Chapter 818 The First Battle of the Parthian Iron Cavalry
"Don't panic! Our army is leaning against the trench wall. The Cao thief cavalry cannot attack me behind me. Just block the front! The gun formation cannot be messed up! Beware of the Cao threshing cavalry after going down the trench and rushing horizontally!
The crossbows are arranged on both wings of the position and are ready to shoot to the left and right at any time! Hold on to two cups of tea, and General Huang’s subsequent cavalry will arrive! Hold on to half a quarter of an hour, and Your Majesty’s army will also come to reinforce!"
As Le Jin's cavalry was dragged down, he tried to beat Chen Dao's engineer battalion from all directions without believing in his evil spirit, but he was unable to succeed in a hurry, the morale of the Han army engineer battalion became stable.
Especially Chen Dao led the way, and also got off the horse and hid in the trench, carrying long weapons and wielding his fight, and kept saying words to encourage the soldiers. Everyone realized that this was just a temporary disadvantage, and Le Jin could not annihilate them soon!
Especially some of the Cao army's tiger and leopard cavalry, who were blind, saw that the Han army engineers were actually surrounded by all sides and did not immediately disintegrate. A few brave tiger and leopard cavalry felt that their dignity was provoked, and they actually took the risk of jumping down from the steep slope of the trench and hacking and killing randomly in the air.
But it’s true that these fearless young men did cause considerable losses to Chen Dao’s troops. After all, they all jumped out of the sky more than ten feet high and smashed into the pit. As long as they were hit and pressed, they could crush several spear soldiers or crossbow soldiers to death.
In the one or two seconds of falling from the sky, if you wield your weapons crazily and slash and slay them to exert your remaining heat, it is not surprising that a tiger and leopard cavalry killed five Han army engineers before being stabbed into a hedgehog.
Fortunately, the furious tiger and leopard cavalry are the few after all. There are only a few dozen dead soldiers who dare to attack by jumping off the building, and they all don’t take their lives as their lives. After killing more than a hundred Han army engineers in a random manner, they were all stabbed to death by the Han army and killed them again, and the array was maintained.
Le Jin was also rushing around to shoot, rushing back and forth, and also trying to seize this opportunity, but he was always blocked by delay and pulled his hind legs by the unopen enough terrain, and failed to do his best.
With the time when Le Jin was dragged down, a huge change had occurred on the other side of the battlefield.
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After Huang Zhong gave up his position and gave up his obligation to protect Chen Dao throughout the process, he immediately entered a state of letting himself go.
He is not a tangled person. He knows that to be worthy of Chen Dao's trust, the best way is to tear and defeat a group of Cao's cavalry as soon as possible, completely drill it through, and then turn around and fight back.
Iron cavalry cannot lose their speed and fall into hand-to-hand combat, and must always rush!
So after Huang Zhong decisively launched a charge to the left, in just a few dozen breaths, he and Shi Huan's cavalry, the weakest cavalry of Cao's army, were installed head-on.
Shi Huan was also quite surprised. He thought that Huang Zhong had only six or seven hundred cavalry, so he would choose to retract first and escape backward to meet with friendly forces, and then turn back when there were too many people.
The first three cavalry sent by Cao's army today totaled more than 10,000, and the most were Lejin, but Shi Huan still had two or three thousand people. He really didn't expect that Huang Zhong would dare to retaliate directly if he had six or seven hundred people.
Sadly, Shi Huan didn't have much time to figure it out, because he was soon shocked to find out that he had followed the tactics assigned by General Le, covering the enemy's horses with a bow, and more than 2,000 people stared at six or seven hundred shots. In the three rounds of arrows before receiving the enemy, Huang Zhong's team did not fall at all.
"When did Huang Zhong's iron cavalry fully protect the arrows of the bow? This is impossible! When the tiger and leopard cavalry were led by General Cao Chun, they also fought with Liu Bei's iron cavalry!
General Zhang He, who surrendered from Yuan Shao, also introduced his experience. Even if it was Zhao Yun and Ma Chao's cavalry, it would be impossible for war horses to fully defend against arrows. At most, they would wear chest armor on their necks!"
Shi Huan didn't know that the Han army had upgraded its equipment this year. Not only did people have iron armor, but even the horses were replaced with the suspended iron armor of Parthian iron armor cavalry style, and even the horse's knees could be protected on the front.
Only the war horse's calf is below the knee, because it is too close to the ground and is afraid that the iron armor will hang too low to rub against the obstacles, so it has to give up protection.
If Shi Huan's cavalry had this archery technique and could only pick horse hooves and shoot, there would still be hope that Huang Zhong would be able to turn his back on the horse, but unfortunately he didn't have the ability.
Huang Zhong quickly rushed to the front and teared Shi Huan's cavalry formation apart like a hot steel knife stabbing into butter.
"The thief general is killed!" Huang Zhong flew over and rushed wildly, staring at the direction of the flag of Cao's army.
