Chapter 101: Pacifying Xianbei and Fighting the Grassland (Final)
Hearing Zhao Xu and Ma Teng's orders, the crossbowmen hurriedly used rockets, but they had not prepared before, and when they went to get rockets, they had to break the arrows in a hurry, and then light the fire and shoot it out.
Thousands of arrows flew out in an instant, and although spring had begun at this time, the weather was still very cold; There was no oil on the arrows that were shot, and they were broken arrows, and when they were blown by the wind, they would be extinguished.
Zhao Xu saw that he was not prepared, and he couldn't help this iron car soldier, so he sighed, and had to shout: "Withdraw!" ”
Everyone saw the Qiang iron chariot soldiers approaching step by step, and they couldn't help him, so they had to sigh and withdraw with Zhao Xu.
Xiu Wulu saw it, and he was happy in sorrow, although he did not hurt Zhao Xu, but he defeated him for a while, and he also saved a little face. smiled at Yue Ji at the moment: "Marshal Yue Ji, wow! Defeat Zhao Xujun, there will be a heavy reward! ”
Yue Ji also smiled: "Lord Shan Yu has won the award, this Zhao Xu has broken many soldiers for me, and he is also my enemy, we have the same hatred of the enemy, have a full meal tonight, launch a general attack on them, and defeat him in one fell swoop!" ”
"Good! Ha ha! I can finally take revenge! Xiu Wulu clenched his fists and drank to the sky.
At this time, in Zhao Xu's military camp, everyone was worried, although Ma Teng and Han Sui had combat experience with the Qiang people, but at this time, the weather was cold, and the fire attack was useless, and they were also sad, and they couldn't think of a way.
That night, Zhao Xu frowned in the camp tent, walked around, and was distressed about the iron chariot soldiers. Now that the reinforcements haven't arrived so soon, what should I do? Zhao Xu was distressed, Zhao Xue walked to Zhao Xu's side, pulled Zhao Xu to sit down, stroked Zhao Xu's hand with both hands, and said, "What's wrong?" Are you still troubled by the iron chariot soldiers of the Weiqiang people? ”
"Who's to say it isn't! Alas! It's useless to attack with fire, I don't know what to do! Zhao Xu sighed, although there were records of using iron cars in the Water Margin and some historical records, Zhao Xu really couldn't think of any way to break it!
Zhao Xue also sighed, hugged Zhao Xu, put her head on her shoulder, suddenly smiled, and said: "It's still cold now, and ordinary dead fires can't burn, alas! If only there was a live fire! ”
Zhao Xu suddenly remembered something, jumped up at the moment, and shouted, "Xue'er, what did you just say?" Say it again! ”
Zhao Xue was taken aback by Zhao Xu, and Zhang Er was confused, "What?" If only there was a living fire! ”
"That's right, it's a living fire! You're a genius! Zhao Xu was pleasantly surprised, kissed Zhao Xue, and shouted, "Xue'er, come with me." ”
Although Zhao Xue didn't understand what Zhao Xu was doing, she still thought that Zhao Xu had thought of something to do, and followed out. Zhao Xu shouted to Zhou Cang when he went out: "Zhou Cang, go get a hundred horses!" ”
"General, what do you want horses to do now?" Zhou Cang asked.
"You don't care so much, just go and get ready, and drive the horse to the open space outside the back camp."
Zhou Cang received the order, and then he went to prepare. After a while, Zhou Cang came and shouted, "General, a hundred good horses have been brought from the horse gate, and they are now rushing to the outside of the rear camp." ”
"Good! Follow me. Zhao Xu and Zhao Xue led Zhou Cang, Wang Yong and thirty personal soldiers, one hundred soldiers who drove horses, and fifty horses to the open space outside the rear camp.
"Husband, what are you going to do?" Zhao Xue asked.
Zhao Xu said with a smile: "Xue'er, just look at it." He turned to Wang Yong and said, "Monk, go, help me get six hundred sharp blades and cloth." ”
"No!" Wang Yong immediately led dozens of people forward.
