Cao Xiu led dozens of cavalry to escape and met Cao Chun.
Cao Chun almost kicked his cousin to death.
A thousand tiger and leopard cavalry were brought out, but only a few dozen were left when they came back. Last year in Bailang Mountain, the tiger and leopard cavalry broke through the Wuhuan cavalry defense line and captured the Wuhuan Chanyu Tadun alive. The losses were not so great.
Liu Bei, a man on the run, was accompanied by infantry, but he was actually more powerful than the Wuhuan cavalry? !
If it hadn't been for his cousin, a young man whom Cao Cao favored, Cao Chun would have chopped this bastard into pieces.
But after listening to Cao Xiu's explanation of the reasons for his defeat, Cao Chun really wanted to chop this idiot into pieces this time.
"You mean, you led a thousand tiger and leopard cavalry and lost to a hundred rangers in a cavalry battle?!"
As Cao Chun spoke, he punched and kicked Cao Xiu.
This time I really can't stand being cowardly. I have never seen such a cowardly thing.
As a cavalry commander, how could Cao Chun not know what a ranger is, especially Liu Bei? !
Even with the arrival of the Old Qin Rangers, Cao Chun was sure of victory against the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. How could this guy actually lose in a head-on fight? !
While Cao Xiu endured the punches and kicks from his cousin, he also had to remind his cousin.
"That cavalry commander has extraordinary martial arts skills. Even if he charges into the cavalry formation, he will not be able to defeat the enemy."
Yes, the more he spoke, the harder Cao Chun hit him.
After the battle, he had to educate Cao Xiu and said, "What can one person do among thousands of armies?! Even if your five hundred cavalry cannot form a formation, wouldn't you lead the cavalry following you to shoot? ?! There are just over a hundred rangers, both men and horses are unarmored, and there are only two rounds of mounted archery left. Why do we have to fight the enemy head-on?!"
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What can Cao Xiu say? !
He said that as soon as he saw the enemy rushing out, he was so excited that he wanted to defeat the enemy head-on, so he rushed forward. Isn't that looking for a beating?
As a general, you should remain calm at all times.
However, Cao Xiu vaguely felt that there was something wrong with what his cousin said. Are you sure you are not seeking death by competing with the rangers in cavalry and archery? !
The foundation of the Rangers seems to be guerrilla mounted shooting.
But at this time, Cao Xiu obviously would not question his cousin and seek a beating on his own.
Cao Chun didn't want to continue arguing with Cao Xiu. The main purpose now was to pursue Liu Bei.
Asking Cao Xiu to retreat and tend to his wounds, Cao Chun quickly led four thousand tiger and leopard cavalry to continue chasing 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. Moreover, he learned from the people that Liu Yuzhou did not abandon the people at all, but still maintained his position for more than ten people a day. At a speed of 1.5 miles, it pushed towards Hanjinkou.
As for the direction of Hanjinkou, Cao Chun knew that Cao Cao had sent Xu Huang and Man Chong to seize it. In this way, Liu Bei was like a fish in a urn and could not escape at all.
Therefore, Cao Chun chased all the way and finally caught up with Liu Bei again near Changbanqiao in Dangyang County.
However, Liu Bei and most of the people had already crossed the Changban Bridge at this time, while Zhang Fei set up a car formation in front of the bridge and was ready.
This is what Zhang Fei can find, and it is currently the most conducive place to defend.
The terrain has always been mostly plains, which is conducive to cavalry assault but not conducive to infantry defense at all.
But at Chang Banqiao, a five-foot-wide river blocked the road, and there was only one Long Banqiao for more than 20 miles around. Faced with such favorable terrain, Zhang Fei naturally had to set up a formation to intercept Cao Chun's pursuers. .
Cao Chun did not dare to be careless. He immediately arranged his cavalry to form an attack formation, and called Cao Xiu by the way. On the one hand, he asked him about the chariot formation, and on the other hand, he also taught Cao Xiu how to fight. of.
Cao Chun divided his cavalry into four groups and took turns to mount and shoot.
The purpose of this step is the same as that of Cao Xiu, which is to kill the enemy troops surrounding the car formation.
But the effect was the same as Cao Xiu's test, it didn't work at all.
When Cao Chun saw this, he frowned a little. There was something really wrong with this car formation, and Cao Xiu couldn't be entirely blamed.
Immediately afterwards, Cao Chun directly changed his formation into an impact formation, commanding the cavalry to directly attack the vehicle formation.
This is to ignore the battle losses of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and directly let the cavalry attack the vehicle formation, destroy the vehicle formation and then rush in to annihilate the enemy.
Cao Chun also said to Cao Xiu, "Zi Lie, you must know that kindness does not control the army. It is true that it is not easy to ride tigers and leopards into an army, but if we can kill Liu Bei, it will be worth the loss for us."
The so-called cavalry charge does not mean that they just crash into it like that. The cavalry uses the impact force brought by the high speed to hit the outer wall of the car array, trying to break the wooden boards of the outer wall, or simply break it. cart.
After all, in Cao Chun's opinion, these vehicles look like folk trucks for loading hay, and they should not be too strong.
As for the losses, it was because once the cavalry charged into the formation, there would definitely be a pause after hitting the outer wall, and then they would have to turn around and accelerate back to the formation.
If the enemy fires arrows at this time, the cavalry can only bear it for life. Those who are lucky can still go back. If they are unlucky, they will be killed. After all, they are too close and cannot hide.
Therefore, Cao Chun planned 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 appearance of this vehicle array looks like a civilian cart, it is still ordnance, which is different from the crude craft of civilian carts.
In addition, these improved Wugang vehicles copied by Zhang Xi, in order to facilitate retreat and formation, there is no deadbolt design between the two vehicles, but a live bolt, which has a certain effect on mitigating the longitudinal impact.
