Chapter 482: Pingyu is in crisis, and cavalry comes to help
In Runan County and Pingyu County, the fighting has been very fierce.
Zhou Yu's tens of thousands of troops continued to attack the city. After more than a month, the results have gradually begun to show.
More than two-thirds of Manchong's 8,000 defenders have been killed. Now the defenders on the city are basically the guards of the aristocratic families in the city, local warriors and even prisoners in the prison. All of these people have been dispatched.
onto the battlefield.
But even so, when the city defense supplies were exhausted, the defense of Pingyu City became increasingly difficult.
Before dawn today, Zhou Yu began to send out troops to attack the city again.
But when the siege battle was fierce, suddenly a defeated army from the direction of Zhaoling City fled back and brought the news of the arrival of Zhao Yun's troops to Zhou Yu.
The appearance of the Dragon Cavalry Army led by Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan, as well as the news that Ling Tong, Dong Xi, and Zhu Ran were captured, caused some panic and worry among the other generals of the Jiangdong Army.
But Zhou Yu remained extremely calm and said: "Everyone, the cavalry is not terrible; the likes of Zhao Yun and Xia Houlan are just ordinary men."
Zhou Yu's calm voice quickly calmed down the generals in the Chinese army's tent.
At this time, Lu Meng said: "The governor is right. In fact, Lu Yan has already told us how to deal with the cavalry!"
Zhou Yu smiled slightly and said: "In order to deal with Cao Jun's cavalry, we have already prepared countless iron caltrops, large shields and spears... Old General Cheng, Zi Ming, I leave the task of laying out fortifications to you!"
"General, take the order!" Cheng Pu and Lu Meng clasped their fists and took the order.
Zhou Yu continued to order: "Chen Wu, Zhu Heng, Ding Feng, Zhu Yi!"
"The end is here!"
"I order you to lead the army to continue to attack Pingyu County. You must capture Pingyu within today!"
...
When Zhao Yun led the dragon cavalry army to arrive outside Pingyu City, Jiangdong's army had already scaled the city wall from all sides.
Li Tong, the only general in the city, has suffered more than a dozen wounds, but he is still fighting on the front line of the city wall, trying to use his last drop of blood to defend Pingyu City.
Even Man Chong, the prefect of Runan, has gone to the battlefield. He is now holding a long sword that has a chip and is fighting on the front line with his guards. Although Man Chong is a literary scholar, he is not a weak scholar.
, but also killed several enemies on the front line.
Just when Man Chong felt that he might not be able to survive today, a guard suddenly shouted loudly: "Fu Jun, look! It's our reinforcements!!!"
"It's the Dragon Cavalry Camp! It's General Zhao Zilong here!"
"General Zilong is here! We are saved!"
The appearance of Zhao Yun and the Dragoon Army miraculously stabilized Pingyu City's precarious defense line, and the morale of the soldiers and the people defending the city suddenly increased to the extreme.
The cavalry formed a formation three hundred steps outside the Jiangdong Army's line. At this time, Xia Houlan, who had always been sharp-eyed, also discovered that the Jiangdong Army had put up a military formation that seemed familiar to them.
"The shield soldiers are in front, and the spear soldiers are in the back... There are iron caltrops and horse traps within a hundred steps in front of the military formation, and there are even three layers of horse-repelling horses on the flanks of the military formation..." Xiahou Lan clicked his tongue
Twice, he continued: "These water bandits from the east of the Yangtze River are actually pretty good at what they learned."
After hearing this, Zhao Yun couldn't help but smile and comment: "If they encounter the Wolf Cavalry Camp, Xiao Cavalry Camp, Tiger and Leopard Cavalry or even Iron Buddha, these defenses may still have a good effect..."
Xia Houlan laughed loudly when he heard this and said: "What a pity, they encountered our dragon cavalry army!"
Zhao Yun raised his gentian silver spear and shouted loudly: "Dragon Cavalry Army, let these Jiangdong people see what real riding skills are!"