After all, this kind of chaos is not a fight against generals, and Shi Huan will not reveal his identity. If Huang Zhong wants to kill the general and fight quickly, he can only chop into places with many flags.
Besides, if you take a step back, even if Shi Huan has announced his name, Huang Zhong will not recognize him. What a nameless general?
This is really not an insult to him. After all, even those who come from the perspective of God have not heard of trash names like Shi Huan. Those who can remember are basically high-level fans of the Three Kingdoms.
In a very short time, Huang Zhong cut down three or four flags of the Cao army and killed more than ten soldiers with flag-holding banners, including several army Sima and middle-level officers at the level of Yamen Supervisor.
The iron cavalry under Huang Zhong also rushed left and right, causing chaos, and the Cao army in front was all flesh and blood, and could not stop it for a while.
The explosive power of the Iron Cavalry is too terrifying. When it comes to the first wave of the enemy, it can only crush it. Even if the number of people on one side of the Iron Cavalry is too small, the enemy with a large number of people can only consume it first. Using the disadvantage of the Iron Cavalry's physical strength dropping too quickly, and to hold it into a fatigue war, you will have a chance to turn the tables.
Unfortunately, with Huang Zhong's rich battlefield experience and sense of smell, he certainly would not give such an opportunity.
Huang Zhong is not a top cavalry officer. In Liu Bei's camp, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun are definitely in the first echelon when it comes to large-scale cavalry decisive battles.
However, Huang Zhong is very similar to Guan Yu in this regard. Although these two people are not the top cavalry decisive masters, they are definitely the top beheading masters.
When it comes to leading a small group of elite cavalry and relying on explosive power to break into the formation, their strength is even above Ma Chao and Zhao Yun, and they are not only fighting against the generals, but also attacking and tearing open the gap in the chaos.
Zhao Yun and Ma Chao are also good at killing generals, but they are more likely to push over in the front line, and they will respond to the situation and kill whoever they want. If you let him take a gamble and focus on whom they behead, they may not be able to do such a good job.
For older people, endurance and endurance will be weak, which is inevitable, but the weakness of explosive power will not be as obvious as endurance. Huang Zhong and Guan Yu are obviously very good at this.
Shi Huan just persisted for dozens of breaths in a daze, and this kind of "persistence" was based on Huang Zhong's failure to find him, rather than relying on his personal martial arts to resist after he had already fought with Huang Zhong.
If it is really necessary to calculate the time it takes to end the battle after Huang Zhong appears in front of Shi Huan, it can only be considered a moment, and it will be instantly defeated in one move.
Huang Zhong continued to charge and killed Shi Huan's cavalry. In just half a cup of tea, he probably killed more than 500 Cao's cavalry, and even more so many of them fell off the horse.
Although the remaining part of the Cao army cavalry may recover and reorganize the formation and siege, Huang Zhong only needs to win the time difference. Seeing that the Cao army cavalry on the left wing retreated, Huang Zhong immediately turned his head and ordered all the cavalry to turn around and rush to Xu Chu.
At this time, Le Jin also realized that Chen Dao's engineers' fighting spirit was very firm, and that the morale of the army would collapse and run away from the enemy. Seeing that Shi Huan was beheaded, he had to leave the contact and try to siege Huang Zhong with Xu Chu with all his strength.
Further west of the battlefield, Liu Bei's rapid response cavalry had already completed the assembly and came here one after another.
At least three or four thousand Han army bows and cavalry and an additional one thousand iron cavalry were all cast.
Liu Bei was very generous, and he only had less than two thousand cavalry by his side as the last reserve guard, with more than one thousand light cavalry and hundreds of iron cavalry.
Huang Zhong also knew that reinforcements rushed to the battlefield immediately, and became more confident the more they fought, so he directly strangled the chaos with Xu Chu's army.
Because the two armies fought separately at dawn, their vision was not very good. They were fighting indiscriminately. They would kill any enemy they encountered. It was difficult to identify a target and kill them from afar.
Therefore, Huang Zhong and Xu Chu did not fight each other, but just rushed by the horse, exchanged several moves quickly, and then faced the endless enemy soldiers.
Xu Chushi was very powerful, and the weight of the sword he used was still above Huang Zhong. With the heavy weapons of a powerful general like him, it was actually no different whether the enemy cavalry had plate armor to protect him.
As long as Xu Chu hit it, even if it was cut in the thickest part of the plate armor and could not completely break the armor, it would at least cut a crack, and the steel was sunk half a foot. As for the cavalry's flesh and blood, the internal organs must have been shattered and they were vomiting blood and died of death.
However, the ordinary cavalry of Cao's army around Xu Chu was not so relaxed. He fought against the enemy with both men and horses covering their iron armor and soon suffered considerable casualties. Although Xu Chu himself tried hard to kill more than ten cavalry, he began to pant.
After a battle of strangling and chaos, as the first rising sun appeared in the east, the sky was slightly brighter. The main force of Liu Bei's cavalry in the distance was about to enter the battlefield, Xu Chu was extremely anxious and wanted to kill Huang Zhong immediately.
