Chapter Twenty-Six: The Final Battle
"Big brother, this is the tiger and leopard riding!" Looking at the menacing tiger and leopard riding, Guan Yu said softly. Liu Bei nodded, and his always calm face also changed color. From that indomitable momentum, Liu Bei knew that this tiger and leopard ride was definitely more powerful than any military horse he had ever touched. If you rely on your own manpower, you can certainly repel him, but it will inevitably take a lot of effort, but fortunately, you have been prepared.
"Third brother, you lead the Fengyun cavalry to engage in battle first, calculate the itinerary, Zilong and Bo Tao are also almost here!" Liu Bei said lightly. That's right, Liu Bei didn't plan to rely on his own troops in the Central Plains to solve Cao Ying's tiger and leopard cavalry at the beginning, after Pang Tong proposed a siege plan, Liu Bei ordered the transfer of thousands of Xiliang iron cavalry from Zhao Yun in Hanzhong to help in the battle, so that Zhao Feng could come with him. It can be said that except for Xu Huang who took the initiative to give up Shanyang and retreat to Dongjun, everything is under Liu Bei's control. In this way, Cao Ying had an extra day or two to retreat calmly. Zhao Feng and Zhao Yun, as well as Zhang Ren, Ma Dai and others, hurried and hurried, but they could only barely catch up with this battle.
"What the eldest brother said is not bad, and only the Xiliang Iron Rider can deal with the Tiger and Leopard Rider!" Guan Yu nodded. Cavalry is different from infantry, mainly in the power of cavalry, most of which depends on the impact of cavalry horses. The tiger and leopard horses are equipped with good horses from Bingzhou and Liaodong, so they are better than Liu Bei's Central Plains horses. Now the Xiliang Iron Horse is equipped with the Xiliang horse, and the surname can be better than the Bingzhou and Liaodong horses. Liu Bei's army was also the last time when Zang Ba guarded Shangyong, he got thousands of Xiliang good horses, plus Guan Yu's capture of Zhang Xiu, and Zhao Feng's exchange for grain, and the general is less than 9,000 horses. Except for the replacement of the mounts of some important generals, there are only 7,000 horses left. Last time, Liu Bei lent almost all of these 7,000 horses to Ma Chao, plus the original 4,000 Sichuan army cavalry, which helped him recapture Xiliang. After Zhao Feng and Zhao Yun received the order, they immediately mobilized the remaining 6,000 Xiliang iron cavalry in Hanzhong, from Hanzhong to Nanyang through the three eastern counties, and then to Yuzhou to help in the battle.
"Third brother, it's all up to you to hold on first!" Liu Bei looked at the tiger and leopard rider who was getting closer and closer, and said solemnly to Zhang Fei, who rarely said nothing, just nodded. Looking back at the more than 10,000 Fengyun cavalry behind him, as well as the thousands of white horse servants who came with Wei Yan, Zhang Fei knew that it was up to him to see if he could drag the tiger and leopard cavalry first and buy time for the infantry army.
"Kill me!" Without waiting for the tiger and leopard to rush in front of him, Zhang Fei roared angrily, and then led the cavalry behind him to take the initiative to meet him. With himself and his one hundred and eight cavalry as the core, all the cavalry of the entire cavalry formed a sharp formation, ready to collide with the tiger and leopard cavalry. Although the Crane Wing Array could be used to strengthen the defense, in this case, Liu Bei and the others would be forced to passively defend with them, thus missing the opportunity to annihilate Cao Ying. And if it is a grappling fight, the other party can leave himself alone and embarrass Liu Bei's footmen. So thinking about it, apart from a tough confrontation, Zhang Fei really has no choice now.
"Hmph, Zhang Feipifu, you have the courage and no strategy, you dare to collide with my tiger and leopard ride?" Cao Chun looked at Zhang Fei, who took the initiative to kill, but his heart was full of disdain. In his opinion, those who dare to collide with the tiger and leopard ride will end up completely scattered like Yuan Tan at the time.
With a "bang", a Fengyun cavalry and a tiger and leopard cavalry collided, and as Cao Chun expected, the impact of the tiger and leopard cavalry was definitely stronger than Zhang Fei's Fengyun cavalry. However, the scene was not completely one-sided, under the leadership of Zhang Fei, the Fengyun Cavalry and the White Horse Yicong relied on the sharp saber and also fought hand-to-hand with the tiger and leopard riders, and not all of them were knocked away. After all, you're a sieve, and you can't miss a single thing.
"Kill!" Zhang Fei roared angrily, like a thunderbolt in the middle of the day. The Zhangba snake spear in his right hand was handed out, and the iron armor of one of the opponent's Dubs was pierced hard, and the snake spear was still undiminished, and it pierced him hard. Another knight riding a tiger and leopard on the side saw that it was cheap, and took advantage of Zhang Fei's snake spear before he could pull it out, and raised his spear to stab him in the back of the heart.
