Chapter 50 The First Battle

Cao Ren waved his hand, brushed off the snow accumulated on his shoulders, and then quietly watched his riders go to the camp in front to report.

Taking advantage of this time, he was also looking at the camp opposite and the surrounding terrain.

In fact, he had a general understanding of the surrounding situation through maps, but it was not as good as seeing it with his own eyes. After all, the maps of this era were very rough, and many details could not be seen at all. During the war, some

Small details may determine the outcome of a battle.

"Zixiao, we tiger and leopard cavalry are all cavalry, we can't rely on the camp to defend!"

In terms of rank, Cao Hong is only Cao Ren's deputy, and he only has the title of captain. However, the two are brothers of the same clan, and there are not so many rules between them - they will naturally be called generals in front of outsiders, but here it is entirely up to the Cao family.

There is no need for that in the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry that the brother has mastered.

Especially before this expedition, Cao Cao transferred Xiahou Dun away from the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and asked Cao Ren's younger brother Cao Chun to take over. There was really no outsider in the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Cao Ren snorted: "With the strength of our Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, do we still need to rely on the camp to defend? This time we are here to take the initiative and repel all the invading Yellow Turbans."

It's not that he is arrogant, but that he has full confidence in himself and the strength of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

The imperial court spent a lot of time and material resources, and Cao Cao spent countless efforts to build and train the elite troops. If they can't defeat a group of rabble who are not even militiamen, then there is no need to talk about the elite troops of the imperial court. Hurry up.

Take off your armor, give yourself a hoe, and go farm.

Especially after last year, the soldiers of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry began to practice. Although these soldiers are not monks at present, they are much stronger in strength, reaction and agility than ordinary people.

, who in the world can defeat an army composed of such soldiers?

Even because the tiger and leopard cavalry were stronger than ordinary people, when it was difficult for the large army of troops to advance quickly and reach the front line in time, Cao Cao had to let Cao Ren lead the tiger and leopard cavalry on a forced march to the front line first to avoid the garrisoned Yanzhou Army.

The defeat made it impossible to implement the original plan and strategy.

"The only one who can compare with the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry is the Tiger and Ben Army. How can the Yellow Turban Thief Army resist the attack of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry? That black face may be somewhat capable, but after all, the soldiers under his command are just ordinary Forbidden Army soldiers!"

What made Cao Ren most unhappy about this expedition was that the position of vanguard officer actually fell into the hands of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. Originally, these two brothers were considered capable, and Cao Ren knew it.

It's just that Zhang Fei's loud mouth was so annoying. When he went out to fight, he yelled a lot about the two brothers. General Cao just walked behind slowly and didn't have to worry. He would definitely kill the Yellow Turban before the army arrived.

The bandit army was defeated.

Cao Cao didn't take it seriously and just laughed it off, but Cao Ren was greatly dissatisfied and felt that Zhang Fei was too arrogant and did not take others into consideration at all.

This time, the road was difficult to travel due to heavy snow, which gave Cao Ren the most direct opportunity to slap him in the face.

"When the black face arrives and sees that the Taiping rebels have retreated, I don't know what his expression will be!"

Cao Hong also didn't like Zhang Fei, and felt that he was too arrogant - wasn't there a sworn brother who was the current emperor's uncle? What else? So Cao Hong was holding back his energy to win a beautiful victory.

Cao Chun on the side did not speak from beginning to end, as if he had no interest in these things. Cao Ren also knew that his younger brother had such a temper, but he did not have much strength, so he paid great attention to his suggestions on business matters:

"Zihe thinks, should we set up a new camp, or move directly here?"

Cao Chun squinted his eyes slightly and looked at the layout of the camp opposite. In fact, he had been doing this kind of thing since he arrived here. At this time, he just wanted to take a closer look.

Since Liu Xuan tinkered with the stirrups, the Tiger Ben Army, Tiger Leopard Cavalry and Yu Lin Cavalry have all been equipped with priority, and correspondingly, the horseshoes have also not been left behind.

"The layout of this camp is not suitable for our Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. It would be better to build a new camp."

Cao Ren nodded, and then waved his hand for some soldiers to follow Cao Hong. He also felt that a new camp should be established, and he had already chosen the most suitable place to camp. When Cao Chun said the same thing, there was no hesitation anymore.

Yes.

Naturally, they can ask for what they need from the local garrison, and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry don't have to worry about it. When they got busy here, they didn't know that there were soldiers in the camp opposite who were looking this way.

Two of the soldiers standing on the watchtower crossed their arms and talked about the sudden appearance of the troops.

"Hey, look at those armors and war horses! Tsk tsk, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are just different!"

The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry had already sent people in to say hello, so these sentries knew that this cavalry army was reinforcements sent by the imperial court, and that was why they were interested in chatting here.

