Cao Xiu was Cao Cao's clan and Cao Hong's nephew.

Cao Xiu lost his father when he was young. Later, the world was in war and the Cao clan was scattered. Cao Xiu took his mother across the river to Wujun to take refuge. Later, he heard that Cao Gong raised troops in Yanzhou and returned thousands of miles back and forth. After a while, he traveled thousands of miles, and there were bandits, chaos, bandits, and robbers, and robbers. There were many difficulties and hardships. Cao Xiu was only twelve or thirteen years old, but he was able to handle the whole process. This move made Cao Gong strong and called him "the horse of my family thousands of miles away."

Later, Cao Xiu was often the deputy second-in-command of Cao Chun as the cavalry commander, and the captain of the tiger and leopard cavalry. After Cao Chun died of illness, the tiger and leopard cavalry was first personally led by Cao Cao, and later transferred to Cao Xiu, and Cao Zhen was the deputy second-in-command. Since Xiahou Shang has been transferred to politics in recent years and served as the literature of the General of the Five-Secret General, Cao Xiu was undoubtedly regarded as the leader of the next generation of Cao's relatives.

In fact, he was not young anymore. At the age of thirty-five, he was a whole round older than Lei Yuan. But he was the last person among the sons and nephews of the Xiahou family, Cao family, who had personally experienced the struggle. Even younger Xiahou Heng, Xiahou Ba, Xiahou Wei, Cao Tai, Cao Yan and others, although they occasionally showed their firmness, they were naturally weak and less tenacious in the environment of wealth and happiness. Cao Cao didn't like them.

Although Cao Xiu rarely led the army alone, he followed Cao Gong to fight south and north, and had long been through military campaigns, and had many courageous performances of killing generals and squeezing flags. He was indeed an outstanding cavalry general. His vision was high, such as Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Lu Bu, Zhang Xiu and other heroes. He had seen many heroes. He heard Cao Gong praise the enemy's young generals, and immediately sought to fight.

Since Cao Xiu left the line, two powerful generals came out together. These two were also famous brave men among the tiger and leopard cavalry, one was Wu Zhen and the other was Shi Liu.

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and looked at the three people, nodded and said, "That Lei Yuan dared to intimidate Xu Du, obviously he was extremely arrogant. Zilie went to kill them with his aura."

At that moment, Cao Xiu led five hundred iron cavalry, half of each light and heavy cavalry, and accelerated to run forward.

Since the Han Dynasty, the Han army has particularly heavy cavalry because of its battle with foreign races in the north. During the hundreds of years of combat, the Han knights have gradually achieved light and heavy cavalry tactics from imitating the cavalry's cavalry shooting tactics to excavating the cavalry's impact and raids. The weapons used by the cavalry are from bows and arrows to long halberds, from long halberds to spears and spears; the equipment provided by the cavalry ranges from simple seat cushions to high-sand bridges and leather stirrup rings, from ordinary horse suits to heavy metal horse armor. Since the rebellion of Yanzhou, Cao Gong has used cavalry to fight, and his generals such as Cao Ren and Zhang Liao are all famous cavalry generals.

In the past decades of troubled times, the northern border tyrants have also introduced alien races to enrich their cavalry. In the third year of Chuping, Gongsun Zan fought with Yuan Shao, and Gongsun Zan used cavalry as two wings, with more than 5,000 horses on both sides, and used tens of thousands of iron cavalry at a time. When Yuan Shao was in great power, he was known as "a million long halberds and a thousand Hu cavalry groups", and the scale of cavalry was even more prosperous. Later, Cao Gong unified the north and not only inherited the cavalry of Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao, but also subdued more than 10,000 Wuhuan in the three counties, and drew tens of thousands of elite cavalry from the Wuhuan tribe.

At this point, the cavalry teams under Cao Gong's troops were not only elite and good at fighting, but also the largest in the world. The Yecheng army was centered on a huge cavalry, so they were able to send from the north and rush to the east and west to help them like lightning.

