Chapter 47 Xu Huang asked

As mentioned last time, the scout teams of the Shu army and the Wei army encountered again, and the battle was about to break out. Huang Xiaohu, the scout of the Wei army, involuntarily lowered his body a little because he was afraid, so that the shield could block his body as much as possible.

This subtle gesture saved his life. Before the Wei army scouts could make any moves, the Shu army suddenly sounded "Bang bang bang!" Gunshots. The two Wei soldiers fell in response, and Huang Xiaohu heard a "whoosh" sound, as if something was flying overhead, and a projectile flew over his scalp, plowing a scorch mark in his hair.

He screamed, threw away the bolt, and covered his hot head with his right hand, but with his left hand he held the shield tighter, and pressed his body lower, hiding almost his entire body under the shield and the horse's head. His heart was pounding, and he was so frightened that he didn't hear the company's shouting order to charge. As a result, everyone rushed out, leaving him alone and standing alone.

At this time, the Shu army also began to charge, the difference is that the Wei cavalry adopted the classic charge formation - the front-arrow charge formation, that is, almost a triangular formation, in which a sharp angle of the triangle is aimed at the enemy to charge past; And the Shu army formed a horizontal row and rushed over in a straight line. This is the charging formation that cavalry should use, and no one with a little military common sense will use this formation to hedge with cavalry.

The cavalry of both sides soon reached the crossbow arrows, and almost at the same time, both sides fired the cavalry crossbows in their hands, "Whoosh! A flurry of crossbow arrows passed through both camps, followed by the sound of "pounce, pounce, pounce" and two from each side fell to the ground.

Just when Huang Xiaohu thought that the two teams of cavalry were about to collide together, the Shu army suddenly turned its horse's head and divided into two teams to cross diagonally from both sides of the Wei army. What kind of tactic is this? It is completely different from the hard-hitting tactics used by the scouts of the Shu army that they encountered before. When Huang Xiaohu was still puzzled, he suddenly heard the sound of "boom, boom, boom......", and saw a burst of smoke and fire rising in the middle of his cavalry, in front of them, and behind them.

It turned out that when the cavalry of the Shu army was charging, they threw down thunderbolts at a certain position, and it took a certain amount of time for these thunderbolt leads to burn, which had the effect of delaying the explosion. The Shu army, apparently having trained countless times, knew the time of the explosion and the distance that the horses would reach when they galloped, and accurately threw the thunderbolt at the location where the Wei scouts would arrive, blowing them up.

Accompanied by the splashing of black debris that I don't know if it was dirt or what, Huang Xiaohu saw with tears in his eyes that his cavalry fell to the ground one after another. "What is this?" Huang Xiaohu was stunned.

He had known for a long time that the enemy had a fire gun that could make a loud noise, and he had seen it just now, but what made such a loud noise was still beyond his expectations, which made his already pounding heart skip a beat. The point is, this thing is so terrifying that it knocked down its 4 brothers at once, and only two of the Wei scouts rushed through this smoke screen area, and the other 4 horsemen and horses neighed and wailed and fell to the ground.

They were not dead for a moment, but men were rolling and wailing on the ground, evidently wounded in great pain, and the horses were half-kneeling, some lying, and some were not standing, and their mouths were neighing in pain.

And the two horsemen who were lucky enough to rush past were not intact, and their horses were also neighing and scurrying. If you look closer, you can see that the two horses are also bloody, with multiple shrapnel wounds bleeding. The knight on the horse also had several wounds on his body to a greater or lesser extent.

However, they were lucky, they had less shrapnel on their bodies, and they did not hurt the vital parts, so they survived the explosion. However, their luck did not last long, because the Shu army had already turned their horses around and charged at them again.

Huang Xiaohu didn't dare to look at the fate of these two remaining comrades, in fact, he could guess without looking. He turned his horse's head and beat it as hard as he could, and galloped forward. It's terrifying, they're devils, yes, they must be devils, they can summon thunder and lightning.

Huang Xiaohu had only one thought, he must run back, go back to see the general, and tell the general that the Shu army could summon thunder and lightning, and let the general be careful.

"Report! Captain, there is one running over there, do you want to pursue. At this time, the Shu army scouts had already dealt with the two remaining Wei troops whose horses were not controlled, and one of the scout team members reported to the captain.

The scout captain looked at Huang Xiaohu who was running desperately in the distance, shook his head helplessly, and said: "Forget it, go far, you can't catch up, hurry up and clean up the battlefield, and transfer as much as possible, they sent out a chirp, it is estimated that the reinforcements will arrive soon, and it will be too late if it is late." ”

The so-called cleaning of the battlefield is nothing to clean, the most valuable thing is the two war horses that are still intact, of course, they will be taken away as soon as possible, and then they will clean up the cavalry crossbows, sabers and other weapons that have fallen all over the ground, these things are also very short of the Shu army, and they can be taken away as much as possible. The armor on Wei Jun's body was not wanted, it was too time-consuming to take off this thing, so he had to give it up.

The whole cleaning of the battlefield took no more than 5 minutes, and the captain ordered everyone to get on their horses and move, leaving behind a place of corpses and horse corpses. Less than a cup of tea after they left, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and two teams of Wei scouts arrived at the scene of the incident. They nervously scouted the scene and tracked it down in the vicinity, but naturally found nothing.

The murderer didn't need to look to know that it was done by the scouts of the Shu army, as for where to go, you can roughly judge it by looking at the direction of the horse's hooves, but what if you judge it? Do they dare to track it down? As long as you chase a little farther, you may fall into a siege, and your fate is likely to be the same as that of this team of scouts who were destroyed. All they could do was quickly collect the bodies and report back to the camp.

