Chapter 80: Absolute Accident
"Tao Ying destroys the thief, take your life!"
Moved by Liu Bei's greed, and seeing that there were indeed not many soldiers behind Tao Ying, it was simply a godsend opportunity to capture the thief and capture the king first, Lu Bu suddenly moved in his heart, and without thinking too much, he clamped the red rabbit horse, and rushed towards Tao Ying with a halberd, the red rabbit horse raised its hooves and flew away like the wind, and in the blink of an eye, it had rushed out dozens of steps, Tao Ying was shocked and turned the horse's head to flee for his life, Lu Bu had already rushed to within 100 steps.
"Whew! Shout! Shout! Shout! Shout! "Deputy Director Tao's previous cautious arrangement played a key role at this moment, seeing Lu Bu launch a charge, the soldiers of the Gentleman's Army Heavy Cavalry Li Ming almost didn't think about it, and subconsciously pulled the crossbow trigger, more than a hundred crossbow arrows roared out, densely shooting at Lu Bu, Lu Bu was wearing a beast-faced head swallowing chain armor, he was not very afraid of bows and arrows, but the red rabbit horse without armor protection was afraid of arrows, so Lu Bu had to quickly wave the Fang Tian painting halberd for the red rabbit Mag to bring arrows, and the red rabbit horse with the surname of the very psychic also took the initiative to dodge the arrows, The momentum of the charge suddenly slowed down.
Taking advantage of this precious time, Tao Ying had already turned his horse's head around, and shouted as he fled back into the formation, "Shoot Lu Bu!" Shoot me all at Lu Bu! Shoot and run away and retreat at full speed! Retreat at full speed! β
The well-trained Junzi army sang the promise in unison, the two teams of heavy cavalry turned around and fled, and the three teams of light cavalry behind took turns to step forward, releasing three waves of arrow rain in one breath, all of which shot at Lu Bu and the Red Rabbit Horse, and immediately turned around after shooting, and fled south at full speed - encountering the best combination of Lu Bu and the Red Rabbit Horse, the soldiers of the Gentleman's Army imagined that they were as calm as before while escaping and releasing arrows, not only was it difficult to work, but it was also very likely that they would be caught up by Lu Bu because of the loss of precious retreat time, once this world's first change was made. The generals rushed into the ranks of the gentlemen's army, and the soldiers of the gentlemen's army, who were not good at close combat, couldn't cry anymore.
Tao Ying's tactics for the surname were very effective, a wave of crossbow arrows and three waves of feather arrows effectively restrained the explosive power of the red rabbit horse, forcing Lu Bu to put full speed to avoid arrows, and also forced the Bingzhou iron cavalry to protect Lu Bu who was shrouded by bows and arrows, and won the precious time for the soldiers of the Junzi Army to turn around and charge, and when Lu Bu finally dodged the bow and arrow, the Junzi Army had already rushed out of fifty or sixty steps away, and at the same time, the Red Rabbit Horse was also hit by an arrow on the left front thigh, although the arrow was not deep in the flesh should be no big problem, But Lu Bu was still furious, and shouted with a wave of his halberd: "Chase! Give me chase! Don't let Tao Ying'er escape. Kill! β
"Kill!" Three thousand and state iron cavalry at the same time burst out of the roar, together with the horse charge, full pursuit of the front of the gentleman's army, and the gentleman's army opened a certain distance after the old trick is repeated, while slapping the horse to run wildly to escape, while seizing the opportunity to turn back and put an arrow, as far as possible to delay the pursuit of the state iron horse, in the snowflakes of the warring two sides of the thousands of horses and hooves, feather arrows whistling, killing sound like thunder, all kinds of sounds converge together, the sound spread for ten miles.
