"Liu Bei actually dared to rush at my Chinese army?" Valued Zhang Fei and the others who were killing violently, Cao Ying was also slightly stunned. Although Liu Bei is more courageous, his fighting style has always been conservative. The last time in the battle of Xuchang, Guan Yu was used as a bait to drag his army, and 40,000 Jingzhou infantry dragged the tiger and leopard cavalry into the quagmire of positional warfare at the cost of nearly half of the casualties, and then dared to compete with himself. Now that he is rushing forward for a decisive battle in such a hurry, is he so confident in the combat effectiveness of his army?

The answer is yes. But what Cao Ying didn't expect was that Liu Bei didn't dare to be so confident, and he was still ready to use the strategy of defense and counterattack. The reason why he has the courage to do this now is because when he was discussing the military situation last night, Zhang Liao's words emboldened him.

"Now although Cao Ying waved more than 200,000 troops to attack, but in the previous Battle of Xuchang and the Battle of Dongjun, plus the Battle of Guanlong, Cao's army was annihilated and captured no less than 150,000. Today's Cao Bing, a considerable part of them are re-recruited recruits, no matter how good he is trained, but Cao Ying has not experienced any major battles over the years, these recruits may not be bad in terms of combat effectiveness, but the experience is extremely lacking. Therefore, Liao Dou dared to admonish, Ming said that in a war, we can attack head-on, and we will be able to defeat Cao's army in one fell swoop! Zhang Liao said carefully, and Liu Bei and the others listened to it, and they were also thoughtful.

"Wen Yuan's words are true, but Cao Jun is also a rare elite in the world, and it is not easy to shake it head-on, I don't know which general is willing to go?" Liu Bei thought about it for a long time, and finally agreed to Zhang Liao's suggestion. As for the task of leading people to resist head-on, it was finally snatched away by Zhang Fei. Zhang Liao and Ma Dai, as the most skilled cavalry commanders under Liu Bei, led the Fengyun cavalry and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to cruise left and right, looking for fighters.

"King Wei, wait for me to charge head-on with a tiger and leopard and defeat Liu Bei's foot soldiers!" Valuing Cao Ying, he sent foot soldiers to fight, and Cao Zhen, the new commander of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, hurriedly stepped forward and admonished. Cao Ying didn't answer him, just shook his head slightly, and then pointed at Liu Bei's cavalry cruising in the distance from a distance. This is also one of Liu Bei's capital to have the courage to come, under the premise that Xiahou Yuan in Guanzhong does not participate in the war, Liu Bei still has a slight advantage in terms of cavalry alone. Cao Ying knew that as long as he dared to send tigers and leopards to ride now, Liu Bei would use the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to rush his own Chinese army, and he would be quite passive at that time. Coincidentally, Liu Bei and Cao Ying both regarded their cavalry as the last trump card, and they would not easily use this trump card until the last moment of the battle.

"Pikemen, stabs!" Looking at Sergeant Cao, who was getting closer and closer, Zhang Fei suddenly roared angrily and ordered. After shouting this, the thousands of pikemen behind him suddenly changed formations, and they quickly assembled a formation with war spears more than a foot long, the people in the first row squatted, and the second row flattened the war spears, not waiting for Cao Jun to collide with him, but taking the initiative to grab the thorns. At this time, Zhang Fei led his troops, and in the short time before the second army was about to make contact, he withdrew to the two wings, and then formed a front arrow formation, and directly inserted Cao's infantry from both sides. This instantaneous change of formation vividly reflected Zhang Fei's command ability and Liu Jun's orders and prohibitions.

"Kill!" Directly facing Zhang Fei, it was General Cao Jun. didn't dare to touch Zhang Fei, so he ordered people to attack the spear camp that stayed in place. But contrary to Forbidden's expectations, this time he kicked the iron plate again.

