When Ma Chao came to the camp wall, he saw thousands of Wei troops pushing hundreds of carriages towards his camp.
After being condescending, Ma Chao, who had excellent eyesight, immediately recognized that the thousands of Wei troops were auxiliary soldiers.
Seeing this scene, Guo Huai naturally couldn't hide his intentions from Ma Chao.
Guo Huai used the principle that kindness does not command troops very naturally.
But Ma Chao is not an indecisive person. Even if he knows that many of those auxiliary soldiers may have been from ordinary people, no matter what their previous identities were, when they stand on the opposite side of him, they are his enemies.
Ma Chao decisively gave the order to shoot arrows.
Under Ma Chao's order, thousands of arrows descended from the heights and flew towards the thousands of Wei troops.
Because the thousands of Wei army auxiliary soldiers only had tattered cloth armor for protection, and because they had not received formal training and did not know how to avoid arrows, when thousands of arrows fell into their crowd,
It immediately caused great damage to them.
Hundreds of auxiliary soldiers of the Wei army fell into a pool of blood, howling in an instant.
When the surviving auxiliary soldiers of the Wei army saw this, they were instantly frightened and panicked. Their first reaction was to flee towards the rear.
But what was waiting for them at the rear was not the strong fortress they had built with their own hands, but the war supervisors who were slashing at them with knives.
As the elite of the army, the Supervisory Team can cut down regular soldiers like melons and vegetables, not to mention these auxiliary soldiers who have no combat effectiveness.
When the shining blades struck the Wei army auxiliary soldiers who were the first to retreat, many more Wei army auxiliary soldiers fell into a pool of blood.
Under the threat of death, only a few hundred auxiliary soldiers were left in a dilemma.
At this time, the voices of Wei Jun's supervisors sounded, and they used words to confuse the hundreds of auxiliary soldiers.
You won't necessarily die if you rush forward, and you may be rewarded later.
But if they retreat, not only will they die, but their families will also be implicated.
You must know that the reason why the Wei army is so powerful is that Cao Cao formulated a series of strict military laws for the Wei army during his lifetime, one of which was the "law of the death of soldiers."
The Law on the Exile of Soldiers stipulates that if a soldier flees, his parents, wife, children, and brothers will all be put to death.
Such a harsh and almost perverted military law raised Cao Wei's combat effectiveness to an extremely high level. At the same time, this kind of military law was also a red thread in everyone's heart.
People will flee at all costs to survive, but what if the cost is the lives of their family members?
These hundreds of auxiliary soldiers quickly proved their choice with their actions.
Under the threat of the death of the soldiers, these hundreds of Wei army auxiliary soldiers, no matter how afraid they were of the rain of arrows falling from the sky, turned around and pushed the soldiers forward towards the Han army camp.
Along the way, many Wei army auxiliary soldiers were killed by arrows, but most of the Wei army auxiliary soldiers persisted and continued to move forward.
They may die if they go forward, but they will definitely die if they go backward, including their families.
These hundreds of auxiliary soldiers of the Wei army are ordinary people who are greedy for life and afraid of death. In the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, which are full of heroes, they may not even deserve to have names. Who in future generations will pay attention to their existence?
But they are precisely the main group of people in this era.
And it is often ordinary people like this who don't care about their grand ambitions and only want to protect their families.
The protection in their hearts kept these hundreds of Wei army auxiliary soldiers coming forward, but the belief in their hearts could not make up for their lack of training.
Some auxiliary soldiers of the Wei army were shot by arrows while pushing the hustle and bustle, and some auxiliary soldiers of the Wei army were hacked to death by the supervising team behind them because they were walking too slowly.
No one taught them what to do when they went to the battlefield, but now both the Han and Wei sides would ruthlessly put them to death because of their "incompetence".
More and more blood began to flow in the weed-covered Gushan Mountain Road, and when the bright red blood was mixed with the green weeds, it seemed to form a bewitching and strange color.
This color symbolizes the cruelty of the world and directly exposes the pity of ordinary people in the world.
When things prosper, people suffer; when things die, people suffer. This is exactly the reason.
Under the constant attacks from the Han army's arrows, there were not many of the thousands of Wei army auxiliaries left.
But at this moment, as the drums of the Wei Army continued to sound, another group of Wei Army auxiliary soldiers also entered the battlefield.
The scene just now, like reincarnation, is repeated in this deep mountain road of Gushan.
The forest was deep and the people were crying. If it weren't for the sunlight flowing into the mountain path, many people would probably feel like they were in hell after seeing the scene in front of them.
Only at this moment did Ma Chao understand Guo Huai's true intention.
Guo Huai never thought about using poorly trained auxiliary troops to dismantle the dense resistance of horses from the beginning.
