Cao Jun's thousands of horsemen swarmed and swept towards the right flank of Shen Chenjun's army.

Shen Chen rode on horseback and couldn't help but praise: "This Cao Rong is worthy of being a descendant of Cao Cao, but he has some level." ”

Although Cao Rong has never really fought in history, what is more surprising is that his command ability is actually not bad in the fight, and the other party chose to play on his strengths and avoid his weaknesses.

The strength of the cavalry lies in mobility, and the frontal toughness of the infantry is definitely not beatable, so Cao Rong first sent hundreds of cavalry to contain the main Han army, and then planned to concentrate on breaking their right flank first.

It's all about breaking down one by one.

If Shen Chen's right wing was far away, it was really possible for Cao Rong to succeed. But the right flank was only about half a mile away from the main formation, how could he not react?

At that moment, Shen Chen immediately responded, and ordered a general to lead two people over to help.

With the sound of a sharp whistle, several groups of Han soldiers in orange leather armor split out of the large phalanx, swirled and marched forward in three rows, and their leather boots stepped on a long circle of floating dust and moved to the right.

Cao Jun pinned down the cavalry in the middle and wanted to come over to intercept it, but Shen Chen's main force quickly approached, and at the same time, another group of people was separated from the rear formation, and began to move in a direction further to the right again.

In this way, the situation of the entire battlefield became that the main formation of the Han army shifted to the right, and the main force of the Cao army galloped in the direction of their left hand.

The cavalry of the Cao army came fiercely, and the Han army had just moved to meet the outflanking troops of the Han army on the right, and after the two-wheeled cavalry shot, the formation of the right flank of the Han army was slightly scattered, and Cao Rong immediately issued an order for a surprise attack.

They did not directly attack head-on, but had hundreds of cavalry first detour to the flank of the Han army's flank further to the right, and cooperate with the cavalry that was suppressed with bows and crossbows in front to cut off the waist.

This is the standard cavalry attack, pinned in the front and outflanked on the flanks.

Although Shen Chen also wanted to outflank the two flanks, the mobility of the cavalry was placed here, so at the beginning, the Han army was hit the head, but it lost its advantage.

But then Shen Chen made adjustments, in addition to sending people to help, he also immediately organized scout cavalry, quickly bypassed the battlefield and came to the flank of the Cao cavalry in front, and launched a surprise attack at the same time.

Cao Jun plotted his right flank team, how could he not be greedy for the other party to contain the troops head-on?

If the other side picks up the troops and chooses to withdraw, then the main force of the Han army will directly pounce on the flank of the Cao cavalry on the right flank, which will make a big hole appear there.

Therefore, the Cao army gritted its teeth and fought with the scout soldiers of the Han army.

The number of scout soldiers was not large, only two teams of about a hundred people, while the Cao army had a scale of four or five hundred people, and it was obviously impossible to compete head-on.

However, their role has been completed, and they have successfully dragged the main force of the Han army closer, and the more than 2,000 Han troops in the front were quickly entangled with hundreds of Cao troops, killing people on their backs in an instant, and there were screaming Cao troops everywhere.

The elite cavalry of the Cao army are all wearing small armor, but after all, the defense is not as good as the big armor, only protecting the chest and stomach, and other parts should be injured or injured, not to mention that they are trapped in the infantry formation, and the horses have also been attacked, and the losses are very large, and they are killed and wounded in the slow strangulation.

But at the same time, the right-wing Han army was also attacked by Cao's army, and many people were killed and wounded. After the people sent by Shen Chen's main formation to support arrived, Cao Rong kept looking at the situation in the middle formation, and saw that the hundreds of cavalry in the middle formation were about to be wiped out, so he immediately gave the order to retreat.

"Woooooooooooo

The desolate sound of the horn resounded throughout the wilderness, and the cavalry of the Cao army, who were still fighting, immediately withdrew from the battlefield and quickly moved closer to the position of Cao Rong in the rear.

Although the Han army pursued all the way, Cao's army fled to the east, running for several miles at once, leaving the Han army behind.

Seeing this, Shen Chen also made people knock on the copper cymbals, and Mingjin asked the soldiers to come back.

"This Cao Rong is a bit level."

Shen Chen looked to the northeast, and after Cao's army quickly gathered, he moved away from the battlefield and moved to the east without a trace.

There was a guard next to him who wondered: "Cao Rong lost his soldiers, this is also a level?" ”

Shen Chen frowned and said, "Don't look at the hundreds of people they lost, but we lost even more. ”

"But they're all cavalry."

The guard said: "Even if the infantry is more damaged in a battle with the cavalry, one horse can be used as six steps. ”

"Look over there."

Shen Chen pointed in a farther direction on the guide surface.

There were about 1,000 Han troops rushing out, but unfortunately they didn't intercept the Cao army, so they could only watch the Cao army march away.

