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Volume 1: A man is born in troubled times, and he should rule the roost in troubled times. Chapter 955: Jianlan breaks the armor.

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    The greatest advantage of Cao Cao's Wild Geese Formation, in addition to its long-range attack, is that it covers a large area and can be used to cover the battlefield. It is especially suitable for limiting the mobility of the cavalry, so as to surround the enemy and annihilate them together.

    But there is also a disadvantage, that is, the formation is too spread out and the strength is relatively unconcentrated. If the enemy adopts resolute central breakthrough tactics, it will be difficult to resist.

    Cao Cao is a master in the art of war, so of course he will not understand the pros and cons, but given the current situation, this is the only way.

    Now, several groups of soldiers and horses from Qingzhou are outflanking him from all directions. Time is of the essence, and there is no time for him to fight steadily.  The solidly defended square, circular or yoke formations have poor mobility. Wang Yu does not need to rush into the formation at all. As long as he uses his mobility to pull back and forth, it is enough to create an opening to save people.

    When Wang Yu and Lu Bu meet up and calmly start to contain them, Cao Jun's 80,000-strong army will really be at the end of its rope.

    Therefore, Cao Cao decisively set up the Flying Geese Formation to force Wang Yu to fight head-on.  It would be best if he could defeat Wang Yu, or even capture Wang Yu. Even if he couldn't, he would still have to consume a lot of the Wind Fire Cavalry's combat power in this battle, leaving the opponent unable to pursue him.  The cavalry was ordered to counterattack precisely to make up for the weakness of the long battle line.

    Five thousand light cavalry and two thousand iron cavalry are not just decorations. No matter how powerful the Qingzhou Army is, they will have to pay a considerable price and take a considerable amount of time to win. After that, they will not be able to continue to attack the infantry array.  But they never expected that Zhao Yun had no intention of doing more killings. He directly used a chaotic formation and then forcibly opened a passage among thousands of troops.

    Since the beginning of the war, the casualties of the five thousand Leopard Cavalry have not yet reached a thousand, but their combat power has been ineffective.  It could not block the light cavalry in front, nor could it cut off the connection between the enemy formations. Instead, it mixed with the light cavalry on both wings of the Qingzhou Army, causing more than 10,000 crossbowmen on its own wings to throw rat weapons.

    However, Cao Cao did not despair yet, because behind the Qingqi were Cao Chun's two thousand cavalry. Although Xu Chu and Dian Wei were restrained by Lu Bu who suddenly went crazy, Xiliang's general Pang De was also a good player and was even more skilled in cavalry combat.  .

    Cao Cao does not expect that the iron cavalry alone can complete the blocking task, but the iron cavalry should have the absolute upper hand in the battle against the light cavalry. His only hope is that there will be no more accidents.

    Cao Chun lived up to Cao Cao's expectations and did not rush for revenge. He commanded two thousand cavalry to form a neat fish-scale formation and press forward steadily without leaving any flaws.  In the smoke and dust that covered the sky and the sun, the gale force cavalry was soaring like the wind, but the formation of the tiger and leopard cavalry was as steady as a mountain.

    "Get ready" Pang De rode his horse to the front of the array and raised his voice to give the order.

    After the Battle of Longshan was broken up, he originally tried to return to the army, but before he could get around the Qingzhou Army's front line, he got the news of Ma Chao's surrender.

    Although the legacy was inherited from father to son, Pound really didn¡¯t have much loyalty to his young general.  He is a very orthodox person, and he gets along well with Ma Teng, who also advocates tradition. He has nothing in common with the unruly and arrogant Ma Chao.  Hearing that Ma Chao had surrendered, he went south to join Cao Cao without saying a word.

    Even now, he has no regrets.

    The distinction between scholars and common people, superiority and inferiority, is an unshakable iron rule in the world!  No matter who he is, as long as he dares to touch this iron law, he will be his sworn enemy!  In order to maintain righteousness in the world, he will never give up!

