Shu Chen

Chapter 206 Field Battle
In summer and May, everything prospers.

The gentle breeze wrinkled the surface of Jingshui, making it sparkle.

The sky is half cloudy and not rainy, the weather is neither warm nor dry, coupled with the still verdant grass and trees in the wild, it makes people feel like fishing in an instant.

If you wear a coir raincoat and catch a few fresh fish by the water, it will be a quiet time in your life.

However, this peaceful beauty was destroyed by thunderous drums and desolate horns.

Wei Dasima Cao Zhendu and Han Prime Minister Zhuge Liang confronted each other outside Xiaoguan for nearly a month. After many small-scale probing attacks by the two sides, Cao Zhen's patience was finally worn out.

After deducting the troops defending the counties, he still had more than [-] infantry and cavalry out to fight in the field, and the Han army who left Xiaoguan was more than [-].

This advantage in military strength cannot be reflected in the restrained small-scale harassment at all.

If the confrontation continues, it will be regarded as evenly matched, and no one can do anything to the other.

But for the prime minister, the strategic goal has been achieved-to hold back the main force of the Wei army in Guanzhong and prevent them from rushing to help the four counties in Hexi.

For Cao Zhen, the morale of soldiers will decline over time.

In the past few years of the struggle between Han and Wei, Wei has always been at a disadvantage.

Even if Guo Huai was in Jincheng County, killing nearly [-] soldiers of the Han army by using the strategy of counter-inducing the enemy, it could not offset the disadvantage of losing ground and passively fighting against the war.Now that the main forces of the two armies are in the wild, no one has the advantage of location. He, who has the advantage of troops, if he keeps confronting and not fighting, it may damage the spirit of the soldiers.

Let me ask, even if the Han army left Xiaoguan and came and went freely in Anding County, can the bloody men in the army not be depressed?

Moreover, Cao Zhenxin originally planned that after Sima Yi's conquest of Liaodong was over, the army would leave Longyou by the end of this year, and the morale of the soldiers could not be low.

Now it is better to fight with the Han army.

The right is to deplete the opponent's war heritage.

Anyway, in terms of national strength, Wei State is the strongest.

With such thoughts in mind, Cao Zhen no longer cared about Prime Minister Zhuge Liang's pressing step by step, and ignored Wei Yan's little move to attack You Fufeng. After gathering the army, he went straight to Wuzhi County, the northern tributary of Jingshui outside Xiaoguan. .

No matter how many moves the Han army made, as long as the Wei army arrived in Wuzhi County, they would have to gather troops to fight if they didn't want to be cut off from returning to Xiaoguan.

In fact, Cao Zhen is very wise when it comes to snakes hitting seven inches.

Any commander will not ignore the retreat of the army.

Prime Minister Zhuge Liang was not surprised either.

After learning of the movements of the Wei army, he called back Wei Yan and Wu Ban's left and right armies, and the two sides began the first field battle of the main forces of the Han and Wei Dynasties on the banks of this winding and beautiful Jingshui tributary.

It is also extremely rare that the two sides have invested a total of tens of thousands of troops in a battle.

There is no geography to rely on, no disparity in the number of troops, both sides will pull out their soldiers to form troops in the field, and fight a frontal battle.

Such a head-to-head confrontation is a test of command art.

The arrangement of various arms such as infantry, bows and crossbows, and the dispatch of various ministries such as the front line and the backbone to perform their duties, all determine the outcome of a small area and also affect the outcome of the entire battlefield.

The advantage of Wei State lies in more than [-] cavalry.

The Yongliang iron cavalry, composed of sturdy Han people from the borderlands, is invincible in field battles.

This cavalry has been under Cao Zhen's command for many years, and they have quelled countless rebellions in the land of Yongliang with him; they are used to following the tactics of wolves.Using the speed advantage of Qu Rufeng, by rushing to the flanks and rear, looking for weak points and entering the army in one fell swoop, causing the entire battlefield to collapse.

The only pity is that this iron cavalry has no heavy armored cavalry.

It does not have the ability to charge forward with countless bows and crossbows.

However, the pawns led by Cao Zhen can help them create opportunities.

As long as the infantry can tear through the defense line of the Han army, they can seal the victory or defeat.

The two cavalry troops of the Han Dynasty are in the Wushui River Basin, and they are now led by Ma Dai and Zhao Guangdu.

Therefore, the prime minister's formation of troops has been falling along the water's edge, which can reduce one direction of Wei cavalry's surprise attack.

And the formation is weird.

Looking down from the sky, the Han army lined up in strict formation is like a huge gossip.

It seems to be born out of Sima Rangju's Five Elements Formation and Sun Wu's Eight Diagrams Formation.The golden gongs and drums are in the middle, and the antler car camps are outside, and the carbine guns are two feet long; the narrow roads are wooden houses on the cars.

