Chapter 3438 Light and dark trap
Even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, firearms were still not the main force on the battlefield.
The limitations in technology have made firearms really want to become mainstream on the battlefield, and there is still a very long way to go.
However, as long as the firearm stands on the battlefield, the light it displays cannot be ignored.
At this time, the sky was gradually becoming clear. The cold dew should have condensed in the mountains, but at Suoyang Pass, these cold dews were washed away by blood and shattered into thin mist in the mountains, mixed in blood and mixed with the roar.
Strictly speaking, both sides have neither completely regular fronts nor any safe rears, but this is the most primitive state of war.
Change home.
In fact, it is mutual consumption.
Whoever can't fight in the end and consume the other party will lose.
At the intersection of the two armies, hundreds of corpses lay all the way, and some were still wailing.
Spears, spears, swords and shields, intertwined.
The more Xu Chu went inward, the more dense the Cao army was. In the long spear and swords, almost no one had much room for maneuvering and dodging. If they were either killed, they might be killed by the other party.
As a brave general, Xu Chu showed his majesty at this moment.
Wearing heavy armor and holding heavy shields, he shouted to fight hard, as if his physical strength and endurance were infinite. The guards beside Xu Chu had been rotated for one or two waves, but Xu Chu was still at the front, leading his own soldiers forward step by step!
In fact, most of the Cao army had collapsed, and the rest were the soldiers of the Central Guard Army, the core of the Cao army.
The military disciplines of these Qingzhou veterans are indeed unsatisfactory, but they basically crawled out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood. Their morale is low and they still maintain some combat instincts. It is unlike some new recruits who just know how to close their eyes and cry when they collapse.
Even though Cao's army was resisting the elite troops of the Qingzhou Central Guards, they were still promoted step by step by step by Xu Chu.
The city of Suoyang Pass is not big, and there is not much room for expansion on both sides.
Seeing Cao Hong's figure was just around the corner, Xu Chu couldn't help but shout, "You old man! You dare to fight someone!"
The soldiers of both armies couldn't help but look at Cao Hong.
"Cao Hong" was silent, still standing still, without responding, and without retreating.
『General! Did Cao's army ambush the crossbowman?』 The military academy under Xu Chu came to Xu Chu and reminded Xu Chu, 『We general have crossbowman around us…』
After hearing the reminder from his military academy, Xu Chu's head calmed down a little.
A single fight in front of the battlefield is indeed a glorious manifestation of being a military general, but it is also full of huge risks.
Just like the commander of the cavalry, not only has heavy armor guards, but also strong crossbow archers. Any enemy general who feels that Fei Qian's force is not good and is preparing to attack the enemy must be baptized by strong bows and hard crossbows.
『It makes sense...』
Xu Chu is better.
He listened to advice.
Xu Chu glanced left and right, and indeed saw some shield guards on the left and right side of Cao Hong, and no one could say what was behind the shield.
When Xu Chu was having a headache, the military academy chuckled twice, and then whispered to Xu Chu: "General, I left two grenades in the end..."
『Good boy!』
Xu Chu was overjoyed and immediately arranged the arrangement.
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"Cao Hong" really planned to use a powerful crossbow to deal with Xu Chu.
He is not the real Cao Hong. Even if he wears Cao Hong's armor, it does not mean that he has Cao Hong's martial arts. And even if he has Cao Hong's martial arts, he may not be able to defeat Xu Chu.
So while Xu Chu rushed to the front, he shot him with a powerful crossbow, which was his last method of turning the tables.
On the battlefield, if you are a matter of life and death, you will win or lose even if you turn the tables in the last blood.
But the powerful crossbow can really kill Xu Chu?
No one knows it.
Because someone's hand may have trembled, the shooting was slower, or even stuck when firing...
After all, "Cao Hong" is not a cavalry, and it is impossible for him to be equipped with a full-time crossbowman for a long time. It is already very good to have more than a dozen part-time crossbowmen now.
And even if you gather more people, you can't get more crossbow arrows.
