Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 289 The Battle of Gaoping City ([-])
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

More than a dozen chariots of the Han army's central army stood with war drums, and the bare-chested Han soldiers beat the war drums together.

The soldiers of the Han army in heavy armor stepped slowly on the muddy field, and behind them came the rapid breathing of crossbowmen, or the sound of pulling the strings of crossbow arrows.

Zhuge Liang clenched the handle of the fan tightly, his palms filled with sweat, and took a deep breath to calm down his nervous mood. This was his first time facing a battle of 100,000 people.

The nest cart under the feet is slowly moving forward under the traction of the soldiers of the Han army.

Zhuge Liang glanced at the marching queue of the Wei army in the distance, and lamented that Cao Zhen deserved to be a famous general of the time.The speed of the Wei army's advancing front was not only fast, but also neat. The soldiers had a clear banner and were orderly without the slightest confusion.

Cao Zhen, who was not far away, was also amazed by Zhuge Liang's level of governing the army, and the words "It's as fast as the wind, as quiet as the forest, as plundering as fire, as immovable as a mountain, as difficult to know as the shadows," came to his mind. Move like thunder."

Cao Zhen held the handrail of the nest cart, frowned slightly, deeply disturbed in his heart.

In the early years of Western Shu, the only famous general was Guan Yu, who died in Jingzhou. Later, Liu Bei died of illness. At that time, everyone thought that Western Shu was not a climate.Unexpectedly, Zhuge Liang was born out of nowhere, and Huang Quan took on the heavy responsibility, causing such a great danger to the western part of the Wei Dynasty.

After the ascension of Shu Emperor Liu Chan, Western Shu seemed to have turned a corner, rising from the trough, while Cao Wei's national fortunes have plummeted in recent years.

However, Cao Zhen quickly restrained his mind and glanced roughly at the front of the Shu army.

Based on Cao Zhen's many years of combat experience, he quickly estimated the size of the front army of the Shu Army based on the number of banners of the Shu Army, which was about [-] infantry.However, the front army of the Wei army in this battle had [-] people.

Although there is a difference of 2000 people between the two sides, in fact the combat strength of the Han and Wei armies is almost the same.There are many armored soldiers in the front of the Han army, and there is also a brave general Wu Ban in command.

Cao Zhen's eyes were dignified. The Han army deployed heavy troops in the front line. Wouldn't it mean that the two wings would be weak? In theory, the infantry would fight fiercely first. Zhuge Liang's army.

Cao Zhen grabbed the armrest, and a strange idea popped up in his mind, how could Zhuge Liang so boldly arrange most of the elites to the front army, with the left and right wings as supplementary, could it be that his front army had hidden secrets.

Cao Zhen sighed, perhaps the impact of this battle was too great, and he was facing Zhuge Liang, a famous general in the world, even Cao Zhen, who had been fighting for a long time, felt a little powerless.

However, Cao Zhen quickly got rid of the distracting thoughts in his mind, and looked at the Han and Wei armies that were about to fight very calmly.

When the two armies approached half a mile, a rush of horns sounded.

The Han and Wei armies set up countless large shields almost at the same time, and the crossbowmen put their fingers in front of the crossbow, ready to go.

The distance between the Han and Wei armies is rapidly shortening, five hundred steps, three hundred steps, two hundred steps, and one hundred and fifty steps.

"Bowman, shoot the arrow!!!"

The general of the Han army waved the command flag and shouted angrily.Immediately afterwards, there was a sudden sound of drums in the formation.

In an instant, thousands of crossbowmen raised their crossbows in unison to aim at the opposite side, and thousands of sharp arrows flew out through the air.The dense arrows shot straight at the Wei army formation with a sharp whistling sound.

"Raise your shield!"

At the same time, the rain of arrows from the Wei army swarming like locusts also came one after another, 'Bang!Bang! ' shot on the wooden shield.

The arrows that passed through the gaps in the large shield did not penetrate the solid armor of the Han soldiers, except for hitting the uncovered lower legs and hands, and almost did not cause a fatal blow.

