Chapter 66 The Great War with Cao Hong

"Oh my God!"

Zhao Yun shot three times in a row, one shot was as fast as a shot. Yu Ban tried his best to avoid the first two shots. The third shot finally failed to completely dodge, and he could only roll down the horse. Even so, his helmet has also been picked up by Zhao Yun. With just one face-to-face and three rounds, there is no room for Yu Ban to lose.

"Stop, stop with me!" He knew that he was not Zhao Yun's opponent, but Yu Ban also knew that once he withdrew like this, his flank would be completely exposed to the front of the Xiliang Iron Horse. In this way, Cao Hongjiu will not say anything about his life. Even if he can run a life, he will look good when he goes back to Cao Hen. But face to face, Yu Ban knew that he was not Zhao Yun's opponent. Therefore, Yu Jian made up his mind to fight with Zhao Yun, but he did not fight to death. He pestered him like a mosquito, so that he could not free his hands to attack Cao Hong's rear.

I don't know if Yu Forbidden has thought about it. No matter how flexible the mosquito is, it will inevitably be slapped to death in the end. At this time, Zhao Yun had 20,000 iron riders, and the cavalry under the forbidden command added up to only more than 10,000 points. After several entanglements, Zhao Yunsuo changed the target of the attack and directly attacked more than 10,000 people.

"General Zilong, aren't you busy helping General Zhao first?" Pound saw Zhao Yun change his strategy and felt that it was a little risky. In case Zhao Feng can't regret Cao Hong head-on, then even if he eliminates the ban, it won't help. Of course, Pang De also knows that Zhao Feng is not afraid at all. I'm afraid that if Zhang Yi and Xu Huang get involved, then it will be very unfavorable.

"Don't worry!" It seemed that he expected what Pound was worried about. Zhao Yun didn't say a word and led the army to go to the ban. Yu Jian looked at the other party's killing and made up his mind to pester Zhao Yun. However, Zhao Yun's ability to command cavalry can be said to be the best in the world. Twenty thousand Xiliang iron riders, with 1,000 people as one, a total of 20. Under the command of Zhao Yun, like twenty poisonous snakes, they killed more than 10,000 cavalry from all angles.

"The first part, the left-wing javelin shot; the second part, the right-wing crossbow shot; the third part, the frontal riding shot; the fourth part, the right rear..." With a series of instructions issued from Zhao Yun's mouth, the commanding soldiers played the flag and commanded the departments to act in accordance with the order. Although there was a sequence of command, the 20 cavalry acted according to the command, almost in the same pace, and soon besieged the enemy at the core. Or long-range shooting, or close hand-to-hand combat. If you want to fight with me, I have run away; you want to shoot me with a bow and arrow, but you find that someone has already cut you with a knife. The current Yu Forbidden Army is suddenly like a dam full of loopholes, which may collapse at any time.

"Hon, hold on!" Yu Jian was suddenly anxious. Although he knew that he was not Zhao Yun's opponent and the number of people had fallen behind, Yu Jian did not expect that after the other party adjusted its troops to target him, it would be such a one-sided situation. If it goes on like this, in less than half an hour, I will be completely defeated.

Historically, in this year, in order to avenge his father, Ma Chao fought a decisive battle with Cao Xingxing in Guanzhong. The Xiliang Iron Horse once killed Cao Zhen into the army. If it hadn't been for Cao's smuggling of Ma Chao's back road from Pubanjin, coupled with Ma Chao's alienation and Han Sui's opposition, the victory or defeat would have been difficult to predict. With the passage of time, Han Sui, who should have been in a dilemma with Cao at this time, has been dead for five years. On the contrary, the damn Ma Teng is still lingering on the sickbed. Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that not only the prohibition, but also the whole Cao army did not fully understand the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Iron Horse.

All the previous wars, including the battle in Luoyang a month ago, when Cao Jun had the most, he only encountered five or six thousand Xiliang iron riders. Sometimes, the general of the army is still the young man of Ma Dai. Now he suddenly faced 20,000 Xiliang iron riders, and the commander of the army was Zhao Yun and Pound, who were the battlefield generals. Yu Jian suddenly sadly found that the enemy he was facing was extremely powerful. Even if it is a one-to-one comparison of troops, it is very difficult to deal with it by yourself. If the troops are not enough now, it's even worse for me.

The situation here is precarious, and Cao Hong, who is in the middle, can't take advantage of Zhao Feng. Ninety thousand elite soldiers from Hebei, facing the Sichuan army with almost the same force. After several years of painstaking training by Zhao Feng, the combat strength of the Sichuan army is much stronger than when it was in the street pavilion. Under such a tough confrontation, the short Sichuan army showed no sign of collapse at all. Cao Hong shouted angrily, but there was nothing he could do.

