Although he was afraid of fighting a tough battle and a war of attrition, and learned the news that Cao Ying was on the battlefield of Zhaoling from the mouth of the tiger and leopard horseman, Tao Ying always led the Junzi Army to come to the battlefield of Zhaoling, where the Huang Shao Army was about to be defeated, and planned to lend a helping hand to the Huang Shao Army to help the Huang Shao Army resist the Cao Army's attack on Zhaoling.

There is no other reason, in this era, no one knows better than Deputy Director Tao how dangerous Cao Ying is, once Cao Jun is full of food and drink and shows his fangs, what kind of dangerous consequences will there be, and no one knows better than Deputy Director Tao, so there is no way, after meeting with the infantry to replenish the feather arrows, Tao Ying can only let the infantry slow down later, first lead the Junzi Army over to see the situation, and strive to pull Huang Shao a hand, so that Huang Shao will not let Huang Shao snatch the money and grain and be snatched away by Cao Boss, and become the military food for attacking Xuzhou.

Somewhat still a little effect, the Junzi Army with the banner of the Yellow Turban Army rushed all the way to the left of the Zhaoling battlefield, found this situation, the Yellow Turban thieves who were hiding in Zhaoling City and were still breathing suddenly cheered like thunder, morale was greatly boosted, Cao Jun's side must not adjust the tactics, and divided the troops to meet the Junzi Army, at the same time, because of the deep hatred of the Junzi Army for slaughtering the tiger and leopard horse, Cao Boss still personally led the army to meet the battle.

According to the unwritten rules of warfare in this era, the two armies stood at a distance of two arrows, and the gentleman's army repeated its old tricks, still discharging five horizontal teams, two teams of heavy cavalry in the front, and three teams of light cavalry in the rear, hiding bows and crossbows in their hands to prepare for a sneak attack. Seeing that the gentleman's army was loose and not very strong, Cao Ying's side couldn't help but be even more angry, and couldn't help but roar at Cao Chun next to him: "You were defeated by this rabble? With such a loose formation, can you also crush the tiger and leopard rider who annihilated me head-on? How on earth did you fight with your soldiers, so useless? ”

"Lord, you can't underestimate this formation, there is a lot of mystery in it." Cao Chun almost cried again, and hurriedly explained: "Lord, this thief army is different, it never fights head-on, it only likes to ride and shoot, and the formation is loose, and it is also for their war horses to turn around and be flexible, and then shoot while fleeing. ”

"Shoot while running? Nearly a thousand cavalrymen turned around and fired arrows in the gallop? Cao Ying was taken aback, if he didn't know that Cao Chun couldn't lie, Cao Ying really couldn't believe that there was such an army in the world, and that so many equestrian masters could be gathered to fight in unison? Even in the team of Gongsun Zhan, who is good at cavalry, I am afraid that there are not enough cavalry and archery masters, right?

At this time, Deputy Director Tao, who had a fake beard on his face, had already jumped out of the door, waving a horsewhip and shouting in front of the formation, asking Boss Cao to come out to fight, Boss Cao first felt a little familiar, and then heard Cao Chun say that this person was Wu Tiande, the demon king of the mixed world, and was even more furious, and immediately rode out of the battle, pointing at Deputy Director Tao with a horsewhip in front of the formation and scolding, "Qianshou Dim Slave, I have no grudge against you, why kill my subordinates and commit my military might?" ”

"Old horseman, do you remember my demon king Wu Tiande?" Tao Ying scolded Cao Ying with a rough whip, "When I was under the command of the Digong General, I let your husband escape once, and now I will not cut off your head to avenge the Digong General, and I am ashamed of the spirit of the three lords of heaven, earth and man!" ”

"It's really a yellow scarf, listening to the tone, it seems that I have met once, no wonder it is a little familiar." Cao Ying's heart was suddenly puzzled, and he felt very puzzled, this 'Yellow Turban Thief Wu Tiande' is so good, why does he have no memory at all?

"Old horseman, do you have the courage to fight me for 300 rounds?" Over there, Deputy Director Tao waved his knife and shouted again, fighting directly at Cao Ying himself, asking the main general to fight alone.

