Amid the sound of the golden drums, Pang Shanmin became nervous involuntarily.
Although this is not the first time that Pang Shanmin has, he is still nervous.
Although Huang Zhong showed a relaxed attitude, Pang Shanmin was naturally nervous because he attached too much importance to this war.
What's more, on the surface, the number of troops on both sides is not very different.
Pang Shanmin looked back at his surroundings.
On both sides of the military formation were hussars standing with helmets and armor. The red tassels on the trunk seemed to be red flowers blooming in the mountains, dotting this cold and cruel world. On the heads of these soldiers, there were three-color battle flags flying and stretching, and it seemed that they did not take the battle in front of them to heart, looking lazy.
Ah, a slack feeling.
Pang Shanmin suddenly remembered this word, and then he looked at the opposite side again.
The Cao family seemed to have a lot of soldiers, and they continued along the mountain road layer by layer and continued to the corner of the mountain road. It was faintly seen that the flags of the opponent's general were also floating in the mountain road, and the trees were covered by them.
This is not his first battle, but this is indeed the first step for Pang Shanmin to take to regain his hometown.
Pang Shanmin was somewhat nervous about whether he could return to Jingxiang smoothly and whether he could raise the Pang family banner in Wancheng again, but he also knew that only by taking this step can he truly grow!
Pang Shanmin took a deep breath to make himself stand straighter and more calm.
Anyone can find an excuse not to do the right thing.
After all, it will be difficult and hard to do the right thing.
Doing something wrong is just an excuse, and no matter how clumsy the excuse is.
But if you want to do the right thing, you have to pay more.
Now, it is about doing the right thing.
Pang Shanmin said to himself secretly.
This is the most correct thing for Pangzi and Pang Shanmin himself.
He cannot retreat, cannot escape, and cannot have any excuses!
Huang Zhong turned around and glanced at Pang Shanmin, nodded with a little relief.
The relationship between Huang Zhong and Huang and Pang is very close. He hopes that Pang Tong can continue to develop well, and also hopes that Pang Shanmin can stand alone.
Pang Shanmin is a civil servant and is not good at charging into battle with a sword. Logically speaking, he can retreat and find a safer place, or even lie on the couch in the camp, waiting for the final result. But Pang Shanmin still came, standing among the mountain mist, standing on the mountain road like those ordinary Hussar soldiers, without complaining about suffering or fatigue.
Pang Shanmin can naturally do what ordinary people can do, but Pang Shanmin must still do what ordinary people cannot do.
This is the standard for the children of the gentry who gradually became popular in Guanzhong.
To enjoy more than ordinary people and to have more privileges, it requires more effort than ordinary people.
General Fei Qian of the Cavalry knew that it was difficult to change a person's bad nature, but it also had to be done by someone. It was impossible to say that a person only thought about how to be lazy and greedy in his life. Isn't that different from the pigs raised? Fortunately, under the influence of the Shoushan Academy and Qinglong Temple, some of the children of the gentry and poor families began to embark on this path.
Of course, there are many gentry children who wear long robes who think they should always be arrogant and still refuse to change. They are looking for various reasons and excuses to avoid their due responsibilities, avoid their own problems, indulge in greed, and be willing to fall into depravity. It is also normal for them to knowingly commit crimes.
Even though these lazy and greedy children of the gentry still have some status now, they will eventually be replaced by those who are more energetic and willing to do the right things.
One generation may not be able to see anything, but after three generations...
Perhaps some people don’t need three generations.
Huang Zhong sighed for a moment and ordered the flag bearers beside him to wave their flags. Immediately, each unit recognized the flags and echoed them. He raised his spear like a forest, shining with a cold light in the sun.
"Foreign troops attack!"
Huang Zhong ordered.
The school knife hand troops at the stone bridge advance like a wall with the order.
