It has to be said that although Zhai Huang, the deputy general of the Shangshui Army, always looks like a pleasant veteran and does not care about assisting the general Wu Ji who is not yet able to take the lead alone, on the battlefield, this veteran's cunning and cunning can be seen.
He will never be inferior to Yan Mo, the deputy general of the Yanling Army.
In fact, when Bao Yuan led his army into the hinterland of his merchant navy, Zhai Huang guessed that Bao Yuan would probably attack his central army.
Because he can understand the current situation on the battlefield.
Regardless of the current situation on the battlefield, it seems that the Korean army has the upper hand, while the Wei army is divided into two parts and is in a very disadvantageous situation. But in Zhai Huang's view, his Shang Shui army was only defeated by the strange sneak attack route of the Baoyuan army cavalry.
One is caught off guard and therefore presents a temporary disadvantage.
What if it is divided into two parts?
Zhai Huang could see clearly that at this time in the front army, Ran Teng, a special thousand-man general, had exercised his temporary frontline command authority that he had the right to use in emergencies, took over the frontline troops, and quickly put those Wugang vehicles in position.
into a self-protective formation.
This seems to give the Korean infantry a chance to rush in, but in fact, those Korean infantry have no way to break through the Wugang chariots arranged in a square gate formation - and the same goes for the Korean cavalry, which is also unable to break through.
Wugang chariot.
In this case, Zhai Huang did not need to worry about the front army at all, because the front army was enough to protect itself.
In fact, the former army is very likely to launch a counterattack after stabilizing.
After all, the front troops of the Shang Shui Army on the battlefield here are Ran Teng's Team, Xiang Li's Team, and Zhang Ming's Team, the three most elite thousands-man troops in their Shang Shui Army. Each of their sergeants is particularly brave.
Perhaps South Korea's sword and shield soldiers can pose some threat to the Shangshui Army in the mountains and forests. After all, the former are light infantry and are relatively agile in complex environments. But on the current army battlefield, there is no room for those light infantry.
The infantry is moving around? On this kind of battlefield, any fancy killing techniques are unnecessary. Just like the soldiers of King Su's army, their attack methods are only shield strikes and sword swings, and there is absolutely nothing
A move like jumping up and slashing hard.
Because on the battlefield, a soldier often only has a moment of opportunity to swing his weapon at the enemy. Then, either the opponent dies or you die, it's as simple and crude as that.
Any fancy attack methods are self-destructive on the battlefield.
Unless you are a general or above, then when you are fighting with an enemy general, the friendly soldiers around you will subconsciously make room for you. Otherwise, if you want to jump up and attack in a crowded battlefield? Don't even think about it.
think!
Therefore, in this kind of battlefield with dense soldiers, heavy infantry has a natural advantage, because the strong armor allows him to make a mistake when taking action. Coupled with the strength of the infantry itself, this is why the Wei infantry is so powerful.
reasons.
Summarizing all these reasons, Zhai Huang was not worried about the vanguard of the front army. He believed that as long as the soldiers of the front army stabilized, the Korean soldiers would never get anything cheap. What's more, there were thousands of generals on the front, Ran Teng.
Taking command on his behalf, Zhai Huang quite recognized Ran Teng, a brave general of his merchant navy.
Therefore, what Zhai Huang was thinking about at that time was how to eradicate this violent kite army cavalry that disrupted the formation of his merchant navy.
He knew and believed that the Korean general on the opposite side - he did not know that the Korean cavalry was led by Bao Yuan himself - could see the situation on the battlefield and judge that the Korean army was not enough to defeat his Shang Shui army.
In this case, the Korean general had only one way to reverse the situation of the war, and that was to defeat the army where his Shangshui Army flag was located, and kill the general and capture the flag.
Therefore, Zhai Huang had already guessed that the Korean cavalry on the opposite side would lead an army to attack his central army, so he quietly ordered the Liannu chariots to be arranged on the path of Baoyuan one step ahead. At the same time, he
Deliberately ordering the defense line to be shortened, Bao Yuan made a wrong judgment, thinking that the Wei army's central army was shrinking its formation in order to strengthen its defense.