It naturally took a lot of effort to prepare these things, and after a long time, Wang Yong drove the things that Zhao Xu wanted in a car, followed by Zhao Yun and Chen Zhi.
As soon as Chen Zhi saw Zhao Xu, he asked, "Boxiong, what are you doing at night?" It makes people sleep badly. ”
Zhao Xu smiled: "Just look at it." "At that moment, Wang Yong, Zhou Cang and others tied the sharp blades they brought to the horse.
Zhao Xue seemed to anticipate what Zhao Xu was thinking, and suddenly shouted, "Oh! I know, husband, do you want to use the 'Fire Bull Array'? ”
"Fire Bull Formation! But Tian Dan, the general of the Warring States Qi State, revived the 'Fire Bull Array' used by the Qi State? ”
Zhao Xu smiled and said, "Hehe! Precisely! But where to find a horse now, it should be the 'Fire Horse Formation'. ”
Zhao Xue immediately fled towards Zhao Xu, hugged Zhao Xu, and shouted, "Great, husband, you are really a genius." ”
"Huh! Come down! Zhao Xu exclaimed with a little distress. This kind of thing Zhao Yun, Chen Zhi and other soldiers who are familiar with Zhao Xu are also commonplace, Zhao Xue has always been lively, and he is infected with the open habits of nomads, so he doesn't care about etiquette when he is happy.
In a young hour, the soldiers bandaged the six hundred sharp blades and the bodies of a hundred horses. Each horse has six sharp blades, two of which are tied to the horse's neck, and one of each of the four horses' legs, all with the blade facing outward.
Such a similar formation was also used in ancient times, and Qi Guotian used the 'Fire Bull Formation' back then. After being reminded by Zhao Xue, Zhao Xu suddenly remembered, and it was just right to apply this formation. Tie the blade to the horse, apply fire oil to the horse's tail when charging into battle, and light the fire when the battle is about to start, and the horse will be frightened when it feels hot and will naturally run forward. Rushing through the crowd, the blades tied to the horse's legs can cut off the people on both sides. If the horse's head turns, the sharp blade on the horse's neck can cut the person's neck and the head falls to the ground. Therefore, even in ancient times, the fire bull array was not only one as ten, but also as one as a hundred.
When the night was approaching the turning clock, the Xianbei and Qiang coalition forces came to attack the village again, and the sentries found it early, and Ma Teng and others hurriedly put on their horses to meet the battle. Zhao Xu smiled and said in his heart: Since I came to seek death in advance, I can't blame me.
"Zhao Xu! Come out and fight me! If you are afraid of death, then go down to the village to surrender and avoid the disaster of killing! Outside the village, the Xianbei and Qiang generals shouted.
Han Sui said: "For today's plan, you can only defend to the death, and you can't fight." ”
Zhao Xu smiled: "Joke, how can my army avoid the battle." General Han, don't be afraid, I've been prepared. ”
Ma Teng exclaimed: "Boxiong, do you have any way to break the enemy." ”
Zhao Xu smiled: "Don't worry! Look at me! Zhou Cang! ”
Zhou Cang listened, only listening to the sound of the drums. Xiu Wulu and Yue Ji were taken aback, seeing that Zhao Xu still dared to beat the drum to fight, they thought that Zhao Xu really didn't know how to die. At that moment, Yue Ji released the iron car soldiers, and more than 30 iron cars set up a formation and pressed straight over.
Zhao Xu's side of the three-way drum, the door opened, and in an instant, the prepared knife and axe hand lit all the torches smeared with fire oil tied to the tails of a hundred horses. The white horse, who had been standing there peacefully, suddenly felt hot behind his buttocks.
