Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3480 Begging with Mouth

All the mistakes were not made by the soldiers of Cao's army but accumulated till now. Instead, the soldiers of Cao's army have to bear the greatest damage and make the most sacrifices.

It can be said that these Cao army soldiers are ignorant, or it can be said that these Cao army soldiers are incompetent, but one thing that cannot be denied is that ignorance and incompetence are not the original intentions of Cao army soldiers. It is Shandong's policy of keeping the people ignorant and high-pressure control that have led to the current performance of Cao army soldiers.

There were actually only a dozen or so hussars left on the ridge, and each of them was covered in blood.

Wu Ming was hit by two arrows, one in the chest and one in the leg.

The arrow in his chest was blocked by the armor and failed to penetrate, but the tip of the arrow also cut his skin, causing him to bleed profusely. His calf was not so lucky, as it was penetrated directly by the arrow, with the arrowhead sticking out from the other side of his calf.

The arrow in his chest was pulled out, but he dared not move the arrow in his leg. Because the muscles were still squeezing the arrow shaft, the blood flow was not much, but once it was pulled out, the blood flow would probably double, and even if he was not killed by Cao's soldiers, he would bleed to death.

"Ah ...

Wu Ming roared at the Cao army soldiers and hit their shields with his sword.

He knew that if he wanted to survive, he must first not be afraid of death!

This seems contradictory, but now there is consistency.

He must hold out until the next wave of hussars arrives, or even until Sima Yi arrives with a large army, before he will have a chance to retreat!

So he did not show any retreat or fear, and continued to roar at the Cao army soldiers!

The swords and shields were covered with blood and scars, plus the blood and flesh residue on their faces and bodies from the previous fight. Under the flickering firelight, Wu Ming and the others looked like evil spirits crawling out of hell!
The Cao army soldiers at Hengshan Rock were staggering, pointing and talking from a distance with their swords and spears. Even though Dong Zhao and other Cao army military schools were shouting and cursing behind them, they still did not move forward.

Not only in Hengshan Rock, the performance of Cao's soldiers was like this, but also in the entire Zhongtiao Mountain camp, the performance of Cao's soldiers was getting worse and worse.

Fei Qian's central army heavy armored troops had advanced to a distance that could not be closer to the stockade of the Zhongtiao Mountain camp. The stone cannons of the Cao army seemed to suddenly wake up and began to fire stone bullets at Fei Qian's central army heavy armored troops.

The stone bullets caused some casualties, but it was too late.

The heavy armored troops in the central army of the Hussars were not standing very densely, so even if they were hit, there would only be a few casualties, which would not have a big impact on the entire formation. Moreover, they had already advanced to the wall of the village. Would they just sit there and wait to be hit?

Following the order from the front-line commanding military school, the cavalry heavy armored infantry rushed towards the remaining stakes and fortifications of Cao's army, overturned the chevaux de frise, and pushed down the fences. The cavalry archers following the heavy armored infantry also rushed to the trench beside the wall of the camp and shot fiercely into the Cao's camp.

The arrows from the Cavalry Army also caused considerable casualties to Cao's army in the camp.

After all, in the dark, the area around Cao's camp was bright, and the cavalry archers on the side of the trench were protected by the darkness. Those Cao's archers who were shooting with their heads and chests exposed on the camp wall would occasionally fall down, emitting long and short screams.

Xu Chu's attack along the eastern route was not smooth, as the fire was blown towards Zhongtiao Mountain by the northwest wind. For a moment, Xu Chu had no way to continue attacking along the eastern route by stepping on the flames, so he moved from the east route to the central route.

The Shandong area is good at infantry, but under the cavalry, these infantrymen who are already wearing double layers of heavy armor are even more elite!
What's more, the General of Cavalry Fei Qian was on the battlefield at that moment, watching their performance and waiting for their victory. Almost everyone rushed forward and, under the leadership of the grassroots military academies, rushed straight into the Cao army's camp and began to wreak havoc.

For a while, there were battles almost everywhere in Cao's Zhongtiao Mountain camp, and fires were rising everywhere.

