Chapter 136 Sneak Attack Trap
Cao Ren was shocked. When he turned to look, it turned out that Lu Bu just pulled Xuan for a moment.
Jia Xu said: "The spirit has been lost, let's stop the troops."
Cao Cao ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, but Lu Bu suddenly waved his halberd and brought 1,500 iron-armored cavalrymen in his own unit to charge up.
Cao Cao was shocked when he saw it. There were too many flags on Lu Bu's formation just now and he didn't pay attention. Now he saw clearly that all the cavalrymen had iron armor and were holding bent bows in their hands.
The cavalry did not rush in directly, but a round of bows and arrows came in the diagonal pier, and shot towards Cao's position like raindrops. It was originally a newly defeated yesterday and the morale of the army was unstable. Lu Bu led the cavalry to shoot and his team was in chaos.
"Isn't this the Huns' tactic on the grassland? But the Huns don't have iron armor, so they are so powerful, so retreat quickly."
The composition of the 1,500 Xuzhou iron cavalry is relatively complex. There are the Bingzhou iron cavalry and later the Xiliang iron cavalry. Now it is called Xuzhou iron cavalry after being adapted. The biggest feature is that the soldiers are fierce, powerful, and fearless of death.
The feather arrows shot into the Cao army camp. The Cao army's infantry was miserable. Most of them had only one military uniform with linen inside the shoulders. The thin little body shot through the arrow, and countless casualties were injured."
"Lord, retreat quickly." Jia Xu called Cao Cao and fled into the camp.
Zhang Liao came over and shouted: "Lord retreat quickly, Cao Bing's crossbow is coming."
Lu Bu was so proud that he approached Cao's camp too close to him and quickly retreated. Sure enough, as soon as Cao's soldiers retreated, Cao's army's large crossbow arrows were fired, very few, at most a hundred arrows, but each arrow was as thick as a mop pole, and the momentum was quite terrifying. He could hit three hundred meters, and it seemed that it was at least a three-bow bed crossbow.
When Lu Bu saw that he lacked heavy shields and equipment, he had too many casualties when he attacked, so he ordered his troops to retreat and set up camp for ten miles.
Another victory was made. The battle just now wiped out hundreds of Cao's army at the cost of almost zero casualties.
When Cao Cao returned to the camp, the generals were depressed.
Xu Chu's iron armor on his chest was a hole in his chest by Lu Bu's painting halberd. Although it was not pierced, he was injured by great force and internal injuries. He could not recover within a month or two.
Cao Ren and Xu Huang were fine, but they could only be considered a draw. Xiahou Yuan also came back, with 250 cavalry left.
Everyone was depressed.
Jia Xu said: "The Prime Minister can lose without being discouraged, and Lu Bu will be done once he loses. Because his Xuzhou army was in a short time and had no cohesion. After a series of great victory, Lu Bu will definitely underestimate the enemy. He will send someone to observe. If they are drunk, we will attack Lu Bu's camp at night."
As expected, Jia Xu guessed it correctly, and the Xuzhou army became a little arrogant after two consecutive victories.
The hard dishes were served for dinner today. This was the fried shrimp processed by Lu Bu’s concubine Xiang Yan. It was fried in 20,000 pieces, and each person had more. Many soldiers saw such a big shrimp for the first time. There were also war horses that Cao Jun died in battle, and horse meat stewed in a large pot.
The soldiers were all very happy. They won two consecutive victories, and Cao Cao had no power to fight back, and at most, only five or six thousand soldiers were five or six thousand.
Lu Bu said happily: "Reward the three armies, eat shrimp, eat horse meat, drink wine, and stop drunk."
The baggage team behind brought carts of sorghum wine, and more than 10,000 soldiers drank it with big sea bowls.
There is a problem with sorghum wine, which is very strong and everyone is drunk.
Lu Bu has quit drinking for a long time. Today he is happy and even drunk too much.
