Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3342 Whose role is the role among the roles

The troops led by Bao Zhong moved slowly at the beginning and deviated from the main battlefield. They were under a loess plateau and were preparing to cross the gully between the loess plateaus. However, before they could climb up the opposite loess plateau, they saw the Cavalry Army launching such a counterattack!

The cavalry spread their arms and sandwiched the pursuing and advancing Cao soldiers in the middle.

The Hussar cavalry were galloping on the periphery, advancing and retreating freely. They could charge forward repeatedly, or retreat to rest their formation, and then use arrows or javelins to break through the defenses of Cao's soldiers again, or even launch a trampling charge!

The surrounded Cao army soldiers were compressed into a group and interfered with each other for a while. Not only were they in a dilemma, but even the orders were unclear and the coordination was disordered!

General Bao, who was always idling around, looked at the scene in front of him and for a moment he didn't know what to say or what to do...

The battlefield deployment of the cavalry, their ability to divide and attack in separate places, and their tactics of self-coordination on horseback, these are what truly demonstrate the capabilities of elite cavalry!

  Just now, he was ambushed by Cao Hong's catapult. This was certainly because Xu Chu was not cautious enough, but who would have guessed that Cao's army had prepared a catapult?

Well, there is one.

And wouldn't most of the keyboard warriors just shout loudly, "Cao's army is so powerful, Cao's army is so strong, Cao's elite troops are so powerful?" Then when these keyboard warriors are asked to come up with a few suggestions and solutions, they will just glare, throw their sleeves, and glare, saying it's boring. What's all this? You still have the nerve to ask after such a fight?

What's worse is that he was already disliking the book after reading the first chapter, and even after reading more than 3,000 chapters, he was still disliking it. All he disliked was disliking it.

Perhaps in the daily life of such people, they can only use disgust to express their emotions?

Can understand.

"See?" He stood beside Bao Zhong, "When the time comes, we will turn around and fight again, and in the blink of an eye, we will go from weak to strong! Such troops are called cavalry!"

In his eyes, there was a rare fluctuation of emotion and excitement...

This cavalry is indeed the most powerful army in the world!

Bao Zhong remained silent.

  They were suddenly ambushed and the general's flag was unknown in the center of the formation, but they still maintained their fighting spirit. After a short break, they were able to re-energize themselves for fighting. If Bao Zhong had not experienced it himself, he would never have believed that there was any army that could do this!

"General Bao, you may not believe me, but you must believe in the Hussars..." A very complicated expression seemed to be revealed in Conglai's eyes, "In this world, only the Hussars can end this chaos... No one else can, no one can..."

"You, who are you?" Bao Zhong gritted his teeth and whispered, "Tell me, who are you? You are definitely not just an ordinary military school student!"

Yuan Lai chuckled, "That's not important... General, what's important now is what are you going to do?"

Bao Zhong was stunned for a moment, then his mouth twitched, "No, no, no! My Dalang is still in the camp, I can't..."

"Uh, huh?" Yuan Shiye was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "I didn't say that I have to give up the dark and join the light now... I mean, right now... do you see those trapped soldiers? If you rescue them now, will they be grateful to you? Will they owe you a favor?"

"Ah?!" Bao Zhong swallowed his saliva, "What did you say?"

"Don't worry," he looked up at the dazzling sun and smiled, "I just happened to be in touch... It can be considered a credit to the general... General Bao, wealth and honor have always been sought in danger, it depends on whether you have the courage!"

In the distance, the cavalry were strangling the trapped Cao army soldiers, while the other Cao army soldiers outside the encirclement did not dare to make any moves...

Well, it wasn't that he had no reaction. Instead, after a brief moment of shock, he turned around and ran away, leaving behind his besieged and entangled Cao army soldiers and comrades.

It was like a group of people suddenly encountered a python in the jungle. The python wrapped around one of the people and was strangling him, while the others screamed in panic and fled in all directions, forgetting that if a group of people rushed forward, even if they could not kill the python, they could at least give the strangled person a chance to survive.

but……

Anyway, it’s not me who is being strangled!

  Whoever falls in love will get it!

