Chapter 3430 Unsung Hero
Under the moonlight, Xu Chu and his men were rushing towards Suoyang Pass.
Xu Chu was already very cautious, and he did not focus on Suoyang from the beginning.
After all, the road in Suoyang Pass has been in disrepair for a long time and is not a very suitable direction for cavalry advancement.
Just like the cement roads in later countrysides, they were either unable to take cars, but the roads were narrow and it was easy to either encounter the bricks or rub their own car paint.
So the focus should be on the road.
But if Cao's army could be drawn, then Xu Chu would certainly not miss the opportunity to attack Cao's army in the wild.
As for entering the Cao army camp, Xu Chu suffered a loss in the Anyi camp before, so he naturally could not advance lightly.
Until there is enough information or the defensive fortifications in the Cao army camp, Xu Chu will not throw large-scale soldiers into the attack on the Zhongtiaoshan camp. After all, this is almost like opening up a road with flesh and blood.
What the Cavalry now needs is to maintain their advantages rather than sacrifice their lives to fight and make every effort.
Xu Chu would not do such a stupid thing.
So Xu Chu agreed to his always-out strategy, and worked together to pull Cao's army as much as possible, looking for opportunities to defeat Cao's army from the movement.
The Cao army had few cavalry anymore, which made Xu Chu more free to move on the outside, but Xu Chu did not always press all the troops on the front line of the Cao army, but instead harassed them in turn. This not only ensures that each unit is active and keeps its vitality, but also makes all troops not too tired and consumes too much horsepower and physical strength.
Without many cavalry, Cao's army lost the ability to conduct raids in the field.
So Xu Chu naturally focused more on how to tear and break Cao Jun's turtle shell.
The troops that Cao's army fought for Suoyang Pass were intentionally released by Xu Chu.
The Cao army in the camp is easy to fight, or the Cao army that runs out is easy to fight?
This can be concluded without much consideration.
But is this really the case?
Xu Chu knew that Cao's army was going to recover Suoyang Pass, so did Cao's army know that Xu Chu was peeping around?
Under the moonlight, the iron cavalry rushed.
"How many Cao troops are there?" Xu Chu asked the scouts who came to report, "Who is the general of Cao troops under his command?"
"In the dark night, I can't see clearly, but according to the torch, there are at least three thousand people!" The scout responded, "The flag of the leader general is written about the general of the Protector!"
Xu Chu exhaled, "Ha! It's him again!"
As the troops marched, they passed the earthen plateau, and the light and fire on the thin mountains in the distance gradually became clearer.
"No! Cao's army has come more than three thousand!" Xu Chu narrowed his eyes and estimated it, and then came up with an approximate one, "There should be five thousand...but this is better!"
This is a piece of fat!
So Xu Chu no longer concealed his whereabouts, and rushed out of the hiding gully with his cavalry, and rushed directly to Cao's army fighting at Suoyang Pass!
Xu Chu's vanguard military academy led his 300 cavalry and another military academy. After receiving the order from Xu Chu, he walked away from the headquarters and quickly went out to the flank of Cao's army.
Xu Chu's array probably looks like a trident, but the tips of the two wings will protrude forward a little further.
This way, we can check whether there is any danger on the flanks of Xu Chu's headquarters, and it can also play a role in encircling Cao's army.
The Forward Military Academy was a little nervous and a little excited. He strengthened his troops from Pingyang to Xu Chu's army.
His father followed the General of the Cavalry for many years. Later, when he got older, he retired and became a minor official in Pingyang. His life was quite good. In daily life, his favorite thing was to tell others about "Yang Ye"...
Now, it’s his turn to show his courage and gain military achievements!
It is not that easy to become a Hussar.
First of all, you must be agile and not be too big. Although there are exceptions, most Hussar cavalrymen are relatively small in weight and cannot be too short. In these cards, a large number of people cannot meet the standards.
At the moment, there are not many people who have overweight, but not everyone can meet the standards when they are agile and tall.
