Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1186 Misunderstanding of inertial thinking

The sudden sound of the horn pierced the silence of the world. Ma Chao, who suffered an inexplicable dark loss, suppressed his anger like a volcano about to erupt, and led his troops straight down to the camp of Bian Feiqian, five thousand The cavalry pulled out a wide fan, raised smoke and dust all over the sky, and rushed towards the camp by the Qingni River fiercely.

Because of the farce in the camp yesterday, more than 80 horses were injured or died in total, and nearly 100 people were also injured or injured. Although the number was not many, the blow to morale was relatively large. In the era when mysticism was rampant, no matter if it was Xiliang people or Qiang people, there were many people who worshiped a certain god. Therefore, last night, there were some gossips circulating, saying that a certain **** had punished him...

  In order to avoid a further decline in morale, and to prove that the so-called convict of a certain **** did not exist, Ma Chao urged everyone to hurry early in the morning, and drove more than 100 miles in one day to Xiabian.

  Even in the era of hot-armed warfare, morale is still very important. One or two soldiers can chase dozens of soldiers who have lost their fighting spirit, running like chasing ducks, which is not uncommon on the battlefield.

"Lingming!" Ma Chao looked at the Qingnihe camp, the tricolor flag was still fluttering, a smile crept onto his face, he pointed the spear, almost without any pause, and once he entered the attack range, he immediately ordered, "Lead the front team to attack immediately!"

  The Qingnihe camp was originally set up for the convenience of transshipment, so although it was built at the water bend, for the convenience of transportation, the front is relatively open, so in Ma Chao's eyes, this has become its fatal weakness.

   Pang De took the order, whistled, and galloped forward.

Ma Chao didn't expect to be able to take the camp directly in one fell swoop, because in most cases, the first wave of attacks was a tentative attack, which was an act used to spy on the opponent's strength, just like the firepower reconnaissance of later generations. , Adjusting deployment often determines the direction of subsequent battles.

  The sound of horseshoes swayed people's hearts like muffled thunder. Pang De led 800 Qiang cavalry, spread out a geese formation, and charged towards the camp by the Qingni River with billowing smoke and dust...

   Three hundred steps.

  The Qiang cavalry roared fiercely, waving their swords with fangs and claws.

   Two hundred steps.

As if crossing an invisible line, almost all Qiang cavalry immediately shrank back on the horse's back, hiding their heads, faces, chests and abdomen behind the horse's neck, swept away the previous state of baring their teeth and claws, and kicked the horse violently Belly, increase horse speed...

   One hundred steps.

The sudden explosion of war drums sounded like thunder, instantly breaking the silent silence of the Qingni camp. On the wall of the village, many archers stood up immediately. With a bang, the arrows flew past like locusts in an instant. Less than a hundred steps away, they flew towards the Qiang cavalry who were attacking the camp!

  Amidst the blood splattering, a group of people suddenly turned on their backs.

People always have a certain way of thinking, just like when there is an existing passage in front of them, if it is not specially emphasized, most people will choose to walk along the passage, these Qiang cavalry have a slightly different formation unconsciously. Transformed, along an obvious passage trampled by the people and horses in the middle, towards the gate of the Qingnihe camp.

  Thus, after receiving the covering fire from the archers in the camp, the cavalry and war horses who fell to the ground in front also brought down the Qiang cavalry one or two rows behind...

   "Spread out!" Pound let out a roar, and the Qiang cavalry separated to the two sides immediately, instead of continuing to attack the gate of the camp, they began to gallop around the camp, and then lobbed arrows into the camp.

  Of course, this kind of attack does not have much lethal effect, it just puts some pressure on the archers on the crenel of the wall.

In the process of mutual diffusion, in fact, most of the time, apart from the training factors of some soldiers, the most important thing is personal luck. Some people show more than half of their bodies and arrows fly past, but they just miss; Halfway through his head, he was stabbed between the eyebrows by a flow arrow...

  Amid the arrows coming and going in the air, some Qiang horsemen stumbled and fell to the ground.

  Ma Chao, who was in the back formation, frowned involuntarily when he saw the changes before the formation.

   It's not because of the bows and arrows in the camp, because it's normal to have bows and arrows to counterattack. Didn't you see that Qiang cavalry was ready to meet the arrow rain when they were two hundred steps away?

   But the question is, these archers number at most three hundred, how could they be so accurate and shoot down so many cavalrymen?

You must know that the archers in the army are not those generals who are good at bows and arrows. There is no such thing as a hundred-step piercing. , For ordinary archers, they are considered qualified, so how much hit rate can they have when the cavalry is galloping at high speed?