Shen Chen said: "That is the left flank of the past, I originally wanted to use the tactics of adding fuel to the army, deliberately fighting with Cao Wei's cavalry in the middle of the battle, slowly and continuously sending small forces to surround them, boiling frogs in warm water to surround their main force, but Cao Rong took advantage of it like a rabbit and ran, this person's skills are not bad, and the whole army will be wiped out if he is one step slower." ”

The guard's eyes widened, and for a moment he didn't know whether to say that Shen Chen's tactics were clever, or that Cao Rong was really capable. Anyway, even if he has followed the Metropolitan Governor for many years, if he changes his command in the past, he will probably be hung up and beaten by the Metropolitan Governor.

Only Shen Chen's brows were still furrowed.

He sent another 1,000 men on the right flank, and then another 1,000 men came to support, and the two sides fought for about half an hour. Because the Han army did not bring too many things with it during the rapid march, and did not bring bows, crossbows and arrows, the horses of the Cao army with cavalry bows took the lead and shot many people.

Then Cao Rong cut off the right flank formation of the Han army by blocking the left and right, killing and wounding at least about seven or eight hundred people, compared to Cao Wei's side only lost four or five hundred people, the number of casualties of the Han army was obviously more than that of the Cao army.

Of course.

If you count the loss of horses, the battle losses of the Cao army must be higher than that of the Han army, but Shen Chen is more concerned about casualties, so he feels a little heartache.

In fact, if Cao Jun could be left behind, such casualties would be acceptable.

However, Cao Rong actually has some ability.

In addition to sending two songs and 1,000 people over, Shen Chen also sent one group of people to the right to continue to outflank, and the original left wing men and horses also bypassed, totaling about 1,500 people plus 2,000 people on the right wing who were fighting, and carried out counter-outflanking operations against about 2,000 cavalry of Cao's army.

On the contrary, there were only more than 2,000 people left on his main side, and the four or five hundred people who were pinned down by Cao's army were fighting.

If Cao Rong didn't notice these things wrong, and continued to entangle with the Han army, those people suddenly killed and cut off the back of the opponent's cavalry, and at the same time, Shen Chen's side also easily solved the front troops of the Cao army, then these cavalry would be completely gone.

Cao Ei himself is estimated to be hunted down to death.

It's a pity that this Cao Rong really has a keen sense of smell, and he ran away at the most critical time.

"Chase!"

Shen Chen rode to the battlefield where Cao Jun was killed, found several Cao Jun war horses in a row, touched their bodies, and gave the order to pursue.

Every horse is sweaty, which means that the other party should be rushing over, and there won't be too much time to rest.

His soldiers are different, they have rested this morning, and they are still relatively energetic.

It seems that Cao Rong thought that I was a feint attack force to attack Luoyang, but it just so happened that he sent Luoyang's troops out to search for Huchuquan and let me succeed, so he wanted to defeat me and recapture Luoyang.

Shen Chen thought in his heart as he rode his horse and shouted as the soldiers continued to pursue.

That's a comparison of who has the stamina to last longer.

Thousands of Han troops flooded eastward.

Speaking from the heart.

Changing to Shen Chen's position in Cao Rong may not necessarily do better than him.

Not only did he keenly judge the situation on the battlefield, but he also immediately retreated when he realized that something was wrong.

But it's a pity that the opponent he met was not an ordinary person after all.

As soon as I got out of the novice village, I met the big boss.

How should this be played?

At this moment, Cao Rong led the remaining 2,000 or so Cao cavalry all the way to the east, and soon ran out of more than ten miles.

Since the Han army did not chase for a while, Cao Rong asked the soldiers to stop and rest.

It's not that he doesn't want to go any further, it's that the horses are too tired.

Some of the knights had already fallen behind because their horses were limp and tired, so he had no choice but to find a place to stop by the river.

The east bank of this small river is a forest, there is an abandoned village on the west bank, the former countryside has become a plain, I don't know how many years no people inhabit here, as far as the eye can see, whether the Han army in the rear is chasing or not.

The soldiers turned over and dismounted, and in an orderly manner pulled the horses to the river to drink, and some took out soybeans from the bags they carried after drinking and fed them to the horses, and then led the horses to eat some grass. Some took care of themselves first, and ate something chaotic before taking care of the war horses.

In the midst of the order, Cao Rong dismounted his horse and let the guards feed and rest the horses, while he stood on a small hillside overlooking the west, and within his vision was an undulating, uneven hill, already covered with blue weeds and jungles.

"Your Majesty, we are about to wipe out that part of the enemy army, why evacuate?"

It was only at this time that Cao Ei's cavalry generals were puzzled and asked.

At that time, he led the team to launch a fierce attack on the right flank of the Han army, and the battle went very smoothly, almost completely annihilating 1,000 people on the right flank of the Han army, but at the critical moment, Cao Ei ordered the withdrawal of troops.

