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Although King Wu's army was only 4,500 when it sent troops, after conquering the two cities of Qiaoxian and Chen, King Wu had already collected more than 5,000 troops, and it was naturally easy for the old and new to send 5,000 troops -- of course, but the combat effectiveness of the new troops was not very reliable, and they could only be used to carry and transport grain, grass, and baggage.

Chen Guocheng was handed over to Xu Sheng to guard, Tao Ying led Lu Su and Sun Guan and others to embark on the journey, the army composition is a thousand gentlemen army and four thousand infantry, the gentleman's army was led by Tao Ying personally, and the infantry was all handed over to Sun Guan.

Completely different from the gentleman's army, the 4,000 infantry led by Sun Guan is very like a fish in water, along the way, there are endless langs and foul words, trampling on the fields and bullying the country people who have no time to dodge, digging graves and robbing graves and shooting birds and rabbits, Tao Ying opened his mouth to stop it, Sun Guan explained that he didn't do it like a yellow turban thief, and choked Tao Ying with nothing to say, and considering that this is not the land of Xuzhou, he just let Sun Guan make trouble, just try to restrain the army of gentlemen who save their lives, The Junzi army was not allowed to be damaged by Sun Guan's Taishan thief team.

After walking along the official road, Tao Ying's army had unconsciously entered the territory of Runan and arrived at the county seat of Ruyang County, Runan County, but Ruyang County had been completely destroyed in the war, and there was not even a ghost shadow in the city, only a few sections of dilapidated rammed earth walls remained, and the streets in the city that had been burned to ruins, and even a slightly complete broken thatched house could not be found. Then I learned from the guide's mouth that the surrounding Nandun, Zhengqiang, Xihua and Zhaoling are all like this ghost, although Deputy Director Tao is not a good man and woman who eats fasting and recites Buddha, it is inevitable that there is some bad taste in his heart, why don't you surrender to me as soon as possible, and end this troubled world of human life as soon as possible?

After sighing, and resting for another night, Tao Ying's army continued to advance westward, although this area is full of plains and wilderness suitable for the gentleman's army to wander, but considering that the enemy-occupied area is getting farther and farther, Tao Ying and Lu Su still have a mind, and sent a large number of scouts and light horsemen to investigate and prevent the enemy from ambushing, and Tao Ying and Lu Su's caution has finally received a rich reward, just after noon, the scout sent to the front rode back on a pegasus to report, saying that fifteen miles ahead, found a patrol team wearing the color of officers and soldiers, There may be a large group of enemies ahead.

After receiving the warning, Tao Ying hurriedly ordered the whole army to stop advancing, and asked the scout commander carefully: "What banner is that group of enemy scouts flying?" Infantry or cavalry? What equipment? Have they ever found you? ”

The scout Shi Chang, who belonged to the Junzi Army, clenched his fists and replied in an orderly manner: "Hui Gongzi, the enemy scout is fighting a white background and a black border tooth flag, wearing black armor, all cavalry, soldiers wearing black and white stripes inlaid iron armor, Shi Chang wears fish scale iron armor, wears an iron helmet, and the weapon is an iron spear and spear, an iron knife with a shoulder ring, and a bow and crossbow. The villain is an enemy scout hidden in the woods and found with a clairvoyant mirror, and should not have been detected by the enemy. ”

The white-on-white and black-edged tooth flag is the special banner of Cao Yingjun's army, and with the news that Cao soldiers are going south to suppress Huang Shao in Chenliu County, it is not surprising that Cao Jun appears here, but a few other details suddenly made Tao Ying, Lu Su and Sun Guan all stand up their ears, "It's all cavalry?" Soldiers wear leather armor inlaid with iron plates? Why do you wear fish scales and iron armor? All wearing iron helmets? ”

"How is that possible? How can the officers and soldiers of Chenliu County have such good equipment? Sun Guan, who was experienced on the battlefield, was the first to be surprised and said: "This is just a scout team, if it is the main battle, then the equipment is still available?" ”

Tao Ying and Lu Su were equally surprised, you know, the fish scale iron armor made of two or three thousand pieces of fish scales or leaf-shaped armor is not ordinarily expensive, in the Xuzhou army, it is basically a general above the level of a tooth gate to equip it, but the enemy in front of him even wears such armor, this team of enemy equipment is too good, right? Surprised, Tao Ying couldn't help but joke: "Strategist, if our scouts are not mistaken, we may not have met Cao Agui's tiger and leopard rider." ”

