The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

The former sentence is Liu Zheng's uncompromising, and the latter sentence is what allows Liu Zheng to elevate his status to the same level as Xu You.

It's not that Liu Zheng has to demand Xu You, but Liu Zheng knows Xu You's ability. Although Xu You's reputation is not very good in history, he still has something in his stomach. If Liu Zheng wants to do something in this era, he always needs some Assisted by capable people and strangers.

It is impossible to achieve great things alone.

Now he has two generals under his command, Xu Huang and Pei Yuanshao, but he lacks a counselor. Xu You may be the best choice.

"Okay, Liu Zhengqu is really cool, I like people like you, but there is one thing you must promise me."

Xu You was also very happy. After Liu Zheng said his request, Xu You agreed without hesitation.

"whats the matter?"

"If I can't tell you about this matter, I can guarantee that it will definitely make me rich and powerful."

Xu You smiled contemptuously, revealing a hint of mystery.

It seems that he deliberately kept it a secret and didn't tell Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng didn't ask any more questions.

"No problem, Mr. Xu You, please tell me how to deal with the pursuit of the officers and soldiers!"

"Hey, it's easy to break the pursuers of the officers and soldiers. Since you know you can't escape, why don't you just fight them?"

"beat?"

Xu You's relaxed tone made Liu Zheng's expression shudder, although he realized something.

"That's right, since we knew that there would be pursuers behind us, we decided not to run away and set up an ambush here. The officers and soldiers absolutely did not expect that we would attack their pursuers on the way. If they were caught by surprise, the pursuers would definitely be thrown into chaos! "

"At that time, we will take the initiative, and we still have the opportunity to fight. We may not be able to fight the pursuers!"

Xu You's suggestion immediately made Liu Zheng think quickly.

Instead of fleeing all the way, it is better to ambush and deal with the pursuers. This is indeed a way for them to deal with it calmly.

"Mr. Xu You's plan is very clever!"

"I have chosen the location for you. At the intersection we came to just now, there is a dense forest. It is not difficult to hide several soldiers and horses. Later, you will divide the soldiers and horses into two waves."

Xu You approached Liu Zheng, and told Liu Zheng in detail what he thought in his heart and how to fight this ambush.

Liu Zheng nodded repeatedly while listening to Xu You's description, expressing that he understood.

Soon, Liu Zheng hid all his men and horses according to Xu You's instructions. The ambush plan began, and he was waiting for the pursuers of the officers and soldiers to arrive here.

After waiting for about a quarter of an hour, there was the sound of trampling war horses on the road ahead, which immediately made Liu Zheng, who was ambushing here, nervous.

"Come on! Everyone is ready!"

Chapter 28 Pursuit

On the official road, more than ten war horses came galloping.

Because the distance is still relatively far, Liu Zheng can't tell who these people are and whose subordinates they belong to, but the number of more than ten war horses and the movement of galloping are enough to attract the attention of Liu Zheng and others.

He placed two thousand soldiers and horses in the distance, intending to cut off the opponent's retreat, and then rush out when these horses galloped to the ambush point.

But when more than a dozen war horses approached, Liu Zheng was stunned.

The people who came were not officers and soldiers, not Cao Cao as he expected, but Zhou Cang!

"It's him, Zhou Cang, why is it him!"

Liu Zheng looked wrong, but he ordered his men to rush out and stop Zhou Cang.

"The person in front stop!"

Liu Zheng rushed out first and yelled loudly.

Hundreds of people came out suddenly from both sides of the official road, which shocked Zhou Cang who was galloping, and hurriedly reined in his horse.

He looked around vigilantly, and when Zhou Cang saw that it was Liu Zheng, Zhou Cang and others, he temporarily relaxed his nervous expression.

"Shuai Liu Zhengqu, it's you guys! I was scared to death, I thought the officers and soldiers set up an ambush here!"

Zhou Cang breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately relaxed his highly nervous expression, but Liu Zheng could still see the embarrassment in Zhou Cang's eyes at a glance.

"Brother Zhou Cang, why are you here? Didn't you support the army outside the city at the North City Gate?"

Liu Zheng looked at Zhou Cang's body. At this time, Zhou Cang was in a state of disarray, disheveled and disheveled, with blood stains on his face, and some blood scabs that had clotted on his body, as if there had been a big war, but I don't know if the bloodstains on his body are his own or someone else's.

"Liu Zhengqu Shuai, I want to ask you this question too, why are you here?"

"We escaped from Runan City, and we wanted to set up an ambush here to attack the officers and soldiers chasing from Runan City, but we didn't expect that it was you who were waiting!"

When talking about chasing soldiers, Zhou Cang's expression tightened.

"Chasing soldiers! By the way, chasing soldiers! There are chasing soldiers behind me, not far from us, Commander Liu Zhengqu, you continue to ambush!"

Zhou Cang said something suddenly, making Liu Zheng and others continue to ambush immediately.

