Chapter 988: Burned
Zhang Duo barely maintained his figure on the horse, commanding the soldiers to block the attack of the Sun Archers, and was even more dissatisfied with Cai Zhong's previous command, once the grain and grass baggage team encountered a surprise attack by the enemy cavalry, the first thing to do was to gather the grain carts in one place to resist the cavalry's attack, only the grain carts could block the cavalry's charge, and they could hold out for a longer time.
Now the grain wagons have not yet gathered, and the price to be paid from the gathering of the grain wagons to the defense of the cavalry charge is enormous.
Watching a soldier fall under the arrows of the Sun Bow Rider, Zhang Duo's expression was carefree, as a general, he had to be iron-blooded, and the lives of ordinary soldiers were insignificant compared to the grain and grass of the army, as long as the grain and grass could be preserved, even if the team escorting the grain and grass was wiped out, the task was completed.
Zhang Duo still despised the power of the Burning Sun Archers, and the cavalry of each cavalry in the Burning Sun Archers reached an extremely powerful level.
Huang Zhong frowned slightly, and immediately ordered Sun Ning to lead a hundred cavalry to block the Jingzhou army from gathering the grain carts in one place, if the enemy army gathers the grain trucks, it will be a little difficult to defeat the Jingzhou army in a short time, and the cavalry raid is focused on surprise, otherwise with a thousand people who want to break the baggage team guarded by three thousand people, even if they succeed, they will have to pay a big price.
Hundreds of Sun archers showed the scimitar in their hands, which can defeat the Jingzhou army at the fastest speed, and hand-to-hand combat is the most suitable.
After another three rounds of arrow rain, Huang Zhong replaced the Wanshi bow with a long knife and shouted: "Lie Sun Bow Ride, kill the enemy with this general!" ”
Hundreds of Sun Archers replaced their bows and arrows with scimitars at great speed, bows and arrows can inflict damage to the enemy while protecting themselves, and scimitars are used to deal a fatal blow to the enemy.
The Burning Sun Archer led by Huang Zhong pierced straight into the formation of the Jingzhou Army like a sharp sword, even if Zhang Duo's command ability was high, in the face of such a charge from the cavalry, there was only a constant retreat, and the Burning Sun Archer may be a little weak in defense, but for these foot soldiers, it was a demon from hell.
When the cavalry fights against the foot soldiers, the most powerful thing is the charge from the war horse, hundreds of cavalry who completely charged, enough to scatter the formation of thousands of foot soldiers, once the formation is broken up after the foot soldiers, waiting for their fate is death, the lack of effective command of the foot soldiers, combat effectiveness is extremely fragile.
More often than not, foot soldiers rely on tight formations to resist enemy attacks and inflict damage on them.
Zhang Duo's brows kept shaking, he realized that something was wrong when the Lieyang Archers began to charge, with the current Jingzhou Army how difficult it was to block the Lieyang Archers, but his own side did not gather the grain carts in one place to complete the defense.
"General go quickly." A personal guard stepped forward, and the direction of the cavalry charge seemed to be the position of the Chinese army.
Zhang Duo had a bitter face, and could only lead the soldiers to constantly resist the attack of the cavalry and slowly retreat.
But seeing Zhang Xiu on the battlefield, a spear in hand, but all the soldiers encountered, none of them were the enemy, and his target was Cai Zhong's position, although the Jingzhou army had thousands of foot soldiers at this time, but it was constantly retreating under the attack of the Lieyang Archer, with a bow, the Lieyang Archer made Cai Zhong's team continue to retreat, and some of the soldiers of the Jingzhou Army saw the arrival of the Lieyang Archer's first reaction was to raise the shield in his hand, otherwise it would be the queen of Cang to retreat a distance.
In terms of commanding soldiers, Cai Zhong is much worse than Zhang Duo, and there is no way to face such a situation.
"Kill!" Zhang Xiuyao saw Huang Zhong leading the cavalry to charge, and shouted.
At this moment, Zhang Xiu noticed the banner of the Jingzhou army, under the banner of the word "Cai", it must be the main general of the army, Cai Zhong, as long as Cai Zhong can be killed, it will be absolutely fatal for the Jingzhou army in this matter.
Kicking the war horse under him, Zhang Xiu was like an arrow from the string, killing in the direction of Cai Zhong, and the Jingzhou troops along the way saw Zhang Xiu and avoided it, leaving an indelible impression on their hearts.
Cai Zhong, who was in a panic, noticed Zhang Xiu, who was riding a horse to kill, and hurriedly ordered: "Block this person." ”
Several guards hurriedly protected Cai Zhong's left and right, but at this time, there were very few Jingzhou soldiers who dared to step forward, and they had been frightened by the Sun Archer.
Zhang Xiu shouted angrily, and the spear stabbed out several times in succession, and the three oncoming cavalrymen fell to the ground with a bang.
Under such a mighty situation, how could any cavalry dare to step forward to stop Zhang Xiu.
Cai Zhong's complexion changed greatly, Zhang Xiu's skills were beyond his imagination, but few of the surrounding Jingzhou soldiers obeyed orders at this time, and they were more worried about their own lives.
The corners of Zhang Xiu's mouth showed a hint of sneer, and he killed in without hindrance, and Cai Zhong's personal guards kept falling to the ground under Zhang Xiu's spear.
Cai Zhong was scared, he was a member of the Cai family in Jingzhou, and there were still a lot of glory and wealth that he didn't have time to enjoy, he didn't want to die on the battlefield like this, as long as he returned to Jingzhou, even if there was a situation with the grain and grass, he might be able to survive with the power of the family, and there would be only a dead end if he stayed on the battlefield.
Seeing that Zhang Xiu was getting closer and closer, Cai Zhong ordered his guards to block Zhang Xiu, and turned his horse away.
After the bright silver spear shook and stabbed the last guard to death, a bow appeared in Zhang Xiu's hand, and the arrow on the bow went straight to Cai Zhong, who was far away.
Cai Zhong, who was riding a horse and galloping, felt a pain in his back, the hand holding the reins gradually loosened, and fell to the ground with a bang, when he fell off the horse, he saw the bow and arrow in Zhang Xiu's hand, so that he couldn't die The reason is that the guards who originally blocked Zhang Xiu had scattered after he retreated, and the Jingzhou army was also in chaos under the charge of the enemy cavalry.
Zhang Xiu rode his horse towards Cai Zhong who fell to the ground, and shouted after thoroughly understanding Cai Zhong with one shot: "Cai Zhong is dead, and those who surrender will not be killed!" ”
This shout brought not only shock but also relief to the Jingzhou army, the main general was killed in battle, and their surrender seemed reasonable, and the other party was a soldier and horse from Bingzhou, and he was also a Han Chinese, so there was no psychological pressure to take refuge.
Huang Zhong also led the cavalry to completely defeat the Jingzhou army in front.
Due to his injuries, Zhang Duo escaped a little faster, and was captured by the Sun Bow Rider.
"Burn all this grain and grass!" Huang Zhong ordered.
Truckloads of grain and grass were set on fire, and smoke billowed from them.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Sun Ning rode his horse and said: "General, I found a general of the enemy army, and it is said that his identity in Jingzhou is not simple. ”
(End of chapter)