During World War II, American four-star General Patton said that war depends on weapons, but war depends on soldiers.

The equipment of the Xuzhou army is indeed stronger than that of the Cao army, whether it is armor or weapons, it is more than one line stronger than the Cao Cao army. But today, Niu Jin, who has the will to die, has taught them a vivid lesson, that is, willpower can determine the outcome of a war to a certain extent.

Niu Jin's subordinates have two things in common, first, they are all reckless men with five big and three rough, their tempers are not good, and they can't be provoked, so Niu Jin's few words that are not clever have successfully aroused their fighting spirit. Second, they are all Qingzhou people, to be exact, they were members of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army a few years ago. Cao Cao incorporated them and formed an elite Qingzhou army, and their families were moved by Cao Cao to Tuntian near Luoyang last year. Cao Jun's military law is strict, and the punishment for deserters is not limited to the deserters themselves, but also includes their families, so they will not be deserters whether it is for themselves or their families. Because, the family members who died in the war will have a pension, and when they become deserters, in the small circle of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans that are extremely familiar with each other, the family members will not be able to raise their heads for the rest of their lives.

On the other side are 40,000 people, and they know it, because Niu Jinming said it. Then they knew that there would be no life in this battle. If you know that you will die, you will no longer be afraid of death, and if you know that you will die, you will no longer be afraid of perishing, the tiger has the behavior of Feng He, the dog has the skill of running over the wall, and the rabbit will bite people when it is in a hurry, not to mention the five hundred hot-blooded men?

When 500 people have the will to die, the battle power that erupts is amazing.

Niu Jin shouted violently, and the long knife swept away four or five spears, and crashed into Liu Beijun's camp first. It was indeed a collision, and in order to leave all the five hundred people behind, Liu Bei withdrew the rows of soldiers at the front and replaced them with spearmen and sword and shield soldiers. It was difficult for them to effectively block the onslaught of the cavalry, so Niu Jin easily advanced twenty paces. But then, as the momentum of the war horse continued to decrease, Niu Jin found that it was difficult for him to take a step forward.

In front of him was the ironclad soldier led by Xu Chu. They firmly withstood the onslaught of Niu Jinsuo's soldiers, but they would not take a step forward, their responsibility was to protect Liu Bei's safety, and as for killing the enemy, they were not needed.

After Niu Jin found out, he decisively gave up the impact on the front, shouted a few loudly, and the soldiers of the department followed him and turned to the left. At this time, the two wings of Liu Bei's large array had been deployed, and the elite Liangzhou cavalry led by Zhang Xiu had also rushed over from the rear, and Niu Jin had fallen into complete encirclement.

In the distance, Liu Bei stood on the tall frame, watching Niu Jin's department fall into a heavy siege, and couldn't help but smile on his lips.

He thinks that in less than a quarter of an hour, there will be none of these 500 people left!

Half an hour passed, and the knights of Niu Jin's department rushed left and right, although the loss was not small, but the loss of the Xuzhou sergeant was not small. For a time, the two sides were inseparable, and the sky was dark.

Those soldiers seemed to be not afraid of pain, and before they died in battle, they would inevitably gather their last strength and die together with the Xuzhou soldiers around them. Seeing that the war horse was difficult to walk, Niu Jin decisively ordered the soldiers to abandon the horses and walk, and the remaining two hundred soldiers gathered around him and still rushed to kill.

A quarter of an hour passed, and there were only about a hundred soldiers left in Niu Jin's department, and all of them were wounded, but they supported each other, formed a formation, and still fought to the death.

Liu Bei's brows had already turned into pimples, could it be that for the sake of these 100 enemy soldiers, he still had to use his own personal guards?

Everyone knew that Niu Jin's department was already at the end of the crossbow, but no one dared to despise them anymore. In the case of inferior equipment, the casualties they inflicted on the Xuzhou army have exceeded 1,000.

Zhang Xiu was ordered to block the road for Niu Jin's retreat, and the four thousand elite knights of Liangzhou, even in the face of ten thousand ordinary cavalry, had the strength to fight. He was very leisurely, riding leisurely on his horse, holding the big gun horizontally, and watching Niu Jin's department rush left and right.

