Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 470

Thousands of war horses appeared at the end of the road like a tide, and Dai Ling let out a mournful cry.

The vanguard team hurriedly wanted to set up a formation on the left plain.

The road was narrow, and there was a forest on their right, so they could only run to the left, but the cavalry had already galloped forward, rushing into the crowd like arrows.

The cavalry's inability to charge into the formation means that they cannot charge into the formation that has already been formed, but Cao's army is now scattered in the sand, and it is too late to form an formation, making the Han army break through their formation as easily as a chisel and enter it.

"kill!"

Following the sound of spring thunder, Cao Jun heard the sound of galloping horses everywhere.

The light cavalry of the Han army used spears in this unification. If the Cao army formed an formation, the light cavalry of the Han army would definitely suffer a big loss, but now it is the Cao army who suffers.

Seeing that Cao Jun's shield hadn't been erected, and his spears hadn't been aimed at the Han army who came in surprise, the horses of the Han army pierced into Cao Jun's army formation, and the sharp spears easily tore their bodies, and they turned their backs on their backs. , fell to the ground.

After the cavalry rushed into the formation, the infantry behind quickly followed, with rustling footsteps and shouting and fighting sounds.

Hundreds of crossbowmen suddenly drilled out from the forest on the right, boom boom boom boom there was a series of dense and urgent trembling of bow strings and crossbow arms, and hundreds of arrows and crossbows hit their heads and faces.

Immediately after the pawns finally arrived, countless Han soldiers jumped out of the gully in the grass under the shadow of the trees on both sides of the road ahead. .

Cao Jun was beheaded dozens of times in a daze, and only then did he think of forming a resistance. Several small officers shouted desperately to gather the team, and Dai Ling kept commanding and shouting.

His vanguard banner was in the center of the formation, and he ordered the soldiers to gather towards him immediately, hoping that the Han army's offensive would not be so fierce.

But it's a pity that he obviously thought too much. Behind him, Shen Chen personally commanded, stood on a high place, and constantly dispatched troops. About a hundred steps.

He bent his bow and set his arrow, aimed his deep eyes at Dai Ling who was riding on horseback, and then let go of the arrow in his hand suddenly.Although it is a hundred steps away, falling from a high place is much faster than a hundred steps on the flat ground.

I saw that arrow draw a gorgeous arc in the air, like a shining meteor, unbiased, just hit Dai Ling's neck on the right side.

Dai Ling only felt a coldness in his neck, and then there was a surge of warmth. He stretched out his hand with difficulty, and a black shadow appeared in front of his eyes. Then he rolled his eyes, and fell off the horse's back. Kill with one arrow.

Cao Jun is still trying to regroup the formation at this time, but there are Han troops everywhere, so where will they leave a chance?
But at this time, their chief general had already lost his life, and the military flag was also snatched by the Han army in the chaos. The mountains and plains were everywhere, and they didn't know how many people came from the other party. All they could hear were shouts of killing from the front and back, and swords and guns on the left and right. Ying, who didn't know who was screaming in despair, immediately exploded.

The people who originally wanted to gather were scattered at once. Cao Jun's vanguard army was less than 4000 people. The first 1000 people collapsed soon after being attacked, and then began to run back desperately like a landslide.

This run hurt the soldiers of Cao Jun behind. They originally listened to the whistles and the sound of gongs and drums from officers at all levels and wanted to gather, but they were scattered by the front army.

In addition, these Han troops were all extremely brave, shouting and responding to the front and back, and immediately cut Cao Jun into several sections, so that the head and the tail could not look at each other.

For a time, the hundred-and-a-half-step road was filled with shouts of killing, scolding, greetings, screams, and the sound of iron weapons clashing. Cao Jun in black leather armor fell everywhere along the road, turning his skin over. The hat rolled on the ground.

"what happened?"

Cao Zhen, who was resting in the front army formation, immediately heard the situation in the distance.

Cao's army was divided into front, middle and rear armies, and the formation stretched for more than ten miles.

The last one is the supply unit, the central army is the main force, and the front army is about 1 people. The entire formation belongs to the standard three-army model.

The former army needs a vanguard army to explore the way ahead. When Cao Jun is resting, the periphery is not without measures.

At this moment, the vanguard army was about one or less than two miles away from his former army. Far ahead, he could see dense forests at the end of the winding road, and Cao Jun's soldiers were retreating in a panic.

A knight with an arrow stuck in his back spit blood and rushed to Cao Zhen, reporting to him: "Captain, the Han army is setting up an ambush in front."

