Ma Chao did not see through Jia Xu's plan, so the whole army rushed up.

Among Guo Si's army opposite, several generals and officers who were in charge of leading the infantry today were also facing a great enemy and were ready to withstand the thunder attack.

Both sides seem to be reckless, but in fact they are still reckless and are not killing them randomly.

Ma Chao dared to use cavalry to attack the dense infantry formations, but naturally he did a lot of preparations after the stalemate of the past twenty days.

Guo Si dared to let his infantry troops take the lead in consumption, and he was reasonable. He made special adjustments to the troops' weapons configuration before leaving the battlefield, just to consume enemy cavalry.

The five thousand infantry troops of Guo Si's front army were mainly commanded by Guo Si's confidant general Wu Xi, and there were two other generals Cui Jian and Hu Meng, both of which were only worthy of showing their names in "Li Guo's internal strife" in history books, and then they had no deeds. In the Three Kingdoms game, the military commander was only at 60 points.

However, judging from the weapons equipped by this army for this battle, we know that they did not intend to fight Ma Dai's Han infantry troops at the beginning, and they were ready to fight back the cavalry that had stuck with Ma Chao at the beginning. One of them had no sword and shield soldiers or other short soldiers with axe and hammers, and all of them were equipped with either guns, spears or bows and crossbows.

Specifically, these spearmen are divided into two categories: one is to use two-handed spears over 16 feet, and then they are not equipped with shields, which can move relatively quickly, making it easier to retreat and lure the enemy.

Another type uses a single pistol between 12 and 15 feet and 12 feet. The other hand must be equipped with a shield to support the first row to prevent the use of a dense array of emergency cavalry, Ma Chao's patrol and cavalry to consume Guo Si's infantry.

Infantry archers and cavalry archers shoot at each other. If everyone has loose formations, infantry will definitely have a more advantage. Infantry archers have stronger traction and greater power, and the huge horses of cavalry will increase the area of ​​being bombed. Shooting each other will definitely cause the cavalry to suffer losses.

However, if the cavalry can flexibly switch between long and close combat, then in order to prevent the enemy from charging, the infantry must use a very dense formation. At this time, if the cavalry uses the Parthian ring formation to shoot against the infantry, and the infantry does not even have shields, it means that the cavalry will take advantage, because the infantry stands so secretly that the cavalry can be completely caught as long as the firepower covers the random shooting.

Therefore, "the weapons of the first row of spearmen should be shorter, which is easy to use with one hand and can be equipped with shields." This is almost the standard tactic for infantry generals to break the enemy's dual-purpose cavalry for hundreds of years.

As early as the end of the Warring States Period, the Qin army faced only the Zhao cavalry in Hu clothing and cavalry, and they had already done this. At that time, the first row of short guns and shield soldiers had another name, called "Belly Soldier". The blade of beryllium was longer than the spear, and the spear was only eight inches of blade, and beryllium could be one foot to two to two feet. Later, long blades and long weapons such as horse-killing swords, spears, and modao also developed from beryllium.

(I remembered that in college, a classmate showed off: The phonograms on the side of the periodic table of the elements were read from half of the gold characters and phonograms, which were all made later. Then I gave an example to tell him: the first sentence is hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron, and it was slapped in the face. Beryllium is a weapon, and this character was found in the Qin Dynasty.)

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Seeing that Ma Chao was about to rush to the front, Wu Xi was still a little worried. However, he personally led three thousand long-blade, short-handled, shield-fitting spear soldiers similar to berries, and stood in the front line.

The back row and the two wings were asked by Cui Jian to lead the spearmen with both hands to support him. Hu Meng brought the archer to the center, and when Ma Chao entered the range, he immediately began to shoot arrows.

The sound of the "swoosh swish swish swish" of arrows breaking through the air boosted Guo Si's momentum, but the 18,000 cavalry of Ma Chao's army was not afraid of the 8,000 people in the front row, and there was no intention of slowing down at all. The arrows fell to the ground one after another, and only a few shot the legs of the horses could stop the cavalry.

Some of Guo Si's Xiliang Army brought out crossbows from Chang'an Arsenal, but as they gradually consumed, they now account for a low proportion in the army. After returning to Xiliang, local craftsmen were too backward in their skills and had no ability to continue producing crossbows. One less was used if one was broken. Therefore, Guo Si's long-range armor-breaking ability was not strong.

