Cao Xiu has now regretted it.

I knew that these soldiers should not have been allowed to make such a ring formation, but now that the original "rats" have now become "hedgehogs".

Cao Xiu immediately commanded the cavalry under his command to attack this chariot formation, and tried to kill and wound the enemy with cavalry shots.

But the problem is that now that the other party has formed a car formation, with antlers and baffles, plus the long shield in the hands of the soldiers, although Cao Xiu's tiger and leopard riders are good at riding and shooting, there is still no way to deal with such a thing.

In this era when there were no bilateral stirrups, mounted archery needed to maintain balance on the horse, and at the same time it was necessary to shoot arrows at the enemy, although the shooting power was not small, but the accuracy of archery was naturally not as good as that of flat ground projectiles, but the difficulty was much higher than that of flat ground projectiles.

Therefore, most of the arrows of the tiger and leopard cavalry were shot on the wooden plank that was one zhang high, and a small number of arrows crossed the plank, but Liu Beijun's soldiers basically hid on the side close to the plank, and they had a long shield as a defense, and there was really no loss.

Of course, if Cao Xiu can directly charge the formation regardless of casualties, it may also open the gap in this car formation. But the other party is only a thousand ordinary soldiers, and his side is a thousand tigers and leopards.

The soldiers of the tiger and leopard cavalry can be the captain of the hundred-man team in the ordinary army, and this kind of elite Cao Xiu does not dare to consume it as a consumable.

After running back and forth around this chariot formation six or seven times in a row, Cao Xiu ordered the tiger and leopard cavalry to regroup.

There is no way, seven-wheeled cavalry shooting, even if it is a tiger and leopard riding, the knight will feel a little sore.

Cao Xiu finally calmed down, thought about it carefully, and decided to give up entanglement with the car array in front of him.

They are cavalry, and the advantage of cavalry is speed, the speed at which they can fight for a thousand miles.

Moreover, Cao Xiu's main purpose was to intercept and kill Liu Bei, not to fight with the turtle shell here.

At that moment, Cao Xiu divided his troops, leaving two hundred tigers and leopards to contain these chariot formations, and he led the remaining eight hundred people to continue to pursue Liu Bei.

Most of the vicinity of Dangyang County is plains, and there are very few mountainous areas, which are the most suitable for cavalry to break through, and a single vehicle formation cannot block the roads in all directions.

And if the soldiers in the car formation were in a hurry to help Liu Bei and come out of the car formation, then the two hundred people left by Cao Xiu would be enough to pack up the 1,000 foot soldiers who were not protected by turtle shells.

Therefore, after Cao Xiu divided his troops, he continued to lead the tiger and leopard cavalry forward.

Along the way, Cao Xiu will also meet some fleeing people, but Cao Xiu is not as good-hearted as Liu Bei, as a general, he only needs his own goals in his eyes.

If these people were not on their own marching routes, or took the initiative to avoid their own rushing army, then Cao Xiu would not have been idle and ran to slaughter the people.

But if these people block their way, the tiger and leopard cavalry led by Cao Xiu will not be polite, and they will kill them if they should be killed, and they will not hesitate.

This is the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, an elite soldier in the world, but later disbanded by Cao Wei himself because of cost and military discipline problems.

Now Cao Xiu's target is Liu Bei, and these people are not in Cao Xiu's eyes, so he led the army to ignore the people and continue to advance until he encountered the second car formation.

This is the benefit of Zhang Fei's practice.

The broken soldier blew the bamboo whistle, and this bamboo whistle will continue until Zhang Fei can hear it.

Therefore, the first batch of broken troops were assembled and formed a chariot formation, blocking Cao Xiu's tiger and leopard cavalry for a while, and at the same time creating time for the soldiers behind to assemble.

That's how the second formation came about.

As soon as Cao Xiu saw that it was another car formation, he suddenly felt a headache.

After a tentative attack, he found that this car formation was also equally difficult, and immediately left two hundred people as a containment, and he led the remaining six hundred people to continue to pursue on a detour.

Cao Xiu didn't want to waste time, at this time, he hurried to catch up with Liu Bei, and after killing Liu Bei, these car formations would not be a cause for concern.

But Cao Xiu was also worried that if the other party continued to do this, then his 1,000-strong forward force would not be enough to divide into five car formations, and he would have no troops to divide.

But fortunately, Cao Xiu soon saw Liu Bei's cover.

The cover of this year is a symbol of the commander of the first army, so it is quite tall and conspicuous, and it can be seen clearly from a distance of one or two miles.

When Cao Xiu saw Liu Bei's cover, he was immediately overjoyed and killed Liu Bei's cover.

Liu Bei was indeed under the cover, but around Liu Bei's cover, there was a large car formation composed of 300 Wugang cars, which protected Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Xu Shu, and Liu Beijun's generals and family members.

And the commander of this car formation is Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei got the news that Cao Xiu had killed him early, so he directly gathered his troops on the spot and built a car formation.

In fact, Zhuge Liang was against Zhang Fei doing this.

Zhuge Liang is very clear about the operating principle of the car array, and Zhuge Liang is even more clear about the disadvantages of the car array.

Without cavalry to kill the enemy, the chariot formation is just a simple defensive tool, and it will be lost if it is defended for a long time.

