Chapter 392 Zhang Liao Vs. Cao Ren, Shi Xie's Decision
After Zhang Liao jumped over the shield, he did not charge forward, but turned around and killed the soldiers holding shields. As long as he broke through this row of defenses and prevented the soldiers holding lances from attacking under the protection of the shields, the lances would not be able to play their maximum role. As the commander of the cavalry, Zhang Liao knew this principle well.
So he immediately thought of how to break the opponent's lance shield, that is, there must be a person who can fight a thousand people and rush in to disrupt the opponent's formation, so that the cavalry can drive straight in. Otherwise, with this row of lance shield soldiers, they may have to take thousands of lives to fill this hole.
In fact, Zhang Liao's best way is to let the soldiers risk their lives to break through the lance shield. At that time, not only will he not be in any danger, but he may also trigger the commander skill. In this way, the subsequent battles will be particularly easy, but Zhang Liao did not think about this at all.
The first thing he thought of was to rush in and fight his way out of the desperate situation. He had no other thoughts at all. He did the same. After entering the crowd, he had already wielded the Huanglong hook sickle to the extreme. Blade beams surged and spread around Zhang Liao. The powerful power made Cao Ren a little nervous.
Cao Ren picked up a helmet from the side and put it on his head. His eyes were firm. Next to him, a black horse seemed to sense the state of mind of its owner. It snorted a few times and its hooves kept rubbing against the ground.
After putting on the helmet, Cao Ren picked up his sword and shield and took a deep breath. The black horse flew over the peak and rushed out at the moment Cao Ren exhaled, going straight to Zhang Liao. He absolutely could not let Zhang Liao kill like this. In just a few breaths, three sections of the spear shield had been broken. If Zhang Liao was allowed to mess up like this, I am afraid that none of the 20,000 monks would be left.
Zhang Liao instantly felt the killing intent from behind his enemies, but he still rushed forward. Only if he killed as many enemies as possible before Cao Ren arrived, would he have a greater chance of winning this battle.
Cao Ren looked at Zhang Liao's figure who continued to rush forward, with a dark face. He didn't expect that Zhang Liao had already seen him join the battlefield, why could he still ignore him.
Seeing that the spears and shields in the front row were broken in two again, and the enemy's cavalry had already rushed into the crowd, Cao Ren pinched the horse's belly several times to make Feiyuefeng faster.
"Give me your life!"
Cao Ren roared, and the Eight Diagrams Lightning Knife stabbed Zhang Liao's back. Until then, Zhang Liao turned around from his horse and dodged the stab sideways. The Yellow Dragon Hook Scythe turned to an unimaginable degree, bringing up a blade light, like a Milky Way falling from the sky, making people dizzy.
The imagined scene of a powerful chop did not appear. Cao Ren's sword and shield in his left hand blocked the knife. The huge force caused a white mark to appear on Cao Ren's sword and shield. Cao Ren was originally a person who was good at swords and shields. His strength was far superior to that of the generals of the same level. Facing Zhang Liao's knife, although his body could withstand it, his shield could not.
Cao Ren took a deep breath. He had not heard much about this general named Zhang Liao before. The last time he heard about him was the last Xudu incident. He killed Sun Li and Guo Huai alone, and rescued Liu Bei with troops. Now, he finally knew how helpless Sun Li and Guo Huai were when facing him.
Zhang Liao stopped attacking. The general in front of him was not an ordinary person. Zhang Liao was even more grateful for his choice. He had just torn five gaps for the cavalry. Many cavalry had already rushed through the defense line of the spear and shield. However, facing the powerful monk soldiers, they could not occupy an absolute advantage. The situation fell into anxiety for a while.
Cao Ren saw the problem of insufficient troops on the other side, and smiled coldly. As long as they hold on for another half an hour, at least 40,000 troops will arrive after half an hour. When facing such a large number of soldiers, Zhang Liao and his men will probably have no chance to resist.
When Zhang Liao and Cao Ren were fighting, Shi Xie of Jiaozhou learned another piece of news that broke his defense. Gu Rubing had brought tens of thousands of troops to Cangwu County. When he learned of this news, Shi Xie was still pointing at his nose and cursing.
After learning that Gu Rubing had brought tens of thousands of troops into Cangwu County, Shi Xie didn't care about cursing and immediately began to retreat.