Before he finished speaking, he fell off his horse and fell to the ground.

Cao Zhen roared angrily: "Assemble!"

"Beep beep!"

The sharp whistle sounded quickly, and the soldiers of the former army gathered one after another.

In fact, the soldiers were already rushing here at this time, and the well-trained Cao Jun started to act almost as soon as he heard the movement ahead.

But the shouts of killing heard in front made Cao Zhen really anxious. After looking around and seeing his general Dong Bi, he shouted: "Dong Bi, you immediately bring 1000 people to help, and you must not let the vanguard collapse."

"only!"

After Dong Bi took the order, he shouted, and Cao soldiers around him moved towards him one after another.

Then more than 1000 soldiers of Cao Jun followed Dong Bi all the way forward.

The road is winding and rugged, and it is not a smooth road. There is a bend in less than a hundred steps ahead, and the road ahead is completely unclear.

Fortunately, although the plain area on the left is densely forested, it can be bypassed and pass through barely.

In order to prevent the collapse of the front army at this time, Dong Bi led his troops through the forest on the left and got into the small forest.

Unexpectedly, just after walking for less than a mile, there was a sudden shout of killing in the forest. Deng Ai had already determined that the enemy would not dare to walk on the main road for fear of the vanguard's collapse. Among them ambushes.

Hundreds of Han soldiers suddenly emerged from the bushes, holding bows and crossbows, and shot at Cao Jun. Although nearly half of them were blocked by dense trees and vines in the forest, they also shot and killed dozens of Cao Jun. .

Immediately afterwards, the Han army dropped the bow and crossbow in his hand, waved the ring-headed knife in his hand, howled like a wild wolf, and rushed towards Cao Jun who had just been shot and hadn't reacted yet.

In an instant, Cao Jun's vanguard army and those who came to support were in a hard fight, but only a quarter of an hour later, Cao Zhen had assembled his troops.

This time he didn't rashly order the soldiers to run and chase, but chose to advance steadily, let the soldiers line up in formation, erected the spears in their hands one by one, and then started to move forward with neat steps.

I have to say that Cao Zhen does have something, and his level is not too bad.

Because at this time, more than 3000 and less than 4000 people in the vanguard army have been beaten and collapsed at this moment. After holding on for less than 10 minutes, they began to collapse backwards.

If another general ran over at this time, he would bump into the vanguard army driven by the Han army and directly cause the entire army to roll back.

But Cao Zhen gathered his forces, and rows of spearmen walked in the front, pointing their sharp spears at the soldiers who rolled back.

So when the defeated Cao Jun turned around and escaped for less than a mile, they were scared out of their wits.

The sharp spears were aimed at them!

"retreat!"

Sitting on his horse, Cao Zhen saw the collapsed vanguard soldiers rushing towards the formation, he roared angrily: "If you don't want to die, back away from the left and right!"

"I don't want to die, back away left and right!"

"I don't want to die, back away left and right!"

"I don't want to die, back away left and right!"

After Cao Zhen shouted, Cao Jun in front also began to roar in unison.

The sound was neat and loud, resounding through the entire battlefield.

Cao Jun who retreated was stunned for a moment, and then quickly realized that he had no choice but to drill into the mountains, forests and plains on the left and right under the situation of being blocked at both ends.

The crossbowmen and cavalry in the rear kept chasing and killing. Although many Cao troops fell at the feet of the Han army, they did not collide with the main formation.

After a while, the Cao army in the middle ran to death and was killed and dispersed a large area, while the main force of the former army had gathered 8000 people and slowly rushed towards the Han army who were fighting on the battlefield.

Seeing that they would meet soon, Shen Chen, who was watching from the top of the mountain in the distance, immediately shouted: "Ming Jin!"

"Ding ding ding ding ding ding!"

The loud sound of copper gongs was quickly transmitted to the entire battlefield, and the soldiers of the Han army ran back without hesitation, except for carrying the body of the fallen comrade in orange-red clothes.

The cavalry also reined in their horses, and Sa Yazi galloped to the north. In an instant, they separated from the main force of Cao Zhen's headquarters, and then drove away without giving them a chance to pursue.

"General!"

Dong Bi came back from a bloody battle, put some paint on his body, and reported to Cao Zhen: "Dai Ling died in battle."

"Account the damage."

Cao Zhen said this without any emotion in his eyes. If Dai Ling hadn't died in battle, he really wanted to kill that guy.

Unable to control the soldiers, causing the army to collapse and roll back, damn it!

