Xiaoqi

"Send the order, the catapults attack!"

Yuan Shao was keenly aware of the different expressions of the princes from all walks of life, which made him feel that the situation was not good, and he was afraid that the princes from all walks of life would be bewitched by Zhang Yan and have different ideas in their hearts.Therefore, he made a prompt decision, and while the chariot formation had not been completely wiped out by the Xiliang army, he raised his voice and ordered the catapult formation to launch an attack, trying to target the Xiliang Chinese army with a wild bombardment and give the Xiliang army Come to a center to bloom and disrupt the Xiliang army's position in one fell swoop.When the Xiliang army was in chaos, it was time for the Allied war cavalry to attack, and the 24 Allied infantry took the opportunity to crush them.If things go well, the princes and allies will win in the end. After the war is over, it will not be too late for him to come back and deal with Zhang Yan.

"No, the general will obey!"

After respectfully receiving the order, Yuan Xi glared at Zhang Yan angrily, then galloped towards the rear army, commanded the catapult formation to circle around the two wings of the army, and then threw fire oil tanks at the Xiliang army, wantonly bombing.

After Yuan Xi left, Yuan Shao's cold eyes flicked past Zhang Yan, and then he looked back at the open space behind the army.The open space was located directly behind the Allied Central Army, a low-lying wasteland with a radius of five miles, and it was exactly five miles away from the Allied camp.

After resting his eyes on the open space for a while, Yuan Shao turned his head to look at the battlefield in front of the formation. Although the battle in front of him was still not optimistic, there was a treacherous smile on his brow.

At this moment, Cao Cao caught a glimpse of the sly smile on Yuan Shao's side face, and suddenly he became suspicious, thinking to himself: "Could it be that the dispute between Yuan Benchu ​​and Zhang Yan was intentional, but in fact there were other plans? Really? If so, then this decisive battle is really a battle of wits and courage, and the outcome is hard to predict!"

Chapter 747

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Swish!

"Whoo, whoo, whoo!"

Suddenly, a howling and roaring sound tore through the sky, and there was a sound of strong torrent breaking through the sky like waves without wind.

Immediately afterwards, flaming fireballs soared into the sky, flew across the battlefield of the chariot formation, and rushed straight to the Xiliang Chinese army's cavalry roaring.

"Fire tank attack! The Allied forces dispatched catapults?"

Mu Ran looked up and caught a glimpse of the fireball roaring in the sky, Li Li's expression changed suddenly, and he exclaimed in surprise.

"Put in the camp, defend the central army, defend the giant shield, raise the shield!"

At the same time as Li Li shouted out, Gao Shun, the commander of the trapped camp, made a decisive decision and ordered the heavy armored infantry of the trapped camp to raise their shields in front of the Chinese army's formation to prevent the enemy's canisters from disrupting the Chinese army's position.

The soldiers of the trapped camp moved in response to the sound, and within a few breaths formed a progressive semicircular superimposed giant shield formation within the first [-] steps of the Chinese army's formation, defending the Chinese army's position firmly.

"Bang bang bang~~~!"

The reaction of the trapping camp was undoubtedly extremely quick, as soon as the formation was completed, hundreds of fire oil tanks ushered in.Amidst the loud bang, more than half of the kerosene tanks failed to reach the intended range, and smashed into the open space in front of the Xiliang Army formation, bursting and scattering, raising dust and scorching flames all over the sky.Only about [-]% of the fire oil tanks were located relatively forward, and the catapults launched an attack when they traveled a hundred paces away from the two wings of the Allied forces. Therefore, these "cannonballs" (that is, fire oil tanks) could reach the predetermined range and go straight to Xiliang The Chinese army roared and fell in front of the formation.

Instantly.Amidst the loud bang, nearly a hundred fire oil tanks slammed into the Xiliang Central Army, but were intercepted by the impenetrable shields held above the heads of the soldiers of the trapped camp.No one was missed, and all of them were blocked from the Chinese army's war cavalry by the giant shield.

"Boom boom boom!" As the fire oil tank burst open suddenly, the broken tiles and thorns and iron filings contained in the tank flew all over the air, as sharp as a sharp blade, flying and lasing, penetrating into every hole.And the raging flames scattered wantonly, and the tongues of fire splashed everywhere, scorching extremely hot.It is extremely lethal.Therefore, even though the soldiers in the camp raised their huge shields to form a densely packed semicircular giant shield array, they still couldn't completely block the powerful impact of the explosion of the fire oil tank.Hundreds of soldiers were hit by tiles and iron filings or sprayed with fire oil. Nearly a hundred soldiers were killed on the spot, and the remaining two hundred were wounded or burned. The loss was not small.

"Fill the gap quickly. Restore the formation quickly. Prepare for another battle!"