Their action was originally to cut off one of Liu Bei's right-hand men. The strategy was that Cao Cao would stop Gu Rubing and not give him the opportunity to support him. As a result, Liu Bei actually appeared in the southernmost part of Jingzhou with his troops and horses, and had already entered the territory of Jiaozhou. How could Shi Xie not panic? The two people who should not have appeared here anyway, Huang Zhong and Liu Bei, now all appeared here, and Shi Xie was already numb.
But Huang Zhong and Wei Yan seemed to have learned the news in advance, and actually sent troops to block their retreat. There were interceptions in front and pursuers behind. Before the war, Shi Xie never thought that there would be such a situation.
His mind turned quickly. From the time they discussed and started to attack Jingzhou, it seemed that there was a big hand that had been covering them all the time. Nothing they did seemed to escape his eyes. He attacked Cangwu County by himself, but there were no guards in the military towns and county towns along the way, not even militia.
At the beginning, Shi Xie thought that it was because Jingzhou was short of manpower, so he withdrew all his troops to the county city. Now he is old, and the other party has clearly learned all his information in advance and made responses in advance. Otherwise, how to explain why Huang Zhong suddenly brought all his troops to Cangwu County to support Wei Yan before his attack.
You know, Yuzhang County, which is rich in products and vast land, is much more important than Cangwu County. However, Huang Zhong left Yuzhang County undefended and sent the entire army to support Wei Yan. This indifferent Cangwu County Wu County, this shows that he must have known the news in advance and knew that someone would attack Cangwu County in a large scale, so he did this.
Thinking of this, Shi Xieyou fell into doubt again, but if such a remote place as his own was infiltrated by the other party, then there is no reason not to infiltrate Cao Cao and Sun Jian. After all, no matter from which perspective, infiltrating Cao Cao and Sun Jian is impossible. The difficulty, effect, and cost-effectiveness are much higher than penetrating yourself.
There is only one way to explain this, and that is that Cao Cao and Sun Jian have been infiltrated, and after infiltrating them, he still has enough strength to infiltrate himself again. Thinking of this, Shi Xie was already breaking out in a cold sweat. The expensive golden silk clothes were soaked with sweat.
If inferred in this way, everything seems reasonable. Liu Bei, who was supposed to return to Qingzhou early, has always stayed in Nanchang County in order to find a suitable opportunity to perform a civet cat-for-prince drama to make them mistakenly They thought it was Huang Zhong who was guarding Nanchang, and Liu Bei's Baili army, but in fact they didn't know how many troops they had brought in, just to wait for them to be unable to bear it anymore and launch the attack first.
At that time, Sun Jian, who originally attacked Nanchang City, was shocked to find that Liu Bei's army was all in Nanchang City, and they were annihilated in one fell swoop. Sun Jian, who was waiting for support in Jiangxia, could not wait, so he could not attack Jiangxia. He would also be volunteered here. Huang Zhong held back his progress and was unable to capture Cangwu County as soon as possible. What's more, Liu Bei also brought a large army to support. This also shows that Sun Jian's command, who was responsible for attacking Nanchang, had failed.
Although Cao Cao in the north is powerful, he is responsible for blocking Liu Bei at the Jingzhou and Yangzhou front lines. No one knows how many troops Liu Bei has, and he can't get away at all. So the only way they can get away is with Liu Zhang. Attack again, but Liu Qi is not a soft persimmon.
If any of the three parties they are responsible for attacking fails to follow the established strategy, that is acceptable, but what if something goes wrong with both? Or think more deeply, he and Sun Jian have their own arrangements here, so wouldn't Liu Zhang have any arrangements? There will definitely be.
Shi Xie no longer dared to think about it any more. If it was really like what he thought, then this was Liu Bei's trick. This meant that Liu Bei might have the strength to destroy the four of them by himself. Shi Xie didn't want to think like this. But I have to think this way, because in this way, everything can be said clearly.
After sorting everything out, Shi Xie took a deep breath. He didn't plan to leave. If he really left, they wouldn't even have a chance to turn around.
"Shi, Shiwu, Shihui, Shisong, the four of you bring 80,000 infantry and catapults to attack Changxin City for me. Don't tell me that you can't get in. Even if you carry them, you must carry the catapults for me." Go in! If you can't take Changxin City before Liu Bei attacks, you don't have to come back."
Shi Xie ordered.
"Yes, my lord!"
The four of them took the order and left, began to gather the army, and prepared to storm Changxin City, Shi Xie continued.
