Chapter 211: Disturbing the enemy with heavy steps
The two armies are ten miles apart, and under the Meiyang City, both sides have established company camps.
It can be said that Zhang Wen was worthy of being a great farmer. He was able to dig trenches even better than Lu Zhi. He went on an expedition for more than a month and did not fight a big battle. Instead, he started farming in the city of Meiyang.
The officers and soldiers were well-armed, with bows and crossbows in formation, and a battalion of heavy armored infantry. The Hu and Qiang rebels mostly wore leather armor, but almost all of them were light cavalry.
The two sides are facing each other and the United States and Yang are experiencing constant friction, but no one dares to launch a large-scale attack easily.
What kind of formation can one hundred thousand troops and horses put into place?
It's deep into the night, and the outside of Meiyang City seems to have turned into a port city that never sleeps.
The torches are bright, and the endless stretches of tents build a harbor on the land, the military tents of the Han people, the tents of the barbarians, the barking of dogs, and the roar of hundreds of miles of horses.
The military tents and camps echoed each other, and most of the soldiers from both sides had rested. In front of a forward military camp of the rebels, the horses formed a formation, and the spearmen raised their spears. Curses continued in the formation, but it was because Liu Jun, a few hundred meters away from this camp,
Leader Cang has been standing here silently for a long time.
"Throw your bow, shoot these bastards to death, shoot down one of them, reward an ox!" yells came from Hu Qiang's camp, and thousands of cavalry on horseback were seen, walking lightly, seemingly reluctantly pulling away.
Got Hu Gong.
"Boom~boom~" The sound of the bowstring sounded, and arrows rained down from the sky towards the direction of Meiyang.
"Bitter!" Liu Cang shouted.
"Bitter! Bitter! Bitter!" The voices shouted in response.
I saw Liu Cang holding a giant tower and not riding a horse, standing between two hundred heavily armored infantrymen. The giant tower was erected to cover his face, and he was walking heavily with armor and shield. He faced the arrow rain, followed by a clanging arrow cluster.
ring.
Wearing black light and black gold armor, the arrows hit you like rain. Even if you face the arrows directly, it will be hard to hurt you at all.
The rain of arrows stopped, Liu Cang put down the giant shield in his hand, and countless arrows were scattered around him. The two hundred heavy steps of the Feixiong Infantry Battalion, who were ordered by Liu Cang, appeared again from behind the big shield.
"Hahaha!" Behind Liu Cang and his party, 500 heavy armored infantrymen stood fifty meters away and laughed wantonly. Behind them, 300 cavalrymen on both sides, carrying iron halberds on their shoulders, immediately looked at Hu Qiang's camp in the distance.
"The officers and soldiers are despicable! They fight but don't fight, and they retreat but they don't retreat! Liu Haoxuan, without the badger beast, you won't be able to fight!?" The barbarians yelled, but Liu Cang and his party remained unmoved.
Seeing that the rain of arrows could not help the opponent, especially Liu Cang who was alone in the rain of arrows, the morale of the opponent was rising again and again, and the Hu cavalry general was going crazy.
"Mader, what did the commander say? Attack or not?!" The other side remained silent, the cavalry general cursed lowly and asked the ordering soldier beside him.
"The generals have orders, just keep an eye on them. If they dare to charge forward and kill them, we are allowed to withdraw and gather with surrounding camps to surround and kill them," the messenger said.
"Damn it, it's been two days. Let Tenlimi change camps with us tomorrow. Have all the cattle and sheep in the camp been moved?" the cavalry general cursed.
"They have all been transferred." The messenger also looked depressed.
But it was Liu Cang who led the heavy armored infantry to line up in front of their camp every midnight for the past two days. He did not shout or attack. He occasionally slapped his shield and made a sound, and just stood silently.
Shoot them with arrows, but they won't hit.
I ignored them because I was afraid they would steal the camp.
Go ahead and kill them, I'm afraid your own battalion won't be able to kill them.
They asked for reinforcements and deployed troops to encircle and kill them, but the generals of each battalion were afraid of falling into the opponent's scheme.
The foreign cavalry general had a headache so much that he could only ask everyone to prepare nooses and wait for the enemy to attack the camp. If he could capture one by one, he would take off his heavy armor and torture the opponent thoroughly before he would be willing to do so.
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The first battalion is on alert. The surrounding military camps have not been peaceful in the past two days. All the soldiers keep their knives in their hands and do not take off their armor when sleeping. However, the rebel company camp is more than ten miles away. Liu Cang only caused trouble in this place. After the initial attention, the rebels
Just let them do whatever they want.
At this time, Meiyang City was different from the past. Zhang Wen, Dong Zhuo and others had already stepped onto the tower and saw several soldiers under Liu Cang lighting pots filled with kerosene on fire.
