Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms
Chapter 387 Killing Cao Chun, Zhao Yun Megatron Dongxing Dike
Chapter 387 Killing Cao Chun, Zhao Yun Megatron Dongxing Dike
It is not far from Dongxing Dike to Hefei for more than [-] li, but Cao Chun did not only go to Dongxing Dike.
His task is to at least appear in front of Guan Yu's main force, otherwise, if he only wins Dongxing embankment, it will be far from deterring Liu Bei's army.
So Cao Chun had already made a long-term plan. After Zhao Yun's tribe was wiped out at Dongxing Dike, he would immediately go south to Ruxukou, wave in front of Guan Yu, and then return to Dongxing Dike.
This way, pretending to be Cao Wei's vanguard arrived at the battlefield, making Liu Beijun think that there was still the main force of Cao's army behind, and then he came back to defend and deter Guan Yu's troops in the south.
In this way, his task is considered complete.
At that time, Guan Yu will definitely not dare to attack Sun Quan on a large scale, at least until he has found out the reality of Cao Wei's army.
If Guan Yu sent people north to attack Dongxing Dike, he would eat them if there were few people.If there were too many people, he would retreat to Hefei City. After all, he could contain part of Guan Yu's troops.
It can be said to be a profitable business.
It has to be said that Cao Chun, as the leader of the tiger and leopard cavalry for many years, still has some experience in sports warfare like this, and his calculations are very good.
On August [-]th, in the wilderness southwest of Chaohu Lake, a group of about fifty light cavalry, wearing black military uniforms and brown leather armor, appeared on the vast plain.
To the north of them is the vast Chaohu Lake, while to the northeast there are continuous mountains, the plains are flooded with rivers, swamps and lakes are everywhere, which are not conducive to cavalry running.
But their riding skills are extremely superb, and they have rich experience. In a wilderness, they found an abandoned county road full of weeds and galloped southward.
There is a vast group of mountains on the south bank of Chaohu Lake. The highest point of the mountain is called Yinping Peak. It is located in the mountains south of Chaohu City in later generations. The scenery here is beautiful. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can see the sparkling Chaohu Lake in the distance.
And among these mountains, there is a medium-sized river going down from Chaohu Lake, passing through Wuwei City in later generations all the way south, and then flowing into the Yangtze River. This river is Ruxushui.
On the west bank of Ruxushui is the Chongyan Mountains, and on the east bank is the Taihu Mountains.
This Taihu Mountain is not a mountain range near Taihu Lake, but because Chaohu Lake had a wide area in ancient times, the river was flooded, and the depressions became gushing, and the mountain was named after the lake.
In later generations, there will be Taihu Mountain National Forest Park, which belongs to Hanshan County in Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province.
That is to say, this area in Han Dynasty belonged to the lake water category of Chaohu Lake.
Chaohu City and Hanshan County in this area in later generations basically blow bubbles at the bottom of Chaohu Lake. It was not until the sixth year of Tang Wude that Hanshan County was established, and in the seventh year of Wude that Chao County was established.
The Dongxing Dike is located in the south of the Chongyan Mountains and west of the Ruxu River, and the specific location is in Shijian Town, north of Wuwei City in the later generations.
On the opposite side of it, south of Taihu Mountain and east of Ruxu River, there is a place called Ruxuwu, which is located in the southeast of Tongzha Town, Hanshan County, Anhui Province in later generations.
The Dongxing embankment and Ruxuwu were built by Sun Quan in the 16th year of Jian'an at the suggestion of Lu Meng. After that, Cao Cao led his troops to the south, broke through Ruxuwu, captured Sun Quan's general Gongsun Yang alive, and stationed here.
Later, Sun Quan wanted to inspect Cao Ying, so he took a boat to the north, but was shot into a sieve by Cao Jun, and thus the story of the straw boat borrowing arrows began.
In the late period of the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Ke, the Tai Fu of the State of Wu, recast the city here, so Dongxing Dike on the west bank and Ruxuwu on the east bank were called two other names—Xiguan and Dongguan.
Due to its extremely important geographical location, in a sense, it is an accident-prone place, and it is also the place where Cao Wei and Wu fought many times later.
But now the Liu Bei Group's attack on Jiangdong is not from the Chaohu Lake in the north, but from the Yangtze River in the west, so this strategic point of defense in the north is meaningless, and Sun Quan is completely shrunk.
However, Cao Jun's support could be blocked here, so Guan Yu sent Zhao Yun to garrison.
At this moment Cao Chun led the army to arrive, and his scouts spread out for several miles, exploring all the way to the east. The wilderness was covered with high mountains in the north, and forests, lakes, and swamps in the east. The road was rugged and extremely difficult.
Fortunately, due to the relatively wide field of vision in the plain area, they did not encounter any ambushes along the way. They did not see the enemy until they passed a small hill.
It was a troop of cavalry.
Zhao Yunjun's scouts had actually discovered them a long time ago.
Although this is a plain area, there are still some hills with lush forests, and there are many forest rivers, so there are too many places to hide.
Zhao Yun sent people to build a high tower on the top of a small hill in the nearby road to look out and inspect the situation in the west.
But there are quite a few of them, and the sentry posts on the outskirts are as many as seven or eight, and as few as three or four, which is not enough to deal with them.
Therefore, after realizing the arrival of the enemy scouts, Zhao Yun's scouts immediately returned to the camp from another trail and reported the matter to Zhao Yun.
At this moment, Zhao Yun personally led more than 30 cavalry out of the camp in the east, and happened to meet them.
The two sides watched from a distance, and no one ordered to do it immediately.
After a while, Captain Cao, who led the team, held a sharp ring-shoulder knife in his hand, waved his hand forward, and said in a wolf-like voice: "Kill!"
"kill!"
The tiger and leopard riders are all served by the elite of the army, and everyone can serve as a centurion in the ordinary army. At this moment, they have shown extremely brilliant tactical qualities.
After the captain gave the order, the left and right wings dispersed at the same time, and rushed towards the opposing cavalry.
Zhao Yun indifferently glanced at the encircling enemies on the left and right, then took out a crossbow from the belly of the horse, waved his hand and said, "Withdraw!"
"go!"
The knights turned their horses around.
The tiger and leopard cavalry chased after them, and when the two sides were getting closer and less than ten feet away, Zhao Yun raised his crossbow and turned around to shoot.
"Whoosh!"
A crossbow arrow cut through the void and shot towards the Cao army behind.
But the shot misses.
Cao Jun turned his head and sneered, his legs were tightly clamping the horse's belly, and he was about to urge the horse to continue chasing.
In the next second, three consecutive crossbow arrows shot again.
"Whoosh whoosh."
Still misses him, but hits the horse.
Hearing a neigh, the horse fell down, knocking Cao Jun to the ground, and rolled four or five meters.
The rest of Zhao Yunjun's scouts followed suit and took out their crossbows to shoot.
This hand crossbow is a small Liannu invented by Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang, and it is a youthful miniature version of Zhuge Liannu.