On the side of Ma Chao's army, 18,000 cavalry were also divided into two parts, part of which was an iron cavalry with steel helmets and steel breastplate. The elites were also equipped with wrought iron inlaid armor on their shoulders and legs, about 8,000 cavalry. These cavalry did not carry bows and arrows, but only held spears of various lengths, especially the fan-shaped gun rods that looked like flags were inserted behind them like Polish winged cavalry.

For a viewer who has no impression of this, you can imagine Zuo Qianhu played by Li Zixiong in "A Chinese Ghost Story".

The subsequent ten thousand people had not had time to configure such exquisite armor, but they were still mainly leather armor. They would be equipped with as much as the breastplate left, but they were not standard equipment, and the rear output had not yet been kept up. These troops carried bows and arrows, but did not bring many spare guns and spears.

Since Ma Chao's front army is so heavily armored, of course he would not be particularly afraid of Guo Si's covered shooting.

"Berry soldier stepped on the shield!" Wu Xi saw that the long-range attack was almost blocked, and he also felt a little bitter. He asked all the beryllium soldiers to step on the wood behind the big shield with one foot, and use their knees to increase the impact resistance of the shield. Then, the beryllium was set in the depression in the middle of the big shield, and the pole was pressed against the ground, only exposed several feet outside the shield.

The part where the blade of beryllium and the rod is combined, there is a circle of protrusions similar to the sword handle guard. If it is mounted on the shield, the beryllium is pushed back by the impact force, and this circle of handguard-shaped protrusions will hook the edge of the big shield. Unless the big shield falls down with the beryllium, or the shield and the beryllium rod breaks, or the ring of handguards will be broken, otherwise the beryllium will not be pushed away alone.

Wu Xi’s response cannot be said to be wrong, this is the most stable impact resistance. Although the effective length of some weapons to kill the enemy is sacrificed, as long as the two-handed spear soldiers in the third row or even the second row help to defend together, there is no big problem - the spears and beryllium of the infantry are much longer than the cavalry rifle, which is not bad.

Unfortunately, Wu Xi had just responded according to his experience, and in just a few seconds he realized something was wrong.

"Why is Ma Chaojun's cavalry rifle so long? Aren't he afraid of being unstable or broken? Since ancient times, no cavalry rifle is longer than ten feet or two feet!" Wu Xi saw Ma Chao's new weapon waving approaching, and instantly he felt cold sweat.

"Kill!" Ma Chao stole a pointed wooden stick more than two meters long without a metal spear head, leaning against the high-speed impact of the heavy war horse, and straightened to the helmet of a Guo Sijun Qu Junhou.

Although the tip of the wooden spear could not be pierced through the iron helmet, the huge impact force was transmitted from the gun rod, which directly caused the rebel Qu Junhou's neck to be twisted by huge force, and his head was tilted backward with a "click" sound to the helmet.

The other personal guards and cavalry around Ma Chao were not as accurate as Ma Chao's gunshot skills, so they just stabbed the rebels' chest and shoulders, or simply stabbed them directly onto the big shield. The huge impact force caused dozens of rebels' beryllium shield hands to rush over.

"Ma Chao's rifle actually has a better weapon length advantage than our beryllium soldiers!" Wu Xi was instantly like a basin of ice water, pouring it into a cool heart.

But he then discovered a glimmer of new hope: Ma Chaojun's new spear is indeed not durable, and it still needs to transmit such a heavy force so long that many of them broke after just a moment of stabbing.

"It's good to break! If you make those fancy ones, you'll just take advantage of a shot. Just wait for a bunch of transparent holes to hit the beryllium array and be stabbed into it! Even if you have a breastplate, you can still pierce it if you stab it elsewhere!" Wu Xi cursed fiercely in his heart.

Unfortunately, in just a few seconds, he found that the situation had changed.

After Ma Chao's vanguard troops broke the gun, they did not hit the shield formation straight, but instead used the distance maintained by the length of the weapon to turn the horse's head and swept across the two wings of the shield formation.

When the wooden cavalry rifle was broken, the distance between the horse and the shield formation was more than 1.5 meters. After taking two or three steps to offset the impact, the wooden cavalry broke and removed most of the forward rushing force. The cavalry passed by obliquely. The rebel spear starting from the third row behind still had no distance output.

Of course, there will definitely be casualties when fighting. No matter how good the tactical thinking is, no matter how many pre-war rehearsals, there are still some who are not in place. A few of the Ma Chao cavalry, who are not well equipped with the rebel shield formation, are still too close to the rebel shield formation, and they hit them straight, knocked over several shields, crushed and killed several beryllium soldiers, and then they were also blown away by huge force and fell into the enemy formation. Most of them are in danger.