"The Dragon Cavalry Army is invincible!"
The slogan of the Dragoon Army sounded, and they took the lead in launching the attack!
"Boom!"
The sound of horse hooves was like a heavy drum, striking hard on the hearts of the Jiangdong soldiers on the front line!
"Don't panic, hold on steady, be sure to hold on!!!"
Lu Meng rode a war horse and patrolled back and forth in the military formation, calming the morale of the troops.
"Get the bow!"
"Mounted shooting!"
This time, Zhao Yun did not order the cavalry to use repeating crossbows, because although repeating crossbows are good, they have a shortcoming of short killing range...
The opponent has set up a horse trap at a distance of a hundred steps, and the lethality of the crossbow will drop sharply beyond eighty steps. Therefore, it is better to use a longbow than a repeating crossbow.
The Dragoon Army is a light cavalry built with the White Horse Yi Cong as its core. Riding and shooting is their compulsory course and one of their signature abilities.
Before the advent of saddles and stirrups, mounted archery had very high requirements on the rider's abilities. It was for this reason that the number of dragoons could not increase, and the door frame of the dragoon camp was indeed a bit too high.
It’s not that Lu Yan didn’t want to take out the three treasures in the horse.
Just because saddles, stirrups and horseshoes are too easy to imitate, and in the past, the enemy and the cavalry of the grassland peoples were much more than Lao Cao. Taking them out too early is tantamount to improving others' strength and making it more difficult for yourself... so
Lu Yan has been hiding them in the snow.
However, with the destruction of Yuan Shao, Wuhuan, and Xianbei, these things that can greatly enhance the strength of the cavalry should not be far away from their appearance.
The dragoon army launched a charge towards the army commanded by Lu Meng!
Lü Meng was nervous but also a little excited. He thought to himself: "If I can defeat the cavalry led by Zhao Yun, then I, Lü Meng, will become famous in one fell swoop and be known all over the world!!" He even thought of stepping on Zhao Yun's success and becoming famous!
One hundred and ten steps left!
When the officers and soldiers of the Dragoon Army were only 110 steps away from the Jiangdong Army's large shield formation, they suddenly turned around and ran in the other direction!
And at the moment when they turned around, they all drew their bows and arrows and threw the wolf-fang arrows in their hands into the Jiangdong Army's formation!
"Boooooooo!!!"
"ah!"
When Lü Meng saw arrows flying from the sky, he immediately jumped off his horse and hid under the shield of his personal guard.
The arrow rain bypassed the large shield formation and fell from the sky, and screams and wails suddenly rang out from Lu Meng's military formation.
“Tuk-tuk-tuk!”
Listening to the sound of arrows hitting the shield above his head, Lu Meng couldn't help but gnashed his teeth and cursed: "What a cunning Zhao Yun!!!"
The dragoon army ran in an arc and crossed in front of Lü Meng's army.
Then, they left the direction of the city wall and prepared to launch a surprise attack from another direction against the Jiangdong soldiers who were attacking Pingyu City!
However, Jiang Dongjun was obviously well prepared.
Every time the Dragoon Army arrived at a city wall, Jiangdong's army set up a formation, with the same large shields, trapping horses in pits, and resisting horses, just waiting for the arrival of the Dragoon Army.
"The enemy's defense is very tight, what should we do?" Xia Houlan asked with a frown.
Neither Zhao Yun nor Xia Houlan were willing to fight with the lives of the Dragon Cavalry soldiers.
Although they could not defeat the soldiers attacking the city, they could at least prevent them from attacking the city with all their strength, which could be regarded as buying time for the Pingyu defenders.
After Zhao Yun observed the situation, he said: "Contain the enemy troops first, and support them wherever they are more critical."
There was no good way, so Xia Houlan could only nod and said: "That's all we have to do, let's take one step at a time and see what happens next."