The crossbows, arrows and arrows were almost exhausted.
It's approaching, it's approaching!
At this moment, his hands were shaking and his legs were shaking.
However, under the cover of the armor and robe, it was not displayed outside.
When gamblers bet on the gambling table, most of them will not feel scared, but will feel excited.
Stay steady, stay steady!
There is more than one gambler.
He was making eye contact with the people around him and signaling to each other.
They all stayed to bet on this wave.
If you succeed, you will be the heroes who are highly anticipated. If you lose, you will not regret falling into the sky, because they were originally rolling in the mud. Just like the fish swimming upstream desperately in an attempt to cross the dragon gate.
Closer, closer...
He saw Xu Chu and others getting closer, and his eyes gradually became hot.
It was as if I saw my hand holding the treasure box, and I was about to lift the lid of the treasure box to reveal the dice inside.
Buy it, leave it, open the treasure, win the prize!
Everyone knows that the probability of winning is very small, and in many cases, whether to win or not is not entirely determined by the probability, and even Newton cannot decide, but some people still feel that they have this luck.
Even though I have been a cattle and horse for decades, I still feel lucky to reach the sky.
What if?
Very good, very good!
Xu Chu and others seemed to have found nothing abnormal and were stepping into the trap!
This is the trap of death and the gambling table of death.
The god of death sat on the other end of the long table, looked at "Cao Hong" and smiled.
Perhaps what God of Death likes to see the most is the mutual killing of humans. The fraud trap set up by "Cao Hong" makes Death feel interesting.
Only when humans kill each other can there be so many tricks and means. The wild beasts in nature only have sharp minions, but they always know how to scratch and bite. They are too uncreative...
"Cao Hong", who thought he was favored by the God of Death, was about to signal to the part-time crossbowman beside him, but he turned his head slightly, but saw a black spot flying over at the corner of his eyes!
What is that?
Stone?
"Cao Hong" was stunned and couldn't react at the first time.
Otherwise, although firearms appear in the present, they are still not the mainstream on the battlefield?
If it were in the later era of gunfire and bullets, when I saw the small black dot parabola coming, no one would think it was just a stone!
Death likes to see death, he doesn't care who is the one who dies...
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The landing point of the grenade is not very accurate.
It just landed on the left and right sides of "Cao Hong".
"Cao Hong" was not directly injured by the explosion, but this was enough.
Accompanied by the roar, some of the small gifts that were originally intended to give Xu Chu were shot out with a trembling hand. Others were reluctantly reacting and pointed at Xu Chu, but were also driven to the point of others and had no idea at all.
The powerful crossbow is powerful, but it means that the crossbow is very slow. Once it is shot in a crooked manner, there will be no chance of a second time at a short distance.
Xu Chu had already rushed to death, his body was stained with flesh and blood. The sword cut out a bloody light and slashed towards "Cao Hong".
"Old man! Come on your life!"
"Cao Hong" quickly turned the knife on the shelf, but was shocked by Xu Chu's sword and took a step back.
"Um?!"
Xu Chu frowned slightly, but his subordinates did not pause. He took another quick step forward. The sword instantly crossed the distance between the two, as if he had suddenly broken through the space limitations.
"Cao Hong" was obviously half a beat slower.
Xu Chu's sword was almost cut in front of him, and "Cao Hong" seemed to have reacted and resisted again.
"snort!"
Xu Chu had another knife.
The third knife.
"Cao Hong" had lost his center of gravity and was kicked into the leg by Xu Chu, staggering down.
"Who are you?!" Xu Chu has confirmed that this guy is not Cao Hong.
Because the kick Xu Chu kicked was the approximate position he had hit Cao Hong before. This man just fell to the ground and showed no sign of pain.
"Cao Hong" naturally said nothing.
Although "Cao Hong" acted quite tough, his neck was not as hard as a sword.
『The enemy general has been awarded the title!』
Xu Chu chopped down "Cao Hong" and immediately cut down the general's flag representing Cao Hong.