"Hey, so what if he's dressed so brightly? He's not necessarily any better than our buddies in a fight! Once they know how crazy that yellow scarf thief is, they won't have anywhere to cry even if they want to."

If it weren't for the heavy snow, they didn't think they could continue to defend these key points. The Yellow Turban Army would have broken open the road and attacked the key points of major counties.

"It's not like we haven't encountered this yellow turban thief before, why are we so crazy this time?" The soldier opposite seemed to have thought of something terrible, and he suddenly became excited: "Last time we fought with them, those

The thief's eyes were glowing red, and it was scary to look at him."

"Don't say it anymore. It has nothing to do with us anymore anyway. Governor Liu has invited soldiers and horses from the imperial court. From now on, let's just watch these guys and those lunatics fight to the death!"

The two of them were talking and looking at the group of people outside, but the more they looked at it, the more envious they became, because not only did the generals of this group of cavalry have bright armor, but even the ordinary soldiers also wore helmets and armor and wore big cloaks. If it weren't for these people,

It is the most common job done by soldiers. I am afraid they will think that those people are leading generals.

"Bah, we are fighting to death here, and we can't even have a full meal, but they are eating well, wearing good clothes, and enjoying the blessings. Humph! Let's see what you do when the yellow turban thief comes!"

I was thinking maliciously in my heart, and my vision suddenly flashed, as if I saw something.

"Hey... look over there, what do you see?" Because there were snowflakes blocking his view, and more importantly, he needed someone to help him confirm, so he pushed his companion beside him.

But after pushing twice, there was no movement at all. When I turned my head in confusion, I saw my partner next to me with a look of horror on his face, and his mouth started to tremble: "Yellow...yellow...yellow scarf thief!"

Upon hearing this, the man realized that he was not blinded, and immediately started shouting warnings down below. With such skill, several watchtowers around him also sounded warnings one after another, proving that the two of them were not wrong.

"How is it possible? It's such a cold weather, and those thieves don't even have warm clothes, but they still attack?"

It was the veteran who pushed him: "What are you still doing? Come down and make preparations!" As for what preparations were made, only the man himself knew.

As he was pushing, he suddenly saw his companion next to him suddenly exclaimed: "Hey? What do you think those people are going to do?"

Hearing the sound, he turned his head and saw that the soldiers and horses from the imperial court had not stopped their work and were still setting up the camp in an orderly manner.

"Huh? Why are they still setting up camp if they don't form a formation to meet the enemy? Could it be that they don't know that the enemy is coming?"

Even if you think about it with your buttocks, you know it's impossible. When the yellow scarf thief came, the camp here became a noisy mess. How could he not know it if he wasn't deaf over there?

What's more, someone from our own side has already passed by to inform the cavalry that there is an enemy attack.

But this group of cavalry in black armor actually made an incomprehensible move - those who set up camp continued to work, while the rest slowly adjusted their formation, and finally aimed in the direction of the Yellow Turbans, quietly

waiting.

"They...want to fight the Yellow Turban Thieves like this?"

The more he thought about it, the more unbelievable he felt. He even wondered if the commander of the imperial army had a bad brain. Could it be that he had been pampered for a long time and his brain was broken?

And just when he couldn't figure it out, the group of cavalry actually began to run forward slowly - this posture was obviously that the cavalry were preparing to charge.

Cao Ren took the lead with a spear in hand, but he was secretly happy in his heart: "It's a credit to deliver it to the door so quickly!"

Behind him are a thousand heavily armored tiger and leopard cavalry. This part is the elite of the tiger and leopard cavalry. It took a whole year to get enough of the number of one thousand, and it was under the direct command of him, the tiger and leopard general.

The sentry did not notice that because these thousand cavalry were surrounded by ordinary tiger and leopard knights, the fact that even the horses were armored was not revealed.

On both sides were ordinary armored cavalry. Although the war horses were not armored, they were covered with a thick layer of blankets, which had a somewhat defensive effect.

As soon as such cavalry started running, although there were only three thousand, they had the posture of hundreds of thousands of troops charging forward together. Especially after the speed slowly increased and the weapons were fully charged, the rumbling sound could be heard all the time.

, it even makes people suspect that they are under thousands of thunders, and may be torn to pieces by countless thunders at any time.

Not to mention that ordinary people would be greatly shocked when faced with such a charge, even if they watched it from a distance, and would not dare to fight against it. Cao Ren had always been very proud of this, and he only felt that the tigers and leopards under his command

No one dares to confront him.

What surprised him was that although the yellow turban bandits on the opposite side were dressed in tatters and many of them only held crude weapons, they actually charged forward without fear after advancing to a certain distance.

However, there was no time to pay attention to such a strange phenomenon. As the sprint speed gradually increased, the Yellow Turban bandits on the opposite side actually shouted in a swarm and rushed towards the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Viewed from the sky, a black torrent collided with another turbid torrent, and then bursts of bright colors bloomed.

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