Unlike the army formation of Cao's soldiers, after forming a formation, if they move forward for a few steps or dozens of steps, they have to stop and rectify. These school knives are heading all the way forward, with neat steps, like a flowing piece of steel, sliding towards the stone bridge. The military formation is always kept in a strict manner without any pauses or flaws!
Huang Zhong has a good training in these school knife hands and is very strict, which shows that he has shown that he has done a good job in the process.
Behind the school knife hand, there were archers following up. The archers bent slightly, separated the left and right parts, and placed the bows and arrows in a suitable position, standing outside the Cao army's arrow, lined up, waiting for orders at any time.
In the middle of the archer, there are the Spearman and the Euphorbian. They also neatly stood the Spear and the Euphorbian in front of them, as if a steel jungle was added out of thin air.
Pang Shanmin looked at Huang Zhong's military formation arrangement and seemed to feel a little thin, but he felt that it should be. Pang Shanmin watched Huang Zhong shake the flag in an orderly manner and issued instructions. Sometimes he ordered multiple troops at the same time, but there was no chaos between the various parts. Even on the narrow mountain road, each part did not get stuck together. Instead, it was like a swimming fish, full of agile beauty.
Looking down from the air, the distance between the two sides is constantly shortening.
Wen Pin stared at the slowly approaching Huang Zhong's school knife hands, the shields held by the school knife hands and the armor on his body.
Nothing else, this must be a team of guys with thick skin and long blood.
Although Huang Zhong's school knife hand is powerful, Wen Pin still makes him a little confused when he reads this arrangement.
That's right, the big shield and thick armor can indeed withstand the damage of melee combat, but this arrangement is Huang Zhongzhen's trap that did not discover?
These people are good at fighting against melee wars, but not long-range wars, and are also difficult to resist for crossbows or other heavy engineering equipment. If these people are allowed to rush to the Cao army's array, then the current tragic morale of Cao army is irresistible. In addition, the lack of training of Cao army soldiers, and the ability of hand-to-hand combat is far inferior to that of the other party, so once they really fight with each other, the Cao army cannot have the advantage.
But no matter how big the shield or how thick the armor is, it is ineffective in the face of magic...well, water and fire damage!
Wenpin didn't see what fire extinguishing devices these people were carrying.
In this way, if these school knife hands are really led into the trap and then ignited those horse-rejecting horses, then what can even be the thicker armor of these school knife hands?
This is also good. If you fight head-on and fight in a straight line, you will definitely greatly damage the morale of the Cavalry Army after defeating Huang Zhong's soldiers!
Then I will be more relaxed...
Thinking of this, the block in Wen Pin's heart seemed to be a little looser, and he could exude some breath. Under his order, the sound of war drums sounded, and streams of Cao's army came out of the battle, with long spears and shields piled up together.
Before Wenpin attacked Wuguan Road, he lost a large part of his private soldiers, and had never been supplemented by Jingxiang. Among these Cao army teams, Wenpin had no way to use his elite troops like Huang Zhong to fight against each other. He could only let his troops control some ordinary Cao army soldiers to maintain the array.
Under Wen Pin's order and under the guidance of Wen Pin's remaining troops, Cao's army also arranged a dense formation at one end of the stone bridge. However, unlike Huang Zhong, the front was not the sword and shield hand, but the archer...
These archers did not wear heavy armor, and most of them wore the Liangdang armor in the Caojun style. This thing consisted of a piece of breastplate and a piece of back armor, and was tied with front and back buckles on the shoulders, and tied belts on the waist, and not connected under the armpits. Is there any armor piercing? There are many exposed areas, and if there is no armor piercing, it is also a regular standard armor.
It's like a vest.
It was not only the standard armor of Cao's army, but also the standard armor for a long time in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and even the standard armor from the Three Kingdoms period to the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China in history...
In fact, the armor in the early Han Dynasty was more like a sleeve armor pattern, but later, the Han Dynasty court became increasingly embarrassed, which was reflected in the armor of the soldiers, which was fully reflected.
