Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 275 Meeting with Cao and Liu
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, spring returns earlier this year. Although the weather is still very cold, it is much better than in previous years.

It snowed heavily in Nanyang last year, but this year it is spring and the flowers are blooming. The warm sunshine is pouring down, and the field is full of greenery. Except for the already green wheat, even the weeds that will not grow until the end of January are green. Has tenaciously drilled out of the ground.

The Qinling Mountains in the west rise so high that they seem to go straight into the sky from a distance.In the howling southeast wind, in the wilderness outside the city of Jiyang, the forest swayed gently, the weeds swayed with the wind, and groups of people floated up.

Liu Bei was riding on a horse. He was wearing a relatively thick winter coat and a soft armor, that is, a fish scale armor. Without a helmet, he looked quite bloated.

But compared with Zhang Fei beside him, he is not too bloated.Zhang Fei himself was extremely strong, and he had to wear thicker clothes in the cold weather. He also wore a piece of plate armor and a helmet.

Zhang Fei looked to the north, and the army slowly arrived about ten miles west of Nanjiuju. It was probably located in the area of ​​Huangtaigang Town, Nanyang City in later generations. On the vast horizon, countless dense black shadows could already be seen.

"Cao Jun is here."

The surrounding soldiers exclaimed.

Zhang Fei said: "Brother, let me take the lead first!"

"not busy!"

Liu Bei waved his hand, turned his head to look at Zhuge Liang who was beside him, and said, "Military division."

Zhuge Liang's horse at this time was not a four-wheeled vehicle, but a BMW with slender hair and pure white color. Its name was White Rabbit. It was rumored that it was a descendant of Qin Shihuang's White Rabbit BMW, which was obtained by Liu Bei when he attacked Jingling.

This horse came from Guanzhong. Zhang Xiu got it and dedicated it to Liu Biao. During the Battle of Jingling, Zhang Fei and Huang Zu, who led 2 people, defeated Zhang Yun outside the city, forcing Zhang Yun to flee in a panic, while Liu Biao The white rabbit and horse given to him was resting in the stables in the backyard of the Jingling County Government Office due to acclimatization.

Among the rebellious army, Zhang Yun didn't have time to go back to the mansion to get the horse, so after abandoning the city and fleeing, Zhang Fei got the horse.But because Zhang Fei had dark clouds and snow, he handed it over to Liu Bei, and Liu Bei gave it to Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang was wearing a white robe and a white horse. He was handsome and handsome, like a banished immortal, with a heroic bearing. Hearing Liu Bei's words, he smiled and said, "Yide is eager to fight. My lord, let him lead the battle. I will be in command of the Chinese army."

"it is good."

Liu Bei said to Zhang Fei: "Third brother, you can lead the vanguard first, but you must not be reckless. If Cao Cao raises an army to besiege, you must come back immediately."

"Do not worry."

Zhang Fei laughed loudly and said, "I just went to check Cao Jun's movements first."

After finishing speaking, let out a whistling sound.

More than 1000 cavalry immediately appeared behind him, heading north.

Yes.

Liu Bei has cavalry.

But it was pitifully small, only about 500 people.

At present, Zhang Fei is in command, and he usually serves as a scout.

In today's war, it is natural to detect the situation first.

Zhang Fei led the cavalry and rushed out all at once, all the way north.

There are tens of thousands of troops behind him.

Wenpin led his [-] troops, located in the southeast of Liu Bei's main force, about one mile away from Liu Bei's army.

The Ganning Army and the Huangmenting Army were located to the west and northwest of Liu Bei's Army respectively. Among them, the Huangmenting Army was led by Shen Chen's uncle Deng Zhao and his father Shen Zhen.

The Nanyang Plain is like an endless prairie, but there are countless jungles growing on this vast prairie.

There are lush forests, hills, and fields and villages farther away. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, in the early morning, nearly 10 horses gathered in this wilderness, and their neat steps made the ground tremble.

Zhang Fei rode his horse to a small hill about four or five feet high and looked into the distance. At the end of the ground line, Cao Jun was getting closer and closer. A large number of cavalry scouts spread out. The two sides had already seen each other, and more than a thousand cavalry were heading towards Kill here.

"go!"

Zhang Fei roared, and the cavalry immediately followed him like a torrent.

Neither side chose to shoot in situ, because of the relationship between riding and shooting, the bows used by the cavalry are actually soft bows, without the support of stirrups, and they cannot shoot while running.Even if the range of standing archery is not as good as that of infantry's hard bows, when they draw their bows, the enemy will be killed, so it is better to charge against cavalry.

There were about the same number of them. At this moment, everyone was slapping the horse's butt wantonly, increasing the speed to the extreme. More than 1 horseshoes hit the ground, rolling up dust, and the sound was like rolling thunder.

After a while, the two sides collided like a flood, and the two black currents intertwined and shuttled, roaring like surging waves.

Zhang Fei rushed to the front, assassinated a cavalry general with a spear first, and then rushed into the enemy's formation, killing like a tiger into a herd of sheep. He swung the eight-point steel spear in his hand vigorously, but within a short time, there were already at least five cavalrymen. People die at his hands.

