Chapter 477: Jin Ge Iron Horse (2)
Seeing Ao Lie raise the overlord spear, the 100,000 elite soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty raised the weapons in their hands above the top for the third time, and after a slight pause in the air, they tilted and pointed at the battle formation of the Wei army, and the aura of slaughter became even stronger.
Lu Bu, who was at the forefront of the Han army, coldly slashed Fang Tian's halberd forward into the void, and shouted: "Long Xiang belongs, charge into battle!" Without saying a word, the red lightning crossed the battlefield, and the red rabbit horse had already carried Lu Bu to rush out, and in the excited neighing of the red rabbit horse, 20,000 dragon horses rode neatly and shouted: "Long Xiang belongs, there is no advance or retreat!" Kill—"
The horses' hooves are clanging, and the iron armor is craggy. The Long Xiang heavy cavalry quickly adjusted the formation behind Lu Bu, and while maintaining the same formation as the comrades behind them, they also made some subtle changes, using Lu Bu as the arrow, forming a sharp arrow formation that was connected to the Five Elements Great Array, but could fight independently. The dragon cavalry is known as the world's first heavy cavalry, but it is not in vain, when the horse rushes to kill, it is like a steel dragon from ancient times, showing its hideous minions to the enemy on the opposite side. The 80,000 hooves of the horses they sat on flew up and down, bringing up puffs of smoke and dust, forming an earth dragon in the air, echoing the steel dragon on the ground.
Lu Bu's charge immediately led Ma Chao and Gan Ning on both wings to make changes. Ma Chao waved the tiger head Zhan golden spear, and shouted angrily towards the division on the left side of the Wei army: "The tiger belongs to it, go forward with a certain kill!" The 20,000 Tiger Lux were already impatient, and at the same time aimed the blade of the horse chopping knife in the direction pointed by the tip of Ma Chao's gun, and shouted vigorously from his chest: "The power of the Tiger Ben, there is death and no life!" Kill—"
Gan Ning and Ma Chao reacted in the same way almost at the same time. He collided the Optimus Twin Halberds in his hand with each other, making a crisp sound of "dang long", and then raised his head to the sky and shouted: "The unicorn belongs, destroy the enemy!" The 20,000 Qilin elites behind Gan Ning seemed to be trying to show the world their skills in water and land warfare, and roared with all their might: "The courage of the Qilin. I'm invincible! Kill—"
The soldiers and horses in the front, left and right three battle formations have already made action, and the veteran Huang Zhong will naturally not be idle, his gray beard is windless and automatic, and his momentum of not being angry and powerful has skyrocketed to the peak in an instant, and the red blood knife in his hand has slashed down from the air, but the old voice has a artistic conception of never obeying the old, and it is transmitted to the ears of the 20,000 ballistae behind him: "Scatter line, throw, fire on the whole line!" ”
The 20,000 ballistae immediately followed Huang Zhong's order and divided into two teams to act. The small team began to adjust the ballistic settings of the red-coated ballista according to Huang Zhong's instructions. Finally, the firing trajectory of the redcoat ballista was fixed on the projectile at a 45-degree angle; The large group quickly loaded the crossbow into the tip of the red-coated ballista, and after completing the loading, they also used the power of the machinery to pull the crossbow string of the red-coated ballista, and the extremely tense crossbow string made a tooth-sore crunching sound.
As the Chinese army and the command center, Ao Lie also made changes according to the actions of the battle formations on all sides. However, he did not immediately put the Chinese army into battle, but just instigated the night snow dragon horse to maintain a certain speed and advance forward, and always maintained a unified pace with the battle formations in the four directions. Therefore. The Hundred Battles led by Zhao Yun did not shout their unique battle calls, but remained silent, following behind Ao Lie step by step. It's just that the horse chopping knives in their hands have already shown their blades. Be ready to join the battle at any time.
At the forefront of the Wei army's battle array, it was the Wei army general Xiahoudun, who had fought with Ao Lie's troops many times and was familiar with the combat style of the Northern Han soldiers. After hearing the sound of the red-clothed ballista's crossbow string being pulled apart, Xiahoudun immediately turned his head and shouted loudly to his subordinates behind him: "Disperse!" Stay in formation! Raise your shield! Charge! "The soldiers of the Wei army, who were originally standing densely behind Xiahoudun, immediately did not destroy the battle formation. carried out the evacuation, stretched the original gap between each other from a shoulder to a distance of two steps, and at the same time threw off his footsteps and launched an attack on the dragon cavalry led by Lu Bu, and on the way to the impact, raised the heavy shield in his hand.
Evacuation, which can reduce the area covered by red-coated ballistas; Raising a shield can form the most direct protection for the Wei soldiers; Charging can close the distance, causing the crossbow fired from the redcoat cannon to lose its effective target; Maintaining the formation is to get ready for the first wave of attacks when you are approaching in front of the dragon horses. Xiahoudun's order was offensive in defense, offensive and defensive integration, and command was measured, and he deserved to be the premier general in the Wei army.
