Chapter 3131: A peace of mind will lead to failure
The sword is sharp and whistling down.
Zhang Ji wanted to avoid it, but twisted his body but caused the wound. He couldn't help but feel a sharp pain and his movements were a little stiff.
After a long time of comfort, I will always be a little lazy. I always think that war will be the same as I imagined, or that I feel that I can avoid all risks.
But what about the actual situation?
Risks are still everywhere.
『General, be careful!』
A long spear stabbed from one side in time, piercing the lower abdomen of Cao's soldiers.
The Cao army soldiers seized the handle of the spear and tried hard to kill Zhang Ji's guard before they died, but Zhang Ji was slammed away with a backhand. They could only let out their last breath and fell down.
On the battlefield, only your comrades are the ones you can rely on...
『General! Reinforcements are coming!』 The guard beside him shouted, 『Reinforcements are coming!』
Zhang Jixian killed the Cao army soldiers in front of him, and then looked up and looked in the direction pointed out by the guard.
In the midst of the smoke and dust, I saw the cavalry vaguely advancing.
There were more and more screams.
Suddenly, there was a louder noise, which sounded in the direction of Huguan Pass.
Zhang Ji's face changed.
In this battle, both sides made their own strategies, the center of the battle was constantly changing, and the maneuverability and agility on the battlefield were fully displayed.
At present, this game is finally going toward the endgame.
Everyone is the focus of this battlefield, but no one is the absolute core.
People who think they are awesome may not be able to be awesome to the end, but they are often ordinary soldiers who are the core elements that support the entire battle.
Zhang Ji thought he was very powerful, but he also met Le Jin, who was also angry, and both of them were injured.
Zhang Ji injured his arm and Le Jin injured his leg.
The seemingly unrelated injuries have now caused Le Jin to be slowed down invisibly when he was rushing to the Huguan City Gate.
Under Huguan, the terrain is not flat, with ditches and mounds, not a simple city, and then a camp is under the city.
Most passes or cities are not flat and regular like movies and TV. They are often bumpy due to geographical environment, and even deliberately make bumpy.
Around Huguan Pass is the extension of the Taihang Mountains, and there are many folds of the ravines and soil plates.
It is naturally impossible for Cao Jun’s camp to be all concentrated together. Some camps are located at higher locations, and of course there are also some land nests dug out by laborers.
The battlefield has never been so-called beautiful, neat and at a glance.
Observing the other party’s camp and counting the other party’s stove cigarettes every day are all basic common sense.
When Cao's army appears on the platform of the earthen plateau, they will naturally be seen on the Huguan city wall. However, if Cao's army goes down the ditches of the earthen plateau and falls into the folds of the hills, their vision will be blocked. Isn't it a common sense issue?
Lejin made arrangements by taking advantage of these common sense and his own camp, which is beautiful and uneven in Taihang Mountain.
But he didn't expect that he would be injured...
"Quick! Quick!" Le Jin turned over the wrinkled slope, began to climb up the earthen plateau, limping towards Huguan Pass.
On the other hand, Zhao Yan was also shouting the same word: "Hurry! Hurry!! Grab the city!"
The Cao army cavalry behind him also shouted together, and they were majestic for a momentum.
The city gate of Huguan Pass is thick and sturdy, not only hard wood, but also iron bars and copper nails. However, this also makes the city gate so heavy that it is not like the doors of later generations. It can be closed with a slight slammed and said it to close.
Most of the time, the city gates of Huguan Pass are only half open, just enough, and when it is necessary to quickly enter and exit the troops, they naturally have to be opened.
It is difficult to open the door, and it is also difficult to close the door.
If you want to close it again after opening it, it is not something that one or two people can pull it.
Moreover, Huguan also needs to leave a door for Zhang Ji and others to enter the pass...
A fierce offensive and defensive battle is actually almost exhausted for both sides, and often it is supported by one's heart. If the Huguan city gate is seized, it is naturally not a small blow to the Huguan defenders, and Le Jin and Zhao Yan mean that they have a more proactive choice.
Anyone can understand this.
Even if the total number of defenders within Huguan Pass is more than that of Le Jin and others, the outcome of many wars does not depend only on the number of people...
Sometimes, luck is also important.
