Lu Bu's main force advanced towards the battlefield in a dense phalanx.
Cao Cao on the hillock squinted his eyes and looked at the army from a distance with his hand on the awning.
The distance was still far away and he could not see the armor and weapons clearly.
But the lineup is neat and rigorous, and connoisseurs can see it at a glance.
Lu Bu's two thousand valley-building garrison troops were stationed in the formation, including one thousand spearmen, five hundred short spear and shield soldiers, and five hundred archers.
Regardless of the spearmen or the short spearmen, everyone is equipped with a short sword of one or two feet hanging on the waist.
The whole body is covered with armor, the head, shoulder and shoulder armors are complete, and even the leggings are covered with armor plates.
On both wings were five thousand newly trained Yanzhou soldiers, and the armor was not so good.
When Lu Bu's army approached, Cao Cao took a breath of cold air.
When did Lu Bu become so wealthy?
Ordinary infantry were actually equipped with a full set of armor.
Yuan Shao of Jizhou, whom he envied, had a so-called 100% armored army.
The soldiers actually wore vests made of armor plates.
But this fine army was about to be destroyed.
The opponent's cavalry was pitiful, just over 400 light cavalry.
Among the more than 10,000 ambush troops behind him, the cavalry accounted for 20%, plus the cavalry of Xia Houyuan's tribe.
After a roundabout way, everything was over in one rush.
Cao Cao thought this way Lu Bu's array moved forward quickly, and Xia Houyuan quickly ordered the military formations on the four sides of Xue Lan's army to withdraw and rearrange themselves to form one military formation.
When Lu Bu and Xue Lan meet up, Cao Cao's ambush troops will come out from behind the flanking hillock to give him a fatal blow.
"Attack" Cao Cao saw that the flanks of Lu Bu's military formation were displayed in front of him, and coldly issued the military order.
Cao Jun, who had been preparing for a long time behind the hillock, quickly climbed over the hillock and charged towards Lu Bu's flank.
Xiahou Yuan's army also began to advance towards Lu Bu from the front.
Cao Cao's cavalry attacked Lu Bu's back.
"Change of formation" Lu Bu saw Cao Jun emerging from the hillock and also issued a military order.
The seven thousand soldiers quickly changed their formations, and in a moment a hollow square formation was constructed.
Next to Xue Lan's round formation, there were eight rows of square formations composed of one row of spear and shield soldiers and seven rows of spear soldiers on all four sides.
The outermost one The first layer is a gun and shield soldier.
A few hundred cavalrymen fled to the other side under Lu Bu's order.
"Let's set up the turtle formation again."
Cao Cao said mockingly, "Pass my general's orders not to attack but to besieged, and to build fortifications on the spot.
You set up the turtle formation, and I will catch the turtle in an urn."
Under Cao Cao's order, the two men The tens of thousands of Cao's troops were divided into several formations and spread out on all sides, surrounding Lu Bu's hollow square formation and Xue Lan's barrier.
Groups of cavalry galloped around to guard.
However, the more than 20,000 soldiers seemed much weaker when they were pulled like this.
Cao Jun in the front was alert to the movements of Lu Bu's army, and Cao Jun in the rear began to dig trenches and build barriers.
Cao Cao was triumphantly waiting to see the good show.
Suddenly, a scout covered in blood galloped towards him.
He dismounted when he was dozens of meters away from Cao Cao.
Only then did Cao Cao realize that he had several arrows on his body.
The horse was also hit by an arrow in the butt.
He quickly ordered someone to drag him over, but he had already died.
Cao Cao was thinking something was wrong, something bad happened.
A group of people and horses appeared in his field of vision.
The iron man and the iron horse were exactly five hundred kidnappers and horses, and two hundred iron floats were massacred.
He didn't even have time to think.
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A batch of arrows had already flown to him.
A soldier hugged him and spit a mouthful of blood into his face.
An arrow shot through the soldier's chest, but missed Cao Cao's breastplate.
The people around Cao Cao fell down.
The iron pagoda was like an awl, piercing through the square formation on one side of Cao's army in one stroke.
