Chapter 52 Liu Cao's soldiers fought in Luoyang 2

"How dare Liu Bei attack our Chinese army?" Looking at Zhang Fei and others who valued the fierce momentum, Cao Yan was also slightly stunned. Although Liu Bei is more courageous, his fighting style has always been conservative. In the last battle in Xuchang, he first used Guan Yu as bait to drag his army. Forty thousand Jingzhou soldiers dragged the tigers and leopards into the quagmire of the position at the cost of nearly half of casualties, and then dared to compete with them. Now he rushes forward to the decisive battle so quickly. Is he so confident in the combat effectiveness of his army?

The answer is yes. However, what Cao Jian did not expect was that Liu Bei did not dare to be so confident, and he was still ready to use the strategy of defense and counterattack. The reason why he has the courage to do so now is that Zhang Liao's words emboldened him when discussing the military situation last night.

"Now, although Cao Qian attacked with more than 200,000 troops, the previous battle of Xuchang and the battle of Dongjun, coupled with the battle of Guanlong, Cao's army was annihilated and captured by no less than 150,000. Nowadays, a considerable part of Cao's soldiers are re-recruited recruits. No matter how well he trains, Cao has not experienced any war in recent years. These recruits may not have poor combat effectiveness, but they are extremely inexperienced. Therefore, Liao Dou boldly said that in the first battle, we can attack head-on, and we will be able to defeat Cao's army in one fell swoop!" Zhang Liao's detailed advice, Liu Bei and others listened and thought about it.

"Wen Yuan's words are true, but Cao Jun is also a rare elite in the world. It is not easy to shake head-on. I don't know which general is willing to go?" Liu Bei thought about it for a long time and finally agreed with Zhang Liao's suggestion. As for the task of leading people to resist head-on, it was finally robbed by Zhang Fei. Zhang Liao and Ma Dai, as the most skilled cavalry commanders under Liu Bei's command, led the Fengyun cavalry and the Xiliang iron cavalry to wander around to find fighters.

"King of Wei, wait for me to ride the tiger and leopard to the front and defeat Liu Bei's soldiers!" Seeing that Cao Qian sent a pawn to shake, Cao Zhen, the new leader of the tiger and leopard, hurried forward and said. Cao Jian did not answer him, but shook his head gently, and then pointed to Liu Bei's cavalry wandering in the distance. This is also one of Liu Bei's bold capital. Under the premise that Xia Houyuan in Guanzhong does not participate in the war, Liu Bei still has a slight advantage in terms of cavalry alone. Cao Jian knew that as long as he dared to send tigers and leopards now, Liu Bei would rush to his Chinese army with Xiliang iron horses, and he would be quite passive at that time. Coincidentally, Liu Bei and Cao Wei both regarded their cavalry as the last trump card. Before the battle reached the last minute, they would never use this trump card easily.

"Long gunmen, save thorns!" Looking at the approaching sergeant Cao, Zhang Fei suddenly roared and ordered. After roaring this sentence, thousands of long gunmen behind him suddenly changed their formation. They, holding more than ten feet of guns, quickly assembled a formation. The first row of people squatted down, and the second row of guns flattened the guns. Instead of waiting for Cao Jun to bump into him, they took the initiative to grab the thorns. At this time, Zhang Fei led the army. In the short period before the second army was about to contact, he withdrew to the two wings, and then formed a front array, directly inserting the soldiers of Cao's army from both sides. This moment changed the array, reflecting Zhang Fei's command ability and Liu Jun's order ban vividly.

"Kill!" Directly to Zhang Fei, it was the general of Cao Jun who was banned. He didn't dare to confront Zhang Fei, and ordered the forbidden man to attack the long gun camp left in place. But beyond the expectation of the ban, he kicked the iron plate again this time.

These 4,000 long gunmen are the elite selected by Gao Lan from the Danyang soldiers. The long gun array they formed is the sharpest arrow of the arrow array. When the first row collects thorns, the second row collects guns, and the second row of thorns, the third row has begun to prepare. Three rows in a row, one thousand people in each row, forming a strangulation long gun array of non-stop work, and the last thousand people are ready to fill the vacancy at any time. In order to protect these valuable long gunmen, Zhang Fei specially equipped them with good iron armor to strengthen their defense. At the same time, not only did Liu Pan lead the soldiers to protect both sides of the gunmen, but also the cavalry wandering around will pay attention to it at any time. At the same time, Zhang Fei himself led the army to attack the enemy's flank to contain the enemy's impact. Under his properly assigned command, all arms cooperated tacitly in order to achieve the most effective performance of combat effectiveness.

"What a powerful strangulation formation!" Looking at the long guns that were mechanically stabbed and recovered, constantly harvesting Cao Jun's life, even Jia Xu, who had always looked down on life and death, couldn't help but be moved. Such a sharp strangulation lineup is simply a naked killing machine. How on earth can we break through the long gun strangulation formation defense? Cao Qian didn't say anything, but looking at Yu Jin, who tried his best to command the army in the field, there was a trace of regret in his heart.

Cao said in his heart that he should not let Yu Ban command the Chinese army. This statement may be a little flattered by the ban, but Cao Wei knows that he has made a big mistake. In fact, in most cases, Yu Ban is a good general. In terms of on-the-spot response and proper command, he is not inferior to Zhang Fei or Zhang Liao. But he has a fatal weakness: fear of death.

Therefore, although Yu Ban in the field is trying his best to command, he has never dared to go up and shake face to face with Zhang Fei. In the era of cold weapons, the most direct result of the general's avoidance of war was that the morale of Cao's army was a little low. At least, on the narrow battlefield where he competed with Zhang Fei, Cao Jun's morale was indeed not good. Only now, we can only hope that the soldiers in other places can give some strength to make up for the losses caused by the ban.

