Chapter 387 Killing Cao Chun, Zhao Yun shocked the east and raised the embankment
Author: Playing with Basilisk
Chapter 387 Killing Cao Chun, Zhao Yun shocked the east and raised the embankment
Dongxingdi is more than 200 miles from Hefei, which is not far, but Cao Chun did not only go to Dongxingdi.
His mission was to at least appear in front of Guan Yu's main force, otherwise if he only captured Dongxing Di, he would be far from able to deter Liu Bei's army.
Therefore, Cao Chun had already made a long-term plan. After destroying Zhao Yun's tribe at Dongxingdi, he would immediately go south to Ruxukou, show off in front of Guan Yu, and then return to Dongxingdi.
Pretending that Cao Wei's vanguard arrived on the battlefield, Liu Bei's army thought that there was still the main force of Cao's army in the rear, and then he returned to defend and intimidate Guan Yu's troops in the south.
In this way, his mission is completed.
By then, Guan Yu would definitely not dare to attack Sun Quan on a large scale until at least he had a clear understanding of the strength of Cao Wei's army.
If Guan Yu sends people north to attack Dongxingdi, he will eat them if there are fewer people. If there are more people, he will retreat to Hefei City. In any case, he can contain some of Guan Yu's troops.
It can be said to be a sure-profit 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 mobile warfare like this, and his abacus is very good.
On August 12, in the wilderness southwest of Chaohu Lake, a group of about fifty light cavalrymen wearing black military uniforms and brown leather armor appeared on the vast plains.
To their north is the vast Chao Lake, and to the northeast are rolling mountains, plains with overflowing rivers, swamps and lakes, some of which are not conducive to cavalry movement.
However, their riding skills were extremely superb and they were rich in experience. In a wilderness, they found an abandoned county road that had long been untraveled and was overgrown with weeds and headed south.
There is a vast range of mountains on the south bank of Chaohu Lake. The highest point of the mountains is called Yinping Peak, which 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.
Between these mountains, there is a medium-sized river that flows south from Chaohu Lake, passes through Houshi Wuwei City, and then flows 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 it got its name because in ancient times, Chaohu Lake was a vast area, with overflowing rivers and depressions, and the mountain was named after the lake.
In later generations, there was Taihushan National Forest Park here, which belongs to Hanshan County, Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province.
In other words, this area in the Han Dynasty belonged to the lake category of Chaohu Lake.
In later generations, Chaohu City and Hanshan County in this area basically blew bubbles at the bottom of Chaohu Lake. It was not until the sixth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty that Hanshan County was established, and Chao County was established in the seventh year of Wude.
Dongxing Embankment is located south of Chongyan Mountains and west of Ruxushui. Its specific location is in the Shijian Town area north of Wuwei City in later times.
Opposite it, south of Taihu Mountain and east of Ruxu River, there is a place called Ruxuwu, whose specific location is southeast of Tongzha Town, Hanshan County, Anhui Province.
The Dongxing Embankment and Ruxuwu were built by Sun Quan in the 16th year of Jian'an on Lu Meng's suggestion. Later, Cao Cao led his troops southward, captured Ruxuwu, captured Sun Quan's general Gongsun Yang alive, and stationed himself here.
Later, Sun Quan wanted to inspect Cao's camp, so he took a boat to the north, but was shot into a sieve by Cao's army. Hence the story of the straw boat borrowing arrows.
In the late Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Ke, the Taifu of the Wu Kingdom, rebuilt the city here, so Dongxing Embankment 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 was an accident-prone place, and it was also the place where Cao Wei and Wu fought many battles later.
But now Liu Bei's group's attack on Jiangdong is not from Chaohu in the north, but down the Yangtze River in the west, so this strategic location to defend the north is meaningless, and Sun Quan is completely retreating to Ruxukou.
However, this place could block Cao Jun's support, so Guan Yu sent Zhao Yun to garrison it.