Trapped in the middle of the camp, Gao Shun responded calmly without changing his face and heartbeat. After the first round of fire oil tanks fell, he immediately commanded the soldiers to carry away the dead and injured soldiers, and then quickly closed the gap, resumed formation, and prepared to meet the enemy. A new round of fire tank attacks.

"What happened to Yuan Benchu? Did he go crazy? The two armies have not fully attacked yet. The chariots of the two armies are still fighting in front of the formation. Why did he send out the catapult to attack so quickly? It's too weird. It's completely unreasonable!"

Right under the banner of the Xiliang Army, watching hundreds of heavily armored infantry trapped in the camp die tragically in front of him, Li Li stared at the Allied camp on the opposite side of the battlefield with a livid face, and said angrily in bewilderment.

At this time, the generals guarding Li Li's left and right are all the main generals of the Xiliang Army. On the right are the right-wing generals Zhang Liao, Pang De, and Cheng Gongying.At this moment, the generals standing behind Li Li are the generals of the Chinese army, and they are Li Zhi, Huan Fei, Dong Yue, Huang Lie, Xu Chu, Chen Dao, He Yi, He Man and Sui Gu, etc., and more than ten generals.In addition, the lieutenant generals and other generals on the left and right wings of the cavalry were all on standby. Once they saw Guo Jia on the command platform waving the command flag, they immediately swung their troops to attack.

"My lord, don't worry, don't get angry."

Seeing that Li Li was very angry, Zhang Liao immediately tried to comfort him, and then he looked intently at the Allied army formation and the Allied army catapult formation protruding from the two wings, and said after thinking: "It is indeed as my lord said, Yuan Shao's move is indeed against the law. Common sense. From the point of view of the general, it is definitely not the best strategy for the Allied forces to use the catapult attack too early, perhaps it was a bad strategy when they were forced to do so. Moreover, Yuan Shao sent the catapult formation at this time, which in itself shows that he has no intention of attacking in this battle. The thousands of siege weapons in the rear of the Allied army's central army are actually just bluffs and decorations. The Allied army has only one purpose in doing this, and that is to confuse the public and make us mistakenly think that the Allied army has a chance to win and defeat the enemy. After our army, we took down Hangu Pass in one go."

Speaking of this, Zhang Liao showed a smile on his face: "Therefore, the general thinks that the Allied forces' use of the catapult array at this time may not be a bad thing for our army. At least its appearance directly exposed Yuan Shao's true intentions."

"Huh? Bravado, don't you intend to attack Hangu Pass?" Li Li was slightly taken aback, and he pondered for a while, then turned his head to look at Zhang Liao, and asked thoughtfully, "What does Wen Yuan think Yuan Shao's real intention is for this move?" Is it just to disrupt the position of my Chinese army, and then wave the army to hide and kill them? In my opinion, Yuan Shao shouldn’t be so naive. It’s too whimsical for mere catapults to shake my Chinese army cavalry Is it! Does he think we are all dead, and let him do whatever he wants?"

"My lord's words are very true." Zhang Liao nodded happily when he heard the sound, and said respectfully: "In the future, Yuan Shao will naturally not be so naive as to disrupt my army's cavalry with a catapult; otherwise, he will It's arrogant and self-righteous. Since this is the case, there is only one real purpose for him to do it, knowing that he can't do it, and that is to try to force our army's war cavalry to attack in an all-round way. In other words, Yuan Shao sent out chariot formations and catapult formations successively. The purpose of the battle is the same, that is to lure our army of more than 24 cavalry to attack his [-] Chinese troops on their own initiative!"

"Why didn't Yuan Shao take the initiative to attack, but instead wanted our army to attack first?" Li Li raised his eyebrows and pondered.

"This..." Zhang Liao was stunned when he heard the sound, and said hesitantly: "The general is stupid, and he hasn't thought of the reason yet. However, the general is very sure, that is why Yuan Shao did this, and he must have a conspiracy. Otherwise, he would never It is easy to expose that the Allied forces have no intention of storming Hangu Pass, and they will not be so stupid as to expose hundreds of catapults to our cavalry. You know, these catapults drove more than a hundred steps before the formation, and our army's war cavalry The cavalry only needs to charge to destroy them all. As for why Yuan Shao insisted on luring our army to attack the large formation of the Chinese army, the last general has no idea. I don't know what kind of medicine he is selling in this gourd? "

"Well, what Wen Yuan said makes sense." Li Li nodded lightly, frowned and pondered for a moment, then looked coldly at the catapult formations on both wings of the Allied army, and said in a deep voice: "The catapults of the Allied army are far less powerful than mine. The catapults of the Xiliang army are powerful, with a range of only 270 steps, at most about 250 steps, which is not enough to pose a threat to our army's cavalry. And the range of our army's catapults is at least [-] steps. If you use this kind of kerosene that is only as big as a pumpkin If we use pots instead of boulders, the range can reach more than [-] paces. If our army’s catapults go to the front of the formation, we can directly fight in the center of the Allied army, and they will be thrown into chaos.”

