Chapter 1353 : Chapter 677: The Decisive Battle Begins (1)
Chapter 677 The decisive battle begins
Xuzhou, Peixian. Just watch the entertainment pictures
Cao Chun and Dong Cheng have been chasing and fleeing for more than half a month. During this period, Dong Cheng's fleeing speed has continued to increase, from Yuzhou, through Yanzhou, to Xuzhou.
In the Xuzhou area, there are still 6,000 soldiers and horses from Yu Jin's headquarters guarding it. However, Xuzhou is a vast plain. If Yu Jin's infantry were to intercept and kill him, he would probably end up like Xia Houyuan, or even worse.
After all, when Xia Houyuan was beheaded, the nearby reinforcements were very close. If Yu Jin were to intercept Dong Cheng, it would be difficult for Cao Chun to rescue him.[
Therefore, when Dong Cheng arrived in Xuzhou, he still led his troops to pass by in a swaggering manner, occasionally attacking the county town to obtain a certain amount of food, which was very happy.
But it was a disaster for Cao Chun and his entourage of tens of thousands of people. Just as Dong Cheng expected, Cao Jun's tens of thousands of cavalry, but the rest were all second armies. Only the tiger and leopard cavalry were the best in the world, and their horses were the best.
They are powerful, have the best equipment, and the cavalry are carefully selected, and their natural riding skills are the fastest.
Dong Cheng's cavalry arrived in Xuzhou almost immediately. However, the remaining tens of thousands of cavalry were left far behind, and some were even chasing in Yanzhou. They were exhausted.
In other words, only the tiger and leopard cavalry have entered Xuzhou and are pursuing Dong Cheng. This is definitely a huge shadow. They have tens of thousands of cavalry, but they have not been able to catch up with Dong Cheng. Now there are only six thousand tigers left.
Leopard Cavalry kept up with Dong Cheng's speed.
When can we fight to the death with Dong Cheng?
Near Pei County, an abandoned camp of Dong Cheng was discovered. Six thousand tigers and leopards were riding outside, while Cao Chun led his generals to explore inside.
Just like the previous camp, it seemed that we had left in a hurry. Some horse bones were left behind.
"Based on the horse bones, Dong Cheng has left behind two thousand war horses along the way. This number is a bit wrong." Cao Chun picked up the horse bones and said with an ugly expression.
Because of this pursuit, their tiger and leopard cavalry lost more than 2,000 horses. Most of the horses had injured hoofs and were helplessly abandoned. According to Dong Cheng's more horses, the loss should be about 3,000.
But there were only two thousand, which made Cao Chun very confused.
"Could Dong Cheng have a way to solve the cavalry's second biggest problem, the problem of horseshoes?" Cao Chun's doubts made a general also ask. Then, the general laughed and said: "How is this possible?
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The speaker does not mean it, but the listener does.
Cao Chun's face suddenly became very ugly, because he thought, since Dong Cheng could solve the problem of the cavalry's quick success, why couldn't he solve the second problem of the cavalry, the damage to the horse?
The generals all saw Cao Chun's ugly expression. Everyone was shocked and their faces became ugly.
"It can't be true, can it?" The general who spoke just now couldn't help but feel guilty when he saw this.
"Since a miracle can happen once, it can happen a second time. I was thinking that during the fight between Dong Cheng and Xiahou Deng, they should have captured about 2,000 horses. In other words, Dong Cheng killed all the horses along the way.
The horses were all captured. I'm afraid he didn't lose any of his horses." Cao Chun sighed and said.
"Then our goal of bringing down Dong Cheng will never be achieved. In other words, we will never be able to catch Dong Cheng?" A general said in a loss of voice.