Chapter 474 Liu Biao is amazed! Nanyang is so powerful, not only the fire and thunder!
Clang! Clang! Clang!
The golden sound exploded, and the sparks burst out.
In the blink of an eye, the Xiangyang cavalry had surrounded this small team and fought fiercely for more than half an hour, but still failed to break it. Nanyang's elite formation was very tight, and every soldier was carefully selected from the grassroots ranks.
Fighting warriors.
To put it bluntly, in an ordinary team, these people would at least hold positions such as corps commander, captain, and team leader. However, among the elite tiger soldiers directly under His Majesty the Emperor, they are just soldiers.
Although the guard named Li is only a small team leader, if he is in an ordinary team, he can basically become a military prince, or even a military commander at the level of military commander.
Learning the art of war and forming formations are their daily compulsory courses, and there are even corresponding exams in the subjects. Therefore, when facing the attack of the Xiangyang cavalry, Guard Li could remain calm and command calmly.
Tiger soldiers wearing aluminum alloy armor can be said to be invulnerable. The only thing they fear is the rapid charge of the enemy's horses, which may damage their formation.
but......
The opponent never charged quickly, but was trying every possible means to kill the enemy.
Guard Li immediately understood the reason.
Because they were coming for the people in the carriage behind them, and they were afraid that their horses would lose control and injure the people inside, or even die tragically. In this way, the gain would outweigh the loss.
This is really good news for Li Weiwei. As long as the opponent does not dare to charge quickly and takes advantage of the strong body of the war horse, he can slowly support and wait for help.
Phew! Phew!
Two cold spears were thrust directly into the Xiangyang cavalry's chests. A trickle of blood gushes out along the blood trough, instantly soaking the cavalry's armor. The cavalry whimpered twice and died on the spot.
clang-!
One soldier deflected the spear thrust by the cavalry, and at this moment, the other soldier's spear hit the chest directly, impartially, and the coordination was extremely tacit, and the offense and defense complemented each other.
As if in the blink of an eye, more than thirty Xiangyang cavalrymen fell one after another. The rest of the cavalrymen circled the carriage, constantly circling around, looking for flaws to attack.
But what can I do...
The Tigers and Ben Warriors have a tight defense and there is no loophole at all.
Not to mention the miscellaneous cavalry of Jing and Xiang, even the Xiliang cavalry may not be able to break through the elite infantry formation of Huben.
Cai Zhong, who was not far away, looked at the scene in front of him and was so angry that his teeth itched. He kept waving the long sword in his hand: "Quick! Open a hole for me and kill them all!"
Although Cai Zhong is Cai Mao's younger brother and has a certain status in the army, he is far inferior to his elder brother. He has no military skills or formations at all. He only knows how to charge with his sword and let the soldiers be free.
play.
The number of troops is the guarantee of Cai Zhong's combat effectiveness. In his eyes, there is no such thing as an elite soldier. Today, when he encountered such a formidable opponent, he suddenly became timid and knew how incompetent he really was.
"Hurry up, why are you still hanging around?"
Cai Zhong stared at his eyes as big as eggs and said angrily.
"General."
The deputy general next to him said with a slight embarrassment: "The opponent's hand is extremely tight, and our bows and arrows cannot hurt him at all. If we charge with force, we will definitely hurt the people in the carriage. How do you want us to attack?"
Cai Zhong was furious, and put his cold sword directly into the opponent's neck: "I don't care, you must capture this team for me as soon as possible, and you can't hurt my sister or brother-in-law at all."
"General, you..."
The lieutenant general looked embarrassed and said: "Aren't you making things difficult for us? You have also seen that they are all elite soldiers. If our war horses cannot charge with force, they are no different from tall infantry."
"Don't say that we only have a few hundred soldiers and horses, even if we have thousands of soldiers and horses, under these conditions, we may not be able to open this gap. We can't let our brothers die, can we?"
Cai Zhong gritted his teeth and glared at the other party fiercely: "Believe it or not, I will kill you now."
The deputy general straightened his body and stared at the sword's edge sideways, not even daring to move his throat: "General, the sword is in your hand, how can I not believe it?"
