Chapter 12 Xuchang Scuffle
"Smack!"
The fast-flying arrow, when it was only two feet away from Chen Wu's back of the heart, suddenly flashed a big knife in front of him. Slammed into the blade of the Qinglong Glaive Knife, the four-foot-long wolf tooth arrow was actually broken into several pieces.
"Prince!" Chen Wu, who escaped death, looked back and saw that it was the main general Guan Yu who saved his life. With a swing of the knife and another arrow, Guan Yu finally saw the person who released the arrow.
"Cao Xiu'er, will only be hurt by secret arrows?" Although it has been almost ten years since the battle of Qian County, Guan Yu still recognizes him as the unlucky guy who was used by himself to take down Qian County. Cao Xiu also saw Guan Yu, although he was annoyed, but he also knew that Guan Yu's opponent at this level was not something he could match. At that moment, he snorted coldly and went straight to command the tiger and leopard cavalry to break through the enemy's defensive line.
The tiger and leopard ride is strong, really strong. These northern men with extremely excellent physical fitness, equipped with amazing impact and good horses, are like tigers descending from the mountains. Every time the tiger and leopard cavalry collided with the soldiers defending the Bagua Array, two or three soldiers with big shields could be knocked into the air, and then the infantry led by Li Dian and Le Jin immediately pressed on, and rushed through the cracks in the defense line torn by the tiger and leopard cavalry to the center of the Bagua Array. How could the Jingzhou army allow them to succeed so easily, every time the formation was torn apart, someone would immediately go up to make up for it, and then fight with the opponent's foot soldiers.
In all fairness, if it weren't for the Bagua Array's unique defensive formation, Guan Yu might not have been able to support it by now. However, with the Bagua Array, and the Shanyue Army and the Wudang Fei Army still had a slight upper hand in the battle with Li Dianlejin's foot soldiers, the Jingzhou Army could still hold the field for a while.
"Strategist, do you want to blow the trumpet and ask General Zhang and them to come to support as soon as possible?" Looking at the formation of the gossip array, which was already a little scattered, Zhou Cang, who was responsible for protecting Xu Shu, also began to lose his heart. Xu Shu looked at the situation in the field coldly, and still said in a low voice: "I believe in the prince, he will definitely be able to survive." Cao Ying didn't move all the people at this time, he just wanted to wait for General Zhang to arrive, and then break the enemy in one fell swoop, we can't hold our breath. ”
"Okay!" Zhou Cang nodded heavily, and after Xu Shu finished speaking, he began to pay attention to the situation in the field, and where there were signs of not being able to hold on, he immediately sent people to dispatch support, so as to use the Bagua Array to entangle the opponent's army to the death, so as not to exert the unparalleled impact of the tiger and leopard horse. Even if it is Xu Shu, he is not sure that he can use the Fengyun Cavalry or the White Horse Yicong to defeat the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry head-on.
"Kill!" With a roar of rage, the green dragon knife slashed horizontally, cutting down the two tiger and leopard knights from their horses. The steel knife was undeterred, and it swept straight across the third person's chest. Although he failed to cut through the hard chest armor, this person was also bombarded by the huge force of the Qinglong Knife and vomited blood, and he was not alive.
It's not Guan Yu, it's Guan Ping. In less than half an hour of engagement, Guan Ping's Qinglong sword had already added eighty-seven dead souls, including seven officers above the rank of captain of the tiger and leopard cavalry. Guan Ping's bravery also made the always brave tiger and leopard rider frightened.
"Hey!" Feeling that his Qinglong knife was being framed, Guan Ping looked up, but saw that the person who came turned out to be Cao Chun, the leader of the tiger and leopard ride, and his heart was suddenly overjoyed. Guan Ping knew that this terrible tiger and leopard rider was trained by him, and if he could kill him here today, it would be equivalent to breaking one of Cao Ying's arms. At that moment, Guan Ping brandished the Qinglong Sword and fought with Cao Chun.
The question is, how could Cao Chun be so easy to kill? In terms of martial arts, he is indeed inferior to Guan Yu, but he will never be inferior to Guan Ping. In addition, his surname is calm, not as eager as Guan Ping. As a result, more than 20 moves passed, but Guan Ping gradually fell behind.
