Chapter 302: A Thousand Shots
Neither Meng Dai nor Hou Cheng noticed that the decision made by Cheng Yi was wrong. On the contrary, Meng Dai was even complacent in his heart, feeling that after there were more soldiers and horses in the car formation, it would be more difficult for Li Daojun to break through the car formation. As for Hou Cheng, he felt that letting the troops stay on the unsheltered plain would be easily attacked by the cavalry, and now that he had entered the formation of grain trucks, the insurance coefficient would be even greater.
Li Dao and Guo Yan in the distance were still a little worried when they saw Li Xian return from defeat first. When they saw that the soldiers and horses led by Cheng Yi and Hou Cheng actually entered the chariot formation surrounded by grain and grass, Li Dao couldn't help laughing. Li Bei, who was standing on horseback, couldn't help but ask curiously, "Uncle, I don't know what you're laughing at?" ”
Li Dao pointed at the chariot formation in the distance with the horsewhip in his hand, and said with a sneer: "Do they think that if they hide in the chariot array, they can avoid the charge of our cavalry?" Don't, you lead two thousand cavalry to ride around the circle of the cart, and since they don't want to leave the cart, shoot them to death with random arrows. ”
"Wait," Seeing that Li Bei agreed, he was about to leave, but Guo Yan hurriedly stopped him: "General Li, you can shoot rockets." As long as the grain truck catches fire, the Jizhou soldiers in the car formation will inevitably become a mess, and you will wait for the opportunity to rush into the car circle. ”
"Ado, why do you use rockets?" When Li Wei heard Guo Yan say this, he asked with a confused expression: "Didn't you say that you can't burn grain and grass?" ”
"Now the Jizhou soldiers have formed a circular formation with grain trucks, even if we use guerrilla to kill and injure a large number of their soldiers, it is still very difficult to rush into the car circle." Guo Yan replied: "As long as the grain and grass catch fire together, the Jizhou soldiers will definitely remove the burning grain wagons in order to prevent other grain and grass from being ignited." Then there will be a gap in the chariot formation, and our cavalry will be able to take advantage of the opportunity to charge in. ”
"That's a good idea." When Li Bei heard Guo Yan say this, he suddenly felt that his eyes lit up: "As long as the grain cart is on fire together, the Jizhou soldiers will definitely rush to drive the burning grain cart when they arrive, and then I can lead people to kill people from the gap." Don't look at their many people, when the infantry meets the cavalry, they will only be slaughtered. ”
Seeing that Li Daojun launched another attack on the chariot array, Meng Dai, who was in the middle of the command, raised the blade in his hand high, and shouted loudly at the same time: "Bow and crossbow soldiers prepare!" The two thousand crossbowmen raised the bows and crossbows in their hands and aimed them at the cavalry who rushed over, and they could only release arrows at the cavalry that entered the firing range with an order from Meng Dai.
"Put~!" Seeing that Li Dai's cavalry had already rushed into range, Meng Dai roared violently and swung his weapon down forcefully.
Two thousand crossbow arrows rose from the chariot formation and flew towards the oncoming cavalry. Although in order to prevent the cavalry from being killed by the bow and crossbow, Li Bei had already dispersed the cavalry when he charged into battle. But under such intensive crossbow firing, more than 300 cavalrymen fell from their horses.
Seeing the Li Dao cavalry in the distance, Meng Dai couldn't help but smile. He saw that the crossbowmen had reloaded, and hurriedly gave the order to fire again. Although the effect of this round of crossbow shooting was not as good as the previous round, it still allowed more than 200 cavalrymen to be shot.
Li Bei saw that he was only a few dozen steps away from the lack of food and grass, so he hurriedly whistled and signaled his cavalry to shoot arrows around the chariot array. Although there were many crossbowmen in the array, they were still a little powerless for the cavalry circling around the formation, and most of the crossbow arrows they fired missed.
There were more than a dozen of Li Bei's cronies, who used prepared rockets to shoot at the grain and grass that was blocking the Jizhou soldiers. The rocket stuck in the grain bag and immediately began to burn. When the Jizhou soldiers in the formation saw that the grain cart was on fire, they couldn't help but fall into chaos, some continued to shoot arrows, and some slapped the ignited flames with their weapons in their hands, trying to extinguish the fire on the grain cart.
Meng Dai saw that the grain truck was on fire, and hurriedly shouted at the top of his voice: "Quickly pull the burning grain truck away, quickly pull the burning grain truck away!" His order was faithfully conveyed, and some of the foot soldiers laid down their weapons and separated the burning wagons from the others, so that the company would not be burned.
There were only twenty or thirty grain trucks that caught fire, and if Meng Dai was not alarmed, he could arrange manpower to extinguish the fire in the shortest possible time. Who knew that he suddenly saw the fire in the grain cart, and immediately lost his mind, and only cared about telling the soldiers to remove the burning grain and grass, but forgot to arrange manpower to deal with the cavalry who were still circling around the cart array.
