Chapter 29: Ambush

The role of the tripping horse rope is very great against the cavalry.

If there is no ambush at the beginning, then the cavalry that rushes to the front will stumble.

After the person turns on his back, the coherent effect is greater. The horses in the front row fell and were directly paralyzed on the ground, and the follow-up cavalry would still rush up because of inertia.

However, if the cavalry in front fell to the ground, they could not jump over, but they would only trip over the horses in front of them, forming a continuous effect, and the cavalry who rushed up all fell to the ground at this time.

Even if some people stop their horses and stop the car in time, if a cavalry rushes up in the future, they will still be knocked down, forming a crash and fall effect.

In the blink of an eye, one-third of Cao's thousands of cavalry fell to the ground.

The cavalry who fell to the ground was okay to say, and some of them were directly trampled by the war horses behind, and the horses' hooves trampled on the soldiers' bodies, so that these cavalrymen of the official army were killed and wounded.

Before Liu Zheng's people could make a move, some of these officers and soldiers had already died.

And Liu Zheng's side started an ambush battle with the pull of the tripping horse rope and an order.

Seven thousand soldiers and horses, Liu Zheng arranged 5,000 people here, the purpose is to have a head-to-head battle with the pursuing soldiers here, kill the opponent by surprise, and take advantage of the large number of people to achieve the effect of intimidation, so that the Cao army can not form a good battle formation in the chaos.

The Yellow Turban Army, which was surrounded on both sides of the official road, rushed out frantically at this time, and those with bows and arrows in their hands first carried out a wave of random shooting, and launched a shot at the official cavalry.

After the first wave of arrows ended, a row of soldiers and horses with spears in hand rushed forward under the command of Xu You, wanting to hold the battle first, so that Cao Jun, who had not yet recovered from the panic, entered the battle first, and could not remount his horse.

When the Yellow Turban Thief ran out, Cao Cao was shocked, although he already knew that he had been ambushed, but he did not expect that there would be so many Yellow Turban troops here.

Thousands of people swarmed up and immediately surrounded their cavalry.

And Cao Cao also understood that the Yellow Turban Army was not terrible, even if there were thousands of people here, it was not terrible to put it in front of him, he only needed hundreds of cavalry to be able to wipe out these Yellow Turban Army.

Because he has experienced so many battles with the Yellow Turban Army, he has already understood that as long as the Yellow Turban Army is defeated, the army will be defeated faster than any soldier or horse.

"Don't panic, form a formation! The fallen person immediately mounts the horse, impact, don't panic! ”

If you want to protect your life surrounded by so many Yellow Turban troops, you don't need much strength, you just need these cavalry in front of you to stabilize the formation and not be frightened, it's enough.

So Cao Cao soon began to command his troops and horses, so that these cavalry could start to deal with the Yellow Turban thieves outside.

But these cavalry in ambush are not so easy to stabilize at all. Even those soldiers on their horses can adjust their condition in a very short time. Those war horses that tripped and fell to the ground could not get back up in such a short time.

The frightened horses have begun to flee in all directions. It further hindered Cao Jun's time to regain his composure.

At this time, the Yellow Turban Army on Fengyun's side had already killed Cao Jun, and the two sides were officially fighting.

The remnants of hundreds of cavalry began to fight quickly with Fengyun's men and horses under the leadership of Cao Cao.

But soon these Cao Jun realized that these people who were ambushed here were clearly prepared. The pace of the attack was clear.

After some of the arrows were over, dozens of war horses galloped not far away, and under the leadership of Zhou Cang and Xu Huang, they re-killed Cao Jun.

In just one shot, these officers and cavalry were killed by these yellow turban thieves. At least a third of the cavalry could not continue the battle.

The Cao army, which originally used thousands of cavalry, at this time, was only able to participate in the battle of more than 600 people.

Moreover, these more than 600 people, they have to face an enemy ten times their size, and in the absence of a wide area for them to charge, the advantage of cavalry is not obvious.

In the narrow official road, if the cavalry's charge cannot be displayed, then it will fight hard with the infantry, and the advantage is not obvious, and even some yellow turban thieves with spears can easily pick off the Cao soldiers on the horses.

More and more Cao's cavalry began to lose, and Cao Cao began to worry deeply while slaying the Yellow Turban Army hard.

Cao Hong was by Cao Cao's side, and after seeing the current situation, he already understood that it would be difficult for these cavalry in front of him to defeat these Yellow Turban Army at such a time.

"Cao Gong, it's not good, the morale of our army has plummeted, and those who were killed by these Yellow Turban troops have been defeated, and it is difficult to hold on!"

Cao Cao pulled the long sword in his hand out of the body of a Yellow Turban Army, with red blood on it, to end a Yellow Turban Army, Cao Cao raised his eyes and saw that the cavalry under his command began to show a lot of damage, and after the morale was low, he understood that he could not continue to fight with these Yellow Turban Army here.

"Cao Hong, quickly order the withdrawal of the troops, withdraw from the ambush circle first, these Yellow Turban Army are not the ones we met before, these people have good training quality, they are not afraid of death, and they can't fight hard with them!"

Cao Cao immediately ordered the remnants of Cao's army to retreat immediately.

If he fights with these Yellow Turban Army, Cao Cao is not sure of victory, even if he wins by luck in the end, the losses of the thousand cavalry under his command will definitely be extremely heavy, and those who can survive in the end are afraid that there are not many people.

So in order to preserve his strength, Cao Cao had to retreat, only to evacuate to a safe place, relying on the remnants of the cavalry, in a wide place, and then fight with these Yellow Turban thieves, at that time, it is difficult to say who wins and who loses.

That's why Cao Cao had to order a retreat.

The cavalry retreated quite quickly.

After Cao Cao gave the order, they began to run, and they only needed to lead their horses over the crowd to get out of the battle.

But not all people can get out of the battle, after all, there are still some people who are entangled by the Yellow Turban Thief, who can't get out of the battle directly, and even if they do, they will definitely be injured.

The battle lasted less than a stick of incense, and Cao's army began to retreat in a bustling manner.

About four or five hundred people, retreating from the ambush site, ran back.

But just after Cao Cao relaxed a little and thought that his men had run out of the ambush point, the two thousand men and horses that Liu Zheng had assigned to the past rushed out of the jungle on both sides at this time, blocking Cao's army's retreat.