Cao Xiu led dozens of cavalry to flee back and met Cao Chun.

Cao Chun almost kicked his cousin to death.

Bring out a thousand tigers and leopards to ride, and there are only dozens left when you come back Last year in White Wolf Mountain, the tigers and leopards rode through the Wuhuan cavalry defense line and captured Wuhuan Shan Yu Tatun alive, and the loss was not so big.

Together with him Liu Bei, a person who fled, he brought a foot soldier, and he was actually more powerful than the Wuhuan cavalry? !

If it weren't for the fact that this was his cousin and nephew, and a young man that Cao Cao was optimistic about, Cao Chun would have chopped this bastard with a knife.

But after listening to Cao Xiu tell the reason for his defeat, Cao Chun really had the intention of chopping this idiot this time.

"You mean, you took a thousand tigers and leopards to ride and lost to a hundred rangers in a cavalry battle?!"

Cao Chun said as he punched and kicked Cao Xiu.

This time, I really can't bear the nest, I've never seen such a nest thing.

As a cavalry commander, Cao Chun still doesn't know what a ranger is, especially Liu Bei is not Cao Chun looks down on Liu Bei, even if Liu Bei forms a ranger, at most it is used to reconnoiter the enemy, can this thing go to the frontal battlefield? !

Even the rangers of the old Qin people came, and in the face of the tiger and leopard cavalry, Cao Chun also had the certainty of victory. This thing actually lost head-on?!

Cao Xiu endured his cousin's punches and kicks, and at the same time had to remind his cousin.

"That cavalry general is extraordinary, even if he rushes into the cavalry formation, there is no enemy."

Yes, the more he talked, the harder Cao Chun hit.

After the fight, he had to educate Cao Xiu and said, "What can one person do in the army?!" Even if your 500 cavalry can't be arrayed, won't you lead the cavalry that follows you?! However, there are more than 100 rangers, all of them have no armor, and there are few left, so why fight with the enemy?! ”

"This"

What can Cao Xiu say?!

said that as soon as he saw the enemy rushing out, he was enthusiastic for a while, thinking about defeating the enemy head-on, so he rushed up, isn't it looking for a beating?

As a general, you should stay calm at all times.

However, Cao Xiu faintly felt that there seemed to be something wrong with what his cousin said. Compare with the rangers to shoot on horseback, are you sure you're not looking for death?!

The foundation of the Ranger seems to be guerrilla cavalry

But at this time, Cao Xiu obviously wouldn't question his cousin and find a beating.

Cao Chun didn't want to continue to fight with Cao Xiu, and the main purpose now was to pursue Liu Bei.

Asking Cao Xiu to retreat to deal with his wounds, Cao Chun hurriedly led four thousand tigers and leopards to ride and continue to chase Liu Bei.

Cao Chun was not worried about Liu Bei running away at all, the people he met along the way were Cao Chun's best guides, and he learned from the people that this Liu Yuzhou did not abandon the people at all, but still maintained a speed of more than ten miles a day, advancing in the direction of Hanjinkou.

In the direction of Hanjinkou, Cao Chun knew that Cao Cao had already sent Xu Huang and Man Chong to seize it, so that Liu Bei was a fish in an urn and couldn't run away at all.

Therefore, Cao Chun chased all the way, and finally caught up with Liu Bei again near the Changban Bridge in Dangyang County.

It's just that at this time, Liu Bei and most of the people had already crossed the Changban Bridge, and Zhang Fei set up a car formation in front of the bridge and waited for it.

This is what Zhang Fei can find, and it is currently the most favorable place to guard.

The terrain has always been mostly plain, which is conducive to cavalry assault and not infantry at all.

But here at the longboard bridge, a five-zhang wide river blocks the way, and only one longboard bridge can be passed through more than 20 miles around.

Cao Chun didn't dare to be careless, so he arranged his cavalry to form an attack formation at the moment, and called Cao Xiu by the way, on the one hand, to ask him about the car formation, and on the other hand, to teach Cao Xiu and let him see how he fought.