"Phew!" Zhang Fei roared, didn't wait to pull out the snake spear, pulled out the saber on his waist with his left hand, and didn't look back, he directly chopped it off with his backhand, cutting off the man's head. Beside him, there were already more than a dozen corpses.
"Third General, these guys are so powerful!" After Gao Ran slashed a person to death, he also gritted his teeth and cursed. These tiger and leopard riders were wearing heavy iron armor, and Gao Ran killed several people, and their hands were a little numb. In the face of these iron lumps, once they are surrounded, it is definitely a death.
Zhang Fei was about to speak, when he suddenly felt a fierce murderous aura coming towards him. Almost instinctively, Zhang Fei crossed the Zhangba snake spear in his hand and opened the opponent's move. After a loud "dang", Zhang Fei took a few steps back, and his figure flickered.
"Xu Chu!" recognized the person who attacked him as Xu Chu, who had a battle under the city of Xuzhou thirteen years ago, and the battle intent in Zhang Fei's chest suddenly burned. Although Xu Chu was a sneak attack just now, he was able to force Zhang Fei back a few steps, and this kind of martial arts should definitely not be underestimated. Zhang Fei also knew it in his heart, clenched the snake spear in his hand, and began to prepare for a decisive battle with this rare enemy in his life.
"Zhang Fei, let's die!" Xu Chu's sneak attack returned in vain, and he couldn't wait to explain too many scenes, accompanied by a roar, the Shanjun knife slashed towards Zhang Fei with an indomitable momentum, and the latter pulled out the Zhangba snake spear and began to fight with it. With the two of them as the center, the rest of the people within a radius of a few zhang could not get close at all, if they were unfortunate enough to be pushed forward by the fierce army, then they would soon be cut into a pile of mutilated limbs by the rapidly flying mountain monarch sword and zhangba snake spear, while the two people who fought fiercely would hardly be affected in any way.
"Kill!" On the other side, the infantry led by Li Dian and others also fought fiercely with the rest of the generals under Liu Bei. Wei Yan, Li Dian, Xiahoudun, Huang Zhong, these famous generals of the time all gave full play to their military talents in this rare melee. The battlefield was quickly cut into small pieces, and Cao Ying's men and Liu Bei's men had been completely strangled together, and the red and black military uniforms on both sides were mixed together.
"This Zhang Fei dares to defend the tiger and leopard head-on?" On the dirt slope in the distance, Cao Ying looked at Zhang Fei's almost death-seeking action, and his face, which had always been unwavering, also had a trace of emotion. Not only because of Zhang Fei's crazy actions, but also because this guy did not collapse after fighting with the tiger and leopard riders. It is true that Zhang Fei was entangled by Xu Chu, but under the command of Zang Ba and Gao Ran, the Fengyun Cavalry and the White Horse Yicong were still stubbornly resisting the tiger and leopard cavalry. The battle was so fierce that even the battle-hardened Cao Ying was surprised.
In the fierce hand-to-hand combat, every tiger and leopard rider falls on average, at least one opponent will be pulled to accompany the burial. Although this is not a loss, and even has an advantage, Cao Ying is not satisfied with just such a casualty comparison. He knew very well that if he couldn't give full play to the unparalleled impact of the tiger and leopard rider, he couldn't make the most of his strengths.
However, under the stubborn fight between Gao Ran and Zang Ba, Cao Chun never had the opportunity to gather the tiger and leopard cavalry to charge. Zhang Fei's sharp arrow formation was hard-hitting, and although he paid the price of 2,000 casualties in an instant, he successfully dragged Cao Chun into the quagmire of positional warfare. Cao Ying looked at the situation in the field, the performance of the Fengyun Cavalry was much better than when they were in Xuchang a few months ago, after all, after the baptism of that battle, their combat effectiveness was also increasing.
"Father, let me lead people to help General Xu and them!" Glancing at the last three thousand tigers and leopards behind him, Cao Zhang took the initiative to ask. Behind him were Cao Xiu and Cao Hong, who were gearing up. Cao Ying didn't say anything, but Liu Ye, a strategist on the side, stepped forward and said: "The third prince is not in a hurry, and the fierce battle is in full swing right now, even if the third prince joins the battle group, it will be difficult to work for a while." It is better to wait for the battle situation of the army to be clear, and then wait for the labor to come out, it will definitely work. ”
"But?" Cao Zhang was about to say something, but at this moment, a melodious horn suddenly sounded from the south. Cao Zhang was stunned and looked south with Cao Ying. There is no need to have the same level of hearing as Xu Chu, just from the dust raised when the opponent's army came, and the sound of heavy horses' hooves, Cao Zhang understood that this was a cavalry of at least tens of thousands of people.
