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Just when Pang Long broke the Huns, Liu Zhang in Xicheng fell into a bitter battle. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liu Zhang originally thought that putting on an empty city plan would make Ma Chao hesitate for a few hours, preferably half a day or three or two days, the longer the better. The longer it takes, the better it will be for you.

But Ma Chao didn't hesitate at all.

Liu Zhanggang said: "Do you dare to come?" ”

As a result, Ma Chao was not polite at all, raised his spear and roared, "Ma Chao is here!" Xiliang children, kill me! ”

At the sound of an order, I saw Ma Chao's Chinese army, thousands of cavalry, following Ma Chao, with iron hooves churning and rushing forward. After rushing for dozens of steps, Ma Su had just picked it up, and saw Ma Chao hand over the spear to his left hand, and his right hand pulled out a javelin more than three feet long from his back, lightly stretched his ape arm, and threw it forward vigorously, followed by five thousand cavalry, almost at the same time, threw out a javelin. More than 5,000 javelins slashed through the air with a "buzz".

Liu Zhang saw clearly in the city, and hurriedly shouted at the top of his voice: "Get down, everyone get down!" ”

When Liu Zhang was shouting, he was pressed to the ground by Gan Ning and Huang Zhong. Immediately after that, I heard a "bang", and a javelin was stuck diagonally on the city wall behind Liu Zhang. It was the one that Ma Chao cast.

After Ma Chao finished throwing the first one, he didn't stop, he walked forward, castrated unabated, pulled out the second javelin, shook his hand and threw it in the direction of Liu Zhang. The five thousand cavalry behind him also threw their javelins forward again.

"Hum," another five thousand javelins obscured the sky.

The soldiers in the trenches outside the city were caught off guard at first, and hundreds of people were directly nailed to the ground.

In the second wave, dozens more people were pierced by javelins. Even the treadmills/crossbows that had just been pushed up in the city were broken by javelins.

Before everyone could react, Ma Chao and his people had already rushed to the front, and Ma Chao's spear was raised again, "The whole army is pressed!" The light cavalry on the left and right flanks also rushed up together, and there was a great momentum to break through the city in one fell swoop.

Liu Zhang was so anxious in the city that he shouted: "All the dead, throw grenades, throw grenades!" ”

Then I saw that the soldiers under the city hurriedly began to throw grenades, and the strong crossbows/crossbows in the city also began to shoot desperately.

The sound of "boom boom" began to sound, causing a lot of confusion to Ma Chao, who was rushing forward. The main reason was that the war horses were frightened and began to run uncontrollably, which made Ma Chao's Chinese army rush formation begin to be chaotic.

At this time, the tread/crossbow and strong crossbow on the city finally began to exert their power, and the rapid rain of arrows finally repelled the Ma Chaojun who was about to rush into the city.

Ma Chao saw that the time was no longer there, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat and retreat back to the range of Liu Zhangjun's crossbow arrows.

In just one face, Liu Zhang's new army deployed in the trenches outside the city was completely lost. The defenders of the city also suffered a lot of losses, and two crossbows were broken.

Ma Chao's Chinese army also left hundreds of corpses.

Ma Chao's Chinese army is the Iron Cavalry Legion where Hu and Han live together, and it is the ace descendant trained by Ma Chao himself, because there are many Hu people inside, and it is often called the Hu Army outside. The equipment of the Hu army is very similar to the equipment of the Roman heavy cavalry, with masks and helmets, a large area of iron armor, and men and horses are all armored. A shield in one hand, a spear in the other, and three javelins on each person's back.

Such an iron horse has an extremely strong ability to break the formation.

If it is in the field, the two armies face each other, and after three rounds of javelins, it can be said that there is no formation, no destruction, no destruction.

In the history of the Three Kingdoms, when Cao Cao conquered Xiliang, he was defeated and retreated by Ma Chao, and even the elite tiger and leopard cavalry could not stop the assault of Ma Chao's army.

Liu Zhang can be regarded as having learned the power of Ma Chao's Hu army today.

Although Liu Zhang had been mentally prepared and knew that Ma Chao seemed to have a heavy cavalry legion similar to the Roman legion, he still underestimated the opponent's powerful ability to break the formation.

In just one shot, Liu Zhang showed all the hole cards, which repelled Ma Chao's charge.

Liu Zhang felt a little tricky.

