Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3411: Exactly the same

The retreating Cao army soldiers directly ran into the chariot formation that was being built.

The soldiers' advance and retreat should have been carried out under the command of the command flag, trying to complete these tactical actions in the shortest time possible. However, when the army was defeated, no one thought about any tactical actions anymore.

The commander of the chariot camp tried to maintain order among the running Cao army soldiers. He kept shouting and yelling at the top of his lungs and had people waving flags, trying to prevent these fleeing soldiers from interfering with the chariot formation as much as possible.

Liu Fu, who was in the center of Cao's army, also quickly ordered the archers to shoot forward and to speed up the construction of the chariot camp in order to snipe and delay the enemy's attack on the center army.

But the Hussars did not give Cao's army much time. The cavalry galloped and roared like a hurricane on the battlefield littered with corpses.

Death may not be the end.

Losing hope is.

The corpses of the dead rolled and shattered in the wave of attack, and blood splashed and flowed under the horses' hooves. Occasionally, some wounded soldiers could be seen crawling and screaming under the iron hooves, and then they were submerged in the rolling yellow dust.

The beating of war drums shook the earth.

The Cao army's line in Tongguan City completely collapsed.

The retreating Cao army screamed in horror, fear and helplessness. Dozens of soldiers who did not have time to avoid the attack were knocked away by cows and horses, trampled into meat paste and ground into powder.

The archers who rushed to the center of Cao's army hurriedly took their positions and tried to use their bows and arrows to help the retreating Cao soldiers block a way to escape, but the cavalry of the Hussars quickly broke through the rain of arrows of Cao's army and used their swords and spears on the fleeing Cao soldiers, forcing them to speed up and run at full speed.

Ma Yue brandished his sword and shouted, "Brothers! Drive them up!"

The battle-hardened cavalrymen of the Hussar Corps had a tacit understanding with each other. Even if they were in different groups, they could cover and cooperate with each other. Even when they saw Cao's army building a chariot formation on the Tongguan Slope, they still rushed forward without fear.

Because the Hussars all knew that they were not fighting alone, or as a squad!

Sure enough, the artillery on Tongguan roared at the right time.

Because of the problem of shooting angle, the artillery could only reach the Tongguan Slope and places further away, and had no ability to attack the nearby Tongguan Lower City. Therefore, when Ma Yue and other cavalrymen counterattacked Cao's army that occupied Tongguan Lower City, the artillery could not provide effective support.

Now, after Ma Yue defeated and drove away Cao's army in the lower city of Tongguan, the artillery turned its firing direction towards the chariot formation on the Tongguan slope!

The power of the artillery shells is obviously not something that large shields, giant spears, or baggage carts can withstand.

In an instant, the area hit by the shells was suddenly filled with a bloody storm, with wood chips and human body parts flying everywhere.

In fact, at this moment, if Cao's army could turn around and charge forward, and continue to fight in the face of death, swearing to block the cavalry of the Hussars with their flesh and blood, there would still be a chance.

After all, artillery at this stage is just pure physical damage. Using the kinetic energy of the shells to cause damage, it is similar to the mode of piercing attack. It is not as powerful as the howitzers of later generations, where a single hit can directly wipe out an entire platoon. Therefore, even if the Cao army's chariot camp was hit by artillery, it would only damage the area hit, and only casualties in the straight line would occur, and there would not be a large splash range of damage.

  But who wants to die?

Fools, stubborn people, and obstinate people die first.

Therefore, the genes of these people are not qualified to be preserved.

The rest are all "smart" people.

Especially when these Cao army soldiers realized that they were actually like grass in the eyes of those generals, nobles, and commanders, and would only die in vain, even if the command flag on the high platform of the central army was waved so hard that it was almost flying up, the defeated Cao army soldiers still did not see it.

They were just ordinary soldiers from Shandong counties and prefectures, who were drafted to fight on the front lines.

Even though they face death, disability, possible illness, and other unknown dangers at any time, the Cao army's salary will still be delayed for one and a half months. After working so hard this month and finally surviving, they have to wait until the 15th of next month to get the salary for last month's hard work...

