Chapter 128: Angry Fighting
Liu Bei and Zhang Fei shrank their forces to the Xinye area and started a confrontation with more than 90,000 cavalry (more than 10,000 losses in battle) of Xiahoudun.
Cao Cao chose to fight at this time, and he simply didn't talk about martial arts! Both sides struggled!
Because the weather is getting hotter, everyone cuts each other with knives, which not only hurts, but also very hot!
According to his master's strategy, Zhang Fei ordered people to dig trenches everywhere, and even diverted the river water from various places to various trenches, which caused great difficulties to the march of Cao's cavalry. Anyway, his soldiers are mainly infantry troops, after all, Jingzhou has not risen for a long time, and there are not many war horses!
Wading through the water all the way, the horses and cavalry not only marched at a high speed, but also had a serious physical exertion.
The vanguard cavalry, under the leadership of Xiahoudun, first arrived at Xinye, and the veteran Zhang Fei was waiting for him at the head of the city!
The embarrassment of the march made Xiahou Tang angry, and he scolded: "Liu Bei, an old dog who weaves mats and sells shoes, somehow came up with such a bad move!" The order will be sent down, and they will camp under the city and repair, and tomorrow morning in the cool hour, start the siege! ”
The herald received the order and went out to give the order.
However, for the soldiers and horses of Jingzhou, it is a good time to fight a battle and frustrate the enemy's spirit.
The Jingzhou soldiers have been accustomed to this heat, but the northern soldiers are extremely unaccustomed, the hot and humid temperature even makes the bow glue of the northern army somewhat melt and loosen, the bowstring is damp and relaxed, and the heavy armored cavalry will accidentally fall off the horse due to heat stroke at this time!
This was something that Cao's army, which hastily marched south to fight, was not fully prepared. But in contrast, because Zhang Feijun had been prepared, he paid great attention to the moisture-proof bowstring, and was equipped with a spare bowstring, and did not wear clothes under the iron armor, but wore a layer of rattan armor with excellent air permeability, which supported the battle armor, the wind was easy to pour in, and the protection performance was higher......
With this kind of God-given opportunity, how can I let you wait until tomorrow morning when it is cool to beat me?
Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei to lead the few cavalry lightly armed and go to attack the camp!
"Yide, you just have to do ...... like this" told Zhang Fei the strategy, and ordered another to take Liu Feng to the city to act according to the plan!
The cavalry led by Zhang Fei was a typical southern cavalry, with short horses and short soldiers, even if they were trained, they could be regarded as having a good eye in battle, but they were not the opponents of the heavy armored cavalry of the north.
Therefore, Zhang Fei is also a self-aware person, and the horse galloped to the place where Xiahoudun was camping, and was discovered by the scouts sent by others, when the low and powerful horn of the opponent's camp sounded!
Zhang Fei simply stopped entering the army, but asked people to dismount and unload the parts of the god arm crossbow and the bed crossbow from the heavy horse, and assemble them, the giant arrows like the bed crossbow spears began to be wound up, and the three-edged arrows of the god arm crossbow were also wound, and every cavalry soldier was a shooter, and their foot crossbows were also wound, leaving only the cavalry in the front row, riding on horses and slowly advancing forward with this bow and crossbow phalanx......
As a famous general, Xiahoudun still has the military quality to prevent attacks on the camp, and when the horn sounded, he quickly gathered three thousand heavy horsemen and rushed towards Zhang Fei!
Zhang Fei shot in a stacked array according to the order of Zhang crossbowman-crossbowman-crossbowman-crossbowman, and shot two rounds of arrows, and countless arrows fell from the opponent's cavalry......
Zhang Fei saw that the enemy was getting closer and closer, and gradually reached the distance range of safe evacuation, so he ordered someone to quickly put away the bow and crossbow, load the war horse, and everyone got on the horse together and slipped away!
Xiahoudun's partial general Wang Dewang waved a pure iron pestle, taking the lead, looking like a half-cut black tower, brave and peerless, seeing this group of people two rounds of arrows to cover the sky and the sun, the loss made countless brothers fall from the horse, but the other party did not fight, immediately ran like a rabbit, angry and screaming, urging the horse to run faster and faster, and after a while, I saw some sparse wooden stakes in front of me, and the other party had run into these pile groups!
Wang Dewang said in his heart, this group of stupid people, it is better to make such a rejection pile! In addition, after the cavalry speed was urged, it was not easy to stop, and Wang Dewang rushed into the stake formation first!
