Chapter 3347: Hitting Someone Is a Defense
Chapter 3346 Beating is a defense
Amid the sound of drums and gongs, Pang Shanmin could not help but get nervous.
Although this was not Pang Shanmin's first time, he was still nervous.
Although Huang Zhong showed a relaxed attitude, Pang Shanmin was naturally nervous because he attached too much importance to this battle.
What's more, from the surface, the number of troops on both sides was not much different.
Pang Shanmin looked back at his surroundings.
On both sides of the army, there were cavalry soldiers wearing helmets and armor. The red tassels on the helmets seemed to be red flowers blooming in the mountains, embellishing this cold and cruel world. Above the heads of these soldiers, there were three-color battle flags fluttering and stretching, and they seemed to not take the battle in front of them to heart, and looked lazy.
Ah, a sense of relaxation.
Pang Shanmin suddenly remembered this word, and then he looked at the opposite side again.
There seemed to be a lot of Cao's soldiers, arranged in layers along the mountain road, extending to the corner of the mountain road. The flags of the other generals could be seen faintly in the mountain road, fluttering behind the cover of the trees.
This was not his first battle, but it was indeed the first step for Pang Shanmin to go out and recover his homeland.
Pang Shanmin was somewhat nervous about whether he could return to Jingxiang smoothly and whether he could set up the Pang family's flag in Wancheng again, but he also knew that only by taking this step could he truly grow up!
Pang Shanmin took a deep breath, making himself stand straighter and more stable.
Anyone can find an excuse not to do the right thing.
After all, doing the right thing will be difficult and hard.
To do the wrong thing, you only need an excuse, no matter how poor the excuse is.
But to do the right thing, you have to pay more.
Now, you have to do the right thing.
Pang Shanmin said to himself secretly.
This is the most correct thing for Pang family and for Pang Shanmin himself.
He couldn't retreat, couldn't escape, and couldn't have any excuses!
Huang Zhong glanced back at Pang Shanmin and nodded slightly with relief.
Huang Zhong had a very close relationship with the Huang and Pang families. He hoped that Pang Tong could continue to develop well, and he also hoped that Pang Shanmin could stand on his own.
Pang Shanmin was a clerk and was not good at charging into battle with a sword. Logically, he could retreat and find a safer place, or even lie on a couch in the camp and wait for the final result. But Pang Shanmin still came, standing in the mountain mist, standing on the mountain road like those ordinary hussars, without complaining or being tired.
Pang Shanmin could naturally do what ordinary people could do, and he also had to do what ordinary people couldn't do.
This was the standard of the children of the gentry that gradually became popular in Guanzhong.
To enjoy more than ordinary people and to have more privileges, you need to work harder than ordinary people.
General Fei Qian knew that it was difficult to change people's bad habits, but it was difficult because someone had to do it. It was impossible to say that people only thought about being greedy and lazy all their lives. Isn't that different from being raised pigs? Fortunately, under the influence of Shoushan Academy and Qinglong Temple, some of the sons of the gentry and officials from poor families began to move towards this path.
Of course, there are still many sons of the gentry who wear long robes and feel that they should always be high and mighty. They still refuse to change, looking for various reasons and excuses to evade their due responsibilities, avoid their own problems, indulge in greed, and commit crimes knowingly and deliberately. It is also a very normal phenomenon.
Even if these greedy and lazy sons of the gentry still have some status now, they will eventually be replaced by those who are more energetic and more willing to do the right thing.
One generation may not show anything, but after three generations...
Maybe some people don't need three generations.
Huang Zhong sighed and ordered the flag bearer beside him to wave the flag. Immediately, all the troops responded with flags. The long spears like a forest were raised, shining coldly in the sun.
『Attack the front army! 』
Huang Zhong ordered.
The school sword soldiers at the stone bridge followed the order and advanced like a wall.
Unlike the military formation of Cao's soldiers, after forming a formation, they would stop and reorganize after a few or ten steps forward. These school sword soldiers moved forward with neat steps, like a flowing piece of molten steel, sliding towards the stone bridge. The military appearance and formation remained strict, without any setbacks or flaws!
Huang Zhong was well-trained for these school sword soldiers, and the formation was strict, which was evident.
Behind the school sword soldiers, there were archers following. The archers bent slightly, separated into two parts on the left and right, and placed their bows and arrows in the right position. They stood outside the Cao army's one-arrow range, lined up, and waited for orders at any time.
In the middle and back of the archers were the spearmen and halberdmen, who also neatly placed their spears and halberds in front of them, as if a steel jungle had appeared out of thin air.
Pang Shanmin looked at Huang Zhong's military formation, which seemed a little thin, but it seemed to be as it should be. Pang Shanmin watched Huang Zhong wave the flags and issue orders in an orderly manner, sometimes to multiple troops at the same time, but there was no confusion between the various parts, even on the narrow mountain road, the various parts did not crowd together, but instead were like swimming fish, full of agile beauty.
Looking down from the air, the distance between the two sides was constantly shortening.
Wen Pin stared at the slowly approaching Huang Zhong's school swordmen, the shields they held, and the armor on their bodies.
