Cao Xiu regretted it now.
If I had known earlier, I shouldn't have let these soldiers form such a circular formation. Now it's better. The original "rat" has now become a "hedgehog".
Cao Xiu decisively ordered his cavalry to attack the vehicle formation and try his best to kill and kill the enemy with cavalry.
But the problem is that now the opponent has formed a car formation, has antlers and shields, and the long shields in the hands of the soldiers. Although Cao Xiu's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry are good at riding and shooting, they still have no way to deal with such a thing.
In this era without bilateral stirrups, mounted archers need to maintain balance on the horse while shooting arrows at the enemy. Although the shooting power is not small, the accuracy of archery is naturally not as good as that of throwing on the ground, but the difficulty is much higher than that of throwing on the ground.
Therefore, most of the arrows shot by the tiger and leopard cavalry hit the ten-foot-high wooden board, and a small number of arrows crossed the board. However, Liu Beijun's soldiers basically hid on the side close to the board, and With a long shield as a defense, there really is no loss.
Of course, if Cao Xiu could charge directly into the formation regardless of casualties, it would be possible to open a gap in the car formation. But the opponent only had a thousand ordinary soldiers, and he had a thousand tigers and leopards on his side.
The soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry can all serve as captains of centurions in ordinary armies. Cao Xiu did not dare to use such elites as consumables.
After riding and shooting six or seven times around the formation, Cao Xiu ordered the tiger and leopard cavalry to regroup.
There is no way, seven rounds of cavalry shooting, even if it is a tiger and leopard cavalry, the knight will feel a little sore.
Cao Xiu finally calmed down, thought carefully, and decided to give up fighting the car formation in front of him.
They are cavalry, and the advantage of cavalry is speed, the speed of fighting thousands of miles.
Moreover, Cao Xiu's main purpose was to intercept and kill Liu Bei, not to fight with the turtle shell here.
At that moment, Cao Xiu divided his troops, leaving two hundred tiger and leopard cavalry to contain these chariot formations, while he led the remaining eight hundred men to continue pursuing Liu Bei.
There are mostly plains around Dangyang County, and there are very few mountainous areas. It is most suitable for cavalry to rush in. A mere vehicle formation cannot block the roads in all directions.
And if the soldiers in the chariot formation are eager to assist Liu Bei and come out of the chariot formation, then the two hundred men left by Cao Xiu will be enough to take down the thousand infantry without the protection of the turtle shell.
Therefore, after Cao Xiu divided his troops, he continued to lead the tiger and leopard cavalry forward.
Along the way, Cao Xiu will also encounter some fleeing people, but Cao Xiu is not as kind-hearted as Liu Bei. As a general, he only cares about his own goals.
If these people were not on his marching route, or took the initiative to avoid his onrushing army, then Cao Xiu would not just go and kill the people for fun.
But if these people block his way, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry led by Cao Xiu will not be polite and will kill them when necessary without hesitation.
This is the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, an elite soldier at the time, but was later disbanded by Cao Wei himself due to cost and military discipline issues.
Now Cao Xiu's target was Liu Bei. These people were not in Cao Xiu's eyes, so he led his army to ignore the people and continued to advance until he encountered the second car formation.
This is the benefit of Zhang Fei's training method.
The soldiers at the rear blew the bamboo whistle. This bamboo whistle would continue until Zhang Fei could hear it.
Therefore, the first group of troops who broke off the rear were assembled and formed a car formation, which blocked Cao Xiu's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry for a while, and also created time for the soldiers behind to assemble.
This is how the second car formation came about.
As soon as Cao Xiu saw the car formation again, he suddenly felt a headache.
After a tentative attack, he found that this car formation was equally difficult to deal with. He immediately left another 200 people as a containment, and led the remaining 600 people to continue the pursuit in a detour.
Cao Xiu didn't want to waste time. He quickly caught up with Liu Bei at this time. After killing Liu Bei, these car formations were no longer a concern.
But Cao Xiu was also worried that if the other side continued to do this, his forward force of a thousand men would not be enough to form five chariot formations, and he would have no troops to divide.
But fortunately, Cao Xiu quickly saw Liu Bei's subordinates.
These days, the military cap is the symbol of the commander of the first army, so it is very tall and conspicuous, and can be seen clearly from a mile or two away.
When Cao Xiu saw Liu Bei's subordinates, he was immediately overjoyed and rushed towards Liu Bei's subordinates to kill them.
Liu Bei was indeed under his command, but around Liu Bei's command, there was a large formation of 300 Wugang chariots, protecting Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang, Xu Shu, as well as Liu Bei's generals and their families. in.
The commander of this car formation is Zhang Fei.
Zhang Fei got the news that Cao Xiu was coming to kill him early, so he gathered his troops on the spot and created a car formation.
In fact, Zhuge Liang was opposed to Zhang Fei doing this.
Zhuge Liang is very clear about the operating principle of the chariot formation, and Zhuge Liang is even more aware of the disadvantages of the chariot formation.
Without cavalry to kill the enemy, the chariot formation is just a simple defensive tool. If you defend it for a long time, you will lose.
