Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1407 The Battle of Wancheng III

The next day, when the first ray of light fell on the earth in the early morning, the sound of war drums echoed continuously on both sides of Wanshui.

dong dong dong! ! ! !

It was impossible to beat from the Ming army camp, and the undulating sound of war drums gathered into waves, rising and falling, as if they were rushing towards Lu Bu's Wei army's vanguard formation.

"Want to counterattack?"

Lv Bu, wearing armor and holding a long halberd, climbed onto the tower of the Yuanmen Tower, staring far ahead.

"General, they are in formation!"

A scout reported.

"understood!"

Lu Bu nodded, his eyes were cold: "Since they want to fight, we will fight. Send the order down, each department will line up, and wait for my military order. As long as the military order is issued, we will fight immediately."

"promise!"

The guard quickly went to deliver the order.

"What are they trying to do?" Lu Bu looked ahead, feeling a little confused.

Yesterday, he still looked like a salted fish, just resisting, and had no intention of fighting back, but today, he quickly became agitated, and his fighting spirit was so strong that he had never seen it before.

"The Ming army is about to counterattack, can Fengxian stop it?" At some point, Cao Cao climbed up the gate.

"Why did Your Majesty come here? The vanguard barracks is about to take on the Ming army. This place is already a battlefield and it is very dangerous. Please return to the Chinese army camp as soon as possible!"

Lu Bu was startled, and said hastily.

"It's okay!"

Cao Cao is a bold man. He is a prince who has fought countless battles. How can he be afraid of the battlefield? Zhongkang is all here, if you can't protect the lonely person, then the lonely person deserves to die!"

He has left and right guards, one is Dianwei, the other is Xu Chu, and there is also Lu Bu, who is the super fierce general of the Chitu among Lu Bu's horses.

Hearing what he said, Lu Bu looked at the two fierce men guarding him, and felt relieved. If there was a fight, he would be able to deal with it, no matter whether it was Dian Wei or Xu Chu, but if the two joined hands, I'm afraid It is a bit more terrifying than Guan Yu and Zhang Fei at the beginning, and I may not be able to stop it.

"Fengxian, the Ming army is going to counterattack, do you have any ideas?" Cao Cao asked in a low voice.

He was also curious why the Ming army, which should be focusing on the eastern battlefield at this time, suddenly exerted force on the northern battlefield and directly confronted Lu Bu's vanguard barracks.

I have some doubts.

So when the war drums sounded, he brought his personal guards and rode to the vanguard barracks, wanting to see it for himself, but he didn't feel at ease if he didn't.

"I don't know what the Ming army's intentions are, but since they dare to fight, it is a good thing for us. If we can lure them all out, without the Wanshui defense line and the Wancheng wall to help us, we can fight They'll be so much easier!"

Lu Bu said.

He has never been afraid of anyone in battles on the plains, but he was born in Bingzhou, and he has always been less capable of attacking cities and territories, so he has never been able to conquer the Wanshui defense line, and he has not been able to enter Wancheng.

"Then call and talk!"

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and said, "They sounded the war drums, and we also sounded the war drums. We want to see whose fighting spirit is stronger!"

The sound of war drums is the sound that can make the morale of the soldiers explode. The more ferocious the sound of the war drums, the more bloody the soldiers will be inflated.

"Tap Tap!!!"

The Ming army moved, and the sound of neat footsteps made the ground tremble, one after another, as if a giant beast was knocking on the ground, knocking the ground with a rumble.

They formed an offensive battle formation, with spearmen in the middle and sharp arrows as the mainstay, and shield soldiers on the left and right wings as defenses, which shrank back to form an extremely huge and sharp arrow formation.

"Archer!"

Jingping's second army and third army fought together, but Zhang Ren was the chief general, Gao Ding was the deputy general, Zhang Ren was in the middle, personally commanding the battle formation, and Gao Ding charged at the forefront.

"shoot!"

Zhang Ren gave an order, and the archers of the Ming army began to shoot arrows at about 45 degrees to the sky.

Shooting arrows towards the sky forms a parabola, which can enhance the range of the bow and arrow. This kind of group attack bow and arrow does not need to be aimed, but forms a kind of arrow rain.

"Order the ministries, defend!"

Lu Bu watched the densely packed arrows falling like raindrops in the sky, and roared angrily: "Find cover, line up the shield soldiers, and protect with iron shields!"

The bows and arrows of the Ming army have a relatively long range. The arrowheads are forged from fine iron, at least [-] refinements of fine iron, so the penetrating power is very strong, and there are barbs on the arrowheads. Once hit, the surrounding area must be cut open. Only the flesh can pull out the arrowhead.

Whoosh! ! ! ! !
Layers of arrows rained down.

"what!"

"I got shot!"

"I got shot too!"

"Leather armor can't stop it!"

