Three Kingdoms Eschatology

A heavy machete can carry a lot of kinetic energy even if it doesn't have enough room to accelerate.Even though he couldn't pierce the opponent's armor because he didn't have the tip of the knife, Guan Yu was able to accurately shovel the sword into the opponent's neck.

Guan Yu beheaded the two men, and then swung down the Qinglong Yanyue Saber that was raised in the air. I don't know which Cao Jun soldier will be split into two pieces again...

The three hundred elite cavalry around Guan Yu also brandished their weapons, charging from left to right, and entered Cao Jun's formation.Cao Jun was caught off guard, and the people who were killed turned on their backs, crying and howling.

According to Feng Yu's arrangement, the three brothers Liu, Guan and Zhang were responsible for the task of attacking and delaying the main force of Cao's army on the west bank of Surabaya.

The three of them each led hundreds of elites and crossed Surabaya quietly. Because of the small number of troops, they were not noticed and noticed by Cao Jun's scouts.Then, with the intelligence support of Feng Yujun's scouts, they split up and waited for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack on Cao Jun.

At the moment, although Guan Yu succeeded in one blow, causing chaos in Cao's army, but after all, the strength of the troops was too small to form an effective blow to Cao's army.After a while, Cao Bing came to his senses and calmed down from the initial confusion.

The infantry, who were running around, began to organize a basic army formation amidst the generals shouting.The cavalry also rode their horses to gather a little further away, preparing to launch a countercharge.

In the distance, a large number of soldiers and horses came from several other Cao army columns, rushing to help.Guan Yu shook his bloody sword and shouted loudly: "Withdraw!".Hundreds of fine riders followed him and galloped away quickly.

Hundreds of Cao Jun tiger and leopard cavalry pursued closely.But in the end, they were still left without a trace by Guan Yu.In fact, even if they catch up with Guan Yu, they may not be able to get a bargain.These hundreds of cavalry are all cavalry in Liu Bei's army. Although they are small in number, they are elite veterans accumulated by Liu Bei over the years.

Guan Yu's attack caused Cao Cao's army to stagnate as a whole, until a long time after Guan Yu fled.Several large groups of soldiers and horses received military orders, reorganized their teams, and continued to march.

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Cao Jun walked for half an hour.At the end of the line, an infantry line two miles away from the Chinese army was ambushed again.

Arrows were shot one after another from the bushes half a person's height, with the sound of piercing through the air and the sound of arrows piercing into the flesh, Cao Jun's infantry screamed and wailed and fell down one after another.A large group of cao army sword shield soldiers, led by their respective captains, headed towards the bushes with their shields upright and swords in hand.

A captain of the Cao army who was rushing felt his chest tremble. A sharp arrow had already been inserted into the breastplate, and the white feather at the end of the arrow was still trembling slightly.So Xin, the captain's armor is made of iron armor, and the arrows have not penetrated the armor.

The shadow of the opponent's archer was already faintly visible in the grass. He raised his spear and speared towards the grass, only to hear screams all over his body, and the enemy's archer had been stabbed to the core.

But almost at the same moment, he felt a chill in his neck, and then a sharp pain came. He saw blood gushing out from the position under his chin, and a man with a white face and big ears flashed past his eyes holding a double-pronged sword.

The two guards behind the captain yelled: "Brother!" and rushed forward.The man with big ears came out with both swords, one into his chest and the other into his abdomen, beheading the two of them on the spot.

When a large number of Cao Jun's infantry rushed up, Liu Bei had withdrawn from the ambush with his crossbowmen and infantry.But there were still some troubles beyond Liu Bei's expectation.

Cao Cao left a tiger and leopard cavalry of about 200 men as fishhooks, secretly following far behind the brigade.At this point they have rushed up.

Liu Bei himself had a mount, but all his cavalry was given to Guan Yu, and the hundreds of elite soldiers he brought were all infantry.Naturally, they couldn't get rid of the tiger and leopard cavalry's pursuit.

Liu Bei couldn't bear to lose his hundreds of elite infantry.He rode his horse and galloped, stopping his horse from time to time, waiting for the pawns to catch up.Cao Jun's tiger and leopard cavalry, who were chasing after him, were getting closer and closer.He was so anxious that his forehead was sweating.

He suddenly heard a loud shout - "Brother, don't panic, third brother Zhang Yide is here too."

Liu Bei was overjoyed, knowing that Zhang Fei had come to meet him.Zhang Fei also brought [-] infantry, and the combination of the two groups of troops numbered a thousand.Although they are all infantry, they can still fight against the opponent's two hundred cavalry if they form an army formation.

