Chapter 8 Secret Weapons

"Ah!"

Liang Xing looked at the silver gun inserted into his chest in front of him in disbelief. He and Ma Chao had only made five moves, and they had been shot in the chest by the other party. What's more sad is that I didn't see how the shot was shot.

"Why, why do I have to fight with Ma Chao?" In the consciousness that was about to disappear, such an idea emerged, and Liang Xing's body fell off the horse like a broken pocket. In fact, he doesn't have to be sad, because behind him, Li Kan and three others were also stabbed off the horse one after another. Han Sui's eight generals had already died at the hands of Ma Chao.

"Ah!"

The same scream. Although Zhao Yun and Ma Chao are equal, Yan Xing's martial arts skills are always better than Liang Xing's. This shot made him avoid more than half of it, and finally he was stabbed in his left shoulder. Zhao Yun was also a little surprised that he couldn't take his name. Taking advantage of Zhao Yun's surprise, Yan Xing quickly turned his head and ran back. He was shot in twelve rounds. Although Yan Xing himself was scared, Han Sui, who was watching the battle in the city, was also shocked. But how can Zhao Yun allow him to come and leave as soon as he says? At the moment, under Zhao Yun's order, the cavalry of the Baqiang Department, who had been waiting for a long time, surrounded from both sides, and Yan Xing and his troops immediately fell into a heavy siege.

Xi Qiang's life is tough, but he is a hero with great respect. Fa Zheng knew that even if Xiliang was pacfied, Liu Bei said that in order to prevent the Ma family from being dominant in the Xiliang family, he also needed some forces to counterbalance Ma Teng and his son. Although I have some talent, I don't have enough weight. Therefore, after summoning the Baqiang Department, the law specially launched Zhao Yun after a drink.

When more than 20 warriors of the Baqiang Department could not catch Zhao Yun's three moves, everyone immediately looked at him with new eyes. After knowing that he was Ma Teng's son-in-law, these people no longer dared to underestimate him. Otherwise, how could the Baqiang Department, which has always been tough, obey the command of a Han man who has not been here for a long time today? Under the echo of Zhao Yun, the 30,000 cavalry of the Baqiang army quickly wrapped Yan Xing's subordinates in the core. In the end, except for the violent Yan Xing, who led more than a thousand remnants to escape, the rest were either annihilated, captured or surrendered.

"General Zilong is really brave. It seems that everything is going well!" Looking at Ma Chao coming back proudly in the distance, Fa Zheng also smiled so much that he couldn't close his mouth. In terms of people, Zhao Yun, who is modest, is much closer than Ma Chao.

"All Lai Xiaozhi expected the enemy's clever plan!" Zhao Yun has always been useless, but he knew that if it hadn't been for the help of Fa Zheng, a counselor familiar with Xiliang, it would not be realistic to win so easily by himself and Ma Chao. First, he lured Ma to play with Yang Qiu, then attacked Cheng Yin to startle the snake, and finally ambushed Li Kan and four others. At the same time, he deliberately transferred Ma Chao, so that Yan Xing was hit hard by Zhao Yun. One of these is one by one, all of which was expected to be the first opportunity of the enemy. Han Sui and others were completely led by the nose.

"Sister-in-law, I've finished it here, and now there's only Han's old thief left!" Ma Chao came with his usual wild laughter, and there were still a few heads hanging on the mount. It was Li Kan and others. So far, in addition to Yang Qiu and Ma, who defected to the enemy, Cheng Yin was killed by Ma Dai after the fourth day. Liang Xing and four others were killed by Ma Chao. The rest of the candidates saw the wrong and surrendered knowingly. While Ma Chao sent people to subdue Wuwei and other counties in the west, he besieged Jincheng with Zhao Yun and Fa Zheng.

