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Boom!

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Suddenly, a roar and roar tore through the sky, and a strong rapids broke through the sky above the battlefield in front of the battle.

Immediately afterwards, one by one, the blazing fireballs soared into the air, swept over the battlefield of the chariot array, and went straight to the roaring cavalry of the Xiliang Chinese Army.

"Fire Oil Tank Attack! Did the Allies send out catapults? ”

Twilight looked up and caught a glimpse of the fireball roaring in the sky, Li Li's expression suddenly changed, and he exclaimed in surprise.

"Trap the camp array, defend the Chinese army, defend the giant shield defense array, raise the shield!"

At the same time as Li Li spoke out, Gao Shun, the commander of the trapped camp, immediately made a decision and ordered the heavy infantry of the trapped camp to raise their shields in front of the Chinese army formation to prevent the enemy's gunpowder from disrupting the Chinese army's position.

The soldiers of the trapped camp moved in response, and formed a semicircular superimposed giant shield array within fifty steps in front of the Chinese army formation in a few breaths, and stubbornly defended the Chinese army's position.

"Bang bang bang ~~~!"

The reaction of the trapped camp was undoubtedly extremely swift, and as soon as the formation was completed, hundreds of oil canisters were ushered in. With a loud bang, more than half of the oil canisters did not reach the predetermined range, and they smashed into the open space in front of the Xiliang army and burst into scattered places, raising dust and scorching flames in the sky. Only about 30 percent of the oil tanks were relatively far ahead, and the catapults marched 100 paces away from the two flanks of the Allied forces before attacking, because these "shells" (i.e., oil tanks) could reach the predetermined range and crash straight in front of the Xiliang Central Army.

Instantly. In the loud sound of "bang", nearly a hundred oil canisters smashed into the Xiliang Chinese army, but they were intercepted by the impenetrable shields held above the heads of the soldiers of the trapped camp. None of them were missed, and they were all blocked out of the Chinese army's war cavalry by the giant shield.

"Boom, boom!" As the oil tank burst suddenly, the broken tiles and the thorny iron filings contained in the tank flew into the air, as sharp as a sharp blade, flying and penetrating. And the raging flames flew freely, and the tongues of fire splashed everywhere, scorching to the extreme. Extremely lethal. Therefore, although the soldiers of the trapped camp raised their huge shields to form a dense semi-circular giant shield array, they still could not completely block the powerful impact force of the explosion of the fire oil tank. Hundreds of soldiers were hit by iron filings or splashed with oil, nearly 100 soldiers were killed on the spot, and the remaining 200 were wounded or burned, and the losses were not small.

"Fill the gap. Quickly restore the formation. Ready to fight again! ”

Trapped in the middle of the camp, Gao Shun responded calmly without changing his color and heartbeat, and after the first round of fire oil cans fell, he immediately commanded the soldiers to carry away the dead and wounded soldiers, and then quickly plugged the gap, re-restored the formation, and prepared for a new round of fire oil tank attacks.

"What happened to Yuan Benchu, did he go crazy? The two armies have not yet made a full-scale attack. The chariots of the two armies were still fighting in front of the battle, why did he send catapults to attack so quickly? It's weird. It's completely unreasonable! ”

Directly below the Xiliang Army, watching hundreds of heavy armored infantry in the trapped camp die tragically in front of him, Li Li stared at the allied camp on the opposite side of the battlefield with an iron face, and said angrily in confusion.

At this time, the generals who supported Li Li were the main generals of the Xiliang Army, on the right were the right-wing generals Zhang Liao, Pang De and Cheng Gongying, and on the left: the left-wing generals Dian Wei, Qubei and Li Zheng. And the generals standing behind Li Li at this moment are the generals of the Chinese army, they are Li Zhi, Huan Fei, Dong Yue, Huang Lie, Xu Chu, Chen Dao, He Yi, He Man and Zheng Gu and other more than ten generals. In addition, the lieutenant generals and other generals of the left and right flanks were all on standby, and once they saw Guo Jia waving the order flag on the platform, they immediately waved their troops to attack.

"Don't be in a hurry, don't be angry."

Seeing that Li Li was very angry, Zhang Liao immediately hurriedly comforted, and then looked intently at the Allied battle formation and the Allied catapult formation protruding from the two wings, and thought about it and said: "It is true that as the lord said, Yuan Shao's move is indeed contrary to common sense. In the general's view, the Allied use of catapults to attack too early was not the best strategy, and perhaps it was a last resort. Moreover, Yuan Shao sent a catapult array at this time, which in itself shows that he had no intention of attacking the city in this battle, and the thousands of siege ordnance in the rear of the Allied army were actually just bluffs and decorations. The Allies did this for only one purpose, and that was to confuse the public, so that we would mistakenly think that the Allies were victorious, and after defeating our army, they would then capture Hangu Pass in one go. ”

Speaking of this, a smile appeared on Zhang Liao's face: "Therefore, the last general thinks that the use of catapults by the allies at this time may not be a good thing for our army, at least its appearance directly exposes Yuan Shao's true intentions." ”

"Huh? Bluffing, don't you plan to capture Hangu Pass? Li Li's expression was slightly stunned, Gu Zi groaned, then turned his head to look at Zhang Liao, and asked thoughtfully: "What does Wen Yuan think Yuan Shao's real intention is in this move?" Is it just to disrupt the position of our Chinese army, and then wave the army to cover up? In my opinion, Yuan Shao shouldn't be so naïve, just a catapult array wants to shake the Chinese army's war cavalry, which is too whimsical! Does he think that we are all dead and let him do whatever he wants? ”

"What the lord said is very true." Zhang Liao nodded happily when he heard this, and said respectfully: "Thinking about the last general, Yuan Shao will naturally not be naïve enough to disrupt our Chinese army's war cavalry with catapults alone; Otherwise, he is arrogant and self-righteous. Since this is the case, then he knows that there is only one real purpose for what he can't do, and that is to try to force our army's war cavalry to attack in an all-round way. In other words, Yuan Shao's intention of successively sending a chariot array and a catapult array to battle was the same, that is, to induce more than 100,000 cavalry of our army to take the initiative to attack his 240,000 Chinese army Liuhe array! ”

"Why didn't Yuan Shao take the initiative to attack, but wanted our army to attack first?" Li Lijian raised his eyebrows and groaned.

