Text Chapter 601 A major counterattack
Even God has to help the enemy, how can this battle be fought? They are just ordinary mortals, do they want to get along with the way of heaven and go against God?
Some timid people have felt that their legs are weak and their arms are weak, they are blaming themselves, whether it is right or wrong to do something to Zhang Chao, if it is really God's will, then they will definitely be punished, at that time, not only themselves, but even their families and relatives will be affected.
There was a great wavering in the morale of the army, and some of them could not stand the pressure, so they discarded their weapons and began to flee. Even the loud shouts of some officers at this moment did not have the slightest effect.
Cao Chun, who was above the head of Lu County, saw this scene happening, and his eyes widened and he was speechless for a long time.
He had thought of countless ways for Zhang Chao to break the game in advance. For example, sacrifice countless people to use them as meat shields to break the siege of thistles. But the scene in front of him, he never expected, and he couldn't figure out why those thistles sitting on the ground suddenly disappeared, what was going on?
People inevitably have a sense of fear of the unknown, and Cao Chun is the same, he even believes in that statement, can it be that even God is helping Zhang Chao? If so, how will this battle be fought?
When Cao Chun and his army were stunned, the Zhang family's heavy cavalry army also accelerated the movements of his subordinates, and the thistles were absorbed more, and then there were fewer and fewer.
It took about half an hour, and finally the outermost layer of thistle terrestris was also sucked away by the magnet. At this point, there is nothing that can stop the iron cavalry of the Zhang family's heavy cavalry.
Seeing that the obstacles were removed, Zhang Attack and Zhang Shou were like chicken blood, they roared loudly, and began a Jedi counterattack with the heavy cavalry of the Zhang family.
Dressed in black and black armor, the dead silence on the battlefield was broken, and all arms attacked in turn, which was very imposing.
Zhang's army was heavy cavalry, and the assault tactics were orderly. They did not rush up like other cavalry when they attacked, but paid more attention to the spacing between the horses, the front and rear, the left and right, and the use of each weapon, and sometimes even deliberately stretched the horizontal interval a little larger, so that the enemy had a gap to hide, so as not to block the road of the front army, and often handed over to the cavalry coming from behind to clean up the net.
Their impact is similar to the Cone Formation, differing from other formations in that they are wider and narrower in depth, which is more suitable for impact and dashing.
With the speed of the war horse and its own weight, when the Zhang Jiajun rushed over, the Cao Chun alliance army on the opposite side was simply vulnerable.
In fact, Cao Chun didn't bother to create any defensive line, in his opinion, those thistles covered all over the ground were the best defensive weapons, where would he think of setting up a second defensive circle?
Without preparation, Cao Chun's allied army was hit hard at the first move, and its eastern, southern, and northern sides were all hit hard, and even soon the attitude on the battlefield changed. After the light cavalry of the Zhang family and the cavalry of the Dragon and Tiger Legion also joined the camp of the attack, the enemies on these three sides became rats crossing the street, and everyone shouted and beat them.
Only in the west there was not such obvious chaos, and this was all because Cao Chun personally took action, he took five thousand tigers and leopards and rode out of the city and set up a position in front of the city.
The thistle terrestris has lost its original role, so Cao Chun has no way to retreat, and the only thing he can do is to face the enemy head-on.
Naturally, Cao Chun originally had the opportunity to escape, but he really didn't do that, because Cao Cao had been preparing for this matter for so long, and he handed it over to him to do, and everything was so perfect, and even yesterday he deliberately sent a letter, saying that the war was about to end and Zhang Chao was going to be destroyed. All the big words have been said, and he really doesn't know how to face the lord and the king of Wei once he fails.
Even if he couldn't face it, he would die for the country, Cao Chun wanted to use his life to prove that he had worked hard.
Cao Chun stood above the city gate with the tiger and leopard cavalry, which the Wei army was most proud of, and watched the heavy cavalry of the Zhang family army arrive from far and near.
The tiger and leopard cavalry is indeed the elite of the elite of the Wei army, even if such an army encounters the elite forces of the Rus country, they can still have a head-on fight, and even have a great chance of winning.
Such an army was also built by Cao Cao with countless money and energy. And now, it seems that Cao Cao only has 30,000 troops in his hands. This time, he did send 5,000 people, which is enough to prove that he attaches great importance to Zhang Chao.
However, 5,000 tigers and leopards may be enough to deal with ordinary armies, and they can even win more with less, and 10 with one. But when the opponent is the most elite Zhang Jiazhong cavalry in the Celestial Empire, it is still not enough.
Not for anything else, just because the Zhang family's heavy cavalry is more elite, Zhang Chao also paid a great price for the establishment of this army. It is no exaggeration to say that the cost of an army of 10,000 men is almost equal to that of a legion of 200,000 men.
The elite meets the elite, which makes Cao Chun's advantage disappear.
It's just that the battle has come to this point, and no one will admit defeat casually. In addition, Cao Chun has long been ready to die in battle, and he can be regarded as having the strength to fight.
