45, the sound of the iron knight urging the horn (end)
As soon as the Xiliang cavalry was launched, the sound was like thunder, and the offensive was rapid.
And their fire attack, although the effect was not good, also brought some impact to the Cao army in the array.
The dismounted archers of the Xiliang cavalry lit the torches, approached step by step, and after reaching the firing range, they lit the strips of cloth and grass on the arrows, bent the bows and arrows, and threw rockets into the formation.
The Xiliang cavalry, who were still galloping like the wind, took advantage of the speed of their horses, braved the arrows sent out in the formation, swept through the formation, and threw pieces of throwing stones into the car formation, these throwing stones were wrapped in semi-wet weeds, and once ignited, they would produce smoke to disrupt the deployment of Cao's army in the formation.
The strategy of dealing with the fire attack and smoke disturbance of the enemy cavalry, Yu Ban and Li Dian's response also came in handy, although the soldiers and people who were hit by the rocket inevitably screamed in pain, but at least they would extinguish the flames ignited on their bodies. The heavy grain and grass covered with wet sediment by the rocket was also difficult to cause a fire, and it was quickly extinguished by the people and soldiers, and the slingstones that emitted smoke were also covered by the people in the formation with mud and sand, isolating the thick smoke.
In this way, the Cao army, which had defused the fire attack and smoke disturbance offensive, relied on the car barrier to deal with the Xiliang cavalry, and became more handy, and slowly restored the appearance of a strong army in the face of various strong enemies in the Central Plains.
From time to time in front of the formation, the Xiliang cavalry who swept past the formation were shot off their horses, and some cavalry were shot several arrows with men and horses, and they fell to the ground in front of the formation, raising a large cloud of dust.
The dismounted cavalry advancing in formation, the archers who shot at the Cao army, and from time to time some people fell to the ground with arrows, and the entire battlefield situation turned into an offensive and defensive battle between foot soldiers and foot soldiers for a while.
The Xiliang cavalry, who finally lined up close to the car barrier, soon also fought with the forbidden place who was waiting behind the car barrier, and the arrows on both sides exchanged arrows, spears stabbed each other, shouting and killing the sky, all kinds of blade fighting, shouting and wailing, and hysterical voices burst out in unison in the narrow space, everyone was fighting desperately, and people kept falling, and then the next soldier was held by the armor and rushed up.
The battle along the northwest corner was the most intense, and the impact pressure faced by the soldiers of Yu Ban's department was also the greatest, but Yu Ban's heart, who commanded the battle, gradually settled down.
On the plains, he had no danger to defend, resisted riding on foot, and was chased and beaten by the opponent's cavalry, helpless.
But now that their own foot soldiers have a chariot barrier, these invincible Xiliang cavalry even dare to dismount and fight with themselves, that is, with a short attack and a long one, the arrogant soldiers will be defeated.
Yu Ban is a side that occupies a favorable position by virtue of the car barrier, and although the Xiliang cavalry dismounts and fights on foot, the soldiers and horses in Yanzhou are no longer the rabble that Cao Jun temporarily gathered when he was fighting Dong.
Yu Ban thought that his own soldiers who had been tempered in a hundred battles in the Central Plains would never easily lose to these fierce Xiliang cavalry.
The battle situation slowly stalemate, the Xiliang cavalry could not attack the formation, and was blocked by the Cao army, and in the view of Yu Ban, who commanded in the formation, the Cao army relied on the car barrier, attacked and defended freely, and still retained spare strength.
Just when the ban was secretly planning for his follow-up counterattack in his heart, another wave of Xiliang cavalry swept past again, but this time they no longer threw smoke throwing stones, but an iron hook with a long rope, and the hooked iron claws scattered on the car barrier, some hooked the side of the car, some hooked the wheels, some hooked the sacks above, and the hooks that were not hooked were retracted with the light horses that went away.
"It's not good, the enemy rider wants to use the galloping horse to drive the roadblock!"
The barriers set up by Yu Ban and Li Dian are all based on ordinary chariots, not chariots such as Wugang chariots that the Han army once equipped, and there is no big pole and firing port on the outside of the chariot, and there is no iron cable under the chariot, and the iron drill is nailed, which is a flaw in the entire car formation.
And Zhai Hao, as a battle-hardened cavalry general of the Xiliang Army, not only has rich experience in breaking the cavalry and breaking the foot with the horse, but also has a little experience when dealing with the infantry to lay down the spear formation, the chariot formation and other formations.
Now, pulling away the grain carts that unloaded the livestock with the power of galloping horses is an optional way to break the formation.
The Xiliang cavalry came and went like the wind, and was on the initiative side of the attack. After the dismounted Xiliang soldiers attacked the chariot formation and gave Yu Ban and Li Dian huge pressure, the Xiliang cavalry in the rear, who were eyeing the rear, grasped a flaw in the chariot formation, and used the hook to start a real offensive to break the formation.
Sergeant Cao wanted to take the initiative to rush out of the barrier and cut the rope behind the iron claw, but the Xiliang cavalry on the opposite side had already taken precautions, and with an order, the arrows flew together, shooting back the team of Cao troops who wanted to rush out.
The Xiliang cavalry who swept away from afar carried shields on their backs, and their war horses galloped like flying, and the arrows sent out in the formation could hit very few.
"Drive, drive—"
The knight on horseback tied the other end of the rope to the saddle, and many war horses worked in unison in the same direction, the strong tendons of the war horse were highlighted for a while, and the knight on the horse did not hesitate to spur desperately, and two or three carts were dragged away from the place one after another.
