Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3338: Danger Unknown

In the Cao army camp, on a certain earthen plateau camp.

Lai pulled Bao Zhong's arm tightly, "Tell me! Did your confidant tell the commander of the front army of the cavalry about the catapult here? ! Did he? ! "

Bao Zhong was stunned, and then angry, "How should I know?!"

"So you didn't tell me anything special, right?!" Never said in a deep voice, "You were just taking care of yourself and your child, right?!"

Bao Zhong angrily swung his arms, "How dare you! You... do you know that if you are discovered... you will die!"

Lian Lai snorted coldly, and did not continue to pull forward, but took a step back, "Death? I have already had this awareness...but now you'd better pray that the general of the cavalry front army will not die! Otherwise, hmph..."

"What do you mean?" Bao Zhong asked.

But he never answered.

Obviously, Bao Zhong asked his confidant to pretend to be dead and go to the Cavalry Army. The main purpose was not to remind the Cavalry Army of the traps and arrangements in the Cao Army camp, but to focus more on confirming the original identity and negotiating some conditions with the Cavalry Army. The most important thing was how to cleverly send his child to the Chang'an Hundred Medical Clinic for treatment...

As for other matters, Bao Zhong obviously would not explain them specifically, and whether he could ask about the specific arrangements of the camp depended on whether Bao Zhong's confidants could remember them and whether Xu Chu could ask about them.

Now it seems obvious that Xu Chu did not know that Cao's army had arranged an array of trebuchets behind the camp wall...

Bao Zhong was a little angry at first, but he soon figured out the key issue, and then cold sweat rolled down his head!

From Bao Zhong's point of view, the question is whether the Hussars are trustworthy and whether they can be entrusted with their wealth, including the lives of their own children. Therefore, both Bao Zhong and Bao Zhong's confidants will focus on this point. Therefore, both Bao Zhong and Bao Zhong's confidants, in fact, the more important thing is to ensure their own interests. As for how to remind the Hussars' vanguard general, they will inevitably have a mentality of holding chips, to see how much the Hussars give, and then they will say that much, instead of telling everything they know.

On the other hand, from the perspective of the cavalry, even if they had sent the correct optical microscope contact signal, the authenticity was still questionable. After all, what if it was a spy on their side who betrayed them? What if Bao Zhong's confidant was just pretending to surrender? Therefore, even if Bao Zhong's confidant repeatedly assured them, they would still remain cautious.

As a result, the difference in positions between the two parties and the lack of transparency in information have led to communication problems.

  The more serious problem is, if the general of the front army of the cavalry army is injured or killed at this time, will he think that Bao Zhong and others deliberately gave Xu Chu false information to lure Xu Chu into a trap? !

If this is really believed to be the case, then at that time...

That's why he was so angry. After Bao Zhong figured it out, he broke out in cold sweat!

"If things don't go well...what should we do?" Bao Zhong looked at the front line, then turned to look at Zong Lai, his eyes were a little weak, but the shadow was also a little fierce, "Tell me, what should we do now?"

Bao Zhong's hand once again grasped the hilt of the knife.

Cong looked at Bao Zhong and let out a breath, "What else can I do? Do nothing, just watch. See if this general of the cavalry front army has enough luck... I heard that the ruler of the world always has some extraordinary luck... Not only for himself, but also for his subordinates..."

Bao Zhong's hand gradually loosened, "Really? Just look at this?"

"What else can I do?" I asked in return.

Bao Zhong laughed dryly twice, "I thought you would encourage me to take action now..."

"Hmph." He glanced at the platform in the middle of Cao's army, "I'm not that stupid..."

I always keep the second half of the sentence in my heart and never say it out loud.

He was willing to be loyal to General Fei Qian, but he did not say that he would be loyal to anyone under the cavalry.

Of course, there is another point that is also very important.

Now is not the time to take action.

Cao's army camp was in good order.

If two or three people gathered together to talk and discuss, even if they were a little louder, or even had some physical conflicts, it would not attract much attention. After all, they could use the excuse that they were paying attention to the changes in the war situation on the front line and had disputes due to different opinions. But if more than thirty or fifty people gathered...

Do you really think that those generals and guards on the central platform are all blind?

  Therefore, the real opportunity to take action must be when the cavalry army launches a full-scale attack and Cao's central army has no time to take care of other things!

Although the general of the cavalry front army is in danger, Lai and Bao Zhong and others can only watch, and even have to obey Cao's orders. They have to act at certain times and pretend when they should...

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No one cares until danger comes.

Just like later generations of e-scooter riders don’t like to wear helmets in the summer…

If you run like this every day, won’t there be any problems?

But when the danger really comes, it is often too late to put it on.

The cavalrymen were chasing after Cao's cavalry, and not many of them realized the danger was coming.

It is easy for cavalry to chase infantry, but it is somewhat more difficult for cavalry to chase cavalry.

But the sense of accomplishment gained is doubled...

It is easiest to lose yourself in pleasure.

