Chengyu also encountered a lot of enemies along the way. He also killed two of Sun Cejun's lieutenants. The only one who did not gain much was Lü Bu.
Lü Bu chased all the way, but from time to time, Sun Cejun's soldiers would appear from the hills. They would lead a group of 100 soldiers to stop Lü Bu's Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. Lü Bu took the lead, so these scattered soldiers were naturally not a concern. However, the appearance of these people made the Lvbu's Army slow down. The path that Lü Bu chose was originally very rugged. Now that this situation occurred, their speed naturally could not be fast.
However, Lü Bu was not angry. Because the more difficult the path was, the more likely there was a big fish in front. Perhaps Sun Ce was in front. Thinking of this, the killing intent in Lü Bu's eyes became more intense.
The three groups of Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry directly cut Sun Cejun's scattered soldiers in half. The number of people who died in the hands of Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was no less than 10,000. The rest were trampled to death, killed each other, and surrendered. Sun Ce's attack on Wan Cheng city could be considered as a failure. Out of the 100,000 soldiers, except for the 10,000 elite soldiers in the Wan Cheng Navy camp, the 5,000 soldiers under Sun Ce, and the 5,000 mysterious troops that did not show their faces, the rest of the soldiers were either defeated or dead. The 70,000 soldiers plus the 10,000 Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry were almost completely annihilated. Only less than 10,000 deserters escaped back to the Wan Cheng Navy camp.
After fighting for so many years, this was Sun Cejun's first defeat, and it was a complete defeat.
The resistance was getting stronger and stronger. Previously, there were only 200 Sun Cejun's soldiers blocking the road. Now, there were more and more. They began to appear in groups. These were all elite troops. Sun Ce was sending them to their deaths! That means that Sun Cejun's big fish was not far away.
"It's just in front!" Lü Bu saw a large group of soldiers gathered together in front of him. Among those soldiers, there was a young man wearing a long robe.
"Not Sun Ce?!" Lü Bu frowned. This young man was a scholar. It was not because of the scholar's robe, but because of the young man's aura. Lü Bu knew that he was not a warrior. But when he saw the soldiers protecting him, he knew that this young man was an important person in Sun Cejun's army....
"All troops, attack!" The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry soldiers behind Lü Bu increased their speed. Their warhorses passed through obstacles one by one. They were the kings of cavalry. When they were together with their warhorses, they were one. Although the rugged paths were difficult to traverse, they mastered the technique after walking for a while. The warhorses' speed suddenly increased.
In addition, after this section, there was an open area. It was enough for the cavalry to maneuver.
"Huh?!" Lü Bu took the lead. His eyesight was very good. He could see the expression of the young scholar who was surrounded by Sun Cejun's soldiers. Indifferent! Yes, it was a kind of indifference. That kind of expression was not the kind of expression one would have when being chased. Instead, it was a very calm expression. Lü Bu could not help but feel uneasy.
"It's time!" The one surrounded by Sun Cejun's soldiers was Lu Su, Lu Zijing. He was wearing a long robe. He was Sun Cejun's military advisor. Naturally, he would be protected by these Sun Cejun's soldiers.
He looked at the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry behind him indifferently. The bloodthirsty aura of the Wolf Cavalry made Lu Su feel a little scared. However, he felt that he had the situation under control.
"What!" Lü Bu finally knew where his uneasiness came from. The warhorse galloped past a rugged depression. Suddenly, the horse staggered and fell down with Lü Bu.
"Falling Horse Pit!" This was a way to deal with cavalry. Compared to the barricades in front of the main camp, the falling horse pit was much more powerful. The barricades could at most prevent cavalry from attacking. However, once a cavalry stepped into the falling horse pit, very few would come out alive. Sun Cejun's soldiers had already dug a large pit here. The bottom of the pit was filled with upside-down wooden stakes. These stakes were very sharp. Not to mention humans, even if a thick animal in the forest fell into the pit, it would be pierced through and bleed to death. The top of the pit was covered with straw and mud. If one did not look carefully, one would not notice it.
Lü Bu took the lead and fell into the falling horse pit for the first time. The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry behind him could not stop their horses in time. One by one, they fell into the pit. For a moment, screams filled the air.
"Did it work?" Lu Su was hopeful. However, he knew that it would not be so simple.
Sure enough, among the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry that fell into the pit, a warhorse suddenly jumped out. On the back of the warhorse, a golden-armored warhorse holding a halberd appeared again. He actually jumped out of the pit.
Usually, people would fall and die. Even if they were lucky enough to survive, it would be very difficult for them to come out without help. However, Lü Bu actually jumped out with his warhorse. Was he still human?
Lu Su suppressed the shock in his heart and calmed himself down. Behind him, the other Bing Province Wolf Cavalry had also discovered this pit. Before the pit, the Wolf Cavalry pulled their warhorses' heads up high and let their warhorses leap into the air. They directly jumped over the pit and jumped to the opposite side, or directly bypassed the pit and rushed over from the side.
