Chapter 31: The Battle of Cangwu

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou didn't forget to ridicule Buqi before leaving. When Bu Qi heard this, he stumbled on the horse's back, and was almost so angry that Liu Hou fell off the horse. It hadn't happened yet, but I heard him say it clearly, as if his defeat was a foregone conclusion.

As soon as Liu Hou returned to his own position, he began to issue orders one after another, preparing for war. The rattan armor began to be armoured, and the musketeers checked the firearms and loaded the ammunition.

Liu Hou ordered E Huan to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack the enemy from the left side, and Vulture Bone to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack the enemy from the right side. Guan Suo led 10,000 rattan armor troops to stand by in the rear, and after the musketeers had defeated the enemy, they took advantage of the victory to pursue.

Guan Xing and Zhang Bao led 10,000 firearms troops in front as the main offensive force of the Chinese army. Liu Hou, Zhao Yun, and Guo Youzhi stayed in the Chinese army and responded to all parties.

Before the battle began, Liu Hou could already predict the outcome, which was a prediction based on the strong confidence of his firearms unit and the vine armor army. Not to mention that his current strength is about the same as the other party, even if it is several times worse, he is not afraid.

The Chinese army is a firearms unit against a cold weapons unit, and it really has nothing to look forward to. But the two wings are cold weapons confrontation between the two sides, full of passion and blood, and it is also the embodiment of barbarism and blood.

The infantry also attached great importance to the wings on both sides, and he also placed 10,000 horses on each side. Liu Hou looked at his arrangement and sneered in his heart. If his 10,000 vine armor army couldn't quickly defeat the 10,000 ordinary infantry of Buqi, then Vulture Bone and E Huan could buy a piece of tofu and kill him.

The first to clash was the right flank, because it was the vulture who led the way. Vulture bones are such savages, where do you care about three seven twenty-one, Liu Hou didn't give an order yet, he led people to rush forward. Fortunately, Liu Hou had long known that he was such a person, and since he dared to let him out, he had already considered that he would behave like this.

The 10,000 Tengjia army followed the vulture bones and rushed to the right wing of the Eastern Wu Army, and the deputy general of the Eastern Wu on the right wing was stunned when he saw this, who was the general on the opposite side? Start fighting without saying a word? And there are no regular actions such as shooting arrows at each other and sending small units to each other to test and probe each other, let alone fighting generals, which is the favorite entertainment program for soldiers in the army.

Suddenly, the adjutant general found that his troops had just arrived on the right flank, and their foothold was not very stable, and they were not ready for a full-scale fight. He woke up suddenly, came out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly gave orders to prepare for battle.

The Shu army was already close, and it was only in a blink of an eye that it rushed into the range of the archers of Eastern Wu, and a rain of arrows rose sparsely in the Eastern Wu army. These arrows shot upwards into the sky at 45 degrees, and after rising to the highest point, under the action of inertia and gravity, they made a parabolic motion and plunged into the Shu army.

The Eastern Wu army watched the rain of arrows fly out, and the Shu army didn't even raise a shield, and couldn't help but feel very strange.

However, these Shu soldiers only held a ring-headed knife in their hands, and they rushed forward with their heads down, as if they hadn't seen the rain of arrows at all.

Could it be that these Shu troops are well-trained enough to do this, and they are all not afraid of death, and they do not panic when they know that arrows are coming? Or are they simply too poor, poorly equipped, and not equipped with shields? But it doesn't look like it, these people are wearing armor, although it is armor made of rattan, but the cost of tens of thousands of armor must be sky-high.

Soon, they knew the answer, as the sound of "tuk tuk tuk" sounded, the rain of arrows fell on the Shu army, except for a very few people who were shot in the foot and stopped walking, everyone else continued to rush forward unscathed.

Of course, it cannot be said that it is completely undamaged, many people have arrows nailed to their bodies, but these people continue to rush forward as if they are not affected at all, some people feel that they are in the way, so they pull out or cut off some arrows in front of their bodies, and many people do not pay attention to the arrows on their bodies and continue to rush forward.

Even if the soldiers of Eastern Wu are stupid, they know that the yellow armor on the Shu army can actually prevent the shooting of bows and arrows, does that mean that these armors can also block the knives and guns in their hands?

Soon, the Shu army approached the front of Eastern Wu, and after several rounds of sword rain, many vine armor troops were full of arrows in front of them, like hedgehogs, with the whining sound in their mouths, it looked chilling.

The Eastern Wu Front was forced by the might of the Shu army, and it was suddenly a little chaotic, and there were some gaps in the originally neatly lined gun forest.

After a few months of training, the Vine Armor Army is no longer as loosely disciplined and unorganized as it was when the Vulture Bone was in charge. They rushed to the front of the Soochow formation and did not immediately rush into the Soochow army, but lined up and then advanced neatly. When they encountered the spears stabbed by the spearmen of Eastern Wu, they did not dodge at all, and let the spears pierce their chests and abdomen.

When the captain gave the order to "cut", all the rattan armor soldiers in the front row held their knives in both hands, raised the knives above their heads, and slashed down diagonally. The hilts of the spears that pierced them in front of them were all severed. Then, the command resumes, this time with them taking three steps forward.

After three steps forward, the command of "cut" came up again, and they raised their swords again to slash, regardless of whether there was anyone in front of them or not, these rattan armor soldiers all acted in unison, and made a unified action, that is, they raised their knives above their heads and slashed down at 45 degrees. The effect was good, and I saw that the pikemen heads in the front row of the Eastern Wu Army were rolling down like gourds on the ground, and hundreds of fountains immediately appeared in front of the formation, but these fountains spewed red blood.