Just like this ambush, if it was at night, the winning rate of Le Jin and Zhao Yan would be increased by at least 30% or 40%.
But now, we can only compete for speed and compete for the time difference between cooperation.
Le Jin and Zhao Yan wanted to grab the current time difference.
But the problem is that Le Jin's foot was injured, and he ran slower than he originally did...
According to the original plan, Le Jin's speed was consistent with the cavalry sent by Zhao Yan.
I am walking forward, but I am closer.
Zhao Yan's cavalry rode his horse, but his hiding position was a little farther away.
So both sides should have reached Huguan at about the same time, but now Lejin has slowed down the entire infantry's speed, causing Zhao Yan's cavalry to be disconnected from Lejin...
Zhao Yan's cavalry formation arrived at the bottom of Huguan first!
In the Huguan city gate, figures were shaking. I don’t know if someone was rushing out or preparing to close the city gate.
But the light that shines through the door opening seems to Zhao Yan to see the light of hope!
Zhao Yan stared at the city gate tightly. Just as the distance was getting closer, a soldier suddenly pointed to the side and shouted: "Enemy cavalry!"
Under Huguan, the number of cavalry in Cao's army was not large, and the number of war horses in Huguan was not large. It was not that the cavalry was not equipped, but because of the terrain of the land of Huguan.
If Fei Qian had not expanded the current demand for cavalry in the Han Dynasty, in fact, until the late Three Kingdoms, only Cao Cao formed a cavalry formation of more than a thousand people. On most battlefields of the Three Kingdoms, there were not many cavalrymen...
Although Cao's army was choked by Fei Qian, there were still some war horses. At least the generals sent out soldiers, scouts, and sergeants, and other war horses, otherwise they would rely on their legs to deliver messages and orders back and forth?
And the key to the battlefield is never horses, but people...
"What?!"
Didn’t the Huguan cavalry go to rescue Zhang Ji?
How did it appear here?!
Zhao Yan turned his head in surprise and saw a team of about thirty cavalrymen on the side, running wildly, and attacking in the direction of Zhao Yan!
Although this team of Hussar cavalrymen was not large, they were rushing towards them with a momentum that seemed to be facing a mountain!
The cavalry that Zhao Yan and Le Jin finally gathered together were only more than fifty. If you want to say that the number of people is superior, it is indeed true, but the cavalry rushing towards the flank seemed to be the one with the advantage in numbers!
"Where did these cavalry come out?!"
Zhao Yan's eyes widened, almost unable to believe his own eyes.
The next moment, Zhao Yan shouted in a hurry, "Cum! Cum them! Don't let them crash in!"
At this moment, Zhao Yan's order was right, but it was also wrong...
That's right, because the best countermeasure at the moment is remote blocking.
If it is on weekdays, then you will naturally adjust the direction slightly, and then hedge the opponent after shooting at a long range, or stay away from the opponent's side attack line. However, Zhao Yan's most important goal now is to grab the city gate and wait for Le Jin to fill the position to see if there is any chance to advance the attack into the Huguan Pass. Naturally, it is impossible to change his original plan. He can only hope to block the bow and arrow and block the opponent's impact, creating more time and space for himself.
The reason why the order was wrong was because Zhao Yan was not a real cavalryman after all, and he was just a temporary part-time job, so naturally he was unable to consider it carefully.
The appearance of this team of cavalry was very sudden, which made the cavalry under Zhao Yan's hands a little panicked, because the weapons they originally had were all melee battles, and were preparing to directly fight with the defenders at Huguan City Gate. As a result, another team of cavalry suddenly appeared. Under Zhao Yan's order, they had to switch to long-range weapons...
Open the panel, select weapons, then unload the weapons, and then equip the weapons...
What?
No one-click dressing?
Of course not, and if you are not proficient in the dress-up, you may even drop weapons halfway…
With such delays, the opponent's cavalry had approached.
Seeing that the opponent's cavalry was almost stabbing his nose with a spear and a sword, Zhao Yan's cavalry naturally instinctively threw away the long-range weapon he had just replaced, and wanted to switch to melee equipment again...
This was such an extremely simple and seemingly wrong order, but it caused chaos in Zhao Yan's cavalry ranks.
