Chapter 3366: Out of shape and deformation, the power of straw
Chapter 3365: Out of shape and deformation, the power of straw
During the period of artillery fire, the tactics of the baggage train were actually to compete with the artillery for accuracy.
Although the accuracy of smoothbore artillery is better than that of catapults, it is still relatively limited.
So in the face of hit rate, everyone rolls the dice equally, and the result is pretty good.
After all, it is a dice roll. Some people will roll out twenty points, and some people can only roll out one point. Except for those mechanisms that violate physics and make Newton couldn't help but lift the coffin, most of the time when rolling the dice,
All will appear fair.
That organization can not only get rid of all the traditional physics theorems on the earth, but also ordinary employees can have super strong prediction ability. Compared with that organization, the Nine-Headed Avenger is simply weak.
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In the face of fairness, the soldiers of Cao's army had nothing to say, and those who were hit by artillery fire would not complain.
But when the hussars came up, things immediately changed.
Who is blocking swords and guns outside, and who is laughing inside the shield?
When the artillery shells came, everyone died together anyway. The inside and outside of the car looked the same. It might have been like an extra layer of paper in front of the artillery. It was even worse inside the car, so naturally no one was fighting for it.
But now the cavalry is coming!
"Concentrate! Gather quickly! Quickly, quickly!"
Cao Sheng roared loudly and issued instructions.
This instruction is of course correct.
The scattered vehicle formations are to prevent several of them from being captured by artillery fire, while the interconnected vehicle formations are used to deal with cavalry.
In Cao Sheng's mind, nature is perfect. The car formation can be dispersed for a while, concentrated for a while, a long snake formation can be formed, and a two-dragon water formation can be outlined for a while...
But what is the actual situation...
There was chaos.
"Come out with the cart! I'm an archer!"
"Why are archers so awesome?! Get out!"
"Swordsmen and shieldmen, get out! Follow the rules and stand outside!"
"Your mother decides! Are you going to force me to death?"
"Go out with the spearmen! You hold up a fork and do it in the car!"
"I'm stuck!"
"Ahhhh!"
"Don't pull me!"
"Don't block me!"
In the original plan, there was no scene of a tightly prepared car formation, an orderly and bloody fight, swords and guns inside and outside the car formation, and bows and arrows whizzing back and forth. There were only chaotic insults and fights, and everyone stuck out their butts and wanted one.
A good safe position, but of course the result is that everyone is in a bad position, and all Cao's soldiers are in danger.
From another perspective, do these Cao Jun soldiers have the desire to win and the need to survive?
Obviously there is.
As the leaders of these Cao Jun soldiers, whether they are military academies or generals, should they start from the actual situation of these Cao Jun soldiers and really solve the problem, instead of making a tactic that looks beautiful but is actually very fucked up?
What's more, at the critical moment of the war between Guanzhong and Shandong, shouldn't it be necessary to create less obstruction if there is less obstruction, and if there is more contribution, then there should be more contribution?
pity……
When Li Li roared out with the cavalry, he was still a little worried. After all, Cao Jun created a chariot formation, which according to rumors was indeed a great way to deal with cavalry. When the Han army fought against the Huns, it was used frequently.
Chariot formations and powerful crossbow tactics were used, so Li Li initially ordered the cavalry to disperse to avoid arrows and crossbow bolts that might appear in the chariot formations.
Especially the crossbow.
Because of the protection of the tower shield, logically, the crossbowmen inside the baggage vehicle can load their crossbows and fire relatively safely.
As the cavalry were big, it was not that easy to avoid the crossbow bolts at close range.
But Li Li never expected that the car array put up by Cao Jun would turn out to be an empty shell!
A car array that fails to collude and form an array connected head to tail is just garbage!
"Free attack!" Li Li immediately changed his original plan and issued a new order, "Destroy the car formation! Destroy these cars!"
Li Li used 300 cavalry as a wave and launched an attack on Cao Jun's chariot formation. Amidst the rumbling sound of horse hooves, the yellow dust was flying all over the sky with majestic momentum, just like even in front of him.