Before Cao Jun's tiger and leopard cavalry rushed over, they arranged a simple army formation in a very short time.Swords, guns, swords and halberds densely formed a forest, pointing at the two hundred cavalry rushing forward.

Cao Jun's leading general was Xia Houyuan. When he saw the other party like this, he shouted orders.The two hundred tiger and leopard cavalry lined up in a row turned into a front arrow formation in an instant, and charged towards Liu Bei and Zhang Fei.

The front arrow was getting closer and closer, and the tiger and leopard cavalry knights at the forefront of Cao Jun hung their long-armed horses in front of the horses' heads.The knight in the rear drew out a sharp saber.And Xia Houyuan, who was surrounded in the middle, also tightened his spear.

Poof, poof, poof.Ma Qian pierced through the bodies of several Liu Beijun infantry in an instant.Followed by several whistling and neighing.The horse of the tiger and leopard rider at the front was also wounded by a knife and gun, and fell to the ground rolling over.

Although Cao Jun's tiger and leopard cavalry also wore leather armor around the chest of their mounts, many weapons still pierced the leather armor under the dense spears, spears, swords and halberds.

The Cao Jun knight who fell from his horse was instantly crushed by the iron hoof.Almost at the same time, dozens of Liu Jun infantry continued to suffer from the impact of "Front Arrow".They were knocked into the air by tiger and leopard riders one after another, or fell to the ground after being pierced by horses.Liu Bei's army was pierced in a moment.

Zhang Fei on the side let out a loud roar, and rushed forward with his spear. In the blink of an eye, the Zhangba spear in his hand shot out four or five times.The three tiger and leopard knights before and after have been picked up by him.

With a sound of "dang", an iron gun collided with his spear, and Zhang Fei felt a little tingling in his mouth.After taking a closer look, I realized that the other party was a high-ranking general of Cao Jun.But he didn't know that this was Cao Cao's general Xia Houyuan.

Zhang Fei straightened his spear again, and when he was about to stab again, Xia Houyuan had already galloped through the formation.The half team of tiger and leopard cavalry behind him also brandished the horse-chopping steel knife, roaring past the already pierced Liu Bei army formation.

With the horse's momentum, the sharp horse-cutting steel knife can cut Liu Bei's soldiers into two sections.Many Liu Bei soldiers were beheaded on the spot.

When the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry completely passed through Liu Bei's formation, dozens of corpses of Liu Bei's infantry and more than ten Tiger and Leopard Cavalry knights were left in the gap that was pierced.

In the distance, Xia Houyuan came back with a tiger and leopard rider, preparing for a new round of attack.Probably, Xia Houyuan also felt pain for the casualties of the tiger and leopard cavalry. This time they changed their formation and tried to outflank them from the left and right.

Liu Bei shouted with all his might, "Form a round formation!"

Chapter 133 Cao Cao's Response

As soon as Liu Bei said this, Zhang Fei said anxiously: "Brother, this circle can defend against cavalry, but it can't move. If we are trapped here, Cao's brigade will come after us soon!"

Then, Zhang Fei yelled again: "Brother, you retreat first, and I will take my son to block here first." Liu Bei said sadly: "I lost you, brother, and these sons, how can I stay here?" A foothold in this world?"

As they were writing ink, Xia Houyuan had surrounded him again with his cavalry.Now Liu Bei can't run even if he wants to.Zhang Feibao's eyes were wide open, the veins in his arm clenched tightly on the snake spear were throbbing, and he shouted: "Boys, we will fight Cao Jun!"

Seeing that Liu Bei's army had formed a circle, Xia Houyuan was not in a hurry to attack. Instead, he led the cavalry in a slow circle around the circle, obviously just wanting to trap Liu Bei, waiting for a large group of troops to come.

In the distance, the sound of galloping horses was heard again.Beads of sweat the size of soybeans trickled down from the foreheads of Liu Bei and Zhang Fei.

Xia Houyuan also put on a smug expression.But soon, his expression turned into horror.Because he discovered that the fifty or sixty riders galloping towards him were not Cao Jun!

Strong arrows shot densely and precisely at Xia Houyuan's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Because these arrows were shot by Feng Yujun's scouts on horseback, their speed of fire was increased by the speed of the horse, which was more powerful than the flying arrows shot under normal circumstances.It easily pierced through the armor of Cao Jun's Tiger and Leopard Knight and the armor on his mount.