It can not only fight and advance, but also echo each other, without revealing the loopholes in the defense line.

Such a formation of soldiers covered by chariots could not take advantage of the victory and pursue it, but it prevented the possibility of the cavalry of the Wei army charging into the formation.

The so-called "rushing into the formation" is a piercing tactic commonly used by cavalry.

Thousands of cavalry launched together, piercing through the opponent's front from multiple points in the front, and then reined in and turned around to attack in the opposite direction.

Back and forth, the effect is not to kill.

but to create confusion—

Divide the enemy's formation, cut off the connection between the enemy's soldiers, and make them unable to cooperate in combat; make the infantry of each squad have the illusion of being isolated and helpless, and the generals cannot calmly dispatch and resist. Destroyed into a plate of loose sand.

Furthermore, when the cavalry charged, it was like a sickle cutting wheat.

At a very high speed, the cavalry only needs to hold the ring head knife obliquely, and they can harvest the lives of the enemy layer by layer.

It is difficult for the infantry of each team to have a chance to resist or counterattack.

This fear of death will become more pronounced under the psychological illusion of isolation and helplessness, which will cause the soldiers to lose their fighting spirit, and then cause the entire army to panic and collapse for thousands of miles.

Jiang Taigong's "Six Secret Teachings" said that "one horse is eight pawns", and the basis is roughly the same.

The prime minister, who was thinking about the Northern Expedition, had talked about martial arts for many years before he was stationed in Hanzhong, and he had already figured out how to fight against cavalry with steps.

The eight formations that are displayed now are to offset Wei Guo's reliance on many cavalry.

When Cao Zhen led the army to move forward slowly, he also watched the strange formation of the Han army on the tall nest cart.

Although he didn't have such a formation in battle, he also knew that his own cavalry advantage might be difficult to show.

After all, no matter how shocking the cavalry's charge was, they would not be able to break through the dense array of refusal carbine guns and WISCO vehicles.

For this reason, he let the five thousand Yongliang iron cavalry stay under the banner of the Chinese army for the time being, and temporarily acted as the guards of the commander's main formation, instead of letting them drive horses around the battlefield to find fighters.

Of course, it is difficult for cavalry to enter the battlefield, and he is still confident in fighting.

The Wei army had more infantry in the field than the Han army.

He keenly grasped the subtle defect of the slow movement of the Han army relying on the chariot formation. The Chinese army only left Xu Gai's more than a thousand armored soldiers; , like two sharp knives.

In this way, the troops are divided into two formations, and if one side suffers a short-term defeat, they can quickly retreat and regroup.

Because the other side may hold back the footsteps of the Han army, so that the Han army cannot take the opportunity to pursue and expand the results of the battle.

It is equivalent to guaranteeing that there will be no big defeat on the battlefield.

But if both sides attack the Han army, then there is an opportunity for a big victory.

The Han army, which distributed its forces evenly, had to automatically disintegrate the offensive and defensive formation when supporting the two wings.At that time, he can let Xu Gai, who stayed behind in the Chinese army, lead the soldiers to rush forward, creating opportunities for the cavalry to charge into the formation!
Once the cavalry can play piercing tactics, no matter how good the Han army is at fighting, they will be powerless!

Similarly, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister in the center of the Eighth Formation, couldn't help but smile as he watched the Wei army advancing step by step.

Cao Zhen's intentions are obvious.

However, the prime minister was not targeted, and sent some Chinese troops to deal with it in advance.

Because it is not needed.

He personally trained soldiers to perform martial arts, and he has full confidence in the former army.

If it is said that the invincible is invincible, the prime minister will not be so boastful; but when the soldiers rely on the chariot formation to resist the enemy as immovable as a mountain, so that the Wei army cannot break through the formation, he still has this confidence.

Moreover, the Han army is not completely helpless.

In front of the thick central army, there are [-] heavy infantry soldiers.

Thanks to Wei Yan's capture of a large number of heavy armors in the field battle of Youfufeng Yangcheng in the past, the big man is also capable of forming a three-school branch that is purely heavy.Even if the left and right wings are tight and the Chinese army has to go to support, with this heavy infantry, it is impossible for the Wei army to directly attack the Chinese army.

Both sides have something to rely on, and both have first guaranteed a backhand that will not be defeated.

It also allowed each of the wars to unfold slowly with their own expectations.

The general on the right wing of the Wei State was Xia Houba, and most of the soldiers he led were Li Shu who had moved to Guanzhong from Jizhou.

After several years of drills, the combat power is quite strong.

However, Wu Ban, the right general of the Han Dynasty opposite him, was far superior to him in terms of strategy and battle experience;

Therefore, even though Xia Houba supervised more troops, he could not break through Wu Ban's formation.

The soldiers on both sides shouted and killed like thunder, and they stuck together like a fire.

