Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2601 Han Xin sets up an ambush to save Xiao, and the White Tiger appears at the critical moment.
Li Cunxiao is indeed very strong!
However, that doesn't mean the Flying Tigers soldiers were as strong as him!

Even so, the Flying Tigers were still the world's top elite force, and the top cavalry force at the time.

However, the Flying Tiger Army was not Li Cunxiao after all!

Even Li Cunxiao would feel tired, let alone the Flying Tiger Army.

After three consecutive battles, facing the well-rested and ambushed Youzhou troops, the Flying Tiger Army clearly had no advantage whatsoever.

One of the purposes of the two previous ambushes was to exhaust the stamina of Li Cunxiao's Flying Tiger Cavalry.

Even Li Cunxiao himself faced numerous crises during this war.

The famous generals of Youzhou did not make a move. Dealing with one general does not mean that there is no other way to deal with them besides another general of the same caliber.

However, when facing a formidable enemy general, sending out a formidable general in return is the most direct and worry-free approach.

In this world, how many generals have died in battle without the help of equally fierce warriors?
Before this, Han Xin had organized a group of elite soldiers, each armed with a short sword in one hand and a crossbow in the other.

Small hand crossbows, while their lethality drops sharply at a certain distance, are still quite formidable at close range.

Although its long-range lethality is insufficient, the existence of this crossbow is not meaningless. While its power is reduced, it also makes the crossbow quite lightweight.

Normal crossbows require both hands to operate.

Some powerful crossbows, those heavy crossbows that can penetrate heavy armor, not only require the use of both hands to operate, but also the strength of the legs.

Even the largest crossbows, especially the bed crossbows, require several people to operate them properly.

However, this small hand crossbow can be operated with just one hand.

This type of small crossbow was only issued to a portion of the Imperial Guard units that protected the palace; other military units were not equipped with it.

After all, such crossbows were not really useful for most armies. The small crossbows, whose lethality dropped sharply at a certain distance, had no place on the battlefield.

This kind of crossbow, to put it bluntly, is for close-range assaults. Or, it's for ambushes.

Therefore, in the military, only guard units would be equipped with it on a small scale.

After all, those who were dedicated to guarding the palace were mostly on the battlefield near alleyways. In such a limited space, the crossbow was already powerful enough.

In situations where spatial distance is limited, flexibility becomes crucial.

Han Xin assembled this unit equipped with crossbows, not for use against an army, but for use against individual forces.

With crossbows and short swords, if such an army were used in a battle between two armies, they wouldn't even know how they died!
However, this setup is quite ingenious when it comes to surrounding and killing a single person! Especially when it comes to targeting cavalry generals.

Because the entire unit's target was not Li Cunxiao himself, but his warhorse.

Military generals all wear armor to protect their bodies, and the protection of important parts is not bad, especially in some vital areas. Most fierce generals, in addition to their armor, also wear a protective shield for their hearts.

Even if a crossbow breaks through armor, its destructive power will be greatly reduced, and it's uncertain whether it will pose a real threat to the target afterward!

However, if the target were a warhorse, this level of lethality would be sufficient.

Since this type of crossbow is only effective at close range due to its lethality, what exactly constitutes close range? What does "close range" mean? At that point, how much reaction time would the target have left after a sudden attack?
The shorter the distance, the less time the target has to react.

Even for Li Cunxiao, if he could defend against one or two crossbows suddenly fired at close range, it didn't mean he could defend against dozens.

However, closing the distance to this extent to unleash a crossbow, especially against a target like Li Cunxiao, meant that these soldiers could be killed by Li Cunxiao at any moment.

Therefore, Han Xin selected the members of this unit as if they were a suicide squad.

To put it bluntly, the entry requirement for this unit is the ability to still pull the trigger of one's crossbow when enemy weapons are thrusting towards or even already piercing one's body.

This unit is meant to fight to the death.

Back then, Liu Yu thought of using a suicide squad for a fire attack tactic, which almost saved Xiang Yu.

Today, Han Xin's crossbow tactics are actually quite similar.

Undoubtedly, whether it was Liu Yu's fire attack tactics or Han Xin's crossbow tactics, they were indeed enough to threaten the lives of these fierce generals, even the top ones.

Even for Li Cunxiao, it was impossible to defend himself perfectly from all sides when crossbows were aimed at his face, especially since these crossbows were not aimed at him, but at the warhorse he was riding.

Therefore, having no other choice, he could only leap from his warhorse at the last moment and jump into the center of the Youzhou soldiers.

Liu Yu's fire attack tactics were difficult to control. Once started, everyone in the area would be ignited, and the duration was too short, resulting in a high casualty rate. Even a suicide squad wouldn't waste resources like that.

Han Xin's crossbow tactics, on the other hand, would not be so wasteful. However, every advantage has its disadvantages.

If they were facing Liu Yu's fire attack tactics, they certainly wouldn't dare to jump in like that; jumping in would be suicide.

However, Han Xin's crossbow tactics were completely different.

After Li Cunxiao jumped in, he used his weapon to pick up two Youzhou soldiers and fling them away, sending the enemy soldiers surrounding him flying.

Then, taking advantage of the opening, they jumped out of the encirclement of these crossbowmen.

As long as he is not surrounded by these crossbowmen, these men pose a limited threat to Li Cunxiao.

After all, once the distance is slightly increased, these crossbows become practically useless.

Even if they were forced in, they could simply grab a corpse and hold it in front of them. With the power of these crossbows, they wouldn't be able to attack Li Cunxiao after passing through a corpse.

Even so, Li Cunxiao was still constrained at every turn. For the first time, he took the initiative to hide in this army, snatched a horse from a Flying Tiger soldier, and then left.

After all, one person is always more agile than a group; it's better to just stay out of the way.

No general of his time could have made Li Cunxiao want to avoid him, but this army did.

After all, it's troublesome enough for one person to lose their life, let alone a group of them. On the battlefield, what general would recklessly trade lives with a group of suicide soldiers?
The lives of suicide squad members are utterly worthless!

Back then, Xiang Yu suffered a great loss at the hands of Liu Yu's suicide squad, almost being burned to death. Didn't he then hide from this army afterward?

But no matter what, from the moment Li Cunxiao stepped into the ambush, both he and his Flying Tiger Cavalry were in danger.

Fortunately, just as they were about to be defeated, the White Guard arrived from behind.