"General Zilian, I'm afraid General Wen Ze can't stand it. Do you want to support him again?" Looking at Yu Jin, who had signs of collapse, his eyes almost didn't stare out. When did Yu Jin become such a soft persimmon? However, doubt is doubtful. If it is allowed to be forbidden now, it is equivalent to waiting for him to die. Cao Hong also knew this. Looking at the situation around him, Cao Hong gritted his teeth and waved his hand to Man Chong to mobilize 20,000 soldiers who were finally left as reserves. Instead of supporting the ban, he was to attack Zhao Feng's military frontal.

Cao Hong is not a fool. If he uses pedoons to support the cavalry, he will only mess up the battlefield, and it will be difficult to make a breakthrough for a while. Instead, it's better to shake Zhao Feng's infantry formation head-on. Cao Hong made a rough estimate that Zhao Feng's infantry phalanx had about 70,000 to 80,000 troops. I have just pressed 90,000 people, and now I have bet another 20,000, and the troop comparison is almost 3:2. This advantage is already quite obvious. After seeing this scene, Zhao Yun and Yu Ji also understood Cao Hong's thoughts, and now they are also fighting to the death.

"Spead the order, blow the trumpet, follow me!" Looking at the last 20,000 reserve teams rushing up, Zhao Feng also frowned slightly. Cao Qian's capital is really too strong. Although the two partial divisions have been stopped, there is still a numerical advantage for Cao Hong's main force to fight with himself.

Take a closer look at the battle situation on the field. Although the Sichuan army has greatly improved its combat effectiveness after years of strict training. But in the face of these strong men in Hebei, the innate disadvantage of the short Sichuan people is still obvious. If there is a forward flying army or a Shanyue army at this time, I am still sure that I can continue to fight against Cao Hong. But if it were a uniform Sichuan army, this battle would be much more difficult to fight. Only now, I can only rely on myself to fight in person to see if I can boost morale and stabilize the situation.

"Up!" With Zhao Feng's order, he himself launched together with Niu Jin and others and entered the fierce battle circle. The Sichuan army, which originally felt a lot of pressure, saw that the main general came out in person, and suddenly became very energetic. They shouted forward one by one and fought fiercely with their enemies far more than their own. As soon as Zhao Feng entered the war circle, he had already felt the great pressure. There were too many people on the other side.

"Hey!" He stabbed a Dubo of Cao Jun to death. This is already the thirteenth person who died under him. Since he entered the war circle, no one has been able to catch him with more than three moves. Under the support of the bravery of the general, the Sichuan army, which was already in danger, suddenly burst into a new combat effectiveness and continued to maintain this fragile balance.

"Cao Zilian, you dare to fight to the death with me!" After fighting hard and piercing an enemy lieutenant across the side through his chest, Zhao Feng did not pull out his long gun, but raised the long gun. Captain Cao Jun, who stabbed in the gun, was about to die for a while, but he could not break free and could only struggle in the air. It looks like a frog pierced by a bamboo stick. The Sichuan army all loudly invited Cao Hong to come out and make a break.

"Ah!" With a scream, the man's body was thrown away like a rag, and then he was trampled by thousands of troops and horses. From beginning to end, Cao Hong did not make any positive response. Cao Jun's momentum was unexpectedly discounted.

"Come on, prepare a horse and carry a knife. I'm going to fight to the death with Zhao Botao!" Cao Hong gritted his teeth. Man Chong next to him hurriedly grabbed him. At this moment, he heard the exclamation of the rear army. Man Chong and Cao Hong turned around in astonishment, but saw that it was a man coming to kill his rear army.

"Is it Liu Bei?" Cao Hong and Man Chong looked at each other, but at this time, they heard a man coming from the south. Now Cao Hong and Man Chong were immediately overjoyed.

"Is it General Xu or General Zhang arriving?" Under Cao Hong's great joy, he was already incoherent. If you come from the south, you may only be your own two-way division. Even if it was Liu Bei, who was dying in Xingyang City, Cao Hong had an absolute military advantage as long as he added either Zhang Hao and Xu Huangzhi. However, the smile on Cao Hong's face soon stiffened, because he saw that the coming army was not wearing Cao Jun's black armor, but Liu Jun's scarlet armor. This man and horse looked like a thousand people. As soon as they joined the battle group, they immediately eased the Sichuan army, whose situation was obviously tight.

"What's going on? Who is coming to the army?" Cao Hong was so angry that he broke the tunnel. According to the intelligence, Zhao Feng has all the elites have been dispatched, and there are no reinforcements in the south now. After carefully asking people to climb up to check the flag of the army coming this way, a long time later, a man was not sure and said, "General Cao, the flag of the enemy seems to be General Liao."