Suddenly, but the sound of the commotion was endless, between the wooden stakes and the wooden stakes, countless iron chains rose up, on which were tied with very sharp chopping knives, and the war horses and pawns who could not be restrained were hit by the chopping knives for a while, and there were countless casualties! The war horses and soldiers in front fell, and the back couldn't hold back, and rushed up again, and for a time they were cut to death by the chopping knives on the iron cables, and trampled to death by the war horses that came from behind, and countless others......
Wang Dewang's cavalry almost all fell into the middle of these wooden piles, at this time many people came out of the ground, pulling iron chains and ropes in their hands, huhulala, and the iron chains were quickly tied between the horizontal and vertical stakes, so the war horses were trapped in the middle of the stake iron rope array, and the speed of the war horses was completely gone, but these people who came out of the ground held the bamboo poles in their hands, and the bamboo poles were either equipped with sharp spearheads or tied with sharp knives......
As a result, Wang Dewang's soldiers were beheaded alive and pulled off their horses, but the weapons in their hands could not reach these people, and the changes were too fast for a while, and many people had already lost their lives before they could react to what was going on!
Seeing this effect, Liu Bei in the city stroked his beard with satisfaction and said, "The teacher's clever plan is really powerful!" It's just that I met a brave and brave general, if I met a thoughtful person, I saw such a Muzhuang array, I was suspicious, and I turned my head and ran to both sides, and the cavalry could slowly withdraw, and there would never be such a tragedy! ”
At this time, Zhang Fei had also arrived at the top of the city, everyone watched Liu Feng lead people to fight, Zhang Fei said: "This kind of formation has not appeared before, so the enemy general is careless, if those fish that slipped through the net go back this time and inform Xiahoudun, such a formation will not work in the future!" ”
"It's okay, His Royal Highness has a lot of clever plans, of course this is just a one-time method!"
Those cavalrymen who were lucky enough not to fall into the Muzhuang formation, seeing their comrades being slaughtered, knew that at this time, they could not save them with more than 800 horsemen, so they had to turn their horses around and return to the camp.
"What? Just back to you more than 800 rides? What about Wang Dewang? What about the other 2,000 or so? Xiahoudun was shocked and angry, "When did this flying old man become so brave?" On weekdays, my 3,000 elite heavy armored cavalry can easily break tens of thousands of enemies, and today it is so damaged? ”
"General, here's how it happened......," said one of the people who returned, describing in detail the battle ahead.
"Alas! It's all to blame on General Ben, but he just ordered Wang Dewang, a madman who doesn't have long brains, but anyone with a little brain, how can he drill into it when he sees so many suspicious stakes? "That being said, Xiahoudun himself is also asking himself, if he joins himself to lead the troops himself, should he be frightened to stop pursuing those cavalry as thin as grass chickens because of a few rotten wooden stakes? Even if you have doubts, you don't dare to make sure that you don't chase them, right?
Xiahoudun ordered to ignore Zhang Fei, continue to set up camp, and stay until tomorrow when the fourth watch has a full meal, and the fifth watch takes advantage of the cool to go to attack the city steadily!
Xiahoudun planned to ignore Zhang Fei anymore, but Zhang Fei didn't plan to let Xiahoudun go!
After the harvest of the first crop of human heads, there were more than 1,000 good horses in the north, of course, those injured or dead horses, all killed and skinned, set up a cauldron to boil on the city, into the thick soup into the white rice, into the salt, ginger, garlic, pepper and other seasonings, the defenders of the city can eat at any time, if the enemy dares to come to attack the city, when they climb the city wall, overturn the cauldron, immediately can burn a lot of burns and burn to death......
Of course, this is a later story, because it will take a while to survive until the enemy really climbs the mountain wall! Liu Bei saw that Wang Zherong's strategy worked, and his confidence was enough!
Wang Zhirong talked about the thinking of sports warfare, the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed in me to disturb, the enemy is tired and I fight, the enemy retreats and I chase, now is the time of "the enemy is stationed and I disturb", harvested the first crop of human heads, and immediately sent Zhang Fei to shoot arrows in the enemy camp triumphantly! Xiahoudun was worried about the problem that the bow and arrow could not be used due to moisture at this time, but when he heard the noise outside, someone came to report that the enemy had attacked the camp!