Chapter 307: Dead Land
As Liu Chenglin guessed, Fei Can immediately selected Cheng Jiawu as his target when he knew that Liu Chenglin's main force was heading towards Shijiawu.
Fei Can didn't think about attacking Cheng Jiawu, for Cheng Jiawu of the medium-sized dock fort, under the condition that the other party was prepared, it was impossible for him to take the strong dock fort in a short time without siege equipment, not to mention, behind him, there was always a hanging boot ghost, Li De's ranger.
Two cavalry teams play a game of cat hunting in the vast area of Yingzhou. Speaking of which, Yingzhou should have been Li De's home field now, but in fact, Fei Can is more familiar with this land.
Fei Can's original intention was to lead the opponent's cavalry in a big circle, and then look for an opportunity to give the opponent a fatal blow, but after half a month, he never found a chance to shoot, and on two occasions, he almost fell into the trap of the other party. Li De is indeed not as familiar with this area as the other party, but he led hundreds of cavalry to fight against the Henghai Navy at that time for more than half a year on the deserted land in Texas, among which he took the initiative to attack others, and he also had the experience of being chased and beaten by others, but he was extremely familiar with this combat mode, and it was really not an easy thing for Fei Can to take advantage of him.
After Fei Can figured out this matter, he immediately gave up this thankless task, and turned to just confuse the opponent to try to widen the gap with the opponent.
Now, there is a time difference between him and Li De and half a day, that is to say, to attack Cheng Jiawu, he has about half a day. In order to achieve this goal, he deliberately created the illusion that he was going to attack another dock fort, and Li De was now heading in that direction, and if the other party had not discovered his intentions, then he might be able to buy more time.
The ideal result is to create more panic and cause more damage in Chengjiawu, and it is best to attract the defenders of Gaoyang to come to help, there are few defenders of Wuwei, and the only ones who come to help may be the government soldiers, then he can hit the other party again on the halfway, and then go down to Yingzhou City to show off his might and then leave.
I don't believe that when I arrived at the city of Yingzhou, Liu Chenglin could still march towards Shijiawu in a big way. Lu Long's purpose is to ensure that Shijiawu does not fall, as long as Shijiawu still exists, then it means that Lu Long still has an offensive fulcrum in Yingzhou, which can contain Wuwei's footsteps.
Lu Long is indeed making a strategic shift now, that is, to transfer the main target of the attack from the previous Hedong to Wuwei. This is the conclusion reached by Lu Long's upper echelons after repeated discussions after suffering a big loss.
According to Fei Zhong's judgment, the Guanzhong Rebellion has been in the past two years, and if Lu Long wants to get the most benefits during the Heluo Guanzhong Rebellion, he must first defeat the newly established Wuwei Town.
Facts have proved that attacking Hedong first is a strategic decision-making mistake, and now it is not an easy thing to turn around, they need time, and the focus of Lu Long's attack will never be placed in Yingzhou, Zhang Zhongwu decided that it is still necessary to recapture Dingzhou and Yizhou first, and then attack Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou with all his might.
Wuwei now owns eleven states, including Yingzhou, but there is no doubt that their essence is still in Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou. These two states account for about one-third of the entire Wude in terms of economy, and the people are in a quarter, and if the Zhenzhou Zhaozhou is defeated, the Wude will break the backbone.
Yingzhou will only be involved, but in the early stage, it is still necessary to make Wude have an illusion, that is, to make Li Ze think that the Lulong people will put the main battlefield on the recapture of Yingzhou.
The timing of the attack cannot be concealed, it can only be after the autumn harvest.
Hedong, Wude, is now carrying out an unprecedented blockade of Lulong, it is quite difficult to obtain food from the outside, even if there are some channels, but the income is only a drop in the bucket, and it is not enough to support Zhang Zhongwu to launch a decisive battle, so starting a war after the autumn harvest has become the only option.
When the morning sun jumped up from the horizon, scattering thousands of rays of light to the earth, and also illuminated the Jiawu Fort, it was Fei Can's more than 2,000 cavalry that appeared on the horizon with the sun.
The scene that appeared in front of Fei Can's eyes was exactly what he wanted to see the most.
On the vast and flat land, the green crops are growing just right, and in the fields, countless croppers are busy in the fields, the door of Chengjiawu Fort is wide open, and the unsuspecting people are driving cattle and donkeys in and out.
"Attack!" Fei Can's eyes flashed with joy, he liked this way of fighting, and it was effortless to get the results he wanted.
The croppers in the fields screamed in horror and rushed towards Chengjiawu, and above the dock fort, the wolf smoke was quickly burned, and puffs of black smoke soared up, and the warning bell echoed between heaven and earth.
