Chapter 281: 'Strategic Shift'
Pan Feng watched the six roads with his eyes and listened to all directions, and all the changes on the battlefield were in his eyes. Seeing Cao Chun's tiger and leopard riding out, Pan Feng couldn't help grinning.
"Collect the bow, unsheath the sword!"
Pan Feng waved his big axe and roared: "Brothers, let these cottages take a look, what is the invincible iron horse!" ”
"Invincible!"
"Invincible!"
"Kill!" Pan Feng pulled out the horse's head violently, and the entire cavalry team of 10,000 people crossed an arc, and instantly changed the formation into a sharp arrow formation, with Pan Feng as the arrow, facing Cao Chun's tiger and leopard riding, accelerating, and accelerating again!
Everywhere he passed, Cao Jun's foot soldiers swarmed forward, but they were only like moths to a fire, being crushed by rows of knives and lights, and there was no corpse, but Pan Fengjun was like entering a no-man's land, breaking through the infantry phalanx of Cao Jun on the right wing in an instant, and meeting with the tiger and leopard cavalry!
Bang!
The two armies collided violently, and in an instant, people turned on their backs!
Pan Feng took the lead, the big axe was vertical and horizontal, and a long axe light slashed down, splitting Cao Chun and the horse with a stumbling stagger, and the shocked Cao Chun's face was colorless!
"Kill them all!"
Pan Feng's rough face was killed, and a pair of big axes galloped vertically and horizontally, killing Cao Chun and tearing apart the tiger and leopard cavalry in an instant!
Cao Chun gritted his teeth and stepped forward repeatedly, but was still repelled by Pan Feng's axe. If Pan Feng hadn't taken him seriously, he would have been killed by a big axe a long time ago!
The elite light cavalry is like one, and they have a heart for each other, five people out of the sword, five people cover, and they do a good job. The soldiers were expressionless, indifferent as iron, and looked at the enemy soldiers in front of them who were cut in two with a knife, and their eyes did not fluctuate.
Cao Chun knew that he was not Pan Feng's opponent, so he wanted to find a soldier to start, where did he know, he stabbed out, and five long knives sealed it, and five long knives slashed him head, which scared him back again and again!
At this time, Cao Chun came to his senses. Looking back, his face suddenly turned extremely pale.
In just a few breaths, the front army was almost killed, and it was completely pressed and beaten by the Youzhou cavalry, and it couldn't be reused at all!
"Tacit understanding! Incredible tacit understanding! ”
Xiahou Yuan looked at the tiger and leopard rider who was known as the trump card from afar, and under the attack of the Youzhou army, he was destroyed and decayed, tearing apart the military formation, and he was suddenly shocked!
"What to do?!"
Looking back again, seeing that the elite of Xuzhou on the right wing had been almost crippled by repeated cavalry shots, Xiahou Yuan suddenly retreated!
"Retreat."
Chen Gong's face was miserable: "No wonder the Youzhou army is invincible in the world, it is the same person, the cooperation is too tacit, and the soldiers are very calm!" ”
Ding Ding Ding
The sound of gold sounded, and the tormented Cao Chun was in good spirits, and hurriedly retreated, while pulling out the horse's head, to lead the remnants of the army out of the battlefield, and quickly left.
"Want to run?!"
Pan Feng was extremely violent: "It depends on whether General Ben agrees!" ”
"The whole army has it, gather energy!"
At the sound of the order, the knights of the whole army immediately withdrew their long knives that were constantly chopping and raised them violently.
"Hah!"
A loud shout sounded, and Xiahou Yuan's face turned pale.
"Not good!" Chen Gong shouted again and again: "You must keep the elite, keep the elite!" ”
"Quick! Fast! The sword and shield soldiers stepped forward, and the ironclad infantry retreated! Xiahou Yuan shouted again and again: "Up, up!" ”
Xiahou Yuan hurriedly ordered the ironclad infantry wearing elite equipment to retreat, and let the ordinary equipped sword and shield bearers be cannon fodder to resist it, block the pace of the Youzhou cavalry, and win life for the tiger and leopard cavalry.
"Gather!"
