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Under Cao Xiu's order, 5,000 tigers and leopards, under the leadership of Cao Chun, took the lead, stepping on the thick ice of the midwinter night, and killing the opposite shore with a wide impact surface. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Theoretically speaking, the cavalry charge should be concentrated on one point, but in order to avoid the violent vibration of the horse's hooves, the ice surface was shattered, so Cao Chun flexibly adjusted the tactics of the charge.

However, the impact speed of the tiger and leopard cavalry was too fast, and the Han army on the opposite bank had only more than 1,000 crossbowmen, and the lack of crossbowmen made the scattered charge of the tiger and leopard cavalry more advantageous.

Like a fierce beast out of the cage, in the blink of an eye, the most elite cavalry of the Cao army landed on the bank of the river, the attack of the Cao army was too fast, and the Han army did not seem to have estimated it at all, so when the enemy enemy soldiers landed on the shore, the infantry and spearmen, halberds, and shield soldiers in the Han army had not even had time to move to the shore.

Without the protection of the infantry, the crossbowmen who were close to the enemy horses were as brittle as porcelain, and the torrent of tigers and leopards rode smoothly and rolled over, instantly leveling the thousand poor crossbowmen.

Landing easily, Cao Chun was more and more happy, leading 5,000 cavalry, gathered at one point from the first line, and rushed to the Han army camp on the shore unstoppably.

Zhang Fei is not an idiot, he still built the upstream camp to understand the art of war, what antlers, trenches, three heavy encirclements, the big camp seems to be impregnable.

It's just that the enemy came too quickly, and the strength in the battalion didn't seem to be much, and it was difficult to discern the direction of the enemy's attack at dawn, while Cao's army concentrated its troops and horses at one point, and easily broke through the encirclement of the Han army, which was short of troops.

Cutting off the antlers and filling the trenches with flesh and blood, the invincible tigers and leopards in the world rode through the encirclement from the southeast, and they poured into the Han camp like a torrent of embankments, killing people when they saw them, and setting fire to the tents when they saw them, and the more than 2,000 Han infantry who heard the news could not resist such a ferocious impact.

At the same time, more than 20,000 foot soldiers led by Cao Xiu and Xu Huang in the follow-up, after learning that the forward Cao Chun had succeeded, also crossed the river, and in less than half an hour, more than 10,000 Cao troops landed on the south bank, rushed into the Han camp from the gap opened by the tiger and leopard cavalry, and joined the slaughter of the Han army.

At this moment, on the periphery of the Han army camp, hundreds of steps away, a pair of murderous eyes were silently watching their own camp burning in blood and fire.

At this time, Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, was riding his famous horse, and watched this "fireworks show" with great interest.

"Strategist, everything is really in your hands, but I don't know if Cao Ying will come in person in this battle, if you can kill this thief in one fell swoop, the general trend of the world can be determined in one fell swoop."

Pang Tong beside him touched his short beard, and on his short beard under the firelight, there was a smug smile, "Even if Cao Ying doesn't come in person, he will have to lose at least thirty or forty thousand soldiers and horses in this battle, and the defeat in this battle, coupled with the dispatch of troops from Eastern Wu, is enough to make Cao Ying retreat." ”

It turned out that all this was just a "pseudo-surrender plan" directed by Pang Tongyi.

In fact, the "pen pal" who corresponded with Cao Ying was not Zhang He, but Pang Tongye, and every word on the letter was just written by Zhang He according to Pang Tong's meaning.

Pang Tong knew that Cao Ying was suspicious, and he would inevitably think that Zhang He was just a false surrender, and the purpose was to induce him to attack Nantun, and when the time came, the self-righteous Cao Ying would "plan what he planned" and attack Zhang Fei's camp upstream.

Therefore, when the Cao army deployed in the night, the Han army was also secretly moving. At this moment, those who stayed in Zhang Fei's camp were just a few thousand weak soldiers who could be sacrificed, and within a radius of more than ten miles outside the camp, the 60,000 or 70,000 troops of the Han army were already in full formation, waiting for the enemy to attack the camp.

Pang Tong's speculation was indeed correct, and Cao Ying took the bait.

However, even if the enemy is hooked, the Han army is also facing a problem, because the Luoshui behind the enemy is frozen, so even if the ambush is launched, it is impossible to surround and shoot the enemy as usual, or force him into the water to drown, because the enemy can completely escape back to the north bank on the frozen river, although it may be a little more embarrassing.

However, as Liu Bei said, everything is under Pang Tong's control.

A cavalry scout flew to report that most of Cao's army had crossed Luoshui, that all the camps in the upper reaches had been breached, and that the thousands of old and weak troops defending the camp had also been annihilated by Cao's army.

"Very well, the fish are in, it's time to reel in the nets." Liu Bei's expression was excited, and his eyes turned to Pang Tong on the side, "Strategist, let's do it." ”

Pang Tong looked at the direction of the camp from afar, and the fire had already turned half of the sky red, so he said: "It's time, please give the king an order." ”

Liu Bei took a deep breath and shouted loudly: "Pass on the life of the orphan and start attacking." ”

As soon as the order was given, on the high platform that had already been built behind the battle, a pillar of wolf smoke rose into the sky, and it was immediately clearly visible within a radius of more than ten miles.