At this moment, Cao Chun arrived with his army, and his scouts spread out for several miles, exploring all the way to the east. Above the wilderness, there were undulating mountains in the north, and there were forests, lakes, and swamps in the east. The roads were rugged and difficult, making it extremely difficult.
Fortunately, because the plain area has a relatively wide field of vision, they did not encounter any ambush along the way. It was not until they passed a small hill that they saw the enemy.
That was a troop of cavalry.
Zhao Yunjun's scouts had actually discovered them long ago.
Although this is a plain area, there are still some hills with lush forests, and there are forests and rivers all over, so there are too many places to hide.
Zhao Yun sent people to build a high tower on the hilltop between the nearby roads to observe the situation in the west.
But there were many of them, and the sentries posted outside ranged from seven to eight to three or four, which were not enough to deal with them.
Therefore, after noticing the arrival of the enemy scouts, Zhao Yun's scouts immediately returned to the camp through other trails and reported the matter to Zhao Yun.
At this moment, Zhao Yun personally led more than 30 cavalrymen out of the east camp and happened to meet them.
Both sides watched from a distance, and no one immediately gave the order to take action.
After a while, the captain of Cao's army who led the team held a sharp ring-headed knife in his hand, waved his hand forward, and said in a wolf-like howling voice: "Kill!"
"kill!"
The tiger and leopard cavalry are all made up of elites in the army, and each of them can serve as a centurion in the ordinary army. At this moment, they show extremely superb tactical qualities.
After the captain gave the order, the left and right wings dispersed at the same time and attacked the opponent's cavalry.
Zhao Yun glanced indifferently at the enemies surrounding him on both sides, then took out a crossbow from the belly of the horse, waved his hand and said: "Withdraw!"
"Walk!"
The knights turned their horses' heads one after another.
The tiger and leopard cavalry were chasing after him. When the two sides got closer and closer, less than ten feet away, Zhao Yun raised his hand crossbow and turned around to shoot.
"Whoosh!"
A crossbow arrow pierced the void and shot towards Cao Jun behind.
But the shot missed.
Cao Jun turned his head and sneered, holding the horse's belly tightly with his legs, waiting to urge the horse to continue chasing.
The next second, three consecutive crossbow arrows were fired again.
"Swish swish."
Still missed him, but hit the horse.
Then a neighing sound was heard, and the war horse fell, knocking Cao's army to the ground and rolling four or five meters.
The other Zhao Yunjun scouts also followed suit and took out their hand crossbows to shoot.
This hand crossbow is a small repeating crossbow invented by Shen Chen and Zhuge Liang together. It is the youthful mini version of Zhuge's repeating crossbow.
Originally it could only shoot three seven-inch arrows, and the range was only fifty meters.
Later, it was improved to be able to shoot four arrows. The ultimate range is still fifty meters, and its lethality within twenty meters is huge.
At first, this hand crossbow was only used as equipment for Huangmen soldiers in special operations.
In order to respond to the rebellion of Jiping and others, Huang Men soldiers marched hundreds of miles straight to Chenliu. They used this hand crossbow to repel Cao's army on the way.
But good equipment naturally needs to be produced in large quantities.
Now Yizhou's smelting plant responsible for ordnance manufacturing is operating at full capacity and has equipped the entire army. There are no ordinary soldiers, only cavalry scouts who use them a lot.
Because this thing is not a pistol after all, it fires slowly, is easy to be dodged, and its accuracy is just that. Therefore, for ordinary soldiers in large-scale positional battles, infantry crossbows with a longer range are more practical.
But it is very useful for cavalry. When you are being chased on horseback, you can hold a crossbow and shoot to the rear with one hand. Regardless of whether the shot is missed, it can intimidate the enemy, and secondly, the horse is larger.
It is easier to hit an arrow. As the saying goes, shoot the horse first before shooting the man.
More than 30 cavalry scouts fired more than a hundred crossbow arrows towards the rear. In an instant, more than a dozen of Cao's soldiers and their horses fell to the ground after being hit by arrows. The captain of Cao's scouts in the distance was so shocked that he quickly ordered to stop the pursuit.
