I seek economic hegemony in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 204 The armor is still there!

The biting cold wind flowed through the Qishan Mountains, rolled southward, condensed into billowing snow on the Weihe Plain, and froze the majestic Qinling Mountains.

The Han soldiers held their halberds tightly with hands that were red from the cold, breathing rhythmically and spitting out white steam.

The cheek, which had been frostbitten for a long time, cracked open again, oozing blood, and then solidified again.

The dry and cold air was mixed with the smell of horses and the behavior of blood. Inhaling it into the nose was like sucking in countless sharp little blades.

Even so, they still stood in formation in the wind and snow.

Because from bottom to top, layer after layer of officers are on the front line, and every officer is ready to die in battle with the soldiers.

Even Jiang Wei, the general, rode his horse and inspected the army back and forth, ready to charge with the soldiers at any time.

This is an important reason why the Han army has strict military discipline and strong combat power.

At this time, they were staring straight at the Wei army's cavalry in front of them, who were moving like the wind.

The Wei cavalry had detoured many times, and the roaring sound of iron hoofs tortured their nerves and tested their will again and again.

This time, after a long pause, the Wei cavalry in the distance began to take action.

This time, unlike the previous scattered guerrillas, a large number of cavalry began to gather together and form a formation.

The war horses neighed and their iron hooves trampled back and forth in the snow, splashing snowflakes.

The Wei cavalry who began to line up also adjusted their helmets and armor, gasping for air, and their minds fluctuated like the sea.

Some people even quietly took out the unsent letters from home, looked at them reluctantly, and then patiently put them back in their arms.

The officers' voices came to my ears: "The Sichuan thieves are stubborn. We are ordered to charge into battle. If we dare to slack off, we will be killed immediately! My family will be exiled to the frontier!"

After saying this, there was a trace of imperceptible pain on the officer's face.

"All your wives, children and mothers are here at home! There are brothers staying behind, so you don't have to worry about having no one to take care of you after you die!"

After saying that, the officer put on his helmet again, and his long tassel began to flutter in the wind and snow.

Then he picked up the halberd stuck in the snow.

"Later, follow me and charge! I will die in battle, and you are not allowed to retreat! Think of your families! Think of your elderly parents and young children!"

"Is it you who should die, or you who want them to die!"

The officer's voice echoed in his ears.

The Wei cavalry had pain on their faces, but no one said anything against it.

Some people even had red eyes and tears in the corners of their eyes, but still did not speak.

Only the cold wind blew past his ears, and the body wrapped in cold iron armor seemed to no longer belong to him.

The officer pulled the reins and the horse neighed. He turned around and faced the Han army in the distance.

Then the first step was taken.

Then, the Wei cavalry began to follow him, and the sound of intensive horse hooves sounded in the snow again.

This is a confrontation between the elite legions of two powerful empires in the world.

On one side is Zhuge Liang, an outstanding figure in the world, an elite trained by his own hands.

On the other side is the Cao Wei Legion that unified the Central Plains. The predecessors of this legion once wiped out all the divided forces and made the northern barbarians fearful.

Whether it is Zhuge Liang or Cao Rui, they all have their own strategic purposes.

After Li Heng put forward the policy of weakening the Wei Dynasty, Li Heng began to reform internally and began to export commerce and trade, which caused currency conflicts between Han and Wu.

The changes in the interests of the three parties in paper trade promoted the alliance between Wei and Wu, and the currency conflict intensified the conflict between Han and Wu.

So Sun Quan marched westward.

Against this backdrop, Cao Rui brazenly kicked off the second Battle of Guanzhong.

This is the result of irreconcilable interests of many parties.

This is an extreme game among the three countries.

In this game, simple farm boys were sent to the front line one by one.

These people are hardworking and have complete families behind them.

Facing the torrent of the great era, they can only put on iron clothes.

In front were the Han troops who had the same tenacious will as them.

The war has begun.

It should be said that a more tragic war has begun.

The Wei cavalry quickly entered a distance of about two hundred meters between the two sides, and then began to accelerate.

The sound of iron hooves has obviously changed!

Becoming more urgent, more sharp.

The snow on the ground flew up and rolled among the Wei cavalry regiments, forming a black and white billowing torrent.

Then, this thousand-man cavalry regiment roared and charged towards the Han army's formation.

What hit them back was still a terrifying wave of arrow rain.

Those sharp arrows cut through the flying snow and mist, impacting on the war horses, causing countless blood flowers to bloom.

The impact on the soldiers' armor made countless dense metallic sounds.

The officer at the front had his iron armor struck several times.

Even the war horse was hit by three arrows, but the horse was still running.

The flag bearer next to him had two arrows stuck in his armor.

The military flag is still flying in the wind.

The Han army's third batch of crossbow arrows switched over and sent out an even crazier arrow rain frenzy. One after another, the Wei cavalry fell in the snow, plowing out long snow tracks with blood in them.

But the big team still did not slow down at all, and even became more and more brave.