When the signal of the Han army was issued, at this moment, Cao Xiu's Chinese army brigade had also entered the Han camp, more than 20,000 Cao troops stepped on the Han camp into ruins, and only a few thousand Han troops were killed in a short time, and in less than an hour, the Cao army successfully captured this important stronghold on the south bank of Luoshui.

"Zihe, have you ever beheaded Zhang Fei?" After Cao Xiu met with the commander of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, his clan brother Cao Chun, he asked urgently in the first sentence.

Cao Chun had blood on his body, and his face was full of blood after the killing, but he shook his head and said: "I didn't find any trace of Zhang Fei, maybe this guy fled after hearing the news." ”

Cao Xiu clearly remembered that on the Dangyang Bridge that year, Zhang Fei alone occupied the bridgehead, and with his natural might, he and his tiger and leopard rode so much that he did not dare to go forward for a while. Later, after Cao Xiu understood the truth, he always regarded this as a shame for himself, and now he wanted to be ashamed of himself, but he didn't expect to run away with Zhang Fei.

Looking around at the dilapidated Han camp and the corpses of the Han army everywhere, Cao Xiu's heart suddenly had a strange feeling.

He pondered for a moment before he figured out what was the reason for this strange feeling. That's right, he felt that this bitter victory had come too easily, and the enemy he faced was too vulnerable.

In his opinion, even if it is a surprise attack, the enemy's stubborn resistance will bring a little trouble to his side, but the fact is that from the beginning to the end of the attack, it is like a withering and decaying, and he is in a trance thinking that this is just a drill.

"Zihe, do you feel that this battle is a little wrong?" Cao Xiu expressed his doubts to Cao Chun.

Cao Chun disagreed: "This battle can be regarded as a relief of anger, and the killing is happy, what's wrong." ”

As soon as the words fell, Cao Xiu discovered the wolf smoke pillar rising in the southeast. The instinct of a soldier gained from a hundred battles suddenly made a trace of bad premonition suddenly swell in his heart.

"Quick, go reconnoiter and see where that pillar of fire came from?" Cao Xiu hurriedly gave the order.

Before he could speak, a faint sound seemed to be heard in the dim sky, as if something sharp was tearing through the air and flying in the invisible darkness.

A few seconds later, there was the "click" of a landslide.

The sound came from the north, one after another, as if countless jade plates were shattered by the rocks in an instant, and the sound made the entire camp silent in a blink of an eye, and tens of thousands of Cao soldiers were attracted by the strange sound from the north.

After a moment of pause, Cao Xiu's face suddenly swelled with terrifying horror, which was a look of shock that only came after waking up from a dream.

"Oh no, we've been tricked, quick, quickly order the whole army to return to the north shore!" Cao Xiu gave the order to retreat in a panic, and the first one to look north on his horse.

The soldiers, including Cao Chun, had not yet figured out what the strange noise was about, and they had no way to understand why the main general Cao Xiu would suddenly give the order to retreat under the great victory. But they didn't dare to disobey the order, so they had to follow Cao Xiu and rush to the shore in a swarm.

When Cao Xiu rushed to the shore, he was stunned, and by the light of the fire, everything on the surface of the Luoshui River could be seen clearly.

At this moment, the originally frozen river surface has cracked into countless ice blocks, and in the sky, countless stone bullets are still flying, and the huge impact force has shattered all the ice surface along the river for several miles.

Soon, the soldiers who followed arrived and were also stunned by the sight before them, and they realized that their way back had been cut off.

At this time, the sky was brighter, and Liu Bei and Pang Tong in the south, through the faint light of dawn, could already see the falling stone rain a little clearly.

Liu Bei could even see the broken ice chips flying into the air, and the crystal streamer produced by the light of the fire, at this time, he couldn't help but admire: "Commander, I really didn't expect that you would be able to think of such a miraculous strategy as a divine power cannon to break the ice." ”

Pang Tong showed a smug look without hesitation, and said with a smile: "It's just a small plan, why worry about it." King, I see that the ice is almost broken, and you can kill fish. ”

Liu Bei then gave another order, and at this time, on the high platform, another wolf smoke rose, and at the same time, more than a dozen big drums began to thunder, and the rumbling drums and the sound of Shi Bing hitting each other were intertwined into a shocking drum music.

20,000 horses from Ma Dai in the northwest, 30,000 horses from Zhang Fei in the west, and 20,000 soldiers and horses from Huang Zhong in the southeast suddenly rose up and advanced from the burning Han camp from three sides.

When approaching the camp for more than 100 paces, the three Han armies all stopped advancing, spearmen and shield men lined up in front, followed by thousands of crossbowmen, and a series of arrows were exuding a terrifying cold light, like the smile of death.

Everything was going on in an orderly manner, and in the blink of an eye, the three-way Han army had surrounded the barracks. At this time, Cao Jun in the camp was still attracted by the thrill on the river, and most of them did not realize that they had stepped into the ghost gate with one foot.

On the high platform, a third stream of wolf smoke rose into the sky, the sound of drums suddenly stopped, and then, the arrows as dense as a drizzle shot out like meteors, mercilessly inclinating towards the enemies who were still confused.

(To be continued)