Chapter 357: Retreat Jiangling

The eastern sky just showed a trace of whiteness, and a continuous sound of horns sounded outside Xinye City.

In the thin morning light, the east gate of Xinye County slowly opened. Wen Pin led the defenders in the city to rush out of the east gate and lined up outside the city. The Chu army camp outside the city was also full of people. Teams of Chu soldiers with full military generals drove out of the camp after the generals shouted and entered the wilderness in the east of the city. Almost as soon as the Cao army set up a formation, a cloud of clouds floated on the vast horizon ahead.

When the red sun gushed from the eastern sky, it sprinkled thousands of golden lights on the field. Under the red sun, iron hooves churned and horses were crowded. A total of 30,000 cavalry and Western Liang iron cavalry gathered into a rolling iron stream, sweeping from the northern mountains of Xinye County. Looking at it, there was no other scenery on the horizon in the distance except for the galloping war horses.

The dark iron armor seemed to come from the hideous and terrifying power world, as if it came from a suffocating nightmare. Only a very small number of Chu soldiers lined up in front of him came from the north, most of whom were from Jingzhou. They had never seen the military front of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry. When this ocean of iron armor crushed over with a scattered sea of ​​force, almost all the Chu soldiers began to tremble.

Xiliang Iron Cavalry, this is the legendary Xiliang Iron Cavalry!

"boom……"

The faint roar sounds from far to near, and the sound of the cavalry of Xiliang finally swept across the world. Only a suffocating roar was left between the world, and almost no other sound could be heard.

Cao Zhen took a deep breath of air conditioning, tried his best to remain calm, turned to Zhang Liao, and Zhang He said, "Are the crossbow chariots ready?"

“Everything is ready!”

Zhang Liao and Zhang He agreed.

In front of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry.

Ma Dai suddenly raised the long sword in his hand and paused hard into the air. The Xiliang Iron Cavalry rolling forward behind him began to slow down in an instant and quickly spread toward the two wings. When he was still a thousand steps away from the Chu army, the 30,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry had completely unfolded and had set up a rigorous cavalry formation.

Amid the loud horn, Ma Dai was surrounded by Mengda, Suze, and Sima Yi and rode his horse out of the battle.

Sima Yi suddenly frowned and said to Ma Dai: "Second General, something is not right."

"What's wrong?" Ma Dai asked, "What did Zhongda find?"

"No." Sima Yi shook his head, "I found no flaws below, but..."

Ma Dai said: "But how?"

Sima Yi said: "I can't say it anymore, I just think the atmosphere is a bit wrong."

"Can Zhongda not sleeping well last night?" Meng Da said disapprovingly, "Don't be suspicious of affecting the morale of the army. The Chu army is equal to our army, while most of the Chu army are infantry, and our army is full of cavalry. With cavalry of the same force against infantry, how can we not win in this battle? The second generals don't hesitate anymore and order an attack."

"Wait." Sima Yi suddenly looked moved and he hurriedly said, "I know, I know what's wrong!"

Ma Dai's eyes narrowed and he asked, "What's wrong?"

"Weapons!" Sima Yi said, "The Chu army's strength is only about 30,000, which is basically the same as our army, but they actually dared to line up outside the city to fight our army in field. Isn't this very suspicious?"

Ma Dai said in a deep voice: "Zhongda means..."

"There must be something strange." Sima Yi said, "I think I should not attack rashly."

"Hu." Meng Da said disapprovingly, "What's wrong with it? Digging a trap to the horse? Trouble the horse rope?"

Sima Yi shook his head and said, "If it is a trap and a stuttering rope, it is just a scabies and is not enough to affect the overall situation at all. There must be another mystery in it."

After saying this, Sima Yi said, "Second General, why not send two thousand cavalry to test the reaction of the Chu army?"

Ma Dai meditated for a moment and replied: "Okay, Meng Da obeyed the order."

Meng Da rushed forward and said, "The last one will be there."

Ma Dai said: "Lead two thousand iron cavalry...attack!"