"Hold your ground!"

The voices of the Han army officers were drowned in the angry armor and iron horses.

When the torrent of Wei cavalry was less than twenty meters away from the front of the Han army, the Han army's military formation had all switched to armored infantry, with shields erect and sharp halberds stretched out.

The sound of war drums drove away the fear in people's hearts.

The soldiers' minds went blank. They just felt that the ground was sinking and the sky was shaking.

Then came the terrible torrent.

The halberd cut open the belly of the war horse, but was bent by the huge impact, and the man holding the halberd was also pushed back by the impact.

In an instant, the Han army's formation shook violently. Amidst the roars and shouts of killing from both sides, the first batch of Han army soldiers were lifted up like dirt swept up by a huge hammer.

The Wei army was even more miserable. The horses of the first batch of cavalry were cut open by halberds, and large amounts of blood rolled out and sprayed on the shields of the Han army.

Due to the huge inertia, the war horses continued to charge forward, but the cavalry on top was thrown off and fell into the Han army's formation.

Together with the soldiers of the Han army, they were crushed by a thousand-jin war horse and twisted out of shape like twists.

The sound of the halberd breaking mixed with the sound of bones being crushed, turning into a pile of rotten flesh.

The Han soldiers behind used all their strength, gripped their halberds tightly, and stabbed forward crazily.

The Wei cavalry and horses that came up next were stabbed one after another until blood spurted out, spraying like paint on the bodies of the dead soldiers and horses from both sides.

The battlefield here turned into a Shura field in just ten seconds.

This is not how cavalry used them, at least not before stirrups became common.

Cavalry is an expensive unit and the cost is extremely high.

But it was obvious that Xiahou Ba had fallen into a state of madness in order to achieve his goal.

To them, those soldiers who had not yet remembered to send home letters were just numbers.

War is to be won by any means necessary.

Under such a no-cost impact, people on both sides continued to die in battle, and the corpses piled up quickly.

The pile is getting higher and higher.

The cavalry officer of the Wei army had died in the battle and was buried under the pile of corpses.

Both sides fell into a state of red-eye.

The Wei army's horses could only cross over.

But across the past, the momentum has become very weak.

The cavalry is a very special branch, and its advantages are obvious and outstanding.

When not charging into battle, the advantage of cavalry is high mobility in guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy, and exhausting the enemy.

When charging into battle, the advantage of cavalry is that they come like thunder and use their overwhelming overwhelming advantage to create a huge psychological shadow on the enemy, break through the enemy's defenses, and quickly complete tactical objectives.

However, once the cavalry's impact is stubbornly blocked, the cavalry will be compressed and lose room for movement.

At this time, the war horses were more frightened than the people.

This heralded the defeat of this cavalry.

Therefore, more powerful cavalry can not only mount and charge, but can also dismount and fight on foot at any time.

For example, in the Battle of Song and Jin Dynasties during the peak era of cold weapons, the Jin Army's cavalry and Yue Fei's cavalry could dismount and engage in close combat at any time.

At this time, the Han army's military formations on both wings received a serious blow and were almost flattened.

Broken armor and shapeless corpses were scattered and piled up.

Those who were crushed below and who did not die immediately let out desperate and painful screams.

The hundreds of Wei troops who remained behind had already died in the tragic battle in front. At the same time, they lost room for maneuver and chose to retreat in panic.

Although they were hit by a violent storm, the Han army's military formation was still there and its defense was still there!

"Report! General! Our army suffered a brutal blow on both wings, and more than a thousand people have been killed!"

Jiang Wei received military reports from both wings.

"I don't want to hear casualty numbers, I want to hear whether the defense is still there!"

"Report! General! The soldiers on both wings of our army are still holding on to their positions!"

Jiang Wei immediately led his personal guards, rode out of the military formation, and arrived at the left rear.

The Han cavalry is here, and Jiang Wei will personally lead the Han cavalry and begin a more violent attack on the Wei army's formation.

But at this moment, military reports came again.

"Report! General, we detected another group of Wei cavalry in the woods a few miles behind the enemy. This Wei cavalry is covered in iron armor. It is extremely rare for it to be well-armed! About three thousand cavalry!"

Jiang Wei looked surprised, but immediately calmed down.

It seems that Cao Wei spent a lot of money this time!

"Immediately mobilize three thousand elites from the city to come out to cover the left and right wings!" Jiang Wei's voice was like cold iron, "Tell the soldiers on both wings that I, Jiang Wei, will also charge into the battle today. Today's battle will be fought to the death with the Wei thieves!"

The cold wind whizzed past the young general's body, but he was like a sharp spear, revealing his steely will.

Later, Jiang Wei issued another military order: "When the Wei army's cavalry charges follow, order the three hundred armored elites to advance the Wei army's main infantry formation from the front, and move two thousand infantry to cover it. We will cover the infantry flanks!"

"Three hundred iron armors must penetrate the Wei army's formation head-on in a short period of time!"

(End of this chapter)