After Liu Bei left Xinye, he led tens of thousands of people and more than 10,000 soldiers to Jiangxia all the way. Due to the large number of people, they can only travel more than ten miles a day.

Although Zhuge Liang made some arrangements in Xinye and delayed the Cao army, he would still be caught up by the Cao army under this situation, so he said to Liu Bei: "The people are moving slowly, and I am afraid that they will be intercepted and killed by the Cao soldiers, so I should first go to Jiangxia to ask the eldest prince to send troops to respond." ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he ordered Liu Feng to lead 500 soldiers to escort Zhuge Liang to Jiangxia for help first, and he led the people to move forward slowly. On this day, Guan Ping, who was in charge of the broken horse, caught up with the front team and reported to Liu Bei: "My lord, Cao Cao sent a large cavalry to kill, I'm afraid it will be there in a moment." ”

Liu Bei was shocked when he heard this, and asked Jian Yongdao beside him: "How should this be?" ”

Jian Yong said: "The cavalry is about to be invincible, and the lord can quickly abandon the people and leave, there is still a glimmer of life." ”

Liu Bei waved his hand and said: "The people have come here from Xinye, and I will abandon them peacefully?" ”

Sun Qian said: "If the lord loves and does not give up, disaster will not be far away." ”

Liu Bei said angrily: "The people must not abandon it!" You can say what you can do to save the people, and there is no need to say much about the rest. ”

The left and right strategists did not answer when they saw Liu Bei's anger, and they really had no way to fight against the cavalry in this wilderness and protect the people. At this time, Xun Chen pointed his finger in front and said: "In front is Dangyang County, and there is a mountain named Jingshan. The lord can let the people go first, and our army will be here to block for a while. Just ......"

Liu Bei was overjoyed when he heard Xun Chen's plan, and asked, "If you are still here, please speak up." ”

Xun Chen smiled bitterly: "It's just that Cao Bing is menacing, even if he can block it for a while, but he will lose in the end." If the lord leaves at this time, he may not be able to save the people, but the soldiers can be saved. If you stick here, the loss of the soldiers will not be counted, and the people will eventually be caught up by the Cao soldiers. ”

Liu Bei thought for a moment and sighed: "I can't bear to abandon the people, so I will do my best to obey the destiny of heaven!" Even if it's just to block it for a while, you can wait to inform the people and make them disperse and flee to Jiangxia, so as not to be wiped out by Cao's soldiers. ”

The people of Xinye were all moved to tears after hearing that Liu Bei personally broke off, and some people cried loudly when they heard Cao Bing's approach, and the crying was all over the field for a while. Liu Bei heard the cries of the people on the mountain, and his heart was even more warlike, and he ordered Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to lead 1,000 cavalry to ambush left and right. Just wait for Cao Bing to fight to the death.

This time it was Xiahoudun who led the tiger and leopard cavalry to pursue Liu Bei, he was calculated by Zhuge Liang once, and half of the 100,000 army was burned, so he took the initiative to ask for a battle to pursue Liu Bei. Don't look at the tiger and leopard riding only 5,000 people, but Xiahou Dun is more confident than with 100,000 horses. This is because the 5,000 tiger and leopard cavalry have the strength of centurions, and they are the elite selected from the 500,000 army, and this cavalry has few opponents in the world.

Xiahoudun chased to the bottom of the mountain and saw Liu Bei smiling slightly when he was arming up the mountain, Jingshan is just a dirt mountain, there are no stones and few trees on the mountain, Liu Bei is in a hurry, there is no way to prepare rolling wood and stones, so he can only order the spearmen to line up in front to resist the iron cavalry. Xiahoudun also saw that Liu Bei's biggest intention was to use the terrain to slow down the impact of the cavalry, and condescendingly shot the cavalry with bows and arrows. However, to break this formation, it is not difficult for the tiger and leopard rider to do it at all.

