Chapter 6612: The Defeat of Cao's Army (Medium)
made up his mind, Liu Bei immediately asked Chen Zhi to personally pick people and made a promise.
Then the army marched out and left Bishui Pass.
And Guo Jia also received the news specially transmitted by Liu Bei, smiled faintly, and said to everyone: "King Yi thinks that he can drag us down by doing this, but how does he know that the battle situation is always in our hands!" ”
"Hahaha!" Everyone laughed when they heard this.
After that, Guo Jia and Huang Xu withdrew their troops and returned to Chang'an, preparing to complete the siege of Ma Teng and Han Sui as planned, leaving only 2,000 cavalry troops stationed outside Bishui Pass, waiting to receive Bishui Pass.
Zhang Liao also received the news, but the order he received was-
"Delay the return of the wing army to the south as much as possible, and kill the wing army as much as possible, so as to impress them."
As for the mountain army led by Chu Yan, they disappeared after defeating the wing army, and no one knew where they went, including Guo Jia, Gao Shun and others, only Gongsun Du knew about it.
Zhang Liao faithfully fulfilled Gao Shun's orders and led the cavalry to constantly harass the retreating wing army. This attack killed dozens of people, that time it attacked and killed more than a hundred people, and at the end of the day, the losses of the wing army exceeded a thousand.
Liu Bei let the cavalry in the army be the queen, but it was still useless, but let Zhang Liao seize the opportunity to kill a wave fiercely, otherwise Guan Yu's speed of reinforcement was too fast, and I was afraid that the loss would be a few points greater. Even so, the cavalry lost more than five hundred, which can be called heavy.
Guan Yu was so angry that he led his troops to pursue, but the Ming army was fast, and after being beaten by the Ming army obviously walking them and losing dozens of horses, he finally came to his senses and immediately retreated.
Zhang Liao did not pursue, but after resting, he caught up with the wing army and attacked again, which really annoyed Liu Bei, and wanted to return to fight several times, but was dissuaded by Zhuge Liang and Ma Liang.
Not to mention the difficulty of the return journey of the Wing Army, looking back at the sour dates, Cao Jun was deliberately pulled by Gao Shun and lost more than 1,000 people, so he simply stopped the battle and cowered in the camp.
Gao Shun didn't have the idea of going to war, so he simply rested before the decisive battle, and didn't even send someone to provoke. Maybe there will be some results in the teasing, but in the same way, it is also possible to arouse Cao Jun's heart to fight to the death, and the gains outweigh the losses.
The jujube fell into an eerie calm until three days later, when the calm was broken.
"Governor, there's news back!"
"Read!"
"Cao Ren sent troops from Dong'e, crossed the Yellow River in the north, and the two cities of Dongwuyang and Yangping."
"Cao Ren?"
Gao Shun was taken aback, and immediately asked, "Who is guarding these two cities?" ”
"Back to the governor, it's Zhang Hu."
"Zhang Hu?" Gao Shun was surprised, "Why does it sound so familiar?" Who is this person? ”
"His father is Zhang Liao."
"It turned out to be him."
Gao Shun was stunned, and then relieved: "Then it's no problem." ”
"Ladies and gentlemen."
Then he looked straight and said: "Cao Ren has moved, Cao Cao will never just look at it, the big war is coming, are you ready?" ”
"Battle~"
The generals roared in unison, and it could be seen that they had already held their breath and were waiting to vent. Only Chen Deng knew that this was caused by Gao Shun's deliberate suppression before.
Gao Shun nodded towards Chen Deng without a trace, he didn't think that he could hide the long history, if that was the case, was it necessary to appoint such a long history?
"Knock Knock ......"
The rumbling drums sounded in the two camps of the Ming Army and the Cao Army, and the decisive battle -
Imminent!
The battle flag is fluttering, the flag is fierce, and the fighting spirit is high!
"Today, it's time to completely defeat Cao Jun!"
In the fortress of war, Gao Shun stared at Cao Jun in the distance, but his heart was extremely calm, and he was not half nervous. The officers and men in the army are not nervous, some are just-
The thirst for victory!
"Kill~"
Without waiting for Cao's army to dispatch, Gao Shun gave an order, and the war fortress took the initiative to attack for the first time.
Although Cao Cao was a little surprised, he immediately gave the order to attack.
However, as soon as Cao Jun dispatched, Gao Shun smiled strangely and made a new change.
With a few "clangs", under the dumbfounded eyes of Cao Cao and others, the huge war fortress collapsed. Wrong, it's like childbirth, out of one big one, eight small ones.
"Not good!"
Cao Cao didn't dare to despise them because he was small, on the contrary, his heart was full of solemnity.
Cheng Yu saw his worries and comforted: "The war is changing rapidly, and anything can happen. But they have become smaller, albeit in more numerous. But the power will inevitably be much lower than before, at least if it is under siege, it will not be so easy to lift. ”
Cao Cao had no choice but to settle down when he heard this, looking forward to the success of the follow-up plan.
However, what no one noticed was that at this time, Gao Shun quietly broke away from the war fortress and mixed in with the cavalry that was roaming around before.
