Goose Three Kingdoms

Chapter 558: Under the Canhe Pond
On the western front, Wuhuan knights launched attacks in groups.

The smoke and dust filled the air like waves, and the group of Wuhuan knights in the front row looked like waves.

Almost at the same time, Zhang Fei and Zhang Liao also led their knights to launch a counterattack.

The scene of the Wuhuan people's charge was so massive that after Jiaochu's battle flag was lost, the Hebei knights lost their command, but still fought to the death under the supervision of military officials at all levels.

Noticing the actions of the Wuhuan people, the Hebei Knights fought with greater motivation.

Black Bear noticed that the Wuhuan knights charging from the west were slowly adjusting themselves during the charge, and the large horizontal formation was about to be transformed into an oblique formation, with the sharp protrusions of this oblique formation pointing directly at him.

Seeing that the Zaohu cavalry in the south had been defeated and the infantry was surrounded, the Zaohu infantry, which had originally collapsed and was in chaos, saw Yuan Shang and Tadun launching a general attack, and they forced themselves to take courage and continued to hold on.

There are only two cavalry battalions left by Black Bear's side, the Black Team and the Yellow Team. If they are withdrawn from the south now, the miscellaneous Hu cavalry who retreated but did not leave the battlefield will definitely counterattack.

Almost in an instant, Black Bear said to Wei Kang, "Rise yellow smoke."

Wei Kang was stunned, and immediately shouted orders to several of his personal soldiers. These personal soldiers immediately took torches and quickly set fire to two baggage carts loaded with firewood.

When the fireworks burn, the sulfur and other substances contained in them also begin to burn, releasing a large amount of yellow smoke, which is blown obliquely to the south by the wind.

Wei Kang quickly returned to the carriage and took down a loaded heavy crossbow from the weapon rack. The soldiers around him mounted their horses or got on the carriages.

As the black bear came down from the roof of the vehicle, the entire giant chariot slowly turned around, headed southwest, and began to accelerate.

The second, third and fourth carriages were originally spacious, but suddenly more than 200 lightly armed crossbowmen led by Yuan Shu appeared together. Some of the crossbowmen had obvious scars on their shields and clothes; the face scarves of several unlucky crossbowmen were damaged, revealing their collapsed faces.

If you want to fix it, you can only wait for the next upgrade.

Without saying a word, these re-materialized crossbowmen occupied the shooting holes everywhere and loaded the heavy crossbows by stepping on them.

Each of them moved skillfully and strung the crossbow quickly; some of the crossbows were waist-drawn and they also strung the crossbow quickly.

Inside the front of the car, Black Bear observed the charging Wuhuan knights in the distance through the anti-arrow iron net. The crowd was tossed by the horses' ups and downs as they charged, and the more he looked at it, the more it looked like waves or tides with human and horse heads mixed together.

Before engaging the enemy, the Wuhuan cavalry, who were at the forefront of the charge, shot arrows from both sides of the chariots, and the crossbowmen inside the chariots also fired back.

Arrows clanged against the chariots, and in less than a breath, the Wuhuan cavalry rushed in front of them.

But the horses under them instinctively avoided the huge chariots, so they could only pass by the chariots. Some brave Wuhuan knights either stretched out their arms and swung their swords, or stabbed with spears in one arm, trying to injure the armored draft horses.

There were also a few agile knights hiding in the saddles, swinging their swords to chop the front legs of the draft horses.

When their swords struck the horses' upper legs, they were blocked by the chain mail hanging in front of the upper legs.

But soon, these Wuhuan knights who were close to the chariots were crushed to pieces by the extended rolling curtain along with their horses.

Often the horse's legs would be broken by the two roller shutters at the front of the carriage, and when the rider fell, he would be hit by the roller shutters at the rear carriage.

The giant chariot was unstoppable, leaving behind two parallel red lines of flesh and blood wherever it passed.

After the giant tanks, there are ordinary tanks.

The Wuhuan were also human beings. Even though they were fearless and brave, their mounts would avoid collisions with chariots that were obviously larger than them.

Dozens of tanks followed the charge, colliding from time to time, and then running over the obstacles.

Some chariots failed to run over the vehicles, or overturned, or had their axles broken on the spot.

The black and yellow cavalry teams charged in a southerly direction to avoid a head-on collision with the Wuhuan people.

When they charged diagonally to the south, their right shoulder was facing the enemy, so they could concentrate and stay highly focused; the Wuhuan people on the opposite side also adjusted their direction, also facing the enemy with their right shoulder, which made it convenient for them to swing their axes.

But the black team and the yellow team are more well-trained, and their front and back are connected like fine saw teeth, yet impenetrable.

At the moment of the collision, the Wuhuan people were knocked off their horses one after another.

