Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Decisive Battle Begins
After a stalemate for several days, Cao Cao finally decided to attack Xiao Pei!
There is a lot of war ahead, but it is in the rear that determines the victory!
At the gate of Lu Bu's camp, the dense army came out like a tide, and after learning through the news from the scouts that Cao Cao had indeed issued an order to attack Xiaopei, he immediately made a dispatch.
"Wen Yuan, you lead the troops to break through from the left flank."
"Lingqi, you lead the troops to break through from the right flank."
"Cao Xing, you lead the troops to follow in the rear."
At the sound of an order, Lu Bu's army was divided into four routes, among which Zhang Liao and Lu Lingqi launched an attack from the left and right roads of Cao's army respectively.
And Lu Bu himself held the Fang Tian painting halberd and rushed straight to the front of Cao Jun, and behind him, Cao Xuan led the archery corps to advance slowly.
The result of this battle is very likely to make Xuzhou change hands, and everyone does not dare to relax.
"The soldiers of the Cao family listen to the order and release the arrows!"
Seeing that Lu Bu's Xuzhou army was coming, Xiahoudun gave an order, and in an instant, a rain of arrows fell from the sky, whether it was shot or not, it directly formed a firepower network of arrows.
Under such an almost impermeable rain of arrows, all the Xuzhou cavalry did not dare to advance in any way, and could only circle back and forth on the side, waiting for the foot soldiers to begin to advance.
"Frontline!"
I saw that after the Xuzhou foot soldiers were hurriedly grouped together, they began to gather quickly, forming a shield array, and rushed out directly against the rain of arrows.
Knock knock!
The sound of arrows hitting the shield was heard for a while, and as time went on, more and more tribes were killed.
Seeing that the cavalry was blocked for a moment, and all the shield soldiers appeared in the front row, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu each led four hundred cavalry from the left and right flanks at this time.
not only blocked Zhang Liao and Lu Lingqi's flank attacks, but also focused on the Chinese army's frontal battlefield foot soldiers, as long as Lu Bu dared to drop the foot soldiers and leave them alone, the left and right wings would move closer to the center together.
The essence of cavalry is in a strange word, using ultra-high mobility, whether it is tearing the battle situation or raiding a certain place, as long as the timing of the cut is right, it can exert several times or even dozens of times the effect.
It was precisely because of this that Lu Bu naturally saw Zhang Fei Guan Yu's thoughts, and after a cold snort at this time, he was not in a hurry to rush into battle, but began to command the foot soldiers.
After the cavalry fought one after another, the Cao family infantry and the Xuzhou infantry soon became entangled together.
The soldiers on both sides were originally about the same, although they were not elite, but their combat effectiveness was still not low.
However, because Xiahoudun has been using tired soldiers in the past few days, not only are the soldiers on his side not rested enough, but the Xuzhou soldiers on the opposite side are even more bloodshot with their eyes, and their combat effectiveness seems to be extremely low.
The people of this cruel battlefield, you and I have a sword on both sides, are far less exciting than the fight a few days ago.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Lu Bu immediately made a reward.
"All the soldiers obey the order, kill Xiahou Dun, reward thousands of gold, and command thousands of troops!"
As soon as he said that, the soldiers of Xuzhou, who were still languishing before, immediately lit up and cheered up.
And when Xiahoudun on the other side saw this, he naturally couldn't have any humility.
"The soldiers of the Cao family listen to the order, kill Lu Bu, reward 10,000 gold, and seal 10,000 households!"
When it comes to rewarding meritorious deeds, the Cao family, who still held the Son of Heaven hostage, is even more confident, and at this time, after Xiahoudun's roar, those Cao family soldiers immediately let out a heaven-shattering roar again.
And Lu Bu listened to the words of Xiahoudun who was almost completely competing with himself, and he was also furious at this time, thinking of his repeated humiliation of himself in the past few days, and immediately joined the battlefield in person.
"Xiahoudun, come here and die quickly!"
An angry roar came out, and the earth seemed to begin to tremble, and I saw that on the battlefield, a fiery red figure was like lightning, and it was soon in the middle of the battle.
After he joined the battle, he only heard a burst of screams, but wherever he swept through, no Cao soldier could resist it.
Before these Cao family soldiers could make a move, they saw that Lu Bu took a step forward and directly took the lives of these soldiers.
The courage of the ghost god Lu Bu in the troubled times, how can it just be talked!
On the battlefield, Xiahoudun watched this Lu Bu enter the battlefield, which made the fighting spirit of the Xuzhou army quite high, and his face was also blue at this time.
However, he still knew his catties, and at this time he did not blindly rush into the battle, but calmly commanded on the side.
Everything was expected by Guo Jia, after the left and right flanks were restrained, and Lu Bu's frontal cavalry could not forcibly tear the opening, even if the Xuzhou army had an advantage in the face of the Cao family's army, the advantage was not great!
If nothing else, at least Xiahoudun had briefly delayed Lu Bu's army and formed a stalemate with him.
In a short period of time, as long as Lu Bu's cavalry could not tear the opening, when Xiaopei fell, Lu Bu would no longer be able to return to the sky.
Xiahoudun can see this, and Lu Bu can't see this.
At this time, seeing that Zhang Liao on the left wing was delayed by Zhang Fei, and Lu Lingqi on the right wing was delayed by Guan Yu, after thinking about it and feeling that there was no fierce general around Xiahoudun, a bold idea immediately popped up in his heart.
"All the soldiers listen to the order and kill the past!"
On the surface, Lu Bu led the cavalry under his command like a warlord, wandering around the battlefield to encourage the army, but in fact, he had already begun to premeditate.
After calling all the cavalry around him together and agreeing on his own plan, I saw that these cavalry also began to scatter one after another.
Xiahoudun knew that if there were still variables on the battlefield, it must be the variables caused by the cavalry, so he also paid great attention to Lu Bu's cavalry.
At this time, seeing that this group of cavalry was extremely chaotic, his heart was also quite relaxed, at least he didn't have to worry about Lu Bu charging again.
But just as he was relieved, suddenly he seemed to think of something, and his face immediately showed a little weirdness.
"It's strange, if this Lu Bu's cavalry is supervising the battle, it will inevitably be too far ahead, right?"
Under the suspicious gaze of Xiahou Dun, the scattered cavalry under Lu Bu was extremely forward, and they almost came to the back of the shield soldiers of the front army.
It was also at this time that he saw Lu Bu's murderous appearance not far away, and he was immediately shocked in his heart, as if he thought of what the other party planned to do.
"Someone is here to guard! Someone to guard! Lu Bu plans to go straight to the Chinese army! ”
Although Xiahoudun had already reacted, he was still a step too late.
On this chaotic battlefield, the Xuzhou cavalry began to rush together, and went straight to Xiahoudun, the commander of the Chinese army.
"Xiahoudun, suffer death!"