When Cao's soldiers asked why this happened, the petty officials said as a matter of course, "Everyone does this, so it's like this. Didn't you see that the generals' salaries were also delayed by a month?"

  But the petty clerk would not tell these ordinary Cao army soldiers that the military pay of the Cao army generals is "basically unnecessary". If they really had to rely on the military pay to make a living, would there still be so many people in Shandong trying their best to climb up?

The Hussars and Iron Cavalry were galloping, cooperating with each other, and fighting bravely to kill the enemy.

The Cao army soldiers were running away, screaming, and trying their best to save their lives.

In fact, due to the terrain of the upper and lower Tongguan cities, the cavalry attacking from the upper city could not deploy as many troops as on the open plains. So in fact, as Cao Zhang said before the war, even if there were 3,000 pigs, it would take some time to kill them all.

If Ma Yue's 800 cavalrymen really chopped off heads and killed Cao's army one by one, they would be like water splashing a few times and then immediately disappearing in the chaotic battlefield.

There is not much space in the lower city of Tongguan. If the cavalry of the Hussars really lose their running speed, then all that will be left for Ma Yue is failure and death.

But the problem is that when pigs are anxious, at most they will just push and push, and a few will jump up, but they will never be cruel to their own kind, but humans will.

The area of ​​the lower city of Tongguan is relatively open, and then from the relatively open area, people enter the relatively narrow passage on the Tongguan Slope, where they escape in a concentrated and disorderly manner. In addition, there are baggage carts arranged on the Tongguan Slope, which further aggravates the congestion.

This is just like the long vacations in later generations. Everyone knows that this long vacation is hard-earned time that they have to use up other rest time, so they must have a subconscious feeling that any extra time they waste is a loss. Therefore, even when everyone goes out on vacation, they travel like special forces, rushing as much as possible and squeezing in as much as possible.

And that’s what everyone thought…

Therefore, a two-way four-lane road can produce the effect of eight cars abreast. Especially in the case of a road without a guardrail in the middle, some people will drive against the flow, squeeze in, and try to hurt the interests of others to gain an advantage, which will then cause car accidents and congestion...

The end result is that no one can get through.

So, whose fault is it?

  Cut in line?

no.

In Shandong, it is the fault of those who do not give way.

"If you just give way, it will pass, right?"

"You are a grown man, why are you fussing over such a small matter?"

"You insist on getting stuck here. Everyone behind you is stuck..."

Under the influence of such an environment, those who disrupt order are the "capable" ones who can "gain benefits", while the interests of those who honestly abide by the rules are trampled upon and ignored again and again.

So in such an environment, anyone who queues up properly is an idiot.

Cao's soldiers were defeated and fled. If they had entered in a line, most of them would have had a chance to escape. However, what was gratifying was that the traffic was congested again!

No one wants to give way, no one considers others, and no one is willing to wait any longer.

Everybody just wants to be first, everybody just wants to survive, everybody pushes and swears.

Then soon someone found himself still holding a knife or a gun in his hand...

Killing each other became a skill that these soldiers from Shandong were good at performing.

They began to kill the civilians who blocked their way, the soldiers who tried to stop them from climbing and dismantling the large shields that blocked their way, and the military cadets who wanted to restore order and fight again.

Liu Fu, who was standing on the high platform in the middle of the army, had a drastic change of expression. "Not good! General! Quickly give the order to let the archers shoot those fleeing soldiers! Otherwise, the chariot formation will be lost, and you and I will not be able to stop the cavalry's sudden attack!"

  Cao Zhang was stunned, and he glanced at Liu Fu. "You old man, besides this chariot formation, don't you have any backup plan?"

And this statement...

However, as Cao Zhang was the commander-in-chief, he naturally had no way to shirk his responsibility. He could only immediately give orders to the archers in the central army to shoot a large number of arrows towards the congested area on the Tongguan Slope.

Dense arrows whizzed down. As the commander of these defeated Cao's soldiers, Cao Zhang could not give them any good gifts, but only send them to death. A large number of arrows were thrown into the crowded position, and those unlucky Cao's soldiers were shot like a hedgehog and died miserably on the spot.