When Bao Yuan and the three hundred cavalry launched a charge towards the Chinese army, and the distance was already close, Zhai Huang then ordered the soldiers who deliberately stood in front of the crossbow chariot and used their bodies to hide these war weapons to charge towards them.
The two sides retreated.
It must be said that Zhai Huang was so good at luring the enemy that when Bao Yuan noticed that the Wei army's central army was shrinking in formation during the charge, he subconsciously thought that the Wei army was stepping up its defense, so he led three hundred cavalry to charge over without hesitation.
However, when the Baoyuan Army was about to rush to the center of the Shangshui Army, they were greeted by more than a hundred ferocious crossbow chariots.
"Fire the arrow!"
Following Zhai Huang's order, more than a hundred crossbow chariots launched a volley, and more than three hundred crossbow arrows as thick as fingers swished out.
At this time, Bao Yuan, who was at the front of the team, also stared, realizing the crisis he was about to face.
But their speed at this time meant that it was too late to change direction. The only thing he could do was to deflect the charge as much as possible, pull the reins desperately, and forcefully pull the cage to the north, hoping that the war horse would run north.
But unfortunately, the Wei army's continuous crossbows had already launched a volley at this time.
"Puff, puff, puff—"
The sound of a series of sharp blades piercing through meat continued to sound. In just a blink of an eye, three hundred cavalrymen of the Baoyuan Army were seen turning on their backs. There were many Korean cavalry rushing in front, and both their men and their horses were hit by the crossbow bolts.
Pass through.
Even the violent kite cannot escape this disaster.
The first crossbow bolt barely grazed his face. The sharp and powerful crossbow bolt scratched a bloody mark on his face, and then shot the head of a Korean cavalryman behind him on the spot, splattering red and white things.
A violent kite.
The second crossbow bolt penetrated the belly of the horse under Bao Yuan's crotch, and also penetrated Bao Yuan's right leg.
But compared to the rest of the cavalry in front of the three hundred cavalry team, Bao Yuan was lucky, because at least he escaped death, while the rest of the cavalry suffered the fate of being shot to death on the spot by Wei Guo's crossbows.
After a round of volley fire, most of the 300 cavalry led by Bao Yuan were reduced by half. Only the cavalry at the rear of the team managed to escape.
With a "bang", the severely injured horses under Baoyuan's crotch collapsed to the ground, and Baoyuan was also thrown down.
"General!"
The cavalry from behind hurriedly caught up. One of the cavalry gave up his mount to Bao Yuan, and worked together with the other cavalry to help Bao Yuan onto his horse.
At this time, Bao Yuan looked at the Wei state's crossbow chariots twenty or thirty feet away with lingering fear.
It has to be said that when Bao Yuan was scratched in the face by that crossbow arrow, his heartbeat almost stopped, because at that moment, he felt the fear of death so strongly that when the second arrow penetrated his horse
When it came to his right leg, he didn't even feel pain immediately because he didn't react at all.
"That's...a mechanical crossbow?"
Bao Yuan swallowed.
In fact, as early as during the Battle of Shangdang, during the Battle of Xuushi City, Bao Yuan had already learned that the Wei army had a powerful machine-shaped crossbow. However, the most glorious battle of that day was Shang Shui Youma Chong.
Riding can be said to be unparalleled. This makes
Powerful war weapons such as Wei's repeated crossbows were overshadowed by the scenery of wandering horses and heavy cavalry. So today, when Bao Yuan led his cavalry to charge the middle army of the Shang Shui Army in an attempt to kill the general and seize the flag, he could not think of the Wei army at all.
And there are such sharp tools.
"General?"
A Korean cavalryman looked at Baoyuan without hesitating to speak.
Bao Yuan understood what the knight wanted to say from his eyes. The latter wanted to ask him what to do now.
