It seemed like in the blink of an eye, Cheng Yun began to meet the forward of Cao's army.
Cheng Yun stood in the first row.
This is a tradition of the Cavalry.
The officers in the middle and lower levels must stand on the front line.
The armor and weapons on Cheng Yun's body are no different from ordinary soldiers from the front, but if you look at it from the back, you will find that there is a clear military marquis logo on Cheng Yun's pocket and armor.
On the one hand, this allows all the soldiers around to know the location of the middle and lower-level non-commissioned officers. On the other hand, it also vaguely reminds these non-commissioned officers to face the enemy and stand among their comrades to get the greatest protection. If they turn their heads and escape, the exposed sign will become the most obvious target of the enemy.
Cheng Yun held a shield in front, covering most of his body tightly, but showed his head a little to observe the situation opposite Cao Jun.
The solid shield provides Cheng Yun with a good sense of security.
The Cao army opposite is also a shield soldier. The shields or other equipment of Cao army are actually very similar to those of the Cavalry Army. The system of making weapons in Shandong is similar. Each weapon has a mark of the craftsman and the place of production. If there is a quality problem, it can be traced. In addition, there is an army number. If the weapon is lost, the responsibility of the user must be tracked down.
But there are many old people in Shandong. When the superiors inspect, of course everything is good...
Even "private visits on a mini-server basis".
Cheng Yun heard about something that a county magistrate in Shandong wanted to visit privately. The county magistrate did not bring a complete set of honor guards, but he brought the guards and wore brocade robes. As soon as he arrived at the place, he met a gentry who had come "accidentally". Then the county magistrate asked in a question. The gentry replied with a low eyebrow. The two knew each other's identity, but they just didn't say it.
If you don’t say it, you can just pretend that you don’t know it, and you can be a “minor private visit”. Then there are some students around you holding pens and paper. In the blink of an eye, a “principal private visit picture” is released...
When there is no inspection by superiors, some Shandong workshops will deliberately use some old templates, and the numbers of the weapons and equipment created will of course be blurred. When it comes to the hands of soldiers, in order to avoid discarding or "damaging", many soldiers will deliberately polish it after they get the hands.
Therefore, the quality of weapons and equipment in Shandong is relatively average.
Here is a little bit worse, there is a little bit worse, if it adds up...
Cheng Yun held the sword and waited for Cao's army to approach.
Under the wind and snow, bows and arrows lost most of their functions.
At the same time, most of the effects were lost, including gunpowder.
Jiguan is just a main passageway, but there are many mountain paths at the intersection of Wangwu Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain. Wangwu Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain are both narrow and long but smaller mountains. For example, Zhongtiao Mountain, which stretches for hundreds of miles, and the smallest place is only more than ten miles.
Therefore, Cheng Yun’s task is to block the mountain road in front of him.
He is only responsible for this mountain road.
There were no special defensive equipment, and there was no time to arrange any turbulent traps. When Cheng Yun and Ran arrived, Cao's vanguard also arrived...
With a loud shout from Cao's army, the shield line advanced forward.
Cheng Yun was close to the ridge, so what he saw was the round shaking behind the two layers of shields.
『Stay!"
Cheng Yun shouted loudly and asked the spearmen to put the gun handle on the hook on the shield.
The shield wall turned into a hedgehog in a blink of an eye.
The bright spear tip exuded a biting chill in the flying snow, and the red tassel seemed to indicate something in the gray, white and black...
『Everything is stable!!』
Cheng Yun shouted loudly, and the soldiers around him also shouted loudly.
At this time, the soldiers on both sides often forget what they were calling, perhaps just to boost their courage.
The shield walls of both sides collided.
The shield squeezes the shield, and the swords and guns collided with the swords and guns.
Various sounds sounded one after another.
Both sides were looking for each other's loopholes while colliding, shaking each other with swords and guns.
The sound of blades and gun tips passing through shields and armor is like teeth slipping and scratching, which seems to penetrate from the surface of shields and armor to the bones.
And this sound is not the most terrifying...
The narrow passage was filled with people.