Interestingly, no matter what ancient and modern times, China and abroad, the attitude towards vests is always a bit weird.
If a gay man wears a vest, he cannot go to a regular place. The reason is that he is not well dressed and does not meet the specifications. However, if the same vest is taken off and let the lesbian wear it, he can enter the regular place...
It's amazing to hit someone with a ball.
It’s a pity that the archers of Cao Jun’s archers were not big enough, so they obviously did not plan to fight with Huang Zhong’s school knife hand. Instead, they straightened their waists as soon as they got up, took out the arrows, and shot them with a bow!
The arrows roared over the not-so-large space between the two sides and flew towards Huang Zhong's school knife hand.
At such a short distance and relatively narrow area, there is no room for refuge at all, so these knife-studying hands are like a curled pangolin. Before the arrow comes, they slightly narrowed and turned the scales towards the arrow.
The arrows thrust into Huang Zhong's knife hand, and some arrows slid with their legs and feet, and they slid from their shields and armor in a wail.
It’s not that these Cao Jun archers were soft-hearted, but that these Huang Zhong’s school knife hands were indeed thick-skinned.
Compared with those Cao Jun archers who had difficulty hitting the ball, Huang Zhong's school knife hands had sufficient nutritional intake from the beginning. In addition, when he was in Wancheng, Jingxiang, he practiced martial arts with Huang Zhong every day and tested the sword skills. Although he was not as good as those families who had focused on cultivating military generals since childhood, his combat ability was quite good, and he was much stronger than ordinary soldiers.
Facing Cao Jun's overwhelming bows and arrows, the swordsman seemed to have no big fluctuations in his breathing.
The shield and armor crackled, and then under the shield, there were the eyes of the swordsmen exchanging with each other and the sound of steady breathing.
It is obvious that these Cao's bows and arrows cannot effectively break Huang Zhong's school knife hands, but only block and hinder as much as possible.
Amid the intense sound of war drums, the school knife hand pushed forward like a wall.
In order to avoid damage, the speed of the knife hand seemed slightly slower, but under the protection of the shield and armor, the knife hand did not suffer much serious damage.
Seeing this scene, Huang Zhong shouted, "Arrowman! Go forward one after another! Cover!"
The archers standing on both sides of the stone bridge were holding two arrows and walking forward in a row.
The arrows pinched by the archer were half-mounted on the bow, and the other arrow was clamped with the ring finger and little finger, and went vertically downward. It was not that the archer could only carry two arrows, but because of the terrain of the stone bridge, the archer could not spread widely behind the stone bridge, so he could only shoot in turn like a wheel rolling.
『Wheels are coming! Rapid shooting!』
These archers stepped forward and shot two arrows in their hands at an extremely fast speed near the back of the school knife hand. They immediately moved away from their positions and let the archers behind them go forward and shoot.
Wen Pin, opposite the stone bridge, widened his eyes, "What kind of tactic is this?"
Before we knew it, the changes in the times have widened the gap between Guanzhong and Shandong, which is not only reflected in the economy, but also in many aspects.
Pang Shanmin has adapted to the changes of the times, and Huang Zhong has also.
He originally wanted to be in the same era and Wenpin from the same place as Pang Shanmin Huang Zhong, but found that he could not understand and could not keep up with him...
If the skills have been improved to a certain level, it is almost like "Tao".
Huang Zhong obviously used the current tactics, so he had a little meaning of "Tao".
Due to the stone bridge terrain, neither of the troops on both sides could be able to unfold smoothly, and the attacking side was obviously at a disadvantage. After all, they had to attack the opponent's "T" head vertically, and it was easy to be attacked by the opponent's fire.
So what Huang Zhong sent was a school knife handle with thick skin and long blood.
These school knives with rich combat experience and good equipment resisted Cao's long-range attacks and did not have much damage, thus creating opportunities for Huang Zhong's subsequent archers.