The soldiers of the Cao army met the small war fortress and surrounded it without saying a word, without thinking about why they could approach so easily. Then the crossbows of the locusts in the fortress told them why.
In just an instant, Cao Jun sacrificed more than 3,000 soldiers and injured thousands. It is indeed not much compared to the huge number of Cao Jun, but this is only a moment.
"It's time for the show!"
The corners of Gao Shun's mouth hooked, and he shouted: "Don't look at it, you guys should outflank it from both wings immediately, and the governor of Pontus will defeat Cao's army in one fell swoop and completely establish the victory." ”
"Yes, Governor."
Tens of thousands of Ming troops roared and detoured to both wings. After that, tens of thousands of Ming troops slowly pressed up and gave a powerful deterrent.
Cheng Yu and Jia Xu naturally expected this and would not be unprepared. Without waiting for the roundabout Ming army to arrive, the flanks of the Cao army were covered with small horses, which were said to be small because their height was not as high as the horse's legs, and they could be easily crossed with a slight jump. However, they couldn't resist these small base horses covering a range of more than ten zhang on the side, and did not give the Ming army a chance to approach at all.
"Hehe, do you think this will stop us?"
Gao Shun sneered and shouted, "Order, continue to circulate!" In addition, our heavy riders have been waiting for a long time, and it is time to go out and let them go head-on. The Pontus governor told them to crush Cao's army from the front. ”
"Yes, Governor."
Boom, boom, boom ~ bang bang ~
The explosion of fireworks made the somewhat overwhelmed Ming cavalry continue to detour, as if they were going to go around behind Cao Cao.
At the same time, there was a group of guys covered in black who appeared on the battlefield for the first time. Just like the appearance of the war fortress at the beginning, it attracted the attention of Cao Cao and others in an instant.
"What's that?"
Cao Cao felt something bad in his heart and asked urgently.
"The prime minister forgives his sins, but the ministers don't know."
"I don't need you to be convicted, I want you to know what the hell this is!" Cao Cao was furious and scolded everyone.
Cheng Yu shook his head and was silent, Jia Xu groaned for a while, and said, "Prime Minister, this may be cavalry." ”
"Nonsense, the appearance is not blind, and it is not possible that this is a cavalry?" Cao Cao didn't have a good airway.
Jia Xu corrected: "To be precise, it is a heavy cavalry like heavy infantry, the kind of heavy cavalry with full armor and a very powerful impact. ”
"What?" Cao Cao was furious, his eyes widened, and he stretched his neck, intending to take a closer look, but he didn't have binoculars, he could only see that they were cavalry, and he couldn't see whether they were all covered in armor.
Boom Boom Boom ......
Even if there are only a few thousand heavy cavalry, once they move, their formation is very large.
There is no need to get closer, Cao Cao already knew the result, and his face sank suddenly-
"Heavy cavalry indeed! What should we do now? ”
Jia Xu felt Cao Cao's sword-like gaze, and his heart couldn't help but ripple, but he could only shake his head and say: "The minister has never seen the heavy cavalry, but he just guesses, and he doesn't know how to deal with it." Then he tentatively suggested: "However, the heavy cavalry must be cumbersome, and not as agile as the light cavalry in the process, and it may be possible to find a way out of it." ”
"Then think about it." Cao Cao said undoubtedly.
Cheng Yu and Jia Xu both thought quickly on the battlefield with bitter faces.
Cao Cao wouldn't just look at it, calling out the crossbowmen to meet the enemy. He thought that even if he couldn't kill the enemy, he could at least stop him.
"It's not good-looking, but it's beautiful when I think about it."
Gao Shun clearly saw Cao Cao's response in the telescope, and couldn't help but sneer on his face.
After Cao Cao's special request, the improved bow and crossbow made did have a different power, but it was for light horses. And it was not the cavalry soldiers themselves who were killed, but the horses on which they sat down.
The heavy cavalry with war horses and armor was taken care of by the crossbowmen of the Cao army. However, it didn't work, not even lag. Almost all of the arrows that fell on the heavy cavalry were bounced off, except for a few unlucky ones, who were unlucky, were shot by the arrows at the junction between the armor. However, it did not penetrate the armor either, but stuck on it.
"This ......"
Cao Cao was stunned, and Cheng Yu and Jia Xu were also the same, full of consternation.
"Prime Minister, you can only try it with tripping horses and small horses, if it doesn't work, this battle will be changed by these heavy horses." At this time, Jia Xu finally gave a suggestion.
"Good!"
Cao Cao had no choice but to use a dead horse as a live horse doctor.
Collapse Collapse ......
The tripping rope slowed down the speed of the heavy cavalry slightly, but everyone underestimated the impact of the heavy cavalry, and the tripping rope was either broken, or the Cao soldiers who were pulling the tripping rope with Chongfei rushed inexorably, and then unstoppably rushed into the small base horse formation, knocking them away one by one.
"Retreat, Prime Minister!"
Cao Cao glared at Cheng Yu angrily, and waited for him to shut up before turning back and saying, "All the shield soldiers come forward, be sure to stop them." ”