Chapter 53, Guiding the Soldiers
Before the operation, Zu Zhao had already ordered the 100 cavalry led by him to accept it when it was good, and not to fall in love with the battle. Although many cavalry were unwilling, they obeyed Zu Zhao's orders.
At dusk, the sun was like blood, and the whole sky was covered with fiery clouds.
Zu Zhao ordered a hundred horses to ride the bell, the horse's hooves wrapped in cotton cloth, and quietly approached Zhang Zizhong's left flank.
At this moment, Zhang Zizhong's left flank was heavily guarded, and since Zhang Zizhong's uprising, his troops came up strictly, and there were material defenses such as horse rejection and deer barricades outside, in order to prevent cavalry from sneaking up.
Zu Zhao found out that this Yellow Turban Army actually had such a precaution when he touched the place where the opponent's left flank came out, which shows that Zhang Zizhong is a general, and using the Red Turban Deer Fence as a defensive measure is the basic military arrangement, but the Yellow Turban Army is mostly from the grassroots, and many generals basically don't know anything about it, and even like Zonghai Deng Mao and others, they only rely on the courage of blood and qi to fight, and they don't pay attention to the so-called art of war at all.
And Cheng Zhiyuan is a legendary Confucian general, although Zu Zhao once defeated the other party, but it is also because Cheng Zhiyuan despises Zu Zhao too much, who would have thought that a teenager could have a splendid strategy?
And Zhang Zizhong is undoubtedly the most outstanding general under Cheng Zhiyuan, this platoon of troops is arranged in an orderly manner, even if the officers and soldiers are just like that.
"Eldest prince, what should I do if these people actually use the rejection horse and the deer?" A young man from the ancestral family beside Zu Zhao asked here.
In the Three Kingdoms era, the so-called rejection of horses was to tie a herringbone frame with wood, tie the head of the spear to the horizontal wood, and let the tip of the spear be outside, mainly to defend against the sneak attack of the cavalry. Although it is simple, if the cavalry hits these rejected horses, it is a person who turns over on his back and suffers heavy casualties, while the deer is a herringbone frame made of wood, and the sharp tip of the gun is on the horizontal wood, which is similar to the rejection of the horse, but the cost is cheaper and more worry-free.
"Although this horse-repelling deer is powerful, but it looks at your riding skills, and following me so many accounts, what is such a rejecting deer!"
"What the eldest prince said makes sense!"
Zu Zhao galloped on his horse and led a hundred horsemen to attack fiercely on Zhang Zizhong's left flank.
"Enemy attack, there is enemy attack!"
Zhang Zizhong's side quickly discovered Zu Zhao's cavalry, the sound of drumming was loud, and countless smoke and dust flew up, looking extremely flustered.
"Prepare the archers, give them a good look once the enemy soldiers attack!" A general on Zhang Zizhong's left flank ordered that a large group of archers soon come over, followed by a pair of shield soldiers.
Almost a horse shooting kung fu, Zu Zhao had already led a hundred cavalry to a place eighty meters away from the enemy's left flank. Countless arrows flew from the other side, but because they were too far away, they fell to the ground one after another.
"Stupid, put it in and shoot again! Isn't this a waste of bows and arrows! The enemy's left-wing generals couldn't help but curse when they saw that the arrows they shot were gone. In these years, the reserves of arrows are not large, especially the Yellow Turban Army, which has no special blacksmiths to make bows and arrows, and all of them are captured, and one is less than one.
Zu Zhao didn't care about him, the cavalry behind him almost advanced side by side, this time everyone's horse was covered with wooden spears, no less than a hundred, densely tied to the horse's back, as long as he stretched out his hand, he could draw out and throw it.
"Throw a wooden spear! Shoot all the wooden spears clean! Suppress the opposing archers! ”
After saying that, the wooden spear in his hand had been thrown out, his strength was great, the wooden spear flew out, directly hitting a shield, and the guy holding the shield soldier was directly knocked away, and even the archer hiding behind the shield was also knocked away.
Later, the flying wooden spear strung the two into hedgehogs as they fell to the ground.
Zu Zhao's ghost cavalry, followed by the momentum of the war horse, threw the wooden spear with an unprecedented rushing force, slamming through the shields and piercing the shield soldiers and archers to death.
The gap is opened in this way.
And the last thing Zu Zhao's cavalry lacked was cheap wooden spears.
The second cavalry had reached a distance of twenty meters, and the opposing archers and shieldmen had been lost.
The second wave of wooden spears flew again, and the Yellow Turban Buyong, who was coming behind, had already been killed by the wooden spears before they could get close to the wounded soldiers.
At this moment, it has rushed to the left flank of the Yellow Turban Army.
"Bully me for not having cavalry? The cavalry told me that the hundred cavalry stayed! If you are not mistaken, the silver-robed young general is the guy who humiliated General Cheng Zhiyuan, once you capture or kill this guy, you will be greatly rewarded! The general on the left flank looked at Zu Zhao and shouted to the cavalry behind him.
"Kill!" The cavalry behind him had already been unable to hold back, and the six hundred cavalry had already been prepared, and the general on the left flank had already prepared for the other party to arrive at his barracks before the six hundred cavalry could be killed.
Zu Zhao couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the arrangement of this left-wing general, the other party's cavalry was laid out in a line, instead of crisscrossing and besieging on three sides, which was a mistake.
"Kill! Pierce through enemy lines! ”
The other party's cavalry had already moved the horse rejection deer away, and they wanted to use the cavalry to compete with Zu Zhao, which just met Zu Zhao's wishes.
Cavalry to cavalry? Who's afraid of whom?
The two armies face off, and the bloody brave wins!
