Chapter 0413: Prelude to the Decisive Battle
"The Northern Frontier Cavalry is here again!"
"It's too bullying, and it doesn't let people live in peace!"
"Brothers, copy the guys, fight with them!"
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There was a commotion in the huge column, as if in the gentle flow of a great river, a large stone was thrown, and the ripples spread out in circles, turning into ripples, or waves.
"Where? Where are the Northern Frontier cavalry? ”
The morale of the Yellow Turban Army was extremely high, but the sound of the horn sounded from all directions at the same time, the soldiers were dizzy, and the generals were also clueless, so they could only hold the weapons in their hands tightly, as if they could be guided in that way.
"Ahh Finally, beyond the continuous trumpets and the shouts of the Yellow Turbans, there was a new voice, and it was the voice that could point the direction of the enemy.
"The sky is dead......" The crowd began to surge, and the battle horn sounded in the sky. The high-spirited Yellow Turbans would not be intimidated by any enemy, even if they knew that they were coming from the same cavalry that had broken through the North Sea.
"Stop, stop shouting, don't run around, keep going, don't pay attention to those damn flies, those guts rats don't dare to fight in a dignified manner, they just run around and harass! They are trying to delay the journey of the army, brothers, we can't let them succeed, move forward, continue to advance! ”
Before the morale was completely raised and the army changed direction, the hoarse shouts of the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army stopped all this.
This is a valuable experience in exchange for countless blood and tears, and the purpose of those cavalry is to torment people, and they will not fight the army head-on no matter what. Even if the soldiers and horses sent out to meet them were less than their number, they would only flee far away.
After Tai Shici took 3,000 cavalry to Beihai Kingdom, there were only 3,000 cavalry left in Fenggaocheng. Li Yi divided the 3,000 cavalry into a hundred squads. Constantly haunting the Yellow Turban army.
The light cavalry of a squad of thirty people is insignificant compared to the Yellow Turban army of more than a million in size, and it is not appropriate to use ants and elephants as an analogy.
But even these ants, who are inferior to the enemy army, disturb the elephant and make it uneasy.
Sometimes it's just one or two teams alone, sometimes it's like now. Multiple groups of cavalry appeared at the same time, blowing horns desperately around the army, if there was no clear situation. I thought the Yellow Turban Army had been surrounded.
In the beginning, every time the Yellow Turban Army encountered such a situation, the Chinese army would send an order to stop the army. Then divide the troops to meet the enemy. As a result, the cavalry turned around and ran. Runs faster than a rabbit.
Naturally, the two-legged ones could not catch up with the four-legged ones, and the Yellow Turban Army could only watch the enemy run away with a disgraced face, leaving only the smoke and dust in the sky. If they give up, the damned cavalry will come back and continue to blow the trumpet, making people uneasy.
And that's not even the most annoying, these cavalry not only come during the day, but also refuse to stop at night. Even if they knew that it was impossible for them to get past the heavy defensive offensive and launch a night attack. But the Yellow Turban soldiers were still not at peace.
Think about it, when you are asleep, you suddenly hear a passionate war drum, followed by a horn that is louder than the wind, who can sleep like ever?
At first, the soldiers would wake up, jump high, and grab weapons, but then they would get used to it, and they could only plug their ears with things, while cursing the unscrupulous people of the North, cursing them for stumbling into the trees in the dark-lit wilderness; While squeezing his eyes desperately, hoping that this would help him sleep.
The march speed of the Yellow Turban Army slowed down by more than half at once, making the Yellow Turban generals very crazy.
After a few days, the commanders got together and discussed a countermeasure, which was to ignore the enemy, and then each soldier was given two cotton regiments......
The countermeasures of the commanders were very targeted, but the Northern Xinjiang cavalry quickly proved with their actions that they were not a military band, not only could they beat drums and blow trumpets, but their real skill was to kill people!
After discovering that the Yellow Turban Army gradually got used to noise harassment, when the smoke and dust rose again, the Northern Cavalry brought more than just noise, and the whistling feather arrows became the main theme of harassment.
The Northern Frontier Light Cavalry swept in, then turned about a hundred paces away from the queue, moving gracefully and calmly, and then swept over the side of the queue like a wind, sprinkling arrows like rain on the heads of the Yellow Turbans.
They don't seek the greatest lethal effect, nor do they seek accuracy, but at the maximum range, they try their best to smash the arrows into the ranks of the Yellow Turbans, and then without looking at the results, they lead the horses around, fly away, and make a comeback after the horsepower is restored, and so on.
The casualties caused by such harassment were extremely limited, but the effect of hindering the speed of the army was very good.
Soldiers can use earplugs to get used to the noise, but there is no way to turn a blind eye to the sharp arrows on their heads, and even if they have the concentration, the pain caused by the arrows hitting their bodies is real.
If it were against regular armor, the lethality of arrows at this distance would be almost none, but how could the Yellow Turbans get so much armor? Most wounds are not fatal, but if not treated in time, a small wound can take away a life. It's summer, and it's the most likely time for wounds to become inflamed.
