The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 286 Positional Battle ([-])
At this moment, the enemy's cavalry had rushed over, only 170 meters away from Liu Chan's wooden shield formation.

Seeing this, Wei Guang raised the whip in his hand and ordered loudly: "Everyone take the arrows and light the fire!"

After the cavalrymen holding the torches heard the order, their horses slowed down a little.The rest of Lu Jianjun's cavalry took out long arrows from their quiver bags and galloped past the torch-holding cavalry. The long arrows in their hands touched two or more torches one after another, and the arrows of the rockets all ignited.

At this time, Wei Guang raised the speed of his mount to the limit, rushed to the front of the team, and shouted loudly again: "Cavalrymen, put your arrows in!"

The reason why Wei Guang issued such a seemingly inconsistent and random order was because he knew that the long arrows in the hands of many cavalry behind him had not yet been lit.Moreover, his actions this time did not seek to create a huge momentum and increase the lethality against the enemy by riding and shooting thousands of people.Their goal is the hundreds of wooden shields!

Wei Guang's small eyes were fixed on the wooden shield in front of him, but he was praying for the success of this operation and silently calculating the distance between the two sides!
When he was about 150 meters away from the wooden shield formation, Wei Guang knew that he was about to enter the effective strike range of the enemy's archers.He immediately shouted: "Everyone shoots arrows!"

Wei Guang pulled the horse's reins abruptly, and turned sideways slightly, the steed that had been with him for many years immediately knew his master's intentions, turned around and rushed out diagonally to the left.

At the same time, the cavalry behind Wei Guang shot the rockets in their hands one by one, then turned their horses and rushed out in Wei Guang's direction.

Therefore, Wei Guang's cavalry is like a train full of automatic artillery. Once it enters a corner, it will continue to shoot shells at the enemy's position!

Arrows roared one after another, drawing a continuous black parabola in the air, like a long black dragon hitting the ground!
Soon, the rockets all fell into the wooden shield formation.Those knife and card players and the shovel team hiding behind the wooden shield suddenly felt crackling sounds like rain falling from all directions.Of course they all knew that the extremely dangerous long arrows fell down and pierced into the wooden shield and made the sound on the ground. No one dared to move their bodies, for fear that if they were not careful, their bodies would be destroyed. Shoot a hole!

Soon, the soldiers discovered that the arrows that fell to the ground had been burned to the shafts along the arrowheads, and black smoke began to emit from the wooden shields hit by the rockets!It seemed that the wooden shield was already on fire.

But even so, under the cover of the enemy's arrow rain, none of them dared to rush out of the defense to put out the fire.

Their chief general, Guan Xing, was also a little anxious at this time. The enemy's distance at this time was obviously at the edge of his archer's effective shooting range. If he shot now, it was absolutely impossible to achieve much effect.But he finally gritted his teeth and shouted: "Archer shoots an arrow, free to scatter twice!"

In fact, Guan Xing was really helpless when he issued such an order. The salvo no longer had much deterrent effect on the enemy's cavalry.

Immediately, Liu Chanjun's left wing flew out clusters of sharp arrows unevenly, some places seemed very sparse, and some places seemed too dense, completely without the power of a volley.

When the arrows fell to the ground, Guan Xing was very disappointed to find that, except for a few sharp arrows that could hit the enemy occasionally - presumably it was just luck, the rest of the arrows fell on the enemy cavalry. The ground in front of it was wasted!

Guan Xing's expression suddenly became a little ugly, and he gritted his teeth and cursed secretly: "This damn headwind! If the wind is favorable, you should still be able to shoot the enemy!" Although the breeze was not strong, after the arrow flew at such a long distance, it was not affected. resistance also needs to be considered.

At this time, the enemy cavalry made a change that stunned Liu Chanjun.

I saw that Wei Guang led the cavalry team to circle around in place, and soon caught up with the original cavalry team's tail!As a result, the entire cavalry team began to operate like a long snake biting its own tail. As soon as it reached the corner, each soldier would shoot the rocket in his hand!
Liu Chan was standing on the hillside at this time, seeing such a spectacle in front of him, he felt dumbfounded immediately!He had heard that there were cavalry tactics before, but now it really opened his eyes!

Liu Chan couldn't help pointing forward, and asked Gai Meng with difficulty: "Gai Meng, what's going on?"

Gai Meng was staring at the enemy's formation intently. After hearing Liu Chan's question, he sighed: "I really don't know who can train such an excellent cavalry! Fortunately, we have been holding our positions. Send out the cavalry too early, otherwise, I think once our cavalry encounters the opponent, we may never return!"

Liu Chan nodded, and seemed to agree with Gai Meng's opinion.

On Guan Xing's side, his soldiers had already scattered four times in a row, but almost had no effect.In desperation, Guan Xing had to order the weather team not to hide under the wooden shield anymore, and quickly shovel the sand map to see the flames burning on the wooden shield extinguished.

Under Guan Xing's mandatory order, the Iron Shovel Team began to suffer casualties, and within a short period of time, dozens of people had been reduced!Although the wooden shields in the first row were protected by shields, they still started to burn.Those knife players began to act as firefighters like the shovel team, and casualties followed.

Liu Chan saw that the wooden shield array was in danger of being burned, but the enemy's distance should be within the shooting range of the bow and crossbow.He then called the messenger and said: "Command so the crossbowmen gather at the front of the position and start shooting at the enemy!" At this point, only the crossbow can barely fight the enemy.

A quarter of an hour later, all the crossbowmen of Liu Chan's army had gathered.After Guan Xing gave an order, they all rushed to the front of the wooden shield array and behind the shield of the sword player.

However, doing so did have some effect. Every time the crossbow and arrows were fired, seven or eight of the enemy fell from their horses. The effect was much better than that of bow and arrow.But the enemy's rockets are not vegetarian, they can kill a crossbowman from time to time!
As a result, a confrontation between crossbowmen and enemy cavalry began, and the two sides entered a stalemate.Half an hour later, Lu Jian saw that Wei Guang's cavalry was a little tired, so he immediately replaced it with the cavalry of another lieutenant general, An Wei!
So, after the two sides shot each other with bows and arrows for more than an hour, Liu Chan suddenly discovered that in the end it was his side that lost.

There are less than half of the two hundred archers left, and they are all exhausted, unable to pull the bowstring anymore.Most of the wooden shields have also been burned, turning into pools of black coke, with puffs of black smoke rising from the ground.

To make matters worse, the skinned wooden shields in the third row were piled up all over the ground due to too many rockets fired by the enemy.The burned arrow shafts on the ground turned into a sea of ​​flames, and even the skinned wooden shields were ignited!Looking at the entire wooden shield array at this time, it looks like a beach at night, with bonfires burning in countless places...

Guan Xing had no choice but to order all the people in front of the wooden shield formation to retreat, otherwise they would be cut off by the sea of ​​flames!

However, after the half-day battle, the time has come to the afternoon.But at this time, it is still very early before the end of this war.

Seeing this, Lu Jian raised his whip and smiled at Zhao Yan: "Lord Boran, the enemy has already started to retreat. It seems that they can no longer withstand our army's rockets!"

Moreover, Lu Jian knew that all the roadblocks laid by Liu Chanjun had been cleared, and all he had to do was wait for the fire to go out.

Zhao Yan nodded, feeling quite proud of himself for being able to come up with such a plan, and said with a smile: "That's right. Now that the time has come to noon, I think it is possible to take back the cavalry and let everyone Let the soldiers eat something first, and then fight before it's too late."

Lu Jian nodded, and ordered someone to send an order to take the cavalry back.

(End of this chapter)