Chapter 146
"Yes~Yes~Yes~Yes~!" Arrows were like locusts, endlessly, covering the cavalry towards Fei Chi one after another. As the distance continued to get closer, the force of powerful crossbows, especially the arrows shot out by Jue Zhang, became stronger and stronger.
At about two hundred steps, the iron cavalry soldiers could even be directly nailed off the horse. After many war horses were hit by two or three arrows at the same time, the huge horse's body was shot upright and then fell heavily.
The Iron Knight soldiers were all warriors who had been through many battles and had long been used to life and death. The death of their companions did not scare them. They were skillfully dodging on the horses and urged the horses to sprint forward.
They have experienced this situation many times and are very clear that as long as they can rush through the last two hundred steps of death, everything will be wide. As long as the plains are open, under the charge of the Iron Cavalry, the defense of any infantry is futile, which has been verified in previous battles.
This time is no exception!
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220 steps!
210 steps!
200 steps!
As the distance got closer, Ma Chao's expression became more and more excited, and even looked a little ferocious. The bloodthirsty light flashed in his falcon-like eyes, and he couldn't help but murmur, "Get closer, closer..."
Even with the sound of horse hooves disturbed, Pang De, not far away, still heard Ma Chao's murmuring words.
Pang De, who is very familiar with Ma Chao, knows that after his military leader defeated Zhang Fei in the most proud bravery, his mentality has become unbalanced and he has completely lost his previous calmness on the battlefield.
Pang De can only hope for the God of Heaven and the Old Army Lord's Spirit in Heaven to bless him. The enemy will not have any conspiracy and tricks waiting for him to wait for others...
However, things will never go as they wish...
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For some reason, the war horses in the forefront were gradually slowing down. The speed became slower and slower, which made the horse's cavalry extremely confused and uncomfortable.
But the enemy doesn't care what happened to you. Arrows like storms pierced down like a storm, sending countless confused cavalry out to the Yellow Springs. As the distance is less than two hundred steps, in addition to the powerful crossbowmen at the beginning, the archers also joined the ranks of shooting. In just a blink of an eye, two or three thousand arrows whistled in beautiful and dangerous arcs.
One round after another, endless time.
The iron cavalry that slowed down and even stopped charging could not effectively block the attack of arrows. They could only wave their weapons in vain to try to block them, but the dense rain of arrows could not resist by humans?
The iron cavalry in front slowed down, but the iron cavalry in the rear did not have such mental preparation at all. They could not stop for a moment, and a serious "car crash" occurred.
"Bang bang bang..." The dull and "solid" collision sounds one after another. The iron cavalry, which had nearly a thousand kilograms of people and horses (the war horses in Xiliang are taller and weigh more than ordinary war horses), would be so terrifying once the iron cavalry collided violently.
When hundreds of war horses fall down at the same time, it feels like a light earthquake occurs on the ground. The iron cavalry that fell in front will become the bond of the iron cavalry, falling one after another.
After almost knocking down nearly a thousand cavalry, the iron cavalry behind barely held the war horse.
Ma Chao was riding in the forefront, and Pang De and his two men were very alert. As soon as they found signs of slowing down from their horses, they immediately knew what would happen next. In desperation, they grabbed the horse's belly and quickly hit the horse's thigh.
After the war horse suffered, it jumped up and quickly stepped forward for dozens of steps, thus avoiding the fate of being hit. But then the dense arrows that were as dense as rain gave the two of them a headache...
"Ping Ping Pong..." The two waved the weapons in their hands like wind, forming a tight protective net in front of them. In a short while, nearly a hundred arrows were swept to the ground. Although Ma and Pang were both rare generals in the world.
But in the face of such a dense rain of arrows, I also feel like I'm unable to support it, especially those strong arrows hit by the crossbow, which are so fast and powerful that they are almost perverted.
If there are three or four slams and arrows that hit one person at the same time, even if it is Ma Chao, Pang De must be energetic to barely deal with it.
At this moment, Ma Chao, who was isolated from the brigade of cavalry, was already in a dilemma - continue to move forward. Somehow, the subway cavalry team was temporarily blocked and may not be able to keep up for a while.
With the two of them alone, facing the storm of flying arrows, tens of thousands of enemy troops are waiting for the battle.
It is tantamount to throwing oneself into death; retreating means that the decisive battle will fail, and the iron cavalry, whose morale has been dispersed, will never be able to organize a second attack; if it remains in its original place, it will only become a living target for the enemy...
The most painful thing is that Ma Chao still doesn't know why the horses in the charge suddenly slowed down and even stopped. The incident happened too quickly and was busy blocking the flying arrows, so Ma Chao didn't have time to find out the reason...