Animals in the world are afraid of fire and heat, and horses are also animals, and they were suddenly moved by the extreme heat behind them, and they didn't look back, so they felt that there was fire behind them, and they neighed, and rushed towards the Xianbei camp. However, the fire was fueled, and the wind fueled the fire, and the torch burned more and more, until the horse's tail burned. At this time, the horse felt that the fire behind him was burning, and he was even more mad, and rushed forward without dying, and as soon as the fire on the oil fell to the ground, it ignited the hay on the ground, and suddenly the fire rushed, and the line of flame left by a hundred horses was spectacular. Hundreds of axemen followed closely.
The fire horse jumped everywhere, anyway, it was rushing towards the Xianbei camp, so that the iron car would be useless, as soon as the horse met the iron car, it would turn, even if the iron car turned over, the iron car was full of people, the fire horse ignited the grass on the ground everywhere, and the soldiers in the iron car saw that the ground was on fire, and hurriedly climbed up, but the knife and axe men who had been waiting above were hungry and thirsty, and those iron car soldiers sent people to the head as soon as they came up.
Ma Teng, Han Sui and others were pleasantly surprised. Zhao Xu saw that the iron chariot soldiers had been defeated, and shouted: "Brothers, attack the enemy!" ”
Zhang Fei and Ma Chao took the lead and shouted: "Brothers, charge!" ”
"Kill!" Suddenly, Zhao Xu's side rushed out of the three-way cavalry at the gate and on both sides of the hill, because the fire horse had passed before, the grassland was burned, and the cavalry in front had to bypass the line of fire and disperse to attack the Xianbei camp; The rear teams of cavalry were extinguishing the fire, all holding shovels, shoveling up the soil to extinguish the fire, after all, it was still necessary to set fire, and it would take more than ten years for the grassland to return to its original appearance after being burned by fire.
This side of the fire horse rushed to the Xianbei and Qiang camps, the Xianbei and Qiang soldiers and the horses that sat down hurriedly avoided them, although Xianbei was a cavalry, they were not afraid of the horses rushing over, but the rushing horses were followed by fire; When the war horses saw the fire, they were naturally frightened, jumping around, escaping from the fire, and in an instant, the Xianbei and Qiang camps were in chaos, and the war horses trampled on each other. Moreover, the fire horse was strapped with a sharp blade, and everywhere it went, the soldiers or war horses were disemboweled, and blood flowed all over the ground.
Xiu Wulu knew that things were not good, and wanted to let the army disperse backwards. But the herd of horses and the Han army were on a rampage, and the war horses were frightened, and it was impossible to command. In an instant, the Xianbei people and the Qiang people were not cut to death by the sharp blades of the fire horses or by the Han army, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the corpses and bones were piled up; It was burned alive by the fire, and the aroma of the meat cooked by the fire wafted out, which made some soldiers drool.
The Xianbei coalition army cried: "Oh no! The fire is coming! The fire is coming! ”
Xiuwu Lu is all discouraged, is this the will of heaven? Under the cover of the generals, look all the way and retreat all the way.
Yue Ji was also shocked and shouted, "This... What the hell is this, I've never come across. "For a while, the 'Fire Horse Array' rushed, and the fire flew in the wind, and the faction was red, and the sky was all over the ground.
Yue Ji shouted in horror: "Withdraw! Evacuate! If you don't withdraw, you will be wiped out. ”
After Yueji's shout, Xiu Wulu came to his senses, his heart was dripping blood, and he regretted that he shouldn't have listened to Tuoba Wolf's words, but now, the final decisive battle is ...... But he ended up in such a state, what kind of face did he have to go to see his father! However, Xiu Wulu has been in battle for a long time, and he still knows that if he does not retreat, then these hundreds of thousands of troops will have to be completely explained here. Hurriedly shouted: "Withdraw!" Retreat! ”
"Come when you want, leave when you want, how can it be so easy? Guan Yu is here! ”
"Xianbei boy walks slowly, Zhang Liao has been waiting here for a long time"
"Xianbei people are running away, and they are coming with their jaws open!"
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"Haha! Cao has never been flawed to come to the prairie to meet you for a while, I can't think of it, hehe! Brother Shoucheng! Brother Boxiong, a certain Cao Cao is here! ”