"Thief, you say I'm going to be afraid of you?" Boss Cao was a little enraged, turned to the generals behind him and shouted, "Who dares to behead this thief for me?" ”

"The last will go!" Dian Wei and Cao Hong's two generals agreed in unison, and they all slapped their horses out of battle, one holding a double halberd and the other holding a big sword, both of which went straight to the arrogant King Wu Tiande.

"King, kill chickens with a knife? Let the last general fight for you! There were also two generals in the ranks of the gentlemen's army, one holding a green dragon glaive made of wood and a cold and beautiful saw, and the other carrying an eight-foot wooden snake spear on his shoulder, and shouted respectively: "Come to the general name, Guan Yun often swords, do not kill the nameless!" "Nameless rat, report your name, Zhang Fei Zhang Yi has to be here, who dares to fight me for three hundred rounds?!"

"Guan Yu? Zhang Fei? Like all the poor enemies of the Junzi Army, even Dian Wei and Cao Hong were taken aback, and they were subconsciously cautious, and the boss Cao in the back was even more surprised and confused, and said in their hearts Why did Guan Yu and Zhang Fei come? How is it not like a look? These two fierce generals, even if they turn into ashes, do you know each other?

Immediately afterwards, out of respect for Guan Zhang Ermeng, Dian Wei and Cao Hong were not allowed to report their names, and questioned the names of the two generals opposite, and when Guan Yu and Zhang Fei on the opposite side were actually called Guan Yu Guan Yunchang and Zhang Fei Zhang Yide, Dian Wei and Cao Hong's noses were also crooked, and then they each shouted angrily, and both slapped their horses forward, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's two generals also roared like thunder, patted their horses forward and seemed to fight, lured Dian Wei and Cao Hong closer, and then threw the wooden green dragon knife and wooden spear together, and fled back to the horse. He also shouted in unison, "Nameless rats, spare your lives this time!" ”

"Two thieves!" Dian Wei and Cao Hong were even more angry, and they charged with horses, but at this time, something happened that made Dian Wei, Cao Hong and Cao Boss and others scattered, and the light cavalry of the Gentleman's Army, which had been hiding behind the two heavy horses, suddenly charged together, passing through the loose heavy cavalry of the Gentlemen's Army, shouting the slogan that the sky is dead and Huang Tian should stand, and shot nearly two hundred feather arrows straight at Cao Hong and Dian Wei, and the desperate screams suddenly echoed in front of the Cao army.

"Shameless thief!" Cao Hong and Dian Wei had no choice but to follow the example of the little overlord Sun Ce, and they were injured by a few arrows in the middle of the fight, and both turned over and hid in the belly of the horse to avoid the arrows, while their war horses were hit by dozens of arrows in a row, and they fell to the ground on their knees together - fortunately, Cao Hong and Dian Wei's luck was not bad, and they did not encounter the unlucky thing of the war horse raising their hooves and exposing them again like the little overlord. Therefore, the second team of light cavalry of the Gentlemen's Army only shot their horses into hedgehogs, and shot several arrows at the non-lethal parts exposed to their horse corpses, but failed to kill them on the spot.

Cao Jun's reaction was extremely fast, seeing that Cao Hong and Dian Wei had been plotted, he immediately yelled and charged, rushing up to rescue Dian Wei and Cao Hong, and the third team of light cavalry of the Junzi Army took the opportunity to throw the rain of arrows onto the head of the dense team of the Cao Army, which caused dozens of casualties to the Cao Army at once, and then Deputy Director Tao waved the flag again, and the Junzi Army immediately turned around together, and continued to display the master stunt Mangu Gang tactics, while quickly opening up the distance with the Cao Army Brigade, while turning back and releasing arrows to kill the enemy.

"No wonder yesterday this gang of ant thieves went out to fight, so that's the case." Seeing this scene, Cao Chun, who was almost fooled yesterday, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and then realized that he actually chose two lives yesterday, one was that some tiger and leopard knights sacrificed their lives to break off, and they walked into the woods in the dark night to pick them up, and the other was not to accept the battle of this group of yellow turban thieves and picked them back.