"General Liao?" Cao Hong thought for a long time, and finally asked Man Chong, "Bunning, is there any fierce general surnamed Liao in Liu Bei's army?"

Man Chong thought for a moment, but finally shook his head and said, "Look at the flag, this person is just a partial general. I think he is just an unknown person. The general doesn't need to be distracted by this. Let's concentrate on dealing with Liu Bei behind him."

"I know!" Cao Hong gritted his teeth and then ordered to separate some people to fight against the people behind him. But as soon as he stepped forward, Cao Hong found that something was wrong. Because the oncoming army is under the banner of "General Longhuawen".

"When did Wen Ping come?" Cao Hong was even more surprised. According to the information, shouldn't Wen Ping confront Li Yan in Yiyang? How could he suddenly appear behind himself? Zhang Yi and Xu Huang evaporated from the world. The scheduled partial division did not come, but the two enemy troops came. These two things were really something wrong. In Cao Hong's heart, there was already a faint ominous foreboding. But now it's hard to ride a tiger. I've fallen into a melee, and it's not so easy to get out. In addition, it seems that the two reinforcements of the other side are not very large. Even if you add them, you may not be able to eat Zhao Feng. If you withdraw the army rashly before the victory or defeat is clear, it will be very unfavorable to the army. Thinking of this, Cao Hong also secretly gritted his teeth and prepared to continue to fight to the death.

is the difference in this idea, which led to Cao Hong's fiasco. With the help of Wen Ping and Liao Hua, Zhao Feng also stabilized and was able to fight with Cao Hong again. On the other hand, Yu Ban, who had not received assistance, finally couldn't support it after continuing to hold on for a long time. Although the two reinforcements of Wenpin and Liao Hua did not come against them, the psychological pressure brought has become the last straw to crush their psychological defense line.

"It's not good!" When Man Chong saw this scene, he also exclaimed. The collapse of Yu Ban caused a series of chain reactions of Cao Jun. After repelling the ban, Zhao Yun immediately waved his army straight into the hinterland of Cao's soldiers, and then used the strong impact of the Xiliang Iron Horse to insert a knife in Cao Hong's waist, abruptly cut Cao's army from the middle into two, and then surrounded the smaller part and was ready to swallow it completely.

"Bastard, bastard Zhao Yun!" Cao Hong, who was fighting with Wen Ping, was immediately angry when he saw this scene. With such a slight distractment, a big knife was cut over. Cao Hong hurried across the edge of the blade, and his arms were actually sore.

"Who are you?" Cao Hong looked at the yellow man in his thirties in front of him and asked in amazement. From the move just now, Cao Hong knew that he was by no means an opponent of this person. But he saw someone crossing the big knife and laughing, "Nanyang Li Yan and Li Zhengfang, General Cao is polite!"

"Bastard!" Cao Hong knew that he could not get any benefits if he continued to fight. He was about to retreat, but he saw the defeated soldiers coming all the way to the north. The first one was Ma Yan and Liu Han, the captains under his command. I sent them to bluff and set up an empty fortress to block Liu Bei. Now that they are here, I can only explain one thing: Liu Bei is also here.

Sure enough, when Ma Yan and Liu Han saw Cao Hong, they immediately said angrily, "General Cao's big thing is not good. Liu Bei personally led the army out of the city. We have few soldiers, and we really can't resist it!" Cao Hong only felt dizzy in his mind when he heard the words. Now it was chaos, and he was actually defeated. No matter how tenacious Cao Hong was, he knew that it would be useless to continue to fight to the death. At present, he hurriedly ordered the three armies to withdraw in the direction of Hulaoguan.

"Cao Hong wants to withdraw, stop me!" Zhao Feng, who was under the command of the Chinese army, saw Cao Hong retreating to the west and quickly ordered him to catch up and stop as much as possible. However, after all, Cao Jun was well-trained. At this time, it was the part of the cavalry that was defeated, and the overall retreat was still in an orderly manner. Under the attack of Zhao Feng, Zhao Yun and others, after leaving more than 10,000 people behind, Cao Hong finally took most of the people back to the tiger prison.

"Zhang Yi, Xu Huang, what the hell are you doing?" Cao Hong, who retreated all the way, kept gritting his teeth and cursing the two out-to-age colleagues. He couldn't figure out what they were tossing around, so that he couldn't help him encircle Zhao Feng. Naturally, he didn't know that Xu Huang was pulling at the foot of Song Mountain at this time, while Zhang Yi stared at the wreckage of the ship floating on the Luo water and had nothing he could do.

In Xingyang City, Liu Bei, who escaped from Xingyang, saw Zhao Feng, his first sentence was: "B Tao, I knew you would come!"

(to be continued)