Originally, he could only shoot three seven-inch arrows, and the range was only 50 meters.
Later, it was improved to shoot four arrows, the limit range is still 50 meters, and the lethality within 20 meters is huge.
In the beginning, this kind of hand crossbow was only used as equipment for the special operations of the Huangmen soldiers.
In order to respond to Ji Ping's rebellion in the north, the Huangmen pawns rushed hundreds of miles to take Chenliu. They used this hand crossbow to repel Cao Jun on the way.
But good equipment naturally needs to be manufactured in large quantities.
Now the smelter responsible for ordnance manufacturing in Yizhou is operating at full capacity, and has equipped the entire army. There are no ordinary soldiers, only cavalry scouts are used more.
Because this thing is not a pistol after all, it fires slowly, and it is easy to be dodged, not to mention, the aim is the same.Therefore, for ordinary soldiers in large-scale positional warfare, infantry crossbows with longer ranges are more practical.
But it is very useful for cavalry. When you are being chased by someone, you can shoot backwards with one hand, regardless of whether you can hit the target. First, it can deter the enemy. Second, the horse is bigger. It is easier to hit the arrow, as the saying goes, shoot the horse first.
More than 30 scout cavalry shot more than 100 crossbow arrows to the rear. In an instant, more than a dozen soldiers of Cao Jun and their horses fell to the ground.
But their stopping the pursuit did not mean that Zhao Yun would let them go. After realizing that the enemy had stopped, Zhao Yun gave a whistling sound, stopped as well, then turned his horse's head around and charged towards the enemy instead.
"Kill them!"
Zhao Yun shouted loudly.
The cavalry no longer controlled the speed of their horses and chased them recklessly.
The identities of the hunters and the prey on both sides changed, and Cao Jun fled all the way to the northwest. Because he had consumed too much horsepower along the way, more than a dozen people were caught up by Zhao Yun, and only about [-] soldiers fled back.
On the vast plain, at the end of the horizon, countless black spots appeared, like a black flood, engulfing the land in the distance.
Zhao Yun reined in the horse and urged the horse up to a high slope for a distant view.
On the northwest plain, Cao Jun's large troops were approaching slowly. Those tiger and leopard scouts who were beaten away, like a bear child who had been beaten outside and ran home to find his mother, galloped towards that side. go.
"go!"
Zhao Yun used a different password this time and issued a whistle, and the soldiers withdrew and returned.
Half an hour later, Cao Jun appeared outside the hills and mountains of Dongxing Dike, and the trickling stone stream flowed from the mountains submerged by Chaohu Lake in the north.
The edge of the stream was originally a village farmland, but with the migration of the people in Huainan by Cao Cao, it has long been deserted.
The weeds are overgrown and the trees are everywhere. It is the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, and the weather in the south is still hot.
But this peaceful primitive ecology was quickly broken. The Cao cavalry stepped on the grass, led the horses into the stream, and let the horses drink water. The soldiers scrubbed the sweat on their bodies and took a rest.
The clear stream water, as if soaked by Cao Wei's black color, turned into a turbid black-yellow.
Cao Chun rode on a horse and watched from a hillside. There was also a neatly formed army in the wilderness on the other side of the stream. They were relatively far away and could not be seen clearly.
The only thing that can be distinguished is that their uniform colors and flags are completely different from those of Cao Jun.
Cao Cao admired black, so the banners and uniforms were black.
From beginning to end, Liu Bei insisted that he was a courtier of the Han Dynasty, a member of the royal family who went out to crusade against rebellion, and served as the master of the Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, so the banners and military uniforms were all red in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
As a veteran general who has followed Cao Cao for many years, Cao Chun can tell at a glance that the number of enemies in the distance is only four or five thousand.
What made Cao Chun a little puzzled was why Zhao Yun didn't garrison at Dongxingdi's camp, but came to intercept them halfway?
Soon the scout gave him the answer.
It turned out that the scouts had investigated and found that although Dongxing Dike was located on the edge of the Ruxu River, it was at the foot of the mountain in the north. The terrain was slightly higher and was not submerged by the lake. It was relatively flat and suitable for cavalry charges.
Although the southwest is also a large plain, due to the flooding of the lake, the depressions become gushes, and the mountains are adjacent to the lake, resulting in many swamps and lakes in this area, which is not conducive to large-scale cavalry dispatch.
So Zhao Yun wisely chose to go out of the camp to intercept, instead of relying on the temporarily built camp with only outer fences and tents inside, without too many defensive facilities.
"This Zhao Yun thought that intercepting us in the swampy lake would prevent us from taking advantage of the tiger and leopard cavalry."
Cao Chun smiled contemptuously and said, "Don't he know that the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was built by the most elite hundred generals we selected from the army?"
The tiger and leopard cavalry is actually not the best cavalry charge.
Cavalry in the Han Dynasty were not used for charging either.
Instead, after catching up with the enemy, dismount and fight!
So if Zhao Yun thinks that he can win a battle in a place that is not conducive to cavalry charging, he is very wrong.
Because the soldiers riding tigers and leopards themselves have to dismount and confront the enemy head-on.
After saying this, Cao Chun waved his hands and said, "Send orders, line up, and prepare for battle!"
"Ohh Ohh ohh!"
The desolate trumpet sounded melodiously.
Countless Cao Jun, who were lying, sitting, or eating, recovered from the state of rest and quickly began to form up.
Soon they arranged three square arrays, standing like a character.
Then Cao Chun sent his troops eastward.
The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. After two quarters of an hour, that is, half an hour later, they finally met in the wilderness.
Cao Chun rode a black horse on the hillside behind, while Zhao Yun rode a white horse in front of the formation.
There was no shouting in front of the battle, and there was no battle between the generals. After noon in the sky, until three quarters in the afternoon, that is, after two o'clock in the afternoon, with a sharp whistle piercing the sky, the two sides were like two people. The road began to roll forward like a flood.
The soldier at the front held a hooked shield and a halberd, while the crossbowman behind launched a round of upward shooting. After the shooting, he didn't care whether the shot missed, dropped the crossbow in his hand, pulled out his waist knife and began to sprint .
When it comes to the range of the bow and arrow, the distance between the two sides is often only about 100 meters. A skilled archer at this distance can shoot for three rounds without aiming.
But that's only done by large-scale legions. Small-scale battles are not easy to hit people with crossbows. What's more, the number of people is getting smaller and the formation is more scattered. When you shoot the third arrow, the enemy has already rushed to your face. The knife must be too late.
Therefore, very few bows and crossbows are used in small-scale battles. Even if they are used, they can only use one round of crossbow arrows at most. Whether they can kill the enemy depends on God's will.
Obviously, God's will is in Han and not in Wei.
Those who pay more attention to weather forecasts in Anhui may know that Huainan is usually dominated by east or south winds in this season.
It happened to be an easterly wind today, that is, a wind blowing from the east.
Zhao Yun's army is in the east, and Cao's army is in the west.Zhao Yun and the others are with the wind, and Cao Jun and the others are with the wind.