Liu Bei did not participate in the pursuit of the Junzi Army, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei originally wanted to keep up with the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry, but Liu Bei grabbed them, shook his head and said: "Two virtuous brothers, Wen Hou is arrogant and arrogant, he doesn't like others to interfere, and the two virtuous brothers are injured, and it won't help much if they catch up, so let's stay and wait for Wen Hou's infantry brigade and Wen Hou's triumphant news." β
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had no choice but to restrain their horses, while Liu Bei quietly stared at the distant back of the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry team, and smiled in his heart, "Chase, fight, the more fierce you fight, the better, and when you lose both, my chance to make a comeback will come." β
In the pursuit battle, to Lu Bu's surprise and Tao Ying's surprise, Lu Bu's Bingzhou Iron Cavalry did not show much explosive advantage, in the case that the Junzi Army did not dare to use Mangu tactics too much to suppress the speed of Lu Bu's cavalry, the charging speed of the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry did not exceed the donkey and horse of the Junzi Army, so that although the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry chased with all their might, it was never able to close the distance with the Junzi Army, and also allowed the soldiers of the Junzi Army to avoid the most feared hand-to-hand combat, and gradually gave full play to the endurance advantage of the Mongolian horse.
There are many reasons for this result, one is that the soldiers of the gentleman's army are all lightly armed, dry food, felt and spare weapons are placed on the back of spare war horses, and the average load of war horses is relatively small; Second, although the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry is not as heavy and terrifying as Cao Laoda's tiger and leopard cavalry, the iron armor on the soldiers is still much heavier than the light leather armor on the soldiers of the Junzi Army, and the average load weight exceeds that of the Junzi Army; The third and most important thing is that the iron cavalry of Bingzhou came from Shanyang to the south, and marched for most of the day without stirrups, and the soldiers and horses were very tired. Together, these reasons naturally limited the short-range explosive power of the Bingzhou cavalry, and also allowed the Junzi Army to gradually exert its endurance advantage.
After pondering these reasons, Tao Ying once again adjusted his tactics, ordered the soldiers of the Junzi Army to continue to gallop with all their might, reduce the frequency of turning back and firing arrows, and give priority to ensuring speed, and the limited bows and arrows were specially used to deal with Lu Bu, who was equally terrifying in explosiveness and endurance, in other words, that is, to avoid the short-range explosive power advantage of the Bingzhou cavalry first, and then give full play to the endurance advantage of the Junzi Army, and finally consider how to break the enemy.
At the same time, in the ranks of Lu Bu's army, Zhang Liao also discovered this danger, and hurriedly caught up with Lu Bu with all his might, and said loudly to Lu Bu on the horse: "My lord, the last general thinks that it is better to give up the pursuit for the better, our army is tired from afar, the people are sleepy and the horses are tired, the war horses can't run fast, the enemy is waiting for work, the horsepower is sufficient, and if we chase one and the other, the situation of our army will only get more and more ......."
"Shut up!" Lu Bu interrupted Zhang Liao's persuasion viciously, and shouted: "If you are afraid of death, let me go back, just Tao Ying Xiao'er, I don't care about it!" β
Drinking back Zhang Liao, Lu Bu grabbed the horse and danced the halberd and rushed again, the red rabbit horse kicked like the wind, and in an instant, he had crossed all the iron horses of the state and rushed to the front, and quickly narrowed the distance with the light cavalry of the Junzi Army. But at this time, the light cavalry of the Gentleman's Army, who had always been paying attention to Lu Bu's movements, turned around and released arrows, desperately sacrificing a little horse speed to snipe Lu Bu, the most dangerous opponent. Seeing this, Lu Bu was even more furious, and when he charged again, the Junzi Army shot arrows one after another, forcing Lu Bu to retreat, and also making the amazing explosiveness of the Red Rabbit Horse unable to play.
After a few times like this, Lu Bu's chest was about to be blown up with anger, and he just yelled while brandishing Fang Tian's halberd, "Chase!" Pursue! Give me chase! Even if you chase to the ends of the earth, you have to catch up with Tao Yingxiaoer for me! There are many highly skilled soldiers of the Lu Bu Army who risked their arrows in the charge and shot the Junzi Army who fled to their lives, but it is a pity that the bow and arrow accuracy in the bump of the war horse is not high, and the queue of the Junzi Army is very loose, not to mention the hit rate is very low, and there are several cavalry who fall off the war horse and are injured because they can't keep their balance.
