The foothills of the Dabie Mountains, the pass.

"What did you say! The Liangzhou Iron Cavalry ran away?" Pan Zhang widened his eyes, stared at the side general in front of him, and roared angrily, "How could the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry run away? The official road has been blocked, and there are steep mountains on both sides. The war horses cannot pass through at all. Where are they running? How do they run?"

The side general did not dare to look at Pan Zhang's horrifying eyes and said, "They abandoned their horses and ran over the mountains."

"Ah, abandon the horse?" Pan Zhang said in surprise, "The Liangzhou Iron Cavalry abandoned the horse and ran away?"

He said no.

"Haha, isn't Ma Chao seeking death by himself?" Pan Zhang smiled at the sky and waved his hand, "Let's go and take me to see."

Pan Zhang lit up more than a hundred personal soldiers. When he led the side general to the pass, he saw the abandoned horse corpses all over the ground. There were roughly more than a thousand war horses. There was no doubt that in order to avoid the war horses falling into the hands of the Wu army, the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry had slaughtered all the war horses.

But without war horses, can the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry still be called the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry?

When you reach the mountains and ridges of the Dabie Mountains, can these just a few hundred troops resist the attacks of Shanyue elite soldiers? You should know that the three thousand Shanyue elite soldiers under Pan Zhang are all good at mountain warfare. They are not only good at climbing, but also good at ambushing, traps, and hunting. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as you enter the mountain, no army can compete with Shanyue army.

"General, look, the Liangzhou soldiers escaped from the mountain."

The side general suddenly rode his horse to Pan Zhang and said on the right side of the official road. Pan Zhang looked in the direction of the side, and indeed saw a large number of obvious footprints left on the hillside, as well as signs of broken branches and slipping of wild grass. Although it was snowing heavily last night, it still could not cover up the obvious marks.

At this time, the two thousand Eastern Wu light cavalry led by Taishi Ci had already chased after him. Seeing that Pan Zhang had only led more than a hundred personal soldiers to block the way, while the sides of the official road were full of horse corpses, he was shocked and rushed forward and asked, "General Pan Zhang, what's going on? Could it be that the Western Liang Iron Cavalry has been defeated?"

Pan Zhang clasped his fists and replied: "General Taishi, Ma Chao led the Western Liang Iron Cavalry to abandon his horse and escape!"

Taishi Ci said in confusion: "Have you abandoned your horse and escaped? Where can I escape?"

Pan Zhang reached out and pointed to the hillside on the right side of the official road and said, "Please look at it, this is here."

Taishi Ci got off the horse and walked to the side of the official road to observe the trace carefully. He confirmed that it was the trace left by hundreds of people climbing. He checked dozens of war horses one by one, and then said to Pan Zhang: "General Pan Zhang, since the Liangzhou soldiers have escaped into the mountains, please lead the elite troops of Shanyue to continue pursuing. Finally, I will repay Gongzi Ce and General Zhou Yu, and then go to the Runan Plain ahead to find an opportunity to intercept the attack. How about?"

Pan Zhang said: "That's what it should be."

At that moment, the two of them said to each other that they were concerned. Pan Zhang pointed out the elite soldiers of the three thousand mountain and followed the footprints left by the Liangzhou soldiers and followed the mountain and followed the footprints left by the Liangzhou soldiers. Taishi Ci led two thousand light cavalry across the pass and headed straight for the Runan Plain.

Xuchang.

"Clang!"

Amid the pleasant sound of metal friction, Cao Chun gently pulled the mask down, and his handsome face was covered by the ghostly metal mask in an instant. Only the eyes that came out of the narrow cave were still so cold and murderous. The next moment, the long sword in Cao Chun's hand slowly raised.

"Clang clang clang..."

Amid the endless metal friction, the entire five hundred tiger and leopard cavalry also pulled down their masks. Five hundred ghost faces were accompanied by cold iron armor, cold spear and heavy slashing sabres. Even the horse's back was covered with thin dark iron armor, which made people suspect that this was a monster made of five hundred metal.

The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry is an elite force that Cao Cao has devoted countless efforts.

Like Xu Chu's Iron Cavalry Camp, this is also a heavy armored iron cavalry wrapped in iron armor with people and cavalry. The only difference is that the war horses of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry have not been nailed to the horseshoe, and the mounts used are not high-headed horses in the Western Regions, so their endurance and explosive power are not as good as Xu Chu's Liangzhou heavy armor.

But even so, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry is a daunting elite!

During the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao defeated Wuchao with a few attacks and burned Yuan Shao's military rations and returned home with great victory! In the Battle of Xuchang, Cao Cao still had high hopes for the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, hoping that these five hundred armors could penetrate into the Liang army like sharp steel knives, thus disrupting the enemy's formation in one fell swoop.

If the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry can do this, then the opportunity for Cao's army will come!

Unfortunately, Cao Cao's idea was obviously too wishful thinking. The horse butcher was the first warlord to form and use heavy armored iron cavalry. He understood the power of heavy armored iron cavalry more deeply than Cao Cao, and tried earlier than Cao Cao to crack the powerful destructiveness of heavy armored iron cavalry.