Bao Zhong looked at the large pools of blood splashing in the yellow dust in the distance and couldn't help but feel a little scared. But when he thought of his own Dalang, whose condition was getting worse and worse, and howling and groaning in the camp...

"Form a line!" Bao Zhong shouted, holding up his sword. "Everyone, form a line! Prepare to meet the enemy! Save our comrades!"

……

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War is bound to involve consumption.

Just like the chess pieces on a chess game, you must start with the exchange of pieces to open up the situation and ultimately determine the winner.

In the initial stage, the damage on both sides must be similar.

You capture one of my soldiers, and I capture one of my pawns, but as the game unfolds, the difference in casualties between the two sides becomes apparent, and then it snowballs, until one side completely collapses.

Therefore, in the forward battle, both sides are competing to see who can dampen the opponent's morale and gain the initiative for the future decisive battle.

Whether it is Cao Cao or Fei Qian, these two chess players are competing and testing each other in the battle in Hedong, just to have more confidence and winning rate in the final battle!

This battle will largely determine the future fate of the East and the West. No matter whether it is Xu Chu or Cao Hong, they are fighting hard for their own side with all their might!

During this process, those who want to have every soldier in the army, like those who only think about the F2A, are not suitable for complex battlefield strategies, but are more suitable for single-minded handling of things.

  Just now, Cao Hong's sudden attack dealt a small blow to the Hussars, and Xu Chu also knew that this vanguard battle had far-reaching implications, so he immediately abandoned his unnecessary self-esteem, gave up the command of the cavalry, and let Li Li, who was better at cavalry combat, take over the cavalry unit. In a flash, the true capabilities of the Hussars were demonstrated, and the initiative was regained!

Now the Cao army is in an awkward situation.

Cao's army had just won a small victory, so they could have withdrawn while they were ahead, maintaining their psychological advantage over the Hussars and retreated to the camp. However, Cao Hong was a little greedy, and although he did not send out the Central Cavalry to pursue again, he still wanted to test the Hussars' strengths and weaknesses, so the Cao soldiers who were chasing after them were intercepted by the Hussars again...

"General, are you going to send out the cavalry?"

The guard beside Cao Hong asked anxiously.

Only magic can defeat magic, and only cavalry can defeat cavalry.

It is now obvious that these soldiers of Cao's army have little ability to fight back against the Hussar cavalry, unless...

"What's going on over there? Who is that? Bao Shuyi? What's going on?"

  Cao Hong suddenly saw a part of Cao's soldiers going upstream, forming a formation and approaching the cavalry. In the formation, Bao Zhong's flag was flying high!

Cao Hong's original plan was to send marginal characters such as Bao Zhong to fight, not only to test the strength of the cavalry vanguard, but also to test the strength of Bao Zhong and others.

He refused to advance, disobeyed orders, and failed to help friendly forces in trouble. No matter which of these mistakes, he can be used to deal with Bao Zhong and others!

But now it seems...

  Could it be that my suspicion of Bao Zhong was wrong?

Cao Hong couldn't help but fall into confusion.

  Could it be that Bao Zhong had been slow and sluggish before, and that he had foreseen the current situation, so he deliberately went to the outside, and then had enough space to line up and form a battle formation to resist the Hussars?

hiss……

If this is the case, Bao Zhong is truly a talented person!

  But why didn’t Bao Zhong show this before?

Could it be that the previous battlefield was not big enough, intense enough, or full of ups and downs, so Bao Zhong's abilities were not demonstrated?

It was obvious now that the Hussars still had some room to maneuver and had not used all of their men to encircle and suppress the Cao army's soldiers. The archers on both wings were not close enough. If the cavalry of the Central Army was sent out to attack, there would be only one result...

A cavalry head-on field battle.

  And can the cavalry led by Cao be able to defeat these cavalrymen?

Cao Hong sighed slightly. At least he couldn't do it, and the cavalry of the Central Army couldn't switch between offense and defense as quickly as the Hussars just now, and be flexible and maneuverable...

"Pass the order! Beat the drums! Cheer for General Bao!" Cao Hong shouted, "Mobilize the troops and march forward in formation! Help my comrades!"

The guard thought that the cavalry was going to be dispatched, so he turned around and waved the Flying Tiger flag representing the cavalry, but Cao Hong slapped him back, "Move the infantry forward!"