Moreover, not all the cavalry of Ma Chao's cavalry were broken in the first wave of sprints. The soldiers who had not broken continued to sweep the shield formation wildly with two feet long poles and stabbed them into the diagonal sting, destroying the enemy's defense until the cavalry was broken, and then, like their comrades, pulled out one of the five fan guns behind them that looked like flag-shaped and continued to fight.

It turns out that this is the new tactic invented by Ma Chaojun in combination with the lathes of the wooden sticks given to them by Li Su these days.

In today's battle, each of them brought six weapons, holding one in their hands and five on their backs.

One is a traditional short rod riding rifle with a metal spear tip, and two are two meters long wooden consumable riding rifle. One of these three is held in the hand, and the two are crossed behind the back, so that the length of the gun rod will not be dragged to the ground or poked to the horse's back.

The three fan-shaped sticks in the middle of the flag are shorter, because if these three sticks are too long, the extension cord will hit the horse's back, so it is made into a javelin that is only three or four feet long.

The javelin stick is three fingers thick, which is easy to hold and exert force, and also gives the thrown javelin a greater weight and inertia. The foot of the spear head is only the thickness of the arrow shaft, which is easy to sharpen and ensure that the thin part of the enemy breaks in the flesh after being pierced, preventing the enemy from picking up or pulling it back.

This design idea was undoubtedly directed by Li Su to Ma Chao, completely copying the ancient Roman javelin's design of "ensure one-time use, and if the enemy is hit, it will be destroyed and broken into the flesh."

Moreover, if this craft is made by handcrafters to cut wood, it is very difficult to process, and other warlords cannot imitate and manufacture it, and they are reluctant to spend so much energy on consumables.

But it is very easy for Li Suyou to have a down-to-earth lathe with wooden sticks - it is equivalent to cutting the pencil sharpener to this position and tightening the edge of the knife half an inch in. Or simply make two sets of "pencil sharpener", one set of thick carts, and the second set of thick poles is one foot and then a round of thinning.

After all, Ma Chao is a rare military general with extremely strong cavalry talents in the world. Perhaps only Lu Bu and Zhao Yun can have their own advantages and disadvantages. The talents of other cavalry generals may not be enough, and Zhang Liao may be slightly inferior.

Ma Chao's talent is particularly reflected in his control of hedging cavalry and mid- and close combat. In other words, the main reason why Lu Bu and Zhao Yun are stronger than Ma Chao is that they have strong ability to command archers and cavalry guerrillas, while Ma Chao is relatively unfavorable in this regard.

Now he gave Ma Chao a "rigging and javelin can be used as cheap consumables" to let him fully imagine and figure out the tactics and adjust the training and running-in troops to adapt to the new tactics. It was like fish in water.

He had just been thinking about the new tactics for a few months and had only been implementing them for more than 20 days. The first partner he met was Wu Xi and others, which could be considered as Wu Xi and others who had suffered eight lifetimes of trouble.

After the first cavalry rifle is cut off, just adjust the charge direction and ensure that the formation is passed horizontally. Ma Chao's cavalry will pull out the three javelins in the middle as taught during training, try to use parabolic ballistics to slightly bypass the shield formation in the front row, and shoot to the two-handed shieldless spearmen within a range of more than ten steps behind.

The rebels' formation was very dense, and they were standing shoulder to shoulder with people. They originally planned to resist the cavalry's death rush, but they had nowhere to move. In an instant, they were stabbed to death by javelins, and they didn't need to aim—

It is not difficult for players who have played riding and chopping. It is like when two armies slashing each other at the stairs on the city wall, they go around the side of the enemy and throw javelins into the crowd, and hit them as they hit them. The "it's hard to aim for riding and shooting" in the game setting of riding and chopping seems to be no longer there in this specific occasion.

After losing all three javelins, they picked up the traditional metal spearhead short-soldiers and cavalry, continued to move forward, or set aside to prepare for the second round of melee battle.

Ma Chao himself flew across Wu Xi’s half width of the horizontal formation, and rushed to the foot of the formation, stabbing more than a dozen beryllium soldiers to death, and finally defeating several soldiers at the corner of the formation.

The personal soldiers behind Ma Chao also followed Ma Chao, sweeping from the front of the front to the corner, and then eroding from the corner.

