Chapter 107 Two consecutive victories
"General, the situation seems wrong!" Cao Yu, the general of the Cao family, was exhausted and a little panting, looked at the empty fields and road ahead and said to Cao Ren.
The mud on these fields and roads were actually in wavy shapes, making him feel that he was floating in the waves. After walking a little bit, he was rushing back by the waves. He had been walking for a whole morning, and the scenery in the distance had not been brought closer.
"Can those Yellow Turban Demons use evil tricks for us again?" Cao Ren wondered and grabbed his scalp, turned over and got off the horse, grabbed a handful of mud on the ground to watch.
His feeling was actually stronger than Cao Yu, so he was always energetic this morning to guard against the raid of the Yellow Turban Army.
Sure enough, the mud he grabbed on the ground was strange. These mud and fools seemed to be pulled by something, and turned into small scattered and dry particles, slipping down from his fingers.
"Hao."
Cao Ren suddenly waved his knife and slashed towards the ground. Suddenly, ripples of soil swung around with his knife edge as the center. In less than a moment, he returned to calm again, still in a rippling shape.
"It's indeed a talisman formation." Cao Ren's face turned black.
"Tactic Formation? Then we won't be exhausted if we keep going like this?" Cao Yu asked Cao Ren with a nervous look on his face.
"Any talisman array needs support for talisman power, and it will not be unlimited. The large talisman that can act on so many of us will consume a lot of talisman power. We have been in the range of the talisman array for a whole morning. I believe that it won't take long before the formation will be cracked by itself due to insufficient talisman power.
However, they set up such a talisman array to trap us, and they may attack us next, and there are a lot of people." Cao Ren said depressedly.
He hasn't met with Pan Feng yet! Without cavalry to protect him, it would be a bit difficult for him to fight independently. If the cavalry of the Black Mountain Army breaks the formation, their infantry will not be able to escape.
"Then let's stop leaving, line up and prepare to face the enemy!" Cao Yu suggested.
Although the effect of the talisman array is good, it attacks indiscriminately, so the Yellow Turban Army could not defeat it for a while. Thinking of this, Cao Ren ordered, "Everyone has a rest, eat and drink water, and then pierce the armor and line up to meet the enemy."
After receiving his order, the soldiers immediately became busy. However, in a short while, various problems arose.
There is no firewood when cooking, and there is clean fields and land around them. They can't get out at all. The most important thing is that if they don't get out of here, they can't find the water source. This dungeon array is not a false reputation. Within a radius of five miles, there is only mud and sand, and there is no other daily necessities, and they can't get out of this radius of five miles.
"Oh no, they are going to waste us to death." Cao Ren said that the situation was not good, but he had no choice for a while.
Using extremely powerful physical attacks to directly break the large talisman array, that is something that only warriors with the peak of internal strength can do.
It is precisely because of this that Huo Hai used a talisman formation to Cao Ren, but he did not face Pan Feng who was rushing towards this direction.
He led more than 3,000 cavalry to fight against Pan Feng's troops, which had only more than 600 people in the form of mobile warfare. The crossbow arrows and longbow shots were the entire process of their combat. Once Pan Feng wanted to rush into Huo Hai's military formation with his personal force, he would be embarrassed to serve the talisman arrows and crossbows.
After being stabbed by three blood holes on Pan Feng's body, he finally became honest. In Huo Hai's cavalry camp, no one could show off his power by his own force. After leaving more than 300 corpses, Pan Feng finally got rid of Huo Hai and fled, there were only more than 200 cavalry around him.
Moreover, this is because Huo Hai was going to turn around and attack Cao Ren and didn't have much time to pursue him. Otherwise, it would be nice if Pan Feng could escape with dozens of people.
In the afternoon, when the sun began to turn west, Cao Ren finally felt that the ground had become normal. However, a strong wind came from the west, making everyone unable to open their eyes. He knew that this must be the magic of the Yellow Turban Thieves again.
And when he saw the cold-glowed weapon appearing in the west, he immediately knew the second place of this Fengfeng Talisman.
They are now facing west, and the dazzling sun is reflected by weapons, which will make them unable to open their eyes when facing the sun.
And this strong wind from the west will reduce the range and power of their bows and arrows.
The most important thing is that they cannot turn around and escape because they are infantry, and the other side has cavalry that looks like there are at least three thousand.
"Side by side, shield against shield, array..."
Cao Ren shouted loudly, and the Cao family generals around him had already begun to urge him to urge his subordinate soldiers.
Now, the only thing he can do is that the other party dare not order the cavalry to attack his gun and shield formation at any cost, and the Han army will send reinforcements to rescue him.
However, the next moment, he was a little desperate.
When the cavalry reached his formation a hundred steps, they scattered left and right, and walked around the wings of their own army, revealing a long infantry team behind them, at least several times more than Cao Ren's army.
The cavalry attacks the infantry gun and shield formation, but the situation is different when the infantry gun and shield formation is in opposition to the infantry gun and shield formation. There are archers in the array to suppress the opponent, and when the more is hit, everyone can break forward boldly.
"When did the Yellow Turban Thief have such a large number of elite infantry?" Cao Ren looked at the team lined up opposite him in surprise.