And for the cavalry, because of the cover of the horse, it is not easy to hit directly. In addition, the horse's skin is rough and thick. Generally speaking, unless it hits a vital part, or the impact is strong, the horse will not fall immediately. I fell to the ground, and the situation in front of me seemed to be a bit wrong...

  But the mystery was soon revealed. Pound led his men and horses to run around the camp for a while, then turned back, and returned to the Ma Chao army formation.

"Leader Qi report! Zhengxi dug a lot of potholes right in front of the camp. Once he falls into it, his horse's hooves will be broken..." Pound returned to Ma Chao, and while gesturing to Ma Chao, he said, "This kind of potholes, All around the gate of the village, if you don't clear it, you can't enter! There are also in front of the camp and on the mudflats on both sides of the wall, in addition to antlers to repel horses, Zhengxi also seems to have arranged a lot of sharp gravel and barbed wire... "

"Barbed caltrops! This **** little Zhengxi thief!" Ma Chao nodded, pondered for a while, then looked up at the sky, and said in a deep voice, "Since you are on guard, don't give orders quickly! Back five miles and go to camp Let's wait for the decisive battle tomorrow!" How much does it cost for this little thief who conquered the West to arrange such a large piece of barbed wire...

Clearing a passage is not something that can be done in a short period of time. It is already approaching dusk, and the horsepower is also exhausted after galloping for a day. The whole army is eager to press on. Forcing the attack may not be a good thing, it is better Make up your mind, it would be better to go down at one stroke with plenty of physical strength the next day, besides, this camp is located in a bend of the river, as long as the wide side is blocked, where else can Zhengxi go?

  As for the forty or fifty Qiang cavalry who were lost in front of the gate of the Qingnihe camp, no matter whether it was Ma Chao, Pang De, or even those Qiang people, they didn't take it seriously.

  War of the Undead?

   Is that a child playing house?

  Being able to detect the movement in the camp and knowing Zhengxi's defense arrangements, the loss of manpower is already worth it...

   "Ling Ming, thank you, where to take the front troops to guard..." Ma Chao pointed in the direction they came from, "If there is a change at night, Ling Ming can attack their flanks directly!"

   Pound was stunned for a moment, and asked: "Young Commander, should we take people there now or wait until nightfall..."

"Well, let's go now." Ma Chao glanced at Pound, smiled, and said, "Ling Ming is really smart, and he will be a famous general tomorrow!" Although it would be more concealed to go at night, Ma Chao would rather let Zheng Seeing his arrangement, the people in Xiying Village were unwilling to toss around for another night. He wanted to use the most energy and physical strength to break through the camp in one fell swoop!

   "Small commanders are rewarded." Now that the order was clear, Pang De led the troops away from the brigade and went to one side...

  On the crenel of the Qingnihe camp wall, Xu Huang looked at the direction in which Ma Chao retreated, clicked his tongue twice, and said, "The night raid is cancelled... Light up the wolf smoke, and withdraw the troops directly..."

   After finishing speaking, Xu Huang walked down the crenel along the wooden stakes on the side, and went to the middle of the camp...

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The Qingni River is mountainous on one side and flat on the other. The widest part is 50 steps, and the narrowest part is nearly 30 steps. Of course, compared with the Yangtze River, Qingni River is not of any level, although the water flow is a bit turbulent , but it is not considered the flow speed of rapids and dangerous shoals, but what is interesting is that one item of Qingni River is on the level.

  As the name suggests, Qingni River is naturally "mud"...

This river, perhaps because the woods have been cut down a lot, or because it flows through the high slopes of loess, anyway, it carries a lot of sediment. If you pick up a catty of water, there will be at least three taels of sand. A lot of silt has accumulated everywhere, and maybe one day the river bed will be raised too high, and the river may be diverted or cut off.

  When there is a lot of sediment, it is inevitable that some tidal flats will accumulate. On some tidal flats, there are many reeds and so on, and weeds are overgrown, almost as tall as a person.

At this time, in a tidal flat by the river, a soldier from Zhengxi showed his head among the reeds. Looking at the three smoke rising in the distance, he quickly turned around and said, "Come out! Push the boat out!" Lieutenant Xu has issued an order, let's go, move faster..."

  ………………

  After dark, Ma Chao received an unexpected news.

   "Have the soldiers who marched west started to cross the river?"

   Regarding the behavior of the soldiers who conquered the west, Ma Chao expressed that he could not understand it at all.

