Chapter 89: Both loses
Chapter 89: Both losers
The cavalry is best at long-term guerrilla warfare in the wilderness. They try not to fight against the enemy as much as possible, but only reshoot the enemy by dispersing the formation.
Even with the black iron armor on the tiger and leopard cavalry and the combat power of the cavalry, they still couldn't stand the flying arrows that made people unable to find the north.
Pang De traveled horizontally among the scattered cavalry, but never took action. Instead, he pulled the bow and string while running, aimed at Cao Zhen's exact direction, and decisively released a strong arrow and broke through the wind.
Cao Zhen is also a veteran who is in the battle. Once he has a cold arrow and a dark arrow, he will feel a strong sense of crisis in his mind. This intuition that only an old warrior has always saved him from death.
But Pang De's arrow was fast and fierce. Even though Cao Zhen had already reacted before he pulled the bow, he just avoided the vital points.
The powerful arrow was extremely powerful. A tiger and leopard cavalry, who had also reacted very quickly, hurriedly blocked the head coach's arrow, but the arrow was penetrated through the neck and shot on Cao Zhen's left arm.
Because the arrow was blocked by the cavalry once and was resisted by the black iron shoulder guard, it did not hurt Cao Zhen's arrow bone. It just broke into the skin lightly, which was considered a minor injury outside the skin, and did not affect his actions.
When Pang De saw this, he was shocked and was definitely not inferior to Cao Zhen.
Both of them showed admiration for each other, so they continued to sank into the chaos and re-entered the battle.
The battle situation is getting worse and worse, and there are many casualties in the tiger and leopard cavalry.
Cao Zhen also realized that this cavalry was not only good at shooting back immediately, but even if he fought in close combat, he still had the combat power no less than any cavalry in the world.
It was only in order to minimize casualties that Pound did not fight against the enemy, but chose the guerrilla attack method of scattering the formation and retrospective.
This tactic can achieve almost zero casualties, and the possibility of enemy people directly collapse.
However, each of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was gradually promoted from the army to military generals, and the battles they experienced were even comparable to any powerful general of the dynasty.
Finally, as Cao Zhen changed his tactics, he decisively changed the formation and turned into a cavalry with a shield-holding sword in front of him, forming a circular formation, allowing other cavalrymen in the inner circle to shoot arrows outwards.
The enemy and us were also riding and shooting on horseback. The original casualties were very different, but Cao Zhen's calm and composed strategy of responding to the enemy gradually became balanced.
More than half of the tiger and leopard cavalry were killed or injured, and the cavalry were also covered with corpses.
The entire wilderness was almost bloody, with horse corpses and the dead cavalry piled up and protruding.
Zhou Yang was heartbroken on the distant hillside. Just Cao Zhen made us pay such a heavy price. If Zhen had the newly established Huanglong army with Wang Chang and Chen Tai, coupled with the combat power of the vassal kings invited by Cao Rui from his family, the battle at that time would probably be even more terrible.
However, all this was inevitable, so I sighed deeply and said to the left and right: "It's time for you to show up."
The more than 600 soldiers behind him were the real strength of the personal guards established by Geng Long, who had been carefully selected for decades and had not even known Cao Cao and Cao Pi.
The dozen soldiers led by Geng Long before were just to cooperate with Zhou Yang to take Cao Zhen's head.
Unfortunately, this plan failed. Although Ponder's thrust soldiers wiped out most of the tiger and leopard cavalry, they did not achieve the expected results.
So Zhou Yang had no choice but to dispatch this more powerful personal guard again, and he personally led the attack.
When Cao Zhen discovered that Zhou Yang had re-entered the battlefield, the cavalrymen also quickly moved out of the wilderness from Pang De with few deaths and many injuries.
Zhou Yang jumped off the Red Rabbit Horse and rushed up with more than 600 guards who were as close as brothers to Geng Long, braved the round formation of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, intending to engage in close combat with the enemy before the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry resumed its charge-style cone formation.
Otherwise, let alone 600 soldiers, even 60,000 people would probably not be able to withstand the extremely fierce rush of the tiger and leopard cavalry.
However, Cao Zhen is not Yi and others. He expects that the enemy will use his feet to replace the running speed of horses. When Zhou Yang and others approached a certain distance, they immediately dispersed the round formation of the tiger and leopard cavalry and re-set the cone-front formation at the fastest speed. Even if it is scattered, as long as they are not gathered together, no infantry in the world will be able to take it away.
All of this was expected by Zhou Yang. He deliberately slowed down his running speed and suddenly accelerated after rushing halfway.
Besides, his mental calculations were accurate to the level of seconds. No matter how Cao Zhen guessed the enemy first, after all, there was no concept of minute and second, so his estimation was wrong, and Zhou Yang was the first to fly to death and the cavalry in the front was killed.
The soldiers who followed were as if a hungry tiger was out of the cage as Zhou Yang pioneer opened the way, and all of them rushed away with their weapons and weapons.
