The fierce battle continued.

The battlefield was divided into two parts, on one side, Wang Yu led 3,000 foot soldiers and pressed 10,000 Cao Leopard troops to fight fiercely; On the other side, Zhao Yun took five hundred elite horsemen, and shot like a torrential rain, so that three thousand Danyang soldiers couldn't raise their heads.

The situation seems to be favorable, but those who know the war know that it is just an illusion.

Rigid cannot be long, soft cannot be kept. Outnumbered, it is useless to just gain the upper hand, you must have a lethal blow. The upper hand is only temporary, if the strength of the two sides is close and there will be no follow-up weakness, then Cao Bao's defeat is a certainty and irreversible, but now, the balance of victory and defeat is tilting in Cao Bao's favor.

Mounted archery, which is closer to the tactics of harassment, focuses on demoralization and confusion rather than killing.

In this battle, Cao Bao was too incompetent and ineffective in command, otherwise the light cavalry would not have been able to cause such a big kill. Cao Bao was confused by the paper armor on the light horseman, he thought it was iron armor, and the other party wanted to rush into the formation, but he did not make adjustments in time, and was caught off guard.

If Cao Cao and Sun Ce were here, they would have seen through the true face of Zhao Yun's cavalry a few miles away. Whether there will be means to counteract depends on the respective leaders, but they will definitely be able to make corresponding adjustments to weaken the lethality of the cavalry and archery tactics to the greatest extent.

But in the case of Cao Bao, if the soldiers he brought were consistent with his style, he would have lost this battle, but who made him a special case? In the Three Kingdoms era, he was probably the only one who was the only one who would be strong in generals.

After the initial heavy blow, unable to wait for the orders of the Chinese army, the generals and colonels of the Danyang soldiers began to make adjustments spontaneously. The formation of the armored soldiers in the front row remained unchanged, and the light armored soldiers in the back row began to evacuate, changing from a dense formation of people to a fish-scale formation with teams as a unit.

The sword and shield men in the team gave up holding their swords. With their shields held diagonally in both hands, the long soldier stood in the middle and end of the line, holding his spear diagonally, swinging back and forth above his robe. The archers stood behind the shieldmen, stretched out their bows and arrows, and fired a volley according to the command of the leader.

Even with the command of a general, an army that can complete this adjustment in the face of the enemy's attack can be called a strong army in the world. There was not even a vague order from the generals. But the army that can complete the adjustment spontaneously...... Even Kong Ming and Pang Tong, who are well-read and well-informed in Qingzhou, are only dumbfounded.

Danyang soldiers are known all over the world, and there are also Danyang soldiers in the Qingzhou army. But the strength of this strong army can only be truly reflected under someone like Cao Bao.

This is simply a group of fighters born for war!

In the face of a sudden onslaught, a completely unfamiliar tactic; Behind him was an incompetent commander and an undisciplined command, but this strong army completed self-adjustment and adopted the most appropriate tactics to face the enemy.

As of now. The only bright spot of Cao Bao's command was that he left plenty of reserves.

But that's not because he has a great art of war, it's just that he has too many troops and doesn't leave reserves. Nor can they devote all their forces to the attack, which is not even a decent order.

His mistakes were not ordinary, but numerous. Regardless of the details, he just mixed the county soldiers with the Danyang soldiers. Forming a former army to attack the mountains is an outrageous mistake.

Zhuge Liang also didn't find out until just now. It's not that he's sluggish, it's just that he didn't know the strength of the Danyang soldiers in advance.

At present, the county soldiers in the front army have collapsed, and it is precisely because of their collapse that the formation of the Danyang soldiers has been disrupted, and more than 10,000 people have been overwhelmed by 3,000 people and cannot raise their heads.

After discovering that the Chinese army had not adjusted for a long time, the Danyang soldiers in the fierce battle also made adjustments, and they spontaneously formed a small formation, and faced all those who dared to attack the formation.

Although it was a bit cruel to the robe, the adjustment was effective, and the soldiers who had been killed did not dare to face the fierce enemy, nor did they dare to face their comrades who turned their faces against each other, and they fled far away from both sides of the fierce battle and fled into the rolling hills.

Speaking of which, this scene is somewhat similar to the scene after Wang Yuxun's words before, except that the scale of the collapse is larger and the proportion is higher.

Almost in the blink of an eye, Cao Bao's army was reduced by 3,000 people - less than 5,000 county soldiers before the war, and those who were killed and injured in Zhao Yun's attack were mainly county soldiers. In the fierce battle, they either died or fled, and they folded nearly two thousand, and the rest actually lost their will to fight, and when they saw the banner of the Qingzhou Army, they either retreated or fled indiscriminately.

The Danyang mutiny left them room to flee, but they were not allowed to approach, so these 3,000 people ran away like water opening the floodgates.

In terms of numbers, the strength of the two sides has narrowed a lot, and the Cao Bao army has been reduced to less than 8,000 troops, while Wang Yu's side has been reduced to less than 1,000 troops. But Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong's faces became more and more solemn, because it was only now that the strength of Cao Baojun's army was fully exerted.

Wang Yu's momentum of advance is getting weaker and weaker, in the previous assault, Langya Yulin has consumed a lot of physical strength, and the advantage of geographical advantage has also been exhausted, and he is no longer brave before. However, Cao Bao's former army has become a pure Danyang soldier, all of them fighting to the death without retreating, and there are more than a thousand new troops!

