142, Rush!
The iron hooves tread the ground, the sound was like thunder.
Ouyang Jing took the lead with a horse, and the man was like a tiger, and the horse was like a dragon. He took thousands of troops to ward off the Yi force and rushed towards the Cao army formation.
In front of the Cao army, Xia Pi defenders went out of the city to fight back, fighting to the death, and there were thousands of troops and thunder raids. Xiahou Dun, the head general of the front line, also entangled Zhang Liao, who had jumped down from the top of the city, and fought to the death.
For a moment, the Cao army on the front line was in chaos!
"Enemy attack!" A general of Cao's army shouted loudly, and there was a hint of fear in his voice: "It's Lu Bu! Lu Bu personally led his army to attack the battlefield!"
There were also generals of Cao's army who were busy commanding the army to turn, trying to intercept Lu Bu who was attacking sideways.
However, the front-line army, which is in an offensive state, has irregular formations and different orders. Some try to form a formation to intercept, but some want to temporarily retreat. In this chaotic situation, how can it be so easy to turn against the enemy?
So when Ouyang Jing rushed to the Cao army formation, only a few hundred Cao army infantry barely formed a small formation, raised a large shield, raised a long spear and intercepted it on his attack route.
"Get out!"
Ouyang Jing shouted loudly, ran his horse and swept across with his halberd.
boom!
Amid the explosion, more than ten long spears and more than ten large shields in front were shattered at the same time.
Ouyang Jing kept running and crashed into the formation, holding a halberd in one hand, and swept another.
The halberd broke through the air and made a thunderous sound. More than ten soldiers of Cao's army threw them up in response to the sound, and then smashed them down, knocking them all over the ground.
Ouyang Jing swung his halberd with one hand and swept his left and right. With the roar of the wind, he saw a group of soldiers of Cao's army throwing them away one after another, falling down, and knocking down his comrades in the formation. In the blink of an eye, the small formation of only a few hundred people was already scattered!
Liu Bei was only one step slower than Ouyang Jing. When Ouyang Jing crashed into the formation, he also rode his horse into the formation, and waved his two swords. If two erect dragons were not as powerful as Ouyang Jing's big halberd, the place where the sword light passed was also filled with blood, and the soldiers of the Cao army were all over the ground, and there was no enemy under his command!
Ouyang Jing and Liu Bei had just one charge, which made the small formation mess.
Later, the four young generals including Diao Chan, Lu Lingqi, Sun Shangxiang and Guan Ping also rushed in. The nine generals broke through. The small formation of hundreds of people had completely collapsed in just a few moments and could not buy some time for the comrades in the rear.
Ouyang Jing took the lead in breaking the formation and ran to the chaos of Cao's army under the city...
Cao's army was central.
Cao Cao stood in the Yuanrong carriage, holding the hilt of the Yitian sword with one hand, grasping the guardrail in front with the other, staring at "Lu Bu" and others who were rushing under the city, gritting their teeth and saying, "The big-eared thief is the most hateful! He actually colluded with Lu Bu!"
At this moment, although he was angry, he was not panicked.
The front army at the city was indeed destined to collapse under Lu Bu's side attack.
But in the battle of siege, who would send all the troops and the ancient brains to the battle?
Cao Cao's main force still has two-thirds of the main force outside the battlefield. He was originally planning to take turns to the battle, but now it can be used to deal with Lu Bu's counterattack.
"Zhongkang, Gongming, you two lead an army and form a formation to fight. You must not make the defeated army reverse the original formation. Those who dare to attack the original formation will shoot arrows, regardless of the enemy and us!"
When the front army collapses, the most feared thing is that the enemy will drive the defeated soldiers backwards and attack the main formation. Once the defeated soldiers cannot be curbed in time and a chain reaction will occur, then the army will be defeated like a mountain.
Cao Cao was always heartless and made a decision in the face of the battle. He immediately issued this cruel but absolutely correct order.
However, shortly after Cao Cao gave the order, Xun You next to him suddenly pointed to the direction of the camp of his army behind him and said in surprise: "Sikong, the camp... seems to have caught fire!"
