Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 287 Breaking the Battle

  The plan is simple, but it also has risks.

Zhang Liao thought about it for a while, and finally agreed to give it a try. After all, right now, there is really no good solution. He is surrounded by soldiers handpicked by him, and some of them are even related to him like Zhang Zhao. Clansmen, it is very difficult to be able to fight to this level. If it is an ordinary army, it will not be able to hold it long ago...

  The same is true for the remaining soldiers of Feiqian. The individual private soldiers of the gentry often lose and win with their masters, so this is why the Han Dynasty often encountered generals who were defeated, but they were still able to escape.

Because these private soldiers are often not one person, but the whole family is attached to the general. If you abandon the general, it means that all your family members will be convicted. Soldiers are more resistant to pressure...

  But the next battle may be even more brutal. If the reduction in personnel continues, even with Zhang Liao and Fei Qian as the backbone, it may not be able to maintain the army, and the army may eventually collapse due to too many losses...

From the day when Hangu Pass was built, it was mainly used to defend the east, not the west. Therefore, the west wall of the city is not only not as majestic and wide as the east of the city, but the terrain is not dangerous enough, and it is also lower, which is not particularly beneficial. defense.

And as far as the east wall is concerned, there is a long inner city wall after entering the east city gate, which is equivalent to an elongated urn city, while there is no urn city in the west of the city, and there are only residential houses on both sides of the road, so once you break through the city gate , directly into the city!

  If the eastern city wall is the most powerful pass in the world, then the western city wall is at most an enhanced version of an ordinary county...

Taking advantage of the darkening sky, Zheng Cui's soldiers launched a new wave of offensive. Zhang Liaofeiqian's soldiers were exhausted, and so were Zheng Cui's soldiers. At this moment, they often hold their last breath. Look Who was the first to vent that breath.

  A few soldiers of Zheng Chu pushed the crash car straight to the city gate. In the previous few attacks, the crash car was the key target.

  The lack of long-range strike capability is Zhang Liaofei’s greatest frustration. If there are two hundred more, or even one hundred more archers, relying on the city wall, it can also cause a considerable blow to Zheng Chu’s troops...

  It’s a pity that the long-range strike capabilities that are available now are only a small part of Zhang Liao’s cavalry, in addition to the remaining thirty soldiers of Fei Qian who can shoot their bows...

But the bows of the cavalry are completely different from those of the infantry, and the so-called cavalry and shooting are not as invincible as the so-called popular science encyclopedias in later generations said, because in the Han Dynasty, many Han cavalry had no way to be like the Huns. You can shoot all the bows, but when facing the Huns, there is no big problem with one-to-five. Even if you don't know how to ride and shoot, you can still beat the Huns and Huns to find the north.

  The biggest factor is the crushing of iron technology on the blade and armor. It is normal for the cavalry of the Han army not to open their bows, because most of the time they still use slashing...

  And only Xiliang cavalry, Bingzhou cavalry and Youzhou cavalry will have some cavalry capable of riding and shooting. Most of the other states and counties don’t understand...

At this time, Fei Qian really realized what Cai Hao’s slightly proud expression meant when he mentioned a hundred archers. Indeed, in the Han Dynasty, archers were a relatively advanced type of arms, and they had to be physically strong—except for normal infantry. In addition to the knife armor, you need to bring an extra bow and thirty arrows; you need to be agile-you should be a pikeman if you are clumsy, as long as you stab it; The power of the infantry, and often interspersed with other infantry formations; the most important point is to have good eyesight - those with bad eyesight should go to be a sword and shield soldier, at least they can see the enemy clearly...

  So although Zhang Liaofei Qian is the defending side, he still has obvious shortcomings. It does not have an absolute advantage, and it is also an important reason why he is playing so hard now...

   Fortunately, Fei Qian and Zhang Liao have shortcomings, and Zheng Chu also has shortcomings.

Because Zheng Chu’s reinforcements who came later were scheduled to arrive two or three days later, but they were urgently recruited because they learned that Hangu Pass had fallen. He hasn't experienced much training, let alone an archer.

The soldiers with strong crossbows who fought against Guo Pu before also lost most of their crossbows, especially the crossbows placed in the baggage carts, because they burned down their luggage when Zhang Liao rushed to attack the camp last night. Everything is burned...

  A crossbow is not something that can be used just by cutting down a piece of wood, and a strong crossbowman without a crossbow thinks the wood is too heavy to beat someone with a crossbow.

  So Zheng Chu is basically standing on the same line as Zhang Liaofeiqian, both of whom don’t have much long-range suppression ability...

And because he was in a hurry, Zheng Chu didn't make a complete crash, it was just a wooden frame with thick long wooden stakes, and some branches were added to the top to cover it up. Most of them are exposed and are very easy to be targeted by soldiers defending the city.

  But this time, maybe the rolling stones have been used up, or the sky is getting darker, so it is difficult to see clearly. After the collision of Zheng Chu's car, only a few soldiers died, it actually reached the underground of the city gate completely...

Several soldiers of Zheng Chu pulled back the long wooden stake with all their might, and then ran to help the wooden stake when it was pulled to the end. There was only a bang, the gate of Hangu Pass trembled, and the dust splattered. fall down.

Although Zheng Chu couldn't see the detailed situation on the other side clearly, he heard the huge crash and understood that the collision had already started. Whoever kills the general will be rewarded with a hundred gold!"

  Soldier Zheng Chu also heard such a huge muffled sound, and was stimulated by heavy gold. He couldn't help roaring, and went crazy to the city wall and climbed up the simple ladder...

   Fei Qian was wearing a suit of armor that fit too well and a helmet, and it was also on the city wall. The previous set of armor made by Huang Yueying was placed in Luoyang, but he didn't bring it here, so he had to make do with it.

  Although Huang Cheng has been fighting for a day, he still stays close to Fei Qian, guarding Fei Qian's safety.

  Watching TV and movies in later generations, push the ladder down, and then the soldiers on the ladder will fall down like dumplings. The light ones have bruised noses and faces, and the severe ones have broken arms and legs...

But in fact it is not that simple. The ladder itself is connected by thick trees. The newly felled trees are wet and heavy. In order to hold the city wall, two curved bars are often added to the top of the ladder. Once the iron hooks are on the city wall, they will be covered with soldiers in a blink of an eye...

  The weight of the person plus the weight of the ladder itself is really not that easy to push away. Someone needs to smash down the connected iron hook first, and then several people use long wooden forks to hold the top of the ladder, and then push it outward. Of course, as long as the push is over 90 degrees, the rest will not matter Even if the soldiers on the ladder did not fall, they would be killed or injured by the heavy ladder.

  Fei Qian just hid at the end of the long wooden fork and took the handle. After pushing three or four ladders, he was already out of breath, his armor was crooked, and he looked like a bandit soldier.

   "Boom!"

   "Zheng Guanling, I guess you can rest in the city today!" The general behind Zheng Chu finally smiled and said in a deep voice.

   "That's natural!" Zheng Chu replied proudly, a small collateral descendant of Hongnong Yang's family, if he hadn't failed before, he wouldn't even be lazy to talk to him.

   Although the Zheng family in Xingyang is not as good as the Yang family in Hongnong, but a descendant of a side branch outside the fifth service, and has no official position in the court, what qualifications does he have to criticize in front of him?

The number of times an archer can shoot a bow in a row is limited. The matter of borrowing arrows from a grass boat...ahem...don't talk about grass, just talking about arrows also costs money. Why do ancient archers usually hold about 30 arrows in a quiver? arrow? Because an archer is almost 30 shots in battle... In fact, the strongest Han army is the crossbowmen...

  (end of this chapter)