The iron hoofs kicked the heads of the soldiers who were digging holes into pieces, the horses' bodies knocked down the standing soldiers, and the carbine picked up the corpses of the soldiers with flying swords.
The kidnapping horse did not attack the phalanx, but ran along the outer edge of Cao's army's formation.
The horse bow in his hand fired arrows one after another, and each arrow would injure one person.
Soon, the cavalry horses encountered Cao Jun's cavalry.
A large number of Cao Jun's cavalry were shot off their horses more than ten battles away.
These Cao Jun cavalry were light cavalry and wore leather armor, and they could not withstand such a powerful arrow.
The few Cao Cao cavalrymen who were shot would be stabbed under their horses by the opponent's horse.
There were also many people in Cao's army who fired cold arrows, which naturally had no effect on Tiefu Tu, nor on the kidnap horses galloping around the perimeter at high speed.
On the contrary, many of his own people were injured.
Then, the Yanzhou cavalry of Lu Bu's army who had escaped earlier also returned with a carbine.
The cavalry of Cao's army on the periphery had been killed by the kidnapper's horse.
They entered Cao's army without any hindrance.
Then another group of cavalry arrived, but this cavalry was very strange.
They rushed to the front and rear of Cao Cao's army, suddenly jumped off their horses, fought on foot, and rushed forward with their guns drawn.
It turned out to be the 700 dead soldiers led by Gao Shun. .
Cao Jun's infantry fell in layers under their spears.
Seeing this scene, Xia Houyuan roared and got on his mount.
He wanted to go out in person to save the situation.
Le Jin, who had just bandaged his wounds, climbed onto his mount without even wearing any armor.
Another deputy general, Li Dian, also got weapons from his own soldiers.
At this time, Lu Bu ordered: "The whole army, attack from all sides."
The Tiefu Tu and the trapped camp were still shuttled back and forth among Cao's army.
Once the Tiefu Tu passed through, it was a bloody alley, and when it passed through the trapped camp, it was a road of corpses.
Cao's army no longer had a formation, and they were huddled together in groups in the east and in groups in the west.
On the verge of collapse.
When Lu Bu's four-sided phalanx attacked in four directions, Cao's army collapsed completely.
Xue Lanjun also took advantage of the situation and rushed out.
At this time, except for Lu Bu's four spear phalanx and the shield soldiers protecting its two wings.
The entire battlefield was a melee, and Cao's soldiers fled in all directions.
In the end, when there were not many enemies in front of the pikemen, they also joined the ranks of chasing the broken troops.
Lu Bu had already urged the red rabbit horse under his crotch to jump out of the formation.
Wei Ji, Cheng Lian and more than 20 personal soldiers urged the horses to follow him and kill him.
They went to kill Cao Cao's banner.
At this time, Cao Cao was already running towards Juancheng under the protection of Dian Wei and Xiahou Dun.
Three Cao generals and their own soldiers stopped in front of Lu Bu and others.
They were Xia Houyuan, Li Dian and Le Jin.
Without saying a word, the two sides fought together.
Lu Bu faced Xia Houyuan, and in just three rounds, he knocked Xia Houyuan off his horse with a halberd.
If he hadn't captured him alive, he would have beheaded him in one round.
Then Lu Bu wielded Fang Tian's painted halberd and killed more than a dozen of the opponent's soldiers.
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Wei Ji and Cheng Lian's soldiers freed up their hands and stepped forward to surround Li Dian and Le Jin.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Li Dian turned his horse and ran away.
Le Jin also wanted to escape, but one of Lu Bu's soldiers flew out a carbine and easily pierced his naked body, killing him on the spot under the horse.
In this battle, Cao Jun, who was killed only by ghosts and howling like wolves, filled the land with mourning.
After Cao Cao fled back to the city, he relied on the city to gather more than 10,000 stragglers.
At one count, he lost nearly 10,000 people, which was close to 30% of Cao's army.
At this point, Cao Cao closed the city gates tightly and stopped fighting for several days.
On this day, Cao Cao, who had been depressed for several days, received a mysterious guest
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