Chapter 262: Overturning
The wolf rode unusually bravely, and after driving the horse into battle, it instantly turned into a nightmare for the Wu army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoFor the Wuxi barbarians who have lived in the mountains and rivers and dense forests for a long time, they rarely see people on horseback, and they have never fought with cavalry, and they have no experience and methods to deal with light cavalry and cover killing, so it is normal to be wantonly abused and killed by wolf horses in Bingzhou.
As for the ordinary infantry of the Wu army, they also lack the skills to deal with the elite cavalry, and the Chinese army does not have effective command, so when the wolf cavalry of Bingzhou cut into the battlefield and stirred up the entire Wu army's front and the elite infantry of the Chu army attacked on all fronts, what the Wu army did was more panicked and unable to advance or retreat.
There is no doubt that the overall battle situation has completely fallen to the side of the Chu army. However, there is another place in the vast battlefield that is different from other places, but it is the Wu army attacking.
At the moment when Cheng Pu fell into the Chu army and the Chu army attacked on all fronts, Sun Quan did not choose to take a step back to dispatch the three armies, but continued to lead his troops to rush forward along the road of Cheng Pu's sudden killing, and finally approached a distance of only a hundred steps from Zhang Xiu.
Of course, Sun Quan's choice was not only because he desperately wanted to attack and kill Zhang Xiu, but also because he took into account the overall battle situation and the immediate battle situation. Because of Tai Shici's accurate sniping of the Hengjiang battalion, the Wu army's 300 military vehicles and 1,000 vehicles were actually broken by half at once. It was mainly because the Chu army was taken by surprise that it suffered such a big loss.
Fortunately, the number of shooters in Hengjiang was small, and the firing distance was slightly far, and it took a salvo to shoot more than a dozen military vehicles out of control, and the main cause of Wu Jun's losses was the accidental collision of other military vehicles after these dozen or so military vehicles lost control. The reason why the tiger soldiers under the heavily armored car suffered nearly two hundred casualties was not because of the rain of arrows of the Chu army, but mostly because of the flipping and rushing of their own military vehicles after they lost control.
Despite the strong bow of the Chu army in front of him, Sun Quan still chose to lead his troops forward, because Sun Quan knew that the best way to reduce the damage of the bow shot at this moment was to get as close as possible to the Chu army to create a melee threat, rather than fleeing with his back. What's more, where is it so easy for a military vehicle pulled by four horses to turn around and retreat, and it is also inconvenient for a tiger soldier to maneuver under the car on foot.
And the most important point is that the morale of the Wu army is not as good as that of the Chu army, and the battle situation is slightly unfavorable at this moment, but Sun Quan, as the king of Wu, who is the high-profile of the soldiers, is the first to turn around and retreat, which will definitely cause irreparable damage to the morale of the Wu army, and it is not impossible to even directly evolve into a rout of the whole army. After all, the thousands of Wuxi barbarians are the biggest destabilizing factor, and the people who lure the people who help the war with money, food, cloth and silk are absolutely unreliable at the critical moment, and they still have to rely on my Jiangdong soldiers to fight to the death.
Besides, the wolf rode in Bingzhou, although he wantonly tortured and killed Wu Jun's foot cavalry, but when he ran into the military vehicle led by Sun Quan, he was knocked out of temper. Because to some extent, the military chariot also restrained the cavalry. Generally, the wheels on both sides of the military vehicle will be equipped with horizontal spines, which is one of the nemesis of the legs of the war horse.
On the other hand, cavalry fears archers, and the standard equipment of a chariot is three people, a pilot, a commander and a crossbowman. In this way, if the two phases are killed, the chariot can deal damage to the cavalry at medium and long distances, and even if the battle is at close range, the chariot can teach the cavalry to behave.
The cavalry is more embarrassed in the face of military vehicles, first, there is no way to compare the impact force, but hand-to-hand combat is easy to suffer. Of course, this restraint is not absolute restraint. If the archers who are proficient in cavalry and archery also teach charioteers to be human beings with their flexibility and mobility, the reason why the Xiongnu and other tribes have pressed the Han people to fight for hundreds of years is also because of this, until the Han people also formed cavalry units, this situation has been improved.
The wolf cavalry of Bingzhou could not stop the Wu army's military vehicles, and the Wuwei battalion was also a cavalry that was difficult to stop the enemy, and it would definitely suffer a loss if it collided with the military vehicles. Fortunately, I don't know when, the infantry captain Liao Hua had already led a group of soldiers in the trap camp between Zhang Xiu and Sun Quan, and Tai Shici also led the Hengjiang battalion to appear behind Zhang Xiu.
In front of it was the solemn formation of the Chu army trapped in the camp and the bows of the Hengjiang archers waiting to shoot, and on both sides were a group of wolf cavalry from Bingzhou, eyeing each other, rushing up at any time to bite the last bite. It is rumored that Zhang Xiu's personal guard Wuwei Battalion is also ready for battle, but Sun Quan finally understands how much mistake Cheng Pu and himself made in this battle.
That is, the main battle of this battle was placed in the front of the Chu army, not in the formation of the Wu army! Compared with the Wu army, which was patchworked, the Chu army was already well-trained and well-planned, but this choice made it more convenient and rapid for the Chu army to dispatch troops, but compared to the Wu army, it was inconsistent and extremely uneasy.