"Forward! Forward!"

Numerous soldiers of the Han army held huge shields and hurried forward. The spearmen quickly crowded up, and the crossbowmen stood still and began to throw.
After two rounds of arrow rain, the two armies of Han and Wei were more than forty steps apart, and the sound of the drums in front of the two armies instantly became excited.

Suddenly, the front shield formation of the Han army opened a gap, and the Yuan Rong army holding a powerful crossbow flashed out from the sword and shield, and raised their waists to draw crossbows, rhubarb crossbows, and stepping crossbows.

"Top shield!"

The experienced General Wei Jun stopped in his tracks, sensing something was wrong, and shouted sharply.

In the next instant, nearly a thousand crossbow arrows, shining with cold light, came through the air to meet the soldiers of the Wei army.

"call out!"

"call out!"

"call out!"

The hand of the Han army sword and shield only felt the sound of '咻' sounding, which made the scalp numb.

The soldiers of the Wei army who charged with their shields lost control in an instant, and fell to the ground on their backs.Accompanied by screams and shouts, blood splashed out one after another.

The general of the Wei army who was still shouting just now fell into a pool of blood with several arrows in his body.

The wailing sounded one after another in the Wei army formation. At such a short distance, the penetration power of the crossbow was terrifying.

"Rejuvenate the Han Dynasty!"

The general of the Han army held up his weapon and shouted hysterically.

The soldiers of the Han army also shouted in unison, and rushed towards the still-shocked soldiers of the Wei army.

"Wan Sheng!"

In the blink of an eye, the fiery red wave collided with the khaki phalanx, and the two armies intertwined and fought together.

The Wei Army soldier who was still in shock was torn open by the Han Army soldier in an instant, and other Han Army soldiers continued to expand the gap near the gap.

The forward positions of the Wei army were in chaos, and there was a situation of spreading to the rest of the position.

Hao Zhao, who was in the front line, heard that the forward was frustrated, his face turned cold, and he ordered, "Where is the Tiger Guard?"

Dianman, who was tall and strong, stepped forward and said loudly, "Here!"

"Break the formation!" Hao Zhao said with a stern expression.

"promise!"

At the beginning of Cao Cao's campaign, he selected extremely strong and strong people as the guards in front of the tent, called the Tiger Guard Army, led by the brave generals Dian Wei and Xu Chu.After Cao Pi succeeded to the throne, the Tiger Guards were included in the Forbidden Army, on the same level as the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Last year, Wei defeated Shu and lost 30,000 people, overthrowing the army of a state.In order to help Cao Zhen defeat the enemy in this battle, Cao Rui selected the elite soldiers of the Chinese army to be included in the account and give orders.

Before the war, Cao Zhen directly transferred the Tiger Guard Army to the former army of Hao Zhao, his confidant, hoping to open up the situation from the former army.

The Tiger Guards attack!
Dressed in heavy armor and holding a short halberd, Dianman led nearly a thousand tiger guards, like wild horses running wild, rushing towards the front of the Han army.

The Tiger Guards broke into the Han formation, as if there was no one there, everywhere they went was a pool of blood, under the shadow of swords, lights and swords, there was almost no cohesion.

For a while, the Han army's offensive stopped, and the Wei army's position gradually stabilized, and there was even a tendency to suppress the Han army.

"Go forward, kill and pass through!"

Dianman held up the short halberd, pointing forward like a bear and roaring angrily.

At this time, on the Dianman's heavy armor, there were several marks of knives, slashes and guns; the Shu brocade battle robe was covered with blood, and the blood dripped on the ground, giving off a ferocious aura.

"Shh!"

A whistling sound cut through the air, and a very short hand halberd was suddenly thrown out by Dianman.

Almost at the same moment, the soldier of the Han army who was about to attack the Tiger Guards froze his hands and fell to the ground dead. He suddenly saw a hand halberd stuck in his neck, and warm blood was gurgling from his neck.

The Han army was terrified!

(End of this chapter)