Lu Bu’s Life Simulator

Yuan Shao continued to gather troops in Baima. Both sides had announced to the world and detailed each other's guilt, and they looked like they might start fighting at any time. The Battle of Baima officially started a few days after Tian Feng arrived in Baima, but this battle between Lu and Yuan , but the actual fighting was not here. Two days before the war started, Ma Chao had led his elite troops to attack Dai County from Mayi.

Since Lu Bu has sent an edict to the world to prepare for a decisive battle with Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao naturally needs to guard against the Guanzhong army coming from the direction of Bingzhou. In fact, before Ma Chao arrived, Yuan Shao specially sent people to deliver 2,000 repeating crossbows and 10,000 quivers. This is to prevent Lu Bu from taking action from here.

Not only did his second son Yuan Xi serve as the governor of Youzhou, but his nephew Gao Gan was also sent to Daijun as the prefect. Daijun alone had tens of thousands of soldiers stationed there.

In Pingcheng, Ma Chao led the cavalry to rush in. Looking at the outline of the city in the distance, he looked at Fazheng beside him and smiled: "Is this where the great ancestor was besieged by hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu troops?"

"More than ten miles to the east is Baishan Mountain. The mountain is not high, but it is easy to defend and difficult to attack." Beside him, Fazheng nodded and admitted after breathing evenly.

"Sometimes I really wonder if you guys have been everywhere." Ma Chao was a little surprised, as if no matter what, as long as he asked, the other party would tell him that he was ugly.

"Anywhere, even places with such a famous name, I will come and see." Fazheng shook his head modestly. After returning from Shuzhong, he was transferred to the Ministry of War, responsible for cooperating with Ma Chao and participating in the battle to destroy Yuan Shao. The main goal , that is, to regain Youzhou, but not many troops were given.

Ma Chao brought 3,000 fine cavalry, plus Zhang Xiu's 4,000 foot cavalry. The total was only 7,000 people. He wanted to capture the entire Youzhou, which sounded... very difficult.

However, there were new weapons sent by Lu Bu, so Ma Chao was very confident and asked Zhang Xiu to lead his army to follow from behind. He led three thousand light cavalry ahead, preparing to capture Daijun first and find Daijun's main force to fight.

After looking at the sky, Fa Zheng asked Ma Chao, "I don't know how General Pingcheng plans to attack?"

He didn't know how powerful Lu Bu's new weapon was. After all, he had never fought anyone before, so it was difficult for him to have any intuitive feeling.

Ma Chao didn't say anything, and led his men and horses to the city to wait and see. Pingcheng was the junction between Lu and Yuan, so he was very vigilant. The high officials were here and put two thousand people to guard the city. When they saw a Guanzhong cavalry coming, then Alarm sirens sounded and smoke rose at the same time.

Ma Chao's eyes lit up and he did not attack the city. Instead, he left a thousand men to look after the extra horses. He led the remaining thousand horses around the city to put pressure on the Pingcheng defenders.

"General Ma seems to have enlightened himself since he got married to the young master." Fazheng saw this scene and quickly understood Ma Chao's intention. He was preparing to use Pingcheng to lure reinforcements from nearby enemy troops to fight!

Sure enough, it didn't take long for reinforcements from the two nearby cities to come here.

Ma Chao immediately led his army out on horseback. The thousand cavalry behind him launched a mounted shot at the opponent. The repeated crossbow knocked out a box of crossbow arrows. However, the opponent had put up a large shield early. Ma Chao's repeated crossbow failed to achieve success. At the same time, the opponent The repeated crossbows began to fight back at Ma Chao. Several of them were caught off guard and were shot at their horses. Fortunately, they were wearing rattan armor and did not die in battle, but several of their horses were lost.

"Go get dozens of Zhentian Lei!" Ma Chao led the cavalry to distance themselves, and sneered as he watched the opponent pressing forward step by step.

The repeating crossbows imitated by the Kwantung Allied Forces are indeed not bad. At least it is difficult for Ma Chao to enjoy the exhilarating feeling he had when he defeated Cao Cao. At that time, three thousand people dared to use repeating crossbows to suppress Cao Cao's 30,000-man camp. Almost killed Cao Cao.

But now, the other side also has a continuous crossbow, and the gap has gradually narrowed. Of course, this is when the Guanzhong Army only has the advantage of continuous crossbows, but now, they have more than just repeated crossbows.

In order to prevent the thunderbolts from exploding, these thunderbolts were wrapped in several layers of cotton wool and stored. It was troublesome to take them out at this moment. Ma Chao led the cavalry back and forth, but the opponent just set up a square formation and walked slowly and slowly. Moving forward, it is obviously impossible for the infantry to catch up with the cavalry, so the opponent is not in a hurry to kill the enemy.

Not to mention the abilities of the enemy generals, but they are stable enough.

After Ma Chao led his men to retreat a certain distance, Zhentian Lei was finally ready. He selected fifty soldiers who were good at throwing. After each of them took one, he asked them to protect their whole bodies from the horses carrying the load. After taking a vine shield from his back, he ordered: "Throw the thunder to the enemy and immediately withdraw from the battlefield. The cavalry will arrive soon!"

"Here!"

Everyone agreed, raised their vine shields, and walked towards the reinforcements. Seeing that they were dressed strangely, the reinforcements quickly shot them with crossbows, but found that the powerful repeating crossbows could not break the defense in front of the vine armor and vine shields!

More importantly, they didn't know what it meant for these people to approach on foot with vine shields in hand. Did they think that these fifty people could break the formation?

