Chapter 1172: The Battle in the River Breaks Out
When Sun Ce, Sun Jian, father and son swept through one side of the Great Yue Kingdom, the most important battlefield in the river, the fledgling Cao Zhang had already clashed with Meng Ge's subordinate general Shi Tianze.
Cao Zhang's newborn calf was not afraid of tigers, so without saying a word, he led troops to attack Shi Tianze.
Cao Zhang's martial arts are strong, he drew a strong bow on the horse, shot through the armor of the opponent's cavalry, and killed more than ten people in a row!
The arrows in the quiver were exhausted, Cao Zhang's spear was changed, and he was sharp, and he and the tiger and leopard rode to defeat Shi Tianze's cavalry!
"Drink!"
Cao Zhang erupted, spears swirling in both hands, harvesting dozens of light cavalry!
"Braver than me...... It's really the courage of our Cao family! ”
Cao Xiu, a thousand-mile horse of the Cao family, couldn't help but be stunned when he saw Cao Zhang's superior force.
Whether it is Cao Xiu or Cao Chun, facing the brave Cao Zhang, it seems that they are a little worse.
Shi Tianze on the opposite side is eight feet tall, and he is also a fierce general, leading the Mongolian cavalry to fight Cao Zhang for the first time!
Two people rode horses, passed by, weapons collided, and sparks flew in an instant!
Cao Zhang glared at Shi Tianze angrily, and overwhelmed Shi Tianze by force!
Shi Tianze's body was shocked, and he retreated with the cavalry.
Cao Zhang's appearance caught Shi Tianze a little off guard.
In the information of the Golden Family, Cao Cao's sons were not mentioned.
Cao Zhang chased the light cavalry that Shi Tianze came to investigate all the way.
"Don't chase after the poor!"
Cao Xiu thought that Cao Zhang's experience was still a little worse, and if he rashly pursued, he might fall into the ambush plan of the Mongolian cavalry.
The Mongol cavalry has always been good at taunting and luring the enemy, and if you are not careful, you will be held back by the taunt skill.
"General, Lord Cao Xiu ordered you not to pursue!"
"The thieves are ahead, how can you not chase them!"
Cao Zhangzhu advanced suddenly, and Cao Xiu had no choice but to step forward to respond.
The sound of dense horses' hooves sounded, the edge of the desert, the sand and dust were rolling, and the war eagles of Tanmachi were soaring, and the cavalry of Cao Zhang, Cao Xiu, and Shi Tianze had been discovered.
"Stop the march!"
Cao Zhang was not entirely reckless, when he saw the overwhelming Mongolian cavalry and Persian cavalry on the horizon, and the dust rose to a height of tens of meters, so he restrained the war horse, and hundreds of tigers and leopards rode as the elite cavalry led by the Cao family, and the order was forbidden.
The banner of the Ilkhanate stretched for dozens of miles!
Meng Ge and Kublai Khan, members of the two golden families, personally supervised the battle!
The cavalry of the Ilkhanate was mixed with Persian soldiers.
Shi Tianze kept coming to Meng Ge on horseback: "My lord, the last general will encounter a general, and his appearance and strength are different from any military general in the intelligence. ”
"There are even generals outside of intelligence?"
Meng Ge and Kublai Khan couldn't help but be secretly surprised when they heard that there were other generals under Cao Cao's command.
Before the Golden Family and Chu Tian went to war, they had already inquired about the intelligence in advance, however, Cao Pi and Cao Zhang were outside the calculations of the Golden Family.
"Who the hell is it?"
"No one can be our opponent."
Möngke and Kublai Khan joined forces and led a large number of cavalry to march.
The wind was howling, the flags were in the air, and countless cavalry were crisscrossing.
Cao Zhang witnessed tens of thousands of cavalry crisscrossing hundreds of miles, with a solemn expression.
No one doubted the Golden Family's control over the cavalry. The glory of the Golden Family depends on cavalry.
"Ziwen, let's retreat, this group of guys, you need your father to deal with it!"
Cao Xiu urged Cao Zhang again.
Although Cao Zhang is strong in force and is not good at reading, his expression is Ziwen.
Thousands of soldiers were like black waves, pressing on the armies of Möngke and Kublai Khan.
Cao Cao personally commanded an army of 300,000, and his right eyelid kept jumping, feeling deeply disturbed.
This time, it was not the Mongol Empire lineup that Temujin was dealing with, but the lineup of the Yuan Dynasty and the Song Dynasty.
"Cao Zhang and Cao Xiu came back smoothly!"
When Cao Cao felt uneasy, Cao Zhang and Cao Xiu returned unharmed, which made Cao Cao breathe a sigh of relief.
While fighting Shi Tianze, Cao Zhang captured a Mongolian cavalryman alive and returned to Cao Cao.
"It's worthy of my yellow beard!"
Cao Cao couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw Cao Zhang's meritorious service.
Xun You and Guo Jia participated in the western expedition to advise Cao Cao, and they learned from the captives captured by Cao Zhang alive that the opposing military commanders who tried to make a detour from the west were the brothers Meng Ge and Kublai Khan.
