Chapter 301

He was instantly overjoyed; the rain had really come! It was very difficult for him to pester Liu Bei to talk!

Soon,

The rain fell pitter-patter, Cao Cao retreated ten steps, mounted his horse, and laughed.

"Liu Xuande, we've chatted enough, let's start the battle!"

Liu Bei seemed startled.

"You Cao Mengde, just a moment ago you said to turn hostility into friendship, and now!"

Guo Jia exclaimed.

"My Lord, we've been tricked. Cao Cao was stalling for time; he wanted to attack us during the heavy rain."

Zhang Fei cursed loudly.

"Cao Cao Aman is too treacherous, Big Brother, let's go back quickly."

Cao Cao was extremely proud in his heart; Liu Bei had finally been tricked by him once.

"Liu Xuande, go back and organize your troops for battle!"

Xu You shook his head; this Liu Bei was a bit unworthy of his name, actually being tricked by Cao Aman.

Liu Bei turned around, cursing Cao Cao for being shameless while a smile hung on the corner of his mouth.

Both sides returned to their formations.

By now it was a torrential downpour, and a lot of water had quickly gathered on the ground!

"Rumble!"

Like muffled thunder, the sound of drums came, and Cao Cao's side began to attack!

First were the heavy infantry holding large shields!

Their formation was neat and tight. Cao Cao had observed very carefully this time; Liu Bei had not brought out the bed-mounted crossbows and trebuchets!

He could safely use a dense infantry formation to fight Liu Bei!

Liu Bei's side also began to mobilize troops.

The sound of horns blared, intertwined with the wind and the sounds of killing. No matter how heavy the rain was, the soldiers adjusted their formations in an orderly manner!

The two sides drew closer and closer.

The drums of attack sounded.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Gao Shun's Camp-Crushing Battalion and Ju Yi's Vanguard Battalion both used heavy crossbows to greet the Allied forces opposite!

Unfortunately, the effect this time seemed very limited; the torrential rain blocked their vision and also reduced the strength of the arrows!

Seeing this, Cao Cao laughed loudly; he had bet right this time!

"This time let's fight with real blades and guns based on numbers!"

Liu Bei decisively stopped the unnecessary shooting; not only was it a waste of crossbow bolts, but it also reduced the service life of the bows and crossbows.

Gao Shun and Ju Yi were not panicked.

"Spears!"

The front ranks of the Camp-Crushing Battalion and the Vanguard Battalion raised their shields, and the men behind each held a short spear!

Liu Bei had also equipped these two ace units with two short spears each!

"Fire!"

Everyone threw the short spears in their hands with all their might; although the heavy rain made it hard for everyone to see clearly, many screams could still be heard!

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Cao Cao's side also threw long spears toward this side, also causing some damage.

"Boom!"

Suddenly a loud noise, the large shields of both sides collided!

Long spears stabbed out from the gaps, taking away young lives!

Both sides were recklessly attacking each other!

Liu Bei stood on his horse, his eyes like torches, standing proudly in the heavy rain.

"So, Cao Cao also trained a unit of elite infantry, secretly learning Gao Shun's tactics. This old guy is indeed treacherous!"

The Cao army's infantry commander Yue Jin shouted hoarsely,

"Shields up!"

"Spears out!"

This was the time to fight with strength; whoever couldn't hold on and had their formation pushed into chaos would suffer a crushing defeat!

Blades flashed, spear tips like shadows!

The soldiers didn't even have time to wipe the rain off their faces, looking at the blurry figures in front and attacking with their weapons!

"Clang! Clang! Clang!"

The sound of weapons colliding!

The shouts of the soldiers!

Liu Bei's command flag waved, and the cavalry moved like swimming dragons, bombarding the flanks of the Cao army!

The Cao army also responded quickly, with spear formations curbing the surprise attacks of the light cavalry.

Without heavy cavalry and heavy crossbows, it was difficult to break through this hedgehog formation!

Everything was proceeding according to the side Cao Cao had pre-designed.

Although the Camp-Crushing Battalion and the Vanguard Battalion in the center were more elite than the Cao army's heavy infantry, Cao Cao was filling the gaps with men as if he didn't care about his life. Although the Cao army suffered many casualties, their battle line didn't retreat much!

The live stream chat increased a lot, mostly gloating netizens from various countries.

"Haha, the big-eared thief is going to be miserable this time!"

"Just ask, do you still dare to be arrogant!"

"Knowing that heavy crossbows are ineffective in the rain, yet still daring to do this, the big-eared thief deserves this defeat!"

Cheng Yu on Cao Cao's side wiped the rain off his face and said happily,

"My Lord, if we can defeat Liu Bei this time, we can break his myth of being invincible in a hundred battles!"

Cao Cao's eyes were cold.

"I just need to consume his troops significantly!"

"It's not easy to trick him once, we must cause as much damage as possible!"

Thinking of how Liu Bei had intended to return to fight a decisive battle several times before, only to be stopped by his own words, now in this situation, his own sacrifice was too great!

In the current battlefield, tens of thousands of people were locked in a stalemate, neither side giving way.

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Fei.

"Zhang Yide, it's time!"

"Big Brother, I've been waiting for a long time!"

Zhang Fei rode back to the formation, and the strange Nanzhong ox-horn horn sounded.

"Roar! Roar! Roar!"

Rattan-armored soldiers, wearing rattan armor, holding rattan shields in their left hands and long knives in their right, roared out under the leadership of Zhang Fei and E Huan!

They pounced on the charging Cao army infantry like fierce tigers from the mountains!

The Cao army was surprised to find that Liu Bei's army opposite them couldn't be hacked to death; to be precise, these rattan-armored soldiers, armed to the teeth with rattan armor, were very difficult to injure!!

They couldn't hack their opponents, while the opposite side could easily kill them.

And,

The rattan armor was very light, and its defensive power was comparable to heavy infantry; the rattan-armored soldiers were exceptionally agile.

Light heavy infantry versus those infantry with poor defense,

the result was imaginable.

Soon, the Cao army facing the rattan-armored soldiers was torn open a gap.

A moment later, this gap grew larger and larger!

The Cao army soldiers gradually became panicked.

For no other reason, the opponent was too abnormal!

The Rattan Army was cold and ruthless; they only knew how to kill the enemy. Killing the enemy meant military merit, rewards, and land distribution; it was said they could even be issued Western Xianbei slaves!