Some cavalry are holding bows and arrows, some are holding swords and guns, some are trying to shoot but not shooting angles, and some are trying to cut but have short hands and can't reach...
On the other hand, more than 30 cavalry led by Deng Li basically followed the standard of the carving standard and threw out the throwing weapons, either short axes, iron halberds, or guns that they carried with them the moment they collided. Because Deng Li's cavalry sources were not unified, the equipment was not consistent, but what was consistent was the training they had experienced before and the habits they had cultivated from a lot of training.
The habit of Hussar cavalry has exceeded most ordinary soldiers on the battlefield. Even without Deng Li's order, these cavalry knew almost instinctively what they should do. Just like the short weapon that suddenly threw when approaching the enemy, it may not necessarily be able to hurt and kill many people immediately, but it provides a better opportunity for disrupting the enemy's array.
Not only ordinary soldiers, but also far exceeds the Cao Jun series because of the existence of martial arts lecture halls and the flexibility and autonomy of grassroots military academies.
Deng Li discovered the abnormal movements on the battlefield. He did not report and wait, nor did he rigidly implement Jia Qu's original order. Instead, he changed the goal of the battle and asked the front troops to continue charging forward to rescue Zhang Ji. He led the second half of the people to intercept Zhao Yan's cavalry unit.
In comparison, the movements of the Cao army's cavalry became much stiffer. This kind of dullness was not the fault of the Cao army soldiers, but the problem of the entire Cao army system. The Cao army system was determined by the economic structure of Shandong and the superstructure.
The Shandong political group, which is the original Han system, likes and hopes that the lower class people are obedient, stupid, and do not know how to adapt. They will only live, grow old, sick and die on a piece of land in one place. This is in line with the interests and needs of the ruling class in Shandong, but this naturally leads to other derivative problems, such as the rigid combat reactions shown now.
In comparison, the area controlled by the Cavalry is larger, the population is relatively sparse, and it is more welcome, and even encourages population migration. Therefore, in many cases, the people's initiative will be stronger. In addition, the complete record and exchange system of military meritorious masters makes most soldiers, even retired veterans, have a desire to obtain merit.
One positive and one negative, the difference is much greater.
Zhao Yan made the order he thought was correct, but it led to the wrong result.
Deng Li's queue did not have any additional instructions, but it dealt additional damage.
As Deng Li and his men crashed into Zhao Yan's queue, a gap was immediately knocked out of Zhao Yan's queue.
The people and horses collided with each other, their bones and tendons broke, and blood was everywhere.
Deng Li's cavalry in front fell off the horse, and the cavalry behind rushed in without hesitation.
Under the chaotic horse hooves, most of the soldiers who fell off the horse are coming to the god of death, and only a very small number of lucky people will escape the trampling of horse hooves.
People will be hurt and fearful.
War horses do the same.
After Deng Li broke through the gap in Zhao Yan's lineup, the cavalry following Zhao Yan paused at the same time. Even if the cavalry did not issue an order, the war horses would instinctively avoid it.
The entire Cao army cavalry formation was broken into two pieces.
So the cavalry led by Zhao Yan could continue to charge under Huguan City, and only more than ten cavalry were left...
The situation is very simple now.
If Cao's army could grab the city gate, there would be a chance to turn things around, which would be more than the power of a battle. If it could not be taken down, Cao's army would naturally retreat. After all, the camp had been destroyed by Zhang Ji and the subsequent troops, and there was no support supplies.
Zhao Yan was anxious. Now he only had two choices, one advance and the other retreat. But no matter which option it was, it was troublesome. Continue to attack. There were only more than ten people who hit the Huguan gate in the first wave. The number was too small. No one knew when the half of the latter could get rid of Deng Li's entanglement. Moreover, Le Jin on the other side was late! If he retreated, it would be like throwing Le Jin away and running away by himself. In this way, coupled with the previous proposal to withdraw, he would probably not be able to take off a cowardly hat from running away from now on!
In desperation, Zhao Yan could only rush straight to the point!
After reaching this point, Zhao Yan was also unwilling to give up and wanted to make the final attempt and the final effort!
