Chapter 20: Yellow Whiskers
Chen Wu understood, and the long halberd in his hand entangled the man in black like a dragon entering the sea, and the dagger in the man in black was too short, so he could only passively dodge and defend at this time.
After fighting for more than ten times, Chen Wu stabbed the neck of the man in black with a halberd, and the head of the man in black turned to the side and avoided the halberd. The man in black seized this opportunity, rushed in front of Chen Wu like lightning, and stabbed Chen Wu directly in the neck with the dagger in his hand.
Chen Wu hurriedly retreated, distancing himself from him, and the halberd hurriedly withdrew to block the attack of the man in black.
This man in black is very agile, and Chen Wu's attack is almost ineffective, and the two of them have fought again and again. Han Xuan had no intention of watching the two of them fight, just as Gan Ning and Ling Tong came over at this time, Han Xuan shouted to the two: "Xingba, Gongji, hurry forward and capture this thief with Chen Wu!" ”
Ling Tong and Gan Ning had a grudge against killing their father, so they naturally refused to let Gan Ning be in the limelight, and preemptively waved their double knives to join the battle group. Ling Tong's double swords came horizontally, slashing left and right and attacking the man in black, and the man in black hurriedly gave up Chen Wu to block Ling Tong's attack.
Ling Tong's martial arts were still a little worse in the end, and after the man in black resisted, he saw that Ling Tong's double knife technique was gradually a little messy, and a dagger stabbed straight into Ling Tong's chest.
Ling Tong couldn't block this blow, so he had to watch the dagger quickly approach him. Hearing only the sound of "bang", the dagger in the hand of the man in black was hooked by a long hook, and it turned out that it was Gan Ning who saved Ling Tong in an emergency.
The man in black quickly stepped back, pulled out two short swords from behind his waist and fought with Gan Ning, and Chen Wu hurriedly raised his halberd to stab. Ling Tong refused to lag behind, and once again picked up his double knives and surrounded the man in black.
The man in black could not resist the combined attack of the three fierce generals, and it didn't take long for him to lose one after another, and he was wounded several times. Seeing that the three of them were about to take him down, Han Xuanhou's military camp suddenly caught fire, and the sergeant shouted for firefighting.
Han Xuan glanced back, the direction of the fire was the place where the grain was hoarded, Han Xuan said to Chen Wu and the others: "This is the thief's plan to surround Wei and save Zhao, quickly take down this thief!" ”
Hearing this, the three of them stepped up their attack, and finally the short sword in the hand of the man in black was picked up by Chen Wu's halberd, and they were shocked and took a few steps back. Gan Ning took advantage of the situation and rushed over like the wind, kicking the man in black out with one kick, and just as the man in black wanted to stand up, Ling Tong's double knives were already on his neck.
The man in black was finally captured by the three of them, and Han Xuan came over and took off his face towel. I saw that he looked like a thief, and looked at Han Xuan coldly and didn't speak.
Han Xuan reprimanded and asked, "Who sent you?" Isn't it Yu Ji? ”
The man turned his head and didn't answer, Han Xuan had no choice but to let Ling Tong lead more than a dozen tiger soldiers to escort him down, and Han Xuanzi, Chen Wu, and Gan Ning rushed to the back camp to inspect the fire.
When Han Xuan and the others came over, the fire was almost extinguished. Han Xuan approached the grain manager and asked, "How much grain and grass is lost?" ”
"There are only more than 200 hundred."
"It seems that this thief's accomplice must be trying to lure us to come to fight the fire, and to take the opportunity to come back and rescue him." Han Xuan analyzed.
The colonel patrolling the camp came to report that several corpses of his own soldiers were found in front of the camp tent in the northeast corner. Han Xuan went to inspect it himself, and saw that these soldiers were all smashed with blunt objects, and the onlookers were all embarrassed.
Chen Wu looked at the corpse and said, "This killer must be a master with a hammer, and he can use a war hammer to kill several of our soldiers in an instant without being noticed. ”
Han Xuan nodded, furrowed his brows and said, "This person should be the same person as those Heavenly Tribulation Gate killers who chased me and Liu Du that day, as well as the iron-masked monster that Zhuge Zhi met a few years ago. ”
"If I knew where its lair was, I would have led my troops to destroy it!" Chen Wu said indignantly.
Han Xuan asked the corpses of these soldiers to be carried down for burial, and asked Chen Wu to torture the captured assassin of the Heavenly Tribulation Gate.
For several days, the Assassin was tortured in various ways, but he could not find a solution. Han Xuan ordered Huang Xu to lead hundreds of armor soldiers to escort him back to Jianye and hand him over to Yang Kun for torture. Yang Kun was the "Kun" messenger of the Heavenly Tribulation Gate before, and he might be able to extract some information from this assassin's mouth.
Han Xuan asked Chen Wu and Gan Ning to continue to lead the army to attack Hefei City, and Li Dian and Le Jin couldn't hold out for long. On the eighth day of the attack on Hefei City, the city wall was already dilapidated, and it was about to be captured, and the banner of Cao's army suddenly appeared in the northwest of Hefei.
Soon there was a deafening sound of horses' hooves, which seemed to be a large-scale cavalry, and Han Xuan hurriedly withdrew Chen Wu and Gan Ning's troops, so as not to be attacked by the cavalry and cause the formation to collapse.
Gan Ning and Chen Wu hurriedly gathered their formations and set up a formation to deal with the cavalry. Most of Han Xuan's army were infantry, and there were very few cavalry, so they could only be arranged on both wings.
