Chapter 592: The Power of the Trap Camp (Part 2)

As the soldiers shouted, the circle quickly shrank, and the giant shields in the front row quickly moved together to form a thick shield wall. The spearmen in the back lined up in several rows, with the butts of their spears against the ground and the tips of their spears facing the outside of the shield wall. The innermost crossbowmen also quickly prepared, loaded their crossbows, and rushed towards the direction of the cavalry outside the formation.

"Boom..."

As the deafening sound of horse hooves got closer and closer, the atmosphere in the entire training ground became more and more tense, and everyone looked at the trap camp in the field nervously. Seeing that the cavalry was about to rush to the front of the formation, the cavalry general found that the trap camp was already on full alert, and immediately ordered the cavalry to split into two parts and pass around the formation. However, the arrows in their hands flew towards the trap camp like raindrops. These cavalry were all good archers drawn from Zhao Yun's Baima Yicong, so such a battle was easy for them.

"Crossbowmen, shoot!" Seeing the cavalry entering the range of their own side, Gao Shun shouted loudly;

According to his shout, the crossbowmen who had been prepared long ago shot at the cavalry outside the formation. There was a "buzzing" sound, and the crossbow arrows flew towards the cavalry like rain. Although the cavalry suddenly turned, dozens of cavalry were still hit by arrows. The white arrow marks meant that these cavalry had been hit by arrows, either dead or injured, and had to withdraw from the field.

The cavalry Sima looked at the scene in front of him and was surprised. Dozens of his own soldiers had withdrawn, but the losses caused to the other side were negligible. The arrows of the cavalry did not pose much threat to the heavily armored Xianzhen Camp. Only a few soldiers in the Xianzhen Camp were announced to withdraw because of arrows in their vital parts, and most of them were hardly affected.

In the first round of fighting, the cavalry did not leave the parade ground, but cruised around, hoping to find an opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the Xianzhen Camp. Unfortunately, Zhao Yun did not allow them to charge the formation by force. However, seeing the situation of the Xianzhen Camp, the cavalry Sima gave up the idea of ​​charging. Even if Zhao Yun allowed him to charge, he would have reconsidered it.

Taking advantage of the time when the cavalry and the Xianzhen Camp were fighting, Pei Yuanshao had led the guards to quickly approach the Xianzhen Camp. As soon as the cavalry left, the bows and arrows of the longbowmen of the guards immediately rushed in. Only the sound of "ding ding" could be heard in the Xianzhen Camp. Facing the covering shooting of a thousand longbowmen of the guards, the Xianzhen Camp had to close the formation again and refuse to defend on the spot. However, even so, soldiers continued to retreat after being shot by arrows.

After ten rounds of arrow rain, the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen of the guards had already forced their way to the front of the Xianzhen Camp, and the arrows of the longbowmen had stopped at this time. The Xianzhen Camp had the opportunity to attack the soldiers outside the formation. With Gao Shun's order, the crossbowmen who were ready again were divided into several waves and fired continuous crossbow arrows outside the formation.

Although the number was far less than that of the longbowmen, they were better in continuous attack, and the shields of the guards were obviously inferior to those of the trap camp, so after a few rounds, the guards lost hundreds of people.

However, the attack of the trap camp came to an end, because at this time, the two armies had already started close combat. With the loud shouts of the soldiers on both sides, only the sound of weapons colliding in the parade ground could be heard.

As time went by, the four thousand guards and spearmen had surrounded the trap camp of less than a thousand people, while the longbowmen kept throwing arrows into the formation, and the largest thousand cavalrymen also rushed forward from time to time to throw arrows into the formation, and the casualties of the trap camp became more and more serious.

Everyone thought that the trap camp was about to collapse, but as time went by, although there were soldiers who were judged to be injured or killed and withdrew, the camp of the trap camp was never broken, but the camp was constantly shrinking.

An hour later, only half of the soldiers were left in the Xianzhen Camp, but the formation was still intact. At this time, the loss of the attacking guards had exceeded more than a thousand people.

This result was jaw-dropping. You know, the Xianzhen Camp had gone through two battles before, and the fighting time had exceeded two hours in total. At this time, the bows and arrows of the longbow cavalry outside the formation were almost exhausted, and they could only provide harassment to the army occasionally but could not provide effective suppression.

However, the crossbowmen of the Xianzhen Camp could fire one or two rounds of crossbows from time to time, giving a fatal blow to the attacking soldiers outside the formation.

Seeing this, Huangfu Chaobo knew that the Xianzhen Camp had shocked everyone enough, so he said to Huang Zhong: "Brother, you can give the order to end it. I believe everyone has seen the strength of the Xianzhen Camp."

Huang Zhong nodded and turned to look at the people around him. Everyone was delighted by the strong fighting power of the Xianzhen Camp. Of course, there were a few people who were secretly shocked, that is, Yuan Yin and Ji Ling, who were specially invited by Huangfu Chaobo to watch the battle. It must be said that they were already worried.

"Ding..."

With Huang Zhong's order, the two sides in the parade finally stopped.

Hearing the sound of the gong on the platform, Pei Yuanshao finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Huh, it's finally over. I didn't expect the defense of the Xianzhen Camp to be so strong. No wonder the lord once said that the Xianzhen Camp is the strongest army in the Han Dynasty. It's true."

After the soldiers of both sides separated, they stood in formation in the parade. Gao Shun and Pei Yuanshao both came to the platform to report to Huangfu Chaobo.

"I see the lord. I am ashamed that I can't break through the military formation of the Xianzhen Camp. Please punish me!" Pei Yuanshao said;

"Hahaha, okay, General Pei has worked hard, please stand up!" Huangfu Chaobo laughed and asked Pei Yuanshao to stand up. He thought it would be strange if you could break through the formation of the Xianzhen Camp. After speaking, he turned his head and looked at Gao Shun.

Gao Shun took two steps forward and said: "I will see the general at the end. I fell into the camp and failed to live up to the general's expectations. Please give me the general's instructions!"

"Okay, very good, very good. I believe that after this battle, all the generals in the army have realized the strong combat power of the trapped camp." After saying that, Huangfu Chaobo's face straightened and he said: "Gao Shun After listening to the order, Army Commander Gao Shun, who is good at training troops and whose soldiers live up to the reputation of trapping, is now promoted to the rank of five-rank Huwei Xiaowei, commanding the trapping camp. He is the general's own army. He is led by General Dianwei, the commander of the battle. At that time, all the soldiers who were guarding the general were rewarded during today's exercise. The soldiers who fell into the camp defeated two formations and were undefeated in the face of several times of attack. Each soldier was rewarded with five taels of silver, five stones of grain and rice, and all other soldiers were rewarded. Two taels of silver, two stones of rice and grain.”

"The last general accepts the order, the last general thanks the lord for the reward!" Gao Shun's face was as calm as ever, but a hint of excitement could be heard in his tone.

When Huangfu Chaobo heard that Gao Shun actually called him his lord, and finally took this peerless general under his command, he couldn't help laughing. He took a few steps forward to help Gao Shun up and said, "Okay, with the help of the general, Chaobo will be even more powerful." !”

When everyone heard this, they all stepped forward to congratulate Huangfu Chaobo: "Congratulations, my lord, on getting a good general!"