Even though they were already prepared and formed a defensive battle formation, many people in the Wei army were attacked, and the sound of wailing instantly rose and fell in the barracks.

"The arrows of the Ming army are actually so much more penetrating than our arrows. They can even penetrate wooden boards and leather shields, unless they are iron shields!"

Cao Cao was on the sidelines, watching this scene, staring wide-eyed.

This is the gap in ordnance, which formed a kind of casualties. The Wei army lost 60.00% of its combat power, which was lost on the Ming army's ordnance.

This gave Cao Cao a very strong urge to recruit craftsmen from all over the world to develop the military industry of the court at all costs, otherwise he would only be beaten in the future.

"Injured son, carry it down quickly, and order the army doctor, you must do your best to manage it!" Lu Bu's complexion was not very good, although he had not accepted the vanguard army for a long time, and even most of his direct descendants were suppressing the first storm bear in the north. One army, but it doesn't mean he is willing to bear such humiliation.

This Ming army is obviously humiliating him openly, even if you defend, I can still cause you casualties.

"General, let the archers fight back, otherwise we will be overwhelmed, and they can break into the camp at any time!" A deputy general begged.

The Ming army had archers, so naturally the Wei army also had them.

"no!"

Although Lu Bu is angry, he is calm. On the battlefield, he is the invincible god of war. He will not be so impulsive. The archers of the Wei army are not as good as the Ming army. .

Arrows are a very important strategic reserve, necessary for long-distance attack, so they can't be consumed too much at this time.

"hold on!"

Lu Bu said in a low voice: "The order, all the ministries continue to look for cover and dodge as much as possible. The shield soldiers must protect the archers well. The archers can fight back when the Ming army approaches our camp within [-] steps. This is enough range. Lethality can save the situation!"

Now it is a long-range confrontation. In this regard, Wei Jun is indeed a little bit worse, and his weapons are not as good as others. He can only find a way to suppress his fighting power and prevent his casualties from increasing.

But at this time, the Ming army fought more and more bravely, and the bow and arrow rain took the first wave of enemy casualties, so it was natural to make persistent efforts.

The Ming army also had lethal weapons.

bed crossbow.

The five-bead crossbow, the eight-bead crossbow, and the twelve-bead crossbow are all large-scale destructive weapons. On the front line, they are called the absolute main force. Even if they are as strong as Lu Bu, they will be suppressed by these bed crossbows. .

Perhaps Lu Bu is not afraid of a bed crossbow, but when the bed crossbow forms a battle formation, and the crossbow arrows attack from all directions, no matter how strong Lu Bu's martial arts skills are, he will hate it.

On the battlefield of cold weapons, a brave and skilled general is indeed very important. Single-handedly breaking the enemy's camp, beheading the enemy's leader among the three armies, what a morale booster.

But it does not mean that it is invincible. There were no hot weapons in ancient times, but there were long-distance lethal weapons such as bows and arrows, crossbow beds, etc., which could also kill fierce generals.

"Send the order, order the crossbow formation to attack, and all the crossbow beds will explode three rounds of crossbow arrows in a row against the enemy's camp!" Zhang Ren is really rich and willful now, the strategic reserve of the Ming army itself is sufficient, and there is Wancheng support, even more Yu Yu, at this time, in order to frighten the enemy, even if it was a waste, he would explode.

"Yes!"

The messenger stands at the highest point, waving the command flag in his hand. On the battlefield, the semaphore is a way to quickly transmit military orders.

The crossbow battalion behind the army began to push out the crossbow beds one by one.

This made Ma Chao, the chief general of the Divine Guard Army on the south bank of Wanshui, look at it, and was envious for a while. Even the Divine Guard Army did not have so many crossbow beds. The Jingping Second Army and Third Army were really willing to part with it.

"Wind!"

"Front, triple hit!"

"shoot!"

The crossbow bed exploded, and crossbow arrows the size of a baby's wrist shot out of the air, and towards the front, the camp of Wei Jun's vanguard barracks exploded.

"not good!"

Lu Bu's pupils changed color: "Quick, defend, it's a crossbow arrow, it's a crossbow arrow!"

Crossbow bolts are different from normal arrows.

Ordinary arrows, no matter how powerful they are, are limited in damage, but once the crossbow arrows explode, they can even break through iron shields.

"Crossbow arrows?"

Cao Cao's complexion also changed slightly: "Lianzhu crossbow?"

The Wei army also had the Lianzhu crossbow, but the Lianzhu crossbow had a big flaw. After a round of explosion, the bow string was easy to break, and if the crossbow bed itself was not strong enough, it would disintegrate, so there were not many crossbow beds, especially the crossbow bed of the Lianzhu explosion. Even less.

This kind of density of crossbow arrows erupts is rare.

"If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. What a good Mujing, he did it!"

