Gao Ran's encouragement, all the cavalry generals under his command were excited, and it seemed that even the war horses under their crotch could no longer bear it, and they couldn't stop roaring in a low voice, and they were about to try.

In this era, in order to encourage generals to use their lives, in any army, the reward for meritorious service is much heavier than that of other meritorious personnel.

And now the first merit of the Yuan army's southward march this time is simply within reach for Gao Ran's cavalry.

After all, their cavalry was so elite that it would be easy for them to defeat 20,000 Cao troops, and they didn't even have an hour on the banks of the Yellow River last time.

This time, the army of 100,000 watched them perform from behind, and they should have fought more beautifully, so that everyone could be convinced.

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Besides, Cao Hong led the army to fight Yuan's army for a while, and quickly retreated, thinking that Yuan Shao would send a large army to chase and kill him.

As a result, I ran for several miles, and when I looked back, I didn't even see a single hair......

Cao Hong suddenly felt like a fool, harassing a strong man on the street, thinking that he could provoke the strong man and come to him desperately.

I didn't expect the strong man to take him for a fool.

Ignore him at all, turn a blind eye to his harassment, and look like you don't know as much as you do.

"Pass the order, go back with me, don't hurt Yuan Shao this time, and swear not to withdraw the army."

Cao Hong was despised and gritted his teeth to give the order.

At the sound of an order, Cao Jun turned back and rushed straight towards the marching Yuan Jun, but Yuan Jun still ignored them.

At this time, every Cao soldier was enraged, and he was also a foot soldier, who did he look down on?

The soldiers bared their teeth and rushed forward.

"Stop!"

Cao Hong suddenly ordered to stop, Yuan Jun would never dare to hold it up to the extent that his 20,000 soldiers were nothing, the scene in front of him was too weird, like an ambush.

Isn't this any different from Xiahou Yuan's ambush on the banks of the Yellow River?

Cao's army was still a stone's throw away from Yuan's army, and the array stopped attacking.

Immediately afterwards, I saw a sudden smoke and dust in the distance, accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves like a torrential rain from far and near.

It turned out that Gao Ran had been hiding in a high place to spy on Cao Jun's movements.

He saw that Cao's army was cautious and no longer moved forward, so he couldn't wait to lead his cavalry out of the hollow.

In fact, this distance is nothing for the cavalry, a charge, a few breaths can kill the front, and there is no need to worry about startling the snake and letting the Cao army escape.

However, Gao Ran is also an experienced general, and he has a lot of experience in commanding cavalry battles.

He did not give the order to charge immediately, but commanded the cavalry to stop on the opposite side in a majestic manner, retaining the distance of that stone's throw away, so as to mentally deter Cao's army.

He had to wait until the morale of Cao's army dropped to the verge of collapse, and then lead his army to kill him, so that he could defeat Cao's army without much effort.

Winning is not the most important thing when you have the upper hand.

A good general should know how to achieve victory at the lowest cost.

And Cao Jun on the opposite side really had a trace of panic.

20,000 lightly armed foot soldiers, in the eyes of 8,000 cavalry, is like fish and meat, the opponent only needs a few charges, they can rush to pieces, and then only the part left to be slaughtered at will.

A few people slowly retreated with spears, and Cao Hong ordered the soldiers around him: "Pass the order, those who retreat without permission will be killed!" ”

The soldiers immediately rode their horses and shouted an order in the army: "The general has an order, and those who retreat without authorization will be killed!" ”

"Those who retreat without permission will be killed!"

Although Cao Cao had previously earnestly advised Cao Hong not to fight head-on with the Yuan army, but to fight and retreat, and to attack and delay, but now that they are not dead and are being targeted by the cavalry of the Yuan army, how can their foot soldiers outrun the cavalry?

Since there is no way to escape, it is better to fight with Yuan Jun, and fight to the death, so as to reduce the pressure on Guandu.

Sure enough, there was Cao Hong's strict order, although Cao Jun was timid, no one dared to retreat, and the palms of the spears were covered with cold sweat.

"Woo———— woo————"

At this moment, suddenly there was a sound of horns in my ears.

The Central Plains people also used horns and war drums to transmit signals in wars, but now this horn is blowing like a complaint, they seem to be familiar, but they seem to have never heard it.

"I have not given an order, who is blowing his trumpet?" Cao Hong scolded angrily: "Don't take it for me quickly!" ”

The guards followed the sound and hurried to find the person who blew the horn......

On the other side, Gao Ran heard that Cao Jun had blown the horn of attack, and sneered: "This is looking for death, preparing to attack!" ”

Gao Ran expected that the time was almost up, and the soldiers of the Cao army were probably on the verge of collapse in their hearts, and blowing the trumpet of attack was just to cheer themselves up.

However, the strength is not good, no matter how hard you cheer up, you will still be slaughtered by him in the end.

"Huh, what's going on?"

Suddenly, a horse beside him neighed, raised its front hooves high, lifted off the cavalry, and rushed backwards.

"Chirp tweet!"

Immediately afterwards, more and more of the wild horses in his array gradually exceeded half.

As if they had suddenly gone mad, the horses threw their horsemen off with their hooves, and then rushed and fled like headless flies.

The cavalry formation of the Yuan army was suddenly confused by the impact of the Crazy Horse, and there were countless soldiers who fell off the horses, most of them couldn't dodge, crying and shouting for their mothers one by one, and were trampled to death and injured by the Crazy Horse.

Many people's intestines were trampled out, and the scene was terrible.

"What's going on? What the hell is going on? ”

Gao Ran was in a hurry, and he was about to defeat Cao Jun to grab the lead, but his eyes turned into elbows and armpits, and in a blink of an eye, his horses were half crazy, what was going on?

"Woo-woo-woo-"

Suddenly, I heard the sound of Cao Jun's horn on the other side seem to have changed its tone, becoming rapid and impassioned.

And more and more frightened horses on his side, more than six thousand of the eight thousand, began to raise their hooves and neigh, as if they heard a terrible sound, and turned back and began to flee.

Behind is the marching Yuan's foot soldiers, so many crazy horses rushed over, wouldn't they crush the soldiers on their own side?

"Stop, stop!"

Gao Ran shouted loudly, but how could they stop the startled horses?

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On Cao Jun's side, the guards quickly followed the sound to find Butu who was blowing the trumpet.

The soldiers also knew that this person was sent by Pinggongzi, so although he had Cao Hong's military order, he didn't dare to do it.

"Don't blow it, you're in trouble, you know? The general is angry, even if Ping Gongzi supports you, it's useless, why don't you go with me to see the general to ask for guilt? ”

"Don't stand in the way, let him blow! Keep blowing! At this time, Cao Hong shouted loudly from afar.

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