Chapter 134: The Fierce Battle (Part II)
Seeing the three detachments of the enemy army killing in the direction where they were, the archers kept pulling the bows in their hands, trying to slow down the gradual approach of Dunin and the other three teams, but the effect was minimal.
After all, the two armies are fighting chaotically at the moment, and the distance between the two sides can no longer be considered far, and the other teams under the command of Gao Ranbu contain the sword soldiers and spearmen in Cao's army, and Du Ning and the other three teams quickly killed those archers.
Archers have no use in close combat, and they are only sent to their deaths. Huang Zhong saw Du Ning and the others approaching, and hurriedly ordered the archers to retreat, but unfortunately it was too late, and many archers had already died under Yuan Shaojun's swords and guns.
At this time, the soldiers sent by Xiahoudun to rescue the archers had also arrived, but Gao Ran didn't care about this at all, and only sent the Pang Mo team to fight them, while the Du Ning team and Zheng Ting's team continued to annihilate the archers.
Who called the number of Cao's army so small, and the soldiers sent by Xiahoudun to help the archers were only hundreds, which was not enough for Gao Ran to look at them. Pang Mo's team also had five hundred people, which was enough to deal with.
The screams of the archers continued to sound, and these soldiers, who only had a bow in their hands, were powerless in front of the wolf-like Yuan Shaojun. In the face of a strong enemy, the most they can do is to wave the bow indiscriminately to resist, but even if the back of the bow is knocked on the body of the enemy soldier, what kind of damage can it cause? The swords and guns in the hands of the enemy soldiers can indeed kill people.
There are a small number of archers who are a little skilled in martial arts and still wear swords around their waists, but these archers who know a little about martial arts are only a few after all, what role can they play in this chaotic array?
Almost every Yuan soldier swung his sword, a pool of blood splashed, and more and more archers were slaughtered.
It can be said that although the arrival of Huang Zhong's army slightly slowed down the speed of Yuan Shaojun's advance, it only played a role for a moment after all, and Gao Lan's department did not even stagnate too much, and continued to carry out unscrupulous killings.
Although the situation facing Xu Huangbu on the right wing is not bad, it is still a long time to break the situation. Although Han Mengbu couldn't have the upper hand, after all, there were many people, and it was not easy to deal with the idea of stalking him. Although Xu Huangbu had the advantage on the scene, he couldn't make a breakthrough for a while.
Cao Cao's face was not very good-looking, and he was thinking in his heart whether to throw the trapped camp into the battlefield.
The trapping camp can be said to be its own trump card troops, but the number of people is really limited, even if each of its sergeants is a warrior with one as five, I am afraid that it will set off a small wave at most when it is put into this battlefield, and then it will be ruthlessly annihilated.
But isn't the so-called elite used at such critical moments? At this moment, Yuan Shao's army is close at hand, and his whole army is in danger of being overwhelmed at any time, if he is still timid and worried at this time of crisis, then what is the need to raise the so-called elite troops, and what is the use of those elite troops themselves?
However, just as Cao Cao was about to give the order for Gao Shun to attack with him in the camp, the dust raised from the rear of the battlefield made his face suddenly change drastically.
Cavalry! Hordes of cavalry!
At this time, although Yuan Shao's face on the opposite side was still gloomy and cold, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise slightly.
He didn't have the patience to wait any longer, and although his army was in an absolute victory at this time, he still felt that the progress of the war was too slow.
In Yuan Shao's view, as soon as his army came out, it should be destroyed and destroyed. Cao Cao's subordinates are just a rabble, how can they resist one or two of their own soldiers?
However, not long after the war, his general Chun Yuqiong unfortunately died, and although the Gao Lan Department had obvious advantages, Zhang Nannan and Han Meng's troops on both wings were defeated by the Cao army with superior forces, which still made Yuan Shao feel quite disgraced.
It's better to end all this quickly, Yuan Shao, who was thinking like this, finally performed his killer weapon - five thousand brave cavalry.
The 5,000 cavalry rushed forward, and the battle must have ended in an instant.
Yuan Shao's complacency was not groundless self-aggrandizement, as soon as the five thousand cavalry appeared, Cao Cao's face suddenly turned pale.
Cavalry! It turned out to be cavalry, then Yuan Shao actually sent cavalry!
In the north, Yuan Shao naturally had a lot of cavalry, but most of the cavalry was arranged by him in the rear to defend against the Xiongnu and Liaodong, and only these 5,000 cavalry were brought to the Guandu battlefield this time. At this time, in order to win quickly, Yuan Shao threw all 5,000 cavalry into the battlefield at once.
Five thousand cavalry may not be much in terms of numbers alone, but at the moment it is a devastating force for Cao Cao.
It's not impossible for infantry to confront cavalry head-on, but the basic premise is that you have to be in order. However, now most of Cao's army is fighting with Yuan Shao's army on the battlefield, and it is impossible to organize a formation against the cavalry. In this chaotic formation, if the self-army is charged by the cavalry of the Yuan army......
Cao Cao almost didn't dare to think about it anymore!
The biggest possibility is that the whole army will be wiped out! Even if the whole army is not annihilated, it will inevitably be greatly damaged, and it will not be able to recover without five years of work.
Five years? If he loses the Guandu War, will there be the so-called five years for him to survive?
Now Cao Cao's subordinates are not without cavalry, but there are not many horses in the Central Plains and other real estates, and even if they buy horses from merchants, the harvest is quite small. The so-called cavalry is not a knight with a horse, a qualified cavalry unit must be at least one horse and three horses. Historically, as the elite of Cao's army, the tiger and leopard cavalry was also gradually established after Cao Cao won the battle of Guandu and gradually gained hegemony in the north.
Even Lu Bu, who came from Bingzhou, when he was wandering in the Central Plains after killing Dong Zhuo and standing on his own, there were not many horses, and although there were cavalry under his command, they were still mainly foot soldiers. In the Battle of Puyang, LĂź Bu and his whole army attacked Cao Cao's base camp in an attempt to kill Cao Cao, but in the end he fell short and failed. If there were more than 1,000 cavalry under Lu Bu at that time, Cao Cao would have been awarded the head a long time ago.
And now, the cavalry brought by Cao Cao to Guandu is only a thousand people, and they are all under the command of Xiahou Yuan. Wanting to let these thousand cavalry fight against Yuan Shao's five thousand cavalry is tantamount to a moth to a fire and bring about its own destruction.
"Mingjin, withdraw your troops!" Cao Cao now had no choice but to retreat.
Although the losses of retreating after the enemy's cavalry attack were immeasurable, Cao Cao had no other choice, and continuing to lead his army to stay here was simply self-defeating.
It is better to lose more than the whole army to fold here.
However, it is obviously impossible to retreat like this, and if you are chased and killed by the cavalry behind you, the situation is really dangerous. If one is not careful, it is entirely possible to give one's own life here.
There must be a palace army that dares to die to drag Yuan Shaojun with his life.
But the question is, who now has the ability and courage to take on the task of raising the temple army?