Cao Ren's words surprised Cao Chun, and he hurriedly asked: "What do you mean by what my brother said? Why did Meng De let us test the strength of the Jingzhou Army?"

Cao Ren seriously analyzed Cao Chun: "Nowadays, the various states have gradually become three major factions. One is Dong Zhuo of Chang'an, who is in charge of Guanzhong. He has many strong soldiers and horses under his command. The military power is the strongest, and the emperor controls it.

It can be said to be the most powerful. The second is the Yuan family supported by Mengde. Scholars in half the world support the Yuan family. They can be said to be the leaders of aristocratic families and noble clans. The third line is the clan. Today’s clan

Among the relatives, although Liu Yu has the greatest reputation, the one that has developed the fastest in recent years is the Jingzhou family. Although Meng De has not said it bluntly, he has long regarded the Jingzhou family as a serious problem."

Cao Chun nodded suddenly: "Therefore, it goes without saying the combat power of Dong Zhuo's troops, but we still need to find out how Jingzhou's military strength is, and then report it to Meng De."

Cao Rendao: "This is exactly the reason!"

Not long after, the sentry in front reported to Cao Ren and Cao Chun, saying that the Jingzhou Army's camp was not far from their own military formation.

Cao Ren raised his head and looked into the distance, and saw vaguely visible fireworks in the distant sky. It seemed that a fire was being cooked in the Jingzhou military camp.

According to the time calculation, it is almost the time for the opponent to have snacks. Cao Ren specially chose this time to come in order to launch an attack at this weakest moment and maximize the losses of the Jingzhou Army.

The true quality of an army does not lie in their combat effectiveness when they are ready, but in how they can respond to a sudden surprise attack by the enemy in a relatively loose state, and how long it takes to transform from the state of being attacked to the state of being attacked.

The state of being on the verge of battle.

Cao Ren stopped the cavalry team, rearranged the formation as quickly as possible, and assigned each unit the task of attacking.

After the formation adjustment was completed, Cao Ren immediately ordered all the troops to march in unison and rushed straight to the Jingzhou Army's camp.

Seeing that he was about to arrive at the Jingzhou Army camp, Cao Ren galloped along with the Chinese army while ordering his troops to adjust their formations and quickly attack the Jingzhou Army camp from three directions: the center, the left wing, and the right wing.

The cavalrymen on the middle road were about to approach the camp gate, but suddenly they saw the front row of cavalrymen all falling into the trap that the Jingzhou Army had already dug.

The first batch of war horses, together with the knights on their backs, fell into the pit one after another. For a moment, they fell on their backs and screamed loudly. Because there were some sharp bamboo tips inserted upside down in the pit below, those bamboos

With the help of inertia, it penetrated hard into the horse's body, and immediately splashed large areas of blood red.

But the war horses at the rear did not stop. The quality of those Huns war horses was indeed extremely high. Under the control of the riders, they jumped up one by one and leaped over the pit.

The war horses fell to the ground, and then, urged by the riders, they continued to advance rapidly towards the Jingzhou Army's camp.

However, Cao Ren, who was commanding the central army, pulled the reins of the horses and ordered the cavalry in the rear formation to stop. He wrinkled his eyes, looked deeply at the slightly peaceful military camp in the distance, and said coldly: "The enemy

The army is prepared!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the Jingzhou army, as if in response to Cao Ren's words, saw countless spearmen appearing in the camp. They arranged their formations, using shields as the basis, and extended their spears from the gaps in the shields.

Go out and prepare to meet the oncoming riders.

On the left and right sides of the camp, fully armed archers came out. They bent their bows and set arrows, stood on the temporary high wooden frame, crossed the fence, aimed at the oncoming cavalry, and released their bows and arrows in unison!

The long-distance crossbow is the natural nemesis of the cavalry, and it has been baptized by a wave of arrows!

Cao Jun's cavalry, horses and men were hit by the arrow rain, and fell to pieces in an instant.

When Cao Chun saw this, he couldn't help but became furious and shouted: "The Jingzhou thieves are quite knowledgeable, they actually expected me to come soon!"

