Chapter Seventy-One: The Three Armies Scuffle

The Han army was at a disadvantage, fortunately Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, and Pang De were all peerless generals, and with the support of hard work, the generals and captains retreated step by step, but they did not have time to re-form the formation, Cao Ren, Xiahou Shang, and Han Hao bit tightly.

After Zhang Ren's sixty iron cars crashed in, it was equivalent to disrupting the rear of the Cao army and disrupting the formation of the Cao army.

Some of Cao's soldiers had to turn over and attack the iron chariot soldiers who suddenly rushed in. The iron car stopped, and the soldiers and horses on the car relied on the height of the iron car to fight with the surrounding Cao army, and there was confusion between the Cao army's deployment.

Liu Bei was overjoyed when he saw it and said: "Quickly go to the order, Feng Xi and Zhao Rongbu take ten steps back and set up the formation." Then turn around and engage in battle, remembering that Feng Xi and Zhao Rong alternately cover, and must not take advantage of the rout of the whole formation.

Fu Wei, you lead a thousand people behind the two armies of Feng Xi and Zhao Rong, measure out ten steps to stand in the supervision formation first, and kill anyone who crosses you and takes the opportunity to escape on the spot! Fu Wei took the order.

Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu and Huang Zhongbu, although the two were at a disadvantage, they had never been attacked by Cao Zhen's cavalry on a large scale after all, unlike Zhang Nannan's rout, Feng Xi's troops suffered great losses.

Zhang Fei's cavalry had been lost. finally blocked it for a while, and cooperated with Pang De to slow down the impact of Cao Zhen's cavalry with his human life.

Pang De had already led the infantry to effectively contain Cao Zhen's cavalry, and Cao Zhen led the cavalry to start breaking outward, preparing to gallop in the open space outside, and use the accumulated impact force to launch another large-scale impact.

Liu Bei looked at the loss of half of his five thousand white-eared elite soldiers and sighed: "Our losses in this battle are not light!" ”

Fa Zhengdao: "I finally survived!" If we survive, we win. ”

Liu Bei let out a smile. Look at the battlefield. These troubled times are really torturous.

It was getting dark, and the two sides had begun to see each other clearly, and could only judge friend and foe by what they were wearing.

Cao Cao looked at the battlefield, there was no need to fight, he couldn't retreat first, he had to wait until Liu Bei withdrew first, then he would win!

Cao Cao looked at the iron chariot soldiers, judging from the formation, scheduling, soldiers, and command of the generals, this is definitely a rare elite soldier.

Cao Cao sighed and said: "Zitong, I saw that this iron chariot soldier suddenly thought of a word, and he had been planning for a long time. ”

Jiang Ji shouted: "King! ”

Cao Cao repeated: "Great King! King Wei! That's what makes me slack! Liu Bei is a hero, and we regard each other as the biggest opponents in our lives.

Liu Bei must think about my plan day and night, I have been a little slack in the past few years, Liu Bei is not idle, this iron car soldier is by no means a short time. Liu Bei knows me, and I don't know him. Today's battle is so difficult. After saying that, he stared at the battlefield.

After Cao Zhen's cavalry asked Pang De to entangle, he came to the open space again. But it was getting late, and the Han army and Cao army fought together, and Cao Zhen couldn't distinguish between friend and foe, so he had to order to light the torch first.

Feng Xi, Zhao Rongbu, and Zhang Nannan's routs finally took a breath and reorganized their formation.

When the Han army retreated ten steps back and formed a whole formation, there were indeed people who wanted to escape, Fu Wei was merciless, and killed on the spot, shocking everyone and avoiding the chain reaction caused by the fleeing soldiers and horses!

Wait for the feet to be stable. Pang De, Feng Xi, Zhao Rong and others turned over and fought again, and received the iron chariot soldiers who were fighting hard in Cao's army.

Liu Bei and Cao Cao are still entangled and fighting, and on the other side, Kou Feng is also fighting with Cao Hong. Originally, Cao Hong sorted out the formation, was on the defensive, and had an advantage. Zhang Ren's sudden departure caught Cao Hong off guard, and because he wanted to stop the iron car from galloping to help, he divided his troops to block and caused the troops to be scattered and the formation scattered.

Kou Feng seized the opportunity and took advantage of Cao Hong's division of troops to cause some confusion. The whole army charged into the formation of Cao's army. Kou Feng divided the soldiers and horses into three teams, and cooperated with each other to attack more and less, and Cao's army was quickly suppressed.

