Chapter 0691 - Heavy Ride
"Xiahou Yuan ......" For a while, Li Yi was a little warm. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Li Yi, who had played the game of Three Kingdoms in his previous life, knew how powerful Xiahou Yuan was, although he finally died at the hands of Huang Zhong, but his ability was absolutely undoubted.
After abducting Dian Wei, Zhang He, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and Yu Ban, the current generals under Cao Cao can enter Li Yi's eyes are the brothers Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun and Xu Chu.
Even in the fierce Northern Xinjiang Army, these two people can be ranked in the forefront, compared to Xu Huang, Zhang He, Zhang Liao, Huang Zhong, Tai Shici and others, in addition to being slightly inferior in force, the commander's ability is not bad at all, and even stronger.
The other Cao Ren can be regarded as half of what can be favored by Li Yi, and he is still much inferior in comparison. As for Cao Hong, Li Dian, Le Jin and others, in Li Yi's opinion, at most, they are at the rank of captain commander of five or six thousand people.
"It's a pity that these two people are Cao Cao's clansmen, and they are also absolute confidants, and it is very difficult to take them under his command, unless Cao Cao is subdued first...... Well, now is not the time to think about this, let's fight this battle first. Li Yi looked at the other party's military formation, and his thoughts turned sharply.
Seeing that the distance between the two armies was close to about 100 paces, Li Yi gathered his mind and raised his voice to order: "Give the flag to Lu Wenlong and ask him to lead the cavalry into battle." ”
"No!"
The flag fluttered, conveying the unyielding fighting spirit.
"Li Thief can't hold it back!" Although he couldn't understand the banner of the Northern Frontier Army, Li Dian was also a veteran general who had followed Cao Cao for many years, and he could easily identify the enemy's movements from the atmosphere.
"If he can hold on to it until now, he is already very calm." Full of pet hands in front of his forehead, hey sneered.
It is certainly impossible to defeat a well-trained army with crossbowmen, but it is possible to demoralize the enemy.
What's more, Zang Ba's improvised footmen are a big weakness, and as long as they chase this weakness and attack fiercely, they can achieve fruitful results.
If the enemy army does not take action again, as the distance between the two armies approaches, the power of covering fire will become stronger and stronger, and by the moment before the engagement, Zang Ba's army will inevitably collapse.
When the time comes, it will be possible to drive the troops to attack the Northern Frontier Army.
Therefore, the enemy army will either admit defeat and retreat, or can only show the killer weapon of cavalry, but what else?
Mao Jue said to Xiahou Yuan: "You have to prevent him from rushing desperately, why don't you delay your advance?" ”
"No!" Xiahou Yuan shook his head, "Now it's time to take advantage of the victory to pursue, Li Yi doesn't dare to fight the cavalry, this is his personal guard iron horse, he treasures it." Moreover, he always felt that this battle was too smooth, and he had to guard against Li Yi's rear moves, engage the battle as soon as possible, and not leave room for the cavalry to move. ”
"Room to move?" Man Zhong and the others were a little stunned, not understanding what Xiahou Yuan meant.
Le Jinzi was anxious, and when he was about to ask, a bright light suddenly flashed in the corner of his eye. He was stunned for a moment, then turned his head, and then let out an exclamation: "Oh my God! It's ......"
I saw the front end of the two wings of the hook array, and the shield array was immediately separated, giving way to a wide passage in the middle.
Immediately, the dust and smoke behind the passage surged, the rumbling horses' hooves made a loud noise, and the iron cavalry of the northern frontier, which had been standing still, finally launched.
All the generals of the Cao army have experienced the battle of Hebei last year, and they have seen the scenes of thousands of horsemen galloping and fighting fiercely, so they will naturally not be shocked by the momentum of the six thousand horsemen.
However, when the passage left by the infantry of the Northern Xinjiang Army became wider and wider, and the figure of the cavalry became clearer and clearer, except for Xiahou Yuan, the others were stunned.
These 6,000 iron cavalry are all equipped iron cavalry, this is a real heavy cavalry!
This was completely unexpected by the soldiers of the Cao army, mainly because the once famous hussar guards had not gone into battle to kill the enemy for too long. Their understanding of this army is still stuck in the old days. As everyone knows, this iron horse has undergone too many changes in the past few years.
The reason why Li Yi dared to lead only 6,000 cavalry south this time was because of this. Previously, he had avoided engaging Cao Jun head-on, precisely because the armor of the Iron Cavalry had not yet arrived. At that time, although the pro-guard army was extremely mobile, its combat effectiveness was not complete.
During this period of time with Cao's army, the navy of the Northern Xinjiang Army had already transported the armor of 6,000 iron cavalry to the battlefield by sea.
"Defend the iron horse, follow me into battle!" When the cavalry who jumped out first raised their spears in both hands, they shouted wildly, and countless people in the dust and smoke responded in unison, followed by the roaring promise, one after another silver-armored knights pierced through the dust and smoke, gathered behind the leader, shouted and launched a charge!
"Step into battle! Step into battle! ”
A heavily armed knight was enough to dumb the Cao soldiers; A group of heavily armed knights is enough to give birth to a ridiculous feeling like falling into a dream.
When they found that the cavalry that appeared one after another were all in the same outfit, the soldiers of the Cao army were completely dumbfounded, and even the well-trained crossbowmen did not care about continuing to release arrows, but rubbed their eyes desperately, wondering if they were shaken by the rising sun, so that they were dazzled.
