Chapter 257: Fubo
"Right flank, right flank enemy moves!"
Since discovering the movements of the Liangzhou army, the scouts of the Cao army have been quick to spread all kinds of news at any time, and the scouts of both sides are also fighting on the hillside before the big battle, both sides are desperate to poke each other's eyes, so the first battle appeared between the scouts. The Liangzhou soldiers who risked their lives to bring them back to the south kept shifting their formations in an attempt to find the most effective offensive position, and the right flank of the Cao army also changed its position, as if it was a bloodless battle.
The cavalry is in a cone formation, the right wing of the Cao army is in a ring formation, the cavalry is in a phalanx, and the right flank of the Cao army is in a crane formation, in short, all have only one purpose, that is, to maximize the impact of the Liangzhou soldiers when they conflict.
However, the stalemate between the two sides seemed to be a little too long, so long that Cao Cao was puzzled...... Do the people of Liangzhou want to use the tactics of tired soldiers to drag the war into the night?
The more he thought about it, the more frightened Cao Cao became.
Cao Jun is not good at night fighting, and compared with the people of Liangzhou, no one is good at night fighting. This is not good at it, only the elite with enough training in the world can be good at night battles, and other armies often suffer in night battles. Compared with the Liangzhou cavalry, the obvious disadvantage of Cao's army is that they have not set up camp until now, and without the camp soldiers, they cannot get enough rest at night. Fundamentally, the reason is that even if Cao Cao took the initiative to lead the army out of this battle, in the end, it was the Liangzhou army that forced him to do so.
The Liangzhou people held the initiative on the battlefield, and once the battle dragged on into the night, the Liangzhou people could attack whenever they wanted, while the Cao army needed to deal with endless harassment. Maybe even the people of Liangzhou rode fast horses back to Fuli City to sleep, and they were still scared of themselves in the wilderness and didn't dare to sleep.
Who is good at such a fight?
In the torture of the constant movement of the battle array, time always seems to run fast, and in the blink of an eye, half an hour has passed, and the low sound of the horn resounded through the four fields!
Former Army!
The first attack of the Liangzhou army was not the right flank, but the front army!
The sound of galloping horses' hooves exploded in front, and in the area blocked by the hillside, the soldiers of Cao tightened their hands with their weapons, especially the warriors who formed at the front of the formation were even more out of breath, they didn't know what they were going to face, maybe it was the Liangzhou cavalry wrapped in fur jackets and riding long-haired thin horses, but they never imagined what was really waiting for them.
Herd of donkeys!
Without long-haired wild horses, horses would not have long ears, no matter how thin they were, but these donkeys with spear-like ears were clearly not horses, and the riders with spears and bows pulling carts behind them were even more terrifying.
For Cao Jun, the real catastrophe is geographical advantage.
Directly in front of them, that is, in the direction of the donkey cart formation in the east, it was a hillside, and the speed of the donkeys pulling the cart was not as fast as that of the war horses, but when they rolled down the hillside, the momentum was no less than that of the chariots that were common on the battlefield in the past!
This is far more terrifying than cavalry!
What's more, hundreds of donkey carts can fill the entire battlefield when they are spread out, and they don't need thickness, and the width alone can destroy the will to fight of all the forward foot soldiers.
Against the charging cavalry, they still have the strength to fight against this kind of donkey cart?
They don't have any power at all!
What's more, behind the donkey cart there are also galloping Zhao cavalry.
Cao Cao didn't expect these Liangzhou people to attack him with donkey carts, the commotion in the military formation can be imagined, when the enemy crossed the hillside, it means that the distance from them is less than ten miles, just more than 4,000 steps, even the speed of the donkey cart is only a moment, it is not enough to make any precautions, the Chinese army retreats and squeezes in the middle, and the two armies are close to each other.
The donkey cart that was the first to engage the battle slammed into the wooden fence prepared by the Cao army's infantry earlier, some donkeys broke the wooden fence and continued to charge forward, while some donkeys were unlucky and died on the spot, and their huge bodies pulled the chariot to take the lead in the Cao army's army formation with the help of inertia, and some small carts were overturned, and the Yan soldiers on the car smashed into the Cao army's line like cannonballs.
But more donkey carts crashed into Cao's line intact, and in the blink of an eye, people turned over on their backs.
The hand-to-hand battle was instantaneous, and the broken spear and knife flashed wildly, and the blood and wailing danced together. But looking at the front army from Cao Cao's position, he keenly noticed that the Liangzhou cavalry did not enter the line, but wandered around the periphery, throwing a rain of arrows into the formation with a limited cavalry bow, and moving to the north.
Then, the second attack began, and the enemy troops on both flanks heard the muffled sound of horns, and a large number of Qiang cavalry galloped with the characteristic whistle of the cavalry of the border counties, and quickly charged towards their own army formation, only throwing two arrows in the path of the attack, and then rushed into their formation with an unstoppable posture.
Cao Cao waved the command flag, and the Chinese army pushed the front army and the rear army to support the two wings, reinforcing the crumbling front in the charging cavalry.
"Hold on, hold the impact, hold the shock cavalry is the poor skill of the donkey!"
Even if the donkey cart attack made him a little confused, but in the general direction, the tactics of the Liangzhou cavalry were no different from Cao Cao's estimates, but they were just forcibly attacking the front with a large number of cavalry, this was a war of attrition filled with their lives, and the war of attrition, the winner must be Cao Cao, because he has more people!
As long as the initial impact is blocked, the first to bear the casualties must be the Liangzhou Army, which is known for its lack of military discipline, and the next thing is much easier. When the cavalry retreated, Cao's cavalry was able to begin pursuit, and a great victory ensued.
After the victory, Cao Jun will be given a full winter of rest and recuperation, and he will think about what to do next year.
It's just that things in the world often don't make people go as they wish, and the scouts walked through the chaotic battlefield, galloped from the direction of Qi County behind Cao Cao, and shouted a few words loudly in front of Cao Cao's car. The surrounding generals could only hear the chaotic fighting on the battlefield, but they couldn't hear what the scouts were saying, and they could only see Cao Cao's face extremely stunned, and then looked behind him in horror - the place where the rear army was located was now blank, only the barren fields and the sparse wooden fence remained there.
Farther away, there was the sound of thunderous horses' hooves, and a neatly armored Yan cavalry on the horizon strode on, waving swords and spears to charge unstoppably towards the rear of Cao's army, and in a blink of an eye, it passed a distance of several miles, destroying all the wooden fences along the way, and attacking Cao's main formation.
The scout's reward was: "The Yan cavalry has come around to the rear and is rushing towards us!" ”
Looking over the heavily armored soldiers of the Cao army's main formation, Ma Chao saw at a glance the frightened generals of the Cao army driving on the huge two-horse carriage next to the golden drum, raising the iron spear and shouting: "General Fubo Ma Mengqi is here!" ”