Zu Zhao had already taken out a strong bow and shot at the cavalry general who rushed out first, five consecutive arrows!
The general took a broadsword and knocked the first arrow, but did not dodge the arrow behind him, and was killed by the second arrow directly into the chest, and the next three arrows were submerged into the three cavalrymen who rushed to the body.
Zu Zhao drew his spear and rushed over, and the person died! Zu Zhao deliberately used a gun, although he couldn't catch up with Zhao Yun's extremely fast speed, but it was a one-hit kill.
With Zu Zhao's forcible attack, the opponent's cavalry array was chiseled a gap by Zu Zhao, and the cavalry behind Zu Zhao bravely killed, practicing spearmanship for several days.
There are constantly cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army falling off their horses, and there are also Zu Zhao's ghost horses falling off their horses, trampled to death by the galloping horses.
"Chisel through! Chisel through! ”
The ghost cavalry behind Zu Zhao roared loudly, a hundred ghost cavalry fought against the opponent's six hundred cavalry, they were not surrounded, and they also chiseled through the opponent's cavalry array, how mighty is this?
After chiseling through the enemy's array, Zu Zhao turned his horse's head around, and saw that the hundred phantom cavalry who followed him had lost about ten people, while the other party had lost nearly a hundred cavalry, and the battle loss ratio was one to ten.
"Kill it! Pierce through the enemy line again! Zu Zhao's eyes were red, his dantian vitality was surging, and the spear in his hand once again attacked the enemy's cavalry.
It will be the soul of the soldier.
The phantom rider who followed behind Zu Zhao was also red-eyed, and the spear in his hand appeared like a golden dragon, harvesting one of the opponent's lives in a flash.
On the other hand, the other party's cavalry, because they were killed by Zu Zhao's generals as soon as they got started, their momentum dropped to the extreme, and they saw Zu Zhao's phantom cavalry killing people like chopping vegetables, and Zu Zhao easily chiseled through the camp again.
"! Six hundred cavalry can't keep a hundred cavalry? Chase me and take Zu Zhao's reward of one hundred taels of silver! The generals on the left flank jumped like thunder, but they were secretly surprised in their hearts, this Zu Zhao's 100 strange soldiers were able to kill more than 200 of their own cavalry in and out of the encirclement of 600 cavalry, no wonder General Cheng Zhiyuan was defeated by him.
Zu Zhao came out with only more than eighty phantom cavalry, followed by the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army.
The two went up to Crouching Tiger Ridge one after the other.
"Kill them, they only have more than eighty horses, and there will be a reward of one hundred taels of silver for killing Zu Zhao!" One of the leaders of the Yellow Turban Army shouted loudly, chasing Zu Zhao from Huairong County for nearly half an hour, and he didn't see Zu Zhao fight back, which made the leader of the Yellow Turban Army very excited, what is the use of Zu Zhao being powerful? Isn't it the same as being hunted down?
Zu Zhao heard the shout of the leader, drew out the strong bow and turned around is the five-bead divine archery technique, the leader's words have not fallen, he has been killed by an arrow, and the cavalry behind him has also suffered from the seedlings of the pond fish.
The leader of the Yellow Turban Army who followed closely behind was suddenly shocked, and no one dared to loudly say that he wanted to capture Zu Zhao alive, but he chased and killed him tightly, and he shot it with a bow and arrow.
It's a pity that the horses on Zu Zhao's side are extremely fierce, far from being able to catch up with the horses of the Yellow Turban cavalry.
Crouching Tiger Ridge has arrived!
Zu Zhao couldn't help but smile when he looked at the small hill of Crouching Tiger Ridge, the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army was powerful, but it might not be able to withstand the encirclement and suppression on three sides.
Han Dang was already anxious to wait in Crouching Tiger Ridge.
For fear that Zu Zhao would lead a hundred cavalry to suffer, seeing Zu Zhao followed by four hundred cavalry, he couldn't help but smash a pair of fists into the ground, the eldest prince has a strategy, and this method of luring the enemy deep has been successful!
"Kill! Don't let one go! Han Dang took the lead and rushed to the front together.
Zu Ping, who was also in Luojia Zhuangzi, also saw the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army who entered the ambush circle, and led a hundred cavalry to rush out with a clip on the belly of a horse.
Zu Zhao, who was being chased and killed, turned his horse's head around at this time, leading the only remaining eighty phantom horsemen to kill back.
For a time, the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army was attacked on three sides, because there was no general of outstanding prestige to command, and all the cavalry panicked and panicked to meet the enemy.
Zu Zhao's most powerful killing move is the wooden spear, the penetration force is quite huge, a cavalry kung fu has two hundred Yellow Turban cavalry injured, Zu Zhao ordered Han Dang to attack from the flank, and Zu Zhao and Zu Ping surrounded the Yellow Turban cavalry before and after.
"Rush out from the right flank! There are no enemies on the right flank! "One of the cavalry leaders was quite old, and led his cavalry to rush quickly from the unsurrounded right flank.
He didn't know that it was Zu Zhao's ghost horse, and it was only three hundred horses, if they pestered Zu Zhao's ghost horse and waited for rescue, then Zu Zhao's ghost horse would inevitably retreat.
It's a pity that this little leader, in order to escape for a long time, has long been unable to care, as soon as he escaped, the cavalry of the entire Yellow Turban Army went up the right flank like a flood that burst the embankment, and no longer had the courage to fight a decisive battle.
Zu Zhao did not prevent these cavalry from escaping, after this battle, Zu Zhao's 300 cavalry made the place lose nearly 400 cavalry, and the 200 cavalry who escaped had no fighting spirit, and the defeated army would not be brave, and then Zu Zhao's cavalry would become their fearful heart.