The giant chariot kept charging and soon broke through the dense array of Wuhuan, leaving only Tadun's main force in the front. Without waiting for Tadun's order, the cavalry on the left and right wings of the main force rushed out of the battle array, but they still could not do anything to the giant chariot.

In order to destroy the carriage, this huge chariot must be stopped.

When they were moving and charging, the Wuhuan people found it difficult to get close to them and had no way to cause any damage.

When Tadun saw that the giant chariot was charging forward without slowing down, he immediately panicked... In his opinion, building a giant chariot is not difficult at all. The difficult part is not to make it fall apart when moving at high speed.

Originally thinking it was just a slow-moving chariot, he watched helplessly as this giant chariot broke through the dense cavalry formation. Naturally, he knew that the more than 3,000 cavalrymen around him could not stop it.

Unless you slow down the enemy and then injure the armored horse.

It's too late now. If we had known this news before the war, we would have been able to make targeted arrangements.

The two sides were only two or three hundred steps apart. Without thinking, Tadun reined in his horse and fled northward. The noble leaders and guards around him immediately drove their horses to follow him, and a large group of people and horses followed him northward.

Just as he was retreating northward, the chariot indeed caught up with him, but the terrain in the north was high, so the impact speed was greatly reduced.

Upon seeing this, the nearby Wuhuan knights immediately came up to engage, but the chariot's movement speed slowed down, and the powerful crossbow arrows fired from the more than 200 shooting holes in the chariot had a higher hit rate.

Shooting within a distance of a dozen steps, the powerful crossbow arrows can often shoot Wuhuan knights off their horses.

Tadun drove his horse at full speed and saw an abandoned canal in front of him. He immediately showed joy and jumped over it on his horse.

The knights who were following him closely leaped over on their horses, but their vision was obstructed by the dense cavalry behind them, and in an instant they saw legs broken and trampled, and more than a thousand riders collided with each other, and fell into chaos for a while.

Tadun reined in his horse and turned around to observe the giant chariot that was pursuing him. Inadvertently, he caught a glimpse of a team of more than a hundred cavalrymen speeding towards him from the east.

He turned his head to look, raised his whip and pointed over: "Disperse them!"

Immediately, a group of knights around him moved eastward to meet the enemy, leading many outer knights to move eastward as well.

Tadun then concentrated on looking to the south, but he didn't expect that the chariot slowly turned eastward and tried to turn around.

At this time, some sharpshooters among Tadun's cavalry had begun to dismount, taking out more powerful bows and long arrows, aiming at the chariot horses fifty or sixty steps away and launching high-powered predictive and lob shots.

"Yanmen Zhang Liao is here!"

Tadun vaguely heard the shouting and turned his head to glance to the east, where he saw a Han general riding a fierce horse galloping towards him, now more than twenty steps away.

Before a dozen Wuhuan knights who took the initiative to step forward to block the attack could speed up their horses, Zhang Liao took a strong blow and stabbed the iron halberd held in both arms into Tadun's left armpit.

Tadun was a strong man, but he was knocked off his horse by Zhang Liao's attack. He fell to the ground with an iron halberd stuck in his waist and rolled half a circle.

Zhang Liao dropped his halberd just in time, reined in his horse, drew his sword, and started fighting with Tadun's guards and nobles.

In less than two breaths, a dozen of Zhang Liao's personal knights, inspired by his courage, charged forward. Zhang Liao, regardless of his injuries, jumped off his horse and kicked Tadun on the back of the head, kicking off his heavy felt hat and revealing his short and broad neck.

Without thinking, he raised the knife with both hands and chopped down fiercely, chopping off the round head that looked a bit like a weight, which was twisted by the intense pain.

Zhang Liao's sword sank half a foot into the ground, and the severed head rolled to the side.

The surrounding Wuhuan knights were so horrified at the sight that the battle came to a brief halt.

In just a moment, the fanatical Tadun Guards regained their sanity and ability to think. In an instant, many nobles took the lead in turning their horses and riding away, leading more knights to leave the battlefield.

Zhang Liao gasped for breath on the spot, watching Tadun's stag battle flag being wrapped by the defeated soldiers and fleeing westwards.

But soon he saw Taishi Wengong, his white robe stained with blood, riding alone to chase the defeated Wuhuan cavalry. He easily caught up with the battle flag, killed the warrior carrying the flag with a halberd from behind, and then reined in his horse to kill the Wuhuan people who tried to grab the flag.

Zhang Liao breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Tai Shi Wen Gong was fine. Only then did he feel the warmth and burning pain on his face.

When I raised my hand and touched it, I found that my cheek was cut by a knife, or it could be a stray arrow.

(End of this chapter)