Liu Zheng was also stunned by Zhou Cang's words, and he didn't talk nonsense with Zhou Cang at the moment, so that everyone who had just rushed out immediately ran back to hide.

As for Zhou Cang and the dozen or so remaining soldiers, Liu Zheng didn't let them continue to escape, and simply let them act as bait here to attract the pursuers.

After everything was arranged, not long after, the sound of galloping horses came from behind the official road again, this time the sound was much louder than Zhou Cang and the others.

Even if he hasn't seen the people who came, Liu Zheng has already guessed that the number of cavalry who came this time must exceed a thousand!

The formation was not small, and the commotion caused was naturally louder. Before those chasing soldiers really got close to Liu Zheng's ambush point, the infantry around Liu Zheng had already started to look ugly.

Thousands of cavalry, I am afraid that this has already assembled, most of the cavalry that Huangfusong can mobilize.

After all, Huangfusong himself does not have any cavalry. As far as Liu Zheng knows, it is still the era of the Yellow Turban Uprising, and the imperial court has not set up the eight captains of Xiyuan. The horses in the stables are matched with the fifth school of the Northern Army.

There were originally eight schools in the fifth school of the Northern Army, but in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the soldiers were streamlined, there were only five battalions of soldiers and horses left. They were the imperial guards of the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and they were also some of the most elite soldiers in Huangfusong's hands.

Although Huangfusong's crusade against the Yellow Turban Army this time only has a total of 4 people, except for the five schools of the Northern Army, the rest are only the strong men he recruited.

Before Liu Zheng knew some of the five schools of the Northern Army, only two battalions belonged to the cavalry.

The Yueqi battalion is a cavalry battalion composed of some affiliated Yue people.

Changshuiying is a cavalry composed of some Changshui Xuanqu Hu people.

The number of the five schools of the Northern Army was about the same, and the first battalion probably had more than 700 people.

Only this time, Liu Zheng didn't know whether the cavalry who came to chase them were the cavalry from the Yueqi Battalion or the Changshui Battalion.Or he sent both battalions of cavalry over.

Before Liu Zheng was in a hurry to carefully consider which battalion of cavalry it was, the cavalry that caused the landslide and tremor had already raised a puff of smoke and rushed to him.

A burst of yellow dust was brought up on the official road, and appeared in front of Liu Zheng and others in the blink of an eye.

The leader is Cao Cao!

Seeing Cao Cao, Liu Zheng is no stranger to him. Even though they are still far away, Liu Zheng has already seen clearly that the person is Cao Cao. He will not be mistaken. Next to Cao Cao, there is Cao Ren. .

He was almost shot by Cao Ren, but Liu Zheng was very caring towards Cao Ren.

"Everyone get ready, Cao Cao's men and horses have entered the ambush range, when he gets closer, immediately pull the horse rope!"

Now that he knew that the chasing soldiers were cavalry, how could Liu Zheng not play tricks.

The method of dealing with cavalry is the simplest and most effective way. As long as the opponent's cavalry is knocked to the ground and turned into infantry, no matter how powerful he is, it is impossible for him to fight against a hundred on the battlefield!

Cao Cao led a thousand cavalry and chased him quickly. The purpose was to chase and kill Liu Zheng who ran out of Runan City. At first he thought that Zhou Cang and others were Liu Zheng, but after chasing for a long time, he realized that it was not Liu Zheng. However, Zhou Cang's dozen yellow turban cavalry are always a scourge and must be eliminated.

Cao Cao chased them all the way, but at this moment, he suddenly saw Zhou Cang in the distance on the official road, but he stopped running away, but reined in his horse, and waited for them to come not far away.

Cao Cao, who was always vigilant, took a look at the surroundings. The trees were dense and lush, and there was another corner in front of him. He couldn't see the depths. He saw that it was an excellent place to set up an ambush.

Shocked, Cao Cao immediately reined in his horse.

"There is an ambush, stop advancing!"

Cao Cao shouted sharply!It's still slow to say, after all, no matter how loud his voice is, it can't be louder than the sound caused by the trampling of the horse's hooves on the ground.

The soldiers could not hear him at all.

"pull!"

Liu Zheng yelled and ordered the horse rope to be pulled.

On the official road, a rope suddenly bounced and appeared directly in front of the officer cavalry. Too late to react.

In this way, the first wave of cavalry, as if being washed away by water, all fell to the ground, turning their backs on their backs.

Cao Jun's cavalry were tripped by the horse rope, which immediately made Liu Zheng very happy.

Chapter 29 Ambush

The role of the tripping rope is very great against cavalry.

If no ambush was found at the very beginning, then the cavalry who rushed to the front would trip up once they were tripped.

After people turn their backs on their backs, the coherent effect formed will be greater.The horses in the front row fell down and were directly paralyzed on the ground. The following cavalry would still charge up due to inertia.

However, the cavalry in front fell on the ground, and they couldn't jump over. They would only be tripped by the horses in front, forming a continuous effect, and all the cavalry who rushed up fell to the ground at this time.

