The majestic white armor is like a huge cliff, pressing in from west to east.
The white-armored soldiers arrived so quickly that the rebel barracks was about to turn into a mess.
Just two moments ago, there was an urgent report from the scouts. There were many white-armored cavalry appearing more than ten miles away. It seemed that the enemy was probing the horses. Two moments later, thousands of white-armored cavalry were about ten miles away.
How can there be such a war, without any rules and regulations, just as you say?
Not to mention sending rangers to explore the formation in advance, at least consider it. This is the rebels' home base, and the white-armored soldiers marched straight in as if no one was there?
Aren’t you afraid that the Dharma King and the general will use their mighty troops to surround you to death?
If he was afraid, Li Chengzhi would not come...
After marching to about ten miles away from Jingzhou and encountering rebel scouts, Li Chengzhi ordered Guo Cunxin, Li Liang, Song Lishen and others to set up camp with infantry and auxiliary troops. He led only 2,000 cavalry and 1,000 chariots to advance eastward quickly.
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When we arrived outside the rebel camp, we saw a large number of rebels gathering out of the camp, and the sky and fields were full of people.
If there are tens of thousands of people, it will reach the earth and the sky; if there are tens of thousands of people, it will be boundless!
There are more than tens of thousands of rebel soldiers and civilians under Jingzhou City?
There are people everywhere within sight, densely packed and boundless. It stretches from five or six miles away to the bottom of Jingzhou City, like countless ants squirming...
Looking closer, we can see a series of camps three or four miles away, with horses forming a forest. As the smoke and dust rose, groups of cavalry and chariots rushed out of the military camp and quickly formed an array in front of the camp.
There are quite a few armored soldiers among them. At least five of the ten cavalry teams are wearing armor.
"Are we going to attack again?" Li Chengzhi looked at Hu Baozong and asked with a smile.
Hu Baozong choked violently and shook his head unwillingly.
Before sending troops, Hu Baozong once said that if the rebel camp was not strict and the lineup was uneven, he would lead the black cavalry into a formation so that Li Chengzhi could see how the cavalry was used.
Li Chengzhi agreed immediately.
It’s impossible even if you think about it.
Even generals who don’t understand the art of war know the principle of being tight on the outside and loose on the inside. When setting up camp, they will naturally place their elite troops on the outermost perimeter.
What's more, the Wuzhi Li family started out with military exploits, and they have a better academic background. Not to mention Li Chengzhi's ancestors, they are much higher than the Anding Hu family: their ancestor was the flying general Li Guang.<
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Sure enough!
Looking at the formation in front of us, we know that no matter how chaotic the rebels are, it is impossible for someone to steal the camp in broad daylight.
"Are you afraid?" Li Chengzhi asked with a smile.
"Huh?" Hu Baozong sneered, "It's just a chicken and a dog!"
He said this, but he still took it seriously in his heart.
If there are too many ants, they can kill an elephant.
What's more, the other party is not a refugee who is completely powerless to fight back.
As soon as we received the enemy report, so many rebels came out of the camp. The formation was not too chaotic. These soldiers were probably the enemy's elite.
The surprise attack is definitely impossible, but it’s okay to try the formation and test its combat power...
Listening to the angrily urging and cursing of the enemy general, Hu Baozong was a little ready to make a move: "Why don't you take advantage of the instability of the enemy's formation and make a small charge first? It's not much, just give me a brigade of cavalry..."
Of course he didn't come here in such a hurry to watch a show. Li Chengzhi originally wanted to catch the rebels off guard.
But it’s not like Hu Baozong’s stupid style of play, where he just knows how to rush.
After all the planning, I only have two thousand cavalry...
Li Chengzhi pondered for a moment: "Forget it about rushing to kill, it is still necessary to test it out, but it is not your turn!"
He turned his head and said to Li Zhao who was behind Li Song, "You go, lead a hundred carriages and eight hundred archers... But you can only explore the formation, you are not allowed to go deep, and you are not allowed to be closer than twenty steps to the enemy's formation..."<
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Li Chengzhi was afraid that if he got too close, the rebels would lose their minds again and swarm around him, and he would not be able to save him in time...
"I have the order!" Li Zhao fiercely clasped his fists and turned around.
"Huangfu lets!"
"The end is here!"
"Lead the B-shaped battalion to plunder the formation for Li Zhao!"
"No!"
Seeing that Li Chengzhi really didn't send him, Hu Baozong was a little anxious: "Why don't you send me? Even if the black cavalry is only half-armor and not as powerful as the white cavalry, you should let Huangfu Rang's C-shaped battalion go. Why Li?"
Zhao’s archers?”
Idiot!
Li Chengzhi wanted to curse, but after all, it was not in private.
In front of so many soldiers and generals, Li Chengzhi just glared at him and pointed forward: "You'll know just by looking at it..."
This is the home base of the rebels. No matter how strong their morale is and how courageous they are, will the cavalry still dare to rush into the enemy camp?