"The last general will take the order!" Meng Da bowed on the horse's back, rode his horse to the front of the formation, pulled the spear forward and shouted sternly, "The iron cavalry of the front army... attack!"

In the Chu army formation.

"Huh?" Zhang Liao suddenly exclaimed in surprise and said to Zhuge Liang, "Military advisor, Ma Dai seems to have only sent two and three thousand cavalrymen to attack."

Zhuge Liang said calmly: "Ma Dai was cautious in using his troops, which is also expected."

Wei Yan asked, "What should I do now? I have kidnapped so many people in the formation, and it is easy to expose my strength over time."

Zhuge Liang said: "Without the military order of this military advisor, the rear army should not act rashly."

Zhang Liao asked, "How can we deal with these two, three thousand Western Liang cavalry?"

Zhuge Liang said: "Where is the golden radius?"

Jin Xuan hurriedly stepped forward and replied, "The last one is here."

Zhuge Liang said: "Lead three thousand barbarians to attack the Western Liang Iron Cavalry."

"Receive the order."

Jin Xuan agreed and lit up the three thousand five stream barbarians and rushed forward.

In less than a moment, the two armies were only a few dozen steps apart. With Meng Da's order, the cavalry in front threw out their guns, Jin Xuan whistled, and the barbarians who were marching forward raised the heavy shields in their hands to resist. The scene that the Liang soldiers expected did not happen. They saw that the guns were piled up, dozens of barbarians screamed and fell in a pool of blood, but most of the barbarians were unscathed and continued to move forward quickly.

Obviously, the Chu army had already been prepared for the sharp weapon used by the Western Liang Iron Cavalry. The shields of these barbarians were large and heavy, and their thickness and strength were enough to resist the spearheads.

"hateful!"

Meng Da groaned, hurriedly raised his spear and led it to the left. The two thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry swept forward changed the direction of the sprint, almost cutting the three thousand barbarians in front of the formation, and then turned around the circle and detoured the barbarians behind the side. However, Meng Da soon discovered that he was really in trouble this time. As soon as the Western Iron Cavalry cut through the front, the barbarians quickly stopped advancing and formed a circular defensive formation.

Thousands of solid and thick oar shields built thick shield walls around and above the barbarian round formation. The entire barbarian formation looked like a huge turtle, with its head and limbs retracted into the solid tortoise shell. Even if the Western Liang Iron Cavalry was a lion, he felt unable to get down at this time. Especially the pricking thing was that the tortoise shell was covered with sharp spikes, which were thousands of spears protruding from the gaps in the oar shield.

The deputy general rode his horse close to Meng Da and asked sternly: "General, what should I do now?"

Meng Da shouted with a slight face and said angrily: "Damn it, you will take two hundred cavalry to attack from the front and break the turtle shell for this general!"

"Abide by the order!"

The deputy general responded with a loud bang, waved his sabre in his hand and the cavalry that was running around the barbarians quickly, and two hundred cavalry were immediately separated from the gang of cavalrymen. They followed the deputy general and turned their horses' heads and rushed straight towards the round black armor formation formed by the barbarians!

Fifty miles north of Xinye County, more than 200,000 Xiliang troops were surging south.

In the main formation of the Central Army, a huge carriage was slowly driving forward along the official road. The spacious carriage was divided into two rooms by a screen. The inner room was decorated in luxuriously, and there were all living utensils. At this time, Ma Yue was leaning on the soft couch and was sleeping. Two young women with slender figures and beautiful appearances were kneeling in front of the couch with their buttocks sticking out and hammering their legs for Ma Yue.

The decorations in the outer room were like a living room, with a military topography of Jingbei hanging on the front of the screen. Jia Xu, Li Su and Lu Su were sitting in front of the desk and talking softly. While the three were talking, the curtain of the carriage was gently lifted up by someone. A figure flashed. Kuai Yue had already bent down and got into the carriage and asked the three, "Has the lord woke up?"

Li Su shook his head and said, "Never."

"Is it a different degree?" As soon as Li Su finished speaking, Ma Yue's voice suddenly sounded in the screen, "Is it Fang Yue, Xu Huang already succeeded?"

