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Hou Cheng and Cao Xing also led a battalion, one for eight hundred and the other for five hundred. It seems that there is no obvious quantitative change, but in fact, there is a qualitative change.

What Cao Xing led was cavalry.

Among the generals under Lu Bu, Cao was the least experienced, but because of his outstanding performance in Hao Meng's transformation, he made great contributions, and avoided the killing of Lu Bu's army and preserved the vitality of the army. Lu Bu appreciated him quite well. When Wei Xu was not by his side, he replaced him. This time, he transferred five hundred cavalry to lead the battle to rush forward, which is a clear proof - you must know that the total number of cavalry of Lu Bu's army is only a thousand cavalry.

Sure enough, as soon as the cavalry came out, Cao Cao tightened. When he saw the cavalry rushing towards Xiahou Yuan's right wing, he browned and said nothing. He was about to order Cao Ren to divide his troops to help, but Cao Ren sent someone to send a message first: "The horse is short and thin, not Bingzhou cavalry."

Cao Cao suddenly realized and looked at Cheng Yu and Xun Yu in the distance, and both of them said, "It was captured in the battle of Huainan."

Correct solution.

Before the Battle of Huainan, Lu Bu had only 400 horses. After defeating Yuan Shu's army, he harvested nearly 800 horses. After the selection, he had 600 horses. However, Yuan Shu's horses were of poor quality and he could not feed them. These war horses were not as good as Lu Bu's Bingzhou horses in terms of sprinting, endurance and weight-bearing. If it were two years ago, Lu Bu would not look down on these defective products at all, but he could not do it now. Even dead horses had to be used as live horses, let alone just inferior horses.

Cao Xing led this second-class or third-class cavalry.

Cao Cao breathed a sigh of relief: Very good, let’s look at Miaocai and Wenbo.

Hou Cheng supervised the infantry camp and charged towards Zhu Ling, who was also an infantry army; Cao Xing led the cavalry camp and collided with Xiahou Yuan, who was also an cavalry.

Xiahou Yuan and Zhu Ling's right hook formation are a relatively complete formation. Zhu Ling's two thousand infantrymen are arranged in the order of archers, long soldiers and short soldiers. On the left and right of the array are baggage chariots, and deer forts are arranged in front to block the impact of cavalry. Xiahou Yuan's four hundred cavalry (there are another 600 auxiliary soldiers, which combine to form a cavalry battalion), scattered and wandered on both wings of the infantry formation.

When Cao Xing's five hundred cavalry rolled up the sky and covered the dust and came over, Xiahou Yuan, who placed his command on the top of a hill, immediately waved his flag and beat the drums to gather troops to meet the enemy. Both sides had equal strengths and weaknesses. Lu Bu's soldiers were sharp and inferior, while Cao Cao's soldiers were strong and strong. They fought together in a group, without a distinction between victory and loss.

Cao Cao's army and horses were basically obtained through Yuan Shao from Bingzhou, the Xiongnu and Wuhuan territory. Horses were good horses, but the cavalry was just a little short of them. There were only two sources of excellent cavalry in this era: either recruited from the west and north, or recruited from the children of wealthy families in the Central Plains. There is no need to say much about the former source. The latter source is because of the scarce resources of horses, in non-pastoral areas, only wealthy families could afford and raise them. Only the children of the disciples had the opportunity to come into contact and practice. The cavalry that Cao Ren had gathered in the dark and crossed the Huai and Si in this nature.

At present, Cao Cao obviously lacks the first source. The second source requires the support of a large number of powerful families. However, Cao Cao was quite unwilling to be a noble family in Yanzhou. From killing the border, occupying his wife, to rebeling the entire Yanzhou area, and then to Chen Gong's swearing to never surrender, it can be seen that Cao Cao's relationship with the powerful families in Yanzhou is so bad.

Therefore, except for Cao Ren's elite cavalry, Cao Cao's only had the third source he had created: training and actual combat, and he turned ordinary soldiers who had almost never rode a horse into cavalry.

