Chapter 693 Failure in the First Battle

The Jiangdong Army outside the north gate was waiting in full formation, while the two thousand Huaisi Xiaoqi were getting closer and closer, gradually approaching within 200 steps.

Two hundred paces is not a distance for cavalry.

Seeing the sudden attack of Cao's cavalry, Jiangdong's generals were naturally worried, while Li Shu on top of the city was overjoyed and commanded his troops to counterattack.

Zhou Yu looked around and saw that although Han Dang's arrangement was very reasonable. It was just the formation of infantry to resist the cavalry. However, Han Dang's army's lineup was too thin. There were only three thousand people in the first place. Hundreds of people went to the city to fight. The remaining The more than two thousand people below formed a small formation.

On the other hand, the cavalry of Cao's army charging towards them from the opposite side had more than 4,000 horses, and their galloping formation was almost comparable to that of an army of over 10,000 infantry. Han Dang's army was like a mantis using its arms as a chariot in front of Huaisi's cavalry.

"Report!"

Under the earth platform, a scout came flying over, raised his head and shouted loudly: "Taishi Xiaowei reported, do you want to suspend the attack on the city and lead the army to support General Han?"

Taishi Ci and Han Dang can be said to be the "only two" people in Jiangdong's army who are proficient in cavalry warfare. He naturally knows the power of cavalry group charges. With Han Dang's more than 2,000 troops and horses alone, the lineup is too thin.

Before Zhou Yu could say anything, another fast horse galloped over, and the sentry rider immediately shouted: "Grand Governor, General Huang, I would like to ask for instructions, do you want to send troops to assist General Han?"

Cheng Pu on the side said worriedly: "Gong Jin, Duke Yi has too few troops. Otherwise, let Gong Fu and Zi Yi lead their troops to respond."

"No." Zhou Yu shook his head.

"Why?" Cheng Pu didn't understand. Han Dang, Huang Gai and he were the only remaining veteran generals in the Jiangdong Army. Especially since Zu Mao sacrificed for Sun Jian, the three of them jointly assisted Sun Jian, Sun Ce and Sun Quan, and had a strong relationship with each other. Emotions are as strong as iron. Seeing that Han Dang is in critical condition, she naturally wants to help him.

Cheng Pu was dissatisfied and said: "Is it possible that the governor thought that Han Yigong with more than 2,000 people could withstand Cao Jun's cavalry?"

There was a hint of blame in Cheng Pu's words, but Zhou Yu did not pay attention to it and explained: "General Cheng, Cao Ren's troops are cavalry and are very mobile. If Captain Taishi and General Huang split their troops to support Han Lao, General, then our army outside the west gate and south gate will be weakened. When Cao Ren lets General Han go, and instead attacks the west gate or south gate, what will happen to our army?"

"Is it possible to let General Han divide his troops to support General Huang and Ziyi? Two legs can't run as fast as four." Zhou Yu said meaningfully.

Cheng Pu suddenly realized and thought that Zhou Yu did not save him on purpose, so he said with shame: "No wonder he was appointed as the Grand Governor by the lord. Gong Jin is really smart."

"However, our army can't just sit idly by and do nothing to save Lord Justice, right?" Xu Sheng couldn't help but said.

"Of course we must save it, and we must annex this cavalry of Cao's army in one fell swoop!" Zhou Yu said loudly.

Nowadays, most of the horse-producing places in the world are in Liu Ye. In addition, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Du occupy Youzhou and produce war horses under their command. The other princes have no large-scale cavalry.

These two thousand cavalrymen must be a large part if not all of Cao Ren's cavalry. If they can be annihilated, they will definitely have an advantage in the next battle against Cao Ren. Therefore, Zhou Yu tried every means to annihilate Cao Ren's troops.

"Send the order!"

Zhou Yu ordered: "Order Huang Gai, Tai Shi Ci, and Chen Wu to continue attacking the city and capture Shu County as soon as possible. The troops and horses should form formations outside the city and be prepared. They are not allowed to move out at will."

"Order Han Dang to hold on, and our Chinese army will personally dispatch to rescue the North Gate!"

Zhou Yu's eyes were ambitious. When he gave an order, Cheng Pu, Xu Sheng, Pan Zhang and other generals responded with clasped fists, while the 13,000 Chinese troops responded in unison, and their morale was high.

"Attack!"

Zhou Yu stepped off the earth platform and sat on the chariot. Surrounded by 13,000 Jiangdong Army soldiers, he accelerated towards the north gate.

At this moment, two thousand cavalry of Cao's army were already a hundred steps away from Han Dang's military formation, and they were about to rush into Han Dang's formation in an instant.

However, at this moment, the two thousand cavalry suddenly turned around, braked suddenly and turned aside when they were about a hundred steps away from Han Dang's troops.

An archer from Jiangdong Army felt his heart pounding for a while and couldn't help but shoot out the arrow in his hand.

This was incredible, and it seemed to have triggered a chain reaction. Nearly a thousand archers seemed to have touched some mechanism, and they all shot out the arrows on their bowstrings.

Whoosh whoosh!

Arrows are most lethal within fifty steps, but their power decreases sharply after more than a hundred steps. Let alone iron armor, even leather armor is difficult to penetrate, and the time it takes for infantry to charge a hundred steps is enough to The archer fires three rounds, which is the so-called last three rounds in battle.

Most of the arrows hit the ground because the two thousand cavalry of Cao's army suddenly turned, thus exposing a large open space in Jiangdong's field of vision. These arrows hit the open space one after another.

A small number of arrows hit Cao Jun's cavalry, but most of them were weak and hung limply on the armor leaves of the cavalry. There were also some powerful arrows that were still lethal after more than a hundred steps. Several Cao Bing grunted when he was hit by an arrow. Several horses were hit by arrows. They looked up to the sky and hissed in pain. They threw their masters off their backs and galloped away in pain.

broken!

great!

The former is Han Dang's idea, while the latter is Cao Ren's mood.

"Load your bows and arrows, prepare your swordsmen, shieldmen and spearmen. You must hold on!"

Han Dang shouted sharply and frowned. He still underestimated Cao Jun's cavalry. He didn't expect that Cao Ren was so good at commanding cavalry. He even used seduction to induce Jiangdong Army's arrows to be fired. In this way, the archers who were the first means of attack became useless.

Archers do not just pull the bow to shoot an arrow. It takes nearly ten breaths to catch the arrow, draw the string, and aim. They can still shoot two or three rounds of arrows when facing an infantry charge. However, a cavalry charge is extremely fast, and a hundred steps can be covered in an instant. Arrive soon.

Although Han Dang knew how to use infantry to fight cavalry, he still left loopholes because he had too few men and the common soldiers had no experience fighting cavalry.

Cao Ren, who was experienced in battles, naturally would not miss this good opportunity. He immediately said with great joy: "The enemy's arrows have been shot out. What are you waiting for? Give it to me!"

"Kill!"

Two thousand cavalrymen of Cao's army roared together and gathered into a sharp cone formation. The mighty front of the troops pointed directly at Han Dang's army, and the distance of a hundred steps was reached in an instant.

There is no hope for the archers. We can only hope that the sword, shield and spearmen can cooperate with each other to withstand the charge of Cao's cavalry.

Han Dang frowned and shouted sternly: "The sword and shield hands hold back, the spear hands attack!"

Facing the galloping cavalry of Cao's army, Jiangdong's sword, shield and spearmen all looked nervous, cheering themselves up in their hearts and holding on to the swords in their hands.

coming.

boom!

Finally, two thousand Cao Jun's cavalry crashed into Han Dang's army.