As if in the blink of an eye, Cheng Yun began to encounter Cao Jun's forward.
Cheng Yun stood in the first row.
This is a tradition of the Hussars.
Officers at the middle and lower levels all have to stand on the front line.
The armor and weapons on Cheng Yun's body are no different from those of ordinary soldiers from the front, but if you look at them from behind, you will find that there are obvious military marquis marks on Cheng Yun's pocket and back.
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On the one hand, this allows all surrounding soldiers to know the location of the middle and low-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 around and run away, then
The exposed logo will become the most obvious target for the enemy.
Cheng Yun held a shield in front of him, covering most of his body tightly, and only exposed a little bit of his head to observe the situation opposite Cao Jun.
The solid shield provided Cheng Yun with a good sense of security.
The first row of Cao Jun on the opposite side is also a shield soldier. Cao Jun's shields or other equipment are actually very similar to those of the Hussars. The system of making weapons in Shandong is also similar. Each weapon has its own craftsman and producer.
The mark of the place of production can be traced if there are any quality problems. In addition, there is also the military number. If the weapon is lost, the responsibility of the user will be traced.
It's just that there are a lot of old people in Shandong. When the superiors inspected it, of course everything was good...
Even if it is a "private visit via microservice".
Cheng Yun heard about a story about a county magistrate in Shandong who wanted to pay a private visit incognito. The county magistrate did not bring a complete guard of honor, but he did bring guards and wore brocade robes. As a result, he met a "coincidence" as soon as he arrived at the field.
The squire came, and then the county magistrate asked gesticulatingly, and the squire answered with a low eyebrow. The two people clearly knew each other's identity, but they didn't tell them.
If you don’t say anything, you can just pretend you don’t know, and it can be a “private visit in private”, and then there happen to be some students nearby with pens and papers, and in the blink of an eye, a “Prince Private Visit Picture” is released...
When there is no inspection by superiors, some Shandong workshops will deliberately use some older templates, and then the weapons and equipment they create will of course have ambiguous numbers, even to avoid being discarded or "damaged" when they are in the hands of soldiers.
After receiving the weapon, many soldiers will deliberately polish it.
Therefore, overall the quality of Shandong's weapons and equipment is relatively average.
It's a little worse here, a little worse there, and if you add it all up...
Cheng Yun held his sword and waited for Cao Jun to approach.
Under the wind and snow, bows and arrows lost most of their effectiveness.
At the same time, gunpowder also lost most of its effects.
Jiguan is only a main pass, but there are many mountain trails at the junction of Wangwu Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain. Both Wangwu Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain are long and narrow mountains with a small width. Like
It is Zhongtiao Mountain, which stretches for hundreds of miles, and the smallest width 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 trail.
There was no special defensive equipment, and there was no time to set up any kerosene traps. When Cheng Yun arrived with Ran Ren, Cao Jun's forward also arrived...
There was a loud shout from the Cao army array, and the shield line advanced forward.
Cheng Yun's location was close to the ridge, so what he saw were round ducks swaying behind the two layers of shields.
"Hold on!"
Cheng Yun shouted and asked the pikemen to put the handle of the spear on the hook on the shield.
The shield wall turned into a hedgehog in the blink of an eye.
The bright spear tip exuded a biting chill in the snow, and the red tassel in the gray, white and black seemed to indicate something...
"Stay still!!"
Cheng Yun shouted loudly, and then the surrounding soldiers followed suit.
At this time, soldiers on both sides often forget what they are shouting, perhaps just to embolden themselves.
The shield walls of both sides collided.
Shields pressed against shields, swords and spears collided with swords and spears.
Various sounds sounded one after another.
Both sides were looking for loopholes in each other while clashing, waving swords and guns to stab each other.
The sound of blades and spear points scratching against shields and armor is like teeth sliding, and the scratching sound seems to penetrate from the surface of shields and armor into the bones.
And this sound is not the most terrifying thing...
The narrow crossing was crowded with people.
Flesh and blood flew everywhere.
From time to time someone falls down.
