Chapter 1044 Rolling Thunder (Part 2)
Xu Chu, who was wearing helmet and armor, rushed from the back of the queue: "King, Xu Chu is here!"
Cao Cao sat for a long time and stood up suddenly, feeling dizzy. He turned his short halberd upside down to support the ground and said in a deep voice: "There is an enemy attack in the south. Immediately dispatch the Wuwei to control the entire camp, and supervise all departments to prepare for the death battle. Then, fired whistles, and sent light cavalry to urge the five divisions of the school to urge Ziwen, Wen Lie, Bo Ren, Wenze, Wenbo, Junyi, Guorang... everyone! Let them... let them come to help immediately! Hundreds of thousands of times!"
Xu Chu left in response.
After a military order was issued, Cao Cao realized that he had just reported all the generals available on the Jingxiang battlefield. Such an order was really a matter of nowhere.
He sighed hatefully, rubbed the cold short halberd, glanced at his left and right, only seeing one face, either frightened or confused.
"I'm careless! I'm careless! I'm actually bullied by the younger generation!" he murmured to himself.
The old saying goes, "A body of a thousand gold cannot sit in the hall." Cao Cao had few ambitions and ambitions, and never had a good time to visit the front enemy in person. In his early years, he fought with Lu Bu and Zhang Xiu, and almost lost his life on the battlefield several times, because he had few soldiers at that time, and it was a helpless move.
As Cao Cao's status became higher and higher, more and more elite soldiers were attending him. After the previous battle in Guanzhong was almost defeated by Zhao Yun, Cao Cao even expanded the military strength of the Wuwei. On the basis of the five imperial guards of the Han family, he expanded the Wuwei, Zhonglei and Zhongjian three battalions, and led to the elite soldiers directly under the King of Wei, who served with him every day and made complete plans.
When he was in Wancheng, the only people from the five schools and three battalions had enough elite troops, which was enough to repel any enemy.
However, as the situation of the war continued to change, Cao Cao's command position continued to go south. The headquarters of his fifth school and the third battalion were sent to various places for various tasks. For example, the backbone general Cao Zhen led the headquarters of the first battalion and supervised the foreign army, stationed in the area east of Zhuyang and west of Fancheng.
When Cao Cao heard about Guan Yu's whereabouts and decided to go south personally, his elite troops were inevitably affected by floods during the march. Because the rivers were blocked and the carrying capacity of roads and bridges were limited, the troops could not always be integrated into groups, and they would always be dispersed into a suitable state for marching.
At this moment, Cao Cao's elite central army advanced along the river and land along the banks of the Qingshui River. Among them, there were about 4,000 people who were scheduled to be stationed on the west bank of the Qingshui River, and cooperated with Yu Jin, Zhu Ling and other troops. The troops were led by the Tunqi Captain Ren Fu and the infantry Captain Duan Zhao; there were about 5,000 people who stayed at the mouth of the Qingshui River and faced Dengsai through the Qingshui River, and the commander of the Yue Cavalry Captain Xue Qiao and the commander of the Changshui River Dai Ling.
At this time, only Xu Chu's Wuwei Camp and Wu Zhi's Shooting Camp were with Cao Cao, totaling about 4,000.
There was no problem with such a distribution of troops. After all, the enemy was nothing more than Jingzhou Army and Jiaozhou Army. The Jingzhou Army in the west was surrounded by three sides and squeezed against the Han River. The Jiaozhou Army was pursued by nearly 10,000 people under Cao Tai's troops and was running away to the Green Forest Mountains to the east.
Between the east and west sides, there is a safe area, which is an area where Cao's army should be able to control it firmly and eliminate the possibility of enemy nuisance.
The problem is that this area was actually left by the enemy! How can this scene be different from waiting for a rabbit?
Cao Cao was furious.
He felt the blood vessels on his forehead rushing, rushing, as if a thousand-faced drum was rumbling.
No, no, that's not my blood vessel, it's the enemy's cavalry approaching! Cao Cao listened with his ears.
As they get closer, they are as fast as lightning, with a scale of at least two thousand riders!
"Why are you standing stupidly? You are all getting on the horse and preparing to fight!" Cao Cao shouted to the entourage surrounding him: "There is the cavalry of the Jiaozhou Army!"
Generally speaking, the Cao army occupied Hebei and Central Plains, with thousands of tiger cavalry groups, and the cavalry advantage was that of the Sun and Liu families. But there were no exceptions. For example, the cavalry of the Jiaozhou army was always feared by the Cao army.
The cavalry of the Jiaozhou Army, which is ridiculous, actually originated from the Cao army. Ten years ago, the cavalry general Zhang Xi, under Cao Cao's subordinates, was ambushed by the Lei family in Lujiang. All a thousand war horses fell into the hands of the Lei family, which made the bandits more like tigers.
Later, the Lei family of Lujiang surrendered to Liu Bei, and his sect leader Lei Yuan relied on the power of the cavalry to defeat powerful enemies in the south. Originally, these thousand war horses should have been exhausted after ten years of fighting. But Lei Yuan participated in the trade with the people of Liangzhou and always maintained a huge cavalry unit. He also took Ma Chao's consul Ma Dai as the leader of the cavalry.
Such a cavalry unit is a powerful force that can defeat the enemy in one go on any battlefield!
The first to put such an elite force on the battlefield shows that the Jiaozhou Army had already made plans, and they made up their minds to ask me Cao Mengde's head!
Cao Cao gritted his teeth.
