Chapter 701 Cao Cao Arrives

The protracted struggle between Chu and Han for hegemony consumed a lot of manpower and material resources. It is said that after the Emperor of Han ascended the throne, he could not even find four royal horses of the same coat color. This shows how scarce material resources were in the early Han Dynasty. Therefore, the Han army had very few cavalry. The Huns besieged.

Li Ling led 5,000 Han troops out of the fortress, but was also surrounded by tens of thousands of Xiongnu cavalry, fought and fought, and was eventually captured.

The cavalry has strong mobility, while the infantry has weak mobility. Therefore, the cavalry can often trap the infantry with large detours. Even if the infantry wants to surround the cavalry, it is often forcibly broken through by the cavalry.

Although Zhou Yu took advantage of Cao Ren's mentality of underestimating the enemy, he first ordered Xu Sheng to hold on, and then ordered Huang Gai and Tai Shi Ci to lead their troops to arrive in time. Finally, they surrounded Cao Ren and Shi Huan, and surrounded the cavalry with infantry. This is really rare in the world. .

"Send the order! Annihilate Cao's army."

"Destroy Cao's army!"

"Destroy Cao's army!"

Zhou Yu shouted, and the guards around him followed suit. As if a drop of rain fell into the water, the ripples spread instantly. With Zhou Yu as the center, more and more Jiangdong troops shouted loudly, and eventually all 17,000 Jiangdong troops were They shouted "annihilate Cao's army".

The 1,400 cavalrymen were in the roaring tsunami of Jiangdong Army. They couldn't help but tremble and looked at each other.

"go ahead!"

Taishi Ci shouted loudly. More than two thousand Jiangdong soldiers under his command had already formed a formation. Several rows of Jiangdong soldiers rushed in like a wall and moved toward Cao's soldiers to surround them. Their formation was uniform.

"go ahead!"

"go ahead!"

Huang Gai, Pan Zhang, Lu Meng, Xu Sheng and others all ordered their armies to advance. Suddenly, all Jiangdong armies were seen moving from all directions, paying attention to coordination with each other, and constantly compressing the formation, as if they were going to be surrounded. Cao's soldiers were crushed to death.

"Damn it." Cao Ren growled lowly and raised his horse: "Kill!"

"kill!"

The shouts of Cao Jun's cavalry this time were far less loud than before. After many fights, most of their physical strength was exhausted, and they were already weak. If they had the strength to shout twice, they might as well hold on to the weapons in their hands and kill Jiang Dong later. Where are the soldiers?

Fourteen hundred horsemen trampled on the ground and rushed over, but this time Jiangdong soldiers were not afraid. What are you afraid of? These Cao soldiers have been surrounded by them, they are just trying to catch turtles in an urn, and the trapped animals are still fighting.

"Fire the arrow!"

Whoosh whoosh!

The archers in the formation opened their bows and released arrows, and arrow feathers flew out. Suddenly, nearly a hundred horsemen fell off their horses.

"Spearman, thrust!"

The spears carried on the large shield gleamed in the sunlight, forming a forest of spears. Cao Jun's cavalry rushed into it, inevitably suffering heavy losses.

"ah!"

"Kill no!"

One after another, Cao Jun's cavalry were killed and injured one after another. The frightened horses turned around and ran away. The screams of people mixed with the long neighing of the horses, the sound of sharp blades piercing flesh, and the sound of blood spurting out. The resulting sonata swept across the earth. Cao Jun's The casualties were increasing.

"drive!"

A Cao Jun cavalryman stepped forward on a flying horse, crouched low on the horse's back, and stretched out the horse spear in his hand. However, several spears mounted on the large shield suddenly thrust out, all stabbing the horse.

"Herod!"

Under the pain of the war horse, the man stood up and directly knocked Cao Bing on his back to the ground. The war horse weighed hundreds of kilograms, and it suppressed Cao Bing tightly. Cao Bing screamed "Ah" and desperately wanted to crawl out from under the war horse.

This Cao soldier was experienced in combat. His waist went numb, and he felt that his bones might have been broken. A severe pain swept through his whole body.

"We can't fight anymore, we can't fight anymore." Cao Bing was shaking all over and crying. He climbed out of the horse using his hands and feet, and crawled back with tears streaming down his face.

Cao Bing endured the pain and crawled back desperately. However, he was stared at by an archer from the Jiangdong Army.

Whoosh!

"Well!"

Cao Bing shuddered. An arrow shot into the back of his neck and came out of his throat. The arrowhead was stained red with blood. The blood continued to flow out and dyed the arrow shaft red.

Cao Bing spread his fingers and grabbed a handful of soil in his hands. Suddenly, his body froze, he lost strength and fell down on his face.

As Cao's army suffered more and more casualties, nearly one-third of them were lost under the arrow shooting and spear thrusts of Jiangdong soldiers, leaving only more than 900 cavalry.

"Can't fight, can't fight, Cao Lifeng!"

The people around shouted to Cao Ren: "Cao Lifeng, we can't fight anymore, if we continue like this, all our brothers will die!"

"Stop talking nonsense!"

Buzz!

Cao Ren's sword was only a hair's breadth away from the man's neck. He said sternly with red eyes: "If we don't kill him, he will still die. Kill them all!"

Cao Ren was well-known as a heroic warrior in Huainan. After following Cao Cao, he ran the army very strictly, so the army respected him and said whatever he said was done.

However, now that it was a matter of life and death, naturally some people were unwilling to listen to him.

"No way, retreat!"

One of Cao's soldiers shouted and stopped fighting Jiangdong's soldiers. Instead, he turned around and ran away. His escape seemed to trigger a chain reaction in the army. Dozens or hundreds of Cao soldiers turned around and fled, no longer fighting to the death with Jiangdong soldiers.

"hateful!"

Cao Ren gritted his teeth with hatred, but the number of cavalry around him was getting smaller and smaller, and he couldn't rush forward in a sudden rush to fight Jiang Dongbing to the death.

Cao Ren had no choice but to turn around and rush back. He stopped his horse. The horse was panting from exhaustion and covered in blood and sweat. He didn't know whether it was Cao Ren's blood, Jiang Dongbing's blood or its own blood.

Cao Ren on horseback was also sweating profusely. There was a wound on his arm, which was scratched by a Jiangdong Army commander. Blood flowed along the wound to the back of his hand, penetrated between the fingers, and flowed to On the blade.

"Gong Liu."

Cao Ren's face was as dark as dead water: "It seems that I will wrap my body in horse leather, but I will only harm you."

Shi Huan smiled bitterly: "Brother Zixiao, it's nothing. A man will fight on the battlefield sooner or later."

Cao Jun failed to break out of the formation, but lost nearly one-third of his cavalry, leaving only nearly 900 cavalry. At this moment, nine hundred riders were crowded together, each one dripping with sweat, covered in blood, and had already lost their strength.

After repelling Cao's cavalry, veteran Huang Gai laughed, waved his iron whip, and ordered: "Continue to advance and completely defeat the enemy!"

"go ahead!"

After a melee, all Jiangdong armies moved forward again, advancing like walls one by one, and the compressed space became smaller and smaller, aiming to completely annihilate Cao's soldiers.

At this moment, the ground in the north suddenly shook, and Zhou Yu's eyes were immediately attracted.

boom! boom! boom!

A black line emerged from the horizon far away, surrounded by a large flag that shot straight into the sky and fluttered in the wind.

The flag is made of blue cloth and has a large character embroidered with black thread.

Cao!