Chapter 563: Take the lead in attacking
"The enemy is attacking, you will charge with me and rescue the general!"
Hou Cheng was the first to stand up, roared, carried a gun, and rushed out directly on horseback.
Some of the tens of thousands of cavalry who followed behind immediately followed Hou Cheng and charged forward.
More often than not, they looked at their own generals, these people were all under the orders of their superiors, their superiors did not act, and their cavalry would not take the initiative to attack.
However, under the leadership of Hou Cheng, several other generals glanced at each other, and gradually joined the attacking team, and tens of thousands of cavalry began to charge forward in an orderly manner.
The armies of both sides met each other at this time.
The infantry under Zhou Cang's command had lost some people before, but fortunately, after a month of cultivation, some of the population under his command had recovered, and most of the people who were charging now were still the infantry under Zhou Cang, although it was a charge, it mainly attracted the attention of some enemy troops.
The ones who really kill the opponent still need to rely on those shooters under Huang Zhong.
They are Liu Zheng's real killer weapon, and at the same time, they will cooperate with Zu Lang's navy to contain the cavalry, so that these cavalry under Lu Bu will not flee from here directly.
As long as they charge and enter the battlefield to fight, Xu Huang's 8,000 cavalry can directly go around the rear, cut off their retreat, and then do a counter-encirclement, flanking from the front and rear, completely destroying these cavalry.
While the soldiers and horses on both sides were charging, Su Fei quietly appeared on a small hill around the battlefield.
Behind Su Fei, a row of trebuchets was slowly pushed up.
"Finally, when the two sides are fighting, the lord has let us ambush here, and it's finally time to make a move."
"General, our trebuchets are ready to be projected!"
"Very good, load now, prepare to shoot, brothers have aimed at me, shoot at the place where the enemy cavalry is, don't shoot your own people!"
Su Fei glanced at the more than a dozen trebuchets behind him, and his face showed a hint of excitement.
"Don't worry, General, we are professional trebuchet shooters, although we can't guarantee where to hit, but the general range can still be controlled!"
Several small soldiers behind Su Fei immediately assured Su Fei.
These people are the special troops trained by Liu Zheng, trebuchet shooters. Like the cavalry, archers, and even sword and shield men under Liu Zheng, the trebuchet control personnel, Liu Zheng also listed them separately, forming a branch of troops, not killing the enemy in battle, and being specifically responsible for projecting trebuchets.
In this way, no one will use trebuchets when they need trebuchets on the battlefield, and some trebuchet shooters are specially trained, and when they need to use trebuchets, their training on weekdays can make them project more accurately and have a higher hit rate.
In this way, it can also be completed to a greater extent the task ordered by Liu Zheng.
At present, this batch of trebuchets that have been ambushed early is the ambush that Liu Zheng had preset here in advance, and he had already wanted to trick Lu Bu into fighting before he went to fight Lu Bu, and he chose a good location here.
Just wait for Lu Bu's people to come.
Whoosh!
With Su Fei's order.
On the hillside, more than a dozen trebuchets were fired at the same time. In an instant, more than a dozen boulders rose into the sky, drawing an arc in the sky, and then smashed to the ground with the momentum of a meteor falling to the ground.
Boom, boom.
These boulders almost smashed into the army of tens of thousands of cavalry under Lu Bu's command.
After all, although Liu Zheng has 30,000 horses. But in fact, the formation of these 30,000 people is not as large as the area occupied by the 10,000 people under Lu Bu.
One cavalry can occupy a much larger position than three infantrymen, after all, the size of a war horse is much larger than the size of a man.
The area formed by the gathering of tens of thousands of strange soldiers is quite large, and the boulder is thrown over, even if it is smashed indiscriminately with his eyes closed, it can also hit a few people on horseback, not to mention those specially trained trebuchet shooters under Liu Zheng.
With their projection trebuchets, they can almost accurately hit where they want to drop.
A boulder falls, and dozens of war horses can be easily harvested.
Although only two or three of the horses will be hit, the fall of the horses will form a chain reaction, affecting a dozen or even dozens of nearby war horses.
And a round of more than a dozen boulders fell at the same time, although the damage formed was not large, but the terrifying atmosphere was much greater than the damage caused by the boulders.
Although the people who can come to this battlefield are all people who have experienced life and death on the battlefield, no one is completely afraid of death.
Rather than being slashed by a sword, it is better than being stoned to death directly from the sky by a boulder.
From time to time, huge stones fell from the sky and landed on the battlefield, and this fear of being killed at any time lingered in the army under Lu Bu's command.
Although a few generals urged their subordinates to charge forward.
It can reduce some of the fear in their hearts. But there was a rain of arrows shooting ahead. With the constant screams around him, watching his teammates fall one by one, those cavalry who rushed forward also began to have a trace of fear.
If these have not yet broken their psychological defense, then when Xu Huang's 8,000 cavalry arrived on the battlefield, cut off their retreat, and began to form an encirclement momentum, gradually closing in to the center, these cavalry under Lu Bu were finally defeated by the psychological defense line.
"Oh no, we're surrounded by enemy troops!"
"Cavalry! It's the enemy's cavalry, how can the enemy have cavalry? ”
"It's over, it's over, we're going to be done now!"
For a while, some bad words spread among Lu Bu's army. The cavalry, which had already been beaten by these catapults and left a psychological shadow, was now cut off by Xu Huang's men and horses, and they panicked all of a sudden, although it was not enough for the army to break up and flee in all directions, but it was not much worse.
Most of them are already six gods and no masters, and they have lost their rules, and some of the cavalry are on the periphery, and they have even completely disobeyed the transfer of officers.
It's not that those soldiers don't want to listen to the general's mobilization, but the vibration caused by the boulder falling at any time hitting the ground frightened the horses of those cavalry, and the out-of-control horses don't listen to the command of the soldiers on horseback at all, and they run in all directions, even if the cavalry has the heart to control the horses to rush forward, they are powerless to guide.
For a time, the battlefield was chaotic and galloping. Hou Cheng, Cheng Lian and several other generals did their best to save this declining situation.
But after all, they were still only able to stabilize a small number of people around them, and more places still caused riots, and they couldn't obey the unified dispatch.