Cao Chun divided his cavalry into four groups and took turns to mount and shoot.

The purpose of this step was the same as Cao Xiu's, it was to kill and injure the enemy troops surrounded in the car formation.

But the effect is the same as what Cao Xiu tested, and it is not easy to make at all.

Cao Chun frowned a little when he saw this. There is really something in this car formation, and Cao Xiu can't be blamed for it.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Chun directly changed the formation, turned into an impact formation, and commanded the cavalry to directly attack the vehicle formation.

This is to ignore the battle damage of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and directly let the cavalry storm the car formation, and destroy the car formation and then kill the enemy.

Cao Chun also said to Cao Xiu, "Zilie, you must know the reason that mercy is not in charge of the army. It is true that it is not easy for the tiger and leopard to ride into an army, but if we can kill Liu Bei, it will be worth the loss."

The so-called cavalry rush formation is not to say that they are really so stupid to crash into it, but that the cavalry carries the punch rod and uses the impact force brought by high speed to impact the outer wall of the car formation, strive to break the wooden planks of the outer wall, or simply break the cart.

After all, in Cao Chun's opinion, how do these cars look like folk carts loaded with forage, they shouldn't be too strong.

As for the losses. This is because once the cavalry charges into formation, there will definitely be a pause period after hitting the outer wall, and then the horse will be re-urged to turn and accelerate back into formation.

At this time, if the enemy releases arrows, the cavalry can only bear it alive, and those who are lucky can go back, and if they are unlucky, they will really die, after all, they are too close to dodge.

Therefore, Cao Chun intends to pay a certain price and must find a way to destroy these car formations.

But Cao Chun didn't expect that his method would not work.

Although the shape of this car array looks like a civilian cart, it is an ordnance, which is different from the shoddy manufacture of a civilian cart.

In addition, these improved versions of Wugang cars copied by Zhang Xi, in order to facilitate retreat and formation, the dead bolt design was not used between the two cars, but the live bolt was used, which had a certain alleviating effect on the longitudinal impact.

Therefore, Cao Chun looked as if the car formation was impulsive by the tiger and leopard riding, but no matter how it continued to impact, the car formation changed from a circle formation to an octagonal formation, but he still couldn't break through the defense of the car formation.

On the contrary, because Cao Chun used the method of charging into battle instead of riding and shooting, the direction of the cavalry's attack was relatively clear, giving Zhang Fei the opportunity to use crossbows and bows to cover the strike.

The losses of the tiger and leopard ride are still quite heavy.

More than 800 people came back from the 1,000-strong tiger and leopard cavalry charge, and more than 700 of them were able to fight again, and there were more than 200 casualties in one charge, either killed by crossbow shooting or wounded by bow and arrow.

This loss made Cao Chun hesitate a little.

Cao Chun didn't care about the casualties of two hundred people, but if he was killed or injured every time he rushed into battle, he was afraid that after three or four charges, he would have to lose a quarter of his troops.

But just like Cao Chun said, the opposite side is Liu Bei, and his goal is to intercept and kill Liu Bei, and to intercept and kill Liu Bei, you must break through this car formation and pass through the longboard bridge. Cao Chun gritted his teeth and continued to let the second team of tigers and leopards ride to charge the formation, but he didn't believe that he couldn't break through it.

The second thousand-man team still launched a charge, followed by the third, and the fourth tiger and leopard rider's fearlessness of death was vividly reflected at this moment.

Zhang Fei is also choking enough.

No matter what kind of car formation, it can't withstand the continuous impact of the tiger and leopard riding so fiercely and fearlessly. There are not many arrows left for crossbows and arrows for bows.

Liu Beijun said that the best thing is to retreat, and the bad thing is to flee, how can he bring too many ordnance, and there are not many arrows in the bow and crossbow.

The car formation, all rely on arrows to kill the enemy, once there are no arrows, then only the only thing left is to be beaten, and the final result is a Li Ling.