Li Bei saw that there were indeed a few gaps in the car formation, and he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly rushed into the car formation with a group of cavalry, slashing and killing those soldiers who were in a mess. Don't look at the cavalry that rushed in, there were only two or three hundred people, but the Jizhou soldiers were fighting the fire, and the arrows were released, and they couldn't help this small cavalry for a while.
"Childish, General Li Xiao has already led people into the car formation." Seeing that Li Bei had successfully rushed into the car formation, Guo Yan hurriedly said to Li Dao excitedly: "Let's also lead the army to kill, at most with a stick of incense, we can kill all these cavalry in Jizhou!" ”
After Li Wei waited for Guo Yan to finish speaking, he pulled out the sword at his waist, the tip of the sword pointed obliquely forward, and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, rush with me!" After destroying the Jizhou soldiers, you can open your belly and eat a few full meals. ”
These cavalry under Li Dao have been starved and half-fed because of the lack of food and grass in recent times. At this moment, when they heard that they could eat enough after robbing the grain, they all rushed to the front as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
After the car formation was broken through by Li Bei, seeing that there was chaos in the formation, Hou Cheng immediately knew that something was wrong. If Li Dao and Guo Yan came to kill at this moment, then their soldiers would suffer heavy losses. Thinking of this, he brandished his weapon and rushed towards Li Bei with dozens of his subordinates. He wanted to defeat Li Bei and reseal the gap in the chariot formation before Li Dao's army arrived.
Some of the cavalry led by Li Bei were still circling around the car formation, constantly firing arrows into the circle, while the other part was frantically slashing Jizhou's foot soldiers in the car formation. Hou Cheng led people to rush towards Li Bei's location twice, but both of them retreated. When he retreated for the second time, he found that there was no one around him, and all of them died on the way to charge Li Bei.
Not only did Hou Cheng realize the danger facing the car formation, but even Cheng Yi also noticed it. He hurriedly attacked Li Bei from another direction with more than two hundred foot soldiers, trying to kill him or drive him out of the car formation.
Fortunately, the soldiers of Jizhou knew that their life and death were at stake, so they desperately besieged Li Bei and others, making them unable to gain a foothold in the car formation. After paying the price of more than 500 people, Li Bei and a dozen cavalrymen were finally driven out of the car formation. Meng Dai hurriedly ordered the grain cart to be pushed down, blocking the gap that was broken open by the cavalry.
Li Dao and Guo Yan were a step late, and by the time they led people to rush outside the car formation, Meng Dai and the others had already blocked all the gaps. The soldiers on both sides fired arrows or stabbed them with spears across the grain carts, and it was not long before the corpses of the soldiers on both sides were piled up inside and outside the grain carts.
"Damn, it's so damnable." When Li Wei saw that his soldiers and horses had never been able to break through the grain carts to form a car formation, he couldn't help but be annoyed and angry, and hurriedly ordered: "Within a stick of incense, rush through the chariot formation of the Jizhou soldiers, otherwise all the military marquis and above will be beheaded." Hearing this order from Li Dao, those officers at or above the rank of military marquis personally went into battle with their swords, trying to break through the car formation in the shortest possible time.
Hou Cheng, who was covered in blood, came to Meng Dai's side and said to him: "Captain Meng, the situation is extremely dangerous now, if we can't repel Li Dai's soldiers and horses, our grain and grass will not be saved." ”
"Our soldiers are fighting hard." Meng Dai pointed to the soldiers who were standing next to the grain cart and were fighting with Li Dao's army, and said with a sad face: "However, the enemy army is strong, and we can't resist. I think we'd better abandon the food and leave, right? ”
"No, Captain Meng, don't." Hou Cheng pointed to Li Daojun, who was trying to rush into the car formation, and said, "Li Guo's two thieves led their troops to attack, just to grab food. If this grain and grass fall into their hands, it will give them wings; And the soldiers and horses of our army in the city will be in chaos without a fight because of the lack of food. ”
Neither Meng Dai nor Hou Cheng noticed that the decision made by Cheng Yi was wrong. On the contrary, Meng Dai was even complacent in his heart, feeling that after there were more soldiers and horses in the car formation, it would be more difficult for Li Daojun to break through the car formation. As for Hou Cheng, he felt that letting the troops stay on the unsheltered plain would be easily attacked by the cavalry, and now that he had entered the formation of grain trucks, the insurance coefficient would be even greater.
