Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 238 Heavy Armored Infantry, Frontal Attack

To the south of Heiniu Town is a hilly area. It is said that it is a hill, but it is actually a small hill area with a height of only 40 meters and a low height of only [-] or [-] meters.

To the north is an endless plain with a large number of fields, and the Shahe River is here, which contains a lot of water and soil.

And Zhoutai and the others were located above the small hills in the south. Looking from south to north, from their perspective, in the west, that is, to their left, there were thousands of troops and horses on the road.

These soldiers are Han Xi's army. Han Xi is from a big family in Nanyang. He belongs to the same clan as Han Ran, who is currently following Liu Bei and is a subordinate official of Liu Bei's account. However, Han Xi is the main family and Han Ran belongs to the branch. It has already fallen to Xiangyang in an all-round way.

After Han Xi received Cai Mao's order, he left 3000 troops in the camp, led 7000 people to the east, and arrived at Heiniu Town. Because there are hills in the south and rivers in the north, the battlefield is relatively narrow, which is more suitable for this place. A small-scale battle.

The soldiers under him were lined up in a line, and at the front were all spear and shield soldiers. They erected a shield with hooks on each side, and stretched out sharp spears between the shields. The soldiers stood behind the shields and watched with their heads exposed. Look at the end of the road here.

On the opposite side of them, to the east of Zhoutai's position, to the right, a group of troops slowly appeared on the horizon, and the frontmost troops lined up neatly, like countless densely packed black dots huddled together tightly.

When the two sides meet for at least four miles, the army has stopped, and then a new formation is carried out.The two sides faced each other at a distance of about four miles, which made people quite unpredictable.

About two quarters of an hour later, two other teams came slowly from the southwest of Han Xi, and a general came out more and more, riding a horse and flying towards this side.

"General Han!"

It was Sun Yi who came, and the two sides joined together as agreed to deal with the reinforcements from Huangmenting.

Han Xi greeted: "Captain Sun."

Sun Yi looked into the distance and said, "General, are those Huangmen soldiers?"

"Ah."

Han Xi said with a serious face: "Lieutenant Sun, be careful, the Huangmen soldiers are one of the best in the world."

"Thank you, General, for reminding me, where should I line up better?"

Sun Yi is not too arrogant, but is willing to obey Han Xi's command. He is famous as a Huangmen soldier. Although he has never seen it before, no one dares to take it lightly.

At least their records are solid.

Han Xi instructed: "The lieutenant can line up on my right side. If they charge over, I will be the central army, and the lieutenant will attack their left flank."

"it is good."

Sun Yi responded, pulled the horse and turned back to set up the formation.

After a while, Zhou Bo also came over. The two chatted for a while, and Han Xi arranged Zhou Bo's position on his left side.

After arranging the task, Zhou Bo raised his head and looked into the distance, and said in surprise, "Since the soldiers at Huangmenting came to support Gan Ning, why didn't they move at a distance? Could it be a scam?"

"A fraud?"

Han Xi frowned and said, "We have tens of thousands of troops besieging Xinye, what else can he do?"

Zhou Bo said: "It's hard to say, Shen Chen has always been scheming, if he brings some more troops from Jiangxia over, let them pretend to be soldiers of the Huangmen, but actually attack them unexpectedly."

Han Xi turned his head and looked behind him from a distance. There was no wolf smoke or the sound of horns behind him. It was seven or eight miles from Xinye. Although it was far away, there were sentries and scouts along the way. There is an alarm.

Seeing that there was no problem in the rear, Han Xi said: "Jiangxia's troops are not enough now, and even now I don't know if Shen Chen is here in person, where did he get the soldiers? What's more, the Taiwei's army is tens of thousands. Back and forth."

"That's true."

While Zhou Bo was speaking, he planned to go back and lead the troops to line up on the left side of Han Xi's army.

At this moment, the scout flew over, jumped off the horse with a beautiful movement, cupped his hands and said: "Report, General, it is Shen Chen!"

"Did you see him?"

Han Xi asked.

The scout said: "I didn't see it with my own eyes, I only saw that the flag they were flying was a blue-bottomed Shenzi flag."

"Only saw the Shen character flag?"

