Economic Warfare

The reason the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry possessed such formidable abilities lay in the battle formation formed by these thousand men. Although their cloud qi was not as dense as that of ten thousand soldiers, its quality was even higher, faintly taking the shape of a roaring tiger. Under the suppression of this cloud qi, the moment Xiahou Dun released his astral qi, it was immediately ground away completely.

Without the enhancement of astral qi, the combat power he could display was indeed beyond what any individual Tiger and Leopard Cavalry soldier could match. But the damn problem was, this was an army of a thousand men. Who the hell would fight you one-on-one?!

Especially with the leading general driving them onward, Cao Chun could not release astral qi either, but he could unleash attacks beyond his normal level by consuming cloud qi. Though this consumed a great deal of cloud qi and was difficult to replenish, as a trump card, it absolutely possessed the power to kill a great general trapped within the formation.

In fact, by comparison, Liu Bei's thousand heavy cavalry were inferior to Wife-lover Cao's thousand Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. The difference in troop quality was simply too great. But... Liu Bei did not only have a thousand heavy cavalry. By the time Wife-lover Cao had finished outfitting a thousand Tiger and Leopard Cavalry with weapons and armor, Liu Bei might already have ten thousand heavy cavalry.

The Central Plains had been caught up in a great melee involving the forces of Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, Liu Biao, and Zhang Ji. It took more than half a year for things to gradually settle down, ultimately forming a relatively stable situation.

The forces of Zhang Ji and Lu Bu occupied the Hedong and southern Nanyang regions,