    "Ping spear!" The two hundred cavalry in the first two rows of the Tiger Cavalry are all Xiliang soldiers who followed Pang De south.  Following Pang De's order, they once again performed their best tricks. The two-foot-four-foot super long spears rose like a forest, pointing straight at the Gale Cavalry on the opposite side!

    In Bingzhou, they suffered a defeat.  But this time, they are no longer wearing unreliable paper armor, but real iron armor!  And the enemy has no infantry that can line up the star scattering formation.

    Pang De is very confident that this battle will be a battle of revenge for the men of Xiliang!

    The Leopard Riders in the rear team felt the pressure from both front and rear at the same time, and all of them were terrified and fled to the two wings in panic.

    The scariest thing about cavalry charging into battle is that those who are too fast will die under the enemy's sword, and those who are too slow will not fare much better. Your comrades may know you, but their horseshoes will definitely not know you.

    Soon, the space between the Tiger Cavalry and the Gale Cavalry became empty, and Pound clearly saw the movements of the other party.  He was a little confused and subconsciously pulled down his visor, fearing that he had seen it wrong - facing the iron-clad cavalry array, the Qingzhou cavalry was actually taking their bows!

    Are they crazy?  Not to mention the cavalry bow, which has far inferior range and power, even the strong infantry bow can't hit the armor at fifty paces!  Playing cavalry and shooting when the two armies are clashing is just asking for death, right?

    "Get ready!" But he didWhen Zhao Yun was taking his bow and drawing an arrow, more than a hundred steps away, on the roaring horses, the white horse knights lined up in a row and drew their bows in neat movements!

    Pound suddenly came back to his senses. It was indeed not because he was dazzled, because the enemy army had once again completed the change of formation!

    "Look" The distance was more than ten steps closer, and Zhao Yun issued the second command in an orderly manner.

    The standard crossbow command is to order the shooter to aim.  The cavalry archers nocked their arrows and raised their bows.  The bow was only half-open, and the right hand holding the arrow was close to his cheek.

    "Ying" This is the last command before shooting. Ying means to fully draw the bow, like the waxing moon.  It was at this moment that Pound suddenly discovered a strange thing, a strange thing that horrified him!

    The normal action of opening a bow is to use the right arm to pull the bow string backward, but the enemy rider uses his left hand to push the bow forward, pushing the bow full at once!

    Although Pang De is young, he is very knowledgeable. He knows this special bow pushing method.  Only bows that are well made and incredibly hard need to be drawn in this way.  This is the same as pushing a crossbow. When the bow is stiff to a certain extent, the string cannot be pulled, but it is easier to push the bow body.

    There was only one order left, and Pound's whole body was stretched to the extreme.

    Once again, the ominous premonition that he felt during the Battle of Longshan once again enveloped his whole body. He really didn't want to believe that the enemy's cavalry shots could hurt the cavalry behind him, but this feeling was like maggots in the tarsus. Why?  All lingering.

    He saw that Zhao Yun also fired the bow in person, his usual smile gone. Through the smoke and dust, Pound could clearly see those murderous eyes, staring coldly at him and the iron wall behind him!

    That look in his eyes made it seem as if what was coming was not a war horse roaring out of nowhere; it was not a thorn that overlapped like steel; it was not a wild beast that chose to devour people with its blood boiling; it was not a wall that was advancing at high speed but the prey that was delivered to the door!

    "Wind!" Zhao Yun shouted loudly!

    At this time, there was only the last hundred steps left on both sides.  Two hundred bows vibrated together, and the same number of feathered arrows screamed and came towards me!  After a moment, another two hundred feathered arrows were shot from the sky, and a non-stop rain of arrows fell, completely covering Pang De and his iron cavalry.

    The rain of arrows, no, maybe it should be called the lantern of arrows!  In the blink of an eye, he crossed the space of a hundred steps and reached the arrows in front of him, like a strong wind or a raging wave, unavoidable and unstoppable!

    Pound fought hard, but his heart became colder and colder, because what came from his body was not only the reasonable sound of metal collision, but also the sound of a large number of sharp blades entering his body.  puff!  ¡¯ sound¡ª¡ªThe iron armor was shot through!