The area originally built to defend against the impact of the Hussars was not very adaptable to the heavy armored infantry, so the Cao army could not rely too much on fortifications and traps to intercept the Hussars. It could only be a battle between soldiers and generals...

While the Cao army in the center was still trying to deploy soldiers to intercept the advance of these heavily armored soldiers of the Cavalry, Xu Chu rushed back to the center line from the east.

Xu Chu was wearing heavy armor, and his body was also covered in blood, but this time he was not holding a sword and a shield, but a two-handed battle axe!
Thanks to the influence of Xu Huang, the trainer of the early Hussar Heavy Armor Camp, many heavy armored infantrymen now like to use battle axes.

Ordinary soldiers really can't use this stuff. Only those who are born strong and under the command of the cavalry can have beef, mutton and other fats and proteins. Otherwise, carbohydrates alone can't keep up with the high-intensity physical consumption, not to mention that sometimes even carbohydrates may not be enough.

Xu Chu raised the long-handled battle axe in his hand, shouted, and immediately led his soldiers into the Cao army formation in the Cao army camp!
Heavy-armored infantry, double-layer armor, and this heavy treasure have always been a powerful weapon for breaking through the formation. Even the wooden fence wall was quickly torn apart by the axe. The wooden wall was chopped to pieces, and the Cao army soldiers inside the wall were only wearing two-legged armor and holding ordinary swords and guns. In front of these armored monsters, they were like children playing house with wooden swords and guns.

The Cao army was attacked by the cavalry and heavy-armored infantry who broke into the camp and was immediately killed like wolves and ghosts, without any ability to fight back.

The approaching Hussar archers continued to extend their firing, clearing the way for these heavily armored infantrymen.

Under the leadership of Xu Chu, hundreds of heavily armored infantrymen were like bears, with blood everywhere they went. They killed their way through several layers of enemy formations in a blink of an eye, and countless souls were lost under their swords and axes!
Flames and black smoke rose up all around, and blood and broken bones were tangled underground.

Rockets in the sky were falling like meteors.

The screams that came one after another were like trumpets in a symphony, sounding unwillingly in the midst of the battlefield.

The sharp sword brought out sparks and tore flesh and blood.

The heavy battle axe whistled past, crushing bones.

The road was paved with blood and flesh, and it seemed as if the souls of the dead were screaming at every step!

The fighting was taking place brutally everywhere.

The broken stakes and fallen chevaux-de-frise revealed the traps hidden on the surface and became the embellishment of the battlefield.

The soldiers of both sides were engaged in a deadly fight, and the sounds of fighting and shouting were squeezed out from the deepest part of their chests, at the last and final moment of their lives, even overwhelming the sounds of dozens or hundreds of drums beating hard on both sides, and the sound of trumpets blowing, shaking the curtain of darkness, and tearing down the stars in the sky!

Although there were still some soldiers in the Central Commander and the Central Guard Army of Cao's army who rushed forward to fight against Xu Chu and other heavy armored infantry with the determination to die, these Cao's soldiers who were determined to die were a minority after all. The vast majority of Cao's soldiers were retreating and escaping. The Hussars were not only elite in armor, but more importantly, unlike the cavalry, they had been resting and adjusting in the rear during the initial harassment war. Now they were a fresh force. The sporadic counterattacks of Cao's army were crushed in the blink of an eye!
The cavalry's momentum was unstoppable. They forced Cao's army back, crossed the trenches, stepped over the chevaux de frise, passed through the tents, and rushed straight to the inner circle of Cao's Zhongtiao Mountain camp, which was already in a panic and at a loss!

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At least half of the reason why the inner circle of Cao's army in Zhongtiao Mountain camp was at a loss was due to Dong Zhao, who led his soldiers to charge out.

Indeed, for Dong Zhao, both the middle circle and the outer circle were facing attacks from the Cavalry Army, and those military academies were not as stable as the inner circle. It was already very difficult to get the middle circle and the outer circle to cooperate and support each other. How could we expect them to lead the troops back to save the inner circle from danger?
Moreover, there is danger in the inner circle. Once this kind of thing spreads out, the entire camp might collapse immediately!

