Chapter 262 Que Yue Que Yue Guan Gong beats the drum
People from the north are good at riding, and people from the south are good at water.
This is caused by geographical factors, and there are major military differences between the north and the south.
Although Guan Yu was from the north, after he came to the south, he paid great attention to the construction of the Jingzhou navy because he knew the importance of the navy in fighting in the south.
Perhaps Guan Yu was not born a general who was good at commanding naval forces, but he was good at learning. With his learning, he was as good as anyone in the world in how to use naval forces.
With the existence of the Han River, the Jingzhou navy could not only fight directly, but also transport troops and food supplies.
In all the previous battles commanded by Guan Yu, the navy under his command played a great role.
It's just that no matter how good the Jingzhou navy is at fighting, they can only show off their power on the river.
On the plains, as long as they do not fall into an ambush by the infantry, the cavalry is the real king.
So when the Han warships, which were carrying a lot of grain, grass, ordnance, appeared on the river as usual, thousands of Wei cavalry on the bank howled happily.
The leader of this thousands of Wei cavalry was Xiahou Ba. Looking at the Han warships that were slowly approaching the shore in front of him, his eyes revealed a bloodthirsty light.
When Cao Pi sent tens of thousands of Wei cavalry troops southward, Xiahou Ba, as the general who bravely asked for battle that day, was asked by Cao Pi to lead tens of thousands of cavalry troops southward.
When Xiahouba arrived outside Fancheng and joined Cao Tai, Xiahouba was given the responsibility of leading thousands of Wei cavalry to inspect the ports on the north bank of the Han River.
As we all know, although the Han warships wanted to dock at various river banks, when transporting large quantities of supplies, the best and most convenient way to dock was to find a port.
In the past, when 20,000 Wei cavalry troops harassed the Han army's food routes, the Wei cavalry troops near the port undoubtedly gained the most.
There were not many ports on the Han River, and Cao Tai specially handed over one of the ports to Xiahou Ba for care. This was Cao Tai's special care for Xiahou Ba.
With the deaths of Cao Ren and Xiahou Dun, the second generation clan members of the Cao family and Xiahou family also began to consciously unite.
Because of Xiahou Yuan's death, Xiahou Ba hated Ji Han's generals deeply.
Therefore, after receiving special care from Cao Tai, Xiahou Ba was different from other Wei cavalry generals.
Other Wei cavalry generals may have focused on harassing grain roads, but Xiahouba often liked to kill all the Han troops escorting grain and supplies when he had the opportunity, as if this could vent his hatred.
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With different purposes, Xiahou Ba ordered the Wei cavalry on the river bank to retreat one mile away from the river bank.
Xiahou Ba deliberately left a limited space to allow the Han army to escort the military supplies on board to the shore.
Xiahou Ba's purpose was very simple, that is, after the Han army's military equipment came ashore, he would launch an attack on the Han army, thereby killing people and destroying things again.
This approach has been tried many times in the past, even if the Han army knew that they would be attacked by the Wei army's cavalry when they came ashore.
However, in order to send military supplies to the Han army camp more than ten miles away, the Han army has been repeating this thing one after another during this period.
Perhaps in their hearts, they have a ridiculous sense of luck.
When Xiahou Ba ordered the Wei cavalry behind him to retreat, a large gap suddenly appeared on the river bank.
After this gap appeared, Fu Wei on the Han army's warship showed a glint in his eyes.
It was not without reason that he specifically chose to land here today.
Since the enemy had already taken the initiative to let them go ashore, Fu Shu no longer hesitated.
Just after the Han warship docked in the port, Fu Wei immediately led the Han army's 700 men and hundreds of chariots and quickly rushed to the north bank outside the port.
The transport ships of the Han army were often very large because they sometimes had to transport siege equipment.
The naval transport of military supplies has gone through hundreds of years of development. For Fu Wei, a native of Jingzhou, how to safely and quickly transport the grain trucks on the ship to the river bank is almost his innate skill.
Under the leadership of Fu Xu, seven hundred Han troops and one hundred chariots quickly landed ashore.
After landing, Fu Wei ordered every seven soldiers to board a chariot. Then he commanded his 700 soldiers to board the chariot first, and drove the chariot to lay out a strange-shaped trap more than a hundred steps away from the Han River.
Array.
This array is in an arc shape, and both ends of this arc-shaped array composed of soldiers and chariots are leaning against the river bank.
When the Han troops ashore set up their formations, from the perspective of Xiahou Ba, who was not far away from the Han troops, a strange crescent-shaped formation appeared in front of his eyes.
But the moon?
Xiahou Ba was born into a general and had been familiar with military literature since he was a child.