"Liu Bei really has a backhand!" Liu Ye sighed, but Jia Xu frowned slightly and said, "Where did Liu Bei get so many cavalry?" As soon as he finished saying this, Cao Ying nodded involuntarily. But there wasn't much time for them to think about it now, because this menacing cavalry was already about to enter the southernmost place where the cavalry of the two sides was fighting. Although the tiger and leopard cavalry is the elite of the world's cavalry, once the enemy army has tens of thousands of cavalry to help in the battle, even if there is a peerless general like Xu Chu, the tiger and leopard cavalry will die today.
"Liu Bei can't have so many cavalry!" Cao Ying suddenly said in a firm tone, turned his head to look at Cao Zhang and Cao Hong, and Cao Ying immediately ordered: "Zilian, Zihe, Wen Lie, Er and others lead the tiger and leopard to ride, come forward and intercept this group with me!" ”
"No!" Cao Hong and the others all responded violently, and then led the last 3,000 tigers and leopards to kill this mysterious cavalry in the dust.
"Bo Tao, it seems that we are a little late!" Zhao Yun looked at the chaotic battlefield in front of him, and said with some regret.
"It's not too late, it's just right!" Zhao Feng took a cursory look and found that the field was at the stage of killing at a fever pitch. The foot soldiers led by Liu Bei and Guan Yu had firmly taken the initiative in the battle with Cao's army; It's just that Zhang Fei, a Fengyun cavalry army, is a little unsustainable in the battle with the tiger and leopard cavalry.
"Go and help the third general first!" Zhao Feng quickly formulated a strategy, although he could help Liu Bei solve the battle on the foot pawn's side as soon as possible, but it would not be good if Zhang Fei couldn't hold on, so Zhao Feng decided to adopt a slightly more prudent strategy.
"Good!" Zhao Yun also knew what was at stake, and he didn't argue and directly led the army into the battle group. At this moment, Cao Hong and others in the distance also killed one after another.
"Damn, it's a mystery!" When Cao Hong was still dozens of steps away from this mysterious enemy army, he couldn't help but curse. He could clearly see that most of the knights of this cavalry army had a bunch of branches tied to their horses, and they ran and dragged them to the ground, which was naturally dusty. As a result, this cavalry, which was only a few thousand people, had the same momentum as tens of thousands of cavalry.
"Zhao Botao!" Without waiting for Cao Hong to scold anything more, Cao Xiu on the side had already roared angrily, his eyes staring at Zhao Feng in the array. He will not forget that this is the person who captured his husband ten years ago and then deceived the city, and the whole thing went around. Now that the enemies are seeing each other here, it's really red-eyed!
"Yo, they're all acquaintances!" Except for Cao Zhang, Zhao Feng didn't know each other, Cao Hong and Cao Xiu were old acquaintances. Now that he saw that there were no other generals around him except Zhang Ren, he greeted him at the moment, and the two stepped forward to fight with Cao Hong and others.
"Go!" Zhao Feng crossed the barrel of the gun and swung Cao Hong's knife, and then stabbed Cao Xiu with a shot, and the latter also hurriedly caught this move. Over the years, Zhao Feng has not relaxed his martial arts cultivation. Now his martial arts, I am afraid that compared to the level of the Five Tiger Generals, it is already not too much, and Cao Hong + Cao Xiu is not enough for him to see, so with one enemy and two enemies, he is more attacking than defending, and he is happy to attack with all his might.
On the other side, Zhang Ren ran into Cao Zhang. One is the second disciple of the spear prodigy Yuan, who has been immersed in silver for more than 20 years; A young man was in the prime of life, and when he was a teenager, he went to northern Xinjiang to fight aliens. Now once these two people fight, they also show their own magical powers, and they are inseparable for a while. However, as with all scripts, the unexpected happened at this time.
After getting Zhao Yun's help, the pressure on Gao Ran and Zang Ba was reduced a lot. Not only because the Xiliang Iron Cavalry shared part of the pressure, but also because the Fengyun Cavalry was trained by Zhao Yun, and now it is commanded by him, which is much more handy than Zang Ba and Gao Ran of Yue Ling. With Zhao Yun's help, the tiger and leopard rider gradually began to feel tired.
"Suffer death!" Suddenly, a wolf's tooth arrow shot towards Zhao Yun's back heart in the fierce battle, and Zhao Yun dodged directly as if he had long eyes behind his back. When he looked back, he saw that it was Cao Chun who put down his bow and arrow with hatred. Zhao Yun snorted coldly, and then turned the horse's head to kill Cao Chun.
