"It turned out that Xu Rong was here."

Hearing that Xu Rong was coming, Cao Cao was relieved.

Xu Rong Zisheng, he is from Xuansu County, Xuanwu County belongs to Youzhou, and Dong Zhuo is from Xiliang, and most of his hearts are from Xiliang. Therefore, Xu Rong is not Dong Zhuo's lineage.

"Do you know how many soldiers and horses Xu Rong brought?" Cao Cao asked.

The scout replied, "About three or four thousand, no more than five thousand at most." But it's all cavalry. ”

Sure enough, Cao Cao was completely relieved when he heard this, and now Cao Cao, like Dong Zhuo, is also a warlord. And the warlord's troops will be divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the descendants will be sidelined. Xu Rong is not Dong Zhuo

"It turned out that Xu Rong was here."

Hearing that Xu Rong was coming, Cao Cao was relieved.

Xu Rong Zisheng, he is from Xuansu County, Xuanwu County belongs to Youzhou, and Dong Zhuo is from Xiliang, and most of his hearts are from Xiliang. Therefore, Xu Rong is not Dong Zhuo's lineage.

"Do you know how many soldiers and horses Xu Rong brought?" Cao Cao asked.

The scout replied, "About three or four thousand, no more than five thousand at most." But it's all cavalry. ”

Sure enough, Cao Cao was completely relieved when he heard this, and now Cao Cao, like Dong Zhuo, is also a warlord. And the warlord's troops will be divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the descendants will be sidelined. Xu Rong is not Dong Zhuo's descendant, so naturally he will not have too many soldiers and horses.

If Cao Cao really follows Liu Bei's "tough village, fight in a daze." "The way of playing, ten miles away, should immediately set up a big camp, as the fundamental.

However, Cao Cao saw that Xu Rong had few soldiers and did not care. He ordered: "Order all the armies to form a formation to meet the enemy." ”

I saw the flag waving, and the armies received the order and formed a formation one after another.

Tens of thousands of troops, forming a formation to fight, is not a joke, in this era there are no telephones, telegrams, communication basically rely on roaring, at most just look at the flag, listen to the golden drum horn and so on. Xu Rong's subordinates are all cavalry, and they are extremely fast. The formation of the alliance of the Kwantung princes has not yet been completed, and Xu Rong has already led his troops.

Xu Rong looked at the chaotic Kwantung coalition army, and said secretly: The Kwantung region owes peacetime, the people are not accustomed to war, and his subordinates are all elite border troops, so although the opponent has many soldiers, it is not enough to worry, and it can be broken in one battle.

Seeing the Kwantung Coalition Army from afar, Xu Rong briefly watched the Kwantung Coalition Army, and then ordered the rear team to be changed to the front team, slowly retreated, and led hundreds of horsemen, cruising back and forth left and right, and personally rear.

Cao Cao, on the opposite side, misestimated the time of the coalition army's formation, and before the formation was completed, he saw Xu Rong's troops arriving, and immediately gasped. Seeing Xu Rong retreating without a fight, he was full of doubts and joy in his heart.

Cao Cao asked left and right: "Xu Rong saw our army and retreated without a fight, why is this?" ”

Someone replied: "These days, Dong Zhuo sent Xu Rong and others out to plunder. Presumably, I didn't know that our army was here, and suddenly encountered it, so it retreated. ”

Cao Cao's face turned red when he said this, since the princes of the first month swore an oath in the sour date, it has been more than half a year, and the princes of Kwantung did not dare to fight with Dong Zhuo, but let Dong Zhuo send soldiers and horses to kill Yangcheng County, slaughter his people, plunder and return. Then he sent troops everywhere and plundered the troops, it is estimated that this Xu Rong came out to rob, but he just happened to meet his own army and retreated.

It turned out that this encounter, thinking of this, Cao Cao was overjoyed, originally worried about whether there would be thieves in ambush, but now the worry is gone, and seeing that all the armies have sent people to ask, Cao Cao waved his hand and ordered: "Xu Rongbing has no fighting spirit, and ordered the cavalry to pursue and avenge the people of Luoyang." After defeating Xu Rong, capturing Dong Zhuo again, and welcoming the Son of Heaven back to Beijing, he will be able to rejuvenate the Han Dynasty and settle the world, which is an immortal achievement. ”

At the command, the war drums rumbled, and 20,000 cavalry overwhelmingly chased forward. Cao Cao led his infantry to line up, and then ordered the whole army to maintain the formation, and sent detectives to find out the news.

The 20,000 cavalry pursued all the way, chasing more than 20 miles, and it was already out of formation.

Xu Rong led the troops to run out of more than 20 miles, and stopped on a small mound that was barely a high slope, and there were already soldiers holding spears, and on top of the mound, a row of guns was laid out, although there was only a thin row, which also gave Xu Rong's subordinates a barrier. The pikemen were in front, the archers were behind, and the cavalry was at the end, with strong bows and crossbows, and lined up on this gentle high slope, waiting for the cavalry of the Kwantung princes to attack on the back.

The coalition cavalry chased after him, and when he saw Xu Rong arraying on the small hillside, he was taken aback at first, and after a closer look, Xu Rong's men and horses did not look too much, just five thousand people immediately descended. Suddenly, I was relieved again.

Xu Rong occupies a favorable position, although this small soil ball is not high, but to attack upward, it is also quite a waste of strength, if you don't fight, you feel that you have chased it in vain.

Xu Rong is a native of Youzhou, and he has fought in Xiliang for several years, and dealing with cavalry is like eating and drinking, and it is almost instinctive. The strongest weapon of the Han army against the cavalry is the bow and arrow, and the cavalry of the Han army that has laid down the arrow array must not go up and charge hard.

