Chapter 453: Battle Fan City
"The teacher's shot, it was really extraordinary, Zhuge Liang's carefully deployed defense line was broken like this!" Liqiu, the Jiangdong camp came across the river with Chen Mo after tearing Zhuge Liang's first line of defense to pieces, and the atmosphere suddenly became depressed and tense, Cao Ang sat with Zhou Yu and couldn't help but sigh.
"Zixiu, you still call him teacher!?" Cao Xiu on the side was a little unbearable, after all, the Cao family and Chen Mo are now a mortal feud.
"This is a fact, although not all of my skills are taught by him, but I can have today's talent and learning, and it is indeed thanks to him." Cao Ang shook his head, poured a bowl of water for Zhou Yu and said: "It's an enemy, but the status of master and apprentice has been set for many years." ”
Zhou Yu nodded and said: "Between the virtual and the real, it is really difficult to grasp, we want him to come to Fancheng for a decisive battle according to our intentions, he took advantage of the situation, let me think that he came to Fancheng, who knows that his target is the other side, but Zixiu knows why he doesn't take advantage of the situation to attack Xiangyang?" ”
"Probably I have seen the formation laid out by Mr. Kong Ming, the Nan'an defense line was broken because this line of defense is too long, Mr. Kong Ming's layout is no problem, but there is a lack of sufficient troops, and Chen Shi is what he is best at attacking the enemy's shortcomings with his own strengths, but after breaking this defense line, the Xiangyang terrain governor has also seen, the terrain is dangerous, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Mr. Kong Ming arranged a number of bars outside the city, where the children fell, it seems ordinary, but in fact, it is secretly in line with mathematics, Chen Shi is also a person who is proficient in mathematics and physics, Mr. Kong Ming Those things, he only needs to have seen them, It must be clear that if you want to break it, you can only make up for it with human lives, Chen Shi obviously doesn't want to do this, so he just uses troops to contain it, and he crossed the river at this time, the situation is a little different, Xiangyang can not fully support Fancheng, although Fancheng at this time is also difficult to break, but it is weaker than before. Cao Ang saw the current situation thoroughly, but it was precisely because of this that he became more and more in awe of Chen Mo.
Not only Chen Mo's ability, but more importantly, Chen Mo's decisiveness, after finding that Xiangyang was not easy to attack, he quickly turned back to Fancheng, not giving them the slightest chance to adapt, the original Central Plains battle was not as much as it is now, after all, the terrain of the Central Plains at that time did not allow such a lot of use.
At the beginning of the Jiwu Mountain, Xiahou Yuan's thousand-mile attack was the biggest variable, but unfortunately at that time, Chen Mo's general trend had been achieved, and Cao's army was already weak to the extreme, and in the end, Xiahou Yuan's amazing battle failed to play a role in turning the tide, and was quickly resolved by Chen Mo, now that I think about it, Chen Mo's instant decision at that time was also the key to victory or defeat, even if he hesitated, it might be another ending if the situation is today.
"Can Zixiu have the confidence to win?" Zhou Yu nodded, looked at Cao Ang and asked.
"I'm afraid that looking at the world, no one dares to speak up and win when facing Master Chen, and all Ang can do is do his best!" Cao Ang said solemnly.
"Woo woo woo~"
The faint sound of the horn came from outside the tent, which made the faces of Cao Ang and Zhou Yu, who were talking, change, this is not the horn sound of them or the Jingzhou army, and here in addition to the Jiangdong army and the Jingzhou army, only the Ming army remains.
"So fast?" Zhou Yu and Cao Ang got up at the same time, looked at the outside of the tent and said solemnly.
"Report~" At this time, a sentry scout rushed over and bowed to the two of them: "Governor, general, Ming army general Xu Huang led the army to attack Fancheng, and now it has reached the outside of the city." ”
"Probe!" Cao Ang waved his hand.
"Whoa!" The sentinel bowed and walked away quickly.
"I'll take a look!" Zhou Yu said in a deep voice, he didn't fight with the Ming army once or twice when he was in Hefei, but he fought against Chen Mo in person, this is definitely the first time, and it is also ashamed to say that the previous opponents were all Chen Mo's sons, and they were also put together, which made Zhou Yu always a little angry, and now it is just right to look at Chen Mo's ability.
"That's what I mean!" Cao Ang nodded, so that if there was really something wrong, the Jiangdong Army would be able to rush to the aid in time.
In fact, the biggest problem is also here, no matter how Chen Mo divides the troops, all the soldiers and horses are controlled by him, and on the side of the coalition army, although they occupy a favorable location and have a lot of soldiers and horses, but after all, they are two families, and they will support each other when they really encounter something, but it is difficult to achieve coordination.
Now there are few soldiers here, in fact, the defense of the two cities of Xiangfan is the best, the two of them add up to 80,000 troops, if they only defend the two cities of Xiangfan, the odds of victory will be much greater, and now there is an extra camp of Liqiu, which seems to be the horns of each other with Fancheng, but in fact it is a little redundant, and it is really completely integrated, 80,000 people plus Zhuge Liang's arrangement for so many years, I am afraid that Chen Mo's face Zhuge Liang's first line of defense will not be broken.
But just as Zhuge Liang can't let them enter the city with confidence, they can't also rest assured that they will hand over the military power to Zhuge Liang for unified scheduling, after all, Liu Bei and Sun Quan are two families, and Liu Bei also put Sun Quan together this time, the two sides were forced to join forces under Chen Mo's pressure, if there was no Chen Mo, Zhou Yu would definitely not mind taking advantage of Liu Bei's time in Sichuan to swallow Jingzhou whole.
