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On the second day of the official blood alliance between the princes, Liu Bei was about to say goodbye to Cao Cao and preside over the battle at Yique Pass, when a voice that dragged on often sounded in the calm camp, and a warlord rushed in, knelt down on one knee and said: "Lord, the tiger prison is urgent, Gao Shun under the command of Lu Bu, commanded 10,000 troops out of the city, and approached my Xingyang camp, General Xiahou has gathered men and horses, ready to meet the battle." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Gao Shun?" Cao Cao frowned slightly, for this earliest general under Lu Bu, the princes here are no strangers, and they also have a high evaluation of Gao Shun, the defense of the Luoyang area has always been presided over by Gao Shun, this person can fight, and he is strict with himself, calm and moderate, except for the fact that he can't speak, as a general, there are almost no shortcomings.

Cao Cao once thought of using Gao Shun's inability to speak to divide the relationship between Lu Bu and Gao Shun, but unfortunately he tried several times but there was no response, and now Lu Bu is no longer as easy to deceive as he was back then, and he failed to separate Gao Shun, but instead the person who Cao Cao placed next to Lu Bu was pulled out, making Cao Cao lose his eyeliner.

"Only 10,000 people, dare to go out to fight, this Gao Shun is so bold!" Shi Yi couldn't help but shake his head and sighed, in his opinion, this Gao Shun is no different from delivering food.

However, the others chose to be silent and did not support Shi Yi's remarks, last year's several battles were enough to show the strength of Lu Bu's army, they had to be glad that Lu Bu implemented the elite army policy, if Lu Bu now has hundreds of thousands of such a strong army under his command, then don't fight, everyone tied up with each other to ask Lu Bu to surrender.

"Gentlemen, the war is urgent, and I have to go back to Xingyang to preside over the battle." Cao Cao stood up and bowed his hand to everyone: "You are at your own convenience." ”

Sun Jing thought for a while and said, "My Jiangdong soldiers and horses haven't arrived yet, can you allow me to wait to watch the battle?" ”

Liu Xun also stood up, bowed to Cao Cao and said, "Before coming down, my father also asked the villain to learn more, see how powerful Lu Bujun is, and study the strategy of breaking the enemy." ”

"It's fine." Cao Cao nodded, and did not refuse, and immediately looked at Liu Bei and said, "That Xuande Gong ......"

"There are still good generals in the army, so I will go with Cao Gong to have a look, and I am also a little prepared." Liu Bei smiled and said, his army is still in the area of Funiu Mountain, and he didn't start the war so quickly, seeing Lu Bu is secondary, he also wants to see how Cao Cao's army is, if this battle can defeat Lu Bu, then his biggest enemy next is Cao Cao.

Cao Cao did not refuse, glanced at Guan Yu and Huang Zhong behind Liu Bei, if necessary, he didn't mind using Huang Zhong and Guan Yu, when the group set up camp one after another, Shi Yi finally followed, the war in the Central Plains has nothing to do with Jiaozhou, no matter who wins the world in the end, it is attached, the status of Jiaozhou has already determined that the world has nothing to do with them, but he is curious about how strong Lu Bu's soldiers and horses are, and what kind of army of 10,000 people makes Cao Cao, who has 300,000 male soldiers, so solemn.

When Cao Cao arrived at Xingyang with a group of princes, the soldiers and horses had already been assembled.

"Lord!" Xiahoudun led a group of generals to meet Cao Cao.

"Have you ever been at war?" Cao Cao looked at Xiahoudun and said in a deep voice.

"The war has not started yet, and Gao Shun doesn't know what's going on, after leaving the customs, he won't attack in the future, but he just invites our army to fight, and the last general doesn't dare to be proficient, so he sends someone to inform the lord." Xiahou bowed and said.

"Since he gave up the checkpoint and went out of the city to fight, our army can't weaken its momentum!" Cao Cao snorted coldly: "Have the soldiers and horses ever been ready?" ”

"We have gathered 50,000 elite troops, ready to go out at any time." Xiahoudun nodded.

"Okay, you will follow me to see how powerful this Gao Shun is!" Cao Cao laughed loudly.

The soldiers and horses are not as elite as Lu Bu, and the weapons are not as good as Lu Bu, he admits it, but if you want to say that only 10,000 soldiers and horses want to frustrate the spirit of Cao Jun, this Cao Cao does not agree, and it just means that Lu Bu can see the results of his development in recent years.

With Cao Cao's order, 50,000 troops set out to fight, but seeing the banner covering the sun, swords and guns like a forest, from a distance, like a black dragon cruising towards the Tiger Prison Pass, Xiao Killing Qi spread, that is, Sun Jing, Liu Xun, Shi Yi These princes saw the scene of Cao's army marching at this moment, and they couldn't help but change color.

"What do Yun Chang and Han Sheng think?" Liu Bei rode his horse and walked among the princes' camp with Guan Yu, Huang Zhong and Shi Tao, looked at Cao Junjun's appearance, and asked softly.

Guan Yu didn't speak, but Huang Zhong sighed: "I'm afraid it's not under the elite of our army." ”

Liu Bei's elite is the 60,000 elite soldiers in Jiangxia and Nanyang, these are Liu Bei's family background, and they are also his trump cards, because Zhuge Liang lobbied the kings of Jingxiang and made Liu Bei's soldiers take Jingzhou without blood, these two elites can be said to be the strongest soldiers and horses under Liu Bei, even if they are the 20,000 Xiangyang elites who surrendered from Xiangyang, they can't compare.