Li Dao and Guo Yan in the distance were still a little worried when they saw Li Xian return from defeat first. When they saw that the soldiers and horses led by Cheng Yi and Hou Cheng actually entered the chariot formation surrounded by grain and grass, Li Dao couldn't help laughing. Li Bei, who was standing on horseback, couldn't help but ask curiously, "Uncle, I don't know what you're laughing at?" ”
Li Dao pointed at the chariot formation in the distance with the horsewhip in his hand, and said with a sneer: "Do they think that if they hide in the chariot array, they can avoid the charge of our cavalry?" Don't, you lead two thousand cavalry to ride around the circle of the cart, and since they don't want to leave the cart, shoot them to death with random arrows. ”
"Wait," Seeing that Li Bei agreed, he was about to leave, but Guo Yan hurriedly stopped him: "General Li, you can shoot rockets." As long as the grain truck catches fire, the Jizhou soldiers in the car formation will inevitably become a mess, and you will wait for the opportunity to rush into the car circle. ”
"Ado, why do you use rockets?" When Li Wei heard Guo Yan say this, he asked with a confused expression: "Didn't you say that you can't burn grain and grass?" ”
"Now the Jizhou soldiers have formed a circular formation with grain trucks, even if we use guerrilla to kill and injure a large number of their soldiers, it is still very difficult to rush into the car circle." Guo Yan replied: "As long as the grain and grass catch fire together, the Jizhou soldiers will definitely remove the burning grain wagons in order to prevent other grain and grass from being ignited." Then there will be a gap in the chariot formation, and our cavalry will be able to take advantage of the opportunity to charge in. ”
"That's a good idea." When Li Bei heard Guo Yan say this, he suddenly felt that his eyes lit up: "As long as the grain cart is on fire together, the Jizhou soldiers will definitely rush to drive the burning grain cart when they arrive, and then I can lead people to kill people from the gap." Don't look at their many people, when the infantry meets the cavalry, they will only be slaughtered. ”
Seeing that Li Daojun launched another attack on the chariot array, Meng Dai, who was in the middle of the command, raised the blade in his hand high, and shouted loudly at the same time: "Bow and crossbow soldiers prepare!" The two thousand crossbowmen raised the bows and crossbows in their hands and aimed them at the cavalry who rushed over, and they could only release arrows at the cavalry that entered the firing range with an order from Meng Dai.
"Put~!" Seeing that Li Dai's cavalry had already rushed into range, Meng Dai roared violently and swung his weapon down forcefully.
Two thousand crossbow arrows rose from the chariot formation and flew towards the oncoming cavalry. Although in order to prevent the cavalry from being killed by the bow and crossbow, Li Bei had already dispersed the cavalry when he charged into battle. But under such intensive crossbow firing, more than 300 cavalrymen fell from their horses.
Seeing the Li Dao cavalry in the distance, Meng Dai couldn't help but smile. He saw that the crossbowmen had reloaded, and hurriedly gave the order to fire again. Although the effect of this round of crossbow shooting was not as good as the previous round, it still allowed more than 200 cavalrymen to be shot.
Li Bei saw that he was only a few dozen steps away from the lack of food and grass, so he hurriedly whistled and signaled his cavalry to shoot arrows around the chariot array. Although there were many crossbowmen in the array, they were still a little powerless for the cavalry circling around the formation, and most of the crossbow arrows they fired missed.
There were more than a dozen of Li Bei's cronies, who used prepared rockets to shoot at the grain and grass that was blocking the Jizhou soldiers. The rocket stuck in the grain bag and immediately began to burn. When the Jizhou soldiers in the formation saw that the grain cart was on fire, they couldn't help but fall into chaos, some continued to shoot arrows, and some slapped the ignited flames with their weapons in their hands, trying to extinguish the fire on the grain cart.
Meng Dai saw that the grain truck was on fire, and hurriedly shouted at the top of his voice: "Quickly pull the burning grain truck away, quickly pull the burning grain truck away!" His order was faithfully conveyed, and some of the foot soldiers laid down their weapons and separated the burning wagons from the others, so that the company would not be burned.
There were only twenty or thirty grain trucks that caught fire, and if Meng Dai was not alarmed, he could arrange manpower to extinguish the fire in the shortest possible time. Who knew that he suddenly saw the fire in the grain cart, and immediately lost his mind, and only cared about telling the soldiers to remove the burning grain and grass, but forgot to arrange manpower to deal with the cavalry who were still circling around the cart array.
Li Bei saw that there were indeed a few gaps in the car formation, and he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly rushed into the car formation with a group of cavalry, slashing and killing those soldiers who were in a mess. Don't look at the cavalry that rushed in, there were only two or three hundred people, but the Jizhou soldiers were fighting the fire, and the arrows were released, and they couldn't help this small cavalry for a while.
"Childish, General Li Xiao has already led people into the car formation." Seeing that Li Bei had successfully rushed into the car formation, Guo Yan hurriedly said to Li Dao excitedly: "Let's also lead the army to kill, at most with a stick of incense, we can kill all these cavalry in Jizhou!" ”
After Li Wei waited for Guo Yan to finish speaking, he pulled out the sword at his waist, the tip of the sword pointed obliquely forward, and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, rush with me!" After destroying the Jizhou soldiers, you can open your belly and eat a few full meals. ”