Han Xi frowned.

"Yes."

replied the scout.

Zhou Bo said: "General, will you?"

"Don't be suspicious."

Han Xi shook his head: "This Xinye is surrounded by fertile and thousands of miles of farmland. Even if he wants to avoid the truth, it is probably impossible."

As a wealthy family, Han Xi knows the art of war.

He felt that Xinye was now surrounded by Jingzhou soldiers and horses, and there were endless farmlands, and their scouts and sentries were everywhere. How could it be so easy to break through the blockade and go to the rear?
So I don't really believe that Shen Chen will use any other tactics of war. Everyone can only fight against soldiers, generals and generals, and fight head-on.

But Zhou Bo said: "Who in Jingzhou doesn't know that Shen Chen has been fighting and plotting constantly. If he uses his own flag to deceive us, he will actually lead a surprise attack with [-] Huangmen soldiers. Xu Yingchuan was not like that back then."

"Forehead"

Han Xi hesitated. Yingchuan is also a vast plain, so Shen Chen brought three thousand soldiers into a sieve?
It seems that Shen Chen cannot be deduced according to common sense.

So after thinking about it, Han Xi decided to focus on stabilizing the morale of the army, and said to the lieutenant beside him: "Li Sima, take 500 people to the north to check, and then send scouts to move around Xinye, especially our camp, don't be afraid Let him find space."

"only!"

Li Sima took the order and left.

After the arrangement was issued, the Jingzhou soldiers on Han Xi's side also began to make timely adjustments.

Han Xi's 500 people live in the center, roughly divided into three large squares, and more than ten small squares, lined up neatly.Sun Yi is on his right hand, and Zhou Bo is on his left.

With a total of about 500 troops, there are as many as seven or eight in the Guangda phalanx at the moment, and the small phalanxes are even more densely packed, countless all over the battlefield.

If you look at the front row from left to right, it can stretch for at least two miles, and it is as dense as a star, and the formation is majestic.

This is just a battle of less than 2 people. Like the Battle of Guandu, where both sides add up to a large-scale war with more than [-] people, it is not that everyone gathers together to fight in groups, but disperses into different battlefields.

The scope of the battlefield may reach dozens of miles, and the scale of the battle is not the same.

Han Xi is not a mediocre person, but he is not a genius either. His layout is almost satisfactory. At least on the small hill to the south, he did not send archers to occupy the highest point. arrival.

At this time, the enemies in the distance had a new change. After they had stagnated for less than three quarters of an hour, they began to line up and march slowly in the direction of Hei Niu Town.

At this time, Zhoutai and the others on the hill were still watching nervously, and a sharp ring-shouldered knife had reached Zhoutai's neck at some point.

"There seems to be some changes in Shen Jun's back line. I don't know why I can't see clearly. What are they doing?"

Zhou Tai was talking to himself.

Suddenly someone whispered next to my ear: "They are temporarily changing formations, so that the rear can quickly change equipment, and at the same time send archers and scouts to occupy the high point."

"I see."

Zhou Tai nodded, then suddenly realized something was wrong, and lowered his head again, dumbfounded.

He had a knife across his neck.

For a moment, Zhou Tai was stunned and became a little at a loss.

When he came back to his senses, he said in a cry that was almost aggrieved to the extreme: "Forgive me!"

Someone pulls him up.

Looking back, my brothers were all under control, their mouths were covered, and heavily armed soldiers behind them grabbed them.

Standing behind him was a young general, Zhou Tai recognized him, and stammered: "Mr. Mu Muzi."

"you know me?"

The person who came was Shen Tao, he was ordered by Shen Chen to occupy the hill to the south, and found that there were many local people hiding in the hill, and among them there were those who were not afraid of death lying on the hill watching the battlefield.

Because it was unclear whether it was scouts sent by the enemy or civilians for a while, they had to check one by one, which would indeed waste some time.

Zhou Tai replied honestly: "Mr. Mao opened an academy in Xinye, and Jun Shen would occasionally give lectures. I met Mr. Muzi in the big class. At that time, Mr. Muzi also taught us the skills of marching in the field."