The Cao army cavalry wore two layers of mixed armor and had some round shields. Normally, they were not very afraid of the defenders' arrows, but Zhao Yan's number is too small now. After all, shooting arrows from the city is impossible to frame the archers like a game, gathering fire to attack certain targets, and in most cases, they are evenly distributed or even ineffective shooting.
But now the pressure of more than fifty people sharing the city archers is now concentrated on more than ten people. The weight he bears is rising sharply, and there are two or three crossbow trucks...
『Bang!』
The crossbow on the top of the city began to show its power.
The crossbow gun roared down, and in a blink of an eye, a cavalry of Cao's army was nailed together, like a small animal that had been worn on the handle of the gun before it was peeled off, dripping blood.
Zhao Yan shouted: "Run in!"
Jia Qu was also shouting at the top of Huguan City: "Shoot the arrow! Stop them!"
The next moment, Zhao Yan saw the arrow roaring down like locusts in the sky...
On the other side, Le Jin limped out of the ditches from the earthen plateau and exposed his head, and saw Zhao Yan and others being shot by archers on the head of Huguan City and unable to take care of themselves.
Cao's army's war horses were scarce resources, and his war horses were given to Zhao Yan. On the one hand, only Zhao Yan concentrated most of the cavalry to have greater attack power. On the other hand, Le Jin was carrying infantry. Even if Le Jin had a personal horse, it could not mean that the speed of the entire army could be increased...
Of course, if Le Jin knew in advance that his legs and feet would be injured, he would definitely find a way to leave at least one horse...
But now, it's too late no matter how you look at it.
The balance of victory or defeat is already quietly tilting.
Le Jin saw Zhao Yan and others being shot like hedgehogs by arrows on the pass. Even Zhao Yan himself was hit by several arrows and had to escape. In the gap after Zhao Yan and others retreated, the Huguan had already calmed down. Moreover, Jia Qu not only arranged archers on the top of the city, but also crowded with swords, shields and spearmen in the city gate...
A shield is like a wall.
Guns are like forests.
This is luring!
It's also a provocation!
Le Jin's eyes were ripped apart, and he reacted almost instantly!
If Lejin's army is complete and there are already all arrays under the city, as long as Huguan dares to open the door, no matter what kind of array is arranged, Lejin will have the confidence to rush in directly!
Even if you use human flesh to pile up corpses, you have to push them into the city!
But now...
Zhao Yan was shot in an arrow and did not know life or death.
The flames rose and the smoke and dust rolled in the camp. I don’t know if Zhang Ji could be trapped to death without the general’s leadership.
My legs and feet were injured, which delayed the fighter plane. More importantly, when I was injured, could I still attack the Huguan defenders array with my soldiers?
More importantly, the general of Huguan actually had the courage to not close the city gate!
What does this mean?
This is showing sufficient confidence to everyone on the battlefield, including Cao's army!
If the Huguan Guard closed the city gate, even though Huguan was stable, it would also invisibly mean that the Huguan Guard Guard had acted to abandon Zhang Ji and others!
This cowardly correspondence will greatly damage the morale of the soldiers leaving the city, and it is very likely that Zhang Ji and others will collapse instantly and lose the motivation to resist. So in this case, even if Le Jin cannot attack the city, he can turn around and eat Zhang Ji and others, at least defeat and destroy most of them, which can more or less inspire people and return with victory, but now...
If Huguan is not closed, it means that the soldiers garrisoned at the city gate may also come out at any time. Whether Le Jin leads his troops to attack Huguan or turns around to surround Zhang Ji, he may be attacked from both sides!
Le Jin looked up and seemed to see Jia Qu standing above Huguan through the rising smoke and dust, and Jia Qu's eyes.
That was a pair of calm and greedy eyes...
What you are greedy for is the fate of Lei Jin!
Le Jin's lips moved, and he seemed to say something softly...
"General, what did you say?" The guard obviously didn't hear it clearly, so he asked anxiously.
"I said..." Le Jin took a deep breath, "Retreat...Retreat!"
The guard was stunned, but saw that Le Jin had become old and decadent.
Le Jin waved his hand, "Send the order, gather the troops, and let those people go back... Let's retreat... and send the order..."
Although both sides suffered losses on the surface, each suffered casualties, and it seemed that they were invincible and had reached a peace game, Le Jin knew that the peace game would be a loss.