Zhao Yun was waiting, waiting for a suitable time to attack.

Cao Xiu was also waiting, waiting for Cao Chun to quickly lead the troops to follow and surround Liu Bei.

But in the end, it was Zhao Yun who seized the opportunity first.

Cao Xiu still ordered the tiger and leopard to ride in front of the chariot formation and harass Liu Beijun.

Zhao Yun did not choose to attack at the first time, but waited for the moment when the tiger and leopard were tired of riding, or relaxed their vigilance.

The current situation is obvious, Cao Xiu can ask the tiger and leopard to ride and shoot from time to time to attack the car formation, but Liu Beijun did not dare to leave the car formation at all, so he could only shrink in the car formation and shoot arrows to defend passively.

After going back and forth like this a few times, even if Cao Xiu was not careless, those tiger and leopard knights would feel that the enemy could not do anything about them, so they slowly relaxed their vigilance.

In addition, riding and shooting is not without physical strength, and opening the bow requires a high level of arm strength, so after several rounds of riding and shooting, the soldiers of the tiger and leopard riders will also be tired and careless.

What Zhao Yun is waiting for is this opportunity.

It was another round of cavalry shooting, and at this time, the tiger and leopard knights didn't even have a basic offensive formation, just thinking about rushing to Liu Bei's car formation as soon as possible, and returning to the army to rest after shooting a round of arrows.

And Zhao Yun chose the moment when the tiger and leopard rode to shoot arrows and was ready to return to the army, so Zhang Fei opened the small door.

The four small doors opened at the same time, and Zhao Yun led more than 100 cavalry to kill from the car formation, using Zhao Yun as an arrow, quickly forming a sharp arrow formation, and killing the tiger and leopard who retreated after shooting the arrow.

Of course, the tiger and leopard knights who had just finished shooting arrows had no way to immediately turn their horses' heads to meet the enemy, and their formation at this time was incomplete.

But fortunately, Cao Xiu was still calm, and as soon as he saw the cavalry appearing in the car formation, he made a decision immediately.

Let the tiger and leopard knights who had finished shooting the arrows first form a formation, and he led dozens of tiger and leopard riders who had not been used, using him as an arrow, using the arrow formation against the arrow formation, and killing Zhao Yun in the past.

I have to say that Cao Xiu is a famous general in the end, and when he commanded the tiger and leopard cavalry to harass and raid, he was always on guard against the possible surprise attack of the enemy army.

Although Cao Xiu thought that it might be a foot soldier, so he only left a few dozen tiger and leopard cavalry as a reserve army, but thinking about it, this is a tiger and leopard cavalry, even if it is more than a hundred cavalry that comes out, it should be no problem, right?!

Then, reality gave Cao Xiu a shot.

It's a real shot.

Cao Xiu personally led dozens of tigers and leopards to ride against more than a hundred rangers led by Zhao Yun. In just one staggered round, Cao Xiu saw a flash of white light in front of him, and Cao Xiu, who was not good for a while, subconsciously sank his shoulders, and then felt a numbness in his shoulders, followed by a sharp pain.

Cao Xiu was shocked and angry.

What is surprising is that he is a martial artist and has been fighting for a long time, but he is not the enemy of the enemy on the opposite side.

A single shot made people stab in the shoulder, and they were no longer able to fight with a knife.

And the anger is that the dozens of tigers and leopards behind him can't stop the sharpness of this cavalry general, almost all of them dismount, so that the enemy can rely on his own strength to kill his own cavalry, and then ride directly at the hundreds of tigers and leopards who are preparing to assemble without looking back.

The rest of the things, Cao Xiu was even more dumbfounded.

Even if the tiger and leopard ride for a long distance and ride and shoot several rounds in a row here, they are already exhausted. But you are the tiger and leopard horseman, the most elite unit of all the branches of the Cao army, with the highest salary, everyone wearing armor, and the number is enough to 500 people.

Why did you just let the rangers of more than 100 people turn their horses on their backs, and they couldn't even assemble the army array?!

That's a ranger, a ranger with no armor, a ranger who is still good at archery and fragile in hand-to-hand combat, don't you really embarrass the tiger and leopard riders?!

But what about being embarrassed, Cao Xiu can't even hold a knife himself now, what can he do?!

Cao Xiu was helpless, gritted his teeth, stomped his feet, and directly issued an order to flee for his life on the spot.

If you continue to fight, you will be slaughtered, it is better to flee for your life in all directions, and you can escape as much as you can.

Cao Xiu also had no choice, of course he knew that such an order would bring great losses to the tiger and leopard cavalry, but if he didn't give such an order, the loss of the tiger and leopard cavalry would be even greater, and the cavalry general would take the ranger to guerrilla to death, and the last one would not be able to escape.

As for Liu Bei, although he was very unwilling, Cao Xiu could only withdraw first, and after converging with Cao Chun, he would lead the army to pursue.

Cavalry is always faster than infantry.

Therefore, after Cao Xiu gave the order, he immediately retreated to the north under the escort of the remaining cavalry.

But Zhao Yun is not stupid, and when it comes to cavalry command, Cao Xiu is not a general of the same level compared to Zhao Yun.

