Chapter 159: Imperfect Victory

"Hmph, I'm really going to sit back and die?" Zhou Cang was in danger, but he was not afraid, he just snorted coldly.

The aura of heaven and earth quickly gathered in his hands, and it was obvious that a special move was about to be blasted out. After a while, when he finished charging his strength, he let out a loud shout, and a 'critical hit' immediately blasted towards the ground.

The huge heaven and earth aura exploded in an instant, turning into a powerful storm and rushing directly in all directions. The direct consequence of this power is to blow out the surrounding flames.

The ancients said that "the wind helps the fire", just because the wind is not enough, if the strength of the wind exceeds the flame too much, then the result is to blow out the flame. Just like blowing out a candle, a powerful storm directly blew out all the flames around it.

"Charge with me!" Zhou Cang roared, and immediately rode his horse towards the enemy's location.

Although it was only for a moment, he already felt the enemy's presence when he fired the rocket. What needs to be done this time is to cover up the past in that direction.

In fact, the fundamental reason why ancient warfare avoided the jungle was due to all-round backwardness.

In this era, the poisonous insects in the jungle can kill countless soldiers, not to mention man-eating beasts;

Even those mosquitoes that infect the disease can also cause a large combat attrition, and Cao Cao was stationed in Wulin in the Battle of Chibi, and as a result, the disease made most of the soldiers lose their combat effectiveness, which can be regarded as a reason for the failure of Cao's army in the Battle of Chibi.

In some old forests, there is even miasma, and when Zhuge Liang crusades against Nanzhong in the future, he will suffer a big loss in this regard. This, combined with the lack of effective treatment, has led to significant non-combat attrition;

In the absence of satellite positioning, once those deep mountains and old forests accidentally get lost, they may even find no way out. The army is constantly swaying inside, lacking sufficient supplies, and naturally will die inside;

Jungle terrain is easy to fire and easy to trap enemies. Coupled with the above circumstances, the forest would be avoided in ancient battles. Unless you are completely sure, you will rarely go into the woods to fight.

This is also the truth of the so-called 'no entry into the forest'. In fact, the real words should be 'enter the forest carefully'!

Fortunately, the non-commissioned officers of the Fang army have conducted training courses in jungle warfare, and at least the officers have simply studied a few courses. In this era when everyone likes to learn, these officers really listen to the course and actively discuss and absorb it. At least they can cope with the problems that usually arise in the jungle.

Although Zhou Cang took the lead. But of course, the soldiers below couldn't let him play with his life like this. Before him, there was already a team of 100 people who had been killed. Along the way, they also actively used jungle knowledge and carefully dealt with everything that could happen.

Sure enough, that rocket was the bait for the enemy to attract his own troops to attack it, and there were many traps along the way. But under the repeated triggers of this force, none of these traps were able to play their role.

In a few moments, a troop was already in their sights. It was a foot soldier, mainly sword and shield soldiers, but they advanced and retreated in an orderly manner. Obviously, it is not the kind of rout that Xiahou Yuan has. In fact, it is difficult to say whether Xiahou Yuan's army can be called a defeated army.

"Damn, how could they catch up like that?" Lu Qian, who was in charge of the palace, was very incredulous.

Not to mention that he had already arranged a fire attack strategy before, and said that along the way, in order to delay the enemy's marching speed to the greatest extent, he also set up a lot of traps, and even specially found a place with dense grass to advance, so that he could catch up?

Of course! You must know that Zhou Cang's army itself is a heavy cavalry, and what he holds in his hand is an eyebrow knife. It's a breeze to open the way or something. Under the rotation of chopping, a forest path was actually opened up by them in this way. This also made Zhou Cang's headquarters and the speed of pursuit also improved.

"Come on!" Seeing that the enemy was ahead, Zhou Cang had no scruples. Rushed straight over.

In such a situation, even if Lu Qian wants to set up obstacles, or even set traps, I am afraid that there will be no time. It is conceivable that this road will no longer need to worry about what happened before.

Not long after, Zhou Cang took the lead and directly entered Lu Qian's array. The big knife in his hand slashed violently. At least three or four soldiers were directly cut in half. The cavalry behind him followed closely behind, quickly slaughtering the soldiers of the Cao army.

"Whoosh!" At this time, an arrow shot out directly not far away, shooting directly towards Zhou Cang.

"How daring!" Zhou Cang is also a congenital general, and he is naturally insightful about everything around him. How could an arrow sneak attack him, I saw that he raised his knife suddenly, and directly knocked the arrow away.

However, this arrow is obviously not an ordinary color, and it has a very strong innate aura attached to it, which is obviously only capable of being shot by innate generals. From this, it is not difficult to deduce that this should be an arrow that only Xiahou Yuan can shoot.

Don't look at Zhou Cang, he still knocked this arrow out in the end, but at this moment, his tiger's mouth was also painful, and the big knife in his hand was bent to a certain extent, which showed the power of this arrow.

"Change the knife!" Zhou Cang shouted, and naturally a cronie below handed over the big knife he replaced.

