Chapter 203: Light Cavalry Harassment Battle
"Woo...... Woo! "The north wind howled, and the trumpets sounded.
"The Tarzan cavalry is here again, brothers, copy the guys, fight with them!"
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 Tarzan 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 under any circumstances, even if the soldiers and horses sent out to meet them are fewer than their numbers. They will only run away from it.
In fact, there is no way to be less, the Youzhou army was blocked in the east of Laiwu, the Taishan cavalry is less than a thousand people in total, and the more than 1,000 cavalry are divided into dozens of squads, constantly haunting around the army.
The light cavalry of a squad of dozens of people is really insignificant compared to the 100,000-strong Yellow Turban army, and it is not appropriate to use ants and elephants as an analogy, but these ants are inferior to the enemy army. but the elephant was disturbed.
Sometimes only one or two groups of people appeared, and sometimes as it is now, multiple groups of cavalry appeared at the same time, and they desperately blew horns around the army, and if there was no clear situation, they thought that the Yellow Turban army had been surrounded.
In the beginning, every time such a situation was encountered, an order came from the Chinese army to stop the army. Divide your forces to meet the enemy, and as a result, the cavalry will turn around and run. Run 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 thing, these cavalry not only come during the day, but also refuse to stop at night, even knowing that they will not be able to get past the heavy defensive offensive. A night attack was launched, 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 will be awakened. Will jump high, will scratch and, later get used to it, they can only use a pillow or neck. Wrap up your head. On the one hand, he cursed the unscrupulous Tarzan people, cursing them for stumbling into the trees in the black-lit wilderness; While squeezing his eyes desperately, hoping that this would help him sleep.
The marching speed of the army slowed down by more than half at once, which made the generals of the Yellow Turban very mad.
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 Taishan 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 Taishan cavalry brought more than just noise, Xiao Xiao's feather arrows became the main theme of harassment!
Tarzan's light cavalry swept in, and then turned a hundred paces or so away from the queue, moving gracefully and calmly, and then the wind swept over the side of the queue, sprinkling the rain-like arrows on the heads of the Yellow Turbans.
They don't seek the greatest killing 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 Turban Army, and then they don't look at the results, take the horses around, fly far, and after the horsepower is restored, they make a comeback, and the cycle repeats itself.
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 of the wounds are not fatal, but in this cold winter, if the treatment is not timely, a small wound can also take away a fresh life!
The Qu Shuai thought of a lot of countermeasures, such as using archers to launch a counter-shooting, anyway, there are few Taishan soldiers, 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 dozens of miles, and a distance of one hundred and ten paces can be assigned to one person, and it is not a dream to fight against dozens of unparalleled white horse servants with the strength of one person?
What's more, the soldier's archery skills are also very problematic, and it is difficult to inflict any casualties on the cavalry. The gathered archers were lucky enough to win a few prizes, but most of the arrows were left behind by the galloping horses.
The Tarzan light cavalry is here to harass, they send arrows at the maximum range, with the archery skills of the Yellow Turban soldiers, where can they have the ability to hit 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 is huge, like a giant python, and even the Wen River is overshadowed. Such a huge body. The 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 itself!
Because of what happened to Guan Hai, the Yellow Turban generals attached great importance to the Taishan light cavalry, and they were also very vigilant against the Youzhou army, so they used a lot of money to block all the enemy troops east of Laiwu.
But now. They discovered another terrible aspect of the light horse, 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 Zhang Rao.
"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 to be a narrow plain. That's just relative to the topography of the entire Qilu land, in fact, the plain of the Wen River valley is at least a hundred miles wide. Take the number of the Yellow Turbans. It's okay to pull away such a distance, but after pulling away, do you 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 Taishan army will not continue to harass, as long as you rush over in one fell swoop, you will win.
"The way, Ben Shuai has it, but are you all willing to listen?"
Looking at these incompetent and selfish subordinates, Zhang Rao 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, form a cavalry, and ride against horse, even if you can't win, you can drive the Taishan people away, but what do you all say?" Brother Zhang, your brothers were injured by five hundred, but did you tell them that they were injured because you were reluctant to give up those horses? ”
"I ......" all the generals were speechless.
Although there are not many, the Yellow Turban Army also has horses, and most of the previous captures were eaten when there was a food shortage, but recently broke Linzi and captured a lot. 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.
Zhang Rao was the commander, Sima Ju and Xu He had the most troops, but including the horses pulling the carts, there were no more than 100 horses in their army, and the others were even more imaginable.
For example, the leader surnamed Zhang, who complained bitterly, had no more than ten horses in his hand, but when Zhang Rao 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 of Mount Tai is becoming more and more arrogant, and the marching speed of the army is getting slower and slower, Zhang Rao brings up the old things again, and the leaders have changed from resolute opposition to hesitation.
"Today, let's open the skylight and say bright words, and the ones handed in are 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!"
As soon as they heard this, the leaders did not hesitate, they could drive away the annoying Taishan light horse, and there would be benefits in the future.
Zhang Rao breathed a long sigh of relief, at this moment, he missed Xu Yu even more, if the other party was still there, where did he need to bother so much about a few horses?
It is precisely under Mr. Ziyuan's planning that his thousands of soldiers have become hundreds of thousands of troops, and if they can gather them, why can't they be controlled freely?
It seems that even if he defeats Wang Pengju, he can't be in a hurry to stand on his own, at least, he must find a few celebrities first...... You don't have to be too famous, you have half of Mr. Ziyuan's ability, and you will be satisfied.
Of course, now is not the time to think about this, the war horse is there, and the next thing is to find a way to form a cavalry...... I don't have this ability, so I have to find a fierce general.
His gaze wandered through the crowd, and finally landed on a strong man, Zhang Rao's eyes lit up: It's him!
After the military discussion, Guan Hai, who had always looked listless, was stopped.
"General Guan, Zhang Shuai invites you to enter the account."