There was no other reason, this must be a team of thick-skinned and bloody guys.
Although Huang Zhong's school swordmen were powerful, Wen Pin was still a little confused by such an arrangement.
Yes, the big shields and thick armor can indeed withstand the damage of melee combat, but with this arrangement, did Huang Zhong really not find the trap here?
These people are good at resisting melee combat, but not good at resisting long-range combat. They are also difficult to resist against crossbow carts or other heavy engineering equipment. If these people rush to the front of Cao's army formation, then the current tragic morale of Cao's army will be difficult to resist. In addition, Cao's soldiers lack training and their melee ability is far inferior to that of the other side, so once they really fight each other, Cao's army cannot have the upper hand.
But no matter how big the shield is, how thick the armor is, it is ineffective in front of magic... well, water and fire damage!
Wen Pin did not see that these people carried any fire extinguishing equipment.
In this case, if we really lead these school swordmen into the trap and then ignite those chevaux de frise, then even if these school swordmen have thicker armor, what can they do?
This is also good. After fighting head-on and arraying in an upright manner, defeating this part of Huang Zhong's soldiers in the wild, it will definitely greatly dampen the morale of the cavalry army!
Then I will be more relaxed...
Thinking of this, the block in Wen Pin's heart seemed to loosen a little, and he could let out some breath. At his command, the sound of war drums sounded, and waves of Cao's army came out, with long spears and large shields piled together.
Before, Wen Pin attacked Wuguan Road and lost a large part of his troops and private soldiers, and he had never received any reinforcements from Jingxiang. In the current Cao army formation, Wen Pin had no way to use his elite troops to fight against each other like Huang Zhong did. He could only let his troops command some ordinary Cao soldiers to maintain the formation.
Under the command of Wen Pin and the guidance of Wen Pin's remaining troops, Cao's army also arranged a dense formation at one end of the stone bridge. However, unlike Huang Zhong, the front was not a sword and shield soldier, but an archer...
These archers did not wear heavy armor, and most of them wore the standard two-point armor of the Cao army. This thing consists of a breastplate and a back armor, and is buckled with a belt on the shoulders, with a belt on the waist, and not connected under the armpits. If you say it is armored, there are many exposed places. If you say it is not armored, it is a formal standard armor.
This is like a vest.
It is not only the standard armor of the Cao army, but also the standard armor for a long time in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and even the standard armor from the Three Kingdoms period to the Jin Dynasty...
In fact, the armor in the early Han Dynasty was more like a tube sleeve armor, but later, the Han Dynasty court became more and more embarrassed, which was reflected in the armor of the soldiers, which was vividly reflected.
What's interesting is that no matter in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, the attitude towards the setting of vests is always a bit weird.
Male comrades wearing vests cannot enter and leave formal places, because their clothes are not in order and do not meet the standard requirements, but if the same vest is taken off and put on by female comrades, they can enter formal places...
Bumping people with the ball is amazing.
It's a pity that the balls of these archers of Cao's army are not big enough, so they are obviously not prepared to fight with Huang Zhong's school swordsmen, but straighten their backs, take out arrows, put on bows and shoot!
The arrow whizzed across the small space between the two sides and flew towards Huang Zhong's school swordsmen.
In such a short distance and a relatively narrow area, there is no room to hide, so these school swordsmen are like a curled up pangolin. Before the arrows come, they shrink a little and face the scales in the direction of the arrows.
Arrows pierced Huang Zhong's swordsmen with a slap, and some arrows slipped and fell from shields and armor with a wailing sound.
It's not that these Cao army archers are soft-handed, but that Huang Zhong's swordsmen are really thick-skinned.
Compared with those Cao army archers who have difficulty even hitting people with a ball, Huang Zhong's swordsmen have sufficient nutrition intake from the beginning. In addition, when they were in Jingxiang Wancheng before, they followed Huang Zhong to practice martial arts and swordsmanship every day. Although they are not as good as those aristocratic children who have been trained to be military generals since childhood, their combat capabilities are also quite good, much stronger than ordinary soldiers.
Facing the overwhelming bows and arrows of the Cao army, the swordsmen seemed to have no big fluctuations in their breathing.
There were crackling sounds on the shields and armor, and under the shields, the swordsmen exchanged glances and steady breathing.
Obviously, the arrows of the Cao army could not effectively break the defense of Huang Zhong's swordmen, but only blocked and hindered them as much as possible.
Amid the sound of the drums, the swordmen advanced forward like a wall.
In order to avoid injury, the swordmen's speed slowed down slightly, but under the protection of shields and armor, the swordmen did not suffer much serious damage.
Seeing this, Huang Zhong shouted, "Archers! Step forward in order! Cover! !"
The archers standing on both sides of the stone bridge held two arrows and rushed forward in a line.
The archers held one arrow halfway on the bow, and the other arrow was held between the ring finger and the little finger, pointing vertically downward. It was not that the archers could only carry two arrows, but because of the terrain of the stone bridge, the archers could not deploy in a large area behind the stone bridge, so they could only shoot in turns like a wheel rolling.
