Chapter 450 [The Power of the Cluster]

Chapter 450: The Power of the Cluster

Linhu grassland, located in the base camp south of eighty miles, a radius of 100 miles are boundless plains, the first heavy snow since the beginning of winter will be the whole grassland dressed up in silver makeup, look at it, the wasteland is full of vast snow color, as if there is no other color between heaven and earth, look at it for a long time, the eyes are very tired, there is a great possibility of snow blindness.

On the snowfield, a grass wall was built overnight, more than a zhang high, stretching for several miles, two thousand elite horsemen lined up in front of the grass wall, lined up against the root of the wall, with a solemn expression, there was a bleak cold wind blowing, and the erected grass wall trembled and crumbled.

Zhao Kuo straddled the horse and crossed the hammer, and said with an inexplicable chill in his dark eyes: "This grassland is the tomb of the army of King Donghu. ”

A group of vultures were startled by the footsteps, fluttering their wings and flying from the top of the head of the king of Donghu to fly into the distance, the cold wind sounded a desolate sorrowful roar, and in the sky farther away, countless vultures were flying in the sky, screaming fiercely, under the vultures flying in the sky, it was a desolate river beach.

On the shallow banks of the Fashui River, there are thousands of corpses lying horizontally and vertically, thousands of corpses without heads, a bloodstained flag is obliquely inserted on the river beach, shivering in the cold wind, and the dilapidated flag can be vaguely distinguished as the Xue Que banner of Hailibu.

There was a strong smell of blood wafting in the air, which was disgusting, and the originally clear Fashui River was bleak, and it had already lost its original clarity,.. A broken spear was inserted in front of King Donghu's feet, and the bloodstains on the blade of the spear seemed to be still telling the tragic bloody battle that had happened here a few days ago, and King Donghu took a deep breath of cold air, and his expression was gloomy.

Amid the heavy footsteps, Le Shi walked up to King Donghu and said, "Big brother, all the corpses have been searched, but no body of Hailib has been found. ”

Le Shi's voice fell, and a terrible shout suddenly sounded in front of him, and then a fast horse galloped over, rushed to the king of Donghu, reined in the reins of the horse, and said loudly: "Great king, the main cavalry force of the Great Shang Dynasty 5,000 cavalry army has arrived in the Linhu grassland, and is confronting the 5,000 cavalry of our army's front army. ”

King Donghu said in a deep voice, "The herald orders that the front army should not act rashly, and wait for this king to lead the army to converge." ”

The herald answered, and galloped away.

The king of Donghu turned over his horse and said to Le Shi: "Order the three armies to speed up their march and rush to the Linhu grassland to fight to the death with the Great Shang Dynasty." ”

Le Shihu roared and took the order.

Linhu grassland.

Mao Sui rode his horse to Zhao Kuo under the escort of dozens of horsemen, and gasped: "Your Majesty, everything has been arranged, and now we are only waiting for the army of King Donghu to come and send him to death." ”

Zhao Kuo said: "Well, Mr. has worked hard. ”

Mao Sui smiled faintly, his face suddenly became solemn, and said, "Your Majesty, there is also not very good news, General Wu Liti sent an urgent report, and the Xiongnu led 5,000 cavalry to the south, and they were approaching Lin Hu's hometown. ”

Zhao Kuo frowned when he heard this, in order to meet the king of Donghu, Zhao Kuo led the main force to escort the captives back to the base camp after stepping on the Tianlan tribe, leaving only a thousand elite soldiers for Wu Liti to garrison the Tianlan tribe, this thousand elite soldiers not only have to defend, but also to protect countless cattle, sheep and livestock, even if Wu Liti is brave and good at fighting, it is categorically unable to defeat the 5,000 army of the Huns.