"Childe said with a smile, the tiger and leopard rider is the first elite under Cao Ying, how can it appear here?" Lu Su smiled and said: "Childe, no matter what the origin of the enemy in front of you is, it seems that it is absolutely not simple, Childe, please be careful and be cautious with soldiers." ”

"That's it." Tao Ying nodded, and after a little thought, Tao Ying turned to Sun Guan and said, "General Sun, your infantry team is in formation, form a square circle formation to prevent the enemy's surprise attack, and wait for news." I personally led the army of gentlemen to go ahead and see what was going on. ”

"No." Sun Guan was not interested in fighting with such a well-equipped enemy, so he agreed, and told him uneasily: "Childe, please be careful, if the situation is not right, please withdraw here immediately, and the general will definitely do his best to cover Childe's retreat." ”

"Of course." Tao Ying nodded, and also advised: "But General Sun must remember that before receiving an order, you must not move forward or move at will, you must stay put, the tactics of the Junzi Army are different from other armies, the infantry is difficult to cooperate, and it is easy to pull the hind legs of the Junzi Army." ”

Sun Guan has heard of the tactics of the Junzi Army, naturally he will not feel that Tao Ying is underestimating himself, but also agreed, at the moment Tao Ying and Sun Guan acted separately, Sun Guan led the infantry to set up a square formation in situ, the general and the mobile force were in the center of the formation, the peripheral troops were deployed layer by layer, spears and bows and arrows were outside, and the baggage vehicles were connected in a chain to form a mobile fortress, not to give the enemy a chance to assault. Tao Ying and Lu Su led the Junzi army to go first, walked for several miles and changed to wooden stirrups, and divided the more than 1,000 Junzi army into five horizontal teams, two teams of heavy cavalry wearing leather armor inlaid with iron plates in the front, and three teams of light cavalry wearing light leather armor in the rear, and marched forward in a standard battle queue.

After walking for more than 20 miles, crossing the abandoned Zhengqiang County, and approaching the also abandoned Zhaoling County, in front of the Junzi Army under the banner of the Yellow Turban Army, there was indeed an enemy brigade under the banner of the Cao Army, and what made Tao Ying and Lu Su dumbfounded was that the enemy team that appeared in front of them was the same as the Junzi Army, and they were all cavalry!

You must know that the reason why the Junzi Army was able to equip all the war horses was entirely because Tao Ying's Laozi Tao Qian was rich and had Gongsun Zhan, an ally with many cavalry, and spent a lot of money to buy war horses from his ally Gongsun Zhan. And the economic situation of the Cao army is not as good as that of the Xuzhou army - Cao Boss even has to rely on the establishment of the Captain of the Touching Gold and the Fat Qiu Zhonglang to rob the tomb to earn military salaries, plus the hardcore ally of Cao Boss, Yuan Shao, is not as good as Gongsun Zan in terms of war horses, so the Cao army's war horses are actually less than the Xuzhou army, and the entire Cao army team equipped with war horses, Tao Ying and Lu Su are really the first time to see them.

The two phases approached, as the distance got closer and closer, Tao Ying and Lu Su also found more jaw-dropping in the original telescope that the Cao army cavalry in front of them was better equipped than they imagined, and the generals above 100 generals were not only all wearing fish scale armor, but also most of them were more expensive fish scale steel armor, and ordinary soldiers were all wearing leather armor inlaid with iron sheets, holding iron guns and iron spears in their hands, iron knives around their waists and hips, and some soldiers were also equipped with hard crossbows and strong bows, and the equipment was too good to be a mess! And at this moment, Tao Ji, who was also holding the primordial telescope in his hand, suddenly howled like a pig, "How is it possible? Second brother, look, they also have stirrups! ”

"Stirrups too?" Tao Ying almost fell off the horse in fright, and when he looked closely, Tao Ying was a little relieved, it turned out that the cavalry in front was only equipped with a leather cloth sleeve similar to a stirrup - somewhat similar to the rope set stirrup that Deputy Director Tao fooled Sun Ce and Liu Bei, which was safer than the rope set stirrup, but it was only a unilateral equipment of the saddle, so that it could not only facilitate getting on and off the horse, but also help the cavalry stabilize their bodies when fighting on horses. But even so, Tao Ying was still very confused in his heart, "In front, which army is it?" ”

"What army is it in front?"