From another point of view, it is impossible for Zhuge Liang to hand over the command and let Zhou Yu command the troops, so that even if the battle is over, it will be said who this Jingzhou is.
Cooperate with each other, but be suspicious of each other, this is probably the real reason why the princes of the Eighteenth Route gathered the soldiers and horses in the towns of the Central Plains and did not defeat Dong Zhuo, and now it is only the two princes who join forces, and the leaders are the top commanders and strategists in the world, and they still have calculations and fears for each other, it is difficult to imagine what the princes of the Eighteenth Route would be like at the beginning, even if there are many people of insight like Cao Cao and Zang Hong, it is also difficult to achieve the true unity of the people.
The two of them quickly came to the outside of Fancheng with a group of men and horses, and saw two teams of men and horses fighting outside the city.
Zhou Yu and Cao Ang's eyes narrowed slightly, but Cao Xiu on the side frowned and said, "Strange, the Jingzhou army is already small, how dare to go out of the city to fight?" ”
Zhou Yu and Cao Ang didn't speak, just watched quietly.
But seeing above Fancheng, the sound of ballista was loud, under Fancheng, the city gate was wide open, a Jingzhou army of about 2,000 people was killed, and the Ming army on the opposite side also divided a group of men and horses to fight, the two sides had not yet rounded up, and they had already started to move, and for a time the stones were like rain, and the blood flowed all over the ground.
"It's strange, Fancheng's city-guarding ballista cannons are more than that." Cao Xiu watched the battle situation and frowned.
Now that the soldiers of the Ming army have been killed under the city, they have already entered the range of the opponent's ballista, but the ballista at the head of the city is not in a hurry, Cao Xiu has been on Fancheng, so he naturally knows how well Zhuge Liang is prepared, and this scale has not reached at all.
Zhou Yu didn't say much, but Cao Ang on the side narrowed his eyes and said: "Obviously it is luring the enemy, but there are not many soldiers and horses in Xiangyang, even if some of them are lured out at this time, but there is no need, even if the Ming army suffers heavy losses, but the Jingzhou army has suffered a lot of losses, this is the above method of replacing injuries, Mr. Zhuge will not do this, I am afraid there are calculations here." ”
Zhou Yu nodded and did not speak.
As the war continued, the Jingzhou army was somewhat defeated, began to retreat, at this time, there was another Jingzhou army from the city gate to kill, these Jingzhou troops did not take knives and guns, just held a crossbow to rush out, after the battle in the direction of the Ming army is a burst of fierce shots, the crossbow arrows are quite powerful, can fire ten arrows in a row, as soon as they appeared, they will have the upper hand of the Ming army to kill the loss of armor, began to run in embarrassment.
"Boom~"
At this moment, the ground trembled, and a cavalry suddenly came out from the flank, heading straight for the other party's crossbowmen, and the timing was the time to shoot with these crossbowmen's arrows and retreat and start loading, obviously the purpose of this cavalry was these crossbowmen.
I see!
Zhou Yu and Cao Ang suddenly, Zhuge Liang is obviously plotting this cavalry, there has been a battle with Ma Chao before, they know very well that even after the training of the generals of the Cao family, the Jiangdong Army, whose infantry combat level has been greatly improved, has no chance of winning against this cavalry, this cavalry is too threatening to the Sun-Liu coalition army, and it comes and goes like the wind, Zhuge Liang obviously wants to lure out these cavalry and wipe out the net, and now it seems that it is about to succeed.
Rao is the mentality of Zhou Yu and Cao Ang, and he can't help but be a little excited at this moment, if he can defeat Chen Mo's cavalry, it will definitely be good news for the coalition army.
However, the cavalry of the Ming army was also really fierce, and after rushing to the front in an instant, they did not give those crossbowmen a chance to attack at all, and they had already broken into the formation, swept back and forth, and disintegrated this crossbowmen in an instant, these crossbowmen had extremely strong attack capabilities, and could instantly defeat a strong Ming army, but the weakness was also obvious, once they were close, they lacked the means of self-preservation.
The Jingzhou army that originally pursued and killed the rout army in front quickly returned to help, escorting the crossbowmen to retreat to the city, the Ming cavalry was about to catch up, and there was a sudden loud noise on the head of the city, and the ballistas fired in unison, and in an instant, the arrows and artillery fell down towards the Ming cavalry like raindrops, and the losses were heavy.
At this moment, there was another cannon sound in Fancheng, followed by a group of men and horses, fiercely rushing towards these defeated cavalry who were killed by ballistas.
The cavalry was obviously a little unable to resist and retreated, but the Jingzhou army became more and more brave and pursued closely, as if they wanted to swallow this cavalry completely.
At this moment, a trumpet sounded in the Ming army's array, and another cavalry came out, whether it was Zhuge Liang, who commanded the war, or Zhou Yu and Cao Ang, who watched the battle, their faces changed.
If the two cavalry are pulled out separately, there may not be any difference, but now on the battlefield, the feeling alone is very different, although the previous cavalry is also good, but a little less evil, and now this cavalry is not much, but the charge is to give people a feeling of the sky falling, it seems that Fancheng is going to be crushed by this cavalry, and there is a tendency to swallow mountains and rivers.
It's complicated, in fact, it's only a moment, but in this moment, this new cavalry has completed the final charge, like a savage beast, rushed into the Jingzhou army that had no time to withdraw, just a shock, the Jingzhou army was crushed, and it was directly penetrated by this cavalry.
At the head of the city, Zhuge Liang signaled the soldiers to suspend the artillery, wanting to wait for the cavalry to pursue the rout, so the trick was repeated and it was heavily damaged, but the other party did not pursue, broke the Jingzhou military marquis, and quickly withdrew from the battlefield......