"This Hun is really good at picking the time!" Li Si gasped and said, "If the Azure tribe gains and loses, many women, children, cattle, sheep and livestock are all obtained by the Xiongnu, and the cavalry of the Azure tribe is worried about mutiny, and all your majesty's previous efforts will be in vain." ”

Mao Sui said: "Your Majesty, now it seems that you can only ask Sutuo for help." ”

Li Si said: "What Lord Mao Sui said is extremely true, the base camp is not far from the Azure Tribe, and at this time, I am afraid that it is too late to send reinforcements, and our army is confronting the army of King Donghu, and the strength is already stretched, where can reinforcements be sent?" For today's plan, the only way to ask for help is to ask for help, Suto is only a hundred miles away from the Azure Tribe, and the rapid march can be reached in one day. ”

Zhao Kuo thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "Li Si, quickly send someone to Sutuo for help, and ask him to send a large army to the west to attack the army of King Donghu, and there will be heavy thanks after the matter is completed." ”

Linhu grassland, the night is dark.

A snowflake fluttered down from the air, floating on the tip of Zhao Kuo's nose, turning into a drop of ice water in an instant, the cold feeling came clearly from the nose, and Zhao Kuo's numb consciousness was cleared in an instant, and in the vast night ahead, there was a faint inexplicable hustle and bustle.

A dim firelight lit ghostly from the vast night ahead, and suddenly, more firelight shone from under the night sky, centered on the initial firelight, rapidly spreading towards the two wings, and in just a few moments, it was connected into an endless line of fire, almost separating the dark sky from the cold snowfield, the Donghu army finally appeared, and the fateful battle was about to begin.

Zhao Kuo breathed a sigh of relief lightly, and a trace of cold murderous intent bloomed at the corner of his mouth.

The dim line of fire became brighter and closer, turning into countless blazing torches, and in the bright firelight, the black oppressive army swept like a tide, tens of thousands of cold iron armor reflected a dim cold light under the firelight, and the guns and halberds that stood like a forest almost covered the dim sky.

Zhao Kuo raised his right arm leisurely, and the mournful shouts of his own soldiers suddenly sounded under the dark night sky: "Your Majesty has an order." Raise the fire. ”

In the piercing crunch, Hebo pulled out the strong bow, and a sergeant had already put the torch on the arrow, wrapped around the arrow cluster and soaked in fire oil, and the ground was burned in an instant, Hebo raised the angle of fire slightly, and his slightly narrowed right eye opened at the same time as his right hand was released, only to hear a trembling sound, and the burning rocket had come out of the string.

"Huh." The rocket swept into the air and let out a piercing scream, and instantly flew hundreds of steps away and fell headlong, where the rocket landed, the originally dark and heavy snowfield burst into flames, and the fire spread rapidly to the surroundings, only a moment of effort spread into a sea of fire, there were dozens of steps in a radius, the smoky flames rolled and swallowed, and the red fire almost illuminated the entire battlefield as bright as day.

King Donghu's eyes sank, and he quietly raised his right arm, "The king has an order." The whole army stopped advancing. The dozens of horsemen behind him quickly dispersed, and the mournful long howls rose and fell, endlessly, and the mighty army began to slow down, and slowly spread towards the two wings, and from a distance, countless burning torches slowly spread from the rear of the Donghu army to the two wings, like an eagle slowly spreading its wings under the night sky, ready to rise into the sky.

After the army was finished, the king of Donghu waved his right arm forward, and his tone was full of strong confidence: "The archers go up first, and frustrate the arrogance of the Great Shang Dynasty." ”

A cavalry passed the order to quickly ride out of the horse, and howled bitterly: "The king has an order, and the archers are out of battle......"

The order of the king of Donghu was quickly conveyed, the military array quickly began to make noise, the neat military formation split from the middle, a fierce cavalry in iron armor rushed out of the formation, in the sound of the uniform trumpet, slowly marched towards the raging sea of fire in front, and the next moment, three thousand archers surged out from the formation of the king of Donghu and began to line up.

"Archer, ignition."

At the command of the commander, three thousand archers brought their arrows to the torches in the hands of the hoplites, and set them on fire, and the three thousand flaming arrows were already held high into the void.

In the sound of Qingyue's metal grinding, Pomegranate slowly pulled out his saber and held it high above the top, the red fire light shone on the sharp blade, reflecting a dazzling light, and the eyes of the whole army focused on Pomegranate's saber for a moment, and suddenly, Pomegranate swung the saber in his hand forward.

"Forward."

Pomegranate gave an order, and the whole army also marched forward fifty paces behind the sea of fire, lined up in two rows before and after.

"Knife and shield hand, tree shield."