As the cavalry continues to expand, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry has always been one of the most elite of the hundreds of thousands of Cao's army. Most of its soldiers recruited 100 brave and good at fighting men from each army to serve as the supervisor, and their daily war horse equipment and training level are above their peers. Although the headquarters is only more than 2,000, including the cavalry and pack horses, the scale is nearly 10,000.

Previously, tens of thousands of cavalry marched slowly, and because Cao Gong himself was in the army, all the soldiers were solemn. If they had not seen it with their own eyes, they would not be able to feel the momentum.

When Cao Xiu called for a call to fight, hundreds of war horses raised their heads and neighed, rushing indulging in love. The iron hooves stepped across the rolling meadow, rolled up mud, and stepped across the gurgling stream, causing splashes. The iron armored knights on the horse held high swords, guns and arrows, and their appearance was majestic and ferocious, just like ghosts and gods.

The horse explorer reported that he found that Lei Yuan's troops were attacking the dock wall in the east of Xincai City, more than twenty miles away. The distance was not far or near. Generally speaking, even if you cannot stop a horse ten miles like a marching, you should advance slowly and then charge after reaching.

But Cao Xiu was eager to fight, and he also relied on his refinement of the war horses and his strong soldiers and brave generals, so he galloped throughout the journey.

He said to the two deputy generals: "Lei Yuan, a poor man in Jianghuai, fearing the power of our army, ran away from Jingzhou. But why did the Prime Minister claim that he is good at fighting? I think he is asking for his own death!"

The deputy generals knew that Cao Xiu was arrogant, so they replied: "I would like to defeat the enemy for the commander."

Cao Xiu himself took more than ten light cavalry and rushed to the front of the entire army. Before he could do so, he had just walked around a hill and saw the dock wall that was said to have been besieged by the Lei family army.

The dock wall is quite large, with a circle of barriers about meter high outside, and there are trenches outside the barrier. There are many damage on the barriers, and there are also signs of arrow shooting and blood splashing. There are also many untied corpses, scattered everywhere, and they are obviously experiencing fierce battles. A little farther away from the dock wall, there are also a few lame war horses running scattered and a few flags thrown.

"Hmm? Where is the enemy?" Cao Xiu was a little disappointed.

A small school with a sharp eye guided him: "Prince, look!"

It turned out that there was a stretch of forest land on the south side of the dock wall. There were dozens of flags raised in the forest land, including general flags, camp flags and representative departments, and bent triangular flags. Under the flags, soldiers could be seen walking under the shade of the tree. Another soldier came out with a helmet, went to the stream beside the forest to get some water, and slowly turned back. It was obvious that the enemy was unable to attack the dock wall, and he felt that the weather was hot, so he retreated into the shade of the tree for a while.

Cao Xiu immediately ordered that all the subsequent cavalry teams dismount and follow up quietly, and not to alarm the enemy. He turned back and looked carefully and found that the word "Fengwei" was faintly visible on the top of the highest flag in the forest.

Cao Xiu sneered: "It's really a mousse monkey."

Deputy General Wu Zhen said: "General, the enemy is completely unprepared. We will be able to win with our iron cavalry."

Cao Xiu shook his head.

Although he was arrogant, he had followed Cao Cao for a long time, and was influenced by daily knowledge and was well versed in military tactics. He was by no means a straightforward and brave man.

"Don't you hear that you don't come in the forest? I see that the forest is deep and can hide thousands of people. If the enemy makes any mystery in it, our cavalry will be difficult to play there, but will be taken advantage of by others. This is the first battle for the Prime Minister to go south. Not only do he have to win, but he also wants to win beauty. So..."

Wu Zhen asked quickly: "Does the general have a wonderful plan?"

Cao Xiu stood up immediately to see the surrounding terrain. This forest land is three or four miles south of the dock wall, and a great road passes between the dock wall and the woodland. There are earth hills and hills on the west side of the woodland and north of the dock wall. The cavalry team on his side drove up and was covered by earth hills and hills, so the enemy did not know it.
Chapter completed!