Cao Cao had to admit that Mujing had done this.

In the past, many people said that Mujing valued merchants and craftsmen, but neglected scholars, which is the way to kill. Looking at the world, only scholars have the ability to govern the world, and those who have three schools of thought and heretics are not dangerous.

But now, Cao Cao must change this thinking.

If you fall behind, you will be beaten.

The fighting power of the Wei army was not inferior to that of the Ming army, but because of inferior weapons and long-distance attacks, they fell behind again and again. They could only be beaten, but had no way to fight back.

Under the cover of a round of crossbow arrows, the Wei army lost hundreds of combat power, and the morale continued to drop.

Lu Bu couldn't bear it anymore.

"How far is it now?"

"Less than eighty steps!" A lieutenant next to him replied to Lu Bu.

"Order, the archers are ready!"

"promise!"

"Your Majesty!" Lu Bu walked through the gate, walked up to Cao Cao, cupped his hands and said, "The general wants to borrow someone from your majesty!"

"who?"

Cao Cao asked.

"General Xu Chu!" Lu Bu said: "The general can't be beaten, he can only take the initiative to attack, but they are very defensive against the general, and the general cannot get close, so someone needs to cover the general, and the general must lead the army himself to fight against them." The handover of soldiers destroyed their long-range attack, otherwise our army would have no choice but to be beaten and injured, morale would continue to drop, and the camp would eventually be breached!"

Lu Bu saw very clearly that the Ming army's strategic deployment was to use long-range attack power to first destroy the morale of the Wei army, and then break through their vanguard barracks in one go.

"Can!"

Cao Cao looked at Dian Wei, he felt safe with Dian Wei by his side, Xu Chu could lend it to Lu Bu.

"Zhongkang, on the battlefield, you can't make decisions without authorization. General Lu is the chief general. If you don't obey the military orders, I will cut off your head alone, and use the law of the army!"

Cao Cao knew that Xu Chu never paid much attention to surrendering generals, even Dian Wei was arrogant and would not obey his orders, so he gave some instructions first.

"promise!"

Xu Chu glanced at Lu Bu briefly, and responded angrily.

..............................

"How many more steps!" Zhang Ren's palms were a little sweaty. In the battle on the battlefield, all the strategies and tactics were all off by a hair's breadth. At this time, he had to calculate accurately.

"Report to General Zhonglang, it's less than seventy steps away!"

Zhang Ren, a general next to him, responded with precise data: "We are already within the range of their archers, and we may be covered by the rain of arrows from the enemy archers at any time!"

"Change formation!"

Zhang Ren ordered: "Change from left to right, let go in the middle, order the third army, each battalion forms a defense and advances, seek stability, not speed, must directly reach the gate, let go of the defense, and launch an attack..."

shhhhhhhh! ! ! !
Before he finished speaking, small black dots suddenly appeared in the void.

"defense!"

Zhang Ren roared angrily.

"defense!"

"Change formation!"

"Defend quickly!"

The Ming army reacted very quickly. Although they could not escape the enemy's long-distance attack without casualties, they still stabilized their formation.

Tatata! ! ! !

At this time, the sound of horseshoes knocked on the ground, one after another, like an earth dragon turning over, making the ground with a radius of hundreds of meters tremble.

"Bow and arrow cover, take the initiative to attack?"

Gao Ding, the commander of the third army who was at the forefront of the Ming army's sharp front line, smiled coldly, looking ahead, the Wei army cavalry was already reflected in his eyes.

"General Zhonglang, they don't have many cavalry, they should just break the formation, the main thing is to charge the infantry behind them!"

The scouts carefully detected the formation of Wei Jun's battle out of the camp, and reported.

"General Zhonglang, do you want to go up and fight head-on?"

A lieutenant next to him asked.

"Listen to the command of the Chinese army!" Gao Ding took a deep breath.

"Report to General Zhonglang, Zhang Ren Zhonglang notified the semaphore, immediately changed formation, sharp fronts dispersed, each battalion formed into a long snake, and the third army's main formation double dragon came out of the water, ordered our army to immediately release to the middle, and then the main force moved to the left and right Consider the two wings, let them in and fight!"

Soon the military order from the Central Battalion Command came down.

"Zhang Ren is so big at playing?" Gao Ding gasped, and the battle lines confronted each other, and they fought head-on. That's normal, but there are other ways to play.

A long snake can echo from head to tail, while double dragons can surround them left and right when they come out of the water.

Battle formations play tactics.

The strength of the Wei army is not necessarily less than that of the Ming army. At this time, they are sent in and surrounded by a left and right flank, which is equivalent to opening their pockets and taking them in.

Zhang Ren's appetite is not small.

Even if it wasn't a snake swallowing an elephant, it meant that a wolf opened its mouth wide without biting, and just wanted to swallow another wolf alive.

(End of this chapter)