701 Small Things Solve Big Problems
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Xiahou Yuan is full of bitterness here, but it is Cao Hong who is really bitter.
Cao Hong was assigned the task that after Xiahou Yuan drove the people and lured Lü Peng's main force into the plain, Xiahou Yuan tried every means to drag him down, and then Cao Hong took 10,000 soldiers to raid Lü Peng's camp.
There are two purposes for doing this, the first is to make Lu Peng uncomfortable, and the second purpose is to disturb Lu Peng's military morale, and at the same time take the sheep by hand and take down Lu Peng's foundation, which is the so-called killing three birds with one stone.
When Xiahou Yuan and Lü Peng began to fight against each other on the vast plain, Cao Hong thought that his opportunity had come, so he did not hesitate to command his 10,000 elite soldiers and strong generals to launch a decisive attack on Lü Peng's camp.
The terrain is not dangerous, the mountains are not steep, the hastily built camp is not solid, and looking at the flickering figures in the camp, the camp he attacked is definitely less than 3,000 people, and what makes Cao Hong the most happy is that looking at the front of the camp, there is no trench at all, let alone setting up a horse rejection, so that there is no need for everyone to carry a ladder that is ready to climb over the trench, without this burden, you can quickly attack it, and then use the tactics of the sea of people to uproot this camp. Unplug one, and the second one won't be worried. With 10,000 to 3,000, Cao Hong thinks that he can definitely take advantage of a big advantage.
The result was a big surprise to him, from the moment he launched a fierce attack, he was in trouble, this is fatal trouble.
The army began to charge to the top of the mountain at the fastest speed, but when it ran halfway up the mountain, the soldiers in front suddenly fell down with a scream, and the entire charging formation was blocked by the chaos in front, just when Cao Hong didn't understand why his soldiers were running and suddenly fell inexplicably, the enemy's camp suddenly had a continuous stream of huge arrows flying out, the giant arrows and javelins, after flying into the air, with huge inertia, pounced on the carpet of human flesh that was crowded together in the middle of the mountainside, with the ability to penetrate everything, Piercing the soldiers one by one in the local area, many soldiers hurriedly raised their shields into the air, ready to resist the shot of this huge arrow, but their resistance was in vain, the original seemingly solid shield, under the blow of the small javelin-like giant sword, instantly shattered, like a layer of rags, pierced by an arrow, and then unhindered into the human body, nailing him to the ground.
People often say that ten arrows are not as good as a knife, and ten knives are not as good as a gun, but the giant arrows of the Lu family army subverted this law, even the military who was wearing heavy armor was pierced by a sword, and there was no ability to resist, because it was not an arrow that was shot, but a small javelin, in the face of such a blow, who could resist?
Fortunately, the number of enemies on the opposite side was very small, and each time they flew up, they were only one or two thousand of these terrifying javelins, which, in principle, did not inflict a lot of damage on themselves.
But there is an exception to everything, the soldiers who are charging in front of them, suddenly fell inexplicably, blocking the footsteps of the soldiers behind, the charge of tens of thousands of people, not to stop and stop, so the people behind are still charging upwards with inertia, pushing the people in front, constantly squeezing forward, and finally forming a carpet of human flesh in the middle of the mountainside, as a result, these giant arrows flew in, almost none of them missed, layer by layer fell in batches, almost no arrows were missing, mercilessly harvesting the lives of their own soldiers, Under such a dense and continuous giant sword blow, even an invincible fierce general under the gods would feel powerless, and he could only suffer death.
"Sound the gong to collect the troops, sound the gong to collect the troops." Cao Hong jumped to his feet and ordered, in the case of unclear circumstances, continue to attack, that is, to send death, it is estimated that it will not take an hour, people will be slaughtered on this hillside, only after withdrawing the army back, after understanding the situation, and then targeted attack is the wisest way.
In fact, there is no need for Cao Hongming to withdraw his troops, his 10,000 soldiers have completely collapsed, just after a few rounds of the enemy's giant arrows swept away, those charging Cao troops turned around and ran back, and in a blink of an eye, they retreated to the starting position, the corpses left on the mountain, and those who were not dead for a while, were nailed to the ground, unable to move, and could only twist the wailing screams, the screams made people's scalps numb and their hearts broken.
"What the hell is going on? Why did you fall down in the rush to all of them? Cao Hong angrily asked a leading soldier who ran down.
The military marquis was lucky, but he was limping, obviously twisting his ankle, and when he saw the commander asking, he quickly replied: "General Qiyu, the hillside in front of you is strange, and it looks smooth, but when we rushed up, it was a deep pit the size of a dense bowl mouth on the mountainside, and those deep pits were covered with thatch, and we couldn't see it at all. ”
"How many?"
"Halfway up the mountain to the front of their camp, it was densely packed." Cao Hong opened his mouth, and there was nothing to say at that time. This is a new problem encountered by the old general,
Such small pits are simply too easy to excavate, but it is extremely difficult to avoid them, and to fill them, Cao Hong can only think about it.
And judging from the enemy's giant arrow strike just now, these small traps are just within the strike range of his giant arrows, and the shooting distance of the enemy's giant arrows is one and a half times his own, so that without the speed of running, he can't rush to the enemy's bow and arrow shooting dead angle at the fastest speed, and he can't rush to the shooting range of his bow and arrow, and if you slowly avoid those dense trap pits, at that distance, how many soldiers will be killed or injured there? When I think about it, I can't help but feel numb on my scalp.
"General, are we still attacking?" The soldier asked cautiously.
"Attack, of course we have to attack, but we have to think of a way to attack."
Yes, you have to think of a way to attack, otherwise you will go up and die in vain.
way, what's the way? As a result, all the generals were stumped by this small and simple trap, and the final conclusion was that only human lives could be used to fill it.
In fact, this is not a solution at all, because when the army that takes care of itself is in front of the enemy's formation, there is not much of his own army.
In the face of such a small trick, in the face of such a damaging trick, Cao Hong could only look up to the sky and shout - "Lu Peng, you are too bad-"
(End of chapter)
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