Shen Tao patted his head and said: "I did teach the students field marching and scouting skills at Xinye Academy, but did I teach you this way? Since you want to scout the enemy army in the mountains, what should you do? "

"Pretend, arrange warning scouts in the distance, be careful behind you, and the most important thing is to leave immediately if something goes wrong. Don't be obsessed with fighting, and don't focus all your attention on the battlefield."

Zhou Tai replied one by one.

Shen Tao put down his knife from Zhoutai's neck, and said with a smile: "You are still serious about listening to the class, although Xiaoqing didn't teach during Xinye Academy's time, but you are still half of his students, remember What your husband said, you have to apply what you have learned, understand?"

"Yes."

Zhoutai is as honest as a quail at this time.

Shen Tao waved her hand and said: "Let them go, they are just a group of children."

"Hahaha, I thought it was Cai Mao's scout, but I didn't expect it to be a few big and small boys."

"Our new savages are bold."

"I don't dare to go to the battlefield at this age. These guys are kind. If you want to join the army in the future, remember to go to Huangmenting."

Hearing that the scouts were not sent by the enemy, the soldiers laughed and let them go.

The Deng family has a high prestige in Xinye, plus Shen Chen and Deng Mao are strict with the clan style, do not bully the people, and help the local agricultural development, making the people's hearts allege, Xinye people also support Shen Chen more than Xiangyang Liu Cong.

In addition, Huangmenting's soldiers are all locals from Xinye, and the backbone is from the second clan of Deng and Shen. The cohesion is very high, so they are still very friendly to the locals in the same village.

Zhou Tai and his little friends felt that they had walked before the gate of hell. The murderous intent of the other party just now was still scary. They even suspected that once they were confirmed to be the scouts sent by Cai Mao, the other party would definitely kill them without hesitation. head.

For a while, everyone was terrified, but fortunately Xin Yeren escaped by not killing Xin Yeren, Zhou Tai quickly said: "Mr. Muzi, can we still watch the battle?"

Shen Tao had already turned around and was about to continue to perform the task. When she heard this sentence, she turned her head to look at Zhou Tai in surprise, and said with a deep smile, "What's your name?"

"Zhoutai."

"Zhou Tai? I've heard of this name in Jiangdong."

"State, the state of the state capital."

"Oh."

Shen Tao nodded: "You are not my soldier, I will not order you to do anything. You can watch it if you want, but as a teacher who taught you before, I remind you that you must protect your own safety."

"only."

Zhou Tai suddenly became excited.

"go!"

With a wave of Shen Tao's hand, dozens of soldiers sneaked into the forest like ghosts, heading towards the southwest mountain forest.

At this time, on the frontal battlefield, Shen Chen's army had already lined up.

His army has a total of 7000 people, but now there are only 5000 people. The front is also the spear and shield soldiers, slowly pressing forward.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and soon it was less than two miles, and then they continued to move forward.

Han Xi came out more and more, and watched from a distance at the front of the team. He saw a very large flag in the center of the team.

Compared with their large army of more than 6000 people, Shen Chenjun's 5000 people seemed to be much smaller, but the mighty momentum was like a thousand troops.

After another quarter of an hour, Shen Chen's army continued to advance, and the distance between the two sides was already very close, almost less than one mile apart.

"The enemy is close to three hundred steps!"

"The enemy is 220 steps closer!"

"The enemy is 180 steps closer!"

"The enemy is 130 steps closer!"

The wait-and-see hands shouted hoarsely.

"Archer ready!"

Seeing that the other party seemed to be bumping into each other in such a daze, when the two sides were less than 120 steps away, Han Xi gave the order.

"Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz!"

Following the waving of the military flag and the continuous order of the horns, the creaking and creaking of bows and crossbows in the tens of thousands of troops continued, and there was even the sound of armor plates colliding.

"Fire arrows!"

Almost at the moment when the opponent's formation reached the archer's range, Han Xi launched an offensive.

Then, at the moment when the gongs and drums sounded for the arrow attack order, in the formation formed by the Jingzhou army, countless arrows covered the sky and covered the ground, forming a terrifying firepower net, flying towards the direction of Shen Chen's army.

The arrows rained down, but Shen Chenjun didn't seem to have any thoughts of defense. They still held the shields in the front row, and then charged forward with firm steps.