Because Cao's army fled along the loess gullies in a line, the Hussars also involuntarily formed a line instead of a surface when pursuing them!

  Seeing that Cao's camp was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers inside the camp were blocked by Cao Hong and others and could not get out at all, the cavalrymen in the front became excited, whistling, shouting, waving swords and guns, trying to follow Cao Hong and others and rush into the camp of Cao's army!

Using fleeing soldiers to charge into the enemy's line is almost a skill that the Hussar cavalry are very good at.

Therefore, the cavalrymen did not think much about it and just believed that victory was just around the corner!

And it’s still a big win!

However, danger often comes quietly at such moments.

  On the battlefield, no matter how good the equipment is, how high the morale is, or how likely you are to win, as long as a nail on a horse's shoe falls off, it will lead to fatal consequences!

The soldiers of the Hussar Army are elite, right?

Xu Chu is cautious, right?

No matter how much initiative the Hussars had taken on the battlefield, he had never thought of attacking Cao's camp directly. But this time, he was seduced by Cao Hong...

A thousand-mile embankment was destroyed by an ant nest.

Zhuge was admired by later generations not because of his caution in a battle, but because he was cautious throughout his life!

Don't be greedy for merit, don't be reckless, even if there is a great opportunity and Wei Yan's repeated requests...

Although he did miss a lot of opportunities, it was also difficult for others to find any opportunities in Zhuge.

Xu Chu was not Zhuge Liang, and he immediately paid the price for his carelessness.

When Xu Chu saw many tiny black dots suddenly appear in the sky and then quickly grow larger, he finally understood where the danger he had been feeling came from!

  The attack did not come from the ground, nor from Cao's soldiers, but from the sky!

"spread! 』

Xu Chu shouted anxiously.

If they were ordinary soldiers, they would probably be in a dazed state, looking up at the rocks falling from the sky...

Those who are worse off will just cover their eyes and at most make a few screams.

If the current cavalrymen really only rely on Xu Chu's orders, or must hear Xu Chu's orders before taking action, then the result will definitely be heavy casualties!

The good news in this misfortune is that these cavalry troops are all elite.

  So before Xu Chu's shout spread, and even before Xu Chu gave the order, these soldiers, from bottom to top, almost instinctively dispersed the entire formation!

It is an instinct for a warhorse to follow the horse in front of it.

  This means that the cavalry does not need to pay special attention to the movements of the war horses in the queue, so they can fight more conveniently. However, this also causes the war horses to be like an invisible chain to each other, and will continue to gallop forward with the inertia of the horse in front. To break this chain, manual operation is required... Hmm, this seems to be similar to the principle of automatic driving?

But no matter what, the Hussars' skilled riding skills enabled them to make the most correct choice in the shortest time. They disrupted the original chain of horses following each other, causing the array that originally looked like a line to suddenly disperse!

In the sky, the god of death was screaming, and the cavalrymen on the ground were doing their best to avoid it!

The first stone falls!

"Snapped! 』

The stone hit the yellow earth, then bounced up violently from the ground, rolled over and hit a Hussar cavalryman, smashing him and his horse into pieces!

  Blood is flying all over the sky!

Stones fell one after another!

At this moment, the general and the soldiers stood under the same scythe of death!

It's just that after the Grim Reaper had reaped countless lives, there were always gaps of varying sizes on his sickle...

Just like the scissors in the hands of a barber, before the click, no one knows which hair will be cut and which hair will be lucky enough to remain in the gap of the scissors.

The hit rate of Cao's army's catapults was obviously not high, and many of them did not meet the range requirements, falling into the air in vain, and some even hit the heads of Cao's soldiers.

  But the greatest damage to the cavalry was inflicted during the Battle of Anyi!

And there is no way to fight back!

Like Li Yuanba who could open up mountains and open up land, or Gao Chong who could pick up a pulley with a gun, or maybe he could fight back against rocks falling from the sky, but after all, not everyone is Li Gao...

  For a moment, wailing was heard everywhere!

As a general of the front army, Xu Chu was naturally the target of most of Cao's catapults. However, an unconscious action of Xu Chu before made him luckily not be within the attack range of Cao's first round of catapults.

Before, when Xu Chu felt something was wrong, he stood up on his horse and looked around...

Originally, Xu Chu's purpose of doing this was not to avoid the attack, but to find out clearly where he felt the danger was. However, he did not expect that his action would affect the galloping of his warhorse and reduce its speed slightly.

  Most horse racers would try to curl up on the horse's back when driving at high speed. On the one hand, this would reduce the windward surface, and on the other hand, it would also reduce the burden on the horse. However, Xu Chu's action of observing the enemy situation made him fall slightly behind than before!

As the saying goes, a slight error can lead to a great mistake. This tiny deviation prevented Xu Chu from entering the area of ​​the first round of intensive attacks by Cao's catapults!

Of course, even if Xu Chu really entered the area where Cao’s army was intensively attacking, he might not actually be hit by the stones.

