Chapter 164: A Strong Man's Broken Arm
Li Dian saw that there was no condition after this gentle slope, and his heart was also relaxed, he sighed secretly, but glared left and right: "What are you doing!" It's all on Lao Tzu, see how scared you are? What if there is a new Han army? Just call Lao Tzu back, I don't believe it, they have three heads and six arms, cut down with a knife, don't they want to hit the head on the ground? ”
After Li Dian finished speaking, he waved his hand and ordered the army to advance.
Stomp ......
The soldiers of the Cao army, riding their war horses, took steps, and climbed the gentle slope step by step, and in the grass of the road they stepped on, the rain splashed and the mud flew.
Just like the scouts before them, after the gentle slope, there is no shadow of the New Han army, and there are only some traces left by the last war. The branches, grasses, and leaves that were originally draped on the body of the New Han Army were scattered on the ground, and they had dried up a little. Of course, in the past few days, although it has rained a little from time to time, there is still a blood-black color in this slope, and the rain has not immediately washed away the blood stains on the grass.
"Forward!"
Li Dian rode his horse on the top of the slope, glanced at the blood stains on the ground in front of him, and snorted a little dry in his throat.
Like a tidal wave, Cao Jun climbed over the gentle slope and walked down.
I don't know why, every Cao soldier had a feeling of horror in their hearts when they walked down this gentle slope, or at this moment, they couldn't help but think of the scene when they suddenly saw the New Han Army waiting for them here, or they remembered the bitter battle in this gentle slope at the beginning. Yesterday's brothers. One by one, they were killed on the ground by the Xinhan army, and their screams were still in their ears.
The army descended to the bottom of a gentle slope. Further on, there is a fairly flat strip of land, which you have to pass through for about three or four miles before you find another undulating undulating hillside area.
They didn't know that this time, Cao Jun was tantamount to truly walking into a death zone.
At the beginning, the New Han army chose to hide here, waiting for the arrival of Hou Cao's army. It is the terrain that I fancy here, which is equivalent to an irregular square area with a depression. Although it was only a small territory formed between the undulating waves of the surrounding hillside, it was just a small territory that could be blocked by the long gentle slope in front of Cao Jun. And because of that. The Xinhan military can give Cao Jun a sudden blow here.
Now, it seems that there is no shadow of the New Han Army ahead.
However, the sergeants of the New Han Army are actually hiding farther away. On the ground under the small slopes on the opposite side of this long gentle slope. Of course. In front of them, there were scattered four corners of the nail iron thistles, and a large array of bows and arrows of about 20,000 horses.
Li Dian immediately walked down the gentle slope, he did not immediately ride his horse down the gentle slope, but watched the army walk past him expressionlessly, walking down the gentle slope like flowing water, and walking onto the flat grass below.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Powerful and powerful. It's like three heavy drums that hit people's hearts directly, and they suddenly sounded without warning!
Three drums. It was really like three heavy hammers, hitting the hearts of all the Cao soldiers heavily, making them stand up in unison, and then, everyone looked panicked and looked around.
"Yike...... Yikes......"
The horses of the Cao army were also frightened, and for a while, the cavalry in the Cao army was a little confused.
As for Li Dian, his face turned pale all of a sudden.
"Drink!"
With a loud shout, Li Dian, who was immediately on the gentle slope, looked around as much as he could, and when he saw the front, he actually stood up in rows of people and horses from the wet grass all of a sudden.
Damn it! The New Han Army actually came to attack its own army? Actually waiting for their army here? This...... It's just too cunning. Last time, the Xinhan army lined up and waited here, but this time, it actually lay in the muddy grass in the rain, making them unguarded.
Li Dian's heart suddenly fell to the bottom, and he couldn't help but scold.
However, in the hazy rain, there did not seem to be too many men and horses standing up from the front, and it seemed that all of them were infantry...... Well, in the area two or three miles ahead, where can you hide a war horse? Therefore, there will definitely be no more cavalry of the New Han Army lurking in front to attack them. This made Li Dian see a little opportunity, and he was about to immediately give the order to let his cavalry rush over and crush the infantry of the New Han Army in front.
