Chapter 96 Defeat the enemy and win
Zhang Zhi personally led the Han army to launch a frontal attack on the Wei army's position, not only did not exceed the expectations of Wei's commander Qian Hong, but Qian Hong had long guessed that Zhang Zhi was most likely to adopt this frontal attack and the central government's breakthrough tactic.
The reason is very simple. First, the Han army was arranged in a cone formation that was advantageous and unfavorable to defend, and had already prepared to take the initiative to attack; second, the Han army's strength was only half of that of the Wei army. If we want to win this decisive battle, fighting for troops is undoubtedly a foolish act. Only by taking the initiative can we create miracles.
The Wei army also likes to do this the most on the battlefield on the Eastern Front. Every time they encounter Sun Shiwan leading the army to fight in the north, Zhang Babai and dozens of people, Wenshou, Zang Chuanshuo and Liu Unling, they never consider asking for help quickly. They always dare to lead a few Wei troops to take the initiative to fight. Every time they kill Sun Shiwan and run away with their tails and legs. They get experience and equipment on Sun Shiwan, constantly proving that attacking the crowd with few is not only not a risk, but also a correct tactic.
It is precisely because of this that when Qian Hong saw the main force of the Han army coming from the front, he was not surprised at all, but laughed out loud and said, "Zhang Zhi's son is indeed very brave. He dared to beat me as Sun Quan. Unfortunately, I didn't often go to Hefei to send titles and fiefs to his son. Our King of Wei is not able to distinguish the Eastern Wu water mice from the southeast, west and northeast when we get ashore."
After laughing, Qian Honghu roared, "Tell the whole army to strengthen its position! Prepare the crossbow! Tian Xu, the front team will give you the commander, let me show the mobs in the South Central China, what is the Central Plains King's Division of the Great Wei!"
The banner was launched, and the well-trained Wei soldiers took action immediately. The soldiers in the front row held a shield weapon and knelt on one knee. While protecting most of the bodies with shields, they were preparing to suddenly get up and hurt people. The soldiers in the back row raised crossbows and prepared to shoot the enemy head-on to attack the enemy. The archers in the back row all opened their bows for the full moon, pointing diagonally to the sky, preparing to shoot feather arrows to cover the Han soldiers. During this period, the queue was neat and the movements were consistent, showing the style of elite soldiers.
After a while, the front team of the Han army wearing strange armor gradually entered the range of the Wei army's bow and arrows. However, the Wei army did not rush to shoot arrows, but waited patiently when the front team of the Han army approached within seventy steps in front of their position, Tian Xu, who was leading the front team of the Wei army, shouted loudly, "Shoot the arrow!"
The sound of the bow string vibrated like a beep, and countless crossbow arrows and bows also broke out, roaring, either directly shooting at the enemy opposite, or drawing countless wonderful arcs in the sky, spinning and shooting to make the Han soldiers crowd, the scene was extremely spectacular!
Unfortunately, something that stunned Tian Xu and the Wei soldiers happened. After their feather arrows shot onto the Han soldiers, they actually hit the strange armor worn by the Han soldiers and fell down on their own. Only a few arrows were embedded on the Han soldiers' armor and shot onto the hands and feet of the Han soldiers without armor protection, causing inflict fatal damage to the Han soldiers. During this period, almost no Han soldiers were caught in arrows and fell to the ground.
"Iron armor! It's iron armor! The thief army is wearing iron armor!"
Countless Wei soldiers who knew the goods screamed loudly, and Tian Xu looked around the Han soldiers in disbelief and shouted in horror, "I am not dreaming, are you? Can so many people in the thief army wear sleeve armor? So many iron cast armors from them? And so many craftsmen from those who came forge armor?!"
At the same time, Qian Hong, who was sitting and watching the battle with a smile, jumped up and shouted: "Iron armor?! I am dreaming that the thief army can have so many iron armors? And they are all tube sleeve armor?"
Without time to carefully study why the Han army could be equipped with so many good armors. Tian Xu, who was leading the front team of the Wei army, could only keep shouting and urging the Wei soldiers to continue to shoot arrows to block the enemy. However, no matter how the Wei soldiers took turns to shoot arrows, the bows and arrows they shot were still almost completely harming the Han army soldiers. The Han army soldiers wearing good armor still tried to lower their heads and strode forward as much as possible, and arranged neatly to advance towards the Wei army positions.
