The soldiers of Cao's army who retreated directly ran into the vehicle formation that was being set up.
The soldiers' advance and retreat were originally supposed to be under the command of Lingqi, trying to complete these tactical actions in the shortest possible time, but when they collapsed, no one thought about any tactical actions.
The commander of the chariot camp tried to maintain order among the running Cao soldiers. He kept shouting and shouting at the top of his lungs, and asked people to wave flags, trying to prevent these broken troops from affecting the chariot formation as much as possible.
Liu Fu, who was in the middle of Cao's army, also quickly ordered the archers to shoot forward, and asked the carriage camp to be set up faster to snipe and delay the enemy's attack on the central army.
However, the hussars did not give Cao Jun much time. The cavalry was galloping, roaring like a hurricane on the battlefield filled with dead bodies.
Death may not be the end.
Losing hope is.
The corpses of those who died tragically rolled and shattered in the wave of attack, and blood splashed and flowed under the horses' hooves. Occasionally, some injured soldiers could be seen crawling under the iron hooves, screaming, and then were submerged in the rolling waves.
In the yellow dust.
The sound of war drums shook the earth and the earth.
Cao's army's front in the lower city of Tongguan completely collapsed.
As Cao's army retreated, they screamed in horror, fear and helplessness. Dozens of soldiers who had no time to avoid were knocked away by cattle and horses, trampled to pulp, and ground into powder.
The archers who came from the center of Cao's army hurriedly took their positions and tried to use bows and arrows to help the retreating Cao's soldiers block a way to escape. However, the hussar cavalry quickly rushed through the rain of arrows from Cao's army and used their swords and guns to attack those who were escaping.
Cao Jun's body was so strong that they had to speed up and run with all their strength.
Ma Yue waved his sword and shouted, "Brothers! Drive them up!"
The Hussars cavalry who have experienced battles for a long time have a tacit understanding with each other. Even if they are different groups, they can cover and cooperate with each other. Even when they saw Cao Jun forming a car formation on the Tongguan Slope Road, they still charged without fear.
Go up.
Because the hussars all know that they are not fighting alone or as a team!
Sure enough, Tongguan's artillery roared at the right time.
Because of the shooting angle, the artillery can only hit the Tongguan Slope and farther away, but has no ability to attack the nearby Tongguan Lower City. Therefore, Ma Yue and other hussars attacked Cao's army who occupied the Tongguan Lower City.
During counterattack, artillery cannot provide effective support.
Now, after Ma Yue defeated Cao's army in the lower city of Tongguan and drove away, the artillery turned its firing direction to the vehicle formation on the Tongguan Slope Road!
The power of the cannonballs was obviously not something that a large shield, a giant spear, or a heavy-duty vehicle could withstand.
All of a sudden, the area hit by the shells suddenly erupted in a bloody storm, with pieces of wood flying across the area along with human remains.
In fact, at this moment, if Cao Jun can turn back and charge, fight in the face of death, and fight to the death to block the hussars' iron cavalry with his own flesh and blood, there is still a slight chance.
After all, artillery at this stage is just pure physical damage. The kinetic energy of the artillery shell is used to destroy, similar to the mode of piercing attack. It does not have the power of the howitzer in later generations. One hit can directly wipe out a platoon, so
Even if Cao Jun's car camp was hit by artillery, the area where it was hit would be damaged, and there would be only casualties in the straight line, and there would not be a large splash range damage.
But who wants to die?
Fools, stubborn and stubborn people are the first to die.
Therefore, the genes of these people are not qualified to be preserved.
The rest are all "smart" people.
Especially when these soldiers of Cao's army knew that they were actually as worthless in the hearts of the generals, nobles, and commanders, and would only die in vain, even if the flags of the generals on the high platform of the central army shook so much that they almost flew up on the spot, those who were defeated
The soldiers of Cao's army who came down were still not seen among them.
They were just ordinary soldiers from Shandong counties and counties, who were deployed to fight on the front line.
Even if they are faced with death, disability, possible diseases, and other unknown dangers at any time, the salary of these soldiers of Cao's army will still be delayed for a month and a half. After working hard this month, they finally survived, and they still have to wait for the next one.
