Chapter 947: A Massacre

With a roar like rolling thunder, a large black shadow appeared on the hillside.

The black pressed a group of cavalry, like a tide, surging towards the Cao army in the valley.

While the Qin cavalry was charging, the crossbowmen were constantly firing arrows at the Cao army.

Cao Hong, who was taken by surprise, wanted to line up for defense, but no one would take his orders into account in the rain of arrows.

Four or five guards held large shields in front of Cao Hong, and the arrows fired by the strong crossbowmen of the Qin army on the hillside were covering them with their heads and faces.

The arrows landed on the shield, making a "tuk-tuk" sound.

A guard standing in front of Cao Hong, the big shield in his hand was deflected to the side by the arrow.

With just a deflection of the trail, an arrow followed by an impartial bolt into the guard's forehead.

The arrow pierced the guard's forehead, and the guard stumbled backwards and fell to the ground.

The guard who had been hit by the arrow fell to the ground, and immediately another guard stood in front of him with large shields.

The cavalry of the Qin army surging down the hillside was getting closer and closer, and the moment the cavalry rushed down the hillside, the strong crossbowmen of the Qin army who were firing arrows in a formation on the mountainside finally stopped the firing of the strong crossbows.

The arrows gradually stopped, but Cao Jun didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief at all.

At the moment when the arrows stopped, two thousand Qin cavalry had already rushed into Cao's army.

The Cao army did not line up a neat array at all, and when the Qin cavalry rushed down, the scattered Cao army was instantly scattered.

The Cao army, which had been shot by arrows and had lost much fighting spirit, saw the Qin cavalry rushing down, and remembered that there were not many people to fight back, but more to drag weapons and flee to both sides of the valley.

A soldier of the Cao army hid behind the big shield, and the big shield in front of him was already full of arrows.

The Qin army's strong crossbowmen finally stopped firing arrows at them, and before this Cao army had time to breathe a sigh of relief, the thunderous roar was already close at hand.

Hearing the thunderous roar, the soldier was stunned for a moment, and quickly poked his head out from behind his shield and glanced ahead.

Just this glance suddenly made him frightened, and he almost sat on the ground in shock.

What appeared in his sight were patches of Qin cavalry.

The cavalry of the Qin army brandishing the Pu knife rushed into the Cao army, the war horses were rampant, and the Pu knife in the hands of the soldiers was also waved and chopped, knocking the Cao army to the ground one by one.

Glaring at the slaughter that took place in front of him, the soldiers of the Cao Army, who had just escaped from the hands of death with a big shield in their hands, already had a chill in their hearts.

Looking at the companions in front of them falling one by one under the swords of the Qin cavalry, the Cao soldiers stayed for a while before coming back to their senses.

When he woke up from his shock and fear, his first reaction was to quickly pull his legs and run away.

As soon as he stood up, the soldier of the Cao army tried his best to restrain his fear, dragged his two legs, which were so weak that he almost collapsed to the ground, turned around and ran backwards.

As soon as he took a step, a fishy wind peculiar to livestock rushed towards him.

Before he could react to what was going on, a sturdy war horse had already collided with the Cao soldier fiercely.

The physique of the war horse is strong, how can a man be able to hit it hard.

A man and a horse collided in one place, and the Cao soldier even heard the sound of his chest breaking clearly.

The powerful force of the collision knocked the Cao soldier into the air and flew up, and he fell to the ground.

After falling to the ground, he did not die immediately, the bones in his chest were broken by the war horse, and he fell to the ground, and the soldiers of the Cao army did not even have the strength to get up.

Qin Jun, who was riding a war horse and bumped into him, obviously didn't intend to let him go, and just after he fell to the ground, the Qin army gently clamped his legs towards the horse's belly and rode towards him.

The war horse passed by Cao Jun who was lying on the ground, and Qin Jun on horseback leaned down, and the Pu knife in his hand was attached to the backbone of Cao Jun, drawing a silver light and shadow.

The Pu knife slashed across Cao Jun's backbone, and the leather armor on Cao Jun's body lying on the ground was suddenly cut open, and a stream of blood shot up like a fountain.

The Pu knife in his hand split the backbone of the Cao soldiers, and the Qin army, which rode through on horseback, did not linger for a moment, and rode to kill the other Cao soldiers.

The Cao army in the valley was far more numerous than the Qin cavalry that rushed down the hillside.

But when they were suddenly attacked, they were already in a mess.

The Qin army's strong crossbowmen stopped firing arrows, and some Cao cavalry quickly ran back to the place where they tied their horses, turned over and jumped on their horses, and rode their horses towards the sides of the valley.

The general trend has gone, and there is no power to reverse it, Cao Hong saw the soldiers under his command being slaughtered by the Qin army, but there was no way at all.

"General, let's go!" The cavalry of the Qin army became more and more courageous, and the Cao army was already retreating like a tide, and was being slaughtered by the Qin army like driving away the pigs, and an officer in front of Cao Hong shouted, set up Cao Hong, and wanted to drag him away from the battlefield.