"What?"
Cao Cao's heart tightened, turned around, turned around suddenly, and looked at him and saw that the smoke was rolling in the direction of the camp, rushing straight into the sky!
Look at the scale of the thick smoke and the campfire is definitely not small!
"What's going on?" Cao Cao's pupils shrank and he said in shock: "Isn't Fengxiao guarding the camp? How could it catch a fire?"
As soon as he said that Cao Cao remembered that Liu Bei turned against him at the battle, and that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were not in the camp today, and he was shocked again: "No! It must be Guan Yu and Zhang Fei! Feng Xiao is in danger! Wen Ze and Wen Qian, you two will lead the army back to the army camp quickly, and be sure to save Feng Xiao!"
When Cao Cao dispatched Yu Jin and Le Jin led his troops back to the rescue, even when he saw Lu Bu counterattack and the front army collapsed, the soldiers of the original formation who were still standing still found the direction of the camp. The thick smoke that was rolling up to cover the sky was suddenly panicked.
What does a fire in the camp mean?
Even a small soldier in the army knew that this meant that an enemy came from behind, had captured his own camp, and burned and killed him in his own camp.
Cao's army was besieged in the city, and the army had no cities to station. The camp was their "city" and their foundation.
In this cold winter, the camp that hoarded food, grass and supplies of the entire army was set on fire by the enemy... the consequences were self-evident!
There was a counterattack in front of him and a large camp caught fire in the back. This was clearly a cross-strike in front of him and cut off the fundamental situation!
For a moment, the Cao army, which was originally considered calm, had a great morale and a great decline in morale.
The generals could barely restrain themselves, but the soldiers looked back frequently and looked at the direction of the camp. Everyone was panicked and nervous.
"Sikong, take advantage of the fact that the previous army has not completely collapsed, and quickly return to the camp!"
Realizing that the morale of the army of the camp had been caught by the camp, and the incident of the rear was raided, Xun You quickly made a quick comment: "Save Xu Qian, Xu Huang, the two generals, cut off the rear, and the rest of the army, return to the camp quickly! It's too late!"
"Gongda, the camp caught fire, the morale of the army was in chaos. Our army can only defend the enemy on the spot and cannot move at all!"
Xun You is a military advisor, with outstanding overall view and good at strategy and layout, but in the end he is not as insightful as Cao Cao in terms of the details of the battlefield.
Cao Cao smiled bitterly: "If my entire army returns to the rescue, the soldiers will be worried about the situation of the camp, and they will be unable to help themselves, and they will run faster and faster, and no one can stop them. After running for several miles, the formation of the entire army will be chaotic, and even become a mess.
"At that time, Lu Bu only needs to lead the cavalry around our army's rear-end division, and he can attack Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who attacked our camp, and easily defeat our army!
"The only thing we can do now is to calm down and first defeat Lu Bu's counterattack, and then slowly retreat to the camp."
Xun You said anxiously: "But what should I do in the camp? All the food and supplies of our army can be stored there. If Guan Yu and Zhang Fei ravage and the food and grass are burned, wouldn't our army... There is also Fengxiao, there are only a few combat soldiers left in the camp, and the rest are auxiliary soldiers. How could he be a rival to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei? What should I do if he makes a mistake?"
Cao Cao closed his eyes and sighed: "I can only hope... Wenze, Wenqian can lead the army in time to rescue some of the food... As for filial piety, I can only hope that the guitar will be blessed by God..."
clang!
With the loud noise, Guo Jia tried to hold Guan Yu and slashed his sword. He flew backwards like a kite with a broken string and crashed into a granary.
Cough cough cough...
Amid the heart-wrenching cough, Guo Jia struggled to stand up, wiped off the flour on his head, spit out blood foam, and shook his head and smiled bitterly: "So, why did I, a military advisor, fall to the point of fighting Guan Yu? Alas... If I survived this trip, I must let my lord reward me with dozens of jars of Western Regions wine..."
Chapter completed!