At this time, the two generals Dian Wei and Cao Hong under the corpse of the war horse have been rescued, Dian Wei was hit by four arrows, and Cao Hong was hit by five arrows, but fortunately, they did not hit the fatal place, but they temporarily lost the ability to fight again. Hearing the injuries of the love generals Dian Wei and Cao Hong, and seeing the tactics of the Junzi Army in this way, Cao Boss was even more angry, and shouted loudly, ordering the whole army to pursue, and Cao Chun finally came to his senses, and quickly rushed to Cao Ying's horse and knelt down, shouting with tears: "Lord, we can't chase it, we can't catch up with this group of thieves, and we will be hit hard by their bows and arrows!" Lord, you must not chase it! ”

Cao Ying glanced down at Cao Chun in surprise, and when he looked up at the battlefield in front of him, he found that the situation was just as Cao Chun said, the outrageously despicable King Wu Tiande really had no intention of melee with his own army, and led the cavalry to just turn around and release arrows while fleeing for his life, not giving his own army a chance to fight hand-to-hand at all. Seeing this, Boss Cao, who had the most military ability in the whole world, also suddenly came to his senses, and said secretly: "Cao Chun lost unjustly, the cavalry tactics of this group of yellow turban thieves are simply a natural tiger and leopard riding nemesis!" ”

Thinking of this, Boss Cao immediately made a decision, and immediately ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops and forbid the sergeants to continue the pursuit, but what made Boss Cao's nose crooked was that as soon as his team retreated, the group of Yellow Turban Thief cavalry immediately counterattacked like leper dogs, and continued to shoot his soldiers from behind with bows and arrows - this also made Boss Cao understand why Cao Chun was wiped out, and the load of the cup on the tiger and leopard riding was simply impossible to escape in front of this group of leper dogs.

"Lord, please quickly adjust the strong crossbowmen and suppress this group of thieves with strong crossbows!" Xun You rushed up and suggested loudly, Boss Cao immediately agreed, and quickly organized strong crossbowmen to step forward and suppress the enemy's bows and arrows with a strong crossbow with a range advantage, which forced King Wu Tiande to lead his troops to flee - in fact, the key is that King Wu Tiande is reluctant to lose his precious soldiers and horses, otherwise, with the rate of fire of the crossbow arrows, he still can't resist the cavalry charge of the gentleman's army at any cost.

Finally beat away King Wu Tiande, and then counted the losses of the soldiers, Cao Boss and Xun You, Guo Jia and others all broke out in a cold sweat, in just two pillars of fragrant time, there were more than 150 Cao soldiers killed under the arrows of King Wu Tiande, more than 200 people were injured by the arrows, and the battlefield turned over and over, and they couldn't find a single corpse of the enemy's cavalry!

"Such cavalry tactics are simply unheard of, this Wu Tiande thief is really just an ordinary yellow turban thief?" Guo Jia coughed and exclaimed, "Fortunately, this thief cavalry has less than a thousand people, if he has three or five thousand people, we will all die without a place to bury!" ”

"In the battle of the lord, please also ask the lord to restrain the soldiers and soldiers, and not to reveal the enemy's tactics." Xun You said in a deep voice: "If this method is learned by Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zhan or Ma Teng, our army will never be able to say goodbye." ”

Cao Ying nodded, deeply impressed by Xun You's words - now, friends should understand why Yuan Shu and Uncle Liu Huang knew about the tactics of the Junzi Army, but deliberately refused to divulge a word to others, right? And after quickly deciding to block the news and emulate this cavalry tactic, Boss Cao said with a gloomy face: "The sky is going to change, I believe that in less than twenty years, I am afraid that our current tactics will be completely replaced by this Wu Tiande's tactics of destroying thieves." ”

"Why did the lord say this?" Guo Jia is good at strategy, and he is not as proficient as Boss Cao in terms of tactics, so he said: "Although this method is novel, it can only take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and rampant for a while, and if you use it once, you will have no chance to win by surprise." Moreover, this tactic is most afraid of strong crossbows, and the lord only needs to prepare more strong crossbows to shoot them, and he can break them. ”

"Fengxiao, you are wrong about this." Boss Cao shook his head and said solemnly: "I can see that this group of thieves is not afraid of strong crossbows, but they don't want to casualties, so they take the initiative to retreat." Because although my strong crossbow is far away, but every time the strong crossbow shoots an arrow, the bow can shoot three arrows or more, and the Wu thief only needs to shoot head-on at any cost, and my crossbow array will definitely be defeated. ”