The advantages that have been built up are being erased, and the situation will only get worse over time.

In fact, if it weren't for Cao Bao's too hasty bag and mixing the elite and miscellaneous soldiers, the current situation would have happened earlier. Wang Yu's strong assault is certainly fierce, if Cao Bao's men are all county soldiers, maybe Zhao Yun will not need to appear, and he will be able to reap the victory.

But standing in front of him is a strong army that is not inferior to the elite of Qingzhou, and wants to win the victory by relying on bravery and onslaught alone, which inevitably takes the heroes of the world too lightly.

On the other side, after the Danyang soldiers changed their tactics on their own, although they still couldn't help Zhao Yun and his light cavalry, their own losses were greatly reduced. Without the screams that sounded around him from time to time, and the painful rolling and struggling of his fellow villagers and friends, the morale of the flank troops began to recover.

And on Zhao Yun's side, the stormy cavalry offensive was actually unable to last. Continuously firing bows and arrows is a great burden on the body, Zhao Yun's own martial arts are outstanding, but it doesn't matter, but how many people in the Qingzhou cavalry can compare with him?

The rain of arrows is waning. Only the war horses ran back and forth, and the smoke and dust still covered the sky.

Cao Bao breathed a sigh of relief.

He has long been accustomed to the self-determination of his subordinate generals and colonels, and this is how his affinity in the army comes from. Usually he doesn't have much of a fight, and he calls his unruly generals brothers and sisters, hooking shoulders and backs, and he doesn't look like a master at all.

In fact, it was Tao Qian himself who took military orders seriously in the army. And Cao Bao is the one who sings red-faced. If someone makes a mistake, it is he who helps to intercede, and if someone makes meritorious service, it is he who helps to ask for a reward. Can the affinity not be high?

When fighting a good fight, everyone gives him face and acts with respect; Once the war is unfavorable, everyone will go their own way, and no one will pay attention to this straw bag master. And Cao Bao is also accustomed to this, and never looks for a back account.

So, even though he knows that he is not a big deal. Tao Qian still regarded him as a great future. First, Lao Tao really has no talents, and secondly, Lao Tao also knows that Cao Bao is just a decoration, and there are not many of him. It's a lot less than him, as long as he's loyal enough, anyway.

In fact, in addition to being under Tao Qian, Cao Bao has this ability. It is impossible to be reused by anyone, and even if he wants to rebel, there is no way out. He himself knows this.

Tao Qian's use of Cao Bao is very safe in normal times, but he can't count his own death date, let alone think that the new policy in Qingzhou will be implemented so quickly, so that Cao Bao and others can't find their place at all, which led to the big war after his death.

But in any case, the Danyang soldiers, who have completed the adjustment, have regained their heyday combat power. Although there is no unified command of the commander-in-chief, the battle situation has entered a stalemate, and if there are no special circumstances, there is no need for unified command, and now the fight is courage and endurance.

In this regard, Danyang soldiers are the one who has the upper hand.

Seeing this, Cao Bao waved his hand and ordered the last battalion of soldiers and horses around him to start moving and join the siege of Wang Yuzhong's army.

"Leopard, don't you leave a little behind?" Xu Tan carefully kept his distance from Cao Bao, the kick just now was really painful, and he didn't want to take another blow. It's just that there are some things, he still needs to remind them, who makes the brothers know each other, and they don't have anything in their stomachs? Three stinkers, if they don't brainstorm, do they still have to learn to be arbitrary?

"I don't need it." Cao Bao didn't move this time, but he didn't have the previous spirit, he said in a flat tone: "Zhao Yunqi can't shoot down, maybe he will rush strongly, but I've also seen the paper armor, the anti-arrow is very useful, and the hand-to-hand combat is very ordinary, he can't rush the flank formation." Wang Yu's last hand is that the five hundred Hidden Mist Army is still half a new force......"

He pointed to the top of the slope and signaled: "However, that is his last hand, five hundred foot soldiers, no matter how strong it is, it is impossible to go against the sky." He has never put these 500 soldiers into battle, firstly, to wait for the opportunity, and secondly, it is also to leave a way back, otherwise why did he stay on the top of the mountain and not come down? ”

Xu Tan nodded, five hundred infantry who are good at mountain warfare, it is not meaningful to join the battle group, but when they escape, they still have a great threat to snipe with a strong crossbow condescendingly. On the way to escape, it can also play a certain role, and it makes sense to say that it is a backhand.

"That'...... What's the matter with that ringing arrow? Zhang Yu asked suddenly.

"Scouting, perhaps? Reconnaissance of Que Xuan's movements......" Cao Bao replied in a tone of uncertainty that "Que Xuan may have gone straight to Tancheng, so the soldiers and horses in the city did not dare to come out to fight. If they come out earlier and cooperate with Zhao Yun when he launches, maybe ......"

Cao Bao himself persuaded himself first, and while talking, he also had a cold war.

This made him feel a little shameless, so he coughed lightly, clapped his hands, and said confidently: "In short, I am now investing another thousand new forces, just to cut off Wang Yu's hope as soon as possible, let him know that he can't do anything, and retreat, let's win this battle, he can stay alive, and everyone has his place." ”

"......" chapter is speechless, this is also called each has its own place? But forget it, it's already God's blessing to be able to win, and it's too greedy to have extravagance.

Seeing the look of his companion, Cao Bao felt a little faceless, cleared his throat, and was about to explain a few more words, when at this moment, a change protruded!