Chapter 1145 One Moment (Part 1)
When Cao Hong died in battle, all the knights who rushed with him were crying sadly.
No one retreated, no one was shaken. Everyone continued to move forward and rushed straight to the Han army. Cao Hong's family was rich and famous for being stingy to the outside world, but he was not stingy with his troops and soldiers. Many of these knights were supported by his decades of grace and had long bound him and Cao Hong. Not only could they prosper and prosper, but they could live and die together.
Since ancient times, the reason why cavalry charges head-on by arrows is mostly due to the decline in morale caused by casualties. If cavalry really rushes hard regardless of life or death, the range of the crossbow can only take a very short time, and the lethality of the crossbow may not be able to annihilate the brigade of cavalry.
The crossbow used in Hu Ben Camp is the latest model, with a very fast firing rate, but its power and range always have its upper limit, which is quite insufficient compared to the longbow heavy crossbow. When they had all ten arrows, they immediately retreated to the formation and began to change the box with crossbow arrows in an orderly manner.
Therefore, the remaining hundreds of cavalry under Cao Hong's command rushed at full speed and miraculously rushed through the cover of the Han army's crossbow arrows, and then collided with the Han army's array.
When Cao Hong's troops protruded into the gully, the direction of attack was originally the flank of the Han army's rear formation. However, the direction of the Han army's array was changing rapidly, which was beyond imagination. The array did not move at a certain fixed point as the center, but was quickly dispersed into many small arrays of more than 20 people. Each small array arrived smoothly like fish swimming freely in the water, without any sense of stagnation.
Once the small formation is in place, it will then turn into hard bricks and quickly build a huge building. The five small formations are connected to each other to form a formation of a hundred people, five hundred people form a formation of a five hundred people, and five five hundred people form two in front of two in one behind two, forming an unbreakable large square formation.
When the Cao army's iron cavalry arrived, the Han army infantry had already faced him.
The sword and shield soldiers who were in front of the cavalry all supported the shield with their shoulders, one kick in front and one kick behind, and stood firmly. At that time, the big shields on the beast faces that were nearly one person tall were arranged in a row. The spearmen who stood staggered with the sword and shield hands, put the spear in the groove at the top of the shield, and the spear head was diagonally poked out, and the spear handle was stuck on the ground, and then stepped firmly with their feet.
The next moment, a roar sounded and the war horses collided with the military formation.
Horses are very intelligent animals. Ordinary horses will be afraid of sharp weapons or loud noises, but war horses that have been through the battlefield will not. War horses are like warriors, and can experience the atmosphere of battle and feel the owner's determination to fight to death. Some war horses not only like to rush in, but also deliberately trample on, rush into the enemy, and assist the knights in killing the enemy.
Cao Hong's family was full of property and was full of horses. There was once a divine white swan, who was known to be able to leap out of nothing without pursuing the ground. The horses riding on his iron cavalry were also well-trained and dared to rush to the brim. The horses and people hit the shield defense line with huge weight, almost instantly shattering them. Several rows of swords, shield hands, and spearmen were kicked down by subsequent horses. The sound of bone shattering was like fried beans, and crackling came.
Many Han soldiers who fell to the ground stood up and fought back, risking being trampled to death by stabbing the sword in their hands into the belly of the Cao cavalry, causing the horse's internal organs to flow out, spreading them into sticky and fishy patches on the ground.
On the horse, the Cao army knights landed on the ground and rolled, and they could not afford to lose their strength because they were covered with heavy armor. Other Cao army knights scrambled their horses and surrounded the lonely Han soldiers in anger. They danced long spears and stabbed them from all sides, causing them to die in an instant.
This action vented their anger but slowed down the offensive. If Cao Hong was still there, they would never allow them to do so. The cavalry team had already attached it to the enemy infantry array, and the most important thing was to maintain speed.
Once the speed is lost, the cavalry team loses its impact and lethality, and it is very easy to get entangled with the enemy and fall into dangerous close-killing battles. Therefore, when an experienced cavalry general rides the formation, he will definitely stop when he sees it, limit the target to chaotic the enemy, and must not stop the pace of the horse galloping.
As soon as these Cao army cavalry were slow, many small square formations of the Han army immediately surged from three sides, and countless spears and spears were slashed out. The Han army soldiers vaguely admired and were wary of this group of extremely brave Cao army knights. When they stopped their horses, what the Han army soldiers wanted was to take this opportunity to annihilate them!
The sharp blade stabbed into their wretched horses, into their armor, into their chests or heads. The cavalrymen seemed to have no intention of dodging, and let the stabbings be spoiled, and only swung their swords and guns, trying to kill one or two more enemies.
At the back of the Han army, Zhuge Liang and Ma Su shouted softly at the same time: "Not good!"
Xiang Chong's face also changed, he waved the flag repeatedly and shouted loudly: "Re-form the formation! Form the formation!"
The only purpose of fighting between people is the other party's life. As long as you kill the other party, you will win. The battle between two armies is different from the battle between two people. Many times, the desire to kill the enemy will blind people's eyes and affect people's judgment, which will lead to the situation getting out of control.
The soldiers of the Huben Camp were all trained for a long time and were good at using the five as the formation and the four as the eight formations. The many small formations were assembled and dispersed, following the principle of the well being divided into four channels and the eight families, and the interaction was extremely fast. Even if they were busy killing the enemy for a while, the formation was slightly out of control. This out of control was only a moment.
But for famous generals who have experienced many battles and are extremely sensitive to the battlefield, there is only half a moment of time to defeat the enemy. How can we let this moment go?
At this moment, when many small formations of the Han army surrounded Cao Ren's remnants, the robes on the outside shouted warnings.
Another cavalry team emerged from the smoke and dust rolled up by Cao Hong's troops.
Although their momentum was not as good as the decisive assault by Cao Hong's troops, they had a quiet and solemn sense. Thousands of cavalry rode forward safely, without roaring or noisy, like a stream of black water, flowing freely along the smooth surface, silently crossing the battlefield covered with crossbows and shooting, and the corpses were everywhere, crossing the sky, and there was no smoke and dust that had landed.
When the Han soldiers noticed it, the distance between the cavalry team was very close.
The soldiers could clearly see that these cavalrymen were wearing black beast-faced croakers and black fish-scale iron armor. Their war horses were also wearing unified horse armor, and painted ferocious beasts with red paint on their faces and chests. As they advanced, the armor and countless weapons reflected the sunlight, emitting a star-cold and cold light.
At the front of the cavalry was a general with a red feather slanted in his neck and riding a yellow horse!
The steps of countless Han soldiers in a hurry to take their positions were instantly stopped.
The soldiers have long been used to going through life and death, and have rich combat experience, so they shouldn't have been like this. But because they are all experienced old soldiers, many people knew in an instant that this person was Zhang Liao!
This person is one of the few powerful generals in the Cao Wei camp. He is a brave general who once defeated the Wu army with 800 people in Jianghuai, chased Lei Yuan under Jiangling City, almost killed his life, and then retreated in front of General Guan!
Chapter completed!