For a moment, Cao Zhen and the remaining more than a thousand cavalrymen could not react. They could only rely on their brave combat power and the defense of the black iron armor to barely support Zhou Yang and others' most sharp mad rush.
Zhou Yang rushed into the core of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry Formation with one go alone, but he could not find the main general Cao Zhen, which even turned into the most primitive melee.
However, at this moment, when the tiger roared the iron spear passed through the bodies of each tiger and leopard cavalry, he no longer felt the loneliness he had in his previous combat.
This warrior, which was formed by Geng Long spent his entire life, only attacked but not defended. Even if he had the last breath, he still had to use the last sword to die with the enemy.
But Zhou Yang heard the screams of enemies and friends who died beside him.
He seemed to have sensed the moment when death and life intersected, and also sensed the rhythm between life and death, and was like an opera-like soprano.
When the trembling throat splashed out blood, it was like music suddenly stopped, and it pushed to orgasm very elastically.
I forgot the loss of time, and also forgot all the pain and happiness, and completely invaded every move of killing people and being killed at any time.
The weapon passed through his skin, showing a bright red and beautiful blood mark, like a slow-moving shadow. Whenever oneself or an enemy is stabbed by a spear or iron spear, time will stop immediately.
The next moment is another world, another life and death game.
Finally, when Zhou Yang opened his blood-red eyes frantically, the person presenting him was Cao Zhen, the leader of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, who was frightened and incredible.
The other party obviously fought for a lifetime and killed countless enemies, but he had never seen Zhou Yang's fighting style similar to that between hell and heaven.
"If I can choose, I really hope I have never been to this era." Zhou Yang approached Cao Zhen's ear, but it seemed to be saying something to him, but the tiger roaring spear in his hand had completely penetrated the other party's abdomen, "Say something to Cao Gong for me, sorry."
Cao Zhen couldn't lie down because his body was supported by an iron spear.
It was not until Zhou Yang passed by him and pulled out the gun from behind that he fell down like a collapsed dangerous house.
All the tiger and leopard cavalry were intimidated by this unprecedented astonishing momentum, and the general was killed, and they all knew that the situation was hopeless and there was no meaning to continue fighting.
However, these cavalry were selected from the generals, not only with excellent combat power, but also with correct judgments when losing the main general, rather than surrendering immediately or fighting to the death until the entire army was wiped out.
The only hundreds of seriously injured tiger and leopard cavalry left immediately and fled with all their might.
Zhou Yang and other personal guards were not large, and even if the remaining cavalry commanded by Pang De were added, they were still not enough to trap these defeated tiger and leopard cavalry.
Even so they could easily leave this pool of blood and escape in the direction of Luoyang's official road.
"No one of these people can be kept." Zhou Yang said coldly, "The last killing will be given to the Ren Hao brothers."
These are all pre-arranged plans. First, Zhou Yang and Geng Long attacked in person. They planned to directly take down Cao Zhen's head with the lowest casualties, but this plan failed.
So Pang De's thunder soldiers carried out another round of shooting, and Zhou Yang would start a massacre and once again led the strongest personal guards to engage in a thorough melee with Cao Zhen.
When Cao Zhen, the tiger and leopard cavalry, arrived in the Huayin area, as the personal bodyguard selected from the cavalry, he would be led by Ren Hao and block the main road of Tongguan, and shot the escaped tiger and leopard cavalry for the final shot, and finally aimed at killing no enemy left.
"So how should we explain to the court after this matter?" Back in Chang'an, Zhou Yang asked, "Although Cao Zhen and his Tiger and Leopard Cavalry were killed, he was ordered by the emperor to come to Chang'an to take over my position."
"The Grand Sima is old and cannot withstand the tired military life, and is not adapted to the local environment along the way." Sima Yi said with a blank expression, "I finally died of illness before arriving in Chang'an."
"Then, these more than 3,000 tiger and leopard cavalry..." Zhou Yang thought for a while before saying, "Of course, he could not die of illness. He should have stayed in Chang'an as the support force for General Zhang He to fight against the Shu army."
"After the support, there were heavy casualties." Sima Yi added, "Zhang He and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry were all killed."
"So cruel." Zhou Yang said in a trembling voice.
"But these are nothing compared to the emperor's methods of dealing with Empress Dowager Guo." Sima Yi thought for a while, and then said, "These sacrifices are nothing compared to the future when my brother stood at the top of this country and sat on the dragon throne."
"Is it really worth it? I don't know either." Zhou Yang said blankly, "But since the game has begun, you have to play it until you pass the level."
"Being able to look at war and politics with a game mentality, just this point, my brother should start this." Sima Yi couldn't understand what passing the level means, but he was still relieved.
Whether it is right or wrong, it has begun.
In fact, Zhou Yang has long realized this, and it is not until today that he is willing to truly face all this.
Now that I want to look back, I can only start the next plan Sima Yi designed for him...
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