73. Bitter battle

"This time, I'm afraid there will be a bitter battle!"

Cao Cao secretly said in his heart, speaking of which, this is also the first time he officially commanded the army, although in the first year of Zhongping, he also served as a cavalry captain, and led the Han cavalry to participate in the extermination of the Yellow Turban soldiers, but that was when Huangfu Song had led the troops to sweep the battlefield, and what he could do at that time was only to follow the back of the team to make some military achievements, and by the way, he looked up to the awe-inspiring demeanor of the famous general of the dynasty. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Therefore, this time against the notorious Xiliang soldiers, Cao Cao was not nervous in his heart, it was just his superficial pretense, Cao Cao couldn't let the guards around him, including his younger brother Cao Hong, see it, and he didn't feel a trace of fear in his original unmoving heart.

Cao Hong really didn't notice Cao Cao at this moment, his eyes were all staring at the Xiliang soldiers who were striding towards the opposite formation, in his opinion, these notorious Xiliang soldiers, if they got off the war horses, it turned out to be nothing more than that, and these new soldiers around him were no different, they were all the same with spears and bows and arrows, compared to when the Xiliang soldiers just arrived at the battlefield, the momentum of thousands of troops and horses galloping, it was much smaller.

Of course, this was only a personal conjecture of the new pawn before the war.

As soon as the battle was engaged, the two brothers Cao Ren and Cao Chun, who commanded the men and horses in front of the Chinese army, suddenly felt the pressure doubled, and Wang Fang led less than 1,000 Xiliang soldiers, although they all dismounted, but the momentum of striding forward and breaking the enemy was still unstoppable.

The Kansai spear is the product of the three auxiliary people to resist the Qiang cavalry, the so-called inch long inch strong, when the two armies are fighting, the spear stabs each other, which can best reflect its great power.

After a burst of dense spears on both sides, the Guanxi spears of the Xiliang soldiers were more than two zhang, and they could always take the lead in stabbing a row of Cao Jun, and the spearmen who were desperately making up behind the Cao Jun were also inferior in the stabbing with the approaching Xiliang soldiers, and the armor staff of the Xiliang soldiers was not necessarily better than the elite of the Cao Army in the front row, but they were more able to give full play to the advantages of the spear formation, and the spearheads gathered during the stab were always more than twice that of the Cao Army, so after a period of stabbing, it was always the Cao Sergeant who fell the most.

Moreover, when the Xiliang soldiers stabbed Sergeant Cao, they generally did not directly stab the chest part of Sergeant Cao, but picked the abdomen, crotch and below of Sergeant Cao's abdomen, crotch and other parts to stab, these places are not easy to be blocked by the dense spear grid on the opposite side, nor like the chest, there are thick armor leaves to resist, once stabbed, they can quickly withdraw the spear and carry out the next stab, and there will be no situation where the blade is stuck by the armor leaves and bones.

Although the stabbed Cao soldiers will not be killed immediately, but the extensive injuries and heavy bleeding are enough to make these Cao soldiers unable to bear it and immediately lose their combat effectiveness.

Therefore, in the process of the stabbing of the approaching Xiliang soldiers, Cao Ren's troops fought extremely fiercely, and almost a few lives of Cao's soldiers could be exchanged for the lives of a Xiliang soldier.

Just what Cao Ren saw, a leading Xiliang soldier stabbed three Cao soldiers one after another with a spear and his comrades around him, if it weren't for the fact that the third Cao soldier who was assassinated was suddenly ruthless and grabbed the opponent's spear fiercely before he died, I was afraid that the Xiliang soldier would not be easily stabbed to death by other Cao soldiers.

Even so, the soldier Cao who stabbed the Xiliang soldiers to death was soon shot by the arrows thrown from above, and before he could withdraw the spear in his hand, he fell directly on the battlefield, and then was swallowed up by the advancing Xiliang soldiers.

Similar to this situation, it can be seen repeatedly in the frontal battle front, the formation of the Xiliang soldiers is not as dense as the Cao army, the number is also smaller than the number of the Cao army, and the range of the archers is not far from the Cao army, but these Xiliang soldiers are veterans of the battlefield for a long time, their tactics are skillful, experienced, compared with the Cao army, which is mostly new soldiers, it undoubtedly occupies an absolute advantage in the confrontation.

Fortunately, when Cao Ren was young, he led a group of light heroes and evil teenagers to crisscross between Huaisi, and he was more or less a person who had seen small-scale soldiers fighting and tasted blood in battle.

He also left himself a move or two to deal with the crisis, in his own spearmen could not stab the opposite Xiliang soldiers, and the archers supported by the Chinese army were also in the process of throwing, when they were overwhelmed by the dense rain of arrows on the opposite side, Cao Ren decisively sent out those light soldiers composed of the most fierce light heroes and evil boys in Pingsuli in advance.

Although most of these light pawns do not have a piece of armor on their bodies, compared with the Cao soldiers in the front row, the murderous aura on their bodies is a little more powerful. They are all outlaws who have been stained with blood in their hands, and when they followed Cao Ren in Huaisi, they lived a life of licking blood with a knife, and now they are in the army, and they are different from Liangjiazi who practices the method of battle in formation, and they are still used to the way of ranger fighting.

Although this style of fighting with the courage of blood and qi is incompatible with the main formation of the army that emphasizes the command of Sen Ming, these rangers and evil boys are not afraid of death, and they intersect with people in short combat, and often win by fighting for their lives.

Cao Ren had considered a frontal battle before, and his new soldiers could not defeat the Xiliang soldiers, so he organized the best and brave people among the rangers and evil boys into two light soldiers as a reserve.