Although it is ultimately a question of probability, the smaller the probability, the better. It's like someone who jumps off a building will not die, but the vast majority of people who jump off a building die. So can we say that the person who jumps off a building and does not die represents the majority of cases?

The stone fell and hit Xu Chu not far in front of him.

Xu Chu instinctively reined in his horse and turned to avoid the attack.

Some people jumped off their horses, as if this would reduce the chance of being hit, but unfortunately, as soon as the person jumped off, he was hit by a rock, while his horse was still running without any injury...

Some people crouched on the ground, trying to hide somewhere, but the soldiers who continued to run survived, while those who stopped were crushed to death by the flying half of the warhorse...

Everything is in chaos, nothing is based on order anymore, it is just a simple choice of probability.

It was like countless twenty-sided dice fell in an instant, and those whose luck points did not exceed the dice points died in various ways, even if they tried their best to dodge or ran away aimlessly.

  In just a brief moment, the area that was intensively attacked by Cao's army was turned into a bloody mess!

But this does not mean the danger is over!

Xu Chu looked up and saw that the rocks in the sky were still falling...

  The second round of attack by Cao’s army is coming!

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In Cao’s army camp.

Cao Hong rushed into the camp, but still couldn't help turning his head to look back.

There was jubilation in Cao's army camp.

"Did you hit it?!" Cao Hong was blocked from view and could only roughly see the scattered flags of the Hussars outside the camp. He couldn't help laughing and asked anxiously, "Did anyone see whether they hit it?"

This question was asked in an incoherent manner, so the soldiers' answers were also incoherent.

"Hit! Hit!"

"General, you are wise!"

"Let the Hussars know how powerful we are!"

"Ahahahaha!"

"Let them all die! Die!"

The Cao army soldiers shouted and vented, trying to vent the frustration of being suppressed and beaten in the past few days, as if shouting loudly and waving swords and spears would make the catapults throw more accurately and faster. In fact, due to the shoddy workmanship of the catapults, after the first and second rounds of throwing, some of them had already encountered various problems, so that even the final throws became scattered and could not form the initial covering strike effect...

"I'm asking if you hit the enemy general?!"

Cao Hong shouted loudly.

Unlike the ordinary Cao army who were happy as long as they concentrated their cavalry, Cao Hong was more concerned about whether they had killed or injured the enemy generals!

"Is there?!"

Cao Hong looked up and stared, questioning the Cao army soldiers on duty on the lookout tower.

The soldier on the observation tower hesitated, "Maybe... should... seem... there is one, right?" The scene was so exciting and chaotic that he was so excited that he couldn't even think about whether the enemy general was hit or not.

Moreover, the cavalrymen were scattered after being attacked, and he did not have a telescope. He had to rely entirely on his naked eyes to try to accurately locate Xu Chu's position in the chaos, smoke and blood mist. This was definitely not a skill that an ordinary Cao army soldier could possess.

Cao Hong became impatient and stopped asking questions. He quickly climbed up the observation deck, pushed away the Cao army soldier who was in charge of lookout, and started searching the battlefield carefully with his eyes wide open.

Cao Hong's guards also went up to the observation tower and tried their best to help in the search.

"Have you seen the general's flag?" Cao Hong asked as he searched for it.

Cao Hong's guard replied: "I didn't see it..."

In a chaotic battlefield, it is actually very difficult to find someone alone. So generally speaking, people would look for landmarks first, and then find people. Regardless of whether it is the Cao army or the Hussars, the first thing is for the general to recognize the flag. Any movement of the general recognizing the flag will lead to a continuous reaction, involving every soldier in the entire army.

Cao Hong took a quick look around, then looked at it a second time, trying hard to suppress his pounding nervousness.

  He didn't see Xu Chu's generals recognize the flag!

The rest of the Hussars are disintegrating!

Cao Hong swallowed.

Could it be...

The guards beside him waved their arms excitedly, "General! No! I didn't see the recognition flag!"

Although the flag represents the general himself, it does not mean that they are the same life. For example, it is not uncommon for the flag bearer to die but the general is fine, or it is also possible that the flag fell in the chaos.

  So not seeing the flag does not really mean that Xu Chu is injured or killed. However, in the current chaotic situation, if Xu Chu is fine, shouldn’t we raise the battle flag to rally the troops?

And now no flag appears!

Because the general's flag is so important, even if the soldier holding the flag happens to be killed, the second flag bearer will immediately take over. Even if all the guards under the general are killed, there will still be other ordinary soldiers to protect and hold up the flag...

So, it was really just luck?

  When Cao Hong thought of this, he got goose bumps all over his body!

He swore to God that he originally just wanted to teach the Hussars a lesson, but he didn't expect to achieve such results!

Well, now it was his turn to make the decision.

  Should we launch an all-out attack, seize the opportunity to kill the enemy, and completely defeat the cavalry vanguard, or should we quit while we are ahead and count any win as a gain?

"General!" Cao Jun's guards were all excited, "Give the order!"

"Give the order!"

The rest of Cao's soldiers also shouted loudly.

It seems that victory is just around the corner.