Unless it's a Horcrux that can grow, or a superweapon made of extraterrestrial meteorite. Otherwise, ordinary weapons, in the heat of battle, tend to speed up the exhaustion of its life. In such a situation, the average military general will carry five or six of these weapons as a replacement. When fighting generals, generals change weapons in the rotation formation, which is also a common occurrence.

If you want a Horcrux, Fang Yun can use the Soul Refining Furnace to help him refine it, but the existence of a Horcrux is not a cabbage on the street originally. Its appearance requires a good weapon, and a general's martial soul to be able to smelt it.

The martial soul of a general, even if it is a third-rate general, can turn a general into an innate general. Then the preciousness of a Horcrux is self-evident. In such a situation, Fang Yun naturally wanted to give out the Horcrux, but only if the other party had established a very huge meritorious service, he could only distribute it in the name of reward.

Otherwise, if you can just give one innate martial general horcrux, then don't you give the others? In the end, the martial soul is exhausted, what can be used to strengthen the ability of these generals? Or when the time comes, more innate generals will appear, what if they need Horcruxes?

Not to mention. Horcruxes can be used as long as they recognize their owner, but the user may not necessarily be loyal to them; On the contrary, those who have taken the Martial Soul Pill will automatically be implanted with a die-hard program, and they will definitely be a loyal existence in this life. How to use such a martial spirit. There is almost no need to think about it anymore.

Rather than not being human at that time, it would be better to set a very strict reward and punishment rule. In this way, regardless of the Martial Soul Pill or the Horcrux, it can save some money, and the most important thing is that the following Wenchen generals are also convinced.

After replacing the broadsword, Zhou Cang killed it again. However, this time he did not directly rush to kill, but constantly changed directions, not directionally. He believed that Xiahou Yuan was ambushing around here, and was waiting for an arrow to kill him at any time.

Sure enough, not long after, another arrow came straight at him. This time, the distance between the two sides was a little close, and Zhou Cang almost couldn't dodge.

The arrow flew directly against his face, cutting a big gap. If it weren't for Zhou Cang, he turned his head sideways at the critical moment. Now I'm afraid that he can't die anymore.

"How daring!" Anyway, he is also a congenital-level general, and if you want to talk about archery, he also has the characteristic of 'the essence of archery'. I saw him bend his bow and arrow sharply, and directly in the direction of the previous arrow, he returned the blow.

When using a broadsword, Zhou Cang can only exert about seventy percent of his power at most. But once you change to a bow and arrow, although it is not a Horcrux, it can exert ninety percent of its attack power. His strength is also 120 points, which is said to be a very high existence, and I don't know what Xiahou Yuan's situation is. I'm afraid that the gap between the two sides will not be too big.

The blow was fired, and soon there was a muffled sound in the distance, and it was obvious that the arrow had hit something.

It's just that taking advantage of this gap, Lu Qian's troops. A rapid retreat had already begun, and except for a few troops of more than seven hundred men who remained behind the palace, the others were running towards the muffled voice.

Seven hundred people, in Zhou Cang's opinion, it was not enough to even plug the gaps between his teeth, and the army rushed forward to kill them, killing them in ten seconds. I thought I would continue the pursuit. But I heard the sound of gurgling water in front of me.

Zhou Cang yelled badly, and rushed over, only to find that there was actually a river more than five meters wide in the forest.

The water of this river is very rapid, and the white waves are clearly visible. Originally, there was a bridge over this river, but with the completion of Lu Qian's river crossing, this bridge was directly destroyed by them.

So the distance of about five meters completely separated the two sides.

"General Zhou, don't work far away!" Lu Qian bowed to Zhou Cang's side, then turned around and left.

"Where is the thief?" Zhou Cang bent his bow and shot an arrow directly at Lu Qian's place.

"When I don't exist?" Xiahou Yuan appeared again, and at the same time shot an arrow.

The arrows of the two sides actually met in the air and collided together. I have to say that Xiahou Yuan's archery skills are indeed powerful. It's just that his bleeding arm made the power of this blow weaken a lot, and after a while, the arrow was bounced away by Zhou Cang's bullet, and flew straight towards Lu Qian.

Fortunately, most of his strength has been consumed in this blow, and Lu Qian is also a second-rate general, so he tried his best to block this blow.

"Let's go!" Xiahou Yuan roared angrily, and regardless of the injury on his arm, he shot an arrow at Zhou Cang again.

"Die!" Zhou Cang mobilized all his strength and shot an arrow directly at Xiahou Yuan's place.

The arrows magically collided again in mid-air, obviously this time Zhou Cang was also telling Xiahou Yuan in his own way: "What you can do, it is also easy for me!" ”

However, Xiahou Yuan had no intention of playing with him, quickly dodged this blow, and then quickly escaped into the jungle with Lu Qian and the others. Seeing that he had completely left the Cao army, Zhou Cang had to give the order to retreat even if he was unwilling.

It is said that they won this battle, but Zhou Cang just couldn't be happy. (To be continued.) )

PS: With the strength of the coincidence, it seems that today's Zhou Cang can also be regarded as one of the top ten marksmen of the Han Dynasty, although it is because of the relationship between the hanging.

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