Chapter 38: Fighting Cao Cai, Wise and Brave
The horse's hooves stomped on the ground like thunder, like a dull drum beating on the ground.
Under Hou Cheng's command, eight hundred Cao cavalry held their swords and guns high, shouting and rushing towards the Bears Ears Mountain bandits in the distance, ignoring that not long ago, these bandits were still friendly troops fighting side by side.
The first level is military merit.
As long as he has it in hand, it doesn't matter if he is a soldier or a coward.
However, Cao Bing's idea is obviously unlikely to be realized in front of the thieves of Bears Ears Mountain, who are better at escaping.
"Withdraw, withdraw! Spread out in all directions. Hou Yin's hurried voice sounded before Cao Qi arrived.
He personally led the troops to inquire for information, the purpose of which was not only to sell Wei Shi a good, but also to be worried about the ability of his subordinates, for fear that if he was not careful, he would be bitten by Cao Qi and damage his people.
The thieves scattered and fled.
There was no intention of engaging Cao Qi at all.
Seeing that there were thieves fleeing in every direction, Hou Cheng was also helpless.
His men had only eight hundred horsemen.
Together, this is a powerful force, and if it disperses, the thieves will rush up again, and it will be difficult to get any advantage in the face of the many thieves alone.
"Don't worry about the thieves from other directions, we went directly to take Wei Ko's head." Hou Cheng raised the big knife and shouted angrily.
Hearing this order, the Cao cavalry immediately pulled out their horses and turned around, and gathered on the official road again, and a few greedy people chased far away, but they did not have time to come back, but were surrounded by Hou Yin's people and beat them and lost their lives.
I didn't take advantage of it, but I got fishy.
Hou Cheng was extremely unhappy, and his heart gradually became anxious.
Cao rode for a while, and in front of him was a gentle slope of twenty miles from Xinye to Neixiang Guandao, the slope was only about 30 degrees, very gentle, and from a distance, you could see that Wei Shi's township soldiers were camping here.
"Kill!"
Hou Cheng perked up, couldn't care about being tired, and yelled to order.
When the Cao cavalry heard the order, they also urged the horses to run vigorously, and at the same time shouted loudly: "Kill! Kill....... ”
The sound of horses' hooves roared like thunder on a sunny day.
Eight hundred Cao cavalry were dressed in black armor and held sharp knives and guns, like a black cloud, which was overwhelming.
Wei Shi stood in the center of the high slope, squinting his eyes and a smile on his face.
When Hou Yin came to report that Cao Cai appeared in front, Zhong Lin, Wang En and other leading commanders and teams led the order, and each commanded the villagers to get busy according to their duties.
Cao Cai's momentum was compelling, and he even had the intention of eating the township soldiers at once, but the township soldiers under Wei Shi's command did not perform badly, they used the cart as a shield and the bamboo array as the protection, and the defensive formation was good.
What made Wei Shixin even more happy was that on the front of the official road, Wang En also took a village soldier and dug several pits with hoes.
"Kill, kill!"
Hou Cheng rushed up the gentle slope and yelled continuously.
Cao Cai's edge was directly aimed at the township soldiers' chariot formation and rushed forward.
With a "boom", the war horse running at the forefront suddenly screamed, and its front hooves knelt down violently, throwing the cavalry on the horse several feet away.
Then, another succession of cavalry fell from their horses, the more fortunate ones could barely stand up, and the worse ones lay on the ground, their dying bodies trembling slightly from the trampling of the horses behind.
"Despicable!"
Hou Cheng's face was so angry that his face was pale, just now he just stared at Wei Shi wearing a red cloak on the high slope, and he didn't pay attention to his feet for a while, not wanting to be calculated by Wei Shi again.
"Go around the front and kill from the left and right."
"Break through the opposite car formation, and the women and wealth inside, they are all ours."
Among the Cao cavalry, there were Tun generals and Qu Hou, who had been in battle for a long time, and saw that they were blocked in front of them, and they immediately changed their strategies, preparing to take a detour from the left and right to find the weak points of the township soldiers.
A team of more than ten Cao cavalry, led by a general, quickly outflanked from the right side, although the speed was a lot slower, but it still made the township soldiers panic for a while.
"Raise your gun, get ready!"
Wei Shi saw it clearly in the formation, and immediately ordered Wei Cheng to lead a team of bamboo spearmen to the corresponding position on the left, and the bamboo spears were obliquely upward at a forty-five degree angle, and the tip of the spear pierced the horse's belly.
"Thorn!"
"Stab again!"
"Peng!"
Cao Qitun fearlessly rushed into the bamboo spear array, and the sharp ring head knife swung so that he easily cut off the sharp bamboo tip of the bamboo spear, just when he was happy in his heart, the bamboo spear without the head of the spear flew over and pierced into his ribs.
"Oops!"
General Cao Qitun screamed in pain, and the whole person involuntarily bowed, and then was strung up by the bamboo spear and thrown to the ground.
The dozens of cavalry who followed him into battle were also picked off by the bamboo spear array one after another, and only one or two lucky ones rushed to the front with the cover of war horses, but they were soon stabbed into hedgehogs.
Just when Hou Cheng was suffering from gains and losses, behind him, Hou Yin, who was still in the shadows, came out again at some point, and gathered the Bears Ears Mountain Kou to bite Cao Qi's tail.
"It's really a brake."
Hou Yin saw that the attack was unfavorable, but he was damaged again and again, and his hatred for Wei Shi became stronger and stronger.
Before the expedition, he was in front of Xiahoulan, but he boasted about Haikou, what should he do now?
"Wei Shi, do you dare to go out and fight Hou to the death?" Hou Cheng was ruthless, urged the horse to step forward, held an iron broadsword, and shouted at Wei Shi on the high slope.
Afraid that Wei Shi wouldn't hear it, Hou Cheng also asked his subordinate Cao Qi to shout after him.
The generals are heads-up.
This was very common when the princes of the late Han Dynasty were fighting, and Lu Bu's name of courage was obtained by relying on the heads-up of the generals.
Hou Cheng is actually not a brave general.
But now, he really has no other way to take Wei Shi.
If Wei Shi can't be provoked and comes out to fight, it will be just a high and low.
Dealing with a stinky boy under twenty, Hou Cheng believes that his chances of winning can reach seven or eighty percent.
If Wei Shi is willing to be a turtle with a shrunken head, then the morale of the Cao army will rise, and the morale of the township soldiers will fall, which will also be beneficial to the next war.
It's just that Hou Cheng thought about it very well, but he didn't know that his shout, Wei Shi's side was not good, but it angered Wei Yan, who was holding back the fire in his belly.
"Betraying the master and thief, don't be arrogant, wait for Wei to take your life."
Wei Yan slapped his horse and raised his sword, walked out of the camp from the township soldiers' formation, and shouted straight at Hou Cheng.
When the Cao cavalry saw the enemy general coming out of the battle, they also looked at it one after another, and no longer stepped forward, they also heard that the general surnamed Wei was the opponent that General Hou Cheng wanted to ask for battle?
"Wei Yan, fight and fight, what are you talking about, and eat me with a knife." Hou Cheng saw Wei Yan kill, but his heart was bitter.
Why did he forget, Wei Yan is also surnamed Wei, now it's okay, if he is afraid to avoid the enemy and not fight, it will not only hurt morale, but also make Cao Ying look down on him.