There was only one reason why he sent auxiliary soldiers into the battle - to let them use their flesh and blood to continuously consume the arrows of the Han army.
The manufacture of military arrows requires more than just using a piece of wood.
Guo Huai knew that the Han army's military reserves must be insufficient. If the Han army continued to consume, when the well-trained regular soldiers went into battle, how could the Han army use arrows to stop the Wei army's regular soldiers?
Only when the arrows rain down can they be lethal to the army.
In Guo Huai's eyes, the life of an auxiliary soldier was not worth as much as an arrow from the Han army.
If the auxiliary troops are gone, if he continues to recruit, Cao Wei will have plenty of people, but once the Han army's arrows are gone, what he will get will be overwhelming.
Guo Huai's intentions were very cold-blooded, but sadly, most generals in the world were as cold-blooded as him.
The success of one general will last forever, as has been the case since ancient times.
It was not difficult for Ma Chao to see Guo Huai's intention, but he had no good way to decipher Guo Huai's intention at the moment.
Because if he stopped attacking with arrows, there would be no more blocking Wei army auxiliaries, and with the help of their cannons, they would be able to dismantle the layers of resistance he had deployed.
Once the layers of resistance are removed, the first layer of defense of the Han army camp will be dismantled in an instant.
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This is also the first test for Guo Huai, the offensive general, and Ma Chao, the defensive general.
Whether Ma Chao will be able to take advantage of the situation next, or he will be completely trapped in a dilemma, it all depends on Ma Chao's next decision.
Just when Ma Chao was frowning, Ma Dai came to Ma Chao and whispered to him.
After listening to Ma Dai's whisper, Ma Chao's brows widened instantly.
How could he forget that big killer?
With support in his heart, Ma Chao immediately issued the order.
He ordered the Han troops on the camp wall to stop shooting arrows.
This is also a helpless move.
Ma Chao knew that no matter how many arrows he consumed, the final result would still be that the horse-defying formation could not be defended. In this case, it was better to stop losses and use these arrows where they should be used.
When the rain of arrows on the camp wall stopped, the auxiliary soldiers of the Wei army who had advanced to the horse-rejecting formation were all so happy that they almost cried.
They escaped alive!
Although I don’t know why the Han army suddenly stopped firing arrows, how could the Wei army auxiliary soldiers give up this rare opportunity?
As long as they dismantle the obstacles in front of them, they can all return to the camp safely.
After taking a look at the countless corpses of his comrades with the same status that fell to the ground around him, the surviving Wei army auxiliary soldiers, under the temptation of life, immediately accelerated their advance.
When they pushed the troops to the front of the Han army's anti-horse formation, they quickly began to dismantle the sharp anti-horse formations under the command of the supervising team behind them.
With more people and greater strength, under the continuous dismantling of the Wei army's auxiliary troops, in just one day, the dense and dense horse-rejection formation deployed by the Han army was almost completely dismantled.
By this time, it was already dark, and the captain in charge of the battle team saw this and issued an order to withdraw the troops.
Anyway, most of the Juma have been dismantled, and there is no time to dismantle the rest tomorrow.
Moreover, today's progress will definitely make Guo Huai very satisfied.
Sure enough, when the captain who supervised the team returned to camp and reported the information to Guo Huai, Guo Huai's face was a little surprised at first, and then he became happy.
The mere dismantling of Jima was not enough for him to personally supervise the formation.
In addition, Guo Huai also knew that with his arrangement, it was only a matter of time before the anti-horse formation outside the Han army camp was dismantled.
But he didn't expect that his progress would be so fast today.
Guo Huai immediately asked the captain who was supervising the battle team about all the actions of the Han army today.
After learning that it was Ma Chao who took the initiative to stop firing arrows that allowed the auxiliary troops to advance so quickly, Guo Huai's doubts were answered.
Ma Chao's choice does not break his situation, but it is also the best choice for the Han army at the moment.
Now that he knew that the anti-horse formation outside the Han army's camp was almost dismantled, Guo Huai immediately thought of sending regular troops to storm the Han army's camp.
Unlike the simple task of dismantling the horse-rejecting formation, if you want to storm the Han army's camp, sending auxiliary troops will not work.
Because a strong attack means the possibility of close combat with the Han army, as well as a series of complex siege actions, these things can only be accomplished by serious soldiers.
After this idea emerged in his mind, Guo Huai issued a general order to the generals in the army overnight - after the anti-horse formation outside the Han army's camp was completely dismantled early tomorrow morning, the army would immediately launch an attack on the Han army's camp.
After issuing the general order, Guo Huai began to look forward to tomorrow's battle.