"Tiger and Leopard Cavalry...Pojun!"

Cao Chun pulled the long sword in his hand forward and the five hundred tiger and leopard cavalry began their final sprint. The one hundred cavalry in the front row had already pressed down the erected long sky rifle and fixed it on the special buttstock of the saddle. One hundred cavalry spears instantly formed a row of cold and cold death golden spears, crushing towards the camp.

"Tiger and Leopard Cavalry?" Gao Shun's face was a little calm, and his body was as strong as a mountain. "Tell me the order, stop moving forward, line up on the spot, throw a gun~~ Get ready!"

The personal soldiers standing behind Gao Shun immediately raised a black triangle flag and waved it hard twice in front of him. The captain who was always paying attention to the central army flag raised the thick-backed machete in his hand without hesitation, and howled shrillly to the sky: "The general has an order, stop moving forward~~"

"roar!"

"roar!"

"roar!"

The two thousand soldiers of the trapped formation habitually roared three times and stopped abruptly.

"The oar and shield soldiers, the spear soldiers forward and lined up the horse-resisting formation!"

"The spearheads...array!"

The commander of the formation of the two thousand soldiers of the formation changed again. Five hundred oars and shield soldiers carried the shields forward to build five solid shield walls. Five hundred spearmen followed him and placed five hundred spears on the turtle and pointed at the sky in an order of 45 degrees. In an instant, they formed a ferocious and cold horse-repelling formation.

A thousand spearheaded soldiers in the back row quickly lined up, then took out the gun bags on their backs, and carefully arranged them around them. Each soldier had four spearheaded guns! This is a real weapon, not only for the tiger and leopard cavalry, but also for any enemy who dares to stop the charge of the soldiers in the formation.

"Boom~~"

The iron hooves tumbling and the earth trembled. The Cao army's tiger and leopard cavalry rolled forward like a torrent of steel.

"Put the gun~~Prepare!"

The captain of the formation slowly raised the machete, and the expression on his face was as fierce as this cold winter.

A total of a thousand spearheaded soldiers raised their spears coldly and pressed them to their ears. At the same time, their bodies were slightly leaning back and their legs were separated from each other, and they were ready to run. In front of the spearheaded soldiers' vision, the five hundred iron cavalry of Cao army crushed over like wind and clouds. The ghost faces of the gloomy forest flashed with cold murderous intent.

Cao Chun's strong body had already stood up from the horse's back, and the heavy long sword had been raised to the sky, thirty steps, only thirty steps left! In a moment, he could slash the head of the Liang army captain in front of the formation with a fierce sword. Cao Chun had even seen the scene of the head falling to the ground and blood splashing!

"Ao ha!"

At this moment, the captain of the army started to howl shrillly and at the same time, the machete in his hand pulled forward.

The spearmen took a long breath, took a step back first, then ran forward quickly and opened their arms while raising the spear in their hands. When the speed of running reached the limit, the body with only soft armor popped up suddenly like a bow, and at the same time, the arm that was raised back was pushed forward with all its strength.

"Haohu~~"

A shrill sound of breaking through the air, and a thousand guns were thrown into the air. Then, due to the difference in strength and angle, they quickly intertwined into a dense piece in the air, and then fell down fiercely towards the rushing tiger and leopard cavalry. The cold gun blades shone in the setting sun, reflecting a heart-pounding cold flame.

Liang Army rear formation.

A cold murderous intent suddenly erupted in the corner of Ma Yue's mouth. Things... should have been like this!

Cao's army's rear formation.

Cao Cao's breathing paused, and a strange suffocation suddenly began to churn in his chest. Cao Cao's originally white face soon turned red.

"Sharp!"

Cao Chun waved the long sword in his hand hard and flew three guns that were shot towards him, but finally failed to block the fourth, fifth and sixth sharp guns. Cao Chun was the leader of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and he rode his horse in front of the cavalry formation, so he naturally became the number one target for the soldiers of the trap camp to shoot first.

Cao Chun's death translates an irrefutable truth with the fact that his personal bravery is so small and insignificant in the chaos of the army!

"puff!"

The fourth spear penetrated hard from Cao Chun's right chest, then passed through his chest, and then penetrated the throat of another tiger and leopard cavalry behind Cao Chun. These spears were much heavier than feather arrows, and could easily penetrate any solid iron armor. Even the heavy armor of Xu Chu's Iron Cavalry Camp completely resisted the penetration of the spear!

The rapid sprint of the tiger and leopard cavalry has greatly increased the power of the gun.

Cao Chun's majestic body shook violently, and it felt like it was numb by thunder. Then the fifth and sixth branches passed through the body one after another, and then plunged deeply into Cao Chun's mount, and nailed him and his rider to death! The mount ran forward for several steps, and finally fell to the ground with a sad and neighing sound.

Suddenly, the neighing of the war horses and the howling of the soldiers were intertwined. Nearly half of the tiger and leopard cavalry, like their commander Cao Chun, suffered a catastrophe! The soldiers' bodies bloomed like flowers, and their lives were harvested cheaply. War, this is war, a cold-blooded war!