"Dang!" With a sound, Cao Chunzheng was about to take the opportunity to give him another shot, but he heard a gust of evil wind blowing behind him, almost a conditioned reflex, Cao Chun hurriedly lowered his head to dodge, and will dodge the knife in the back.
"Tanzhi, how's it going?" Zhou Tai forced Cao Chun back with a knife and asked Guan Ping.
"Youping, I'm fine." Guan Ping sighed and said, and then hurriedly told Zhou Tai: "Youping, this guy is Cao Chun, you can't let him run away!" ”
"Okay!" Zhou Tai was overjoyed when he heard this, but he didn't expect to meet a big fish here, so he hurriedly waved his knife and stepped forward to fight Cao Chun to the death. Guan Ping was about to be pinched to help in the battle, but when he saw Cao Xiu stabbing out obliquely, he hurriedly stepped forward to intercept him. On the other side, Dong Xi, Chen Wu, Liao Hua and others also led the army to intercept Li Dian and Le Jin, and everyone caught and killed each other.
"Fight to the death!" Chen Wu shouted sharply, and slashed a Cao sergeant on the opposite side in half with a sword, and the blood gushing out of him added a little dark red again on top of his already red-stained armor. However, at the moment when Chen Wu was blinded by blood, the spear in Le Jin's hand had already stabbed into Chen Wu's chest like a poisonous snake.
"Hey!" Seeing that there was no way to avoid it, Chen Wu gritted his teeth at the moment and tried his best to move his body to the right for a few points. Le Jin failed to take his surname this time, but he still stabbed Chen Wu in the left shoulder.
"Yuan Jian, quick!" After Chen Wu was stabbed, he didn't care about screaming, but he threw away the blade in his right hand, and directly stepped forward with his right hand to grab Le Jin's right hand holding the spear, and at the same time beckoned Liao Hua, who was close at hand.
Unexpectedly, Chen Wu would fight to exchange his own spear for one of his arms, and Le Jin was also caught off guard. Although he almost pierced Chen Wu's left shoulder this time, he could recover after a few months of recuperation, and if his arm was cut off, he would not be able to recuperate for a long time.
"Yikes!" With a roar, Liao Hua exerted all his strength and slashed at Le Jin's left hand. Le Jin struggled desperately to withdraw his left hand, but Chen Wu grabbed it desperately this time, and Le Jin definitely couldn't pull it back for a while.
"Ahh With a scream, Le Jin's left hand remained on the spear shaft forever, and he fainted in pain on the spot. All this is a long story, but in fact, it is a matter of an instant, and several of Lejin's personal guards hurriedly came to the rescue, but they only had time to drag their general back for treatment. At the same time, Chen Wu also staggered back, and the spear on his shoulder was also pulled out by Liao Hua.
"Zilie, you go and bandage it, I'll come here!" Liao Hua knew that Chen Wu couldn't fight anymore, and now he could only rely on himself.
"Be careful yourself!" Chen Wu knew that he could no longer fight now, and several guards escorted him to the center of the Bagua Array for treatment. On the other side, Cao Ying was also surprised when he saw Le Jin, whose right hand had been cut off, being carried back.
"Send Wen Qian back to Xuchang quickly and ask a famous doctor for treatment!" Cao Ying gave the order almost with a roar. Although he also knew that no matter how good a famous doctor was, he couldn't save Le Jin's left hand. And Jia Xu beside him was staring at the battle situation in the field at this time, muttering in his mouth: "It's different, it's really different!" ”
"Wenhe, what are you talking about?" Cao Ying, who had already come back to his senses, listened to Jia Xu's brainless words, and asked in some surprise.
"I mean Jingzhou Army, it's really different from before!" Jia Xu sighed. In the past, Jia Xu, as Zhang Xiu's strategist, had fought with Cao Ying in Wancheng for many years, during which his main ally was Liu Biao in Jingzhou. At that time, Jia Xu was very disdainful of the combat effectiveness of the Jingzhou army, although there were more than 200,000 troops in Jingzhou, but the combat effectiveness was really not worth mentioning, and the generals could still be hired by the military, and now Guan Yu's 40,000 Jingzhou troops were forced to fight with Cao Ying's 70,000 army and 10,000 tigers and leopards for half an hour without collapsing. While Cao Jun was harvesting the lives of the Jingzhou army, the various plates of the Bagua Array also echoed each other, aiming at the weak links of the enemy army.