The speed is actually not fast, but the sound of heavy footsteps always makes people feel a kind of deadly horror.

In the next second, the thing that everyone imagined was shot down by the arrow did not happen at all, only heard countless clanging sounds, and Shen Chen's army was still moving forward unswervingly like roaring war horses.

"what happened?"

Han Xi was shocked, the enemy didn't move in a round of arrow rain, how could this be possible?
"Armor, it's armor!"

At this moment, a watchman standing on a high place suddenly shouted: "All behind them are in armor!"

All in armor?
With this thought, Han Xi was stunned.

Where did they get so many armors?
"woo woo woo woo!"

While he was in a daze, the sound of humming horns came from Shen Chen's army.

The gunmen in the front row suddenly parted, revealing two thousand heavily armored infantrymen in armor.

These infantrymen are extremely tall and burly, all wearing bright white body armor, almost armed to the teeth, each of them is like a god descending from the earth, exuding a terrifying aura.

The armor of the Han Dynasty actually tended to be black, because it was not steel, but iron, which is commonly known as wrought iron.

In the era of lack of high-efficiency steelmaking technology, it was difficult to smelt too much steel by frying steel alone. Therefore, there was no shortage of pig iron and wrought iron in the Han Dynasty, but steel.

The color of the steel is also black, but it has a luster, shining bright silver in sunlight.

Therefore, this army is actually a pure steel armored army, stronger than Gao Shun's iron armored heavy infantry trapped in the camp.

This is the deepest heritage of Huangmen Pavilion!
They have an all-steel armor force of 3000 people!

The reason why it is not used when fighting Cao Cao is because the equipment is too heavy to be carried in the battlefield environment that needs to travel sixty to seventy kilometers a day.

And now fighting at the door of the house, naturally there is no need to travel long distances like when fighting Xudu.

Therefore, in this battle, Shen Chen can be said to have fully revealed his background.

The steel armored soldiers took neat and firm steps, like an army of tanks composed of a torrent of steel, rumbling towards Han Xi's army.

The arrows are still being swayed, but shooting these soldiers is as insignificant as if they were scraping.

Bows and crossbows have certain lethality against armor, and there are even armor-piercing arrows in the shape of a cross blade, which can break through ordinary armor and shoot through three unarmored soldiers.

But that was due to the upgrade of cold weapons, bows and crossbows after the technological innovation of the steel pouring method in the Tang Dynasty.

The bows and crossbows of the Han Dynasty were only the most advanced compared with their contemporaries, but they were very backward compared with the later dynasties, and due to the low production of steel, most of them were pig iron and wrought iron arrows, which had no armor-piercing effect at all.

So those Huangmenting soldiers almost just lowered their heads and used the small round shield in their left hand to protect the front door, so it was almost impossible to hurt them.

The soldiers could only hear tinkling sounds and occasional sparks splashing in their ears. Apart from the uncomfortable impact of the arrows, they had no effect at all.

The most important thing is that there is not enough impact anywhere.

The powerful bows and crossbows of later generations are as powerful as bullets, especially compound bows and compound crossbows. After being shot, even if the shot does not wear hard body armor, the impact force can break a person's ribs.

However, limited by the technical level, the long-distance power of the bows and crossbows of the Han Dynasty was not very strong. After 30 meters, the kinetic energy attenuated, and the lethality was greatly reduced after 50 meters. After 80 meters, the enemy could basically be killed by inertia.

Therefore, the impact that these soldiers can feel is very small, and unless they are hit with a blunt weapon with great force in close combat, it is not enough to hurt themselves.

Soon, with heavy and solid steps, the two sides finally came into close contact.

There are no bells and whistles on both sides, just like a piece of soil has been hit by a flood, and they collide without hindrance.

When Han Xi's gun and shield man in the front row met them, it was as if he had been crushed by a bulldozer. The shield collided with the iron armor, making the friction sound of scratching the glass with his fingernails, which was extremely harsh and unpleasant.

Immediately afterwards, the spears and spears of the two sides stabbed each other, and the swords almost stabbed. No martial arts and tactics were as good as the spears and swords in their hands. In just a moment, Han Xi's former army was killed and dispersed.

