Zhang Liao looked at Sun Guan's eyes and knew that he was not convinced. Sun Guan was a strong general when he was under Lu Bu. After he surrendered to Cao Zhi with Zhang Liao and others, he never fought a real war. Lu Bu
Dead, Sun Guan,
Although Wu Dun, Yin Li, and other eight-strong generals who were once famous for a while, including Cao Zhi, did not treat them badly, what these generals always want to do is to perform in the new team. With Cao Zhi, the new master,
This is a great achievement.
But today's battle situation was unfavorable. They fell into Cheng Pu's trap. Sun Guan and others could see clearly, but there was no such thing as admitting defeat in their dictionary. Sun Guan and others believed that their military strength was still superior to their opponents.
The reserve force is sufficient. Even if they fall into some of Cheng Pu's tricks, as long as they make a desperate move and fight the enemy, they will still be able to lose both sides.
At this time, Sun Guan, Wu Dun, Yin Li and other old generals who had not been sent into battle by Zhang Liao were very dissatisfied with Zhang Liao, and even secretly cursed Zhang Liao for becoming cowardly and losing his temper. In fact, this was the difference between them and Zhang Liao.
The biggest difference between them is that Sun Guan and others are indeed excellent military generals, but they are definitely not like Zhang Liao who are excellent commanders who can control the overall situation and see the general trend clearly. People like Sun Guan are at best good generals who charge into battle, but
Not a good commander by any means.
It seems that Cao Zhi's choice is extremely correct, and his historical positioning is also extremely in place. When Cao Zhi heard Zhang Liao's open-mindedness, he could breathe a sigh of relief and be glad that he had not chosen the wrong person. But at this time, Zhang Liao was not so relaxed.
While paying attention to the changes in the battle situation ahead, he looked back at the secret weapon in his hand, the explosives provided to him by Cao Zhi in the rear formation. At the same time, he could not ignore Cao Hong who was surrounded and annihilated.
Zhang Liao faced a difficult choice. Cao Zhi had absolute trust and appreciation for him. High-end weapons such as explosives had been distributed to Zhang Liao and Cai Mao, the two land and sea generals. However, because the quantities were not large, Cao Zhi had asked them to
Use it at critical moments.
Cai Mao has adhered to this principle until now and has not used explosives in many failed water battles. Zhang Liao may be facing Cheng Pu's armored car formation at this time, so it is not an exaggeration to use it. But he turned around and looked
Zhang Liao glanced at it, but gritted his teeth and made a decision for the time being, "No need!"
Then, Zhang Liao, on the premise of admitting the defeat of this battle, loudly ordered Sun Guan and others: "All the front troops of the Chinese army move forward, but they are not allowed to attack the enemy's guard vehicle formation without authorization. Keep the army formation unchanged and set up iron shields."
, Let's fight defense with defense! Sun Guan, you lead a cavalry team of a thousand people and kill them from the enemy's flank. First, destroy some of the enemy cavalry that come out from the flank. Then insert them from where to rescue Cao Hong and the others...
...as much as we can save..."
"Yes!" Sun Guan immediately led his troops away.
Zhang Liao's command and dispatch was timely, but he was not very optimistic about Cao Hong's situation. He then ordered the entire army to retreat to the rear formation about a hundred meters behind Wanmatan, and poured oil into the temporary trench they had established.
When they retreat, they can prevent Cheng Pu from pursuing them.
But unexpectedly, after Zhang Liao's general order was conveyed to the front line, Cao Jun attacked Sun Jun's heavy infantry who could not form a chariot formation. They all retreated dozens of meters, and also used their special defensive skills to densely cover the iron shields that were as tall as one person.
Blocking in front of him and covering his head, he began to shoot arrows and javelins into the air regularly, using long-range attacks on Sun Jun behind the enemy's iron-armed guard car formation. Cheng Pu also fired back two rounds of arrows and took the lead in using
Arrows laced with explosives.
Cheng Pu also had explosives on hand, which were urgently allocated to him when Sun Ce sent someone to change their orders on his way back to Chaisang.
The only flaw, or shortcoming, is that the quantity is too small. Sun Ce intercepted more than 500 kilograms of gunpowder that was not packaged into explosives on the road from Yuzhang to Danyang. Sun Ce had already spent a lot of manpower studying Cao Cao.
Sun Ce and his team also thought about imitating Zhi's deadly weapon, but due to the lack of an effective and correct formula, Sun Ce and his team failed to succeed. At this time, with readily available gunpowder, they were already familiar with how to turn them into explosives.
However, as one of the few high-end weapons and effective destructive weapons, Sun Ce divided it into two parts. One part was given to Zhou Yu, the trusted general who led the navy, and the other part was kept with him. Among them, when they attacked Jiangxia Huangzu
, part of it has been used. That time can be regarded as military training, and a lot of achievements were made.
Huang Zu and his Jiangxia army were frightened by the great results of the battle. After that incident, Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and others further realized the power of explosives, and it also made them cherish the existing stocks of explosives more, because they were disposable
Consumables, so they all have a tacit understanding of being easily inapplicable.
It was really because their numbers were so small that they could no longer afford their squandering in every battle. But the situation soon changed again, Sun Ce died, and Sun Quan succeeded to the throne. For this dandy young master who was always used to spending a lot of money, what more could he do?
The less he uses, the more important thing is to defeat Cao Zhicai, who is currently many times more powerful than him. What will happen if he uses up all of it?
