As soon as Liu Bei said this, Zhang Fei said anxiously: "Brother, this round formation can defend the cavalry, but it cannot move. If we are trapped here, the Cao Bing team will soon chase you!"

Then, Zhang Fei shouted again: "Brother, you retreat first, I will take my son to block here first." Liu Bei said with a heartache: "Lost brother, you, and these sons, how can you gain a foothold in this world?"

They were in the dark, and Xiahou Yuan had already surrounded him with his cavalry again. Now Liu Bei couldn't run away even if he wanted to. Zhang Feibao's eyes widened, his arm was squeezing with blue veins, and he shouted, "My sons, let's fight with Cao's army!"

Seeing that Liu Bei's army had formed a round formation, Xiahou Yuan did not rush to attack, but led the horse team slowly around the round formation, obviously just trying to trap Liu Bei and wait for the large number of troops to come.

In the distance, the sound of horses galloping came again. Beads of sweat as big as soybeans flowed down from Liu Bei and Zhang Fei's foreheads.

Xiahou Yuan also showed a proud expression. But soon, his expression turned into fear. Because he discovered that the fifty or sixty cavalry that were racing towards him were not Cao's army!

The powerful arrows and arrows shot densely and accurately at Xiahou Yuan's tiger and leopard cavalry.

Because these arrows were shot by Feng Yu's scouts on the horse's back, their rate of fire was increased by horse speed, which was more powerful than the flying arrows normally shot. They easily penetrated the armor of the Cao army's tiger and leopard knights and the armor on the mount.

Although the Cao army's tiger and leopard cavalry imitated the tiger and leopard cavalry system of Feng Yu's army, the difference is still very big. The Feng Yu's army's knights wear iron armor, while the Cao army's knights are just zither armor made of better quality leather and wood. The vest scarf, Feng Yu's army uses zither armor, and Cao's army's leather armor made of large cowhide.

Amid the terrible cry, the Cao army's Tiger, Leopard Cavalry Knights fell down one after another. Xiahou Yuan's eyes sterned and he shouted: "Defeat the enemy cavalry first!"

After saying that, nearly two hundred tiger and leopard cavalry moved when they heard the sound and rushed towards the scouts of the dozens of cavalry Feng Yu's army. But the dozens of cavalry had already escaped to the distance. During the escape, they occasionally shot arrows at the pursuers who turned their heads and shot arrows to the pursuers behind.

At this time, Zhang Fei shouted, "Brother, when will you stay if you don't leave now?" Liu Bei nodded and hurriedly took the soldiers out.

Liu Bei ran and turned his head to see that Zhang Fei was missing. In desperation, he could not find Zhang Fei, so he could only escape with his soldiers. It turned out that Zhang Fei was itchy for a moment and actually took several generals with mounts to chase Xiahou Yuan's tiger and leopard cavalry.

Arrows swished past Xiahou Yuan's ear from time to time. He even saw two knights closer to him with his own eyes, and fell off the horse after being shot.

Suddenly, he found seven or eight black shadows rushing out of the grass, one of which rushed towards him. Xiahou Yuan didn't think about it and swept away with a shot. He heard a whimper, and a dog had been stabbed through his gun blade.

But the other few knights were not so lucky. The sharp fangs of the dog bit their arms and calves. Some knights were even pounced under the horse by the dogs. At this time, there was another sound of weapons clashing and screaming from behind the horses of the Mercedes-Benz.

It turned out that Zhang Fei and a few people chased him up. Zhang Fei's snake spear stabbed and killed several tiger, leopard cavalry knights who fell on the back.

Xiahou Yuan's nearly 200 tiger and leopard cavalry were like a single lion attacked by a group of wolves, looking forward and unable to look back. Moreover, the distance between Feng Yu's scouts in front was already widened with him.

He shouted angrily and said, "Don't chase after me, just kill the black fellow behind me."

Zhang Fei saw the iron cavalry of Cao's army surrounding him, and flicked his finger and shouted: "Let's retreat!" He led his cavalry outwards.

He and these generals were all good horses selected from one in a hundred, even if the Cao army's tiger and leopard cavalry were slower than that. Xiahou Yuan ended up not catching them up, so he could only watch them go away. At this time, the Cao army's large infantry rushed over...

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Cao Cao's army stopped again, and the soldiers lined up to prevent the enemy's sneak attacks from happening again. Tables were set up on the lawn on the banks of the Sishui River, and Cao Cao wanted to hold a temporary military meeting here.

Cao Cao listened quietly to the military information summarized by various units. The enemy's successive sneak attacks caused certain losses. Although there were not many casualties, it was enough to prove that these small groups of enemy troops would threaten the safety of the food route in the future.

Xiahou Yuan, who was ambushing behind the team, did not succeed. On the contrary, he lost dozens of precious tiger and leopard cavalry. The scout who was conducting reconnaissance on the periphery inexplicably disappeared, and it must have been a pity.

After all the military information was summarized, Cao Cao asked, "Everyone, how should our army take action next?"

For a moment, no one answered Cao Cao's question. Cao Cao sighed and said, "I would have brought the two strategists who had just joined someone from Jizhou." When everyone heard this, they knew that he was talking about Xun Yu and Guo Jia.

The two of them were originally offering sacrifices under Yuan Shao's account, but a few months ago, when the Li Guo rebellion began, they joined Cao Cao together.

However, Yuan Shao, who had many counselors under the tent, did not care about their departure. In Yuan Shao's eyes, they were not very important. Therefore, they did not affect the alliance between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao.

When Xiahou Dun heard Cao Cao say this, he felt a little angry. He usually looked down on these strategists who talked about the verbal and paper. So he said, "Lord, I think that now we can only wipe out some small groups of enemy troops first so that we can continue to penetrate into Xuzhou."

Xiahou Yuan also agreed: "I agree that if these enemy troops are not removed, our army's food and grass will always face threats."

Cao Cao tilted his head and thought for a moment, and sneered: "Our army stagnates here and stops moving forward. Wouldn't it be right for the enemy's intentions? They used small groups of troops to harass our army, and there would be no other reason except to delay the speed of our army's advance."

Then, he said to himself with a puzzled expression: "Now, the only thing I can't guess is that they are delaying us for. In order to re-arrange the cities? But that doesn't take much time. In order to wait for other reinforcements? But as far as I know, no princes are willing to rush to support them."

The scene fell into silence again. Of course, Cao Cao could not guess at this time. Feng Yu predicted that he would massacre the city because of the failure to conquer Xuzhou, so he had to buy time to transfer some people in the city. Cao Cao did not expect that he would not be able to take Xuzhou, so of course he would not have the idea of ​​massacre.

Cao Cao slapped his thigh and said, "No matter what the reason is, we cannot let him achieve the goal that the enemy wants to achieve. He passed our army orders and the army immediately crossed the Sishui River and attacked Xuzhou. But the two thousand tigers and leopard cavalry were all left on the west coast of Sishui River, waiting for an opportunity to annihilate the rats!"
Chapter completed!