The tiger and leopard cavalry moved like the wind, but it was only a moment, and it had already rushed to the front of the opponent's camp, Cao Chun clearly saw that the Jing army was already in a tight formation, and the pikemen lined up in a dense spear formation, which was undoubtedly the most effective defensive formation against the cavalry.

A sneer of contempt flashed at the corner of Cao Chun's mouth, it was too naïve, this was a joke with these broken guns in vain trying to block the torrent of iron horses ridden by tigers and leopards! Cao Chun commanded the tiger and leopard cavalry to discharge a spindle-shaped formation, the front end of which was used by the tiger cavalry to break through the attack, and the leopard cavalry was lined up on the left and right flanks, this formation was enough to tear apart the defensive position of any infantry.

The tiger and leopard rider was like a huge black hammer, roaring with thunder and smashing into the Jing army position in front, as if everything in front of it could be smashed to pieces in an instant. Cao Chun's face was filled with a hideous smile, and he seemed to have seen the scene of corpses strewn across the field and rivers of blood flowing in front of him.

However,

A loud "boom" sounded and pulled Cao Chun back to reality from Qimeng, a flowering bomb landed and blossomed in the dense team of tigers and leopards, and the violent explosion lifted a knight directly into the air, and the huge shock wave made dozens of people around him turn over on their backs, and the neat and orderly team was a little stunned by this sudden attack, and people neighed and horses, and there was a certain degree of confusion.

Cao Chun was shocked, he was no stranger to the artillery used by the Jing army, but what surprised him was how the Jing army applied those bulky and oxen-like artillery used to defend the city to the field battle, Cao Chun couldn't figure it out anyway.

But even if he couldn't figure it out, it didn't help, after the first flowering shell fell, more shells whistled overhead, and explosions rang out one after another, blooming all over the ground, and the smoke was filled. The tigers and leopards formed a dense formation, and although such a formation had the power to attack the fortification, it was the worst formation to deal with artillery attacks. Countless shells fell, and in the face of the huge impact and blasting force, no matter how strong the armor of the tiger and leopard cavalry was, it was just a volley of artillery fire. The tiger and leopard cavalry has already suffered heavy casualties, and the army is in disarray.

Cao Chun had never fought such a battle, and he had not even touched the enemy's edge, and he had already lost a lot of ground, he was stunned, brandished the spear in his hand, and ordered the tiger and leopard cavalry to regroup, braving artillery fire, and attacking the position of the Jing army.

In Cao Chun's opinion. After all, the artillery of the Jing army is limited, and there are intervals between the firing of artillery, if the 100,000 iron cavalry is frightened back by a few artillery, Cao Chun's face will be lost, no matter how fierce the artillery is, it is also a long-range weapon, once the tiger and leopard cavalry attack the Jing army's array, the artillery will naturally lose its power. Therefore, Cao Chun was not frightened by this sudden blow, but inspired the ferocity in his heart even more. Determined to lead the tiger and leopard to ride to the end.

Front-loading guns of bronze guns, one gun with seven gunners and three auxiliaries, the auxiliaries were responsible for the transport of horses and ammunition for towing the guns, seven gunners 3 gunners were located in the front car, and 4 gunners were behind the guns. The four gunners, behind the guns, stood to the left of the tail of the guns and waited for orders.

Then the artillery captain ordered: "Start firing!" "After getting this order. Gunner No. 1, holding a bomb pusher and a gun brush, walked to the right of the muzzle and stood still; Gunner No. 2 stood to the left of the muzzle, ready to receive the shells and cartridges and load them into the chamber; The position of the third gunner was located to the right of the breech, and one of his important tasks was to protect the gun's fire door while cleaning the chamber with a gun brush during the loading process.

Gunner No. 4 stood on the left side of the breech, ready to punch holes in the kit through the fire gate, inserted the pull-fire ignition tube after the packet was loaded, and tied the pull-fire rope. And after hearing the order of the gun commander, pull the fire rope and fire the cannon. The fifth gunner, who stood behind the front car, was responsible for carrying the ammunition, and he waited by his side while the sixth or seventh gunner prepared the ammunition. Gunners six or seven were the busiest in the whole gun, as they had to cut the fuses and load them into the shells all the time.

A well-trained artillery can fire a shell with only a few dozen breaths, and if it fires a shotgun, it takes even less time, and a hundred guns are arranged in unison on the position, and the commander divides the hundred guns into two groups to fire in order to pursue the effect of uninterrupted artillery.

Although each shell brought a lot of damage to the tiger and leopard horseman, under the command of Cao Chun, the tiger and leopard horse still rushed forward fearlessly, but what was waiting for them was not only the powerful artillery, but also more sharp weapons.

That's right! It's Zhuge Liang's crossbow!

On the basis of his predecessors, Zhuge Liang designed and developed a new type of single-soldier crossbow - Yuanrong crossbow, with iron as the arrow, the arrow is eight inches long, and a crossbow and ten arrows are fired, which is a rather terrifying weapon, thousands of Yuanrong crossbows are fired together, and tens of thousands of crossbow arrows can be poured out in a very short period of time, forming a death fan.