The result was that when the crossbow was flying in the sky, it was affected by the wind, and before Cao Jun's arrows could reach Zhao Yun's formation, they were blown down by the wind.In the end, they fell in front of Zhao Yun's formation, and only a few fell into the formation and hit the shield.
And Zhao Yunjun's crossbow flew further with the help of the wind.Part of it fell on the shield of the front army, and more fell into the rear formation.
There were screams for a while, and hundreds of unlucky Cao Jun were shot to death and injured.
"Humph!"
Cao Chun looked at this scene and snorted coldly.
After a round of bow and crossbow, the two sides ran from a small run to a fast run. In just eight or nine seconds, the distance of seven to eighty meters met in this two-way rush.
Like two torrents colliding together, people turned their backs in an instant, and a large number of soldiers in the front row fell down.
The fight also officially began.
The entire formation of both sides became loose as the soldiers in the front row fell.
This is inevitable.
No one can keep the big formation unchanged, even the Bing Sheng Sun Wu Bing Xian Han Xin can't do it.
But small formations do.
For example, the later Qi Jiguang mandarin duck formation and our army's three-three system are small formations.
The soldiers on both sides are all elite, not comparable to the Jiangdong Army, and they immediately started to join forces with the surrounding teammates and fight against the enemy.
Some are in groups of three or four, and some are in groups of seven or eight, catching and chopping in the wilderness, flat ground, weeds, and trees.
One of the teams is the most dazzling.
A general in silver-white armor waved around, slashing and killing wantonly.
Although Zhao Yun is in his fifties, he does not look old, and his body is still tall and majestic. The key is his handsome face and charming demeanor.
At this moment, the long spear in his hand was like a rain of pear blossoms, every shot would take away a person's life, he was unparalleled in bravery.
The soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry are all generals of a hundred men, and in terms of strength, they are even more powerful than the soldiers of Zhao Yun's army. In addition to the large number of people, most of the battlefields are fought by Cao Jun pressing Liu Beijun.
Only here, where Zhao Yun went, there was no one who could match him, he was easily killed by him, and he went to save other teammates without stopping.
In less than half an hour, no less than 50 people died in his hands.
"General!"
On the hillside in the distance, Cao Chun's left and right lieutenants said to him: "That man is Zhao Yun. He has killed more than fifty of our hundred generals."
Cao Chun looked over there with a gloomy gaze, and said in a deep voice, "Go, bring a hundred people to encircle and suppress him, and it's best to shoot him with cold arrows."
"only!"
The left and right lieutenants rode down the mountain with a hundred tigers and leopards protecting Cao Chun.
Cao Chun was a civil servant at the beginning. He was awarded the post of Yilang and Sikong to join the army, and he was a military staff officer with Cao Cao.
It was not until later that he became the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and his actual force value was not high, so whenever there was a war, he only commanded the tiger and leopard cavalry to fight, and he would not end himself.
At this moment, Zhao Yun was still fighting in the formation. As he continued to lead his bodyguards to make raids to clear the siege, Liu Beijun, who was suppressed and beaten at the beginning, gradually recovered, and people continued to solve their opponents, and then joined forces to kill new enemies. go.
Soon the original situation of fighting more with less was improved, because Zhao Yun's bravery also inspired the soldiers, and everyone fought hard.From the original only [-] odds of winning, it gradually became evenly matched.
This is the benefit of having a brave general in the army, especially in small-scale battles. It can often stimulate the morale and fighting spirit of the soldiers, and lead the army forward.
Now Zhao Yun has exerted this effect.
And Cao Chun naturally didn't want him to continue killing, so he sent tiger and leopard cavalry to encircle and suppress.
Below is the swamp of the lake. Although it is not easy for people to sink into it, the ground is soft and the horses are easy to slip, so the soldiers dismounted and fought on foot.
At this moment, the tiger and leopard riders left their horses where they were, and joined the battlefield under the leadership of the lieutenant general, moving towards Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun quickly noticed the situation over there, because someone said to him: "General, be careful of cold arrows."
As soon as he lowered his head, he rolled on the ground, and several crossbow arrows shot at the ground where he was standing.
Zhao Yun was furious, and stabbed the long spear in his hand obliquely to the side, stabbing to death a Cao Jun who was about to attack him. He put the spear behind his back, and with only a dozen guards around him, he led them towards the enemy. rush away.
Cao Jun, who was shooting arrows not far away, had no time to open their bows, so they dropped the crossbows in their hands one after another, pulled out the knives at their waists, and roared like wild wolves to kill.
The two sides approached quickly, and a Cao Jun who rushed to the front held a long halberd and stabbed at Zhao Yun's neck.
Because Zhao Yun was wearing a silver-white steel armor, and his head, waist, thighs, and arms were also covered by the armor. Only his forearms, calves, and neck were exposed, so aiming at the neck was Cao Jun's first choice.
This also shows that the opponent is an elite in all battles, otherwise ordinary soldiers would not care about so many, and it is common to stab casually in a panic in a chaotic army.
Zhao Yun's body swooped forward in a swooping posture, and he dodged the blow with a slight tilt of his head. The speed was extremely fast, like a leisurely step, the spear stabbed down, and the second shot came first, piercing through the armor worn by the tiger and leopard knight soldier. The belly leather armor pierced him.
Even the tip of the gun kept stabbing in, and the terrifying force penetrated the Cao soldier's abdomen. Then Zhao Yun used his inertia and his own strength to lift him up and swung him forward.
"what!"
With a sooner or later scream, the Cao Jun soldier was lifted more than two feet off the ground, and then was thrown out, hitting the three Cao Jun behind him who were about to bully him.
Taking advantage of the gap in the front position, Zhao Yun rushed into the circle, pulled out the knife at his waist, and swung his bow left and right.
In an instant, several Cao Jun were killed.
During Cao Jun's chaos, people kept trying to stab him to death with spears and halberds, but they were all avoided by his dragon-like body skills.
Zhao Yun was like a butterfly, cruising among the crowd, and sometimes even borrowed Cao Jun's body to avoid enemy attacks. Hundreds of Cao Jun's elite generals couldn't do anything against him in a short time.
Especially after Zhao Yun's personal guards filled up later, more than ten of them formed a small formation, like a three-edged thorn, with Zhao Yun as the pointed head, attacking Cao Jun fiercely.
Soon the formation of the more than 100 Cao troops was also disrupted, because it was too crowded and it was inconvenient to kill, so the formation had to be spread out a little.
But the more dispersed the formation, the more they are not their opponents.
Zhao Yun first lowered his head to avoid the slashing by a man on the left, and then helped the guard on the right to hold up the enemy's attack, then kicked away the enemy in front, and then stabbed the Cao Jun who had been slashed empty on the left.
During the chaos, they fought more and more courageously, and killed more than 20 people, but only three of Zhao Yun's personal guards died, and Zhao Yun was not even injured.
Seeing Zhao Yun's fierceness here, more Cao troops attacked from the east.
