Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 225 Secret Weapon
"what!"

Liang Xing watched in disbelief as the silver gun was thrust into his chest. He and Ma Chao had just exchanged five moves before being shot through the chest by the opponent.What's even more sad is that he didn't see clearly how the shot was shot.

"Why, why do I want to confront Ma Chao?" In the consciousness that was about to disappear, such a thought emerged, and Liang Xing's body fell off the horse like a broken bag.In fact, he needn't be sad, because behind him, three people including Li Kan were stabbed off their horses one after another, and four of Han Sui's eight generals died at the hands of Ma Chao.

"what!"

With the same scream, although Zhao Yun and Ma Chao were evenly matched, Yan Xing's martial arts were always better than Liang Xing's. This shot caused him to dodge more than half, and finally got stuck in his left shoulder.Zhao Yun was also a little surprised that he failed to take his life, which was inevitable.Taking advantage of Zhao Yun's surprise, Yan Xing quickly turned his horse's head and ran back.He was shot once in twelve rounds. Although Yan Xing himself was terrified, Han Sui, who was watching the battle from the top of the wall, was also shocked.But how could Zhao Yun allow him to come and leave as soon as he said?At Zhao Yun's order, the cavalry of the Baqiang tribe who had been waiting for a long time surrounded from both sides, and Yan Xing and his tribe were immediately surrounded by heavy siege.

People in Xiqiang are tough by nature, but they respect heroes very much.Fazheng knew that even if Xiliang was pacified, in order to prevent the Ma family from becoming dominant in Xiliang, Liu Bei would need some forces to check and balance Ma Teng and his son.Although I have some talent and fame, but the weight is not enough.Therefore, after Fazheng convened the Eight Qiang tribes, he deliberately launched Zhao Yun grandly after a drink.

When the more than [-] warriors of the Baqiang tribe were unable to catch Zhao Yun's three moves, everyone immediately looked at him with admiration.After knowing that he is Ma Teng's son-in-law, these people no longer dare to underestimate him.Otherwise, how could the Baqiang tribe, which has always been tough, obey the command of a Han who has not been here for a long time?With Zhao Yun's response, the [-] cavalry of the Baqiang tribe quickly wrapped Yan Xing's subordinates in the core.In the end, except for the runaway Yan Xing who led more than a thousand remnants to flee, the rest were either wiped out, captured or surrendered.

"General Zilong is really brave. It looks like everything is going well!" Looking at Ma Chao in the distance leading his army back triumphantly, Fazheng was also grinning from ear to ear.In terms of personality, Zhao Yun, who has a modest temperament, is much more approachable than Ma Chao.

"It all depends on Xiao Xiao's ingenious plan to predict the enemy's opportunities first!" Zhao Yun has never been lying, but he knows that if it is not for the help of Fazheng, a counselor who is familiar with Xiliang this time, relying on himself and Ma Chao alone, it is not easy to win so easily. too realistic.First, they tricked Ma Wan and Yang Qiu, then they attacked Cheng Yin to scare them off, and finally they ambushed Li Kan and the other four.One of the loops is one loop, all of which are anticipating the enemy's opportunity, and Han Sui and others are completely led by the nose.

"Brother-in-law, I've taken care of everything here, and now only old thief Han is left!" Ma Chao came along with his usual insolent laughter. There were still a few heads hanging on the mount, and it was Li Kan and others.So far, Han Sui’s eight generals, except Yang Qiu who surrendered to the enemy, and Ma Wan, Cheng Yin was killed by Ma Dai after breaking the city, Liang Xing and other four were killed by Ma Chao, and the remaining candidates surrendered wisely up.While Ma Chao sent people to conquer Wuwei and other counties in the west, he, Zhao Yun and Fazheng besieged Jincheng.

"The city wall of Jincheng is dangerous, but it is difficult to attack!" Ma Chao said with emotion.As a senior Jincheng resident, Ma Chao knows Jincheng very well.Unexpectedly, he smiled slightly, and then said with confidence: "You don't need to worry, the major general. I have already taken care of how to capture Jincheng. It's just that Han Sui's garrison is only more than 5 people, and there are no less than [-] troops in each department here. Why don't the two generals go first?" How about leading a team to Jieting to support General Zhao?"