At this time, the Junzi Army has gradually changed its direction under the command of Tao Ying, and slowly circled to the west of the wider terrain in a semi-arc, because the circle is too big, and the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry neither noticed nor could not divide the troops to block, but was led by the Junzi Army to the west slowly, during which more than a dozen Junzi Army soldiers were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, and the cavalry of the Lu Bu Army once chased within thirty steps from the rear of the Junzi Army, but because the Junzi Army was too experienced in escaping, they immediately patted their horses and galloped wildly when they found that the situation was wrong. The light cavalry of the other two teams of the Gentleman's Army also threw and covered together, helping the rear team to open up the distance from the enemy again and quickly flee away.
The first time he encountered such a shameless enemy who would only flee for his life, Lu Bu was so angry that he gritted his teeth and his forehead was bruised, but if he couldn't catch up with the gentleman's army, he couldn't kill and vent his hatred, so he could only vent his anger on the soldiers, roaring like thunder and urging the whole army to pursue desperately, regardless of the fact that his team had fallen behind because of physical exertion, and there were faint signs of disconnection between the front and back, Zhang Liao rushed up several times to persuade him to stop the pursuit, but he was all drunk back by Lu Bu, and finally Lu Bu simply whipped Zhang Liao in the face, Ordered Zhang Liao to go to the rear team to contain the stragglers, and not to make noise again.
Lu Bu chased hard, the Junzi Army escaped equally hard, since the debut of the Junzi Army, this battle is also the most passive battle of the Junzi Army, there are many equestrian masters and the Zhou Iron Cavalry can also shoot arrows in the charge, there is also a Lu Bu in the middle of such a god-killing existence, the Junzi Army's usual best Mangu tactics are greatly limited, and the hit rate of the cavalry that was scolded by Tao Ying at two ends in three days is more than twice as low as usual, and it is impossible to effectively suppress the pursuit speed of Lu Bu's army, The only thing the whole army can do is to run for their lives with all their might, to open up the distance from Lu Bu, and to use their limited remaining energy to prevent Lu Bu, the plague god, and escaped for more than forty miles.
Fortunately, what makes the Junzi Army full of confidence is that the donkey horses under the crotch of the Junzi Army may have a hundred shortcomings, but the biggest advantage is that the endurance is amazing, in this kind of long-distance running to compete for the endurance of the war horse, at the same time, the Junzi Army also has a balanced stirrup, a Takahashi saddle to prevent the body from slipping and a horseshoe to reduce the friction of the horse's hooves, which are three war horse magic weapons, and help the Junzi Army win countless opportunities, so no matter how long this pursuit lasts, The soldiers of the Junzi Army and Tao Ying had absolute confidence in winning the final victory. Tao Ying himself was already beginning to calculate, after getting rid of Lu Bu's cavalry pursuit, would the Junzi Army find a place to rest for the night? Or do you take the risk of turning around and killing back, and torture the iron horsemen who lack the stamina of the war horse?
It was getting dark, and the Junzi army had unconsciously crossed the small town of Fengxian County, which had been abandoned in the war, and fled to the north of Daze Lake where Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had caused trouble, but Lu Bu was still in hot pursuitβbecause his loud voice, which was definitely no less than Zhang Fei, had been echoing in the rear of the Junzi army. Sensing this, Tao Ying couldn't help frowning, and secretly calculated, "The sky will be dark soon, what if Lu Bu continues to chase closely, our bows and arrows can't find their targets in the night, and we can't suppress the explosive power of the Red Rabbit Horse?" β
"Childe!" Xu Chu suddenly roared, strangled the war horse, his bloodshot eyes were as red as his cheeks that were red from the cold, and roared: "Son, the last general will not escape, Lu Bupifu has deceived people too much, we have already endured it to this point, he is still in hot pursuit, and he will go back to fight him to the death!" Even if the son doesn't allow it, the last general will have to fight with him! β
Roaring, Xu Chu didn't wait for Tao Ying to answer, turned the horse's head and raised the knife to rush back and forth, roaring wildly, "Lu Bu Pifu, take your life!" β
"Uncle Zhi, Lu Bufei Zhongkang is an enemy alone, you go too!" In the dark night, I don't know how many pursuers there are behind, Tao Ying was afraid that something would happen to Xu Chu, so he hurriedly turned to Chen Zhi and yelled, Chen Zhi had already been suffocated by Tao Ying's nest tactics, and without saying a word, he turned the horse's head and rushed back, Tao Ying hurriedly ordered the whole army to stop, quickly organize the team, and at the same time, urgently light the torches, turn around and go back to watch the battle.