But when there were few people on their side, Liu Bei's soldiers fought back in a big way. The wilderness less than one square kilometer was full of enemy and enemy soldiers fighting. Fang slashed, and when the weapon in his hand fell, he would buckle it with his hand, bite with his teeth, and bite the enemy to death.
There are not only them in the surrounding wilderness, the hare sticks out its head from the burrow, the goshawk soars in the sky, the tiger in the forest in the north looks from a distance, the deer group lowers their heads to eat the weeds, and occasionally raises their head to look at the group in the distance Weird two-legged beast.
The history of human warfare will never lack those spectators who have difficulty understanding their actions.
As time went by, the battle was becoming more and more unfavorable for Cao Jun. Cao Chun on the hillside looked very unsightly. He never thought that he would be at a disadvantage when he fought five thousand with eight thousand.
The most intuitive reason is that the man named Zhao Yun was too fierce. He led his personal guards to hack and kill everywhere, and he entered the land of no one, which made Liu Beijun's morale extremely high.
Obviously, if this continues, the situation will get very bad.
But Cao Chun could not accept his failure.
This time Cao Pi sent him to support Sun Quan, and he had to achieve his goal to slow down the enemy's offensive against Sun Quan.
A little Zhao Yun is so troublesome, how can he face Guan Yu after that?
So thinking of this, Cao Chun shouted, turned his horse's head, and said to the people around him: "Go, go and kill that Zhao Yun!"
He planned to go to the battlefield in person, not to fight Zhao Yun, but to bring all the tigers and leopards around him to kill him. He personally commanded outside, and Zhao Yun was bound to be surrounded and killed.
Soon Cao Chun led the remaining hundred tiger and leopard riders and killed them.
At the same time, Zhao Yun's personal guards behind him also dealt with their opponents, and four or fifty people shouted and attacked this side.
At this moment, including the remaining tiger and leopard cavalry, Cao Jun still had more than 100 people, and surrounded Zhao Yun.
But Zhao Yun's personal guards on the periphery were not vegetarians either. They fought their way out like an awl, merged with Zhao Yun, and then fought around.
Cao Chun kept yelling and shouting: "Kill him, who can kill Zhao Yun, I will play the king of Wei and make him a lieutenant!"
"Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
The morale of Cao Jun's soldiers suddenly rose.
Zhao Yun was drenched in blood and roared angrily: "I am Zhao Zilong from Changshan, who dares to fight me!"
"Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
Zhao Yun's personal guards also roared loudly.
Immediately afterwards, the two sides collided again, and Zhao Yun still rushed to the forefront.
He stared fixedly at the figure of Cao Chun on horseback in the rear army formation, and after scanning the enemies in front, he silently said a number—seventeen!
Kill another seventeen people, and he will be able to fight a bloody path to the opponent's general, and stab him under the horse with one shot.
A Cao Jun slashed sideways, he raised the head of the gun, and then stabbed.
Blood splattered.
In the next second, the other three Cao Jun's attacks followed one after another.
One slashed with a knife and two stabbed with a halberd.
Zhao Yun shrunk down and crouched, and then his body shot out like a cannonball, hitting one of the soldiers holding a halberd in the abdomen.
The soldier was overturned to the ground, Zhao Yun held the gun in his left hand, reached down with his right hand, grabbed the man by the throat, lifted him up with one hand, strangled him to death, and at the same time slammed him to the side.
Hearing a "bang", the soldier's body swept down the two people who had attacked him just now, one of Zhao Yun's personal guards quickly made up for it, and one of them killed them with a knife.
Four!
Zhao Yun silently read a number in his heart.
Then he ran violently, speared like a dragon, and stabbed two more people to death.
Cao Jun on the left and right sides were blocked by the guards behind him, Zhao Yun only needed to concentrate on dealing with Cao Jun soldiers in front of him.
He saw the guards on the side behind him holding shields to cover them. With their help, Zhao Yun quickly killed eight people, and he was less than ten feet away from piercing Cao Jun's formation.
And Cao Chun's position is just twenty feet away.
Seeing that Zhao Yun was still fighting in the formation, Cao Chun became agitated, even though the surrounding Cao troops kept attacking him like a tide, they were all blocked by Zhao Yun's personal guards, and they never killed him.
Even the horse under his crotch seemed to sense this emotion, and took a step back unconsciously.
"General, Zhao Yun is fierce, let's retreat."
A personal guard was a little scared.
Cao Chun turned his head and yelled angrily: "I was entrusted by the king of Wei, and I have a heavy life. How can I retreat?"
He can't retreat in this battle.
After retreating, let Guan Yu know that Cao Jun's so-called rush to help is nothing more than external strength and internal work, and Sun Quan can't last long.
It's just this moment that made Cao Chun regret. He thought eight thousand against five thousand would be sure, but unexpectedly the enemy general was so strong and possessed the courage of Lu Bu, which made him regret not bringing Zhang Liao here.
Perhaps only Zhang Liao could stop this person.
Cao Chun thought to himself.
But in this moment of stupefaction, Zhao Yun had already killed several more people, almost piercing Cao Jun's formation.
A moment later, when Cao Chun turned his head to look at the battlefield again, he saw a ferocious general running towards him with a gun in his left hand and a knife in his right.
"Death!"
Zhao Yun roared angrily, rushed out of the army formation, and ran towards Cao Chun.
There were several personal guards beside Cao Chun, and they hurried up to block.
One of them immediately reined in Cao Chun's horse and shouted, "General, go!"
Cao Chun never expected that he brought nearly [-] tiger and leopard riders to besiege him, but they couldn't stop him, so he hurriedly rode his horse and galloped.
On the other side, Zhao Yun also quickly killed those guards, snatched a war horse, and galloped over.
While chasing, he shouted: "The enemy will stop, take your life!"
Cao Chun was too shocked to speak.
When I went down the mountain just now, I thought that the enemy general had been killed for so long, and his physical strength should be exhausted, and more than 100 people should be surrounded and killed.
Who knew that the opponent's physical strength had almost no upper limit, but he could still fight for so long, and let him kill him all the way to his side, at that time, he was stunned for a moment.
This is simply a big mistake.
But at this time, it was too late to regret, so he could only flee in a panic.
However, Zhao Yun deliberately picked this place to intercept, with his own intentions. If the horse is walking slowly, it is fine, but once it gallops, it is easy to slip.
After running less than [-] meters, with the neighing of the horse, the soft and wet soil slipped under his feet, and Cao Chun fell down.
Zhao Yun chased after him, laughed and said, "Did you think that I stopped you halfway because I was afraid of your cavalry? Wrong, I chose this place because I was afraid that you would run away on horseback, and die!"
Before Cao Chun, who had been thrown to the ground, came back to his senses, the long spear from the god of death stabbed him in the neck, piercing his neck in an instant.
Zhao Yun jumped off his horse and cut off Cao Chun's neck with a knife. He didn't know who it was, he only knew that the flag was marked with the word "Cao", so he held up Cao Chun's head, turned around and roared: "The enemy Will give the head!"
