Chapter 997: The Battle of Qiguan (3)

Throwing fire pots, let's call the clay pots filled with fire oil thrown by the Korean infantry. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The advantage of this kind of fire kettle is that it is thrown at a longer distance, and the Korean soldiers can often throw it directly from a distance of more than ten or twenty zhang, which can be regarded as a disguised reduction in the probability of being killed by the crossbowmen of the Wei army on the Wugang car directly with a bow and crossbow.

In the face of this fire attack tactic of the Han army, the Wu Gang car of the Su Wang army immediately became a target, and its baffle with a height of five zhang and a width of nearly one zhang and four widths made the Han soldiers accurately hit the target without even deliberately aiming.

This change led to a significant increase in the fire of the Wugang car of the Wei Army's vanguard army, which also made Zhao Hongrun's brows furrow deeply.

It is undeniable that the vast majority of the Wugang cars that caught fire are currently only burning on the outer edge of the baffle, but it can be expected that when this inextinguishable fire burns the entire baffle, then the Wugang car should almost be scrapped.

A pot of oil, in exchange for a Wugang car, Zhao Hongrun feels a loss no matter how he calculates this account - even if he doesn't value the cost of the Wugang car, this kind of Wugang car is built by the craftsmen of the Smelting Bureau, which consumes materials and labor, and it seems that it was simply ignited by the Han soldiers, and Zhao Hongrun is naturally unacceptable in his heart.

But at this moment, Zhao Hongrun had no choice, after all, he couldn't call the soldiers to extinguish the fire at this time. Not to mention whether he can extinguish the fires on those Wugang cars, at least in Zhao Hongrun's opinion, the lives of every soldier under his command are more precious than dead things like Wugang cars.

"If only it were wrapped in iron sheets......

Looking at several burning Wugang cars, Zhao Hongrun sighed faintly.

In all fairness, whether it is Zhao Hongrun, who drew the drawings of the Wugang car, or the craftsmen of the Smelting Bureau who built the Wugang car according to the drawings, they did not think of this layer, the problem is that the Smelting Bureau has not yet studied the iron sheet forging process required by Zhao Hongrun, don't look at the thin layer of iron sheet as if there is no technology, but in fact, it is very difficult.

At this moment, Zhao Hongrun could only hope that the loss of those Wugang cars could be exchanged for huge returns, at least to help him overcome the Qi Pass in front of him.

And just when Zhao Hongrun was secretly expecting, there was an abnormal movement on the side of Qiguan - the gate of Qiguan opened again, and a cavalry came out of the pass.

"Huh?"

Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help frowning, feeling a little puzzled.

Because in his opinion, the cavalry of the Han army attacked his Wei army's Wugang chariot head-on, which had almost no chance of victory.

Don't look at the dozens of Wugang vehicles that were set ablaze by the South Korean military attack on the battlefield here, but this can only be regarded as a small loss at best for the merchant and water army that has hundreds of Wugang vehicles here.

To put it bluntly, the Shang Shui Army still had enough Wugang vehicles to build a defensive line, and in this case, the cavalry of the Han Army actually came out of the pass, which made Zhao Hongrun a little puzzled, and couldn't figure out what Han Yang, the Marquis of Dangyin, was thinking.

Immediately, when he noticed that the cavalry on the opposite side was trying to detour around the flank of the Shang Shui Army from the south, Zhao Hongrun faintly judged in his heart: this was most likely due to the Han army's disparity, deliberately allowing him to focus on the south side, so as to ignore the potential threat from the north.

What are the potential threats to the north?

You must know that at this time, the north of the Shangshui Army is the Qishan that I don't know if there is an ambush for the Korean cavalry.

But this time, Zhao Hongrun's judgment was wrong, including Zhai Huang, the deputy general of the Shang Shui Army, who commanded the battle on his behalf, and he also mistakenly thought that the dispatch of the Qiguan Han cavalry was to attract their attention, so that the Korean cavalry ambushed in Qishan could take the opportunity to sneak attack.