"This ???" Zhang Liao was stunned when he heard this, and hesitated: "The last general is stupid, and I haven't thought of the reason yet." However, the last general is very sure of one point, that is, the reason why Yuan Shao did this must have a plan. Otherwise, he would definitely not lightly expose that the Allies had no intention of storming Hangu Pass, nor would he be stupid enough to expose hundreds of catapults to Cheng Dù in front of our army's war horses. You must know that these catapults drove more than 100 steps before the battle, and our army cavalry only needed one charge to destroy them all. As for why Yuan Shao insisted on inducing our army to attack the main formation of the Chinese army, the last general had no clue, and he didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in this gourd? ”

"Well, what Wen Yuan said makes sense." Li Li bowed his head slightly, frowned and pondered for a moment, then looked coldly at the catapult array on both flanks of the Allied army, and said in a deep voice: "The power of this catapult of the Allied army is far less powerful than the catapult of our Xiliang Army, and the range is only about two hundred and seventy steps, at most about three hundred steps, which is not enough to pose a threat to our army's war cavalry. And the range of our catapults is at least 250 paces, and if we use this kind of canister the size of a pumpkin instead of a boulder, the range can reach more than 300 paces. If our army's catapult formation goes to the front of the formation, it can directly fight the Chinese army of the allied army and cause them to be in chaos. ”

Speaking of this, Li Li's voice stopped suddenly, and he looked back at He Yi behind him, and ordered: "Immediately send an order to Bocai, order the catapult formation to fight, and directly attack Yuan Shao's army!" ”

"No, the last general will obey!" He Yi happily accepted the order and immediately turned his horse to the rear army.

As soon as He Yi left, Dian Wei said in a low voice with a worried face: "It's good to attack the enemy's catapults, but it's just ??? At present, General Hu Che'er is leading the chariot array to fight bloodily. When our army's catapults are ready, Hu Che'er must have led the chariot array to rush into Yuan Shaozhong's army; At that time, the oil tanks will be scattered and the rocks will fly, and it will inevitably injure the officers and men of our army by mistake. ”

"There is a lot of truth in what evil is saying. I don't know if you have a solution? Li Li asked.

Dian Wei shook his head lightly and said, "Except to lead the army to attack, the last general really can't think of a better way." Originally, the chariot array was a death squad with no return, and if they all died on the battlefield, it could be regarded as a well-deserved death. However, if they died tragically under our army's catapults, the last general felt sorry for them. After all, these charioteers are all warriors from a hundred, and they died in vain at the hands of their own people in such an unknown way, but the last general couldn't bear it and couldn't accept it. ”

Li Li bowed slightly, and immediately said, "That's true." Every charioteer in our army is a carefully selected brave man, whose combat power is not inferior to that of a centurion or a team leader, and who is not afraid of death, and is a rare good soldier in the world. If it is hit by our army's catapults or damaged by oil cans, it is indeed a great regret and a suffocating thing. ”

Speaking of this, Li Li's expression changed suddenly, and he solemnly ordered: "Dian Wei listens to the order, when our army's catapult drives to the front of the battle, the Longxiang battalion will immediately go into battle, be sure to rescue Hu Che'er, and then attack the cavalry on the right flank of the allied army!" In this battle, don't be careless, because the enemy you have to face is the wolf cavalry under the command of Lu Bu. Therefore, the task of the Dragon Battalion in this decisive battle is to defeat the wolf cavalry head-on while preserving its own strength as much as possible. Fortunately, Lu Bu has been severely injured by the Flying Tiger, and his combat power is limited, so he is definitely not the opponent of you and Li Zheng. As for Yuan Shao's army and other wars, they have nothing to do with you Dian Wei and the soldiers of the Long Xiang battalion. ”

"Ugh! This??? No, the last general commanded. When Dian Wei heard this, he looked stunned, and he was very puzzled by the last sentence of the lord Li Li, but after seeing the undoubted look on Li Li's face, he did not hesitate and immediately took the order.

Seeing Dian Wei beat the horse away, Zhang Liao whispered with a puzzled face: "The lord's move seems to have another deep meaning, and the lord will be dull, I don't know if the lord can make it clear?" ”

"Without it, after the catapult attack is completed, I will personally lead the army into battle!" Li Li's deep eyes looked coldly at the princes in front of the allied army, and said in a deep voice.

"Ahh The lord's father-in-law led a large army to attack? Zhang Liao's voice changed when he heard this, and he said urgently: "This ??? No, never! The lord is a golden body, how can he personally take risks? The last general is willing to serve his life, lead the army to battle, and ask the lord to take back his fate! ”

Hearing Zhang Liao's eager voice, Li Li didn't look back, shook his head slightly and said, "I have made up my mind, Wen Yuan doesn't need to say much." For some reason, every time I see the Chinese army array behind Yuan Shao, I always feel faintly uneasy, so I want to go to the front of the battle to find out what Yuan Shao is planning to do! ”

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