Chapter 1509: The Battle of Xuzhou (106)

The crossbow machine of the dragoon shot dozens of tiger and leopard riders in an instant, and fell off their horses, but the tiger and leopard riders were not afraid, let alone retreat, and in the case of the salvo was obviously at a disadvantage, they rushed forward without hesitation, and the speed suddenly increased, and rushed towards the dragoons madly.

For a long time, the tiger and leopard cavalry has been working behind closed doors, and has never had actual combat experience in cavalry warfare, even if it is Cao Chun, the riding experience he can master is completely known from Lu Bu's mouth, but the key is that he has been cavalry like this, and Cao Gong has never thought of using Lu Bu as the main general.

Cao Chun understands what Cao Gong is worried about, but even if he is not allowed to be the main general, the deputy general is actually not impossible, and even let him train the troops, I believe that Lu Bu, who has nothing to do all day now, will gladly accept it, in this way, the tiger and leopard cavalry will definitely be more elite.

But when he really fought with the dragoons, Cao Chun found that what he thought seemed to be a little whimsical, taking the use of bows and arrows as an example, why did the dragoons give up, and they were still using them?

First of all, the crossbow machine is more convenient, the requirements for the knight are no longer so harsh, just ask if even these soldiers from Liaodong have replaced the bow and arrow with the crossbow machine, these cavalry they recruited, even the horseback riding has to be learned, not to mention the bow, so compared with the dragoon, in this regard, it is far inferior to the other party.

This is their congenital disadvantage, and it is impossible to make up for it, unless they can also recruit cavalry from Liaodong like Liu Lan, and even recruit soldiers from Donghu to form righteous servants, if not, don't think about cavalry shooting.

Today's battle completely made Cao Chun recognize the reality, and it made him start to think about how to change such a situation, light cavalry cavalry is not the direction of their current development, it is best to be able to be like the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, give up the leather armor and replace it with heavy armor, as long as this is the case, in order to face off with the dragoons.

This is not that Cao Chun is arrogant, but he saw lightly that with the resources and geographical environment that Confucianism has at their disposal, it is difficult to make achievements in the light cavalry and reach the point of competing with the dragoons, but if it is a heavy cavalry like the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, after the enemy's crossbow machine loses its effect, then once the battle begins, the heavy armored cavalry can still be afraid of the light cavalry?

Unless they retreat, the heavy cavalry has no choice, as long as they dare to fight, they will definitely be defeated!

Watching the tiger and leopard cavalry accelerate the charge, and was shot and killed by a salvo of the dragoons, the more Cao Chun felt that his method was feasible, after all, the dragoon they encountered could almost be said to be the best of the light cavalry, even if it was Lu Bu's Bingzhou wolf cavalry and Youzhou's assault cavalry, it was not his opponent, not to mention Donghu, and the tiger and leopard cavalry he trained, although he didn't dare to pack a ticket, would definitely be able to compare with the Bingzhou wolf cavalry, but there would be no problem in dealing with Donghu.

So, instead of figuring out how to make the soldiers of Yanzhou into excellent cavalry, it is better to find a way to make them heavy armored cavalry without too many requirements.

Cao Chun decided that the next time he saw Cao Gong, he must put forward his ideas, even if he was not adopted, he must find a way to persuade him to set up another heavy cavalry to deal with the dragoons, and the heavy cavalry is not just to deal with the dragoons, his killing effect on the infantry is also amazing, even far beyond the light cavalry.

This must be deeply understood by Cao Gong, after all, when he was begging Dong, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry left a deep impression on them, but now that he is constrained by financial and material resources, many things cannot be carried out at the same time, but he feels that he can completely stop the light cavalry first and give priority to the development of heavy cavalry, which is the key, and it is also the key to their ability to compete with Liu Lan's dragoon army and even Yuan Shao's assault cavalry and wolf cavalry.

Under the enemy's fire, a famous tiger and leopard knight soldier screamed and fell off his horse, while the tiger and leopard rider behind rushed forward without hesitation, one after another.

Not far away, but it is like hell on earth, there are visible human corpses and horse corpses everywhere along the way, there will be dozens of tiger and leopard knights casualties every moment, the speed of the enemy's crossbow machine is too fast, even if the three thousand people he sent rush over, melee combat, it is difficult to have any effect.

