Chapter 496: Battle of the Vanguard
Cao Hong didn't understand. Li Dian frowned and said, "Since there is an ambush against our army. Then why not be outside the city? There are many places suitable for ambushing on the ground of more than 200 miles, but why not do this? When we enter the city and then ambush, it will inevitably cause considerable damage to the city. Isn't this a loss?" Cao Hong felt that Li Dian's words make sense, and nodded unconsciously. He looked at Li Dian and asked, "Then why do you think the other party did it?" Li Dian frowned and said, "There is only one possibility. They want to completely annihilate us and not let us escape one! And doing this must be to deal with General Cao Ren's large army!" Cao Hong couldn't help but worry.
There were almost the same shouts in the alleys on both sides, and the Cao army soldiers became nervous. Cao Hong frowned and shouted: "Brothers, we have no way to escape. If you want to survive, you can fight with them!" The Cao army soldiers cheered up their morale and shouted in unison. Then they saw many Lu Bu soldiers running out of the alleys on both sides.
First, a wave of arrows came, and Cao's army arrived, and then Lu Bu's army held a long sword and thrust a spear and rushed up. The two sides fought in a melee city, and soldiers fell in a pool of blood.
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Cao Ren was paced back and forth in the capital, looking a little anxious. All the generals were quietly below you. At this time, more than 200,000 main forces were ready, just waiting for Cao Ren to give order.
Suddenly, a rapid footstep sound came from outside the door. Cao Ren immediately stopped and looked out the door. All the generals couldn't help but turn their eyes to the door. A scout rushed into the hall and knelt down and said, "Report to General, the Lu Bu army on the east bank of the Qingshui River has taken action. The entire army set out the camp and headed west!"
Cao Ren was overjoyed and said excitedly: "Great! Cao Hong and the others succeeded!" He turned to the generals and said: "Let's go!" Then he led the generals out of the hall. A dozen generals rushed out of the city surrounded by hundreds of personal soldiers. They saw more than 200,000 troops lined up on the fields outside the city, covering the sky and covered the sky, with swords and guns and snow, and flags surging. Cao Ren led the generals to the front of the army, pointing to the west and shouting: "General Cao Hong has taken Nanyang!..." "Long live! Long live!..." The 200,000 troops shouted in unison, shaking the sky.
Cao Ren shouted: "It's time to take revenge on Lu Bu! Let Lu Bu and the people in the world know that we are the strongest army in the world!" The 200,000 troops were in full swing and couldn't help but shout.
Cao Ren shouted: "The whole army obeyed the order, marched westward, and wiped out Lu Bu's army!"
The 200,000 Cao troops swam west like a black dragon. Crossing the Qingshui River, the army advanced rapidly to the northwest. Two days later, the scouts sent a message and found Lu Bu's army more than 30 miles to the west, and were rushing west. Cao Ren was very excited and ordered the entire army to speed up.
As the vanguard, the 20,000 light infantry troops chased at full speed. In the afternoon, they found the rear team escorting the baggage, and immediately launched an attack. The Lu Bu army was defenseless and collapsed at the touch, fleeing in all directions. The vanguard vanguard seized a large amount of baggage and supplies, and the vanguard general Niu Jin immediately ordered people to offer a victory to Cao Ren. Then Niu Jin left hundreds of people to guard the baggage and supplies, and he led the vanguard army to continue pursuing Lu Bu's army.
Cao Ren was very happy when he learned that Niu Jin had defeated the Lu Bu army's rear troop and seized the Lu Bu army's supplies. He immediately urged the troops to speed up the marching speed.
Niu Jin in front led nearly 20,000 forwards to the west and came to a place. The terrain of this place was flat, with a shallow stream facing it, with a wide wooden bridge on the stream; the mountains in the north were undulating, and the terrain in the south was relatively flat, but covered with dense forests. Niu Jin's 20,000 forwards were a little tired after rushing for more than an hour. Niu Jin looked at the surrounding terrain and asked his subordinates: "What is this? How far is it from Nanyang?" His subordinates said: "This is near Qingxi Village, only a dozen miles from Nanyang." He pointed to the low hill not far from his brother, and said: "Turn the hill in front, you can see Nanyang."
Niu Jin said: "Compared to Lu Bu's army, we have arrived at Nanyang City, speed up!" He then led 20,000 vanguards across the stream and turned over the hill. The endless plain immediately appeared in front of him. In the center of the plain, there was a big city, which was Nanyang City, and under the city, an army was gathering.
Niu Jin saw the army and was excited, so he rushed over. He came to the rear of the army and 20,000 Cao troops set up a battle formation. Niu Jin rode out and looked at the other army. He found that there were only about 30,000 people, all of them were cavalry, light armored cloaks, bows and arrows, and spears. Niu Jin was a little surprised and thought to himself: There should be about 200,000 people, why are there only these people? And they are all cavalry? It seems to be Hussars?
Looking up at the city, the flag of the Cao family floated above the city. Niu Jin's originally a little uneasy mood immediately calmed down.
He rode his horse between the two armies, raised his sword and pointed at the enemy's army formation and shouted: "I am Niu Jin, the general of Cao Ren, who dares to fight to the death with me?"
A general flew out from Lu Bu's army immediately, wearing a heavy black iron armor, with a majestic appearance, snow-white hair, and a big sword in spring and autumn. A hard bow with an orange hanged beside the saddle. Niu Jin saw the general and shouted in surprise: "Huang Zhong?!"
Huang Zhong didn't say anything, and ran straight towards Niu Jin with a big knife. Seeing that Huang Zhong was coming fiercely, Niu Jin couldn't help but shout and rode his horse to meet him.
In the blink of an eye, the two sides met, and two big swords waved and a loud bang. The two cavalry passed by, turned their horses' heads, and rushed towards their opponents again. After several rounds, the two generals were entangled and fought fiercely. The two big swords were slashing and slashing, Niu Jin's sword was powerful, and Huang Zhong's momentum was even more shocking.
After more than ten rounds, Niu Jin showed signs of lack of support. Huang Zhong slashed at Niu Jin with one knife. Niu Jin quickly raised his knife to hold it, pushed Huang Zhong's big sword away with force, and quickly turned his head to run towards the formation.
Huang Zhong smiled coldly, strangled the war horse, spread the sword across the saddle bridge, took out the old yellow bow, bent the bow and aimed the arrow at Niu Jin who was actually running. With a sound of collapse, the arrow turned into a meteor, and almost at the same time, Niu Jin screamed and turned over and fell off the horse. Cao Jun couldn't help but be frightened when he saw this.
Huang Zhong raised his left hand and waved forward. The 30,000 Hussars who had been waiting for a long time cried out and swept towards Cao's army like a whirlwind. After all, Cao's army was also an elite army. Although the commander was killed, they were still arranged in a conditioned array to prepare for the battle. The shield player was in front and the archer was behind.
Chapter completed!