But just because they stopped chasing did not mean that Zhao Yun would let them go. After noticing that the enemy had stopped, Zhao Yun roared, stopped as well, then turned his horse's head and charged towards the enemy.
"Kill them!"
Zhao Yun shouted.
The cavalry no longer controlled the speed of their horses and pursued them recklessly.
The identity of the hunters and 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 ten people were caught up by Zhao Yun, and only about twenty soldiers fled back.
In the vast plain, at the end of the horizon, countless black spots appeared, like a black flood, swallowing up the earth in the distance.
Zhao Yun reined in his horse and drove it up to a high slope for a distant view.
On the northwest plain, Cao Jun's large troops were slowly approaching. Those tiger and leopard mounted scouts who had been beaten away were like naughty children who had been beaten outside and ran home to find their mothers. They were galloping towards the other side.
go.
"Walk!"
Zhao Yun used another command this time and roared, and the soldiers withdrew their troops and returned.
Half an hour later, Cao Jun appeared outside the hills and mountains of Dongxingdi. The trickling Shijian stream flowed out from the mountains submerged by Chaohu Lake to the north.
There were originally villages and farmlands criss-crossing the stream, but as Cao Cao migrated to Huainan, the area had long been abandoned.
There are overgrown weeds and trees everywhere. It is the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, and the weather in the south is still a bit hot. The wilderness is lush and green, basil grows wildly, and the grass is as deep as a person's waist.
But this peaceful primitive ecology was soon broken. Cao's cavalry trampled on the grass, led the horses into the stream, let the horses drink water, and the soldiers wiped off the sweat on their bodies and took a rest.
The clear stream water seemed to be dyed by the black color of Cao Wei, turning into a turbid black and yellow color.
Cao Chun was riding on horseback and looking out from a hillside. A neatly arrayed army also appeared 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 the color of their uniforms and flags are completely different from Cao's army.
Cao Cao advocated black, so the flags and uniforms were black.
From beginning to end, Liu Bei insisted that he was a minister of the Han Dynasty, fighting against rebellious royal clan members, and serving Liu Xie, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, as his chief, so the flags and military uniforms were all red in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
As a veteran who had followed Cao Cao for many years, Cao Chun could tell at a glance that the number of enemies in the distance was only four or five thousand. Although the formation was orderly and orderly, they were outnumbered.
What made Cao Chun a little confused was why Zhao Yun was not stationed at the camp at Dongxingdi and wanted to intercept them halfway.
The scout soon gave him the answer.
It turned out that the scouts had investigated and found that although Dongxingdi was located on the edge of Ruxu River, it was at the foot of the mountain to the north. The terrain was slightly higher and was not submerged by the lake. It was relatively flat and suitable for cavalry charges.
Although there is also a large plain in the southwest, due to the flooding of the lake, the depressions are gushing, and the mountains are close to the lake, there are many swamps and lakes in this area, which is not conducive to large-scale cavalry dispatches.
Therefore, Zhao Yun very wisely chose to go out to intercept the camp, instead of relying on the temporary built camp with only outer fences and tents inside, without many defensive facilities.
"Zhao Yun thought that intercepting us in the swampy lake would prevent us from taking advantage of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry's advantages."
Cao Chun smiled contemptuously and said, "Don't he know that the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was built by the hundred most elite generals we selected from the army?"
What Tiger and Leopard Cavalry are best at is actually not cavalry charges.
The cavalry of the Han Dynasty was not used for charging.
Instead, after catching up with the enemy, dismount and fight on foot!
Therefore, if Zhao Yun thought that he could win in a battle at a place that was not conducive to cavalry charges, he would be completely wrong.
Because the soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry have to dismount and confront the enemy head-on.
After saying this, Cao Chun waved his hand and said: "Send the order, line up, prepare for battle!"