Xu Chu was busy gathering his troops and taking over the camp at this time. Although the camp was small, the structure was set up along the embankment, which was different from ordinary people, so it was not completely controlled immediately. Moreover, many camp gates, checkpoints, towers, and even wooden fences, deer antlers and other materials were all required for the assistance of local soldiers to use them easily and not be omitted. For a time, many places were heard shouting and calling, and Xu Chu even roared.
The movement is too slow! The enemy cavalry is approaching! What is the distance now? Three or four miles? They are about to assault the cavalry at any time and enter the military camp in one breath!
Cao Cao was shaken for a moment. He wanted to run south and see the movements of the enemy cavalry with his own eyes. He also wanted to go north, cross the hills and run along the water. But he was a long-time general after all, and at such a critical moment, he would not be completely panicked and lost.
Can't escape! Once you escape, the entire army will collapse!
After breathing heavily, he raised his head and asked, "Who is the guardian of Liuyan?"
The subordinates were all confused, and someone said, "Isn't this place the jurisdiction of General Cao Tai?"
Cao Tai had already realized at this time that he was completely bullied by the Jiaozhou army, and even put the King of Wei in danger... Such a serious crime was enough to be sent to someone other than Xiahou Cao's family to confiscate the family and destroy the clan! He was so scared that his face was gone, his trembling, and he hid in a certain corner from a distance.
Someone mentioned me? Is this going to die?
Cao Tai cursed in his heart. Without waiting for Cao Cao to see, he quickly held the sword that Cao Cao used to smash himself in his hands, walked to Cao Cao's side with his knees, and stopped talking for now, his head was like pounding garlic.
Cao Cao's voice fell from his head: "Are you familiar with this guard of Liuyan?"
Cao Tai felt relieved and said tremblingly: "The guards here were originally Lao Xuan. After Lao Xuan died in the flood, a Duber named Van Deng gathered troops here to maintain the situation. A few days ago, I conveyed orders to this person... This person is still obedient."
Now, is it important to be respectful or not?
Cao Cao sneered twice and waved, "Come on!"
Cao Tai walked forward with his knees.
Cao Cao patted the long sword that Cao Tai held: "Hold my sword and go find this...this..."
"Van Deng."
"Look for this Fan Deng, and ask him to cooperate with Xu Zhongkang and defend the camp with all his might! Tell him that as long as he repels the attack of the Jiaozhou Army, I will let him be a general! Let him be a marquis of Qianhu!"
"Yes! Yes!"
Cao Tai left with his sword, and when he saw someone, he asked Fan Deng where he was.
It went smoothly, and someone immediately told him: "Fan Dubo and Zhou were engaged in it, and took people to the south to meet the enemy!"
Cao Tai immediately went south and ran for dozens of steps. He saw the two men with hundreds of soldiers, bustling near the camp gate on the outermost edge, as if they were guarding the dead.
Cao Tai rushed over and asked, "Who is Van Deng!"
"I, I am Van Deng. What's the point?" A young officer turned around and returned, his expression still calm.
"I am Cao Tai, General Wuya! The King of Wei asked me to come here with a long sword and asked you to defend the camp with all your strength! The King of Wei said that as long as you repel the Jiaozhou Army, you will be the general and the Marquis of Thousand Houses!"
Fan Deng raised his thick eyebrows and shook his head: "I don't care about this anymore. General Cao, look!"
Cao Tai strode forward, and the sound of hooves in his ears was still there, but he saw the reeds stretching for miles below the camp fluttering in the wind, and no trace of the Jiaozhou cavalry was seen.
"What's going on?"
Zhou Tai beside Van Deng's face looked like a dirt: "They rushed into the reed marsh! They...we..."
Cao Taixi said: "In the reed marsh? Isn't this a good thing? How can you ride a horse in the reed marsh? They are all trapped inside!"
Fan Deng sighed: "Yesterday, we paved roads into the reed marsh for easy harvesting of reeds. They were all wide roads that could pass through the cavalry team, and five more paved!"
"What?"
At this moment, the rumbling sound of hooves became louder and louder, and the shaking of the ground became more and more intense. In the reeds, there were patches of metal light getting closer and closer, like a giant god made of gold and iron rising from the depths of the ground, waving his mountain-like arms to flatten the Juliuyan camp!
Under this huge momentum, everyone's sense of fear was completely induced. Both Cao Tai and Zhou Tai began to shout involuntarily: "Form a formation! Form a formation! All lift the rebirth!"
The next moment, dozens of military flags suddenly lifted up from the gray-yellow reed marsh. Under the tumultuous flag of Hulala, hundreds of iron cavalry gathered like groups of animals that were rushing to eat. Then, they began to accelerate towards the high slope, rolling backwards like rivers!
Countless war horses are getting closer and closer. Their densely raised guns and spears sometimes collide with each other, making a heart-pounding sound. Their iron pole, bright light armor, and the metal horse armor that draws the beast's face reflect the sunlight, like a sharp sword of light piercing into the human eye, making people dare not face it!
Cao Tai casually snatched the iron shield and held it, cursing repeatedly: "Where is Xu Chu? Why haven't Xu Chu come yet!"
Zhou Tai bent his waist, pressed his shoulder against a piece of wooden fence, and shouted loudly: "Brother Fan Du, Bos Fan Du, let your people resist!"
Van Deng suddenly stood up straight.
He looked at Cao Tai and Zhou Tai, then at the Cao army soldiers on both sides, with a strange smile on his face.
Chapter completed!