Chapter 299 Several Attacks
The duel of cavalry has long attracted Cao Ren's attention. After two rounds of battle, the cavalry of one's own side was almost lost, while the other side still had nearly half of the cavalry. Cao Ren knew that the cavalry of the other side might come to charge. , Looking at the disjointedness of the existing army formation due to the movement, Cao Ren knew that he had neglected that the soldiers on the other side were united into an formation.
Seeing the situation, Cao Ren couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat, and immediately ordered the army to stop advancing, and the soldiers quickly approached to form a defensive formation. Unfortunately, except for the soldiers near the central army who were able to react quickly, the nearly 2,000 soldiers behind still had no time to form an army defense. . When the 2,000 soldiers of the rear army reacted, the 500 cavalry of Dong Zhuo's army were already in sight. The next 2,000 soldiers were almost scattered and fled under the impact of the 500 cavalry. Fortunately, most of the soldiers The formation was ready, so that Mawan could not continue to attack Cao Ren's army formation. However, Cao Ren's army did not dare to approach the camp easily, so they had to form a defensive formation on the spot. And the horse-playing cavalry could only keep cruising around the army formation, trying to find the army's flaws.
Cao Ren looked at the cavalry around him, and then at the coalition army around him. Except for his nearly 2,000 soldiers who can be called well-trained, the rest of the soldiers and horses can be described as mobs. The reason why he dared to approach the gate of the village again, he couldn't help but secretly said in his heart: "The lieutenant of the thief, now we can only rely on whether your pawns can break through, otherwise we will probably be defeated in today's battle." ah..."
Compared with Cao Ren's stretched situation, Huangfu Chaobo is progressing smoothly. After receiving hundreds of elite soldiers from Cao Ren and Xintianyou, Huangfu Chaobo and Dianwei returned to their army formation, because considering that Huang Zhong had already led the troops away, after thinking about it, Huangfu Chaobo decided to send the He brought all the remaining soldiers and horses of his long club with him. In his opinion, it is better to hold the rear in his own hands. What he didn't expect was that his unintentional action saved himself once.
A group of people, Dian Wei led the imperial guards, Zhou Cang led the yellow scarf warriors, and Pei Yuanshao led the remaining soldiers and horses of the Changsha, and rushed straight towards the camp. As soon as you enter the camp, you can see the soldiers of the princes fighting with the soldiers of Dong Zhuo's camp everywhere. Because they lost the command of the two generals, the soldiers almost became headless chickens. Seeing this, Huangfu Chaobo immediately ordered Dianwei and Zhou Cang to lead the troops to the place where Cheng Yuanzhi was trapped, while gathering soldiers along the way. And he himself led Pei Yuanshao to take over the gate and the east wall of the camp. The five young generals were responsible for gathering the soldiers near the Zhaimen Gate, and then gradually controlled the area around the Zhaizi Gate after reorganization, and made preparations to lead the recruiting soldiers to support Dian Wei and his party to withdraw from the camp in case something went wrong.
With Dian Wei leading hundreds of elite soldiers to join, Liu Shi and Cheng Yuanzhi's soldiers and horses in the camp gradually resumed their formation, and after slowly following the two soldiers and horses, they gradually moved towards the two main generals in the camp. near. As time went by, the area controlled by the princes' camp gradually advanced from near the west gate of the village to the middle battle zone. Huangfu Chaobo, who was standing at the watchtower on the wall of the village, couldn't help but secretly heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the situation in the village. Before the support, the most feared thing is that the soldiers in the village will not be able to support them and lose control of the village. Not to mention that I will run for nothing, and I may trap my soldiers and generals in the village. Now that Dian and Wei have led the troops to gradually control the situation in the village, Huangfu Chaobo has time to observe the situation of Cao Ren's army outside the village.
It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, after looking at it, Huangfu Chaobo couldn't help but lose his mind. At this time, the two cavalry were already engaged in the second round of battle. The cavalry came out of the formation, and then did not see Ma Wan. Although there were only about 500 cavalry, they did not turn back to fight Huang Zhong again. Instead, they regrouped and turned to Cao Ren's central army position. come. At this time, the Chinese army, because the army was moving towards the wall of the village, there was a disconnect between the various ministries.
Seeing this, Huangfu Chaobo immediately realized,
Ma Wan's cavalry must have followed the 2,000 soldiers in the rear. Sure enough, although Cao Ren also realized the problem and immediately ordered the army to stop advancing and form a formation on the spot, the 2,000 soldiers behind still reacted slowly. Huangfu Chaobo watched helplessly as the five hundred cavalry led by Ma Wan passed straight through the middle, and the two thousand rear troops suffered heavy losses immediately, while the one hundred tiger and cardinal cavalry led by Huang Zhong could only follow behind desperately, but they couldn't catch up anyway. not on. Seeing this situation, Huangfu Chaobo immediately realized that Cao Ren's soldiers and horses were no longer able to support him. It is already very good that his coalition army of nearly 10,000 can guarantee that the formation will not be defeated under the watchful eyes of the cavalry. In the end, the breakthrough lies in the soldiers and horses under his command.
After a little thought, Huangfu Chaobo immediately sent someone to send an order to Huang Zhong, telling him to give up chasing the five hundred cavalrymen who were chasing Ma Wan, and instead quickly entered the village to join him, waiting for an opportunity to break through the stalemate in the village. At the same time, he also sent someone to explain the situation to Cao Ren, telling him the reason for his transfer back to Huang Zhong, and asked him to lead the army to stand still and wait for his breakthrough in the village.
Soon, Huang Zhong led a hundred tiger and cardinal cavalry into the village to join Huangfu Chaobo. After listening to his thoughts, Huang Zhong felt that this was the fastest and best way so far.
Therefore, under the leadership of Huang Zhong, with the support of a hundred tiger and cardinal cavalry crossbows, Pei Yuanshao quickly led his troops to break through from the southern wall of the village, and all the way along the wall to the east gate of the camp. But in the village at this time, because Dian Wei and Zhou Cang came after them, Liu Shi and Cheng Yuanzhi who were trapped in the middle were quickly rescued. After handing over the task of gathering the soldiers to the two, Dianwei Zhoucang led his soldiers and horses to kill the two generals Gao Lan and their guard sword shield soldiers in front of them.
Under the strong pressure of Dian Wei and Zhou Cang, although the two generals Gao Lan tried their best to resist, they had to retreat step by step. The soldiers retreated slowly, and slowly retreated towards the west gate of the camp. If they continued to hesitate, once Pei Yuanshao led the army to control the west gate, they would really be even more vulnerable. So when he saw that Pei Yuanshao had broken through the defense of his soldiers on the wall in the south, and that both of them were no match for Dian Wei and Zhou Cang, Gao Lan decisively ordered to retreat, and together with the guard, they retreated alternately and kept retreating. After joining up with the defenders at the west gate, the two led the army to quickly retreat towards the last camp, and the Ma Wan army far outside the east gate had also received the news, and soon retreated to the last camp.