Although the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry of the Cao Army imitated Feng Yujun's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry system, there was still a big difference.Feng Yujun's knights wore iron armor, while Cao Jun's knights were only armor made of better quality leather and wood.For the vest and collar, Feng Yujun used Zhajia, while Cao Jun used leather armor made of large sheets of cowhide.

Amidst the screams, Cao Jun's tiger and leopard knights fell down one after another.Xia Houyuan's eyes froze, and he shouted: "Defeat the enemy cavalry first!".

After all, nearly two hundred tiger and leopard riders moved after hearing the sound, and all rushed towards the dozens of Feng Yujun scouts.But those dozens of riders had already fled to the distance.In the process of fleeing, he also shot arrows at the pursuers who turned their heads to the back from time to time.

At this time, Zhang Fei yelled: "Brother, if you don't leave now, when will you wait!" Liu Bei nodded, and hurriedly withdrew with his soldiers.

Liu Bei ran, turned his head and saw that Zhang Fei had disappeared.In desperation, he couldn't find Zhang Fei, so he had to flee all the way with his soldiers.It turned out that Zhang Fei was itchy for a moment, and even took several generals with mounts to chase down Xia Houyuan's tiger and leopard cavalry.

Arrows swished past Xia Houyuan's ears from time to time, and he even saw two knights who were closer to him fall off their horses after being hit by the arrows.

Suddenly, he found seven or eight black figures rushing out from the grass, and one of them rushed towards him.Without even thinking about it, Xia Houyuan swept away with a gun, only heard a whimper, a bulldog had been pierced by the blade of his gun.

But the luck of several other knights was not so good.The sharp fangs of the bulldog bit through their arms and calves.Some knights were even thrown off their horses by bulldogs.At this time, there was another sound of weapons clattering and screaming from behind the galloping horse team.

It turned out that Zhang Fei and several people chased after him.Zhang Fei's snake spear stabbed and swiped, beheading several tiger and leopard knights who fell behind in a row.

Xia Houyuan's nearly two hundred tiger and leopard riders were like a lone lion attacked by a pack of wolves, unable to look back.Moreover, those Feng Yujun scouts in front of him had already distanced themselves from him.

He shouted angrily and said: "Don't chase, just kill the black guy behind."

Seeing Cao Jun's iron cavalry approaching him, Zhang Fei feinted his shot and shouted: "Let's retreat!" He took his own cavalry and ran out.

The horses of him and these generals are all good horses, even if the horses of Cao Jun's tigers and leopards are riding slower than them.In the end, Xia Houyuan failed to catch up with them, and could only watch them go away.At this time, Cao Jun's brigade of infantry rushed over...

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Cao Cao's army stopped again, and the soldiers stood in formation to prevent the enemy's surprise attack from happening again.On the lawn on the bank of the Sishui River, a table was set up in the open air, and Cao Cao was going to hold a temporary military meeting here.

Cao Cao quietly listened to the military information gathered by various ministries, and the enemy's successive sneak attacks caused certain losses.Although the casualties were not large, it is enough to prove that these small enemy troops will threaten the safety of the food road in the future.

Xia Houyuan, who was ambushing behind the team, didn't succeed either, on the contrary he lost dozens of precious tiger and leopard riders.The scouts of the array who were investigating on the periphery disappeared inexplicably, and they must have suffered a lot.

After all the military information was collected, Cao Cao asked, "Everyone, what should our army do next?"

For a while, no one answered Cao Cao's question.Cao Cao sighed and said, "It would be great if we brought those two counselors who just defected to Xun from Jizhou." When everyone heard it, they all knew that he was talking about Xun Yu and Guo Jia.

These two men were originally working under Yuan Shao's account, but a few months ago, at the beginning of the Li Guo Rebellion, they defected to Cao Cao together.

However, Yuan Shao, who had a lot of counselors under his tent, didn't care about their departure, and they were not very important in Yuan Shao's eyes.Therefore, it did not affect the alliance between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao.

Hearing Cao Cao's words, Xia Houdun was a little upset. He usually looked down on these talkative, paper-based counselors.So he said: "My lord, the general thinks that now we can only annihilate some small groups of enemy troops before we can continue to penetrate into the territory of Xuzhou."

Xia Houyuan also agreed: "Subordinates seconded, if these enemy troops are not eliminated, our army's food and grass delivery will always be threatened."

Cao Cao tilted his head and thought for a moment, then said with a sneer: "Our army is stagnating here, isn't it in the enemy's hands? They used a small force to harass our army. Apart from slowing down our army's marching speed, there is no other reason. reason."

