Hu Yanzhuo divided half of his troops to come back for reinforcements, and the other half personally led the troops and rushed directly towards the Liangshan cavalry army.
Chao Gai and others led their horses to block the road. They saw the thick smoke rising into the clouds from a distance. They immediately laughed and said: "What generations of generals have always cared about their heads but not their buttocks..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard the vibration of horse hooves from far to near. His face changed and he said in shock: "Grandma, you are such a cruel person. He abandoned the rear army and ignored it?"
Lin Chong stepped forward, turned his head and listened carefully for a moment, then looked at Chao Gai: "Brother, there are three thousand horse troops with officers and men. I heard this movement, but it is not the size of the three thousand horse army. In my brother's opinion, the enemy must have divided his troops to come back for reinforcements." , leaving part to attack.”
When Chao Gai heard this, he was surprised and confused: "Brother Wu had made a plan before. If he comes back for reinforcements, I will take advantage of the situation to attack. If he makes a desperate attack, I will take him in circles and wait until his infantry is dispersed. Then we can make plans... He turned to look at Cao Cao: "Brother Wu, you didn't say how he would deal with it if he divided his troops."
Cao Cao closed his eyes tightly and listened carefully for the sound. He opened it for a moment and shouted: "How can we predict the rapid changes on the battlefield? It's just a temporary mechanism. Listening to his movements, it seems that half of the men and horses came, but only one thousand and five thousand. The Hundred Horse Army, King Chao Tian, and I also have a thousand or hundreds of people here, my brothers are like wolves and tigers, are they weaker than him?"
After hearing this, Chao Gai became emboldened and said, "That's it, we'll fight them to the death."
Cao Cao shook his head and said: "You have to fight hard, not like this! He is still a few miles away from me, so I have to stop calmly. When he runs two miles away, I will get back on my horse and run away, luring him to chase me. After dozens of miles, the horse's power gets tired, and if we get back on the horse and charge forward, if we have more than enough to break through, we will be defeated!"
Chao Gai said with great joy: "What a plan!"
Cao Cao said: "It's just that the enemy general is not stupid. He knows that the horse has traveled a distance longer than us, so how can he be willing to chase it? But we have to give him a bait and hook him and refuse to let go, then we will be safe. Brothers, who is it? Dare you kick a tiger on the nose?"
Lin Chong shouted: "Who can give this credit to me, Lin Chong?"
Cao Cao said: "Okay! I just need you to do it. Brother, you bring twenty or thirty people who are good at riding and can shoot, and so on and so on, but be careful!"
Lin Chong laughed loudly and said with high spirits: "Brother Wu, don't worry, Lin Chong is just like picking something out of a bag!"
Guo Sheng and others looked at each other and whispered: "Instructor Lin is usually taciturn, but I didn't expect that he would be so heroic on the battlefield - it was that old man Zhou Tong who harmed others and covered up the heroes with such extravagance. He taught him You have to be afraid of your hands and feet."
After a while, they saw dust rising in the woods ahead. Around the corner, more than a thousand cavalry suddenly ran out. Everyone was shocked when they saw it.
It turned out that his horse army was all armored horses. The men were covered with iron armor and the horses were covered with vests, covering them from head to tail, with only four hooves running underneath. If the two armies were to confront each other, the Liangshan cavalry army would be like melons and fruits under the kitchen knife, and they would be killed cleanly.
Chao Gai was shocked and said: "Scouts should be damned. The enemies are all armored and heavy cavalry. How can we not mention them?"
He didn't know that Hu Yanzhuo was also secretly glad. It turned out that Hu Yanzhuo had invested a lot of his own money in order to train the powerful horse army. He was determined to show off his skills and shine during the Liao and Xixia expeditions. After receiving the order to conquer Liangshan this time, he complained to Taiwei Gao Qiu, saying, "The soldiers and horses are all elite, but the equipment is insufficient."
Gao Qiu was also very happy and asked him to go to the armor storehouse of the capital and choose clothes, armor and swords at will, regardless of the number. Hu Yanzhuo received this order and did not hesitate to go and "select three thousand pairs of iron armor and five cooked leather vests." A thousand pairs of helmets, three thousand bronze and iron helmets, two thousand spears, a thousand swords, countless bows and arrows, and more than five hundred artillery and iron cannons."
Later, the army was brought to the capital for inspection. Gao Qiu probably felt that some of the horses were weak and could not wear armor, so he simply spent more money and allocated him 3,000 horses.
With this batch of equipment and this batch of horses, Hu Yanzhuo took off on the spot and obtained a sharp and decisive heavy cavalry out of thin air. Recently, his voice has been two octaves higher when he speaks.
Just because the iron armor and vests were heavy, daily marching, and a waste of horsepower, they were always placed on large baggage vehicles. How did the scouts know? As he approached Liangshan today, he wanted to show off his majesty, so he armed all three thousand armored horses.