Of course, such cavalry, to put it bluntly, are just infantry riding horses, and not much like Yuan Shu's cavalry. Don't think about cavalry shooting, cavalry fighting is also barely enough. You can fight infantry, but it is still not time to go against real cavalry.

The reason why the two sides fought was indistinguishable from the victory and defeat was that more than half of Cao Xing's cavalry recruited from Yan and Xu Xin - the elite cavalry who brought it from Bingzhou and traversed Guandong had already been almost zero. Even so, the foundation was still there, which was not comparable to the newly formed Cao's cavalry. Therefore, after a fierce battle, Cao's cavalry gradually lost its support.

Cao Cao wanted to get support from the left-wing Cao Ren several times, but Xiahou Yuan rejected it. In the end, he personally took the initiative and insisted on it.

Compared with Xiahou Yuan, Zhu Ling's side was better. Zhu Ling's infantry seemed to be twice as many as Hou Cheng. In fact, there were only seven or eight hundred soldiers who could fight, and the majority were the majority. Zhu Ling was considered a general and deeply understood Cao Cao's intention to defend and counterattack. Therefore, although he had the power to counterattack, he had always defended and prepared to go.

"Shoot! Shoot! Team A is aiming, Team B is aiming, and the two teams alternate. Before the thieves reach the deer fort, at least one pot of arrows must be shot!"

When Hou Cheng's troops entered the range, Zhu Ling's troops commander led the team and commanded the archers to shoot step by step. At this time, the troops at the forefront of both sides were only seven or eighty steps apart, which was the final sprint stage. If you run normally in small steps, it would only take half a minute. However, under the rain of arrows, the distance would be extremely far away; this time would be infinitely extended.

Buzz — Buzz —

More than a hundred arrows were fired at the same time, forming a cloud of darkness, and under the cover of the head. The Xia Pi army stopped one after another, raised the simple wooden shield to resist, while those without the wooden shield kept arching forward and drilled to the shielded comrades to cover them.

Twist twist twist, arrows fell, rows of wooden shields were inserted into arrows, and suddenly, they looked white. Sometimes arrows could penetrate through the gap between the wooden shields, shooting some unlucky guys, and screams of yo yo were heard.

When Hou Cheng and his entourage team drove the soldiers to seize the gaps in the enemy's shooting, more than ten positions were empty in the team, and the trampled grassland was stained with blood.

Buzz —

The Xia Pi army had just run seven or eight steps, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air sounded again. So, the previous situation was repeated again.

The soldiers of Hou Cheng's camp were all very close and long soldiers, but there was no archer. It was not that the Xia Pi army did not have it, but that a large number of archers were placed in Xia Pi City for defense, and they were even more needed there. An army did not have long-range suppression and did not have strong armor like the trap camp, so they could only be beaten when charging.

At seventy or eighty steps, the Xia Pi army ran for a long time before advancing to Cao's army's Lu Fort. At this time, nearly a hundred people had fallen from the team.

Zhu Ling looked at the high platform temporarily built with a baggage chariot. With a wave of the flag in his hand, the commander who was waiting for the order immediately jumped onto the horse. He ran along the way of the military formation and shouted: "Bowmen retreat! Fighters gathered together!"

Once the deer fort is pulled out, the next step is to fight against each other. The archer must retreat and give the battlefield to the long and short forces.

The Cao army archers retreated from the passage between the army formations. After all, the long and short soldiers gathered to the center. The formation was tight, with a large shield and a pillar of the ground, and spears and halberds stretched out, making them look like hedgehogs.

After another half a moment, Hou Cheng finally pulled out the roadblock. Seven hundred soldiers roared in unison and rushed towards the Cao army, which had been waiting for the battle. The two hits and bumped into the reefs, and they immediately caused blood rain. People were rushing up and down, roaring and screaming, and colliding loudly, resounding throughout the battlefield.

Both the attacking and the defending sides fought hard, and the commanders of both armies also did not send reinforcements. It was obvious that they both had a backup plan.

After a fierce battle, Zhu Ling Buying had stabilized his position and squeezed the Xia Pi army outward. At this time, the Xia Pi army suffered heavy casualties and had already shown its defeat. Even if Hou Cheng and his supervisory team were slashing people and slashing them, it would be difficult to stabilize the morale of the army. Perhaps the next moment was the time to collapse.

