Chapter 36 Military Exercises (Part II)

Gao Shun's first response was to send hundreds of archers and crossbowmen to surround Xu Huang's Red Army without stopping arrows, just like the Ranger tactics of the steppe peoples, rushing from all sides to a distance of one hundred and eighty zhang from the Red Army brigade, shooting an arrow, and then running away from both wings, trapping the camp's usual weight-bearing cross-country running training results, all of which were reflected at this time.

Both sides are infantry units, but the Blue Army can use the infantry as cavalry, and on a few occasions, Fang Yue couldn't hold it back, and sent part of the army to counterattack, and it would be surrounded and eliminated by the rest of the Blue Army troops ambushed in the distance, and even before the Red Army got close, most of them were put down by the Javelins.

If Xu Huang sent most of the men and horses to pursue, the blue army ran away from afar, kept in the field of vision, and kept turning back to tease, if Xu Huang's large army chased far away, the main force of the blue army hiding in the shadows would take the opportunity to dispatch to attack the small number of blue troops left in place, in short, always maintain the advantage of local troops, to fight more and less, avoid the real and attack the weak, and deplete the strength of the Red Army little by little.

Two hours later, Xu Huang and Fang Yueyi, who were disturbed by the attack of the Blue Army, counted the number of people, and there were only more than 600 of their subordinates left, and one-third of the troops were killed and withdrew from the exercise, and the Blue Army that was eliminated was probably only a few dozen people.

The people in the stands watched it with relish, the morale of the cheering phalanx of the trapped camp was greatly boosted, the cheering drums never stopped, the side of the border army hung their heads and sighed, and some people said hatefully: "The people trapped in the camp are all rats, and they will only hide in Tibet, and they will not dare to fight in an upright manner." ”

Lü Bu and Jia Xu admired Gao Shun's command and gave full play to the essence of guerrilla tactics that Lü Bu had taught him. Xu Huang and Fang Yue were also very troubled by Gao Shun's tactics, and they were full of dissatisfaction.

Xu Huang asked his soldiers to shout: "Gao Shun, if you win us like this, it will be a victory, we are not convinced, we have the ability, we have fought a battle in a dignified manner, if you win against me, we will be convinced, admit that you are better than us in the camp, how to train, how to assess." ”

Gao Shun heard Xu Huang's shout, smiled contemptuously, and asked his subordinates to reply: "Since you want to fight head-on, I will accompany you to fight head-on, see you in the central area of the exercise, I hope you can keep your promise after you lose." ”

Under Gao Shun's orders, the Blue Army broke away from contact with the Red Army and retreated to the central area of the exercise, no longer attacking the Red Army units.

Xu Huang also took the opportunity to gather his subordinates and sent several sentry squads, and found that the Blue Army had indeed withdrawn to the center of the exercise, leaving only some surveillance troops around him, and no longer took the initiative to attack the Red Army sentry sentry. He reassured himself to reorganize the team and also went to the center area of the exercise.

Lu Bu looked at Jia Xu beside him with some puzzlement, "Strategist, why didn't Gao Shun stick to the attack tactics to the end?" But he has to fight hard with Xu Huang, so even if he wins, there will be a lot of casualties. ”

"Don't worry, my lord, General Gao Shun is full of confidence in the combat effectiveness of the trapped camp, and there are still some means that have not been used, he also wants to defeat them by using the opponent's most familiar tactics, from psychology to body, defeat the opponent, let's see the show."

This time, there was no longer a blue army to intercept it, and the Red Army brigade, led by Xu Huang and Fang Yue, successfully arrived at the center of the exercise. It is a low, hilly area, and the top of the hill is ten feet high, and you can have an unobstructed view of the surroundings from the top of the hill. The battlefield was close to the side of the Red Army, and there were small patches of sparse woods, and there were no people to hide at all.

When Xu Huang was still far away, he saw a large flag erected on the hill in the center of the battlefield, which was the camp flag of the trapped camp. The rest of the Blues looked to be all assembled, and they were lined up in a neat phalanx under the banner, and from a distance, there were almost nine hundred men, because their clothes were similar to the color of the surrounding environment, and they could not be seen clearly without looking closely.