With Pan Feng's loud shout, the blood-red mist visible to the naked eye burst out from the soldiers of the whole army, forming a blood-red cloud, covering the sun in the sky.
Then, the blood cloud converged and contracted, quickly thickened, and then like a long whale absorbing water, it was attached to Pan Feng's big axe, Pan Feng's forehead was bruised, a pair of eyes bulged, and a blood-light giant axe hundreds of zhang long quickly condensed and formed above his head.
"Slash!"
The loud shouts that overwhelmed everything were like a thunderbolt in a dry day, and then, the huge blood-colored light axe hundreds of zhang long slashed down like a groundbreak!
Bang!
In an instant, the rear army of the tiger and leopard cavalry was cut off with a single blow and disappeared. At the same time, among the smoke and dust, a huge crack hundreds of zhang long appeared in front of him!
On the battlefield, there was no sound in an instant.
The tens of thousands of surviving soldiers of the Cao Army and the Xuzhou Army looked at the moat one by one in amazement, and beads of sweat the size of beans slid down their faces!
"Ahh
I don't know who it was, screamed, and in an instant, the army collapsed!
"Let's go!"
Xiahou Yuan came back to his senses, sandwiched Chen Gong under his ribs, and flew away. As for those soldiers, how much can they manage? Leave yourself to fend for yourself!
"I hope they are captured, so that they can delay the advance of the enemy army."
Chen Gong thought silently.
Pan Feng squinted slightly, looked at the remnants of the tiger and leopard cavalry that had fled far away, waved his hand to stop the pace of the army, the military formation changed, and turned around.
"Disarm or kill!"
Xiahou Chun's face sank like water, and the corners of his mouth were slightly bitter.
"50,000 people, just gone"
Xiahou Yuan nodded palely and said, "Isn't this something I expected a long time ago?" Immortals"
"What to do? Brother, the city wall of Laiwu County can't stop it at all! ”
Although Chen Gong on the side was a little defeated, he was still trying his best to think of a good strategy.
In fact, for the 'immortal arts' of the Youzhou Army, Cao Ying and his important strategists have made a detailed analysis. As Xun You said, if the Youzhou army can really use immortal magic and fight head-on, it can't resist at all, and as for ambush or something, it's in vain. But in this world, there is an even more powerful force that can block the Youzhou army, or even annihilate it!
That's the power of nature!
Water and fire have always been ruthless, and only by flooding and attacking with fire can I be afraid that we can have a chance of winning.
It's a pity that Laiwu is a flat river, and there is no big river to have a big river, and there is no dense forest to have a dense forest. There are no conditions for both water and fire to be used. Even if there is, could it be that the military advisers in Youzhou all eat dry rice?
And this time the troops were stationed in Laiwu, in fact, it was just a little struggling. Cao Ying was unwilling to surrender his troops, so he immediately withdrew to show weakness, and Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Chun were even more reluctant to retreat without a fight, and even these two people had always regarded what they saw on the night of the Battle of Gaotang as a fantasy and did not want to admit it, and they always wanted to get back to the field and save face. But nowadays
"Retreat!" Chen Gongchang exhaled: "Laiwu does not have the conditions to defeat the Youzhou army, so it is better to retreat and find an opportunity to counterattack." ”
Brother Xiahou nodded silently, and immediately ordered the army to assemble, but did not explicitly retreat.
His subordinates and Cao Bao were the generals of Xuzhou, and they thought that Xiahou Chun was ready to assemble an army and fight hard with the Youzhou army.
Unexpectedly, after Xiahou Chun personally led the troops out of the city, he ran west!
Cao Bao and the others were stunned and couldn't help themselves.
"Cao Jun ran away? Just ran away? Cao Bao looked at Cao Hong stupidly, and his heart was blank.
Cao Hong was full of bitterness.
The retreat of Cao's army made him react in an instant, and he must have realized that he could not win, and he 'shifted his strategy' in order to avoid serious losses.
"We, what should we do?"
Cao Bao is now like he has lost his mind and is completely unassertive.
"While the Youzhou army has not yet arrived, we will also withdraw!"
Cao Hong said abruptly.
"Retreat" Cao Bao smiled, laughing, desolate and sad: "Where to retreat?" Xuzhou? And then what? Where to retreat again? ”
Cao Hong was speechless.