Under Sun Quan's order to use explosives, Zhou Yu could still insist on Sun Ce's consistent behavior of being diligent and thrifty with these explosives, but Cheng Pu would no longer insist on it.
He had long been dissatisfied with Sun Ce's emphasis on cultivating and protecting young men of his own age, and was dissatisfied with the fact that they did not have enough respect and trust for veterans and ministers. This time, after he reinforced Zhou Yu in place, his navy was not suitable
On the grounds of using explosives, Zhou Yu collected all the remaining explosives into his own army bag.
Firstly, Zhou Yu came to win over these veteran generals in the army so that Cheng Pu and others could cooperate with him. Secondly, seeing that their army was indeed much weaker than Cao's army, he agreed to Cheng Pu's request and left the remaining army around him.
The explosives dropped were all allocated to Cheng Pu's army. Cheng Pu accordingly allocated the general Huang Gai to Zhou Yu for use, which can be regarded as a back-and-forth.
At this time, when he saw that Cao's army also wanted to defend their position, Cheng Pu understood that Zhang Liao was trying to block them, and then tried to rescue the trapped Cao Hong's tribe. Of course, Cheng Pu did not want to let Cao Hong and Zhang Liao go, so he
Without hesitation, he ordered five or six explosives to be tied to the arrows and shot towards Cao's formation.
"Boom! Bang bang!" With two loud noises, the iron shield array built by Cao Jun could certainly prevent the enemy's arrows, but they still couldn't stop such a powerful explosion. People and iron shields were
Several fireballs were generated near the explosion point.
After being lifted up, the air was filled with the pungent smell of burnt objects and human flesh. Listening to these roaring noises, seeing people flipping over on their backs, blood and flesh flying everywhere, countless wailing sounds made the people on Cao's army up and down the mountain heartbroken.
They are all sinking.
"General, let's use it too!"
"Lord, order General Zhang to fight back and blow up those sons of bitches!"
Two requests with almost identical meanings sounded in the ears of Zhang Liao and Cao Zhi at the same time, but Cao Zhi and Zhang Liao, the two persons in charge, chose to refuse with a tacit understanding.
"unnecessary!"
"It's not yet time. Those in front are not allowed to retreat. Hold on!"
Almost at the same time, both of them realized that Cheng Pu's iron-armed guard car formation was disadvantageous for him to attack at this time. They surrounded themselves, and Cao's army suffered heavy casualties and could not attack. But at this time, the explosives caused chaos to Cao's army.
, also inhibited Cheng Pu's pace of attacking in advantage of the victory. However, Cheng Pu did not dare to easily push away the guard formation. If Zhang Liao counterattacked and killed him, it was still unknown who would win.
Cao's army couldn't get in, and Sun's army couldn't get out, or in other words, they didn't dare to get out.
Cheng Pu hesitated. His subordinates saw the power produced by the explosives. Cheng Pu, Cheng Zi and many subordinates suddenly felt restless. Those long-lost scenes appeared before their eyes again. What a good opportunity to counterattack. Cheng Pu
The people in the general formation were surging, and the familiar whistling and explosion sounds were mixed with screams. Seeing the chaos of the enemy troops outside the formation, their heartbeats began to accelerate. Many soldiers shouted and shouted to rush out, taking the opportunity to attack a group of soldiers.
A chaotic enemy army.
But at this time, their iron arm formation stopped them. Even if they had to pull out the iron rods fixed to the ground and push the guard car away, it would still take a certain amount of time. At this time, some people wanted to take the initiative to push away their guard car formation.
, but Cheng Pu has not yet issued an order, and no one dares to make any independent decisions.
So many people began to send messengers to the central commander for orders to attack. Even at this time, Cheng Pu's son Cheng Zi was urging his father Cheng Pu, "Dad, look, Cao's army is in chaos. It's in chaos. Let's move away quickly."
Guard the vehicle formation, rush out, rush out..."
Cheng Pu was also aroused for a while. Not only did the finger bones of the hand holding the iron-spine snake spear turn white with force, but the palms of his hands were sweating. Because he continued to hold the spear shaft tightly, it made a creaking sound.
"Bastard, is it your turn to point the finger at me this time?"
Cheng Pu's scolding not only made Cheng Zi scratch his head and sweat, but he didn't know whether he wanted to continue to persuade his father Cheng Pu to pursue the victory, so he could only say vaguely: "That... that, Cao's army is in chaos... in chaos, we...
...Opportunity...Opportunity, hey..."
At this time, the messengers and officers from the front formation arrived one after another. They all came to report the latest battle situation to Cheng Pu and request orders to attack. At that moment, Cheng Pu was also in chaos, and he jabbered that not only could Cheng Pu not be very good,
Think about and observe changes in the enemy's situation at the front and rear.
"No chaos, what do you think of being so noisy? Everyone go back to their posts, I have new orders and I will pass them down!" Some of the generals who came to ask for orders wanted to say something more, but were stopped by Cheng Pu's eyes.
He glared and scolded: "Get out of here, if you dare to show off again, you will be punished by military law!"
Everyone saw that Cheng Pu was angry and had to disperse in a hurry.
After Cheng Pu was able to calm down, he first looked at the front where the exchange of fire was still taking place. During this period, Cao Jun's formation, which was disrupted by Cheng Pu's explosives, was under pressure from various generals, and things improved slightly. But look.
Looking at the stumps and broken arms, as well as the soldiers who were dragged back into the formation with missing arms and legs, or were burned, the damage they had done to Cao's army in this round was beyond doubt.