Fortunately, as his vision improved, Xu Chu also re-determined Huang Zhong's position and followed Le Jin tacitly, and the mistress Wang Zhong and others surrounded Huang Zhong and killed him.
Little did he know that Huang Zhong on the opposite side was also secretly happy: the sun finally rose! His vision has improved again! He doesn't have to be a "Shooting Captain".
At the same time, when he saw Xu Chulejin and Wang Zhong surrounding him, Huang Zhong had a plan and immediately drove his horse back and rushed back, shouting: "Soldiers follow me to fight west! Let's join forces with the main force and fight again!"
Xu Chu became more and more anxious: I finally took advantage of your solitary end, and there were only six or seven hundred people around me. After strangling the bloody battle for so long, I suffered more than several times of casualties and then killed so many Han cavalry with iron armor. How could you get along with the main force again?
Xu Chu roared wildly and charged forward with a fierce roar. Regardless of his relationship with Le Jin, the formation between Wang Zhong was slightly disconnected.
Huang Zhong looked at it with kindness behind his back and deliberately adjusted the direction of the horse's head, trying to run on a parallel line with Xu Chu, so that the relative angular velocity of both sides could be reduced to almost zero.
Ordinary people may not understand this, but players who have played the "Driving and Shooting" mode are definitely familiar with it.
Anyone who has ever experienced driving and cutting the passenger seat when fighting chickens and turning back to chase your enemy by shooting, knows that when the cars on both sides have the same speed and direction, it is the easiest to hit, and there is no need to pull a gun or a gun.
Riding a horse is the same.
Today, Xu Chu did not take off his armor, so Huang Zhong turned around quickly based on his feelings and shot towards Xu Chu's throat. After all, only his face and neck were completely unprotected.
Because Xu Chu had not been accurately sniped before, even when both sides rode bows and shot against each other during the battle, they had a bad vision, so they could tell the position and shoot roughly.
This incident happened too suddenly. Xu Chu raised his arms high and was still dancing with his sword. His weapons were heavy and he had no time to press down on the grid. He bowed his head with all his might, and was still shot at the tip of his nose and upper lip by the arrow that was originally aiming at his neck.
The strong bow and arrow cut off half of the tip of the nose, then shot the flesh in the upper lip and the flesh in the middle position, then pierced into the upper palate gum, and shot two front teeth.
Thanks to the blocking of the front teeth, I avoid being directly penetrated by the head of the head. Even so, the arrow cut a half-inch wide hole on the tongue and stabbed it on the jaw before being blocked by the bone.
Xu Chu let out a depressing howl, like a giant whale squirting water, a dragon spitting fire, and blood in his mouth gushing out like a spring, spraying out with the sound waves. All the Cao soldiers next to him were frightened.
Huang Zhong succeeded in the attack and stopped running away. He turned around in advance to charge again. The Han cavalry's new force joined the battle and pushed all the Cao army back to the defense line. The Han infantry, who had arrived late in the rear, did not show any weakness, and spontaneously launched a charge, attacking the Cao army's defense line that had broken a broken hole a few days ago.
Even if we can't seize the subsequent lines of defense, it will be cost-effective to force the Cao army to fight a large-scale comprehensive field battle. In this kind of chaos, the pre-war staff plan had long been left behind.
In order to meet the retreat of the cavalry troops that were obviously unable to continue to support, Cao's army had to fight a tactic, allowing its infantry spear phalanx to pursue the defense line as planned, trying to block the Han army's cavalry pursuit.
Fortunately, the two generals of the Cao army, Xiahou Shangxiahou De, used their lives. They were responsible for commanding the Cao army to respond to the gun formation. With their efforts, Le Jin and Xu Chu were able to withdraw.
Huang Zhong, Chen Dao and Liao Hua rushed together, and Gao Shun behind him also pressed over, and the two sides started a bloody and tragic mincing fight.
During the chaos, Huang Zhong killed Wang Zhong, shot Xiahou Shang, and Chen Dao assassinated Xiahou De, killing Cao's army into pieces and forced them back to the defense line.
The Han army's offensive remained unabated. Zhuge Liang, who was observing the battle situation in the rear, did not care that Chen Dao's engineering troops had not been fully deployed before and were not prepared enough firepower, so he directly asked Liu Bei to order a general attack.
Chen Dao's engineer troops were the best performer in this battle. They immediately switched their roles and began to respond to the divine arm crossbow soldiers in the rear to press and enter the horizontal trench. According to the pre-view results of the observation tower, the blind shots covered and suppressed the investment of Cao's subsequent reserve team.
The traffic trench arranged by Guo Jia played a certain protective role. The firepower that Zhuge Liang was ambushed in the attacking Z-shaped trench greatly reduced the efficiency of the massacre of Cao's army in the reserve team.
But even in the face of such a debuff of long-range firepower output, Cao's army gradually lost its support due to the general decline in the morale of Cao's army, and the generals were losing their head-on and minced meat battle.
Chapter completed!