When the gentleman's army turned around with torches, Xu Chu and Chen Zhi's second generals had already joined forces to fight with Lu Bu, swords and guns to attack Lu Bu, and Lu Bu calmly danced Fang Tian's halberd to fight the second general, without falling behind at all - but he didn't take advantage of it, after all, even if Lu Bu's force was full of 100, Xu Chu's force was at least 90 or more, and Chen Zhi also had more than 80 forces, even if the two couldn't win against Lu Bu, it was impossible for Lu Bu to be killed calmly and skillfully.
It was also at this time that Tao Ying unexpectedly discovered that after the army led the cavalry of Lu Bu's army for eighty or ninety miles, the situation of Lu Bu's army falling behind and disconnecting was much more serious than he expected, and at this moment there were only three or four hundred cavalry left behind Lu Bu, and all of them were war horses foaming at the mouth, the soldiers were panting, and the cheers for Lu Bu were very weak - all relying on the legs to keep the balance of the war horse and gallop for hundreds of miles, except for Lu Bu Xiang Yu and the like. There are few normal human beings who can support it. As a result, the superiority and disadvantage between the Junzi Army and the Bingzhou cavalry also suddenly fell.
"Huh? I seem to have a chance to defeat Lu Bu head-on? Discovering this, Tao Ying, who has always disliked fair contests, didn't think much about it at all, and almost subconsciously shouted: "Tao Ji, Nian Bin, Gao Chong, the three of you give me up, help Zhong Kang and Shu Zhi to attack Lu Bu!" Li Ming, Chen Ning, bring heavy cavalry to me from both wings, clean up Lu Bu's cavalry! The light cavalry stayed, ready to cover with bows and arrows! β
"No!" In the sound of agreement, the three generals of the Junzi Army with more than 70 armed forces slapped their horses and went out to kill the poor Lu Wenhou together, the five generals joined forces to take turns to kill Lu Bu, and the two generals Li Ming and Chen Ning led the only heavy cavalry team in the Junzi Army team that could fight some tough battles on the left and right wings, and killed Lu Bu from the cavalry, who was already exhausted.
Deputy Director Tao is rare to be fair once, but poor Lu Wenhou began to complain, originally Xu Chu alone was enough to compete with Lu Wenhou for twenty or thirty rounds without falling behind, plus one Chen, Lu Wenhou basically has no hope of winning, and now with the addition of three miscellaneous fish with more than seventy armed forces to contain the side, Lu Wenhou, whose physical strength is always limited, does not want to turn over, just like the Tiger Prison Pass back then, he was beaten by five hypocrites, only the ability to parry, and there was no power to fight back.
Lu Wenhou is actually quite good, the cavalry behind him is even more miserable, today's rapid march of a day and being led by the gentleman's army ran for nearly a hundred miles, the soldiers of the Lu Bu army are iron, this will be a little unsupportable, this will be the physical strength and the remaining gentleman's army heavy cavalry to kill in front of him, the tired cavalry of the Lu Bu army is completely out of luck, barely parried for a moment and scattered and fled, Lu Bu was weak and did not dare to fight again, he could only scold Tao Ying Xiaoer for being despicable and shameless, and scare Tao Ji with a halberd to dodge, and take the opportunity to shoot the horse and flee, Xu Chu and Chen Zhi and others were killed, and they chased after each other, and Tao Ying was afraid that the accomplice lackeys who had finally been deceived would lose, so he hurriedly led the army to follow with torches.