Flesh and blood fly.
Someone fell down from time to time.
The sound of the swords and guns hitting the body was like standing in the middle of more than a dozen butchers with a prosperous business.
Cheng Yun was strong and had a slight advantage in the first round of impact. Although he was pushed back by the opponent a small step, his feet were not scattered and his shield was kept well. On the contrary, Cao Jun's shield turned around, revealing a small figure with two armored figures.
Cheng Yun didn't even look at what the other party looked like, or perhaps he was intentionally not looking at the other party's face, but just used his shield to hold the opponent's shield tightly, then stuck his right hand out, aimed at the exposed arm of Cao Jun and stabbed him.
The blade stabbed into the upper part of the left arm of the Cao army soldier, and blood burst out, but the flesh was not deep.
The Cao army soldiers roared angrily and slashed Cheng Yun's right hand regardless of the pain.
Behind the injured Cao army soldiers, a Cao army soldiers tried to stab with a spear.
Cheng Yun quickly shrank his hand and drew his sword, blocking it with his shield, causing the opponent's attack to fall on the shield, making a dull collision sound.
The Cao army soldiers burst out fiercely, slashing and hitting Cheng Yun's shield, and pushed Cheng Yun with one step back. When he was about to lose his center of gravity, a loud shout suddenly came from Cheng Yun's ear. The spear soldiers behind Cheng Yun made up for their positions. The spear stabbed through the edge of the shield, and then a scream rang out from the shield.
The spearman ignored the position he had stabbed to, and used his shield as a rigging frame to stab it from the gap.
Blood splattered, and white smoke rose among the snowflakes.
His vision suddenly blurred.
White, red, mixed together.
Cheng Yun howled, and continued to stab forward with a knife, feeling that he had stabbed something. The hard one should be a shield, the soft one should be flesh, and the neither hard nor soft one should be armor.
There were also collisions on the shield from time to time, and the breath that pressed Cheng Yun was a little confused.
Screams and angrily shouted across the opposite side, and they were ringing through the shield.
A powerful force hit the shield, and the shield was pressed back with force. Then Cheng Yun felt a severe pain in his left shoulder.
Cheng Yun glanced at the corner of his eyes and saw a gun head retracting from the edge of the shield.
"Go to die! Dog thief to die!"
Cheng Yun was also aroused by fierceness, raised his shield and swung the spear upwards. Cheng Yun's vision suddenly widened a little because of the shield, and the Cao army's spearman showed his face. His face was covered with blood, and his face was covered with ferociousness and he was about to stab him.
Cheng Yun slashed the hand of the Cao army's spearmen. The Cao army soldiers had no time to retract their spears to block them, and subconsciously wanted to raise their hand to grab Cheng Yun's sword. The blade rolled the white smoke in the air, drew an arc, and cut off the arms of the Cao army soldiers with one knife, cutting off the hands of the Cao army soldiers. In the blood splash, yellow and white bones could be seen faintly.
Cao Jun screamed with his broken arm and was killed immediately...
Both sides fought to the death at the intersection, and the corpses were piled up all over the ground.
Both sides fought against each other while stepping on corpses, constantly filling in this flesh-and-blood battlefield.
Finally, the Cao army soldiers found that they could not repel the other party, and they suffered too much loss, and their morale began to collapse, and they shouted and fled backwards.
Cheng Yun shouted, chasing the Cao army soldiers and killing them, killing many Cao army soldiers and fleeing in panic.
After the war, Cheng Yun found that in addition to the wound on his left shoulder, there were three other wounds on his body and legs. However, because he had armor protection and skirts on his legs, his injuries were not serious.
Cheng Yun's eyes turned to the bloody battlefield.
Most of the two-dang armor.
For some reason, Cheng Yun couldn't help but touch the armor on his body. Even though the armor was covered with blood and mud, it still made Cheng Yun feel at ease when he touched it.
Um?
Something was wrong.
Cheng Yun endured the numbness of muscles after intense exercise, stood up and walked forward a few steps, then frowned and looked at the battlefield.
After reading it again, Cheng Yun remained silent for a long time.