Four hundred sword and shield men slammed the giant shield to the ground, and with a loud bang built a strong shield wall, firmly protecting the soldiers behind the shield wall.

"Archer, ignition."

Four hundred archers ignited arrows from the torches in the hands of the sword and shield men, and then raised them high into the void.

"Shoot the arrows."

Almost at the same time, the pomegranate and the enemy's raised saber fell fiercely, and in an instant, two waves of burning arrows swept up from their respective formations, and then staggered through the air, and in a piercing whistling, they shot viciously down on the opposing army's formation.

Seeing the sparse appearance of the rockets shot out of the enemy's formation, the Donghu generals burst into laughter, and even the Donghu King had a disdainful smile on his face, the difference in strength between the two armies is really too great, is there only these hundreds of archers in the Great Shang Dynasty? With this little force, how can he resist the overwhelming attack of his hundreds of thousands of troops?

In the piercing scream of "...... Boom,

"Tuk Tuk ......"

The rockets finally rained down, and the vast majority of them were blocked by the shields of both sides, with only a few penetrating the gaps between the shields, inflicting limited damage. As soon as the rain of arrows passed, the sword and shield bearers immediately put away their shields, and the archers stood up again, drawing their bows and arrows for the second round of shooting.

The Donghu herald raised his sword again and shouted aloud according to the standard night battle procedure: "Archer, ignite the fire." ”

However, this time, Pomegranate did not give the order to ignite, but swung the raised sword directly down, and said loudly: "Release the arrow." ”

Hundreds of sharp arrows swept through the air, and in an instant swept through the night sky and fell towards the Donghu army formation without warning, and the poor Donghu archers were about to release their arrows when they were about to release their arrows, the cold arrows had already been shot down, and the people in charge of protection had no time to raise the shield in their hands, and the dark blow had already fallen on their heads.

In the crisp sound of sharp weapons cutting through flesh and blood, dozens of Donghu soldiers and more than 100 archers fell down with wails, and the strict military formation instantly rioted.

"Woo Woo ......"

Another wave of cold arrows rained down silently, and more than a hundred archers were knocked to the ground, and the wails suddenly intertwined, and the formation became more and more chaotic.

At this time, the originally burning sea of fire gradually extinguished, the fire that illuminated the sky and the earth quickly dimmed, and the originally clearly visible enemy formation gradually became blurred.

King Donghu's face suddenly became extremely ugly, his right arm was raised leisurely, and he said coldly, "Order the archers to retreat, and the front army will attack and defeat this enemy army." ”

The herald answered, took the order and left, and the order resounded through the army in an instant.

The Donghu archers began to retreat in embarrassment, and surprisingly the two thousand elite cavalry of the Great Shang Dynasty did not take advantage of the situation to cover up, but let the enemy archers retreat to the rear, until the Donghu array changed again, and the five thousand front troops lined up into five sharp triangle charging formations, shouting a loud trumpet and surging forward, Zhao Kuocai rode his horse behind the pomegranate, patted the pomegranate on the shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "Pomegranate, this place will be handed over to you." ”

Pomegranate said proudly: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, Pomegranate will never disgrace its mission." ”

Zhao Kuo stared at the pomegranate deeply, grabbed the horse's belly fiercely, and rode away, the two thousand elite horsemen who stood like a forest split into two strands in an instant, bypassing the grass wall that stretched for several miles and swept towards the wings in a chaotic manner, looking from a distance, it seemed that he was frightened by the powerful momentum of Donghu and fled.

There was an unbridled ridicule in the Donghu formation, and a contemptuous expression was revealed on the faces of every Donghu soldier, these cowards, before the battle began, they were so frightened that they fled, if they really fought, they must not be allowed to pee their pants!