The crossbowmen were in the front and retreated after shooting, the cavalry was on the flanks, the halberds were in the center, and the spears were in the rear. This array is particular about wave after wave of attacks. This is the change of the camp of the tiger and leopard riders, and they don't know how many times they have practiced such a formation, and it is not too much to say that it is perfect.
"Kill!" Cao Chun held a three-foot long sword in his hand, and when he saw that the heavy cavalry of the Zhang family army was only three hundred meters away from him, he waved the long sword and launched the order to attack.
As soon as the killing word fell, countless arrow feathers flew out of the air for a while, shooting towards Zhang Jiajun who rushed in the distance.
The heavy cavalry of the Zhang family, like a wild beast at this moment, is advancing rapidly. Black-clothed, black-armored and black-helmeted, in front of this cavalry armed with heavy armor to the head, there is nothing to fear them, unless the master Zhang Chao gives an order to stop attacking, otherwise, they will only keep attacking until they are completely exhausted or die in battle.
It is precisely because the armor even protects the head, but the Zhang family's heavy cavalry with their eyes and nose exposed has always been fearless, although they saw the crossbow arrows shot in the distance, but no one retreated, and no one showed a dodge move, they still rushed straight towards the same as before, in a straight line.
The Zhangjia heavy cavalry in a group of five people rushed in, and at a distance of 300 meters, the sound of the iron hooves of the horses stomping on the ground and the clanging sound of bows and arrows shooting on the armor came out.
The heavy armor that cost a huge amount of gold and silver to build is worthy of those silver, and the role of ordinary bows and arrows on it is very small, and most of the bows and arrows are blocked out, even if some bows and arrows penetrate the armor because of their strength, but it does not change the shock camp of the Zhang family's heavy cavalry.
It's just 300 meters, and it's just a blink of an eye. The Zhang family's heavy cavalry finally killed in front of them after paying some minor injuries and came directly opposite the tiger and leopard cavalry.
Taking advantage of the impact of the war horse, when the two armies first came into contact, the tiger and leopard cavalry paid a huge price for it. Just by shock, at least more than 300 tigers and leopards were hit their horses.
"Resist, cooperate with the attack, and disrupt their formation." After Cao Chun took out his sword and fought against a soldier of the Zhangjia Heavy Cavalry Army, he felt a tingling sensation coming from his arm, and he couldn't help but shout loudly in his heart.
Cao Chun didn't expect that just an ordinary member of the Zhang family's heavy cavalry army would have such a huge strength, and after this formula, he knew that he was afraid that he was going to die here today.
But even if he died, Cao Chun would have to inflict heavy losses on the Zhang family's heavy cavalry, and he had to use his bravery to prove that the tiger and leopard cavalry were so strong that any army that wanted to annex them would have to pay a heavy price to do so.
The formation of the Zhang family's heavy cavalry is very perfect, a group of five, both offensive and defensive, so that whether the enemy wants to attack them or defend them, they need to pay a great price, which can be seen from the current situation on the battlefield.
Cao Chun is also one of the famous generals, after he saw this situation, he immediately made up his mind to break through the formation of the Zhang family's heavy cavalry, otherwise, he would not want to hit them hard.
Fortunately, the Zhangjia heavy cavalry army that rushed in front of Cao Chun only had 2,500 people, and the tiger and leopard cavalry at least had the advantage of numbers, as long as they could stabilize their position and cooperate properly, they still had a chance to inflict heavy losses on the enemy.
Cao Chun gave orders loudly, commanding the tiger and leopard cavalry to arrange the troops, and he vowed to lose both.
Not to mention, the tiger and leopard cavalry is worthy of being the elite of the elite, when they suffered a loss at the beginning, they gradually began to adapt to the playing style of the Zhang family's heavy cavalry. They took advantage of the number of men in their hands and began to besiege them.
The advantage of having more people is that you can bully less with more. In the face of the Zhangjia heavy cavalry army in a group of five, the tiger and leopard cavalry can send ten people, or even more, to besiege, taking advantage of their usual training results, but they can achieve a certain advantage in the situation, and for a time the two sides actually fought in a stalemate.
The Zhang family's heavy cavalry finally began to suffer casualties, and under the deadly fighting style of Cao Chun and his tiger and leopard cavalry, several five-person squads had been completely annihilated, of course, Cao Chun also paid a big price for this.
"Kill!" The previous situation in Lu County finally attracted the attention of the other three Zhangjia heavy cavalry troops, among which the main generals Zhang Feng and Zhang Shou, after seeing that the Zhangjia heavy cavalry army in front of Lu County was surrounded, and even suffered heavy casualties, they adjusted their strategic arrangement, abandoned the enemy in the east, south and north, and let the Zhangjia light cavalry and the Dragon and Tiger Legion attack them, and the two generals rushed to Lu County with the other 7,500 Zhangjia heavy cavalry.