In April of the 14th year of Jian'an, Zhou Yu, who had been confronting Cao Ren in Jiangling for nearly five months, finally decided to march into Jiangling in Jiangbei and then take all the southern counties. The reason why Zhou Yu decided to march was not that Cao Ren's strength had weakened, but that Zhou Yu received the news from Hefei that Sun Ce had been unable to attack Hefei for a long time and had returned to Chaisang, and because Wu Guotai was not in good health, only Cheng Pu was left with 10,000 people to garrison Chaisang, and he returned to Jianye with the army.

It can be said that Jiangdong's two-way advance, and the strategy of storming Huainan and Jingbei has been half of the failure, if Zhou Yu of Nanjun is consuming like this, I am afraid that it will not be so easy to wait for Cao Cao to relieve his breath. However, although Zhou Yu was in a hurry, Liu Bei was even more anxious. Liu Bei raised nearly 40,000 troops, and it was difficult to feed him with only one-third of Jiangxia, if Liu Bei hadn't accepted the most of Cao Cao's grain, I am afraid that Liu Bei would be poor to death today.

On the wall of Jiangling, Cao Ren looked at the menacing Zhou Yu army outside the city, and didn't know what to think, at this time the chief bookkeeper Chen Jiao said: "General, Zhou Yu is powerful, I don't know how to resist the enemy!" ”

"The enemy's vanguard is only a few thousand, and I see that the enemy's general is the right capital governor general Qiao. It must be Lujiang Qiao Ziyan, although this person is young and talented, he is not known for his martial arts. A certain decision was made to let the partial general Niu Jin lead 500 warriors out of the city, and disrupt his position first while the enemy's foothold was not stable. Cao Ren said in a deep voice.

Niu Jin is Cao Ren's personal general, although his intelligence is not high, his martial arts are good, and the most precious thing is that he never asks Cao Ren's orders, so even if Cao Ren tells him to die, he can not smash his eyelids. "General, a certain family will go out." Niu Jin patted his chest and said.

Looking at Niu Jin in a hurry, Cao Ren finally squeezed out a little smile and said: "Why should Niu Er be in a hurry, I will recruit some warriors to join you, let those Wu people see the bravery of my Cao army, and let him know that our northern army is not those useless Jingzhou troops to be slaughtered." ”

Cao Ren is worthy of being the chief general of the Cao family, and he is not familiar with the ability to manage the army and train soldiers, and he can recruit 500 people for this kind of death. Cao Ren then opened Cangbin and let these soldiers from ordinary people eat a meal full of meat, and then equipped all the Xuantie armor stored in the arsenal with these 500 people, and transferred 500 horses.

Outside the city, Qiao Ren slowly came to a hundred meters outside the city, looked at the soldiers in the city, and knew that the Jiangling City in front of him was not a bone to gnaw. "Ziwei, inform General Huang Ce of the rear army that he is ready to seize the advantageous terrain and set up camp in the army waiting for the governor of the capital."

"Whoa!"

Before Dai Gang had traveled a mile on his horse, Qiao Ren heard Jia Hua, who was on the side, shouting, "Look, general, the enemy army is out of the city." ”

When Qiao Ren heard this, he saw that there were really five hundred knights wearing dark iron armor rushing out, and the first person was holding a huge axe, Qiao Ren thought to himself, "The general with the axe, could it be Xu Huang?" But after thinking about it, I don't think so, according to rumors, Xu Huang is not wearing a helmet, and the opposite side will instead wear a helmet like a bull's horn.

A name of 'Niu Jin' burst out of Qiao Ren's mind, "Kuaizi Xia stopped him." ”

Qiao Ren was also careless, Huang Ce, the left battalion of the protector with the strongest combat effectiveness, was still behind, Dai Gang of the middle battalion of the protector left just now, and now he was left with the weakest right battalion Xu Shengbu, which was not only established for a short time but also dissatisfied with the staff.

Jia Hua was not ambiguous when he received the order, and shouted: "Captain Xu protects the general." The Guardian Song comes with me. After speaking, a group of cavalry with more than eight hundred people rushed out, compared with Niu Jin's heavily armored knights, Jia Hua's cavalry was weaker in terms of equipment and momentum, although the cavalry was Qiao Ren's pro-army, Jia Hua was not very good at commanding cavalry, and the only one with strong martial arts Ling Tong also lent it to Zhou Yu, not to mention Chen Xiu. Therefore, Qiao Ren's pro-army was under the command of Huang Ce, a general with martial arts skills as high as seventy-eight and cavalry skills.

And now that Huang Ce is still in the rear army, he has to hand it over to Jia Hua, but seeing that the enemy army is only five hundred, Qiao Ren's heart is not bottomless, in his opinion, this is not a tiger and leopard horse, eight hundred knights and three thousand foot soldiers are enough. After a while, Jia Hua's cavalry collided with Niu Jin's cavalry, and the result was obvious, the elite cavalry of the Northern Army plus heavy armor was not comparable to a few people in Jiangdong who could ride horses and dare to claim to be cavalry, and Jia Hua's troops were pierced in the first encounter, and even Jia Hua himself was chopped off his horse by Niu Jin with an axe, but fortunately, Jia Hua blocked it with a halberd, otherwise his life would be gone.