You can only get last month's life money on the 15th of the month...
When the soldiers of Cao's army asked why this happened, the petty officials said naturally, "Everyone is like this, so that's why. Didn't the generals also get their military pay delayed by a month?"
But the petty officials would not tell these ordinary soldiers of Cao's army that the soldiers' pay of Cao's generals was "basically not used". If they really relied on the soldiers' pay to survive, would there be so many people in Shandong who would be eager to climb up?
The hussars and iron cavalry are galloping, cooperating, and fighting the enemy bravely.
The soldiers of Cao's army were running away, screaming, and running for their lives with all their strength.
In fact, due to the topography of Tongguan City above and below, the cavalry attacking from the upper city down would not be able to invest as many soldiers and horses as on the open ground in the plains. So in fact, as Cao Zhang said before the battle, even if
There are three thousand pigs, and it will take a certain amount of time to kill them all.
If Ma Yue's eight hundred cavalry really went to behead people and kill Cao's army bit by bit, they would be like water splashes. After a few splashes, they immediately disappeared on the chaotic battlefield.
There is not much space in the lower city of Tongguan. If the hussar cavalry really loses their running speed, then all that will be left for Ma Yue is failure and death.
But the problem is that when pigs are anxious, they will only arch at most, and a few will jump up, but they will not be cruel to the same kind of people anyway, but humans will.
The lower city area of Tongguan is relatively open, and then from the relatively open area, it enters the relatively narrow passage on the Tongguan Slope Road, and there is a concentrated and disorderly escape. In addition, there are also baggage vehicles arranged on the Tongguan Slope Road, further
This has aggravated the congestion situation.
This is like taking a long vacation in later generations. Everyone knows that this long vacation is hard earned by using other rest time, so there must be a subconscious feeling in the heart that spending more time and wasting more time will be a loss.
Therefore, even if everyone goes out on vacation, they are like special forces traveling, rushing as much as possible and squeezing in as much as possible.
Then everyone thought so...
Therefore, with four lanes in both directions, the effect of eight cars abreast can be achieved. Especially if there is no guardrail in the middle, there are all kinds of clever people who will go against the traffic, block traffic, and harm the interests of others as much as possible to allow themselves to take advantage, and then something will happen.
Car accidents, traffic jams...
The final result is that it is impossible for everyone to pass.
So, whose fault is it?
Added?
No.
In the land of Shandong, it is the fault of those who refuse to give way.
"If you give in, won't it pass?"
"You are a big man, why are you so worried about such a trivial matter?"
"If you insist on getting stuck here, everyone will be stuck behind you..."
Under the influence of such an environment, those who disrupt order are "capable" and capable people who can "get benefits", while the interests of those who honestly abide by the rules are trampled on and ignored time and time again.
So in this environment and background, whoever queues up properly is a fool.
The soldiers of Cao's army were defeated and fled. If they filed in, most of them would have a chance to escape. However, what they like to see is that they are crowded again!
No one wants to give way, no one considers others, and no one wants to wait any longer.
Everyone just wants to be first, everyone just wants to survive, everyone is pushing and yelling.
Then soon someone discovered that they were still holding knives and guns in their hands...
Killing each other has become something these Shandong soldiers are good at performing.
They began to kill the civilians who blocked their way, the soldiers who stopped them from climbing and dismantling the large shields blocking their way, and the military schools who wanted to restore order and resume fighting.
On the high platform of the central army, Liu Fu's expression changed drastically, "No! General! Give the order quickly and let the archers shoot those broken troops! Otherwise, the chariot formation will not be protected, and you and I will not be able to stop the hussars from attacking!"
Cao Zhang was stunned and glanced at Liu Fu. You old guy, don't you have a backup plan besides this car formation?!
And this statement...
But now that Cao Zhang was the commander-in-chief, he naturally had no way to shirk his responsibility. He could only immediately order the archers of the Chinese army to shoot a large number of arrows at the congested position on the Tongguan Slope Road.
Dense arrows roared down. As the commander-in-chief of these defeated Cao soldiers, Cao Zhang could only give them no good gifts, but to send them to death.