Cao Chun, the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry on the opposite side, was also extremely shocked to find that although the yellow turban thief cavalry appeared in front of him with tattered clothes, his head was wrapped in tattered yellow scarves, and the armor behind the torn clothes was also relatively cheap leather armor, but the weapons were very sophisticated, and the soldiers were uniformly equipped with special ring-headed iron knives for the army, and everyone carried the cavalry short bow that the northern Huns liked to use, and there were plenty of feathers and arrows in the quiver, and each cavalry had a rotating war horse! - For Cao Jun, who is short of horses, this is simply a luxury squandering that he never dreamed of!

As the two armies got closer and closer, Deputy Director Tao and Cao Chun were terrified to find that the enemy's queue on the opposite side was simply exaggerated, and it was completely comparable to the ace cavalry that he had been tempered so hard that they were lined up in five horizontal formations, on the one hand, the cavalry was very close to each other to facilitate intensive charge, and on the other hand, the cavalry was far away from each other to facilitate maneuvering, but the distance between the soldiers of the two teams was as neat as a planned ruler, and there was almost no scattering! The murderous aura that rushed to the sky also emanated from these two teams who didn't know the details of each other!

"Where did the enemy on the other side come from?"

With the same question, the tiger and leopard cavalry and the gentleman's army at the same time two arrows away from the place to restrain the horse's head, in order to test the enemy carefully and steal chickens and dogs, Deputy Director Tao waved his hand, a gentleman's army commander slapped his horse out of the battle, rushed to the front of the battle and shouted, waving a wooden snake spear and shouting: "I am a Yan man Zhang Fei Zhang Yi is also!" That rabbit cub, dare to fight me for 300 rounds? ”

Although Cao Chun, who was calm, was also shocked why the famous Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide appeared here, Cao Chun did not send generals to fight, let alone personally send generals to fight, but calmly rode his horse to the front of the formation and shouted loudly to Zhang Fei: "Don't waste your strength, tigers and leopards ride out to fight, never fight generals!" Where are you from? and ask your commander to come out and answer. ”

"Haw Par Ride?!" Tao Ying and Lu Su in the ranks of the Gentlemen's Army almost didn't fall to the ground with their jaws, and said together, is it impossible? We were so lucky to run into a tiger and leopard riding when we went out? Isn't the tiger and leopard riding the first elite of Cao Apu? Why did you run to this Runan County to bring it to Zhaolingyi? Could it be that Cao Ying is also here?

After the shock, Lu Su calmed down first, and immediately suggested to Tao Ying in a low voice: "Childe, this is a rare opportunity, although the tiger and leopard knights are well-equipped, they are generally heavy, and there is no rotation of war horses, it is difficult to run for a long time, and our army's cavalry is their nemesis!" Childe did not visit the horse to answer, not only tested the enemy's situation, but also tried to provoke the enemy, and then used his trick to inflict heavy damage on them, cutting off one of Cao Ying's arms! ”

Tao Ying nodded, touched the thick fake beard on his face, and rode out of the battle with his legs, Zhang Fei, who couldn't fight there, had to retreat obediently, and Tao Ying shouted in a rough voice in front of the formation: "I am the demon king Wu Tiande Wu Dawang, the little thief from there, want to talk to me?" ”

"Looks like you've seen it there?" Cao Chun, who had seen Tao Ying once outside Xuzhou City, was puzzled, but he couldn't remember that he had seen this bearded man wrapped in a yellow scarf there, so he didn't bother to recall, so he just replied to Tao Ying: "It turned out to be King Wu Tiande Wu, who has admired his name for a long time, and under Cao Chun, he is a general under the command of Cao Mengde and Cao Gong, the general of Zhendong." ”

"Cao Mengde? Isn't it the rabbit cub named Cao Ying? Tao Ying asked in a big way: "He's here too?" When I was under the command of General Digong before, I met him and fought against him, but I was unlucky enough to let him run away? He's there, call him to answer, I haven't seen him in years, and I miss him a little bit. ”

"My lord is killing thieves in Dingling, King Wu will definitely have a chance to meet him." Cao Chun said loudly: "King Wu, since you have heard of the prestige of my lord, and you have had the honor to fight with him, then you must know that my lord Cao Gong is like a god, invincible, and confronting our army is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg!" In this case, why does the king not lead all the people to surrender to my lord, and change him for glory and wealth, and give him a wife and a son? My lord Cao Gong, but the famous love is like life! ”

"This is true, if Boss Cao didn't love it, my head would have been gone." Tao Ying muttered in his heart, and was secretly frightened - Boss Cao was actually summoning the tomb? Could it be that he, like him, also took a fancy to the money and food of the Yellow Turban thieves in Yuzhou? Oops, I think about it, it seems that there is such a thing, in order to solve the problem of food shortage, Boss Cao has taken the Runan Yellow Turban Thief!