Ma Yue led his men to attempt an attack, but found that he had no way of clearing the chariots on the congested Tongguan Slope Road, defending against the arrows overhead, and avoiding a large number of casualties...

Ma Yue could only temporarily stop his attack.

However, this is not the end of the Hussars' attack, but the reorganization of the first wave, while the second wave of attack is coming downstream!

At this moment, a series of low and exciting war drum sounds suddenly sounded from the flank of the battlefield.

  The cavalry’s navy appeared in Chang’an!

Because the waterways of the big rivers dry up when they are dry and freeze when they are frozen, in fact, in the northern region, the Guanzhong and Hedong areas, since the Han Dynasty, although there have been captains of tower ships with high ranks, there is actually no formal navy.

This thing called water army is indeed expensive.

Fortunately, Fei Qian is not afraid of spending money.

The Han Dynasty's tower ship usually carried 500 to 800 people. For example, in the middle and late period of the Three Kingdoms, because other technology trees could not be climbed, Sun Shiwan could only desperately pursue the tower ship technology tree and built a large ship that could accommodate 3,000 people!

Originally, Sun Shiwan might have wanted to use this building ship to deal a large wave of damage, but there was a problem with the card sequence. By the time he sorted out the card sequence, Sun Shiwan was already old...

As a result, these large-scale warships ultimately did not demonstrate much power on the battlefield, but instead allowed the sons of Jiangdong aristocratic families to make a fortune by engaging in overseas transportation.

Fei Qian's Guanzhong naval tower ships are not many in number, and most of them are built in the Xuanwu Pool as experimental products for the research of naval forces and sailing ship construction. Because the large rivers and waterways are basically frozen once a year, these tower ships are stored in the Xuanwu Pool most of the time.

Nowadays, through transportation on rivers and land, these tower ships have been transported from the Xuanwu Pool to the battlefield.

The artillery tracks developed by Fei Qian in Hedong, or the mode of transporting heavy equipment, were also quickly used to transport these ships...

  For Pang Tong, small logs cannot transport large equipment like tower ships, so he uses large logs!

Big, stupid, black and crude things and even bigger, stupid, black and crude things are the most common technological development models in this era.

The crew of the tower ship was about 100 oarsmen and wheelmen, 200 archers, 100 spearmen, and 100 sword and shieldmen. But now Ma Jun equipped 300 archers to increase the speed of the tower ship to the fastest, and all the others served as oarsmen and wheelmen.

In any case, Cao's surface ships are even more pitiful, and it is unlikely that they will engage in close combat using springboards. Instead, long-range shooting and destruction on the shore are the focus of the cavalry navy's combat.

  With the dual support of wheel oars and long oars, the speed of these ships of the cavalry was very fast. They were almost in front of us as soon as they were discovered!

Even the water in the river seemed to have been plowed into a groove by the bow of the ship, rolling with yellow or white splashes, along the two sides of the ship, and quickly rolling backwards.

"Floating bridge!" Cao Zhang's face changed, "Who is defending the floating bridge on the flank? !"

Liu Fu sighed, "It's Guanqiu Duwei."

Cao Zhang was stunned for a moment, then he said in a deep voice: "Send someone to pass the message immediately! If Commandant Guanqiu can defend the floating bridge, I will record his great achievement!"

The messenger immediately ran down the platform and went forward to deliver the message.

Liu Fu clenched his hands tightly in his sleeves. Now not only the floating bridge, but also the chariot camp on the Tongguan Slope Road are also within the attack range of the cavalry navy!

But just like Liu Fu had abandoned the ordinary Cao army soldiers in the lower city of Tongguan before, Cao Zhang also abandoned the chariot camp that Liu Fu had worked so hard to build...

same.

For Liu Fu, the chariot camp was his focus, and everything else was secondary.

For Cao Zhang, the floating bridge is the main point, and everything else is secondary...

  As for other people’s focus, what is that?

Liu Fu and Cao Zhang were nervous, and Ma Jun was also very nervous.

  Speaking of which, this time Ma Jun went into battle, it was the first time he was forced to do something unnecessarily!

It’s not that Ma Jun doesn’t understand ships, but that he doesn’t know how to fight!