Cao Xiu ordered the tigers and leopards to scatter and break through, but Zhao Yun didn't care about other directions at all, and only chased Cao Xiu, who fled in the north direction, and chased and beat him all the way.

One Cao Xiu was the main general, and the other, Zhao Yun knew that once the cavalry retreated, it was basically impossible to immediately reflexively fight.

And Cao Xiu wanted to get rid of his pursuit, so he could only go to the place where there were formed cavalry, Zhao Yun was so eager to chase Cao Xiu, just so that Cao Xiu had no time to collect the rout, so he could only take himself to the place where there were still formed cavalry, and Zhao Yun did not give Cao Xiu a chance to reorganize the army, and used Cao Xiu's rout to disperse the influence of the formation of the cavalry and the formation and morale of the cavalry, and broke the enemy in one go.

This tactic will also be inherited and used by Tang Taizong five hundred years later, and the effect is very good, defeating Xue Rengao in a battle and sweeping away Longyou.

Cao Xiu was a little less experienced after all, and he also knew that he had to have the combat strength of the formation to stop Zhao Yun, so he could only go to the road where he was going, and there were a total of 400 cavalry that he left behind to contain the two car formations.

As long as he can integrate the 400 cavalry, he may be able to surround and kill the pursuers in turn, after all, there are only more than 100 cavalry in the pursuers, and they are still rangers.

But Cao Xiu found that this matter was a pit.

He had just gathered the two hundred cavalry left in the second response point, and before he could line up, Zhao Yun had already killed him, and this timing was too uncomfortable for Cao Xiu.

And Cao Xiu was even more uncomfortable because the two hundred and seventy or eighty cavalry under his command still failed to successfully form a formation, and they were still broken one by one by the general with white horses and silver spears in a chaotic battle.

Cao Xiu had no choice but to move forward to the first containment point, and the final result was just a repetition of the same process.

At this time, Cao Xiu also knew that he had been fooled, so he could only lead dozens of cavalry, galloping to the north without looking back, and then make plans after meeting Cao Chun.

Zhao Yun didn't continue to chase either, because Liu Beijun in the first formation told him that there were no more people of his own behind him, so Zhao Yun stopped, otherwise it would be funny to catch up and bump into Cao Jun's army.

Zhao Yun stopped marching, and at the same time took over the command of the chariot array, leading the defenders of the chariot array to slowly retreat and go to join Liu Bei.

And Liu Bei, on his side, has been waiting for Zhao Yun to come back for a long time.

Really, Liu Bei hadn't seen cavalry attack, but he really hadn't seen such a one-sided pursuit, and he felt extremely incredible that Zhao Yun defeated more than 500 tiger and leopard cavalry with more than 100 rangers.

As soon as Zhao Yun reported, Liu Bei learned that Cao Xiu's 1,000 tiger and leopard cavalry had suffered heavy losses, and Cao Xiu only fled with dozens of people, and he laughed even more happily.

But Zhuge Liang couldn't laugh.

Since Cao Cao sent troops to hunt down Liu Bei, it was definitely impossible to send only a thousand people, even if it was a tiger and a leopard horse, this was unrealistic.

Therefore, Cao Xiu's retreat this time is likely to go to join the reinforcements, and the next time he comes, it is likely that it will be the tiger and leopard cavalry.

Zhuge Liang has now seen the ability of the tiger and leopard to ride, if it weren't for the fact that there were too few soldiers, Zhao Yun was taken by surprise, relying on his superb force value and cavalry command ability, it is really difficult to say what the result would be.

If it has always been suppressed by tigers and leopards riding and shooting like in the early days, even if there is a car formation, it will only be a matter of time before it is breached.

And Zhuge Liang was worried that Cao Cao would also personally lead the army and come to pursue.

If Cao Cao came in person, the chariot formation would still face the infantry with an absolute advantage in numbers, and the chance of victory would be almost zero.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang persuaded Liu Bei not to go south to Jiangling now, and simply went directly to Hanjinkou, relying on Zhang Xi and other sailors there, and retreating to Jiangxia to make plans.

Liu Bei was as good as he was in this regard, and immediately ordered the whole army to turn around, from the south to the west, to the Hanjin Pass.

As for the people, Liu Bei also came forward to persuade these people, if they were willing to follow them to Jiangxia, he would also treat them well, but if they wanted to go south to Jiangling, then Liu Bei would not stop them.

But it is obvious that it is not Liu Bei who coerces these people, but these people who voluntarily follow Liu Bei south to Jiangling are a minority after all, and most of them are still willing to follow Liu Bei to Hanjinkou together.

Zhuge Liang was now accustomed to it, and knew that he couldn't abandon these people at all, so he marched according to the original plan, letting Zhang Fei lead the infantry to protect, while Zhao Yun's cavalry was recuperating in the Chinese army.

Now Zhuge Liang also understands that Zhao Yun's cavalry team is the key, as long as this team is there, even in the face of chasing soldiers like the tiger and leopard cavalry, Liu Beijun has the strength to fight.

(End of chapter)