A large number of arrows were thrown into the crowded position, and those unlucky Cao Jun soldiers were shot like hedgehogs and died miserably on the spot.
Ma Yue and his men tried to attack once, but found that he was unable to clear the car formations on the congested Tongguan Slope Road, defend against the arrows above his head, and at the same time, he had to avoid a large number of casualties...
Ma Yue could only temporarily stop his attack.
However, this is not the end of the Hussars' attack, but the first wave of repairs, and the second wave of attacks is flowing downstream!
At this moment, a series of low and passionate war drums suddenly sounded from the flank of the battlefield.
The navy troops riding in Chang'an appeared!
Because the rivers are dry when they are dry and freeze when they are frozen, in fact, in the northern region, the Hedong area of Guanzhong, since the Han Dynasty, although there have been equipped with building captains, and their ranks are not low, they have not actually taken shape.
Navy.
The Navy thing is really expensive.
Fortunately, Feiqian is not afraid of spending money.
The building ships of the Han Dynasty usually carried between 500 and 800 people. For example, in the middle and late period of the Three Kingdoms period of Soochow, because other technology trees could not be climbed, Sun Shiwan could only desperately build the building ship technology tree and built the
A big ship that can accommodate 3,000 people!
Originally, Sun Shiwan might have wanted to use this building ship to deal more damage, but there was a problem with the card sequence. After he sorted out the card sequence, Sun Shiwan was older again...
As a result, these large building ships did not show much majesty on the battlefield, but allowed the children of the Jiangdong gentry to run overseas transportation and earn a lot of money.
Fei Qian's Guanzhong navy ships are not many in number, and they are basically experimental products built in the Xuanwu Pond for the purpose of studying naval forces and sailing ship construction. Because the river waterways are basically frozen once a year.
, so most of the time these buildings are stored in the Xuanwu Pond.
Nowadays, through transportation by rivers and land, these buildings and ships have reached the battlefield from Xuanwu Pond.
The artillery tracks developed by Feiqian Hedong, or the mode of transporting heavy equipment, were quickly used to transport these building ships...
For Pang Tong, small logs cannot transport large equipment such as building boats, so use large logs to transport them!
Silly, big, black, and even bigger, stupid, big, and thick, are the most common technological development models in this era.
The manning of the building ship is about one hundred oars and wheelmen, two hundred crossbowmen, one hundred spearmen, and one hundred sword and shield men. But now Ma Jun wants to increase the speed of the building ship to the fastest speed.
, he was equipped with three hundred crossbowmen, and all the others served as oarsmen and wheelmen.
Anyway, the surface ships of Cao's army are even more pitiful. It is unlikely that there will be melee combat with springboards. Instead, long-range shooting and destruction on the shore are the focus of the hussars' navy.
Sliding down smoothly, with the double blessing of wheel paddles and long oars, these large ships of Qiusi were traveling very fast, and they were almost discovered before they were discovered, and they were in front of them in the blink of an eye!
Even the water in the big river seemed to have been plowed by the bow of the building boat, causing yellow or white water splashes to roll back quickly along the sides of the building boat.
"Floating bridge!" Cao Zhang's expression changed, "Who is guarding the floating bridge on the flanks?!"
Liu Fu sighed, "It's Captain Guanqiu."
Cao Zhang was stunned for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "Send someone over immediately to deliver the order! If Captain Guanqiu can hold on to the pontoon bridge, I will remember him for his great contribution!"
The ordering soldier immediately ran down from the high platform and went to convey the order.
Liu Fu's hands in his sleeves were tightly held together. Now not only the pontoon bridge, but also the car camp on the Tongguan Slope Road were also within the attack coverage of the Hussars Navy!
But just like Liu Fu abandoned the ordinary soldiers of Cao's army in the lower city of Tongguan before, Cao Zhang has also abandoned the car camp that Liu Fu finally managed to build...
same.
For Liu Fu, the car camp is his focus, and everything else is secondary.
For Cao Zhang, the pontoon is the key point, and everything else is secondary...
As for other people’s priorities, what are they?
Liu Fu and Cao Zhang were nervous, and Ma Jun was also nervous.
Speaking of which, Ma Jun's action this time can be regarded as his first time catching a duck!