The infantry array opposite him looked not worse than what he led. Even when moving forward, the formation was very strict.
Seeing this formation, he only felt that Cao Cao had agreed to divide the troops in Yuan Shao and Han Fu this time, and fell into a big pit.
"Hait, don't panic..." Cao Yu and others shouted nervously.
Even the family generals who had cultivated internal strength like this were nervous, which also showed that the morale of Cao Ren's army was already very low. After all, there were more than 20,000 infantry and more than 3,000 cavalry on the other side.
"Stand up..."
After the flag of the central army was waving, all the commanders of the Yellow Turban Army and commanders of the large and small areas shouted this command, and the 20,000 infantry stopped almost at the same time.
"Look left to right..."
After the orders of the Yellow Turban Army were issued loudly, a tiny sound of footsteps sounded, and suddenly, the 20,000 Yellow Turban Army was neatly arranged into a square formation, which was the effect of the Yellow Turban Army in Julu County after receiving Zhang Ning's training for more than half a month.
"Raising the shield, grab it, take a step forward, take a step forward..."
The Yellow Turban Army formation, which was several times larger than the Han army, gradually came under the command, which put a lot of mental pressure on people. Moreover, the Han army is now hungry and thirsty, and has exhausted too much physical strength and has not recovered.
"Arrowmen prepare..."
"Shoot the arrow..."
After the first three rows of gun and shield soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, six rows of archers were fired and shot arrows together after the order was issued. Suddenly, thousands of arrows splashed on the Han army camp like rain.
"Raising a shield."
Cao Ren shouted in person, and his subordinates immediately raised the shield in their hands above their heads to block the rain of arrows that were shot from the opposite side.
However, these arrows, which are not very powerful, become very terrifying with the blessing of the strong wind. Not only is the range much longer, the force falling down is also quite large. The sound of ding dong dong shocked the soldiers holding the shield.
Moreover, this is not the main attack method of the Yellow Turban Army. When the Han army raised its shields, the cavalrymen who were galloping quickly on both sides raised their crossbows and began to shoot the soldiers on the flanks of the Han army. The Han army that raised their shields above their heads were simply a living target in front of them. In one round of shooting, hundreds of people were caught in the arrows, which made Cao Ren sweat.
This can't be beaten at all!
If he maintains the array, if the number of archers is small, they will be the target of others. If they do not continue to maintain it, it may be the end of annihilation. The enemy's cavalry is led by veterans of the Wind Cavalry. Cao Ren, who has fought with them, knows how powerful these guys are.
Soon, the phalanx of the Yellow Turban Army and the Han Army collided, and the guns and shield soldiers of both sides stabbed each other through shields, and the archers of both sides were the archers of both sides.
Although there are two thousand archers on the Yellow Turban Army, they use light bows and hunting bows within one stone, and their lethality is not great. They rely on wind power and numerical advantages to continuously kill the Han army. On the Han army, they are all wearing leather armor and armor, which can withstand most arrows.
However, their archers were less than 500. Although they used military bows of more than one stone, strong winds were blowing on the opposite side. Their arrows were soft and soft. When they hit back, they were also very thin and had very limited lethality.
As the number of Black Mountain cavalry who were swimming and shooting on both wings increased, the Han army soon showed signs of defeat.
"Get out of the way, let me go to the front." After Cao Ren jumped off the horse's back, he held a knife in one hand and pulled the soldiers in front with the other.
"General, the arrows ahead are like rain. It's not safe for you to go." A personal guard grabbed Cao Ren's arm and said.
"If I don't go, the front will soon collapse." Cao Ren waved his arm, threw away the guard, and soon rushed to the front line.
"Our talisman and arrow crossbowman is ready." Seeing Cao Ren rushed to the front line with a knife, wielding his sword to kill him, and commanding the infantry Zhang Ning toward Wang Dangdao beside him.
Wang Dang smiled and led the people to the scene in person, while Zhang Ning personally rushed to the flag trolley and asked the soldiers who issued the flag order to utter a flag verb.
The commander of the Yellow Turban Army may not understand this for a while, but the Flying Cavalry, who kept using crossbows to kill the enemy, could understand it. Soon, the news was passed to Huo Hai, who was in charge of the cavalry fighting.
"Cao Ren has left the central army and went to the front line. Brothers, let's join forces and line up the conical formations. Hear them from their rear army and roll them back, quickly end the battle, and rush to the next battlefield." Huo Hai gave the order.
With several times the advantage of military strength and two talisman formations to deal with the 5,000 Han army, if we cannot win easily, Huo Hai should have washed and slept.
The reason why he used two talisman arrays to win in an almost luxurious way when he had an absolute advantage was that he had to decide the victory behind him with a greater possibility.
The fledgling Black Mountain infantry and cavalry, as well as the Julu Yellow Turban soldiers who had already won once before, will become more morale in the following battles.
This kind of fighting style is also different from most generals in this era. Who would have thought that he would use the most powerful and luxurious means to fight with himself as soon as he started!
Huo Hai was a specialist in studying the military chapter of the Taiping Qingling. He knew that this was the strategy and tactics that gathered small victory into big victory and gradually reversed the situation of the war.
Chapter completed!