However, their return was of little significance, because there was a guts deserter, Huang Xiaohu, who had already returned to the Wei army camp much earlier than them, and reported this to Xu Huang crying.

"General, the Shu army is not a human, they are devils, they know the art of thunder and lightning, it's too terrifying, a thunderbolt slashes down, boom, and our brothers will fall a few, it's terrible, general, woo woo woo ......" Huang Xiaohu couldn't cry, and his speech was upside down, Xu Huang took a lot of effort, and asked repeatedly to roughly understand what happened.

"Thunderbolt! The Shu army dispatched the legendary thunderbolt, is this thunderbolt really so powerful? Xu Huang thought to himself. As a senior general of the Wei army, Xu Huang was naturally not as ignorant as Huang Xiaohu, thinking that it was some kind of thunder and lightning technique, he had long known the storage of thunderbolt thunder, and also knew that this was a weapon made by Zuo Ci.

After waving Huang Xiaohu away, Xu Huang called his two lieutenants, Xu Shang and Lu Jian, to discuss the military aircraft:

"Recently, the Shu army seems to have increased the number of scouts, the number of times our scouts have encountered them has increased a lot, and the number of frictions between the two sides has also increased a lot, and we have suffered great losses. Now they have even dispatched Thunderbolts, and our army has suffered a lot in every conflict, and even several scout teams have been completely wiped out.

The range of our scouts has been constantly reduced, and now our scouts have been reduced from 50 miles to 30 miles. Due to the continuous loss of scouts and warhorses, it is expected that this compression will be faster and faster. Soon we had to face a situation where the scouts couldn't get out. If you have any ideas, you might as well say it and refer to it in detail. ”

Xu Huang is cautious, he generally likes to send scouts far away, and this time he scattered the scouts 50 miles away, which can be described as imprudent. It's a pity that he met Liu Hou, who was very afraid of death, and as a result, the two sides inexplicably fought a scout battle for many days. He also has a characteristic of fighting, he likes to act like he can't win the battle first, wait for the enemy to relax his vigilance and then fight bravely, chasing and killing the enemy to win.

"General, where did the Shu army come from so many scouts, even if they concentrated all the cavalry troops in Jingzhou City, they didn't have this number. There must be something strange about this. Xu Shang said.

"They must have temporarily selected a sergeant who could ride a horse in the army after they had captured our horses during this time. Also, judging by the returns of some scouts who rushed to longer distances, they may also use infantry as scouts. Xu Huang said.

"Oh, then it seems that they have a good chance of splitting the whole army into small detachments, all of which will be used as scouts. In fact, there weren't many people left in their camp. In other words, as long as we kill all their scouts, the battle will be won. Lu Jiandao.

"What do you mean? Isn't it a joke that someone would throw all their forces into a scout, and the battalion would leave no one? How can the battle be fought? Xu Shang asked.

"Think about it, how many people are there in Jingzhou City, according to the report, there are only 10,000 people in Jingzhou City, and 10,000 people are not enough to defend the city, they dare to take the initiative to attack, how many people do you say they can take out to stop us? Two thousand? Three thousand? You won't take out half of the people and get 5,000 military horses to fight us in the field, right?

It seems that they can only send 1 or 2,000 men, and the purpose is not to fight us in the field, but only to harass us and slow down our advance. Lu Jian analyzed.

"Well, that's what it looks like." Xu Huang stroked his beard in agreement.

"Jianguan Shu Army scouts appear in density and scope, they have at least more than 1,000 people in turn, otherwise they will not put so much pressure on our army scouts. More than 1,000 people served as scouts, and you think, how many of them were left in the camp? Even if they stayed in the camp, it is estimated that most of them were scouts who came back in rotation to rest. Lu Jian continued.

"Then we will also send men from the army to expand the scout team several times, as long as we eliminate these scouts who are as nasty as flies, the victory will be ours." Xu Shangjian said.

"It's not proper, the Shu army has thunderbolts, and the combat power of our army's scouts is not as good as others, so fighting with them for scouts, our losses are too great." Lv Jiandao.

"Then we will expand the number of people in each scout team, 10 people can't beat them, we will expand to 20 or even 30 people per team, anyway, we have a lot of people, they are few, when the time comes, they will be surrounded and annihilated, I don't believe that this will not win." Xu Shang said again.

"Still no, although we have a lot of people, but scouts need horses, and now we don't have many horses, limited by the number of horses, the scale of scouts can't be expanded at all." Lu Jian continued.

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what should I do?" Xu Shang said dejectedly.

"Hehe, Lu Jian, you must have thought of a way to deal with it, right, don't sell it, just say it." Xu Huang, who hadn't spoken much, spoke at this time.

"Returning to the general, there is indeed a way to build. I just don't know if it's going to work. Lu Jian hugged his fists.

"It's all my own brothers, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Xu Huang said.

"Yes, general, since the number of horses we have now is not as good as the Shu army, it is undoubtedly unwise to fight with them to fight scouts, and it is very unwise to use our own shortcomings to hit others. I can take the initiative to narrow down the search range of scouts to 10 or even 5 miles. In this way, the density of our scouts in these areas will increase significantly, and in such a short range, the infantry can also reach them, and they can be supported by the infantry at any time.

As long as we encounter the scouts of the other side, we do not confront them head-on, but take a procrastination decision, only fight around them, entangle them, and prevent them from escaping, so that under the warning of Ming Di, the other scouts can quickly arrive to support, and for a longer time, they can also get infantry support, so that our scouts will not be completely compressed to the point that they cannot get out of the camp.

As long as there is this 5 to 10 miles of warning time, what else is there to be afraid of our 20,000 troops? Afraid of their sneak attack? That's a joke, how can 2 or 3,000 people sneak up on a prepared army of 20,000? Lu Jiandao.