But Cao Chun soon discovered the weakness of the dragoons, it is true that their crossbow machines are very powerful, but the crossbow arrows they shoot have become less and less numerous from the initial dense rain, and they are sparse, which instantly made him react, the enemy may be able to shoot a lot of crossbow arrows at one time, but the crossbow arrows carried by each soldier are not much different from them, two or three bags are the most.

For the tiger and leopard riders, such a distance, a bag of arrows is redundant, but for the dragoons, they shot all the arrows in the quiver in the shortest time, then their crossbow machine will lose its effect, all say that the current dragoon crossbow machine is far less powerful than before.

"Charge the whole army!" It can be said that Cao Chun has already tested the means of the Dragoon, although he has paid some casualties, but the effect is quite good, and it can even be said to be a bumper harvest.

And with the assault of the whole army of tiger and leopard cavalry, tens of thousands of cavalry roared, brandished ring hand swords, and rushed towards the dragoons, this time, the real tragic battle finally kicked off.

Zhao Yun thought that it would be difficult to go deep into the enemy's territory, but he had always imagined his imaginary enemy as infantry, even if it was discovered, as long as they were willing, it would be easy to break through, but the cavalry Zhao Yun never thought about it, not to mention anything else, just this war horse, such a scarce material, even if Cao Cao wanted to spend a lot of money to buy, it was not so easy.

But he didn't expect that Cao Cao not only bought it, but also formed a cavalry unit that has always been large, and the most troublesome thing for Zhao Yun was that the cavalry stationed in the county seat of the fist father was guarding the grain and grass, or did he not slash the enemy's cavalry station? And how can the enemy troops in the city grasp their news in such a timely manner?

All these doubts made Zhao Yun confused, he wanted to find out the answer, but unfortunately he couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't figure it out. In fact, there is one of the best explanations, that is, he Mo slashed the enemy cavalry's garrison, and it happened that when they entered Jiyin, they were discovered by the enemy cavalry, as for why they were discovered, it may be because of the importance of the cavalry, so there have always been patrols, once suspicious characters are found, they will all be solved, and when they find a force of the size of Zhao Yun, they naturally dare not attack rashly, but after they go deeper, they choose such a time to dispatch, and let them be in a dilemma in an instant.

Such a possibility is not impossible, and it is also the most reasonable explanation that Zhao Yun can think of, of course, there are no other possibilities, but Zhao Yun is too lazy to think about it, Cao Cao can train 10,000 cavalry without being noticed by the outside world, and naturally there is a way to detect their every move without being noticed, which is not surprising, after all, this is Yanzhou under his control, if Cao Cao's cavalry enters Xuzhou, I am afraid he can also gain insight into Cao Cao's every move.

The enemy charged in a big way, Zhao Yun was ready for battle, through a series of observations, the Cao cavalry was simply vulnerable, but when they fought with the more than 2,000 Cao troops who rushed up at the beginning, they found that they were extremely tenacious, perhaps they had many deficiencies in archery, but they were not weak in hand-to-hand combat.

The confrontation with them did not get any benefits, and at the moment when Zhao Yun decided to give it a go, a cavalryman suddenly ran from the side and rear, and said in a panic: "The general is not good, tens of thousands of infantry have rushed from Yu County." ”

"Tens of thousands of infantry?" This news shocked Zhao Yun, so many people, if they were rushed back from Feng County to eliminate them, it might be possible, but from Yu County, how could Cao Cao have so many troops?

Don't...... Zhao Yun's first thought was that these people must be the troops who really guarded the grain and grass, but then denied his own idea, if it was to take care of the grain soldiers, at this time they must be all grass and trees, and how could they dare to leave their posts without permission, this is not reasonable, it can only show that Cao Cao has enough troops in the government.

But according to the news of the lord, this time Cao Cao was out of the nest, could it be that the news was wrong, in fact, Cao Cao only dispatched part of the main force? It's not out of the question.

The current situation is a little delicate, if they continue to delay, then once they are cut off by Cao Jun, they will be completely trapped in Boxing County, and they don't even think about breaking through.

Zhao Yun helplessly glanced at the enemy cavalry rushing over, and had to order, "Withdraw the army to the north immediately!" ”

The three thousand dragoons retreated quickly, in fact, when he thought of the moment he broke through, a map had already appeared in his mind, and the retreat route he provoked was to retreat to the north, giving the enemy an illusion of retreating in the direction of Chengwu, and halfway through, he planned to make a direct detour to the east into Shanyang County, and once again turn to Fanghe County and return to Pei County.