Cao Rong shook his head and said, "The enemy has increased its troops by a thousand. ”

The cavalry general was unconvinced and said: "The last general of the 1,000 people also saw it, but the last general believes that if the fight continues, the 1,000 people will definitely die." ”

"But you don't see another five hundred men outflanked from the south, and a thousand more farther away."

Cao Rong glared at him and said: "The enemy army is obviously pretending to be the main force fighting with our containment troops, but in fact, they want to slowly increase their troops, let the right flank drag our main force, and then suddenly close the circle, and if we are a quarter of an hour slower, we will be completely annihilated!" ”

"Huh?"

The cavalry general was dumbfounded, he was in the formation at the time, naturally he didn't know the situation in the south, and when he heard that the Han army was outflanked, he suddenly said in a cold sweat: "Fortunately, Your Majesty has a good command, otherwise everything will be over." ”

Cao Rong stood up with his hands in his hands and said: "I have been familiar with the military books left by my grandfather since I was a child, and I have studied the art of war. The opponent's general is really powerful, and his quick reaction and keen insight make me feel uneasy. If an ordinary general of the enemy army has such a level, the Great Wei is in danger. ”

“.”

The surrounding guards looked at each other and did not dare to speak.

After a while, Cao Rong shook his head and said: "This is impossible, if you can have such an ability, you will be a famous general in the world." The other party is too far away, and I can't see the appearance of the enemy general, have any of you seen it? ”

Although the battlefield of the world clashed, Cao Ru's position was to watch from a small hillside more than a mile away to the east, and he did not go to the edge of the battlefield in person.

The distance between them must be at least about five hundred meters, so far away, Shen Chen couldn't see Cao Ei clearly, and Cao Ei couldn't see Shen Chen clearly, so neither side knew the identity of the other party.

It's just that Shen Chen guessed that it was Cao Ei who was blocking him, so he continued to chase after him.

However, because of the lag of the news, Cao Rong did not know that Shen Chen had already learned about the rebellion of the Huns, and second, he did not know that the feint attack in the direction of Luoyang was the main attack, and there were very many troops, so there was a mistake.

If he had known more information, he would have made other arrangements a long time ago, and he would not have worked so hard to find Hu Chuquan, afraid that the news would leak out.

Hearing Cao Ei's question at this moment, one of the cavalrymen thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, I vaguely saw a general who was protected by more than a dozen cavalrymen behind them, he was about forty years old, powerful and powerful, and his face was not very clear. ”

Around forty?

There are famous generals around forty years old in the Han army camp on the Western Front?

Cao Rong frowned.

As the son of heaven of the Great Wei Empire, he naturally found out the information of the senior generals of the Southern Han Dynasty very clearly.

In the camp of the Han army on the Western Front, only Shen Chen, Pang De, Zhao Yun, and Ma Dai can be regarded as high-level generals, and the rest are middle and high-level generals, ranked under the four expeditions, four towns, four ans and four flats, and belong to the ordinary general sequence.

And only Shen Chen and Ma Dai are in their forties, Pang De and Zhao Yun are in their sixties and do not meet the requirements.

So here is Ma Dai?

Is Ma Dai so powerful?

Cao Rong put a question mark on the identity of the other party's general in his heart.

Although Ma Dai was promoted to General Pingdong because of his military merits, he obviously obeyed Shen Chen's command most of the time, and it was still questionable whether his ability and level were so outstanding.

If the other party has such ability, then Cao Rong may have to re-examine the talents of the Great Han.

Just a senior general on the Western Front who is at the bottom is so powerful, so how strong is the main force of Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu on the Central and Eastern Fronts.

Thinking of this, Cao Rong sighed for a while.

After a while, many figures had already faintly appeared on the horizon in the distance, and the Han army chased after them again.

This time, Cao Rong did not choose to continue to be tough, but shouted, and the Cao soldiers all rushed into the forest on the other side of the river.

The forest was quiet, and the forest seemed to have no border, and the Han army scouts first entered the forest to investigate, and after finding that the Cao army had not set up an ambush, the main force continued to pursue.

It is also difficult for so many horses to get rid of their pursuers, and horseshoe prints and fresh horse manure are all sources of continuous pursuit.

It wasn't until night that the Han army caught up with the exhausted Cao army in the direction of Xingyang Yuting in the southeast, but what was surprising was that this time the Cao army had more than 2,000 foot soldiers.

It was the wandering soldiers scattered on the south bank of the Yellow River searching for Huchu Spring who were gathered together by the scouts sent by Cao Ru and joined Cao Jun on the way to support in the Xingyang area.

Shen Chen immediately commanded the soldiers to fight, and when it was completely dark, the more than two thousand foot soldiers were scattered, and Cao Rong, who had gained a respite, fled to the northeast again, heading towards Huting.

At the same time, Sima Yi in the south learned the news and immediately sent Xiahou Shang with 8,000 people to the north to help.

By the next day, they had rushed to Xingyang and also headed in the direction of Huting.

(End of chapter)