King Donghu turned his head a little worriedly, and his gaze fell on Le Shi's face. asked: "The people of the Great Shang Dynasty have always been scheming, and they hurriedly withdrew without a battle, could it be some conspiracy?" ”

Le Shi said indifferently, "Big brother don't worry, as the so-called one force will drop ten times, in the face of absolute force, all local conspiracies and tricks will be useless, as long as our army is in a group, with an unstoppable momentum across the grassland to the north, even if the people of the Great Shang Dynasty have the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, it will be difficult to stop the pace of our army's advance." ”

Someone next to him chimed in: "Zhao Kuo can't hold the base camp at all, unless his army can break our army head-on, but with only those thousands of cavalry troops, this is simply impossible." ”

Le Shi said indifferently: "Zhao Kuo must have seen that the situation was wrong, and he was ready to retreat back to the base camp and defend it." ”

When King Donghu heard this, his confidence was greatly increased, he drew his sword and held it high in the air, and said loudly, "Tell the order to move forward and continue to advance, defeat the enemy army tonight, destroy the Great Shang Dynasty, and reward each with a thousand heads of cattle and sheep." ”

The roar of the heralds resounded through the military formation, five thousand elite cavalry rolled forward, five thousand dark iron armor surged into a dark ocean, and five thousand cold and glittering spears converged into a terrifying forest of death, crushing inexorably towards the pomegranate's position.

Every time the five thousand elite soldiers took a step forward, they shouted, and a fierce roar resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the aura of brutal killing spread across the icy snowfield.

"Looks pretty good." A faint smile bloomed at the corner of Pomegranate's mouth, and he raised his sword in the air and pulled it back, and said loudly, "The whole army disperses and retreats." ”

With the pomegranate's order, the soldiers quickly dispersed, forming a long snake formation, and quickly retreated to the grass wall more than a foot high behind them.

In the Donghu main formation, due to the cover of the night, the king of Donghu and others had not yet discovered the existence of the grass wall, and when they saw that the enemy army suddenly dispersed into a long snake formation and rushed backwards, they thought that the enemy wanted to disperse and escape.

"Do you want to escape?" A faint smile flashed across Le Shi's face, and he said to King Donghu: "Big brother, encircle and annihilate the enemy army in one fell swoop." ”

King Donghu said happily: "Order, attack." The herald agreed, galloped away, and the military order was about to form an iron wall everywhere, and when the pomegranate and other soldiers were surrounded and annihilated, a sudden change occurred.

"Huh."

A rocket swept up from the shadows, swept a dazzling trajectory in the air, and landed dozens of steps in front of the grass wall, the arrow fell, and the dark ground suddenly burned, and in an instant it burned into a sea of fire, and the churning flames rose into the air, although dozens of steps away could also feel the scorching heat wave.

Under the illumination of the raging fire, the grass wall that stretched for several miles was finally exposed uncovered, extending from the bright place where the fire could reach to the dark place where the fire could not reach, as if it was traversing the entire grassland, endlessly, and King Donghu's heart suddenly paused.

Le Shi was also shocked, and hurriedly said to King Donghu: "Big brother, quickly order the whole army to stop the pursuit and retreat immediately." ”

A low and desolate horn sounded on the snow field, and the Donghu soldiers who were surging forward heard the horn, although they were puzzled but did not dare to disobey, they had to chase after the pursuit, turned around and slowly retreated, and the soldiers of the pomegranate department finally got rid of the pursuit of Donghu and calmly retreated to the front of the grass wall.

The Pomegranate retreated to the grass wall, and with a kick of his foot, the grass wall fell down, and the dense row of carriages hidden behind the grass wall was unconcealed, or it could not be called a carriage at all, because it had neither wheels nor carriages, but only two pieces of wood with the front end raised against the snow, supporting a rudimentary frame, which was more like a sleigh.

The whole frame is very simple, only a few pieces of wood are nailed very strongly, the head and neck of the healthy horse are covered with cold iron armor, and what is even more palpitating is that there are five spears tied to the frame of each carriage, the length is more than three zhang, and the tip of the spear exceeds the horse's head by two zhang! From a distance, it looks like an ironclad monster with five fangs, this is Zhao Kuo's scheme, the Warring States version of the tank cluster.

There are more than 1,000 sleds, and every 10 of them are tied into a whole, forming a terrifying chain of chariots, stretching for three or four miles. "Let's look at the first release together, please support genuine reading, support the author's creation, your one light click, warm my whole code word life."

The flat terrain of the grassland makes it possible for the combined sleds to charge in clusters, and the thick snow requires only two logs with the front end raised and planed at the surface to glide quickly and with less resistance.