"What the lord said is extremely true, this thief just doesn't want to lose his troops, so he refuses to shoot with our army's strong crossbow." Cao Chun hurriedly interjected and said: "Yesterday, during the war, the last general also used a strong crossbow to fight against his cavalry, and he also took out some strong crossbows to shoot at our army, and after consuming our army's crossbow arrows, he used a bow and arrow to shoot our army. ”

Guo Jia was dumbfounded, and Xun Yu said to Cao Chun again: "General Cao Chun, taking advantage of the fact that there is still some time, please explain the history of yesterday's battle to the lord as soon as possible, and help the lord formulate a strategy to break the enemy, the more detailed the better." ”

Although Cao Chun was reluctant to recall the tragic picture of yesterday, in order to prevent Cao Jun from being deceived again, Cao Chun had to endure his headache, gave a detailed introduction to the before and after of yesterday's battle, and gave a general introduction to how he escaped the poisonous hands of the 'Yellow Turban Thief'. It turned out that yesterday it was said that after the tiger and leopard rode away from the armor and abandoned the light horse, they still couldn't get rid of the pursuit of the Junzi army with amazing endurance, and they were bitten by the Junzi army to death, and the soldiers who lost the protection of the armor continued to die under the arrows of the Junzi army. Only then did he get rid of the pursuit of the Junzi Army and was able to return to Cao Ying's side.

After listening to Cao Chun's introduction, Cao Ying, who had already understood that Cao Chun had lost unjustly, did not get angry, nor did he blame Cao Chun for his poor command of the army, he lowered his head and pondered for a long time before Cao Ying asked Cao Chun a question, "In the big battle yesterday, how far did the Yellow Turban thieves lead you away, and how far did they chase you?" ”

Cao Chun carefully recalled a lot of time, and then replied: "Yesterday's battle, our army was led by Wu Tiande's thieves and ran for more than 40 miles, and later Wu Tiande chased our army ......, no less than 70 miles. Yes, it should be no less than seventy miles, because the last general fled into the woods west of Yan County last night, which can be estimated. ”

"So, that gang of thieves fought with you for a hundred and ten miles in less than five hours?" Boss Cao's face changed color, and he said in surprise: "In the battle, they still run for more than 100 miles, so if they run alone, wouldn't this group of thieves easily reach more than 150 miles in one day?" ”

Cao Chun thought about it carefully, nodded and replied: "Back to the lord, it should be so, the endurance of the war horses of that group of thieves is very amazing, when it is about to dark, the war horses of our army are almost exhausted, but the war horses of that group of thieves are still alive and well, and their speed has not decreased at all." ”

"My luck is not good, this time I went south to Ru Ying, it seems that I have kicked the iron plate." Cao Ying gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "This gang of thieves is so powerful, it is easy to cut off our army's baggage and grain routes!" ”

"Not good!" As soon as Boss Cao said this, Xun You and Guo Jia's faces suddenly changed color together, and they exclaimed in unison: "Lord, Wu Tiande's thief will not return, should he be going to attack General Yu Ban's baggage grain team?" ”

"Trouble with Yu Ban?" Boss Cao was at first, and then immediately came to his senses, the self-army pursued the defeated army of Huang Shao until Dingling, and the heavy grain and grass and the camp tents for camping were not in the army, as long as the enemy found this, he could easily conclude that the grain and grass of the self-army must still be on the road to the north!

Thinking of this, Boss Cao was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly shouted: "Hurry, hurry, Mingjin collects the troops, and the whole army returns quickly to meet Yu Ban!" ”

The golden gong sounded, and the Cao army, which was already preparing to attack Dingling City, quickly gave up the preparations, urgently assembled and formed a team, and turned around to the north under the personal leadership of Cao Boss, and hurriedly went to the north to meet the rear army led by Yu Ban, but the army had just walked four or five miles, and immediately saw the smoke in the north, which seemed to be burning a fire, Cao Ying, Guo Jia and others were even more frightened, and hurriedly urged the army to speed up the north, and hurried to reinforcements.

Finally rushed to the scene of the accident, the horsewhip in Cao Lao's hand fell to the ground again, and the snowy ground was full of burning heavy vehicles, his own soldiers were lying in the snow, and countless self-army soldiers were fighting in the convoy, carrying the wounded, crying and shouting endlessly, and the scene was so miserable that people couldn't bear to read.

