After Cao Hong's break, Cao Ren finally fled to the woods, and Zhang Jaw and Cao Chun, who were appointed as pioneers, breathed a deep sigh of relief: "It's really dangerous." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info "Although he didn't suffer any harm, Cao Ren still thinks so. After all, the situation just now was so dangerous that it could almost be compared to the few rare crises he himself had encountered. He can say with certainty that if it weren't for Cheng Yu reminding him in advance, if it weren't for Cao Hong standing up and resisting for him for a while, he was afraid that he would really be annihilated by that army. "If that's the case, what chance do you have of surviving?" Cao Ren was afraid: "I'm afraid it's not at all." I'm not a tough guy like Lu Bu, Guan Yu, or Zhang Fei. And even Lu Bu, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei may not have known that they had single-handedly broken through from the army formation of tens of thousands of people. ”

"What happened?" Due to the distance, such a thing happened in the barracks on Cao Ren's side, but Zhang Jaw and Cao Chun's side still didn't know what was going on. The dense woods completely cut off the earth-shattering shouts of slaughter, and all they could hear here was the sound of the Han River flowing.

"We encountered a surprise volley from Li Shengjun." Cao Ren didn't speak in his thoughts, but Cheng Yu, the military advisor beside him, gasped and told the matter here, and then asked Zhang Jaw and Cao Chun with concern: "Is there any unusual movement here?" I'm worried about what will happen to Li Shengjun here. Pang Tong is an opponent that cannot be underestimated. Until now, we don't know what means they used to detect our actions and accurately grasp our steps. Perhaps, it was really a mistake for us to go to war with Li Sheng like this. ”

"Wrong? I don't think so. Cao Ren finally came out of his thoughts, but when he heard Cheng Yu's words, he shook his head gently: "If the lord wants to rule the world, he will fight against everyone after all." There is no way to avoid fighting Li Sheng, so how can it be said that it is a mistake? However, what you said earlier about Pang Tong being able to grasp our actions so accurately requires our careful attention. This time, our actions were so urgent and secretive, and they were actually grasped by Pang Tong, which really made me wonder if there was Li Shengjun's spy among our people. If it weren't for the spies who saw through everything about us and reported it to Pang Tong, how could we have been so miserably defeated? We must find this spy as soon as possible. ”

"Spies? Joke. How do you find out what you don't have? Cheng Yu squinted at Cao Ren and said with a little self-deprecation.

"Something that doesn't exist? Do you say that our series of actions of being seized by the enemy are the result of the enemy's own detection, and not that there are spies making trouble in it? Cao Ren's eyes widened, and he looked incredulous. At this moment, his face was very solemn, as if he had thought of something extremely bad in an instant.

"It's true, and as much as we don't want to admit it, it's true, and there's no way to change it." Cheng Yu spread out his hand and said helplessly. He naturally understood what Cao Ren had discovered, but he was equally powerless for such a discovery.

Since the other party does not rely on spies to obtain information, it shows that the other party has more sophisticated means than himself in intelligence investigation and transmission. This method is definitely beyond my imagination, so I don't have a clue about it at all. If the use of spies is a kind of sneak attack that is difficult to prevent, then Li Shengjun's method is a strength that cannot be prevented. In the face of this absolute strength, his previous activities were of no use at all. All his actions have long been exposed to the enemy, and this exposure is what Cao Ren fears the most. "Know yourself and know your opponent, and you will not be defeated in a hundred battles." No general wants everything he has to be in someone else's hands. For them, it was a nightmare.

"Damn, how can we fight such a fight? I never thought that Li Shengjun would be so powerful. Cao Ren could only complain in annoyance to vent his dissatisfaction. As for how to solve it, he has no solution at the moment.

"So what are we going to do now?" Compared to Cao Ren, who could still rely on his own status to complain, Zhang Jaw didn't even have a chance to complain, he looked at Cheng Yu with his burning eyes, and quickly asked the question he was most concerned about at the moment.

"What to do? We can only do our best to survive now. After Cheng Yu said this, he smiled bitterly, but quickly ordered: "Zhang Jaw, you lead your men and horses to the woods to ambush me, just wait for the enemy to arrive and kill me from both wings to disrupt their army; As for General Cao Chun, you lead your tiger and leopard riders along the river beach to go around the back of the enemy, and once an ambush breaks out in the woods, you will cover up from behind. We have to teach those damned Li Shengjun a lesson. Otherwise, they will really look down on us. After all, when we arrived at this Xiangyang City, we had been passive. ”

"Again, we really need a win. Even if it's not for the sake of our morale, we have to think about our lives. Pang Tong is like a piece of shit, and he can't get rid of it. Cao Ren said helplessly. After meeting the army, he was a little bolder, and after listening to Cheng Yu's arrangement, he was a lot more confident. He will make a decision in the name of the master now, and everything will be done.