Suddenly, he heard a thunderous sound, and from experience, he immediately judged that it was the sound of cavalry charging.

Zhang Xiu's heart tightened, and before he could give the order, the soldiers behind him came with news that more than 3,000 cavalry were attacking from the west.

As an experienced general, Zhang Xiu knew that there was no way to fight between the standing cavalry and the galloping cavalry, so he decisively gave the order and the cavalry marched east.

The soldiers followed his orders and followed Zhang Xiu eastward, while slowly speeding up.

Looking at Zhang Xiu, who was gone, he suddenly left the city from the West Gate of Chen Liu, which made Zang Ba, who had no cavalry in his hands, extremely depressed Dian Wei and Cao Ren disappointed for a while. What a Zhang embroidery, this is the most correct choice he can make now!

The two of them packed up the regret caused by not being able to inflict heavy losses on Zhang Xiu's department, and turned to Niujin's department and rushed to the department. Their goal is only to rescue Niu Jin, and if they can inflict heavy damage on Zhang Xiu, they will naturally beat the rabbit with grass. But at this moment, because of Zhang Xiu's clever order, not only did they not have the opportunity to severely damage Zhang Xiu, but they had to face Zhang Xiu's next stormy blow.

There are not many Niu Jin's troops left, only more than 30 people, and they are about to be wiped out. But suddenly, the Xuzhou sergeant retreated and began to organize the queue. The spies on the bucket reported to Liu Bei as early as when Dian Wei and Cao Ren appeared in the field of vision. Liu Bei immediately decided to abandon the plan to exterminate Niu Jin and instead lined up with the whole army. Liu Bei didn't want to do Niu Jin to Cao Ren and Dian Wei, five hundred cavalry and three thousand cavalry are two concepts, don't steal chickens and rice.

Niu Jin only felt that his side was empty, and the inexhaustible Xuzhou army suddenly disappeared, and immediately after, Dian Wei and Cao Ren arrived. The two didn't say much, and asked their knights to grab Niu Jin and the rest of the people, beat their horses and galloped towards the south gate of Chen Liu.

With the rumbling of iron hooves, more than 3,000 knights galloping at high speed, the front team had arrived at the city, and the city gate was wide open to welcome them home. The soldiers watching from the city tower even cheered involuntarily. Niu Jin, Niu Jin at this moment, has become a person who has been in the limelight, and his return has made Cao Cao's morale burst.

However, suddenly, Cao Cao and the others who were watching the battle in the city tower changed their faces!

When Dian Wei and Cao Ren attacked, Zhang Xiu's cavalry chose to speed up in their direction in order to widen the distance between the two armies. When Cao Ren and Dian Wei rescued Niu Jin and returned, the high-quality Liangzhou cavalry, under the leadership of Zhang Xiu, had completed the process of accelerating, turning, and accelerating again.

Zhang Xiu chose the middle position, this battle was the first battle after taking refuge in Liu Bei, he wanted to take a first credit, but he didn't want his subordinates to lose too much, so eating half of the knights of Cao Jun was the best choice from a psychological point of view or from a tactical point of view.

The four thousand Liangzhou cavalry were divided into two groups, the first one crashed into the middle of the Cao army cavalry under the leadership of Zhang Xiu, the war horse fell to the ground and wailed, the knight was knocked off the horse, and in an instant, the battle entered the white heat. The latter group divided into more than a dozen hundred-man teams and slaughtered towards the rear of Cao Cao's cavalry. They are like efficient killing machines, constantly dividing and encroaching, killing more than 1,000 knights in the rear of the Cao army.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Cao Cao's rear cavalry was slaughtered, with losses of more than two-thirds. The battlefield was completely melee, the Cao army did not know the soldiers, the soldiers did not know the generals, and they were constantly surrounded by the superior Liangzhou and divided, and then strangled.

When a Cao military lieutenant saw his soldiers being killed one by one, he couldn't help but be stunned, roared, killed a Liangzhou knight, and led the only twenty or so people under his command to kill a small group of knights who were surrounded and killed by Liangzhou soldiers not far away. After successfully rescuing them, the team formed a scale of fifty people, and the captain saw that a 100-member team of the Liangzhou Army was killed not far away, and he was busy leading people to transfer to the field.

