Chapter 10: The Second Battle (Part II)
Cao Jun, who was shooting arrows outside the city, had already begun to turn around and run after Lu Bu led the army out of the city, if it was in the past, Lu Bu would not care about these people, but today is different.
The morale in the city has begun to turn, at this time, people's hearts have become very important, Cao Cao's move is actually very disgusting, Lu Bu didn't care before, that is because the people's hearts are gone, even if there are no these headless arrows, the military spirit in Xiapi City has been dispersed, but now, with the success of Lu Bu's night attack on Cao's camp, morale has begun to rise, and next, it is to let this morale spread to the whole army and even the whole city, naturally can no longer be laissez-faire.
Therefore, this time Lu Bu shot very ruthlessly, running back and forth with five hundred cavalry, biting these hundreds of Cao troops, but the killing was not fast, driving these Cao troops all the way to outside the Cao camp, seeing that the Cao camp was close in front of him, Lu Bu only shot the last dozen Cao troops outside the Cao camp with a round of arrows.
"Do you have the courage to perform this kind of chicken and dog crow, but no one dares to come out like a man to fight with a certain dignified person?" Lu Bu raised Fang Tian's halberd high, looked at the generals of Cao Ying on the gate, and said loudly.
Cao Jun's camp, on the wall, a famous Cao Jun looked at Lu Bu nervously, up and down the gate, silent, at the same time, two teams of cavalry from both sides of the Cao camp killed, straight to Lu Bu.
"Cavalry?" The corners of Lu Bu's mouth flashed a disdainful smile, since he wants to fight, then today he will teach you to know what a cavalry battle is!
"Let's go!" Lu Bu didn't really run to fight hard, if the two armies hedged, he couldn't fight with 500 people, although the world said that Lu Bu was a brave and reckless man, but Lu Bu on the battlefield had to be a different matter, he had wolf-like cunning and insight into fighters.
The five hundred cavalry are all followers of Lu Bu's southern expedition to the north, and have experienced countless battle formations, and even many of them are cavalry who have followed Lu Bu to fight the Hu people in the frontier, and their rich experience in cavalry is far from being comparable to these Central Plains cavalry who have not experienced real cavalry battles.
When the two cavalry lying on both sides of the barracks charged, Lu Bu did not hesitate to turn around and leave with the five hundred cavalry, so that the main generals of the two cavalry were slightly stunned, and then they bit Lu Bu tightly, they had two thousand people, and against only five hundred people, as long as they caught up, the five hundred cavalry would definitely be defeated.
Lu Bu did not speed up his escape, but began to run farther away with these cavalry, until the outline of Cao's camp could not be seen, Lu Bu on the red rabbit horse suddenly let out a roar, and at the same time had already taken off the carved bow from the horse, turned around, opened the bow, and pointed obliquely at the sky.
"Xiu Xiu Xiu~" At the same time as Lu Bu whistled, the five hundred soldiers bent their bows and arrows one by one, turned around, and one by one cold arrows rose from the cavalry formation, with a sharp whistling, and fell towards the chasing cavalry formation.
"Puff~"
Dozens of charging knights were shot down by sharp arrows falling from the sky, and the originally turbulent cavalry formation suddenly became chaotic, and the speed couldn't help but stagnate.
Cavalry archery, is the northern nomads habitual tactics, the cavalry of this era can not be assisted by stirrups, on horseback, all rely on the legs to clamp the horse's belly to maintain stability, so the cavalry of this era, combat effectiveness is not stronger than the infantry, this is also the Hu cavalry rampant, but in the face of the elite soldiers of the Han army, but there is little chance of victory, before Lu Bu to trap the camp to break the Cao army cavalry, is the northern border army to deal with the cavalry commonly used tactics.
And cavalry archery, is also among the Hu cavalry, more useful tactics, do not charge head-on, but in a wandering way to constantly consume the opponent's physical strength with arrows, until the opponent is exhausted, and then rush up to fight, of course, this is cavalry against infantry, if two cavalry combat, if one side does not master the cavalry archery, and the other side masters, then no matter how much the difference in strength between the two sides, the outcome is already doomed.
The reason why Lu Bu lured the other party away from the range of Cao's camp before he used it was to make it impossible for the other party to return to the camp in a short period of time, so that he had enough time to completely strangle the cavalry of Cao's army!
Cao Cao's cavalry brought too much threat to himself, without this cavalry, Cao's army would no longer be able to limit Lu Bu's ability, even if there were many troops, it was useless, and Lu Bu on the cavalry battlefield was invincible.
Although the Cao army is elite, some people follow suit and want to fight back with bows and arrows, but unfortunately, the tactics of mounted archery are not something that can be practiced in a period of time, and under the command of Lu Bu, only this veteran who has followed him for many years and followed him from the northern battlefield has this ability.
Crooked arrows are shot out in clusters, there is no power at all, and it takes a lot of strength and essence to maintain stability on a war horse, and it is almost impossible to shoot a bow and arrow out of the power of an infantry archer without years of practice and tempering on the edge of life and death.
Three rounds of arrow rain fell in succession, and the cavalry of the Cao army was shot by arrows and killed more than 100 people, but more cavalry were trampled to death by their own horse hooves because they accidentally fell off their horses because of dodging arrows.
"Not good!" In the camp of the Cao army, Cao Cao, who was standing on top of Diao Dou and looking at this side with a pergola in his hand, his face changed when he saw this, and Xiahou Dun on the side also looked gloomy: "This is the usual riding and archery technique used by the Hu people in the north, I don't want Lu Bu to have such cavalry!" ”
"Mingjin!" Cao Cao had already sensed that something was wrong, and if it continued like this, no matter how many of them were, they would not be able to form an encirclement of Lu Bu, so they could only be hung alive by Lu Bu like this, and he no longer hesitated at the moment, and directly ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.
Cao Cao's reaction was not unpleasant, but unfortunately, under Lu Bu's deliberate mobilization, the distance between the battlefield and Cao's camp was a little large, and when these cavalry heard the sound of gold and wanted to return, Lu Bu took the cavalry to spare a big circle and began to hang these cavalry, constantly shooting with arrows.
At the beginning, these cavalry could still maintain their formation, and were even ready to turn back and fight desperately at any time, but Lu Bu did not kill them directly, but led five hundred cavalry, constantly shuttling around the Cao army's cavalry, and arrows kept falling, constantly taking away the lives of Cao Jun.
"Roar~" Some people can't stand it and want to charge and kill the enemy, but Lu Bu doesn't give the other party a chance to get closer, whenever this kind of person appears, Lu Bu directly shoots a bow and shoots an arrow.
Lu Bu is like a fierce and cunning wolf, with his own wolf pack, unhurriedly following the opponent, as long as the opponent shows the slightest fatigue, he will take his wolf pack up to bite hard, but he does not love to fight, directly retreats, and continues to look for the next opportunity to shoot.
The cavalry of the Cao army wanted to retreat, but they couldn't retreat, and they wanted to fight to the death, but Lu Bu didn't give a chance at all, and the feeling of waiting for death made many Cao troops collapse directly, and frantically beat their horses towards Cao Ying, but they were quickly caught up by the Lu Bu cavalry who followed closely behind and shot ......