It can also shake the copper and iron walls.
But Cao Jun's chariot formation is not even a wall of earth and wood.
The baggage train itself is not flexible enough, and under the dice of the artillery, there are large or small gaps, which are not coherent. The most critical issue is that the vehicle formation tactics of Cao Jun's soldiers were formed by orders from above.
Yes, it is not in line with the actual situation at all!
Some baggage trucks were not only unable to move due to the heavy load, but even the axles were broken, completely losing their ability to move.
Although some baggage trains could move, their center of gravity was too high and too swaying. As a result, they began to lose their balance at a pothole. Before the hussars could attack, they rolled over on their backs...
Two or three cars were barely put together, but they couldn't form an effective defense system. The hussars circled the car twice, but they were confused and didn't know which direction their swords, guns and arrows should be directed, and then
Some were stabbed in the anus, some were pulled down by nooses, and some were directly thrown into the car with a grenade!
If under the attack of artillery fire, Cao Sheng's car array tactics can still be barely decent, after all, although the power of artillery is great, the attack frequency is not high, then under the high-intensity cutting and charging of the cavalry led by Li Li,
Under the blow and destruction, Cao Sheng's car formation quickly collapsed and melted like a snowman encountering the bright sun!
Some of Cao's soldiers who reacted a little faster simply abandoned their vehicles and fled!
While the hussars are still staring at the car, run away!
While running, he shouted, "Don't worry about that broken car! Throw it away! Run quickly!"
Cao Sheng was furious, drew his sword, took a few steps forward, and slashed a deserter to death. He shouted: "Those who disrupt the army will be killed without mercy!"
Seeing Cao Sheng's behavior, other Cao soldiers in the central guard army also moved forward one after another, killing the ordinary soldiers of Cao's army who were escaping, forcing them to turn back to fight the hussars.
Most of the ordinary soldiers of Cao's army had not been thrown in the face by the hussars, so they more often saw others running away, so they naturally followed them. As a result, they unexpectedly bumped into the supervising team of Cao Sheng and others, and suddenly
Just because Cao Sheng led the supervising team to chop and stab him randomly, blood splattered everywhere, and the sound of crying and howling suddenly reached a higher level!
Some thieves just rolled and crawled up the slope, while those upright boys were forced to turn back to face the hussars under the driving force of the supervisory team...
Cao Sheng will never allow the car formation to be defeated so easily!
This is not because of Cao Sheng's strong determination to win or lose, nor how tenacious he is in his own beliefs, it is just because he came up with Che Zhen's ideas, plans, and rules and regulations!
Therefore, Cao Sheng will never allow this "temporary", "experimental", "temporary" car array method to collapse so quickly!
Even Cao Sheng himself knew that the collapse of the car formation was certain and unavoidable, but Cao Sheng still hoped to persist long enough to prove his "temporary" and "experimental".
The "temporary" car formation method "has a certain effect" and "solves a certain problem", rather than being pure garbage.
If you admit that the suggestions, ideas, strategies, methods, etc. you put forward are rubbish, doesn't it mean that you are rubbish?
impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
As for the actual situation, or who bore the pain and suffering...
Is this issue very important? Anyway, as long as it’s not Cao Sheng himself!
Cao Sheng forced all the ordinary Cao soldiers to move forward, and also forced Bao Zhong and others to move forward. The amiable appearance before was just a pretense, but in Cao Sheng's heart, he was the real deal.
The one who knows is a descendant of the Cao family who came out of the Qiao County Shifang with a well-established foundation!
Bao Zhong and others should devote their loyalty even to their lives!
Sacrifice for the Cao family is the honor of Bao Zhong and others!
But for Bao Zhong, Cao Sheng's order was fucked up.
Bao Zhong was so angry that he even looked at the messenger sent by Cao Sheng with a fierce look.
Don't push people too hard!
It is strange to say that when Bao Zhong realized that he still had a choice, he began to weigh the various requirements for Cao and others. Good, bad, good or not bad, or...