The Cao army soldiers who were still in various places in Suoyang Pass suddenly lost their backbone. Some of them threw down their swords and guns, turned their heads and ran away, regardless of whether they were in the mountains or outside the mountains, they just fled. Some were in a state of dismay. Even if they were hit by swords and guns, they seemed to have lost any reaction. Some were kneeling down and surrendering...
In addition, a small number of Cao army soldiers were scolding and scolding, and even slashing at the former comrades who knelt on the ground to surrender, feeling that these surrendered Cao army soldiers had lost the face of Shandong people...
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"This is indeed not Cao Hong and Cao Zilian."
I have always been covered in wounds, and I took a look at it and recognized it.
If it were other people, they might not have been sure, but they were always too familiar with Cao Hong.
"Where did the old thief escape?"
Xu Chu is now a little confused and worried.
He didn't know if Cao Hong didn't come at the beginning or if he ran away halfway through the fight.
These are two completely different things.
If Cao Hong didn't come from the beginning, then this means...
"Not good! The camp may be in danger! If you send an order, you will immediately complete the team and prepare to return to the army!"
After thinking about it, Xu Chu felt that Cao Hong had designed a trap to lure him to attack!
He might have been trapped!
This made Xu Chu's original excitement immediately reduce half of it, and also made Xu Chu decide not to continue moving forward.
However, Xu Chu's decision made him feel unwilling.
"General!" He had always stopped Xu Chu and said anxiously, "Add to further, you can cut off the retreat of Cao's army! If you retreat, then all your efforts will be wasted! If you let the tiger return to the mountain, it will cause trouble and prolong life!"
Have you never been selfish?
There must be.
Everyone has selfish intentions, but it depends on whether selfish intentions and business affairs will conflict.
If a person's selfishness is to first study what kind of achievements are needed to slap the faces of those who laughed at him before, and the results are really studied, so that the country and the nation can benefit, then this selfishness naturally cannot be considered a bad thing. It can even be said that if there is no such selfishness, this result may not be able to be studied.
The selfishness he has always been is not a problem. He wanted to return to Heluo and shine his family again. He had to take revenge first and repay kindness. So he was eager to get Cao's army in Heluo and between the treasures.
Xu Chu pondered for a moment, but still shook his head.
There are too many unstable factors when we leave Heluo.
If Xu Chu went smoothly and really cut off Cao Hong's head in Suoyang Pass, then Xu Chu would inevitably have greater ambitions and further wanted to march into Heluo to cut off the route of Cao's army's retreat...
But now, Xu Chu feels that the risk is too great, and there is indeed a Cao army attacking in the back, so who can guarantee that the Cao army can only have this way here in Suoyang Pass?
What's more, who said that he could not kill Cao Hong now? However, the prisoner, injured and killed these Cao soldiers was a great achievement. If you move forward, you will be a little greedy.
Seeing that Xu Chu disagreed, he was always quite helpless and unwilling to accept it. He went to find the Cao army prisoners and asked if Cao Hong was really following them and where he went. When he asked anxiously, he became irritable, which made the Cao army prisoners more and more afraid to say anything, or just talk nonsense.
Seeing this, Xu Chu was a little unhappy, but he didn't say much, so he was about to turn around and go down the mountain.
"General!" He always came in a hurry and stopped in front of Xu Chu. "I asked, the old thief escaped from the rock wall and went down the mountain with a rope!"
"Where is the rock wall?" Xu Chu looked back.
I never nodded quickly, "I went to see it, there were indeed traces of ropes! The old thief must have escaped from there, and there were not many people! This is a great opportunity! General!"
Xu Chu frowned and looked at the mountains of Zhongtiao Mountain, and then said, "Do you want to lead the troops to chase? Are you familiar with the mountain road under the rock wall?"
I've always gritted my teeth, "Familiar!"