The sound of those knives and guns hitting flesh was like standing in the middle of a dozen butcher shops with a thriving business.
Cheng Yun was strong and had a slight advantage in the first round of impact. Although he was pushed back a small step by the opponent, his feet were not scattered and his shield position was maintained well. On the contrary, Cao Jun's shield on the opposite side tilted, exposing
The smaller half is a figure wearing two armors.
Cheng Yun didn't even look at what the opponent looked like, or maybe he didn't want to see the opponent's face on purpose. He just pressed his shield against the opponent's square shield, then stretched out his right hand, pointed at Cao Jun's exposed arm and swung his sword.
prick.
The blade of the knife pierced the upper left arm of the Cao army soldier, and blood burst out, but it did not penetrate deep into the flesh.
The Cao Jun soldier roared angrily, and regardless of the pain, he slashed Cheng Yun's right hand with his sword.
Behind the injured Cao Jun soldier, there was also a Cao Jun soldier trying to stab him with a spear.
Cheng Yun quickly withdrew his hand, drew his sword, and used his shield to block in front of him, causing the opponent's attacks to fall on the shield, making a dull collision sound.
The soldiers of Cao's army exploded with ferocity, slashing and hitting Cheng Yun's shield, forcing Cheng Yun to take another step back. Just 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 took up their positions, and the spear stabbed through the edge of the shield, and then a scream rang out from the other side of the shield.
The pikemen didn't care where they stabbed, and instead used their shields as a scaffold to stab through the gaps.
Blood spurted out, and white smoke rose among the snowflakes.
My vision suddenly became blurry.
White, red, mixed together.
Cheng Yun howled as he continued to stab forward with the knife, feeling that he had hit something. The hard one should be a shield, the soft one should be flesh, and the neither hard nor soft should be armor.
There would also be impacts on the shield from time to time, and Cheng Yun's aura was a little confused.
Screams and angry shouts from the opposite side were heard through the shield.
A strong force hit the shield, and the shield was pushed back hard. Then Cheng Yun felt a sharp pain in his left shoulder.
Cheng Yun glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw a gun head retracting from the edge of the shield.
"Go to hell! Go to hell, you thieves!"
Cheng Yun was also aroused. He raised his shield with all his strength and swung the spear upward. Because of the lift of the shield, Cheng Yun's field of vision suddenly broadened a little, revealing half of the face of Cao Jun's spearman.
There was blood all over his body, and his face was so ferocious that he wanted to be stabbed with a spear again.
Cheng Yun slashed at the hand of Cao Jun's spearman with a knife. Cao Jun's soldier had no time to retract his spear to block, and subconsciously raised his hand to grab Cheng Yun's sword. The blade of the sword rolled up the white smoke in the air, drawing an arc.
, a knife was cut from the upper part of the arm of Cao Jun's soldier, and the hand of Cao Jun's soldier was chopped off. Among the blood splatters, the yellow and white bones could be faintly seen.
Cao Jun raised his broken arm and screamed, and was immediately killed...
The two sides fought desperately at the crossing, and corpses were piled all over the place.
Both sides are stepping on each other's corpses and fighting each other, constantly filling this bloody battlefield.
Finally, the soldiers of Cao's army found that they could not repel the opponent and suffered too much losses. Their morale began to collapse, and they fled back screaming.
Cheng Yun shouted loudly and chased after the Cao soldiers to kill them, killing many Cao soldiers and fleeing.
After taking inventory after the war, Cheng Yun discovered that in addition to the wound on his left shoulder, there were three other wounds on his body and legs. It was only because he was protected by armor and had skirts on his legs that he
The injuries were not serious.
Cheng Yun cast his gaze towards the bloody battlefield.
Most of them have two kinds of 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 dirt, it still felt very reassuring to touch.
Um?
Something is wrong.
Cheng Yun endured the numbness of his muscles after the strenuous exercise, stood up and took a few steps forward, then frowned and looked at the battlefield.
After reading it again, Cheng Yun was silent for a long time.
"Junhou...what are you looking at?"