Soon, in less than a long time, the front team of the Han army had approached thirty steps in front of the Wei army. However, the Wei army's feather arrows were still unable to shoot through the armor of the Han army soldiers. Tian Xu saw that it was not good, so he could only shout: "Put the ground firmly and prepare for the battle!"
To Tian Xu's surprise, the Han army not only did not take the opportunity to charge, but instead stopped. At the same time, two people in the Han army carried out more than 60 thick wooden stakes in groups and placed them in front of the formation. They aimed the front end of the wooden stakes at the Wei army crowd. Tian Xu was stunned again when he saw it, and said in surprise: "What are the thieves doing?"
Tian Xu was even more surprised that he was still behind. After sixty thick wooden stakes were placed, dozens of people rushed out of the Han army, threw some strange bottles at the Wei army crowd, smashed them at the Wei army soldiers hiding behind the long shield, and then...
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Then, there were naturally the primitive grenades that the original grenades were completely different from the original grenades that the Han army had discussed before. They were made of 500 milliliters of Coke bottles, and pig iron scraps and quicklime were also installed on the bottom of the bottle. Although the filling amount of gunpowder was affected, the power of the Coke bottle was greatly increased due to its good sealing properties.
Pig iron scraps and lime powder also flew everywhere among the Wei army crowd. The iron scraps penetrated into the skin and mouth of the Wei army, causing small but incurable damage. The lime powder shot into the eyes of the Wei army soldiers, causing countless Wei soldiers to cover their faces and scream loudly, and also made the dense shield formation of the Wei army suddenly become in chaos, no longer as tight and neat as before, revealing many gaps.
Taking advantage of the opportunity that the Wei army's shield formation was stormed by grenades, even louder roars sounded one after another. The pine cannons in front of the Han army opened fire, blasting the iron slag and sharp stones at the crowd of Wei soldiers at speeds invisible to the naked eye. Like the autumn wind swept the fallen leaves, it knocked the already chaotic Wei army front lying down in pieces, causing countless Wei soldiers to even know what happened. They screamed and fell to the ground and rolled on the ground, their faces covered in blood.
"What? What is that? Why did our soldiers fall so many? What happened?"
When Tian Xu was roaring in horror, the front team of the Han army finally launched a charge, shouting and rushing towards the Wei army's position, like a sharp knife, stabbed straight into the front of the Wei army's position. The Han army soldiers in the back row also followed firmly and rushed towards the enemy whose troops were far above the self-army without hesitation.
After all, it was the main force of the Wei army. Even though the Han army's primitive grenades and pine cannons were accused of the first one after another, shocking the Wei army's courage, but after the Han army rushed closer, the Wei army soldiers still raised their spears and stabbed them hard, trying to block the Han army's offensive. Unfortunately, these Wei soldiers were even more scattered. The spears they used their strength to stab them still could not pierce the armor on the Han army. The spears stabbed by the Han army soldiers could easily pierce the rhino leather armor they were wearing, and then pierced into their bodies fiercely, leaving blood holes on their bodies.
Not only that, with the blessing of junk food such as instant noodles and lunch meat, most of the Han army's spears can directly pierce the bodies of Wei soldiers and directly penetrate the backs!
It can hardly hurt the opponent, but the opponent's counterattack can easily cause fatal damage to himself. No matter what the main force is, it can't resist such a perverted enemy. It can't resist for a moment. The Wei soldiers in the front team have already retreated one after another, and the terrified shouts are endless, "It's an iron-armored soldier! It can't stop it! It can't stop it!"
"Don't be afraid! Don't be afraid! Stay firm in your position! Stay firm in your position!"
Tian Xu's desperate roar was useless. The Han soldiers were always shouting and strideing forward. While basically ignoring the counterattack of the Wei army, they kept stabbing the enemy opposite, killing the Wei army soldiers step by step, splattering flesh and blood, and corpses all over the ground.
Seeing that the situation was not good in the flag formation, Qian Hong could only order the soldiers on both wings to step forward and attack the two wings of the Han army's cone formation left and right. However, this was still ineffective. The Wei army, who was shouting and attacking, was still easily blocked by the paper armored soldiers on both wings of the Han army. Not only did they fail to break into the Han army's team, but they were also killed by the Han army's counterattack and retreated continuously. Although the Han army's cone formation was not very fast, it was always advancing towards the Wei army's flag formation.