However, before he could give the order, he heard a powerful bang, followed by a sound that seemed to come from all directions, as if there were countless fierce ghosts whining, which made people's hearts tremble and feel harsh and uncomfortable.
Woowoo......
The sound poured straight into the ear holes, as if to drain the air in Cao Bing's body, making them feel as uncomfortable as suffocation.
What is this sound?
However, there is no need for Li Dian to guess, because he has already seen it.
He stood on the high point of the gentle slope, but he saw it most truly.
He saw rows of white arrows coming from three or four miles ahead, and on either side of the gentle slope on which he stood, as fast as lightning.
A series of crossbow arrows, breaking through the air, these crossbow arrows, almost close to the ground, horizontal rapid shooting, because fast, directly through the rain curtain, so that the crossbow arrows in the flight, as if flying on the water surface, with splashing rain, so that these crossbow arrows are turned into white water arrows.
Burst......
Li Dian was stunned, his chest was stuffy, a pain, he couldn't slow down in one breath, and with a poof, a mouthful of blood spurted out.
Porphyry ......
Bumper Bumper ......
Li Dian looked at the rain that broke through the rain curtain, and lightly penetrated the Cao army column that had already walked down the gentle slope, and the white water arrows passed through the bodies of the Cao soldiers one by one as if nothing, and then the white water arrows turned into blood arrows, and then penetrated the bodies of some other Cao soldiers, and then flew up with their whole people, and then crashed into the crowd.
"Crossbow bolts! The crossbow arrows of the New Han Army! Withdraw! Give me back! ”
Li Dian stood on a gentle slope, but he didn't have to worry about being attacked by crossbow arrows. However, he is not worried about his own safety now. Rather, they are worried about their soldiers who have gone down the gentle slope.
He rolled off his horse in a rage, and despite the blood stains on the corners of his mouth, he jumped to his feet and shouted loudly.
It's a pity that the sound of crossbow arrows is even sharper than his Li Dian's shout. His shouts were not conveyed at all.
Of course, even if it is conveyed. It didn't work either.
Rows of neat crossbow arrows pierced from both sides, forming a cross strangulation against those Cao soldiers who walked down the gentle slope.
These Cao soldiers. They had already been stunned by this sudden strangulation, and a few lucky Cao soldiers, they looked at the soldiers beside them, and they were taken away by a water arrow. He was still standing. I can't come back to my senses for a while.
At this time, in the bodies of these Cao soldiers, there were only two words: fear.
In fact, under the hazy rain, it was difficult for them to see clearly the bed crossbow of the New Han Army, which was about two miles away, and all they could see now was a series of water arrows that seemed to come out of thin air.
The lethality of crossbow arrows is really incomparable. No one could stop these delicate crossbow arrows.
In the Cao army's array, flesh and blood flew for a while. People turn on their backs.
As for screaming? Many Cao soldiers died before they had time to shout, and some Cao soldiers screamed, but they were always covered by the sound of crossbow arrows breaking through the air, and only occasionally a terrible scream spread far away.
"Rush Rush ......"
Under the blow of one or two rounds of crossbow arrows, the Cao soldiers who were walking in front rushed forward in panic, hoping to break through the interception of the New Han army in front.
Well, the power of the bed crossbow is indeed very large, but most of the bed crossbows of the New Han Army are arranged on both sides of the road, and the bed crossbows here are not enough to cover the entire space under the gentle slope.
This, as I said before, most of these places are wavy areas, even if it is a flat land similar to a small disk under the gentle slope, not all of them are flat, bed crossbows attack in a straight line, there are many sections with small mounds blocking the shooting angle, and between those intervals, there are no bed crossbows.
Therefore, the power of the bed crossbow is unstoppable, but it is impossible to attack all the Cao soldiers like the Long Snake Formation from the side at the same time.