"The wall of the Golden City is dangerous, but it is difficult to attack!" Ma Chao sighed. As a senior resident of Jincheng, Ma Chao himself knows Jincheng very well. Without thinking about it, he smiled and then said confidently, "Young General, you don't have to worry about how to capture the Golden City. It's just that at present, there are only more than 10,000 people in the guard of Han Sui, but there are no less than 50,000 horses in all departments here. Why don't the two generals lead a man to the street pavilion to support General Zhao first?

"Well, brother-in-law, go!" Ma Chao was so bratful that he didn't want to. Zhao Yun now has a certain resistance to Ma Chao's cheeky skin, and he led 20,000 cavalry to the street pavilion without refusal. The rest of Ma Chao and Fa Zheng surrounded the Golden City.

And the street pavilion has been filled with smoke since two days ago. After learning that the Sichuan army had guarded the street pavilion, Xia Houyuan almost rushed here. As a result, when I saw that the defenders guarded the Avenue and Jieting City, they became horns with each other, and they suddenly realized that they had kicked the iron plate again this time.

The defenders in the city didn't care about it. They came in a hurry and didn't bring siege equipment. Besides, thousands of people in such a small city had nothing to do with the overall situation. The most important thing is to hold the Dazhai of the Sichuan army in charge. Looking at the towering "Zhao" flag, Xia Houyuan couldn't help but twitch.

Although there are not many battles between Zhao Feng and the battlefield, Xia Houyuan still knows this person well. At least the evaluation of this person heard from Cao Yan and other people has always been praised. Xia Houyuan knew that Zhao Feng had always been a good player in defensive warfare. In those years, he guarded Guangling with less than 50,000 soldiers, and Ji Ling, the first general in Huainan, who led 150,000 troops, forced him to surrender. Xia Houyuan asked himself that he didn't have the ability.

However, Xia Houyuan is also very confident now, because Zhao Feng's men are almost all infantry, and he has 30,000 iron riders. If you want to use infantry against cavalry on the plain, it's simply bullying. At present, Xia Houyuan looked at the ground. Except for the obstacles and trenches set up by some people, the other side had no favorable terrain to use. So Xia Houyuan decisively ordered and began to attack.

A team of cavalry got off the horse, rushed forward with the stones they had picked up, and began to clean up the traps and trenches. Of course, the trench is cleaned directly, but the trap can only be verified by people. And once the verification is successful, you don't want to come back. At the same time, the defenders in Dazhai would not let them clean up the traps so calmly. Under the command of Zhao Feng, various crossbows with a long range began to show their power, and the crossbows fell on Cao's army.

"Xia Houyuan has really been on the battlefield for a long time. The fighter caught it really well!" Zhao Feng stood high and looked at the crossbow that was not accurate, and he secretly admired Xia Houyuan. Originally, Xia Houyuan had just arrived in the morning. Zhao Feng thought that he was going to take a break before he began to attack. He didn't expect him to attack so soon, which surprised Zhao Feng and thought that Xia Houyuan's surname was impatient.

But as soon as he started the fight, Zhao Feng understood how powerful Xia Houyuan's move was. It's morning now. I shoot arrows to the east, with my eyes facing the sun. It's a little difficult to even open my eyes. The arrow is too bad. It took nearly a day for Xia Houyuan to repair these roadblocks. Of course, the price is more than 3,000 casualties.

However, in Xia Houyuan's view, all this is worth it, because without these roadblocks, you can give full play to the advantages of the cavalry' impact, and then you can charge and completely penetrate the other party's Dazhai. Even if there are tens of thousands of people on the other side, once there is a scuffle, Xia Houyuan believes that his hundred elite soldiers in the pass are absolutely not comparable to these half-hearted Sichuan troops, not to mention that he is still a cavalry.

"Lead the array, rush!" With the order of Xia Houyuan, the three thousand iron riders stopped, and then drove their horses to the Sichuan army village a few miles away. Thousands of people rushed along the mountain road, and the ground suddenly trembled violently, and all kinds of gravel and small stones began to dance. Few people in the Sichuan army have seen the scene of a large-scale cavalry assault. The recruits who lack combat experience have begun to look a little pale.