However, in the end, the truth was beyond Xiahoudun's expectations. Because the first wave of targets that Huang Zhong wanted to attack was not Xiahoudun's troops, but Cao Xiu's troops displayed behind Xiahoudun. Why did Ao Lie let Huang Zhong command the ballista gunners every time there was a big battle? This is not unreasonable. On the one hand, Huang Zhong's archery skills are superb, and he can use his actions to indicate the target of the attack to the ballistamen, making the ballista gunners more clear about the purpose of the task; In the two, Huang Zhong has been on the battlefield for decades, and this experience is extremely valuable, and he can make the most accurate judgment according to the form on the battlefield. At present, Huang Zhong is using his own experience to change the direction of the ballista bombardment, and change the red-clothed ballista that is good at penetrating shooting to a projectile, although the lethality will be weakened by this, but it can effectively avoid the already prepared Xiahou Xuan Division, and kill and injure the poorly prepared Cao Xiu Division, so as to create chaos in the division of Cao Xiu's Division, and cut off the mutual echo between him and Xiahou Xuan, at the same time, Huang Zhong uses the method of projectile to avoid accidentally injuring the Longxiang Heavy Cavalry who rushed to the forefront. Make room for the charge of the dragon horse.
Seeing thousands of crossbows flying in an arc above his head, Xiahoudun chuckled in his heart and immediately realized that something was wrong. The commander of the Wei army behind him is Cao Xiu, who is called "my family a thousand miles of horses" by Cao Cao, although he is brave and good at fighting, but there is an obvious lack of control of the overall situation, and Cao Xiu has only fought with the Northern Han soldiers on the frontal battlefield once, and he is very unfamiliar with the advanced weapons of the Northern Han Dynasty, and he will not prepare in advance.
Xiahoudun's guess did not deviate again this time. When thousands of crossbows roared around Xiahou Xuan's department and came to Cao Xiu's department, they immediately caused effective damage to Cao Xiu's department. In a burst of popping and snorting sounds, Cao Xiu's department, which had not yet fully raised his shield, seemed to have turned into fish meat, allowing their bodies to be pierced by thick crossbows.
They were crucified to the ground, along with men and horses.
Even Cao Xiu himself suffered the closest test to death in his life. A giant crossbow with the thickness of an arm, about a foot long, with the sound of breaking the sky, coincidentally shot down towards the top of Cao Xiu's head. Cao Xiu didn't dare to slack off, and he didn't care about commanding the troops to raise their shields to defend, so he hurriedly pulled the reins, trying to drive the war horse to move sideways to the left, avoiding the powerful crossbow in front of him. However, the horse he sat on had barely stepped out of his front legs, and before he could move his hind legs, the huge arrow and crossbow were already approaching in front of him, less than three feet above his head.
Cao Xiu didn't seem to have time to dodge, so he secretly gritted his teeth, ran through his arms, and with the power of the war horse's kicking on the ground, he picked up the big knife in his hand and slashed desperately at the falling giant crossbow. The huge inertia doubled the acceleration of this giant crossbow, and the power was extremely great, when Cao Xiu's war knife slashed on the giant crossbow, the powerful anti-shock force immediately acted on Cao Xiu's arms, shaking his arms numb, and almost dropped the big knife in his hand to the ground. Cao Xiu knew that if he let go, his life would be difficult to protect, so he put all the strength in his body and used all the strength to eat, and finally knocked the falling giant crossbow off half a foot, and twisted his body at the same time, which was able to avoid the vital parts, and then he could no longer stop the fall of the giant crossbow, and watched the giant crossbow tilt and pierce his right leg, and then unstoppably pierced into the belly of the horse, nailing himself to the ground with the horse he was sitting on.
After falling to the ground, Cao Xiu struggled weakly twice, and helplessly found that he couldn't shake the giant crossbow at all, but also affected the wound on his right leg, bringing a burst of heart-piercing pain. After a spasm of his body uncontrollably, Cao Xiu gave up all his struggles and lay on the ground in pain with a cold sweat on his face.
At the same time that Cao Xiu was hit and fell from his horse, the various crossbows inspired by the Northern Han crossbow gunners fell criss-crossed, like a rain of arrows falling from the sky, nailing more than 4,000 Wei soldiers behind Cao Xiu to the ground. Fortunately, there was no crossbow that fell in the direction of Cao Xiu again, otherwise Cao Xiu's life would definitely be difficult to protect.
When the thousands of crossbows were completely still, a vacuum had been cleared out of Cao Xiu's battle array, and in this area, except for Cao Xiu, who was seriously injured and fell to the ground, there was no other living creature that could breathe. Various types of crossbows, either straight or obliquely inserted into the ground, not only brought a lot of damage to Cao Xiu's department, but also temporarily formed a crossbow forest, blocking the path of Cao Xiu's follow-up troops.
Seeing Cao Xiu lying on the ground in pain, Xiahou was angry, Cao Ren was angry, all the children of the Cao family were angry, and even Cao Cao was angry. They can no longer bear the death of another fierce general in the family in the hands of Ao Lie, Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong and other famous generals were unscathed after a hundred battles, but in the end they all died directly or indirectly in the hands of Ao Lie, even if the Cao family is at the peak of talent, it can't afford such consumption! What's more, the family generals have repeatedly died at the hands of Ao Lie, which in itself is a kind of humiliation, and Ao Lie is using killing to trample the dignity of the Cao family under his feet! (To be continued......)