He knew that infantry usually formed formations to resist the enemy, but no matter how Xiahouba searched in his memory, he had never seen such a weird formation.
What's the use of this array?
A disdainful smile appeared on Xiahou Ba's face.
In the past, after the Han army came ashore, it was not that they never set up formations specifically to restrain the cavalry.
However, those large formations were undoubtedly suppressed by the superb riding skills and numbers of the Wei cavalry, and they did not last long before being broken.
Now that the Han army had increased in number after landing ashore, they abandoned the large formations proven by military books and instead chose to form a strange large formation, which made Xiahou Ba burst out laughing.
In particular, the Han army formed a formation with chariots.
The thieves are at their wits' end, so let's start doing whatever they want!
After Fu Wei set up the formation, he stood on a chariot and stared eagerly at the thousands of Wei cavalry not far ahead.
Because of the contempt or doubt in his heart, Xiahou Ba did not take rash action when the Han army was in formation.
However, Xiahou Ba saw that the number of Han troops ashore was larger than before, so he immediately sent his cavalry to notify the cavalry troops of Cao Tai not far away, asking them to join here.
Xiahou Ba's move was not because he was afraid of the hundreds of Han troops on the shore, but because when he saw hundreds of Han troops landing on the shore, he wanted other friendly troops to come with him to gain military exploits.
One head of a main soldier of the Han army is worth the heads of several auxiliary soldiers of the Han army in the past few days.
At this time, on the Han warship that had docked, Guan Yu was standing on the deck, observing the situation on the shore from a high position.
When he saw that Fu Xu on the shore had successfully led his troops into formation, he did not hesitate for a moment and immediately sent Liao Hua to lead two thousand Han troops carrying hundreds of crossbows ashore to meet Fu Xu.
After the two thousand Han troops led by Liao Hua landed ashore, the Han troops added twenty soldiers to each chariot and placed shields on the shafts of the chariots.
At this time, Xiahou Ba saw that two thousand more Han troops were suddenly added to the shore, and he began to look at the Han warships on the Han River with uneasy eyes.
In order to prevent a steady stream of Han troops from disembarking from the warship, Xiahou Ba no longer wanted to wait any longer.
When a cat teases a mouse, it must be ensured that one's side has absolute strength.
At present, there are nearly three thousand Han troops on the river bank, which is not much different from the number of Wei cavalry led by him.
Although in his opinion, these three thousand Han troops still posed no threat to the Wei cavalry he led, he could no longer allow the Han troops to land freely.
With this thought, Xiahou Ba gave the order for the cavalry behind him to attack.
Cao Wei's cavalry was a culmination of the Youzhou sudden cavalry, Liang cavalry and Wuhuan famous cavalry, and the heavy cavalry that later generations talked about were two of these three types of cavalry.
When both men and horses wear armor, it was called armored cavalry in ancient times, also known as trapped cavalry and iron cavalry;
If a person wears a coat but the horse does not, it is called an armored rider or a sudden rider.
In ancient China, it was not only armored cavalry equipment that was called heavy cavalry, armored cavalry could also be called heavy cavalry.
Only the famous Wuhuan cavalry are the real light cavalry.
Many people may think that heavy cavalry was exclusive to the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
However, according to the cultural relics unearthed in later generations or the surviving murals, it can be seen that equipment such as horse armor had already appeared in the late Western Han Dynasty.
By the time of the Three Kingdoms, although the first-hand historical materials in "Three Kingdoms" were missing.
However, it can be seen from other historical records or inferences that Cao Wei definitely had a cavalry army, and it was not as understood by later generations that only a few tiger and leopard cavalry had them.
Cao Wei's armored cavalry also played a very important role in the battle with Ma Chao.
"Hu had a grand view before and after. There were also 5,000 iron cavalry arrayed in ten layers. The sun shone brightly, and the thieves were even more frightened."
Even in Jihan, where there were few cavalry, there were uniformed cavalry.
"At the end of the day, the feathers are galloping together, the horses and men are undressing, and the strict driving has been completed. Yi and Min are paying attention to the play, and they are not tired of sex."
Moreover, in many historical materials, there are many records of horse armor during the Three Kingdoms period.
All these examples show that Cao Wei had a large number of mounted cavalry.
The Battle of Nanyang was regarded by Cao Pi as a crucial battle to defend the foundation of the Wei Dynasty, so he had invested a lot in this battle.
A large part of the 20,000 Wei cavalry currently on the banks of the Han River are heavy cavalry, all wearing armor.
Compared with light cavalry such as Wuhuan's famous cavalry, heavy cavalry can directly attack the infantry formation.
This is also the reason why Xiahou Bahui chose to put part of the Han army ashore and strangle them.