"Ohh Ohh ohh!"
The desolate horn sounded melodiously and long.
Countless Cao Jun, who were lying, sitting, or eating, recovered from their resting state and quickly began to form their formation.
Soon they formed three square formations, standing in a "pin" shape.
Then Cao Chun marched eastward.
The distance between the two sides got closer and closer, and two-quarters of an hour later, 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 were no shouts in front of the formation, and no fighting between generals. After noon and three quarters of the afternoon, that is, around two o'clock in the afternoon, a sharp whistle pierced the sky, and the two sides were like two sides.
It started rolling forward like a flood.
The soldier at the front held a hook shield and a halberd. The crossbowman behind launched a round of upward shots. After shooting, he did not check whether the shot hit or not. He dropped the crossbow in his hand, pulled out his sword and started sprinting.
.
When reaching the bow and arrow shooting range, the distance between the two sides is often only about a hundred meters. At this distance, a skilled archer can shoot three rounds without aiming.
But only large-scale legions would do this. In small-scale battles, it is not easy for crossbows to hit people. Moreover, the fewer people there are, the more dispersed the formation will be. By the time you finish shooting the third arrow, the enemy will already be in your face.
The knife is definitely too late.
Therefore, crossbows are rarely used in small-scale battles. Even if they are used, it only takes one round of crossbow arrows at most. Whether the enemy can be killed or not depends on God's will.
Obviously God's will lies in the Han Dynasty and not in the Wei Dynasty.
People in Anhui who pay more attention to weather forecasts may know that easterly or southerly winds are often blowing in Huainan during this season.
The east wind happens to be blowing today, that is, the wind blowing from the east.
Zhao Yun's army is in the east, and Cao's army is in the west. Zhao Yun and his army are following the wind, while Cao's army and his army are against the wind.
As a result, when the crossbows were flying in the sky, they were affected by the wind. Before Cao Jun's arrows could reach Zhao Yun's formation, they were blown by the wind and began to fall. Finally, they fell in front of Zhao Yun's formation, and only a few fell into it.
In the formation, it hit the shield.
Zhao Yunjun's crossbows flew further with the help of the wind. Some of them fell on the shields of the front army, and more fell into the rear formation.
There were screams for a while, and hundreds of hapless Cao Jun soldiers were shot to death and wounded.
"snort!"
Cao Chun looked at this scene and snorted coldly.
After a round of crossbows, the two sides turned from a trot to a fast run. In just eight or nine seconds, they met at a distance of seventy or eighty meters in this two-way rush.
It was like two torrents colliding together. In an instant, people were thrown off their backs, and a large section of the soldiers in the front row fell.
The fighting also officially began.
The entire formation of both sides became loose as the front row soldiers fell.
This is inevitable.
No one can maintain a large formation unchanged, not even the Soldier Saint Sun Wu and the Soldier Immortal Han Xin.
But small formations can.
For example, Qi Jiguang's Yuanyang Formation and our army's 3-3 system were small formations.
The soldiers on both sides were all elite, incomparable to Jiangdong's army. They immediately started to unite with their surrounding teammates and fight with the enemy.
Some were in groups of three or five, and some were gathered together in groups of seven or eight, catching and chopping in pairs in the wilderness, on the plains, in the weeds, and among the trees.
One of the groups was the most dazzling.
A general in silver-white armor swung around, killing people wantonly.
Although Zhao Yun is over fifty years old, he does not look old, and his body is still tall and majestic. The key is his handsome face and charming charm.
At this moment, the spear in his hand is like pear blossoms, and every shot will take away a person's life. He is unparalleled in bravery.
The soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry are all hundred-man generals. In terms of strength, they are even stronger than the soldiers of Zhao Yun's tribe. With the large number of people, Cao's army suppresses Liu Bei's army in most battlefields.
Only here, wherever Zhao Yun went, there was no general who could join 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 fifty people died in his hands.
"General!"