It's not that Ma Jun doesn't understand ships, it's that he doesn't know how to fight!
However, fortunately, Ma Jun knew that he would not be able to command operations, so he was actually only responsible for commanding and operating the ship. Other things were actually "remotely controlled" by Pang Tong...
"Uh..." Ma Jun looked up at the flags hanging out of Tongguan City, and then looked down at the cheat sheet on hand, "The red background and black frame flag... Well, there is it! Someone is here! Send the order, slow down, rocket."
attack!"
"Yes!" The messenger responded instinctively, and then got stuck again, "Master, where are you attacking?"
"Where to attack? Attack Cao's army!" Ma Jun stared, "Can't you tell the difference between friend and foe?"
The messenger originally wanted to ask which side he was attacking specifically, but when he heard what Ma Jun said, he felt that he was stupid.
Anyway, there are Cao Jun all around, hit and shoot wherever you can!
There is Cao Jun on the shore, shoot them!
There is Cao Jun in the water, shoot it!
If you see Cao Jun anywhere, shoot him!
Anyway, now I can bully Cao Jun's smaller ones by relying on the size of my own ship...
As a result, the building ships that joined the battlefield did not rush to the shore, land to fight for the ground battlefield, and attack the flanks of Cao's camp. Instead, they began to float slowly on the water and launched long-range attacks, unscrupulously.
Fire arrows at any place where Cao's soldiers are.
As for things like rockets, the lethality of arrows is secondary, the most important thing is fire.
Most of the utensils and supplies in the Han Dynasty, even the shirts worn on the body, were flammable. Once they really burned, it would be really troublesome.
And the most critical part is the kerosene traps that Cao Jun originally planned!
These kerosene traps were an important reason why Cao Zhang and Liu Fu felt at ease and felt that the Hussars could never defeat them.
That's right, if the front line is really unable to defend itself, the worst it can do is set fire to it. Is it possible that the Hussars can still be indestructible and invulnerable to water and fire?
"Be careful of rockets!" Liu Fu screamed, his expression finally showing some panic, "Be prepared to cover it with sand! Don't let the rockets ignite the kerosene!"
It's a pity it's too late.
Even if Liu Fu's order could be issued earlier, Cao Jun's soldiers could not handle any problems and make up for all mistakes like accurate robots.
Soon, the rocket attack caused some large and small fires in the camp on Tongguan Slope, and then they saw Cao Jun soldiers and civilians throwing away the camp’s baggage vehicles in a panic and running out crazily!
"The fire is burning!"
The civilians and soldiers screamed wildly.
Liu Fu's face suddenly turned pale, and then turned red again. He slapped angrily on the railing of the high platform, "Damn you untouchable! You didn't listen to orders and escaped without authorization, which harmed my plans! Damn it, damn it!"
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That's right, Liu Fu placed some kerosene in some vehicles at the rear of the camp. Liu Fu's original idea was to use it as the last trump card of the camp. He would wait until the real hussars used flesh and blood to open a path.
When the passage was about to pass through the carriage camp position, it was set on fire, and then Liu Fu could be on the high platform, stroking his beard and scarf, and laughing at the hussars for their incompetence.
What a glorious highlight that would be?!
Even if he was defeated and retreated this time, Liu Fu had reason to say after returning that it was not that he was incompetent. Look, his clever plan could bring peace to the world, and he could level the four sides. With a little trick, he could kill all the cavalrymen and horses.
!
It's just that something doesn't work, it's holding him back...
But now, everything has turned into ashes!
At the critical moment, nothing was burned, but many of our own people were burned!
Not long after, the flames rose into the sky and began to spread, swallowing up the second half of the Tongguan Slope Road. Then, because the car formations were connected to each other, the flames at the rear of the car camp also quickly spread to other areas, making the entire Tongguan
Sakamichi fell into a sea of fire.
"Wow!" Ma Jun, who was in command on the building boat, couldn't help but admired the blazing fire. He suddenly felt that he had accomplished a great thing, and he felt refreshed. While he was looking around with some satisfaction, he suddenly heard something from the side.
A soldier reminded, "Master! The flag on the city has been changed!"