Although the 10,000 soldiers and horses under Cao Hong's command were adapted from the Qingzhou Army that served Cao Cao in the later period, Cao Hong still refused to admit that in this battle, he would be beaten without the power to fight back.

"General Ben is not leaving! Kill with this general! Dragged by the officer, Cao Hong struggled and shouted loudly: "Those who retreat in vain, behead!" ”

The military order is like a mountain, but now that the rout has been completed, where can the officer still care about the death order issued by Cao Hong.

Seeing that Cao Hong was not leaving, the officer shouted to several guards on the side: "Escort the general away!" ”

Knowing that there was no possibility of reversing this battle, the guards also responded, stepped forward to set up Cao Hong, and dragged him towards several war horses not far away.

The scattered Cao army did not have a unified command at all, and because they were afraid that there would be an ambush of the Qin army on the hills on both sides, they did not dare to run up the hillside when they fled, but just ran towards the exits at both ends of the valley like a tide.

After all, the officer who dragged Cao Hong with several guards was a veteran who had been on the battlefield many times, and he did not mess around like others, and when the guards dragged Cao Hong up, he pointed to a hillside where there was no Qin army, and shouted: "Go up the mountain!" ”

"General Ben is going to kill you!" The officer took the guards and escorted Cao Hong to the war horse, and Cao Hong, who was unwilling, did not stop, glared at the officer angrily, and shouted viciously.

"The general wants to kill, it's not too late to kill after he escapes!" Knowing that staying here was also a dead word, the officer didn't take Cao Hong's words to heart at all, and responded loudly, holding a short spear, and poked the buttocks of the war horse under Cao Hong's crotch with the shaft of the spear.

The war horse was in pain, neighed, and carried Cao Hong towards the hillside where there was no Qin army.

Cao Hong was carried by his horse and ran towards the hillside in the distance, and the officer beckoned to the other guards and rode after him.

Some Qin cavalry not far away found Cao Hong fleeing and shouted, and hundreds of cavalry followed Cao Hong and others closely and chased after them.

Only a few hundred cavalry were chasing after Cao Hong, and many more cavalry were still chasing and slashing Cao's army in the valley.

Most of the Cao soldiers who escaped relied on two legs to escape.

Where can people's legs run over war horses, and on the way of Cao's army's escape, there are dead bodies or seriously injured people who have been chopped to the ground by the Qin army.

A group of Cao cavalry, who were the first to jump on horseback, were about to flee to the mouth of the valley.

Before they could rejoice in escaping from the battlefield, a swath of Qin infantry suddenly poured out of the valley in front of them.

In the dark, when I saw the infantry of the Qin army, the distance between the two sides was very close.

Before this group of Cao cavalry had time to rein in their horses, the Qin infantry that had just poured out had already rushed to them.

In the night, it was impossible to see how many people there were in the Qin army, and this group of Cao army cavalry was shocked in their hearts, and before they had time to react, they were already surrounded by the Qin infantry that had surged up.

After being surrounded, a Cao cavalryman raised the short spear in his hand, and with all his strength, he pierced the short spear towards a Qin soldier.

The soldiers of the Qin army held the handle of the Pu knife tightly with both hands, and at the same time that Cao Jun pierced the short spear towards him, he had already picked up the Pu knife and slashed it towards the neck of the war horse under the crotch of the Cao army.

With all his strength, he slashed the Pu knife into the neck of the war horse under Cao Jun's crotch.

With the silver arc of light drawn by the Pu knife, the huge head of the war horse was slashed off with a knife, tumbling and falling to the ground.

Blood gushed from the thick neck, and the severed horse fell to the ground.

The Cao army on horseback only cared about lifting the short spear to stab the Qin army, and did not care about the war horse under the crotch at all.

The headless war horse fell to the ground, and Cao Jun couldn't get out of it, and was pressed by the heavy body of the horse on one leg.

Falling from the horse, Cao Jun was thrown into a lot of meat, and his legs that were pressed by the horse's corpse were also numb.

Enduring the pain, the soldiers of the Cao army tried their best to pull their legs out from under the corpse of the war horse.

Just as he was trying to pull that leg out, a knife cut off the head of his war horse, and Qin Jun had already strode in front of him, raising his foot and kicking towards his heart.

The chest was kicked by Qin Jun, and the soldiers of Cao Jun immediately fell to the ground on their backs.

What appeared in front of his eyes was a silver and shiny blade.

Holding the handle of the Pu knife in both hands, the Qin army stabbed the Pu knife into the face of the Cao soldiers.

The sharp Pu knife pierced deep into Cao Jun's face, and Cao Jun didn't even have time to hum before he cut off his breath.

When the crossbowmen and cavalry attacked Cao's army, the Qin heavy infantry could only make a detour to both sides of the valley.

Seeing the Cao army at this time, where would the heavy infantry soldiers have a little delay, the Pu knife in their hands flew over, and they continued to slash the Cao army that was driven to the edge of the valley by the cavalry.

Standing on the hillside, Li Ji and the generals who led the army with him to attack Cao's army stood on horseback.

Looking at the bloody slaughter scene like a meat grinder at the foot of the mountain, Li Ji and the partial general were speechless, and their faces showed a piece of joy before the victory.