The number of troops was less, but for open jaws there was no difference. He even felt that fewer troops were better to move. After all, the number of troops is smaller, and the speed at which this order is passed on is faster. So one after another, clear and abnormal orders came out of his mouth and quickly reached the ears of every soldier. Under this very clear order, the soldiers of the Cao army quickly lurked, and held their breath on the edge of the woods. They are all waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

However, the enemy did not wait, but they saw the figure of Cao Hong's personal guards who had been defeated. They saw the embarrassment of these people, and naturally learned the news that Cao Hong was seriously injured.

"How could Zilian be like this?" Cao Ren was shocked when he saw Cao Hong's pale and dying appearance, and immediately asked.

"The general is fighting with the enemy general, and he will lose both." Cao Hong's personal guard briefly told Cao Ren about the battle between Cao Hong and Liu Feng: "...... The general, of course, was seriously injured because of this, but the enemy general was not much better. Right now, I'm afraid that their men are also guarding their generals, anxiously nursing there. ”

"What...... How could this be? Cao Hong was surprised and regretted: "I hurt Zilian." He staggered to his feet, but gave a direct order: "You escort Zilian to retreat like this." As for this, leave it all to us. You just need to take good care of Zilian. ”

"No...... Checkmate! Cao Hong's guards paused, and then went on like this.

Cao Ren looked at their figures gradually moving away, but the anger in his heart burned because of this: "You dare to hurt Zilian like this." Pang Tong, I will screw your head off one day. He swore fiercely. It's not their Cao family, they can't understand how deep their feelings are for each other. Although this brotherly love is not as famous as the righteous relationship between Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, Cao Ren is sure that the relationship between his brothers is definitely not worse than the relationship between Liu Guanzhang. At least after seeing Cao Hong being injured like this now, he felt the pain in his heart.

"Wait...... Must ......" Cao Ren was gritting his teeth here, and there was the sound of footsteps in the woods ahead. He hurriedly took a few steps forward, but he gently came to the edge of the woods, looked at the forest road through the dense leaves, and saw a group of Jingzhou troops neatly driving towards him under the clear moonlight. They were indeed well-trained, and walked through the woods without sound other than the sound of their feet on the earth. "The enemy is coming." Cao Ren said softly. Watching them enter the forest road one by one and enter his own ambush circle, he couldn't help but whisper in his heart.

The number of Jingzhou soldiers who entered the woods was not very large, and although there was no real one at all in the dark shadows, Cao Ren could still vaguely feel the approximate idea: "It's almost a thousand." There were a lot fewer people than the people who were chasing from the front. Don't...... What oddities do they have? ”

"Let Junyi wait." Cao Ren whispered to his guards and asked him to bring the news to Zhang Jaw in front of the woods. At this moment, Cao Ren was crouching at the back end of the forest road, and his jaw was lying at the front end of the forest road. According to the plan, Cao Ren attacked first, and then it was Zhang Jaw's turn to launch it. Because Cao Ren found some problems here, he didn't want to attack Li Shengjun so quickly, he was worried that Zhang Jaw over there would be impatient, so he sent someone to inform Zhang Jaw: "Things have changed...... It takes patience. ”

The people were dispatched, but there was no response for a while, so Cao Ren had time to observe the situation more closely: there seemed to be so many enemies, and they all entered the forest road - after a long time, Cao Ren did not notice that more people appeared.

"Could it be that they didn't send more people to chase after Liu Feng, who was defeated by Zilian, in order to protect him?" Cao Ren thought of this and felt that it was not impossible to have such a possibility, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. "Looks like it's time to attack." After repeatedly confirming that there was no enemy following him, he finally gave the order to attack: "Kill ......!" ”

The shout was heard, and with such a short word, the whole forest erupted. Cao Ren led his soldiers to kill from the back of the forest road and directly attacked the front army of the Jingzhou army, and Zhang Jaw, who heard Cao Ren's movements, also killed from the front section of the forest road, gambling the back road of the Jingzhou army easily and surrounding the Jingzhou army. For a moment, the shouts were startled, the clashing of swords and swords rang out, and the smell of blood began to permeate the woods almost as soon as the sound was chaotic. Cao Ren had 3,000 men and horses in ambush at the back end of the woods, and Zhang Jaw had 3,000 men and horses in ambush at the front of the woods. A total of 6,000 troops were killed together, and the more than 1,000 Jingzhou troops besieging this narrow forest road were not like autumn winds sweeping away leaves?

