Chapter 22: A Thousand Miles of Rushing Assault

  "Damn it! How can't I go back?! Liu Mang looked at the dimmed button in his heart, Lao Boss was already trapped in Kaiyang! Outside, Cao's men had surrounded the entire Kaiyang!"

  At that time in Xiapi, they could still break through the siege because of the chaos and darkness. With a fierce general like Lü Bu leading the charge, they would definitely be able to escape!

  But it's different now! The surrounding is the Tiger and Leopard Riding! The Lu bosses know the power of the Tiger and Leopard Riding because they have fought against them before!

  But Liu Mang knew from historical records that this Hu Bao Cavalry was actually an ace unit!

  Not to mention the struggle for hegemony with these vassals, the most famous battle of the Tiger and Leopard Riders was against the Wuhuan. Five thousand versus one hundred thousand! They were defeated by the Tiger and Leopard Riders in a single battle! The Wuhuan are a nation on horseback! They are much more familiar with horses than the Han people! Yet they were still defeated by the Tiger and Leopard Riders in one battle!

  Watching Lao Boss has no future! Liu Meng was about to leave, but the CD that should have been activated for a day is still dim!

  "Get on the plane!" Liu Meng didn't want to break through with Lü Boss under the threat of the Tiger and Leopard Riders! Not to mention that two legs can't outrun four legs, let alone the power of these heavy armored cavalrymen! Once in a field battle, who could stop him?

  If the Ambush Camp was still intact, it could have been a bit more calm, but now the Ambush Camp is already half-destroyed, you can't push out the remaining few hundred people of the Ambush Camp to withstand the heavy armor cavalry of over a thousand people!

  "Brother! When are you going to find me a mother?" A delicate and transparent little jade doll pulled at Liu Mang's pant leg, making a soft "ya ya" sound.

  "Alright, little stone! In two days, brother will take you to find your mother, okay?" Liu Mang picked up the little stone from the ground. This was the same little doll that had gotten lost outside Kaiyang City! After being taken by Lady Lü and washed once, its original dirty appearance was gone, and it had become clean and shiny instead!

  Liu Meng hugged the little stone, his thoughts of leaving had faded a bit. He could leave, but what about him? Just like Liu Meng said outside the city, if he left and abandoned this little guy, he would be uneasy for the rest of his life!

  Thinking of this, Liu Mang put on the White Sheep Seat sacred garment. "Little Stone, be good, brother will go and come back, you must be good! Stay here and sleep by yourself, if you're afraid then go find your sister Lü!" Putting down Little Stone, Liu Mang walked towards the city gate, Lü Bu and the others were all at the city gate thinking about when to break out.

  "Boss!" The first person he saw was Cheng Yu, who was leading a group of people on patrol.

  "What about Lord Lü?!" Liu Mang always referred to him as "Lord Lü", so the soldiers of Lü Bu's army were also used to it.

  "Generals are all on the city tower, sir, would you like me to take you there?!" Cheng Yu asked.

  "No need, you go patrol the city!"" Liu Mang shook his head, as Kaiyang was now in a state of panic, and these defending soldiers didn't know whether they would mutiny or not, so patrolling the city was a must!"

  "Alright! I'm leaving!" Cheng Yu nodded and left with his soldiers.

  Liu Mang stepped onto the city wall, Chen Gong and Lü Bu were both there, Zhang Liao had also gone to patrol the city walls, while Gao Shun returned to rest. The battle during the day had left his camp battered and he was mentally exhausted.

  "Xianxu has arrived!" Lü Bu was also very tired, but he couldn't rest. He was the backbone of the entire Lü Bu army. With him there, the Lü Bu army could unleash even greater combat power!

  Chen Gong also nodded towards Liu Mang.

  "Son-in-law?!" Liu Mang's forehead twitched, these two words were really hard to hear. "Mr. Lü, you'd better still call me Han Yang!"

  "Is that 'Lü Boss'? Still calling him 'Lü Boss'?" Lü Bu's face turned cold.

  There are those who force good people into prostitution, and those who force people to sell drugs, but there aren't any who force someone to marry your daughter.

  Liu Mang couldn't help but cry out "Father-in-law!"

  "What's wrong?!" Chen Gong took a glance at Liu Mang.

  "Ah, that's right! From now on, you'd better treat my Linger well!" Lü Bu stood up and patted Liu Mang's shoulder, almost knocking him to the ground.

  What strength! It's really great!

  "Father-in-law, what's going on outside?!" Liu Mang asked out of his utmost concern!

