The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 57 057
Cao Ren and Le Jin led hundreds of cavalry. Although they escaped from Zhang Yan, Xu Sheng, and Chen Ying's attack, they were still in Guangqi County.

Now there are Xuzhou soldiers everywhere in the county. Cao Jun's soldiers died, wounded, and surrendered. I don't know how many people are still fighting like them.

Cao Ren, Le Jin and others fought tenaciously against the Xuzhou soldiers, and at the same time gathered the soldiers of the Cao army they encountered along the way.They were like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger, even Cao Ren and Le Jin never imagined that they could gather more than 5000 remnants under such a bad situation.

Due to the chaos, the Cao soldiers who were scattered all over the city gathered together again at this moment. Under Cao Ren's command, these remnant soldiers gradually twisted into a rope and stood firm in a ruin in the northeast corner of Guangqi County. In the ruined walls, they are still fighting against Xuzhou soldiers.

The flames were burning outside, Cao Ren held the long sword in his hand tightly, and watched every move outside with a pair of cold eyes.

Xuzhou soldiers had already surrounded this area, and it was Lu Dai, the commander of the army under Zhang Yan's tent, who was in charge of commanding the battle.

From the beginning of the war, Lu Dai did not lead the elite soldiers to rush in like Zhang Yan, Xu Sheng, and Chen Ying. Instead, he commanded the troops to fight steadily and advance and retreat together. Although the attack speed was slow, it was the safest attack. one.

Under Lu Dai's attack, none of the Cao soldiers in the east of the city escaped. Wherever they passed, they were either beheaded and massacred or forced to surrender.

All Cao soldiers who surrendered were gathered by Lu Dai, placed outside the city, and handed over to Deng Yi's soldiers and horses.

But just a quarter of an hour ago, Cao Ren and Le Jin fled to this place with the remnant army, relying on the dilapidated city wall to defend here.

Lu Dai tried to attack twice, but was repulsed by Cao Jun's tenacious resistance, and entered a stalemate with Cao Ren and Le Jin.

At this moment, Lu Dai was pacing on the spot, and he also had a headache for Cao Jun's tenacity.

The distance between the two armies is not too far, only about tens of meters away, but within this distance of tens of meters, there are more than 200 corpses of Xuzhou soldiers scattered.

When Lu Dai was worried, Zhang Yan rushed over with more than a thousand cavalry, rode his horse and came to Lu Dai, and asked loudly, "Have you not taken it yet?"

"Cao Jun swears to defend to the death. I tried to attack twice, but was repelled by Cao Jun. Only then did someone notify the Lord to come." Lu Dai clasped his fists.

Zhang Yan did not get off his horse, but rode his horse forward a few steps, glanced at the corner of Cao Jun's retreat, and said to Lu Dai: "There is no need to attack anymore, you just lead your troops here, and you must not let Cao Jun run away for me. I don’t believe it, they can’t eat, drink or sleep!”

"Here!"

Zhang Yan then ordered Xu Sheng and Chen Ying who were behind him: "Lead your teams to clean up the city, but if there are survivors, if you don't surrender, you will all be killed!"

"Here!" Xu Sheng and Chen Ying replied together.

Zhang Yan jumped off his horse and left [-] cavalry guarding here to defend Cao's army with Lu Dai's troops. Xu Sheng and Chen Ying took the rest of the cavalry away.

After Xu Sheng and Chen Ying left Zhang Yan, they began to clean up the entire county, not sparing any corner, and found more than 500 Cao soldiers from the ruins, beheaded more than [-] people, and the rest surrendered.

Among the broken walls and ruins, Cao Jun's soldiers hid in this palm-sized place, which was extremely crowded.

Le Jin pushed aside the crowd, squeezed to Cao Ren's side, knelt down on the ground, cupped his fists and said, "General, please kill me?"

Cao Ren glanced at Le Jin and asked, "Why should I kill you?"

Le Jin said: "General, if I hadn't tried my best to persuade the general to send troops, we would not have encountered an ambush here, let alone let the general fall into a tight siege. All of this is my fault, please punish the general!"

"As the commander-in-chief, I can't see the situation clearly. If I came here rashly, I would be ambushed. All of this has nothing to do with you. I was too careless. Besides, if you didn't show up in time just now, you killed a bloody path and killed me. If I am rescued, I will most likely die at the hands of Zhang Yan." Cao Ren said.

Le Jin said: "But the general..."

"Get up when I tell you to get up, what a lot of nonsense!" Cao Ren said impatiently.

Le Jin saw that Cao Ren didn't seem to blame himself, so he stood up from the ground. He looked out of the wall, but saw that the Xuzhou soldiers were lined up neatly and there had been no movement for a long time, so he asked: "General, Xuzhou soldiers have been fighting for so long. Without action, do you want to trap us here?"

Cao Ren frowned, and said slowly, "That's exactly what I'm worried about..."

He raised his head, looked at the night sky, saw that Dongfang was gradually showing his fish belly, and said: "We can't sit here and wait for death. Before the sky is bright, and Xuzhou soldiers have not closed the encirclement, we must find a way to break out. Otherwise, , once the Xuzhou soldiers surround us here, even if they don't attack us, within three days, we will die of thirst instead of starvation!"

Le Jin said: "What the general said is very true, leave the task of breaking out to me, I am willing to be the vanguard!"