In this battle, Zhao Yun shocked Dongxingdi!
(End of this chapter)
It is not far from Dongxing Dike to Hefei for more than [-] li, but Cao Chun did not only go to Dongxing Dike.
His task is to at least appear in front of Guan Yu's main force, otherwise, if he only wins Dongxing embankment, it will be far from deterring Liu Bei's army.
So Cao Chun had already made a long-term plan. After Zhao Yun's tribe was wiped out at Dongxing Dike, he would immediately go south to Ruxukou, wave in front of Guan Yu, and then return to Dongxing Dike.
This way, pretending to be Cao Wei's vanguard arrived at the battlefield, making Liu Beijun think that there was still the main force of Cao's army behind, and then he came back to defend and deter Guan Yu's troops in the south.
In this way, his task is considered complete.
At that time, Guan Yu will definitely not dare to attack Sun Quan on a large scale, at least until he has found out the reality of Cao Wei's army.
If Guan Yu sent people north to attack Dongxing Dike, he would eat them if there were few people.If there were too many people, he would retreat to Hefei City. After all, he could contain part of Guan Yu's troops.
It can be said to be a profitable business.
It has to be said that Cao Chun, as the leader of the tiger and leopard cavalry for many years, still has some experience in sports warfare like this, and his calculations are very good.
On August [-]th, in the wilderness southwest of Chaohu Lake, a group of about fifty light cavalry, wearing black military uniforms and brown leather armor, appeared on the vast plain.
To the north of them is the vast Chaohu Lake, while to the northeast there are continuous mountains, the plains are flooded with rivers, swamps and lakes are everywhere, which are not conducive to cavalry running.
But their riding skills are extremely superb, and they have rich experience. In a wilderness, they found an abandoned county road full of weeds and galloped southward.
There is a vast group of mountains on the south bank of Chaohu Lake. The highest point of the mountain is called Yinping Peak. It is located in the mountains south of Chaohu City in later generations. The scenery here is beautiful. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can see the sparkling Chaohu Lake in the distance.
And among these mountains, there is a medium-sized river going down from Chaohu Lake, passing through Wuwei City in later generations all the way south, and then flowing into the Yangtze River. This river is Ruxushui.
On the west bank of Ruxushui is the Chongyan Mountains, and on the east bank is the Taihu Mountains.
This Taihu Mountain is not a mountain range near Taihu Lake, but because Chaohu Lake had a wide area in ancient times, the river was flooded, and the depressions became gushing, and the mountain was named after the lake.
In later generations, there will be Taihu Mountain National Forest Park, which belongs to Hanshan County in Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province.
That is to say, this area in Han Dynasty belonged to the lake water category of Chaohu Lake.
Chaohu City and Hanshan County in this area in later generations basically blow bubbles at the bottom of Chaohu Lake. It was not until the sixth year of Tang Wude that Hanshan County was established, and in the seventh year of Wude that Chao County was established.
The Dongxing Dike is located in the south of the Chongyan Mountains and west of the Ruxu River, and the specific location is in Shijian Town, north of Wuwei City in the later generations.
On the opposite side of it, south of Taihu Mountain and east of Ruxu River, there is a place called Ruxuwu, which is located in the southeast of Tongzha Town, Hanshan County, Anhui Province in later generations.
The Dongxing embankment and Ruxuwu were built by Sun Quan in the 16th year of Jian'an at the suggestion of Lu Meng. After that, Cao Cao led his troops to the south, broke through Ruxuwu, captured Sun Quan's general Gongsun Yang alive, and stationed here.
Later, Sun Quan wanted to inspect Cao Ying, so he took a boat to the north, but was shot into a sieve by Cao Jun, and thus the story of the straw boat borrowing arrows began.
In the late period of the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Ke, the Tai Fu of the State of Wu, recast the city here, so Dongxing Dike on the west bank and Ruxuwu on the east bank were called two other names—Xiguan and Dongguan.
Due to its extremely important geographical location, in a sense, it is an accident-prone place, and it is also the place where Cao Wei and Wu fought many times later.
But now the Liu Bei Group's attack on Jiangdong is not from the Chaohu Lake in the north, but from the Yangtze River in the west, so this strategic point of defense in the north is meaningless, and Sun Quan is completely shrunk.
However, Cao Jun's support could be blocked here, so Guan Yu sent Zhao Yun to garrison.
At this moment Cao Chun led the army to arrive, and his scouts spread out for several miles, exploring all the way to the east. The wilderness was covered with high mountains in the north, and forests, lakes, and swamps in the east. The road was rugged and extremely difficult.
Fortunately, due to the relatively wide field of vision in the plain area, they did not encounter any ambushes along the way. They did not see the enemy until they passed a small hill.
It was a troop of cavalry.
Zhao Yunjun's scouts had actually discovered them a long time ago.
Although this is a plain area, there are still some hills with lush forests, and there are many forest rivers, so there are too many places to hide.
Zhao Yun sent people to build a high tower on the top of a small hill in the nearby road to look out and inspect the situation in the west.
But there are quite a few of them, and the sentry posts on the outskirts are as many as seven or eight, and as few as three or four, which is not enough to deal with them.
Therefore, after realizing the arrival of the enemy scouts, Zhao Yun's scouts immediately returned to the camp from another trail and reported the matter to Zhao Yun.
At this moment, Zhao Yun personally led more than 30 cavalry out of the camp in the east, and happened to meet them.
The two sides watched from a distance, and no one ordered to do it immediately.
After a while, Captain Cao, who led the team, held a sharp ring-shoulder knife in his hand, waved his hand forward, and said in a wolf-like voice: "Kill!"
"kill!"
The tiger and leopard riders are all served by the elite of the army, and everyone can serve as a centurion in the ordinary army. At this moment, they have shown extremely brilliant tactical qualities.
After the captain gave the order, the left and right wings dispersed at the same time, and rushed towards the opposing cavalry.
Zhao Yun indifferently glanced at the encircling enemies on the left and right, then took out a crossbow from the belly of the horse, waved his hand and said, "Withdraw!"
"go!"
The knights turned their horses around.
The tiger and leopard cavalry chased after them, and when the two sides were getting closer and less than ten feet away, Zhao Yun raised his crossbow and turned around to shoot.
"Whoosh!"
A crossbow arrow cut through the void and shot towards the Cao army behind.
But the shot misses.
Cao Jun turned his head and sneered, his legs were tightly clamping the horse's belly, and he was about to urge the horse to continue chasing.
In the next second, three consecutive crossbow arrows shot again.
"Whoosh whoosh."
Still misses him, but hits the horse.
Hearing a neigh, the horse fell down, knocking Cao Jun to the ground, and rolled four or five meters.
The rest of Zhao Yunjun's scouts followed suit and took out their crossbows to shoot.
This hand crossbow is a small Liannu invented by Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang, and it is a youthful miniature version of Zhuge Liannu.
Originally, he could only shoot three seven-inch arrows, and the range was only 50 meters.
