Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 526. Battle of Wancheng (VIII)

"Shameless traitors, why do you dare to raise troops to harass our capital of Wei instead of surrendering as soon as possible? If you are sensible and retreat early, you can still save your lives. Otherwise, this day next year will be the day you die!"

Cao Yan was a young and inexperienced man who was not afraid of a tiger. Moreover, he had just arrived with the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and had not experienced the great defeat before the Battle of Wancheng. He was still full of energy at this time, so it was natural that his attitude towards Feng Xi would not be so good.

The shouting before the battle is naturally an indispensable part of this era. The shouting is mainly used to suppress the morale of the opponent or to improve the morale of our side. However, for a warrior like Cao Yan, what he shouts is just some meaningless clichés, so it does not have much impact on the soldiers of both sides.

"Haha, Cao Yan, we don't know whose death anniversary will be on this day next year, but I guess no one will go to burn incense for your father on his death anniversary in the future."

In terms of verbal battles and sarcastic remarks, Feng Xi is now hard to beat. Moreover, because he knows the details of these Wei generals, he can accurately poke the opponent's pain points with just two sentences, perfectly achieving the level of angering people to death without using swear words.

"You bastard! How dare you insult me?"

As expected, Cao Yan, like Xiahou Ba who had died long ago, got angry when he heard Feng Xi mention their father. However, Cao Yan's father died of illness after all, so he didn't get angry like Xiahou Ba did.

"Feng Xi, as the Grand Commander, you act like a shrew in front of the two armies. How disgraceful! Are all the Han troops like you shameless people?"

Cheng Wu, who was standing by, saw that Cao Yan was so angry that he couldn't speak because of his poor tongue, so he hurried over to take over. Cheng Wu's father was Cheng Yu. Although Cheng Wu didn't have his father's ability, he was much better than these warriors who were full of muscles. He took advantage of the situation and lowered the morale of the Han army.

"Haha, I don't dare to accept Master Cheng's praise. Speaking of shameless people, I think the ones who kill civilians and make meat jerky are the real shameless ones. Could it be that Master Chen ate too much human flesh when he was a child and was infected with the Ruan virus? Or is it that he is greedy now and his old illness has relapsed?"

Speaking of Cao Wei's dark history, Cheng Yu's killing of people for military rations is definitely the most important one. You said Lao Liu also had it? Then he didn't eat it.

"you……!"

Although Cheng Wu didn't understand what the Ruan virus was, he could still hear Feng Xi's sarcasm.

"Huh... calm down, calm down. General Cao, I've heard that Feng Xi is very sharp-tongued. We shouldn't argue with him any more. It's better to see the real deal with him."

Cheng Wu forced himself to calm down and angrily glanced at the figure wearing white armor and riding a black horse opposite him. Although Xiahou Ba was provoked by Feng Xi's two words before and rushed over to give up, after all, Xiahou Ba and Feng Xi had a grudge against each other for killing their father.

Cheng Wu didn't expect that the other party was so good at biting anyone he caught. If he continued to curse, he would definitely suffer a loss, so it was better to just get ready for a fight.

"That makes sense. Feng Xi, you have a sharp tongue, and I admire you. I hope the soldiers under your command can be as sharp as you, and can stand up to my Wei cavalry!"

Cao Yan agreed with Cheng Wu's suggestion, and finally made some harsh words to Feng Xi, then returned to his own camp, ready to charge with the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Ordinary combined infantry and cavalry tactics usually involve the infantry fighting in the center, with the cavalry cutting in from both wings to intercept or harass the enemy.

However, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry are heavy cavalry, just like the tanks of this era, so they naturally cannot be as agile as light cavalry and carry out harassment. Instead, they have to charge heavily and directly defeat the enemy.

Every soldier in the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry wore armor and face guards, and even their horses were covered with chain mail, making them look very powerful.

"Kill! - Herod"

After a brief silence on both sides, Cao Yan could not hold back and his Tiger and Leopard Cavalry launched the charge first. With the neighing of the war horses, 30,000 Wei cavalry rushed towards the defense line built by Feng Xi's Han army in a cone formation. These defense lines had some basic objects such as chevaux de frise and fences, but there were no things like gullies.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

As Cao Yan's cavalry slowly moved, the whole land seemed to be shaking. Many Han soldiers had never seen so many cavalry charging at the same time in their lives, and their legs were shaking with fear. If the Han army was not well disciplined, some of them would have fled for their lives on the spot.

Even most of the veterans looked pale. After all, they knew the power of cavalry. Under normal circumstances, if their formation was charged by the cavalry, they would probably be doomed. They could not escape and would be ruthlessly killed.

"Don't panic, brothers. It's too late for you to run now. Why don't you pick up your weapons and recall your training? As long as you follow the training, it won't be difficult to defeat them."

Feng Xi naturally noticed the strange emotions among his soldiers, so he picked up his iron trumpet to calm the troops and make the Han soldiers feel a little more at ease.

"Listen to my command and lift the tarpaulin!"

At Feng Xi's command, the hundreds of objects covered with oilcloth and occupying a large area in the formation were lifted up. Inside was a square box placed on a shelf like a trolley. There were many holes neatly opened on it, seven in a row, a total of seven rows.

Arrowheads as thick as babies' arms appeared in these holes. With the adjustment of the soldiers, they were all aimed at the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry of the Wei army that were still charging.

"Don't be afraid! These things can only fire one or two rounds, so charge forward!"

Although Cao Yan felt a little scared instinctively, he considered that the opponent's thing was obviously inconvenient to load and was probably just a showpiece.

However, Cao Yan was so busy looking at these strange objects that he did not notice that the weapons in the hands of the Han soldiers on the opposite side were also strange.

Some people were holding something that looked like a bamboo pole, some were holding things that looked like small jars, and some were holding bows and arrows, but there was an unknown object tied under the arrows.

Cao Yan didn't know that these peculiar things were the secret weapons that Feng Xi prepared to deal with the Wei army, and that the slower speed of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry compared to the light cavalry would also become the biggest drawback of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

"The train, let go!"

Seeing that the Wei army had rushed to the right distance, Feng Xi gave an order and the Han soldiers holding torches immediately lit the fuses that were stacked together behind the large boxes.

As the fuses burned rapidly, forty-nine fuses burned into the back of the wooden boxes one after another.

“Puff—whoosh!”

As dense muffled sounds were heard in the air, thousands of large crossbow arrows were shot directly at the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry who were still charging.

These crossbow arrows have extremely strong kinetic energy, and can even kill the person in front, and the huge kinetic energy can carry the corpse and hit the person behind.

With the sound of people and horses falling, the first few rows of Tiger and Leopard Cavalry were shot dead or knocked off their horses. It was difficult for people who fell off their horses during the charge of heavy cavalry to survive, and they would most likely be trampled into a pulp by the horses behind them.

(End of this chapter)