Cao Ren nodded and gathered all the soldiers together. He shouted loudly: "Brothers, due to my negligence, I was attacked by Xuzhou soldiers this time. I, Cao Ren, am sorry for you. Now we have been attacked by the Xuzhou Corps." Surrounded, the left and right are dead. Instead of dying so uselessly here, it is better to break out with me, maybe there is still a glimmer of life. If there is anyone who doesn't want to die, stand up now, go out and surrender Xuzhou soldiers, I will never Harm you. If none of you leave after a quarter of an hour, then break out with me desperately! Even if you die in battle, no one will say that you are cowards!"

As soon as these words came out, Cao Jun's officers and soldiers were filled with righteous indignation. They came from Gaoping County in a mighty way, but they didn't want to be beaten badly before they got close to Pengcheng, and the defeat was a complete mess.

After a long time, none of Cao's soldiers went out to surrender. They were all willing to follow Cao Ren to break out of the siege and fight for the chance of survival.

A quarter of an hour passed quickly. Cao Ren looked around all the soldiers, but no one surrendered. He was very happy and shouted: "Okay! As expected, they are all the soldiers I brought out. They are worth living and dying." At this time, I am really pleased that you can put life and death aside. If so, then we will fight to break through together, work together, and attack in one direction. It is not too late, start to act now, break through!"

"Break out! Break out! Break out..."

Cao Jun's generals were excited, and they all waved their weapons in unison and shouted loudly.

The voice was deep and thick, and it went straight to Xiaohan, deafening, and all the soldiers of Cao Jun regarded death as home, and their morale was high.

Zhang Yan was startled when he heard Cao Jun's cry of "breaking through the encirclement". With a ferocious expression, his eyes were full of murderous intent.

"Shoot the arrow!" Zhang Yan immediately jumped on the horse's back, waved the iron spear in his hand forward, and shouted loudly.

The archers guarding here immediately began to draw their bows and set their arrows, but they heard countless strings, and hundreds of arrows shot towards the Cao Jun soldiers who rushed out.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

The sound of piercing the air stirred between the soldiers of the two armies, and Cao Jun's archers also began to counterattack.

"School swordsman!" Seeing this, Lu Dai immediately yelled.

More than a hundred school swordsmen holding shields immediately stood in the first row, blocking the incoming arrows with their shields, protecting the archers from harm.

The arrows shot many Cao Jun soldiers, but unless these soldiers were directly shot to the point of death, as long as the rest were slightly injured, they didn't care about the injuries on their bodies at all, and they still carried their weapons and marched forward bravely.

Among the chaotic generals of the Cao army, Le Jin suddenly rushed out with the cavalry. He had a fierce face, and his eyes were filled with incomparable anger. He held a big bow and shot three arrows in a row. Three Xuzhou soldiers responded. Instead, the cavalry behind them followed suit one after another, and their arrows bypassed the school swordsmen in the front row in a perfect arc, and shot at the archers in the formation behind who kept shooting.

The distance between the two armies was only a few tens of meters. Arrows were flying back and forth in the air, causing casualties between the two armies.

But Yue Jin led more than a hundred cavalrymen to kill them aggressively, replaced the bows and arrows in his hands with spears, and rushed towards the Xuzhou soldiers, as if he wanted to use the impact force of the horses to break a bloody path.

Seeing this, Zhang Yan immediately guessed Le Jin's intentions, and shouted loudly, "Learn the spearmen!"

With an order, the soldiers holding spears immediately moved forward, while the archers quickly separated and gathered to the left and right, but did not retreat, relying on the abandoned wall as a cover, shooting at the rushing Cao soldiers from time to time.

The neatly lined up spearmen stopped unhurriedly. The spearmen in the first row quickly leveled the spears in their hands, and pointed the tip of the spears at the cavalry cavalrymen who were about to charge. The second row moved forward. It is tilted at 45 degrees, and the third row is tilted forward at [-] degrees. The fourth, fifth, and sixth rows are all ready to fill in the gaps at any time.

The school swordsman squatted in front of the spearmen, protecting his body with a shield in one hand and a knife in the other.

Le Jin saw the spears in front of him like a forest, and the Xuzhou soldiers were defending like an iron wall. His brows could not help but wrinkled. In this way, if he rushed over with the cavalry, wouldn't he be seeking his own death?

"Whoosh whoosh..."

Arrows were still flying in the air, Le Jin pushed away many arrows with his iron gun, and was about to hit the forest of spears, but he suddenly reined in the horse, turned the horse's head hastily, and charged The subordinate shouted: "Quick retreat!"

Cao Jun's cavalry turned their horses one after another, and the infantry turned back, and quickly returned to the palm-sized place.

"General, the defense of the Xuzhou soldiers is too tight, and the formation of spears can restrain the cavalry. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, the general ordered to retreat. Please forgive the general for his incompetence!" Le came in before Cao Ren, knelt down and bowed.

"You did the right thing, get up quickly." Cao Ren said calmly without any intention of blaming Le Jin.

However, Cao Ren frowned and thought to himself: "In just a few months, Zhang Yan was able to train such an army with both offensive and defensive capabilities, which is beyond my expectation..."

At this moment, he heard movement from the Xuzhou soldiers outside. He stood on the high wall, peeked out his head, and saw that the Xuzhou soldiers were actively mobilizing, and more and more Xuzhou soldiers gathered here. , The airtight surrounding here.

Cao Ren sighed softly, and said slowly: "Now that the sky is dim, the Xuzhou soldiers have surrounded us again, and we have lost a good chance to break through. I'm afraid it will be even more difficult if we try to break through again..."

(End of this chapter)