The military academy in the Zhongtiaoshan camp had wanted to retreat a long time ago. The reason they were still holding on was because Dong Zhao in the inner circle was still blocking the intersection and had the power to control who went first and who stayed.
If these military academies knew that their retreat might be cut off and their inner circle would be lost, with no safe retreat route, it would be hard to say how long these Cao army academies would persist in fighting and how much fighting will they still have.

So Dong Zhao had to solve the problem himself, and only he could solve it!
At the beginning, Dong Zhao was still confident that he could solve the problem, defeat the hussars who infiltrated from the small path, and defend the camp. Hengshan Rock was narrow and cramped, and the hussars would have to run around and run, which would consume a lot of energy. As long as they blocked it once at night and waited until dawn for the archers to shoot from a high place, no matter how many hussars came, they would be buried in the valley and die!
This is foreseeable and clear. As long as the Hussars of Hengshanyan are repelled and the central circle is defended, the Hussars will have no choice but to retreat and rest if they cannot break through the Zhongtiaoshan camp in one go!
Dong Zhao's strategy of waiting for the enemy to tire out would be a great success!
As long as the Cavalry Army retreats, whether they pursue them a little or just keep making noise on the spot, it can greatly boost the morale of Cao's army. It will not be a problem for them to hold out at least one more time until the strategy formulated by Cao Cao succeeds!
But what Dong Zhao never expected was that the battle at Hengshan Rock would be so unsuccessful!
These hussars ignored their casualties and were more ferocious and tenacious than Dong Zhao had imagined!
They used human lives to pave a road to success and pushed Cao's army into the abyss of failure!
It was not that Dong Zhao was stupid, nor that Sima Yi was smart. At this moment, what caused the strategies of both sides to finally go their separate ways and present different results was not Dong Zhao and Sima Yi personally, but these ordinary soldiers!

It was the soldiers of both sides who jointly created this result!

If the Hussars had retreated a little and the Cao army soldiers had been braver, perhaps the outcome would have been very different.

Cao's army originally had a large number of soldiers. If they really had to fight with their lives, the Cavalry Army would not be able to stand their ground even if they were well-equipped. But now it was obvious that Cao's soldiers were unwilling to charge forward...

If you have made contributions, you will naturally be rewarded!
Otherwise, who would be willing to fight to death? !
During the battle, they shed blood, achieved merit, and had scars of varying sizes as medals. The military also repeatedly said that a happy and wonderful life after retirement was waiting for them...

Then, nothing more.

Even if they can retire from the army, it still depends on whether the local gentry will give them resettlement!
If a local gentry happens to have a nephew or nephew who is also looking for a job, then it would be a coincidence...

In the feudal dynasty, the flow of information from place to place was imperfect, so some problems in one place might not be transmitted to other places, which gave feudal officials room to cover up. But now in the Zhongtiaoshan camp, the soldiers are relatively dense, and the transmission of information is much faster than before. Once the information starts to spread, it may be difficult to control.

In addition, there was no way to prepare any tricks in the Zhongtiaoshan camp to divert the soldiers' attention...

The more Cao's soldiers knew, the more disappointed they were with Shandong. But those news were other people's business after all, and they sounded like some small stories. Although they were frustrating and disappointing, they still had to live every day. It was just that there were too many people, and morale could not be raised. In addition, Dong Zhao gave these Cao's soldiers the last straw...

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In Shandong, it is not the first or second time that the army has shot at its own people.

Even if Cao's soldiers reported Dong Zhao's murderous behavior to others after the war, what was the use? In the end, it would be reported to the person involved, leaving him to deal with it himself.

So Dong Zhao didn't care at all.

But this time, he was wrong.

The soldiers of Cao's army are not indifferent, nor are they fools. Even though they know there is a huge pit with mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead and their own people kicking them from behind, they will still sacrifice themselves willingly.

Now Dong Zhao suffered the bitter consequences of Cao's soldiers being laid down.

