A large-scale battle of tens of thousands of people is impossible to fight at night. The sky is so dark that it is not enough to launch a complete tactic. The soldiers of both armies are exhausted, so Cao Cao looked around and confirmed that except for Ma Chao who was still killing Yan Xing's troops regardless of the scattered nature, the intensity of the battle on the other fronts was declining.
This is a tacit understanding that veterans on the battlefield naturally have, and there is no need to put it into words at all. The fighting will be a little bit relaxed, and the number of people fighting on the other side decreased little by little. By the time it was almost done, it would be dark, and the soldiers put their swords into the sheath, so the two armies naturally returned to the camp and fought again tomorrow.
In today's fierce battle, Cao Cao first gained the upper hand. He had more than twice the advantage of military strength to wait for labor, killing Liu Bei in a mess and faced the dilemma of defeat several times. Later, Liu Bei used tricks to gain time, causing reinforcements to join the battlefield one after another, gradually regaining the situation.
In recent years, as his age grows and his status increases, Cao Cao is no longer a simple warrior, and is manifested in his military use, so he is too concerned about the past and the future, not as radical and decisive as he was when he was young.
Leading troops to Yangling City was the most dangerous move he had made after careful consideration. This move achieved unexpected results, which instead prompted Cao Cao to focus on conservativeness.
The conservative result is disappointing. But even if the highest target of killing Liu Bei was not achieved, Cao Cao had a huge advantage in military strength after all. As long as he was calmly dispatched, the troops gathered in the rear were moving forward in a staircase, and it was not difficult to re-control Chang'an.
Once the main force of the Cao army regained control of Chang'an, the entire Guanzhong would be shrouded in the attack range of the Cao army. Liu Bei and Ma Chao would never have a long-term foothold, so they could only retreat in shame. Whether they could escape without hesitation depends on whether Cao Cao was proud of his actions in the subsequent war.
Therefore, even if the battle today has not been fully tactical, it has been taken strategically, so it is not bad. Putting aside the regret of not being able to capture Liu Bei, this battle can be considered to have completely achieved the goal of seizing Yanglingyi at that time.
At this time, Cao Cao had already begun to consider how to stabilize the surrounding areas of Chang'an after the war, how to leverage his own advantages, and gradually squeeze the activity area of ​​Liu Bei and Ma Chao in Guanzhong.
Who would have thought that Cao Cao's spirit was no longer in the battle situation, but Liu Bei was fully focused?
Cao Cao never expected that Liu Bei would personally get into battle and launch a fierce attack at this moment when he fought! He didn't expect that Liu Bei would still have such determination and will at this time of fighting! He didn't expect that after Liu Bei persisted for a whole day, he still stared at a target, that is, Wei Gong Cao Cao's head!
Too many unexpectedly gathered together, and it broke out at the most exhausting moment of the soldiers, which made the Cao army headquarters fall into an unprecedented state of weakness. When Cao Cao saw Liu Bei, although there were many Cao army soldiers distributed between them, there was no line of defense!
Some scattered Cao army warriors fought with Liu Bei's army before, and then they were immediately broken or swept away like small pieces of gravel or shells under huge waves. More people had just gathered together and had no time to arrange the array, so they could only retreat quickly and try to distance themselves.
But Liu Bei's army followed them closely, turning the retreat of the Cao army soldiers into a run. The collapsed people crowded together and smashed the slightly formed arrays behind them.
Almost every moment, a large number of Cao army soldiers were killed or trampled to death by the horse hooves of Liu Bei's cavalry running around. Some of them were just injured, but were wrapped in densely packed Liu Bei's army formations, and there was almost no chance of survival.
Arrows whizzed and crackled on the covers and the ceremonial wars, smashing the precious ceremonial wars inlaid with gold and jade to pieces. More than a dozen famous guards carried large shields to cover Cao Cao to jump out of the car, and then got on the horse with the help of their entourage.
Cao Cao pulled his horse and turned around, shouting sternly: "Where is my big spear? Take my big spear!"
Just on the side of the war horse, a civil servant with a blue ribbon and silver seal hanging on his waist shouted in panic: "Mr. Wei, go quickly! You're going to lose!"
