Chapter 52: The Rain of Arrows Continues
"I knew he was coming!"
Ma Yue said that the Yanshi City was broken by the Kwantung princes, why didn't he put out the banner but just replaced it with a Chinese character flag, and until a moment ago, he couldn't figure out who was the boss this time. The more I saw the golden chariot and the horse, the clearer.
"San Lang, do you know the fool in the car?" Dong Zhuo tilted his head with disdain, and sneered: "Looking at this military formation, I thought he was a capable general, but how do you know that he is a fool who is sassy, so the conspicuous chariot is not a target on the battlefield." ”
Dong Zhuo said it very well, Ma Yue has been in the army until today, and he has never even worn the brightly colored armor. Even generals may be left alone on the chaotic battlefield, such as Yuan Shu, who is dizzy. The fate of the armor is nothing more than that when the army is defeated, it is too late to escape, and it is surrounded and intercepted by the enemy, and it is tied into zongzi to be arrested to invite merit.
"Chen Wang Liu Pet...... It is rare for this one in the Han clan to have a brave and strategic talent. Ma Yue looked at the chaotic battlefield intently and said: "He is also Ma's archery master, and he can't hide it, until he becomes the captain of Changshui, Ma will not use a bow and arrow." When Mr. Liang served as the assassin of Youzhou, I passed by Chen Guo and wrote an inscription for King Chen, and during the Yellow Turban period, he protected the entire territory of Chen State with hundreds of bows and crossbows in his private collection, which frightened the Yellow Turban thieves and Kou to take a detour, and he was a warrior. ”
"Hehe, it's quite fierce." Dong Zhuo smiled a little derogatory, but then looked at the battlefield and said in surprise, pointed and said, "Don't say it, I really have some ability, the chariot can still be used like this." ”
The Han Dynasty dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the chariot has always been active on the battlefield and is the main combat force. At that time, the strength of a country was measured by how many chariots the monarch had. The main purpose of the chariot is to storm the infantry formation, with a powerful charging force combined with the spear bow to tear the opponent's formation, so that the rear infantry can widen the gap, in order to crush the enemy's best choice.
However, as Wei Huo's two unborn war geniuses opened up the cavalry tradition for the Han Empire, the chariot slowly withdrew from the stage of history. After all, whether it is impact or mobility, cavalry is superior to chariots.
But the current chariot is different, hundreds of chariots are parked in the middle of the battlefield, the sergeants on the chariots remove a few wooden planks, a group of foot soldiers clamp their bows and crossbows on the planks to spread their bows and arrows, and the sergeants on the carriages also aim the vehicle-mounted crossbows at the opposite military formation. Almost in a few breaths, thousands of crossbows and crossbow carts were ready to attack.
The military formations on both sides also retracted, transforming a steady offensive formation into a small, compact defensive formation.
As the banner was unfurled, thousands of arrows and eight-foot-long spears were projected on the heads of the Black Mountain army...... The arrows that covered the sky made the generals of Liangzhou who were watching the battle in the mountains mutter, and even Ma Yue, who had always had full confidence in the armored army, couldn't help but ask himself, if it was his own armored army, could he deal with this level of arrows?
His answer is not sure, some time ago, Wang Shuang, who had just defected to his command and was ready to be entrusted with a heavy task, made a mistake in the battle array, and a person carried Daxu into the military formation of the Nanyang Army and was shot into a sieve, and the arrows cleared out of the armor he wore weighed two catties. This is still nailed to the armor, and I don't know how many have been ejected, and the armor worth tens of thousands of dollars has been shot out by force.
Thanks to the heavy armor inside and outside and the inferior quality of the Nanyang Army's bow and crossbow, it is two to say whether he could save his life or not.
Calculating the time, Wang Shuang should have been sent to Zhangjiachuan to be treated by the best doctors in Liangzhou, but according to the letter sent back by Liu Bad in Shanglinyuan, one eye could not be saved.
Therefore, if it is the armor-covered army against Liu Pet's crossbow-heavy army, I am afraid that the victory or defeat really needs to be said. Those chariots that shoot powerful crossbows are too scary. The eight-foot spear shot farther than the bow and crossbow, and its strength was only a little weaker than the strong crossbow chariot on the winch in Liangzhou. But Ma Yue only has more than 100 strong crossbows, and Liu Chong has hundreds of them.
Even if the heavy armored cavalry is against this thing, it will only be pierced.
Don't talk about the Montenegrin Army, what a miserable word. The people in the mountains couldn't see the trajectory of the arrows at all, and they could only see a piece of flying locusts in the car formation falling into the Black Mountain army formation that was rushing in front of them, and a large area fell immediately.
The Black Mountain Army behind has not yet rushed out of the range of the fallen robes, and it is another flying locust.
Three rounds of arrows were thrown past, which one would dare to rush forward without long eyes? The corpses in front of the robe are stacked half a person high, even if there are no corpses, there are spears stuck all over the ground, can you walk over?
The flank of the Black Mountain Army had already engaged the Han army in close quarters, but the thickest vanguard army in the central part did not move forward, and the army formation was chaotic all of a sudden. The Han army on the flank and the Montenegrin army are almost evenly matched, but the morale is not the same, the Han army is more and more courageous, but the Montenegrin army is fighting more and more frustrated...... The Chinese army was overwhelmed by the arrows.