On the hillside in the distance, Cao Chun's lieutenants on his left and right said to him: "That man is Zhao Yun. He has killed more than 50 of our 100 generals."
Cao Chun looked over there with a cold look, and said in a deep voice: "Go, lead a hundred people to surround him, and it's best to shoot him with cold arrows."
"only!"
The deputy generals on the left and right rode down the mountain with a hundred tigers and leopards protecting Cao Chun.
Cao Chun was initially a civil servant, and was awarded the positions of Yilang and Sikong in the army. He was a military adviser following Cao Cao.
It was not until later that he became the Commander-in-Chief of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. His actual force value was not high, so whenever there was a war, he would only direct the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to fight, but would not personally end the battle.
At this time, Zhao Yun was still fighting in the formation. As he continued to lead his guards in raids to rescue the siege, Liu Beijun, who was initially suppressed and beaten, gradually recovered. Some people continued to deal with their opponents, and then they united to kill the new enemy.
go.
Soon the situation was improved, with less fighting against more. Zhao Yun's bravery also inspired the soldiers, and everyone fought hard. The odds of winning were only 37 to 70, but gradually became evenly matched.
This is the advantage of having a brave general in the army, especially in small-scale battles. It can often inspire the morale and fighting spirit of the soldiers and lead the army forward indomitably.
Now Zhao Yun has exerted this effect.
Naturally, Cao Chun didn't want him to continue killing, so he sent tiger and leopard cavalry to encircle and suppress him.
Below is a lake and swamp. Although it is not difficult for people to fall into it, the ground is soft and horses can easily slip, so the soldiers dismounted and fought on foot.
At this moment, the tiger and leopard cavalry left their horses where they were. Under the leadership of the deputy general, they joined the battlefield and moved towards Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun quickly noticed the situation there because someone said to him: "General, be careful of cold arrows."
He lowered his head and rolled on the spot, and several crossbow arrows hit the ground where he was standing.
Zhao Yun was furious, and stabbed the spear in his hand diagonally to the side, killing a Cao soldier who was about to attack him. He put the spear behind his back, and led them towards the enemy with only a dozen personal guards around him.
Rush away.
The Cao soldiers who were firing arrows not far away had no time to fire their bows, so they dropped their crossbows one after another, pulled out the swords on their waists, and roared to kill like wild wolves.
The two sides quickly approached, and one of Cao's soldiers who was at the front stabbed Zhao Yun in the neck with a long halberd.
Because Zhao Yun wore silver-white steel armor on his upper body, and his head, waist, thighs, and arms were also wrapped in armor. Only his forearms, calves, and neck were exposed, so targeting the neck was Cao Jun's first choice.
This also shows that the opponent is an elite who has fought many battles. Otherwise, ordinary soldiers would not care so much. It is common for the army to stab randomly in panic.
Zhao Yun's body moved forward in a diving posture, and he dodged the blow with a slight tilt of his head. He was extremely fast, like walking in a leisurely manner, stabbing down with his spear, the second shot coming first, and piercing through the armor worn by the tiger and leopard cavalry soldiers.
Belly armor, stab him through.
Even as the gun tip kept poking inside, the terrifying force penetrated the Cao Jun soldier's abdomen. Then Zhao Yun used inertia and his own strength to lift him up and wave him forward.
"ah!"
With a scream, the Cao Jun soldier was lifted more than two feet above the ground, and then was thrown out, hitting three Cao Jun soldiers behind him who were about to bully him.
Taking advantage of the gap right in front of him, Zhao Yun then entered the circle, pulled out the knife from his waist, opened his bow left and right, and kept swinging it.
In an instant, several Cao soldiers were killed.
During the chaos in Cao's army, people kept trying to stab him to death with spears and halberds, but he dodged them with his dragon-like movement.
Zhao Yun was like a butterfly in a flower, swimming among the crowd, and sometimes even used Cao Jun's body to avoid enemy attacks. The hundreds of Cao Jun's elite generals were unable to do anything to him in a short period of time.