The losses were quickly counted, and the vanguard army of more than 3000 but less than [-] lost nearly half, and about one-third of the soldiers Dong Bi rushed to rescue were killed or injured. In general, the casualties were less than [-], about [-] look.

For Cao Zhen, who is currently in charge of the main force of about [-] Cao troops, such a loss is obviously within an acceptable range.

But it just feels like a shock.

Obviously he didn't do that badly, but he was still ambushed, which made Cao Zhen very upset.

But there is no way to be unhappy.

He had to take the road of Leishou Mountain to go to Puban. Now that Puban was surrounded, Xu Huang didn't know what was going on there. Worrying about the situation over there made Cao Zhen really anxious.

After about half an hour passed, Cao Jun continued to set off after cleaning up the battlefield.

This time, Cao Zhen's scouts were fully deployed, and occasionally they could hear birds singing in the forest, and birds passed by from time to time, and Cao Jun's scouts also saw people flickering in the forest.

"Captain."

Another general at the side, Le Ping, said to Cao Zhen: "I heard that there are many Bashu people in Liu Bei's army. These people climb mountains and mountains like walking on flat ground, and they are used to talking in bird language. Maybe they have been watching our actions in the forest before. , Tell the Han army in the rear with bird language, wait until we rest, and launch a sudden attack."

"Well."

Cao Zhen nodded approvingly and said, "Order the scouts to investigate in the direction of birdsong."

"only!"

Leping immediately went to deliver the military order.

Soon the scouts wandered in groups of three or four in the forest, shooting arrows in the direction of singing birds from time to time.

The mountains are densely forested. If you wait until the scouts have searched every place before moving forward, you will not be able to reach Puban in the year of the monkey. This is why it is easy to set up an ambush in the mountains.

But now that we know how the Han army communicates, we don’t need to go into the woods to find out whether the Han army exists. We only need dozens of crossbow arrows to shoot in that direction, even if we can’t kill the Han army hiding inside to send signals. , It can also scare the opponent half to death and run away.

Sure enough, with this method, the road ahead was unimpeded, and the army walked for more than ten miles. At the end of the road ahead, a Han army camp had already appeared.

The camp stood beside the road, and they even dug a ditch from the direction of the Yellow River on the left bank to form a canal for protecting the village.

And not only on the side of the road, but also on the side of the Yellow River and above the mountain forest on the right, there are some large and small camps. At first glance, there is one large camp, and there are seven or eight small and medium camps in total, blocking the entire road. Don't let Cao Jun pass by at all.

In addition to the camp, there are peripheral ditches, pits for sinking horses, rejecting horses, and terriers, etc. When Shen Chen surrounded Puban, he sent a general of 3000 people to occupy the main road of Leishou Mountain first. .

When he was sure that he would come to guard in person, he brought another 7000 people over and hurriedly built a new camp overnight, dug ditches, and built fortifications to stop Cao's army.

In less than 20 days, he built a copper wall and an iron wall, as if he wanted Cao Jun to meet him at Leishou Mountain.

Seeing this scene, Cao Zhen gritted his teeth in resentment, and almost squeezed out a few words from between his teeth.

"Order the three armies to set up camp in place!"

They don't have siege equipment, so it's obviously unreliable to force a surprise attack. Besides, they were ambushed today, lost a little manpower, and their morale was slightly low, so it was obviously not a good time to attack.

Soon Cao's soldiers began to set up camp in place, cut down the trees in the forest on the right, and built a camp on the vast plain near the bank of the Yellow River on the left.

In the distance, Shen Chen stood on a high scull in the camp and watched the other party stop, then said to Jiang Wei and Deng Ai beside him: "This head-on attack must have made Cao Zhen feel a little headache, but it's just a little bit now. Victory, don’t take it lightly.”

"only!"

Jiang Wei and Deng Ai hand over each other.

Then Deng Ai said: "Governor, Cao's army built a stronghold near the water. Wouldn't it be better if we could attack their rear camps and burn their food and grass if we used the water army to make a surprise attack?"

"not that simple."

Shen Chen looked at the main force led by Cao Zhen in the distance to cover the soldiers camped in the rear, and said: "Cao Zhen is not just waiting for you, he would not have imagined that we have a fleet. If my prediction is not bad, he should have Arrangement, the best way now is to double check."

"Three breads?"

Jiang Wei was puzzled and said, "Governor, besides Ma Dai, do we have any extra troops?"

Shen Chen smiled and pointed to Beibei behind him, "Don't forget, there is General Pang!"

On Pound's side, he raided Pi's family, and the result is almost ready.

(End of this chapter)