The indifferent spearmen raised their guns, sprinted, and then threw them, and another round of spears rushed into the air. However, this time, the tiger and leopard cavalry suffered much less casualties because they had already rushed to the front of the camp.

In the end, more than 200 surviving tiger and leopard cavalry finally hit the horse-rejecting formation of the sank camp. The cavalry spear with powerful inertia was like piercing the fragile watermelon, easily piercing the bodies of the soldiers in the sank camp and the solid shield. However, at the same time, the horse-rejecting spear of the soldiers in the sank camp also pierced the bodies of the tiger and leopard cavalry soldiers without any trouble.

This is a battle to win the lives of one's life!

This is a decisive battle without luck!

Here life is just a pale number, a defeat on the horse's back, a barrier under the iron hooves, and a meaningless flesh and blood after a group of death. Both sides fight to bear the ability to withstand death, a strong will and a cold killing heart.

Under the wild and fierce collision of the tiger and leopard cavalry, the first shield wall of the trapped camp quickly collapsed, and a total of 200 soldiers became minced meat under the iron hooves of Cao's army. However, the price paid by the tiger and leopard cavalry was also heavy. After breaking through the first shield wall, there were only more than 200 more than 100 cavalry left in the tiger and leopard cavalry!

Now, even idiots can see that the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry is no longer able to break the camp. Now, Cao Cao can only place his last hope on the eight thousand elite soldiers led by Tibetan Ba. In the Battle of Guandu, the eight thousand elite soldiers of Tibetan Ba ​​resisted Zhang He's 30,000 elite soldiers in Jizhou.

Today, can the Tibetan barbarians still withstand the attack of Gao Shun's 20,000 elite soldiers?

As long as the eight thousand elite soldiers of the Tibetan Ba ​​can block Gao Shun's 20,000 elite soldiers, when Zhang He and Jiang Qi's army turn around from both wings, things can still be done. Only God knows whether Cao Cao's army defeated Gao Shun's 20,000 elite soldiers, or Ma Yue's two-wing cavalry first defeated Cao's army's wings first!

For the first time in his life, Cao Cao felt that he had lost control of the evolution of the battlefield situation.

Unfortunately, this time, the Tibetan Ba ​​finally failed to create a miracle again. His eight thousand elite soldiers could not stop Gao Shun's 20,000 troops! Whether it is equipment or strength, the Tibetan Ba ​​was at an absolute disadvantage. What made the Tibetan Ba ​​feel helpless was that the momentum and fighting spirit of the Liang army were completely above the Cao army!

In the end, before Zhang He and Jiang Qi's army came to the circle, Gao Shun defeated the eight thousand elite soldiers of the Tibetan Ba ​​with lightning speed. Cao's army was defeated like a mountain. Under the chain reaction, the Jizhou surrendered soldiers on both wings were also strong. The Western Liang cavalry led by Ma Dai and Xu Huang took advantage of the situation to cover the killing, just like two sharp bone-clearing knives, accurately and ruthlessly cutting into the junction between the Yijizhou surrendered army and the direct Cao army.

The Battle of Xuchang ended with the Liang army's victory.

The eight thousand elite soldiers of the Tibetan Ba ​​were almost destroyed. In the end, with Zhang Liao's desperate response, the Tibetan Ba ​​only led hundreds of personal soldiers to kill the encirclement and fled back to Xuchang City! Under the focus of the cavalry of Liangzhou, the Cao army led by the generals of Zhang Liao, Cao Xiu, Yin Li, and Sun Guan also suffered heavy losses. The 20,000 elite soldiers of the Cao army were able to escape back to Xudu alive.

However, the losses of the Jizhou army were minimal. There were nearly 50,000 people when they went to fight, and there were still nearly 50,000 when they returned to the city! At this point, the Jizhou surrendered army had an overwhelming advantage in Xuchang City, and the power to be too big to lose. Like Cao Cao, the hero could not stop the suspicion and guard against the Jizhou surrendered army and the direct Cao army.

Runan.

Sun Ce and the eight thousand elite Wu troops led by Zhou Yu successfully arrived in Runan, and Taishici, who arrived first, hurried to greet him.

Taishi Ci went to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu respectfully bowed and said, "See the young master, see the great governor."

Sun Cesu said, "You don't have to be too polite to be a child."

Zhou Yu said: "General Taishi, have you found traces of the Liangzhou army recently?"

Taishici said: "Reporting to the Grand Commander, the last general has sent troops to guard all the dangerous intersections that have come out of the mountain, but no trace of the Liangzhou army has been found yet."

Sun Ce said: "Can General Pan Zhang hear news back?"

Taishi Ci said: "There was news back two days ago that Ma Chao led the Liangzhou army to circle around the mountains. It was not clear whether it was intentional or not familiar with the terrain and got lost."

"Oh?" Zhou Yu looked moved when he heard this, and he said thoughtfully, "Going around in the mountains?"
To be continued...