"Sigh!" Lu Su was a little disappointed. However, he did not expect this trap to really hurt Lü Bu. "Lü Bu, Lü Fengxian!" Lu Su waved the war flag in his hand. In front of him, groups of soldiers raised their shields and formed a shield wall. Their spears also formed a forest of spears in front of them.
These things could be considered as a defense against cavalry. They could turn themselves into a hedgehog or a tortoise. If the cavalry wanted to bite them, they would have to be prepared to be stabbed.
"These won't do!" Lü Bu licked his lips. He wanted to first stain himself with the blood of this Lu Su Army scholar. The falling horse pit just now killed no less than 50 Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry riders. For these wolves, revenge was the most important thing.
"Of course these won't do. What if we add this?" Numerous figures suddenly stood up from the hills on both sides. There were no less than 5000 people on the hills. These were all soldiers. They were all wearing Sun Cejun's uniform. These people were ambushers. They held longbows in their hands. The arrows were already nocked. They were aiming at Lü Bu's Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry.
"Release!" Lu Su waved the war flag in his hand. Countless arrows rained down from the hills towards the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. The dense rain of arrows made one's hair stand on end.
"Too whimsical!" Lü Bu's Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry would not back down. "Raise your shields!" The outermost layer of Bing Province Wolf Riders quickly picked up a huge shield from the side of their warhorses. Not everyone in Bing Province Wolf Riders had a huge shield on their warhorses. Only a few of them had a huge shield. Moreover, these shields were not for themselves but for their warhorses.
"Shua Shua Shua!" The arrows rained down and hit the huge shields. Most of the arrows were blocked. Even if some of the arrows penetrated the shields and hit the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, they did not cause any damage. This was because they were not ordinary cavalry. They were heavy armored cavalry.
"Sure enough, this is the case!" Lu Su did not panic. His eyes swept over the approaching Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. Those heavy armor and huge shields were the same as the City Guard of the King Of Shu. They were the heavy armored Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry! Lu Su's thoughts were still on the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry's appearance on the horizon. They slaughtered the 10,000 Sun Cejun's troops. Although the Sun Cejun's troops were defeated, it was impossible for them to not cause any damage. There would always be some people who would explode in the face of death. However, in the end, less than 100 out of the 10,000 troops escaped.
"Humph!" Lü Bu coldly snorted. If the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was a sharp sword, then Lü Bu would be the tip of the sword. The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry finally collided with Lu Su's infantry. The two war machines began to fight. Lü Bu was the tip of the sword and quickly tore open a hole in the infantry. Those huge shields and spears were nothing in front of Lü Bu. No one could stop Lü Bu for even half a second.
Lu Bu wanted to create another victory. He wanted to tear this hole open and use this hole to become the enemy's fatal wound. The cavalry's tactic was to rely on the momentum of the warhorse to separate the enemy one by one and then devour them one by one. If there were too many enemies and the cavalry stubbornly attacked, then they would choke themselves to death instead of devouring the enemy.
Lü Bu would not make such a mistake. In Lü Bu's surprise, the hole that was just torn open began to slowly heal. It should not be said that it was healing, but it directly gave up on the hole and formed a square formation. Once again, the shield wall and spear forest were formed.
"This person is good at commanding troops!" Lü Bu's first impression of the young scholars was like this. But so what if they could command troops? In the wilderness, cavalry was the king. Cavalry was the nightmare of all infantry. In the era of cold weapons, cavalry was the king. Why did those nomadic tribes often come knocking? Why was their overall strength so weak? They did not know how to forge weapons, but they could still cause great damage to the big men. That was because they were good at riding and raising horses. The mobility of the warhorse and its momentum were not something that infantry could make up for.
And now, Lü Bu's cavalry was the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. If cavalry was the king of cold weapons, then the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was the king of cavalry.
There were about 3000 soldiers on the hill, but they could not do much damage to the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. This was especially so when the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry charged into the formation of Sun Cejun's infantry. Now, there were about 5000 Sun Cejun's infantry in the wilderness. In the eyes of Lü Bu, the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was only the glory of the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry.
The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry could swallow them whole. No matter how good this young man was at commanding troops, it was useless in the face of absolute strength.
It was another charge. Although Lu Su reacted quickly this time, he still lost no less than a thousand men. Of the five thousand men, only three thousand were left.
"You still want to struggle?" Lü Bu looked at Lu Su with sparkling eyes. If this continued, the entire army would be annihilated in less than an hour.
"The real battle has not begun yet!" Lu Su was also looking at Lu Bu. He had also thought about the strength of cavalry, but he did not expect them to be so strong. In just two rounds, they were able to kill a thousand people. And these thousand casualties only brought less than a hundred casualties to Lu Bu. Of the less than a hundred casualties, there were also those who fell from the horse pit. The rest of the casualties were only minor injuries, there were no serious injuries.
"Oh?!" Lü Bu frowned. What did this young man mean? Could it be that he wanted the 1000 soldiers on the hill to come down as well? How were you going to use a bunch of lightly armored infantry? They were going to die as a group!
