Chapter 1293: Gradually Entering the Hub
Seeing this, Cao Xing quickly ordered: "Send the order and slow down the army!"
"The general has an order, the army slows down!"
"The general has an order, the army slows down!"
As his order was issued, the 15,000 cavalry began to slow down, but Cao Xing, escorted by his own soldiers, left the group and waited for the scouts behind him to arrive.
Soon, the scout captain arrived in a hurry. He saluted Cao Xing on his horse and said, "General, the cavalry at Fu Pass has been dispatched."
"Oh, how dare his two or three thousand cavalry come here?" Cao Xing said with a smile;
"No, not two or three thousand, but nearly ten thousand cavalry. I counted a little, and the number should be around eight thousand. The five thousand cavalry led by them should be relatively powerful cavalry, and there are three thousand more. The remaining cavalry seems to be the group of cavalry that escaped to Fukou Pass a few days ago, and the general leading the army is Zuo Xiao, the chief general of Handan City," the scout captain corrected breathlessly;
"Oh, it seems that they want to contain the general's army and buy more time for the white horse Yi Cong in front. Humph, they don't even think about it. In front of the king's fifteen thousand Bingzhou wolf cavalry, ten thousand white horses How long can the righteous man hold on?" At this point, Cao Xingdu only thought that the cavalry at Fukou Pass was just to contain his 15,000 troops and relieve some pressure on the white horse Yi Cong, but he did not expect that he had already fallen. He fell into the trap of Tang Jun.
This is the consequence of information asymmetry on the battlefield. Until now, neither the Wei Army nor the Zhao Army knew that the Tang Army had assembled nearly 40,000 cavalry in Wei County, so Zhao Army was doomed. fail.
Now that he had thought clearly, Cao Xing no longer delayed, and immediately ordered the cavalry to turn around slowly, preparing to eat the nearly ten thousand Tang Army cavalry behind him before continuing north to support Lu Bu's Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry.
Soon, 15,000 Bingzhou cavalry completed their turns and arrayed themselves, quietly waiting for the arrival of the Tang army's cavalry. A quarter of an hour later, another group of scouts rushed to Cao Xing and reported to him: "General, the Tang army's cavalry has discovered our army's cavalry and is now starting to slow down."
"Huh, slow down now. Do you want to escape?" Just when he was about to ask again about the location of the Tang Army's cavalry, he had already seen the Tang Army's cavalry. They had appeared several miles away. However, as the scout said, Said, you could tell from the dust rising from their position that they were slowing down.
"Send the order, the army is divided into three parts and attack the Tang Army's cavalry!" Cao Xing did not stop and immediately ordered;
"Woo..."
As the horn sounded from the Zhao army's center, the 15,000 cavalrymen began to speed up, charging towards the more than 8,000 Tang army cavalry several miles away to the south.
For the cavalry, the distance of several miles was only a matter of seconds. Soon, Cao Xing could clearly see the figure of the Tang Army's cavalry. As Cao Xing expected, the Tang Army's cavalry had already begun to turn around. Seeing this situation, Cao Xing yelled: "Cavalry, speed up! Kill..."
"Kill! Kill!! Kill!!!"
The 15,000 Zhao cavalrymen suddenly let out a loud killing cry and attacked the Tang cavalry in front of them.
A few miles away, Colonel Zuo saw Cao Xing leading the cavalry to kill him. He smiled secretly in his heart, turned to the soldiers beside him and said: "Send the order, the army will turn around and retreat to the south!" New 81 Chinese website update The fastest mobile version: https:/
The eight thousand Tang Army cavalry had already received orders before setting off. They had to slow down the Zhao Army cavalry before setting off, so everyone ordered to turn around and evacuate quickly. Eight thousand cavalrymen shouted,
Follow the way you came and run towards the south as hard as you can.
When Sergeant Zhao saw this, they all started to curse, but Sergeant Tang ignored them and just ran towards the south. After chasing for several miles, Cao Xing saw that he had chased him back outside Fukou Pass, but the Tang Army's cavalry was still running wildly several miles away. He cursed in his heart and said in desperation: "Send the order, the army stops chasing!"
Closing his mouth and watching Zhao Jun chase in the air, He Ge had a knowing smile on his face. With this coming and going, Cao Xing's army and Lu Bu's army were already nearly twenty miles apart. As for the arrangement of his own army, The ambush was far enough away.
Seeing that the Zhao army had stopped pursuing, Colonel Zuo also ordered the cavalry to stop. The two cavalry were facing each other several miles apart. Cao Xing saw that the Tang army's cavalry had stopped, so he ordered the army to pursue again, but as long as Zhao As soon as the military cavalry moved, the Tang army continued to run south without hesitation, seemingly determined to drag Cao Xing's army here.
After the two sides faced off for nearly half an hour, Cao Xing knew that he had no chance to annihilate these Tang Army cavalry, so he ordered the army to turn around and continue heading north. However, as long as the Zhao army's cavalry moved, the Tang army's cavalry would hang far behind. As long as the Zhao army's cavalry had the intention to turn around, the Tang army's cavalry would immediately turn around and flee south.
The two armies were chasing and fleeing slowly towards the north. Every time Cao Xing wanted to speed up to catch up with Lu Bu's army, Colonel Zuo would order the cavalry to speed up and adopt a posture to attack the Zhao army's cavalry.
After another half an hour of going back and forth, Cao Xing also realized something was wrong: "No, the Tang army is not only trying to hold back my army, there must be other plans. Come on, pass the order, the army is divided into three parts, one is to slow down and be on guard, the other two are to speed up and catch up with the king's cavalry. After a quarter of an hour, the second part will slow down, and the other two will speed up." ァ新ヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм
Through the pursuit just now, Cao Xing believed in the cavalry he trained. Although the five thousand cavalry could not completely defeat the eight thousand cavalry of the Tang army, it should be no problem to hold them back. Once the Tang cavalry really caught up and fought, the five thousand cavalry that were left behind only needed to hold them back for a quarter of an hour, and his other ten thousand cavalry would be able to rush back and annihilate them here.
Following Cao Xing's order, the 10,000 Zhao cavalrymen immediately sped up and quickly chased northward, while the last 5,000 cavalrymen still marched at a normal speed, monitoring the 8,000 Tang cavalrymen behind them.
Seeing that the Zhao cavalrymen in front were divided into two groups, Zuo Xiao was not in a hurry, and continued to follow the cavalrymen at the rear of the Zhao army. If the Zhao army was faster, he would speed up, and if the Zhao army was slower, he would order them to slow down, always staying only two or three miles away from the Zhao army.
Just when Cao Xing found something wrong and changed the marching method of his 15,000 cavalrymen, Lu Bu led the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry to more than 20 miles away from Cao Xing's troops. The distance of 20 miles was only half an hour for the cavalrymen, but Lu Bu did not notice that Cao Xing's army was so far away from him.