Chapter 925: Battle Chang'an (10)
Ma Yan looked at the Xiliang general banner under the dirt slope, although he didn't know which general Xiliang was facing, but no matter who the general in front of him was, if he wanted to capture the seemingly simple camp he defended, with the little strength in front of him, it was simply a fool's dream.
Although the Xiliang army seems to have opened the opening of the camp and seems to have the upper hand, as long as Ma Yan looks back at the crossbowmen who are arrayed in the camp, he is somewhat glad that he is not facing a strong crossbowman who is a little hairy......
"Crossbowman, come forward and shoot!" With an order, five hundred crossbowmen, under the cover of the shield soldiers, rushed to the front of the formation and began to fire at the Xiliang soldiers under the hillside.
When the sound of "boom boom" sounds, the great power of the strong crossbow is fully revealed!
If you are hit by an arrow, some soldiers can endure the pain and continue to fight, but for crossbows, basically just one shot can make this unlucky soldier immediately quit the battle series!
Suddenly, the Xiliang army array, which suffered a heavy setback from the crossbow soldiers, suddenly panicked, and the large and small flags in the military formation waved wildly, showing the huge pressure on the Xiliang soldiers.
Li Meng saw that the cavalry who tried to rush uphill were like seedlings, and they were neatly cut to the ground by the sickle, and he couldn't help but roar angrily: "Damn it! This camp is full of crossbowmen! ”
Xiliang's soldiers, whether they were infantry or cavalry, the momentum of the attack was suddenly stuck.
Although it is not as Li Meng said, all of them are crossbowmen, but in fact, the crossbowmen in the camp also account for two-thirds of the troops, five hundred archers, five hundred crossbowmen, plus swordsmen, shields and pikemen who are responsible for external defense, if you want to attack the camp, you must at least wait for these arrows and crossbows to be consumed!
But there was not much time left for Li Meng and Wang Fang.
In the south of Sucheng, Fei Qian and Zhao Yunzheng also returned with cavalry......
Zhao Yun put himself in the shoes of the Xiliang soldiers in Sucheng and thought about it, and found that if he was the commander of the Xiliang soldiers, he would be extremely helpless.
If the forces are almost equal, who would choose to go out of the city for a decisive battle instead of relying on the superior city to defend?
So after learning that the other party is building a dam, do you choose to attack immediately or wait until the opponent's troops are weak before attacking?
Well, after all the best choices, this is the current situation.
If you choose to stick to it, you just don't fight?
The result is not much better, as soon as the dam is broken, although Sucheng will not become a vast ocean, but a piece of mud inside and outside the city is indispensable, so when the terrain is slightly dry and allowed to go out, I am afraid that it will be at least three or four days past, and it will be enough for Fei Qian and Zhao Yun to go to the city behind Sucheng to take a walk around and come back......
The city in the rear saw the banner of Fei Qian, but could not see the banner of the Xiliang soldiers, so what would happen?
The Xiliang soldiers, who needed to be defended on three sides, suddenly seemed to be broken through in one of the directions, and a large number of cavalry appeared, so what did it mean?
At that time, I'm afraid that things will not be under the control of the Xiliang generals in Sucheng......
Therefore, the Xiliang soldiers in Sucheng will have to make a choice, and it seems that no matter what choice is made, it will be the same bad consequences.
Zhao Yun could only be glad that he was now on the side of Fei Qian, who had the advantage.
The cavalry gallops, if it is flat ground, it is about eighty miles in an hour, if it gallops with all its might, it can reach one hundred and fifty miles to two hundred miles, of course, the war horse runs about two hundred miles at full strength, it must stop to rest and repair, replenish food, and then wait for the horse to recover before it can continue to move forward, otherwise the war horse wear and tear will be extremely high.
Most of the land in Guanzhong was flat after Sucheng, and Fei Qian and Zhao Yun led the cavalry around in a circle, although they walked farther, but in fact, it was not an unacceptable distance for the cavalry.
Perhaps because Zhao Yun was galloping on the flat ground all the way, the smoke and dust were discovered by the guards above Sucheng when he was more than 20 miles away, and the leading leaders of the two Xiliang soldiers were in the north of the city in a panic, and the remaining military marquis could only subconsciously order to close the city gate for a while to prevent Zhao Yun's cavalry from raiding into the city, while hurriedly sending people to inform Li Meng and Wang Fang in front......
Fei Qian saw the figure shaking above Sucheng, and vaguely heard the sound of the gong for warning, so he turned his head and said, "Zilong, you go first, I will press the formation." ”
Zhao Yun nodded, and then raised his spear, and then took half of the Bingzhou cavalry, and gradually began to increase the speed of the horse, and the Bingzhou cavalry spread out into three arrows of two hundred horsemen each, and crushed towards Wang Fang's rear formation!
"Rear turn! Rear turn! Column spear array! Spearmen come forward! Archers, archers also turn! Back! Back! Wang Fang's anxious beads of sweat flowed down his cheeks, and he hurriedly issued an order, "Quick!" Quickly send someone to inform General Li Meng, and wait for the cavalry to come to help! ”
However, when the two armies faced each other, in order to obtain better coordination between each other, it was also conducive to unified command and scheduling, although most of the platoons and platoons left gaps in front of them, but they were not spacious enough to turn and change at will, even if they were foot soldiers, they had to march in order to have an effective battle, and the king issued a number of orders in a hurry, and the flags in the army were dancing chaotically, and suddenly there was a queue of pikemen and a queue of archers colliding together, pushing and shoving at a loss, and it was even more chaotic.
In the battle array, the soldier's vision is limited, the surrounding is blocked by his comrades, and he cannot know the situation outside the battle array, although the king's order cannot be said to be wrong, but under this sudden situation, the queue cannot be coordinated, and the chaos involuntarily begins to spread, and even affects the soldiers in the front formation who are attacking the dirt slope with arrows and crossbows......
At this time, Li Meng, who had been blocked back by several shocks in the rear of the camp, had just seen the smoke and dust rising closer and closer in the direction of Sucheng after receiving the news of Wang Fang's request for help, and was about to give the order to rescue Wang Fang, when he heard a soldier suddenly shouting in a mess: "General! Finished! Behind! Behind! ”
Li Meng couldn't help but be furious and shouted, "I know that someone is coming from behind Sucheng!" No need to scream, come ...... me."
"No, no! Checkmate! Behind! Behind! Several of Li Meng's guards also shouted eagerly.
"That behind?"
Li Meng looked at the guards beside him and pointed to the rear of his cavalry array with a panicked expression, and couldn't help but follow the guard's direction, turned his head to look north, and his face faded with blood......