Cheng Yun asked, "These...these armors of Cao Jun..."
"Huh? Armor? It's just average, and it's much worse than ours."
Cheng Yun nodded, "I think... these Cao Jun's troops are not elite... So... where did those Cao Jun's elite go?"
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Cheng Yun's guess was correct.
What Cheng Yun and others encountered were not the elite of Cao's army.
The elite of Cao's army were with Cao Xiu.
Cheng Yun was lucky, but naturally there were some people who were not so lucky and met the elite of Cao's army led by Cao Xiu.
On another muddy mountain road, the two sides were fighting fiercely.
The shields collided hard together, and the spears and swords stretched and retracted in the gaps between the shields, bringing out some bright red every time.
More than a dozen corpses were trampled under the feet of both sides and fell into the muddy water.
The hot blood melted the frozen ground, and then mixed the snow and blood into filthy muddy water, splashing on the feet and bodies of everyone around him.
The sound of croaking and croaking 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 men to strengthen the offensive. They must break through here before the defenders' reinforcements arrived. Otherwise, he would divide his efforts and the strategy of multiple breakthroughs would be in vain, and might even lead to
Morale collapsed and the entire army retreated.
After defeating the defenders here, Cao Xiu and the others can break through the crossing of Wangwu Mountain, and the entire Hedong land will be opened to them!
The two sides have been fighting each other for their lives for some time.
Cao Xiu's troops outnumbered the defenders, so even if the defenders occupied a certain geographical advantage, the soldiers of Cao Xiu's army who died were quickly replenished and continued to put pressure on the defenders.
The people Cao Xiu led were all elites wearing at least sleeved armor. In addition, as the coach, Cao Xiu was already red-eyed and desperate to move forward, so naturally they had no room to retreat.
Either die in battle, or break a bloody path!
The combat effectiveness of Cao's elite army was actually better than that of the defenders mobilized from Hedong.
In addition, Cao Xiu's elite troops were also equipped with relatively high-quality armor. If it weren't for the fact that the defenders were physically better than Cao's soldiers, the battle would have been out of balance.
The shield array collided again, with both sides' spears and knives desperately looking for gaps in each other's shields.
From time to time, someone screamed and fell to the ground, becoming one with the corpses in the mud.
Under the protection of his own bodyguards, Cao Xiu carefully observed the fierce fighting ahead and suddenly ordered: "Change rows!"
The guards around Cao Xiu also shouted at the top of their lungs: "Change the queue, change the queue!"
The order was passed to the front of the formation, and Cao Jun's soldiers holding shields in the rear shouted and moved forward in unison.
The soldiers of Cao's army who were originally slashing and killing on the front line retreated from the gaps between the shields as if they were exhausted.
Some originally injured soldiers could rely on the bodies of their comrades for support before. Now that their comrades withdrew, these wounded soldiers could no longer stand and fell into the mud. However, the soldiers on both sides did not take a second look at these people.
Just step on them directly. The lucky ones can crawl back to their own position, but the miserable ones will be trampled to death directly.
The defenders had obviously fewer manpower to replace, so when Cao's army changed battle lines, the defenders had to continue to support.
The shield arrays on both sides collided again, with spears and knives spitting out randomly.
A soldier of the Cao Army was stabbed in the eye by the defender's blade. Blood splattered everywhere and the bridge of his nose was cut off. The unlucky soldier of the Cao Army howled and suddenly lost his vision and fell into the darkness, which made him extremely frightened.
It even affected the positions of other comrades...
The other Cao soldiers tried their best to pull the unlucky guy off, but the unlucky guy pulled the people around him tightly in fear, like a drowning man grabbing the last straw.
Cao Xiu frowned and gestured slightly towards the guard.
The guard was stunned for a moment, then nodded heavily.
The guard stepped forward, pried off the blind Cao Jun's hand, and then signaled the rescuer Cao Jun to return to the front line.
The Cao Jun soldier who was rescuing people had just taken two steps when he heard a familiar and frightening cackle behind him...