The command was repeated, this time two steps forward, then slashed, and another rolling gourd and a row of fountains appeared. These rattan armor soldiers just pushed forward, slashed, pushed and slashed according to the command, without any superfluous movements, and no one made any sound except for the officer who called the password. The silence is unusually depressing.

They don't have to pick up heads to record military exploits, because they are followed by gendarmes and military judges, and they will record military exploits, and of course, they also have a duty to kill those who want to be deserters, but in this case, they are obviously useless heroes.

These gendarmes are the real ruthless characters, and in addition to their waist knives, they also have handcuffs and a few thunderbolts. If there is a scene that gets out of control, these thunderbolts alone can quickly control the scene.

From beginning to end, there is only one action of the vine armor soldiers, that is, holding the knife with both hands, slashing from the top left to the right at a 45-degree angle, and the target position of the chopping is set in the range of the enemy's neck, so most of the Eastern Wu soldiers who are in the middle of the knife are cut off their heads, and only a few people who make dodge actions are cut off their arms or slashed other positions.

In fact, the only martial arts that these rattan armor soldiers have trained in the past few months is this one action, an oblique slashing action, at the beginning of slashing hundreds of slashes against the air every day, and then gradually increasing the amount of training, and finally slashing tens of thousands of swords every day.

Then they started splitting the stakes, and in order to simulate the human head, they would put a puff of hay on the top of the stake to simulate hair, and then draw a red line between the two slaps at the top of the one-man tall stake as a dividing line between the neck and shoulders. They need to be above this line every time they slash to be qualified.

At first, they couldn't cut the stake with a single sword, but after a few months of practice, now everyone can cut a stake as thick as a big bowl in two.

Because I only practice one simple movement, it is relatively simple to get results. Liu Hou only needs them to do this one action well, this action is simple and efficient, as soon as the move is made, it will bring a human head, this is simply a killing machine, and hundreds of heads can be cut off in every breath.

They don't need to defend, because the defense is handed over to the rattan armor on their bodies, and they turn a blind eye to the spears and knives stabbed by the enemy, and they don't need to use their knives to block at all. Although there are many martial arts warriors among the soldiers of Eastern Wu, they are helpless when they encounter such a simple way of fighting.

In the eyes of others, their style of play is a life-for-life style of play, but they are very confident in the rattan armor on their bodies and know that they are safe. So they only need to use this simple knife to slash the enemy, and they don't need to think about other factors at all. This is actually similar to assembly line production, simplifying the complex process.

The Shu army rushed to the front and rear of the Eastern Wu army formation, leaving only three rows of rattan armor troops and a platoon of military police and military judges on the front line, who were responsible for recording military exploits and killing deserters. The others were divided into two rows and flanked the left and right sides of the Soochow army.

People who are familiar with the military formation think that the main general of the Shu army is crazy when they see such a camp, is the Shu army planning to surround 10,000 people with 10,000 people? How to encircle when the forces are equal? Also, people generally have to have a thick enough military formation to fight, so as to effectively prevent the enemy from penetrating, what does it mean that the Shu army left three or four rows of people like this?

With such a thin formation, as long as a conical charge, it can be chiseled through in a few dozen breaths, is the general of the Shu army an idiot?

Of course, the general of the Shu army is not an idiot, oh, not at all, the IQ of the vulture bone is very difficult to define, as soon as he came up, he rushed to the Eastern Wu army regardless of his head, followed by a hundred and ten personal soldiers, and the people who passed through it turned on their backs, and the flesh and blood flew over, and now it has been chiseled through the middle of the Eastern Wu army array.

Liu Hou had expected this, so the partial division on the right flank was actually the deputy general commanding the operation. This adjutant general's name is Wang Ying, and he is an elite student who graduated from the Military Research Institute, so the honorary vulture bone of this Lu Tengjia Army is the main general, but the actual commander is this Wang Ying.

The elite student was certainly not an idiot, and he left three rows of rattan armor soldiers not to prevent the enemy from chiseling through the formation, but to rotate. Every ten heads of the rattan soldiers in the front row will be rotated under the command of the officer, retreat to the back row to restore the body, and continue to chop and advance from the second row.

The machetes used by the rattan armor army now are thick-backed knives, weighing more than a dozen pounds, and it is very physically expensive to wield, and splitting people's heads is not such an easy job, the neck has bones and muscle fascia, and the hardness is not low, and the difficulty of cutting it will not be worse than cutting a thick stump at the mouth of a bowl.

Therefore, soldiers must be given proper rest time so that they can continue to fight for a longer period of time. Therefore, Wang Ying arranged three rows of men and horses to take turns to come forward and slash, which can be regarded as the sword soldier's version of the three-stage attack.

The Shu army on both sides is not as many as three rows, only a row of soldiers and a row of gendarmes, because the Shu army is insufficient, if they all use such a thick camp, where can they encircle the Eastern Wu army.

Fortunately, the main task of the soldiers on both sides was not to attack the Eastern Wu army formation, they were here to prevent the Eastern Wu soldiers from escaping from both sides and to compress the Eastern Wu army formation as small as possible, so as to facilitate the front line to cut and kill.

Seeing that the troops on both flanks were being slashed away by the Shu army layer by layer like a knife in Shanxi, and his eyes were about to split, he finally understood why Liu Hou told him that he could wipe out 50,000 people in just one moment, which was not bragging, just a simple fact.

At the current rate, it really won't take an hour for these wings to collapse. He was about to transfer troops to support the two wings, but found that the Chinese army of the Shu army had moved, so he had to temporarily stop sending troops to support the two wings, and first look at the movements of the Chinese army.

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