Chapter 33: Lu Bu's defeat
Lu Bu ordered all his troops and horses to attack Xiapi, of course he was not really attacking, but he was just going to walk around and then come back to prepare to exchange Pengcheng for his family. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
This time, Lu Bu did not dare to hand over the camp to Zheng Kai and Mi Fang for defense, and these two people not only did not prevent him from sending troops, but began to support him to exchange Pengcheng for his family. For those who harbor evil intentions, of course, they are only relieved to take them with them and control them.
Lu Bu left more than 200 elite peasant soldiers in the current elite and more than 400 soldiers who were defeated by Cao Ren's defeat of the camp last time, and then drew 400 strong Cao soldiers to surrender, and gathered 1,000 people to let Xiao Xiong guard the camp as the main general, and left all the more than 80 war horses in the camp in case Cao Ren could not resist the camp and take his family and flee. He himself took 1,200 people to wander outside the city of Xiapi.
Because he was secretly wary of Cao Ren's abnormality in inviting battles outside the camp in the past few days, he tried to bring out all the Cao soldiers, even if he died, he would not feel distressed, anyway, the loyalty of this group of soldiers was worrying. Although Lu Bu had doubts in his heart, he still brought a hedgehog shield to prevent Cao Ren's harassment.
In order to prevent Cao Ren from coming up with a way to break the hedgehog shield, Lu Bu also deliberately asked the craftsmen to build a scimitar overnight, the scimitar is specially used to dig the pit of the horse's leg, the scimitar is faster than the spear and more labor-saving, the average soldier can dig it in two or three breaths, without too much effort, as long as the blade is inserted into the soil, twisted it hard, and the bowl mouth is big to dig deep into the pit. Of course, he didn't bring out the scimitar, and he will surprise the tiger and leopard rider in the future, and now he doesn't have many soldiers under his command, even if he breaks Cao Ren's battle formation, he can't maximize the destruction of the tiger and leopard rider.
Lu Bu and his soldiers had just left the camp less than two miles away, and there were traces of tigers and leopards riding on the high slope a few miles ahead.
Lu Bu hurriedly led the soldiers to choose a narrow area with mountains on both sides and a large avenue in the middle.
"Array to meet the enemy."
Under Lu Bu's order, the soldiers began to spread their shields on the ground in front of them, and then retreated to form a tight battle formation centered on Mi Fang, with the sword and shield hands in front, the spearmen in the middle, and the archers last.
Every time there is a big battle, Lu Buju is the first soldier, rushing to the front, today I feel that Cao Rendi is wrong, he rides a war horse and leans on the tail of the formation to escort the formation, so as to organize the defeated soldiers to rearrange from the new formation in time. Zheng Kai was a strategist, and he originally disdained to go to the battlefield in person, but he was forcibly pulled by Lu Bu, riding on a horse, looking at the Cao soldiers rushing in front of him, his face was pale, and he retreated straight back with his horse.
Lu Bu looked at it, there was a "Chen" word written on the handsome flag, and the two hundred cavalry behind him were not sharp tiger and leopard cavalry, they looked like the general cavalry under the command of the chariot in Xiapi City, and a large banner with the word "Cao" written on it led the dense tiger and leopard cavalry to follow behind this group of cavalry from afar.
"Could it be that Cao Ren wants to use the two hundred cavalry in front of him as cannon fodder to break my hedgehog array?" Lu Bu thought secretly in his heart, and quietly rode on horseback to watch the changes in the battle situation.
The sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers in front of Lu Bu's battle array raised their big knives in their hands, ready to wait for the Cao soldiers and cavalry to go up and mend the knives after being nailed over, and the shields were held on the ground by them with one hand. Once the cavalry was not pinned over as imagined, how could a one-handed ground shield withstand the impact of the cavalry?
Lu Bu separated from the rear formation, preparing to rush to the front of the formation to command, and the front hooves of the first war horse had already stepped on the nails.
There was no imaginary neighing of horses, and the war horses were not hindered in the slightest, as if they were on the ground.