Even if some people reined in from the cliff and stopped the car in time, if any cavalry rushed up later, they would still be knocked down, resulting in the effect of hitting and falling to the ground.

In the blink of an eye, one-third of Cao Jun's thousands of cavalry fell to the ground.

Fortunately, some of the fallen cavalry were directly trampled by the horses behind, and the horseshoes trampled on the soldiers' bodies, causing the cavalry of the official army to die or be injured.

Before Liu Zheng's men took action, some of these officers and soldiers had already died.

On Liu Zheng's side, as the tripping rope was pulled up, he also gave an order to start an ambush.

With 5000 soldiers and horses, Liu Zheng has arranged [-] people here. The purpose is to have a head-on contest with the pursuers here, to kill the opponent by surprise, and to use the advantage of the large number of people to achieve the effect of intimidation, so that Cao Jun will be in chaos. It is impossible to form a good battle formation among them.

The Yellow Turban Army surrounded on both sides of the official road rushed out frantically at this time, and those with bows and arrows in their hands fired a wave of random shots at the official cavalry.

After the first wave of arrows ended, a row of soldiers and horses holding spears rushed up under the command of Xu You, trying to hold back the battle first, and let Cao Jun, who was in a panic and had not recovered from his senses, enter the battle first Among them, the horse cannot be remounted.

When the Yellow Turbans ran out, Cao Cao was shocked. Although he already knew that he was in an ambush, he did not expect that there would be so many Yellow Turbans here.

Thousands of people swarmed up and immediately surrounded them, the cavalry.

And Cao Cao also understood that the Yellow Turban Army is not scary, even if there are thousands of people here, it is not scary in front of him. He only needs a few hundred cavalry to wipe out the Yellow Turban Army.

After so many battles with the Yellow Turban Army, he already understood that as long as the Yellow Turban Army was defeated, the speed of defeat would be faster than that of any soldier.

"Don't panic, form the formation! The fallen people mount their horses immediately and charge, don't panic!"

It doesn't take much strength to protect one's life surrounded by so many Yellow Turbans. It is enough for the cavalry in front of them to stabilize their formation and not be intimidated.

So Cao Cao quickly began to command the soldiers and horses, so that these cavalry could start to deal with the yellow scarves outside.

But it is not so easy to stabilize these cavalry in ambushes.Even those soldiers on horses can adjust their status in a short time.Those horses that stumbled to the ground could not get back up in such a short time.

The frightened war horse has already started to flee in all directions.It further hindered the time for Cao Jun to recover his composure.

But at this time, the Yellow Turban Army from Fengyun's side had already killed Cao Jun, and the two sides officially fought.

The remaining hundreds of cavalry, under the leadership of Cao Cao, began to quickly fight and kill Fengyun's men and horses.

But soon these Cao Jun realized that these people who were ambushing here were clearly prepared.The rhythm of the attack is very obvious.

After part of the arrows ended, dozens of war horses galloped over not far away, and under the leadership of Zhou Cang and Xu Huang, they killed Cao Jun again.

In just one face-to-face meeting, these officers and cavalry were beheaded and killed hundreds of people by these yellow turban thieves.At least a third of the cavalry were unable to continue fighting.

Cao Jun, who originally used thousands of cavalry, at this time, only more than 600 people can really participate in the battle.

Moreover, these 600 people had to face an enemy ten times larger than their own. Without a wide area for them to charge, the advantage of the cavalry was not obvious in a head-on contest.

In the narrow official road, if the cavalry's charge cannot be used, then they will fight head-to-head with the infantry, and the advantage is not obvious. Even some yellow turban bandits with spears can easily pick Cao soldiers off their horses. .

More and more Cao cavalry began to lose, Cao Cao began to worry deeply while beheading the Yellow Turban Army with all his strength.

Cao Hong was by Cao Cao's side, and after seeing the current situation, he already understood that it would be difficult for the cavalry in front of him to defeat the Yellow Turbans at this time.

"Mr. Cao, it's not good. The morale of our army has plummeted. Those who were killed by these Yellow Turbans are defeated. It's hard to hold on!"

Cao Cao pulled out the long sword in his hand from a Yellow Turban Army, with bright red blood on it, and ended a Yellow Turban Army. Cao Cao looked around and saw that the cavalry under his command began to suffer a lot of damage. After the morale was low, he understood , I can't continue to fight these Yellow Turbans here.

"Cao Hong, quickly order the troops to withdraw, and get out of the ambush first. These Yellow Turbans are not the ones we encountered before. These people have good training qualities and are not afraid of death. We can't fight them head-on!"

Cao Cao immediately ordered the remaining Cao troops to retreat immediately.

If he fought with these Yellow Turbans, Cao Cao would not be sure of victory. Even if he managed to win by chance, the thousand cavalry under his command would definitely suffer heavy losses. I am afraid that not many people would survive in the end.