Fortunately, Ma Jun knew that he could not command the battle, so he was only responsible for commanding the operation of the ship. As for other things, they were actually "remotely controlled" by Pang Tong...

"Uh..." Ma Jun looked up at the flags hanging in the upper city of Tongguan, then looked down at the cheat sheet in his hand, "Red background black frame flag... Yeah, got it! Someone come! Pass the order, slow down, rocket attack! "

"Yes!" The messenger responded instinctively, but then got stuck again, "Master, where to attack?"

"Where to attack? Attack Cao's army!" Ma Jun stared, "Can't you tell the difference between friend and foe?"

The messenger originally wanted to ask which side to attack specifically, but after hearing what Ma Jun said, he felt like he was being stupid.

Anyway, there are Cao's troops all around, so just hit and shoot whoever you can reach!

There are Cao's troops on the shore, shoot them!

There are Cao's troops in the water, shoot them!

Shoot Cao's troops wherever you see them!

Anyway, now they can rely on their large ships to bully the smaller Cao Jun...

Therefore, the tower ships that joined the battlefield did not rush to dock, land to fight for the ground battlefield, and attack the flanks of Cao's camp. Instead, they began to float slowly on the water, launched long-range attacks, and indiscriminately poured rockets at any place where there were Cao's soldiers.

When it comes to rockets, the lethality of the arrow is secondary; what’s important is the fire.

Most of the utensils and supplies in the Han Dynasty, even the battle robes they wore, were flammable. Once they really caught fire, it would be really troublesome.

  And the most crucial part is the kerosene traps originally set up by Cao’s army!

These kerosene traps were also an important reason why Cao Zhang and Liu Fu felt at ease and felt that the Hussars would definitely not be able to defeat them.

  That’s right, if the front line really can’t be defended, the worst that can happen is setting it on fire. Can the Hussars be so indestructible and immune to water and fire?

"Be careful of the rockets!" Liu Fu screamed, finally showing some panic on his face, "Prepare to cover with sand and soil! Don't let the rockets ignite the kerosene!"

It's a pity it's too late.

Even if Liu Fu's order could be issued earlier, Cao's soldiers would not be able to handle any problems that arise and make up for all the omissions like accurate robots.

Soon, the rocket attack caused a number of large and small fires in the camp on the Tongguan Slope. Then, Cao's soldiers and civilians were seen panicking and abandoning the baggage carts in the camp and running out frantically!

"Huo Yan Yan!"

The civilians and soldiers shouted wildly.

Liu Fu's face suddenly turned pale, then red again, and he angrily slapped the railing of the platform, "Damn you lowly people! You disobeyed orders, escaped without permission, and ruined my plan! Damn you, damn you!"

That's right, Liu Fu placed some kerosene in some vehicles at the rear of the chariot camp. Liu Fu's original idea was to use it as the last trump card of the chariot camp. When the real cavalrymen used their flesh and blood to open a passage and were about to pass through the chariot camp, they would be set on fire. Then Liu Fu could stand on the high platform, stroke his beard and scarf, and laugh at the cavalrymen for being nothing more than that.

  What a glorious highlight that would be?!

Even if he was defeated and had to retreat this time, Liu Fu would have reasons to say after he returned that it was not that he was incapable. Look, his clever plans could bring peace to the world and pacify all directions. With a little trick, he could kill countless cavalrymen!

It's just that he's not good at that, which holds him back...

But now, everything has turned to ashes!

  At the critical moment, nothing was burned, but a lot of our own people were burned!

Soon, flames rose into the sky and began to spread, engulfing the back half of the Tongguan Slope. Then, because the chariot formations were connected to each other, the flames at the rear of the chariot camp quickly spread to other areas, causing the entire Tongguan Slope to be engulfed in a sea of ​​fire.

"Wow!" Ma Jun, who was commanding on the ship, couldn't help but exclaimed as he looked at the blazing fire. He immediately felt as if he had accomplished something great, and he was refreshed. He was looking around with some satisfaction when he suddenly heard a soldier remind him, "Master! The flags on the city wall have been changed!"

"Oh, let me see, let me see..."