  "What's going on outside?!" Lü Bu's eyebrows also furrowed, being trapped in Kaiyang by the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry was truly a great shame for him! What was he born for? Wasn't it to be a cavalryman?! From Pingzhou, he had fought his way out, making the foreign tribes cry out for their fathers and mothers, to going to Luoyang and intimidating Dong Zhuo, causing Dong Zhuo's subordinates, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, not to dare move an inch.

  Later on, when the eighteen vassals joined forces to attack Dong Zhuo, Lü Bu came and went like a ghostly wind with his Bianzhou cavalry.

  When was Lü Bu ever trapped by cavalry!

  Now the revenge has come, when Bianzhou Wolf Cavalry almost took Cao's life, so Cao made a ruthless decision, which led to the appearance of Hu Bao Cavalry. This Hu Bao Cavalry happened to trap Lü Boss, their own enemy.

  Lü Bu didn't say a word, but Liu Mang had already sensed something was amiss from his demeanor!

  Chen Gong spoke up, "I'll call you Han Yang too!" Chen Gong was already middle-aged now, so it was still acceptable to address Liu Mang as such. "The leader of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry outside should be Cao Chun. This man is well-versed in military strategy and knows the weaknesses and strengths of cavalry. With 1,500 riders, he divided them into two hundred for each of the four gates, directly sealing off the city of Kaifeng!"

  "Two hundred defending a gate?!" Liu Mang, who was ignorant of military strategy, asked foolishly "We have 10,000 men! Can't we just send out a thousand-man unit to wipe out these two hundred?"

  "Haha!" Chen Gong did not blame Liu Bei's foolishness, but instead said with a bitter smile: "If it were that easy, we would have taken it down long ago. Why would we need to do this? These 200 iron cavalry are guarding one gate, he can't get in and we can't get out either. All four gates have 200 each, and Cao Chun still has 700 tiger and leopard cavalry on hand! They can provide support at any time! As soon as we prepare to take down one of his units, the remaining 700 men will immediately come to relieve us."

  "We have too many people and can't spread out, but if we have fewer people, then who knows who will eat whom!" Chen Gong explained to Liu Mao.

  "Is there really no way out?!" Liu Mang asked unwillingly.

  "Yes! The entire army will launch a full-scale breakout!" Chen Gong said. "It's just that the casualties will definitely be heavy, but this is also an unavoidable thing now!"

  "Make a desperate break for it? When?" Liu Mang knew he couldn't escape, and it seemed like another bloody battle was brewing.

  "Tonight, the moon is bright in the sky!" Chen Gong said. Xu Zhou was not short of forests, as long as they could break through and hide in the forest, they could escape. Moreover, there were local people from Langya, Zang Ba, as long as they entered Mount Tai, they would be able to escape.

  "Alright!" Liu Mang nodded and prepared to rest for a while before making a breakthrough.

  "Report to the general, something is amiss!" Just then, Cheng Yu rushed in, "Reporting to the general, outside the city, several thousand soldiers and horses suddenly appeared out of nowhere and have surrounded Kaiyang!"

  "Several thousand soldiers and horses?!" Lü Bu was stunned. Originally, the 1,500 Tiger and Leopard Cavalry had already given Lü Bu a headache, and now several thousand more soldiers and horses had appeared. If it were not for the fact that Lü Bu had just finalized his plan to break through the encirclement with Yuan Shu, he might not have been so concerned about this situation.

  "Xiahou Yuan's troops!" Liu Mang and Chen Gong exclaimed in unison.

  Chen Gong knew that this was Xiahou Yuan's troops, because when making plans for Lü Bu and fighting against Cao Cao, he had already figured out the civil and military officials under Cao Cao's command. Liu Mang knew that it was the credit of Baidu Encyclopedia from his previous life.

  Xiahou Yuan's method of leading troops was that his elite troops were not as good as those of the Trap Array Camp, his individual combat strength was not as strong as that of the Danyang Army, and his cavalry units were not as good as those of the First Legion Camp. However, his troops had a characteristic that others did not have, which was that they were extremely skilled at long-distance raids!

  The journey from Xiapi to Kaiyang which took three or four days was completed by him in two days.

  The preciousness of the battlefield lies in its timeliness.

  Xiahou Yuan's timely intervention made Lü Boss feel embarrassed.

  "The one leading the troops shouldn't be Xiahou Miao, Cao Cao really is a good general after all!" Chen Gong sighed, Xiahou Miao had already been severely injured by Lü Bu and wouldn't recover in a short period of time.

  Now whoever can make Xiahou Yuan's troops obey orders must also be a high-ranking general of Cao's army.

  "How is it now?!" Liu Mang asked, Lü Bu also looked at Chen Gong.

  Now what, how am I supposed to know now? Chen Gong also had a helpless expression: "Just wait and see!"