"Alright, brother-in-law, you can go!" Ma Chao said without thinking.Zhao Yun had now developed a certain resistance to Ma Chao's cheekiness, so he led [-] cavalry to Jieting without refusing.Ma Chao and Fazheng were left, and Jincheng was completely surrounded.

As for the street pavilion, since two days ago, gunpowder has begun to fill the air.After learning that the Sichuan Army had guarded the Jieting, Xia Houyuan almost flew here.As a result, seeing the defenders guarding the avenue and Jieting City, forming an angle with each other, they immediately realized that they had kicked the iron plate again this time.

Regardless of the defenders in the city, I came here in a hurry and did not bring siege equipment, and besides, there are thousands of people in such a small city, which is irrelevant to the overall situation.The most terrible thing is to guard the Dazhai of the Sichuan Army.Looking at the towering and fluttering "Zhao" banner, Xia Houyuan's eyes couldn't help but twitched a little.

Although there were not many duels and battlefields with Zhao Feng in his life, Xia Houyuan still knew this person well.At least the comments about this person heard from Cao Cao and others have always been generous.Xia Houyuan knew that Zhao Feng was always good at defensive battles, when he defended Guangling with less than 15 soldiers, he actually forced Ji Ling, the number one general in Huainan who led an army of 1, to surrender.Xia Houyuan asked himself, he didn't have the ability.

But Xia Houyuan is also very confident now, because almost all of Zhao Feng's men are infantry, and he has a full [-] cavalry.If you want to use infantry against cavalry on the plains, it is simply looking for abuse.Xia Houyuan looked at the ground at the moment, except for some man-made obstacles and trenches, the opponent did not have any favorable terrain to use.So Xia Houyuan ordered decisively and began to attack.

Teams of cavalry dismounted, rushed forward with the stones they picked up, and began to clear the traps and trenches.Of course, the trenches are cleared directly, but the traps can only be verified by people.And once the verification is successful, nine times out of ten you won't even think about coming back.At the same time, the defenders in Dazhai would not let them clear the traps so calmly. Under Zhao Feng's command, various bows and crossbows with relatively long ranges began to show their power, and the crossbows fell into Cao's formation.

"Xia Houyuan is really a battle-tested guy, and he's really good at catching fighters!" Zhao Feng stood at a high place and watched that most of the crossbow arrows he shot were not accurate, and he secretly admired Xia Houyuan.Originally Xia Houyuan had just arrived in the morning, Zhao Feng thought that he had to take a rest before starting to attack, but he didn't expect him to start attacking so soon, which surprised Zhao Feng, thinking that Xia Houyuan's impatience was the reason.

But as soon as the fight started, Zhao Feng understood how powerful Xia Houyuan's move was.It was morning now, and my men were shooting arrows facing east, with their eyes facing the sun. It was difficult to even open their eyes, but the arrows were far from accurate.After spending nearly a day, Xia Houyuan has repaired these roadblocks in sevens and eighties.Of course, the price paid was more than 3000 casualties.

However, in Xia Houyuan's view, all of this was worthwhile, because without these roadblocks, he could give full play to the advantages of the cavalry's impact force, and then he could charge forward and completely smash through the opponent's Dazhai.Even if there are tens of thousands of people on the other side, once the scuffle starts, Xia Houyuan believes that the veteran soldiers in Guanzhong are definitely not comparable to the half-baked Sichuan army, not to mention that he is a cavalry soldier.

"Array, charge!" Following Xia Houyuan's order, the three thousand cavalry stopped, and then drove their horses towards the Sichuan Army Dazhai several miles away.Thousands of people rushed along the mountain road, the ground suddenly trembled violently, and all kinds of gravel and small stones began to dance.Few people in the Sichuan Army have seen the scene of a large-scale cavalry assault.The faces of the recruits who lack combat experience have already begun to turn pale.

