Strategy can influence and even influence the direction of the war, but the eternal theme in war is still courage and iron blood.
On the eighteenth day of the first month of the third year of Kaiyuan, after eliminating the interference caused by heavy snow, Wang Yu personally supervised the division, moved his troops westward, and launched a fierce attack on Hulao Pass. Coincidentally, the main force of Cao Cao's army, which had been lingering in the Zhongmu area,
He also suddenly exerted his strength and quickly advanced towards Gushi City in the southeast of Hulao Pass.
After the war began, the main forces of the two armies had never been so close, and many people regarded it as the prelude to the decisive battle.
"Forward!" Following Taishi Ci's order, thousands of heavily armored warriors rushed forward, stopped about 200 steps away from the river bank, and erected a wooden wall with giant shields. The wooden wall
Later, thousands of auxiliary soldiers wearing light armor or no armor pushed more than forty crossbow carts, used ox-drawn horses to draw the bow strings, and put the crossbow arrows nearly ten feet long on the crossbow bed.
Although Chuilong City and Hulao Pass are only thirty miles apart, they are separated by Yingshui River. Even if the factor of kinship is aside, Xiahou Dun is also a general of Cao's army, so he will naturally not fail to take advantage of this convenience.
The overall defense line is based on Hulao Pass and the Yingshui River as a barrier. The front few camps are less than fifty steps away from the river. Although the Yingshui River is not very fast, it is still a threat to Qingzhou soldiers and horses.
This caused great hindrance. Without excluding the interference from these camps, the army would not be able to gain a foothold on the shore after crossing the river.
At present, the spring floods are approaching, and the wind on the river is very strong. At a distance of about 200 steps, ordinary crossbows cannot cause trouble to the opponent at all. It is natural for the Qingzhou Army to use its own weapon to attack the enemy.
"Wind!" The sound of the surging water was quickly covered up by the whistling sound caused by the crossbow arrows breaking through the air, and even the skylight above them dimmed for a moment.
The attack was massive, but the results were very few. The fences of those camps were specially reinforced, using wooden stakes as thick as a bowl, and the parts driven into the ground were more than two feet long.
Even when faced with a powerful crossbow with a range of up to a thousand steps, the defense is still very reliable.
"Seize! Seize! Seize!" Everyone in Cao's army knew how powerful the crossbow was. When they saw the powerful crossbow, they did not show off. They all retreated behind the fence early. For a while, they only heard the sound of sharp arrows hitting the wood, but not a few.
A miserable scream.
"Go forward!" Taishi Ci was not discouraged and repeated the previous order loudly.
Thousands of shield-bearers pulled up their huge shields, and together with the ballistae, they rumbled forward. The giant, as solid as a mountain, slowly approached. Although the defenders in the camp had a solid wall to rely on, they still felt that their chests were
I feel stuffy, my heart is pounding, and I can hardly breathe.
Even so, there were still hundreds of people sticking their heads out from behind the camp wall and looking across the river, all holding stringed crossbows tightly in their hands, ready for battle.
Yingshui is not a big river. The widest part of the water surface is only about thirty steps. With the manpower of the Qingzhou Army, it is very easy to build a pontoon bridge. However, although the location of Hulao Pass is important, there is no terrain nearby to rely on. Yingshui
No matter how dangerous it may not be, it is still a line of defense, and it is impossible not to use it.
Xiahou Dun did not intend to compete with the Qingzhou Army at long range. He just wanted to use the Yingshui defense line to sustain it longer.
"Set up a crossbow..."
"wind!"
Taishi Ci was not in a hurry to build a pontoon bridge to cross the river. Instead, he commanded the crossbow convoy to fire four volleys at a distance of 150 steps, a hundred steps, eighty steps, and finally at 50 steps.
At that time, a gap finally appeared in Cao Jun's camp wall. Even if it was reinforced, it was still far from indestructible in the face of such a powerful weapon as the ballista.
The giant arrow with a tip of fine steel and a feather of wrought iron cut through the wooden pile, cut through the stone armor or iron armor behind the shield wall like tofu, nailed the shield and armor together with their owner to the ground, and harvested them in one go.
nearly a hundred lives
Hearing the shrill screams from the other side, Taishi Ci breathed a sigh of relief, then frowned again.
Although the crossbow is still effective, its effectiveness has been weakened a lot. It is impossible to capture Hulao Pass in an overwhelming manner like it was during Fengqiu. Although today's attack is still mainly tentative, if it can
If there was a better outcome, how could Taishi Ci be willing to just throw stones to ask for directions?
"No wonder my lord has been unwilling to attack Hulao Pass with all his strength. Cao Cao is really difficult to deal with. There was no movement in Xingyang in the autumn. I don't know why he quietly made so many tricks...
..." Looking at the strict defense facilities on the opposite side, Taishi Ci gritted his teeth.
The combat power of Cao's army was inferior to that of the Qingzhou army, but compared with the enemies it had faced before, its performance was extremely strong, especially its resilience.
When an ordinary army faces the bed crossbow, once they have seen the power of the bed crossbow, their morale will definitely plummet. Similar to Cao Jun's current situation, even the wall of the camp in Yiwei Gancheng was broken through more than ten gaps, and the soldiers in the camp
The soldiers did not collapse, and there was not even a trace of chaos. The shield bearers behind them rushed forward directly, layer upon layer, and blocked the gap in the blink of an eye.