"Rap arrows!" As the other party's cavalry had entered the range of the crossbow, Zhao Feng roared and all kinds of crossbows began to power. The powerful crossbow, the copper crossbow, the crossbow cannon that fired 16 arrows at a time, and the ordinary crossbow began to show their power, and a rain of arrows flew towards Xiahou Yuan's cavalry.

The screams came one after another, and the first wave of arrows rained more than 6,000. I have to say that Zhao Feng is the first person in the world in terms of the firepower of the bow and crossbow. Under his planning, although the first wave of arrow rain failed to harvest 6,000 lives, and even 3,000 cavalry only fell thousands of people, such casualties have shocked Xia Houyuan.

Regardless of the casualties of his subordinates, Xia Houyuan roared, "Come with me again!" None of the remaining 2,000 cavalry members turned back. For the rest of their lives after the disaster, they knew that what was waiting for them was the big knife of the supervision team. Moreover, the other party's first round of arrow rain has passed. According to common sense, the second round of arrow rain always has to wait until it is loaded before it can be tested. This time is enough for me to run to them. As long as they get close to them, these crossbows of the Sichuan army can only be reduced to the ghosts under their sabers.

"General, the enemy is about to rush up!" Ma Yan, who was beside Zhao Feng, also changed his face when he saw this scene. Although Zhao Feng also placed the big shield soldiers and anti-horse guns in the front row, once entangled with the first wave of enemies, the follow-up troops will continue to keep up, and the pressure will be great.

According to common sense, Zhao Feng can only rely on heavy infantry to fight against the other party. But how many of the short Sichuan army can be heavy infantry? In addition, as a time traveler, how can Zhao Feng rely on this conventional means alone?

In Ma's unexpected eyes, Zhao Feng gave an order: "Cunion launch!" Then a thousand soldiers in the first row took out crossbows and shot the first wave of arrows at the enemy cavalry that had rushed in front of them. Then with the simple push-pull action, the second wave, the third wave and the fourth wave of arrow rain swarmed up, with a general distance of only a few dozen steps. The remaining 2,000 cavalry had fallen more than half, and finally the remaining five or six hundred people did not dare to be tenacious and directly turned the horse's head to run back.

"What's going on?" Xia Houyuan was also shocked to see that his people rushed only dozens of steps away from the other side's position and were shot back by a continuous dense rain of arrows. He couldn't figure out how there could be such a powerful arrow.

That's right, the secret weapon Zhao Feng used this time is Zhuge Lian crossbow. Although A Liang and his wife have studied this thing, the production of Zhuge Lian crossbow is extremely cumbersome. For more than a year, Zhao Feng has exhausted the human and material resources of Yizhou and only let the craftsmen create more than a thousand. In order to deal with the other party's cavalry, Zhao Feng took out 1,000 of them and left them as a secret weapon to deal with Xia Houyuan's cavalry. Now it really works in one fell swoop.

Of course, even the crossbow as a big killer is not without any shortcomings. The short range and the amazing speed of arrow consumption are the two biggest shortcomings of the crossbow. Therefore, before the other party rushed to the present, Zhao Feng first suppressed it with a strong crossbow with a long range, and finally tried to shoot the crossbow close to him, which worked in one fell swoop.

"Grandma's, go with me again!" Xia Houyuan, who did not believe in evil, waved his army and attacked twice. As a result, he threw down nearly 2,000 corpses each time and retreated awkwardly. Xia Houyuan knew that it was really delusional to use cavalry to break down the other party's position in one fell swoop.

After understanding this, Xia Houyuan stopped fighting hard. The sergeants were ordered to get off the horse, and the infantry picked up the shield to form a phalanx and slowly advanced to the position of the Yizhou Army. Zhao Feng looked at Xia Houyuan, who had regained his composure, and knew in his heart that the real test was coming.

(to be continued)