In fact, all that can be attacked is Cao Bing in the middle of the paragraph.
However, for the time being, Cao Bing did not know the layout of the New Han Army, they only saw those crossbow arrows from the left and right sides that made their scalps numb and their feet weak, and regardless of whether they could hit them or not, they all rushed forward in panic.
Of course, it's not all about arrows. In the array of the Cao army, the Cao soldiers in front and behind the Cao army in the section where Cao was hit by the bed crossbow, they saw that there were crossbow arrows in the array behind them, they rushed forward, and if they saw the array soldiers in front of them being killed by the crossbow arrows, they retreated.
In this way, many Cao soldiers can avoid being shot directly by the bed crossbow.
However, those Cao soldiers who rushed towards the arrows suffered first, because if the area ahead was level, there would also be crossbow arrows. In the area blocked by some mounds, although there were no crossbow arrows, after they rushed over, they rushed directly into a nail array, and one by one Cao soldiers were stabbed in the feet by the four-corner nails, and they jumped their feet and cried bitterly.
The Cao army is in chaos, all in chaos, how could they have fought such a battle? They didn't even see the enemy's figure, they were beaten like headless flies, and they couldn't escape from the left and right.
Well, it is conceivable that in this quadrangular area, the bed crossbows in front of the New Han army and the bed crossbows on the left and right were cast crossbow arrows into their military formations from three directions. Although it is not fully covered, it is conceivable that this square area has been divided into blocks by a powerful, fixed shooting angle.
Cao Jun, they can only let them be in those square areas, so that they will not be killed by the bed crossbow. However, this was only temporary, and just looking at the crossbow arrows that were fired in front of them and from the left and right, they had already frightened them and made them dare not move. It's safe for the time being, but who knows what means the New Han Army will have to eliminate them?
The truth is not only Li Dian's first march.
Fang Cai's three heavy drums sounded the order for the all-out attack of the New Han Army.
The 250,000 Cao army, most of the military horse queue, has entered the section where the Xinhan army is ambushed. At the same time that Li Dian's vanguard army suffered a blow, there were two sides of that section of road that was almost ten miles long. Countless bed crossbows are all casting crossbow arrows to their heart's content.
At this moment, most of the first half of the entire Cao army is a military horse. They were all under the ambush of the New Han Army, although many Cao troops who shot at the blind spot were not attacked at the first time, but the Cao troops in front and behind them were almost killed by a round of crossbow arrows, and the entire military horse queue in the front half of the Cao army was divided into sections.
This time, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan, Xu Huang and other generals were a little lucky. They happened to be in the middle of the Cao army's marching column, and they happened not to enter the ambush section of the New Han army.
However, these generals of the Cao army were also frightened.
Because it's fine. So without warning, he was suddenly attacked.
Moreover, they were also like Li Dian, watching the Cao soldiers in front of them be shot by crossbow arrows from both sides of the road. One death is a big piece.
"Zhang Fei! What the hell is going on! ”
Xiahoudun looked at the military horse in front of him. was killed by the sudden crossbow arrows, and he couldn't help but see that his eyes were red all of a sudden, and the first thing he thought about was how they could still be ambushed? The so-called Zhang Fei who answered them was next to him, and Zhang Fei would not know this problem until he knew about it.