It was late at night, and the soldiers in the camp were sleeping staggeringly, with only a few soldiers on duty.
A black-clothed soldier flashed by, and before he could react, the soldiers at the gate of the poor camp were shot by a bow and arrow. He tilted his head and died there.
Cao's army touched in, and the leader was Cao Ren and Xu Huang, and there were five thousand men behind him.
The second general led his men to kill them, preparing to deal with the drunken soldiers, but found that the scarecrows were lying on the ground.
Cao Ren was burned with shadows and quickly shouted: "Get back quickly, this is a trap."
If you want to retreat, how can you get there? Rockets are shooting around you, and the wine jars on the ground, the scarecrow caught fire in an instant.
Zhang Liao led his army to attack from the south, while Hao Meng led his army to attack from the north.
Cao Ren and Xu Huang fell into the trap, lost the opportunity, were passive everywhere, and did not dare to fight. Finally, they fought out the same route, counting the number of 5,000 people and only less than 2,000 left.
Cao Ren said: "No, we just now seemed to be fighting with Zhang Liao and Hao Meng. Where is Lu Bu's men?"
"No, Lu Bu must have gone to attack the camp." Xu Huang was shocked.
The two hurriedly returned to the army and found that the camp had become a sea of fire, with burning tents, fire-catching fodder, etc.
Cao Cao no longer knew where he was going and did not see Lu Bu.
It turned out that after winning this afternoon, the logistics company just happened to send a lot of pickles, hot sauce and the like in the jars.
Lu Bu came up with a plan and asked the soldiers to pour pickles into the basin, fill the wine jar with water, and start a carnival.
Everyone was very happy to eat prawns, horse meat, and drink clean water. Finally, they slept outside. This was actually performed for spies Cao Jun to see.
As expected, Cao Cao and Jia Xu, who were good at sneak attacks, sent Cao Ren and Xu Huang to attack.
Lu Bu arranged for Zhang Liao and Hao Meng to set up a trap to meet the enemy.
Lu Bu brought his own 1,500 cavalrymen to attack Cao Cao by taking a detour.
Cao Cao's camp was empty, and Lu Bu immediately burned the camp.
It is impossible to say that Cao Cao escaped. Under the protection of Xiahou Yuan and Xu Chu, Cao Cao even wanted to escape. Lu Bu led his troops back, intending to surround Xu Huang and Cao Ren.
As a result, both sides took a fork in the road and didn't meet, which was considered a bargain.
It was dawn and the horses came to report that Cao Cao had already withdrawn a hundred miles away. It seemed that he was really afraid of fighting this time.
Last night, more than 2,000 enemies were killed and more than 1,000 prisoners were captured. It can be said that another great victory was won, with only 200 casualties, which is considered a huge victory.
After cleaning up the camp left by Cao Cao, the soldiers took a few grain bags to show Lu Bu. After Lu Bu was shocked.
The grain bag actually says Xiaopei Guan Cang.
Whenever the grain is in the warehouse, you need to use the bags wherever it is entered, so that it is easy to identify and count. Cao Jun’s grain and grass were actually obtained from Xiaopei.
"Okay, you big-eared thief, you dare to help Cao thief attack me, and the whole army gathered."
Lu Bu gathered more than 10,000 people in the entire army and came to the South Gate of Xiaopei.
Needless to say, Liu Bei knew that things were not good.
He didn't dare to go up to the city wall to answer, so he only sent Sun Qian and Guan Yu to deal with it.
When Sun Qian arrived, Lu Bu was sitting on the Red Rabbit and cursing.
"Big ear thief, who are you shooting the halberd at the gate? As soon as I helped you, you will help Cao Cao to harm me."
Sun Qian clasped his fists and said, "Wen Hou calmed down. It was not because the emperor wanted to help Cao Cao, but because Cao Cao was powerful, he had to accept it."
"The mat and foot sellers are far less loyal than the dog slaughterer." Lu Bu scolded him more and more unpleasantly.
Chapter completed!