How could there be so many mounted iron riders!
Thousands!?
Could it be that Li Yi is bluffing?
Xiahou Yuan was supposed to wait and see and determine his thoughts, but the situation on the battlefield was too urgent, and the impact speed of the Northern Frontier Iron Cavalry was very fast, and the two sides would soon come into contact. Xiahou Yuan didn't have time to think about it, and turned to look at the war drum team behind the wooden platform.
Hundreds of war drums are densely lined up, and the strong war drummers hold their hammers in their hands, waiting in anticipation.
Xiahou Yuan waved his hand.
Suddenly, the drums of war beat and shook the ground.
"The enemy is bluffing, and the armor is fake! Is it fake...... Listen to my orders, all of the C team has it, eighty paces ahead...... Shoot the arrows! ”
The generals of the Cao army shouted with exhaustion, conveyed the orders of the Chinese army to the brothers under their command, and after stabilizing their mood a little, he commanded them and launched a volley again.
"Whoosh...... dark clouds flew up, turned into rain and fell, turning into wisps of green smoke, curling up, endlessly.
The speed of the iron cavalry of the guards became faster and faster, and the rapid sound of horses' hooves gradually formed a huge roar from both ends of the battlefield, and the surging cavalry army roared like a flood that broke the embankment, roaring, indomitable, majestic, and the entire battlefield trembled with the violent shaking of the ground.
In the face of a strong enemy, Cao Jun was not to be outdone. The sound of long trumpets, the sound of rousing war drums, and the sound of orders from time to time were intertwined, re-energizing the morale of the soldiers.
As the "truth" became more widely known, panic quickly waned and was replaced by anger, or anger..
"Buzz!" The moment the anger was vented, the heavens and the earth seemed to vibrate, and there was a loud buzzing sound, and the Cao Jun was like a swarm of giant hornets that had destroyed the hive, roaring angrily, showing its edge to the enemy.
In the previous battle, Xiahou Yuan accurately controlled the rhythm, a team of soldiers kept rotating, and the suppression of the bow and crossbow was like a wave at high tide, wave after wave, endless, endless.
And at this moment, as if annoyed and angry, Cao Jun broke out with all his might, and this round of offensive was far more fierce than before, as if it was the most violent stormy waves!
Arrow clouds cover the sky and the sun, like Mount Tai pressing the top, the moment it rises to the highest point, even the sunlight in the sky is dimmed.
"Kill! Kill them without leaving a piece of armor behind! Xiahou Yuan on the high platform roared, and his face was hideous. He stared at the enemy formation, as if through time and space, he saw what was going to happen in the next moment.
With such a dense rain of arrows, even if the target is a cavalry in a loose queue and moving at high speed, it can still reap considerable results!
In the next moment, the magnificence will be reduced to nothing, replaced by bright red flowers, making the bluffer's blood flow!
Xiahou Yuan clenched his teeth fiercely.
That's right, the people of Northern Xinjiang are just bluffing! Just look at their formation, if they really want to rush into formation, how can they not line up in a dense formation?
In the face of this kind of enemy, the best way is to teach them a bloody lesson, so that they no longer dare to look down on others.
Not only Xiahou Yuan thought so, but the rest of the generals and strategists of the Cao army thought the same way.
As if he heard the voice of the soldiers of the Cao Army, and tried to confirm it, at the same time that the arrow rain fell, the Northern Xinjiang Army had completed the change of formation. The dense fish-scale array expanded in all directions and spread out, the formation suddenly expanded several times, and the queue became much looser.
Just as they adjusted their formation, a rain of arrows fell, stirring up dust and smoke along with the horses' hooves.
"Good!" Like most soldiers, Xiahou Yuan clenched his fists hard and applauded loudly, cheering wave after wave.
"I made a fool of myself, and in the end I only ended up doing it myself, alas, pitiful!" Man Zhong and Mao Jue stroked three locks of long beards, looked at the rising dust and smoke, and sighed mockingly.
This time, the Northern Frontier Army could be regarded as lifting a stone and shooting itself in the foot, if they really wanted to charge into battle, with the speed of light cavalry, they could easily leave behind this round of powerful long-range attacks. But they wanted to pretend to be ghosts, and the horses ran fast, but they did not rush forward, but spread out the formation horizontally. As a result, they endured the rain of arrows.
The advantage of covering shooting is that no matter whether you are dealing with a moving target or a fixed target, as long as you are covered, you can only be beaten obediently!
The cavalry of Northern Xinjiang was the key hand that could have decided the victory, but Li Yi blindly used strangeness, and in the end, he finally encountered a tiger and came to self-destruct the Great Wall. Under the rain of arrows that broke out in full force of the Cao army, the Northern Frontier Army is likely to have lost its combat effectiveness.
"It's a little wrong......" On the high platform, Xiahou Yuan's brows suddenly furrowed.
"What's wrong?" The smile froze slightly.
Xiahou Yuan said: "The formation of the Northern Xinjiang army should be used for galloping. ”
Man Pet narrowed his eyes and watched intently at the enemy formation. A moment ago, he was overjoyed at the sight of the dust, but now, he only wished that the damn dust and smoke would fall down quickly, so that he could see what was really going on in the dust. (To be continued.) )