"ah? 』

"Infantry! Five thousand!" Cao Hong gritted his teeth, his face grim.

"Get out quickly!"

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This battle of mutual exchange and probing did not last long.

The generals on both sides seemed to have gotten what they wanted and exchanged some chips and cards.

In the marching book for the cavalry, the description of this battle is as follows, "In the summer of the ninth year of Taixing, we fought with the enemy in the wild. At that time, Cao's generals suddenly attacked the Qubei tribe, and the Qubei tribe was caught off guard and was defeated. Zhu led his troops to set an ambush and defeated Cao's generals. However, when they chased to the enemy camp, the enemy launched thunderbolts and rocks flew into the air, and no one could resist. Zhu was defeated and retreated, and the enemy pursued again. The army waited for Li Yu on the flank, gathered soldiers along the way, and pretended to encircle the enemy with empty flags, causing the enemy to turn back, and then intercepted and killed them halfway, defeated them, and chased them to the front of the enemy camp."

It is said that when the record was delivered to Xu Chu, Xu Chu did not ask for deletion or rewriting of his description of failure, but nodded and calmly stamped his mark under this text.

The marching book is a document that belongs exclusively to Zhi Yinjian. After each battle, as long as conditions permit, Zhi Yinjian will record it and then archive it. This record will be compared with the record in the military merit book, because Zhi Yinjian only records the process and results of the event, and does not involve the specific number of military merits, so it will not be written in great detail.

For example, the number of enemies killed, the number of heads taken, and the number of casualties would not be reflected in Zhi Yinjian, but would be recorded in the military merit book...

After the incident with the Protector General of the Western Regions, Lü Bu, the Zhi Yin Jian had naturally been purged and reorganized. Those Zhi Yin Jian clerks who were killed in the Western Regions were posthumously awarded and compensated, while those Zhi Yin Jian clerks who chose to turn a blind eye and not record it, or even colluded with the corrupt officials, were arrested and imprisoned, and sentenced according to their crimes.

Those clerks of Zhiyinjian who insisted on keeping records and upholding fairness were promoted to become middle and senior management of Zhiyinjian. Soon this style was extended to all branches of Zhiyinjian and became the rule of Zhiyinjian.

Compared to these records that might embarrass Xu Chu, Xu Chu was more concerned about Cao Hong, or what Cao Cao was planning...

Li Li came back quickly, his body still covered in blood and dust from the war.

Li Li reported his battle in detail...

Under the attack of Cao's catapults, his troops were scattered for a while, but he soon began to gather his soldiers and rescue some of the cavalrymen who could be saved. Then Li Li divided the troops into three parts, one of which went back with the lightly wounded and seriously wounded, one of which acted as scouts to deploy the formation, and the remaining part was led by Li Li himself, constantly wandering on the battlefield.

The subsequent events basically followed a logical course...

Li Li's cavalry began to counterattack the pursuing Cao's army, while Cao's cavalry did not participate in the pursuit.

A single Cao army infantryman could not fight against Li Li without the support of the formation and in a relatively scattered and lengthy situation.

After Li Li attacked the part of Cao's infantry who were chasing the most happily and running the farthest, the rest of Cao's soldiers quickly lost the idea of ​​continuing the pursuit and turned around and retreated in a hurry, even causing a certain amount of self-trampling.

But then some of Cao's troops formed a battle formation and moved forward. At the same time, more Cao's infantrymen poured out of Cao's camp. The number was so large that Li Li could not handle it at all. So he had no choice but to withdraw from the battlefield after achieving certain results.

Cao's army then withdrew...

Xu Chu listened and nodded, while examining and reflecting on the differences between himself and Li Li. Then Xu Chu found that he was indeed not as flexible as Li Li in the use of cavalry.

Xu Chu still retained some habits of commanding infantry, such as the arrangement of a left and right wing, a central army formation and so on. Although Li Li was still young and immature, his style was completely from the Northern Territory, and it was a very mature cavalry tactics. He was not bound by the center and flanks, nor did he pursue dispersion and concentration. Instead, he made specific arrangements based on the actual situation, rushing in and out, fighting when he said he would, and retreating when he wanted.