Later, it was improved to shoot four arrows, the limit range is still 50 meters, and the lethality within 20 meters is huge.
In the beginning, this kind of hand crossbow was only used as equipment for the special operations of the Huangmen soldiers.
In order to respond to Ji Ping's rebellion in the north, the Huangmen pawns rushed hundreds of miles to take Chenliu. They used this hand crossbow to repel Cao Jun on the way.
But good equipment naturally needs to be manufactured in large quantities.
Now the smelter responsible for ordnance manufacturing in Yizhou is operating at full capacity, and has equipped the entire army. There are no ordinary soldiers, only cavalry scouts are used more.
Because this thing is not a pistol after all, it fires slowly, and it is easy to be dodged, not to mention, the aim is the same.Therefore, for ordinary soldiers in large-scale positional warfare, infantry crossbows with longer ranges are more practical.
But it is very useful for cavalry. When you are being chased by someone, you can shoot backwards with one hand, regardless of whether you can hit the target. First, it can deter the enemy. Second, the horse is bigger. It is easier to hit the arrow, as the saying goes, shoot the horse first.
More than 30 scout cavalry shot more than 100 crossbow arrows to the rear. In an instant, more than a dozen soldiers of Cao Jun and their horses fell to the ground.
But their stopping the pursuit did not mean that Zhao Yun would let them go. After realizing that the enemy had stopped, Zhao Yun gave a whistling sound, stopped as well, then turned his horse's head around and charged towards the enemy instead.
"Kill them!"
Zhao Yun shouted loudly.
The cavalry no longer controlled the speed of their horses and chased them recklessly.
The identities of the hunters and the prey on both sides changed, and Cao Jun fled all the way to the northwest. Because he had consumed too much horsepower along the way, more than a dozen people were caught up by Zhao Yun, and only about [-] soldiers fled back.
On the vast plain, at the end of the horizon, countless black spots appeared, like a black flood, engulfing the land in the distance.
Zhao Yun reined in the horse and urged the horse up to a high slope for a distant view.
On the northwest plain, Cao Jun's large troops were approaching slowly. Those tiger and leopard scouts who were beaten away, like a bear child who had been beaten outside and ran home to find his mother, galloped towards that side. go.
"go!"
Zhao Yun used a different password this time and issued a whistle, and the soldiers withdrew and returned.
Half an hour later, Cao Jun appeared outside the hills and mountains of Dongxing Dike, and the trickling stone stream flowed from the mountains submerged by Chaohu Lake in the north.
The edge of the stream was originally a village farmland, but with the migration of the people in Huainan by Cao Cao, it has long been deserted.
The weeds are overgrown and the trees are everywhere. It is the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, and the weather in the south is still hot.
But this peaceful primitive ecology was quickly broken. The Cao cavalry stepped on the grass, led the horses into the stream, and let the horses drink water. The soldiers scrubbed the sweat on their bodies and took a rest.
The clear stream water, as if soaked by Cao Wei's black color, turned into a turbid black-yellow.
Cao Chun rode on a horse and watched from a hillside. There was also a neatly formed army in the wilderness on the other side of the stream. They were relatively far away and could not be seen clearly.
The only thing that can be distinguished is that their uniform colors and flags are completely different from those of Cao Jun.
Cao Cao admired black, so the banners and uniforms were black.
From beginning to end, Liu Bei insisted that he was a courtier of the Han Dynasty, a member of the royal family who went out to crusade against rebellion, and served as the master of the Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty, so the banners and military uniforms were all red in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
As a veteran general who has followed Cao Cao for many years, Cao Chun can tell at a glance that the number of enemies in the distance is only four or five thousand.
What made Cao Chun a little puzzled was why Zhao Yun didn't garrison at Dongxingdi's camp, but came to intercept them halfway?
Soon the scout gave him the answer.
It turned out that the scouts had investigated and found that although Dongxing Dike was located on the edge of the Ruxu River, it was at the foot of the mountain in the north. The terrain was slightly higher and was not submerged by the lake. It was relatively flat and suitable for cavalry charges.
Although the southwest is also a large plain, due to the flooding of the lake, the depressions become gushes, and the mountains are adjacent to the lake, resulting in many swamps and lakes in this area, which is not conducive to large-scale cavalry dispatch.
So Zhao Yun wisely chose to go out of the camp to intercept, instead of relying on the temporarily built camp with only outer fences and tents inside, without too many defensive facilities.
"This Zhao Yun thought that intercepting us in the swampy lake would prevent us from taking advantage of the tiger and leopard cavalry."
Cao Chun smiled contemptuously and said, "Don't he know that the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was built by the most elite hundred generals we selected from the army?"
The tiger and leopard cavalry is actually not the best cavalry charge.
Cavalry in the Han Dynasty were not used for charging either.
Instead, after catching up with the enemy, dismount and fight!
So if Zhao Yun thinks that he can win a battle in a place that is not conducive to cavalry charging, he is very wrong.
Because the soldiers riding tigers and leopards themselves have to dismount and confront the enemy head-on.
After saying this, Cao Chun waved his hands and said, "Send orders, line up, and prepare for battle!"
"Ohh Ohh ohh!"
The desolate trumpet sounded melodiously.
Countless Cao Jun, who were lying, sitting, or eating, recovered from the state of rest and quickly began to form up.
Soon they arranged three square arrays, standing like a character.
Then Cao Chun sent his troops eastward.
The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. After two quarters of an hour, that is, half an hour later, they finally met in the wilderness.
Cao Chun rode a black horse on the hillside behind, while Zhao Yun rode a white horse in front of the formation.
There was no shouting in front of the battle, and there was no battle between the generals. After noon in the sky, until three quarters in the afternoon, that is, after two o'clock in the afternoon, with a sharp whistle piercing the sky, the two sides were like two people. The road began to roll forward like a flood.
The soldier at the front held a hooked shield and a halberd, while the crossbowman behind launched a round of upward shooting. After the shooting, he didn't care whether the shot missed, dropped the crossbow in his hand, pulled out his waist knife and began to sprint .
When it comes to the range of the bow and arrow, the distance between the two sides is often only about 100 meters. A skilled archer at this distance can shoot for three rounds without aiming.
But that's only done by large-scale legions. Small-scale battles are not easy to hit people with crossbows. What's more, the number of people is getting smaller and the formation is more scattered. When you shoot the third arrow, the enemy has already rushed to your face. The knife must be too late.
Therefore, very few bows and crossbows are used in small-scale battles. Even if they are used, they can only use one round of crossbow arrows at most. Whether they can kill the enemy depends on God's will.
Obviously, God's will is in Han and not in Wei.
Those who pay more attention to weather forecasts in Anhui may know that Huainan is usually dominated by east or south winds in this season.
It happened to be an easterly wind today, that is, a wind blowing from the east.
Zhao Yun's army is in the east, and Cao's army is in the west.Zhao Yun and the others are with the wind, and Cao Jun and the others are with the wind.