Cai Zhong was furious, his voice was low, but sonorous and powerful, and he said loudly and authentically: "Then if you don't send people to attack quickly, when will you wait?"
"I......"
The lieutenant general was really embarrassed. He frowned, glanced at the brothers in front of him, and shouted loudly: "Why are you still standing there? Hurry up, concentrate, and attack fiercely."
All the soldiers responded to the promise and immediately launched a strong attack.
Cai Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, put away his sword, and turned his gaze to the battlefield.
But......
Although the Xiangyang cavalry's attack was much more violent, the effect was still not reflected.
The formation of the Huben Army was very tight, and all the officers and men cooperated well with each other, both offensively and defensively. After another half an hour, they only added dozens of corpses, and there was not much progress.
"Damn."
Cai Zhong cursed secretly and became furious.
He couldn't believe it.
It's just a small team from Nanyang Hanting, but it's actually so powerful.
His elite cavalry, which consisted of five hundred men, fought fiercely for about two hours, but failed to defeat the opponent. It was simply unreasonable.
Seeing this scene, the deputy general lowered his voice and carefully advised: "General, we must find a way, otherwise if this continues, the brothers will have to fight for everything."
Cai Zhong frowned, the anger in his eyes clearly visible: "Find a way! It's simple, but you can give me a way. Don't you want me to come up with a way?"
The deputy general came closer and reminded: "General, have you forgotten that the people in the carriage are your sisters and brothers-in-law? If they want to leave on their own initiative, how can these guys stop them!"
"yes!"
Cai Zhong suddenly realized.
Immediately.
He spurred his horse forward and shouted: "Stop, stop everyone, sister, I am Cai Zhong, are you in there?"
The next second, a voice sounded in the carriage: "Why are you here?"
That's right.
It's Mrs. Cai's voice.
Cai Zhongzhong was secretly happy and made up a random reason: "Sister, something happened at home. My eldest brother asked me to come out to find you and let you and your brother-in-law go home, otherwise it will be too late."
The car curtain opened, revealing Mrs. Cai's beautiful face, with slender eyebrows like willow leaves and red lips like peach blossoms: "Third brother, what happened at home? How could you lead troops to chase her!"
"Ah, this..."
Cai Zhong just pondered for a moment, then blurted out: "It's mom. You also know that since dad left, mom's health has been not good. When I heard that you left Xiangyang, I was even more heartbroken and said I would never see you again.
It’s my sister’s turn.”
"The eldest sister is at least still in Jingxiang and can go back to her parents' home from time to time. But if you, the second sister, go to Wancheng, you may not be able to come back even once in a year and a half."
"elder sister."
Cai Zhong was very aware of his sister's weakness. He immediately frowned and said bitterly: "You'd better go home and take a look before leaving. I remember back then, my mother loved you the most. You left like this. I'm afraid she won't be able to survive."
If you stay there, you will become depressed and sick."
"Husband, I..."
In the carriage, when Mrs. Cai was about to say something to Liu Biao, she was directly interrupted by Liu Biao: "Madam, don't be fooled. Your brother is obviously lying. If that's all, why did you bring troops here?"
"The most important thing is that he brought his troops forward and without saying a word, he ordered an attack on the elite tiger soldiers. He only said these words when he realized that he was no match."
"Don't you think it's strange?"
Liu Biao knew very well what kind of temper Cai Zhong and Cai He were, so he hit the nail on the head and said directly: "They must have rebelled and want to kidnap me and wait until they return, so that we can be used as scapegoats."
This kind of thing was too common in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. They always wanted to find someone who could control the situation to add a coat of justice to their rebellion.
Liu Biao was a clan member of the Han Dynasty and had a certain degree of influence by nature. If Liu Biao was used to resist thunder, he would be able to explain things to the people of Jingxiang.
But......
Mrs. Cai doesn't understand these machinations.
She only knew that her mother was very kind to her, and she should really say hello to her before leaving.
Therefore, Mrs. Cai was already a little hurt at this moment and could not care about those things: "Husband, I don't think they will. No matter what, we have to go back after all."