Then, he said to himself with a puzzled expression: "Now, the only thing I can't figure out is why they waited for us. To redeploy the various cities? But it doesn't take much time. For Waiting for other reinforcements? But as far as I know, no other princes are willing to rush to help them."

The scene fell into silence again.Of course, Cao Cao couldn't guess at this time. Feng Yu predicted that he would massacre the city because of his failure in the attack on Xuzhou, so he had to buy time to transfer some of the city's people.Now Cao Cao didn't expect that he would not be able to win Xuzhou, and of course it was impossible to have the idea of ​​massacring the city.

Cao Cao slapped his thigh for the last time and said: "No matter what the reason is, we cannot let the enemy achieve what the enemy wants to achieve. Pass our military order, and the army will immediately cross Surabaya and invade Xuzhou. But the two thousand tiger and leopard cavalry All stay on the west bank of Surabaya, waiting for an opportunity to wipe out those rats!"

Chapter 134

Fuyang City is a small county town on the east bank of Surabaya.Now the common people in the city have received an edict from the state government to transfer to Xiapi.

Streams of people poured out from the city of Fuyang with its gates wide open, and small streams of people also poured out from the villages around the city. They gathered together on the official road with wheat fields on both sides.

The crowd, old and young, meanders through the slightly yellowed wheat fields.It seems that they may not be able to harvest this year's grain.However, the state government stated in the edict that it would make up for their loss of rations.They still trust the governor Tao Qian.

Suddenly there was the sound of drums and horns in the distance, hundreds of thousands of banners rose on the horizon, and then countless soldiers and horses stretching from sky to earth appeared before their eyes.Cao Cao's soldiers are coming!

The Xuzhou soldiers who escorted these civilians had known the situation for a long time.At the moment, some of them have already fled, and some simply took off their livery and armor and mixed into the civilian team.The people in Fuyang panicked, because the state government had told them that Cao Jun would slaughter the city after capturing it!

Soon, Cao Jun's cavalry galloped over and stopped all these people. The latter knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.

After a while, Cao Cao personally rode his horse and came to Fuyang City to check. At this time, he finally understood why Feng Yu had to delay his marching speed.It turned out that it was just to transfer the people.

Cao Cao taunted Feng Yu in his heart and said: [Are you still worried that a certain city will be slaughtered?Can someone be that stupid?These populations are the foundation of strength, how can they be wasted. 】

But when he thought about it, he understood what Feng Yu was thinking.I believe that I will win this battle and win Xuzhou.But Feng Yu didn't think so.

If I really can't take down this Xuzhou, I can't take these people back to Yanzhou, because the food in Yanzhou is simply not enough to feed these people.What I should do at that time is to slaughter these Xuzhou civilians to lay the foundation for the next conquest of Xuzhou.

Wanting to understand this, Cao Cao sighed in his heart: [Feng Yu, Feng Yu, your thoughtfulness is really meticulous, it should be the biggest obstacle to a certain hegemony. 】

Cao Cao said in a cold voice to the left and right: "Pass down my military order to bring these civilians back to Fuyang City and resettle them. They are strictly prohibited from leaving Fuyang City. Yu Jin led [-] infantry to stay in Fuyang, and the rest of the ministries continued to march towards Pengcheng. There must be no mistakes. !"

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Just as Cao Cao's army marched towards Pengcheng, the last batch of Pengcheng soldiers and civilians were also on their way to Xiapi.

The official road from Pengcheng to Xiapi was full of turbulent crowds.In the distance, dust was suddenly seen everywhere, followed by the sound of thousands of horses galloping.

When everyone was panicking, the soldiers of the Xuzhou Army who escorted the team had already seen the banners of the other side clearly, and they shouted one after another: "It's okay, it's okay, folks, don't panic. This is the cavalry of General Cheqi." Only then did the marching people stabilize their emotions .

At the moment, Feng Yu, Zhao Yun, and Dian Qing are leading [-] cavalry, divided into three groups, and patrolling between Xiapi and Pengcheng.Now, what the people of Pengcheng who were marching encountered was a tiger and leopard cavalry led by Feng Yu himself.

Feng Yu saw the flow of people surging in the direction of Xiapi, so he made a gesture to make the cavalry slow down and slowly approached.

Feng Yu, who was patrolling the side of the road, suddenly heard a voice calling to him: "General!... General Chariot!" He turned his head and saw Zhuge Xuan in the team at a glance.