In a short time, there will be no winner or loser.

The left is different.

The state of Wei was led by Wei General Fei Yao, and most of the soldiers came from Anding and Beidi counties with strong folk customs.

Kansai soldiers are strong, learning spears, if you are not a selected striker, you can't be a striker!

The soldiers in the border areas of Yongliang have always been famous for their bravery and combat skills.

When the drums of war had just sounded on the battlefield, they held thick rawhide shields in one hand and spears in the other, and they stepped forward step by step.

It was Hubu Supervisor Meng Yan who faced him in the Han army.

The Tiger Infantry Army was formed by the remnants of Meng Huo and the tribes of the Nanren Hao clan who captured and surrendered during the expedition to Nanzhong in the past.

In other words, those who have survived in the poor mountains and rivers with little literature and few etiquette are not easy to be with!
Unavoidably, the fierce battle between these two soldiers has become the balance of the victory.

"Buzz!"

"Buzz!"

When the distance between the two sides was only about eighty steps, Cao Jun's formation continued to make heart-pounding sounds.

Countless arrows were thrown high into the sky, and the locusts swept in, covering the sky and blocking out the sun.After drawing a graceful arc in the sunlight, he pierced the flesh and blood of the opponent's soldiers with a smile of death.

A very conventional tactic, to cover the charge of the soldiers with projectiles.

"Raise your shield!"

The shouts of generals at all levels rose and fell on the battlefield.

Although the mass projectile's damage is not accurate, it is better than covering an entire area.

The Han army had to lean on each other and shelter under the shield.

Occasionally, some unlucky soldiers encountered tricky arrows, and they were killed by being drilled into their necks.

But compared to Wei Jun who charged, they were lucky.

Relying on the strong crossbowman behind the WISCO cart, and the huge Yuan Rong crossbow that can continuously pour crossbow arrows, it is not something that the wooden shields in the hands of Wei Jun soldiers can resist.

"Boom!"

"Boom! Boom!"

Amidst the sound of strong crossbow strings, the screams of the soldiers of the Wei army also began to rise and fall.

At this moment, life has no distinction between high and low.

It's just that the short distance between the two sides, under the fearlessness of the Yongliang soldiers, made it impossible for the Han army's powerful crossbows to show off their might for too long.

After two or three waves of crossbow arrows, they rushed to the antlers and repelling carbine guns in front of the WISCO chariot formation.

"kill!"

Wei Jun, who was still shouting the neat battle song, suddenly let out a violent roar.

Facing the soldiers in the front row, he bent down with great experience and hid his head under the thick wooden shield. Like a bull with red eyes, he suddenly leapt forward with all his strength, knocking him away with the weight of his body. Antler bush.

This is the most efficient way to do it.

If they moved by hand or broke the rope, they would spend more time and meet more arrows.

The temporary antler bushes in the field are not too dense.

Under the successive collisions of Wei Jun, they were dismembered or crooked in three or five strokes, revealing sparse passages, and also allowed the determined Yongliang Wei Jun to approach the WISCO truck.

"kill!"

The two armies collided.

The blade, the spear, quickly approached and became bigger in their eyes.

Kill, and be killed, over and over again.

The soldiers who have cultivated their tenacious beliefs from poor mountains and rough waters did not give up an inch, and played the melody of death on the battlefield.

The screams of death, the screams of falling to the ground, are endless.

Slowly, as time passed, corpses piled up high enough in front of the WISCO car formation, which also made the Han army lose the advantage of the bunker. Under the continuous impact of the Wei army, it finally evolved into a hand-to-hand battle.

After paying the loss of more than [-] people, the Wei army finally broke through the vehicle formation in the front row of the Han army's right wing.

But when they were unable to continue to expand the results.

Without the support of WISCO vehicles, the Han army formed a small circle with the unit as a unit.

Looking down from the sky, the Wei army in yellow uniforms is like a flood spreading; while the Han army in red uniforms is like small islands in the ocean, stretching one after another, echoing each other, forming a cliff.

He firmly choked the flood, no matter how it impacted, he remained motionless.

A quarter of an hour passed.

Two quarters of an hour, half an hour, an hour.
The battle drums shook the sky, and the shouts of killing were like thunder. The Wei army was still like a stormy sea, and the Han army was still like a tough reef.

On the nest car behind the Wei army, Cao Zhen, the great Sima who witnessed the battlefield, frowned deeply.

He underestimated the resilience and tenacity of the Han army.

It was obvious that Fei Yaodu's warlord had entered the Han army's formation for more than [-] steps, but the Han army's central army did not go to support it.

And Zhuge Liang, the prime minister in the middle of the Han army, also frowned.

He also didn't expect that the Wei army had suffered so many casualties, but their morale was still like a rainbow, and the offensive was untiring.

(End of this chapter)