"no!"
Liu Biao refused without hesitation: "Absolutely not."
Mrs. Cai saw that Liu Biao refused so quickly and knew that he was considerate, but she would not compromise: "If you don't return to Xiangyang, don't stop me."
After saying that, he threw Liu Cong aside in his arms and said softly: "Cong'er, be good, hide it well and don't come out."
Liu Biao hurriedly stopped him: "Madam, you must believe me."
Mrs. Cai refused: "Husband, that is my mother, how can you stop me?"
"elder sister!"
At this moment, another shout came from outside the carriage.
With tears in her eyes, Mrs. Cai broke free from Liu Biao's restraints and got out of the carriage: "Third brother, sister, I'm going back with you. You all get out of the way and don't stop me."
Guard Li didn't originally want Mrs. Cai to go back. He immediately gave the team a wink and motioned for them to move out of the way: "Madam, you must think clearly. Once you go back, you may not be able to come back."
Mrs. Cai was furious: "That's my home!"
When Guard Li heard this, how could he dare to persuade her again: "In that case, Madam, please do as you please."
Mrs. Cai got off the carriage, walked out hurriedly, and came to Cai Zhong: "Third brother, let's go."
Cai Zhong was stunned: "Sister, why did you come back alone? Brother-in-law..."
"Ignore him."
Mrs. Cai waved her hands angrily: "He doesn't want to come back, let's go."
Cai Zhong immediately stopped him: "Sister, we are a family. It doesn't matter if you come back by yourself. You should ask your brother-in-law to come with you."
Mrs. Cai's Emei frowned slightly: "He doesn't want to come back. I just want to go back. Let's go quickly. I want to see my mother."
Cai Zhong felt guilty and stopped again: "Sister, do you think your mother will be happy without your brother-in-law?"
Although Mrs. Cai does not understand politics, she is not stupid. How can he not understand his own brother?
At that moment, she felt something strange from Cai Zhong's worried expression: "Third brother, tell me honestly, what do you mean by bringing troops to kill? But you decided to rebel?"
"What rebellion?"
"No...no!"
Cai Zhong quickly shook his head and hurriedly denied.
But......
But Mrs. Cai exposed it at a glance.
How could she not know that her brother was lying?
It seems that everything is just as the husband said. Jingxiang is going through a drastic change. Cai Mao is determined to rebel. These people came here to kidnap her husband and take him back to Xiangyang and become their puppets.
"you!"
Mrs. Cai was angry and turned around to return.
"Get it for me."
Cai Zhong saw that something was not good and gave the order hurriedly.
ever-!
Two sharp spears stood in front of Madam Cai.
Seeing that her return was blocked, Mrs. Cai turned around and glared at Cai Zhong: "Why, do you still want to kill me?"
Cai Zhong shook his head: "Brother, how dare you, but sister, you can't go back yet. You must go back with your brother-in-law today. This is the order of the eldest brother. Even I, the younger brother, cannot disobey."
"Brother-in-law!"
At that moment, Cai Zhongduan was sitting on his horse, looking up at Liu Biao in front of the car window, and said loudly: "Can you bear to leave your sister and go back to Wancheng alone? We are a family after all, so just come with us."
Liu Biao walked out of the carriage, looked at Cai Zhong, and shouted coldly: "Cai Zhong, you should know the strength of Nanyang Hanting. If you rebel, you will push the Cai family into a pit of fire. Stop now, it's still too late."
"snort."
Cai Zhong snorted angrily, gritted his steel teeth, and said angrily: "Is it possible that the Nanyang court is trying to seize my Cai family's ancestral property? Should we open the door to welcome them? It doesn't matter if we are strong, we have nothing to fear."
Liu Biao naturally knew this: "This is not a conspiracy, but a public ownership of private land. You can enjoy the government's policies. Your annual grain income will not only not decrease, but will even continue to increase."
"Bullshit!"
Cai Zhongcai didn't care about this and retorted directly: "I only know that what is in my hands is my own. If someone else holds it in their hands, it is not my own."