Thinking quickly in his heart, Tao Ying laughed out loud, brandished the big knife in his hand and shouted: "Cao Apu, that old horseman, dare to let me surrender?" Has he forgotten how he was killed by me when he was in Jizhou before? If you want me to surrender, you can! As long as you can walk ten rounds under my sword and not die, I will lead the crowd to surrender! ”

"I have already said below that tigers and leopards don't ride generals, and fighting generals are just things that reckless men and horsemen like." Cao Chun shook his head and replied loudly, and suddenly his language changed, and he shouted: "The tiger and leopard rider is only good at one tactic, and that is, assault!" Kill! ”

"Kill!" The more than 1,000 tigers and leopards behind Cao Chun roared neatly, like a thunderclap on the flat ground, raised the flat end of the iron spear together, and charged neatly, like a moving iron wall and gun forest, quickly and fiercely pounced on Tao Ying and the gentleman's army, the heavy hooves of the horse, even the earth trembled slightly, and the momentum was amazing.

"This is coming?" Tao Ying, who has always liked sneak attacks, was caught off guard, and finally said that the geese were almost pecked by the geese, but fortunately, the Junzi Army was also well-trained and responded quickly, and the Junzi Army Light Cavalry led by Tao Ji was more than 200 horsemen, almost like a conditioned reflex to charge on horses, pull the bow and arrow and throw it out, the arrow broke through the air, and the feather arrows roared and fell on the tiger and leopard cavalry soldiers, although the tiger and leopard cavalry generals and soldiers were well equipped to kill not many enemies, but they also shot more than a dozen tiger and leopard cavalry soldiers, making them scream and fall off their horses, Slightly slowed down the charging speed of the Tiger and Par Rider.

Silently reciting the sentences in the Analects, Nian Bin and Gao Chong's two light cavalry teams of the Gentleman's Army rushed out one after another, drawing their bows and arrows to shoot, and shooting twenty or thirty tiger and leopard cavalry soldiers off their horses, but the light cavalry of the Gentleman's Army only had this opportunity to charge and release arrows, and the well-equipped and well-trained tiger and leopard cavalry still charged even if they were hit by arrows continuously, and they had already rushed into a place less than half an arrow away from the Gentlemen's Army in the blink of an eye.

Fortunately, taking advantage of the opportunity of the three teams of light cavalry to release arrows and delay the tiger and leopard cavalry, Tao Ying and the two heavy cavalry of the Junzi Army had already turned their horses' heads and displayed the gentleman's tactics that relied on fame and life - fleeing with their legs! In order to move flexibly, the light cavalry of the Gentleman's Army, which did not even wear a piece of iron on its body, quickly turned around, and the rear team changed to the front team to cover the heavy cavalry and fled for their lives, and finally did not let the tiger and leopard cavalry rush into the ranks of the Gentleman's Army and slaughter wantonly. But even so, the upper and lower levels of the Junzi Army were frightened into a cold sweat, knowing that the self-army was an opponent in chess today, and they all fought with the spirit of twelve points and faced the battle carefully, not daring to slack off and underestimate the enemy.

On the snow-capped land of Runan, the two most bullish cavalry of this era launched a small but fierce cavalry battle in the case of basically not knowing the details of the enemy, only wearing simple leather armor The gentleman's army team retreated and galloped wildly, while turning back to release arrows, and the well-equipped tiger and leopard cavalry were in hot pursuit, while dodging the arrows, while desperately riding their horses and charging, desperately closing the distance, just like a yellow and a black torrent, surging and galloping on the white land, the sound of horses' hooves, bows and arrows, The roar and the sound of arrows breaking through the air converged, and the sound spread for ten miles, reaching into the sky.

These are two teams with diametrically opposed fighting styles, and they also represent two very different extremes of cavalry warfare. In order to be light and flexible and run for a long distance, even the heavy cavalry of the Junzi Army did not wear iron armor, and only wore a leather armor inlaid with iron sheets to slightly improve the defensive power, and the light cavalry simply did not sew a piece of iron on the leather armor, in order to minimize the burden of war horses, improve the speed of running, and kill the enemy by bows and arrows, all relying on the cavalry and archery tactics brought by the revolutionary horse harness.