The general who led the troops saw that Ma Chao had prepared the cavalry formation, like a wolf waiting for an opportunity, ready to attack at any time. His heart was condensed, and he did not dare to neglect, so he asked the soldiers to stop and prepare for the attack. He did not know what the opponent was going to fight. idea.

Soon, the soldiers wearing vine armor had arrived less than twenty steps away from them.

"Prepare for war!" The reinforcements general snorted coldly when he saw this. Do you really think that he can't do anything to you with that invulnerable armor?

But the next moment, these soldiers wearing rattan armor did not rush forward directly. Instead, they took out bamboo tubes one after another and threw them fiercely in this direction under the stunned eyes of the reinforcement generals.

Although he didn't know what it was, the general discovered that the enemy cavalry had begun to meet again. A Yuan Jun shield hand saw the bamboo tube coming down on him. Although he didn't know what it was, he subconsciously raised his shield. Welcome.

"Boom~"

At the moment of contact, the bamboo tube suddenly exploded, and a huge force surged in. The shield hand couldn't hold it up and sat down on the ground. Most of the shield in his hand was broken into pieces. The arm holding the shield seemed to have lost consciousness and he continued to move. I couldn't do it at once, and then...

Boom boom boom boom~

Among the successive explosions, some hit the shield. The casualties were not too great. At most, the shield was shattered like the shield hand, and the arm was broken or dislocated. But if the thunderbolt fell into the crowd, Once the sky-shaking thunder explodes, the soldiers around him will be blown up directly. The range is not large, but it is only three to five steps. Within this range, not only all humans and animals will be killed, but they will either die or be injured.

But more importantly, this thunder-like sound seemed to explode out of thin air in the army, and it was even more inexplicably powerful. It directly stunned a group of reinforcements. Who had ever seen such a thing?

The fifty soldiers had quickly retreated. Ma Chao and his cavalry had already felt the surge of crossbows coming, and the lives of the reinforcement soldiers without the protection of their shields were being harvested like grass.

There are not many soldiers in Yuan Shao's army who can wear armor. Most of them wear thicker clothes. How can they stop the cold crossbow arrows?

The general leading the army had obviously never seen such a formation. The front row had begun to collapse. The crossbowmen in the back row launched sporadic counterattacks and were overwhelmed by the soldiers in the front row.

At this point in the battle, the outcome was decided. Although this general was experienced, he obviously did not have the ability to turn the tide. He was chased by Ma Chao. Yuan Jun was either shot dead during the rout, or he knelt down on the roadside after seeing that there was no hope of escape. Please surrender.

Fa Zheng took care of the surrender, and Ma Chao chased all the way to the gate of Gaoliu City. Gao Gan personally led the army out of the city to encircle it, so Ma Chao stopped the pursuit and walked away.

Gao Gan looked a little ugly. Of the three thousand soldiers sent out, only a few hundred were killed and ran back. What was even more troublesome was that many of the crossbows were lost.

Ma Chao circled the outside of Gaoliu City several times. Seeing that Gao Gan had no intention of leaving the city to fight, he led his army and left.

In this battle, Ma Chao also suffered losses, mainly because his horse stumbled or was shot, falling off his horse and dying. However, Yuan Shao's army suffered nearly a thousand casualties, and thousands of prisoners chose to surrender and were taken into custody by Fa Zhengming.

"This repeating crossbow is quite exquisitely made." After Ma Chao came back, he took the captured repeating crossbow and said with some surprise.

The performance of this repeating crossbow is no worse than that of the Guanzhong repeating crossbow. No wonder the repeating crossbow failed to control them. If the lord had not now had such things as the Vulcan Cannon and the Sky-shattering Thunder, it would be really difficult to defeat these people with the repeating crossbow alone. easy.

Fa Zheng, on the other hand, released several captured surrendered troops. After Ma Chao learned about it, he looked at Fa Zheng in surprise and said, "Why did Xiaozhi let them go?"

Although there are not many, they are prisoners after all. Ma Chao has not yet figured out how to deal with these prisoners. Is it inappropriate for Fazheng to let them go like this?

"The general's strategy for defeating the enemy is now clear. I think the general wants a quick victory." Fazheng looked at Ma Chao and said with a smile.

Ma Chao nodded. He couldn't keep up with the logistics. The best way was to fight quickly!

"There is a lord in Jizhou, so the only people the general has to deal with are Yuan Shao's tribe in Youzhou."

"Exactly." Ma Chao nodded again, looked at Fa Zheng and said, "But what is the relationship between the two?"

"I have already shown them the thunderbolts carried by our army, and asked them to go to Pingcheng to deliver the order. Tomorrow our army will use the thunderbolts to destroy the city. If the soldiers of Pingcheng do not surrender, no prisoners will be taken after the city is broken! "Fazheng said with a smile.

"Deterrence?" Ma Chao looked at Fazheng and asked, "Even if this city is useful, it may not be so if it is used in other cities."

"If you want to fight quickly, you can't fight with conventional methods. One is to intimidate, and the other is to wait for an opportunity to fight. Even if it is a siege, all the thunder arrows and thunderbolts must be used to defeat the enemy. The main force, and then these surrendered troops can be used to defeat the enemy." Fazheng said with a smile.

"You mean..." Ma Chao frowned and said, "We have to surrender our troops?"

"The surrender of the army after the main force is defeated! And the surrender of the army is also used in the same way. The general will know when the time comes." Fa Zheng said with a smile.

"Okay, I have heard from my lord that you are very resourceful. It's time to see what you are capable of!" Ma Chao nodded.