This is an absolutely safe route, and it will inevitably be able to get rid of the enemy's pursuit and interception.

"Charge the whole army!" It can be said that Cao Chun has already tested the means of the Dragoon, although he has paid some casualties, but the effect is quite good, and it can even be said to be a bumper harvest.

And with the assault of the whole army of tiger and leopard cavalry, tens of thousands of cavalry roared, brandished ring hand swords, and rushed towards the dragoons, this time, the real tragic battle finally kicked off.

Zhao Yun thought that it would be difficult to go deep into the enemy's territory, but he had always imagined his imaginary enemy as infantry, even if it was discovered, as long as they were willing, it would be easy to break through, but the cavalry Zhao Yun never thought about it, not to mention anything else, just this war horse, such a scarce material, even if Cao Cao wanted to spend a lot of money to buy, it was not so easy.

But he didn't expect that Cao Cao not only bought it, but also formed a cavalry unit that has always been large, and the most troublesome thing for Zhao Yun was that the cavalry stationed in the county seat of the fist father was guarding the grain and grass, or did he not slash the enemy's cavalry station? And how can the enemy troops in the city grasp their news in such a timely manner?

All these doubts made Zhao Yun confused, he wanted to find out the answer, but unfortunately he couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't figure it out. In fact, there is one of the best explanations, that is, he Mo slashed the enemy cavalry's garrison, and it happened that when they entered Jiyin, they were discovered by the enemy cavalry, as for why they were discovered, it may be because of the importance of the cavalry, so there have always been patrols, once suspicious characters are found, they will all be solved, and when they find a force of the size of Zhao Yun, they naturally dare not attack rashly, but after they go deeper, they choose such a time to dispatch, and let them be in a dilemma in an instant.

Such a possibility is not impossible, and it is also the most reasonable explanation that Zhao Yun can think of, of course, there are no other possibilities, but Zhao Yun is too lazy to think about it, Cao Cao can train 10,000 cavalry without being noticed by the outside world, and naturally there is a way to detect their every move without being noticed, which is not surprising, after all, this is Yanzhou under his control, if Cao Cao's cavalry enters Xuzhou, I am afraid he can also gain insight into Cao Cao's every move.

The enemy charged in a big way, Zhao Yun was ready for battle, through a series of observations, the Cao cavalry was simply vulnerable, but when they fought with the more than 2,000 Cao troops who rushed up at the beginning, they found that they were extremely tenacious, perhaps they had many deficiencies in archery, but they were not weak in hand-to-hand combat.

The confrontation with them did not get any benefits, and at the moment when Zhao Yun decided to give it a go, a cavalryman suddenly ran from the side and rear, and said in a panic: "The general is not good, tens of thousands of infantry have rushed from Yu County." ”

"Tens of thousands of infantry?" This news shocked Zhao Yun, so many people, if they were rushed back from Feng County to eliminate them, it might be possible, but from Yu County, how could Cao Cao have so many troops?

Don't...... Zhao Yun's first thought was that these people must be the troops who really guarded the grain and grass, but then denied his own idea, if it was to take care of the grain soldiers, at this time they must be all grass and trees, and how could they dare to leave their posts without permission, this is not reasonable, it can only show that Cao Cao has enough troops in the government.

But according to the news of the lord, this time Cao Cao was out of the nest, could it be that the news was wrong, in fact, Cao Cao only dispatched part of the main force? It's not out of the question.

The current situation is a little delicate, if they continue to delay, then once they are cut off by Cao Jun, they will be completely trapped in Boxing County, and they don't even think about breaking through.

Zhao Yun helplessly glanced at the enemy cavalry rushing over, and had to order, "Withdraw the army to the north immediately!" ”

The three thousand dragoons retreated quickly, in fact, when he thought of the moment he broke through, a map had already appeared in his mind, and the retreat route he provoked was to retreat to the north, giving the enemy an illusion of retreating in the direction of Chengwu, and halfway through, he planned to make a direct detour to the east into Shanyang County, and once again turn to Fanghe County and return to Pei County.

This is an absolutely safe route, and it will inevitably be able to get rid of the enemy's pursuit and interception.