"Junhou...what are you looking at?"
Cheng Yun asked, "These...these Cao's armor..."
"Hmm? Armor? They are all average, and they are much worse than ours."
Cheng Yun nodded, "I think... these Cao troops are not elite... So... where did those elite Cao troops go?"
...
...
Cheng Yun’s guess was correct.
What Cheng Yun and others encountered were not the elite Cao's army.
The elite Cao army was with Cao Xiu.
Cheng Yun is lucky, so naturally some people are not very lucky and meet the elite Cao army led by Cao Xiu.
In another muddy mountain road, the two sides fought hard.
The shields hit each other hard, and the spear and the sword stretched and contracted in the gaps of the shields, bringing out some bright red every time.
More than a dozen corpses were trampled under both sides and fell into mud and water.
The hot blood melted the freezing of the ground, and then mixed the snow and blood into dirty mud, splashing on everyone's feet.
The sound of croaking and roaring was accompanied by screams and roars.
The defenders stationed on this mountain road have urgently requested reinforcements from the rear.
Cao Xiu also saw this, so he could only shout and ask his subordinates to strengthen their offensive. He must break through here before the reinforcements of the defenders arrive. Otherwise, he will advance in a row and make a breakthrough strategy of multiple breakthroughs. It may even lead to morale collapse and the entire army retreat.
If the defenders here are defeated, Cao Xiu and others can break through the intersection of Wangwu Mountain, and the entire Hedong land will be open to him!
The two sides fought each other for a while, and it has been going on.
Cao Xiu's troops had more people than the defenders, so even though the defenders occupied a certain geographical advantage, the Cao army soldiers who lost and died soon had the strength to replenish their strength and continued to put pressure on the defenders.
The people Cao Xiu brought were all elite wearing at least the sleeved armor. In addition, Cao Xiu, as the head coach, had red eyes and was moving forward with a burning boat, so they naturally had no room for retreat.
Either die here in battle or break a bloody road!
The combat effectiveness of the elite Cao army is actually stronger than the defenders gathered in Hedong.
In addition, Cao Xiu's elite troops were also equipped with relatively excellent armor. If it weren't for the fact that the defenders would be better than Cao's soldiers in terms of physical strength, the balance that could not be fought would have long lost its balance.
The shield formation collided again, and both sides were desperately looking for the gap between the opponent's shield.
From time to time, people screamed and fell to the ground, becoming one with the corpses in the mud.
Under the protection of his own guard, Cao Xiu carefully observed the fierce fighting situation ahead and suddenly ordered: "Change the line!"
The guards beside Cao Xiu also shouted loudly: "Change the line, change the line!"
The order was passed to the front of the formation, and the Cao army soldiers holding shields on the back line shouted and walked forward together.
And the Cao soldiers who were originally slashing on the front line retreated from the gap between the shields almost exhausted.
Some of the originally injured soldiers could rely on their comrades to support them before. Now, as soon as the comrades retreated, the wounded soldiers could not stand and fell into the mud. However, the soldiers on both sides did not look at these people more and stepped on them directly. Those who were lucky could crawl back to their own positions, and those who were tragic would be trampled to death.
The defenders were obviously replaced with fewer personnel, so when Cao's army changed the battle line, the defenders had to continue to support them.
The shield arrays of both sides collided again, and speared and spit out spears.
A Cao army soldier was cut on his eyes by the blade of the defender. Blood splattered everywhere, and his nose was cut off. The unlucky Cao army soldier howled, suddenly lost his vision and fell into darkness, which made him extremely frightened, and even affected the positions of other comrades...
The other Cao troops tried their best to pull off the unlucky guy, but the unlucky guy pulled the people around him tightly in panic, just like a drowning man grabbed the last straw.
Cao Xiu frowned and signaled slightly to the guard.
The guard was stunned for a moment, then nodded heavily.
The guard walked forward, took away the blind Cao army's hand, and then signaled the Cao army who saved the people to return to the front line.
The Cao army soldiers who saved the people had just walked two steps when they heard a familiar and terrifying giggle behind them...