You must know that the side of the Qingni River is almost all mountains. Although some places are flat tidal flats, most of them are undulating mountains and hills. The most important thing is that there are no people or roads at all. , crossing the river to climb the mountain to escape, isn't this a death sentence?

  Even if Zhengxi is going to climb the mountains, he can lead the cavalry to outflank along the periphery, unless Zhengxi really decides to go into the mountains to be a savage?

   Ma Chao immediately approached the Qingnihe camp with his men and horses. Although it was getting late, under the light of the camp fire, some figures could still be seen, and they were transported to the other side by small boats...

   "Come on!" Ma Chao shouted loudly, "Send out scouts to investigate the movement of soldiers and horses upstream and downstream! Report quickly!"

   "Brother, these ships must be destroyed!" Ma Tie pointed forward with his spear and said.

   Ma Chao looked at the more than 20 small boats coming and going in the middle of the river with a sullen face, and nodded. The ships must be destroyed, otherwise, the soldiers and horses conquering the west can go ashore at any point along the bank of the Qingni River!

  Even if you send men and horses to follow the ship, the manpower of the horses is always limited. If the ship runs down the water for two days, won't the men and horses on the shore be exhausted?

  Ma Chao clapped his hands fiercely, his face was livid, why he never thought that there is a boat in Zhengxi, although it is a small boat for transporting grain and grass, it is also a boat that can carry people across the river!

  In fact, this is a misunderstanding of thinking.

  Different from the southern Han people who cannot do without boats every day, in fact, for Xiliang people, the word "boat" is not in their dictionary at all.

  In Ma Chao's previous plan, it is normal that Zhengxi was not connected with the ship at all.

   Dealing with war horses every day, galloping on the Loess Gobi Grassland for 20 years, a man from Xiliang who has never been on a boat, would he include ships in the category of strategic thinking?

"Come here! Send an order to organize the team and attack the camp overnight!" Ma Chao shouted, at this time, he didn't care about any men and horses repairing, the fighter planes will arrive soon, and we won't wait until all the troops of Zhengxi have crossed the shore. Do it?

Although the surface of the Qinghe River here is not wide, only about forty paces, the camp is just at a bend in the river, and the water gate of the camp is at the most prominent point of the bend in the water. If you shoot at the transportation place, the distance will be close to two hundred steps. The so-called strong crossbow cannot penetrate Lu Jin, and there are no Ma Chao soldiers equipped with many heavy arrows, and they don't even have the ability to kill the transportation personnel with long-range lobs.

  Therefore, unless the camp is captured, there will be no way to approach the water gate of the camp, and there is also no way to launch a threatening attack on the soldiers who are crossing the river.

  The rapid ox horn sounded, and many Qiang people who had just lay down were urged to get up, formed scattered battle lines, and approached the camp on foot...

  The battle to attack the camp was forced to advance. These Qiang people who marched on foot were just to fill up the weird potholes in front of the camp and clean up a passage that could provide horses to rush to the camp.

   "Flanks! Loose! Suppress!"

  Behind these Qiang people, Ma Tie commanded the rest of the troops to spread out, and covered them with bows and arrows. Arrows roared and rushed towards the wall of the camp.

  In the light of the fire, countless arrows screamed in the air.

   "Vertical Shield!"

  Following Xu Yu's order, a shield was immediately erected on the crenels of the camp.

The long arrows were like a gust of wind and rain, crackling and hitting the shield and the wall of the village, some directly pierced the shield, and some were bounced off by the rivets and iron sheets on the surface of the shield, jingling like a bullet of death The symphony played.

If it is a new soldier who has just entered the battlefield, it is inevitable that he will panic and nervous in the face of such a fierce arrow attack, but now behind the wall are all battle-tested soldiers. After seeing a bigger and more terrifying scene, such Arrow Rain basically didn't feel much pressure on these sword and shield players.

   "Kill!" The Qiang people in the front, with their waists bent, suddenly yelled when they were close to the place where the arrow was shot, and rushed forward with their swords in their hands!

And behind these Qiang people who risked their lives to kill, there was a group of Qiang people who lowered their heads, held adzes, shovels, and even directly used knives. Under the cover of people, they filled up the horse traps along the way, cleared away the caltrops, and sorted out a road for horses to charge...

   Well, a different cover...

   I don't know when it will be updated, can you see...

   Some people in the province always say that the author is selling dog meat with big ears...

   The original cover was given by the editor...

   The current cover is the starting point. What kind of smart cover is it? It’s actually a DIY…

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