Chapter 280: The Battle of Sealed Hills

The Longxiang battalion met the Qingzhou soldiers, the Qinglong battalion met the Tiger Guards, these hundred battle elites met a strong opponent they had never encountered under Fengqiu City, and the battle situation entered Gao Chao from the beginning of the contact between the two sides, both sides held their breath, only by repelling and eliminating the fierce enemy on the opposite side can they prove their strength more, and almost every step is blood spattered.

Liu Yi and Cao Cao also returned to their respective formations, constantly adjusting their formations through Lingqi, looking for weaknesses in the opponent's formation, and striving to hit with one blow! This is also a unique battle, which tests the understanding of the formation and the control of the opponent's corporal soldiers; Cao Cao's advantage was in his troops, while Liu Yi had the city to rely on. Cao Cao's center of gravity lies on the two wings, the frontal battlefield is narrow after all, and the numerical advantage is difficult to reflect, but once the two wings are deployed, the contact surface must increase, so that they can make the greatest use of their advantages and even outflank the enemy.

Liu Yi's tactics are to strengthen the strength of the center to assault, the Qinglong battalion, the pro-guard battalion, and the trap camp set up a character formation in the middle of the road, the direction is directly pointed to Cao Cao's handsome banner, and the Longxiang battalion is responsible for the cover of the flanks, he is not afraid of being outflanked by the enemy, once the enemy troops on both wings enter a certain range, the strong bow and hard crossbow of the Xuanwu battalion at the head of the city will give the enemy a merciless blow.

Cao Cao's face sank like water at this time, and Liu Yi's arrangement at the head of the city was also within his expectations, but he still believed that he could achieve victory through the advantage of troops, but with the development of the battle situation, it was not as he expected, the strongest tiger guard in his middle was faintly unable to stop the other party, and the attack of the two wings after extending to a certain range was also counterattacked by the strong counterattack of the Long Xiang battalion, could it be that Liu Yi's combat strength was still above himself?

Soon Cao Cao saw the clues, Liu Yi, the commander of the battle array, did not overpower himself, the quality of the soldiers was also half a catty, and even the confrontation between the small formations was not compromised, only one point Liu Yijun had the upper hand, that is, equipment, Cao Cao saw that many Youzhou soldiers cut off the long knives of their own soldiers when the weapons were handed over, and harvested their lives, this is by no means that the weapons under his command are not fine, the only explanation is that the weapons under Liu Yi's command are better than himself!

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, Liu Yi has always attached great importance to the equipment of the army, and there is a special ordnance department in the Hussar General's Palace, and he spared no effort to improve and strengthen the equipment of the soldiers, of course, he also invested countless money and energy. Equipment is also a key factor that can determine the direction of a major war, why did a brigade of devil soldiers dare to meet with a division and an army of the national army in the early days of resistance against Japan? In addition to the factors of soldier quality and morale, equipment is the biggest reason, at that time, the firepower of a brigade of little devils was far better than that of a division of the national army, and it was not surprising that there was such a battle situation. Of course, now is the era of cold weapons, and the advantages of equipment are not so obvious, but under the same quality of soldiers and the same courage and morale, the advantages of equipment are thoroughly reflected.

The same simple knife, in the case of the same lethality, Liu Yijun can be one and a half pounds lighter than other armies, don't underestimate this weight, in the fierce battle, the physical consumption of the sergeant's physical strength is extremely fast, and the weight of the weapons in his hands is also closely related to the physical strength, not to mention that the sharp weapons in the hands of the Qinglong, the guards, and the three battalions are made of fine iron. I couldn't see it at the first contact, but with the progress of the battle, this advantage has been reflected, and the position of the Tiger Guard Army is slowly loosening, even if there is a tiger idiot to sit in charge, but this kind of overall situation can not be reversed by the courage of one or two people, and Liu Yi also has fierce generals in the formation!

Although the situation in front of him is a little passive, Cao Cao is still as calm as a mountain, he knows that he has underestimated the impact of Youzhou's sophisticated ordnance on the battle situation, but this is no wonder to him, it can only be said that Liu Yi has a forward-looking vision, and the wealth of Youzhou is even more advanced in the world! Under the wave of the flag, the Qingzhou soldiers on both wings began to fight and retreat in an orderly manner, and the formation slowly moved closer to the middle, since there was a mistake, it must be corrected immediately, and if there is a numerical advantage, he will strengthen the middle lane, and Liu Yi will fight for attrition, although this tactic is unwilling to do so, but it is the most suitable at the moment.