He looked back and saw that Cao Xiu's guard had cut off the blind and unlucky boy's neck with one knife, and blood gushed out.
"You...you..." The Cao army soldier who saved people wanted to say something, but couldn't say it.
Cao Xiu looked coldly and suddenly shouted loudly: "You and I are here, there will be advance and no retreat! If you cannot hit the entrance of the passage and have no place to settle down, you and I will die here! Only by rushing over can you live! Stay here and you will die!"
At the end of the call, Cao Xiu grabbed the spear and moved forward.
As soon as Cao Xiu moved, Cao Xiu's guards naturally followed. The guard who killed the blind Cao army soldiers also carried a sword and followed Cao Xiu forward.
Cao Xiu swung his spear and drove away the oncoming swords and guns, and then he stabbed him under the shield of the opposing defender.
Before the opponent's defenders could react and exert force to stabilize the shield, they saw Cao Xiu use his lunge as a fulcrum to pry upwards!
The defenders were just rushing forward and desperately resisting the bottom-up force. When Cao Xiu pried it like this, he suddenly raised his shield and fell backward like opening a can, revealing a small gap.
Before the defenders could restore the shield gap, Cao Xiu's spear arrived.
A defender was pierced through his neck and tried to capture Cao Xiu's spear when he was dying, but how could he catch it?
The spear stained with blood was as smooth as a snake. It was about to be pulled away by Cao Xiu. Another defender next to him cut down on Cao Xiu's spear handle, trying to cut off Cao Xiu's spear handle.
Cao Xiu didn't have time to pull it out in time, and saw this, he let go.
The defender slashed Cao Xiu's spear handle with a knife, but because he was not under force, he not only failed to cut off Cao Xiu's spear, but instead cut the spear off from the dying defender.
Cao Xiu hooked his foot, but he hooked up a sword, then grabbed it, swung it with a knife, and the head of the defender who tried to cut off the gun handle suddenly flew high with blood light soaring into the sky!
Cao Xiu was so fierce that his morale naturally aroused the Cao army's soldiers and rushed forward regardless of casualties.
If the sword and gun were out of hand during the fight, then pick up one on the ground.
If you can't even pick it up, or if you don't have time to pick it up, you will swing your fist and take off your pocket and smash it on the other person's face.
The shouting and scolding sounds intertwined, and the screams were completely unsure of what the other party was shouting or saying in the battlefield, but they knew that there was only one person in themselves and the other party could finally stand!
Although Cao Xiu said that there were almost no defenders in front of him who could resist him, there was not much joy or pleasure in his heart.
These defenders are not elite, not elite cavalrymen!
Cao Xiu knew this, but what he didn't know was why these defenders who were not elite cavalrymen could not retreat?
Why?!
Logically speaking, the morale of the soldiers who lost 20% to 30% should be depressed and may be defeated at any time. Now the defenders have almost half of their casualties, so why are they still fighting?
Why not retreat and seek reinforcements from the rear?
What supports them?
Cao Xiu couldn't understand. In his opinion, these defenders could have fulfilled their responsibilities, and even if they were defeated, no one would blame them. What's more, Cao Xiu did not find any special outstanding generals in the defenders who were in power, but why?
They should have been defeated long ago, but why did these defenders not retreat?!
As the defenders died one by one, several Cao Xiu soldiers were dizzy when they killed them, buried their heads and rushed forward with their weapons, and suddenly they were empty!
The snow fell all over the sky, but there was no sign of the defenders standing in front of them.
The few people stood there in a daze, then looked back and saw that not far behind them, the tragic battle group was still continuing. However, the defenders who were originally in the mountain road were basically wrapped in a chaotic battlefield and were fewer and fewer.
They have rushed over?
After rushing through the mountain road and breaking away the shackles that were blocking them?
Several Cao army soldiers looked at each other blankly, as if they had just reacted at this time. One of them couldn't help but raise the bloody sword and shout, "Run over! We rushed over!"
Cao Xiu exhaled a long breath.
Yes, rushed over.
Chapter completed!