"I'm sure we'll be able to settle the battle soon." That's what most of them think.

This seems to be a fact, at least after Cao Ren and Zhang Jaw jointly launched this wave of surprise attacks, the Jingzhou army that entered the woods lost hundreds of people under the sudden blow, and finally gathered together helplessly, and was tightly dominated by Cao Ren and Zhang Jaw. Less than a quarter of an hour before the battle broke out, they already had a little bit of a powerless resistance.

"Really, we have such a big meal here, but there are only a few people who come to the meeting. Alas, what a waste. Looking at these guys who were still resisting, Cao Ren admired their courage a little, but hated their continued resistance, and after a little mockery and regret, he directly ordered: "Destroy them as soon as possible, and then let's go!" Although a well-planned ambush could only cause such a few results, Cao Ren could only be satisfied with this. After all, for him, getting a win is the most important thing. It doesn't matter if it's big or small, as long as it's a victory.

"Understood!" When the soldiers heard this, they began to speed up the clean-up operation in their hands. They all want to deal with these damned enemies as quickly as possible.

However, the unexpected happened at this moment. Although the remaining enemies were only a few hundred, they showed extraordinary combat effectiveness under the constant siege of Cao's army. They were supported by the attack of the Cao army, and gradually formed a stalemate with the Cao army.

"How so?" Cao Ren was slightly stunned by this, but an uneasiness quietly arose in his heart, and he suddenly discovered something: "Are these guys delaying time?" He was shocked and cried out in his heart: "If they are stalling for time...... Does that mean they still have support? What exactly is this ......? Is it ......? Cao Ren didn't have time to say that possible word, and in fact, he didn't need to say it at all. Because the sound of neat footsteps that appeared behind them had really shown the mystery in front of them - the Jingzhou army really used a thousand people as bait, used these thousand people to lure out their own people, and then sent their army to attack.

However, this kind of hatred is just another emotion, and it is not what Cao Ren is most concerned about at the moment. The enemy suddenly appeared behind him, and the enemy in front of him had not been completely eliminated. The situation of the two phases of attack made Cao Ren almost think that he had become the enemy just now. "Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi! This feng shui rotation thing came really fast. He smiled self-deprecatingly, and then ordered all his soldiers to turn around and engage the enemy on the other side.

"Kill!" Cao Ren roared angrily, and the long knife in his hand flashed in the darkness like a thunderbolt that swept through the air, breaking through the chest of a Jingzhou soldier and directly splitting him in two. For a moment, blood flew, internal organs were messy, and countless fine pieces of flesh that had been cut through his body by the strong knife qi floated to his face with a heavy bloody act, and his whole person was rendered like a demon god. In normal times, his appearance is definitely terrifying, but in such a chaotic battlefield at the moment, almost every soldier on both sides of the enemy is not much better than his appearance, so naturally he will be impressed by everyone.

The fighting was undoubtedly fierce. Because whether it is Li Shengjun's side or Cao Cao's side, they are all fighting with a ball of anger in their chests. For each of them, there seems to be a reason to win the battle at hand. For a while, they were all very warlike, but no one would let anyone go.

A Jingzhou soldier was stabbed to the ground by a Cao soldier armed with a spear, with a pained look on his face. However, he did not try his best to survive because of this, and instinctively pulled the weapon out of his hand, but used a little harder, holding on to the thing that asked for his name. He was stalling for time, believing that his comrades could avenge him—and it was, and just before the Cao soldier could draw his spear, a knife swept through his neck, but it sent his great head flying into the sky, scattering blood beads all over the sky.

"Kill ......!" "Die......!" "Lao Tzu hacked your ......!" Countless noises resounded over the woods, countless figures fought in the forest path, countless people fell and could not get up again, and countless people just stepped by, directly from the bodies of those who fell to the ground. The battle was going on between them. Although there were 10,000 Li Sheng's soldiers pressed up from the rear, because the battlefield was really spread out between the woods on the newly opened forest road opened up by Cao's army, the front of the battlefield was not open, and Cao Ren's 3,000 soldiers completely resisted Li Sheng's 10,000 soldiers.