If you meet the standards, you still need to train. At least half a year of high-intensity training, you must be with the war horses when eating and sleeping.
Only when the war horses and cavalry are intimate and cooperate with each other can they be considered a qualified Hussar cavalry.
While thinking about how to implement Xu Chu's tactics next, the military academy led his men to the side.
Stars and moonlight, war horses gallop.
Crushing over the earth slope and crossing the plateau.
Suddenly, the military academy felt the horse under his crotch erecting his ears, twisting his neck uneasy, and turning to a certain direction...
The military academy was shocked!
At this moment, he heard a familiar voice!
『Rising a shield! Left wing!』
The military academy shouted almost instinctively, then reached out and raised the cavalry shield from his side, bent down to reduce the area of ​​the arrow, and used the shield to cover his vitals and the neck of the war horse.
『Bang! Bang!』
『Swoosh swish swish!』
Arrows break through the air with the sound of bowstrings!
At this time, the military academy saw a lot of black shadows appearing on one dirt slope!
『Cao Army Archer!』
『Rise the shield!』
Arrows roar down.
Some of the cavalry who were unable to react in time were shot by Cao's arrows. If it was an ordinary part, they could still grit their teeth and continue to run forward with arrows. However, if they were unfortunately shot into the vital point, they would be dismissed amid screams.
In the battlefield, under the swords, guns and arrows, everyone can only shake the dice of fate. Some people seem to be able to shake twenty points forever to save all damage, while others will only shake a little and suffer various critical strikes at any time.
"Can't stop!" The military academy shouted, "Come with me!"
The military academy understood that if you stop because of an attack, it will not only not reduce the probability of being shot, but will instead cause the cavalry in the rear to become a regiment and eventually become the target of Cao's army's archers!
Continuing to move forward along the ditches is not a good choice.
After all, Cao's army was ambushing here, so they must have made arrangements ahead.
Perhaps some simple tripping ropes can cause the cavalry to suffer a great loss when arrows roar around.
So the only option now is to go straight to the earth slope!
Rush up!
If there is no road, just break out!
The Cao army obviously underestimated the elite level of the Hussar Cavalry and the tacit understanding of cooperation between the Hussar Cavalry and the war horses.
According to the original pattern and routine of fighting with Shandong, Cao's army built an ambush position on the flanks. It did make a bet on the cavalry troops sent by Xu Chu, and also attacked by arrows, causing considerable damage to the Hussar cavalry. However, Cao's army never expected that these Hussar cavalry did not continue along the ditches, but wanted to go directly to the ditches!
Tugou, as the name suggests, is earth on both sides.
Although the glacier movement in ancient times cut the loess into ditches and the slope of the soil wall was relatively large, in the following years, under the erosion of wind, sand, rain and water, these ditches with nearly vertical slopes also collapsed and showed a relatively slow slope.
Under normal circumstances, these slower slopes are not very good at running horses, but the situation is special now!
The dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and the chicken climbed up the tree in a hurry!
When the horse is anxious, it is flying over the eaves and walking on the wall!
If you face the earth slope that is facing such a large angle, you can't run up in most cases, but if you cut it up in an oblique direction, then there is a chance that you can jump up to some relatively low soil walls before you can't control the center of gravity!
Cao's army obviously did not expect that the Hussar Cavalry would be so fierce!
The Cao army originally thought that as long as they shoot down on the dirt slope, it would be fine. No matter how strong the Hussar cavalry was or how good the armor was, it might not be able to cover the whole body. Moreover, even if the Hussar cavalry continued to rush forward with the damage, the Cao army was not afraid. If the Hussar cavalry was arranged in front of the gully, it would definitely be able to eat this Hussar detachment! If the Hussar cavalry immediately turned to the rear army and retreated directly regardless of casualties, it would be an acceptable result for the Cao army. After all, it would not be easy to find a perfect place to ambush at night in a hurry. If Cao Hong had not had a deep understanding of the surrounding terrain, even if he wanted to ambush, he might not have been able to find a suitable place.