And Cao Chun obviously noticed this, and after he noticed that the arrows shot by Zhang Feijun began to become sparse, he immediately increased the frequency of the impact.

Zhang Fei really had no choice but to enlarge the killer - Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun once again led his more than 100 rangers into battle.

As soon as Cao Xiu saw Zhao Yun, his face changed, and he hurriedly reminded his cousin to be careful of this humanoid Gundam. Ahem, it's a brave general.

Cao Chun immediately smiled slightly, saying that he wanted to teach Cao Xiu a lesson.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Chun let the 1,000 tigers and leopards who were resting and recuperate attack, trying to surround Zhao Yun's rangers while shooting the enemy with their horses.

Then Cao Chun watched dumbfounded as Zhao Yun took more than a hundred rangers to move wildly in his cavalry encirclement, and forcibly took more than a hundred rangers out of the gap in the encirclement.

If you drill out, drill out, Cao Chun scolded his thousand people for being incompetent at most, or sighed that Zhao Yun's cavalry command ability was indeed superb.

But after Zhao Yun came out, he didn't return to the formation, but rushed directly in Cao Chun's direction.

Cao Chun's face immediately changed greatly, but fortunately, he was still calm and sent his second thousand-man team. Then Cao Chun was really scared.

Cao Chun originally thought that Zhao Yun would still use that kind of serpentine position, so he deliberately let the thousand-man team let go of the position facing the direction of Zhang Fei's car formation, just to let Zhao Yun stay away from his own formation, and let him return to the camp.

But Cao Chun didn't expect that Zhao Yun not only did not move in a serpentine shape this time, but seized the gap in his own troop transfer and came directly at Cao Chun's Chinese army.

What made Cao Chun even more dumbfounded was that the rangers with Zhao Yun as the arrow exerted an assault ability that was more terrifying than the tiger and leopard cavalry.

Like a hot knife touching butter, the tiger and leopard rider was cut open by Zhao Yun and rushed towards Cao Chun's main formation.

Cao Chun is not a person who has never seen the world, he also participated in the Battle of the White Horse that year, and he also witnessed Guan Yun's long formation of beheading Yan Liang. But now that he has become Yan Liang, this taste is not pleasant.

The key is that he feels that the military general who came at him, whether it is courage, martial arts, wisdom, or the command ability to adapt to the battle, seems to be really a bit of the shadow of Guan Yunchang at the beginning.

Good guy, I don't want to be like Yan Liang, I have to laugh for a thousand years when I die.

Without saying a word, I'll retreat!

Anyway, I'm a tiger and leopard rider, but it's not a foot soldier, and my retreat won't affect the combat effectiveness of the tiger and leopard rider too much.

Cao Chun was right, the tiger and leopard riders were all elite, and the will to fight would not be affected because the coach retreated.

But Cao Chun's retreat was equivalent to leaving an opening in his original position in the Chinese army, and Zhao Yun directly seized this opening to highlight the encirclement of the second thousand people, and killed the third tiger and leopard cavalry thousand people who had just returned to the camp and had not yet sorted out the formation.

It was a burst of people turning on their backs, and Cao Chun finally saw the power of the "martial general" in Cao Xiu's mouth.

Although the number of tigers and leopards of the thousand-man team that retreated was not neat, there were five or six hundred people at best, but they did not intercept Zhao Yun, let Zhao Yun kill a pair, and then calmly returned to the main formation.

And this time in the attack, although Zhao Yun himself also lost more than a dozen cavalry, Zhao Yun defeated an entire thousand-man team, and successfully disrupted Cao Chun's offensive rhythm and formation.

And after that, Cao Chun really didn't dare to continue to send troops to take turns to rush into battle, even if he wanted to rush into battle, he would leave enough protective troops around him It felt very uncomfortable to be targeted, especially by the kind of person who really had the ability to kill you in the army.

Cao Chun didn't want to come a second time.

(End of chapter)