At this moment, Xu Rong not only laid out the arrow array, but also occupied the location to deploy the defense, if it was an experienced cavalry, he would not rush over stupidly to send him to death.

At that moment, some impatient coalition generals were eager to make meritorious contributions, so they commanded their men and horses to start attacking. The others, led by these people, also decided to attack.

And so, the charge of the coalition cavalry began!

Because Xu Rong occupies a favorable position, although this gentle slope is not very high, it must be attacked from the back in the end, and it is not very open, and it cannot accommodate 20,000 cavalry to charge together. At most, 1,800 cavalry can be dispatched at a time, but it doesn't matter if the coalition forces are in this regard, they are all a team put together by princes from all walks of life, and they are originally separate troops, and they take turns to attack, but it is better to command some.

More than a thousand cavalrymen armed with rifles and sabers charged the slopes. These cavalry did not have a strict formation, and most of the equipment was not very good, most of them did not wear armor, only the cavalry rushing to the front had a leather armor, and as for the horse armor, there was no one. After all, the Kwantung Coalition Army did not occupy the national arsenal like Dong Zhuo, and if the armor was too heavy, it would also need better horses to move the camel.

However, the number of more than 1,000 cavalry is still quite a lot, and at this moment, the horses are rushing and attacking upwards, which is quite imposing.

Seeing the coalition cavalry attacking, Xu Rong's face was calm, and when he gave an order, everyone opened their bows and arrows.

When the coalition army rushed dozens of steps in front of Xu Rong's formation, Xu Rong gave another order, followed by a bang, bang, a bowstring sounded, and the sharp arrow left the string, and the charging cavalry was shot down in one fell swoop!

The coalition cavalry was originally in a very chaotic formation, and after this rain of arrows, it was even more chaotic, and the speed of advance was also a pause, and the coalition cavalry was attacking from the back, and the speed of rushing to the end slowed down a little, but the cavalry behind did not know the situation in front, and still charged forward.

Just as the cavalry was about to collide with the gun array, dozens of coalition cavalry who rushed to the front suddenly lost their horses and threw off the cavalry on horseback. It turned out that after Xu Rong went up to the mound, he arranged the thistle terrestris in front of the gun array!

Tribulus terrestris, also known as tribulus terrestris. There are four iron thorns stretched out, several inches long, where it lands, there must be a thorn facing upward, the tip of the thorn is like the herbaceous plant "tribulus terrestris", so the name is tribulus terrestris. Scattering thistles on the ground to delay the movement of the enemy's army, mainly cavalry, has been around since the Warring States cavalry. Some thistles have holes in the center, which can be connected with ropes to facilitate laying and collection, which is one of the standing equipment in the army.

The charging coalition cavalry was in chaos again, the path of the impact in front was blocked again, Xu Rongjun's arrows rained, the coalition cavalry and the horses were shot down, and the screams sounded, and the uninjured cavalry behind was frightened, and did not dare to attack again, so they turned around and ran. The first attack of the Coalition Knights fell apart.

When Xu Rong saw this, he ordered his subordinates to attack, the war drums sounded, Xu Rong's subordinates killed and counterattacked, but they didn't run far, but they just beheaded the wounded soldiers left by the coalition cavalry, and then retreated to the formation.

In an attack, Xu Rong's men did not hurt a single soldier, but killed and wounded three or four hundred cavalry of the coalition army.

Seeing that the first wave of attacks was easily disintegrated by Xu Rong, all the generals were furious. However, at this time, the disadvantages of the coalition cavalry as a coalition army were revealed. No one wants to continue the attack, they all want others to contribute, and when Xu Rong's strength is exhausted, he will go up and pick up the bargain.

Fortunately, at this time, the morale of the coalition army was still there, and in the end, everyone sent some soldiers and horses, and organized four offences in a row, these four offensives, the command and organization were even worse, and they were not as powerful as the first time, a total of five attacks were defeated by Xu Rong with a simple bow and arrow and long spear, and the coalition army also lost thousands of cavalry, and more people were injured and defeated, only to let out a burst of screams there.

At this time, the coalition army was difficult to ride a tiger, and if they wanted to attack, they couldn't defeat Xu Rong, so they had to retreat, and Xu Rong also had cavalry under him, so it was impossible for everyone to retreat safely.

Whether to fight or retreat, everyone was arguing for a while.

When he was arguing, suddenly there were horns, it turned out that Xu Rong had ambushed men and horses in the rear, and when he saw that the morale of the coalition forces had fallen, he summoned him with a horn.

Xu Rong's men and horses heard the sound of the horn and also got on their horses, but there were only 2,000 cavalry, but everyone was wearing armor, all holding big swords, and the formation was strict.

When the allied cavalry saw it, they didn't care about the dispute, and hurriedly ordered the cavalry to arrange their troops in order to hedge against Xu Rong.

With the sound of war drums, I saw Xu Rong leading his troops to rush down the hillside, and rushed towards the coalition army by taking advantage of the downhill terrain to accelerate. Xu Rong's two thousand iron horsemen swept down, the speed of the horses became faster and faster, Xu Rong's soldiers and horses, some of them were Qianghu soldiers, while driving the horses forward, they also made a strange scream, which was even more hideous and terrifying.

The terrain of the mound is not open enough, but Xu Rongjun has a condescending advantage, and the cavalry of the coalition army is already demoralized, and at this moment, the cavalry led by Xu Rong is even more unbearable.

At this moment, a group of iron cavalry on the left and right flanks rushed out, lined up in formation, and slaughtered the already chaotic cavalry as if they were overwhelming.

Originally, the cavalry of the coalition army had been fighting for a long time, but at this moment, they were attacked from three sides, and they immediately became chaotic, and they fled one after another, which was even more chaotic.

Defeat is like a mountain!