The result was that when the crossbow was flying in the sky, it was affected by the wind, and before Cao Jun's arrows could reach Zhao Yun's formation, they were blown down by the wind.In the end, they fell in front of Zhao Yun's formation, and only a few fell into the formation and hit the shield.
And Zhao Yunjun's crossbow flew further with the help of the wind.Part of it fell on the shield of the front army, and more fell into the rear formation.
There were screams for a while, and hundreds of unlucky Cao Jun were shot to death and injured.
"Humph!"
Cao Chun looked at this scene and snorted coldly.
After a round of bow and crossbow, the two sides ran from a small run to a fast run. In just eight or nine seconds, the distance of seven to eighty meters met in this two-way rush.
Like two torrents colliding together, people turned their backs in an instant, and a large number of soldiers in the front row fell down.
The fight also officially began.
The entire formation of both sides became loose as the soldiers in the front row fell.
This is inevitable.
No one can keep the big formation unchanged, even the Bing Sheng Sun Wu Bing Xian Han Xin can't do it.
But small formations do.
For example, the later Qi Jiguang mandarin duck formation and our army's three-three system are small formations.
The soldiers on both sides are all elite, not comparable to the Jiangdong Army, and they immediately started to join forces with the surrounding teammates and fight against the enemy.
Some are in groups of three or four, and some are in groups of seven or eight, catching and chopping in the wilderness, flat ground, weeds, and trees.
One of the teams is the most dazzling.
A general in silver-white armor waved around, slashing and killing wantonly.
Although Zhao Yun is in his fifties, he does not look old, and his body is still tall and majestic. The key is his handsome face and charming demeanor.
At this moment, the long spear in his hand was like a rain of pear blossoms, every shot would take away a person's life, he was unparalleled in bravery.
The soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry are all generals of a hundred men, and in terms of strength, they are even more powerful than the soldiers of Zhao Yun's army. In addition to the large number of people, most of the battlefields are fought by Cao Jun pressing Liu Beijun.
Only here, where Zhao Yun went, there was no one who could match him, he was easily killed by him, and he went to save other teammates without stopping.
In less than half an hour, no less than 50 people died in his hands.
"General!"
On the hillside in the distance, Cao Chun's left and right lieutenants said to him: "That man is Zhao Yun. He has killed more than fifty of our hundred generals."
Cao Chun looked over there with a gloomy gaze, and said in a deep voice, "Go, bring a hundred people to encircle and suppress him, and it's best to shoot him with cold arrows."
"only!"
The left and right lieutenants rode down the mountain with a hundred tigers and leopards protecting Cao Chun.
Cao Chun was a civil servant at the beginning. He was awarded the post of Yilang and Sikong to join the army, and he was a military staff officer with Cao Cao.
It was not until later that he became the commander of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and his actual force value was not high, so whenever there was a war, he only commanded the tiger and leopard cavalry to fight, and he would not end himself.
At this moment, Zhao Yun was still fighting in the formation. As he continued to lead his bodyguards to make raids to clear the siege, Liu Beijun, who was suppressed and beaten at the beginning, gradually recovered, and people continued to solve their opponents, and then joined forces to kill new enemies. go.
Soon the original situation of fighting more with less was improved, because Zhao Yun's bravery also inspired the soldiers, and everyone fought hard.From the original only [-] odds of winning, it gradually became evenly matched.
This is the benefit of having a brave general in the army, especially in small-scale battles. It can often stimulate the morale and fighting spirit of the soldiers, and lead the army forward.
Now Zhao Yun has exerted this effect.
And Cao Chun naturally didn't want him to continue killing, so he sent tiger and leopard cavalry to encircle and suppress.
Below is the swamp of the lake. Although it is not easy for people to sink into it, the ground is soft and the horses are easy to slip, so the soldiers dismounted and fought on foot.
At this moment, the tiger and leopard riders left their horses where they were, and joined the battlefield under the leadership of the lieutenant general, moving towards Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun quickly noticed the situation over there, because someone said to him: "General, be careful of cold arrows."
As soon as he lowered his head, he rolled on the ground, and several crossbow arrows shot at the ground where he was standing.
Zhao Yun was furious, and stabbed the long spear in his hand obliquely to the side, stabbing to death a Cao Jun who was about to attack him. He put the spear behind his back, and with only a dozen guards around him, he led them towards the enemy. rush away.
Cao Jun, who was shooting arrows not far away, had no time to open their bows, so they dropped the crossbows in their hands one after another, pulled out the knives at their waists, and roared like wild wolves to kill.
The two sides approached quickly, and a Cao Jun who rushed to the front held a long halberd and stabbed at Zhao Yun's neck.
Because Zhao Yun was wearing a silver-white steel armor, and his head, waist, thighs, and arms were also covered by the armor. Only his forearms, calves, and neck were exposed, so aiming at the neck was Cao Jun's first choice.
This also shows that the opponent is an elite in all battles, otherwise ordinary soldiers would not care about so many, and it is common to stab casually in a panic in a chaotic army.
Zhao Yun's body swooped forward in a swooping posture, and he dodged the blow with a slight tilt of his head. The speed was extremely fast, like a leisurely step, the spear stabbed down, and the second shot came first, piercing through the armor worn by the tiger and leopard knight soldier. The belly leather armor pierced him.
Even the tip of the gun kept stabbing in, and the terrifying force penetrated the Cao soldier's abdomen. Then Zhao Yun used his inertia and his own strength to lift him up and swung him forward.
"what!"
With a sooner or later scream, the Cao Jun soldier was lifted more than two feet off the ground, and then was thrown out, hitting the three Cao Jun behind him who were about to bully him.
Taking advantage of the gap in the front position, Zhao Yun rushed into the circle, pulled out the knife at his waist, and swung his bow left and right.
In an instant, several Cao Jun were killed.
During Cao Jun's chaos, people kept trying to stab him to death with spears and halberds, but they were all avoided by his dragon-like body skills.
Zhao Yun was like a butterfly, cruising among the crowd, and sometimes even borrowed Cao Jun's body to avoid enemy attacks. Hundreds of Cao Jun's elite generals couldn't do anything against him in a short time.
Especially after Zhao Yun's personal guards filled up later, more than ten of them formed a small formation, like a three-edged thorn, with Zhao Yun as the pointed head, attacking Cao Jun fiercely.
Soon the formation of the more than 100 Cao troops was also disrupted, because it was too crowded and it was inconvenient to kill, so the formation had to be spread out a little.
But the more dispersed the formation, the more they are not their opponents.
Zhao Yun first lowered his head to avoid the slashing by a man on the left, and then helped the guard on the right to hold up the enemy's attack, then kicked away the enemy in front, and then stabbed the Cao Jun who had been slashed empty on the left.
During the chaos, they fought more and more courageously, and killed more than 20 people, but only three of Zhao Yun's personal guards died, and Zhao Yun was not even injured.
Seeing Zhao Yun's fierceness here, more Cao troops attacked from the east.
