completely defeated by Cao Jun.
Liu Bowen could see at a glance that Cao Jun's morale was low at this time, so he used a trick to expand his troops. What is the plan to expand the army is to let the soldiers open up the space, raise more flags, and make a mighty and boundless formation.
This plan to expand the army is actually a suspicious military plan, using an army of 40,000 people to fight the momentum of 100,000 people, so that the Cao army, which was already demoralized, fell into an illusion of being surrounded. Of course, there are disadvantages to everything, and the disadvantage of this strategy is that once the formation is thinned, although the number of people seems to be too large, if Cao Jun sees through Liu Bowen's strategy and resists stubbornly, it will not be effective for the entire occupation.
However, it seems to be Li Chen, the favor of heaven. Guo Jia was chased by Yuwen Chengdu before, and there will be no shadow of this running. In fact, it's not that Guo Jia wants to run, but those generals who run with him. These partial generals all know Guo Jia's status in Cao Cao's heart, not to mention the 100,000 army, even the 300,000 army is not as important as a Guo Jia in Cao Cao's eyes.
Therefore, these generals are now not allowed to take risks against Guo Jia no matter what, and they have long since run away with Guo Jia. At this time, Cao Jun was just a few partial generals who were not outstanding in command.
How can there be soldiers and no generals to win the battle, so the battle under Xiaopei City also ended with Liu Bowen and Guan Sheng's victory.
In the two major battles under the city of Xuzhou and under the city of Xiaopei, the Cao army killed and captured at least 100,000 soldiers. And most of the remaining more than 100,000 are scattered, and how much these scattered soldiers can gather depends entirely on Cao Cao's luck.