Chapter 378: Kite Flying Tactics
The situation of the first battle temporarily fell into a stalemate stage, He Xian rode his horse to the front of Cao's army, and said loudly: "Cao Mengde, you drove Liu Dai to openly occupy the land of Yanzhou, and the imperial court has not yet held you accountable. ”
Cao Cao endured the grief in his heart and laughed loudly: "In the process of pursuing the anti-thieves, a team of soldiers under the command of Benzhou strayed into the country of Lu and lost their traces. Tao Xuzhou not only did not cooperate with the investigation, but also slandered the state for ill intentions. There was no way, Benshu had to personally lead the troops to investigate! ”
Seeing that Cao Cao was still talking and laughing, and talking about black as white, he knew that it would not work to reason with him.
"Then Meng De has investigated clearly, or does he need to continue to use troops?" He Xian asked.
The muscles on Cao Cao's face twitched, and his small eyes narrowed: "It has been investigated, they are not in Lu State." Benzhou led the troops back to Dongjun and apologized to Tao Xuzhou another day. ”
"If an apology is useful, why do you need Ben to come and administer justice?" Cao Cao had obviously shown weakness, but He Xian still refused to spare people.
"Then according to the hussar general's wishes, how should this matter be good?"
"Cut the land, lose money! Isn't that easy? ”
Seeing He Xian's frivolous appearance, he made it clear that he would not give Cao Cao face. Cao Cao's generals were immediately furious, and they all asked for battle to go out of the camp to fight with He Xian.
If He Xian can be solved by heads-up, Cao Cao is of course happy to see it. But the problem is that He Xian's own force value should not be underestimated, Cao Chun and Le Jin may not be his opponents, and Xiahou Xuan and Xiahou Yuan are not in the camp, unless Cao Cao sends his own personal guard to lead Dian Wei... Speaking of Xiahoudun, Cao Cao was a little worried, he was the target of the first wave of raids by the Bingzhou Flying Cavalry, and the pressure would definitely be greater than here.
Cao Cao shook his head, trying to put these factors that affected his judgment behind him, and calmly replied: "The hussar general is really good at laughing!" The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister. You and I are both courtiers of the Han family, and we are shepherds for the Son of Heaven, so how can we say that we will cut the land? As for money and grain, as long as the hussar general convinces His Majesty that the status of our army in Yanzhou and Qingzhou can be achieved, the state guarantees that every cent of the annual tax will be paid to Nanyang! ”
He Xian smiled and said, "Meng De wants to be approved by His Majesty, is it okay?" Just follow me to Nanyang to meet Your Majesty! ”
Cao Cao repeatedly endured it, but He Xian had to make inches.
Cao Cao finally couldn't help but put away his smiling face, and asked in a deep voice, "Is the hussar general really going to do such a great job?" ”
He Xian didn't give in, and said-for-tat: "So what? ”
Negotiations have reached an impasse, and minutes are on the verge of breaking down and starting a war. On one side are more than 10,000 foot soldiers of Cao Jun, and on the other side are He Xian's more than 4,000 flying horses in the state. If he was in a dignified position, it would not be easy for He Xian to completely defeat Cao Jun.
In the midst of the silence phase, a force of several thousand men suddenly rushed towards this side from the north. Cao Cao and He Xian gave the order to guard at the same time, and it was not clear whether they were friends or foes. When this army approached, Cao Cao saw clearly that this was a rout, and the leader was none other than Li Dian, a captain under Xiahou Dun.
After Li Dian entered the Chinese army, he looked the same as Cao Chun, and fell to the ground and pleaded guilty: "Lord, General Xiahou would rather die than surrender, and die under Zhang Liao's Bingzhou flying cavalry!" ”
"Ahh Yuan Jean... Yuan Rang died? This time, Cao Cao could no longer control his emotions. After losing Cao Xiu and Xiahoudun two generals one after another, if Cao Cao retreats again, this team will not be able to take it!
With a sound of "Qiang", Cao Cao pulled out his sword from his waist, pointed to Bingzhou Feiqi and said: "Pass my order, the archers will wind up, and the pikemen will attack!" Fight to the death with the Nanyang Army! ”
"No!" The generals of the Cao army couldn't hold back the anger in their hearts for a long time, and the dull sound of bull horns sounded again.
"Yay! It's you! He Xian was overjoyed and said, "Inform the whole army, fight and retreat, do not engage head-on, and use cavalry to consume the Cao army!" ”
This tactic of He Xian is the most favorite kite flying tactic used by the Mongols in later generations. This tactic has extremely high requirements for the tactical literacy of the cavalry, and the Bingzhou flying cavalry, under Zhang Liao's training, happens to be a cavalry with extremely high tactical literacy.
After Cao Cao's pikemen pounced, the Zhou Fei cavalry under the command of He Xian decisively chose to retreat. Within the range of keeping a stone's throw away, he kept turning back to launch a bow and arrow counterattack against Cao's army. And once Cao's archers pounced, the Bingzhou flying cavalry retreated to open up the distance. On the great plain outside the city of Lu County, there was an extremely rare scene in the history of the Han War: the foot soldiers of the Cao army were running with the cavalry of the Nanyang army!
But the fleeing cavalry fled with great vigour, because although such a tactical requirement was cumbersome, it did not need to fight hard, did not need to be wounded, and could kill and wound the enemy. On the contrary, the pursuing foot soldiers pursued it bitterly. The foot soldiers did not march as fast as the cavalry, and the cavalry refused to engage them head-on, but from time to time they turned back and attacked themselves with their bows and arrows. Each arrow attack took away dozens or hundreds of people. Although the damage is not particularly large every time, it can't stand the continuous output of this damage. There is really no way to fight such a battle!
Although Cao Cao was stimulated by hatred and gave the order for a decisive battle, he was always calm-minded, and he was not carried away by hatred, and when he saw that there was no hope of victory, he stupidly followed behind the Bingzhou army to eat arrows.
Hearing the signal from Cao Cao's Chinese army that Mingjin had withdrawn his troops, He Xian did not hesitate to send a team of 1,000 people and gave the order to cut through Cao Cao's front army from the side!
The 1,000 Zhuzhou flying cavalry broke away from the main force, drew an arc, and violently pounced on the middle of Cao Cao's front army. The little school who led this thousand-person team had an extremely vicious vision. There, it was the location of Cao's archers, and it was also the weakest place in Cao Cao's entire front army.
After receiving the signal that Mingjin was withdrawn, Cao Jun was trying his best to shrink the formation. The pikemen at the front, the archers in the middle, and the sword and shield men in the back are all moving closer to the middle army. Seeing the sudden return and surprise attack of the Bingzhou flying horsemen, Le Jin shouted and shouted for the pikemen to come forward to resist, the archers to retreat to support, and the sword and shield men to protect the two wings. But it takes time to adjust the military formation, and after a period of pursuit, Cao Jun's physical fitness has problems. Time became the key factor in defeating Cao's army.
A thousand and state flying horses rushed into the formation before Lejin adjusted the formation! After paying the price of hundreds of horsemen, the Flying Cavalry succeeded in breaking through the pikemen formation at the front that had not been closed. After the pikemen, there were the archers. Without protection, the archers are like lambs to the slaughter in front of the cavalry that is rushing forward!