"Shi Yi, with 30,000 heavily armored soldiers, guard the valley for me. They must not be allowed to enter the valley! Do you understand me?!"
"Yes, my lord!"
"Shiren, it's time to bring out the special troops we have carefully cultivated so that the world can see their power."
Shi Xie turned around and said to Shi Ren with a smile. Shi Ren was his son and the leader of his real trump card. Originally, this was a trump card that he would use when he fell out with Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Liu Zhang after Liu Bei was captured. However, Now he had to take action, otherwise even with this powerful trump card, he would not be 100% sure that he could deal with Liu Bei. He had to deal with Liu Bei now before he could talk about the future.
"Father, that is our last trump card, do we need to use it now?"
Shi Yan asked with some confusion. He obviously didn't want to expose his trump card so early, but Shi Xie shook his head.
"Don't worry, even if we use it for a while and fight a few battles, they will never find out what this army is made of."
Hearing Shi Xie's words, Shi Xie nodded, clasped his fists and turned to leave. Shi Xie turned his head and looked in the direction of Liu Bei in the north, with a sneer on his lips. Do you think Shi Xie is a soft persimmon who can be manipulated casually? Then he really thought too much and didn't take him seriously.
After being in the game for so long, he is not just smuggling in Jiaozhou to make money, nor is he just building heavy armor and strengthening the army. He has done something that no one else would even dare to think about, but he has done it, and It was very successful.
Gu Rubing and his army soon arrived ten kilometers north of Changxin County. From here to Changxin County, you still need to pass through a long canyon. The canyon at this moment was so quiet that it was almost unbelievable. , before entering the valley, suddenly a crossbow captain came to Taishi Ci and whispered something to him, and then Taishi Ci came to Gu Rubing's side.
"Lord, there was news just now that there are about 30,000 soldiers ambushing in the canyon. It seems that they should be Shi Xie's heavy armor army. What should we do?"
"Oh? Heavy armor army? I really want to see how heavy their heavy armor army is."
Gu Rubing said with a smile, because when he mentioned the heavy armored army, he couldn't help but think of the modern heavy armored combined brigade. He heard that the ancient heavy cavalry was equivalent to the heavy armored combined brigade, but he didn't know about the heavy armored army. Gu Rubing is still very curious about how it will perform.
After hearing what Gu Rubing said, Taishi Ci nodded immediately, turned around and was about to command the soldiers to start moving forward. Fortunately, Gu Rubing reacted quickly and stopped Taishi Ci.
"Ziyi, what are you doing?"
Gu Rubing asked with some confusion. Taishi Ci was even more confused and looked at Gu Rubing with confusion.
"Ah? What's wrong, my lord? Didn't you say you want to see those heavy armored soldiers? How can you see them if you don't go in?"
"Why are you fighting in such a narrow place with a group of heavily armored soldiers?"
Gu Rubing explained patiently.
"Those heavily armored soldiers have limited mobility and cannot stay in ambush in the canyon for a long time. It will take them a long time to enter and exit, and come and go. We only need to wait outside the canyon until they can hold on. When you don’t live there, you will naturally leave.”
"Well, I thought I was going in to fight them."
Taishi Ci had really enjoyed fighting in the past two days, so now that he saw the heavy armored soldiers, he couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to give them a try.
In this way, Gu Rubing and the others set up camp outside the canyon, and then started cooking. At the end of the canyon, Shi Xie, who was waiting for Gu Rubing's arrival, was all confused. What was going on? Inexplicably stationed?
"Wait, keep waiting for Liu Bei. Even if he doesn't come in for a month, you have to wait for a month!"
Shi Xie gritted his teeth and said that for him, as long as Liu Bei did not join the frontal battlefield, he would have hope to capture Changxin City. The reason why he did not attack before was just because Shi Xie did not want to lose too many troops, so as not to attack him. It will have an impact in the future, but it is different now. He no longer feels sorry for these soldiers, because once Liu Bei and Huang Zhong complete the encirclement, the losses will not be a little bit.
At the same time, Shi Xie wished that Gu Rubing could take care of him for a while. After all, Shi Xie had already mobilized the special forces. As long as the special forces arrived here, for him, even if Liu Bei's army came over, he would not be without a single blow. The power of fighting, this is Shi Xie's confidence.
Outside Changxin City, the soldiers carried them regardless of the cost, and a total of five catapults were transported to the front of Changxin City, and the siege of Changxin City was launched.