Especially after Zhao Yun's personal guards were filled in later, more than ten of them formed a small formation, like a three-edged thorn, with Zhao Yun as the sharp end, and struck Cao Jun hard.
Soon, the formation of more than a hundred Cao's troops was also disrupted. Because it was too crowded and it was inconvenient to kill, the formation had to be spread out a little.
But the more scattered the formation, the less likely they are to be their opponents.
Zhao Yun first lowered his head to avoid the slash from the man on the left, then helped the guards on the right to block the enemy's attack, then kicked the enemy in front away, and then stabbed the Cao soldier on the left who had missed the attack.
In the chaotic battle, they became more and more courageous and had killed more than twenty people, but only three of Zhao Yun's personal guards died, and Zhao Yun was not even injured.
Seeing Zhao Yun's ferocity here, more Cao troops attacked from the east.
But as soon as they had a few people on their side, Liu Bei's soldiers counterattacked in a big way. The wilderness of less than one square kilometer was full of enemy and enemy soldiers fighting. Some were drowned in the lake, some were hacked to death beside the wasteland, and some fought with the enemy.
Fang slashes, and when the weapon falls off, he grabs it with his hands, bites it with his teeth, and kills the enemy alive.
They were not the only ones in the surrounding wilds. Hare poked his head out of the burrow, goshawks soared in the sky, tigers in the mountains and forests to the north looked from afar, and the deer lowered their heads to eat weeds, while occasionally raising their heads to glance at the herd in the distance.
Strange two-legged beast.
The history of human wars will never lack those onlookers who find it difficult to understand their actions.
As time went by, the war became more and more unfavorable to Cao's army. Cao Chun's face on the hillside was very ugly. He never expected that he would be at a disadvantage against eight thousand against five thousand.
The most intuitive reason is that the man named Zhao Yun was too fierce. He led his bodyguards to kill everywhere, as if they were in a no-man's land, which made Liu Bei's army's morale extremely high.
Obviously if this continues, the situation will become very bad.
But Cao Chun could not accept his failure.
This time Cao Pi sent him here to support Sun Quan. He must achieve his goal and make the enemy slow down their offensive against Sun Quan.
A little Zhao Yun is so troublesome, how will he face Guan Yu in the future?
So thinking of this, Cao Chun shouted, turned his horse's head, and said to the people around him: "Let's go kill that Zhao Yun!"
He planned to go to the battlefield in person, not to fight Zhao Yun, but to ride over with all the tigers and leopards around him. He would personally command outside and would definitely surround and kill Zhao Yun.
Soon Cao Chun led the remaining hundreds of tigers and leopards to ride over.
At the same time, the guards behind Zhao Yun also eliminated their opponents, and forty or fifty people shouted and attacked towards this side.
At this moment, including the remaining tiger and leopard cavalry, Cao Jun still had more than a hundred people, surrounding Zhao Yun.
But Zhao Yun's personal guards on the periphery were not indifferent. They cut their way out like an awl, joined Zhao Yun, and then fought in all directions.
Cao Chun kept shouting and shouting: "Kill him. Whoever can kill Zhao Yun, I will ask the King of Wei to make him a marquis!"
"Hoo ho ho ho ho ho!"
The morale of Cao's soldiers suddenly rose.
Zhao Yun was covered in blood and roared angrily: "I am Zhao Zilong of Changshan, who dares to fight with me!"
"Hoo ho ho ho ho ho!"
Zhao Yun's personal guards also roared loudly.
Then the two sides collided again, with Zhao Yun still at the forefront.
His eyes were fixed on the figure of Cao Chun on horseback in the rear formation. After scanning the enemies in front, he silently said a number in his heart - seventeen!
After killing seventeen more people, he would be able to fight his way to the opponent's general and stab him off his horse with one shot.
One of Cao's soldiers slashed at him diagonally. He raised the head of his spear and then stabbed him.
Blood splattered.
The next second, the attacks of three other Cao soldiers followed.
