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Chapter 276: Lead a million troops to capture Yuan Shao?

Just as Chunyu Qiong was still in shock, not knowing whether he should continue to charge into the battle line or lead his troops to retreat, he heard the sound of war drums urging a quick attack from the rear of the army.

The roar of drums resounding through the sky also meant that they needed to take advantage of the situation to attack. The left and right wings should be encouraging the enemy. If he retreated in the face of the enemy, and if he lost the battle, wouldn't Chunyu Qiong have to bear the main responsibility?

Whenever you deploy troops and test the formation, you need to use brave men to attack the enemy with light and sharp weapons to test the waters. If you fail to succeed in the first attack and then retreat easily, then the casualties will be in vain.

The opportunity to win a battle is fleeting and no one can afford to hesitate.

Even though there were corpses of men and horses in front of him as obstacles, Chunyu Qiong still decided to charge forward with all his might until he disrupted the enemy's formation and completely defeated them.

The sound of trumpets resounded through the sky, and Yuan's cavalry once again prepared to charge. Just as they were about to approach the crossbow, bursts of shouts and screams suddenly came from the rear.

The infantry had already been handed over to the generals, colonels, military commanders and others. Liu Bei, wearing armor, personally led the Huben cavalry and the Ruichongying cavalry, a total of 1,700 cavalry, to retreat two miles. When he saw from afar that Yuan's cavalry was about to attack the rear formation, he immediately rode forward.

Divide the Huben cavalry into a pointed cone shape, and divide the entire cavalry into three parts, so that the enemy can be charged, retreated, and charged again, pursuing and attacking relentlessly and fighting continuously without stopping to defeat the enemy.

The front part was in a cone shape, with 300 cavalrymen in the front, and 150 cavalrymen on each wing. The three parts were arranged in the same way. The front cavalrymen charged forward, and the left and right wings took the opportunity to attack, all supporting the long-range and close combat with bows.

The cavalry in the front was led by Xu Chu, holding a 10-foot-long horse lance. The cavalry in the middle was led by Liu Bei himself, holding a saber that was seven feet long, with a blade three feet long and a handle four feet long. The last cavalry, led by Dian Wei, all held long hammers.

The whole army attacks the enemy, first breaking the armor, then killing the horse, and finally using the heavy hammer!
The more than 1,600 cavalrymen left behind by Chunyu Qiong before the charge heard the deafening sound of horse hooves coming towards them led by three horses and one rider.

He was shocked at first, but then he realized that the number of people on the other side was about the same as his, just with more horses. He immediately put his heart at ease.

They calmly exchanged fire from a hundred steps away, then charged forward to meet the enemy, and then... nothing happened.

Yuan's army's elite cavalry were torn into pieces instantly as if they were thin cloth when they came into contact with the cone heads. The cavalry's formation fell apart and collapsed at the first blow.

At the moment of close combat, Yuan Jun was beaten so badly that he cried for his parents.

At first, he failed to shoot, and thought that hand-to-hand combat would give him the upper hand. He never expected that a long spear would break his armor. Then he encountered a saber. With the inertia brought by the galloping horse, he chopped the horse's head off with one blow. Immediately, blood spurted into the sky and sprayed all over his face, making it impossible to see the road ahead. Then he felt his body lighten, and his sight soared into the air.

The Yuan army cavalry, who were fortunate enough to avoid the previous two attacks, thought they could take a break for a while.

As a result, before they could break through the enemy's formation, they were hit in the face by a long hammer. Everyone who was hit by the hammer was killed or his head was smashed to pieces.

The Huben Cavalry tore through the enemy cavalry in one battle, leaving their bodies covered in blood. Coupled with the evil ghost masks, Yuan's army was terrified and frightened. They dared not charge into the battle with the Huben Cavalry again. Their morale collapsed instantly and they fled in panic.

It was so brutal. They were all elite cavalry, but why was the enemy so skilled in hand-to-hand combat and horse archery that they stabbed them through in one fell swoop?

They only had spears, while the opponents had knives and hammers. How could they fight back?

Seeing Yuan's army retreating, Liu Bei acted decisively and led his troops to pursue them for more than 200 steps before stopping.

