Chapter 541: The Battle of Guandu
The dust was rolling, the sound of horses' hooves was shaking the sky, and wave after wave of Yuan soldiers were like moving ants, rushing towards the earthen village of Guandu.
What a crowd, what a majestic momentum.
Wen Chou was responsible for commanding the front army, and he commanded the cavalry vigorously, urging them to move forward quickly without a moment's pause.
Guandu's earthen village is just established by the Cao army, there is no high wall to defend, mainly relying on the soil slope, fence, horse rejection and other objects as a barrier, as long as the heavy cavalry breaks through the horse rejection, then the Cao army in the earthen village is the situation of being trampled on the horse by the Yuan army of Hebei.
Seeing that Yuan's army began to attack, Li Dian, who was guarding Cao Cao's side, looked a little anxious.
He hurriedly reported: "Sikong! The front of the Yuan army came to attack the village, and its momentum was very great, and he asked Sikong to quickly order the defense! ”
Cao Cao said lightly: "What are you panicking about!" Our army is the elite of the world, each with one enemy and ten, why fear Yuan Shao's millions? Give me a little calm, you are also a general! ”
After listening to Cao Cao's words, Li Dian suddenly woke up, and then calmed down, his panicked eyes also stabilized, and he quietly turned his head to look at the overwhelming crowd of Yuan Jun in the distance.
Cao Cao turned his head to look at the Tao merchant and said, "Brother Tao, do you think what Cao said is right?" ”
Since the confrontation between Cao Cao and the potter, Cao Cao has never called the potter "Tao brother" again.
Today's potters heard it at first glance, and they felt that it was really unaccustomed.
In this tense and difficult season, Cao Cao's title to the brother of the potter was so smooth.
For some reason, there was an indescribable sourness in the potter's heart.
What a long-lost title, if there is no such thing as competing for power in troubled times, maybe from Cao Cao and himself, they are still a pair of best friends with hippie smiles, like buddies.
The feelings in his heart surged, but the pottery merchant did not show any traces on the surface, he just smiled faintly and said: "The soldiers under the command of Brother Meng De are brave and brave, and each uses his life, I think it is not enough to say that the soldiers of the Cao army can fight against ten thousand!" When Yuan Shao's soldiers are regarded as nothing...... Whole Nima mustard. ”
As soon as Cao Cao heard this, his waist straightened, and he had a smug expression on his face.
"Brother Xian is really praised, in fact, my soldiers are not particularly fierce."
The pottery merchant took advantage of Cao Cao's happiness and continued: "The soldiers under the command of Brother Meng De are like dragons and tigers, and I think that the men and horses under the command of the younger brother are purely redundant in this area...... You might as well replace them to take charge of logistics support, and let them cheer for the warriors under the command of Brother Meng De in the rear, cheering them up, what does my brother think about this? ”
The smile on Cao Cao's face stiffened suddenly.
"Tao Brothers......"
"What's wrong?"
"Don't fuck it."
……
At this time, at the head of the city on the front line, Cao Ren, who was in charge of the various departments of the Governor of Cao Cao, turned his head to look at the generals of the Cao army who were already ready for battle, and said loudly: "Everyone, the big war is imminent, although the other army is strong, but our army is a division of a hundred battles, why not be afraid of Yuan Shao's rabble!" There are not many soldiers, there will not be bravery, there are plans! ”
"Mighty! Mighty! ”
"According to the benefits of the city, or the advantages of the region, we can also break Yuan Shao's army, but doing so is not enough to strengthen the military prestige of our army, let alone show the majesty of our army! Right? ”
"Mighty! Mighty! ”
"Don't be afraid, be frightened, don't hesitate, hesitate and be chaotic, don't hesitate, hesitate to be lazy, only by striving forward and fighting bravely can we win and break the enemy and serve the country and the people!"
"Mighty, mighty!"
"A battle against the water, eternal love!"
"Mighty, mighty!"
"According to the order, all departments are looking for orders to go out!"
"Mighty~~!"
"Ahh
The soldiers and generals of the entire Cao battalion, including even the generals of the Xuzhou army, after being inspired by Cao Ren, couldn't help but feel an inexplicable blood gushing in their chests, full of blood, they hated to rush out of the village now, and kill the soldiers of Yuan to release the courage in their chests.
"Erect the Astragalus Flag!" Cao Ren shouted.
As the yellow banner swayed back and forth, the bow and crossbow battalions of the Cao army and the Tao army led by Yu Ban and Gan Ning respectively set up a formation on the city of Tupo Jian.
Cao's archers were the first to strike.
They first drew the hard bows in their hands full, aimed their arrows at the sky, and looked at the cavalry of the Yuan army from far and near, but they did not show any panicked looks.
It's not because they're iron men, it's just because they're strong soldiers who have been through a hundred battles and have extremely rich combat experience that they will have such a performance.
That's the experience!