But when there were few people on their side, Liu Bei's soldiers fought back in a big way. The wilderness less than one square kilometer was full of enemy and enemy soldiers fighting. Fang slashed, and when the weapon in his hand fell, he would buckle it with his hand, bite with his teeth, and bite the enemy to death.
There are not only them in the surrounding wilderness, the hare sticks out its head from the burrow, the goshawk soars in the sky, the tiger in the forest in the north looks from a distance, the deer group lowers their heads to eat the weeds, and occasionally raises their head to look at the group in the distance Weird two-legged beast.
The history of human warfare will never lack those spectators who have difficulty understanding their actions.
As time went by, the battle was becoming more and more unfavorable for Cao Jun. Cao Chun on the hillside looked very unsightly. He never thought that he would be at a disadvantage when he fought five thousand with eight thousand.
The most intuitive reason is that the man named Zhao Yun was too fierce. He led his personal guards to hack and kill everywhere, and he entered the land of no one, which made Liu Beijun's morale extremely high.
Obviously, if this continues, the situation will get very bad.
But Cao Chun could not accept his failure.
This time Cao Pi sent him to support Sun Quan, and he had to achieve his goal to slow down the enemy's offensive against Sun Quan.
A little Zhao Yun is so troublesome, how can he face Guan Yu after that?
So thinking of this, Cao Chun shouted, turned his horse's head, and said to the people around him: "Go, go and kill that Zhao Yun!"
He planned to go to the battlefield in person, not to fight Zhao Yun, but to bring all the tigers and leopards around him to kill him. He personally commanded outside, and Zhao Yun was bound to be surrounded and killed.
Soon Cao Chun led the remaining hundred tiger and leopard riders and killed them.
At the same time, Zhao Yun's personal guards behind him also dealt with their opponents, and four or fifty people shouted and attacked this side.
At this moment, including the remaining tiger and leopard cavalry, Cao Jun still had more than 100 people, and surrounded Zhao Yun.
But Zhao Yun's personal guards on the periphery were not vegetarians either. They fought their way out like an awl, merged with Zhao Yun, and then fought around.
Cao Chun kept yelling and shouting: "Kill him, who can kill Zhao Yun, I will play the king of Wei and make him a lieutenant!"
"Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
The morale of Cao Jun's soldiers suddenly rose.
Zhao Yun was drenched in blood and roared angrily: "I am Zhao Zilong from Changshan, who dares to fight me!"
"Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!"
Zhao Yun's personal guards also roared loudly.
Immediately afterwards, the two sides collided again, and Zhao Yun still rushed to the forefront.
He stared fixedly at the figure of Cao Chun on horseback in the rear army formation, and after scanning the enemies in front, he silently said a number—seventeen!
Kill another seventeen people, and he will be able to fight a bloody path to the opponent's general, and stab him under the horse with one shot.
A Cao Jun slashed sideways, he raised the head of the gun, and then stabbed.
Blood splattered.
In the next second, the other three Cao Jun's attacks followed one after another.
One slashed with a knife and two stabbed with a halberd.
Zhao Yun shrunk down and crouched, and then his body shot out like a cannonball, hitting one of the soldiers holding a halberd in the abdomen.
The soldier was overturned to the ground, Zhao Yun held the gun in his left hand, reached down with his right hand, grabbed the man by the throat, lifted him up with one hand, strangled him to death, and at the same time slammed him to the side.
Hearing a "bang", the soldier's body swept down the two people who had attacked him just now, one of Zhao Yun's personal guards quickly made up for it, and one of them killed them with a knife.
Four!
Zhao Yun silently read a number in his heart.
Then he ran violently, speared like a dragon, and stabbed two more people to death.
Cao Jun on the left and right sides were blocked by the guards behind him, Zhao Yun only needed to concentrate on dealing with Cao Jun soldiers in front of him.
He saw the guards on the side behind him holding shields to cover them. With their help, Zhao Yun quickly killed eight people, and he was less than ten feet away from piercing Cao Jun's formation.
And Cao Chun's position is just twenty feet away.
Seeing that Zhao Yun was still fighting in the formation, Cao Chun became agitated, even though the surrounding Cao troops kept attacking him like a tide, they were all blocked by Zhao Yun's personal guards, and they never killed him.
Even the horse under his crotch seemed to sense this emotion, and took a step back unconsciously.
"General, Zhao Yun is fierce, let's retreat."
A personal guard was a little scared.
Cao Chun turned his head and yelled angrily: "I was entrusted by the king of Wei, and I have a heavy life. How can I retreat?"
He can't retreat in this battle.
After retreating, let Guan Yu know that Cao Jun's so-called rush to help is nothing more than external strength and internal work, and Sun Quan can't last long.
It's just this moment that made Cao Chun regret. He thought eight thousand against five thousand would be sure, but unexpectedly the enemy general was so strong and possessed the courage of Lu Bu, which made him regret not bringing Zhang Liao here.
Perhaps only Zhang Liao could stop this person.
Cao Chun thought to himself.
But in this moment of stupefaction, Zhao Yun had already killed several more people, almost piercing Cao Jun's formation.
A moment later, when Cao Chun turned his head to look at the battlefield again, he saw a ferocious general running towards him with a gun in his left hand and a knife in his right.
"Death!"
Zhao Yun roared angrily, rushed out of the army formation, and ran towards Cao Chun.
There were several personal guards beside Cao Chun, and they hurried up to block.
One of them immediately reined in Cao Chun's horse and shouted, "General, go!"
Cao Chun never expected that he brought nearly [-] tiger and leopard riders to besiege him, but they couldn't stop him, so he hurriedly rode his horse and galloped.
On the other side, Zhao Yun also quickly killed those guards, snatched a war horse, and galloped over.
While chasing, he shouted: "The enemy will stop, take your life!"
Cao Chun was too shocked to speak.
When I went down the mountain just now, I thought that the enemy general had been killed for so long, and his physical strength should be exhausted, and more than 100 people should be surrounded and killed.
Who knew that the opponent's physical strength had almost no upper limit, but he could still fight for so long, and let him kill him all the way to his side, at that time, he was stunned for a moment.
This is simply a big mistake.
But at this time, it was too late to regret, so he could only flee in a panic.
However, Zhao Yun deliberately picked this place to intercept, with his own intentions. If the horse is walking slowly, it is fine, but once it gallops, it is easy to slip.
After running less than [-] meters, with the neighing of the horse, the soft and wet soil slipped under his feet, and Cao Chun fell down.
Zhao Yun chased after him, laughed and said, "Did you think that I stopped you halfway because I was afraid of your cavalry? Wrong, I chose this place because I was afraid that you would run away on horseback, and die!"
Before Cao Chun, who had been thrown to the ground, came back to his senses, the long spear from the god of death stabbed him in the neck, piercing his neck in an instant.
Zhao Yun jumped off his horse and cut off Cao Chun's neck with a knife. He didn't know who it was, he only knew that the flag was marked with the word "Cao", so he held up Cao Chun's head, turned around and roared: "The enemy Will give the head!"
In this battle, Zhao Yun shocked Dongxingdi!
(End of this chapter)
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