『Roll in! Rapid fire! 』
These archers stepped forward, and after they were close to the position behind the school swordsman, they shot the two arrows in their hands at the Cao army archer array at a very fast speed, and then immediately stepped aside to let the archers behind them shoot forward.
Wen Pin, who was opposite the stone bridge, widened his eyes, "What kind of battle method is this? ! 』
Unconsciously, the changes of the times have widened the gap between Guanzhong and Shandong, not only in the economy, but also in many other aspects.
Pang Shanmin has adapted to the changes of the times, and so has Huang Zhong.
Wen Pin, who was originally from the same era and place as Pang Shanmin Huang Zhong, found that he could not understand and could not keep up...
When the skills are improved to a certain level, they are close to "Tao".
Huang Zhong obviously used it in the current tactics, and there was a little "Tao" meaning.
Due to the terrain of Shiqiao, the troops of both sides could not be deployed smoothly, and the attacking side was obviously at a greater disadvantage. After all, it was to attack the opponent's "T" head vertically, and it was easy to be attacked by the opponent's concentrated fire.
So Huang Zhong sent out the school swordmen with thick skin and long blood.
These school swordmen with rich combat experience and good equipment resisted the long-range attack of Cao's army without much damage, thus creating opportunities for the archers of Huang Zhong's side.
If the traditional tactics and old ideas are still used, swords and shields against swords and shields, bows and arrows against bows and arrows, there is no doubt that on the terrain of Shiqiao, the side that cannot deploy the team will suffer a great loss.
But Huang Zhong attacked directly, and also improved the attack mode of the archers. Because Huang Zhong doesn't need archers to inflict much damage on the opponent now, but uses archers to disrupt the opponent's shooting frequency and create opportunities for his own swordsmen!
The different purposes and flexible methods allow Huang Zhong to use fewer people to complete the predetermined goals!
Shandong's model of relying on the number of people to rush up, and then because of the limitation of the battle surface, most of the time one core is in trouble and seven cores are watching, should indeed be optimized.
In the learning materials of Guanzhong Military Academy, there is a sentence that is often mentioned, "Water has no fixed state, and soldiers have no fixed shape. '
Among the war cases recorded in the Military Academy, almost all the generals would emphasize that this was his consideration at that time and place when recording their successes or failures, and it might not be suitable for all times and all regions...
And for many people in Shandong, whether they really understand the art of war or pretend to understand it, they all seem to want to summarize and refine again, and then come up with a universal "military strategy" that meets all situations, all wars, and all enemies, and then draw a "battle formation diagram" to fight against tens of millions of enemy troops.
Everything requires specific problems and specific analysis.
What Huang Zhong needs most is not to fight Cao's army head-on, but to destroy those traps and let Cao's army shoot itself in the foot. Therefore, Huang Zhong does not want to let the school swordsmen or archers kill how many Cao's soldiers. There must be some directional and performance indicators.
With such a goal, Huang Zhong only needs to let the school swordsmen approach the Cao's formation about fifty steps, just at the end of the Cao's bows and arrows, which is at the end of the lethality of the Cao's archers, to attract the firepower of the Cao's archers.
If you get too close, the arrows are extremely powerful within ten steps, or even twenty steps. With the armor-piercing arrows, it is entirely possible to penetrate the armor, but at fifty steps...
The archers of Huang Zhong's side who followed up had the opportunity to approach the opponent directly and give the opponent's archers a direct blow!
In this era, the shooting distance of long-range soldiers like archers is actually not much different. The archers of Huang Zhong's side can shoot at the archers of Cao's army, and the archers of Cao's army can also shoot at the position of Huang Zhong's side. But the problem is here. Shandong's rigid war mode makes these Cao's archers have no right to change the shooting target at will, and it is even more impossible for them to automatically turn to attack the opponent's long-range target when they see the archers of Huang Zhong's side coming forward...
Even if the archers of Cao's army turn to attack the archers of Huang Zhong's side, Huang Zhong will also make a profit.
Because the archers of Huang Zhong's side were advancing in a column, the casualties were at most near the two points in front, while the archers of Cao's army were likely to be hit on the entire ground, and they didn't know how to hide!
As Huang Zhong's archers shot, the archers wearing two-armored armor in the Cao's formation were sprayed with blood mist, and many people fell down in an instant. Many Cao's archers seemed to be stunned after being shot, and then they woke up and rolled on the ground screaming.
After being attacked, some of Cao's archers wanted to fight back, some wanted to dodge, and some were still continuing their previous actions. Wen Pin saw that someone on Huang Zhong's front line had started to prepare a brazier, and he was shocked. He quickly ordered the archers to focus on suppressing Huang Zhong's archers and let Cao's sword and shield soldiers step forward to fight against Huang Zhong's school sword soldiers...
Wen Pin responded, and everything seemed to be fine.
If Huang Zhong's archers continued to shoot like this, although the damage caused was not too much, it would put a lot of pressure on Cao's archers. More importantly, if Huang Zhong's archers found an opportunity to ignite the traps they had set up on the mountain road with rockets, then it would not be Huang Zhong and his men who would suffer, but their side who were still standing by the traps!
There was no problem with the response, and there was no problem with the order, but the turning point of the entire battle came quietly after Wen Pin issued this order.