"General, the Wu army is in formation eight miles away." Cao Hong's personal guard captain Chen Ge shouted loudly.

"Humph!" Cao Hong snorted coldly and said, "Only five thousand Wu dogs still dare to fight against the water, does he think they are the overlords of Western Chu?" Cavalry strikes! ”

Cao Cao's command was famous for his good cavalry, but in fact, Cao Cao's cavalry only had more than 20,000 people. Previously, Zhang Liao's 2,000 Bingzhou Iron Cavalry had been wiped out, and after the death of Cao Chun, the governor of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Cao Cao rarely used the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry alone, and they were all fighting with foot soldiers. And Xiahou Yuan's Xiahou Tiger Cavalry is still in the northwest to deal with Ma Chao, and only Cao Hong has more than 2,000 cavalry under Cao Hong in the Central Plains.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, stirrups and saddles had not yet appeared, and the real cavalry required a lot of training to be called a qualified knight, while the real heavy cavalry was none. Even the tiger and leopard horse can only be regarded as a semi-heavy cavalry, not a strict sense of armor and cavalry, one is that a good horse is difficult to find, the Hun horse is the Mongolian horse of later generations is short and explosive, and the tall Western Regions horse and the Northeast East Hu horse are very few in number, and the number of tiger and leopard riders is nearly 10,000, and it is almost impossible to complete the task of fully equipping them. Therefore, Cao Jun's tiger and leopard cavalry was divided into tiger cavalry and leopard cavalry, and the tiger cavalry used high-quality Wuhuan horses and Donghu horses, and the defense was also close to the armor cavalry, and the number was only a thousand people; The leopard cavalry is a semi-heavy horse, the knight wears armor, and the horse is only a layer of bamboo armor or leather armor, but the number is more than 5,000 people, and the iron cavalry of the state is almost such equipment.

In addition to the tiger and leopard cavalry, the Cao army also has a long-distance attack force of pure light cavalry, and the number of Xiahou tiger cavalry in Xiahou Yuan is only about 3,000. However, due to Cao Cao's conquest of the Xiongnu and Wuhuan and other northern nomads, there were a large number of Xiongnu archers in Cao's army, and Cao Hong, as one of the eight horsemen of the tiger and leopard cavalry, guarded Guanxi all the year round, and his subordinates were mainly Xiongnu archers and cavalry, supplemented by infantry.

Cao Hongjun ordered, as the supreme general of this Hun archer, the former Hun commander, the current Cao military captain Asili, roared away with two thousand archers, followed by Chen Ge's cavalry troops, and finally the three thousand foot soldiers led by Cao Hong.

The distance of eight miles is not far for the cavalry, and it is not far for the bed crossbows and ballistae of the Wu army, because the range of the Wu army's big crossbows can be as far as half a mile, or even more than a mile.

"Prepare to shoot." When he was still half a mile away from entering the range of the Xiongnu fierce bow, Asili roared, and the two thousand Xiongnu archers hula, took out the fierce bow from their horses, and put their right hand into the quiver, ready to ride and shoot at any time.

Unfortunately, they were faced with a long-range attack weapon that they had never seen before. The sound of the collision shook the heavens and the earth, and even Cao Hong, who was far away in the rear army, heard this loud noise. The bed crossbow on the building ship struck first, and when Cao Jun was still a mile away from Wu's army formation, he took the lead in firing.

A burst of black shadows came all over the world. The Wu army dispatched five ships, each flanked by fifteen bed crossbows, and fired a salvo of more than seventy huge round crossbow spears towards the Cao cavalry. Bang, I didn't hear any sound of entering the flesh, but the tragedy in front of me made Asili's hair stretch, it was too miserable, but none of the soldiers who were hit by crossbow arrows could still keep their bodies intact, they were all fragmented, a crossbow arrow could take the lives of three or five people, if it hit someone, it was okay, the crossbow arrow that hit the ground brought up a piece of rubble, and directly knocked many knights to the ground, and was trampled into flesh by the cavalry who followed from behind.

"Hurry up and move forward, although the enemy's strong crossbow has a long range, it can't be used at close range, and it's okay to rush through this area." Cao Hong roared angrily, causing the knights of the front army to speed up.

Sure enough, when there were only three hundred meters left from the Wu army, the bed crossbow on the building ship was no longer firing, which made Asili, who was charging ahead, breathe a sigh of relief. It's a pity that time didn't give him much time to relax, because after the bed crossbow stopped firing, Xu Sheng in the Wu army's formation roared, the war drums changed, and the ballistas on the chariot began to exert their might.