"The 250,000 troops were so frightened by the enemy's 20,000 strikers that they threw away their armor and fled in panic, which was a big joke in the world! Slippery world! Cao Bao roared again and again, venting the bitterness in his heart: "I originally expected to unite with Cao Jun, and Xuzhou still has a glimmer of life. Now that Cao Jun has betrayed his treachery and betrayed the alliance, what is the use of such an ally, can you still hope for it? ”
"Cao Hong, let's surrender."
Cao Bao raised his head violently and shouted, "It's better to surrender now than to die without a corpse." ”
"Why? We still have an army of 100,000! Cao Hong's eyes burned.
"Why?" Cao Bao laughed at himself and said, "Do you know why Xiahou Chun fled in a panic?" ”
"I'm wondering about that." Cao Hongdao.
"Immortal! You know?! Immortals! Cao Bao said with great difficulty: "It must be that the Youzhou army used immortal magic again, broke Xiahou Yuan, and scared it out!" ”
"Immortal art" Cao Hong muttered to himself: "Is that true?" Isn't it a rumor? ”
"Rumors? Hahaha" Cao Bao looked up to the sky and laughed: "I saw it with my own eyes, how can it be a rumor? The princes and Tao Gong from all walks of life are just afraid of messing up the morale of the army, so they have been hiding it! ”
"Having that being the case, what is there to fight in this battle? Surrender! ”
Pan Feng broke through Xiahou Yuan, collected the prisoners, and immediately camped on the spot, preparing to wait for the main force to come.
Suddenly, a soldier came to report. said that Xuzhou Cao Bao arrived.
Pan Feng's heart was surprised, his heart turned, and he said, "Please invite him in." ”
Cao Bao took Cao Hong and Zhang Min to slowly approach Pan Feng's main camp under the gaze of the Youzhou soldiers.
"General Cao?" Pan Feng smiled and said, "I didn't expect to meet again today." ”
Cao Bao smiled bitterly: "This is not what I want. ”
"En," Pan Feng bowed slightly, and said: "On this battlefield, General Cao, as the chief general of the first army, how can he come to my big tent?" ”
When Cao Bao heard this, he suddenly took off his helmet, hugged it to his chest, knelt on one knee, and said, "I am willing to surrender!" ”
"Oh!?"
Pan Feng's eyes lit up suddenly, but he said, "Could it be a fraud?" ”
"Fraudulent surrender" Cao Bao shook his head again and again: "If you surrender by fraud, will Cao Mou enter the tiger's mouth with a cadre of military divisions and colonels?" ”
Pan Feng stared at him without blinking, Cao Bao had a clear conscience, and his eyes looked straight ahead.
"En" Pan Feng finally nodded and said, "General Cao understands the righteousness, but it is the blessing of the soldiers and the blessing of the people, please get up!" Saying that, Pan Feng personally helped Cao Bao and the others up, and said with a smile: "Pan will definitely inherit General Cao's merits in front of the lord!" ”
"General Shepan!"
"What?!"
Puyang, Baimajin. Cao Ying looked at the messenger in amazement, his face full of disbelief.
"Defeated?! How fast!? ”
"Stand down, stand down!"
Xun You looked at Cao Ying, whose lips trembled, thought slightly, and said, "General Xiahou, they are defeated?" ”
"Defeated! Defeated by 20,000 vanguards under Koji Yoshi. Haw Par Ride lost most of it! ”
"This" Xun You was also shocked. He had long expected that Xiahou Yuan and the others would be defeated, but he didn't expect to lose so quickly.
"Gongda, now, what should I do?" Cao Ying's face was expressionless.
"The top priority should be to let General Xiahou retreat to Juye." Xun You's eyes flickered.
"Juye?" Cao Ying flipped through the map: "The giant field next to Onozawa? ”
"Exactly. In the area of Onozawa, the rivers are vertical and horizontal, and there are many waters, and the terrain is not conducive to the march of the cavalry, which can greatly weaken the combat effectiveness of the cavalry in Youzhou. In addition, there is an abundant water source there, and there are conditions for the implementation of flooding measures. ”
"Good!"
(To be continued)