Ma Chao felt a little frightened.

The rumbling explosion just now made him feel a lot less confident in his heart.

Before coming, he thought that Liu Zhang's killer secret weapon was the step/crossbow. According to his understanding, there must not be too many of these heavy crossbows, which resemble bed crossbows, and once his cavalry regiment can rush closer to a relatively close position, a round of javelins, he believes that these tread/crossbows will be completely destroyed.

However, looking at the situation now, this step/crossbow is the smoke deliberately released by Liu Zhang, Liu Zhang's killer secret weapon, it should be the things that exploded with a bang and bang just now, that thing is injured if it doesn't die, and it has a huge psychological deterrent effect on people and horses. It's easy to leave a huge psychological shadow on people.

Ma Chao was frightened by this thing.

He didn't know how many of these things were still in Liu Zhang's army, but it was obviously more than stepping on / crossbows, much more. It can be assigned to ordinary soldiers, which shows that this kind of thing is not a minority in Liu Zhang's army. This kind of thing is so lethal, even his own heavy cavalry can't withstand it, let alone light cavalry. Two years ago, in the Battle of Gaoping, there were rumors that Liu Zhang defeated the Huns by summoning the heavenly thunder, and it seems that the rumors are not groundless.

After thinking about it, Ma Chao finally decided to temporarily collect the troops and return to the camp, and wait until his father Ma Teng led the army to arrive.

Liu Zhang didn't expect that Ma Chao would lose hundreds of brothers in just one charge. This casualty hit him far more than the grenade shocked Ma Chao.

Because he has a lot fewer people than the other side.

Moreover, judging from previous examples, the battle loss ratio between the two sides can only be compared with this time when they fought against the tiger and leopard riders last time. Even the last time he faced the Tiger and Leopard Riders, it was not as shocking to Liu Zhang as this time. Because last time it was a battle in the field, and this time Liu Zhang's army was based on the city, and it had the geographical advantage of the fortifications that the new army was accustomed to. In this case, he was pierced by a blow and suffered heavy casualties, which was too much for Liu Zhang to accept.

In fact, Ma Chao's Hu Ren Legion focuses on strong breakthrough ability. This legion was also built at a huge cost, and was specially formed to deal with Liu Zhang's sharp and powerful crossbow arrows. In the past, the Ma Jiajun didn't need to make so much effort to get a heavy cavalry out. It was Liu Zhang's attack with powerful crossbow arrows, which made the Xiliang army have to think about how to deal with it. The armor on the soldiers of the Hu Legion and the war horses were all purchased from the Western Regions. Javelins are also specially built. Ma Chao didn't attack overnight yesterday, in fact, it was to take care of this heavy corps, to store strength for them, to accumulate horsepower and manpower, not to give Liu Zhang face.

Ancient Chinese armor was mostly fish scale armor. Fish scale armor is a garment with many pieces of armor. The advantage of fish scale armor is that when worn on the body, it does not affect the flexibility of the body and limbs. The downside is that it is troublesome to make. So, many times, only high-ranking officers such as generals can afford to wear.

The armor of Ma Chao's Hu Ren Legion came from the Western Regions, and the technical design was transmitted from Europe, with a large area of metal sheets, bent and shaped according to the general shape of the human body, covering different parts, such as the torso and limbs. The benefits of this armor are obvious, easy to make, and highly protective. Accuracy is the ability to affect the flexibility of the body and limbs.

Ma Chao's Hu army was uniformly equipped with this kind of armor, commonly known as plate armor. Therefore, the protection is very strong, and the ability to break through the formation is very strong.

Of course, the disadvantages of the usual heavy cavalry, this Hu army also exists. For example, the durability is not enough, for example, the requirements for logistics and supplies are relatively high, and the horses are required to eat better. Moreover, like the javelins used by the Ma Chao Legion, they are all specially made, and after being thrown away on the battlefield, if they cannot be recovered, they can only be replenished by logistics.

Compared with Liu Zhang's loss of hundreds of new troops, Ma Chao felt more sorry for the hundreds of heavy cavalry he lost.

However, even if it is a simple one-to-one exchange, Liu Zhang is not willing.

Zero casualties is Liu Zhang's pursuit, not to mention that he has far fewer people than Ma Chao.

In the first battle of Xicheng, Liu Zhang was ashamed.

The empty city plan has become a fake. (To be continued.) )