Chapter 93: Three Arrows
Zhao Yun wants to kill Huang Gai, if it is when the two armies are facing each other, it is a fool's dream. However, in this chaotic battlefield, it is not impossible.
Zhao Yun's sudden formation rushed towards Sun Quan, forcing the sergeants of all departments to come back to help. Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai have all returned to help, and Huang Gai ordered Zhang Yi and the other to outflank Zhao Yun's back road at that time. Now that Zhang Yi's department was defeated, Huang Gai's headquarters was only 2,000 people, and it was not without a chance to charge and break the formation.
However, as Huo Du said, if Huang Gai cannot be killed after a long battle, wait for the outflanking department to come back to rescue, and then wait for Sun Quan to react and send Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai to besiege and kill, Huo Du and Zhao Yun will be surrounded. Even if the second part can get out, it will be a loss of most of it.
Zhao Yun returned to the cavalry and shouted, "Junyi, you drive the defeated pawns into the battle from the left side, and I drive the defeated pawns from the right side." ”
"No!" Shiren raised his right arm with difficulty and replied.
He was wounded by a gunshot wound in his right arm, and when he rushed into the battle with Zhao Yun to charge Sun Quan, he was poked with a spear by a soldier. At the same time, he also had a knife wound on his thigh, which was also injured by the enemy when he entered the battle. But in order to fight, Shiren gritted his teeth and persevered.
For him, at the age of fifteen, he fought on the battlefield with the lord, and even the tiger and wolf soldiers under the command of Na Lu Bu had fought, so were he still afraid of these Jiangdong foot soldiers?
Riding his horse and whipping, Shiren commanded his cavalry, ordered them to disperse quickly, gathered the fleeing Jiangdong soldiers together, drove the rout army like a lamb, and kept chasing them in the field.
The Jiangdong rout had fled in a hurry, but bumped into the cavalry, and they invariably turned around and ran towards a place where there were no cavalry. And the cavalry drove them unhurriedly, constantly adjusting their direction, forcing them to rush towards Huang Gai's military formation.
More than 100 horsemen on the left and right sides rode horses in pursuit, and whenever they ran slowly, they caught up and killed him, frightening the routs to run. Huo Dutong led 800 people to hide behind, and his figure was hidden by the rout.
Huang Gai looked at such a scene, how did he not understand the enemy's intentions after many years of fighting in the south and the north, when he followed Sun Jian to conquer the Qiang, he had seen those Qiang cavalry drive the defeated army to break the army formation, and then break the formation and kill, thus causing the rout of the army.
"Let the left and right departments support our department."
Huang Gai pulled out his long sword and commanded sharply: "Order the defeated army to go to both wings, and prohibit charging into battle." Anyone who rushes into battle will be killed. ”
"No!"
"Get out of the way! Go from both sides! ”
"Get out of the way! Go from both sides! ”
The soldiers under Huang Gai's command, who were also experienced veterans, lined up at the front of the formation, shouting hoarsely, trying to change the direction of the rout. However, when the routs saw that they seemed to see their families sheltering them, they rushed towards them with all their strength.
"Archery!"
Stepping into the firing range, the Jiangdong infantry in the phalanx pulled the crossbow machine to shoot the defeated army, and the rout soldiers with arrows in their bodies wailed out, and many people fell to the ground in the front row and died. The wounded rout seemed to know that his own army was not to be messed with, and tried to stop or turn, but was coerced by the crowd and continued to charge towards the formation.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Another round of arrows fell, and many of the Jiangdong routs fell, and they finally did not dare to continue to charge, but stopped and tried to flee in other directions. However, how could Huo Du and Zhao Yun do what they wished, the cavalry rode their horses, drove the fleeing Jiangdong rout and continued to rush towards the military formation. The foot soldiers swung their swords behind them, and all the soldiers who did not advance were slain.
The hundreds of routs caught in the center were forced to rush towards the army formation again!
There are only three arrows in the battle, how can the bows and crossbows in the military formation be loaded so quickly. The front row was squeezed by his colleagues behind him, and he suffered a wave of arrow wounds.
Immediately afterwards, after entering the javelin projection range, Huo Du took out the javelin he was carrying again and threw it. Hundreds of short spears slashed across the heads of the routs, and the sharp tips of the spears hurled fiercely at the soldiers in the ranks.
"Wow!"
The javelins thrown out were intercepted by the shield wall on the phalanx, and only a hundred or so javelins thrown far away crossed the shield wall, poking the unlucky eggs behind the formation to the core.
Huang Gai is worthy of being a veteran on the battlefield, his army formation is already strictly organized, and Zhang Yi's department has bought him time, and his military formation is like a turtle formation, which is extremely difficult to bite. Otherwise, Zhao Yun would not have found Huo Du and tried to combine foot and cavalry into the battle to kill the enemy.
After enduring the rain of spears, Huang Gai's army was overwhelmed by the rout. Those routs were not driven away by Huo Du, and they swayed until they collided with the sharp spear array.
"Ahh
A miserable wail sounded, and it could not stop Huo Du's determination to charge. Taking advantage of the fact that the enemy's spear was blocked by the corpse in front of him, Huo Du strode forward with his shield, forming a shield wall with his fellow clansmen, but he violently exerted force and collided with Huang Gai's shield array.
"Kill the thief!"
Huo Du held the big shield with one hand, and then stabbed through the gap in the shield with a knife in one hand. A slightly curved ring-headed knife poked through the gap in the shield and plunged into the belly of the shield-wielding enemy. Under the sharp blade, there was a snort, and it stabbed into his kidneys. The moment he pulled back, the shield-bearer fell to the ground and died, revealing the spearman behind him.