Qiao Ren in the distance was anxious when he saw this, but this was really the first time for him to command in battle, he was either in a high tent or making decisions for thousands of miles before, obviously this kind of ever-changing command made him panic. At this time, Xu Sheng on the side said: "General, let Captain Jia come down, the cavalry is about to lose more than half." ”

Qiao Ren looked at it when he heard this, and it was indeed so. Of the eight hundred cavalry, there are now less than five hundred on the horse, and Jia Hua has been chopped off his horse. Qiao Ren's heart suddenly became clear, and he shouted: "Order Chen Xiu to retreat and step up." Change the star array. Of course, the people in the formation could not hear Qiao Ren's words, and naturally there were heralds at this time to convey the order to the drummer and the standard-bearer, and the drummer beat the drum and the standard-bearer changed the flag language to issue orders to the army.

Hearing the sudden change in the sound of the drums, he ordered the cavalry to retreat, Chen Xiu let out a long breath, pulled up the unconscious Jia Hua, and let the cavalry split into two groups, bypassing the infantry formation and retreating.

After Qiao Renjun changed the Star Scattering Array, the soldiers no longer stood in the city phalanx but dispersed, listening to the command of the drums, scattering and gathering, surrounding Niu Jin's five hundred cavalry, and constantly fighting. Suddenly, Niu Jin's pressure increased greatly, and he lost half of it in less than half an instant. Although the Cao army is wearing Xuantie armor and general weapons cannot form effective damage, the Wu army can still kill horses if they can't kill the dead, and the Cao army without horses is still dead when they are surrounded by the Wu army.

"General, Niu Jin, they can't hold on." Chen Jiao, the chief bookkeeper, said.

Cao Ren saw that the number of Niu Jin was getting smaller and smaller, and he was also anxious in his heart, and finally shouted and shouted, "Lead my horse left and right." ”

Chen Jiao's face was so frightened when she heard this, she stopped Cao Ren and said, "What is the general going to do?" The enemy army is unstoppable, and some people still give up" Just kidding, Cao Ren is Cao Cao's brother, and Cao Ren's brother is Cao Chun, the cavalry governor of the Chinese army, these two brothers are Cao Cao's most trusted generals, if they explain this, Cao Cao will not kill Chen Jiao. Therefore, Chen Jiao will never let Cao Ren go out of the city.

Cao Ren pulled Chen Jiao away and said, "With me Cao Ren here, I will never give up my robe." You can see that the enemy army has only more than 6,000 people, but now there are only more than 3,000 left. There are still 3,000 people rushing back, but it is impossible to join the battle. A certain army can remove and save the cow gold, so there is no need to be anxious. ”

After saying that, Cao Ren rushed out with fifty personal guards. Cao Chun, the governor of the tiger and leopard cavalry, is Cao Ren's own brother, and as the elder brother, Cao Ren's ability to train cavalry is only half a step worse than Cao Chun's, so Cao Ren's personal guard cavalry can be described as an elite anomaly. "Brothers, Ben General said that he would never give up a robe, and now Niu Jin and they are trapped in the Wu army, what should we do?" Cao Ren roared.

"Rescue General Niu." "Fight into this group of southerners."

"Okay, brothers, come with me." Cao Ren raised his big sword and took the lead in the battle. Qiao Ren's Star Scattering Array is actually not maturely trained, and it is okay to deal with the cavalry that has been surrounded, but if there are reinforcements from outside, it will not be possible. Cao Ren used his nearly ninety force as an arrow, and led fifty cavalry, like a sharp sword, straight into the place where Niu Jin was surrounded.

"The general is coming to save us, brothers, let's kill it." Once people have hope, the power that erupts is huge, and the remaining three hundred cavalry, inspired by Niu Jin, desperately kill Cao Ren.

Finally, after half a moment of fighting, Cao Ren joined the remnants of Niu Jin's army, and Cao Ren wanted to immediately lead the army to retreat to the city, but he heard a shout from the array. "The general has given up on us." Cao Ren saw that there were still more than a dozen cavalry surrounded not far away, while the surrounding Wu army had less than a hundred people.

Cao Ren also said that he would never give up a robe, and now there are dozens of robes not far away asking for help, wouldn't it be a slap in the face if Cao Ren didn't seem to go. Cao Ren turned his heart sideways, raised the bloodstained knife in his hand, and rushed out with a kick in the horse's belly.

At this time, Dai Gang and Huang Ce's troops also came to the front of the city, and Qiao Ren saw Cao Ren under the banner of the general and killed Cao Ren alone, and wanted to rescue the dozens of Cao Jun who were surrounded, and he was immediately furious. 'Don't take such a bully. Qiao Ren thought in his heart, and shouted: "Huang Ce will immediately lead the cavalry to pursue." ”

"Whoa"

However, by the time Huang Ce led the army to arrive, Cao Ren had already rescued the besieged knight and brought him back to the city. On the top of the city tower, Chen Jiao witnessed a complete scene, and her heart turned over the river and the sea, and only squeezed out one sentence in half of her salary: "The general is really a god." ”

One mile outside the city, Qiao Ren also witnessed this scene, so he had to say: "The army retreated five miles back to the village and waited for the governor." ”

Qiao Ren's army actually suffered little losses, and only four or five hundred people were killed or wounded, but it was first almost rushed into the Chinese army by Niu Jin, and then Cao Ren entered and exited twice, which greatly damaged morale.