He looked back and saw that Cao Xiu's guard had cut the blind man's neck with a knife, and blood spurted out.
"You...you you..." The Cao Jun soldier who was rescuing people wanted to say something, but couldn't.
Cao Xiu watched with cold eyes and suddenly shouted loudly: "You and I are here, advancing or retreating! If we can't get through the passage and there is no place to stay, you and I will die here! Only by rushing over can we survive! Stay here."
, you must die!"
At the end of the shout, Cao Xiu grabbed the spear and moved forward.
As soon as Cao Xiu moved, Cao Xiu's guards naturally followed suit. The guards who killed the blind Cao Jun soldiers also followed Cao Xiu forward with their swords in hand.
Cao Xiu swung his spear, deflecting the oncoming swords and spears, and pierced the shield of the defender on the opposite side with one shot.
Before the opponent's defender could react and exert force to stabilize the shield, Cao Xiu suddenly used his lunged leg as a fulcrum to pry upward!
The defenders were just trying to move forward and resisted, unable to react at all to resist the force coming from the bottom up. When Cao Xiu pried them open, they immediately raised their shields and fell back, as if they were opening a can, revealing a slightly awkward situation.
Small gap.
Before the defenders could repair the gap in the shield, Cao Xiu's spear arrived.
A defender was stabbed in the neck. When he was about to die, he tried to grab Cao Xiu's spear, but how could he catch it?
The spear stained with blood was as slippery as a long snake, and just as he was about to be pulled away by Cao Xiu, another defender on the side slashed at the handle of Cao Xiu's spear in an attempt to cut off the handle of Cao Xiu's spear.
Cao Xiu didn't have time to pull it out in time, so he let go immediately when he saw this.
The defender slashed the handle of Cao Xiu's spear with a knife, but due to the lack of force, not only was it unable to cut off Cao Xiu's spear, but the spear fell off the dying defender's hand.
Cao Xiu hooked his foot, but he picked up a sword. He immediately grabbed it and swung the sword. The head of the defender who was trying to cut off the handle of the gun flew high into the sky with a bloody light!
Cao Xiu was so fierce, which naturally inspired the morale of Cao's soldiers to surge forward, regardless of casualties.
If the sword and gun are lost during the fight, pick one up from the ground.
If you can't even pick it up, or if you don't have time to pick it up, you'll just hit the opponent with your fist, take off your bag, and smash it into the opponent's face.
The sounds of yelling, cursing, and screams were intertwined together. It was completely unclear what the other party was shouting or saying in the battlefield. I just knew that only one of myself and the other party could stand in the end!
Although Cao Xiu said that he was open and closed, and almost no defenders could resist him, there was not much joy and pleasure in his heart.
These defenders are not elite, not elite hussars!
Cao Xiu knew this, but what he didn't know was why these defenders, who were not elite hussars, refused to retreat.
Why?!
Logically speaking, if 20% to 30% of the soldiers are lost, their morale should be low and they may be defeated at any time. But now the defenders have almost suffered more than half 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 had completed their duties. Even if they were defeated, no one would blame them. What's more, Cao Xiu didn't find any particularly outstanding generals among the defenders.
Rule, but why?
They should have been defeated long ago, but why don't these defenders retreat?!
As the defenders died one by one, several of Cao Xiu's soldiers were so confused that they buried their heads and just waved their weapons and rushed forward, but suddenly their eyes were empty!
Snow was falling from the sky, but there was no figure of the defender standing in front of them.
Several people stood in a daze, and then looked back. Not far behind them, the tragic battle group was still going on. However, the defenders who were originally in the mountain road were basically wrapped in the chaos.
There are fewer and fewer people on the battlefield.
Have they already rushed over?
Have they crossed the mountain road and broken away from the shackles in front of them?
Several soldiers of Cao's army looked at each other blankly, as if they had just reacted at this moment. One of them could not help but raised his blood-stained sword and shouted, "Come over! We are over here!"
Cao Xiu exhaled a long breath.
Yes, rushed over.
Logically speaking, he should be happy, but he doesn't know why, but he doesn't feel happy...