Liu Biao knew that it was difficult to convince him, so he exhaled: "In the whole world, is it the land of the king, and on the shore of the land, is it the ministers of the king! These lands originally belonged to the imperial court, and now you can still distribute food, shouldn't you be satisfied?
"
"Cut the nonsense!"
Cai Zhong was furious and shouted: "Liu Biao, if you come back with me, just do it yourself. Otherwise, you will never leave Xiangyang."
Guard Li raised his head and said coldly: "Cai Zhong, if you can capture us, why wait until now?"
Cai Zhong snarled his steel teeth: "Do you really think that we can't break through your formation? If we weren't afraid of hurting Liu Biao, how could you and others stop our Jingxiang cavalry alone?"
Li Weiwei naturally knew this, but he still remained calm and tried to delay time, because he knew very well that Sun Jian's troops were already on the way, and the vanguard would definitely arrive in Xiangyang in advance:
"So, you are going to kill the imperial ministers, are you really going to fight the imperial court to the end?"
"That's right."
Cai Zhong gritted his teeth, glanced at Guard Li, and turned to Liu Biao: "Brother-in-law, if you know what I mean, you will follow me back obediently. If not, today next year will be your death anniversary."
"Don't move!"
Guard Li put a gun directly into Liu Biao's chest, and at the same time lowered his voice to remind: "Delay time, the imperial court has sent General Sun Jian to lead troops, I believe they will arrive soon."
Immediately.
Guard Li turned to glance at Cai Zhong and said coldly: "If you dare to attack, I will kill Liu Biao."
Liu Biao naturally knew what the other party meant, and hurriedly said: "Madam, save me quickly, Cai Zhong, save me quickly! I am willing to go back with you, isn't that enough?"
Mrs. Cai was very anxious: "Husband!"
Cai Zhong naturally hoped that Liu Biao could go back, so he shifted his attention and said coldly: "Thief, let my brother-in-law go quickly, otherwise I will chop you up with my own hands."
Guard Li dismissed it: "Huh, you want to kill me? Then I'll kill him first. Don't you want him to command the heroes of Jingxiang? As long as I'm here, you can't even think about it."
Mrs. Cai turned her head and glanced at Cai Zhong: "Third brother, you must save your husband."
Cai Zhong frowned, always feeling that something was wrong, but for a moment, he was still confused and his mind went blank. He only knew that his mission was to bring Liu Biao back.
"Don't worry, sister, I will definitely save my brother-in-law."
"kindness."
"Thief."
Cai Zhong was furious and confronted Li Weiwei.
Liu Biao took this opportunity to disrupt the situation and kept thinking of ways to delay the situation.
About a quarter of an hour or so.
suddenly.
Not far away, a long report sounded, interrupting the stalemate between the two sides:
"Report—!"
Cai Zhong turned his head and looked.
But when he saw his own scout coming on Pegasus, he looked panicked, leaned forward and said, "General, something bad has happened. The vanguard of the Nanyang Imperial Court is already less than five miles away from here."
"ah?"
Cai Zhong was shocked, with a look of disbelief on his face: "So fast?"
The scout said with great certainty: "Well, they are all cavalry, at least two thousand of them."
Most of Sun Jian's troops were naval troops, but that didn't mean there were no cavalry. After all, northern Jing was dominated by plains and rivers, while only southern Jing was dominated by mountains, hills and rivers.
"two thousand?"
Cai Zhong's head was buzzing.
He only had 500 elite cavalry under his command, and he also lost more than a hundred cavalry.
Now, the opponent rushed directly towards him with two thousand fine knights, so how could he be his opponent?
"That's right."
The scout nodded: "At least two thousand."
Cai Zhong's throat was rolling, and he was terrified. He did not dare to hesitate at all, and quickly ordered: "Quick! Charge me, and be sure to get Liu Biao back to me. I want him alive, but he wants his body dead!"
The deputy general was waiting for this order. He immediately waved his long sword and gave a sonorous order: "Come for me!"
Guard Li frowned and shouted hoarsely: "Form up a formation to defend against the enemy."