God knows how many soldiers are hidden inside. If you dare to rush in, you will most likely end up being surrounded.
Of course, Hu Baozong also understood this truth and had long given up the idea of a surprise attack. What he didn't understand was that even when exploring the formation, the most mobile cavalry should be used. Why did Li Chengzhi use slower chariots?<
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Li Song vaguely thought of something, but was not sure.
Li Shi felt the deepest feeling. He bared his teeth and reminded Hu Baozong: "Captain Hu, the traitors not only have bows, but also crossbows..."
Hu Baozong was stunned for a moment, then curled his lips secretly.
So it turns out that Xibing’s problem has occurred again?
How can anyone not die in a war?
No wonder he brought so many vans...
The so-called carriage is actually a carriage with the roof lifted up, surrounded by five-foot-high and three-inch-thick walls on all sides.
This thing is not a new thing created by Li Chengzhi. It has been around for a long time. Most of them are for officials and ladies to ride.
There are also records of it being used in battles.
At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, Tufa Shuji, the leader of Xianbei in Hexi, rebelled in Jingzhou. He defeated and beheaded the Qinzhou governor Hu Lie, who was the thirteenth ancestor of Hu Baozong, and also defeated Sima Liang, the king of Fufeng, and Sima Jun, the king of Ruyin.
A series of heroes including Qian Hong, the first governor of Liangzhou, Su Yu, the second governor of Liangzhou, Yang Xin, the third governor of Liangzhou, Wen Yang, the famous general of the Western Jin Dynasty, Jia Chong, the father of the Demon Queen Jia Nanfeng, and hundreds of thousands of people of the Western Jin Dynasty
Army.
Suddenly no one can defeat him?
What was dramatic was that he was ultimately defeated by Malone, who only led 3,500 soldiers.
Not to mention indigenous people like Hu Baozong and Li Song, even Li Chengzhi was surprised when he saw this period of history:
Ma Long defeated the Bald Tree with only more than 3,000 soldiers. The magic weapon capable of tens of thousands of cavalry turned out to be a boxcar and a magnet?
He ordered all his subordinates to wear leather armor and hold wooden staffs without any iron tools. Then he used hundreds of vans to pull magnets and went to find the bald tree for a decisive battle.
The armored Hu cavalry and war horses couldn't control themselves at all and kept rushing towards the formation of officers and soldiers. As a result, the knives and guns in their hands flew away before they even rushed forward?
In panic, thousands of people were stabbed to death by Jin soldiers with wooden sticks.
The rest just thought it was a divine punishment, a miracle, tens of thousands of cavalry escaped, surrendered, and were defeated in the end...
Li Chengzhi was inspired by this and thought of the sidecars of the Ming Dynasty.
Sun Chengzong could even defend against the firearms of the Qing army with this thing, so why couldn't he defend against crossbows and arrows?
The carriages were all ready-made, with just a layer of thick wooden boards surrounding them. The process was not complicated. In five or six days, Yang Shu got him two hundred carriages.
As for the effect, you will know just by looking at it...
One hundred two-wheel-drive vans lined up in a row and drove diagonally towards the enemy formation.
The rebels only thought that the chariots and soldiers were going to charge into the formation, and they immediately blocked the horses, placed the chariots in the formation, and put up the shields. For a while, they were in a hurry.
But when it was about thirty paces away, the carriage suddenly turned and ran parallel to the enemy's formation.
The leader of the rebels was a monk, and he looked puzzled. He secretly guessed what the white-armored soldiers were up to, and whether they had pulled something igniting into the car and wanted to set it on fire.
But you can also rush over...
Just as he was sneering, several holes suddenly opened in the wall of the carriage, and what protruded from them were clearly arrows with cold light.
Just listen to the loud sound of strings, and the sky is full of arrows, shooting towards the rebels like a rain of locusts.
"Raise your shield!" the monk shouted.
Most of those who could be used as front-line soldiers were not far behind. They had at least served as Wu soldiers. In fact, before the monk gave the order, some soldiers raised their shields.
There was only a chaotic sound of "ding-ding-ding-duk-duk", followed by miserable howls one after another.
In front of the rebel formation, hundreds of soldiers were struck by arrows, and the shields in their hands seemed to have become decorations.
The rebel general's eyes are about to split.
It's not that the shield is useless, but that the white-armored soldiers are too despicable. Half of the arrows are shot directly from the hole in the carriage, and the other half are thrown from the roof of the carriage?
Even if the frontline rebels had shields, they only had one hand. They could protect the top of the head, but they could not protect the chest, abdomen and lower body.
"The archers and crossbows fired back...shoot back..." the rebel general roared loudly.
Following the roar, there was a sound of "tying, tying, tying". The crossbowmen and archers hiding behind the shield soldiers were picking up their hanging knives and pulling their bows.
Arrows are also like a rain of locusts, but you can only hear the sound of arrows hitting carriages, shields, and horse armor, but you can't hear half of the screams of people after being hit by arrows.
Without any orders from Li Zhao, after the first round of shooting, the four archers in the front row sealed the hole.
