After Lu Zhao's death, the knights of the Cao army finally showed signs of chaos, although Qiao Ren had never commanded cavalry battles, but this was still a good point. Therefore, Qiao Ren immediately ordered: "General Huang led the army to attack the enemy's rear. ”

On the side, Zhao Yun was like a dragon out of the water, strangling Cao Jun. A spear (in fact, it is a horse lance) danced like a starry sky, and the cold light was a human life, under the leadership of Zhao Yun, the cavalry of the Liu family directly crashed into the heart of the Cao army, and finally the Cao army could not support it under the front and rear attacks, and there was a trend of rout.

Half an hour later, Qiao Ren, who was looking at the corpses all over his body, silently thought in his heart, 'Sure enough, the Northern Army is good at horse fighting!' In the confrontation of Fang Cai, although Zhao Yun helped, Dongwu's side still did not have an advantage.

"General!" The subordinate general in charge of counting the battlefield came to Qiao Ren and said: "In this battle, 750 enemies were annihilated, 100 and 2 were killed and 80 were wounded, and Liu Jun was killed and 50 wounded and 62 people were wounded."

"What!" Even if Qiao Ren was mentally prepared, it was hard to believe that "the casualties are so heavy!" ”

It's no wonder that Qiao Ren is difficult to accept, Qiao Ren's own cavalry is two hundred more than Lu Zhao, and there are also Zhao Yun's eight hundred cavalry to help. The most important thing is that Zhao Yun, who was in charge of the front, only 50 people died, and the Wu army, who was flanked by the detour, actually killed more than 100 people.

Qiao Ren could only sigh silently in his heart, "Sure enough, it is impossible for the southerners to ride and horse, and they still need to think of some other way to deal with the cavalry." Although Qiao Ren felt sorry for his precious cavalry, he knew that jade could not be sharpened, and without actual combat, these cavalry could only dominate Jiangdong and could not go to the scene, after this battle, these cavalry could finally be promoted.

At this time, Zhao Yun also came to the slope where Qiao Ren was, as a general who was proficient in cavalry warfare, he could naturally see that the Eastern Wu side had suffered a lot of losses, but he was careful and did not speak rashly, just watched the soldiers below clean up the battlefield.

Zhao Yun didn't speak, but Qiao Ren had something to say: "General Zhao, do you know how good this cavalry is?" ”

Zhao Yun didn't know how to answer, he was a person who couldn't tell lies, and after thinking for a while, he said: "The cavalry recruited by the road is considered elite, but it is still a few points worse than the tiger and leopard cavalry, but it is stronger than the ordinary cavalry." ”

In fact, Zhao Yun is pure, of course, the vanguard cavalry of the Cao army will not be the worst cavalry, at least it is above average, but this is also the truth. At this moment, another soldier of Wu came on a fast horse, came directly in front of Qiao Ren, turned over and dismounted, and said: "Protector, the governor of the capital has seized the river and settled in Chibi, and the Cao army has retreated to Jiangbei. ”

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Qiao Ren led the cavalry to block, but the rest of the troops were under the leadership of Dai Gang to repair the wooden village, although the time was in a hurry, but some camp tents were still built, Zhou Yu after occupying the river, with a large army stationed in.

That night, Liu Bei also took Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu to Zhou Yu's big tent in Chibi. In the tent, Zhou Yu sat in the first place, and Liu Bei sat in the guest seat.

Lu Su, a member of the army in charge of intelligence, said: "According to the current intelligence analysis, Cao Ying's men and horses can be divided into three roads, namely the North Road, the West Road and the East Road. ”

Lu Su glanced at everyone, pointed to the map and continued: "Among them, the North Road is based on Zhao Yan, the Seventh Army, the Fenwei General Cheng Yu, the Prime Minister's Military Sacrifice Jiu Du Raid, and Yuan Yu as the military division, and the Huwei General Yu Ban, the Dangkou General Zhang Liao, the Pingdi General Zhang He, the Pingyu General Zhu Ling, the Po Cap General Li Dian, the Yangwu General Lu Zhao, and the partial General Feng Kai, each of these seven people led the headquarters of 5,000 soldiers and horses, under the cover of the 20,000 Xiangyang Naval Army of the Naval Army, the rebel general, and the Jiangxia Taishou Wenpin, a total of 50,000 horses and horses, and attacked Xiakou along the Han River.