If there had been a sneak attack in Liangshan in the morning, the baggage would have been burned, and these vests and iron armor would have been destroyed, and Hu Yanzhuo would have been able to vomit blood and die. This is what he is lucky about.
Leading the team to rush out of the dense forest, they saw Liangshan's thousands and hundreds of horse troops scattered in a row. Hu Yanzhuo laughed and said: "The Shuibo grass bandits, although they have tricks, rely on their familiarity with the geography to ambush, but they don't know the true art of war." ?”
He stretched out his bronze whips, and the armored horse that had been trotting behind him began to speed up and spread out to both sides, intending to swallow the Liangshan horse team in one go.
Cao Cao smiled and said: "If you ride a heavy horse, it will become more and more obvious that heaven is favoring you. Brother Lin, follow the plan."
Lin Chong heard this, got on his horse, held an eight-foot-long steel snake spear, and rushed out with twenty or thirty cavalry, shouting in a hissing voice: "My little brother is risking his life to stop the enemy. Brother Chao Gai, please return to the stronghold." Regardless of life and death, he came out to Hu Yanzhuo. , Liangshan's brigade turned their horses' heads, mounted their horses, and fled for their lives.
Hu Yanzhuo was furious, how many leopard galls have you eaten? Do you dare to say that you are blocking me?
He was afraid that he would lose Chao Gai and the main force of the grass bandits, so he spurred his horse. It was a good horse given by the emperor. It was completely black but had white hooves. It was nicknamed "Wuzui on Snow" and could travel thousands of miles in a day. The horse neighed and immediately broke away from the group and shot straight towards Lin Chong.
In an instant, two people rushed forward. Lin Chong twisted his wrist, and the snake spear was like a spirited python monster, whining and carrying the evil wind, flying towards Yanzhuo's heart.
As soon as Hu Yanzhuo saw his move, he knew he had met a powerful enemy, and shouted: "Well done!" Hu Yanzhuo swept the bronze whip with his left hand, swinging away the spear, and smashed it on the head with the whip with his right hand.
His two water-milled eight-edged copper whips weighed twelve kilograms on the left hand and thirteen kilograms on the right hand. Is it a joke to hit them? Lin Chong hurriedly stirred up the snake spear, turned it upside down, and cracked the whip. The two of them went back and forth, killing each other for three or four rounds.
The horse army behind Hu Yanzhuo was already running. He saw twenty or thirty people coming with Lin Chong, and they all took out their bows and arrows to shoot. The officers and soldiers lowered their heads, wearing copper hats on their heads and iron armor on their bodies. There was a clanging sound, but no one was hurt.
After passing through this round of arrows, the officers and soldiers took out their bows and shot back. These soldiers had been trained painstakingly by Hu Yanzhuo for several years, and their riding and shooting skills were extraordinary. However, when they saw the arrows flying across the sky, the dozens of Liangshan cavalrymen were instantly broken in half.
Lin Chong was secretly frightened and shouted: "How powerful! Hu Yanzhuo, if you are not afraid of an ambush, come and chase me away!"
Three spears were shot out in succession, forcing Hu Yanzhuo's hands and feet, and he fled with his horse.
Hu Yanzhuo was so angry that he screamed: "I'm sorry, you are a hay bandit, even if there is an ambush, you will be trampled into dust under the horses' hooves." He chased Lin Chong closely.
Arrows came from behind like locusts, and five or six of them hit Lin Chong in the back. Fortunately, his armor was thick and they only slightly penetrated his flesh. But the horsemen who followed him were shot off their horses one by one. Without any time to struggle, the army was crushed forward, and they all became victims of the horses' hooves.
The situation at this moment is that more than a thousand horses in Liangshan are running away, and more than a thousand officers and soldiers are chasing them. Between the two groups of people, Lin Chong is fleeing on his own horse. Not showing any weakness, he used his spear in all kinds of ways and kept fighting back.
There is a general benefit: seeing that the general and Lin Chong are keeping pace, the officers and soldiers behind him will not dare to fire arrows. The more Hu Yanzhuo fought, the more he became more and more motivated. He wanted to defeat Lin Chong and keep him entangled. The officers and soldiers behind him saw that their leader was so wild and did not dare to stop privately. They fought hard to chase Lin Chong.
Just like this, they chased and escaped, running for more than ten miles in one breath. The officers and soldiers' horses were wearing vests and carrying heavily armored knights. They gradually became exhausted, foaming from their mouths and noses, and the distance from the Liangshan cavalry in front gradually widened.
Cao Cao kept looking back. At this moment, his face became happy and he shouted loudly: "King of Heaven, the enemy's horses are tired. This is the time to defeat the enemy!"
Youfenjiao: The current situation is changing in an instant, and the armored knights are riding strong winds. Thousands of horses are rushing to step on the ground, and a leopard roar shakes Tianxiong.