Under Xiahou Ba's order, thousands of cavalry led by him began to surround the Han army's chariot formation.
Today is a day when the sun is shining brightly. When the sun shines on the armored cavalry of the Wei army, the sunlight is reflected and seems to make the thousands of cavalry of the Wei army surrounding the Han army shine with light.
But unlike in the past, the light in winter would bring warmth to people, the light carried by these thousands of Wei army cavalry was full of bloodthirsty and terror.
As the Wei cavalry, all hidden in iron armor, approached the Han army, the Han army on the front chariot in the formation could all see the Wei cavalry ahead, hidden in the armor.
The heat emanating from the horse's head.
This is because the war horse feels the battle is coming and is excited, causing it to gasp.
In ancient times, horses were not pets, but a kind of killing weapon without any emotion.
Just as the cavalry in the north would feel fear when they saw the tall ships, when the infantry of the Han army in the south saw the black torrent that was slowly speeding up and heading towards them, they inevitably felt fear in their hearts.
Emotions.
It was different from when we first saw more than 10,000 Wei cavalry in Fancheng.
Now the more than two thousand Han infantry troops do not have tens of thousands of comrades around them, and there is no solid barrier in front of them to serve as a barrier.
Now the only thing they can rely on is the weak chariot under their feet, which looks like it will be destroyed if it is hit.
This made the fear in the hearts of more than two thousand Han troops begin to spread more and more.
Once the Wei army's cavalry, fully equipped with men and horses, gallops at high speed, the impact it will cause is definitely a nightmare for any infantry.
Even Wuhuan's famous cavalry, who was also a cavalryman, was defeated by Zhang Liao under this impact, and his army was almost annihilated.
But unlike the Han army who started to fear, Fu Wei, the commander of more than two thousand Han troops, did not have a trace of fear in his eyes.
Although he has a calm personality, he never hesitates when he needs to fight hard.
Fu Wei kept recalling Guan Yu's instructions to him in his mind. He looked at the Wei army's cavalry who had begun to charge, and issued an order.
Under Fu Xu's order, more than two thousand Han troops began to shoot at the Wei army's cavalry with soft bows and small arrows.
But how lethal are the soft bows and small arrows to the Wei army's cavalry, which is fully equipped with men and horses?
When Xiahou Ba at the front saw a limp arrow hitting him, it was blocked by the iron armor on his body and fell to the ground. This scene made Xiahou Ba couldn't help but laugh unbridled.
In the face of absolute strength, what if the Han army was led by a world-famous general?
The thousands of Wei cavalry now under his leadership are a nightmare for the enemy.
After laughing, Xiahou Ba's inherent contempt became even more serious.
He immediately changed his tactics.
If just now Xiahou Ba still wanted to focus on testing, but now Xiahou Ba has no scruples.
He issued a formal charge order to the Wei army's cavalry behind him.
Under Xiahou Ba's order, thousands of Wei army cavalry no longer deliberately suppressed their speed. They drove their horses to start running at high speed.
When the thousands of Wei cavalry released their speed, more than two thousand Han troops felt the ground beneath their chariots begin to tremble.
The sound of the war horses' iron hooves hitting the ground began to resound across the land like muffled thunder.
This extremely dull and chilling sound of iron hoofs on the ground is guiding the Wei army's cavalry, who are constantly gathering from here under Xiahou Ba's call.
The cavalry of the Wei army everywhere turned into a torrent and began to rush towards the location of more than 2,000 Han troops.
Once several torrents of Wei army cavalry gather together, the land on this land will inevitably be dyed red with blood.
As several groups of Wei army's cavalry continued to approach, the sound of the Wei army's cavalry stepping on the ground became louder and louder, making the more than 2,000 Han troops look more fearful.
But at this moment, more than two thousand Han troops heard bursts of loud and loud drums.
The high and loud drum beat sounded from behind them, and then reached their ears like the sound of nature, dispelling the fear in their hearts.
Under the influence of these bursts of drums, the hearts of more than two thousand Han troops began to calm down.
They now recalled what the man whom they regarded as a god said when they landed:
"You fight for me, and I drum for you!"
The general is right behind them, what else do they have to fear?
When the Han soldiers regained their fighting spirit, the Wei cavalry led by Xiahou Ba had already rushed close.
When thousands of Wei army cavalry were marching towards Queyue Formation with their iron hooves, an old man with gray hair and beard was waving the drumstick in his hand vigorously on a towering ship in the Han River.
The old man's silver hair fluttered in the wind, the veins on his hands popped out, and his eyes were full of perseverance.
The big man will win this battle.
Guan Yunchang said it.
There will be another chapter in a moment.
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