When Xu Huang was still one hundred and fifty zhang away from the Blue Army, he stood in position, only to see that at the rear of the Blue Army, there was a row of officers on horseback, and the exercise stipulated that only officers could ride horses. Xu Huang recognized that it was Gao Shun in the middle, and next to him were Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Song Xian, Guan Hai, Jin Riyan, and Jin Rigang. A lot of them are here, and it seems that they are really going to fight themselves head-on.

Xu Huang and Fang Yue glanced at each other, and saw confidence and determination in each other's eyes, the border army under his command was well-trained, fighting head-on, and was not afraid of any opponent, and the trouble now was that the other party had achieved a numerical advantage of two hundred people through attack tactics, and hoped that his soldiers could make up for this gap by fighting bravely.

Xu Huang shouted to Gao Shun in a loud voice: "Let's compete in archery first, how about two hundred longbowmen on each side and shoot each other three rounds?" ”

Gao Shun nodded in agreement, and with a wave of his hand, two hundred longbowmen came out of the blue army's formation, led by Guan Hai, and walked to the front of the two armies.

When the longbowmen of the two armies walked to the distance of eighty zhang, they stood firm, and they opened their bows and arrows, and then in the command of the generals of both sides, "prepare", "draw the bow" and "shoot", such a long distance only a salvo can achieve the greatest results, according to the steps, shot the first wave of feather arrows, and then against the rain of arrows, and each advanced ten zhang, because of the long distance, only a dozen people on both sides were shot by arrows, and withdrew from the exercise.

Just when Fang Yue shouted "prepare" according to the procedure, Guan Hai on the opposite side directly shouted "shoot", only sixty zhang away, when the Red Army was still carrying out the second step of the action to draw the bow, the arrows of the Blue Army had already shot over, and they were close, and the hit rate of the hard training of the trapped camp showed its power.

Sixty or seventy people were shot in the Red Army at once, and although the rest of the people struggled to shoot the arrows in their hands, they did not aim fully when they were disrupted, not to mention, the second arrow shot by Guan Hai hit Fang Yue's chest steadily, and a white mark appeared on Fang Yue's chest, Guan Hai's archery skills were clicked by Lu Bu, and they had surpassed Gao Shun, and they were second only to Lu Bu in the camp.

After Guan Hai shot the second round of arrows, he led the Blue Army to rush forward quickly, so the second round of arrows of the Red Army still did not hit a few Blue Army people. Losing the command of the main general, Fang Yue, the longbowmen of the Red Army fell into the dilemma of fighting on their own.

The longbowmen of the Blue Army were under the command of Guan Hai, and they rushed directly to a distance of forty zhang, and the hit rate was higher, Guan Hai ordered "free shooting", and soon the Red Army's 200 longbowmen were wiped out, and the Blue Army only lost more than 30 people.

Fang Yue was angry, and regardless of the discipline of the exercise, he kept shouting: "Guan Hai is cheating!" He's cheating! ”

Gao Shun only replied, "Soldiers are not tired of cheating!" And he shut his mouth.

Xu Huang looked distressed at the reimbursement of the two hundred longbowmen, and now he had no other choice but to lead the remaining more than four hundred people to charge into battle, shorten the distance, hand-to-hand combat, and not give the other party room to play a long-range advantage, Xu Huang could only hope that his personal martial arts could be the first to behead Gao Shun, the main general of the Blue Army.

Gao Shun was very calm, and did not take the initiative to attack because of his huge numerical advantage, but stood on the hill and waited for Xu Huang to attack.

The Red Army's charge barely managed to maintain a tight formation, with the shield bearers at the front, followed by the remaining crossbowmen and spearmen, and Xu Huang also followed the charging team.

The Blues' longbowmen returned to their heights and fired waves of uninterrupted feathered arrows, and although they were shielded by the shieldmen, people were still being hit by the feathered arrows that passed through the gaps, and the Reds' charging ranks had to be crowded more densely to avoid the rain of arrows.