315, a certain family is willing to surrender
On the real battlefield, war horses are often the easiest targets to attack.
I really think that the soldiers on the battlefield can't beat the generals on the horse, so they don't attack the war horses, then they also think about the battlefield too idealized and too simple.
In fact, on the battlefield, what means are effective, what means will be used, if you can't beat the generals on the war horse for a while, you will first hack the war horse to death and cut the wounded overturned, and naturally let the military generals on the horse fall, so that maybe the military will be able to suppress the war horse and have no way to resist, so that ordinary soldiers can kill meritorious service.
Especially when the infantry faces the cavalry, once the cavalry falls into the battlefield of hand-to-hand combat, the most common method for the infantry to deal with the cavalry is to deal with the war horse first, so the war horse is often the first to be injured.
Many generals who charge into battle, if they really enter the enemy's military formation, they usually jump off their horses and fight, so that they can give full play to the strength of the generals, otherwise they have to protect themselves and protect the war horses they are riding, so how to fight.
In fact, when riding a horse to kill, it is generally at the time of the assault, and when it enters the stage of hand-to-hand combat, the war horse will lose its impact advantage, which is also the reason why the cavalry is close to the cavalry, and there is not much cavalry advantage.
It's like Zhao Yun's seven in and seven out, it is a surprise battle, and he will never let himself really fall into the encirclement of Cao Bing, if he is really surrounded, how can he really rush out of thousands of people.
In this way, the description of the red rabbit horse in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is obviously a bit exaggerated, imagine that it was first ridden by Lu Bu for many years, on the battlefield I don't know how many times, and was given to Guan Yu by Cao Cao, and followed Guan Yu to fight the horse for a lifetime, what a strange performance.
The age of a war horse is at most twenty or thirty years old, and the young adult period is five to sixteen years old, then it can serve for about ten years at most.
It can be seen that the Red Rabbit Horse cannot accompany Lu Bu and Guan Yu for too many years, and the general will inevitably die in battle, let alone a war horse with such a large volume.
In real history, this red rabbit horse is either only ridden by Lu Bu and Guan Yu in the later period, or it is ridden and used when the generals are alone, or it is rare to ride a charge and raid, and there is a possibility that it is a stallion and gives birth to a new foal is also a red rabbit horse, otherwise it is impossible to follow Lu Bu for several years, and it can accompany Guan Yu for a lifetime.
Of course, there is also a saying that Guan Yu didn't get the red rabbit horse at all, and Cao Cao just gave Guan Yu another good horse.
And when you really encounter the danger of life and death on the battlefield, compared with the lives of people and horses, you must still be dominated by people, even if the war horse under your crotch is precious and famous, it is not as important as your own life.
So now Huang Zhong uses his war horse to block arrows for himself, but it can be regarded as a very normal move on the battlefield.
It's just that Huang Zhong has a war horse to avoid arrows, but the soldiers behind Huang Zhong are a little miserable, in the face of the continuous shooting of crossbow arrows, in the blink of an eye, hundreds of people are either killed or killed by arrows, and the others can only use hand shields or use the corpses of their companions to resist the crossbow arrows.
The crossbow arrow is known as a sharp weapon in the army in these years, a forbidden weapon among the people, but it is not in vain, even a martial arts general like Huang Zhong is helpless to be suppressed by the crossbow arrow at this moment.
At the same time, the spear and stabbing tiger carts around were gradually pushed over, blocking around the soldiers and horses led by Huang Zhong, as if a thorn wall appeared out of thin air, almost cutting off the possibility that Huang Zhong could lead his troops to break through.
"Don't come down soon! Don't drop yet! ”
The shouts of Zhu Wei's soldiers also sounded all around, and in the face of such a situation, many Huang Zhong's soldiers were already a little hesitant.
Huang Zhong's gaze swept behind him, and he saw the predicament of the soldiers he led, coupled with the spears and tiger car walls that were pushed around, the remaining 1,000 or 300 soldiers behind Huang Zhong were like trapped beasts trapped in the fighting room, with no place to dodge, they could only be slaughtered by the continuous crossbow arrows.