"Meng Ge and Kublai Khan are not mediocre generals, except for Shi Tianze, Subutai, Wuliang Hetai, Mu Huali and others all served under their father Tuolei. I don't know how many generals Ogedai is going to go, and they will be deployed on the front, but they should be prepared for the worst. ”
Xun You was worried that the father and son of Subutai and Wuliang Hetai would serve under Meng Ge or Kublai Khan.
Subutai father and son are famous cavalry generals who span thousands of miles, and they are the main force of the Mongol expedition to the west and the destruction of the Song Dynasty.
Cao Cao heard that the father and son of Subutai and Wuliang Hetai might be in the west, and his face was solemn.
Subutai is a military general who fights Wei Qing and Huo Qubing head-on.
Guo Jia was no longer frivolous: "Subutai is likely to be recruited by Wokotai to deal with the two generals Wei Qing and Huo Quzhi." Despite this, it is necessary to cooperate closely with the Xiliang Army and flank the front and rear. ”
"Let the Xiliang army attack from the north in a roundabout way and cut off the troops of Ogedai and Meng Ge."
Cao Cao finally made the decision to face Meng Ge and Kublai Khan.
The five sons of Liang pulled out the camp and marched in the direction of Meng Ge and Kublai Khan.
Zhang Liao's Bingzhou wolf cavalry, Zhang He's halberd soldiers, and Yu Ban's Qingzhou army are all stubborn and murderous.
The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry of the Cao and Xiahou clans pressed in the rear.
Meng Ge and Kublai Khan's troops divided into two routes, trying to flank Cao Cao's 300,000 soldiers and horses from the left and right.
Zhang Liao, as a battle-hardened general, was deployed in front, holding a halberd, and behind him were thousands of wolf riders.
After no longer serving as the defender of Hefei, Zhang Liao served as the commander of the army under Cao Cao and was made a marquis for his merits.
Transferred out of Hefei, Zhang Liao lost many deputy generals, and the current deputy generals are Hu Sanniang, as well as Zang Ba and Sun Guan.
Zang Ba and Sun Guan followed Chutian for a longer time, and also participated in the Western Expedition, although their abilities were not high, they also made great achievements.
Hu Sanniang had already noticed that the number of war eagles in Tanmachi was increasing, indicating that a strong enemy was approaching.
Woo –
The distant sound of trumpets echoed on the west side of the Syr Darya River, and groups of Mongol and Persian cavalry appeared from the horizon, black and overwhelming, almost endless.
The blue wolf and white deer battle flag, which symbolized the steppe empire, hunted in the wind, and the Mongol cavalry chose the upper hand position in favor of cavalry archery and charge.
"Kill!"
Shi Tianze returned to Meng Ge and served as the commander of ten thousand soldiers, leading tens of thousands of troops to attack!
"And the state wolf rides, meet the enemy!"
Zhang Liao ordered to face Shi Tianze, who was good at attacking the heart!
"Even if we die in battle, there are still tigers ......"
Hu Sanniang pulled out her double knives and prepared to follow Zhang Liao to fight to the death.
Zhang Liao's son Zhang Hu is about to grow up, so Hu Sanniang has no worries.
"Sun Guan, don't die this time."
Only the one-eyed Zang Ba was left and said to Sun Guan, who shared life and death.
"Don't worry, our two brothers have been fighting for more than 20 years, born and died, but which time did they die?"
Sun Guan took off a spear and faced the mighty Mongol and Persian cavalry.
Kublai Khan and Möngke divided their troops as a surprise team!
The outbreak of the contact battle between Cao Zhang and Zhang Liao means that the decisive battle in the river has begun!
"Cao Cao's army seems to have begun to engage the battle, quickly entering the battlefield and flanking the Mongol-Persian army!"
Xu Fengnian, the coach of the Xiliang Army, felt the murderous aura that permeated him.
The Western Liang army was in front, Cao Cao's army was behind, Meng Ge and Kublai Khan were found by the Iron Eagle scouts, and the Western Liang army, under the leadership of Xu Fengnian, quickly returned to the division and tried to converge with Cao Cao's army.
Kublai Khan led the Persians to surrender and cut off the Western Liang Army and the Hebei Army, fighting for the opportunity for Meng Ge to defeat Cao Cao.
To the east of the Syr Darya River, Chutian's Praetorian Guard, Wang Qian's Guanzhong Army, and Wei Qing's Youzhou Army began to engage in contact battles with Ogedei.
The opponents of the father and son of Subutai and Wuliang Hetai are still Wei Qing and Huo Quzhi.
The number of troops on both sides is too large, and the battle line alone stretches for thousands of miles.
In addition to the two major forces of the Great Xia Dynasty and the Golden Family, the exiled Sultan Arslan of the Serju Empire led more than 100,000 Serju cavalry to camp on the edge of the battlefield and sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight.
When many of the Seljuks learned that Arslan had returned, they came to defect.
"It's better to let them lose both."
Arslan doesn't want either side to win.