Seeing Wu Lan's leadership of the army to escape, Cao Hong also knew that Cao Xiu had come to the picture!

Zhang Fei was definitely bluffing! He ordered the battle this time, and although he bet correctly, he still had no choice but to plan.

He naturally would not let go of the opportunity to make contributions in front of him.

Just as Ren Kui also wanted to show off and shouted that he wanted to take Cao Hong alone, he jumped out with his sword and fought against Ren Kui.

The life-and-death battle in this battle is incomparable to the competition on the school field, and it is completely incomparable!

Ren Kui's martial arts skills were completely invisible in the eyes of Cao Hong, who had been through a long battle. He had only three rounds of battle, but Cao Hong caught a flaw and slashed it down with one knife.

When the commander general was killed, most of the 1,000 soldiers under Ren Kui fled in scattered areas, and only a small part was gathered by Wu Lan, and Wu Lan also had a great morale.

Although Cao Hong and Ren Kui had not fought for a long time, because the army had already been arranged in an army and Wu Lan was still gathering the defeated troops, he had missed the best opportunity to retreat, and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry led by Cao Xiu had entered the battlefield.

Cao Xiu has been commanding the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry for several years. As a military branch that has opened up the situation at a critical moment, the commander has an extremely keen sense of smell on the battlefield.

Seeing Cao Hong killing Ren Kui on his horse, Cao Xiu took advantage of the situation to lead the tiger and leopard cavalry to cover up the killing, and ordered the light cavalry to encircle the two wings.

Wu Lan thought she couldn't resist it, so she ordered a retreat. He took the lead and was about to stop Cao Xiu when he came to stop him. The two had a few rounds of confrontation, and it was difficult to tell the difference.

Wu Lan was not interested in fighting and retreating. In less than ten rounds, Cao Xiu caught a flaw and stabbed Wu Lan with a halberd on the horse.

Wu Lan and Ren Kui, all the two commanders were killed in battle, and the army was without a leader. Two thousand soldiers were all in a mess, throwing their helmets and armor, and fleeing in all directions.

In the era of cold weapons, cavalry was the most powerful army.

The only way for infantry to fight cavalry is to form a thick military formation, especially tiger and leopard cavalry. Without special facilities such as deer antlers and horse traps, it will not be able to stop its powerful impact.

Wu Lan and Ren Kui's defeated army are now in a mess and have almost no resistance. They have become a unilateral massacre led by Cao Xiu to lead the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Just so happened that Lei Tong led his army to respond and saw Cao Cao's cavalry rushing around from afar, killing his defeated army.

Knowing that Wu Lan, Ren Kui was already in danger, Lei Tong's face turned pale, and all his soldiers were lost, and the army had no intention of fighting.

The infantry led by Lei Tong was already quite tired after a long march. Even if they could arrange their formation in time, they could not stop the cavalry attack of Cao's army.

Fortunately, Lei Tong was experienced and hurriedly sent his confidant guard to return to Gushan to report to help.

He led his army to advance without retreating, walked to a small hill in front, formed an army to protect himself, and took in the defeated soldiers.

This is an independent hill. Although there are not many trees on the hill, they are full of weeds. The mountain roads are rugged and narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Especially the attacks of the defensive cavalry are very effective.

Lei Tong made a wishful thinking, because the cavalry could not go up the mountain, and relying on the infantry's attack, it was still able to withstand the Lei Tong Army, which occupied the favorable terrain.

Cao Xiu's cavalry was useless, the mountain road was narrow and difficult to move, and he could not exert his superior forces. In a short period of time, he really had no choice but to use Thunder Copper.

It must be said that Lei Tong’s decision was very correct!

He stood firm on the hillside waiting for help, but it was safer than fleeing in panic. When Zhang Fei led his troops to come and cooperated inside and outside, he might even be able to turn defeat into victory.

"There will be no vain under the reputation!" Cao Xiu did not dare to underestimate Zhang Fei and Ma Chao. He was obviously unwilling to give Lei Tong a chance, nor did he want to make too many variables in this war.