He doesn't have to supervise the battle when the auxiliary troops go into battle, but his own soldiers bravely fight the enemy for him. Of course he has to appear for such a big event.
Time passed very quickly, and just after dawn the next morning, many Wei army auxiliary soldiers, under the command of the supervising team, continued to dismantle the anti-horse formation outside the Han army's camp.
Just as the captain of the supervising team expected, the Wei army's auxiliary troops completely dismantled the Han army's horse-rejection formation near noon.
When the news came back to the Wei army's camp, Guo Huai excitedly gave the order to attack to the waiting Wei army.
Under Guo Huai's order, the Wei army auxiliary troops who completed their mission quickly retreated to the Wei army camp.
Groups of Wei infantrymen holding shields and swords at their waists formed a tight human wall and continued to advance towards the Han army camp in the distance.
Behind the tight wall of Wei army infantry, there were still ladders.
Once these ladders are set up on the wall of the Han army's camp, it won't take long for the Han army's camp to be defeated by the Wei army's numerical advantage.
The sound of powerful drums sounded. In addition to the drummers in the army beating the war drums, behind the advancing group of Wei army infantry, there was also a towering chariot. Guo Huai, who was standing on the chariot to observe the enemy's situation, was also beating hard.
Playing the war drum on the chariot.
The leader of an army personally beat drums to cheer for his own army, which greatly improved the morale of the Wei army's infantry.
The Wei army, with high morale, formed multiple formations and moved forward step by step.
Their combat boots stepped on the corpses of many Wei army auxiliary soldiers left on the battlefield yesterday. Their combat boots stepped on the battlefield that should have been blocked by layers of resistance. As they advanced step by step, they left the camp of the Han army.
The wall is not far away.
But what stood in front of them was a trench and many deep pits dug by Han army workers.
But this could not faze the well-trained infantry of the Wei army. Soon the flying bridges were pushed out from the Wei army camp and then erected directly on the trenches and deep pits.
The existence of the flying bridge allowed the Wei army's infantry to easily pass over trenches and deep pits.
At this moment, the Han army on the camp wall finally began to react.
Guo Huai was playing drums facing the Han army's camp, so he could clearly see the Han army's actions.
When he saw the Han troops on the camp wall setting up their bows and drawing arrows, he had a look of disdain on his face.
Did Ma Chao think that his great Wei Tianbing were the auxiliary soldiers who didn't know how to protect themselves yesterday?
He just dismissed them with disdain. When Guo Huai saw some Han soldiers taking out some bottles and cans, he was still unavoidably surprised.
What's in those bottles and jars?
The next actions of the Han army made Guo Huai understand.
The Han army lit flames on the heads of arrows.
The fact that the Han army acted like this shows that the bottles and jars contained items such as kerosene.
It's just that although kerosene can cause a fire, how can it cause damage to the flying bridge with rawhide protection with just that amount?
As long as the flying bridge is not destroyed, everything the Han army did will be in vain.
As an excellent defensive general, Guo Huai had already considered in advance the possibility of the Han army using fire attacks.
Precisely because of his foresight, Guo Huai took precautions early.
Not only was the flying bridge protected by rawhide, but the shield in his son's hand was also covered with rawhide.
With such protective measures in place, unless the Han army provided an alarming amount of fire oil, their fire attacks would not be able to threaten their own army.
Guo Huai, who was determined in his heart, beat the war drum harder and harder.
Just as the war drums of the Wei army became more frequent, the Han army on the camp wall began to throw bottles and cans in their hands.
Since the Han soldiers who threw the bottles and jars were all strong men, and they had the advantage of being at a commanding height, the bottles and jars smashed into the Wei army's infantry square formation smoothly.
When the bottles and jars thrown by the Han army hit the ground, they burst into pieces instantly, and the contents inside gradually flowed to the ground.
This substance looks like ointment but not ointment, and looks like water but not water. Its color is yellow at first and then black, and it has a pungent and strong odor.
Even though Guo Huai was well-informed, he couldn't tell what it was for a while.
What he didn't know was that this thing was called stone fat by some people in this world.
In later generations, he had a famous name - oil!
When the stone fat was scattered at the feet of many Wei infantry and flew over the bridge, the Han troops on the camp wall also raised their rockets in time.
A small amount of kerosene cannot cause large-scale damage to the Wei army, but what if the kerosene is replaced by oil?
Ma Chao looked at the Wei army infantry forming formation below, with a hint of coldness on his lips.
Isn’t it great that there are so many people?
After a sword cry sounded, as a sword with cold light pierced the sky, hundreds of Han army rockets also leapt out.
Then he formed a formation towards the Wei army infantry and fired rapidly!
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