"Lord, the last general should be damned!"

Another unlucky general of the Cao army came to Cao Ying to plead guilty, Yu Ban, whose face was red and black by the smoke and fire, with at least three arrow wounds, stumbled to Cao Lao Ma and knelt down on his knees, kowtowed desperately, and cried and said: "Lord, just now a team of yellow turban thief cavalry rushed to the oblique thorn, the last general led the army to meet the battle, and a thief named Lu Bu and Lu Fengxian came out of the thief soldiers to fight, and the last general sent the deputy general to fight in Ru, but before the battle was combined, then Lu Bu threw down his weapon and turned around and fled back to the formation, Yu Ru was slightly stunned, Hundreds of horsemen immediately rushed out of the thief array, and they launched arrows to sneak attack together, and they were shot to death in Ru Sheng! The last general was furious, led the army to charge, never thought that the gang of thieves first fought and retreated, and the last general lured away, and suddenly rushed to attack our army's baggage convoy in a roundabout way, killing people and setting fires, and the last general hurriedly turned back, but the time was too late......"

"Who told you to chase him?" Boss Cao finally caught a punching bag, and shouted with red eyes: "You have the heavy responsibility of escorting military quartermasters, how can you stay away from the baggage convoy at will?" ”

"The last general fell for the thief's trick by mistake, and when he saw that Yu Ru was plotted, he was furious, so he fell into the scheme." Yu Ban wiped his tears and kowtowed and said, "The last general will be guilty, please deal with it." ”

Seeing the three arrow wounds on Yu Ban's body, Cao Ying finally didn't cut Yu Ban on the spot, but just glared at the direction of the Junzi Army's escape, and roared loudly, "Wu Tiande!" Thief! You are the world's number one shameless thief! ”

……

When Boss Cao roared, our deputy director Tao had already led the Junzi army to flee far, and fled to the area of Yan County in one breath, and joined the Sun Guan team stationed here. ”

"Childe, the Cao thief has been killed by you?" Sun Guan asked in surprise.

"Cao thief is powerful, so easy is it?" Tao Ying smiled bitterly and said: "However, Cao Thief's baggage and siege weapons were burned by me, and I disturbed him twice, presumably in a short period of time, he will not be able to attack Dingling." This is a golden opportunity for us, I am responsible for covering on the periphery, harassing and delaying the army of Cao thieves, you are responsible for contacting Huang Shao, remember, you must persuade Huang Shao to lead his defeated army, transfer the grain and grass in Zhaoling City to Chen Guocheng, and go to Chen Guo to fight a decisive battle with Cao thieves. ”

"Persuade Huang Shao to transfer all the grain and grass to Chen Guo?" Sun Guan was happy at first, and said in his heart that the son of the lord's family is even darker than us Taishan thieves, and he wants to rob Huang Shao's grain and grass baggage, and he also wants Huang Shao to send the grain and grass baggage to the door in person? After laughing, Sun Guan asked worriedly, "Childe, this is unlikely, right?" Huang Shao is not stupid, how can he easily give up the nest and send the grain and grass to our territory? ”

"It's possible." Tao Ying also smiled and said: "Huang Shao has been killed by the Cao thief, the main force has lost more than half of the soldiers, and Dingling City is so dilapidated, it is impossible to stop the Cao thief army, if you persuade him to go to the strong Chen Guocheng in the city to kill the enemy side by side with our army, he will definitely agree." ”

"This ......, the last general is stupid, I'm afraid it won't work, right?" Sun Guan was still a little worried.

"Childe, let's go down and help General Sun." Lu Su took the initiative to ask Yingdao: "Gongzi is holding back Cao's army on the periphery, and he and General Sun are going to persuade Huang Shao, and strive to let him transfer the grain and grass to Chen State." ”

"Okay, but please be careful." Tao Ying knew that Lu Su's eloquence was not bad, so he immediately agreed, and then Tao Ying said: "Of course, it is best to be able to say that Huang Shao can move, if you can't say ...... move"

Speaking of this, Tao Ying made a gesture to kill his head, and Lu Su and Sun Guan understood and immediately agreed.

(To be continued)