"The tiger rides in front, the leopard rides behind, and climbs the mountain in formation." Xiahoudun gave an order, and five thousand tigers and leopards rode in formation and rushed towards the mountain.

Liu Bei smiled slightly when he saw Xiahoudun forcibly ordering the cavalry to climb the mountain, and ordered: "Crossbowmen are ready...... Put! The condescending advantage was undoubtedly reflected at this time, and the range of the bow and arrows was thirty percent farther than usual, which allowed Liu Bei to shoot an extra round of arrows before the cavalry approached.

In the face of the overwhelming rain of arrows, Xiahoudun's single eye did not show any panic, and what was even more incredible was that the look of the five thousand tigers and leopards riding was also like that of Xiahoudun, not only did he not retreat in fear, but also had a contemptuous smile on his face. Seeing that the arrows were close in front of them, the tiger riders in the lead held their weapons and dialed the eagle feathers.

There is a way that open guns are easy to dodge, hidden arrows are difficult to prevent, and blocking arrows with weapons is a technical job, and the difficulty is less limited than blocking bullets, and usually only generals can have this ability. Although the tiger and leopard ride is strong, it is not strong enough to use swords and guns to block the rain of arrows. But they had a way of tricking, these tiger riders were heavily armoured, sacrificing speed and strengthening their defenses, and ordinary bows and arrows could only spark on the armor, and they could not hurt them at all. Therefore, the tiger knight only needs to protect the door with the weapon in his hand and take care of the war horse under his crotch a little, and he doesn't care about the arrows that shoot at his body.

Liu Bei on the mountain thought that a salvo could at least cause thousands of casualties among Xiahoudun's dense cavalry, but after the rain of arrows, only dozens of people in the front row of the tiger knights fell off their horses. This is not what Liu Bei was afraid of, I saw that after those soldiers fell off their horses, they all got up one by one and continued to follow the brigade to charge up the mountain. Obviously, this round of arrow rain only shot dozens of war horses, and Cao Jun didn't even die, how could Liu Bei not be shocked? As for Liu Bei's corporals, they were even more frightened.

"Shoot! Keep firing the arrows! Aim for the warhorse! Liu Bei has led the army for many years, and when he found that he could not directly eliminate the opponent, he did not choose to hit hard, but chose to weaken the opponent to create an advantage for the next hand-to-hand combat.

The equipment of the tiger horse is somewhat similar to that of the Xiliang Iron Horse, and the war horse does not wear armor, which is indeed a weakness. However, this weakness is the same for most cavalry, as long as the cavalry gives full play to the speed advantage, and does not give the archer the opportunity to shoot the horse first, the archer can be restrained, not to mention that the tiger knight can also use weapons to block arrows to provide protection for the horse.

Liu Bei's second volley was not neat because the soldiers were frightened by the performance of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and not all the soldiers calmly carried out Liu Bei's order to shoot at the war horse. Therefore, this round of salvo is more appropriate to describe as random shooting, and it did not bring greater losses to the tiger and leopard cavalry, but only the loss of dozens of war horses.

Xiahoudun had already approached Liu Bei's soldiers under two rounds of arrow rain, of course he would not just be beaten and not fight back. Taking advantage of the gap just after the second round of arrow rain, he ordered: "Leopard rider release arrows!" Tiger Charge! ”

The fact that the Leopard Riders do not throw javelins does not mean that they do not have the means to attack from a distance. The tigers and leopards selected from the centurions rode skillfully with bows and horses, and were good at riding and shooting. Xiahoudun gave an order, and the leopard knight who was cowering behind the tiger horse raised his bow and shot.

In order to block the cavalry charge, Liu Bei placed the spearmen in the front line, and the archers shot in the back. This tactic was originally good, but Liu Bei didn't expect that Xiahoudun did not choose to charge forcibly, but chose to let the tiger rider as a shield and the leopard rider as a spear to charge in array. A rain of arrows shot by the leopard cavalry were all nailed to the spearmen in the front, taking Liu Bei by surprise and losing hundreds of spearmen.