Chapter 121 When a leopard roars, he is a natural hero

Hu Yanzhuo divided half of his troops to return for reinforcements, and the other half personally led the troops and rushed directly towards the Liangshan cavalry army.

Chao Gai and others led their horses to block the road. They saw the thick smoke rising into the clouds from a distance. They immediately laughed and said: "What generations of generals have always cared about their heads but not their buttocks..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard the vibration of horse hooves from far to near. His face changed and he said in shock: "Grandma, you are such a ruthless person. He abandoned the rear army and didn't care about it?"

Lin Chong stepped forward, turned his head and listened carefully for a moment, then looked at Chao Gai: "Brother, there are three thousand horse troops with officers and soldiers. I heard this movement, but it is not the size of the three thousand horse army. In my brother's opinion, the enemy must have divided his troops to come back for reinforcements." , leaving part to attack.”

When Chao Gai heard this, he was surprised and confused: "Brother Wu had made a plan before. If he comes back for reinforcements, I will take advantage of the situation to attack. If he makes a desperate attack, I will take him in circles and wait until his infantry is dispersed. Then we can make plans... He turned to look at Cao Cao: "Brother Wu, you didn't say how he would deal with it if he divided his troops."

Cao Cao closed his eyes tightly and listened carefully for the sound. He opened it for a moment and shouted: "How can we predict the rapid changes on the battlefield? It's just a temporary mechanism. Listening to his movements, it seems that half of the men and horses came, only one thousand and five thousand." The Hundred Horse Army, King Chao Tian, ​​and I also have a thousand or hundreds of people here, my brothers are like wolves and tigers, are they weaker than him?"

After hearing this, Chao Gai became emboldened and said: "That's it, we will fight them to the death."

Cao Cao shook his head and said: "You have to fight hard, not like this! He is still a few miles away from me, so I have to stop calmly. When he runs two miles away, I will get back on my horse and run away to lure him in pursuit. After dozens of miles, the horse's power becomes exhausted, and if we get back on the horse and charge forward, if we have more than enough to break through, we will be defeated!"

Chao Gai was overjoyed and said: "What a plan!"

Cao Cao said: "It's just that the enemy general is not stupid. He knows that the horse has traveled a mile longer than us, so how can he be willing to chase it? But we have to give him a bait and hook him and refuse to let go. Only then will we be safe. Brothers, who are you? Dare you kick a tiger on the nose?"

Lin Chong shouted: "Who would give this credit to me, Lin Chong?"

Cao Cao said: "Okay! I just need you to do it. Brother, you bring twenty or thirty people who are good at riding and can shoot, and so on and so on, but you must be careful!"

Lin Chong laughed heartily and said with high spirits: "Brother Wu, don't worry, Lin Chong is just like picking something out of a bag!"

Guo Sheng and others looked at each other and said in a low voice: "Instructor Lin is usually taciturn, but I didn't expect that he would be so heroic when he went to the battlefield. It was Zhou Tong who harmed others and covered up the heroes with such extravagance. He taught him You have to be afraid of your hands and feet."

After a while, they saw dust rising in the woods ahead. Around the corner, more than a thousand cavalry suddenly ran out. Everyone was shocked when they saw it.

It turns out that his horse army is all armored horses. The men are covered with iron armor and the horses are covered with vests. They are covered from head to tail, with only four hooves running underneath. If the two armies were to confront each other, Liangshan's horse army would be the fruit under the kitchen knife. , refreshing and crunchy, all eaten clean.

Chao Gai was shocked and said: "The scouts deserve to die. The enemies are all armored and heavy cavalry. How can we not mention them?"

He didn't know that Hu Yanzhuo was also secretly glad. It turned out that Hu Yanzhuo had invested a lot of his own money in order to train the powerful horse army, and he was determined to show off his skills and shine during the expedition to Liao and Xixia. This time after receiving the order to conquer Liangshan, he and Tai Wei Gaoqiu complained, "The soldiers and horses are all elite, but they lack equipment."

Gao Qiu was quite happy and asked him to go to the armored warehouse of the capital and choose clothes, armor and swords at will, regardless of the number. Hu Yanzhuo received this order and did not hesitate to go and "select three thousand pairs of iron armor and five cooked leather vests." A thousand pairs of helmets, three thousand bronze and iron helmets, two thousand spears, a thousand swords, countless bows and arrows, and more than five hundred artillery and iron cannons."

Later, the army was brought to the capital for inspection. Gao Qiu probably felt that some of the horses were weak and could not wear armor, so he simply spent more money and allocated him 3,000 horses.

With this batch of equipment and this batch of horses, Hu Yanzhuo took off on the spot and obtained a sharp and decisive heavy cavalry out of thin air. Recently, his voice has been two octaves higher when he speaks.

Just because the iron armored horse armor is heavy, daily marching consumes horsepower, and it is always placed on the heavy baggage vehicle. How did the scout know? Today, as he was approaching Liangshanbo, he wanted to show off his majesty, so he put the three thousand armored horse armor on it.

