Chapter 959 Gongsun Is Defeated

"kill!"

Tap tap tap! The sound of horse hoofbeats suddenly sounded, and Gongsun Kang led nearly two thousand Liaodong cavalry. After a circle, they plunged straight into the rear of Xiahou Shangjun.

Xiahou Shang was leading the army to fight. Although he saw Gongsun Kang coming from behind to kill him, he was unable to turn around for a while. Lu Qian's reaction on the side was quite quick.

"Abandon the attack on Gongsundu, change direction, attack the enemy's cavalry from the side, and rescue General Xiahou!"

Thousands of Cao's troops under Lu Qian's army immediately turned around and rushed towards the rear of Xiahou Shang's army.

At this time, Gongsun Kang's cavalry was like a giant cone, thrusting straight into Xiahou Shang's rear army, like a storm.

"ah!"

Two thousand cavalry rushed into Xiahou Shang's army like a storm, and immediately cut a bloody path through Cao's formation. After all, Cao's army was defenseless, so many people were charged and assassinated by the cavalry.

"Stabilize the formation and form a formation to resist the enemy!" The middle and lower-ranking officers of Cao's army in the rear quickly reacted and immediately organized Cao's army to form a formation to resist. The morale of Cao's army is at its peak. Unlike the newly defeated Liaodong Army, it was indeed slightly affected by the impact of the Liaodong cavalry at the beginning. However, under the organization of officers at all levels of Cao's army, the organization was quickly restored.

"prick!"

"kill!"

The spearmen in Cao's army saw the opportunity and aimed their spears at the Liaodong cavalry and stabbed them out. However, they hit the horses but not the people, because the war horses were much larger than people, and people riding on horses could not stand. You can't stab someone just by trying to stab them. This has been the case since ancient times. This is what Yue Fei's Beiwei army did. They rushed into the Jin Kingdom's Tiefutu army and chopped off the horse's legs with a machete. The enemy army was naturally defeated.

boom!

Large shields fell to the ground one after another, and spears were placed on the shields. The sharp spear tips showed a cold light, and some war horses were immediately afraid to move forward. Horses are naturally afraid of these sharp objects. Only horses that have been tested in battle will be fearless.

Poof!

"Hoar!"

The spear was inserted into the body of the war horse, and blood gurgled out. The pain-stricken war horse looked up to the sky and roared, and even threw the owner off the horse while trembling all over.

"Ouch!" The Liaodong cavalry fell on the ground on its back and couldn't help but let out an ouch. However, a sword and shield wielder's eyes lit up. Seeing the opportunity, he immediately stepped forward and raised the ring-shou sword with force. fall.

"ah--"

The ring-shou knife fell and immediately cut off the Liaodong soldier's head, and the screams stopped abruptly.

"Don't stop, keep charging and crush the enemy!" Gongsun Kang roared. Although Cao Jun formed a formation to resist, the charge of the horses was really extraordinary. Although the combination of sword and shield bearers and spearmen could barely resist, the sword and shield bearers of Cao Jun were all hit so hard that their bones were about to fall apart. .

At this time, Lu Qian finally led his troops to the side of the Liaodong Cavalry.

Lu Qian immediately ordered: "The whole army attacks and kills!"

"Kill!"

Whoosh whoosh!

Cao Jun's archers took the lead in launching an attack, and dense rain of arrows shot out in a whoosh, covering them from the sky, and then fell on their heads and faces.

"ah!"

Screams were heard one after another in the Liaodong cavalry formation, and many people were hit by arrows and fell off their horses. Archers are the biggest enemies of the cavalry. At that time, Meng Tian's 300,000 Qin army drove the Xiongnu north, opened up the Hetao Plain, and built the Great Wall. Qu Yi with 800 The first to defeat Gongsun Zan's thousands of white horse followers were all archers.

After the archers fired a hail of arrows, thousands of Cao soldiers immediately took advantage of the situation and rushed forward, breaking into the Liaodong cavalry formation.

"ah!"

Caught off guard, Cao Jun suddenly attacked from the side, and the formation was like an overwhelming mountain. When Cao Jun in the rear army saw Lu Qian leading his troops to attack, they sent troops to attack the Liaodong Army at the same time. The two armies attacked together and immediately killed the Liaodong cavalry.

In fact, cavalry was not the absolute main force in ancient times. Even Gongsun Zan's white-horse followers gained their reputation as "unparalleled in cavalry and shooting." Later, as his reputation grew, Gongsun Zan ordered the white-horse followers during the Battle of Jieqiao. Yi Cong directly attacked the enemy formation, and it must be said that Gongsun Zan was really in a state of despair.

Before the appearance of armored cavalry, the mission of light cavalry had actually always been to interfere with and block the enemy. For example, in the famous Battle of Changping, when Bai Qi arrived and ordered a general attack on the Zhao army, he also ordered The Qin army's light cavalry attacked to block the Zhao army's food route and cut off the Zhao army's retreat.

Therefore, facing a fierce attack by Cao Jun, Gongsun Kang's army was naturally at a disadvantage.

With the rear being secured, Xiahou Shang naturally felt relieved and led his troops to charge.

"Liu Yi, stop them!"

"Here!"

Liu Yi heard Gongsun Du's order and immediately led the Liaodong soldiers to stop him.

But Gongsun Du said to Gongsun Gong: "My child, quickly change your clothes and prepare to escape!"

"ah?"

"Ah what? Don't die, hurry up!"

Gongsun Du forcibly ordered one of his soldiers to change into his own clothes, and then ran out with Gongsun Gong and dozens of cavalry. At the same time, he sent someone to notify Gongsun Kang.

"retreat?"

In fact, Gongsun Kang was also a little frightened. He was similar to those of the Liaodong Army. He had just suffered a defeat, so he was naturally panicked. After hearing Gongsun Du's order, he immediately followed with hundreds of followers.

"Walk!"

"General, Gongsun Kang is gone. Do you want to send someone to capture him?"

"Don't worry about him, Gongsun Du is still there, catching Gongsun Du is the most important thing!"

Xia Houshang waved his hand and pointed the flag at Gongsun Banner. Naturally, Cao Jun behind him rushed towards Gongsun Banner in one go.

Although Liu Yi led the main army of Liaodong to support them hard, Xia Houshang and Cao's army were very energetic and killed Liu Yi's army in retreat, forcing them to fight their way out.

Gongsun's banner was right in front of him, but Xia Houshang felt something was wrong.

"We've all been killed here, so why didn't Gongsun Du react at all?"

Xia Houshang shook his head: "Never mind, let's kill him later!"

"Kill!"

Cao Jun worked hard and finally broke through Liu Yi's blockade and reached "Gongsun Du".

"Gongsun Du suffers death!"

"Don't kill me, I'm not Gongsun Du. My lord has run away a long time ago!" "Gongsun Du" suddenly shouted.

"What?" Xiahou Shang reined in his horse and frowned, "Did Gongsun Du run away?"

The soldier disguised as Gongsun Du said in horror: "Yes, he just asked me to change into his clothes and fled with Gongsun Gong and dozens of cavalry."

"Damn it!" Xia Houshang was furious. It turned out that Gongsun Du had tricked him into using the golden cicada to escape from its shell. He had been fighting for half a day but could not catch Gongsun Du, which naturally made him very angry.

"Hmph!" Xia Houshang urged his horse forward and drew his sword out of its sheath.

The "Gongsun" flag slowly fell down.