Cao Hong saw that the 5,000 Cao troops did not stop the iron chariot soldiers from leaving. Instead, the originally tight formation was disrupted, allowing Kou Feng to quickly kill in, and he couldn't help but be annoyed.

When Zhang Ren left, he was blocked by the outer iron car, and the iron car crashed into Cao Jun and successfully entangled Cao Jun. Seeing this, Cao Hong commanded the division of troops again.

Ordered 2,000 soldiers and horses to annihilate the iron chariot soldiers who crashed in, and the remaining 3,000 soldiers and horses rushed back to deal with Kou Feng. Kou Feng waited for Cao's 3,000 soldiers and horses to come in and resist it.

The herald also ordered 3,000 crossbowmen in the formation to go into battle and annihilate the 2,000 Cao troops who were entangled with the iron cart.

Cao Hong saw the crossbowmen in the formation coming out with the crossbows, and said with a smile: "The advantage of the bow and crossbow is in the distance battle, how can the melee battle be the opponent of the foot soldiers, now the two armies are staggered, and the arrows will only hurt the enemy and me!" After the battle, it was in vain! ”

But after the crossbowmen approached, they carried the crossbow behind them, took out the sword and shield and connected with Cao Jun's short soldiers, Cao Jun was a little surprised, and after the battle, he felt that the crossbowmen's combat power was really not weak, and the crossbowmen were many, and the formation was neat, and Cao Jun was quickly defeated.

Kou Feng laughed and said, "Crossbowmen are elite soldiers, how can they only shoot arrows. Shoot sharp arrows from a distance, engage in close combat, and be able to attack and defend the side is the elite soldier. It's ridiculous that Cao Jun didn't take any precautions when he saw the crossbow fighting. ”

Kou Feng shouted to all the soldiers: "Soldiers, entangle the Cao army, and after the crossbowmen destroy the enemy, they will join us and destroy Cao Hong." ”

Cao Hong was furious and armed with a knife to engage Kou Feng. Send people to hurry up and urge the reinforcements that are coming.

Kou Feng was not afraid and held a gun to meet him. He sent a large number of scouts to find out if Cao's army had any support. Later, according to the situation, if there were too many reinforcements from the Cao army, they withdrew to the formation, and if the Cao army's reinforcements could still withstand it, they lit a beacon fire for the Wuxi volunteers to support and attack the Cao army.

It's just that the two don't know that the reinforcements they each count on have already turned over fire.

Ma Liang led 4,000 Wuxi volunteers to ambush in the hills, and was originally ordered to wait for the opportunity to meet the iron chariot soldiers. Since the Wuxi volunteers were Liu Bei's surprise soldiers who responded to the iron chariot soldiers, they had already laid an ambush here in advance. After waiting for a long time, there was no agreed signal, and there was no order to retreat.

The barbarian king of the Wuxi Volunteers, led by Shamoke, complained: "Mr. Ma, it's not for us to take over the response to Cao Jun named Zhang Ren, we have been waiting for a day and a night, and we won't do anything." Nibble on dry food here! ”

Ma Liang said: "The lord arranged for us to take over Zhang Ren. The scout reported that Zhang Ren is now approaching us, Zhang Ren must have consideration in doing so, we wait patiently, and once there is an agreed signal, we will attack! ”

Shamoke said: "Mr. Ma, it is better to send someone to inquire about the situation of Xuande Gong." We're so adaptable! ”

Ma Liang thought about it and said, "Don't you be too belligerent and want to make meritorious contributions and ask for double rewards?" The reason why I didn't send someone to the lord's office was because I was afraid that Cao Jun would find out. Cao Cao is very powerful in using soldiers, and he is very vigilant!

But what you said also makes sense, just wait for this army to be wasted after all, and there are some information we also need to know. The battlefield is changing so quickly that you can't wait, so let's send scouts to investigate! ”

Ma Liang called the scouts, and Ma Liang instructed: "You go to inquire so that no one can find out, and expose our location, understand?" Just see what happens from afar! The scout did as promised.

Ma Liang said to Shamoke again: "Captain Sha, you send some people to ambush on the road where the scout went just now, and don't move when he returns, and stand on the road to prevent anyone from following him and discovering us." Shamoko agreed, and sent someone to go.