It's absolutely rubbish. Originally, Bao Zhong had to carry it out no matter what the situation was, but now he seems to have an additional choice.
In fact, everyone has a choice...
Either in the present or in the future.
Destruction in silence and eruption in silence are not black and white. You can only choose one or the other, but they exist at the same time. Just like Cao Sheng is erupting now, Bao Zhong is perishing, but what about the next moment?
Bao Zhong's hand holding the sword was held tightly.
Bao Zhong looked back.
I always use my eyes to indicate.
Bao Zhong took a breath and said to Cao's messenger: "I know! I will definitely follow the order and attack!"
Seeing that Bao Zhong complied with the order, the ordering soldier also softened his tone, said something cool, and left immediately.
"What are you going to do?" Bao Zhong asked angrily, "This kind of maid's adopted son is actually making love in front of me!"
He always whispered, "It doesn't matter... just be patient for now... let's go over there!"
Isn't it just turning to attack? It's called turning in for short. Who can't do it?
As soon as Bao Zhong looked at the direction of his finger, he immediately understood and laughed, "Okay! Spare this maid's adopted son for once! Someone, give me the order, let's go that way!"
Bao's battle flag was waving, and it seemed that he was heading up to meet Li Li's hussars. However, in fact, if you could look down from the air, you would find that the direction Bao Zhong was actually walking was slightly different from that of the hussars...
Of course, looking at it from Cao Sheng's point of view, after all, he and Bao Zhong are on the same plane, so it is not possible to find that Bao Zhong's direction has shifted. He only sees that Bao Zhong did obey his orders and began to move forward. He can't help but feel I took a deep breath and felt that Bao Zhong, the veteran general, was indeed a good general!
But when Bao Zhong moved outward like this, it was equivalent to exposing Cao Sheng's flank!
Infantry array, what is the most important thing?
The formation is complete!
Infantry can only fight against cavalry when they are in formation!
This is the experience accumulated by the Han Dynasty, and even the former Qin Dynasty, in hundreds of years of cold weapon battles, bloody experience!
Once the infantry array is scattered, it means one thing...
Li Li quickly discovered the weakness exposed on Cao Sheng's flank in Cao's army's line. Because Li Li recognized the "Bao Family" flag.
Before Li Li was promoted, as Xu Chu's subordinate, he had fought against Cao Jun. At that time, some soldiers discovered the contact signal from Bao's flag. Later, when fighting, he deliberately paid attention to it, and there was more or less success. Keep some hands open...
Now the advantage of holding on is revealed, Bao "gives up" Cao Sheng's flank!
At first, Li Li was a little worried, whether it was a trap deliberately set by Bao, and then he and Cao Sheng would attack from both sides. However, after waiting for a while, he found that Bao would not look back after leaving, and was even trying to seize the high ground. The defensive posture was understood by heart. He laughed and immediately sent out troops to launch a surprise attack on Cao Sheng's flanks!
The hussars roared together, and almost in the blink of an eye, they formed two assault arrays one behind the other. Then more than a thousand armored cavalry were like raging waves, stirring up the yellow dust and flying sand all over the sky.
, circled slightly and rushed towards Cao Sheng's weak flank!
These more than a thousand armored cavalry, with their swords and guns shining brightly, and the red tassels on their saddles, on the desolate yellow land east of Hedong in autumn, are like bright red flowers dancing, and like spreading prairie fire!
Even though Fei Qian now has artillery, a long-range and sharp hot weapon, in the hearts of these cavalry, they are still the strongest force in this land!
The cavalry came and went like the wind, like wind and thunder!
Throughout the ages, as long as the cavalry is an important part of the army, it has always been advocating to take the initiative to attack. It is definitely not like some magical drama, standing still and then spinning in circles in the crowd with a group of infantry!
It has never been difficult for the cavalry to use any fixed battle line, be limited to a certain formation, or a certain method of warfare!
There is always only one strategy for cavalry: advance, advance, and advance again!
If you stop, there are only two results, either you defeat the enemy, or you die in battle!