At the same time, the clansmen on his side also succeeded in killing, and together they entered, using the shield in their hands and the ringhead sword to fight the spearmen.
Javelin throwing, shield melee combat, and blade piercing, this is the signature combat style of the Roman legions. As everyone knows, the early Roman legions were not this style of shock warfare, and the early army imitated the Greek use of spear phalanxes, after being defeated by the Celtic shock tactics. The Roman army absorbed the opponent's style and evolved itself into a swift assault tactic.
This assault tactic is only suitable for the infantry military phalanx system, using the advantage of melee weapons to launch a shield and advance bravely, so as to disintegrate the spear phalanx. Therefore, such a demanding tactical style of play is only suitable for extremely high-quality soldiers.
When Huo Jun was training in the early days, he asked his troops to try to learn such assault tactics. After all, spearmen are not valuable, and any ordinary farmer who has been practicing with a spear for months can meet the basic tactical requirements for forming a gun formation. However, hand-to-hand combat is different, it requires long-term training, battlefield fighting, and blood licking from the knife edge, which is why jumping soldiers are precious.
"Kill!"
Huo Du manipulated the sword and shield, blocked left and right, and slashed the spearmen. He also fought bravely with the troops who broke into the enemy's formation, formed a small round shield, occupied the gap in the front, and brought in more soldiers to expand the results. With a large number of troops entering, the first line of defense of the Huang Gai army formation was torn apart, and it penetrated deep into the generals.
However, how could Huang Gai, who was fighting on the battlefield, be so simple, under his military order, the sword and shield soldiers of the army formation met him and started close combat with Huo Du and them. Both sides are good hands, entangled with each other, tossing and turning, fighting bravely, and no one will let anyone.
Outside the formation, Zhao Yun looked at the army that was about to come from the four breads, and his expression was quite anxious.
When Zhang Yi's troops were defeated, Sun Quan had already discovered their movements and dispatched Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin to outflank them. Trying to kill these bold bandits in their ranks.
Zhao Yun also had a countermeasure, and he had ordered Shiren and Zhao Lie to lead fifty cavalry each to delay time. If there was no more signal, he had to get Huo Du to withdraw.
In the military formation, the foot soldiers fought to the death under the command of Huo Du, sometimes fighting with the opponent alone, sometimes forming a small army formation with their colleagues, relying on their outstanding martial arts and tacit cooperation, they pressed the opponent's soldiers to attack for a while.
If you look down from the sky, the troops led by Huo Du are slowly approaching the Huanggai General Banner.
One hundred and forty steps!
One hundred and thirty steps!
One hundred and twenty steps!
Reach the agreed distance!
After slashing and killing a sword and shield man, Huo Du raised his eyes to measure the distance, and shouted angrily: "Raise the flag!" ”
The moment you see the red flag waving!
"Kill!"
"Kill the enemy with me!"
Zhao Yun held the reins, held the lance immediately, glanced at the more than thirty horsemen, and pointed forward.
"Boom!"
Zhao Yun led the cavalry to rush into battle again!
"Go away!"
"Cavalry into battle!"
Huo Du heard the sound of the war horse, pushed and pulled the song beside him, and shouted hoarsely, telling them to avoid it, so as not to be injured by Zhao Yun. In an instant, Jiang Dongbing swung his knife and was about to slash at his back.
"Whew!"
With the sound of horses' hooves falling, a long lance penetrated the chest of Jiangdong soldiers, and he pulled out the lance with his backhand and walked away. Huo Du listened to the sound of the wind passing by in his ears, and looked at the situation, only to see Mingguang big armor, and Zhao Yun, who was riding a white horse, rode past him.
Zhao Yun led the cavalry. Although he had fought for a long time and was not as energetic as before, he was still extremely brave in the face of the sword and shield hand who had lost the protection of the spear. The enemies who stood in his way were killed by him like chopping melons and vegetables.
After rushing for dozens of steps, Zhao Yun felt that the resistance in front of him suddenly increased, and the potential energy of the charge weakened, and he knew that it was coming to an end. When he looked up, he seemed to see the old face of the general's Huang Gai, who was directing the spearmen to surround him.
Eighty steps!
Zhao Yun buckled the lance on the victory hook, took out the heavy bow in his left hand, and took out three heavy arrows in the quiver in his right hand. Three heavy arrows are placed in the left hand, and one arrow is drawn in the right hand and placed on the bowstring.
"Whoosh!"
The roar of arrows breaking through the wind rang out.
The heavy arrow broke through the wind, emitting a low, piercing whistling sound, and slicing an arc through the air towards Huang Gai.
Huang Gai looked at the heavy arrows shooting at him and tried to dodge, but his body couldn't keep up with his brain's reaction.
In the next moment, the thin and sharp arrow cluster pierced the fish-scale armor, the armor cracked, and the fire flashed. With the help of stamina, the heavy arrow pierced a hole in the second layer of chain mail, and the heavy arrow pierced through the two layers of heavy armor and shot in. It then tore muscles, shot through the heart, and took his life.
Huang Gai, who was holding the sword, suddenly stiffened, and his body hit the ground with a heavy weight, dying instantly!
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh!"
Zhao Yun, just in case, followed by a series of arrows, and shot Huang Gai's abdomen and organs respectively, before he stopped.
Seeing that Huang Gai was so dead that he couldn't die anymore, Zhao Yun reined in and shouted, "Withdraw!" ”
"Let's go!"
Huo Du raised his spear to stab the enemy Kou, and took advantage of the chaos caused by Huang Gai's death to kill the enemy in the army's formation, and came out with a counterattack.
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