These 4,000 pikemen were the elite selected by Gao Ran from the Danyang soldiers. The spear array they formed was the sharpest arrow of the Blade Array. The first row is stabbed, the second row is collecting guns, and the second row is stabbing while the third row is already preparing. Three rows in a row, each with a thousand people, formed a strangling spear formation that worked non-stop, and the last thousand men were ready to fill the vacancy at any time. In order to protect these precious pikemen, Zhang Fei specially equipped them with excellent iron armor to strengthen their defense, and at the same time not only let Liu Pan lead the infantry to protect the sides of the spearmen, but even the cavalry cruising around would come to pay attention at any time. At the same time, Zhang Fei himself led his army to attack the enemy's flank in order to contain the enemy's impact. Under his well-deployed command, all arms of the armed forces worked together in tacit harmony in order to give full play to their combat effectiveness.

"What a powerful strangulation formation!" Looking at the spears that were stabbed out and withdrawn like machinery, constantly harvesting Cao Jun's life, even Jia Xu, who has always looked down on life and death, couldn't help but be moved. Such a sharp strangulation lineup is simply a naked killing machine. How on earth can you break through the defense of such a spear strangulation formation? Cao Ying didn't speak, but looking at Yu Ban, who was doing his best to direct the army to advance, there was a trace of remorse in his heart.

should not let Yu Ban command the Chinese army, Cao Ying said secretly in his heart. This statement may be a bit of a pride in Yu Ban, but Cao Ying knows that he has made a big mistake. In fact, in most cases, Yu Ban is a good general. In terms of on-the-spot response and proper command, he is not inferior to Zhang Fei or Zhang Liao. But he has a fatal weakness: fear of death.

Therefore, although Yu Ban was trying his best to command, he never dared to go up and face to face with Zhang Fei. In the era of cold weapons, the most direct result of the generals' avoidance of war was that the morale of Cao's army was somewhat low. At least, in the small battlefield where he competed with Zhang Fei, Cao Jun's morale was indeed not very good. The only way to do this is to hope that the soldiers in other places can give some strength to make up for the losses caused by the ban.

"Hey!" The big axe opened the oncoming Jiufeng Chaoyang Knife, Xu Huang was already a little out of breath, but Huang Zhong on the opposite side was still calm. Holding the big axe in his hand, Xu Huang could clearly feel that his hands were already trembling a little.

On the side of the right army, Xu Huang faced Huang Zhong. Xu Huang knew that Huang Zhong's archery skills were exquisite, and if he didn't fight him in close quarters, he didn't know when he would be plotted by an arrow. As soon as they fought, Xu Huang took the initiative to pull Huang Zhong into hand-to-hand combat. I thought that the other party was old and frail, even if the sword and archery skills were exquisite, but the energy was always not as good as my self in the prime of life. I don't want this Huang Zhongzhong to be a strange person who is not born in the world, although he is old, he is vigorous and energetic, but he is not inferior to young people. The two fought for more than 50 rounds, but Xu Huang was a little out of strength.

Behind him, more than 40,000 foot soldiers of his right army, 30,000 Changsha soldiers under Huang Zhong's command, and thousands of Wudang Fei troops were fighting fiercely. In terms of combat effectiveness, Xu Huang's soldiers were by no means inferior to the Changsha soldiers, but the addition of the Wudang Fei Army broke the balance of the battle. Under the leadership of Shamoke, this elite soldier from Wuxi was covered in oil paint, like a ghost on the battlefield, skillfully stabbing the blade in his hand into their bodies through the gaps exposed between the opponent's moves.

"Wenhe, what kind of military horse is this, why is it so weird?" Cao Ying looked at Wudang Feijun, who was as easy as killing chickens, and couldn't help but be moved, and hurriedly asked Jia Xu, who was in charge of intelligence. Jia Xu looked at it carefully for a long time before he said softly: "I heard that Zhao Botao used to be the army of Shanyue, Wuxi barbarians and Nanzhong barbarians, and formed the five armies, known as the Wudang Flying Army. ”

"Wudang Flying Army? Zhao Botao had a lot of thoughts, and actually incorporated these barbarians into the army! Cao Ying didn't know what he was thinking, and his mouth was self-conscious. But he forgot that he also organized the Xianbei people into an army in Northern Xinjiang, and this kind of thing is not Zhao Feng's patent. He didn't expect that not long ago in Hanzhong, another of his clan brothers was overshadowed by the Wuqian Flying Army.