At this moment, there was another change in the Bagua Array, and between the various plates that had not been scattered, thick hemp ropes were suddenly thrown, and after being straightened, they became countless stumbling ropes. Cao Jun, who was caught off guard, many of them tripped and fell to the ground. Especially the tiger and leopard riding in the Mercedes-Benz has fallen countless times.
"Kill!" The shield of the Bagua Array was out of the way, and the Shanyue army in leather armor slashed out, aiming at the enemy who fell off the horse and swung the blade in his hand fiercely. If nomads are born cavalry, then these mountain people who were born in the mountains, mainly farming, supplemented by fishing and hunting for a living, are the best source of infantry soldiers. These Shanyue troops in Danyang, all of them have excellent physical fitness, since Guan Yu came from Zhao Feng seven years ago, they have been training seriously, and now if they are brave and good at fighting, they are afraid that they are the most infantry in the world. They were flexible and vigorous, and they suddenly killed when the other party was panicking, and immediately caught Cao Jun off guard.
"It's useless." Looking at some of the momentum that was regained by the Jingzhou army, Cao Ying had no intention of throwing the last 5,000 tiger and leopard cavalry and the remaining 20,000 foot soldiers into battle. He knew very well that the sudden attack of the Shanyue army was just a small episode, and in such a fight, the comparison of strength between the two sides decided that it was Guan Yu who would collapse first. In order to deal with Guan Yu and Zhang Liao, Cao Ying originally hoarded 100,000 troops in Xuchang, and later transferred 50,000 foot soldiers and some tiger and leopard cavalry from Hebei to garrison Chenliu and other places, in order to strive to annihilate the elite of the Jingzhou army and the Xuzhou army in one battle, and then take advantage of the situation to go south to settle Jingxiang in one fell swoop.
"But Guan Yu is really powerful, just such an infantry, it has been fighting with our 80,000 army for almost an hour, and it still hasn't collapsed!" Cao Hong also sighed. Cao Ying's face did not fluctuate at all, but he could still see the green robe flying up and down in the formation, and he would appear wherever there was danger, leaving a large number of corpses behind Cao Jun wherever he went.
An hour has passed, and Guan Yu's subordinates have suffered nearly 10,000 casualties. The contraction of the Bagua Array is determined, and it is difficult for the people in the array to escape from the battlefield. With the fall of the outer front, Guan Yu gradually shrank his forces to defend, and the corresponding Cao army was under more and more pressure with each step forward.
"Herald, trumpet!" Xu Shu saw that now, he finally waited until Cao Jun was completely with Guan Yu's people, and he couldn't get out of the battlefield in time, so he couldn't give full play to the impact advantage of the tiger and leopard cavalry and other cavalry, and now let Zhang Liao join the battlefield again, and he could join Guan Yu inside and outside and attack Cao Jun. Although Cao Hong still has tens of thousands of people waiting to fight, this is not enough for Zhang Liao's 80,000 Xuzhou army.
The sound of the horn was heard in the distance, and at the same time, the beacon fire had been ignited, and it was clearly visible dozens of miles away. Cao Ying saw it in his eyes, his expression did not move at all, and he just ordered: "Zilian, Wen Ze, and I will lead the tiger and leopard to ride forward to stop it." ”
"No!" Cao Hong and Yu Ban agreed with a bang, and led tens of thousands of Cao troops who had been waiting by the side to immediately press. Jia Xu looked at Cao Hong, who led the army forward, hesitated for a moment and then admonished: "King Wei, do you want to inform General Zixiao to send troops immediately?" ”
"Wait a while, wait for a while, and then let Zixiao come over. I think it depends on us, and it may not be impossible to eat Guan Yu and Zhang Liao. Cao Ying said lightly, then remembered something, and asked Jia Xu again: "Is there any news from Gongming over there in Shanyang?" ”
"General Xu sent someone to deliver the news three days ago, but it just said that Gao Shun and Wei Yan had just stationed troops in Qi County and were holding on to each other." Jia Xu said, after a pause, Jia Xu said: "It's just another thing, I think it's quite worrying." ”
(To be continued)