“This isn’t fear?!” said Cao Cao. “I have long said, there exists but a select few in the whole world that could make this Cao cast sidelong glances. You, Lu Bu, are one of them. You are suited for being a soul of an army but aren’t suited for being the lord of a state! It wasn’t that I had to make things difficult for you, it’s just that you blocked my path! Therefore you had to die!” Cao Cao looked at Lu Bu straight in the eye with an overwhelming killing intent.
“Blocked your path?!” Mumbled Lu Bu. “Sure enough, like Gongtai said, Mengde, your ambition was certainly not small!”
“Chen Gong?!”
“Well, Mengde ah, since you wanted my life, come take it! I heard that you even brought your elite Ferocious Cavalry with you. A whole three thousand heavy cavalries! I suspect you personally prepared that for this Lu Bu?!” laughed Lu Bu.
Cao Cao didn’t respond. Cao Cao indeed established the Ferocious Cavalry after having suffered defeat in the hands of Lu Bu’s Bing Province Heavy Cavalry. Their purpose was solely to defeat the Bing Province Heavy Cavalry. And thus, he brought them with him when he decided to attack Xu Province.
“Come Mengde! Use your most elite soldiers to have a final settlement with this Lu Bu!” Using his trident, Lu Bu pointed toward the three thousand heavy cavalries behind Cao Cao.
“To die at the hands of the Ferocious Cavalry, Fengxian, that’s a proper burial for you!” Cao Cao turned his horse around and returned to his army. Three thousand Ferocious Cavalry resounded the earth as they came forward.
The leading general was Cao Chun. In the past couple days of siege, the Ferocious Cavalry was unable to do anything. This had caused Cao Chun to be impatient to the extreme. And now the fate smiled at him. To actually be able to fight the final battle, Cao Chun was extremely happy. In his view, he believed Lu Bu to have nothing left. Even if his troops were all elites, they’re only infantries. How could the two legged soldiers possibly win against the four legged cavalries?
Not to mention the Ferocious Cavalry was an army of heavy cavalries. Although they aren’t suited for siege warfare, they’re overwhelming on the plains. Even if their enemies were ten times their amount, Cao Chun was still certain that he would be able to rip their enemies to shreds.
“Follow my lead!” shouted Cao Chun. “Sweep everything before us!” The Ferocious Cavalry began their charge, trembling the earth and the bodies of everyone present.
“This is the Ferocious Cavalry?! This is the strength of Heavy Cavalries?!” Although Guo Jia knew of the elite Ferocious Cavalry, he had never seen them in battle. Seeing the dust storm brought forth by the cavalries as well as that kind of grandeur, Guo Jia could not help but widen his eyes in shock.
“The victor was determined!” Cao Cao started laughing out loud. The Ferocious Cavalry have never once lost a battle on the open fields. Even if they’re against other Heavy Cavalries, Cao Cao believed that his Ferocious Cavalry would certainly not lose against them.
“Something’s amiss!” Xu Chu suddenly shook his head and began to feel a little worried.
“What’s wrong? Zhongkang?!” inquired Cao Cao while smiling. “For us to kill Lu Bu, Zhongkang have greatly contributed. If it wasn’t for you wounding this fierce tiger, how could we possibly be able to force him out?!”
Xu Chu did not respond to Cao Cao’s complement. Instead, he muttered. “the sound of activities are amiss!”
“My lord! I need to see my lord! Get out of the way!” A general donned in armor suddenly burst into the army tent. Wasn’t this man Xu Huang?
“Gongming?” Seeing the incoming person to be Xu Huang, Cao Cao had his guards let him pass. “We were just discussing the contributions in killing Lu Bu. Gongming, you have also contributed greatly!”
“No, no. My lord! It’s not regarding this!” Xu Huang quickly spoke. “these sounds of activities… there’s heavy cavalries in the vicinity!”
“Heavy cavalries? You meant the Ferocious Cavalry?! The Ferocious Cavalry are the elite amongst the elites, they’re comparable with the Western Liang Heavy Cavalry that Dong Zhou had!” Xu Huang was formerly a subordinate of Yang Feng. Thus, he was naturally very familiar with the Western Liang Heavy Cavalry.
[TL: Yang Feng was a cavalry general under Dong Zhou who was later defeated by Cao Cao. Xu Huang joined Cao’s camp after that.]
“Is it really my lord’s Ferocious Cavalry?!” doubted Xu Huang. “My lord, didn’t you only brought with you three thousand Ferocious Cavalry? How could they possibly have the grandeur of nearly ten thousand?!”
“Ten thousand?!” Cao Cao was also in doubt.
“My lord, please listen to the trembling of the earth. This is obviously the sound of ten thousand cavalries in the vicinity!” replied Xu Huang.
“Ten thousand cavalries?!” Cao Cao grew even more confused.
“That’s right! It’s certainly ten thousand cavalries!” Xu Chu came to it too.”These sounds of activities was too large, too great! It’s impossible fo