"This son of a, what a lot of energy!" After taking a hard move from Shamoke's thistle bone, the blade in Cao Xiu's hand was almost shocked and flew away. One force to ten meetings, Shamoke's moves are so wide open and close, and Cao Xiu's martial arts have not reached the point of breaking a thousand forces with skill, so he is extremely passive now. In fact, in terms of martial arts, Shamoke was only slightly stronger than Zhou Cang, but Cao Xiu was obviously shocked by his unkempt Thunder Man appearance, and he was indeed a little lacking in courage after the battle, but he didn't realize it himself.

"Wen Lie be careful!" Seeing that Cao Xiu was a little unsustainable, his cousin, Captain Xiahou Ba, hurriedly stepped forward to take a move. The two cousins teamed up to fight Shamoke, how could they be allowed to bully more than they could by the flying army, and Captain Fu Tong also hurriedly stepped forward to intercept and help the battle. But on the whole, on the right army's side, Liu Jun also has a slight upper hand.

Only on the side of the left army, when Zhang Jaw faced Wen Ping, he had a little upper hand. This famous general, one of the four pillars of Hebei, with his fierce two thousand halberds as the vanguard, was unable to resist the Jingzhou army that was hired by Wen for a while. Fortunately, Ma Dai led the army to give some support from time to time, otherwise, Wen Ping was afraid that he would have been defeated at this time. These two thousand halberds, although they can't help the cavalry, but in the face of the ordinary foot soldiers led by Wen Ping, the advantage is extremely obvious.

"Damn, being Lao Tzu is easy to bully?" Hacking an enemy soldier to death with a knife, Wen Ping also cursed in a low voice. Elsewhere in the audience, Liu Jun did not fall behind, but he dragged his feet here, which really hurt people's self-esteem. And Liu Bei and Cao Ying, who were watching the battle from afar, also saw that if Wen Ping couldn't hold it first, then Liu Bei would not be able to do it today; If Yu Ban and Xu Huang can't hold it first, then Cao Ying will be in danger today.

1:2, theoretically Liu Bei has the advantage. But Cao Ying is Cao Ying, and he will never be willing to be defeated by theory. After seeing the situation clearly, Cao Ying immediately arranged measures to deal with it. "Ziwen, Zidan, and I will lead the tiger and leopard to ride up, and go to help Junyi defeat Wen Ping and Liu Pan!" Cao Ying quickly gave the order to attack. At this time, Zhang Jaw had already gained the upper hand, but Ma Dai, who was in charge of containment on the side, was unable to return in time for a while because he was greedy to gather and annihilate some of Yu Ban's foot soldiers who had just left the main battlefield. Cao Ying keenly grasped this fighter and immediately sent the tiger and leopard to ride forward, striving to defeat Wen Ping and Liu Pan in one fell swoop.

In terms of experience, although he can be regarded as a battle-hardened battle, Ma Dai, who is accustomed to messing around in Xiliang, has a worse grasp of the battle situation than these battlefield veterans.

"Father, General Yiyi already has the upper hand, why don't you go and break Liu Bei's Chinese army first?" Cao Zhang didn't understand his father's actions, but he still put forward his own opinions before leaving. Cao Ying smiled slightly when he heard this, and just said: "Ziwen, on the battlefield, it is not about the gains and losses of one city and one place, but about the overall situation, understand?" ”

"The child will understand!" After Cao Zhang said this, he hurriedly led the army to follow Cao Zhen, who had already left, and went straight to the left army.

Seeing Cao Ying's move, Liu Bei smiled, and Pang Tong also smiled.

(To be continued)