The tiger and leopard cavalry braved the artillery fire to pounce up, just entered the range of the heavy crossbow, in front of the eyes was a dense rain of crossbow arrows pouring in, in the face of this kind of all-round indiscriminate coverage attack without dead ends, the tiger and leopard cavalry rushing to the front without exception turned over and fell off the horse, and the entire front position was full of the corpses of the Wei cavalry.

The first charge failed, and the tiger and leopard cavalry lost about a quarter of their troops, which made Cao Chun's heart bleed. However, Cao Chun is by no means the kind of person who easily admits defeat, and the tiger and leopard rider, who has never been defeated in the world, is not willing to fail, and Cao Chun soon launched a second round of attacks.

This time, Cao Chun changed his style of play, changing the dense formation to a loose formation, and widening the distance between the cavalry of each battalion, so that he could effectively avoid the attack of the opponent's artillery. Whether it is artillery or repeater, they are all long-range attack weapons, as long as the tiger and leopard cavalry can break through to the Jing army formation, the power of these weapons will no longer work. Cao Chun secretly swore that he must be ashamed and play the majesty of the tiger and leopard riding, and there will never be the word failure in the dictionary of the tiger and leopard riding.

The tiger and leopard rider made a comeback, and the black torrent stirred up yellow smoke and dust, covering the sky and the sun, Cao Chun made a desperate bet, almost invested all his troops, and roared on the battlefield several miles wide.

The artillery still roared tirelessly, spewing tongues of fire as if the ammunition was endless. However, due to the loose formation adopted by the Tiger and Par Cavalry, although each shot was not missing, the damage caused was not enough to be as tragic as the first round of charge, and soon the Tiger and Par Rider was within the range of the heavy crossbow.

The commander of the artillery division also immediately adjusted his tactics, no longer using flowering shells, but replaced them with all shotguns, which are shells containing hundreds of iron pellets in one shell, which are scattered after firing, which have a lethal effect on targets at close range, and are a nightmare when the infantry and cavalry groups charge.

Shotguns can travel two to three times faster than bows and arrows, and their ring-breaking and penetrating power are naturally much greater than those of bows and crossbows, and the heavy shields of the tiger and leopard riders may be effective against bows and arrows, but they are absolutely unable to defend against shotguns, and the projectiles of shotguns can easily penetrate the shield.

The tiger and leopard rode under the combined blow of shotguns and repeater crossbows, and they never overtook a step, and the infantry spear array was in front of them, but for Cao Chun, it was out of reach. The second charge of the tiger and leopard cavalry suffered even more heavy losses, losing nearly half of the men and horses, Cao Chun's face was pale, he finally understood that the hard bone in front of him was completely untouchable, and if he continued to fight, the tiger and leopard cavalry would be exhausted.

In the end, Cao Chun gave up the attack, Mingjin withdrew his troops, and took the initiative to retreat to the camp in Ye County.

But today is destined to be the end of the tiger and leopard cavalry, as soon as the Wei army retreated, Zhang Fei's thunder cavalry was dispatched, and the light cavalry of the 2nd Cavalry Division and the 6th Cavalry Division also joined the queue of encircling and suppressing the tiger and leopard cavalry from the flank.

The two rounds of charging made the tiger and leopard riders pay a very heavy price, and the morale of the tiger and leopard riders was reduced to the lowest point. Cao Chun fought desperately, and when he fled back to Xudu, there were less than 800 of the 100,000 tiger and leopard riders left, and the tiger and leopard riders suffered a devastating blow, almost the entire army was wiped out, and the established tiger and leopard riders no longer existed.

The fiasco of Yexian caused Cao Cao's carefully constructed outer defense system to collapse on all fronts, and it was Cao Cao's most elite troops that were lost, and Cao Cao had to shrink his forces again and desperately defend Xu Du.

The Jing army marched with victory, and the three-way army came towards Xudu.

Xu Du was originally just a county seat under the rule of Yingchuan County, Yuzhou, formerly known as Xu County, Jian'an five years Cao Cao welcomed the Han Emperor to this, Xu County became the temporary capital of the Han Dynasty, as the ruling center of Cao Cao, Cao Cao spared no effort to rebuild and expand the Xu capital, after more than ten years of construction, the scale of Xu Capital City was expanded several times than the original, the city wall is high and thick, the moat is wide and deep. On the east and west sides of Xudu City, there is also an urn city built separately. These two urn cities are taller than the Xudu City, and the city walls are thicker, one on the left and one on the right, as if guarding the Xudu City.

In order to conquer Xudu, the Jing army must take these two urn cities.

When the Jing army approached Xudu, it was already close to the moon, and the snow was falling, but the Jing army was high-spirited, and was not intimidated by the severe cold in the north at all.

The Eighth Army and the Sixth Army braved the wind and snow to launch an attack on the two urn cities outside the city of Xudu, which was related to the next general attack on Xudu.

However, the huge rumbling sound on the urn city brought the Jing army's attack to an abrupt halt. (To be continued......)