"Ahh The sword and shield bearers at the front saw that the enemy rider did not fall to the ground as expected, but rushed straight towards him without any trace, and shouted in fear, and then hurriedly pressed the shield with his shoulder.
"Huh?" Lübul grabbed his horse and looked under the hooves of the opposing cavalry.
"Damn!" Lu Bu scolded, only to see a thick subway piece tied under the other party's horse's hooves, and the horse's hooves stepped on the nails, and the nails could not pierce the iron pieces but were trampled and bent.
actually made Cao Ren figure out the horseshoe! Lu Bu secretly regretted in his heart that he shouldn't use nails to break the tiger and leopard riding, he knew better than anyone else in his heart the importance of simple horseshoe, saddle, and stirrups for cavalry, that is, because he knew too well, he still didn't dare to equip the war horse in his hand with these three things, but he didn't expect that the crooked fight was just for Cao Ren to figure out, although it was only simply tied to the horse's hooves now, it was difficult to guarantee that they would not find that the horseshoe could actually be nailed to the horse's hooves, once this was also discovered by them, what was waiting for Lu Bu was the catastrophe.
As long as Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao, he could get a large number of war horses from the Youzhou area, and he could only wait for death in Guangling.
Just when Lu Bu regretted it, the formation in front was chaotic, the enemy cavalry had not yet approached the big formation, Mi Fang in front of the flag fell first, Mi Fang was using the big knife in his hand to slam the horse's fart, the long knife rushed left and right, and slaughtered his own soldiers who blocked the way, and the Shuai Qi fell to the ground has made the morale fall to the bottom, and the soldiers who did not know why were hacked to death by their own generals with a random knife, and suddenly everyone was in danger, throwing away their armor and climbing up on both sides, trampling on each other.
"Mi Fang!" Lu Bu gritted his teeth when he saw it, but he didn't expect Mi Fang to dare to rebel and make trouble under his nose.
Mi Fang killed to the side, abandoned the horse and jumped, climbed up along the rocks, and after a while, the news was in the dense forest above.
"Array! Array! Lu Bu held the Zhangba snake spear and stabbed the soldiers who rushed backwards, and the soldiers were looking at the war horses rushing in front of them in fear, and they didn't notice that Lu Bu was commanding from behind, and they rushed backwards to wrap Lu Bu and the people with the war horses backwards.
The general under the banner of Chen Zi at the front did not waste a trace of strength to kill his own soldiers, Lu Bu was still making the last struggle, hoping to re-line the battle formation against the cavalry, and just wanted to turn around and command the soldiers behind him to line up to block the chaotic retreating soldiers in front, only to see Zheng Kai take the lead in fighting the horse and leave.
Zheng Kai's status in Lu Bu's army is not low, in the eyes of the lower-level soldiers, he is the first person under Lu Bu, seeing Zheng Kai flee first, the archers behind the formation dropped their hardwood bows and fled, and the front and back began to escape, and it was more difficult to organize a battle formation than to ascend to the sky.
Lu Bu had the intention to deliberately let go of the water and give it to Che Zhou, so that he would be at a disadvantage, so that he would be at a disadvantage in the negotiation, and take advantage of the situation to exchange Pengcheng for his family, Lu Bu got the news that Chen Deng would be able to arrive in Xiapi in the middle of the night today, and once Chen Deng arrived in Xiapi, how could his family still die. All he wanted was to throw a few corpses properly, not the current defeat, if he really wanted to be defeated, he wouldn't take Mi Fang and Zheng Kai under his nose to watch.
"Zheng Kai! If you don't kill you, it's hard to get rid of the hatred in your heart! Lu Bu thought of when he had been so defeated since his debut! At this moment, his anger overwhelmed his reason, go to his mother's follow-up plan, he never killed Zheng Kai just hoped that when he confronted Cao Cao, Zheng Kai in the rear would make trouble for him, and he pretended to return to the army to quell the rebellion and ambush Cao Cao, so he kept Zheng Kai alive until now, he didn't expect Zheng Kai Mifang to dare to rebel under his nose again.