As he finished speaking, he heard the low-pitched sound of trumpets from Cao Ren's army in the middle of the formation, which was very fast and not loose.

Cao Chun knew that this was an order from Cao Ren to continue the attack!

Cao Chun did not waste any time and hurriedly ordered his cavalry to attack the enemy camp again.

Although the enemy's crossbows are sharp, they are not so powerful that our own side cannot bear it, because the Jingzhou Army's crossbow army is mainly composed of archers, and the crossbow machine does not occupy the main part, and the archers aim and draw the bow.

The gap is relatively long. Compared to the Gongnu Battalion, which is dominated by the Crossbow Army, the Jingzhou Army's Gongnu Battalion currently does not have an advantage.

After suffering some losses, Cao's cavalry rushed to the Jingzhou Army's camp. They did not attack the fence. On the contrary, they could not rush in.

The cavalry just threw the hay they had prepared in front of the fence, lit the torch with the fire starter they carried, and threw it under the fence. At this moment, because they were out of the attack range of the Jingzhou Army's crossbow array, they were marching back and forth.

At this time, the shield soldiers of the Jingzhou Army guarding behind the fence were unable to do anything to them.

Soon, the wooden fence was scorched, and the cavalry charged again, rushing in through various gaps and the gate at extremely fast speeds.

The shield soldiers and spear soldiers, who had been waiting for the enemy for a long time, lined up on the spot, using the cover of their spears and shields to block the enemy's charge.

Many war horses were poked with holes by the spearmen, and the riders on them were also bloody. But more of the shield soldiers and spearmen were hacked and trampled by the cavalry, and the losses were even more serious.

In the Dazhai of the Jingzhou Army, Liu Qi had already made arrangements in advance, so he did not use Cao's cavalry to achieve a perfect surprise attack. However, because the opponent's horses were of extremely high quality, with very strong physical strength and impact, they were able to

In the stronghold, many cavalry had already formed a formation and began to clash back and forth in the Jingzhou Army's camp.

The sentinels of the Jingzhou Army quickly reported to Liu Qi what happened in the camp.

Liu Qi couldn't help but sigh secretly after hearing the current situation.

It seems that the so-called Tiger and Leopard Cavalry of Cao Cao's army in history has already taken shape. This newly formed cavalry team has such a strong adaptability when its own side sets up an ambush. If it is trained and formed in the future, it will be a good choice for the world.

It will be a huge threat to any force in the world.

"Instruct Huang Zhong and Tai Shici to march out from the Central Army and set up checkpoints in the main camp to stop the cavalry attack. Although Cao Jun's cavalry is fierce, they are still outnumbered. As long as we can stop their charging offensive

, and if we slowly gather together to annihilate them, we will definitely be able to defeat them." Liu Qi calmly ordered.

"only!"

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Liu Qi was quite surprised by the cavalry power of Cao Jun, but Cao Ren was actually even more surprised.

According to the battle report from the front line, Cao Jun's cavalry had lost nearly 300 cavalry in just these two rounds of charges. Although the Jingzhou army suffered more losses, in Cao Ren's view, the actual value was not proportional to his own losses.

So what if many of them died?

The most precious thing these days is not human life...it's horses!

As long as any county guard is willing to recruit shamelessly and forcefully, no matter how big the county is, tens of thousands of troops can be obtained overnight. It just depends on whether your food and grass can feed these people.

But war horses are different. They are real valuable objects. If you lose one, you will lose one. They cannot be recruited through recruitment.

Three hundred war horses are probably more than the number of horses that can be put into battle in the entire Nan County of Jingzhou!

Just when Cao Ren was thinking hard, he saw a scout hurriedly coming from the rear and reported to him: "Report to Sima, there are thousands of cavalry from our rear heading towards our army. The other side has not raised any flags. I don't know.

What kind of cavalry is that? But judging from the horses and knights, they are both very majestic! I think they must be the cavalry from the North!"

"Thousands of cavalry?" Cao Ren was stunned when he heard this.
Chapter completed!