Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 605 The Coming of Crisis

  The war horses of the Xianbei people began to gallop up, swarming up and roaring like waves of never-ending tide. The horseshoes rose and fell rapidly, beating on the mud and river water. Although the slippery soil hindered the horses from reaching the highest speed, the Xianbei people roared, roared, and echoed regardless, lying on the horse's back, using The horse's torso and neck covered its face, chest and abdomen, and the raised sword lashed the horse wildly, forcing the horse to exert its last strength, allowing them to pass through this section of the road full of death in the fastest time.

  Almost all Xianbei people know that once the charge is taken, there are only two results, either to die in battle, or to hack the opponent to death. It is true that the cavalry has a certain advantage in attacking the infantry, but having an advantage does not mean that there are no casualties. Judging from the effect of the latest tentative first wave of conflict, the Han army's position is tight. After passing through the river bed, it needs to be destroyed Get rid of those refusal horses, otherwise it will still be impossible to directly hit the Han army.

Although the Han army formation on the opposite side is very difficult, the Xianbei people believe that the final victory will still belong to them, but before that, many Xianbei people who will fight will die in front of the battle, paving a road with the flesh and blood of themselves and their horses .

This is especially true for the Xianbei cavalry who rushed to the front. Some of them didn't even have leather armor, so they could only use themselves and their mounts to block the bows and crossbows of the Han army, and fight for a little charge for their companions behind them. time.

  If it is on a flat, firm and hard ground, the distance of more than a hundred steps is at most a few breaths. Although some people will fall under the crossbows of the Han army, they will not be as many as they are now. In particular, war horses are not armored, so they can only rely on their large and strong bodies to withstand a few more arrows and last for a longer period of time. However, once they fall, it will often affect the charge route of the cavalry behind.

Although Huang Cheng's Han army had a geographical advantage, the number of Xianbei people changed all of this abruptly. The corpses of those Xianbei soldiers who were shot down by crossbows meant that they won the victory in the blink of an eye before they died. Such a short time, and the continuous accumulation of a little short time is enough to change the direction of the battle.

As the distance between the two armies continues to shorten, the invisible line of death is constantly approaching Huang Cheng's army formation. When the Xianbei people rush in before Juma, it means that the **** of death has finally come to him on the head.

Watching one by one, the soldiers and horses fall down, but the big household stared at the other side ruthlessly, without even moving his eyebrows. He knew in his heart that if the Han army didn't feel the reinforcements, then in the end, the dissatisfaction would be a thousand. The human Han army will be heaped to death by his numbers, and the victory will eventually belong to him.

  He needs a victory, longs for a victory, to stabilize his position and maintain his dignity, even at the expense of the flesh and blood of his subordinates.

  But for those Xianbei cavalry who had to use their flesh and blood to consume the combat power of the Han army before victory, their significance lies in how much time they can exchange for before they die, how far they can advance, and how many people they can kill.

With little hope of survival, the Xianbei people inspired the kind of madness and killing intent in their bones. They didn't care about the screams of their comrades who were shot by crossbows, and they didn't care whether they would be shot or not. In his mind, there was only one thing in his mind, which was to rush forward. If he could kill one or two enemies, he would at least be able to back him up.

This is especially true for the pawns in Huang Cheng's Han army formation. They are even crazier than the Xianbei people. Anyone who faces the charge of the cavalry will immediately feel tremendous pressure. , The Hu people rode their horses regardless, and I have killed so many Xianbei Hu people, can I get a way out by running away or surrendering?

   There is no retreat, because there is no way to run a war horse, and if there is no surrender, it should be because surrender is also unavoidable.

Huang Cheng didn't give any incentives to fight, because these men were all soldiers trained by him, and he watched a little bit from a guy who didn't know whether to hold a knife with his left hand or right hand into a real soldier. .

  Now, Huang Cheng is standing here, following his subordinates, standing together with his soldiers,

   There is no way to retreat. Regardless of whether they are brave or cowardly at this moment, everyone can only pick up weapons and fight with their lives, just like two fierce beasts, biting each other and flying flesh and blood.

   "Spearman is ready—" Huang Cheng yelled.

The spearman hiding behind the sword and shield hand rushed forward, and under the cover of the sword and shield hand, he inserted the tail of the spear in his hand into the soil, and his companions in the back row stepped on it tightly, and he held it tightly. With the handle of the spear, it is placed on the large shield of the sword and shield hand, becoming the second line of defense after the wooden horse.

The spear is the best weapon against the cavalry. As long as the horse is stabbed in the chest by the spear, it is basically finished. There is no hope of surviving. Putting the spear on the ground will often break it directly, and the injury to the spearman's hand is still small, and he will even be stabbed in the body by the broken spear, which is very dangerous.

  Although the width of the ferry was widened, under the continuous shooting of two hundred bows and crossbows, every time the Xianbei people took a step forward, several riders in front would fall down along with the horses. Especially the strong crossbow of the Han army, the degree of damage far exceeded the expectations of the Xianbei people. Whether it was a man or a horse, as long as they were shot, they basically lost their combat effectiveness immediately, and fell to the ground as if hit by a heavy hammer. That kind of huge lethality made many Xianbei people terrified when they saw it.

  The number of Xianbei people is indeed an advantage. The bows and crossbows of the Han army peeled off the outer skin of the Xianbei cavalry layer by layer, but in the end, some Xianbei cavalry urged their horses to directly hit the refusal horses set up by the Han army.

With the soft mud of the river and the existence of a strong crossbow, the barbarian's method of pulling the horse with a lasso is basically ineffective, because it is very difficult to change direction or turn around in the river bed Things, and after rejecting the horse, they are all sword-shielding hands with a knife. Once the knife is cut off, the noose is basically left with a noose hanging on the rejecting horse...

  Therefore, if the Xianbei wanted to destroy Juma, there was only one way left.

   Use flesh and blood to break open!

The Xianbei who had escaped the baptism of the rain of arrows roared wildly, slashing and cutting the horse's buttocks with their swords, trying to make the horse speed faster after leaving the muddy area of ​​the tidal flat as much as possible, and then came before the horse refused , suddenly lifted the reins of the war horse, and bumped into it abruptly!

  At this moment, the terrible crisis of Huang Cheng's Han army finally came to his head...

   Mr. Qian Mu has these four sentences in the opening chapter of "Outline of National History":

   1. It is believed that the citizens of any country, especially those who claim to have knowledge above the level, should know a little about the past history of their country. (Otherwise, at most, it can only be counted as a person with knowledge, and cannot be counted as a citizen with knowledge.)

   2. Those who have a little knowledge of the past history of their own country must be accompanied by a kind of warmth and respect for the past history of their own country. (Otherwise, you can only count as knowing some foreign history, and it is not true that you have knowledge of the history of your own country.)

3. The so-called those who have a kind of warmth and respect for their own country's past history will at least not have a kind of extreme nihilism about their own country's history (that is, they regard their country's past history as worthless, and there is nothing that is enough to satisfy them. .) And at least we will not feel that we are standing at the peak of the past history, (this is a superficial and arrogant view of evolution.) And we will blame the ancients for all our sins and weaknesses. (This is a specious cultural self-condemnation.)

   4. Believe that each country will have the hope of further development when the proportion of its citizens who meet the above-mentioned conditions is increasing. (Otherwise, its improvement is equal to the improvement of a conquered country or a sub-colony, and has nothing to do with its own country. In other words, this kind of improvement is nothing more than a cultural conquest in disguise, which is the shrinking and annihilation of its own culture. It is not the transformation and development of its own culture.)

  (end of this chapter)