And in this case, the cavalry of the Korean army led by Storm Kite personally rushed straight to the right flank of the Shangshui army along Qishui.

As this South Korean cavalry got closer and closer to his own defense line, Zhao Hongrun frowned, and faintly felt that something was wrong.

Because from the charging speed of those Han horses, he felt that the other party didn't look like a false move.

『…… Is it really a big deal? I always feel that the violent kite and the Yin Hou Han Yang will not underestimate me Zhao Run so much, right? Even if they did ambush the soldiers and horses in Qishan, it was impossible for me not to predict it...... Wait, is it the opposite?'

Zhao Hongrun's face was a little unsightly.

At this time, the cavalry led by the violent kite had already bypassed the Wugang chariot of the front team of the merchant army along the cliff in the south in a very dangerous way.

It has to be said that this attack of the Korean cavalry was extremely dangerous, because some cavalry were too close to the cliff to adjust their direction in time, so that the war horses stumbled and slipped off the cliff, and even the men and horses fell into the Qi River under the cliff.

But the most important thing is that at least seventy percent of the Korean cavalry successfully bypassed the Wu Gang chariot of the Wei army, which could not be intercepted in time, and successfully killed the hinterland of the Shang Shui army.

"Defend! Fight the enemy! The two thousand generals of the Shang Shui Army shouted loudly.

Near him, the sabers and shields of the merchants were a little dazed, according to the process of attacking Qi Pass, the soldiers under Tang Waki's command belonged to the second wave of Qu troops attacking Qi Pass - waiting for Ran Teng, Xiang Li, Zhang Ming and other thousand-strong teams to push the Wugang chariot under Qi Pass, and attracted the crossbow arrows of the Han army, the soldiers of the Tang Waki Department will quickly insert into the battlefield, carry the ladder to rush to the wall, and attack Qi Pass together with the army under the command of Ran Teng and other thousand generals.

But right now, the Wei soldiers under Tang Waki's command will be stunned by the sudden arrival of the Korean cavalry, because they still can't understand where this Han cavalry rushed in from - directly in front of it is a defensive line composed of many Wugang vehicles, and on the right (south) is a cliff, where did the Korean army come out?

As if seeing the panic and helplessness of the soldiers under his command, the two thousand generals shouted loudly: "Don't be alarmed, all soldiers, deploy on the spot." ”

I have to say that Yuwaki's judgment is still very wise, but the storm kite's experience in the battle is even richer.

I saw that after seeing the 2,000 men of the Shang Shui Army deploying the Wei soldiers under Tang Waki's command on the spot, the corners of his mouth lifted, and he did not attack the Tang Waki army, but instead attacked the back of the Wu Gang chariot in front of the Shang Shui army's team - the vast majority of the Wu Gang chariot troops, especially those on the north side, did not know that a cavalry rushed into the formation of their Shang Shui army from the edge of the cliff in the south.

Therefore, these Wugang chariot troops are still continuing to advance, and their follow-up friendly army, that is, the army under the command of the 2,000-strong general Yuwaki, because Yuwaki issued an order to deploy in situ, the soldiers stopped one by one, raised their shields and prepared to withstand the cavalry attack, which invisibly widened the gap between the Wugang chariot in front and the second echelon of teammates in the rear, so that the cavalry led by the storm kite rushed to the back of the Wugang chariot troops more easily.

This negligence caused the Wugang Che unit of the former army of the Shangshui Army to suddenly fall into a situation of being attacked by the enemy on its back -- with the infantry of the South Korean army in front of it and the cavalry of the South Korean army behind it, which side did it deal with?

"How could Han Qi go around behind our army?!"

After noticing the commotion behind him, the thousand people standing on a Wugang car were furious, and immediately ordered the Wugang car under his command to stop advancing.