Get them all armed.

If there had been a sneak attack in Liangshan in the morning, the baggage would have been burned, and these horse armors and iron armor would have been destroyed, and Hu Yanzhuo would have been able to vomit blood and vomit to death. This is what he was lucky about.

Leading the team to rush out of the dense forest, they saw Liangshan's thousands and hundreds of horse troops, scattered in a row. Hu Yanzhuo laughed and said: "The water-poor grass bandits, although they have tricks, rely on their familiarity with the geography to ambush, but they don't know the true art of war."

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He stretched out the bronze whips in his hands, and the armored horse that had been trotting behind him began to speed up and spread out to both sides, intending to swallow up the Liangshan horse team in one go.

Cao Cao smiled and said: "If you ride a heavy horse, it will become more and more obvious that heaven is favoring you. Brother Lin, follow your plan."

Hearing this, Lin Chong got on his horse, held an eight-foot-long steel snake spear, and rushed out with twenty or thirty cavalry, shouting in a hissing voice: "My little brother is risking his life to stop the enemy. Brother Chao Gai, hurry back to the stronghold." Regardless of life and death, he came out to Hu Yanzhuo.

, Liangshan’s brigade turned their horses’ heads, mounted their horses, and fled for their lives.

Hu Yanzhuo was furious. How many leopards have you dared to eat? How dare you stop me?

He was afraid that he would lose Chao Gai and the main force of the grass bandits, so he spurred his horse. It was a good horse given by the emperor. It was completely black, except for the four white hooves. It was nicknamed "Wuzui on Snow" and could travel thousands of miles in a day. This horse

The horse neighed and immediately broke away from the group and shot straight towards Lin Chong.

In an instant, two people rushed forward. Lin Chong twisted his wrist, and the snake spear flew toward his heart like a spirited python monster, whining and carrying the evil wind.

As soon as Hu Yanzhuo saw his move, he knew he had met a powerful enemy, and shouted: "Well done!" Hu Yanzhuo swept the bronze whip with his left hand, swinging away the spear, and smashed it on the head with the whip of his right hand.

He had two water-milled eight-edged copper whips. The left one weighed twelve kilograms and the right one weighed thirteen kilograms. How could it be a joke to hit him with one? Lin Chong hurriedly stirred up the snake spear, turned it upside down, and cracked the head whip. Come on, you two.

I went and killed three or four rounds.

The horse army behind Hu Yanzhuo was already running. He saw behind him, twenty or thirty people following Lin Chong, who all took out their bows and arrows to shoot. The officers and soldiers lowered their heads, wearing copper hats on their heads and iron armor on their bodies.

There was a clanging sound, but no one was hurt.

After passing through this round of arrows, the officers and soldiers took out their bows and shot back. These soldiers had been trained by Hu Yanzhuo for several years and had extraordinary skills in riding and shooting. However, when the arrows flew across the sky, the dozens of Liangshan cavalrymen were instantly broken in half.

Lin Chong was secretly frightened and shouted: "How powerful! Hu Yanzhuo, if you are not afraid of an ambush, come and chase me away!"

Three spears were shot out in succession, forcing Hu Yanzhuo's hands and feet, and he fled with his horse.

Hu Yanzhuo was so angry that he screamed: "I'm sorry, you hay bandits, even if there is an ambush, you will be trampled into dust under the horses' hooves." He chased Lin Chong closely.

Arrows came from behind like swarming locusts. Lin Chong was hit in the back by five or six arrows. Fortunately, his armor was thick and only slightly penetrated his flesh. However, the horse soldiers who followed him were shot off their horses one by one. They did not need to struggle.

The army moved forward and was crushed, and they all became victims of the horse's hooves.

The situation at this moment is that more than a thousand horses in Liangshan are running away, and more than a thousand officers and soldiers are chasing them. Between the two groups of people, Lin Chong is fleeing on his own horse.

Not showing any weakness, he used his spear in all kinds of ways and kept fighting back.

There is a general benefit: seeing the general and Lin Chong running neck and neck, the officers and soldiers behind him will not dare to fire arrows. The more Huyanzhuo fights, the more excited he is, determined to knock Lin Chong off his horse, and they will entangle him tightly. Seeing that the general is so wild, the officers and soldiers behind him will also

Not daring to stop privately, he chased the horse with all his might.

Just like this, they chased and escaped, running for more than ten miles in one breath. The officers and soldiers' horses were wearing vests and carrying heavily armored knights. They gradually became exhausted, foaming from their mouths and noses, and the distance from the Liangshan cavalry in front gradually widened.

Cao Cao kept looking back. At this moment, his face became happy and he shouted loudly: "King of Heaven, the enemy's horses are tired. This is the time to defeat the enemy!"

Youfenjiao: The current situation is changing in an instant, and the armored knights are riding strong winds. Thousands of horses are rushing to break the ground, and a leopard's roar shakes the sky.
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