Liu Bei couldn't afford to make any mistakes, and he was not sure when Guan Yu would lead the army to help. Therefore, Zhuge Liang's suggestion was that Zhao Yun would lead his own cavalry to protect Liu Bei and leave first, and he and Zhang Fei would use the chariot formation to block the enemy.
Zhuge Liang believed that Cao Cao's army would not have many forward pursuers. Zhuge Liang was confident that he would be able to block Cao Xiu here for a while. As for whether Cao Cao would personally lead his army to follow up, Zhuge Liang didn't know what to do.
Maybe they just have to run for their lives.
But Liu Bei disagreed. He couldn't leave his men and people behind and just run away.
Therefore, Liu Bei rejected Zhuge Liang's suggestion and insisted on ordering Zhang Fei to set up a formation to hold on, and also fired his own troops.
Liu Bei believed that Zhang Fei could hold on, and that Guan Yu and Zhang Xi could come to the rescue in time.
Zhuge Liang had no choice but to help Liu Bei think about how to defend Cao Jun's attack.
When Zhuge Liang saw that Cao Jun was chasing only a few hundred cavalry, he twitched his lips on the spot, not knowing what to say.
I have more than 5,000 soldiers on my side, and there is also a car formation to resist. A few hundred cavalrymen really think that I am a white-faced scholar, right? !
So what if they were tiger and leopard cavalry? Zhuge Liang didn't believe it. With six hundred tiger and leopard cavalry, he wanted to break through the chariot formation and kill the scattered soldiers.
In fact, Cao Xiu also regretted it at this moment.
I thought Liu Bei was busy escaping, but I didn't expect that there were so many soldiers, and they even formed a chariot formation. If I had known it, I would have waited for Cao Chun's army to arrive. With five thousand tiger and leopard cavalry gathered together, there was no need to worry about the chariots. There is no car formation anymore.
But, after all, Cao Xiu also had the qualifications to be a famous general. Although he knew that he couldn't chew this meaty bone by himself, he did not give up.
On one side, the car formation continued to harass Liu Bei's army, preventing them from retreating easily. On the other side, they quickly sent people to urge Cao Chun to advance, and they must not let Liu Bei escape.
But after all, Cao Xiu had few troops. The only way he could contain it was to let his cavalry shoot from time to time to harass Liu Bei's army in the chariot formation, so that they would not dare to retreat easily.
But Zhang Fei was disgusted to death by Cao Xiu's behavior.
You said that if Cao Xiu were to attack with cavalry, Zhang Fei would not be afraid of him. He would rely on his chariot formation and use crossbows and bows to kill you. Sooner or later, you would use up all your 600 cavalrymen.
But now, this group of cavalry came and went like the wind, using mounted archery, and Liu Beijun's crossbows and bows and arrows were all useless.
Seeing someone coming, I calculated the lead time, but when I fired, I found that the opponent had already passed the range of the bow and arrow, and the cavalry was much faster than the infantry.
These days, the work of calculating lead time is all based on experience, not technical work.
Moreover, the speed of the cavalry can be fast or slow, and they do not move at a uniform speed. Even if they can calculate the advance, there is nothing they can do against the high mobility of the cavalry.
In addition, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry itself is an elite cavalry with a high armor coverage rate. Occasionally, if someone misses and shoots them, it will not cause much harm to them. Only the lucky ones who happen to shoot the horses can cause some damage to the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. Kill.
The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry is not a heavy cavalry, so the men wear armor and the horses do not. It is a bit like a combination of the Rangers and the Rangers.
Zhang Fei was disgusted to death by such an army. It was really only them who attacked others, and no one else had the right to attack them. Unless he had cavalry.
When Zhang Xi taught Zhang Fei the chariot formation method, he said that the chariot formation method was only a semi-finished product. To truly have combat effectiveness, he must cooperate with the cavalry.
But Zhang Fei has never had cavalry, and the entire Liu Bei army only has more than a hundred cavalry, which is under the jurisdiction of Zhao Yun. At this time, he is protecting Liu Bei and the family members who are accompanying the army.
Zhang Fei, who was harassed by the tiger and leopard cavalry, was really helpless, so he went to Zhao Yun and asked him if he could find a way to get the cavalry out of the camp to fight against the tiger and leopard cavalry.
Zhao Yun is actually in a difficult position.
"Third brother, if Yun is afraid of death, if the cavalry comes out of the camp, won't they destroy the chariot formation? In this way, won't this give the enemy general an opportunity to take advantage of?!" Zhao Yun asked in embarrassment.
The chariot formation is connected end to end, and there is no gate for people to enter and exit. If the cavalry wants to go out, the chariot formation must be dismantled. Will Cao Jun on the opposite side watch so helplessly? !
He rushed in early.
In the end, Zhang Fei smiled, pointed to the two wooden boards at the junction of the car array, and said, "Son Long will lead the army later, and the score line will be broken out from here!"
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Fei took Zhao Yun to check the wooden board, and Zhao Yun immediately understood.
However, Zhao Yun still said to Zhang Fei, "Third brother, when it comes time to go into battle, you still need to listen to my instructions. I will ask third brother to open the gate of the village, and then third brother can open it. Okay!"
Zhang Fei carelessly patted Zhao Yun on the shoulder and said, "As Zilong said, I will obey orders!"
(End of chapter)