But "What should we do now?" Even Bao Yuan himself couldn't answer this question.
He did have a good idea at the beginning. He led three hundred cavalry to the Shangshui Army's center, beheaded the generals and captured the flag. However, he did not expect that as soon as he led his army to the Shangshui Army's center, he was attacked by more than a hundred soldiers.
He was given a severe lesson by Nu Nu.
Looking at his bleeding right leg, Baoyuan had a thin layer of sweat on his forehead.
At this time, in the middle of the Shangshui Army about twenty or thirty feet away from Baoyuan, the veteran general Zhai Huang was looking at the Korean general who was surrounded by many Korean cavalry in the distance with a half-smile.
Zhai Huang didn't quite recognize it as Bao Yuan, one of the "Top Ten Heroes of North Korea" in South Korea, but that didn't stop him from secretly laughing at the Korean general opposite - what age was it, and he was trying to use the old trick of charging into battle to kill the enemy general?
To win a war?
Why was the Shang Shui Army general Wu Ji so respected by tens of thousands of Shang Shui army soldiers when he single-handedly attacked Han general Xin Zan? As a result, even though Wu Ji was dismissed from the position of general by Su Wang Zhao Hongrun, the soldiers still found that
Respect him from the bottom of his heart as General Wu Ji?
Isn’t it because it’s almost rare to see an enemy general on his own riding alone on the battlefield in the Central Plains?
It is no exaggeration to say that as the crossbow-making techniques of various countries in the Central Plains became more and more sophisticated, the era of fierce generals was over, because no matter how brave the generals were, as long as they were still human, they could not withstand the volleys of crossbows.
A while ago, Wu Ji was able to kill the Han general Xin Zan on his own. It was because he was lucky and a coincidence. After all, the situation on the battlefield was very chaotic at that time. Otherwise, as long as Xin Zan had a few more guard cavalry around him, even if he was riding a crossbow,
It is not as powerful as the infantry crossbow. At the very least it can force Wu Ji to retire, or even injure Wu Ji.
Now, Bao Yuan is also trying to reverse the situation on the battlefield with his personal bravery. It can only be said that if it had been decades earlier, he might have had the opportunity to achieve this feat, but now, let alone the Shang Shui Army, there is a company in the army.
Even if the crossbow chariot is not there, the crossbowmen in the Shangshui Army alone can make Bao Yuan feel like he has half a foot in the gate of hell.
"General, withdraw."
Seeing Bao Yuan looking at his injured thigh without saying anything, and seeing crossbowmen among the Wei soldiers in the distance aiming at them, a cavalryman persuaded Bao Yuan.
After hearing this, Bao Yuan glanced at the flag of the Merchant Navy Army in the distance with a look filled with nostalgia and regret, but also a bit of sadness, then gritted his teeth and chose to retreat.
Because if he doesn't leave, he will never have the chance to leave again.
Baoyuan's injury meant that the Qiguan cavalry's assault on the Shangshui Army failed. As Zhai Huang judged, the soldiers of the Shangshui Army were indeed stunned at first, but later, after they stabilized,
It is destined that the Korean army cannot really defeat this army.
The main reason is that the Korean cavalry failed to exert their strength, because the Wei army's Wugang chariots and sword and shield soldiers severely restricted the activity area of the Korean cavalry, making it difficult for the Korean cavalry to move freely.
With the retreat of Baoyuan, the Korean troops on the battlefield in front of Qiguan also retreated one after another, while the Wei army continued to attack Qiguan after simply reorganizing their ranks.
When retreating, Bao Yuan looked back at the soldiers of Shang Shui who had regained their composure, and sighed secretly in his heart.
Although from the current point of view, Qiguan has not shown any signs that it may be captured, from Baoyuan's perspective, their chances of losing this war are already very high.
At this time, he could only place his hope on the reinforcements from Handan, preferably the "Yanmen Shou", "Shanggu Shou" and "Beiyan Shou".
In Bao Yuan's heart, he was a colleague he thought he couldn't catch up with.