The huge Ma Chao cavalry formation changed from the wedge-shaped formation at the beginning to two rotating arc milling cutters. Wu Xi's infantry formation was like a piece of iron material waiting for the milling cutter to be processed in square meters. It was first milled off from the front surface layer, and then slowly milled at two corners. It was not afraid of the milling machine collapse, but also could smooth the edges and corners of the iron material to be processed.

What cavalry fear most when rushing to the formation is losing speed and falling into hand-to-hand combat. Players who have played "Roman War" and "Medieval War" know that the cavalry charge will be completed and then pulled away and continued to rush.

Ma Chao didn't know that perhaps the "car suspension array" of Uesugi Kenshin may be so similar in style after a thousand years.

The material rotating tool does not turn into a car, and the tool rotating material does not turn into milling.

Unfortunately, Wu Xi’s iron material to be processed is not as tough as the whole - he is more like the products of unscrupulous merchants who sell cheap and low-quality kitchen knives. Only the surface layer is good steel, and the inside is badly cooked iron. After the surface layer is milled, the weak part inside is exposed, it will be a piece of vegetable.

What's more, Wu Xi's ability to govern the army is not worth mentioning at all. When encountering this unprecedented new tactic, the front row soldiers were massacred by a large exchange rate, and their morale soon collapsed.

The Qiang cavalry on both wings wanted to come to save him and protect the two corners of his formation. Unfortunately, these cavalry did not even have armor or spears long enough. Ma Chaojun took out a second spare wooden consumable super long cavalry rifle, and drove the Qiang cavalry away with one hedge.

After turning half a circle of Ma Chao's milling cutter formation, he returned to a position more than a hundred steps away from the enemy formation. The soldiers in the front row had almost completed one round, and they could accelerate, follow and connect. Regardless of whether they used the second super-long wooden cavalry when dealing with the Qiang cavalry just now, they all took out the spear and prepared to do the same thing on the front of the formation again.

However, Ma Chao also estimated that the enemy was already shaking this time, and it seemed that he would be shaking at any time. Therefore, he was not going to "hang" and mill again - this time he planned to break the wooden cavalry and rush hard without slowing down! The enemy is almost in chaos!

"Assault from the whole army!" Ma Chao rushed forward again with his super-long wooden cavalry rifle, and at the same time put his metal short cavalry rifle that had been used for many years on the saddle bridge. He prepared to break the consumables of the same length and immediately replace them with short and continuous combat.

Ma Chao clearly saw that the enemy soldiers opposite him were completely shocked by his momentum, and the spears were messy. Because they lacked the protection of the beryllium shield soldiers in the front row, they were like waves and cracked, and they were unwilling to win over their sharp edge.

Seeing this, Ma Chao showed a grim smile, adjusted his direction slightly, and rushed straight towards the enemy general's flag. It was the flag of Cui Jian, the enemy's spear formation, who was originally defended as tight as a hedgehog, but now the thorns outside have become messy.

"Drink!" Ma Chao shot straight and stabbed his arrow. His hand almost reached the tail of the two-meter gun bar, but it was still very stable. He stabbed his mid-level gun in a line, and the center of gravity of the gun bar did not swing up and down throughout the whole process.

Cui Jian was already on guard. He held the spear in his hands and sweated his palms, but he still didn't expect Ma Chao to poke at such a long distance. When Ma Chao raised his hand, the two were at least three or four meters apart, and there were a few miscellaneous soldiers in the middle.

Who would have thought that those miscellaneous soldiers would run to both sides like waves when Ma Chao shouted loudly, and even fell to the ground and were directly trampled to death by Ma Chao's iron hooves when he was fighting horses. He was unwilling to block the gun for the general.

Ma Chao's shot was heading for the throat. Cui Jian had no time to subconsciously shrink his neck, pressing his head down half a foot, but was stabbed on the bridge of his nose. The gun slid slightly into his eye socket and penetrated his skull.

"Crack" Ma Chao's super long riding spear also broke at the same time. Ma Chao immediately picked up the two-meter-meter-long metal short spear on the saddle bridge and continued to fly and stab.

Wu Xi, who was far away, saw Cui Jian's death and knew that his mission of fraudulent defeat would definitely be completed today, but the task of "trying to consume the enemy's army before fraudulent defeat" would probably be shattered.

I had to put aside the task assigned by Jia Xu.

Wu Xi's consumption of the enemy's army, and then deceiving defeat and luring the enemy, completely transformed into a solid and complete failure.
Chapter completed!