"Stop with me, stop me!" Cao Chun knew that he was definitely not Zhao Yun's opponent, and now he stared at himself for bad luck, and suddenly felt like a mouse being chased by a cat, and almost wanted to run away. However, as a commanding general and the founder of the tiger and leopard ride, Cao Chun naturally would not be so cowardly. Seeing that Zhao Yun was directly killed, Cao Chun also commanded the guards to come forward to intercept him, and he did not withdraw from the battlefield. Zhao Yun also knew that he was the commander of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and if he could kill him, it would be better than killing ordinary generals. But he rushed to kill several times, but they were all in vain.
"What kind of ability is it to hurt people with hidden arrows, eat me with a knife!" At the same time that Cao Chun was about to block Zhao Yun, he only heard an angry scolding from the east. When he turned his head to look, it was a young player calling for him. Looking like that, I guess I'm in my early twenties at most.
Cao Chun didn't know Ma Dai, because Ma Dai wasn't there the last time he fought in Saibei. Seeing that such a little rabbit cub dared to call for battle with himself, he couldn't help but feel angry. Seeing that Zhao Yun was blocked by the people from the north, he asked for his surname to kill this little rabbit cub to help morale. Thinking of this, Cao Chunyi urged his crotch mount, and danced the iron spear to take Ma Dai directly.
"You dog thief dare to plot against my brother-in-law, suffer death!" Ma Dai shouted, and the big knife in his hand slashed towards Cao Chun. Cao Chun didn't care what he said nonsense, and directly waved his gun to fight together.
"Ahh
With this scream, the upper half of Cao Chun, the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry, left his ass and fell to the ground, while his lower body was still riding steadily on his horse. However, not everyone has time to care about this now, the initiator Ma Dai wiped a handful of blood splashed on his face, and was about to fight again, but saw that many enemy soldiers were looking at him with a stunned face, and they couldn't even care about fighting, this scene was very strange.
Seeing that the enemy was so stunned, Ma Dai couldn't help but be stunned as well.
In the middle of the day, one of them howled like a pig: "The commander is dead!" Then the rest of the people howled. Cao Chun, the right talent, fought with Ma Dai for more than ten rounds, lost his strength, and was hacked to death by Ma Dai. The leader of the tiger and leopard riding was slaughtered by a kid like this. Of course, if he knew that Ma Dai had killed a tiger at the age of fourteen, he should not have fought Ma Dai so impulsively.
"Commander?" When Ma Dai saw the tiger and leopard knight howling like a mourner, he realized that what he had killed was an important role, and he thought that he had made such a great achievement when he first arrived in the Central Plains, Ma Dai was also overjoyed, and hurriedly led everyone to continue to rush and kill.
The tiger and leopard riders are rare elites in the world, and they will not back down no matter what danger happens. But today's death of Cao Chun is not within this ordinary situation, not only because Cao Chun is the leader of the tiger and leopard ride, but also because he is the founder of the tiger and leopard ride, and can even be said to be the spiritual leader of the tiger and leopard ride. Now that he is dead, the morale of the army is inevitably chaotic.
"Grandma's, Cao Chun is dead?" A hoarse voice came from behind, and Ma Dai looked back, but it was Zhou Tai, who had a relationship in Hanzhong, but seeing him shaking his head, he looked very sorry, which made Ma Dai a little incomprehensible.
But soon Zhou Tai quickly solved his puzzles, "This guy should die in my hands!" Zhou Tai smacked his lips and said, Ma Dai couldn't help but have a black line in his head when he heard this, he finally realized that in this world, there are really people who can have a thick skin that is comparable to his eldest brother.
The tiger and leopard ride inevitably fell down, which was unexpected by Cao Ying. It's not just Cao Ying, "What's wrong with the tiger and leopard riding?" Seeing the rout of the tiger and leopard cavalry one after another, Cao Pi was also quite surprised. Cao Ying didn't speak, but he already had an ominous premonition in his heart: without any major changes, the tiger and leopard rider would not retreat.
"The tiger and leopard ride is defeated!" Zhang Fei separated Xu Chu with a spear, as if intentionally or unintentionally, and suddenly shouted. More and more Liu soldiers also began to yell. The roar grew louder and louder, but the tiger and leopard ran away and ran away, and such a roar did not help them. Of course, it was not for nothing that Zhang Fei suddenly went berserk, and when he roared like this, Cao Jun's foot soldiers were inevitably a little chaotic.
The tiger and leopard ride defeated! The sound soon filled the entire battlefield, and although the officers and men of the two armies were busy fighting, some people still took the time to check the situation there. As a result, they all saw that their own tiger and leopard riders were retreating one after another. This only shows one thing: they were defeated.
The tiger and leopard ride was defeated, and Cao Jun's trump card, the tiger and leopard ride that once ran rampant in the desert, was defeated.
(To be continued)