Seeing that the soldiers on his side were just making gestures and refusing to charge forward, and that the opposing Cavalry Army had added new forces, although the number of the Cavalry Army had not yet exceeded that of Cao's army, the Cavalry soldiers were much more brave and decisive. They rushed forward without hesitation and completely pushed Cao's soldiers down from the ridge!
Is the Cavalry Army really going to defeat the Zhongtiao Mountain camp tonight?

If it was before tonight, Dong Zhao would probably have thought this was a joke, but now looking at these hussars, Dong Zhao realized that perhaps he was the one becoming the joke.

"We can't retreat! We can't retreat!" Dong Zhao almost wailed, shouting to the people around him, "We can't retreat! If we retreat, it's over! If we can't hold on, it's over!"

The hundred years of glory of Shandong Province of the Han Dynasty has now declined to this point. If they are defeated again, they will never be able to hold their heads up in front of the people of Guanzhong!

Dong Zhao felt that the spirits of Deng Yu, Wu Han, and even Yuan An and others in heaven seemed to be looking at him at this moment!

But when Dong Zhao looked around, he felt strange when he saw the soldiers of the Central Commander Army and the Central Guard Army...

What about the wisdom and bravery of those Shandong people?
All that remains now is to cower in fear.

Even though there were supervising soldiers driving them with swords and spears from behind, the Cao army soldiers still hovered outside the range of the supervising soldiers' swords and spears. When they got angry, they would even turn back and curse, indicating that the supervising team had the ability to go up themselves!
Does the supervision team dare to go up?
Obviously, the supervision team didn't dare to do that either.

As a result, the situation became increasingly unfriendly to Cao's army.

"The Hussars are running out of steam!" Dong Zhao continued to shout, "As long as we hold on this time, the Hussars will retreat! The Hussars will retreat!"

This time, Dong Zhao was telling the truth.

Human physical strength is not unlimited.

Everyone knows this, including the slave owners who want their slaves to work twelve hours a day!

But slave owners like to use other people's limited lives to create their own infinite value.

Therefore, Dong Zhao once imagined that the Hussars would launch an attack overnight, but it was just the arrogance of the Hussars. The Zhongtiaoshan camp, the entire Shandong Province, and the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty would be reborn in this battle...

Dong Zhao knew clearly that although strategy and supplies were important, war was ultimately fought between people!
The total population of Shandong is definitely greater than that of Guanzhong, so as long as the war continues for a long time, Guanzhong will inevitably be defeated!

But Dong Zhao didn't know that war is indeed fought against people, but Shandong's failure also lies in these "people"!
So Dong Zhao failed.

He had originally planned to gain a foothold at Hengshan Rock, guard the intersection, and then have a chance to hold the camp or even launch a counterattack. However, all these plans failed because of the "people".

Everything he saw shattered all his fantasies.

Although the Hussar soldiers were covered in blood and had traveled a long distance, they seemed to still have strength and courage left. Each of them wanted to rush to him, chop off Dong Zhao's head, hang it on the tricolor flag, and order the remaining Cao army in Zhongtiao Mountain to surrender!
He will die here!

Even if he didn't die, the war he commanded was a complete failure.

Even if the death penalty can be escaped, the living crime cannot be avoided! If he loses the war, Dong Zhao will definitely be expelled from the political core, or even exiled to a bitter cold and smoky place, and he doesn't know when he will be able to return to his hometown!

Either die here, or live a life worse than death!
Dong Zhao didn't want either of these two options. He couldn't tell which of these two results was more terrible. Perhaps both options were equally terrible and unacceptable to him...

surrender?

Dong Zhao shuddered.

He couldn't surrender either!
It’s not that Dong Zhao was loyal to Cao Cao, but if he joined the Cavalry, it would mean that all his knowledge, persistence, and efforts in his half life would be wrong!

This means that he was wrong and had gone astray!
Admitting that he was wrong and then spending the rest of his life repenting and atonement would make him suffer more than killing him!

So Dong Zhao put aside his airs and the manner of a scholar for the first time, and a pleading look appeared on his face, "Stop them! Stop them! As long as you can stop them! You can have anything you want! If you want gold and silver, I will give you a reward of ten thousand gold! If you want official positions, I will promote you three levels!"