The tiger and leopard cavalry is all heavy cavalry, and the chief or above generally wears heavy iron armor or even steel armor, the armor weighs dozens of catties, and the people who are not strong enough can not wear it at all, and the defense of the bow and arrow is also strong to the extreme. As for the ordinary soldiers of the tiger and leopard cavalry, although their leather armor inlaid with iron pieces is slightly inferior in anti-arrow ability, it is also basically reliable, and they can block the bow and arrow from going too deep into the flesh, and their skills are generally flexible and vigorous, and they can dodge the arrows between the lightning and flint, so the cavalry and archery tactics of the gentleman's army are difficult to hit the team of the tiger and leopard cavalry for a while.

Ordered to adjust the direction of escape to the northeast in time, avoiding the tragedy of the frontal collision between the tiger and leopard cavalry and Sun Guan's infantry, Tao Ying, who was a little frightened, began to look back to observe the damage effect of the Junzi army's cavalry and archery tactics on the tiger and leopard cavalry, and when he found that the Hun bow of the Junzi army was difficult to shoot through the armor of the tiger and leopard horseman, Tao Ying quickly yelled and ordered, "Order the light cavalry, slow down the frequency of shooting, give priority to escaping, and aim and shoot again!" Save bows and arrows! Compete with the enemy! ”

At the same time, Cao Chun, who won the trust of Boss Cao, also quickly adjusted his tactics, ordering the crossbowmen to fire while loading arrows, using the range advantage of crossbow arrows to suppress the cavalry and archery advantage of the Junzi Army, and the well-trained tiger and leopard riders, who were already equipped with unilateral primitive stirrups, were also able to pull the strings and load the arrows in the charge, raise their arms to fire, and successively killed and injured more than a dozen Junzi soldiers who were more expensive than gold.

Seeing this scene, Tao Ying naturally shouted in his heart, and shouted repeatedly, "The light cavalry team stopped firing arrows, charged with all their might, and escaped from the range of the enemy's crossbow arrows to avoid unnecessary losses." Drag your crossbowman and compete with your enemies for the speed at which your crossbow bolts fire! -- Here is an explanation, after learning the lesson that the range of bows and arrows is not as good as that of strong crossbows in the last battle with Sun Ce, the more than 200 soldiers newly replenished by the Junzi Army are already equipped with strong crossbows, one is for the convenience of training, and the other is to prevent the enemy's strong crossbow formation from being as helpless as in the Battle of Guangling.

The Junzi Army has only killed more than a dozen people, and Deputy Director Tao is so distressed that he screams, but Cao Chun's heart is already dripping blood, because up to now, at least sixty or seventy tiger and leopard cavalry soldiers have been shot in the face or vital points, and fallen under the arrows of the Junzi Army, and nearly a hundred war horses have been injured or killed by the bow and arrow of the Junzi Army, which is simply unbearable pain for the cavalry Gui Cao Ying's army. Therefore, Cao Chun inevitably secretly swore in his heart that when he caught the veritable Wu Tiande, he must cut off the flesh on his body piece by piece and feed it to the wild dogs!

"Kill!" Under the anger, Cao Chun's steel gun pointed directly at Deputy Director Tao in front of him, and ordered with a roar like thunder, "Don't cut off Wu Tiande's head to destroy the thief, and swear not to withdraw the troops!" Kill! ”

"Kill!" In the neat roar, nearly a thousand tigers and leopards rode their horses and whips again, maintaining a neat dense assault queue, and pounced on the gentlemen's army a hundred steps away with blood-red eyes, vowing to kill this group of hypocrites disguised as the Yellow Turban Army with a thousand knives! And the gentleman's army in the distance, also maintained an equally neat and picturesque loose mobile queue, fleeing north with horses and whips, vowing not to drag down the tiger and leopard riders who were covered in iron bumps, and never turn back to melee combat!

By the way, the reason why the tiger and leopard cavalry chased and killed the Junzi Army so tightly was completely due to the information transmission method and speed of this era, because although the tiger and leopard cavalry had heard of the name of the Junzi Army, and had also heard that the Junzi Army was famous for breaking 10,000 with 800 battles, but because the distance was too far and the road was blocked, I don't know how the Junzi Army did it. And Yuan Shu and Uncle Liu Huang, who have probably understood the tactics of the Gentleman's Army, obviously don't have such a good heart, and it is impossible to give Boss Cao a warning in advance, so that Boss Cao is careful of the despicable tactics of the Gentleman's Army that cannot be killed, dragged down, thrown off, and entangled.

Therefore, Boss Cao and Cao Chun, the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry, can only exchange blood and life for answers.