"Damn, these guys can still burst out with such combat power. Are they really on the run? After receiving the battle report from the front, Zhang Bao, who had to stay in the rear and stay with the remaining two thousand soldiers because he was worried about Pang Tong's safety, asked with some confusion.

"Of course they're on the run, but even rabbits bite when they're in a hurry, and besides, they're all warriors? They are desperate and must be desperate. Because if we let them go to the river beach and they don't have time to leave, they will definitely be driven down the river by us to feed the fish, and they will have no chance of survival. It can be regarded as ten deaths, but it is better to work hard at this time and maybe win a glimmer of life. Pang Tong nodded with a smile and explained to Zhang Bao the reason why the current battle situation would become like this.

"So what are we going to do now?" Zhang Bao's personality is a bit like his father Zhang Fei, who is a little impatient. However, in front of Pang Tong, he could still control this anxiety.

"Wait ......," Pang Tong said affirmatively: "The two teams that were ambushed in advance to intercept Cao Ren are Liu Feng and Guan Ping. Now that Liu Feng has arrived, then Guan Ping will not be too far away from the enemy, and I asked Guan Ping to go through the woods to attack Cao Jun's greed. But at the moment, this goal is very difficult to achieve. Once Guan Ping appeared, then they would definitely attack Cao Jun from the side, so that Cao Jun couldn't care about it. It's definitely a good thing for us, and all we have to do is wait. ”

"I see." Zhang Bao answered, then closed his mouth and stopped talking. Apparently he had no objection to that.

Although Zhang Bao has no other opinion on this, Pang Tong always wants to make fun of this little general for some reason. He looked at him with a calm face, but he was very keen to catch the excitement in his eyes. Pang Tong knew what this flame meant. At that moment, he smiled slightly, and directly proposed to Zhang Bao: "Go up and play with two hands, so that the people of the Cao family can see your martial arts!" ”

"Huh?" In the face of Pang Tong's suggestion, Zhang Bao took action, but he did not act after all, because he always kept in mind his greatest responsibility: "It's still not necessary." Compared to going to war on the battlefield. General, your proper protection is the most important thing for me. ”

"Huh!" Pang Tong smiled at this, and said lightly: "Since this is the case, then wait a little longer." ”

Waiting can be very uncomfortable for people who are in a hurry, especially on the battlefield. As a hot-blooded general, when his subordinates can come forward to fight, but he has to wait in the rear, the torment in his heart is needless to say. Although Zhang Bao didn't say much, judging from the sweat on his forehead, his heart was by no means as calm as he appeared on the surface, and he was also waiting in great sadness. However, they did not wait for Guan Ping's flanking troops, but encountered Cao Chun's elite tiger and leopard cavalry.

Five thousand elites struck like a storm in the dim dust, and the spears in their hands were flat, but with the help of the rapid speed of the war horse, they crashed into Zhang Bao's rear formation. They accelerated, relying entirely on the strength of the war horse to run rampant among Li Sheng's army. One after another, Li Shengjun's soldiers were bumped into, and then they became miserable like a barbecue strung by tree branches.

Because Pang Tong never thought that Cao Chun would suddenly kill from his rear, and did not take some precautions against the rear army, Li Shengjun did not have much ability to resist when facing Cao Chun's elite cavalry. They just instinctively avoided Cao Chun's assault, pushing and giving in, and between the chaotic pushing and shoving, there were several times and the people who were directly pierced by the spear fell. They did not die under Cao Chun's assault, but died in the trampling of their own comrades. The immature novice posture of the Jingzhou army who was not good at being flexible was undoubtedly revealed under Cao Chun's assault, and almost everyone was frightened by Cao Chun's cavalry assault. The defense line of 2,000 men was gently torn like a thin piece of paper. Cao Chun immediately took his five thousand iron horsemen out of the formation.