On the contrary, the cavalry of Xia Pi gradually gained the upper hand. If Xiahou Yuan had not personally gone to the battlefield and fought on the front line, he would have been afraid that he would not be able to hold on.

Under the name Lu, the commander of the Xia Pi army, Lu Bu, issued a strange order at this time: "Yi Jie leads 200 cavalrymen to reinforce Cao Xing!"

Cao Xing? Not Hou Cheng? But Cheng Lian had no such doubt at all. He responded loudly, pointed out the two hundred cavalry, rushed out from the military formation, and rushed towards Cao's army.

At this time, the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang were lifting their armor behind the formation to cool off. Seeing another cavalry rushing out from afar, and they were rushing to Xiahou Yuan, Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh: "Lu Fengxian is really cruel. He actually wanted to destroy Xiahou Miaocai's cavalry battalion at the cost of sacrificing Hou Chengbu camp."

Although they are both battalions, the cavalry battalion is much more expensive than the infantry battalion. If you exchange an infantry battalion for another cavalry battalion, the account is too cost-effective no matter how you look at it.

Guan Yu sneered: "I'm afraid that the envoy Cao may not be able to get him to his wish."

Zhang Fei put a shed in his hand and looked west for a while, shouting: "No, Cao Ren moved the flag."

Cao Cao finally used elite cavalry because he had successfully forced Lu Bu to dispatch the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry first - the Bingzhou Iron Cavalry was only about 300, and Cheng Lian led 200 cavalry to attack. He had already shown his trump card, so Cao Cao could naturally use his killer move.

You want to annihilate my cavalry, but I also want to destroy your cavalry!

Just as both sides were about to open their trump card, the battlefield situation suddenly reversed and underwent astonishing changes.

The change happened to the two cavalry generals, Xiahou Yuan and Cao Xing.

Xiahou Yuan rushed forward and used his superb cavalry fighting skills to assassinate the eleven cavalry of Xia Pi army one after another, with his black armored red spear, as fast as a leopard. Wherever he passed, the enemy cavalry all looked at the wind. While he was rushing, he guarded Xiahou Yuan's left wing and suddenly groaned and rolled down.

Xiahou Yuan was shocked and turned his head, and a strong wind came towards him - Du! But he rushed over in time to block a cold arrow with his shield.

But the next moment, Xiahou Yuan shouted: "Be careful!"

The horseman was startled and raised the shield that had already been put down in his hand quickly, but it was too late - a arrow accurately passed through the upper edge of the shield, and was right after the horseman's forehead.

A continuous arrow! Xiahou Yuan looked in shock, but saw more than twenty steps away, a cavalry general was holding a bow and sneering at him. The entourage on the flag he was snatching had the word "Cao".

"Cao Xing!"

"Xiahou Yuan"

"Die!"

The two shouted this sentence almost at the same time.

Cao Xing caught the third arrow.

Xiahou Yuan quickly threw his spear and took off his bow.

Whoosh — whoosh —

The two of them were as determined as cowboys from the west, neither dodging nor dodging, and with the determination of fighting generals, they raised their bows and shot a fatal arrow at their opponents.

Will Cao Xing be afraid of fighting?

He once fought with Hao Meng alone, changing one knife to another, cutting one arm off, and lying on a stretcher.

Will Xiahou Yuan be afraid of fighting generals?

Many years later, at the foot of Dingjun Mountain, he had slightly frosted temples, and he still rushed towards Huang Zhong's fiery blade like a moth to the flame...

Two arrows shot out one after another, and passed by in the air. Puff! Puff! Each hit the target, bringing out a bunch of blood.

Cao Xing had already held the bow in his hand, so he was quicker. The arrow shot through Xiahou Yuan's cheek, penetrated from his left face and came out from his right face, bleeding.

Xiahou Yuan's arrow shot from Cao Xing's right eye and penetrated deep into his brain.

One arrow is replaced by another arrow.

Xiahou Yuan, injured.

Cao's spirit, perish! (To be continued...)

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