It turned out that Zhuge Xuan's convoy was also in this team.In the past few days, his relatives in Langya have been taken to Pengcheng.He followed the last group of people who had withdrawn from Pengcheng to Xiapi.

Feng Yuce immediately stepped forward and greeted:

"Mr. Yinyi, have your relatives received it?"

"Thanks to the general, my sister-in-law and several nephews have all been found safe and sound." Zhuge Xuan said while pointing to the three-carriage driver behind him.

Looking around, Feng Yu saw that the two-car ride was closed, and Zhuge Xuan's cousin should be sitting inside.There is also an open-air carriage, but there are three men and two women in it, a total of five little guys.

The oldest one is only 14 years old, Zhuge Liang's elder brother Zhuge Jin.The other four were even younger, about ten years old.Feng Yu didn't know who those two little boys were Zhuge Liang.

Seeing Feng Yu looking at them, Zhuge Xuan hurriedly called five children to meet Feng Yu.The five people kowtowed to Feng Yu together, and then reported their names to Feng Yu one by one.Only then did Feng Yu know that the boy with a sharp face, a pair of big eyes, and a pair of dimples was Zhuge Liang.

Feng Yu saw that the five children all looked yellow and hungry, presumably because their father had suffered a lot since his father passed away.So he ordered the guards to bring a lot of dry food specially made by the Zhuyang Army, including a high-calorie pastry made of honey, nuts, and flour, as well as dried meat.Feed these kids.

After Feng Yu watched them leave, some soldiers came to report: "Report! General, Cao Jun suddenly crossed Surabaya and captured Fuyang, and the people in Fuyang City were captured by Cao Jun in the future and retreat. Heading towards Pengcheng."

Feng Yu was a little surprised that Cao Cao was not afraid of the harassment of Liu Guanzhang from the rear, and went straight to the hinterland of Xuzhou so quickly.

He immediately ordered the soldiers: "Send our military order to order the soldiers and civilians withdrawing to Xiapi to speed up. Order Zhao Yundian's Qing Department to join me. Order Zang Ba's headquarters and Pengcheng garrison to block Cao's army as much as possible, delay Cao's marching speed, and then Retreat to Langya!"

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Cao Cao rode his horse across the battlefield where the battle had just taken place.Before the battlefield could be cleaned up, the corpses of thousands of Cao Jun and Xuzhou Army soldiers were lying in disorder in the field.

Zang Ba led [-] infantry here in an attempt to intercept Cao Cao's army.The two sides chased each other fiercely in the wilderness centered on Pengcheng, from dawn to sunset.In the end, Zang Ba couldn't bear the siege of Cao's army several times, so he had to lead the remnant army to retreat to Langya in defeat.

When Cao Cao entered the empty Pengcheng, he had fully understood Feng Yu's intention in his heart.The opponent is obviously unwilling to gather heavy troops to fight him quickly.Instead, he intends to lengthen his front line, hold on to some cities, and carry out a protracted war.

Although Cao Cao knew Feng Yu's intentions, he couldn't come up with a better way to deal with it.His only countermeasure is to speed up his advance and see if he can hit the opponent's main force by luck.Or capture some cities in a short period of time, forcing the opponent to fight with himself.

Cao Cao took a deep breath, and resolutely ordered: "Pass on our military order, Cao Ren will lead two thousand troops from his headquarters to station Pengcheng, and the rest of the brigade will continue to speed up their pace and pursue the enemy's main force!"

In the early morning of the second day, the sky was not completely bright, except for Cao Ren's [-] soldiers and horses.Cao Jun, who had only rested for three or four hours, lined up and continued to chase in the direction of Xiapi.

After days of rapid marches and continuous battles, every soldier of Cao's army looked sad and exhausted at this time.The speed of the entire cao army column has obviously slowed down a lot.

Chapter 135

On the Huaisi Plain shrouded in misty autumn rain, there are Cao Jun soldiers in black clothes and black armor, wearing linen and filial piety.They have blocked the siege of Xiapi city.

Correspondingly, in the streets and alleys of Xiapi City, men, women and children who have been transferred here can be seen everywhere.

Soldiers and strong men, some carried supplies to the top of the city, and some built thatched huts in the city for refugees to live temporarily.

The former general of the Cao army who arrived first was Xiahou Dun.At this time, he was patrolling the camp in the rain, urging the actions of the various ministries, and nervously making preparations for the siege.

Dozens of horsemen came galloping from outside the gate, and stopped beside him, and the huge splash of water soaked Xiahou Dun's battle robe.