At this time, Wu Ma, recognized as the number one general of the Han army, had already taken the Han army's front team to the vicinity of Tian Xu's flag. Although Tian Xu was panicked, he still led his direct army forward to face the enemy, trying to use all his equipment to equip two directly under soldiers as iron armor to block the Han army's offensive.
It was still at this time that the Han army's steel-filled weapons truly showed their great power. After stabbing the Liangdang armor forged by the 21st century low-carbon steel and steel-filled technology, it still felt as relaxed and leisurely as if it was pierced through leather armor. It easily pierced the iron armor and penetrated the chests of the Wei soldiers, causing the Wei soldiers to squirt blood on their chests with unbelievable eyes and screaming. The even more incredible screaming sound also soared into the sky in Tian Xu's direct army...
"Divine Spear! It's a divine spear! The divine spear that even iron armor can pierce!"
"I'm dreaming?" Tian Xu, who was riding on the horse, was also shocked, "I must be dreaming! The spear of the thief army can actually pierce the iron armor? What kind of spear is this? God, wake me up quickly, I don't want to have such a nightmare!"
Tian Xu's nightmare was far from over. He saw him standing under his horse at a short distance. Wu Ma, who was good at beheading tactics, just gave a casual order. Immediately, several Wu Ma's personal soldiers stepped forward and smashed the original grenades made of Coke bottles at Tian Xu.
Then, in the bursts, the fine lime powder and pig iron scraps splattered together, and a black shadow suddenly flew towards his eyes. Before Tian Xu could blink, a piece of pig iron scraps the size of a mung bean had already penetrated into his right eye pupil, snatching Tian Xu's right eye vision forever, splashing out blood and lens, and also made Tian Xu cover his eyes and scream like a pig killer, "Ahhh! Ahhh! My eyes -!"
Screaming, Tian Xu no longer had the courage to support him. He quickly turned his horse's head and fled south with his personal soldiers whose eyes were so difficult to see by the lime powder. As a result, he saw his flag fleeing backwards. Tian Xu's direct army, who had already been killed by the steel-filled weapon, immediately collapsed and fled to the south with screaming. The Han soldiers took the opportunity to strode forward and continued to kill Qian Hong's flag.
At this time, all kinds of bad news had already been reported to Qian Hong, the commander of the Wei army like snowflakes. The strange armor of the Han army could not be cut through, the spear could not be stabbed, the spear of the Han army could easily pierce the Wei army's leather armor and iron armor, and the strange weapons of the Han army could make many Wei soldiers lose their vision in an instant. Qian Hong's face was so dark that it was so gloomy that it could almost drip.
After all, he was a veteran on the battlefield who had fought with Jiang Wei but failed to lose. He found that he had seriously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Han army. He also saw the cone formation of the Han army constantly advancing towards his own flag formation. No matter how hard the soldiers of the Wei army moved forward, they could not stop the Han army's progress. After gritting their teeth, Qian Hong still yelled decisively: "Follower Wei Zhen Palace! Ming Jin! Withdraw the camp!"
After shouting this sentence, Qian Hong also decisively stepped on his horse and rushed towards the future with his direct team. At the same time, the Jin Jin in the Wei army flag formation also rang one after another, and issued an order to retreat the entire army. The Wei army teams that had not yet participated in the war also turned around immediately and retreated quickly and resolutely.
Correspondingly, the Han army also took countermeasures immediately. Cun Gu, who had always watched the battle in the rear, immediately led his army to the left according to the pre-war arrangements to meet Huo Yi, who was still surrounded by surrendered soldiers in Shu Han. Huo Yi also decisively ordered the Han army soldiers to launch a counter-charge and attacked the surrendered soldiers in Shu Han who were retreating in a hurry. He also asked the Han army soldiers to shout the slogan of surrendering and not killing them early. Zhang Zhize led the main force of the Han army to firmly pursue the main force of the Wei army, seized the opportunity to expand the results of the war, and also tried to kill Qian Hong, the commander of the Wei army, as before.
There was no way, it was too difficult to do this. Because it was too close to the Wei army camp, the Han army had not yet chased after two miles, Qian Hong had already rushed back to the Wei army camp with his direct troops. At the same time, the Wei army troops who did not participate in the war also returned to the camp in an orderly manner, and achieved that although they were defeated and not panic, Wei Zhen, the general of the Wei army behind the palace, was named by Qian Hong, also led the army to fight and retreat, and did not give the Han army a chance to quickly break them, and effectively covered the retreat of friendly troops back to the camp.
