Chapter 804: Shocking Numbers
Cao De gave an order, and the 200,000 army, under the leadership of more than a dozen generals, launched an attack on Liu Bei and Sun Ce's large array!
With so many people and such a large formation, more than 200,000 people attacked at the same time. To be honest, Cao De also saw it for the first time!
What is a flying arrow like a locust, what is dazzling, is now perfectly presented in front of Cao De.
The most fundamental thing that makes cold weapon warfare different from hot weapon warfare is the way in which the enemy is killed. Although it's all about killing the enemy. But in cold weapon warfare, the means that can attack the enemy from a distance can only play an auxiliary role, and the only real reliance is on the soldier to kill the enemy with the knife in his hand! And this, that is to say, it is impossible for the 200,000 people that Cao De is now dispatching to fight the enemy at the same time. Only after the front robe Ze is killed in battle, can it be the turn of the brothers in the back to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions!
"Kill!"
Rows of pikemen and halberders, waving their weapons in their hands, pushed and stabbed the enemy's shields hard. As long as there is a little gap. The tips of more than ten guns can go in white and come out in red!
What's more, some sword and shield bearers directly let their robes lift themselves up with their shields, and then the sword and shield bearers put their shields under their bodies, and jumped into the enemy's line with a loud roar.
Although the first group of sword and shield men who jumped in successfully killed them, they also gave the enemy a head!
Such a bold thing can be done, this is not sure to send you to death! Brothers, chop to death with knives!
However, the sacrifices of these sword and shield bearers were not without gain. Because, the second group of sword and shield men who jumped in later had a harvest!
The first batch was completely sent to death, because the enemy was the most heavily defended at that time; And the second group is the existence that really breaks the deadlock, because the enemy's formation has been disrupted by the previous robes, so they have a chance; As for the third and fourth batches that will arrive next, they will expand the results!
At the same time as the infantry attacked, Cao De's cavalry also began to attack. And this time, Liu Bei did not hesitate to take out the interlocking crossbow developed by himself!
The so-called interlocking crossbow is actually very simple, that is, to catch the crossbow arrows on two ballista carts with iron chains.
The flying of the crossbow bolt does not form a parabola with a large drop like an ordinary bow and arrow, but flies close to the ground. And it is precisely because of this feature that Zhuge Liang used an iron chain to link the two crossbow arrows.
In this way, a tripwire that can fly and will take the initiative to meet the enemy's cavalry is formed!
Originally, the neatly lined cavalry was beaten and turned on their backs under the sudden attack, but fortunately, Zhuge Liang's interlocking crossbow was more troublesome to load. Therefore, the losses of Cao De's knights on the offensive road are still within the tolerable range.
In the war, the most eye-catching one was Sun Ce. After Cao De and Liu Bei started the battle, Sun Ce led his army and began to move to the side of the battlefield, and then the sharp blades of the army slammed into the flank of Cao De's army. And this flank is none other than the sword battalion of the Five Marches.
As a result, the number of soldiers killed on the entire battlefield exceeded 500,000 in one fell swoop!
Half a million people huddled together, swords brandished, mouths shouted, blood flowing, lives flowing!
On such a huge base, every minute and every second, there are constantly lives passing away. And these lost lives are by no means a few. And when these numbers add up, it's a result that no one can afford to live with.
The fierce battle lasted for nearly a day, and by the time Cao De and Sun Liu returned to the camp, it was already dark. And the casualties counted by each battalion were summarized and put on Cao De's table the next day!
More than 50,000 were killed in the battle, 100,000 were wounded, and more than 40,000 of them could no longer fight!
Only one battle!
In such a battle, Cao De's army was reduced by more than 100,000 troops! Among them, the most tragic is the Five Guards at the front!
The Fifth Guard Army is divided into five battalions: the Forward Guard Battalion, the Rear Guard Battalion, the Left Guard Battalion, the Right Guard Battalion, and the Middle Guard Battalion, with 20,000 people in each battalion, totaling 100,000 people. Of these 100,000 people, there are less than 50,000 soldiers who still have combat effectiveness in this battle. There were many commanders who belonged to the Fifth Guard Army, and after returning to the camp, they couldn't help but cry when they looked at the empty camp.
It's gone, the brothers are dead!
And those thousand-man teams that even the commander died in battle were even more desolate. In the dark camp, there was silence, except for the faint chirping of insects, the cries or laughter of other camps on the side.
Cao De didn't expect that he would lose one-fifth of his soldiers on the first day of fighting. Although there are only numbers one after another in front of Cao De, behind these mathematics there are cute and simple smiling faces. And when Cao De was stunned when he looked at the loss statistics, some people were stunned.
This person is Liu Bei and Sun Ce!
In the first battle, Cao De's side killed more than 50,000 people, and Liu Bei and Sun Ce's side were even worse!
Liu Bei participated in the battle of 200,000 horses and horses, blocked Cao De's attack from the front, and lost nearly 60,000 men. If the wounded soldiers are added, if Cao De continues to attack the next day, Liu Bei will be able to fight less than 130,000 soldiers.
As for Sun Ce. When Cao De was attacking Liu Bei, Sun Ce launched an attack on Cao De from the side. And even so, Sun Ce still lost nearly 30,000 people. And Sun Ce's attack also almost crippled Cao De's sword battalion.
But relatively speaking, Cao De's loss is still the largest.
Although Cao De died in battle, the soldiers were only half of the Sun and Liu families. But Cao De had many wounded soldiers. is like the more than 50,000 people who have lost their combat effectiveness, Cao De has to pay pensions all the time. Therefore, at present, Cao De's loss seems to be relatively small, but in the long run, Cao De needs to pay more.
"King Han, our army's losses this time are too great! So far, our army has never suffered such battle losses! Guo Jia saw the statistics on Cao De's table, and said with a numb scalp.
The 500,000 people marching out on the battlefield is indeed spectacular, but the 100,000 corpses scattered on both sides of the battlefield are also shocking!
This is the trouble of being outnumbered in war.
A soldier who has just killed an enemy and hacked another to death, but still has the strength and luck to keep him alive in the face of the next enemy?
To say that Cao De's soldiers are two or even one is a top player, that is to say heads-up. Moreover, if he faced the siege of three enemies at the same time, he might win, but by the time he faced the fourth enemy, he was over.
Cao De sighed and said, "Yes, I didn't expect that there would be such a big casualty. However, it is not easy for Liu Bei and Sun Ce to think about it. The army rested for three days, and the wounded were immediately arranged to be sent back to Chang'an Division, and they fought again in three days! ”
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