"Ballista fired, archers fired, three stages ready." With a wave of Xu Sheng's sword, Sima immediately conveyed the order to the war drummers, and the drum beat changed suddenly.

With a bang, a burst of javelins came at you. Qiao Ren also improved the ballistas on the chariot, and instead of firing heavyweight spears, he fired five one-and-a-half-meter-long javelins at a time to attack the enemy with a covering blow.

The height of the ballista on the chariot was exactly the same as that of the knight on the horse, and a burst of black javelins, in an almost straight line, headed towards Cao's army.

"Ahh At such a close distance, each javelin would not stop until it had penetrated the three of them, and countless Cao Jun cavalry bows and arrows were nailed to the ground before they could be used urgently, followed by a rain of arrows falling from the sky. Wu Juncai used a Mitsubishi-shaped arrow, which has extremely strong penetrating power, and even if it is a projectile used, it can easily penetrate the simple leather armor of the Xiongnu archers.

Blood stained the earth, Cao Hong couldn't have imagined that before he really came into contact with the enemy, his cavalry was about to be lost, and the more terrible was still to come, the Hun cavalry was not so much a vassal of the Cao army, but it was more accurate to describe it as a mercenary.

Under the blow, Asili could no longer control his knights, and these Hun soldiers, like a herd of alarmed wild horses, rushed in all directions, but more often than not, towards Cao Hong's rear army.

For a while, the scene was completely chaotic, and Cao Hong's elite infantry not only suffered the strong blow of the bow and crossbow, but also had to accept the charge of their own cavalry.

"Stop shooting, cavalry attack, cover kill!"

Knock knock, three drum beats came, whether it was the archers, the crossbow carts or the building boats, they all stopped shooting, and the soldiers of Cao Jun secretly celebrated, thinking that the Wu army on the opposite side had shot all their crossbow arrows, but suddenly felt the vibration of the ground, this feeling was too familiar to them, wasn't it the feeling of cavalry dispatching?

"Little ones! Hang the bell and attack! Gan Ning screamed, carried the big knife upside down, and charged forward.

The two-legged ones are always unable to outrun the four-legged ones, especially the foot soldiers whose formations are chaotic and the command system is out of order, covering up the imminent slaughter, and slaughtering. In the past two years, Cao Hong can be said to be extremely unlucky, and he has repeatedly encountered new tactics that he has never seen or heard of, first Ma Chao's phalanx and then Qiao Ren's moon array.

In the chaos of the army, Cao Hong's pale gold gold-plated fish scale mattress armor can be described as very bright, Cao Hong's family loan is thousands, and his personality is extravagant, he always likes to spend a lot of money on his mount and armor on weekdays, and the armor made of gold in the past is often shown off among the generals, but he does not want to become a life-urging indicator today.

Cao Hong has saved the day several times, Cao Cao was ambushed by Xu Rong when he pursued Dong Zhuo, Cao Hong gave his mount Baihu to Cao Cao to ride, and he walked on foot, and he was not even injured at all. During the Battle of Tongguan, in order to save Cao Cao, he also singled out Ma Chao and also played extraordinarily, and retreated. But I don't know if good luck will come to him again today.

"Phew! is so bright armor, I can't say that I'm going to rob the rich and help the poor again. ”

A loud scream made Cao Hong's heart beat wildly, and when he looked back, he saw Gan Ning chasing him with a big knife. "General, I'll stop him." Chen Ge, the captain of the guard, roared, clenched the iron spear, and stabbed at Gan Ning.

For such a little person, Gan Ning had no interest at all, and opened the spear with a knife, and when the two horses were returned, he wanted to backhand and kill Chen Ge.

However, in this short moment, Cao Hong followed the foot power of the BMW and ran more than ten meters away, even if Gan Ning is now a good horse in the state, it is difficult to catch up. "." The duck in hand flew, and Gan Ning was so angry that she couldn't help but scold her mother.

"Run?" Gan Ning's left hand wiped the carved bow hanging on the horse, led the bow and pulled the arrow in one go, and with a whoosh, a feather arrow was fiercely inserted into Cao Hong's back, and it was also a loss that his gold-plated armor was too good, such a short distance, Gan Ning's five-stone strong bow and armor-piercing arrows did not shoot him through, just five centimeters into the flesh. At this moment, the lucky captain Chen Ge came out with a spear.

"Humph!" Gan Ning's anger had to be ruthlessly vented on Chen Ge? .