The current situation seems to be that the Youzhou army has the upper hand, but Liu Yi does not see half of the joy on his face, Cao Cao's slight gap in the estimation of the combat strength of his soldiers will only have this time, and the price paid because of this wrong judgment is very small, Cao Mengde is worthy of the art of war, he made a decision immediately, he should retreat, if the soldiers are further entangled, Liu Yi will have a great confidence in causing greater damage to the other party, but now that he sees the other party's swift response, he knows that there will be no such effect, once Cao Cao strengthens the middle lane, Consumption has become the only choice for the two!

This is obviously not what Liu Yi thought in his heart, the yellow flag in his hand was unfurled, two arrows shot into the sky, and the roar of horses' hooves immediately sounded in the rear, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was divided into two, and under the leadership of Ma Chao Pang De, he went straight to the two wings of the Cao army's foot soldiers, if you want to retreat, how can it be so easy, even if you retreat without chaos, how can you maintain a complete formation under the impact of the cavalry? And once the neat formation is lost, the foot soldiers are lambs to be slaughtered in front of the cavalry, and the next battle in Luoyang City has already illustrated this, Niu Fu's 20,000 foot soldiers are simply powerless to resist in the face of Huaxiong's eight thousand iron cavalry!

However, this time Liu Yi is not facing Niu Fu, how can Cao Mengde let him get his wish easily? The tiger and leopard cavalry led by Cao Chun joined the battlefield at this moment, and the knights in black armor and the Xiliang cavalry in white robes and silver armor quickly intertwined together, and suddenly there was a burst of people on their backs!

Ma Chao waved the wolf thunder, it was like a tiger into the flock, even if the elite such as the tiger and leopard rode in front of him is difficult to stop its edge, different from the foot combat, the brave general can play a more personal power in the cavalry battle, the unpredictable wolf thunder has become the nightmare of all the tiger and leopard cavalry soldiers, no matter how they are not afraid of life and death, they can't stop the killing of this magic gun! The only thing they can do is to use more lives to slow down the momentum of Ma Chao, who is like a god, and the lack of strong arrow characters is probably the only shortcoming of Cao Cao's elite. However, when it comes to the quality of individual soldiers, the tiger and leopard cavalry is slightly above this team of Xiliang iron cavalry, so the two wings basically maintain a balance of power.

In fact, for Cao Cao and Liu Yi, they were unwilling to use cavalry to fight each other, in their eyes, the cavalry should try to give the opponent's foot soldiers huge damage, but obviously it was difficult for both of them to do this, and they also fully considered this situation in the formation.

The battle situation is still stalemate, but this battle Cao Cao came up due to the underestimation of the Youzhou army's ordnance fell a little behind, one step later, step by step, the battle behind it completely became Liu Yi to deal with him, although he dealt with it impeccably, but after all, it was passive, this passive reaction on the battlefield is that the casualties of the Cao army are higher than Liu Yijun!

Cao Cao's eyebrows frowned slightly, and at the same time as the flag was raised, the rear army had already lined up in battle, and the soldiers were all bows and arrows, and at the same time, except for the tiger and leopard cavalry, the Cao army's foot soldiers were steadily retreating.

Seeing that his subordinates pursued to a certain distance, Liu Yi also waved the command flag, and the two armies neatly opened the distance, and then to move forward, the crossbowmen of Cao Cao's rear army could carry out a long-range attack on Liu Yi's army, and even divide it with bows and arrows, and then the infantry returned to the army to fight back, even in the retreat, Cao Cao did not give up to win! Of course, Liu Yi will not fall for him.

After the separation of the infantry army, the retreat of the tiger and leopard cavalry, crisscrossing the battlefield of the Central Plains, they were invincible and encountered a strong opponent today, especially Ma Chao, who is now standing in front of the formation, and the blood-stained robe! The blood-red man and horse are even more like demon gods in the sunlight!

The first battle in Yanzhou under Fengqiu City ended with Liu Yijun's upper hand, but Liu Yi was like a mirror in his heart, and Cao Cao would not give him a second chance for the same mistake! This fierce battle is just a prelude!