Zhang Xiu, the Overlord of the Three Kingdoms

In this round of confrontation, the losses of the Northern Army were even greater, and there were less than 2,000 people left with Zhang Fei at this moment. The losses of the Cao cavalry were even more heavy in comparison, and in this round of encounters, the Cao cavalry lost at least 3,000 people.

Zhang Fei saw the soldiers around him who were still high-spirited, and couldn't help but shout: "Brothers, let Cao Thief see the power

of the iron cavalry of the Northern Army today! The whole army is ready to charge!" In Zhang Fei's roar, the remaining 2,000 iron cavalry of the Northern Army immediately formed a team, ready to charge again.

Zhang Fei was immediately at the forefront of the military formation with the Zhangba snake spear in his hand, his eyes were wide open, and there was only a raging battle intent in his eyes. The two thousand iron horsemen behind Zhang Fei were all like him. The Northern Army does not care about being afraid at all, for the Northern Army, dying on the battlefield is the most glorious destination for soldiers.

In just a few moments, the Northern Army was completed. "The Iron Cavalry Charge Battle! The Northern Army is invincible!" Zhang Fei shouted with his eight snake spears held high.

Ho!!! The iron cavalry of the Northern Army then shouted violently. At this moment, the Northern Expeditionary Army exuded a momentum that made people's hearts tremble. That's fearless bravery.

Seeing this scene, Cao's cavalry couldn't help but be shocked, and the entire cavalry team seemed to pause as a whole. Cao Cao, who was watching the battle in the rear, couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "The Northern Army really deserves to be the elite of the world!" The strategists around Cao Cao were all frowning, while the generals showed a complicated expression of disbelief and admiration.

Zhang Fei was ready to lead two thousand cavalry to launch the final charge! Zhang Fei understood that at this moment he had no way to lead the cavalry back to Huguan, not only him, but all the cavalry officers and soldiers understood the current situation. There is no way back, they decided to fight to the death! The soldiers of the Northern Army will never surrender

Just when the cavalry of the Northern Army was about to launch the final charge, the 'meteor shower' suddenly appeared again, and then they came into close contact with the cavalry of the Cao Army, in the chaos of a burst of horse neighing and shouting, the cavalry of the Cao Army was suddenly hit by a large area, but a few people in the cavalry of the Northern Army were hit by stones and died, after all, the two armies were not very far apart, and there was no way to grasp the accuracy of the long-range attack in this era.

It turned out that Tian Feng ordered the catapult troops to re-attack to cover the attacking cavalry troops. When Zhang Fei led the cavalry to attack, Tian Feng was worried that the catapult troops would accidentally injure their own people, so he ordered the catapult troops to temporarily stop attacking.

Cao Jun obviously did not expect that the catapult troops of the Northern Army would attack at this time, and there was a commotion. Some of the cavalry wanted to retreat, while the generals at all levels were shouting hoarsely, trying to stabilize the morale of the troops.

This is definitely an opportunity for Zhang Fei. At this moment, the gate of Huguan suddenly opened, and Tian Feng shouted at the top of the city gate: "General, hurry up and enter the city!" Seeing

this, Zhang Fei hurriedly ordered: "Brothers, let's teach Cao Jun a lesson another day! Go back to the pass!" After receiving this order, the expressions of all the cavalry couldn't help but relax, although they were not afraid of dying on the battlefield, but it was happy to be able to die after all.

The two thousand iron horsemen immediately turned their horses' heads and ran towards the gate, while Zhang Fei fell to the rear, responsible for breaking the rear.

Seeing this, Cao Cao, who was in the rear of the Chinese army, immediately ordered urgently: "Beat the drum and give the order! Urge the cavalry to assault, and not be afraid of the delay of the battle!"

Then the war drums in Cao's army suddenly changed the rhythm and sounded. When the general who led the cavalry unit heard the sound of the war drums, his face couldn't help but change, and he immediately shouted, "The whole army will charge with me immediately!" As he spoke, the leading general raised his spear and chased after the cavalry of the Northern Army, and almost at the same time, the cavalry of the Cao Army was also busy adjusting their horses in the confusion, following closely behind the general. Cao Jun behaved a little panicked, it turned out that the war drums played by Cao Jun at this time had a famous name, called 'Absolute Drum', as long as the Absolute Drum sounded, the soldiers who went out of the battle could only fight bravely, otherwise they would be beheaded by military law.

At this moment, Cao's army was only less than thirty meters away from the northern army, and this distance was very dangerous.

Tian Feng, who was standing on the tower of the city gate, couldn't help frowning, and his face looked very anxious. Immediately, I saw him shouting an order: "Order the halberd infantry to prepare at the gate of the city! Meet the enemy's cavalry! Order the warriors of the horizontal sword to immediately go up to the city wall and prepare for battle! Order the crossbowmen to push the crossbow carts out for me!"

With Tian Feng's order, the northern army immediately took action.

Outside the city, the cavalry of the Cao army maintained a distance of thirty meters from the northern cavalry of the same expedition and pursued behind. If such a distance had been maintained, there would have been no way for Cao Jun to arrive in time, but this would not have been the case.

A moment later, when the cavalry rushed to the gate of the city, the speed could not help but drop suddenly. It turned out that the width of the city gate was limited, and it was impossible for the cavalry to maintain their speed and rush in, so they could only reduce the speed first.

Although the cavalry of the Northern Army slowed down, it only took a moment for them to enter the Huguan Pass. However, just this moment was enough time for Cao's cavalry to catch up.

