Chapter 24 Master and apprentice fought to the end
Master Shang said to Feng Xi: "Cao Jun must have the intention of killing me, you change into soldiers' clothes, keep your useful body, so that you can serve the lord." ”
Feng Xi is sure, "The general is fighting to the death here, but Xi is afraid of death and stealing his life, and Xi will be forgiven for all difficulties!" ”
Master Shang glared at him angrily and said, "As long as Cao Cao kills me alone, how can he be sent to death even if he is involved." ”
"Don't say it, the general is in such a situation, and he is just dying, how can Xi be greedy for life and afraid of death?"
When Master Shang saw him like this, he stopped persuading. He said in the circle: "Cao Cao wants me to die, are you afraid of death?" ”
"I wish to die with the general!" The soldiers said loudly.
"Don't talk about bastards, I haven't lived enough!" Master Shang reprimanded: "If Cao Cao wants my life, then it depends on whether his teeth are good or not." Give me what you can do, and we'll be stationed there! The lord will not die without help! As long as we hold out for two or three days, Cao's army will retreat! ”
"I am willing to kill the enemy with the general!" The soldiers shouted.
Master Shang was very satisfied with the morale of the soldiers, and he ordered the army to prepare.
Yu Ban commanded the soldiers to divide into five gaps, and five cavalry teams rushed out of the five gaps, led by Cao Chun, Xu Chu, Xiahou Yuan, Xu Huang and Cao Xiu, and rushed to the circle together.
Master Shang saw the cavalry rushing over, and his face trembled. "Cao Cao has made a lot of money, and he actually took out all the tigers and leopards."
Feng Xi didn't know about the tiger and leopard ride, he was still commanding the soldiers, "The whole army shoots freely!" ”
The crossbowmen on the grain cart and in the array immediately shot arrows outward. Countless arrows were killed at the cavalry, and the other three cavalry all suffered heavy losses, only the cavalry under Cao Chun and Xu Chu suffered smaller losses.
Feng Xi also found out about this situation, and couldn't help but look at Master Shang's apprentice, "General, it's a tiger and leopard rider!" ”
Master Shang said: "The armor of the tiger and leopard rider is strong, but the horses are the weak point, shooting their horses from the side. ”
The crossbowmen immediately adjusted themselves. The horses ridden by tigers and leopards are covered by armor in front, but there are gaps in the sides where arrows can be shot.
After such an adjustment, many horses ridden by tigers and leopards were shot, and the knight fell off his body and was trampled to death by his companions behind him.
But this is also a drop in the bucket, and the tiger and leopard riders have already rushed to the periphery, although relying on spears makes the tiger and leopard riders unable to get close for the time being. But it is impossible to organize for a long time, and the ability of the tiger and leopard to ride on the fortification is not a joke.
The tiger and leopard rode close to the circle and immediately sent out a hook lock to hook the grain and grass cart, trying to pull the cart away. Immediately several crossbowmen appeared behind the car and shot at the tiger and leopard, knocking them to the ground.
With the strength of a strong crossbow, it is only less than ten steps apart, and even if you wear three layers of armor, you will be shot through!
Yu Ban watched the cavalry being beaten like this by Master Shang's apprentices, and immediately waved his troops to let the archers reach a thousand and throw arrows into the circle.
Suddenly attacked, the attack of the crossbowmen in the circle was sluggish, and the tiger and leopard riders immediately took advantage of this opportunity to pull away a grain cart. Master Shang and his apprentice immediately rushed over, brandished their spears, stabbed the two tigers and leopards off their horses, and then grabbed the grain cart with one hand and forcibly moved some back.
At this time, the tiger and leopard riders immediately discovered Master Shang and apprentices, and they directly took out their spears and shot them at Master and Apprentice. Master Shang and apprentice hurriedly dodged, and the tiger and leopard rider immediately killed, but it was mounted on a spear. It turned out that the soldiers under Master Shang and his apprentices blocked up, and did not let the tiger and leopard ride directly attack Master Shang and his apprentices.
But the tiger and leopard rider still rushed to this side, and the leopard rider on the side directly drew his bow and shot at the soldiers who were in front of Master Shang's apprentice, shooting them dead. The tiger rider rushed again, charging at the desperate charge of Master Shang and his apprentices, without sparing the horsepower!
Master Shang faced the two tiger riders, stabbed one off the horse, but the spear of the other had already pierced the front, he twisted slightly, the spear grazed his armor and mistakenly past, but the horse rushed to the front, knocked the master and apprentice Shang into it, and the right arm of the master and apprentice was a little unbearable.
As the arrows continued to shoot into the circle, the casualties of the soldiers in the circle began to increase. Coupled with harassment, the protection of the circle array is not perfect. Soon, the round array of cars was dragged away quite a bit. Without the cover of the grain cart, Shang's subordinates could only rely on their bodies to meet the onslaught of the local cavalry.
Cao Jun did not hesitate to use his troops, and directly let the cavalry ram the military formation, although he lost a lot of cavalry or war horses, but he successfully tore apart the military formation of Master Shang and killed and injured the soldiers of Master and Apprentice.
After Master and Apprentice Shang were hit by the cavalry, they were covered by the soldiers, and in the face of the tiger and leopard cavalry, these soldiers attacked desperately, and they were stunned for more than a quarter of an hour, so that the tiger and leopard cavalry could not get close to Master Shang and apprentice for the time being.
The front and rear cavalry attacked, and there were bows and crossbows behind, under the double attack, the military formation of Master Shang and apprentice quickly collapsed, and after two hours, there were more than 100 soldiers left around Master and Apprentice. Most of the other soldiers were separated by cavalry, and the casualties probably reached more than 2,000, but they killed and wounded more enemy soldiers, no less than 3,000 cavalry alone, and there were many infantry troops.
Although there were many casualties, Cao Jun did not stop attacking and continued to rush towards the location of Master Shang's apprentice.
Master Shang led people to resist desperately, his soldiers were gradually killed, and dozens or a few people were gradually left around Master Shang and apprentices, until in the end, only he was left, he did not flinch, and he was fighting all the time. Countless Cao troops had fallen by his side, and the tiger and leopard cavalry had lost two thousand men because of the attack on him, most of whom were already crippled.
Cao Chun left the battlefield with the rest of the tiger and leopard horses, handed over the battlefield to Yu Ban, who asked the soldiers to separate the subordinates of Master Shang and his apprentices, and then sent troops to continuously kill Master Shang and his apprentices. Although Master Shang and his apprentice were very brave, Yu Ban believed that he would definitely be tired.
Master Shang would indeed be tired, he had already been shot with three or four arrows on his body, which seriously drained his physical strength. But he was still gritting his teeth and insisting, if he came a Cao soldier, he would kill one, and if he came a pair of Cao soldiers, he would kill a pair.
But after fighting for more than three hours, Master Shang and his apprentices began to gradually lose strength, and finally Cao Bing rushed up and hacked to death on the pile of corpses.
"General!" When Feng Xi saw the death of Master Shang's apprentice, he wanted to rush over with his soldiers, but was stopped by Yu Ban and others. Yu Ban took the corpse of Master Shang and his apprentice and wanted to send it back to Bowang.
At this time, a cavalry came from the direction of Western Hubei and penetrated directly into the rear of Cao's army. Cao Jun was in chaos, and Yu Ban saw that it was impossible to take away the corpse of Master Shang and apprentice, so he immediately chose to cut off the head of Master and Apprentice Shang, and only took the head of Master and Apprentice Shang and sent it back to Bowang.
Gao Changgong rushed left and right in the Cao army's camp, constantly disrupting the Cao soldiers and preventing them from gathering together.