Chapter Eighty-Eight, That Brilliant Red
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Although he didn't want to admit it, he had to admit that the trouble caused by Yanshi City to the coalition forces was huge.
Although Dong Zhuojun paid a heavy price, a total of 40,000 Liang soldiers and horses gathered here to fight an offensive and defensive battle with 200,000 troops of the Dong Alliance, only experienced less than three days of fighting, but more than half of them lost their combat effectiveness one after another, but they did effectively hinder the advance of the coalition army in these two or three days.
And more importantly, at this time, the military rations of the coalition army are close to being completely exhausted, and if it is said that although it was tense before, it can still allocate a little, then it is now officially facing a real food crisis.
Perhaps this is also why, on the third day, the offensive of the coalition forces was even more fierce on the basis of the previous two days, which made the defenders of Yanshi City almost face defeat under the first wave of the opponent's attack.
And although Xu Rong and the others are already very tired and don't want to fight anymore, they can't afford to retreat like this, at least even if they lose their lives, they can block it, they still have to block it.
And in the center of the three armies of the coalition army, it was already filled with bursts of angry roars: "Waste, this is not a tiger prison, the other side has less than 40,000 people, so it will block my army from a small city, look at what you are doing, what a bunch of waste!" Eater! ”
Yuan Shao was wantonly venting his dissatisfaction and anger for several days, especially to Kong Rong, Wang Kuang, Bao Xin, Zhang Chao, Kong Ling, and the latter's faces couldn't help but be a little embarrassed, after all, although Yuan Shao scolded a little excessively, what he said was almost the truth, their subordinates were really bad, even if they were used as cannon fodder, they were definitely the worst cannon fodder, especially later, they seemed to be frightened by the enemy's resolute defense, and they only saw that the soldiers in front of them only left a mountain of corpses. They were timid and retreated, even Yuan Shao's retreating military order could not be stopped for a while, and finally it was difficult to stabilize the situation, but they had to Mingjin to withdraw his troops and rest for a while, and then re-launch the attack.
It can be said that the Yanshi can hold for so long, in fact, it does not mean that their defense is really good, and the ability of the three generals is really superb, but more importantly, the appearance of these opponents is too bad, which directly drags down their allies.
It is said that he is not afraid of opponents like wolves, but he is afraid of teammates like pigs, if Yuan Shao hears this sentence, he will definitely feel very agreed, he has this kind of depression now.
But after all, the battle had to continue, but before he could turn his attention back to the front, he heard a sound of horses' hooves behind him sounding rapidly, which suddenly attracted the attention of the coalition soldiers behind and most of the Chinese army, Yuan Shao couldn't help but look over, at first he was a little disapproving, but when he saw the scene behind him clearly, he also felt stunned.
A large area of "Red Sea", the eye-stimulating red color suddenly filled people's entire field of vision, and a big "Lu" flag is also very eye-catching
It's Lu Bu's Bingzhou light horse!
The speed of this light cavalry is very fast, which is simply to give full play to this characteristic of theirs, and in the eyes of the allied soldiers, the most conspicuous thing is that the red cloaks on their bodies are very brilliant, which is very exciting to the eye, and they should constantly shake out waves with the wind.
However, on the battlefield, you still have to rely on strength to speak, relying on eyeballs to pay attention to Yuan Shao didn't pay attention at all, but Lu Bu led this Bingzhou light cavalry to come, which was really beyond the expectations of the coalition army, they didn't think at all, Dong Zhuojun looked like he would fight a charge battle with them, you must know that the numerical advantage of the coalition army is not standing there in vain, it also means that they have a lot more room to choose from, as if now, if it is Dong Zhuojun himself to face this situation, there may be no good way, but among the coalition forces, naturally, there are classes to restrain cavalry. …,
The most important thing to restrain cavalry is to stop their charge, which is where cavalry is most destructive, except for the special category of heavy cavalry.
However, it is very surprising that Dong Zhuojun does not seem to put hope on these light cavalry at all, and even Lu Bu led this light cavalry here, but it looks more like he came for sightseeing, originally Zhang Yang and Gongsun Zhan's cavalry were recuperating, and they were basically not needed in this kind of siege warfare, and in the face of Lu Bu's impact, they were also the first to take their own responsibility and rushed forward, but they were quickly avoided by Lu Bu, and they didn't even have time to contact at all, and at this time everyone found out, Something seems to be wrong on the other side -
"It's ...... What is this? ”
Cattle!
This was the first reaction in the minds of all those who saw this scene, and then they saw that there was not only one cow, but even more than ten cows, a hundred cows, this was a large herd of cattle, a huge herd, all of them were running wildly with all their might, and it looked like they were chasing Lu Bu and them.
However, before the coalition cavalry could react, they saw Lu Bu and his cavalry tearing off their red cloaks one after another, and then threw them in this direction.
What kind of wind is blowing today? It is obvious that it is east-west, that is to say, they don't need much skill or strength to throw it, but only by the wind, they all floated into the coalition cavalry camp, and suddenly it was like a red cloud shrouded in, which made people feel a little dizzy when they looked at it.
What was even more frightening, however, was the reaction of the herd on the other side.
Boom, a violent tremor on the ground alerted everyone in the coalition army, and also made them suddenly aware of the horror of the scene in front of them.
Those cattle actually rushed towards the direction of the coalition cavalry one by one, which made the coalition soldiers who were originally stationed in the rear panic all at once, and when they got closer, they found that these cattle were not simple cows, they were red eyes one by one, as if they were angry to the extreme, and there seemed to be some instinctive panic in the anger, especially in their buttocks or tails, a string of flames was ignited, and the beeping sound was small but close to it could still be heard clearly, At the same time, I felt a cold light flicker in front of me—there were blades strapped to the back of these cows.
Since ancient times, it is not uncommon to win more battles with less, but they are very rare, and in fact, it is impossible for a battle to completely annihilate the enemy in the true sense, and the decisive role in the victory or defeat of a battle is not the number of casualties, but the trend of defeat.
Especially in the battle of winning more with less, because of the relatively small number of people, even if the enemy is standing there for you to kill, you can't finish it for a while, so at this time, you can usually only say defeat and defeat the enemy, and it is impossible to say that it is annihilation, unless you use some unconventional means, such as fire attack and water attack, and the most typical difference in the Three Kingdoms era is the Battle of Chibi and Guan Yu's flooding of the Seventh Army, and whether it is the former or the latter, it is possible to meet but not to seek, and it depends on the right time, place and people.
And where Lu Bu came up with it, it was the famous fire bull array in history.
In fact, of course, this is not his originality, whether it is in the Warring States Period, or in the West, or even in Little Japan, the Fire Ox Formation is not unique.
In ancient China, this was the earliest tactic used by Le Yi during the Warring States Period when he broke the Yan army.