Chapter 271: The Great War Begins
"What is Cao Cao doing here!?" Early in the morning, Ma Chao looked at the wolf smoke rising from more than a dozen camps in the distance, and was a little confused, this signal represents the Cao army's army coming out together, too exaggerated, right?
Just because he scolded Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan yesterday, Cao Cao wanted to go out with a large army, which is too exaggerated, right? That Cao Cao's old thief can't hold his breath like this?
After being stunned for a while, Ma Chao hurriedly ordered his generals to release wolf smoke, no matter what, if Cao Jun really came out with a large army, he would definitely not be able to stand it.
"Meng Qi, go and take a look first, assist in the defense!" Pang De and Zhang Ji found Ma Chao and summed up.
Chen Mo's soldiers and horses couldn't be assembled for a while, and even if Cao Cao was dispatched with the whole army, he couldn't get in for a while, and their cavalry who were responsible for galloping could just attack and harass and buy time for Chen Mo, which was also the strategy set by Chen Mo at the beginning.
"Good!" Ma Chao nodded, just as he wanted, immediately ordered the cavalry, joined forces with Pang De and Zhang Xiu, led a large force of cavalry to attack, and went to contain Cao's army.
On the Yecheng side, Chen Mo also received a report from his subordinate generals, and the signal of the Cao army's army attacking sounded on the front line.
Last night, I thought that Cao Cao was almost time to gather troops for a decisive battle, but today came the news, and he really had no last resort!
"All the generals assemble and follow me out of the city to meet the battle." After Chen Mo ordered Zhen Mi to be sent to Hanoi, he ordered the soldiers of the three armies to assemble and go out of the city to face the battle, Cao Cao guessed correctly, from the beginning, Chen Mo did not think about relying on Yecheng to defend, that was the last resort.
In Yecheng, the wolf smoke rose, which represented the signal of the assembly of the battalions, and soon spread to all directions, and the soldiers of the 128th battalion quickly assembled to the east of Yecheng, the scene was quite spectacular, but orderly.
Cao Cao stood on the wheel, looked at the scene in the distance, turned his head to look at Guo Jia, shook his head and sighed: "I was really said by Feng Xiao." ”
"Lord!" Xiahou Yuan came to Cao Cao's frame and saluted Cao Cao: "Why don't you take this opportunity to win first?" ”
It will inevitably take time for Chen Mo's army to assemble, but Cao's army began to assemble in the middle of the night, in this regard, Cao Cao has the advantage, breaking Chen Mo's battalions first, even if it can't cause victory, he can also suppress Chen Mo in morale first.
"Yes!" Cao Cao nodded, this is war, but there is no etiquette.
At that moment, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren went to war, wanting to break through several camps of Chen Mo first, and take the lead for Cao's army.
It's just that as soon as the army came out, I saw Ma Chao, Pang De, and Zhang Xiu leading the cavalry to arrive.
"It's this gutless rat again!?" Ma Chao saw the soldiers and horses led by Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren, and was immediately excited, and led the troops to rush forward to kill, Pang De and Zhang Xiu saw this, and each led the troops out from the two wings, so that Cao Jun could not meet Ma Chao with all his strength.
Seeing this, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren hurriedly formed a circle formation to defend against the enemy.
"Cao thief, dare to come out to fight!?" Ma Chao saw that the other party formed a circle formation, and directly led the troops to cross the two of them, came to the front of the Cao army's formation, and led the soldiers and horses to give the other party a spear throwing array first, and after most of them were blocked by the opponent's shield, he stopped the war horse and yelled at the Cao army.
"Who is this?" Cao Cao looked at Ma Chao, who still had a medicinal cloth tied to his shoulders in front of the formation, but he was especially imposing, and asked.
"This is Xiliang Ma Chao, Ma Mengqi, in the past, Han Sui and Ma Teng were defeated, Han Sui died, Ma Teng was under Chen Mo and became the Jincheng Taishou, but this Ma Chao followed Chen Mo to fight in the north and south." Cheng Yu said with a smile.
"Something interesting! Under Bo Dao, there are really everyone. Cao Cao nodded, looking at Ma Chao holding the horse with one arm, shouting in front of the battle, a little funny, he remembered that Xiahou Yuan and Cao Ren came back yesterday to report, it was this person, pointed at Ma Chao and said: "Who is going to frustrate this person's spirit?" ”
"The last will go!" A military general answered, and led his soldiers and horses to kill Ma Chao, but he saw that Ma Chao was injured and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity.
"Good time!" Ma Chao saw that someone was coming to fight, and he was overjoyed at the moment, and led the people and horses to attack the opponent.
There are not many cavalry of 2,000, but the number of men and horses on the other side is about the same, and the generals are obviously not Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan.
To put it mildly, in fact, it is not wrong, in these years, the role of cavalry is mainly to attack, frontal combat is not the opponent of infantry, but it also depends on which side of the cavalry, Xiliang cavalry, but equipped with horse armor, and the strength of horse armor is stronger than the armor on many generals.
Ma Chao saw that the other party wanted to fight hard, and he was immediately overjoyed, and led the cavalry to surge.
"Click~"
The spears pierced by the rod were shattered, some were stabbed on the people, and the knights on horseback were directly pushed down, and they were trampled into flesh by the cavalry that followed in an instant, but more, it was surging, the sturdy horse armor broke the spear, rushed into the crowd, and the slashing saber slashed left and right, and rushed out of a bloody road in the Cao army, which was actually in the head-on collision, and the Cao army was crushed to collapse.
Cao Cao was a little surprised when he saw this, and he also saw the extraordinaryness of this cavalry, and hurriedly shouted: "Zihe, I will block the horses!" ”
"Whoa!" Cao Chun had already assembled the tiger and leopard horse, so he was on Cao Cao's side, immediately agreed, and led eight hundred tiger and leopard horsemen to kill and meet Ma Chao.
Seeing this, Ma Chao only thought it was an ordinary cavalryman, and immediately collided with it fiercely.
But this cavalry is the strongest tiger and leopard cavalry under Cao Cao's command, how can it be so easy to defeat, it is also on horse armor, and the soldiers are like trapped in the camp, eliminated layer by layer, which can be said to be the elite of the elite.
The two teams collided together, and after a moment of fighting, it was the tiger and leopard cavalry with a small number of people who had the advantage, and the cavalry led by Ma Chaosu was divided into two.
Ma Chao didn't expect that there was such a team of men and horses under Cao Cao's command, after the soldiers and horses on both sides staggered, he looked at the remaining soldiers around him, and was a little surprised in his heart, roared angrily, and killed the tiger and leopard cavalry again, but this time it was a worse defeat, and the cavalry under his command lost more than half, and was defeated by the tiger and leopard cavalry.
Ma Chao didn't expect that there was such a team of men and horses under Cao Cao's command, and seeing that his soldiers and horses were scattered, he was also a little helpless, so he had to take the remnants of the army to bypass and let Pang De and Zhang Xiu come over to clean up the mess.
Although the tiger and leopard cavalry is strong, but with Ma Chao's soldiers and horses to fight hard, there are a lot of losses, Cao Cao saw Zhang Xiu, Pang De two generals led the troops to kill, and quickly ordered the tiger and leopard cavalry to withdraw, and ordered Cao Hong to lead the infantry to the front to resist the enemy.
Before the battle officially began, Chen Ou's Ma Chao was defeated for a while, and it seemed that Cao Cao had won, but the three cavalry cooperated with each other, but it was the footsteps of Cao Jun that dragged down Cao Jun and won time for Chen Mo.