A large number of cavalry of Cao's army rushed over, slowly separated into two teams, and moved towards the two flanks of Han Xuan's army. Chen Wu led the Wudang army to deploy on both flanks, preparing to compete with the enemy cavalry. Who knew that the cavalry commander of the Cao army suddenly changed formation, and the rear cavalry did not continue to disperse, but directly attacked the infantry of Han Xuanjun's front army.
Han Xuan couldn't believe it, was this enemy commander a fool? The cavalry formation is generally to use the vanguard elite troops to attack the enemy's formation, or to go around the two flanks and penetrate into the enemy's heart to disrupt the enemy's formation.
The commander of this Cao army actually used the cavalry rear team that was not too elite to attack his own front army head-on, you must know that the infantry soldiers in front of Han Xuan's army were all the elite infantry carefully selected by Han Xuan, with countless hook sickles and heavy shields, and the cavalry would definitely suffer heavy casualties in the frontal impact.
But the commander of the enemy army did just that, and the cavalry of the rear team of the Cao army charged over, and they were in a team, pulling up a string of iron chains and continuing to move forward, colliding with the spearmen and shield soldiers of the front army of Han Xuanjun.
At the beginning, the heavy shields and spearmen in the front row could still resist the attack of the Cao cavalry, but they did not expect the Cao cavalry to attack very consistently, and the shield soldiers and spearmen struggled to resist and still fell behind. In particular, the iron chains pulled up by several of them in a team were more restrained against Han Xuanjun's hook and sickle spear.
The crossbowmen in the center of Han Xuan's army were responsible for supporting the two wings, because the cavalry on both wings of the enemy army was also very elite. Although Chen Wu's Wudang army was small but fine, he didn't expect that he would have casualties with this Cao army cavalry, and if he continued to fight like this, the Wudang army had to be defeated.
Chen Wu saw that one of the cavalry on both wings was slashing and killing his own soldiers while commanding his cavalry to attack Han Xuanzhong's army. Chen Wu hurriedly turned his horse and halberd and rushed straight towards the man, and several enemy cavalry rushed up to stop him, but he couldn't stop the brave Chen Wu.
Chen Wu went straight to the general, and the Heavenly Dragon Breaking City Halberd went straight to his eyebrows. The Cao general fought hard to resist the sword, blocked the blow, and the two of them retreated from their horses.
Chen Wu then smashed a halberd into Na Cao's neck, and the other party raised his long knife to block it, gritting his teeth and trying to push Chen Wu's halberd away. Chen Wu pressed over with more force, trying to kill this general quickly, causing the enemy's cavalry command to fall into chaos.
After all, General Cao is no match for Chen Wu, who is born with divine power, and he is about to be defeated by Chen Wu. Suddenly, a horse not far away saw that it was in danger, and hurriedly slashed several Jiangdong cavalrymen around him, and rushed towards Chen Wu with a black horse under his crotch.
The man had a long yellow beard and a domineering air in his eyebrows. He quickly rushed to the front and shouted at General Cao, the member who was wrestling with Chen Wu, "General Cao Chun, I'm here to help you!" ”
The Huang Xu'er swung the golden-winged broadsword and smashed it at Chen Wu, Chen Wu escaped narrowly, and then gave up Cao Chun and Huang Xu'er to fight. Chen Wu had heard of Cao Chun's name, and he was the commander of the Cao Army's tiger and leopard cavalry, but he didn't know who this yellow beard was, and he was so brave.
But he saw Cao Chun shouting at Huang Xu'er: "Gongzi Zhang, the enemy's formation is not chaotic, and our army must not fight to the death here." It is advisable to retreat into Hefei City as soon as possible and meet with Li Dian and General Lejin! ”
Chen Wu saw that Cao Chun called the yellow beard "Zhang Gongzi", but he didn't know that he was Cao Cao's son Cao Zhang, this Cao Zhang's martial arts were outstanding, Cao Cao once asked him about the ambitions of many sons, Cao Zhang called himself "good general", so he was appreciated by Cao Cao. Because of his yellow beard, he was called "Yellow Beard" by Cao Cao. Before the weak crown, he likes to fight with the tiger with his bare hands, although his arm strength is outstanding, but he is not good at writing.
Although Cao Zhang is brave, he can't get cheap when he meets Chen Wu, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, and Cao Zhang is young and vigorous, and he wants to compete with Chen Wu, Cao Chun can't persuade him to leave for a while.
Fortunately, at this time, Cao Zhen, the rear commander of the cavalry of the Cao army, collected the troops in time, and Cao Chun called out Cao Zhang and led the troops to retreat together. Han Xuan took advantage of the situation to lead the army to pursue, but encountered Li Dian leading the army out of the city to respond, so he had to stop it.
After Chen Wu returned to the camp, he told Han Xuan about his battle with Cao Chun and Huang Xu'er, and Han Xuan exclaimed when he heard this: "Huang Xu'er? Could it be Cao Cao's son Cao Zhang? Unexpectedly, he actually led troops to support Hefei in person. ”
"What! Is he Cao Cao's son? I knew it was Cao Cao's son, and I would have captured him alive! Chen Wu said with a look of regret.
Han Xuan shook his head and said: "I never thought that Cao Chun would lead the tiger and leopard cavalry to rescue Hefei, and there was also Cao Cao's Wuhuan cavalry, known as the 'world's famous horse'. The cavalry of the Cao army is so strong, we still try to avoid its edge! ”