And three seconds after he rushed into the enemy's formation, the large troops of the two sides finally collided. In an instant, they were turned on their backs. The cavalry in the front row seemed to hit each other behind a steel plate, and the horses fell down one by one, neighing continuously Absolutely.

Immediately afterwards, the back row stepped on the corpses in the front row to confront the enemy head-on, and then various sounds of weapons handing over, horses neighing, crashing, screaming, shouting, and wailing filled the entire battlefield.

The two sides fought together, the dust was rolled up, and a large number of horses collided. Both sides lost their mobility and charging power. At this time, only the most primitive fighting remained.

The weather in the early morning of January was still relatively cold, but the cavalry on the battlefield, whether it was the blood sprinkled on their bodies, or the high concentration and tension in the life-and-death fight, all dispelled the cold, burning like a scorching sun own life.

At this time, a series of urgent horns suddenly sounded in the distance. With the sound of the horns, several cavalry cavalry in brown leather armor split out from the large square formation, and then marched forward in three rows. A circle of floating dust, galloping like flying, quickly hit this side with an extremely majestic and stern momentum.

Although the main force of Cao Cao's cavalry is in Jizhou in the north, he also brought about [-] cavalry to the south this time, plus the cavalry left behind in the south, there is still no problem in gathering [-] cavalry, and he has an absolute advantage in numbers.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!"

At this moment, the land in the west seemed to be shaking, and dozens of black shadows suddenly appeared on the vast plain.

Those black shadows rushed to a nearby hillside, watching from a high position.

Cao Cao in the north had also ordered the army to stop at this time, and he led Xu Chu and other personal guards to find a small hill, overlooking the south and west.

He saw about four miles away, Liu Bei's army in the south was slowly approaching the north like an overwhelming army, and farther to the west, under the reflection of the morning sun, countless black shadows appeared behind the black shadow. , all riding horses.

"Report!"

The scout came back and said, "Zhang Xiu led thousands of cavalry from the west."

"It really is Zhang Xiu."

Cao Cao turned his head and said to Xun You, Dong Zhao and others beside him: "It seems that Zhang Xiu has already taken refuge in Liu Bei, presumably this is Liu Bei's confidence to fight Gu Jue to the death."

Xun You said bitterly: "Duke Ming, now that Liu Bei's strength has greatly increased, with nearly 6 troops, it may be very difficult to win."

"But if we win, let alone Nanyang, we even have a chance to get the whole of Jingzhou."

Cao Cao said in a deep voice: "This is an opportunity, we have to try it no matter what, haven't we already thought about it? Pass my order, Mingjin."

Soon the tinkling sound of Mingjin sounded.

Cao Jun cavalry, who were still fighting fiercely on the front line, whistled, turned their horses and started to flee, leaving hundreds of corpses behind them, and the cavalry who were originally supporting also stopped and evacuated to the rear.

Cao Cao only had 1000 cavalry in total, and it was no problem to crush Liu Bei's [-] cavalry.But if Zhang Xiu launches a surprise attack from the flank while his cavalry is attacking Liu Bei, it will definitely be bad news for Cao Cao, so it is the best choice to let the cavalry withdraw at this time.

Seeing the enemy running away, Zhang Fei didn't chase after him. He couldn't really let him bring these more than 1000 cavalry to chase and kill the enemy to the main formation.Before he got close by that time, he would probably be shot into a sieve by Cao Jun's thousands of bows and crossbows, so he simply stopped in place and waited for Liu Bei's army to arrive from behind.

About a quarter of an hour later, Liu Bei's main force finally approached the battlefield. The distance between the two sides was about two miles, which is about 800 meters. At this time, Liu Bei opened his formation and moved forward slowly. meters.

Cao Cao looked at Liu Bei's camp and smiled.

Xun You, Dong Zhao, Mao Jie, Hua Xin and other counselors also laughed when they saw it, because Liu Bei's current situation was almost exactly as they had speculated.

I saw that Liu Beijun was confronting Cao Jun with his [-] main force, and Wenpin's army was located to the east of him, as if it was not affiliated with Liu Beijun at all, and it was about two miles away from him.Except for the Gan Ning army who was a little closer, even the Huangmen soldiers were extremely far away from the battlefield.

We must know that in ancient wars, although the more people, the better, all kinds of military formations and formations are particular. The front army, the middle army, the rear army, and the left and right wings often have formations, and the distances are generally regulated. .

Although fighting needs to be flexible and changeable, if the distance is too far away, the command given by the general may not be received from the first perspective, thus delaying the fleeting opportunity.

Therefore, seeing the formation of Liu Bei, Wenpin, Gan Ning, and Huangmen soldiers, it is natural to see that there is a certain problem with the three-party control.

"Let's go and meet Liu Bei."

Cao Cao turned the horse's head. His horse was also a white horse, only the hair on the four hooves was golden yellow, so the horse was named Huang Feidian.

In the battle of Wancheng that year, Cao Cao lost his shadow, but he had many horses, so he came here with a new horse.