Anger from the bottom of his heart, Lu Bu swept away the chaotic soldiers in front of him, and chased Zheng Kai directly after him, the black horse was faster than Zheng Kai's ordinary war horse, and he stabbed Zheng Kai to death with a spear after chasing more than 300 steps.
Lu Bu threw off the soldier who was running on two legs from a distance, and when the soldier saw the cavalry behind him, he was so frightened that he shouted: "General help..."
"The general save me..."
"General, don't run away and fight with them!"
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The shouts behind him were loud, Lu Bu couldn't bear to leave them and run for their lives alone, turned the horse's head, and looked at the sparse soldiers running around, if he wanted to organize a rebellion, he would only gather a bunch of heads to give Cao Bing meritorious service, and held high the Zhangba snake spear: "After a certain break, you just have to run forward." ”
Lu Bu rode alone and charged directly towards Cao's cavalry.
"If the general doesn't run away, I won't die!" Some of the bloody soldiers picked up their roadside weapons and turned around to follow Lu Bu, fighting the flames at the Cao soldiers and cavalry moths.
"Protect General Lu and fight with Cao Thief!" More and more soldiers began to gather together, reflexively killing the Cao soldiers' cavalry, they forgot that they were one of the Cao soldiers not long ago, and at this moment, they regarded themselves as Lu Bu's soldiers, and the main general would cut off the soldiers for an unprecedented time.
Seeing that he was about to collide with Cao's cavalry, Lu Bu looked back at the soldiers gathered together, and shouted angrily: "Listen to my general's order, you will leave as soon as possible, and those who violate the order will be killed." ”
One of the soldiers gathered together was a big man with a cheeky face, bare arms, a pair of eyes bigger than a fist, and a gangster face, and said loudly: "I was originally a tiger and leopard cavalry soldier, and the general disregarded his own safety in order to protect the lives of our soldiers. ”
After speaking, he raised the big knife in his hand, regardless of whether anyone around him followed, and rushed forward first.
Lu Bu didn't hear Li Damu speak, he finished his last order and had already engaged the enemy cavalry.
"Die!" Lu Bu used the power of the black horse to charge, the snake spear was raised horizontally, and his legs clamped the horse's belly.
A force of recoil from the snake spear shook Lu Bu, stabilized his body, and his arm exerted force, forcing the cavalry to separate and rush to the ground. Lu Bu is like a lonely boat drowning in the torrent, going up against the torrent.
The palm of the hand holding the snake spear was tingling because of the friction, but fortunately, because there would be no wounds, although the black horse and Lu Bu were attacked, it did not affect their combat effectiveness and mobility.
Seeing a cavalry in the cavalry group with armor and helmets fully equipped, thinking that it was the main general, Lu Bu shouted, lifted the reins, and the black horse rose high, and the other master had no time to dodge in the future, and was smashed to the ground by Lu Bu's crotch black horse and the horse, and Lu Bu took the opportunity to finish him with a spear.
On the hillside, Cao Ren watched the battle from afar, saw that Lu Bu was not afraid of death, and rode alone to hedge with the cavalry, and saw that the defeated soldiers behind him picked up their weapons and sent them out to test whether the horseshoe could block the nail ground cavalry to fight to the death, and he was shocked in his heart, he could re-stimulate the combat effectiveness of the rout that was defeated, what kind of master general is this? He sighed loudly: "There are no weak soldiers under the strong generals!" Prepare for the total annihilation of Lu Bu. ”
After Cao Ren finished speaking, the cavalry began to run slowly, which was the prelude to the cavalry's charge.
Feeling the shaking of the earth, Lü Bu gave up a spear to pierce the cavalry and looked up into the distance, only to see that Cao Ren found that the nail shield that Lü Bu used to restrain him could not penetrate the horse's hooves, and personally led the tiger and leopard cavalry to follow and cover the kill.