"Stop! A certain family ......, a certain family is willing to surrender! ”
Huang Zhong's heart was depressed, at this moment he knew that he was really a little too anxious, he didn't expect that Zhu Weijun actually hid a sharp weapon like a crossbow machine in the array, coupled with the current situation, a military general like him was also useless for a hero.
Huang Zhong knew that he was defeated, no matter how he spared the lives of the soldiers behind him, there was no need to die with him in vain.
"Stop! General Huang, the lord of my family has already heard of the reputation of his feet, and knows that General Huang is the first general in Jingzhou, but Liu Biao has no ability to know people, so General Huang can only be a coward with Liu Pan in this small county! Previously, the lord had instructed that as long as General Huang was willing to put down his soldiers, he would definitely protect the stability of General Huang's family, and as for General Huang's stay in the future, it could be at the will of General Huang! ”
Mu Lan held the red tassel lance in his hand, looked at Huang Zhong who was trapped in the crossbow arrow array, and ordered the crossbowmen to stop and continue to release arrows, and then persuaded Huang Zhongyi again.
Before Zhu Wei sent troops in Yuzhang, he had already talked about Wei Yan and Huang Zhong in Changsha County in front of Wang Yuyan, Mu Lan, Pang Yan and other henchmen, Wei Yan was a person who was already willing to surrender, naturally he just needed to get in touch, but Huang Zhong specifically mentioned his martial arts and ability, saying that he was comparable to Wenhou Lu Bu's strength, and he was actually a good general.
To be honest, this time Wang Yuyan sent Mu Lan here to set up a gossip tortoiseshell array, plus this thousand crossbowmen, just to deal with Huang Zhong.
Previously, Wang Yuyan also carefully instructed Mu Lan not to underestimate Huang Zhong's skills, and before Huang Zhong broke into the gossip tortoiseshell formation and forcibly selected a few small tortoiseshell formations, it also made Mu Lan see a little bit of Huang Zhong's strength, so Mu Lan felt that Huang Zhong's martial arts were really strong, no less than Pang Yan, the first general in Zhu Wei's army.
Fortunately, this gossip tortoiseshell array was delineated by Wang Yuyan, and Mu Lan personally participated in the training, and now these soldiers are basically the sword and shield hands of Zhu Weizhong's military camp, which was originally specially trained to protect Zhu Weizhong's military commander's platform, so the big shield and small shield are also well prepared.
Although the crossbowmen were brought from Pang Yan's Xionglu Battalion, the main role of this crossbowmen was to use crossbow arrows to pose a short- and medium-range threat to the enemy, so they did not need to participate in the change of the military formation, and it didn't matter whether it was training to adapt to the change of the military formation.
Now that Huang Zhong has broken into the Bagua Tortoise Shell Array and fallen into the lore area controlled by the Crossbow Array, he has really fallen into a trap.
Therefore, now hearing that Huang Zhong was willing to surrender, Mu Lan hurriedly followed Wang Yuyan's previous instructions and said words of comfort to Huang Zhong.
Obviously, Wang Yuyan has considered that under such circumstances, Huang Zhong may surrender, but it is also very likely that he will commit suicide, after all, a general like Huang Zhong is extremely humiliating to surrender.
But Wang Yuyan felt from Zhu Wei's attitude that Zhu Wei valued Huang Zhong, so Wang Yuyan deliberately let Mu Lan talk like this, which was to dispel Huang Zhong's will to die, as long as Huang Zhong did not commit suicide now, then he could naturally think of a way to surrender Huang Zhong afterwards.
And now that Mu Lan is looking at Huang Zhong, he really hopes that Huang Zhong can stop and surrender, as Zhu Wei's henchman, Mu Lan naturally hopes that a peerless military general like Huang Zhong can be put into Zhu Wei's account......