Claw Huang Feidian leaped two feet away, descended the hillside after a few jumps, and walked towards the center of the formation with brisk steps, with only Xu Chu at his side.

Seeing this situation in the distance, Liu Bei knew that Cao Cao wanted to talk to him, so he summoned Zhang Fei and said to him, "Third brother, let's go, the two of us will meet Cao Cao together!"

After finishing speaking, he galloped out of the battle, Zhang Fei responded and followed behind him.

Soon the two sides approached.

There are only two people on both sides, Cao Cao with Xu Chu, Liu Bei with Zhang Fei, they are all old friends, they have known each other for a long time, so naturally they are not so hypocritical.

Seeing him coming, Cao Cao said, "Xuande, long time no see, I miss you so much."

Liu Bei laughed and said: "Brother Lao Mengde's concept is good for daily life."

Brother Meng De?
Cao Cao was unhappy.

When I was in Xudu, you kept calling me Mr. Cao.

Do you think you have a high status now?

He said indifferently: "I heard that you have a good life in the south? Thanks to Liu Biao's support, there are tens of thousands of soldiers now?"

Liu Bei smiled and said: "Naturally, I can't compare to brother Meng De, who dominates the north and has millions of people."

"Ha ha ha ha."

Cao Cao laughed and stroked his beard and said: "Xuande, Gu said at the beginning that the heroes of the world are only the king and Cao Er. Today I will hunt in Jingzhou, and I will sit and watch the success or failure!"

Liu Bei then said with a smile: "Brother Meng De has the tendency to swallow the world, but now the Yuan family is still in the land of Youyan, and even the north has not yet calmed down, why did brother Meng De insist on coming to the south? Isn’t this just chasing after the end?”

Cao Cao shook his head and said, "Yuan Benchu's son is like a porpoise dog, and he is nothing to be afraid of. Only you, Xuande, make me tremble with fear. If you get Jingzhou, you will be alone, why not go south to drink horses?"

At this time, the two still maintained the basic etiquette. Although they spoke to Maimang, they spoke slowly, and Cao Cao did not break his defense to the point of directly scolding Liu Bei.

At their level, scolding each other is pure loss.

Unless it was during the Battle of Hanzhong in his later years, Cao Cao could no longer stop Liu Bei's three-legged confrontation, and when he met Liu Bei for the last time before the battle, he was so angry that he yelled, otherwise he naturally had his bearing.

Therefore, when Cao Cao came to see Liu Bei today, he came to show his respect for Liu Bei besides reminiscing with his old friends.

Yes.

Cao Cao respected Liu Bei enough.

If he doesn't respect Liu Bei, he won't slow down his pace of unifying the north and come to Nanyang.

In fact, occupying Nanyang is secondary, and the most important thing is not letting Liu Bei get Jingzhou.

Even if Liu Bei can be killed and this hidden danger can be eliminated, let alone Nanyang, so what if the entire Jingzhou is temporarily handed over to Sun Quan?
Because in Cao Cao's heart, Liu Bei's threat is ten times, a hundred times, ten thousand times higher than Sun Quan's!
The heroes of the world, only Shi Jun and Cao Er.

Cao Cao has always valued Liu Bei very much, not for his personal ability, but for his reputation and personal charm.

He believes that if Liu Bei is not eliminated, sooner or later, Liu Bei will become his confidant's serious trouble.

That's why he gave up attacking Youzhou and Bingzhou, and led the army to Nanyang.

As for Sun Zhongmou?
At most he deserves to be his son.

It can't be compared with myself and Liu Bei at all.

So Cao Cao must solve Liu Bei, even if it is to let Sun Quan get Jingzhou.

"It seems that I made brother Mengde's life difficult."

Hearing this, Liu Bei laughed and said, "It's a great honor to be able to make Brother Meng De feel so worried. But Meng De is a traitor of the Han Dynasty, imprisoning the emperor, killing the empress, princes and ministers, and serving as the clan. The order to hunt down the thieves can only make brother Mengde suffer, today's battle is overwhelmed, and you want to spread justice to the world, and win or lose, this is the beginning!"

After finishing speaking, he reined in his horse and turned his head, leaving a sentence: "Brother Meng De, I can do it for myself!"

"Ok?"

Xu Chu who was beside Cao Cao was furious when he heard Liu Bei say that Cao Cao was a traitor. He reached for the knife in his waist and prepared to surprise Liu Bei.

Zhang Fei over there opened his eyes wide and wide, and glared at him with murderous intent in his eyes.

Xu Chuyi was not afraid, and was about to fight.

Cao Cao patted Xu Chu's shoulder lightly, and said, "Zhongkang, go back. Zhang Fei is the enemy of ten thousand people. In front of him, you cannot take down Liu Bei."

After all, he reined in his horse and turned around.

Cao and Liu parted ways and left with their backs facing each other.

This farewell.

Since life and death meet each other.

The friendship that Cao Cao admired Liu Bei in Xudu back then has also disappeared since then.

(End of this chapter)