The whistling war horses flattened the crops that were growing just right, crossed out of the green gauze tent, and quickly approached Chengjiawu. Fei Can saw that the gate of Chengjiawu's fort was slammed shut. Groups of soldiers appeared on the walls of the fort, and the farmers who were locked up outside the fort stopped in despair, and then ...... And then it was gone.
They jumped into the ditches that preceded the fields and were supposed to be used to irrigate the fields. After Wuwei took Yingzhou, they built irrigation facilities on a large scale, even last winter, and when they attacked the first few dock forts, Fei Can had already seen it.
Chengde's killers are indeed stronger than the Lulong people in terms of governing civil affairs, and the Lulong people prefer to conquer and rob by their own force.
It is precisely because of knowing these things that Fei Can knows where these croppers are hiding now, and this is also their only chance to live, these croppers hope that the cavalry that comes wildly will not stop their horses because of their humble lives.
Their lives are worthless.
But this time Fei Can didn't think so. If he wants to create more panic, he needs to be dyed with blood. So he slowed down his horse and snapped, "Kill them all." ”
That is, at the moment when Fei Can gave this order and all the cavalry and horses slowed down, the croppers who had just disappeared resurfaced from the ditch where they were hiding, but they appeared with them with the crossbows in their hands.
A crossbow that has been wound.
Fei Can's face changed suddenly.
Directly opposite, at least four or five hundred crossbows suddenly appeared.
And he, at this moment, gave the order to slow down and kill.
The Lu dragoons at the front shouted and rode their horses to both sides, but the ones behind were not so lucky, and when they heard the sound of crossbows, hundreds of crossbow arrows had already arrived in front of them.
The word trap flashed in Fei Can's heart, but at this time, he could only stubbornly continue to rush forward. He rushed to the front, and as soon as he spotted the enemy, he had already relied on his horsemanship to get around to the side, avoiding the frontal attack of the crossbow, and now turned his horse's head again to charge.
The power of the crossbow is indeed greater than that of the bow and arrow, but the winding is much slower than the bow and arrow, and they have experienced the baptism of the first crossbow bow, and they have time to disperse the crossbow archers.
But this is not the case.
As soon as the crossbowmen who had finished shooting the first arrow bent down, they picked up another crossbow from under them, and the second round of arrows rained down without stopping.
What's even more terrifying is that behind these crossbow archers, in those green gauze tents, a thick crossbow arrow as thick as a child's arm burst through the air with a sharp whistling sound.
It was a powerful crossbow fired by a spear cart.
Fei Can is naturally no stranger to spear cars. Lu Long also has this kind of spear cart, which can install fifteen to eighteen strong crossbows at a time, and at this moment, there are not hundreds of strong crossbows swept over, that is to say, there are at least eight to ten spear carts in the backhands of these crossbow archers.
"Walk around the wings!" He turned his horse's head in some horror. Such a powerful long-range weapon strike is by no means something that a dock fort like Chengjiawu can have, this can only be a regular army of martial arts. But Liu Chenglin was obviously on the road to Shijiawu, and it had been a few days from here.
In a short moment, in a completely defenseless situation, Fei Can lost hundreds of knights. Fortunately, his subordinates were indeed elite and abnormal, and the rest of the people were divided into two parts, one left and one right around the two wings.
The crossbowmen had already stood up from the ditch where they were hiding at this moment, and in the green gauze tent behind them, hundreds of armor soldiers poured out, large shields, spears, horizontal knives, and shiny iron armor, all of which were the standard equipment of martial arts armor. They strode forward, wrapping the crossbowmen in a small formation of outer armor and inner crossbowmen.
Fei Can rushed into the green gauze tent, but the war horse under his crotch was a horse that stumbled and fell forward, almost at the same time as Fei Can fell, there were cavalrymen screaming and even people and horses fell.
In the green gauze tent, there are stumbling horses all over the place. These tripwires were set up in an extremely insidious way, none of them were more than a foot long, but they were scattered all over them irregularly, and those in front fell, and the horses behind dodged, but still hit.
The cavalrymen were forced to stop, brandishing their weapons and cutting down the crops, and a sense of powerlessness swept through everyone's hearts at the sight of the tripping horses everywhere. Even if you want to clean it up, you can't do it in a short time.
They found that they were left with only two paths, either to keep rushing forward or to retreat.
Rushing forward, there was already a military formation on the opposite side, and the lord could not only retreat.
As soon as this thought came to his mind, the sound of war drums had already sounded in the Wude army, and then in front of everyone, where they had just galloped through the horses, under the ground where there was nothing, a large shield was erected on the spot, a crossbow with a handle poked out from behind the big shield, and from the two wings, armor soldiers also poured out, forming another military formation with these people.
The Wude people actually dug a hole in the ground beforehand, and then subdued it with a large shield, covered it with a thin layer of soil, and then placed those crops on it.
It's a well-orchestrated trap.
Now, they were trapped in a small area, huddled together, and had fallen to death.