It stands to reason that if the donkeys and horses equipped by the Gentlemen's Army want to catch up with the Chitu BMW, it is basically a dream in vain, and Lu Bu, who is unparalleled in the world, wants to get rid of the pursuit of the Gentlemen's Army, which is also Zhang Sanye's eating bean sprouts - a piece of cake. But Tao Ying didn't expect it, and Lu Wenhou didn't expect that none of the nearly 1,000 soldiers in the Junzi Army dared to dream that at this critical moment, Deputy Director Tao, who had always been extremely unlucky on the battlefield, suddenly had an unprecedented auspicious star shining at this moment, and the goddess of luck possessed him...... "Lu Bupifu, where to run?" β
Chasing at the forefront is Xu Chu Xu Zhongkang, who is the most capable of fighting in the ranks of the gentlemen's army, brandishing a thick-backed machete and roaring endlessly, holding Lu Bu's ass tightly, although Lu Bu is not afraid of him, but he doesn't want to entangle with him anymore - Xu Chu has four gentlemen army hooligans who are not too weak behind him, so Lu Bu just ran wildly towards the south open area in the wind and snow, wanting to use the red rabbit horse's divine horse to get rid of the pursuers, and then go to meet the self-army, but after running less than a mile, the red rabbit horse that climbed the mountain and waded on the flat ground suddenly splashed under the hooves, All four hooves fell into the soft silt, and it turned out that poor Lu Wenhou had lost his vision in the snowy night, and in a panic, he had already fled to the shore of Daze Lake.
In winter, there is little water, the water surface of Daze Lake drops, revealing a large area of thick silt soaked in lake water and snow water, soft as a swamp, the red rabbit horse is a god horse, and the speed is greatly reduced when entering such a terrain, and the horse's hooves immediately go deep into the mud nearly a foot, Lu Bu saw that the situation was not good, and quickly lifted the horse, so that the front hooves of the red rabbit horse raised and turned to the northeast, wanting to avoid the swamp and trapping the horse, but what made Lu Wenhou vomit blood was that the silt in the northeast was not only thicker, but there was also a deep pit, and the red rabbit horse only ran two steps before the four hooves fell into the mud - This time, the two legs of the horse simply fell into the mud, and the mud was so deep that it not only buried the four legs of the red rabbit horse, but also directly submerged to Lu Wenhou's knees.
"God will kill me!" Lu Wenhou screamed in despair.
"Lu Bu has fallen into the mud pit!" Seeing Lu Bu stuck in the mud by the light of the torch, the gentleman's army was inevitably ecstatic, and Tao Ying in the back couldn't believe his ears, and said in his heart that Lao Tzu's bad luck could still encounter such a good thing? It wasn't until he rushed to the front and saw Lu Bu struggling in the mud with his own eyes that Tao Ying laughed wildly, and laughed wildly: "God opens his eyes, Lao Tzu's bad luck in the past, this time it is finally all compensated for at once!" Up, give it to me, catch it alive, you must catch it alive! β
Without Deputy Director Tao's order, Xu Chu and Chen Zhi and other generals had already happily turned over and dismounted, rushed to Lu Bu on foot to arrest people, and there were dozens of soldiers of the Junzi Army who were proficient in the surname of Shui dismounted, holding a rope and happily rushing to Lu Bu to grab the merit, Lu Bu was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, yelling and shouting for people to save him, but Lu Wenhou's subordinates didn't know where they died, and no one approached at all, and Lu Wenhou could only scream in despair and watch the hooligans of the Junzi Army who took advantage of the fire to rob approach step by step, and pounced on himself with his teeth and claws.
"Piff! I don't care about you! In desperation, Lu Wenhou brandished Fang Tian's halberd and beat randomly, trying to fight one by one, but in this way, the red rabbit horse not only fell deeper and deeper, the mud fell into the horse's neck, Fang Tian's halberd was also grabbed by Xu Chu, and he grabbed the halberd pole to compete with Lu Bu, no matter how strong the poor Lu Wenhou was, he ran into Xu Chu, who was pulling the bull with both hands and walking backwards for a hundred steps, and there was no trick, Fang Tianhua halberd said that he couldn't pull it back, Chen Zhi and Tao Ji and others also took the opportunity to rush up, holding down poor Lu Wenhou with all hands and feet, and the gentlemen army hooligans behind opened the rope and fell on their heads, Soon Lu Wenhou's hands were tied, and he was tightly tied like a rice dumpling.
"Accident! Absolutely unexpected! Seeing that Lu Bu was captured by the army, Tao Ying couldn't contain Yang Tian who couldn't stop laughing wildly, and couldn't wait to shout and order: "Tie up Lu Bu first and tie ten hemp ropes!" Then pull the red rabbit horse out for me, the red rabbit horse, you also have a day to be ridden by my Tao Gongzi! Hahaha! β
(To be continued)