"Yes~Yes~Yes~Yes~!" The sky was full of arrows growing unscrupulously, harvesting crops of life like cutting leeks.
From time to time, war horses fell down in a neighing manner, and people kept getting rid of their horses with terror...
"What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on?" Ma Chao's eyes were suffocated, his lips were bitten to blood. His handsome face was green and red, and he waved the silver spear in his hand desperately, shouting fiercely.
The situation is unknown, which is the most panicking. Ma Chao even thought whether the other party used some magic tricks.
"Military leader, it's Douzi, it's Douzi..." Pang De suddenly shouted anxiously to Ma Chao.
"What bean?" Ma Chao was puzzled and flew more than ten arrows in a row and asked sternly.
"Military Master, look at the ground, it's full of beans..." Pang De waved the Panmen sword in his hand like the wind and replied loudly.
Ma Chao waved his spear with one hand and took the time to take a look at the ground. His sharp eyes as fast as a falcon soon found that there were indeed many earth-colored beans scattered on the ground.
At this moment, Ma Chao suddenly realized why the war horses suddenly had such strange behavior - beans (especially black beans) were the feed that the horses liked. In addition, in order to arrive at the battlefield as soon as possible, the iron cavalry under his command had been urging them to ride for more than two hours in a row. Later, they took a lot of time to confront the enemy and fight one-on-one. The war horses were already hungry, and during this period, the cavalry only used water bags to replenish some water for the war horses... The hungry war horses could not bear the temptation of their favorite food and stopped to eat involuntarily!
Ma Chao originally thought that it was easy to resolve the battle. After confidently preparing to completely defeat the enemy, he gave people to Jiangling City and had a meal and rest, but he never expected that the development of the matter would be completely out of expectations. Jiangling surrendered in less than half a day, the enemy's ready to fight, and the failure of the one-on-one challenge... made everything "out of control"!
But what scared Ma Chao the most was the other party's scheming - the other party could actually guess where his combat intention was! He could actually guess that his cavalry had no time to eat because he was busy on the road! He dared to set up a trap with these mere beans...
"Zhang Fei, what kind of devil are you?" Ma Chao roared in despair.
At this moment, the passionate battle horns in the opponent's army sounded again...
"What other tricks do you have?" Ma Chao looked up suddenly and scolded sternly.
As he saw the eyes, the Kuai Yue army on both wings also began to move slowly!
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Seeing that Ma Chao's Iron Cavalry's charge was blocked, I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but my expression was still calm, as if everything was in my control. But in fact, I was quite nervous about Pang Tong's trick to stop the enemy.
On that day, when Pang Tong designed a plan to lure Ma Chao to fight the coalition forces, he proposed a very bold plan. When Pang Tong designed the battlefield, he deliberately placed Kuai Yue's army on both wings and placed our army in the center.
This is not for "protecting friendly forces", but because the combat power of Kuai Yue's army is really weak. If they cannot withstand the retreat of the Iron Cavalry's impact, it will cause a complete collapse.
A large number of trapped horse pits were arranged in front of Kuai Yue's army, in order to prevent Ma Chao from breaking through the two wings. Pang Tong also expected that Ma Chao might see through the existence of the trapped horse pit, so he placed the most important part of the entire plan in front of our army's formation.
The purpose of not setting up a trapped horse pit is to lure Ma Chao's iron cavalry to attack; however, the absence of a trap does not mean there is no other trap——Pang Tong chose the black beans that the war horses like to eat the most to prevent the cavalry from charging, and fry them in large quantities and undergo special treatment to radiate a strong aroma and sprinkle them on the land about two hundred steps in front of the position.
Due to fading, the black beans sprinkled on the surface of the soil are not conspicuous, and they look similar to gravel and are extremely difficult to identify.
The most critical point of this plan is that the horse of Ma Chao's Iron Cavalry has not eaten for a long time, and the horse full in his stomach will not be tempted by black beans at all.
Pang Tong boldly predicted that Ma Chao would march for a long time because he was eager to arrive at the battlefield, and he might not have time to feed the horses on the way, so he used this as an opportunity to break the enemy.
And the development of things was really as Pang Tong expected - the adventure was successful! Although Pang Tong also designed a preparatory plan for the failure of the plan, the casualties would be completely different in this way.
Fortunately, the gambling was successful……
The soldiers next to them didn't know what I was thinking. They only saw my calm and confident face, and they all thought that I had a chance of winning. Even they were full of confidence in the victory of this war, and they all stared at the chaotic cavalry ahead without fear.
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Chapter completed!