Immediately after that, there was the fourth, and then the fifth.
The other Xiliang cavalry, who were eyeing each other, saw that the chariot formation had revealed a flaw at this time, and instantly rushed up like a vicious wolf, wanting to take advantage of the situation to break into the formation.
"Follow me and stop them!"
Yu Ban was fighting hard with the Xiliang soldiers, and he couldn't mobilize troops to block the car barrier that was suddenly broken, and he could only be resisted by Li Dian, who still had the strength left, to lead the troops, and in the crisis situation, the young Li Dian did not flinch, but bravely rushed up with the cavalry, wanting to block the Xiliang cavalry.
"Bang!"
The first Xiliang cavalry who rushed into the formation was unstoppable, and instantly knocked away two Cao soldiers, and the spear in his hand stabbed the momentum, and easily pierced the body of a Li clan, but his spear was too late to pull out, and was immediately stabbed off the horse by several Li clans who rushed over, and he was seriously injured and fell off the horse, and he had no strength to pull out the ring knife on his waist to continue fighting, but his eyes were still bright.
He saw one of his own cavalry after another, and the prancing horse rushed into the formation.
"Set up your spears and stab your horses!"
Li Dian followed his father and brother to fight, and also fought with the cavalry under the command of Lu Bu, he knew that the cavalry resisting this kind of sudden formation, the foot soldiers must be in a strict formation, and the spear is external, and they must not be lucky, hesitate, and must die without life, and carry these cavalry charging into battle with flesh and blood.
As long as the first round of cavalry charge is blocked, the battlefield full of corpses will form a small barrier for their side, and the cruel and bloody situation will also make the cavalry of the next round of charging fearful, and the knight on the horse, the war horse under the crotch will be attenuated and cowering, so that the cavalry's momentum can be curbed in one fell swoop.
On the contrary, if the infantry is rushed into the formation by the first round of cavalry charge, then the entire infantry battle formation will undoubtedly fall into a crisis, and the next second and third rounds of cavalry charges will be more fierce until the infantry battle formation is completely torn apart.
The current situation is that the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, but in this narrow space, there is no way to avoid it, and for both sides, it is a little more dangerous than a narrow road meeting.
After Li Dian struggled to assassinate a horseman, he shouted for battle to inspire his own troops to fight to the death, but in the face of the Li tribe fighting in the gap in the car formation, the Xiliang cavalry who charged into battle was not to be outdone, and after throwing short spears at the foot soldiers in the dense formation, they rode their horses and spears, and the prancing horses broke into the formation.
"Rumble-click-bang-"
Arrows and short spears converged intensively in an instant, and men and horses on both sides fell to the ground with a bang.
Then the blazing horse rushed into the formation unstoppably, the knight's spear condescendingly pierced the body of the foot soldier, the foot soldier's spear pierced the horse but broke straight, and the knight was stabbed off the horse by the spear from the other direction, but the seriously injured war horse uncontrollably knocked two more foot soldiers away, ploughing a bloody path.
Li Dian's spear finally broke in two, and he roared loudly, trying to pull out his sword sideways, but at this time, another war horse rushed over, and in a fierce rush, it knocked Li Dian, who was the first soldier, into the air.
"Head of the house!"
The cavalry that hit Li Dian and the horse were quickly poked out of countless blood holes, but as Li Dian was knocked out, the entire Li clan seemed to be instantly drained of spiritual energy, and many of the Li family's children began to ignore the formation and rushed to Li Dian who was covered in blood, and some began to ignore it and retreated in stride, which made the Xiliang cavalry who followed up to charge and break through the formation like a bamboo, and tore the car formation in half at once.
"Kill me!"
Zhai Hao, who was stationed outside the formation and commanded, saw that the cavalry charge broke through the formation smoothly, and he was also blinded, and he rushed to the crown in anger, raising his spear and shouting.
These Xiliang cavalry under his command are at least veterans of the army who have followed him for three years, if it were not for the moment when the success or failure of the battle situation was critical, how could he bear to let them dismount and fight hard, leaping horses and rushing into battle, to break through the chariot formation and spear formation.
A large force of Xiliang cavalry marched forward bravely, along the bloody road opened up by their comrades in the army, and rode their horses to rush into battle.
"Defeated, captain, our army is defeated!"
Yu Ban heard the heart-rending wails of his subordinates.
Li Dian was severely injured and his life and death were unknown, and the leaderless Li clan immediately collapsed, leaving only a group of Li family disciples to escort their family master and flee away, not knowing where to go. Yu Forbidden Department was unable to support it alone, and it was quickly defeated, but except for Bianshui in the northeast, they were finally surrounded by nowhere to escape, and Cao Sergeant was only able to protect Yu Ban to Bianshui with both feet deep and shallow, desperately protecting Yu Ban to escape to Bianshui.
"Kill, kill them all!"
Breaking into the formation, Zhai Hao, who was red-eyed, rushed in along the corpse of the cavalry under his command, and at this time, he didn't care which were Cao's soldiers and soldiers, and which were ordinary people, so he directly ordered to kill them all, so as to give a huge deterrent to the Yanzhou soldiers and horses who invaded Henan.
It was only after Zhai Hao issued this military order that the sound of a horn from a ranger could be heard in the distance.
There are still three more that have not been changed last month, and I will try to make up for it this month.