However, Zhang Fei actually pretended to be surprised at this moment. His eyes were a little relative, and he heard Xiahou Dun's question. This guy was actually very single, and said with an innocent face: "Xiahoudun! What do you mean? What's the matter, you ask? I want to ask you more. ”
"Oops! Zhang Laohei, I'm so angry! Xiahoudun's eyes widened, like a spear that breathed fire, and attacked Zhang Fei with a spear: "You are here to answer us and others, but why is there an ambush here?" Isn't that you're framing us? ”
"Ahh Not to be outdone, Zhang Fei held Xiahoudun's spear with a spear, and snorted: "Why did I frame you?" We didn't say that there was no ambush here, we just came to meet you, as for whether there was an ambush or not, do you want us to explore the way for you? When your army marched, didn't you send scouts yourself to explore whether there would be enemy ambushes along the way? Now I'm to blame? Don't think I'm afraid of you, come on, come on, let's fight three hundred rendezvous! ”
"Kill this black guy!" Xiahoudun didn't think that he could be Zhang Fei's enemy, and greeted Xiahou Yuan and Xu Huang, who were also staring at Zhang Fei angrily, and said, "Let's go together!" ”
Zhang Fei was also very alert, as soon as he forced Xiahoudun's weapon away, he immediately reined in his horse and jumped to the side, and said loudly: "Hey, hey, if I'm you, let's see how to meet the battle now, na, you see, it seems that an army is rushing over." ”
Although the Cao army in front was attacked, the military horses in the back half of the Cao army were safe. Zhang Fei didn't have too many personal soldiers around him, if he really fought with the Xiahou brothers and Xu Huang, he personally had some confidence in escaping, but the personal soldiers who followed him were afraid that they would be wiped out by Cao Jun in the blink of an eye.
"Kill!"
Xu Zhu, Qin Jie, Dian Wei and other generals have already led the cavalry to rush over at this moment.
Seeing the cavalry of the New Han Army rushing over in the distance, the three generals couldn't help but change color in unison.
Now, the three of them really don't know how to deal with the current situation.
The Cao army that was attacked in front has more than half of the men, do these Cao troops behind them want to rescue them? However, looking ahead, they kept shooting long crossbow arrows with incredible power from both sides of the road, how could they rescue them?
Now, the cavalry of the New Han Army is coming, are they going to fight or retreat?
In the battle, they had fought with the cavalry of the New Han Army, and it was estimated that they were attacked by them again this time, and they may not be able to resist it. I want to withdraw the military horses behind me, but what about the hundreds of thousands of military horses in front?
Also, they all think that there must be something wrong with Zhang Fei, Zhang Laohei, and if it weren't for Zhang Fei, they might not be in such a dilemma.
"Withdraw!"
Xiahoudun's steel teeth gritted violently, almost crushing his own teeth.
He knew that at this time, he had to make a decision immediately, otherwise, once they were killed by the New Han Army into their military formation, their team would be so long that it would be difficult to form a battle with the New Han Army again, and it was estimated that no one would be able to escape at that time. Therefore, he decided to break the arm of the strong man and no longer care about Cao Bing who was trapped in the ambush section of the New Han Army.
"Are you really leaving? Don't, we have to make it clear, the ambush of your Cao army really has nothing to do with me, Zhang Fei. Zhang Fei raised his spear and shouted.
"Zhang Laohei! This time, I remember it, next time, you are not so lucky, I Xiahoudun will not kill you in this life, and I will not be a man! ”
Xiahoudun glared at Zhang Fei fiercely, turned his head and waved his army back.
Originally, if the cavalry of the New Han Army had not been killed, Xiahoudun would have really killed Zhang Fei. Then they rescued Cao Bing in the ambushed section, because they also saw that not all Cao soldiers were shot on this section of the ambushed road, and his military horses were safe for the time being on a certain section of the road. If he now leads his army to both sides of the road and attacks the soldiers of the New Han Army who use crossbow arrows, he may be able to rescue the horses in the ambushed section.
But now, Xiahoudun was more worried that most of his military horses, which had not been ambushed, would be killed by the cavalry of the New Han Army. Also, what is the situation on both sides of the road now, he doesn't know anything now, he thinks that if the Xinhan army dares to ambush them like this, there must be thorough preparations, what if he leads the army to attack and kill them, and is hit again?
Therefore, Xiahoudun endured the pain of the strong man's broken arm and decided to focus on preserving the remaining 100,000 troops and horses.
However, Xiahoudun's heart is really painful at the moment, dripping blood, this kind of thing of leaving more than 100,000 military horses and putting them in a desperate situation makes Xiahoudun's heart cut like a knife, which is worse than the pain of his arrows. (To be continued......)