"This is the enemy army that has driven us to such a point? Rubbish! Finding that the enemy was so weak, Cao Chun couldn't help but spit and scolded disdainfully, but he scolded in his mouth, but he was even more shocked in his heart: "The other party's main general, Pang Tong, can let such a garbage army exert extraordinary combat power, this is really impossible to underestimate." ”

But no matter how this is, it has nothing to do with Cao Chun. After all, Cao Chun's concern at the moment is not just to break through the enemy's rear army for a while, but to directly cooperate with his own army to defeat all the enemies who rush to pursue, so that his own army has a chance to retreat. This was supposed to be a simple task in the plan, but at the moment, it is not easy. The volatile situation on the battlefield has made the original plan almost a piece of waste paper. Just as Pang Tong didn't know that Cao Ren was still ambushing Cao Chun such a strange army, Cao Ren didn't know that Pang Tong could see through his ambush plan and grasp the way to crack it so well. Originally, the Haw Par Cavalry appeared as the last straw to suppress the enemy and cause them to collapse, but now the task of the Haw Par Cavalry has become how to cooperate with their own army to achieve victory in the melee.

Yes, melee! A melee battle of 10,000 against 6,000 men was unfolding after Cao Chun broke through the rear of Li Shengjun's army.

Originally, this was not the case. But at the same time that Cao Chun launched a massacre raid on the 2,000 people behind Li Sheng's army, Li Shengjun's front line, which had already formed a flank attack on Cao Ren's ambush troops, also frantically launched a siege on Cao Ren's 3,000 people with the cooperation of his own "bait". Both sides were killed, so the battle was fierce. Although there were no generals in Li Sheng's army in the front, those middle-level generals relied on their own quality and trust in their comrades-in-arms to integrate the entire battle situation and attack Cao's army. I don't know who made the suggestion, anyway, their attack method is a bit like the wave attack that Cao Ren originally planned to carry out but could not carry out because of the changes in the Jiangdong Army, repeatedly washing Cao Ren's camp. Cao Ren's team could not withstand this fierce charge and collapsed. They should have retreated desperately, causing the entire battlefield to collapse. But because they knew the weight of the responsibility they carried, they still persevered despite the collapse of the formation. They let go of Li Shengjun's most powerful "waves" and turned to attack the troops behind the "waves". They fought in small groups, slashing the enemy in front of them regardless of life and death, and through the amazing combat power that they broke out that contained the idea of death, they forcibly blocked and smashed Li Shengjun's "wave attack", forming a melee posture with Li Shengjun.

This was originally a situation formed by Cao Renjun under the onslaught of Li Shengjun in order to protect himself, but at present, such a situation has become a headache for Cao Chun, the tiger and leopard with the most powerful combat power. Under such a small battlefield where friends and enemies are mixed together, how can their cavalry assault? That's a lot of accidental injury.

This was originally a situation formed by Cao Renjun under the onslaught of Li Shengjun in order to protect himself, but at present, such a situation has become a headache for Cao Chun, the tiger and leopard with the most powerful combat power. Under such a small battlefield where friends and enemies are mixed together, how can their cavalry assault? That's a lot of accidental injury.

"Damn it!" Faced with this chaotic situation, Cao Chun scolded hatefully after a slight pause, and then issued an order that an ordinary general would not be able to give at all: "The whole army charges!" Whoever stands in our way, destroy all of them! Above......! Cao Chun roared angrily, and killed the past, as the general of the tiger and leopard cavalry, he took victory as the first element, and the accidental injury was not within the scope of his consideration. After all, the first rule of their tiger and leopard riding was: "Be ruthless to yourself, and even more ruthless to your enemies." ”

The sound of horses' hooves sounded again, and with the help of an open distance, the speed of the tiger and leopard riders increased even further, and the spears had been abandoned by them, because now they had to face many more enemies than before, and they were much more dense, and they were not suitable for the fiddling of spears at all. As a result, the dagger became the most effective weapon in their hands. They held aloft this sharp war knife, which could pull out a big hole in the body of Li Shengjun's soldiers even if they kissed it, and rushed into the melee battle with a roar, reaping the lives of all those who dared to stand in front of them.

"Burst, burst!" That's what they're doing right now. Their idea was to make the originally chaotic battle situation even more chaotic through a surprise attack, and to make Li Shengjun collapse more quickly in the attack that did not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy on the surface, but in fact it was more aimed at Li Shengjun. You must know that although it is said that a melee situation is formed at the moment, the real melee situation only appears at the front end of Li Shengjun's front line. Because of the limitation of the long and narrow battlefield, Li Sheng's nearly 10,000 horses were of course impossible to reveal to the battlefield at once. There were also many of them who were arrayed outside the battlefield, and Cao Chun had made these people his goal from the beginning.