Zhang Fei led hundreds of cavalry to the rear, and they were preparing to break off.

The Cao army was getting closer and closer, and when the distance was only ten meters, Zhang Fei, who was immediately under the city, suddenly heard Tian Feng's shout behind him: "Hit! Hit me hard!"

Immediately Zhang Fei saw the rain of stones falling with a roar, and at the same time, the arrows as dense as flying locusts flew overhead with a piercing scream, and disappeared into the cavalry of the Cao army. The density of this rain of arrows is amazing, if the archers release the arrows, at least tens of thousands of archers can achieve such an effect, the northern army does not have so many archers, the reason why they can send such an attack is all by a new weapon that is not available in this era, the ballista.

The ballista is a kind of equipment that uses a spring as a launch power, the appearance is like a large wooden box with hundreds of round holes, and the performance of firing more than 100 sharp arrows at a time, the power is extremely terrifying, but the shortcomings of this kind of ballista are also more obvious, that is, it is more bulky, and the interval between two rounds of shooting is relatively long.

Under this breathless and dense attack, the cavalry of the Cao army suddenly turned on their backs, and the galloping long snake formation was cut into two sections. The large force of Cao's cavalry was blocked, and only a few dozen people were still roaring and rushing towards Zhang Fei, among which two members of Cao's cavalry led the generals.

Seeing this, Zhang Fei did not hesitate at all, and immediately led hundreds of horsemen to meet him.

At the same time, the main force of Cao's army did not stop advancing and continued to charge forward, but the rain of arrows unleashed by the ballista not only caused them heavy casualties, but also caused their advance to slow down sharply.

Zhang Fei brandished the Zhangba snake spear and roared into the Cao army first, only to see that the spear was hit sharply, and seven or eight Cao army cavalry were picked off their horses. At the same time, the two generals of the Cao army swung their swords and pounced on Zhang Fei from the left and right. The three of them immediately got into a scuffle.

Seven or eight rounds later, Zhang Fei forced back a Cao general on the left, and then the spear in his hand quickly changed direction, and poked at the Cao general on the right with lightning speed.

Cao Jiang couldn't react in time, and was poked through the chest on the spot and dropped off the horse.

Seeing this, the other Cao General couldn't help but be horrified, even if he wanted to escape. However, before he could run far, he was killed by Zhang Fei with an arrow.

At the same time, dozens of Cao cavalry who followed these two Cao generals were also killed by the Zhenbei Iron Cavalry and almost all of them were wiped out, and the few lucky ones who escaped were fleeing at this time.

At this moment, Tian Feng shouted from the tower of the city gate: "General, hurry up and enter

the city!" Zhang Fei turned his head and found that the large army had all entered the city. So he raised his voice and said, "Let's go back!"

Immediately, Zhang Fei led hundreds of cavalry after the break galloped into Huguan. At this moment, Tian Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, the main cavalry of the Cao army finally broke through the blockade after paying heavy casualties. But when they rushed to the gates, the gates of the pot were shut.

Cao's cavalry couldn't stop the momentum in a short time, and a large group of people couldn't help but huddle together at the city gate.

When Tian Feng saw this scene, his eyes couldn't help but light up. "Ballistae and crossbowmen will fight me desperately!" Tian Feng roared excitedly.

Immediately, arrows poured down like a torrential rain, and those Cao cavalry at the gate of the city suddenly fell into great bad luck! Unsheltered, they were shot down by the rain of arrows one by one.

Cao's cavalry couldn't help but become confused, and then retreated like a swarm. Only a corpse and a scattered ownerless war horse were left at the city gate.

Cao Cao's face was pale. He couldn't accept that he was still escaped by the other party's general at such a cost.

Zhang Fei led the cavalry to attack this time, which lasted a short time, but the fight was very fierce. Less than 2,000 of the 5,000 cavalry of the Northern Army returned to Huguan, and the cavalry of the Cao Army also paid the price of nearly 10,000, but almost half of the 10,000 men were killed by long-range weapons such as catapults and ballistas.

The battle between the two cavalry seems to have taken a long time, but in fact it has only lasted a short time. When Zhang Fei retreated into Huguan, Cao's siege infantry was still about forty meters away from the city wall.

At this moment, due to the problem of the angle of fire, the catapult was no longer able to attack the siege force of the Cao army.

The Northern Expeditionary Army is already in full array. Most of the crossbow carts had been pushed up to the city, and the crossbowmen, sword warriors, sword and shield men, and halberd bearers were all in place. Looking at the city wall from afar, I saw a forest of swords and guns.

Tian Feng did not order the crossbow cart to attack right now, because at this moment, Cao Jun was using a shield to protect the top of his head and the front, and the attack effect of using the crossbow cart was not necessarily much better than that of a crossbowman holding a steel crossbow, but it would consume too many arrows, which could be said to be worth the loss.

The crossbowmen are already starting to snipe. Under normal circumstances, the archers of the besieging side should have fired back with arrows at this time, but at this moment Cao's besieging troops did not do so. The reason is very simple, they have already seen the power of the crossbow chariots of the Northern Army, where can they dare to remove their shields and fire back with arrows! Although they seem to be in a position of being beaten passively now, their casualties will be much smaller.

When Cao Jun advanced to a distance of only a dozen meters from the city wall, Cao Jun's sword and shield hands suddenly dispersed, and then the foot soldiers carrying the cloud ladder rushed towards the city wall with a loud roar, while the soldiers pushing the rushing cart rushed towards the city gate.