"General, are Cao's troops sending out infantry to lure us?" Li Li asked, "At that time, I thought we could still fight, but... it might be a bit troublesome, so it would be safer to withdraw the troops..."

"You did the right thing." Xu Chu nodded, affirming, "Cao's army is just trying to lure us in...On the battlefield, don't be greedy..."

Xu Chu said with some emotion.

It seemed like he was reminding Li Li, and also like he was summarizing Xu Chu's own mistakes.

He understood part of Cao Hong's arrangement.

It is indeed as Li Li said, this is greed, this is a test of human nature.

When Li Li led his troops to counterattack, Xu Chu actually did not have many cavalry left. If he wanted to mobilize the infantry in the front army camp, it would be slow and would be almost equivalent to going all-in with Cao's army.

Xu Chu's cards were actually already exposed. If he was unwilling to accept his defeat and wanted to get more chips back on the river, he would try to swallow up these Cao's infantrymen. Although the nearly 5,000 Cao's infantrymen were not elite, they would not be killed in a short time if they were really shot with arrows, chopped with swords, and trampled on by horses...

  And if during this process, Cao Hong led Cao's cavalry to attack again, what would Xu Chu do?

Entangled with Cao Hong's cavalry?

If this is the case, then Cao's army has infantry on the outside, cavalry in the middle, and catapults in the rear camp, so it is not Cao's army that is besieged, but Xu Chu and others!

The five thousand people thrown out by Cao Hong were baits, pieces of meat contaminated with poison!

If Xu Chu or Li Li were greedy, they would be fooled...

  Bite the bait, even though there is fat in your mouth, you need to chew and swallow it!

After Cao Hong's previous small victory, the morale of Cao's army was slightly improved, so it was not easy for them to be crushed and swallowed so quickly!

Once it gets stuck in the throat and blocks the air hole, even a small piece of meat can be fatal!

Fortunately, Xu Chu and Li Li were not blinded by failure, nor did they lose their minds when they saw the bait.

Especially Li Li, who was in command at the front, showed a clear mind and excellent potential...

This is rare.

The bigger the stage, the more opportunities there are, and people with ability and potential will have more opportunities to show their talents.

Li Li performed very well. Although he was unknown before, from today on, he is no longer a small role on the edge of the stage. He not only completed Xu Chu's orders very well, but also handled the new changes in the battle situation flexibly without being rigid or waiting. He was brave in direct combat and cautious in the face of a big battle.

Everyone has their own role.

Who could have known when a minor character who stood on the margins and played a supporting role many years ago would grow into a real protagonist and lead a big drama?

The stage of Huoqi made Li Li famous, and Li Li also gave Huoqi back its brilliance.

After listening to Li Li's battle report, Xu Chu gave his affirmation directly and issued a temporary promotion order on the battlefield, promoting Li Li to the position of acting cavalry commander, who was fully responsible for cavalry affairs. He also gave half of the central cavalry originally under Xu Chu's own command to Li Li for command, thus strengthening Li Li's combat effectiveness.

Li Li thanked him without further ado.

It is almost not difficult to be promoted from a private to a sergeant. Anyone who survives a battle is basically eligible for promotion. It depends on whether there are vacant positions or not. You can even wait for some time and wait for new recruits to join the army, and then the old soldiers will be promoted.

However, as you go up from the top, the difficulty gradually increases, and it becomes more difficult the higher you go.

Li Li has been stuck in the position of military officer for a long time. If Cao's army had not attacked in large numbers this time, Li Li might have remained a military officer for another ten years...

Although he is now a temporary cavalry commander during wartime and may be demoted after the war, and the real appointment has to wait for Fei Qian to issue it, but at least Li Li has seen hope ahead, and he couldn't suppress his excitement when he walked out of Xu Chu's tent.

Xu Chu watched Li Li leave, smiled slightly, then quickly stopped smiling, "Come here! Call Qu Bei over!"

Xu Chu said in a deep voice.

After dealing with Li Li's affairs, it would be natural to deal with Qu Bei.

There are rewards and punishments. Those who deserve rewards should be rewarded, and those who deserve punishment should be punished. This is the rule.

These are the rules of the Hussars, and they are also the rules that everyone must follow under the tricolor flag.