"Die!" Cao Chun brandished a broadsword and slashed off the left hand of a Qiang warrior.

Cao Chun led the vanguard army of 5,000 people into the stake array, only to find that there was a secret hidden in the stake array.

Large and small wooden piles formed a maze array, so that the soldiers of the Cao army could not figure out the east, west, north and south, and most importantly, the obstacles formed by the wooden stakes scattered the Cao army, and the beginning and tail could not echo the left and right at all, and Cao Chun's command flag could not play a role at all.

"Whoosh!" Another round of javelins flew towards Cao Jun, and more than a dozen of Cao Chun's own soldiers died.

"General?"

"Withdraw!" Cao Chun gritted his teeth and pulled out the rattling arrow from his arms.

As soon as the arrow sounded, the Cao army that entered the stake formation immediately retreated outward in an orderly manner.

"It is worthy of being a division of a hundred battles, with a degree of advance and retreat, and it is a difficult opponent!" Zhang Bai rode on the high platform and saw the retreating Cao army, and couldn't help but exclaim.

"Inform the lord's javelinmen to attack!"

"No!" The banner soldier waved the red flag and signaled that Ma Chao's cavalry could attack.

"The warriors of Xiliang, in front of them are the Yanzhou army, which is known as the strongest army in the world, and once defeated Yuan Shao, who is sitting around Hebei, are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid !!"

"Tell me, who is the number one warrior in the world?"

"Xiliang cavalry!"

"Who are the warriors in the Xiliang cavalry?"

"Javelin!"

"Okay, brothers, let me go!" Ma Chao's silver spear pointed, and he rushed out first.

"My lord, General Cao has withdrawn!"

"Oh?" Following the direction of Xun You's finger, Cao Cao found that Cao Chun's army had retreated, and divided into stragglers to retreat from the stake formation.

Boom Boom! A large number of javelin cavalry suddenly appeared on the left and right of Cao's army.

"Whoosh!" Xiliang's javelins flew into Cao's front army like a torrential rain.

"Wen Yuan. Rush up with someone! ”

"No!"

"And the state wolf rides. Come with me! Zhang Liao brandished a broadsword. Rushed up with the wolf rider of the state.

"Second round, shot!" The Xiliang cavalry, under the command of Ma Chao, threw a second round of javelins.

"Ahh Before Zhang Liao's wolf cavalry could get close, he lost dozens of cavalry.

"Third round, shot!" Before Zhang Liao's cavalry could react, Xiliang's javelin threw again.

"Lord!" Xun You saw that Zhang Liao had lost more than 100 cavalry before he got close to the Xiliang cavalry, and immediately reminded Cao Cao that this would continue. Zhang Liao's cavalry may have been wiped out before they could meet each other in a short manner.

"Zhongkang, take Huwei up to rescue Wenyuan."

"No!"

"Tiger Guard, come with me!"

"Report, lord, Chang'an is lost, General Zhu and Zhong Taishou retreat to Tongguan with baggage, please make a decision."

"What!" Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, Chang'an was actually lost?

"My lord, Chang'an has been lost. Let's go quickly to meet Wenbo and Yuanchang. It is the best policy to protect the baggage and return it to Tongguan. ”

"Lord, what Gongda said is reasonable, if the Xiliang Army sends someone to catch up with our army's baggage, I'm afraid our army will return with a feather!" Sima Lang also stepped forward to suggest that Cao Cao withdraw his troops.

"Order the whole army to retreat to Tongguan quickly!"

"No!"

"Brother, Cao Cao's army has retreated!"

"Brother Tie, Brother Hugh, follow me to capture Cao Cao!"

"Javelin, come with me!" Ma Chao saw that Cao Cao's defeat had been revealed, and immediately took advantage of the victory to pursue.

In front of the Tongguan Pass, Cao Cao's army slowly approached the Tongguan.

Cao Cao rode on the claw yellow flying lightning, and there was a dull pain in his right arm. Just now it was really a life of nine deaths, and he was almost pierced through the chest by Ma Chao's javelin several times, and his own guards almost never survived.

"See the lord!" Zhong Miao and Zhu Ling were waiting for Cao Cao in front of the Tongguan Pass early, and the two looked depressed, ready to be punished by Cao Cao.

"Hmm!" Cao Cao just nodded, and entered the customs alone.

After Ma Chao occupied Chang'an, he did not advance to Tongguan, but rested in Chang'an. Half a month later, Lu Rui also rushed to Tongguan with the reinforcements of the Roast Goose King and stationed down at the foot of the hill outside the pass. Lu Rui and Guo Jia entered the city overnight to meet Cao Cao.

"See the lord!"

"Bufan and Fengxiao are back? Get up! ”

"Thank you, lord!"

"Bufan and Fengxiao have made great contributions this time, after returning to Xudu, they will definitely be rewarded for their meritorious deeds, by the way, where is Xiufu?"

"Back to the lord, Hufu is outside the city to appease the Qiang soldiers, and the king of the roast goose will enter the city tomorrow to meet the lord."

"Okay, tomorrow I will meet the roast goose king at the palace. Boda, I'll leave this matter to you. ”

"Yes, my lord!"

"My lord, your right arm?" Guo Jia found that Cao Cao's right arm was still tied with a strap, obviously injured.

"Alas! This is when he returned to Tongguan, he was injured by the Xiliang army, he has been fighting for many years, and he has never met such an opponent, Ma Chao, Ma Mengqi is really a character! ”

"Oh? Lord, Chang'an City is high and deep, why did our army lose Chang'an? ”

"This?"

"Fengxiao, let me tell you what happened." Subsequently, Xun You told Guo Jia and Lu Rui in detail about the battle between the Cao army and the Xiliang army.

"Strange formation?"

"Yes, Fengxiao, extraordinary, this is the stake in the formation depicted by the surviving soldiers of our army." After speaking, Xun You handed a sheepskin with a wooden stake pattern to Guo Jia and Lu Rui.

"Has Bong Hyo ever seen such a stake?"

"Lord, please forgive the sin of Feng Xiao, Feng Xiao has indeed never seen such a stake, but judging by the shape, it should be something like a horse or antlers."

Lu Rui saw the sheepskin of the stake and was stunned for a moment, this seems to be a fence set up during modern Western equestrian performances?

This kind of fence was common in later European equestrian performances, but Lu Rui knew that in ancient Rome, it was much more than that.

First of all, such fences were an effective means of controlling slaves, and placing them on the periphery of slave settlements could effectively prevent slaves from escaping, because these fences were generally half the height of Europeans, and if they were nailed into the ground, slaves would have to work hard to pass through the fence.

Secondly, these fences were crossed by the elite cavalry of Europe at will, just like the equestrian performances of later generations, the riders easily crossed the fence and could use a variety of weapons at will, which was very useful when suppressing slaves. If a slave tries to climb over the fence and a cavalryman slashes at him with a short sword, the consequences can be imagined. "Fengxiao, the Yellow Turban Lux was also found in the stake array in Xiliang!"

"Yellow Turban Lux?"

"Yes, it is the rumored Yellow Turban wrestlers who died in battle until the last moment, and those Yellow Turban wrestlers were slashed a few times by our soldiers, and they can still rise up and kill our soldiers, with great strength."

"The legendary Yellow Turban Warrior of Zhang Jiao's most powerful troops?" Lu Rui was stunned, he didn't expect that there were really Yellow Turban wrestlers in history, but how could the most elite troops of the Yellow Turban Army appear in the Xiliang Army?

Lu Rui sighed in his heart, the Xiliang Army he was facing now might be more difficult to deal with than in history. (To be continued......)

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