Soon the scout brought back the news that the two armies had begun a big battle, and they did not dare to get close to watch the battle, so they could only judge from the dusty level that it was a battle of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Ma Liang listened and said: "So the lord has already begun to fight with Cao Cao. ”

Shamo Kemo clapped his hands and said, "Since the fight has started, let's rush to support!" ”

Ma Liang said: "We are still mainly taking the iron chariot soldiers who answer Zhang Ren, this is the order of the lord." Send someone to find out the news of the Iron Rider again! Make a decision again! ”

The scout was ordered to go and bring back the news of Zhang Ren, and learned that the iron chariot soldiers took the initiative to attack the Cao Hongbu who was surveilling. Ma Liang asked, "Aren't the cavalry of the Cao army here?" ”

The scout said, "No! ”

Ma Liang paced back and forth: "It's not good, eighty percent of the cavalry is to support Cao Cao!" ”

Ma Liang saw that it was getting dark, and Shamoke asked, "Mr. Ma, what should we do?" ”

Ma Liang looked at Shamoke, pondered for a while and asked, "Did our army fall behind in the battle with Cao Hong?" ”

The scout said: "No, the Cao army is a little chaotic, and they didn't all participate in the battle!" ”

Ma Liang said to Shamoke: "Captain Sha, the situation has changed, we can't wait. It seems that all of Cao Cao's forces are fighting with the main force. Let's give it a fight and go and attack Cao's camp. ”

Shamoko said: "We don't go to the battlefield to support? ”

Ma Liang said: "We are too slow, and this place is close to Cao's camp. We attacked the camp of the Cao army, the front line of the Cao army, and took the opportunity to set fire, and the Cao army saw that the army was inevitably unstable, but it was more effective than directly supporting the battlefield! Quick, go! ”

Shamoke was overjoyed and beckoned the Wuxi volunteers to go.

Ma Liang sent all the scouts to inquire about the movements of Cao's army, and the scouts soon found out that thousands of Cao's soldiers and horses were marching.

Ma Liang said to Shamoke after hearing this: "This soldier must be to support the Cao army on the front line, but I don't know where to support!" Either way, we can't let them go! Captain Sha, you led your troops to destroy this Cao army by surprise! ”

Shamoke held the iron bone in his hand and said: "Sir, don't worry, I will defeat the enemy with one blow!" ”

Ma Liang said: "I can only give you 3,500 people, and I will use the other 500 people!" ”

Shamoke said: "Sir, don't worry, I will use 3,500 people. ”

Ma Liang nodded and said, "I'll send someone to inform you of the withdrawal of the army at that time, you have to retreat, understand?" ”

Shamoko agreed, "Understood! ”

Ma Liang divided 500 men and continued to the camp of Cao's army. Shamoke led his troops to attack Cao's army.

Ma Liang rushed all the way to the Cao army camp, Ma Liang watched from a distance, the Cao army was heavily guarded and guarded, and it was not something he could break through at all.

Ma Liang said to the Wuxi volunteers: "You go around quietly to see if there is a small forest or something like this near the Cao army's camp. ”

The crowd scattered and found a bush to the west of Cao's army. Ma Liang gathered everyone together and ordered fires to be set on all sides, and everyone received the order.

Yu Ban stuck to the Cao army camp, and soon received the news of a fire in the west, Yu Ban climbed high to check, and sure enough, the fire was piled up and began to burn on all sides, and the fire was not small.

Suddenly, Yu Ban thought of something and said: "It's not good, this is a trick by the thieves to mess with our army's heart." ”

Orders were given to send 1,000 men to extinguish the fire. Hurriedly sent someone to Cao Cao. The general asked: "It's just a fire, it can't burn our camp, why are you in a hurry?" ”

Yu Ban said: "Now that it's dark, now set fire, from the king's place, it's like our camp is on fire." It's going to mess with our army. ”

As soon as Yu Ban finished speaking, he rode in to report: The soldiers and horses supporting Cao Hong encountered a sneak attack by the Han army, and the two armies had already fought together, and I am afraid that they would not be able to support Cao Hong for a while.

Yu Ban sighed: "General Cao Hong urged support not long ago, and now in this situation, the enemy and I don't know, how to support!" The order was to strictly guard the camp and not to go out to war, in case the thieves attacked secretly. General Cao Hong's department also sent someone to explain the situation and let him find a way to deal with it by himself! ”