Therefore, Cao Chun looked as if the car formation was moved by the tiger and leopard cavalry, but no matter how he continued to attack, the car formation changed from a circular formation to an octagonal formation, but he still could not break through the defense of the car formation.
On the contrary, because Cao Chun adopted the method of charging into the formation 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 attack.
Hubaoqi's losses were quite heavy.
A thousand tiger and leopard cavalry attacked, and more than 800 people came back, of which only more than 700 were able to fight again. In one charge, more than 200 people were killed, either shot to death by crossbows or arrows. hurt.
This loss made Cao Chun hesitate.
It doesn't matter if Cao Chun simply suffered 200 casualties, but if he suffered this casualty every time he charged into battle, I'm afraid he would have lost a quarter of his troops after charging three or four times.
But just like Cao Chun said, Liu Bei was on the opposite side, and his goal was to intercept Liu Bei. To intercept Liu Bei, he had to break through the car formation and pass the long Banqiao. Cao Chun gritted his teeth and continued to let the second team of tigers The Leopard Cavalry charged into the formation, but they didn't believe they couldn't break through it.
The second thousand-man team still launched a charge, followed closely by the third and fourth tiger and leopard cavalry. The fearlessness of death was fully demonstrated at this moment.
Zhang Fei was also very frustrated.
No matter how good the car formation is, it can't withstand the continuous impact of the tiger and leopard cavalry who are so fierce and fearless. Coupled with the arrows of the crossbows and the arrows of the bows, there are not many left now.
Liu Beijun, at best, was retreating, at worst, he was fleeing for his life. How could he bring too many weapons? He didn't bring many arrows with his crossbow.
Chariot formation relies entirely on arrows to kill the enemy. Once there are no more arrows, all that is left is to be beaten, and the final result is Li Ling.
Cao Chun obviously noticed this. After he discovered that the arrows shot by Zhang Fei's army began to become sparse, he immediately increased the frequency of the impact.
Zhang Fei really had no choice but to amplify his killer weapon - Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun once again led more than a hundred of his rangers into battle.
When Cao Xiu saw Zhao Yun, his expression changed, and he quickly reminded his uncle to be careful about this humanoid Gundam. Well, he was a brave general.
Cao Chun immediately smiled and said that he wanted to teach Cao Xiu a lesson.
Immediately afterwards, Cao Chun sent out a thousand tiger and leopard cavalry who were resting, trying to surround Zhao Yun's rangers while killing the enemy with cavalry.
Then Cao Chun looked dumbfounded as Zhao Yun led more than a hundred rangers to snake around wildly in the encirclement of his cavalry, and forcefully led more than a hundred rangers to get out of the gap in the encirclement.
You can get out as soon as you get out. Cao Chun can at most scold his thousands of generals for being incompetent, or sigh that Zhao Yun's cavalry commanding ability is really superb.
But after Zhao Yun got out, he didn't return to the formation, but rushed directly in the direction of Cao Chun.
Cao Chun's expression suddenly changed, but luckily he remained calm and sent out his second thousand-man team. Then Cao Chun was really frightened.
Cao Chun originally thought that Zhao Yun would still use that snake-like movement, so he deliberately let the Thousand-Man Team release their position facing Zhang Fei's formation, just to keep Zhao Yun away from his own formation, and let him return to camp.
But Cao Chun didn't expect that Zhao Yun not only stopped moving in a snake-like manner this time, but seized the opportunity to mobilize his troops and came directly towards Cao Chun's main formation of the Chinese army.
What made Cao Chun even more stunned was that the rangers with Zhao Yun as their arrows displayed a more terrifying assault capability than the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.
Just like a hot knife touching butter, Zhao Yun cut the tiger and leopard knight alive and came towards Cao Chun's main formation.
Cao Chun is not someone who has never seen the world. He also participated in the Battle of White Horse that year, and he witnessed with his own eyes Guan Yun's long battle to kill Yan Liang. But now that he has become Yan Liang, this feeling is not pleasant.
The key is that he felt that the general who came to him, whether it was courage, martial arts, wisdom, or the command ability to adapt to the situation, seemed to be a bit like the original Guan Yunchang.
Good guy, I don’t want to be like Yan Liang and make people laugh for a thousand years even after I die.
Without saying a word, I will retreat!
Anyway, I am a Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, not an infantry force. If I retreat, it will not greatly affect the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry's combat effectiveness.
Cao Chun was right in thinking. The Tigers and Leopards were all elites, and their will to fight would not be affected just because the coach retreated.
But Cao Chun's retreat was tantamount to leaving an opening in his original center position, and Zhao Yun directly seized this opening to highlight the second siege of a thousand men, and killed the enemy who had just returned to camp and had not yet sorted out. The third tiger and leopard cavalry thousand-man team is in good formation.
That made people fall on their backs, and Cao Chun finally saw the power of the "brave general" that Cao Xiu said.
Although the number of the tiger and leopard cavalry of the thousand-man team that returned was not full, there were still five or six hundred people at any rate, but they did not intercept Zhao Yun, allowing Zhao Yun to kill an opponent, and then calmly returned to the main formation.
In this attack, although Zhao Yun himself lost more than a dozen cavalry, Zhao Yun defeated an entire thousand-man team and successfully disrupted Cao Chun's offensive rhythm and formation. When Cao Chun reorganized his offensive formation, he encouraged The morale of the good army was already more than an hour later.
After that, Cao Chun really didn't dare to continue sending troops to rush into the battle. Even if he wanted to rush into the battle, he would leave enough protective troops around him. It felt very uncomfortable to be stared at, especially by someone who was really capable. The ability is to target the people who will kill you among the thousands of troops.
Cao Chun didn't want to feel this way again.
(End of chapter)