The four archers in the back row were still firing from the top in an orderly manner.
All the white-armored archers are fully armored, and the arrows thrown from above their heads cannot cause much damage to them at all.
And the relatively powerful arrows cannot penetrate the three-inch-thick chariot wall at a distance of about thirty paces.
Hu Baozong was very surprised: "This van is actually used like this?"
The rebel archers and crossbowmen turned into decorations in front of the carriage.
Unless they use heavy crossbows or trebuchets, how many such things can the rebels have?
If there were more, Jingzhou City would have been breached long ago. Can we still wait two months?
"What do you think?" Li Chengzhi replied nonchalantly.
According to his idea, if this thing is coated with iron on the outside and equipped with a hook and sickle gun for the archers, it can be used for both close defense and long-distance attack. It is equivalent to a tank in the cold weapon era.
If it were paired with some grenades...hahaha, the scene would be unimaginable.
In fact, Li Chengzhi's main purpose was to make up for the shortcomings of the hollow formation being unable to move and the infantry having to defend when encountering cavalry.
Not to mention equipped with grenades, even if equipped with rockets, infantrymen with carriages would dare to charge towards the cavalry.
What are Mangu's evil tactics and wolf pack tactics? I'm going to give you a hammer?
As long as you dare to come, you will die as many as you come...
Just a bit useless.
The carriage plus eight armored archers weighed more than 1,200 kilograms. Ordinary draft horses could not pull it. War horses, and two, were needed.
To put it bluntly, we are still fighting for equipment, and whoever has more money is justified...
The more Hu Baozong looked at it, the more he admired it, and his eyes began to light up.
Is this what Li Chengzhi said, a mobile archer?
There are thirty steps between the two armies. If they are shooting from horseback, no matter how strong the bow arm is, the arrow will not have much power when it is shot, and it will not cause much damage to the enemy.
First, because the horse is unstable, the accuracy is insufficient. Second, it is difficult to exert force when riding on the horse, and at most it can only produce 60 to 70% of the power when standing.
Therefore, cavalry generally use short bows or soft bows, which are much less powerful than infantry bows.
But chariot soldiers do not have these shortcomings. As much force as they can exert standing on the ground, they can naturally exert as much force as they stand in a chariot.
And it needs to be more accurate...
But why has no one thought of this method before?
The more Hu Baozong thought about it, the more he admired him.
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The rebel camp wall was extremely wide, spanning three or four miles, so it was naturally impossible for the chariot soldiers to cover all three or four miles.
After only exploring for about a mile, Li Chengzhi ordered the flag soldiers to return.
The rebel general knew that his crossbows were useless, so he made a prompt decision and sent out his cavalry.
Li Chengzhi sneered: Do you think my armored knight is a vegetarian?
Without Li Chengzhi's orders, Huangfu Rang, who was following the chariot soldiers, immediately rushed forward.
The two teams of cavalry were still more than ten feet away, and arrows were flying in front of the formation. Immediately, a scene that was extremely incredible to the rebels occurred:
Countless arrows hit the white-armored soldiers, but they seemed to be scratching an itch. No matter they were men or horses, they ignored them at all. Those who should rush forward were still rushing forward, and those who should shoot arrows were still shooting.
Huangfu Rang, who was at the forefront, had already hung his bow on the iron hook on the horse's belly, reached out and drew out his knife, preparing to kill him head on.
On the other hand, among the rebels, only three or four of the ten horses were hit by arrows, but the ones that could not withstand the arrows were all unarmored horses. If one horse fell, it would trip up the next two or three horses.
Even if some rebel soldiers were lucky enough not to be suppressed by horses, they would be trampled to death by the friendly forces behind them.
Full armor...White Cavalry is really full armor?
How can we fight this battle?
The rebel general was frightened and angry, and blood started to flow from the corners of his eyes.
"Mingjin...Mingjin...come back, come back..."
But where else can we get there in time?
The group of cavalry sent out was almost killed by the white cavalry. Even a few fish that slipped through the net were replenished with arrows by the chariot soldiers who followed...
In less than half a moment, the rebels lost a group of armored cavalry and hundreds of infantry.
Looking at the soldiers who were panicking but not disrupting their formation and retreating backwards into the camp, Hu Baozong took a breath as if he had a toothache: "Just put them back like this? What a pity..."
Li Chengzhi sneered: "What else do you want?"
In fact, it is not impossible to pursue the victory, and it is not impossible to defeat the rebels who have left the camp with the help of iron cavalry.
But we can’t just pursue temporary pleasure without considering the overall situation.
No matter how late Liu Huiwang and Li Wenxiao were, they should have known that the enemy had arrived at the gate of the city. They were probably frightened to the point where their hair stood on end, and everything was in chaos.
If you press too hard, all the troops will definitely be pressed up...
Li Chengzhi really wanted to fight decisively, but this was not the way to fight.
Regardless of whether we can win or not, how many of these two thousand cavalry will be left in the end?