At this time, Zhang Ming's thousand-man team to the south of him had already stagnated, but the Xiang Li thousand-man team on the north side still didn't know what was going on, and still advanced forward.

This made the formation of the front army of the Shang Shui Army chaotic, so that the infantry of the Korean army, which had been waiting for the opportunity for a long time, seized the opportunity and rushed into the formation of the front army of the Wei army.

Seeing this situation, the thousand-man general Ran Teng used his emergency authority and took over the command of the front line without hesitation, and ordered the Wugang chariot troops in this area to mainly protect themselves -- that is, to use about a dozen or twenty Wugang chariots to form a square gate formation and first stabilize the stronghold.

It has to be said that this measure effectively protected the crossbowmen who followed Wu Gangche's actions, but it also made the entire defense line full of holes, so that more and more Korean infantry rushed into the Wei army's formation and started a melee battle with each other.

"How so?"

As the commander of this battle, Zhai Huang, the deputy general of the Shang Water Army, was a little dumbfounded, because it was clear that their Wei army had an absolute advantage before, but in a blink of an eye, the Han army tore apart the defense line.

At the same time, in the attic on the second floor of a well-chested car, Zhao Hongrun also watched this scene silently.

In fact, when Fang Storm Kite led the cavalry and tried to bypass the edge of the cliff in the south, he didn't believe it in his heart, because the route chosen by Storm Kite was too dangerous, so that when this Korean cavalry rushed into the formation of the merchant army, about thirty percent of the Korean cavalry rushed down the cliff and planted in the Qi water at the bottom because they couldn't close the speed.

In fact, seventy percent of the cavalry can successfully rush into the hinterland of the merchant army, this is because of the superb riding skills of these Korean cavalry, otherwise, if a new cavalry with short training is allowed to come, the loss will definitely be more than thirty percent.

I have to say that the storm kite was also forced by Zhao Hongrun, otherwise, he would not have made such a dangerous and very dangerous assault, but fortunately, in the end, it was a success as a whole, as for the cavalry who fell off the cliff, these losses the storm kite can still bear.

At this time, the two thousand generals Tang Waki also realized his mistake and tried to make up for his mistakes, after all, because of his relationship, the Wugang car troops in front were being flanked by the Korean army.

So, after hesitating repeatedly, he ordered his corporal to move forward with the whole army, trying to compress the area of Han Cai's activity. After all, on the battlefield, a certain King Su has clearly taught the Wei soldiers how to defeat the powerful Korean cavalry, they don't need to kill many people, they only need to compress the opponent's activity area step by step, and when the cavalry loses the space to move, he is at best an infantry on horseback.

However, Storm Kite once again anticipated Yuwaki's decision in advance, so much so that when the latter ordered the whole army to move forward, Storm Kite himself led a team of about 300 horsemen and directly entered the formation of Yuwaki's army and killed the middle army of the Shang Water Army.

At this time, the violent kite finally showed his strength as the Ten Heroes of the Northern Plains, only to see him riding on horseback, waving a long-handled war knife with the thickness of a child's arm in both hands, and the first soldier fought at the front of the team, but all the merchant soldiers who were touched by him were shocked by one of his shields, and the second knife was killed on the spot.

The bravery of the Storm Kite boosted the morale of the 300 cavalry under his command, so much so that the team of 2,000 generals Yuwaki was chiseled through by the Storm Kite Army in just half a cup of tea.

However, just when Storm Kite led the 300 cavalry to kill through the Tangwaki army, trying to further kill the Chinese army where Zhai Huang, the deputy general of the Shang Water Army, was located, in the position of the Chinese army, the sword and shield soldiers in the front row retreated to both sides, revealing more than 100 repeater crossbows that had been neatly arranged at some point.

"I've been waiting for a long time......"

Behind the more than 100 repeating crossbows, Zhai Huang, the deputy general of the Shang Water Army, straddled the horseback and said indifferently.