The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry will always be Cao's army's most powerful weapon that is good at rushing into formation, pursuing, and rushing to rescue.
When all the generals were sent out, Cao Xiu was a little disappointed. He knew that Lu Xun temporarily represented Cao Wu's will. He admired Cao Wu, but was not convinced by Lu Xun. He thought that Lu Xun was young and was afraid that he would rob him. Limelight.
But when Xing Daorong died unexpectedly and Cao Jun was breached by Xu Sheng, he received Lu Xun's order.
The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry began to reorganize, and other Cao troops left an open space for them, giving them enough space to charge.
When Xu Sheng rushed to the front of Cao's army, Cao Xiu finally understood Lu Xun's intention.
Cao Xiu was known as the "Thousand Mile Horse" of the Cao family. He once traveled to the east of the Yangtze River alone and then returned to the north. During this period, he learned a lot and became very proficient in military affairs and strategy.
In his opinion, this was an exchange between high-class horses and low-class horses. Lu Xun treated Xing Daorong as a low-class horse to deal with Xu Sheng, and treated Zhang Liao and others as high-class horses to ensure that other fronts could win. It was also a stalemate, and Xing Daorong was left to himself.
Xu Sheng could rush to the commander's position and deal with the ordinary army, but he would have been in chaos long ago, but he didn't know that it was Lu Xun who took the initiative to let him here.
Lu Xun set up a pocket formation and waited for Xu Sheng, and the tiger and leopard cavalry were the butcher's knives used to chop off the Jiangdong Army's superior horses.
As the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry began to charge, the butcher's knife was being swung down, Cao Xiu could already see the shock on Xu Sheng's face.
"die!"
Cao Xiu held up his spear and exchanged weapons with Xu Sheng. Cao Xiu was young and Xu Sheng was old, and the two fought to a draw.
However, Xu Sheng's men were not so lucky. They rushed here with few arrows left and no advanced weapons. They were suddenly ambushed and attacked by the tiger and leopard cavalry, and they were caught off guard.
His battle line was too long, which was a taboo for military strategists, but he defeated Xing Daorong and routed Xing Daorong's troops. He was so energetic that he could not care so much.
The cavalry rushed in, and in just a dozen breaths, Xu Sheng's men were harvested and chopped down like grass.
When Cao Xiu turned the horse's head and looked at Xu Sheng again, Xu Sheng's face was already pale.
There were stab wounds on his shoulders and back, but his pale face was not caused by bleeding.
The important thing in cavalry charge is the word "charge". Under the command of Cao Xiu, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry have begun to charge again.
Just now Xu Sheng charged at Lu Xun. On the one hand, Xu Sheng's cavalry was small and not as powerful as the tiger and leopard cavalry. On the other hand, Lu Xun had been prepared for it.
Now Cao Xiu rushes into Xu Sheng, just like a wolf among sheep.
"Using a general's life to lure me in, okay, what a big deal."
Xu Sheng gritted his teeth with grief and anger, just like Xing Daorong who died just now.
He didn't tell Xing Daorong any rules, and Cao Xiu won't tell him any rules now.
This massacre announced that all Jiangdong Army's offensives on the west bank of the Baiteng River had been dismantled.
Zhang Liao defeated Zhu Ran, Li Dian defeated Pan Zhang and Lu Fan, and Cao Xiu defeated Xu Sheng. Except for Huang Gai and Zhou Tai on the water, who were still in a stalemate, the Jiangdong Army's strength on the west bank had been completely destroyed.
Lu Xun stood on the temporary high platform and saw all this, and finally showed a relaxed expression in his heart.
He clenched his fists excitedly and said to himself: "My lord, I will win this battle at Bai Tengjiang..."
As a result, before he finished speaking, he saw Zhou Yu on the big boat in the middle of the Baiteng River.
The two faced each other across the river. Lu Xun was wearing a veil, but Zhou Yu saw through it at a glance.
Because of the distance, Lu Xun couldn't see Zhou Yu's expression or hear what he said, but he saw Zhou Yu shake his head and then turn around.
Turn around and change from facing the west bank to facing the east bank.
"Suffer it!"
Lu Xun was immediately shocked, and the joy of his imminent victory disappeared in an instant.
A soldier never tires of deceit, this is what Zhou Yu had told him a long time ago.
"Could it be..."
He raised his head, looked at the east bank where Zhou Yu was staring, and looked further away.
There, smoke was rising.
It seems that reinforcements from Jiangdong Army have arrived.
"At the beginning, he just tried to attack the armies on the West Bank? Did he use so many generals as a test?"
Lu Xun suddenly thought of a possibility, and his scalp immediately went numb, as if a basin of cold water had been poured over his head, which made him feel cold all over.