Such an enemy is so well prepared that it is impossible to defeat him quickly!
"Build a pontoon bridge, and I will go personally to meet the heroes of Cao's camp!" Taishi Ci gave the order directly without any hesitation.
He has no talent for doing things, but his abilities are very comprehensive, and he still has no fixed position. In such a war, it is a waste of resources to leave such a strong general idle. Wang Yu thought about it again and again, and simply regarded him as
He hired his own substitute and specialized in doing things that it was no longer convenient for him to show up, such as visiting the front lines in person.
Taishi Ci was quite satisfied with this, for fear of accidentally messing it up. Now that he saw that the strong crossbow was more than enough to suppress but not enough to destroy, he certainly wouldn't just watch it.
Thousands of auxiliary soldiers drank the strong wine in the bowl in one gulp, then threw down the bowl, carried wooden boards, bamboo poles and ropes and jumped into the cold river before the army.
Although it is already spring, the weather is far from warm. The cold river water is enough to kill an adult man in half an hour. In less than half an hour, the auxiliary soldiers were so cold that their lips turned purple and their hands and feet were injured.
We gradually lost strength, but no one gave up. Everyone gritted their teeth and persisted. The pontoon stretched to the other side one foot at a time and crossed the middle of the river in the blink of an eye!
Facing the crossbow fire, Cao Jun acted very calmly, but this time they couldn't sit still. The archers who had been peeping their heads began to show off their power. They took a look, estimated the distance, and threw the arrows in their hands.
Falling towards the middle of the river.
A man fell into the river, was gently rolled up by the waves, and disappeared after a circle of red ripples. Then came the second, third, craftsmen and auxiliary soldiers who had no weapons except wood.
They had nowhere to dodge, and watched helplessly as arrows flew down one after another, knocking down those around them like hail.
"The Hussars of the Han Dynasty..." Being in the cold river, with arrows falling from their heads, is there anything more desperate than this? If it were an ordinary Minzhuang, they would have been in chaos.
, but what came out of the river dyed red was a high-spirited shout!
"Purchase thieves and bring peace to the world!" One person started, and everyone joined in. The sound of rolling waves suddenly overwhelmed the sound of arrows piercing the air. Not only did the progress of the pontoon not slow down, but it actually went faster.
The ideas that Wang Yu wants to promote have a subtle influence on everyone in the operation of the New Deal. The auxiliary soldiers in Qingzhou are not civilians who were reluctantly dragged out of their homes with knives on their necks.
Rather, they were those who recognized certain ideas in the New Deal, or unconditionally supported their master, and voluntarily signed up to join the army.
Driven by strong beliefs, this danger was nothing at all, not to mention that they were not fighting alone.
The shouts continued, and on the crossbow position on the east bank of Yingshui River, the buzzing sound of the crossbow strings sounded again, and the crossbow arrows, with the breath of revenge, rushed towards the camp more than a hundred steps away!
Taishi Ci did not wait to see the results of the battle, and just let the crossbowmen re-string the crossbows. He waved his hand and pointed forward. Thousands of archers poured out from behind the crossbow cart array like a tide, and set up their formation close to the river bank.
Launched a massive volley!
Arrows all over the sky obscured the sun and moon, and tens of thousands of people simultaneously screamed and killed, shaking the earth!
Cao's army did not show weakness. Wherever the flag was raised, hundreds of crossbowmen appeared one after another and launched a shootout with the Qingzhou army on the other side without fear.
The battle suddenly became fierce, and the sky was filled with arrows flying around. In the densest places, there would even be arrows flying in opposite directions colliding with each other, and both falling on the river beach or in the river. In the heroic place, and the general
The owners of them thrown into the air are no different. They both have an indomitable momentum and the determination to perish with the enemy.
The long arrow is in the sky, the wind is rustling, the blood blooms like a lotus, and the life withers like a residual lotus.
"We can't let the auxiliary soldiers continue to sacrifice, sons and daughters, come with me and kill together!" Taishi Ci led the charge, adding another fire to the fierce and heroic duel between the archers, and the whole battle happened so suddenly.
But it naturally entered the most intense stage.
When Taishi Ci launched his attack, the pontoon bridge was still more than ten steps away from the other side. Cao Jun's archers were relatively small in number, and the targets of the attack were not mainly the archers on the other side, but focused on killing the auxiliary troops laying the bridge.
Although Qingzhou's auxiliary soldiers were very courageous, they were unable to overcome the difficulties caused by the reduction in numbers and the loss of physical strength caused by the cold. Therefore, after the shooting began, the progress of the pontoon bridge slowed down.
The army led by Taishi Citong has not yet fully adapted to his style, but the guards around him know very well that their general intends to jump directly over, so naturally they cannot fall behind. Of course, not everyone has the skills of General Taishi.
, but the Yingshui River is not very deep to begin with. The auxiliary soldiers can build a bridge in the river. Are the elite guards like myself afraid of getting their boots wet by the river water?
Under the pressure of the sky full of feather arrows, figures rose into the sky one after another, burning the flames of war to the west bank of Yingshui River! (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)