It so happened that the soldiers of the Cao army and the soldiers of the Tao army had this experience.
As a result, most of them are not afraid of the number of enemy troops, and they are not afraid of death.
Because they know that fear will only bring death to them.
The cavalry of the Yuan army was getting closer and closer, and Yu Ban shouted: "Shoot the arrow!" ”
The arrows released by the full string of the two stone strong bows shot out towards the sky in unison!
Countless rain of arrows shot into the sky from the bottom to the top like dense locusts, and then arced towards the crowd of cavalry of those bee chrysalis.
Ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, like a dark cloud covering the sun, tearing apart the entire battlefield.
In an instant, I saw countless cavalry and war horses of the Yuan army howling and being shot off their horses, the voices of people were boiling, the war horses were roaring, and the roar of the horses' hooves trampling the earth was also boiling.
Because the number of Yuan's cavalry was too large, many arrows were just shot out at random, but the hit rate was also quite high.
However, the cavalry charge was overcame by the crossbow array, and this matter had long been expected by Wen Chou and others.
It was just the usual bow and crossbow tactics, and even if there were some losses, most of the cavalry in the front of the Yuan army continued to charge the formation, heading towards the village of Guandu.
As long as you cross that simple rejection of horses, it will be Yuan Jun's world!
Stepping on them also trampled them to death.
Gan Ning laughed, glancing at Yu Ban as if he was provocative, and then pursed his mouth, signaling Yu Ban to see his performance.
Then, I saw Gan Ning instructing the heralds under his command: "The crossbow battalion is fired in two rounds!" ”
The soldiers of the Jinling Repeater Crossbow Battalion stepped forward, and after Yu Ban's strong bow formation, they began to shoot at Yuan's army with a repeater crossbow formation.
At this moment, not only the formation of the cavalry in front of the Yuan army was in chaos, but even the faces of the generals of Yu Ban and Cao Jun also changed.
An arrow, an arrow, an arrow...... The crossbow arrows of the Jinling crossbow battalion seemed to be inexhaustible, and they could not be used up, and there was no interval during the period, shooting wildly towards the formation of those cavalry.
The bow and crossbow is the nemesis of the cavalry, in the face of the bow and crossbow, the only chance for the cavalry to win is to seize the bow and crossbow wound, the gap between the arrows to carry out a rapid charge, as long as the cavalry rushes to the front of the crossbow army, the crossbow soldiers will have no use.
One by one, the crossbow arrows that shot slowly but with extremely fast frequency, before they knew it, they were slowly eating away at the vanguard cavalry army in front led by Wen Chou, and they shot all over the place.
Gan Ning divided the crossbow battalion into two parts, and after the first part was fired, he immediately let the second battalion take over the first battalion, and the first battalion's crossbow quickly turned back and reloaded, ready to take over the attack of the second battalion.
However, even if the crossbow battalion is so sharp, there are still some gaps after a long time.
But when the gap appeared, but Cao Jun's crossbowmen did not take any action, Gan Ning couldn't help but be a little angry.
He raised his fist at the Yu Ban demonstration and said loudly: "Yu Wenze! Can you still fight? If you can fight, you can fight, but you don't understand how to change someone to cooperate with Lao Tzu...... After being a general for so many years, he can't even manage a bow and crossbow battalion, so what about being a general? Phew! ”
Yu Ban's face suddenly turned red, and he was shocked by the performance of the Jinling Crossbow Battalion, and his mouth was stammered, and his head was blank.
Now that Gan Ning suddenly drank it, Yu Banfang suddenly reacted.
He glared at Gan Ning angrily, and then ordered again to let his Cao army's bow and crossbow battalion fire arrows to meet the enemy.
In this way, the gap between the crossbow battalions of the two teams of Ganning and Ning has been renewed.
The crossbow arrays of Cao Jun and Tao Jun took turns, and the arrow rain in Guandu Tucheng showed almost no pause, and the cavalry camp in front of the Yuan army was shot and fell apart, it was Wen Chou himself, and after blocking several crossbows in a row, he was shot by an arrow at the cherry blossom of the helmet, and he had to retreat in a panic.
After a rain of arrows repelled the cavalry of the Yuan army, the allied infantry of Cao Cao's army and the Taoshang army began to officially launch the operation.
The gates of Guandu's front village were opened, and the elite soldiers and horses of Cao Tao rushed out of the city to stand by.
Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, Xu Rong, Zhou Tai, Tai Shici, Xu Sheng, Zang Ba, Ji Ling, Zhang Xiu and other dozens of generals in the Tao army are one.
Dozens of fierce generals in the Cao army, such as Pang De, Yan Xing, Xiahoudun, Cao Hong, Cao Chun, Xiahou Yuan, Le Jin, Cao Xiu, and Liang Xi, were one.
Cao Tao's coalition forces prepared to begin a fierce battle against Yuan's army.