Liu Bei nodded, he was a little curious, that Gao Shun trained troops and fought battles were all the choice of generals, but he didn't know how to stop Cao Cao's 50,000 elite soldiers with only 10,000 soldiers and horses?

The place chosen by Gao Shun was an open area outside the Tiger Prison Pass, which was also conducive to the battle between the two armies, Cao Cao began to reorganize the army at a place where the two sides gathered ten miles away, and at this time, he saw a knight on the opposite side riding a horse and rushing straight over, and did not stop until he was far away from Cao Jun's stone's throw away, and asked loudly: "My general sent me to ask Cao Gong if he needs to rest, and our army can wait for Cao Gong to rest before launching an attack." ”

"Heh~" Before Cao Cao could speak, a group of Cao army generals had already blown up, and Gao Shun clearly looked down on them.

"Okay, then tell your general, wait for a stick of incense, and then go to war." Cao Cao sneered, how can you not take advantage of it, since Gao Shun is so arrogant.

"I'll go back here, and after a stick of incense, I'll come back to capture Cao Gong alive." The knight agreed, turned his horse's head and galloped away.

"Phew! The deception is too great, the thief is gone! Cao Xiu's face turned pale, and he took off his bow and arrows and wanted to shoot this madman with an arrow.

"Don't fall for their agitation!" Cao Cao took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the evil fire that was rising in his chest, and said coldly: "Order all the troops to form a formation and prepare to attack!" ”

When Cao Jun's soldiers heard this, they began to rub their hands one by one, ready to give Gao Shun a powerful look.

The time of a stick of incense passed quickly, and Cao Cao's 50,000 troops had gathered into five phalanxes and began to march towards Gao Shun's army.

"General, they're coming!" At the place of Gao Shun's central army, a lookout took back the clairvoyant mirror and conveyed the message in the banner language: "The five phalanxes seem to want to encircle our army." ”

"Together?" The corners of Gao Shun's mouth pulled up a sneer: "The shield soldiers are in formation!" A long snake formation! ”

"Whoa!"

With Gao Shun's order, one after another flags were played, from Gao Shun's army, suddenly out of a row of soldiers holding a big shield, these warriors have no other weapons, only a shield in their hands, but this shield is different from the ordinary round shield, but rectangular, taller than a person, a shield two fingers thick, with a military order conveyed, quickly lined up in front of Gao Shun's array, behind the shield array, a row of strong men with strong bows and crossbows hiding behind the shield soldiers, Cao Jun could not see the situation behind the shield array at all.

"What is this?" Cao Cao looked at the huge shield with some surprise, which was enough to completely cover a person.

"It's a shield...... Let's do it! A group of Cao generals had never seen such a big shield, and said hesitantly, the shield array that seemed to be like an iron wall was no different from the walls of some small cities, and it still moved.

"Crossbow arrows, shoot!"

"Whoa!" Xiahou Yuan nodded, and with a wave of his hand, a row of crossbowmen holding two-stone rhubarb crossbows quickly stepped forward, and after a distance of nearly two hundred and fifty steps, they began to shoot at the shield array.

"Bang Bang~"

Dense clusters of arrows hit the thick shield, many arrow clusters were directly bounced away, the big shield, wrapped in a layer of cowhide, and inlaid with iron sheets, ordinary bows and arrows, can not break through the shield's defense.

"How far?" Gao Shun looked up at the lookout and asked.

"Two hundred and fifty steps!" The flag officer bowed and replied.

"It seems that Cao Jun has also made improvements to the bow and crossbow over the years!" Gao Shun sneered and said, in the past, Lu Bu's triple crossbow could only shoot two hundred steps, and it could crush Cao Jun, but now the opponent's crossbow arrows have obviously not reached the farthest range, if it is still the previous repeater, I am afraid that it will be crushed by Cao Jun, especially when the other party uses three-stage shooting, it is very good to lose the advantage of the repeater.

"Bow and arrow counterattack! Target, enemy rear! ”

With Gao Shun's order, a crossbowman quickly came out of the line, quickly divided into six rows, and came to the back of the shield array separated by a distance, these people are two people sharing a crossbow, but this crossbow is different from ordinary crossbows, there are eight feet in the bow alone, the bowstring is made of animal tendons mixed with iron wire, in order to reduce the strength required to open the bow, each bow has two bowstrings, one of which is fixed with two pulleys in the middle, Rao is so, to use this new crossbow, at least two people can use, One person is responsible for calibration, and the other is responsible for firing the bow, and as for the range, it can reach up to six hundred steps, which is quite close to the farthest range of the Qin crossbow back then.

"The goal is 400 steps, start positioning!"

An officer waved the command flag, and above the fight, the flag officer had already reported the distance of the enemy's rear in the flag language.

"Ready!"

"Crunch~"

With a dull sound, the strong soldier used the strength of his whole body to pull the bowstring and buckle it on the bracket, and another soldier quickly put a five-foot-long arrow cluster on the bowstring, although this new crossbow machine is not as time-consuming as the God of War crossbow, but it is very labor-intensive, generally even if it is a layer of selected wrestlers, it can only be opened seven times at most.

He took out a measuring stick in his hand and began to adjust the bracket to adjust the angle between the crossbow machine and the ground.

"Volley! Put! With the order of the starting officer, under the horrified eyes of Cao Cao and others, three thousand sharp arrows five feet long directly crossed the heads of the crossbowmen in the front row and landed in the phalanx in the rear. (To be continued.) )