    After finally blocking the first round of arrows, Pound took the time to look around and found that the array of hundreds of cavalry at the front had become sparse. At least fifty cavalry fell off their horses, and their bodies were all stabbed.  Full of feathers and arrows, the corpses piled up into a hill.

    However, the rear army was not aware of it. The horn sound coming from the central army was still getting louder and faster, trying desperately to promote the battle.

    In fact, now that the momentum has been established, we can¡¯t stop even if we want to.  The cavalrymen in the rear army were not bothered by the corpses of their comrades, nor were they frightened by Jianlan. They stared straight ahead and rushed forward one after another. The momentum of the charge became more and more fierce!

    This tide was not something that Pound could withstand. He did not bother to analyze what was strange about the enemy's bow, nor did he think about new strategies. He could only go with the trend and rush forward, hoping to cross these last few dozen steps as soon as possible.  distance.

    However, a new order came from the other side, which directly ruined his last hope.

    "Turn!" The horse archers who had just carried out a round of killings drew their bows and leaned down, turned their horses' heads, and ran out diagonally, leaving their positions to their comrades behind them.

    "see!"

    "Ying!"

    "wind!"

    Amidst the sound of orders, arrows were shot out one after another, and more and more cavalry fell on their horses.  Now not only Pound, but also Cao Cao, who was watching the battle from behind, also found something strange. The bows and arrows used by the cavalry archers were not ordinary bows and arrows, but incredible weapons that could shoot through iron armor!

    Faced with such strength, the Tiger Cavalry still showed frightening fighting spirit. None of them retreated and rushed forward bravely, hoping to rely on courage to cross this man-made natural chasm.  But no matter how they mobilized the war horses, the short distance of a few dozen steps seemed to be so close that they could not cross it.

    It¡¯s not that they run slowly, it¡¯s that the enemy¡¯s formation changes too quickly!

    The cavalryman who completed a round of shooting was thrown directly into the diagonal thorn, like an unfolding lotus. The petals bloomed from the inside out layer by layer, but the stamen in the center refused to reveal its true appearance.

    The front row runs away, the back row fires, and the distance is shortened much faster.Unable to keep up with the rate of casualties, Pound painfully discovered that not a single one of the two hundred good brothers who had followed him south was dead after just a few breaths.

    This is not surprising, even Pound himself had four or five eagle feathers inserted into his body. Although none of them hit the vital point, they all penetrated deeply into the flesh.  If Pound hadn't relied on his extraordinary martial arts to avoid the vital points, he would have been one of the corpses scattered all over the place by now.

    "Ah!" He grabbed an arrow that was shot in his thigh, roared, and struggled to pull it out.

    Blood was pouring out, but Pang De didn't even look at it. The injury on his leg did not affect his combat power, but if he didn't see what was strange about the enemy's arrows, he would not be able to rest in peace.

    This kind of arrow is slightly longer than ordinary feathered arrows. The tip of the arrow is black and blue. It is cold and reminds of the teeth of some kind of animal.  Pound felt that this arrow was much heavier than the arrows he usually used, and the shaft was soaked in oil, making it tough and slippery.  If you look closely, you will find that the arrowhead is four-sided, with extremely deep grooves carved on both sides of each edge.

    Armor-breaking cone!

    A term came to mind, and Pound was filled with grief and anger.

    Armor-piercing arrows are not a new thing, but they are difficult to manufacture and cannot be used on a large scale on the battlefield.  It is no exaggeration to say that killing people with this thing costs almost the same as hitting people with gold and silver.

    There is also the bow used by the Qingzhou Army. Pang De knows without having to look closely that it is not an ordinary bow. I am afraid it is some kind of specially made strong bow. Otherwise, the range and power would not be so strong!

    Once again, I was defeated by Qingzhou¡¯s magnanimity

    After an unknown amount of time, the long and heavy-casualty charge was finally over, but Pang De was disheartened, because until the end, the tiger cavalry could only catch up with a dozen or so scattered cavalry, and most of the light cavalry had turned in in time.  .  What he was about to face was a thicker array of fire cavalry rushing up from the smoke and dust in the sky!  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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