While it was still early, he first sent troops to surround Lei Tong at the foot of the mountain. Not long after, he came up with a plan to set fire to the mountain and force Lei Tong to go down the mountain to fight.

Lei Tong was forced to go down the mountain to break through by Cao Xiu's fire attack. The two armies fought in a melee. Lei Tong died among the chaos, with only hundreds of remaining soldiers, who were able to escape with the cover of the night.

Wu Lan, Ren Kui, and Lei Tong's three thousand troops were almost wiped out, and Zhang Fei suffered heavy losses.

Cao Xiu won a complete victory in the Battle of Xiabian, and the entire army cheered and thunderously.

And Zhang Fei's camp in Gushan was full of tension.

Zhang Fei and Ma Chao have not yet decided to save Lei Tong, because their troops are weak and they do not have the confidence to face Cao Hong's 50,000 troops.

Compared to Zhang Fei's conservatism, Ma Chao hoped to attack more because before he marched, he had already sent his confidants to contact some local tribes, and seven tribes including Di Lei Ding agreed to raise an army to respond to Ma Chao.

But the only three thousand troops he had left were infantry. If it were the Western Liang Iron Cavalry that he was used to fighting, even if there were only three thousand men, Ma Chao would have been determined to attack Cao Hong without hesitation.

Ma Chao, who had no Western Liang Iron Cavalry, was like a tiger without teeth, and had no confidence to compete with Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry.

But if you don’t help me, you will not be able to explain to the soldiers and leave bad comments to you.

Although Ma Su was quite strategic, in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies were all over the world, and he could only remain silent.

After a whole night of discussion, Zhang Fei and Ma Chao still did not make a decision.

After dawn, Zhang Fei, who was loyal, did not care much and resolutely decided to save people. He was about to rectify his troops and go to war. The detailed work of inquiring about military information came back together with the defeated soldiers.

Zhang Fei was very sad when he learned that Lei Tong was defeated by Cao Xiu with a fire attack strategy and he himself died in the chaos.

Since his expedition to Baxi County, Zhang Fei has defeated Zhang He several times, and Lei Tong is his right-hand man and has made an indelible contribution.

But Zhang Fei also breathed a sigh of relief. He no longer hesitated. He led the remaining 7,000 troops and horses with Ma Chao to retreat quietly, declaring that this battle of Xiabian ended with the complete victory of Cao's army.

After winning the Battle of Xiabian, he received reliable news that Zhang Fei had retreated. Cao Hong did not dare to chase him and could not immediately withdraw his troops to support Hanzhong, because the seven tribes including Lei Ding, had gathered tens of thousands of people and were ready to move.

In the Battle of Xiabian, Cao Xiu won a complete victory because of Cao Xiu's correct decision. Cao Xiu can be said to be the biggest profiter of this war, and his prestige in the army was greatly improved.

But Cao Xiu was low-key in his work and still looked melancholy after achieving such a big victory. He vaguely felt that this war was not that simple. Liu Bei seemed to have something to hide, but Cao Xiu was still difficult to touch on the strategic level.

The situation in Wudu County is not optimistic, and Cao Xiu is still thinking about how to fight in the future.

Especially for the Di tribes scattered in the mountains, the cavalry was useless, and Cao Xiu's killer tiger and leopard cavalry could not count on him, and he had no feasible strategy.

Cao Hong performed very well in the Battle of Xiabian. As the head coach, of course, he was indispensable to his proper command. He also led the way and personally killed the enemy general Ren Kui.

Therefore, Cao Hong believed that this time, his cousin Cao Cao would be promoted and made money by himself.

While happy, Cao Hong decided to hold a celebration banquet, and the generals were invited to bring in a group of advocates, and asked them to wear silk clothes as thin as cicadas and dance on the drums, and watched them lustfully.

Yang Fu, the prefect of Wudu, was a righteous person and severely scolded Cao Hong:

"There is a difference between men and women. This is a great festival for the country. How can a general let a woman reveal her body in public? Even the destruction of Jie and Zhou of Xia and Zhou of Shang was just like this."
Chapter completed!