Chapter 841: Terrible Meat Grinder
Chen Tai's face was gloomy, originally he was extremely disdainful of Ma Long, how capable can a newcomer who had just been promoted by Cao Liang have?
But after the fight, Chen Tai suddenly found that this guy was far more difficult and tricky than he imagined, a kind of flat box car formation that he had never seen before, almost made Chen Tai anxious, like a dog biting a hedgehog - nowhere to go.
And in terms of resourcefulness, this Malone can also be called an opponent, brave and strategic, such an opponent is undoubtedly the most terrifying.
At this point, Chen Tai has no way to retreat, since he can't sneak attack, then he simply ordered all the infantry to launch a strong attack, the cavalry attack during the day failed, Chen Tai wanted to try the effect of the infantry attack.
Although the infantry attack is not as fast and strong as the cavalry, once it is put into the attack, it is also like mercury, and the offensive is like a tide, and it is precisely because the sword and shield soldiers are equipped with the kind of rectangular shields, so in the attack, they can not be afraid of the opponent's arrows, although the advance speed is relatively slow, but they can advance steadily.
Relatively speaking, the casualties of pikemen without shield cover are slightly larger, but in the dark, the state army can't tell which direction is the focus of Sima Jun's attack, and the Sima army is the most densely populated in that direction, they can only use diffuse fire to defend, and the waste of natural arrows is large and it is not easy to find the focus.
By the end of the night, Sima Jun finally approached the flat box car, which made Chen Tai, who was supervising the battle behind, breathe a sigh of relief, in people's habitual thinking, fighting in the plains, or cavalry is much easier to use, but now it seems that this is not absolute, at least in dealing with the flat box car, the infantry, especially the shield soldiers, still occupy a certain advantage, the cavalry paid a considerable price during the day, only barely approached the flat box car, and now when the night attack, the infantry is relatively easy to attack, In terms of offensive efficiency alone, infantry was superior to cavalry.
It seems that he has made some mistakes in his command during the day, and he can't destroy the defense of the Bingzhou army by relying on the impact of the cavalry alone, and now the easy advance of the infantry has given Chen Tai great confidence, and it seems that if he wants to break through the flat box car formation, he has to rely on the infantry that he looked down on before.
Chen Tai ordered the infantry of the Sima Army to launch an all-out attack, not only the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers who rushed in front, but also the archers who were in the rear to fully engage in the battle to provide cover for the attack of the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers.
Sima Jun did not destroy the flat box car this time, the experience of the day has proved that whether it is the use of knife splitting and axe chopping, or the method of fire attack, can not destroy the flat box car, rather than such a futile effort, it is better to do practical things, so Sima Jun used the way of climbing to attack, as long as it can cross the flat box car, and the defense line of the state army will naturally not be breached.
Compared with the cavalry, the infantry is much more flexible in this aspect, and no matter how tall the flat box car is, it is only a little more than a person in height, and it cannot reach a zhang, which is much shorter than any city wall, and the frame structure in the flat box car, Sima Jun can step on these frames to board the flat box car.
Seeing the hope of victory, these Sima soldiers suddenly became crazy, and they rushed to the flat box cart desperately, struggling to climb upward.
It seems that the flat box car is very easy to climb, the body is not too high, and the frame can be stepped on everywhere, but in the same way, the flat box car is also extremely dangerous, exuding the smell of death, but now these Sima soldiers seem to be carried away by victory, and they can't detect it.
When Malone designed the flat box car, he had already considered the problem of close defense, long-range defense can rely on bows and arrows, and short-range defense, relying on bows and arrows alone, is not enough, so when Malone considered close defense, he designed a large number of spears for the flat box car, these spears are not equipped in the hands of soldiers, but are suspended in the gap between the car body.
The height of the flat box car is about nine feet, and the width is about seven feet, the heavy flat box car can resist the enemy's strong impact, and those spears hidden in the body have become the hidden spikes of the flat box car, usually from the outside, the flat box car in addition to the tall, a harmless appearance of humans and animals.
But once the enemy approached, these spikes were under the operation of the soldiers behind them, and suddenly their fangs were exposed, and no one could take precautions for such a close surprise attack, only a scream was heard, and those Sima soldiers who tried to climb on the flat box car had an extra blood hole on their bodies without exception, and they died on the spot.
The spikes quickly retracted after hurting someone, and there was nothing unusual about them from the outside.
For Sima Bing, such an attack is difficult to guard against, and they can use shields to defend against arrows from a distance, but when they get close to the flat box cart, these elusive spears make them unguardable.
Even if someone was lucky enough to climb to the roof of the car, they were desperate to find that the entire roof was the kind of spikes two or three feet long, densely arranged, and there was no place to put their feet at all.
Moreover, the archers are still eyeing behind, and once an enemy army comes up, it is an arrow that does not care about it, and directly shoots people down.
Although the Sima army was numerous, like locusts and ants, it was like a meat grinder that never knew how tired it was, and it would mercilessly strangle it no matter how many enemy troops rushed up.
Sima Jun's corpses were almost piled up in front of the flat box cart, and the blood splattered out seemed to soak the flat box cart, and Sima Jun, who was attacking behind, had to trample on the corpses of his companions, carrying out actions similar to moths fighting fire.
They rushed forward bravely, thinking that they could easily cross this barrier, but after paying a heavy price of casualties, hope turned into despair, in the eyes of Sima Jun, these flat box cars were like a fortress of death, devouring their lives, once they got close, there was almost no return.
Chen Tai's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, he used all the offensive methods he could think of, but he was never able to break through the defense of the flat box car, and the more he fought, the greater the price he paid.
After the sky was twilight, Chen Tai could only give up in the end, ordered to abandon the attack, and retreated on all fronts.