wjnovel Chapter 363
Chapter 363
Chapter 363
Since Xue Rengui crossed the river, he began to gather an army by the river, and then rushed to Liyang.
Although Liyang Cao Ren had many soldiers, he also cut down the surrounding trees.
But Xue Rengui had been prepared for a long time. What he brought this time was not only an army of [-], but also new weapons manufactured in various workshops.
Xue Rengui brought hundreds of carriages, among which were new-style crossbow carts.This kind of ballista is larger than that installed on the ship, and there are wooden boards in front to block the arrows.Every ballista needs a carriage to pull the arrows, and the arrows are put into a quiver, so it is easy to load the arrows.
At first Cao Ren didn't understand what was going on, so he sent people to attack these ballistas.But at two hundred steps, these ballistas started to start, arrows one after another, without stopping at all, each one was ten feet long, and each ballista fired twenty arrows in one go, counting Ten thousand crossbow arrows can be fired from a hundred ballistas in twenty breaths.
Cao Jun suddenly suffered such a blow and immediately collapsed.It was only then that Cao Ren realized that the enemy's crossbow could be fired in succession.
That's right, it's a repeating ballista.This is Zhuge Liang's new invention after Liannu, a ballista that shoots [-] rounds in a row.As soon as this invention came out, Zhuge Liang was directly named a township lord.
You must know that these generals on the front line are at best township lords, and among the generals, Di Qing has the highest title, but he is only a county lord.It can be seen how much Zhang Yi attaches importance to Zhuge Liang's invention. He wants to encourage people to pay attention to scientific inventions. After all, technology is the primary productive force.
Although Qubei and others were also afraid of the ballista, they believed that as long as they were mixed with Zhang Yijun, their ballista would not be able to perform well.
Cao Ren didn't pay much attention to this opinion. It wasn't that he couldn't think of it, but he didn't dare to fight Xue Rengui.Although his soldiers are considered veterans, they have not experienced war after all.And Xue Rengui's soldiers are very elite. He had experienced it five years ago. The tiger and leopard cavalry are such a powerful army.
But it is not very convinced to go to the inferior people, and the nomads themselves are also competitive.Xue Rengui was named the God of Arrow by the Qiang people. The Huns were quite unhappy. Of course, the title of God of Arrow should be used to describe the warriors of the Huns. The Han people just rely on their equipment.
So these nomadic cavalry did not listen to Cao Ren's order, and directly challenged Xue Rengui.As long as they defeat Xue Rengui, they can suppress the Qiang people, and they will have the upper hand in the next battle for territory.
So outside Liyang City, the two sides started a scuffle.Xue Rengui let Ma Chao hide, and for the first two days he kept fighting. On the third day, as soon as the battle started, Xue Rengui led the cavalry to attack Qubei's place.
Many teams came to block them, but many of Xue Rengui's men were equipped with continuous crossbows. At close range, nomadic cavalry could not resist the power of continuous crossbows, and they would shoot down every wave they came.
Seeing this, I can only scold the Han people for being cunning.
But Xue Rengui had already rushed to his front, and if he dodged, he would only cause chaos in the entire army.So he bit the bullet and rushed forward, trying to repel Xue Rengui, but Xue Rengui stabbed him off his horse with a spear, and he couldn't die any more.
As soon as Qubei died, the morale of the nomadic cavalry fell, and Xue Rengui immediately sprinted left and right among them.
At this time, Ma Chao also attacked from the flanks, constantly picking weak spots to charge in, then charge out, and then charged in and out again.
Two hours later, the war ended, and there were corpses all over the ground, human and horse corpses, and broken spears and broken bows. The horses without their masters were neighing, and on both sides of the battlefield were two large camps.
Outside Cao's camp, Ma Chao galloped wildly and kept challenging the people inside.
Ma Chao's hatred for Cao Ying was too deep. Cao Cao killed his whole family with tricks, and he wished to kill Cao Cao.But Cao Cao died before he could kill him.Then he will go to Yecheng and kill his whole family.
Xue Rengui saw Ma Chao like this and did not stop him. He had a good relationship with Ma Chao and naturally knew the hatred in Ma Chao's heart.Cao Cao did indeed do some things inappropriately, and it was okay to let Ma Chao vent.
Xue Rengui ordered people to clean the battlefield and collect the spoils.In this battle, more than 1 enemies were killed and more than 2 war horses were obtained. Spears, bows and arrows have not yet been counted.
The casualties were not very large, only more than 1000 people died, most of them died when they first charged.These people are not old cavalry, but recruited first.
In the past five years, Zhang Yi used Zhai Changsun to train Xuanjia cavalry, and also trained many ordinary cavalry.Most of these cavalry are recruited from the Qiang people. As long as they are trained a little, they will be a good cavalry.
Although the Qiang people refused to serve as soldiers, Zhang Yi was not forced to do so, but voluntarily, and still received more than 1 yuan.Including the Han people who mixed with the Qiang people and the poor families in the four prefectures of Henan, Yan, Xu and Qing, Zhang Yi finally recruited more than 4 people.
All but some of these people could ride horses.
After five years of more than 4 cavalry, some of them became the most elite Xuanjia cavalry, and some became horse archers.
These cavalry almost allowed Zhang Yi to equip all the horses he got, and then to train the cavalry, he could only board for a few years.
This cavalry battle allowed Zhang Yi to establish the advantage of cavalry, and also allowed Zhang Yi to establish all advantages.Now, whether it is infantry, cavalry, crossbows or water troops, Zhang Yi is fully dominant, and he only needs to wipe out the superiority of Cao Jun's strength to fully occupy Hebei.
Cao Ren looked outside the camp, his face darkened.It's not enough to make things worse than to make things worse, so the honest defense will be ready soon?Seeing that Zhang Yijun's crossbow is stronger, he still dared to attack. Isn't this courting death?
In order to prevent Xue Rengui from building more siege equipment, he has already cut down all the trees in a radius of more than ten miles.The strategy he insisted on in Li Yang was instantly destroyed by him.
Without [-] nomadic cavalry, Xue Rengui's troops do not need to be reduced much, and he can attack the city with confidence.
The entire Liyang City spent five years of taxes from Wei County, raising the height of the city and digging a deep moat for the purpose of defense.To be humble is to attack, you pig brain.
As Cao Ren expected, Xue Rengui took advantage of the great victory and began to attack the city.
There were not many stones around Liyang, so Xue Rengui made a cage made of branches and filled it with soil, and the effect of smashing it out was better than that of stones.
Ma Chao led his cavalry to patrol north of Liyang every day, specializing in cutting off grain and grass.For more than ten days, the grain transport team coming from Yecheng was defeated by Ma Chao and successfully plundered nearly one million hu of grain.
There is also a lot of food hidden in Liyang City, but no amount of food can support the consumption of tens of thousands of troops, and the number of more than a thousand hu is decreasing every day.
Thanks to Xie Mengyi's account for the reward
(End of this chapter)