Originally, he also planned to wait for the battle to reach a stalemate, and then order the light troops to rush forward, in order to surprise and take the opportunity to defeat the Xiliang soldiers, but now it seems that these surprisingly light soldiers can block the indomitable momentum of the Xiliang soldiers, which is already a great thing.

The two light soldiers suddenly killed from both sides of the enemy formation that gradually retreated on the opposite side, and it was indeed the Xiliang soldiers who rushed to kill the murderer in the front row who couldn't react for a while, and they were caught off guard, some of the Xiliang soldiers were unable to withdraw the spears in their hands, and they were bullied by the light heroes and evil boys who were close to them with swords, directly cut their throats or stabbed them in the armpits, and some of the Xiliang soldiers withdrew their spears, in order to deal with the Cao army light soldiers who were not afraid of death and rushed forward, they seemed to be in a hurry, but they were originally pressed and beaten by the Cao soldiers who took the opportunity to counterattack. Stabbed over some Xiliang soldiers who couldn't stop the momentum of the forward rush.

Under the advantages of the other, the momentum of the impact of the Xiliang soldiers has slowed down slightly.

However, this was only a matter of a while, and in the military formation of the Xiliang soldiers, a more agitated horn soon sounded, and the left and right armies were attacked by the Xiliang soldiers almost at the same time, and the sound of fighting was also constantly sounded on both sides, and it was also accompanied by bursts of horses' hooves.

Obviously, although most of the Xiliang soldiers dismounted and fought on foot, they did not intend to give up the idea of using cavalry to assault, as long as there were obvious flaws in the Yuli array laid by the Cao army, these Xiliang iron cavalry that were eyeing each other would rush into the ranks of the Cao army like a whirlwind, disrupting their formation, harvesting and trampling their lives.

The Chinese army where Cao Cao was in front was the key point that Xu Rong was bound to break through, and the Xiliang soldiers, whose momentum was slightly contained, quickly replenished another force, and then carried out a second round of impact on the formation that Cao Jun had just stabilized.

Blood and pain are the best teachers, after withstanding the unstoppable first round of impact of the Xiliang soldiers, these soldiers of the Cao army also slowly had some experience in the battle, Cao Ren began to order the chief and the commander of the army, with his own small group of soldiers and horses, once again relied on the back of the chariot to line up, and heard his own order, to divide the formation of the Xiliang soldiers who were charging on the opposite side of the chariot in front of the refusal, and then gather to raise their spears to stab the assault, and drive the Xiliang soldiers back.

This time, the soldiers of Cao who fought in formation again really received some results in the battle, and the soldiers of Cao no longer chose to be beaten passively, but waited for the Xiliang soldiers to rush to the left and right of the chariot that refused in front, and then launched a counterattack in unison.

At this time, the Xiliang soldiers who rushed forward were cut into a single formation by the forward rejected carts, and after the Cao soldiers launched a counter-sprint attack, although they felt that the spear blades stabbed by the Xiliang soldiers were still more than those on their own side, but they were not as dense as the first impact, although the Cao soldiers still had more casualties than the Xiliang soldiers, but they were also able to stabilize the staggered front.

The way of civil and martial arts, one by one. The same is true of the way of the battle formation, the two armies are fighting, and the front line of the troops is like a bowstring, at the beginning under the mortar of the enemy, it is tight, but as long as you still have the stamina, you do not keep retreating or directly collapse, after a while, you can concentrate your forces again, and the enemy army that has broken through will be repulsed again, and the bowstring will be relaxed again.

However, although Cao Ren is extremely talented, he is now learning and using it, and he can stabilize the front with several times the Cao soldiers of the Xiliang soldiers, but the strange soldiers who counterattacked, because they were used too early in the first round of impact, also lost their due effect, and the Xiliang soldiers soon had a way to deal with it.

When Cao Ren once again sent two light soldiers composed of rangers and evil boys, trying to cooperate with Cao's soldiers from both sides to counterattack the Xiliang soldiers, some soldiers with spears and shields also appeared on both sides of the spearmen of the Xiliang soldiers.

Cao Jun's light soldiers were hit by the shield containing the weight of the Xiliang soldiers, and they stumbled backwards, unable to stand firmly, and even more so, they were directly knocked out by the Xiliang soldiers, and then spears burst out from the gaps in the shields, inflicting heavy losses on the Cao Jun's light soldiers who had no armor.

Interspersed with marching Xiliang archers in a general's order, also timely threw dense arrows on both sides of the Cao army's formation, which gave the Cao army's light soldiers a greater deterrence, and the follow-up light soldiers who had not been able to join the war group were caused by the dense arrow rain to cause continuous killing, they had no armor on their bodies, once they were hit by arrows, it was difficult to stand up again.

In the end, the Cao army still blocked the second impact of the Xiliang soldiers, but the price paid for this was also amazing, not only the casualties of the Cao soldiers in the front were several times more than those of the Xiliang soldiers, but also the Cao army's light soldiers used as strange soldiers were also killed and wounded, and almost all the remaining rangers and evil boys were injured, and they were no longer able to fight.

Cao Ren stood at the front of his own front, panting, holding his body with a spear, just when the Xiliang soldiers were about to break through the Cao army's formation, he handed over the command of the front to his younger brother Cao Chun, who assisted him, and personally took his guests and troops to kill them, forcing the momentum of the advancing Xiliang soldiers back again.

The soldiers around him were intimidated by his bravery just now, and they all cast admiration and happy eyes on him, but Cao Ren's face was still cold, and he could only secretly complain in his heart.

Thinking of this, Cao Ren turned his eyes to the rear, and under the banner with the words "Fenwu General Cao", there was a figure that had remained unchanged so far.