The commanders thought of a lot of countermeasures, such as using archers to shoot at each other, anyway, there are few soldiers in the northern frontier, even if the exchange ratio of consumption is larger, the Yellow Turban Army can accept it.
However, it backfired, the Yellow Turban Army had too many soldiers and the queue was too long. If used intensively, the probability of winning the lottery is too low, and who knows where those damn light riders will appear? If evenly distributed, a limited number of archers are scattered in a queue that stretches for tens of miles, and a distance of one hundred and ten paces can be assigned to one person.
Isn't it a dream to want to fight against dozens of hussar guards with unparalleled cavalry and archery with the strength of one person?
What's more, the archery skills of the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army are also very problematic, and it is difficult to cause any casualties to the cavalry in the northern frontier. The gathered archers were lucky enough to win a few prizes, but most of the arrows were left behind by the galloping horses.
The light cavalry of the northern frontier is here to harass, and they send arrows at the maximum range, with the archery skills of the Yellow Turban soldiers, where can they have the ability to hit and tell the moving target at such a distance?
Just like whether you can block the light ride, you can only rely on luck if you don't hit. There are very few arrows that are lucky to hit, but they can't create a frontal effect. Blocked by the leather armor, the horse was speedy, and immediately lost its strength.
The cavalry was either wounded or not, and there were no fallen horsemen anyway, and they did not make any stagnation and ran away with the brigade.
The constant harassment made the Yellow Turbans miserable.
The military column marching from east to west was huge, like a giant python, and even the Wen River was overshadowed.
With such a huge body, its strength is also very amazing, as long as it is willing, it can move mountains and reclaim the sea, and it can do anything, but it can't help a group of midges buzzing around it!
They discovered another terrible aspect of light riding, harassment. Endless harassment, helpless, boring harassment!
"Dashuai, it's not a way to go on like this, it's good for you to come up with a countermeasure." Most of the Qu Shuai pinned their hopes on the generous Sima Ju.
"yes, those damn bastards don't know why, they keep an eye on me, and in a few days, there are more than five hundred injured brothers. Five hundred elites, they didn't do anything, they just fell! There are also a few unlucky people who cry endlessly.
"Just pull the queue apart, push it flat, and don't leave them room to move!" As for this kind of unreliable proposal, it can only attract the unanimous eyes of everyone.
It is said that it is a long and narrow plain, but it is only relative to the topography of the entire Qilu land, in fact, the plain of the Wenhe River basin is at least 100 miles wide. With the number of the Yellow Turban Army, it is no problem to open such a distance, but after pulling away, do you still want to move forward?
It doesn't take too far, as long as you walk for a day, the horizontal team will become a pot of porridge, and the Northern Frontier Army will not have to continue to harass, as long as it rushes over in one fell swoop, it will win.
"The way, Ben Shuai has it, but are you all willing to listen?" Looking at these incompetent and selfish subordinates, Sima Ju felt bored for a while, and he said with a gloomy face, "Ben Shuai asked you to hand over all the horses in your hands and form a cavalry, riding against horse, even if you can't win, you can drive the people of Northern Xinjiang away, but what do you all say?" Who, who, who, thy brethren were wounded, five hundred, and who, and who, and how many of your armies were wounded, but did you tell them that they were wounded because you were reluctant to give up the horses? ”
The generals were speechless.
Although there were not many, the Yellow Turban Army also had horses, all of which were looted from the counties that were attacked. The problem is that after the seizure, the leaders gave a share on the spot, and no matter how many horses were captured, they couldn't stand the large and small forces inside the Yellow Turban.
Sima Ju was the commander, Xu He, Guan Cheng and Wu Ba had the most troops, but including the horses pulling the cart, there were no more than 100 horses in their army, and the others were even more imaginable.
For example, the leader who was the first to complain about hardship, he had no more than ten horses in his hands, but when Sima Ju held a military meeting and asked all the leaders to take out all the war horses in their hands and organize a counterattack, no one was willing to agree. It's not that they are reluctant to have a few horses, they just don't want to set this precedent and affect the distribution of loot in the future.
Now that the light cavalry in Northern Xinjiang is becoming more and more arrogant, and the marching speed of the army is getting slower and slower, Sima Ju brings up the old things again, and the leaders have changed from resolute opposition to hesitation.
Seeing everyone's hesitation, Sima Ju immediately said: "Today, let's open the skylight and say something, what needs to be handed over is limited to horses and war horses!" You can keep the horses for yourself, and after the Taishan is laid, the captured war horses, the brothers can share a few more, the more they turn in, the more they will share, how about it? ”
"That's it, that's it!"
"Listen to the handsome!"
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As soon as they heard this, the leaders did not hesitate, they could drive away the annoying Northern Frontier light cavalry, and there would be benefits in the future, and if they didn't agree to this kind of good thing, it would really be unsympathetic. (To be continued.) )