The tiger and benevolent generals shouted: "Kill -!"
In an instant.
The Jingxiang cavalry launched a rapid charge, facing the spear forest formation, and pounced directly on them.
Facing the roaring cavalry, the Huben soldiers showed no fear at all, and no one retreated. When they were still five steps away, their spears were thrust out in layers, like fireworks in full bloom, killing all the enemies in front of the formation, including men and horses.
They stabbed each other one after another.
"Damn it!"
Cai Zhong's throat rolled, his face was gloomy, and he stared at the place where the man was lying on his back.
He couldn't believe his eyes.
Even if they ordered a rapid charge and kill, within a short period of time, they could not shake the Tiger and Ben troops at all. Although their troops were small, they were as immovable as a mountain and difficult to shake.
"Push it to me!"
"Everyone rush forward!"
Cai Zhong gritted his teeth and was furious.
Five miles may be a bit far for infantry, but for the galloping cavalry, it is just a blink of an eye.
If you can't seize this short period of time and break through the opponent's formation, then you will definitely be the one who suffers in the end.
but......
Cai Zhong couldn't believe it.
In such a chaotic situation, the soldiers of the Tiger Army were actually able to accurately assassinate the cavalry instead of the war horses.
You must know that when assassinating a war horse, it will cause the horse to suffer pain, and the impact force will be greater in a short period of time. If it is to assassinate a cavalry, the soldier will subconsciously lean back, which will inevitably lead to the movement of reining in the horse, which will actually reduce the charge of the war horse.
If the Tiger Soldiers were not experienced in many battles, they would never be so calm, let alone be able to adopt the most correct method to stop the enemy under such circumstances.
While the two sides were fighting fiercely.
Not far away, there was a rumble of horseshoes, followed by the earth trembling slightly, and a strong cry of killing, approaching from far away, enveloped them.
"Brothers, hold on, reinforcements have arrived."
Li Weiwei personally came out, holding an iron war spear, and quickly thrust it out to kill the enemy's knights. He then threw the corpse away with a powerful swing, and continued to look for the next target at the fastest speed.
"Damn it!"
"Damn it!"
Cai Zhong turned back and glanced at the smoke and dust in the sky, and his whole body suddenly felt like a fairy.
He gritted his teeth, glanced back at this difficult bone, and ordered with great difficulty: "Brothers, retreat quickly, retreat quickly!"
Only then did the Xiangyang cavalry rein in their horses and turn around to leave.
But......
It takes time for a war horse to increase its speed.
Especially with hundreds of war horses, it will take time to increase the speed.
It was obvious that Cai Zhong, as the commander of the Jingxiang cavalry, had no such concept at all. It was already too late to rein in his horse and turn around at this time.
All they saw was that Wuyangyang's imperial cavalry rushed towards them, charging directly into the eyes of the Xiangyang cavalry. A wave of ultra-high-speed cavalry fire was like a heavy rain falling from the sky, covering the enemy cavalry in an instant.
Detours should be taken, pursuit should be pursued.
Even if there are only more than 2,000 cavalry, they all contain cavalry tactics.
Liu Biao, who was standing in front of the carriage, let out a long sigh and said in disbelief: "The military power of Nanyang Hanting is not just about laying down fire and thunder. Surrendering to the imperial court is really a wise move."
Guard Li also secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said softly: "Liu Shizhong, let's hurry up and hurry up. If I hadn't taken you with me, I might have returned to Nanyang by now."
Liu Biao knew that he had dragged the other party down, so he hurriedly apologized: "I'm really sorry."
At this moment, a horseman came from the front, bowed and raised his hand: "The last general, Sun Yi, may I ask who the general is..."
Li Weiwei leaned forward and held up his hands: "I am Li Zhen, the tiger, and Li Dian, who is under General Cao, is my father."
Sun Yi hurriedly returned the salute: "It turns out to be General Li. I have admired him for a long time. Now that the enemy has been driven away by me, the general can go north without worrying."
Li Zhen nodded and said, "Thank you very much, General. In that case, I will take my leave."