If traditional tactics and old ideas are still adopted, swords and shields against swords and shields, bows and arrows against bows and arrows, there will undoubtedly be a big loss on terrain like the stone bridge.
But Huang Zhong attacked directly and improved the attack mode of the archers. Because Huang Zhong does not need the archers to give the opponent much damage, but uses the archers to disrupt the opponent's shooting frequency and create opportunities for his own knife swordsman!
Different goals and flexible techniques allow Huang Zhong to achieve the predetermined goal with a smaller number of people!
The Shandong model of relying on the large number of people to rush up, and then due to the restrictions on the engagement surface, the first core is in trouble most of the time, and the seven cores are watching should indeed be optimized for a certain amount of time.
Among the study materials of Guanzhong Martial Arts Hall, there is a saying that is often mentioned, "Water has no fixed state, and soldiers have no constant shape."
Among the martial arts lecture hall cases that can be recorded, almost all generals will emphasize that this is his consideration at that time and locality, and it may not be suitable for all time and all regions...
For many people in Shandong, whether they really understand the military strategy or pretend to understand, they seem to want to summarize, summarize, refine and refine, and then create a common "martial arts" that suits all situations, all wars, and all enemies, and then draw a "format map" to fight against millions of enemy troops.
Everything requires specific issues and specific analysis.
What Huang Zhong needs most is not to fight head-on with the Cao army, but to destroy the traps and let the Cao army shoot himself in the foot. Therefore, Huang Zhong should not let the school knife handlers or archers kill how many Cao army soldiers they must have. There must be any directional and performance indicators.
Under such a goal, Huang Zhong only needed to get the school knife hand to approach the Cao army's array about fifty steps, which happened to be at the end of the destructive power of Cao army's archers with a level of decline in the lethality of Cao army's archers to attract the firepower of Cao army's archers.
If you get too close, the bow and arrow are extremely powerful within ten steps, or even twenty steps. When paired with armor-breaking arrows, it is entirely possible to be shot through the armor, but at fifty steps...
The archers of Huang Zhong's side who followed up later had the opportunity to approach the other party directly and give the other party a direct blow to the other party's archer!
In this era, long-range troops like archers have similar shooting distances. The archers on Huang Zhong's side can shoot on Cao's archers, and Cao's archers can also shoot on Huang Zhong's side. But the problem is here. Shandong's rigid war mode makes these Cao's archers do not have the right to change the shooting target at will, and it is even more impossible for them to automatically turn to attack the opponent's long-range target when they see Huang Zhong's archers on Huang Zhong's side step forward...
Even if Cao's archers turned to attack Huang Zhong's side, Huang Zhong made a profit.
Because Huang Zhong's archers lined up in front, the casualties were at most near the two points in front, and the possibility of Cao's archers being hit was the entire ground, and I didn't know how to hide!
With Huang Zhong's archers shooting, the archers wearing two armors in the Cao army array burst into blood mists, and many people fell down instantly. Many Cao army archers seemed to be stunned after being shot, and then they woke up and rolled to the ground and screamed in a shrill manner.
After being attacked, some of the Cao army's archers wanted to fight back, some wanted to avoid, and some were still continuing their previous actions. Wen Pin saw that someone had actually started preparing a brazier on Huang Zhong's front, and was shocked and quickly ordered the archers to focus on suppressing Huang Zhong's archers, so that Cao army's sword and shield hands stepped forward to fight against Huang Zhong's school sword and sword hands...
There seems to be no problem with the correspondence made by Wenpin.
If Huang Zhong's archers continue to shoot like this, although the damage caused is not too much, it puts great pressure on Cao Jun archers. More importantly, if Huang Zhong archers find an opportunity to ignite the trap they set up on the mountain road with rockets, then it is not Huang Zhong and others who suffer, but himself who is still standing next to the trap!
There is no problem in dealing with it, nor is there a problem in the order, but the turning point of the entire battle came quietly after Wen Pin's order was issued.