This mistake was not seen until this time, not because the Chu army was scheming and calculating, but mainly because the army was frivolous and not calm enough, mainly because he was too eager to win and wanted to fight too much. I can't blame Cheng Pu too much, because after all, Cheng Pu's Jingnan army led by him is half a guest army, although he also has the style of a general, but he really can't force him to be a good commander.
Compared with the lack of strategy and lack of wisdom on the side of the Wu army, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, and Lu Fan are all half-hung military levels, and there are many military advisors on the Chu army's side who give advice to Zhang Xiu, Chen Gong naturally needless to say, he is a representative figure with a long strategy, coupled with Hua Xin's call to assist, Gao Shun's on-the-spot response, and Xiao Lu Xun's scheming, which is completely superior to Wu Guo.
However, this is not a good time to summarize, seeing that the enemy who killed his brother was not far ahead, Sun Quan suddenly drew his sword and pointed forward, his blue eyes widened, and he shouted angrily: "Zhang Xiuxiu is leaving!" "It's the royal car straight ahead.
Zhang Xiu was a little surprised for a while, but he was relieved for a moment, afraid that Sun Zhongmou would regard the capture and killing of himself as the last straw to save his life and win. It's okay to do this, and it's okay to save yourself from spending manpower and material resources to attack the city.
Zhang Xiu had time to give Liao Hua an order, but gave priority to Tai Shici to release arrows. And Liao Hua in front is also what he should do. It is an urgent order to entrench this 500-person trap camp.
Medium distance, which is basically equivalent to a face-to-face situation, the accuracy of the Yokoe shooters has improved by more than one notch. This round of thousands of arrows was fired together, and the results were quite huge. Ordinary archers shoot at most one round of arrows at a distance of 100 paces, but the Hengjiang archers release at least two arrows before the Wu army's military vehicles collide with the trapped camp. After the battle in the camp, the arrow rain did not listen, and slightly modified the arc to frantically throw the Wu army behind.
The tenacity of the trapped camp was revealed at this moment, although there were only five hundred people, it was condensed and burst out of a formation of thousands of people, and it was hard to withstand the first round of dozens of Wu army's forward-drive chariots!
There is a saying that one blows, then declines, and three is exhausted. This phrase is a good way to describe tank tactics. The chariots rushed into battle, as it were. If the first wave is not effective, then there will be not only a wall of enemy troops in front of it, but also the wreckage of the tanks of the own army. The first wave of the chariot was so important and powerful, but even so, it was still stubbornly withstood by these five hundred trapped camps.
Many trapped warriors wore shields, and their bodies were deformed and vomited blood and even fainted to death, but the feet of their lower bodies were dead on the ground, even if they were backwards parallel to the impact of huge inertia, and their legs and feet were standing still.
Sun Quanman thought that the first round of charging was enough to break through the defense of the Chu army's foot soldiers, but the fact made his hands and feet a little cold! It also made countless Wu soldiers, chariot soldiers and tiger soldiers under the car all frightened, what kind of enemy is this opposite!
didn't have time to react, the driver of the royal car reacted quickly, and hurriedly slowed down the horse, so that Sun Quan would not directly hit the shield wall trapped in the camp. At this time, several military vehicles on the left and right also reacted, each gritting their teeth and raising their whips, increasing their speed and concentrating on hitting the Chu army formation wall in front of Sun Quan's military vehicle.
This time, it broke through the formation of the trapped camp, after all, these five hundred trapped warriors are just flesh and blood as if they are desperately trying their lives to stop the Wu army, how can they be truly impregnable, under the full force of these several military vehicles, it finally revealed a gap to Sun Quan.
There is no point in continuing to hold on when the formation is broken, Liao Hua's face is pale, but he still gives a quick order. The remaining warriors in the trapped camp suddenly turned from a large formation of more than a dozen and dozens of people together, and at this time, the nightmare of welcoming the Wu army's military chariot had just begun.
The wisdom of the ancients in combat is infinite, and the infantry is not always crushed and beaten in the face of military vehicles, as long as the conditions are right, they can also teach military vehicles to behave in turn.
I saw that the warriors of the trapped camp were grouped together, and the shields were assembled into a slope shape, one side was high and the other side was low. In this way, more than ten to dozens of people can be arranged in formation, and the more people there are, the larger the slope, and the more difficult it is for the Wu army vehicles to brake and change their routes.
It's so ingenious, but it's not very useful. The first requirement is that the soldiers used must be extremely well-trained, and the cooperation must be tacit and seamless, and a single soldier must have strong physical fitness, able to hold the shield and carry the war horse over the wheels, and no one person can become the leakage of the whole life, because the slightest mistake in this method will be self-defeating.
Fortunately, all of these conditions are met!
First, the accurate suppressive shooting of the Hengjiang archers, and then the desperate resistance of the five hundred warriors in the camp, the Wu army had more than 200 military vehicles, and for a while, only Sun Quan's chariot rushed to Zhang Xiu.
Note: In ancient times, the method of forming a shield array to overturn the chariot was used by foot soldiers, and interested readers can refer to the movie "The Beauty of the Mountains", which has its fragments of war scenes.
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