It is useless to have a shield without armor. You can stab someone with a spear without pain or itching. The shield can’t cover your whole body. If someone stabs you with a spear, you will die. In this case, no one wants to fight with a group of tin cans. , retreated one after another.

This withdrawal led to the collapse of Han Xijun's front phalanx. The good news is that the collapse did not spread to the whole army, because they had a large number of people and formed early, so it was only the phalanx that was in chaos.

At this time, a good general should let the rear phalanx evacuate, then guide the front phalanx to evacuate, and then order the left and right sides to outflank, and surround this group of Huangmen soldiers.

Even in the late Ming Dynasty, the heavy armored infantry was the most powerful unit. For example, from Nurhachi to Huang Taiji stage, Houjin basically relied on heavy infantry to win the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the heavy armor infantry has serious flaws and cannot fight for a long time. Therefore, before the collapse of your own army, you can immediately adjust your tactics and adopt tactics that consume the physical strength of the Huangmen soldiers, and you can win.

However, Han Xi's tactical command ability is average, and he only remembered to carry out tactical rectification after he realized it. When he remembered to give an order, the collapse spread to his entire central army.

Secondly, Sun Yi and Zhou Bo on the left and right wings didn't provide immediate support. It wasn't that they didn't want to support, but that the outer battlefield was in chaos.

It was not until Han Xi forced the Chinese army back a certain distance, and let the defeated soldiers retreat, that he managed to stop the situation, and then gave an order to surround these Huangmenting soldiers on three sides. Finally, he remembered Attrition tactics.

Then the melodious sound of horns came from the mountains to the south.

Under the leadership of Shen Tao, two thousand soldiers from Jiangxia who had ambushed suddenly came out, slammed into the rear of Sun Yi's troops who were outflanking the left wing of the Huangmen soldiers, and directly stabbed him in the eye.

"Run, there is an ambush!"

"withdraw!"

"Run!"

The chaotic battlefield suddenly became more chaotic.

More than 1 people lost their command and could not overcome the frontal attack, and immediately faced the risk of the collapse of the entire army.

Then their flag fell.

Yes.

Han Xi's banner fell down.

At this moment, Shen Chen was wearing steel armor, like a tiger rushing into a flock of sheep, slashing and killing everywhere.

All the attacks stabbed around him can't do anything to him, even if there are soldiers around him who are knocked to the ground sometimes, the battle armor can still protect him.

And Shen Chen was very strong, much stronger than ordinary soldiers. Even if seven or eight soldiers pressed their spears against him together, they were swept away by him like a violent war horse that could not be stopped.

His goal is very clear, that is, Han Xi Dazhu among the crowd.

Followed by hundreds of guards in steel armor, they went straight to Han Xi's direction, and Han Xi was constantly directing the battle at the moment, but the crowd was crowded around him, and the enemy was slowly approaching him, so he had to retreat.

As soon as his banner retreated, the army became more scattered, and then suddenly felt that the surrounding area was empty, and more than a dozen armored soldiers rushed to his side, scaring Han Xi to rein in his horse and run away without the banner.

Shen Chen cut down his flag with a single knife, and then all Han Xi's soldiers and horses were defeated in an instant, and fled towards the rear.

Zhou Tai and others who were far away on the top of the mountain were dumbfounded.

There were no bells and whistles in this battle, except for sending a partial division to outflank and raid from the flanking hills, it was completely a frontal confrontation.

But 7000 people defeated more than 6000 people head-on, and they were the regular army under the most powerful princes of the Han Dynasty. They were not rogues without military discipline and combat effectiveness. This in itself is already a very exaggerated thing.

It turned out to be a war.

You can still play like this!

　I don’t know if it’s Yang. My current symptoms are headache, runny nose, uncomfortable throat, weakness in my left hand. I feel uncomfortable when I can’t use my left hand when typing, and I feel dizzy. I don’t have any ideas. I hope it’s just a cold. . . .This chapter is for today, because my left hand is really weak and my body is very bad. I plan to take some cold medicine first and get a good night’s sleep. If the situation improves tomorrow, I will resume the update. 4000 more words, and then went to the hospital to see.

　　
　
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