This really touched Cao Cao's heart! He hasn't done this kind of thing to kill the enemy with persistence in many years? He is Duke Wei, the master of the eight states in the world! How can he waste his life? As long as he avoids this incident, how big a problem cannot be solved?
Thinking of this, Cao Cao took the big spear from his entourage, raised one and assassinated the civil servant. He looked around the generals with bright eyes: "Who will fight against the enemy?"
The general Xu Ding of the Zhenwei Central Army responded.
Xu Ding's daily commander-in-chief issued a letter to the Hu Ben, who was always close to Cao Cao, and was very low-key, so his reputation was far less than his younger brother Xu Chu. But he was actually very brave, good at throwing short spears and killing people, and was able to unite his subordinates and had great prestige among the guards.
Xu Ding held two short halberds in his hand and rushed forward with dozens of tigers. As he approached the front line where the two sides fought fiercely, he shouted and threw out the short halberd with his left hand. The short halberd was whirling in the air, hitting the forehead of a Liu Bei army soldier opposite.
The short halberd was made of fine iron and weighed ten kilograms. This time, the slash caused the skull of Liu Bei's army soldiers to shatter together with the skull. The branch on the side of the halberd was penetrated directly behind the head, and the man fell down immediately.
Xu Ding stepped on the corpse with great stride, waved his right hand and opened several piercing swords and guns. He stretched his left hand back, and Hu Ben immediately offered another short halberd. Xu Ding stretched his arm with his left hand and stabbed it into the enemy's neck on the side.
The short halberd was drawn out, and blood surged like a spring. Xu Ding shouted to fight fiercely.
However, at this moment, a general from Liu Bei's army rushed over from the right side. The momentum was so fierce that it seemed like he was completely desperate!
Xu Ding's purpose was to delay Liu Bei's army's offensive, but he was unwilling to exchange his life for his life easily. In a hurry, he took half a step to his right and avoided him a little.
But the general of Liu Bei's army was wearing heavy armor and jumped up like a monkey through several steps, holding swords in both hands and chasing them in the air!
This is really a desperate way to play. Xu Ding subconsciously retreated.
He had rich fighting experience and instantly knew that as long as he took a step back, he could cut off the enemy's head with a halberd. But at this time, the tiger soldiers beside Cao Cao were being sent up in batches, which made the battle queues between Cao and Liu to a terrible level. Xu Ding hit a man behind him and could not retreat.
In a hurry, he raised his short halberd to block it, but it was too late.
This Liu Bei general swung his sword and knocked open the short halberd, and the sharp blade slashed in from Xu Ding's right shoulder, continuously tearing the exquisite armor, and took out from his left abdomen with a screen-like blood mist.
Xu Ding shouted bitterly and retreated again. This time there was no one behind him again, so he staggered and took five or six steps in a row.
Because the impact of the two blows was too strong, the general holding the sword's wrist was so painful that he wanted to break it, but he did not waver at all. He took advantage of Xu Ding's retreat and quickly caught up, holding the big knife in both hands and slashing horizontally.
Xu Ding was seriously injured in his chest and abdomen, and lost his balance, and could not exert force at all. He had only time to shout, and his head, along with the trousers and steel necklines that were decorated with bright red necklaces, were chopped away!
The tiger soldiers of the Suwei Guard exclaimed together. But they were really worthy of being the last barrier beside Cao Cao. Seeing Xu Ding die, all the popularity was obviously robbed by him, they still rushed to fight, not caring about life and death.
The general who killed Xu Ding stood arrogantly and boldly before the rushing Cao Jun Guard Tigers, covered in blood and shouted wildly: "General Zhenyuan Wei Yan is here! Come!"
The ability to launch such a fierce attack when everyone was tired was not just the inspiration of King Liu Bei of Hanzhong. He was severely injured when the war began today, and then retreated to the northern plains of Xianyang to support the left wing of Liu Bei's army, who had already selected thousands of elite troops to return.
This force did not play much role when it was attacked by Cao's army in the morning. But at this moment, a small number of elite troops among them entered the battlefield, fighting all the way, and shaking the enemy and destroying each other!
Not far behind Wei Yan, Liu Bei saw this scene.
Chapter completed!