Jia Xu and others hurriedly got up, lifted the bead curtain, Ma Yue walked out of the inside with a brocade fur, and signaled to everyone with a stern hand: "Come on, come on, everyone don't have to be so restrained, sit down and talk."

Only when Ma Yue sat down first, Jia Xu and others dared to follow him.

Kuai Yue then bowed and said, "Lord, just now the fast horse returns. General Xu Huang and General Fang Yue's two side divisions have attacked Zaoyang and climbed the city. Now they are rushing towards Xinye's side! If nothing unexpected happens, the two side divisions can arrive in Xinye this afternoon. Cao Zhen's army, who is confronting the second general in Xinye, will be trapped in the encirclement of our army."

Ma Yue said: "So that, Cao Zhen's son has been trapped?"

Lu Su said: "It seems that the military advisor is better. Cao Zhen and Zhuge Liang did not expect that the 30,000 vanguard cavalry led by the Second General was just bait. They actually mobilized the main force of the Chu army to come to Xinye to fight the Second General. Cao Zhen's intention was nothing more than to defeat the Second General first to dampen our army's aura. This idea was good, but the result might not be satisfactory."

Jia Xu said: "But you can't be careless. You need to know that there is Yushui connection from Xinye to Xiangyang. Jingzhou naval army can go north to support you at any time."

"I don't expect to fight to set off Jingzhou in one battle." Ma Yue said calmly, "It's best to be able to solve Cao Zhen and Zhuge Liang in Xinye, but it doesn't matter if it can't be solved. This time, I swept across Jingbei with an army of 300,000. I have to see how Zhuge Villager resisted it?"

Shinno.

Meng Da returned to the formation in shame and said to Ma Dai: "The last general is incompetent, please punish the general."

Facing the tortoise shell formation of the Chu army barbarians, Meng Da seemed to have no choice but to send three teams of cavalry to try to break through the barbarians' defensive formation from the front, but they all returned. In the end, they were unexpectedly counterattacked by the barbarians. A total of six or seven hundred cavalry were damaged. In desperation, Meng Da had to withdraw his troops and return to his own formation.

"General Meng Da doesn't have to blame himself." Ma Dai comforted him with kind words, "The Chu army's tortoise shell formation is indeed difficult to deal with."

"So that's it, hahaha, it's just that!" Sima Yi on the side suddenly burst into laughter and said to Ma Dai, "Second General, you can now launch a large-scale attack."

Ma Dai said in surprise: "Why is this?"

Sima Yi replied: "I didn't know the virtual and real Chu army just now, so I can't attack easily. Although General Meng Da's attack returned in vain, he also found out the virtual and real Chu army's virtual and real Chu army. The Chu army relied on was just a tortoise shell defense formation. Although this turtle shell formation is difficult to deal with, it is vulnerable in front of our heavy armored iron cavalry! Now that the enemy's virtual and real enemy is known to the virtual and real enemy, we can naturally attack in large quantities!"

"I understand." Ma Dai said in a deep voice, "Ma Xiu obeys the order."

Ma Xiu rushed forward and said sternly: "The last one will be there."

Ma Dai said: "Lead two thousand heavily armored iron cavalry to drill through the enemy's formation from the middle!"

"Abide by the order!"

Maxiu pulled down the face mask on his helmet and rode away.

Ma Dai said again: "Meng Da, Su Ze obeyed the order."

Meng Da and Su Ze rushed forward and clasped their fists and replied, "The last one is here."

Ma Dai shouted: "Each leader of eight thousand iron cavalry to detour on both wings!"

"Abide by the order!"

"Abide by the order!"

Meng Da and Su Ze agreed.

Meng Dai finally shouted: "The other generals led the elite cavalry of their headquarters to assault from the middle!"

The Chu army's main formation.

Jin Xuan returned to the central army panting and said to Cao Zhen: "Lord, I am lucky to be unwilling to be the last general!"

"Very good." Cao Zhen nodded happily and said, "Thank you for your hard work, General, please wait for a while when you return to the backyard."

"Affect the order."

Jin Xuan agreed and took the order and left.
To be continued...