The east road is only contained, with Pingdong general Chen Dengsuo led 5,000 people to attack Danyang, Weilu general, Xuzhou assassin Shi Zangba's more than 5,000 people to attack Wu County, Yangzhou garrison troops from Shouchun, Hefei line attack Lujiang County, a total of about 15,000 people. But the lord is sitting in Chaisang, and if he doesn't come all the way, if he comes, he will only be defeated. In addition to these two routes, there are still the troops of Xu Huang, the general of Hengye in Fancheng, the department of Cao Ren, the general of Zhengnan who stayed in Jiangling, and the troops of Xiahou Yuan, the commander of the transportation of military rations, and Li Tong, the Taishou of Runan, and other troops, with more than 20,000 people. ”

At this time, Zhou Yu also said, "Cao Ying's elite northern army, at most only 150,000 or 60,000, plus Jingzhou's surrender army, the total strength is only about 250,000, excluding a few people in the intelligence, Cao Ying's Western Route Army that fought with us this time is no more than 100,000, and among these 100,000 horses, it can make a difference, and it is only the Jingzhou naval army led by Cai Mao, Zhang Yun and others, and it is only 50,000 people when it is full." Ladies and gentlemen, my Jiangdong Navy crisscrossed the Yangtze River, with the strength of Huang Zu's Navy back then, it was also defeated by us, and now there are 50,000 elite sailors, will you be afraid of Cai Mao's unstable 50,000 surrendered troops? ”

Zhou Yu's words were more just to boost morale, and at this time, Qiao Ren, who had already fought against Cao's army, came out and said: "Governor Dadu, Jingzhou's surrender is certainly not a concern, and Cao Ying's northern army is extremely good at fighting and cannot be underestimated. It's better to listen to Liu Yuanjun's opinion? ”

Liu Bei glanced at Qiao Ren, and he couldn't understand why Qiao Ren, who was still a little hostile to him a few days ago, had such a big change. But I don't know that the reason why Qiao Ren hates him is because of Sun Shangxiang, and now it is a life-and-death battle, so naturally he will not abolish the public for personal reasons.

Liu Bei also said unequivocally: "Mr. Zijing's information is accurate, but according to Beizhi's foolish opinion, there is still a little bit of leakage. Xun Yu, who thought that Xuchang was left behind, Xiahou Dun in Guanzhong, Jiao Touch, Zhangnan, Gaolan, Jizhou, etc., as well as Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Qingzhou and other places, must leave a part of the elite men and horses to stay, and then subtract this ordinary people, this time Cao Ying personally led the West Route Army, in fact, the most people and horses are only seventy or eighty thousand, of which Cao Ying's elite northern army is only thirty or forty thousand, and the rest are all surrendered Jingzhou naval army. ”

And Liu Bei paused for a moment, glanced at Qiao Ren and said, "The North Road Recruitment Department was annihilated by Qiao's army in the afternoon. ”

Qiao Ren also glanced at Liu Bei, but he was not surprised in his heart, Liu Bei would know that it must be Zhao Yun's return. Even Zhao Yun returned the combat power of the Eastern Wu army to Liu Bei.

Zhou Yu, Liu Bei and Lu Su said in a few words, but it is not a lie, every sentence is reasonable, if Zhou Yu just said that the generals still have doubts, at this moment by Liu Bei, a person who knows Cao Ying well, and then add it, the generals will believe it for seven or eight points, and for a while, the fear of Cao Ying has been greatly reduced, and the atmosphere in the tent has become excited. And when he heard that Qiao Ren had annihilated Lu Zhao's troops, the fear of Cao Jun in his heart was gone.

Of course, this is also one of Zhou Yu's purposes, to inspire the morale of the army.

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