The pots were of different sizes. A group of eagles lifted the pots one after another and spread their wings and flew into the night sky. Zhang Wen and the other generals looked curious and confused.
"How can a dead eagle be trained like this?" Beside Dong Zhuo, Hua Xiong took off his iron helmet and muttered in confusion.
"It is said that King Dongping obtained the Liu family's dragon-controlling skills. Is it really magical?" Guo Bang had awe in his eyes. He was a horse bandit in Xiliang. He had heard many legends from various tribes and gods, so he was somewhat familiar with such things.
Lack of immunity.
"I only know that he is good at raising badgers. There are so many eagles withered, but I don't know how to tame them like this." Dong Zhuo was also puzzled and turned to look at Zhang Wen. It was obvious that Zhang Wen's eyes were no less curious than him.
There were even more than ten vultures among them. These vultures were encountered by chance on the way to Liangzhou and were caught from the sky by Jin Zi and his younger brother.
The eagle's withering attack was quite extreme. It either failed to kill or was too harsh. After killing and maiming many birds, these dozen vultures were included in the system and became Jin Zi's younger brothers.
Hundreds of eagles carried pots of fire oil and flew high into the sky, dotted with stars, like will-o'-the-wisps flying in the night sky. As the eagles flew high, the sparks dimmed, and I saw these eagles scattering and flying towards the various camps of the rebels.
"This thing can be of great use. King Dongping can possess the power of ghosts and gods just by relying on this skill." Li Ru, a thin man, stood in the shadow of Dong Zhuo. When he said softly, he was thinking about it. In the future, he was selected as a scout to pay attention to the sky. He needs to be prepared.
Perhaps the firefighting team should try to train this kind of eagle on their own.
"Commander, this fire attack strategy may have miraculous effects, but the rebel cavalry is numerous and comes and goes like the wind, but the army cannot leave the city, and the pursuit should not go deep." Dong Zhuo suppressed his taboo and said to Zhang Wen.
"Well, I have already told General Liu about the various types of enemy troops." Zhang Wen nodded in response.
At this time, everyone saw Liu Cang's subordinates setting up a fire pot again, as if waiting for the eagle to return, and there was a group of slave soldiers under the city leading tigers, bears, chickens and sheep out of the city and walking in the direction of Liu Cang.
"This is.
"Bao Hong was confused again.
"Commander, why don't you send more soldiers to cooperate with General Liu? Don't let the rebels laugh at our lack of troops." Sun Jian said to Zhang Wen with a strange expression.
A group of wild beasts, including two rhinoceroses and an armored bear, were terrifying. A liger, right? It could barely be used as a deterrent. Everyone just thought that Liu Cang wanted to use the beasts as a fighting force.
But you are a chicken and a sheep, and you can't be laughed at when you are on the battlefield?
"Haha, King Dongping is a strange man." Li Ru said with a smile, unable to tell whether he was praising or ridiculing.
"Commander, how about releasing the two thousand cavalry?" Dong Zhuo asked Zhang Wen.
"Send out a thousand cavalry, and Wentai will mobilize the remaining cavalry along the river to prevent the rebels from taking advantage of the chaos to flee eastward." Zhang Wen thought about it and saw a fire in one of the rebel camps, and said to Sun Jian.
"Here." Sun Jian accepted the order, with Cheng Pu and Zu Mao behind him quickly following him down the tower.
"The generals will return to their respective camps and lead the troops to garrison." Zhang Wen then ordered Dong Zhuo and others, and the generals followed the order and left. Dong Zhuo, Zhou Shen, Zhang Wen, and Yuan Pang still stayed in the tower.
"General Liu is disturbing the enemy like this. Don't make the enemy angry, which will cause trouble for them to attack eastward." Zhou Shen said worriedly as everyone left.
"The rebels will perish if they advance eastward, but we are bound to suffer criticism. However, since we set off on the expedition, the most indispensable thing is probably criticism. Haha." Yuan Pang looked blank, and as soon as he finished speaking, Dong Zhuo and Zhou Shenjun
It was to avoid Yuan Pang's gaze.
Honest people are easy to bully, but that doesn't mean that honest people don't know that they are being bullied. Moreover, Zhang Wen and Yuan Pang, I'm afraid not many people dare to regard them as honest people.
The officers and soldiers were preparing for battle. At this time, Liu Cang also changed in front of the formation. All the beasts were seen staying behind. An armored rhinoceros and a heavily armored bear swayed through the front formation and stopped beside Liu Cang.
When the Hu Qiang soldiers on the opposite side saw Liu Cang turn over and mount a rhinoceros, their eyes widened: Rhino? Is there really a rhinoceros? Can this thing be used as a mount?
How do you block it when riding this thing?
"Stop the horse! Hurry up and stop the horse!" Hu Qiang soldiers shouted urgently, and there seemed to be faint sounds of commotion coming from other military camps in the distance.
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