Xu Chu said: "In the mountain road, cavalry cannot go, they can only walk infantry. If there are too many people, it is difficult to leave, and there are fewer people... Forget it, don't be in a hurry for a while. The lord has said that things should be slowed down, and things should be slowed down. Now, where the urgent thing is not Cao Zilian. If you capture his soldiers, you will leave, what's wrong? Why take the risk again?"
This is Xu Chu's true thought.
If Cao Hong really led the team, Cao Hong would eventually escape. There were regrets, but not many.
I have already won a great victory, and now I just need to ensure that my camp is not lost. Why take risks again?
Unfortunately, I always felt that the opportunity was impossible to miss and that I would never come again. If Cao Hong was released this time and I wanted to capture and kill the general of Cao's army next time, even if I had the chance, it might not be his turn to come!
Xu Chu couldn't resist it, but because he had always made a considerable contribution, he had always divided his troops and asked him to take him down from the rock wall to chase and kill Cao Hong.
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On the other hand, the war in Suoyang Pass is bound to be in vain, so it would be a waste of time to pull here...
But he didn't know yet, and he was still fighting hard.
『Kill…』
He held the sword, looked back and issued instructions to his subordinates, and then rushed forward.
The arrival of Qianzhao caused chaos in the rear of the group of cavalry commanded by Xu Chu, but it did not reach the level of collapse. After Li Li led his men to revolve, these cavalry troops gradually restored order, making Qianzhao and others feel as if they were gradually falling into the mud.
And the troops in front of the recruitment were Li Li.
From afar, Li Li's roar also came, "Prepare to...get the arrow..."
Lancers and archers were not so clear at all.
Any weapon to use is what kind of cavalry, but with the development of war, just like the evolution of society, concentration and concentration begin to appear. Some people will naturally do better when they are better at anything, and they can do more things in the past, but gradually they need to face the choice of the path of specialization.
This is the direction of the evolution of the entire human race and the necessity of social division of labor.
Some people choose not to compromise or evolve, but overall, it will deviate from the direction of human development as a whole.
The ones who were carrying the siege were still traditional cavalry in the Han Dynasty, and they tended to have more lancers. If they were to take bows and arrows, they could shoot.
The archers and cavalrymen Li Li brought were undoubtedly one step more than the group of people he was led.
And it is a critical step.
Arrows roared.
The whistling sound of the flying arrows tearing through the air was like the sneer of the god of death.
The sound of arrows entering the body was drowned by the roaring horse hooves.
Just like the original dream of the siege, it was also overwhelmed by the later torrent of reality.
At this speed, falling off the horse will be seriously injured if you don’t die.
The torrent of history will overwhelm many people, no matter whether this person is kind or evil.
The arrows shot by Li Li and others were neat and orderly, and although the cavalry under their command had been restored for a round, the arrows they shot seemed a little messy and their power was naturally greatly reduced.
It’s not that the scoop is not unwilling to achieve the attack effect like Li Li, but the men he led were pieced together. It is great to be able to fight with him now, so I won’t ask for anything else.
The two sides are sixty steps away.
The bow and arrow were put down, and the sword and gun were raised again.
The two sides intertwined, and swords and guns were used together.
Splashing blood, falling corpses.
『Kill! Kill!』
He waved his sword and shouted at the top of his lungs.
Qian Zhao's personal martial arts are indeed very powerful. Facing his Hussars, he could not get any benefits. Instead, many of them were injured and killed by Qian Zhao, but Qian Zhao's subordinates were very ordinary, and they suffered great losses when facing the attacks of Li Li and others.
Qianzhao avoided two swords, kicked a spear with his foot, and then cut the armour of a Hussar soldier through the armour, chopping his armor and flying. His arm had obviously had an abnormal bend, and then rushed out of Li Li's impact array.
Qianzhao rushed out, but many of his subordinates remained on this land forever.
『Let! Go quickly!』
Qian greeted and shouted, but did not go back to the circle and fight with Li Li and others, but began to escape from the battlefield.
As one goes up and down, Li Li and others subconsciously turned their horses and began to chase the troops that were being pulled.
"They are following!"
Chapter completed!