One person used a knife to chop, and the other two used halberds to stab.
Zhao Yun shrank down and crouched down, and then his body was ejected like a cannonball, hitting one of the soldiers who was stabbing with a halberd in the abdomen.
The soldier was thrown to the ground. Zhao Yun held the gun in his left hand, reached down with his right hand, grabbed the man's throat, lifted him up with one hand, strangled him to death, and at the same time violently pushed him to the side.
There was a "bang" sound, and the soldier's body swept down the two people who had just attacked him. One of Zhao Yun's guards quickly took over, and one of them killed them with a knife.
Four!
Zhao Yun silently recited a number in his mind.
Then he ran violently, with a spear like a dragon, like pear blossoms and raindrops, and stabbed two more people to death.
Cao Jun's troops on the left and right sides were blocked by the guards behind him. Zhao Yun only had to concentrate on dealing with Cao Jun's soldiers directly in front.
He saw his personal guards on the diagonal side behind him holding shields. With their help, Zhao Yun quickly killed eight people and was less than ten feet away from piercing Cao's army's formation.
And Cao Chun's position was just twenty feet away.
Cao Chun was a little anxious when he saw that Zhao Yun was still fighting in the formation. Even though the surrounding Cao troops kept attacking him like a tide, they were blocked by Zhao Yun's personal guards and never killed him.
Even the horse under his crotch seemed to be aware of this emotion and took a step back unconsciously.
"General, Zhao Yun is fierce, let's withdraw."
One of the guards was actually a little scared.
Cao Chun turned around and yelled angrily: "I am entrusted by the King of Wei and have a heavy responsibility. How can I retreat?"
He can't retreat from this battle.
Retreating would let Guan Yu know that Cao Jun's so-called rush for reinforcements was just an external force but a weak one, and Sun Quan could no longer hold out for much longer.
But this moment also made Cao Chun regret. He thought that eight thousand versus five thousand would be a sure win, but unexpectedly the enemy general was so powerful and possessed the courage of Lu Bu, which made him regret not bringing Zhang Liao.
Perhaps only Zhang Liao can stop this person.
Cao Chun thought.
In this stunned moment, Zhao Yun had already killed several more people and almost penetrated Cao's army's formation.
A moment later, when Cao Chun turned around to look at the battlefield, he saw a ferocious-looking 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 military formation, and ran towards Cao Chun.
There were several personal guards around Cao Chun, who quickly stepped forward to block.
One of them immediately reined in Cao Chun's horse and shouted: "General, hurry up!"
Cao Chun never expected that even though he led nearly 300 tiger and leopard cavalry to attack him, they could not stop him. He quickly galloped his horse.
Over there, Zhao Yun quickly killed the guards, snatched a war horse, and galloped over.
As he chased, he shouted: "The enemy will stop leaving, take your life!"
Cao Chun was so shocked that he was speechless.
When I came down the mountain just now, I thought that after killing the enemy generals for so long, their physical strength would be exhausted, and if there were more than a hundred people, they would 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 actually stunned for a moment.
This is simply a big mistake.
But now it was too late to regret, and he could only flee in panic.
However, Zhao Yun specifically chose this place to intercept for his own purpose. It would be fine if the war horse fell slowly, but once it started galloping, it would easily slip.
After running less than a hundred meters, the war horse neighed, the soft and wet soil under his feet slipped, and Cao Chun fell.
Zhao Yun chased after him and laughed: "Do you think I intercepted you halfway because I was afraid of your cavalry? Wrong. I was afraid that you would escape on horseback, so I chose this place. You should die!"
Before Cao Chun, who was beaten to pieces, could recover, the spear from the god of death pierced his neck, instantly piercing his neck.
Zhao Yun jumped off his horse and cut off Cao Chun's neck with a knife. He actually didn't know who the person was. He only knew that the flag had the word "Cao" on it, so he held up Cao Chun's head, turned around and roared: "Enemy"