"What...... What is it? "King Donghu was amazed, King Donghu couldn't help but be surprised, he had seen the chariot, although the chariot had been flourishing for a while, and made great achievements in the Spring and Autumn Period, but with the passage of time, the chariot had already withdrawn from the historical stage because of its own insurmountable many defects, I didn't expect the Great Shang Dynasty to dare to go against the tide and reuse this kind of obsolete armament? But it's not exactly a chariot, it's an ingenious chariot, a chariot without wheels.

Under the shocked and inexplicable gaze of the Donghu soldiers, the soldiers of the Pomegranate Department turned over and climbed onto the sled, and each of them happened to drive a sled.

In the blazing firelight, the pomegranate on the carriage standing in the center slowly raised the sword in his hand, and the soldier's eyes focused on the pomegranate's saber for a moment, and a dazzling cold light rose from the blade of the pomegranate saber, confusing the dark sky, and the cold murderous aura was endlessly diffused under the sky.

In a flash of cold light, the sword in Pomegranate's hand slashed down silently.

The soldiers of the Great Shang Dynasty shouted in unison, and the horsewhip was swung out at the same time, and it was viciously whipped on the horse stock of the healthy horse, and the healthy horse was in pain, and at the same time he threw off his four hooves and ran forward, and the planed wooden strips glided easily on the snowfield, gradually increasing in speed, and after a while, the most shocking thing happened to the Donghu soldiers.

The surging sleigh chariot actually ran straight over the burning sea of fire, but the war horses that had always been afraid of fire were at this time as if they were unconscious, frantically trampling through the burning fire, dragging the hideous chariot forward, all the war horses were blindfolded, and their ears were also plugged in by the cloth, and under the drive of the driver, they could only move forward, forward, and forward.

Ten sleds tied together restrict the direction of the sled, ensuring that it can only move forward, even if one horse is frightened, it is not enough to change the direction of the whole sled, or if a horse dies, it will not stop the sleigh from moving forward.

When the pomegranate's sleigh cluster launched a charge, on the cold snow fields on the left and right sides of the battlefield, more than 5,000 cavalry of the Great Shang Dynasty appeared ghostly, the horse's hooves were wrapped in cloth, the horse's mouth was covered, no torches were raised, no noise was allowed, and more than 10,000 cavalry were like a group of ghosts, covering the army of Donghu from the left and right wings.

As soon as the army of the king of Donghu was thrown into chaos by the sleigh cluster of pomegranates, the more than 10,000 cavalry would begin a bloody massacre.

"Stop them, stop them."

Le Shi was the first to realize the danger, and when the grass wall had just collapsed and the sleigh had just revealed its hideous face, Le Shi felt that something was wrong and began to scream bitterly.

A strange-looking sled is not to be feared at all, even if ten sleds are tied together to charge, but if 1,800 sleds are lined up in a row to launch a mountain of charges, the situation will be completely different, and the power produced by the charge of 1,800 tanks is devastating, and it is by no means able to resist the flesh and blood of the officers and men of the three armies.

If the army of King Donghu is only tens of thousands of people, the charge of 1,800 tanks will not be threatened, because before the sleigh rushes, King Donghu's army can calmly enter the front, as long as they dodge the front, the tank cluster that is difficult to change the direction of the charge will be useless, even if it has the power to destroy everything, it is in vain.

But the problem is that the Donghu army has more than 100,000 people, and the army has set up a formation on the grassland, and it is unthinkable to change the formation in a short period of time.

Can't mess up, never scatter, now, the only way is to stop the sled swarm of the rushing bees, you must stop the charge, although the sled swarm is terrible, but it also has a fatal weakness, that is, the war horse that pulls the chariot forward, as long as the war horse is shot, it will not be self-defeating.

"Archers, archers shoot horses." When King Donghu was in shock, Le Shi had already directly issued an order to the heralds beside him, and the heralds disturbed for a moment, and Le Shi immediately roared hoarsely, "Don't go quickly." ”

"Yes." Seeing that the king of Donghu had no intention of stopping him, more than a dozen heralds did not dare to slack off, and when more than a thousand sleds began to charge, more than 5,000 archers walked out of the formation in a chaotic manner, and lined up in a scattered shooting formation in front of the large army.