When Cao Jun's army came together with great momentum, no one among these hussars was timid and afraid of fighting. Now that Cao Jun's army has shown its defeat, no one will hesitate at all!
What's more, there is also the Han's hussar general right behind!
In the entire Han Dynasty, in the entire world, only the Hussar, and always only the Hussar, can gain their wholehearted support, respect and love!
While all the people from Shandong were vying for positions in the Han Dynasty, and were beating each other until their brains exploded over trivial matters, only the Qiusi led them roaring north to fight against Xianbei and regain the Yinshan Mountains.
Only Fei Qian led them on an expedition to the Western Regions and planted the Han army flag on the horizon thousands of miles away!
On this land east of Hedong, thousands of horses galloped forward, pulling out smoke and dust like billowing yellow dragons. No matter whether the enemy was strong or huge, whether it was a cat or a dog, they just followed the three-color battle flag and galloped forward!
This is the real Han cavalry!
Yulin Jingqi!
When the hussars came in surprise, Cao Sheng was still shouting: "Get them all, get them all!"
Relying solely on government orders will never gain loyalty.
When the sweetness on the lips of those cows and horses finally disappears and is replaced by the smell of sweat and blood, as long as the external pressure reaches a certain level and exceeds the limit that these cows and horses can bear, then collapse will become
inevitable.
In the end, you can also put all the blame on the straw...
Anyway, no matter whether it is cattle, horses or straw, they have no say.
Cao Sheng's supervising army could not stop more and more defeated soldiers.
In the end, even Cao Sheng and the others swayed and collapsed.
Amidst the roar of the hooves of the hussars, the chaos in Cao Sheng's army that was attacking even began to spread to the middle troops of Cao's army!
The hopeless stupidity, coupled with the so-called "temporary" tactics, caused Cao Jun to not only waste a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, lose many baggage vehicles, but also lose what little fighting spirit and morale he had left...
"It's not my fault!" Cao Sheng's eyes widened and he shouted loudly, "It's all those guys who didn't follow the rules! They didn't follow my way! It's all...ahhhh..."
The blade flew from nowhere and cut into Cao Sheng's hand that was wielding the sword. Suddenly, the fingers were severed and blood splattered!
"Ahhhh!"
With their fingers connected to their hearts, Cao Sheng's face was twisted in pain.
"Save the captain quickly!"
When the soldiers of the Central Guard Army saw this, they immediately protected Cao Sheng in groups and retreated towards Cao Jun's camp.
There are catapults in Cao's army camp, so these hussars don't dare to get too close!
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Just as Cao Sheng's car formation plan collapsed, Cao Jun on the left also encountered new problems...
The left wing of the Hussars was divided into battlefields below Anyi City.
An old military lord under Xu Chu felt that he was not old at all.
Looking at the scene of smoke and dust filling Cao Jun's camp in Anyi not far away, and fire rising into the sky, the chest of the old military lord seemed to be burning, anxious and hot.
Overall, Xu Chu's raid can be said to be a success.
Xu Chu used artillery to open a passage directly to Cao Jun's camp under Anyi City, and then avoided most of the fortifications and traps prepared by Cao Jun. In addition, Pei Ji came out of the city, so Xu Chu's army was not within Cao Jun's camp.
The delay is too long, so overall the risk is reduced a lot.
However, as Cao Hong began to deploy troops and horses in Cao Jun's base camp, the atmosphere gradually became tense at the old military marquis who was responsible for interception and security outside Cao Jun's camp in Anyi.
"Old Junhou! General Cao Jun seems to be rushing out!"
The soldiers and the old military lord on the side said.
The rising smoke and dust are like wild beasts surging in the land, as if they are about to pounce in front of you at any time!
The old Junhou took a breath.
There are enemy cavalry here!
Although he couldn't see it clearly, from the smoke and the movement, the veteran military lord who had been in battle for a long time naturally understood what it meant!
Although the old military lord is looking forward to military success, he still feels a little nervous when facing such turbulent murderous intentions from Cao Jun. However, the matter has come to this point, and it is useless to think too much. There is only one battle!