Make sure that the first battle has completely broken the enemy's courage so that it has no courage to make a comeback.

Then he changed horses and headed straight for the Yuan army's charging cavalry, looking for the enemy commander's flag, and attacked in a cone again.

When they were about to succeed in charging and breaking through the Qingzhou army's chariot formation, shouts of killing suddenly rang out from behind.

Chunyu Qiong was frightened again. Although he didn't know why the remaining cavalry was defeated so quickly, he could only order many cavalrymen to quickly turn the reins of their horses and fight against the enemy cavalry.

But in just a moment, the enemy attacked suddenly and there was no way to turn around in a hurry. The entire cavalry formation collapsed in an instant and there was chaos everywhere.

At this moment, his flag was the most conspicuous among the chaotic army. Liu Bei immediately clamped his horse's belly and adjusted the direction. He encircled the left and right wings and galloped in the center, blocking all the Yuan army's cavalry.

Chunyu Qiong was still hoping to use command flags to mobilize the chaotic cavalry to resist, but he did not expect that the Huben cavalry would break out from the center and rush forward without concealing any intentions.

Caught off guard, the cavalry around them were killed to pieces, and bodies were ripped open everywhere. The light cavalry of Yuan's army were beaten so badly that their faces were almost unrecognizable.

Even Chunyu Qiong was involved in the battle. He was beheaded by a sergeant of the Huben Cavalry with a saber. His body fell to the ground with a bang and he fell off his horse. In the melee, no one knew where his head fell, and the knights did not dare to dismount to look for it.

Fortunately, people around him had all witnessed his achievement of beheading the general, so he was not afraid that the military officials would not be able to verify his military achievements after the war.

There was also a soldier in the squad who was quick-witted and swift-handed. He cut down the flag of Yuan’s main general and quickly tore down the enemy’s flag and hung it on the saddle. The achievement of seizing the flag was no less significant than killing the general.

Some soldiers who came later saw that the riders in front had already taken the lead. They had no time to beat their chests and sigh. They could only grit their teeth and try to kill a few more people to make up for the loss.

I secretly hoped that I would have another chance to meet the enemy commander again.

After the death of commander Chunyu Qiong, the disorganized cavalry was defeated again. They killed enemy soldiers and horses wherever they passed. When they encountered armored cavalry that had consumed a lot of energy and had no time to change horses, they simply retreated when the enemy advanced and pursued when the enemy retreated. They harassed them with horn bows and armor-piercing arrowheads. Seeing that they were gradually exhausted, they finally used long hammers to hit their visors in two-on-one and three-on-one attacks.

It took a whole hour, from luring the enemy to annihilating the enemy, and completely defeated the more than 4,400 cavalry of Yuan's army. Except for a few hundred cavalry who saw the situation was not good and fled in panic, the rest were killed while chasing northward for several miles.

Even Liu Bei was wounded all over, his armor was emitting hot white mist, and sweat was pouring down his body, like horse hair covered with snow and sweat.

At this moment, the battlefield was still in constant fighting, and people were dying in the fight every moment. Liu Bei climbed up the slope and looked for a while, and saw that most of Yuan army's elite infantry had been deployed in the front, leaving only some armored cavalry and more than a thousand light cavalry on both wings, as well as 2,000 Wuhuan cavalry who were transferred in at some point and were wandering on the outermost side.

Perhaps Yuan Shao thought that his cavalry was exhausted and unable to fight again, so he sent out all the halberd soldiers around him to break the formation, but this undoubtedly gave him the opportunity to capture the enemy.

Liu Bei then asked the Huben cavalry to stop and rest for a while, and the soldiers drank water to replenish their strength. He combed the horses' hair and fed them beans and water.

He carefully warned everyone not to take off their armor when resting, lest they die after taking off their armor after a fierce battle. He then bandaged the injured horse to stop the bleeding and left it there.

Then he changed horses and blades again, making the final blow for this battle.

Liu Bei jumped on his horse, pointed to the center of Yuan's army, and said with a smile: "Shao thinks I can't reach him. Do you dare to follow me with your swords, armors and crossbows, and lead a million-strong army to capture Yuan Shao?!"

(End of this chapter)