Sure enough, Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin are not that simple.
But where did his reinforcements come from, and who were they?
…
"Luo Ke, the chief secretary of Hepu, is a bandit who breeds goods east of the Yangtze River and smuggles horses. Kill him!"
Shi Xie, the prefect of Jiaozhi, dropped an arrow. As the arrow fell to the ground, Luo Ke, the chief secretary of Hepu, was immediately dragged down.
Luo Ke struggled for a long time, but couldn't break free, so he shouted loudly: "I'm wronged, wronged!"
"Not unjust?"
Shi Xie had a mouthful of phlegm stuck in his throat. He coughed for a long time before saying, "Where are the horses from Hepu?"
Luo Ke was anxious and argued a few more words. Knowing that Shi Xie had no possibility of retorting, he cursed bitterly: "It was Shi Wu who asked me to hand over the Hepu war horse to the man named Zhou. It is your own internal affairs of the Shi Xie family. I didn’t know who made the decision, but in the end it fell on me. I don’t accept it, I don’t accept it!”
He cursed loudly, but among the few people still kneeling in the middle of the hall, no one dared to look up at him.
After the night's troubles, Shi Xie returned to Longwei City. He only rested briefly and at dawn brought over all the people who had been arrested for going to the Shiwu banquet.
So the purge began. This was the eighth high-ranking official from the fourth county that Shi Xie had ordered to be killed. That night, after Shi Wu and the other three brothers were killed, all those who had accepted their banquet became purges. Object.
Not many people died due to the war in Zhilongbian City, Jiaozhi County, but many people were sentenced to "kill" by Shi Xie.
In the days when the Han Dynasty was powerful, if a county chief wanted to sentence him to death, the emperor would definitely be alarmed. But now the Han Dynasty has long been in decline, and Shi Xie is the local emperor here. In his own opinion, he, who is more than seventy years old, is the emperor of Jiaozhi. The county still has the supreme power, taking life and death, and doing whatever it wants.
He didn't notice, or rather didn't want to notice at all, that Man Chong, who was sitting next to him, looked increasingly ugly.
Man Chong was the serious pastor of Jiaozhou. Compared with Shi Xie Suinan's empty title of Zhonglang General, Man Chong should be the chief officer of Jiaozhou, but Shi Xie never gave him a single face.
With a dark face, Man Chong searched around the hall, but did not see Jiang Wan. She didn't know where the young man had gone and he hadn't come back yet.
While Jiang Wan was out, Shi Xie had already cleaned up most of the kneeling senior officials. Man Chong thought about it and finally couldn't sit still.
He said coldly: "What is the situation in Hepu? How many war horses are there?"
In name, he was asking Zhan Ma, but in fact he was reminding Shi Xie not to make a fuss and purge officials.
Shi Xie finally spit out the phlegm in his throat. He turned his head and looked at Man Chong. His eyes were stern, unlike that of an old man in his seventies.
There was a feeling in his body that he was in control of everything. When Man Chong spoke, he didn't know anything, but revealed a number that surprised Man Chong.
"Hepu is good at raising horses and can produce two thousand fine horses every year."
"What?"
Full of surprise, Jiang Wan who hurried into the room was also shocked.
Jiaozhou has been blocked from the Central Plains for decades. None of them expected that in the southernmost part of the Han Dynasty, there would be such a good land for raising horses. With the supply of four counties alone, they could raise two thousand horses.
If distributed reasonably, wouldn't there be at least several thousand cavalry in Cochin?
Just a Jiaozhou state, its ability to produce horses is probably the envy of other states.
Shi Xie was very satisfied with the reactions of Man Chong and Jiang Wan. He knocked on the table and said, "So, according to Manzhou Mu's opinion, if the Chief of Hepu colluded with the Jiangdong Army and sent horses privately, should he be sentenced to death?"
Man Chong was silent. He knew what this number represented. After a long while, he sighed and said: "It should be sentenced."
Jiang Wan opened his mouth, but hesitated. He was thinking about another thing. If thousands of cavalry suddenly appeared in front of Cao's army, which was currently engaged in a decisive battle, Cao's army would have to fall into a bitter battle.
Almost at the same time, on the Baiteng River battlefield, Cao Wu also saw smoke and dust in the distance on the east bank.
Based on his own battlefield experience, Cao Wu immediately judged that this kind of smoke and dust was the approaching of a large number of cavalry.
"Are there any reinforcements?"
Cao Wu spat out the weed he was biting.
"Zhou Yu has a big appetite."
He was unhurried and didn't even get up until he saw the cavalry on the opposite side appear in his field of vision and saw the flag of the cavalry on the opposite side clearly.
That big flag made Cao Wu look solemn.
