Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 316
On the real battlefield, war horses are often the easiest targets to be attacked.

I really thought that the soldiers on the battlefield would not attack the horses if they couldn't beat the generals on horseback. That would also make the battlefield too idealistic and too simple.

In fact, on the battlefield, whatever method is effective will naturally be used. If the general on the horse cannot be defeated for a while, the horse will be hacked to death and the wounded one will be overturned. Naturally, the general on the horse will be killed. Falling down, this may make the generals unable to resist being pinned down by the horses, so that ordinary soldiers can kill and make meritorious deeds.

Especially when the infantry faced the cavalry, once the cavalry fell into the battlefield of close combat, the most common way for the infantry to deal with the cavalry was to deal with the horse first, so the horse was often the first to be hurt.

Many generals who charge into the battle, if they really get into the enemy's formation, they will usually jump off their horses and fight on foot. In this way, they can display the military power of the generals better, otherwise they have to protect themselves and the horses they ride , then how to fight.

In fact, riding a horse to charge and kill is usually at the time of an assault. When entering the stage of close combat, the horse will lose its advantage in impact.

Just like Zhao Yun's seven ins and seven outs, it was a surprise battle, and he would never let himself be surrounded by Cao soldiers. If he was really surrounded, how could he really rush out from thousands of people.

In this way, the description of the red rabbit horse in Romance of the Three Kingdoms is obviously exaggerated. Just imagine that it was ridden by Lu Bu for many years, and it was on the battlefield for many times. It was given to Guan Yu by Cao Cao, and followed Guan Yu's army horse For a lifetime, what a strange performance.

The age of a war horse is at most 30 to 16 years old, and the prime period is from [-] to [-] years old, so it can serve for about ten years at most.

It can be seen that it is impossible for the red rabbit horse to accompany Lu Bu and Guan Yu for too many years, and the general will inevitably die in battle, let alone such a large war horse.

In real history, this red rabbit horse was either ridden by Lu Bu and Guan Yu in normal times in the later period, or it was used when the generals were singled out, or it was rare to ride a charge and make a surprise attack. The horse gave birth to a new foal, which is also a red rabbit horse, otherwise it would be impossible for it to follow Lu Bu for several years and accompany Guan Yu for a lifetime.

Of course, there is also a saying that Guan Yu didn't get the Chitu Horse at all, and Cao Cao just gave Guan Yu another good horse.

Moreover, if life and death are in danger on the battlefield, compared with the life of a horse, the life of a human is definitely more important. No matter how precious and famous the horse under your crotch is, it is not as important as your own life.

So now Huang Zhong uses his horse to defend himself from arrows, but it is considered a normal behavior on the battlefield.

It's just that Huang Zhong has a horse to avoid the arrows, but the soldiers behind Huang Zhong are a bit miserable. Facing the continuous shooting of crossbow arrows, hundreds of people are killed or killed by the arrows in a blink of an eye. Use the corpses of your companions to resist the crossbow arrows.

Crossbow arrows are known as sharp weapons in the army and forbidden weapons among the people in these years. It is not for nothing. Even a general with such high martial arts skills as Huang Zhong is helpless to be suppressed by crossbow arrows at this moment.

At the same time, the tiger chariots with spears all around were gradually pushed over, blocking the soldiers and horses led by Huang Zhong, as if a wall of thorns appeared out of thin air, almost cutting off the place where Huang Zhong could lead his troops to break through. possibility.

"Come down now! Come down now!"

The shouts of Zhu Wei's soldiers also sounded in the surroundings. Faced with such a situation, many Huang Zhong's soldiers were already a little hesitant.

Huang Zhong glanced behind him, and he saw the plight of the soldiers he led. Coupled with the spears pushed towards the tiger chariot wall, the remaining 1000 or [-] soldiers behind Huang Zhong seemed to be trapped in the The trapped beasts in the small room had no place to dodge, and could only be massacred by the continuous crossbow arrows.

"Stop! A certain family..., a certain family is willing to surrender!"

Huang Zhong was depressed. At this moment, he knew that he was really overwhelmed because of his anxiety. He didn't expect that Zhu Weijun had hidden such a sharp weapon as a crossbow in the formation. Coupled with the current situation, a general like him would Heroes are useless.

Huang Zhong knew that he was defeated, no matter what he did to save the lives of the soldiers behind him, there was no need to die with him in vain.

"Stop! General Huang, my lord has already heard the reputation of your step, and knows that General Huang is the number one general in Jingzhou, but Liu Biao has no ability to know people, so General Huang can only stay with Liu Pan in this small You County. You are a bandit! My lord has already ordered that as long as General Huang is willing to lay down his arms, General Huang's family will be safe and sound. As for whether General Huang will stay or stay in the future, it can be up to General Huang's will!"

Holding the red-tasseled spear in his hand, Mu Lan looked at Huang Zhong who was trapped in the crossbow array, and ordered the crossbowmen to stop firing arrows, but then persuaded Huang Zhong sincerely.

Zhu Wei had already talked about Wei Yan and Huang Zhong in Changsha County in front of Wang Yuyan, Mu Lan, Pang Yan and other confidantes before Yuzhang sent troops. Wei Yan was already willing to surrender, so naturally he just needed to get in touch. , but Huang Zhong specifically mentioned his martial arts and ability, saying that he has the strength comparable to Wen Hou Lu Bu, and he is really a good general.

To be honest, this time Wang Yuyan sent Mu Lan here to set up a gossip tortoise armor array, together with the thousand crossbowmen, they came here specifically to deal with Huang Zhong.

Before that, Wang Yuyan had also carefully instructed Mulan not to underestimate Huang Zhong's ability, and before Huang Zhong forced himself into the gossip tortoise formation and forced a few small tortoise formations, Mu Lan saw some of Huang Zhong's strength, so Mu Lan felt that Huang Zhong's martial arts were really strong, almost as good as Pang Yan, the number one general in the Zhu Wei army.

Fortunately, the gossip tortoise armor formation was drawn up by Wang Yuyan, and Mu Lan personally participated in the training. The soldiers who are now forming the formation are basically sword and shield fighters from Zhu Weizhong's barracks. Shields and small shields are also well-prepared for formation equipment.

Although the crossbowmen this time were called from Pang Yan's Xiongba Battalion, the main function of the crossbowmen is to use crossbow arrows to threaten the enemy at short and medium distances, so they don't need to participate in the change of the army formation, it doesn't matter if it is Training to adapt to changes in the military formation.

Now that Huang Zhong broke into the gossip tortoise formation and fell into the lore area controlled by the crossbow formation, he really fell into a trap.

So now that Huang Zhong was willing to surrender, Mu Lan hastily followed Wang Yuyan's previous instructions and spoke words of comfort to Huang Zhong.

Apparently Wang Yuyan had already considered that under such circumstances, Huang Zhong might surrender, but there was also a high possibility that he would commit suicide. After all, for a general like Huang Zhong, surrendering was extremely humiliating.

But Wang Yuyan felt from Zhu Wei's attitude that Zhu Wei valued Huang Zhong, so Wang Yuyan intentionally let Mu Lan speak like this to dispel Huang Zhong's will to die. Drop Huang Zhong.

But now Mu Lan looked at Huang Zhong, and sincerely hoped that Huang Zhong would stop and surrender. As Zhu Wei's confidant, Mu Lan naturally hoped that a peerless general like Huang Zhong could join Zhu Wei's tent...

(End of this chapter)