"Dong dong dong!" The ground began to tremble. This tremor was very rhythmic. Jiangnan was filled with wet soil, so the tremors were not strong. However, Lü Bu, the Wolf King, was familiar with war horses and cavalry tactics since young. He immediately reacted.
"Cavalry! There is a large number of cavalry! " The other Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry also reacted, especially those who had followed Lü Bu from Bingzhou and Wuyuan. Outside of Bingzhou, their main opponents were the foreign tribes. These foreign tribes relied on cavalry. Therefore, cavalry battles were very common outside the Great Wall. But now, there was such a tremor in the Jiangnan Plain.
This tremor was definitely not less than 5000 soldiers. 5000 cavalry! How could it be? Lujiang was now the battlefield between Lü Bu's Army and Sun Cejun. Lü Bu had 5000 soldiers under his command. They were the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. If this was not the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, then it could only be Sun Cejun's cavalry.
"They are really willing to do so!" Lü Bu's mouth turned cold. This was the Jiangnan Plain. The waterways were crisscrossed and water battles were the main focus. War horses were mainly produced in the north, in Bingzhou, Youzhou, Liangzhou, and Yongzhou in the northwest. It was really amazing for cavalry to appear in Jingzhou, Yangzhou, and Yuzhou. A war horse in Youzhou and Bingzhou could be sold for a few dozen gold. In Jiangnan, it could be sold for a hundred gold or even less. Now that Hebei was occupied by Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao had always wanted to conquer the Central Plains and become an emperor. How could he allow war horses to be sold? Therefore, Youzhou and Bingzhou had banned the trade of war horses.
To the east, there was a Gongsun Du from Liaodong who was selling war horses. However, Gongsun Du could not sell them. The land route was blocked by Yuan Shao.
Although war horses were still being sold in Liangzhou, they could not be transported to Jiangnan. There were only two ways to transport war horses from Liangzhou. One was to go through Jiayu Pass and go through Hanzhong. Regardless of whether you took the water route or the land route, you would have to reach Liu Biao's territory in Jingzhou. Liu Biao and Sun Ce had been fighting for many years. Once the war horses reached Liu Biao's territory, they would be gone. The second way was to go out of Chang 'an through Luoyang. That was Cao Cao's territory. Cao Cao had always regarded Sun Ce as a great enemy. Would he leave the war horses in Sun Ce's territory?
Then the only way was to go by sea from Gongsun Du's territory in Liaodong. Ah, the sea! Those giant warships in the Yangtze River were nothing more than small boats on the sea. Especially the junk ships, they could not leave the sea at all. They would capsize in the slightest wind and waves.
Setting sail from Jiangdong to Liaodong to buy warhorses, and then returning from Liaodong was very dangerous. If they encountered a storm, they would be wiped out. Each of these warhorses was worth no less than a hundred gold coins!
A large flag with the word "Yu" on it was raised in the wilderness. Beside the flag, there were two flags with the word "Yu" on it.
"Heavy cavalry!" Lü Bu finally saw Sun Ce's secret unit of heavy cavalry. The heavy armor weighed at least a hundred pounds. Only good horses could pull heavy armor. These 5,000 cavalry should be the limit of Jiangdong.
That's right, these 5,000 cavalry were the secret unit of Sun Ce's 30,000 main force. Their purpose was to deal with the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was a heavy cavalry. Even if they could not defeat the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, they could still escape. Sun Ce originally planned to capture Wan Cheng and rely on these 5,000 heavy cavalry to encircle and suppress the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry.
As long as the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was destroyed, Lü Bu would have nothing to worry about. The reason why the Lvbu's Army was a headache was because of their high mobility. Once they engaged in guerrilla warfare, no one would be able to withstand it. 5,000 Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry could travel a hundred miles in a day. They could be hundreds of miles away during the day and suddenly appear in front of your gate at night. Who would be able to withstand the charge of 5,000 Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry? At that time, you would not be able to catch up and you would not be able to defeat them. You could only grit your teeth and swallow it.
Lü Bu once used the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry's high mobility to conquer half of Yanzhou. He almost blocked Lao Cao's escape route. Therefore, Sun Ce was worried about the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry.
However, before they could encircle the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, Sun Ce was unable to conquer Wan Cheng. Therefore, all the plans were disrupted. The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was the world's number one cavalry. Lao Cao's Ferocious Cavalry once fought with the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. Cao Chun died and half of the Ferocious Cavalry died. Therefore, without absolute certainty, Sun Ce would not take them out. Therefore, after conquering Wan Cheng's navy camp, he placed these heavy cavalry in the navy camp.
Now that Lü Bu had fallen into Lu Su's trap, Sun Ce made a gamble. He let Taishi Ci go to the navy camp and pull out the heavy cavalry.
"Now is the real beginning!" Lu Su looked straight at Lü Bu. Cavalry can only be dealt with by cavalry. Lu Su's previous actions were only to delay Lü Bu. Now that his work is done, the next step is to look at the 5,000 Sun Cejun's heavy cavalry. In the end, whether the wolves will be hunted on the spot or become food for the wolves will depend on this battle.
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