"Hey!" The big axe opened the oncoming Jiufeng Chaoyang knife. Xu Huang was already a little out of breath, but Huang Zhong on the opposite side was still calm. Holding the big axe in his hand, Xu Huang could clearly feel that his hands had trembled a little.

On the side of the right army, Xu Huang met Huang Zhong. Xu Huang knew that Huang Zhong's arrow method was exquisite. If he didn't fight closely with him, he didn't know when he would be plotted by an arrow. As soon as he fought, Xu Huang took the initiative to pull Huang Zhong into a close hand-to-hand fight. Originally, I thought that the other party was old and weak. Even if his swordsmanship and arrow skills were superb, his energy was not as good as that of himself in his prime. Unexpectedly, Huang Zhongshi is an unborn strange person. Although he is old, he is strong and energetic, but he is not inferior to young people at all. The two fought for more than 50 rounds, but Xu Huang was a little weak.

Behind him, his right army, with more than 40,000 soldiers, is fighting fiercely with 30,000 Changsha soldiers under Huang Zhong's command and thousands of Wudang flying troops. In terms of combat effectiveness, Xu Huang's soldiers are by no means inferior to Changsha soldiers, but the joining of the flying army broke the balance of the battle. Under the leadership of Shamoco, the elite soldier from Wuxi was covered with oil paint all over his body, like a ghost on the battlefield. He skillfully stabbed the blade in his hand into their bodies from the gap between the other party's moves.

"Wen He, what kind of military horse is this? Why is it so strange?" Cao Xiu looked at the flight army as easy as killing chickens, and couldn't help but be moved by it. He quickly asked Jia Xu, who was in charge of intelligence. Jia Xu looked at it carefully for a long time before saying softly, "I heard that Zhao Botao used to be an army of Shanyue, Wuxi barbarians and Nanzhong barbarians, and organized them into five armies, known as Wudang Flying Army. He is extremely vigorous and brave and good at fighting. I think it's them."

"No flying army? Zhao Botao had the intention to integrate these barbarians into the army!" Cao Hen didn't know what he was thinking and said to himself. But he forgot that he also organized the Xianbei people into an army in northern Xinjiang, which was not Zhao Feng's patent. What's more, he didn't expect that not long ago, in Hanzhong, his other clan brother was sundered by the Wuqian Flying Army.

"This dog is so strong!" After taking Shamoco's iron thistear bone, Cao Xiu's blade in his hand was almost shaken off his hand. One force drops ten times, and Samoka's moves are so big, and Cao Xiu's martial arts have not reached the point of breaking through a thousand forces, so he is now extremely passive. In fact, in terms of martial arts, Shamoke is only slightly stronger than Zhou Cang, but Cao Xiu was obviously shocked by his unkempt and shocking appearance. After the battle, he really didn't have enough courage, but he didn't even realize it.

"Be careful!" Seeing that Cao Xiu was a little unsustainable, his cousin, Captain Xia Houba, hurried forward to take a move. The two cousins joined hands to fight against Samoco. How could the flying army allow them to bully the young more? Captain Fu Tong also hurried forward to stop the battle. But in general, Liu Jun also has a slight advantage on the right side.

Only on the side of the left army, Zhang Yi, had a little upper hand in the face of Wenpin. The famous general, one of the four pillars of Hebei, took his fierce 2,000 halberd as the vanguard, and the Jingzhou army that killed Wenpin was also difficult to fight for a while. Fortunately, Ma Dai led the army to give some support from time to time, otherwise, I'm afraid Wen Ping would have been defeated at this time. Although these two thousand halberd soldiers can't help the cavalry, the advantage is extremely obvious in the face of the ordinary soldiers led by Wenpin.

"Damn it, is it easy to bully me?" He killed an enemy with a knife, and Wen Ping also cursed in a low voice. In other places in the audience, Liu Jun did not fall behind, but he dragged his feet here, which was really hurt people's self-esteem. Liu Bei and Cao Qian, who watched the battle in the distance, also saw that if Wen Ping couldn't hold on first, then Liu Bei would not be able to do it today; if Yu Jin and Xu Huang couldn't hold on first, then Cao Qian would be in danger today.

1:2, Liu Bei has the advantage in theory. However, Cao Hen is Cao Hen, and he will never be willing to be defeated by theory. After seeing the situation clearly, Cao Wei immediately arranged countermeasures. Ziwen, Zidan, lead the tiger and leopard with me to help Yan Yi defeat Wenpin and Liu Pan!" Cao Wei quickly issued an attack order. At this time, Zhang Yi had already gained the upper hand, and Ma Dai, who was responsible for the containment, was unable to return in time for a while because he was greedy to gather and annihibited some of the soldiers who had just left the main battlefield. Cao Qian keenly grabbed the fighter plane and immediately sent the tiger and leopard to ride forward, trying to break through Wen Ping and Liu Pan in one fell swoop.

In terms of experience, although it is also a long-term battlefield, Ma Dai is used to messing in Xiliang. Compared with these battlefield generals, his grasp of the battle situation is still a little worse.

"Father, General Yanyi has the upper hand. Why don't you break through Liu Bei's army first?" Cao Zhang didn't understand his father's behavior and put forward his own opinions before leaving. Cao Yan smiled when he heard the words and just said, "Ziwen, on the battlefield, it is not about the gains and losses of one city and one place, but to coordinate the overall situation. Do you understand?"

"The child will understand!" After Cao Zhang finished this, he hurriedly led the army to follow Cao Zhen, who had left, and went straight to the left army.

Seeing Cao Jian's behavior, Liu Bei laughed, and Pang Tong also laughed.

(to be continued)