"Fire the arrows!" As the opponent's cavalry had entered the range of the crossbow, Zhao Feng let out a roar, and all kinds of crossbows began to show their might.The powerful crossbows, copper box crossbows, ballistas that shoot sixteen arrows at a time, and ordinary crossbows all began to show their power, and a rain of arrows flew towards Xia Houyuan's cavalry.

There were screams one after another, and there were more than 1 arrows in the first wave of arrows.It has to be said that in terms of the firepower of the bow and crossbow, Zhao Feng is already the No. [-] in the world.Under his planning, although the first wave of arrow rain failed to reap [-] lives, and even [-] cavalrymen only fell a thousand, such casualties have already shocked Xia Houyuan.

Regardless of the casualties of his subordinates, Xia Houyuan roared: "Come on with me!" None of the remaining [-] cavalry turned back. They knew that what awaited them was the sword of the supervising team.Moreover, the opponent's first round of arrow rain has passed. According to common sense, the second round of arrow rain will always have to wait until the loading is complete before trying to shoot.These times are enough to run in front of them.As long as they get close, these crossbowmen of the Sichuan army can only be reduced to the souls of their sabers.

"General, the enemy army is about to charge up!" Ma Su beside Zhao Feng also changed his face greatly when he saw this situation.Although Zhao Feng also placed large shield soldiers and horse-repelling guns in the front row, once he got entangled with the first wave of enemies, the follow-up troops would keep up, and the pressure would be great.

According to common sense, now Zhao Feng can only rely on heavy infantry to resist the opponent.But how many of the short Sichuan army can serve as heavy infantry?Furthermore, as a time traveler, how could Zhao Feng rely on such conventional means?

In Ma Su's surprised eyes, Zhao Feng gave an order: "Fire the Liannu!" Immediately, a thousand soldiers in the first row took out their Liannu one after another, aiming at the enemy cavalry who had already rushed in front of them, and shot the first wave of arrows. .Then with simple push and pull movements, the second wave, the third wave, and the fourth wave of arrow rain swarmed up, generally only a few dozen steps away, and more than half of the remaining two thousand cavalry had fallen, and the last remaining The 600 people in the next five did not dare to be stubborn, so they turned their horses and ran back.

"What's going on?" Xia Houyuan was also taken aback when he saw that his troops rushed only a few dozen steps away from the opponent's position and were shot back by the continuous and dense rain of arrows.He couldn't figure it out, how could there be such a powerful arrow.

That's right, the secret weapon Zhao Feng used this time was the Zhuge Liannu.Although A Liang and his wife have already researched this thing, the production of Zhuge Liannu is extremely cumbersome. For more than a year, Zhao Feng used all the manpower and material resources of Yizhou, and only let the craftsmen make more than 1000 pieces.This time guarding the street pavilion, in order to deal with the opponent's cavalry, Zhao Feng took out a thousand of them and kept them as secret weapons to deal with Xia Houyuan's cavalry.Now that it is used, it really works in one fell swoop.

Of course, as a big killer, the Liannu is not without its shortcomings.The short range and the astonishing rate at which arrows are consumed are the two biggest disadvantages of the Lianbow.Therefore, before the opponent rushed to the front, Zhao Feng first suppressed it from a long distance with a strong bow and crossbow with a long range, and finally tried to shoot the continuous crossbow close up, which was effective in one fell swoop.

"Grandma, come with me again!" Xia Houyuan, who didn't believe in evil, attacked twice more with his army, but each time he dropped nearly [-] corpses and retreated in embarrassment.Xia Houyuan now knew that it was wishful thinking to rely on cavalry to destroy the opponent's position in one fell swoop.

After thinking about this, Xia Houyuan stopped beating hard.The sergeants were ordered to dismount, and the infantry took up their shields and formed a square formation, slowly advancing towards the Yizhou army's position.Looking at Xia Houyuan who had recovered his composure, Zhao Feng knew in his heart that the real test was coming.

(End of this chapter)