Cao Cao is a military genius in the end, although his cavalry has not been established for a long time, but under the training of Cao Chun, Xiahoudun and others, the quality is not low. Under the absolute disadvantage, several middle and low-ranking officers wisely chose to avoid the enemy's large force of cavalry in the movement war, and constantly joined forces to send them together. Although there will be continuous losses in the process of evading, they are also snowballing, and after a while, only a small group of Cao soldiers and soldiers and a small army of more than 200 people are left in the battlefield.

At this time, the knights of Liangzhou, who had exterminated the sporadic enemy, had automatically formed a large force of cavalry and pressed towards them. There were only four cavalry units on the entire battlefield, of which Cao Jun was one unit, and more than 2,000 people under Zhang Xiu's department blocked the route of Cao's army back to the city, which was the second force, and the other two were five or six hundred people, all of whom were Liangzhou knights.

Captain Cao, who was the leader, saw the two Liangzhou cavalry of five or six hundred people coming towards him, and immediately knew that it was difficult to survive. He straightened his armor, wiped the blood stains from his face, and roared: "Brothers, today there is no enemy and no me, and I am invincible!" Kill! ”

Two hundred people rushed to Zhang Xiu's more than 2,000 Liangzhou cavalry, which looked so tragic!

Suddenly, there was a great chaos in the cavalry of Zhang Xiu's department, and when Captain Cao heard the movement, his eyes showed a look of ecstasy, and he shouted: "Brothers, General Dian and General Cao have come to save us!" "When the soldiers heard this, their morale was greatly boosted!

Captain Cao's words were very right, Cao Ren and Dian Wei, who had returned to Chenliu just now, learned the news behind them, the two glanced at each other, and led their guards to kill them.

Dian Wei held a double iron halberd, and with a roar, he fought with Zhang Xiu. Zhang Xiu was very helpless, when he was in Wancheng, he had already seen Dian Wei's bravery, and knew that he was not an opponent, but he couldn't retreat, as soon as he retreated, it would be over, and he would not be able to mix in Liu Bei's army in the future! Fortunately, there were dozens of guards by his side, and with the help of the guards, he not only resisted Dian Wei's offensive, but won one after another, forcing Dian Wei and his guards to retreat.

Dian Wei is the leader of Cao Cao's personal guards, and the soldiers he leads are also Cao Cao's personal guards, but these one-in-a-hundred soldiers are powerful characters under the step, and once they are on the horse, they are not Zhang Xiu's personal guards at all.

However, this side of Xiang Dianwei entangled Zhang Xiu, and Zhang Xiu's soldiers lost their command, and Cao Ren led five hundred cavalry to break into the Liangzhou cavalry array, and soon joined up with the Cao army knights who broke in from behind. Cao Ren knew that his knights were not opponents, and he didn't want to fight really anymore, just to save people, so he immediately retreated.

Seeing that they had withdrawn, Dian Wei hurriedly left Zhang Xiu to retreat. Zhang Xiuling's troops and horses chased and killed for a while, and then they were shot back by the Cao army in the city.

The whole battle was over, and Zhang Xiu came to Liu Bei with blood stains all over his body to plead guilty.

Liu Bei smiled lightly, stroked Zhang Xiu's back and said, "Youwei, how much did your cavalry lose?" ”

Zhang Xiu said: "Lord, Cao Cao's cavalry is not too strong, and we occupy a favorable formation, so the losses are not large, with one hundred and fifty-one dead soldiers and three hundred and forty wounded." ”

Liu Bei nodded and said, "How many enemies are annihilated?" ”

Zhang Xiu said: "More than 1,200 enemies were killed, and more than 400 prisoners were captured!" ”

Liu Bei laughed and said, "The self-damage is less than 500, and the enemy is 1,600, what is the crime?" Youwei, not only do you have no fault, but you have merit! It's just that in wartime, the merits must be recorded first, and when our army returns home after victory, the merits can be rewarded. Get up! ”

After Zhang Xiu thanked Liu Bei, she stood up.