At this point, Li Li's voice stopped suddenly, and then he looked back at He Yi behind him, and ordered: "Immediately send an order to Bo Cai, order the catapult formation to fight, and directly attack Yuan Shao's army!"

"Promise, the last general will obey the order!" He Yi accepted the order happily, and immediately rode her horse to the rear army.

As soon as He Yi left, Dian Wei said in a worried voice, "It's good to fight against the enemy's catapults, but right now General Hu Che'er is leading the chariot formation to fight bloody battles. When our catapults are ready Hu Che'er must have led the chariot formation to rush into Yuan Shao's army; by then, the fire oil tanks will be scattered and the rocks will fly, which will inevitably accidentally injure our soldiers."

"The evil words are not unreasonable. I wonder if you have a countermeasure?" Li Li asked with a nod.

Dian Wei shook his head lightly, and said: "Except for leading the army to attack, the general really can't think of a better way. Originally, the chariot formation was a death squad that never returned. If they all died in the battle, it would be a well-deserved death. But If they died tragically under the catapults of our army, the last general would feel sorry for them. After all, these chariot soldiers are one-in-a-million warriors, so they died in vain at the hands of their own people for no reason, but the last general felt sorry for them. It’s unbearable and unacceptable.”

Li Li nodded slightly, and immediately said: "That's true. Every chariot soldier in our army is a brave man who is carefully selected. His combat power is not inferior to that of a centurion or team leader, and he is not afraid of death. He is a rare and good soldier in the world. If he is hit by our army's catapult or hit by a fire oil tank, it is indeed a great pity and it is embarrassing."

Speaking of this, Li Li's expression suddenly changed, and he ordered solemnly: "Dian Wei listened to the order, when our army's catapults drove to the front of the formation, the Longxiang Battalion immediately went to battle, Hu Che'er must be rescued, and then attack the allied right-wing cavalry! In this battle, you must not be careless, because the enemy you have to face is the wolf cavalry army under Lu Bu. Therefore, the task of the Longxiang Battalion in this decisive battle is to defeat the wolf head-on while preserving its own strength as much as possible. Cavalry. Fortunately, Lu Bu has been severely injured by the flying tiger, and his combat power is limited, so he is definitely no match for you and Li Zheng. As for Yuan Shao's army and other battles, it has nothing to do with you Dian Wei and the soldiers of the Longxiang camp."

"Uh! This promise, the last general will take orders." After Dian Wei heard the words, his expression was astonished, and he was very puzzled by the last words of the lord Li Li, but after seeing the unquestionable expression on Li Li's face, he no longer hesitated, Immediately responded to the order and left.

Watching Dianwei ride his horse away, Zhang Liao said in a low voice with doubts all over his face: "My lord seems to have other intentions in this move. I'm sorry I'm stupid. I don't know if my lord can make it clear?"

"Without it, after the catapult attack is over, I will personally lead the army to fight!" Li Li said in a deep voice, looking coldly at the various princes in front of the allied army with his deep eyes.

"Ah! My lord leads the army to attack?" Zhang Liao's expression changed, and he said anxiously: "This is impossible, absolutely impossible! My lord is a body of gold, how can I personally risk myself? The general is willing to die and lead the army to fight, but also Please take it back, my lord!"

Hearing Zhang Liao's eager voice, Li Li didn't turn his head back, but shook his head slightly and said, "I've made up my mind, Wen Yuan doesn't need to say more. For some reason, every time I see the large formation of the Chinese army behind Yuan Shao, I always feel uneasy. Therefore, I want to go to the front of the battle to find out and see what Yuan Shao's plan is!"

Chapter 748

The whistling sound of "swish" tore through the sky.

One by one, the fire oil cans hit the heavy shield with a loud bang. Suddenly, the tiles shattered and flew, and iron filings splashed everywhere.

What followed was that balls of flames flew in the air, and then fell on the giant shield, burning the black iron.

The fuel in the fire was endless, and the burning continued, causing the soldiers of the trapped camp under the giant shield to suffer greatly.

However, they still gritted their teeth and persisted. Even if the pungent burnt smell emanated from the palms holding the shield, they only bared their teeth and grunted coldly, but no one cried out in pain.

This is the soldiers trapped in the camp, a well-deserved hero!

Maybe there's a saying they haven't heard, but they've really done it, and it's in progress right now.

This sentence is: Bleeding and sweating without tears, skin and flesh without falling behind.

A big statement that makes people speechless, but it is a true portrayal of a real strong soldier.

But any elite team, if they can't do this, can't be considered elite, let alone a strong soldier.

In front of the Xiliang army.

Amidst the rolling sound of "creaking", a catapult was slowly pushed out from the left and right wings, and drove to the front of the formation under the protection of the infantry shield soldiers.