According to Cao's experience, it is already rare to be able to turn on the spot and withstand arrows after being attacked, and retreat as much as possible. Moreover, there are not many military generals who can do this. Most military generals directly rush forward with the bullet and then die more...
As a result, no one expected that the Hussars had no intention of escaping, but chose to directly attack the earth slope!
『Crazy! They are crazy!』
The soldiers of Cao's army shouted, as if they were the ones who were ambushed.
A person's jumping ability is actually not high. If you don't master certain skills, you can't even jump up one meter. Of course, there is no back-leap technique for war horses. Even so, most war horses can jump to 1.5 meters, and some particularly excellent war horses can jump to nearly two meters...
If you add the height of the war horse and the height of the war horse running diagonally on the earth slope, the two or three meters of earth slope is not as insurmountable as Cao Jun imagined!
The war horse jumped upwards in a diagonal manner and finally rushed down the earth slope, but the military academy took advantage of the war horse's rushing to the earth slope.
Although he couldn't stand firm when he landed, and a donkey rolled up before he got up, the surrounding Cao soldiers were surprised and did not have time to switch weapons from far and near to pounce on them and strangle them. Some even took two steps back in fear, as if they were cooperating and gave up some space for the Cavalry Academy!
As the military academy pounced on the earth slope, other Hussar cavalry followed suit and rushed upwards!
"kill!"
The Cavalry Academy was not afraid of many Cao's soldiers. With a roar, the sword in his hand was electric, and the Cao army, who was closest to him and was still busy throwing his bow and arrows to change his sword and gun, slashing over with one knife.
『Kill him!』
The leader of Cao's army shouted and pointed at the Cavalry Academy.
Not all Hussars can jump onto the earth slope, but as long as there are a few who have firm footholds and then hang down the ropes they carry, there will be more and more Hussars who will climb the earth slope soon, and the so-called advantage of the Cao army's geographical advantage is gone!
Obviously, only by killing these Hussar cavalry as soon as possible can the Cao army protect the final victory of the ambush!
However, the Cao army soldiers were not as brave as these Hussar cavalry. Moreover, most of the Cao army soldiers standing on the edge of the earth slope were holding bows and arrows in their hands and around them. The swords and guns were either placed behind them or behind them. For a moment, few of them could fight directly with bows and arrows like some elves archers. Therefore, although these Cao army heard the order of their leader, most of the Cao army still did not move forward, but were busy switching weapons...
War is like some kind of catalyst.
Either accelerate growth or accelerate destruction.
Faced with the threat of the Cavalry Army, Cao's army obviously also grew to a great extent, otherwise it would inevitably face destruction.
Cao Hong obviously made progress, or there were still some people in the Cao army who were still insisting on it. The ambush set up by Cao Hong was obviously a reflection of the surrounding terrain, but unfortunately, he encountered stronger opponents.
And just when the Cavalry Academy was fighting for a bloody path, they were always in trouble at Suoyang Pass.
Although he had always led people to kill Cao's army in the rock wall, cut off the rope ladder set up by Cao's army, and broke the wooden plank road built by Cao's army with falling rocks. This was considered a good achievement, but there were gains and losses. The outer wall of Suoyang Pass was broken by Cao Hong and his men.
The outer city wall of Suoyang Pass was not very high in the beginning. In addition, the earth and stone walls were steep, but they really had to climb up. Even if you didn’t have to clamp the cracks on the rocks and find a place to build a three-story ladder, you could climb up directly.
Moreover, he was never a fierce general, he was just a general martial arts, so when he hurried from the rock wall to the outer city, he was already one step too late.
Cao's army climbed up from many places on the outer wall of Suoyang Pass, causing multiple breaking points to appear in the defense of the Cavalry Army on the outer wall.
The battle on the exterior wall became extremely cruel in the blink of an eye.
The Cao army soldiers in front of him were always killed with one knife, but the next Cao army soldiers rushed up and almost poked a hole in the waist.
It was always roaring, but the voice and strength were declining.
