Chapter 204

Xu Zhu led his troops in a charge.

The two collided in an instant, clashing fiercely!

Over there, Chen Dao and Wu Wu Anguo were already locked in battle with Cao Hong and Yue Jin!

The center was the focal point of the struggle between the two sides.

Li Dian led five thousand troops to charge at Liu Bei!

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Liu Bei's three thousand personal guard cavalry launched several volleys of mounted archery in an instant, killing or wounding over two thousand of Li Dian's troops!

"Woo! Woo! Woo!"

The Cao Army moved again; the infantry just now had been nothing but bait to exhaust the mounted archery of Liu Bei's cavalry!

"Rumble!"

Xia Xia Houyuan, Cao Chun, and Dian Wei led five thousand Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, spurring their horses to charge toward Liu Bei!

Every one of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was an elite; they were determined to keep Liu Bei here!

Liu Bei watched the approaching Tiger and Leopard Cavalry with cold eyes.

These were Cao Cao's true trump cards!

His soldiers could no longer draw their bows for mounted archery, or they would have no strength left for the coming melee!

"Cao Cao is quite calculating!"

Cao Cao, over on his side, was very pleased.

"Liu Bei, did you think I hadn't studied your tactics? Once the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry pins Liu Bei down, the other troops will surround him—we must kill Liu Bei!"

"Understood!"

Cao Hong cupped his hands.

"Big Brother's strategy is divine; this time, Liu Bei won't be able to escape even with wings!"

"Rumble!"

Dust filled the air, and the earth shook.

Like a torrent, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry charged toward Liu Bei's center army!

Yet Liu Bei's cavalry did not accelerate their charge; they stood there quietly!

The distance between the two sides grew shorter and shorter!

Cao Cao?

An ominous premonition instantly rose in his heart!

Liu Bei scared witless? He wouldn't believe it even if he died!

A melodious horn sounded.

Liu Bei's cavalry took out the short crossbows equipped from the bags on their backs.

Three thousand short crossbows emitted a chilling, intimidating light!

Invented and improved by Ma Jun, and produced with full effort by the Bureau of Craftsmen, they had all been brought along this time!

"Fire!"

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Three thousand crossbow bolts flew toward the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

For a moment, arrows fell like rain!

The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry in the lead were caught off guard, and several hundred fell in an instant!

Warhorses neighed!

Soldiers screamed!

In an instant, men and horses were overturned!

Cao Chun and Xia Xia Houyuan shouted,

"Charge, keep charging, they have no more crossbow bolts!"

The response they received was actually another wave of three thousand crossbow bolts!

Another several hundred Tiger and Leopard Cavalry were shot off their horses!

Even Cao Chun was struck by two arrows and fell from his horse!

Repeating crossbows!

They were actually repeating crossbows!

Cao Cao's face changed drastically!

"That big-eared thief is treacherous!"

He had not expected that the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry—the great weapon he had carefully selected and specifically prepared for Liu Bei—would lose nearly two thousand men before even making contact!

These were the elites among elites!

Cao Cao suddenly remembered Liu Bei's earlier words: "It would be heartbreaking to lose a few of such elites, wouldn't it?"

Now, his heart truly ached! It was bleeding!

More importantly, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry had been stunned in an instant, and their morale plummeted!

Liu Bei gave a loud shout,

"Follow me, men, to kill the enemy! Aim straight for Cao Cao's head!"

"Giddyap!"

"Kill~!"

"Kill!"

Liu Bei led his personal guard cavalry and charged into the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry in an instant, leaving a trail of overturned men and horses.

Ma Chao and Tai Tai Shi Ci were both fierce generals of the era; wherever they passed, no one could stand against them, and they instantly disrupted the entire formation of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

"Clang!"

With a loud crash,

Liu Bei's long spear struck fiercely against Dian Wei's left-hand halberd.

Dian Wei's body swayed, and his expression changed drastically.

He was already immensely strong, yet Liu Bei's strength seemed to far exceed his own!

With just that one strike, he tasted sweetness in his throat; he had been shaken and suffered internal injuries!

"Good, come again!"

Liu Bei spurred his horse and charged at Dian Wei once more, the long spear in his hand turning into black lightning, striking straight at Dian Wei's heart!

Dian Wei let out a roar, using all his strength like a wild beast; no longer defending, he also struck at Liu Bei's vital points!

"Oh, a method of mutual destruction?"

Liu Bei snorted, the iron spear in his hand moving with eerie flexibility; it pierced through Dian Wei's dual halberds at a tricky angle, stabbing into Dian Wei's right shoulder and bringing forth a spray of blood!

Dian Wei's expression changed wildly, and he rolled off his horse, dodging Liu Bei's fatal strike!

Liu Bei wanted to strike again, but his heart suddenly grew alert.

He swung his long spear, knocking away three incoming hidden arrows!

"It's Cao Ren!"

Liu Bei was furious!

"Using hidden arrows to hurt people—Cao Ren is shameless, and they're poisoned arrows too!"

If one were to ask who was the most shameless in the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei felt Cao Ren was the most unbenevolent.

Others fought with wit and courage, but the moment Cao Ren saw his opponent was formidable, he would immediately switch to poisoned arrows.

The first poisoned arrow was for Zhou Yu—'his wounds recurred and he died of anger'? Without that poisoned arrow, where would the wounds have come from!

The second arrow was for Guan Yu—why did Guan Yu have to scrape the bone to heal the poison? It was because he was wounded by Cao Ren's hidden, poisoned arrow! Who scrapes their own bone for fun?

Countless others, unknown, had likely been killed by Cao Ren's poisoned arrows!