"San Lang, did you find it, although the Kwantung princes are strong, their orders are different. The strong Chinese army could not command the two flanks, the right flank rushed forward fiercely, the left wing commander was less courageous, the soldiers rushed slowly, and suddenly the military formation was exposed. Dong Zhuo turned a blind eye to the scene of the sea of corpses below, and said pointingly: "If Zhang Yan is astute, at this time, he should send two light cavalry to pass through the gap between the flank and the Chinese army, and directly hit the golden chariot of the Chinese army. ”
"That's for sure, the princes don't command the army, but the princes who command the army. Letting Liu Chong be the commander of the Chinese army is already giving him the face of his Han clansmen. Ma Yue said with a smile: "But Brother Zhong, Zhang Yan is not like us can look at the overall situation like this, he can't see Liu Chong's chariot in that place, and he can see a big trick if he dies, I guess he won't make dangerous moves if he is not in a hurry, and the cavalry is just a little bit, and it is distressing to be buried in the opposite formation." ”
Ma Yue expected it right, Zhang Yan made a change, but still did not send a horse team to participate in the battle. The troops and horses of the Montenegrin army moved back and forth, and soon, a considerable number of Montenegrin archers were sent to the front, and the same rain of arrows was returned.
However, Zhang Yan miscalculated again, he did not encounter a conventional army, and he could not judge it with conventional thinking.
The foot soldiers rushed forward from the back of the chariot, and they all lifted the wooden planks in front of the horses, and the sword and brand players holding large shields in the chariot formation also raised their shields above their heads to block the front of the crossbowmen, and the rain of arrows covering the sky and the sun could not form objective damage to the chariot at all.
One of the most embarrassing situations for archers in battle battles is when you can shoot an enemy and you are also within striking distance. Blocking a rain of arrows, Chen's army quickly returned the more violent arrows, and although most of the thrown arrows were blocked by the shield men in front of the Black Mountain archers, the strongest attack made all defenses appear weak.
The spears from the ballista pierced one large shield after another, nailing them to the yellow earth with their shields.
The rain of arrows continues.
The casualties of the Montenegrin army are still continuing, and in just half an hour, it may be more than the number of dead and wounded soldiers in Zhang Yan's army in a month of besieging Luoyang, Ma Yue watched the Montenegrin army slowly retreat, and his heart was filled with great sympathy for Zhang Yan. Against such a long-range army with strong suppression capabilities, perhaps shrinking the defensive line is the best option...... No matter how strong the chariot is, it will never be able to storm the walled city.
But as the Montenegrin army slowly retreated, the imaginary steady advance did not appear, and those soldiers actually loaded the wooden planks onto the chariot and replaced them with spears and battles...... At this moment, Dong Zhuo couldn't help it, even Ma Yue frowned, Liu Chong was too arrogant. The ground in front of him had just been thrown by him with countless spears and broken arrows, could it be that his hundreds of chariots were loaded with iron plates underneath, and they were about to roll over the uneven corpses and armor?
No one was mistaken, the chariot really started, not only the chariot, but even the foot soldiers next to it all started to charge together, the entire chariot array was divided into two sections from the middle, one left and one right charged diagonally, and the goal of their charge was ...... The middle of the flank where the Montenegrin army was fighting with the Han army.
Damn, this tactic is simply amazing! More than 300 chariots on each side cut diagonally towards the two flanks of the Black Mountain Army, sharp long ges and powerful arrows...... It was almost foreseeable that there was no need for the Liang and coalition forces to fight from the flanks, and the battle was won by the coalition of the Kwantung princes.
Dong Zhuo's face was a little cautious, and a fat and ugly face rarely pointed to the military formation separated from the middle with seriousness and said: "In this way, the chariot formation is stripped from the middle, and there are thousands of foot soldiers behind it, which is enough to chase and kill the Black Mountain Army, but San Lang, the golden chariot is exposed at the front, if Zhang Yan ...... He seized the opportunity, the cavalry of the Black Mountain Army came out, and Liu Pet was finished! ”
The vehicle's steering ability in the charge is terrible, and if you adjust the direction, you have to rush all the way to the end, and unless you stop directly, you can't turn at all. And this time is the moment when Liu Chong's golden chariot is revealed, as long as the more than 100 cavalry rushed out of the Black Mountain Army are brave enough to behead the commander of the Kwantung Coalition Army under the car first, a big victory for the Han army will become a big defeat!
The brave Montenegrin cavalry was getting closer and closer to the battlefield, and the Montenegrin army, with more than 50 horsemen on each side, fought out of the gap and directly took Liu Chong's chariot. Just when all the generals of Heliang thought that Liu Pet was dead, dozens of horses suddenly came out from behind Liu Pet, led by a black-robed young general and a black dwarf with a machete, and rushed up to the Black Mountain cavalry with stabbing obliquely.
This is a real daredevil, especially the dwarf, who leads a bunch of foot soldiers to the recoil cavalry.
Almost in the blink of an eye, the battle situation changed dramatically, and Liu Chong, who thought he was about to be beheaded, slowly turned the chariot around. The black-robed Xiao will lead a long soldier into the Black Mountain cavalry is invincible, and the brave cavalry vanguard was picked off the horse with only one face, and then more than fifty horsemen were chased and killed in the center of the battlefield by more than a dozen cavalry.
"Why is he here too?" Although Ma Yue couldn't see the person's appearance clearly, he knew only by virtue of his black robe and courage to take the lead that it was Zhang Yide, a Taoyuan painter from Zhuo County, Youzhou, since he appeared here, Liu Xuande must be in the array!