Other Hussar soldiers were also struggling to kill, and from time to time, people screamed and fell down, including Cao's soldiers and the side of Hussar.
Because at the beginning, the raid on the rock wall caused the Hussars to be distracted and failed to effectively curb the Cao army's initial arrival in the city, which led to the increasingly fierce hand-to-hand combat.
People have always been stuck at the connection between the exterior and interior walls.
Arrows whistling in the air.
Neither of the accuracy of both sides at night was very good, but the same is true for darkness, which also made it difficult for soldiers on both sides to avoid the damage of arrows.
On the other side, the chief of the cavalry also tried to open the exterior wall passage that was blocked by Cao's army, but was suppressed by Cao's army's random shooting and was unable to support it smoothly.
The cavalry archers tried to lean out to shoot the climbing Cao army soldiers, but the casualties were too great. Later, they had to give up this tactic and switched to shooting Cao army soldiers only on the side to reduce the pressure on the front.
The soldiers on both sides were shouting, which resulted in the impact of all orders being very small. They could only rely on the instinctive mutual cooperation between the lower-level organizations and the soldiers. At this point, the soldiers of the Cavalry Army had some advantages. It was precisely because of this that after the exterior wall of Suoyang Pass was broken through several points, there was still no large-scale collapse.
But the exterior wall can't be snatched back...
Most of the soldiers brought by Cao Hong were veterans in Qingzhou. Those who survived the battles in succession were basically not bad in combat skills, and they also had their own means for killing people. Any Qingzhou soldiers who were a little softer might not survive the Central Plains War until now.
This is a huge pressure for people who have always waited for others.
Cao Hong did not hesitate to these Qingzhou soldiers and divided them into multiple attacks, striving to succeed in the battle.
Although he has always been willing to support him, he consumes a lot of energy, and now he is at the end of his strength.
He waved his bloody sword and led the soldiers to rush to the city wall again and again to block and kill people, and then organized everyone to charge, block and kill people.
"No, I can't beat it anymore..."
His hands and feet began to tremble.
He leaned against the doorway, felt his heart beating violently, and painful moans were also making everywhere in his body. He didn't even know if he was injured...
He is now facing another choice.
Should we retreat to the inner city and continue to resist, or should we give up the pass and evacuate into the mountains?
He was always hesitating and hesitating, but the cavalry chief on the other side of the exterior wall did not hesitate or hesitate.
Faced with the continuous suppression of Cao's army, the chief of the cavalry also saw that the Hussar soldiers who were cut into several sections on the outer wall by Cao's army were being attacked. The casualties continued to appear. Then he rushed out of the door, held up his shield, and shouted loudly: "Kill..."
Arrows whistling.
But the chief of the cavalry faced the rain of arrows from Cao's army and moved forward bravely and bravely took the lead in killing.
The soldiers behind the Cavalry Qucheng also roared and rushed out of the doorway that could have covered their bodies. They either held swords and guns, or held shields, and rushed out closely with Cavalry Qucheng.
Although shields are covered, they do not avoid all physical damage.
I saw that the husband Quchang paused while running, but soon began to run forward again, breaking through one of the Cao army's troops, rescued some of the husbands, and then continued to move forward!
And on the body of the cavalry, the arrows were still trembling!
"Kill! Kill out and pick them up!"
He never suddenly stopped thinking, thinking, and hesitated, stood up again and clenched the sword.
He didn't know the leader of the cavalry before, and maybe he wouldn't have the chance to continue to know him in the future, but now, at this moment, they are comrades-in-arms standing together!
He was proud of the unfamiliar cavalry chief, and ashamed of his timidity just now!
A hero with a name is certainly worthy of respect for future generations, but an unknown hero should also be respected by future generations!
Always roaring, "The cavalry won thousands of victories!"
"The cavalry won thousands of victories!"
The soldiers who had always been behind him also shouted and rushed out with arrows.
More Hussars shouted, and for a moment, all the noises were covered and suppressed by this sound-
Chapter completed!