Liu Bei couldn't afford to lose, and he wasn't sure when Guan Yu would be able to lead the army to help, so Zhuge Liang's suggestion was that Zhao Yun led his own cavalry to protect Liu Bei and leave first, and he and Zhang Fei used the chariot formation to block the enemy.

Zhuge Liang believes that there should not be many chasing forwards of the Cao army, and Zhuge Liang is confident that he will block Cao Xiu here for a while, and as for whether Cao Cao will personally lead the army to follow after that, Zhuge Liang does not know what to do.

Maybe they had to flee for their lives.

But Liu Bei disagreed, he couldn't leave his subordinates behind, and just leave the people and flee like this.

Therefore, Liu Bei vetoed Zhuge Liang's suggestion, and insisted on ordering Zhang Fei to set up a formation to hold on, and also played his own cover.

Liu Bei believed that Zhang Fei could hold on, and he also believed that Guan Yu and Zhang Xi could come to the rescue in time.

Zhuge Liang had no choice but to help Liu Bei think about how to defend against Cao's attack.

And when Zhuge Liang saw that Cao Jun was chasing only a few hundred cavalry, he twitched the corners of his mouth on the spot, not knowing what to say.

There are more than 5,000 soldiers on my side, and there are chariots to resist, and there are only a few hundred cavalry, this is really when I am a white-faced scholar, right?!

Even if it was a tiger and a leopard ride, Zhuge Liang didn't believe it, and with six hundred tigers and leopards riding it, he wanted to break through the car formation and kill the soldiers.

In fact, Cao Xiu also regretted it a little at this time.

I thought Liu Bei was busy running for his life, but I didn't expect that there were so many soldiers, and he actually formed a car formation. I knew that I should have waited for Cao Chun's army to arrive and join the five thousand tigers and leopards to ride, so I didn't have to care about what kind of car formation or not.

However, Cao Xiu is also a famous general after all, although he knows that he can't gnaw this meat and bone on his own, but he doesn't give up.

On the one hand, there was a car formation that continued to harass Liu Beijun, so that they did not dare to retreat easily, and on the other hand, they hurriedly sent people to urge Cao Chun to enter the army, and Liu Bei must not be allowed to escape.

But Cao Xiu has few troops after all, and the way he can do to contain it is to let his cavalry come from time to time to shoot and harass Liu Beijun in the chariot formation, so that they dare not retreat easily.

But Zhang Fei was disgusted to death by Cao Xiu's approach.

You said that if you Cao Xiu were a cavalry assault, he Zhang Fei was really not afraid, relying on the chariot formation, killing and injuring you with crossbows and bows and arrows, and sooner or later the six hundred cavalry would be consumed.

But now, this group of cavalry came and went like the wind and used cavalry shooting, and Liu Beijun's crossbows and bows and arrows were all useless.

Seeing that people were coming, he calculated the amount in advance, but when he shot out, he found that the other party had already run through the coverage of the bow and arrow, and the cavalry was much faster than the infantry.

This kind of work of calculating the amount of advance in these years is empirical work, not technical work.

Moreover, the speed of the cavalry can be fast or slow, and it is not moving at a uniform speed, even if it can be calculated in advance, there is no way to face the high mobility of the cavalry.

In addition, the tiger and leopard riders themselves are elite cavalry with a high armor coverage rate, and occasionally they are shot by loss, and they will not do any damage, only the lucky ones who happen to shoot the horses can cause some damage to the tiger and leopard riders.

The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry is not a heavy cavalry, so people wear armor, but horses do not wear armor, a bit like a combination of Assault cavalry and rangers.

Zhang Fei was disgusted half to death by such an army, it was really only them who beat others, and no one else beat them. Unless you have cavalry yourself.

At the beginning, when Zhang Xi taught Zhang Fei the method of the car formation, he said that the method of the car formation was only a half-finished product, and if it really had combat effectiveness, it was necessary to cooperate with the cavalry.

But Zhang Fei has never had cavalry, and there are only more than 100 cavalry in the entire Liu Bei army, which is under the jurisdiction of Zhao Yun, and at this time he is protecting Liu Bei and those families of the army.

Zhang Fei was really tired of being harassed by the tiger and leopard cavalry, so he went to Zhao Yun and asked him if he could find a way to let the cavalry out of the camp and go to scare those tigers and leopards to ride.

Zhao Yun was actually very embarrassed.

"Third brother, if the cavalry comes out of the camp, wouldn't it be to destroy the car formation, so wouldn't it give the enemy general a chance to take advantage of?!" Zhao Yun asked embarrassedly.

The front and back of the car array are connected from end to end, and there is no gate for people to enter and exit, if the cavalry wants to go out of the formation, it must be dismantled Cao Jun on the opposite side of the car formation will watch it like this? !

It's not too early to rush in.

As a result, Zhang Fei smiled, pointed to the two planks at the junction of the car array, and said, "Later, my son Long will lead the army, score the column, and kill it from here!" ”

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Fei took Zhao Yun to check the plank, and Zhao Yun immediately understood.

However, Zhao Yun still said to Zhang Fei, "Third brother, when the time comes out, the third brother still needs to listen to my orders, I will let the third brother open the gate of the village, and the third brother can open it, but it's good!" ”

Zhang Fei patted Zhao Yun's shoulder with a big grin and said, "According to what Zilong said, I will act according to orders!" ”

(End of chapter)