However, Wei Zhen also paid the price of his life for this. During the pursuit, the Han army front team led by Wu Ma increased their speed and rushed to the front of him. First, he killed his personal soldiers, and then used the steel-spun to slash and stab the loyal Wei Zhen, who was loyal to his duties, which almost equally dismembered him. At the same time, it was only after Wei Zhen died in battle that the Wei army's rear team was defeated by the Han army and could not continue to stop the Han army from advancing quickly. It was proved with facts that the combat effectiveness of the Wei army should not be underestimated.
It was precisely because of the tenacity and tenacity of the Wei army that they led their troops to pursue the Wei army camp gate. Without carrying attack weapons, Zhang Zhi also decisively gave up his plan to take advantage of the victory and did not forcibly attack the Wei army camp that was also built very strongly. After all, the Han army's paper armor and steel-filled weapons were not omnipotent and invincible. If the enemy was fully prepared, forcibly attacking the tough will only kill the Han army soldiers in vain.
However, Zhang Zhi certainly would not miss the opportunity to try his best to expand the results of the war. After stopping in the first half of the Wei army camp, Zhang Zhi asked the Han soldiers to stop and reorganize the team, seized time to drink water and eat Snickers to restore their strength, and decisively sent Zhao Quan to lead the rear army to intercept the surrendered soldiers of the Shu Han who fled, helped Huo Yi and Cuan Guduo to capture the prisoners, and to recycle the old Shu Han soldiers left by Jiang Wei to the greatest extent.
But it was still a pity that the effect of this action was not particularly satisfying Zhang Zhi. Although he was bullied and abused by the Wei army, he saw that the combat effectiveness of the Han army was far beyond their imagination. There were indeed many surrendered soldiers in Shu Han who took the opportunity to surrender to the Han. However, because of the hostage system of Wei army cheating, many of the Shu Han soldiers who were both wives and children in Yizhou still chose to escape resolutely. In addition, the terrain in the southern part of Wei County was wide and it was extremely difficult to encircle and intercept. There were still a large number of surrendered soldiers in Shu Han fled back to the Wei army camp from other directions and refused to seize this opportunity to return to the Han army.
The surrendered soldiers of Shu Han were like this, of course, not to mention the Wei soldiers who were all in the Central Plains of Yongliang. Except for some Wei soldiers who ran slowly or were injured and unable to move, they were captured by the Han army, almost no real Wei soldiers took the initiative to put down their weapons and surrender. Therefore, although the Han army won a great victory in this battle, the prisoners only captured more than 3,000 people, and the harvest was much smaller than Zhang Zhixie.
Regarding this, it is really the institutional advantage of Cao Wei. The military household system strictly controls the soldiers' families and relatives. Once the soldiers surrender, their wives and children will be in trouble, and they will still be in trouble. Therefore, Cao Wei soldiers generally would rather die in battle than surrender, which is like fighting zombies.
In this regard, Zhang Zhi, who had carefully understood the military system of Cao Wei, was very helpless and could only order: "Get out the troops, escort the prisoners back to the camp, and carefully clean the battlefield. As long as the Wei thieves who were not dead, they would be carried back to rescue them. Let them have a raw instant noodles and lunch meat tonight, and let them choose to stay tomorrow morning."
"Tomorrow?" Wu Ma asked in surprise: "Governor, let them choose to stay tomorrow morning. Then, after the prisoners we released returned to the Wei thief camp, they will immediately pick up their weapons and become enemies with us?"
"There is no choice." Zhang Zhi replied: "The hostage system of Wei thieves is too cruel and vicious, so almost no one dares to surrender voluntarily. So there is no way. We can only let the Wei thieves know as soon as possible. Even if we become our prisoners, we can not only eat good things and receive good things, but also be released home quickly by us. In this way, the soldiers of Wei thieves will not fight to the death with us for their families and their families. They will easily choose to put down their weapons and surrender temporarily, so that we can fight more easily."
Zhang Zhi's idea was very correct, because at the same time, among the Wei prisoners who were forced to gather by the Han army, Wang Heng, a soldier who had been captured by the Han army, was quietly persuading some of his companions and whispering: "Don't be afraid, these Shu army are different from other army. If they become their prisoners, they will not only eat good food, but will also quickly put us back to the team. In this way, we will neither lose our lives nor worry about involving our family. So don't be afraid, it is important to save our own lives first."
Chapter completed!