Liu Bei looked at the people around him and said: "Today's battle is victorious, more than 1,000 of our infantry soldiers were killed and wounded, almost all the cavalry of Niu Jinsuo was wiped out, Youwei annihilated more than 1,600 enemies, and more than half of the more than 3,000 cavalry of Cao's army out of the city were lost, okay!" Pass on my military order, and today is the end of the day, all the soldiers will return to the camp! ”

As the military order was delivered, the army turned back to the camp.

Liu Bei's mouth was very lively, today's first confrontation, from the perspective of battle damage, Cao Cao was indeed defeated, Liu Bei was indeed victorious, but Liu Bei was not happy. Failing to leave Niu Jin behind was a failure in his opinion, even if most of the Cao cavalry who went out of the city to rescue Niu Jin were left. He could see that after the battle with Niu Jin, his infantry was frustrated, and even if he attacked the city again today, it would not have too good results, so he decisively ordered the withdrawal of the army.

Back in the camp, he comforted Zang Ba, who came to ask for guilt, and discussed the strategy for the next day with the generals of the strategists, and after everyone left, Liu Bei's smile disappeared. A face became redder and redder, and the panting sound became louder and louder, and finally, Liu Bei's explosiveness, a jade Ruyi that he liked very much on weekdays, was smashed by him.

He was angry because he didn't keep the cow gold. But there is nowhere to vent his anger! No one is wrong today, he didn't order the arrows to be released, nor did he order Zhang Xiu's cavalry to meet Niu Jin, but just blocked their way, which is right, because he wanted to annihilate Niu Jin. If ten thousand arrows are fired together, or Zhang Xiu's cavalry fights, then Niu Jin will definitely not be able to reach his own infantry array, and more than half of it will be lost, so Niu Jin will inevitably choose to retreat, so how can he be completely annihilated? The generals and soldiers in the infantry formation are right, they almost wiped out the Niu Jin army at the cost of thousands of casualties, which is already a very remarkable achievement, and naturally they cannot be punished. Zhang Xiu is not wrong, although he can choose to encircle Niu Jin with all his strength and annihilate it when Cao Ren and Dian Wei attack, but that will make the elite Liangzhou knights threatened by the cavalry of the Cao army, and the gains outweigh the losses. Zang Ba is not wrong, there are no formed cavalry in his army, even if he wants to pursue Cao Ren and Dian Wei, there is no way.

Who is to blame? Liu Bei suddenly found that no one could be blamed, and no one was wrong. If there's anything wrong, it's that his expectations are too high!

On the other hand, Cao Cao was very happy. Not only him, but many of his advisors and generals were very happy. Because Niu Jin came back alive, although his soldiers were completely lost, although more than half of the cavalry who went out of the city to rescue were lost, and more than a dozen of the thirty or so people they rescued died because of their injuries, but Niu Jin was alive. As long as this hero, this hero who dared to lead a few soldiers to fight when Liu Beijun's army was pressing, is still alive, even if Cao Ren and Dian Wei's three thousand knights are all killed in battle, it will be worth it.

Because, through this battle, the more than 30,000 soldiers of Cao Cao's army will regain their self-confidence, and the morale of the army will be improved! At this time, it is not a simple arithmetic problem.

Therefore, Cao Cao promoted Niu Jin to be called Zhonglang General and continued to serve as Cao Ren's deputy general. Looking at this eight-foot-five-inch tall man's red eyes and grateful, he forced himself to salute, Cao Cao smiled happily. After today's battle, Liu Beijun's morale has been frustrated, and it must not be too far from entering the stage of siege and defense of the city, that is, the stage of siege but not attack! In this way, it will be of great benefit to the next stage of the war.

Liu Bei, Liu Bei, you don't know yet, do you? On the way you came to attack Chenliu, Cao didn't even do anything to clear the wilderness, and directly gave you the Central Plains region except for Chenliu County and Yingchuan County, do you think that Cao is weak and bulliable, and is afraid of you? When Cao's plan begins to be implemented, you must be anxious, right? Hehe, it's a pity, it's a pity that I can't see your expression at that time, it's a big pity!

Turning his head to look in the direction of Xu County, the smile on Cao Cao's face gradually disappeared, I don't know if Miaocai and Yuan let them prepare smoothly?