Three Kingdoms

The Xianbei people's horses began to gallop, like waves of never-ending tide swarming up and roaring. The rapid ups and downs of the horses' hooves hit the mud and river water. Although the slippery soil prevented the horses from reaching their highest speed, the Xianbei people roared, roared, and responded regardless, lying on the horses' backs and using their The horse's torso and neck cover its face, chest and abdomen, and the raised sword whips the horse wildly, forcing the horse to use its last strength, allowing them to pass through this section of the road filled with the smell of death as quickly as possible.

Almost all Xianbei people know that once the charge is taken, there are only two results, either they die in battle or their opponents are hacked to death. The cavalry attack on the infantry does have certain advantages, but the advantage does not mean that there are no casualties. Judging from the effect of the first wave of tentative conflicts at the latest, the Han army's position is tight, and after passing through the river bed, it still needs to be destroyed. Get rid of those resisting horses, otherwise you still won't be able to directly attack the Han army.

Although the Han army formation on the opposite side is very difficult, the Xianbei people believe that the final victory will still belong to them. However, before that, many Xianbei people who went out to fight will die in front of the formation, paving a road with the flesh and blood of themselves and their horses. .

This is especially true for the Xianbei cavalry who rush at the front. Some of them don't even have leather armor, so they can only use themselves and the bodies of their mounts to block the Han army's crossbows and gain some charge for their companions behind them. time.

If it were on flat and solid hard ground, the distance of more than a hundred steps would only take a few breaths at most. Although some people would fall under the crossbows of the Han army, there would not be as many as now. Especially since the war horses are not armored, they can only rely on their large and strong bodies to receive a few more arrows and hold on for a longer period of time. However, once they fall, it will often affect the charge route of the cavalry behind them.

Although Huang Cheng's Han army had a geographical advantage, the number of Xianbei people changed everything. The corpses of the Xianbei people who were shot down by crossbows, their significance lies in winning the blink of an eye before death. Such a short time, and a little bit of short time accumulated, is enough to change the direction of the battle.

As the distance between the two armies continues to shorten, the invisible line of death is constantly approaching Huang Cheng's army. When the Xianbei people rush in front of Juma, it means that the god of death has finally come to them. on the head.

Watching the warriors and horses fall down one by one, Dangdanghu stared at the other side with a cold expression, without even moving his eyebrows. He knew in his heart that if the Han army did not have reinforcements, then in the end the dissatisfied thousands would The Han army will be piled to death by his numbers, and victory will ultimately belong to him.

He needs a victory and longs for a victory to stabilize his position and maintain his dignity, even at the expense of the flesh and blood of his subordinates.

But for those Xianbei cavalry who had to use their flesh and blood to consume the fighting power of the Han army before victory, their significance lies in how much time they can buy before dying, how far they can advance, and how many people they can kill.

With little hope of survival, the Xianbei people aroused the madness and murderous intent in their bones. They didn't care about the miserable screams of their comrades around them who were shot by crossbows, and they didn't care whether they would be shot. There was only one thing in his mind, which was to rush forward. If he could kill one or two enemies, he would at least have some support.

This is especially true for the infantry in Huang Cheng's Han army formation. They are even crazier than the Xianbei people. Anyone facing the charge of the cavalry will immediately feel the tremendous pressure, the barbarian's sword, the barbarian's madness , the Hu people rushed their horses regardless of it, and he had killed so many Xianbei Hu people. Could it be that he would have a way out by escaping or surrendering?

There is no way out, because there is no way to outrun the war horses. There is no surrender, because surrender also inevitably involves a knife.

Huang Cheng didn't do any fighting motivation, because these subordinates were all soldiers he had trained. He watched them gradually transform from a guy who didn't know whether to hold a sword with his left hand or his right hand, into a real soldier. .

Now, Huang Cheng stands here, standing with his men and soldiers,

There is no way to retreat. Regardless of whether they are brave or cowardly at this moment, everyone can only pick up weapons and fight with their lives, just like two ferocious beasts, biting each other, flesh and blood flying everywhere.

"Spearmen prepare-" Huang Cheng shouted sharply.

The spearman who was hiding behind the sword and shield man rushed forward. Under the cover of the sword and shield man, he inserted the tail of the spear in his hand into the soil. His companions in the back row stepped on it tightly, and he held it tightly. Holding the spear handle and placing it on the big shield of the sword and shield hand, it became the second line of defense after the wooden and horse horses.

Spears are the best weapon to deal with cavalry. As long as a war horse is stabbed in the chest and abdomen by a spear, it is basically dead and there is no hope of survival. However, the collision force when the spear pierces the body of the war horse is also amazing. Even if it is When the spear is pressed against the ground, it will often break directly, injuring the spearman's hand, and even his own body may be stabbed by the broken spear, which is very dangerous.

Although the width of the ferry was widened, under the constant firing of two hundred crossbows, every time the Xianbei people took a step forward, several of the riders in front would fall down along with their horses. Especially the powerful crossbows of the Han army, the damage far exceeded the Xianbei people's expectations. Regardless of whether it was a man or a horse, as long as it was shot, it would basically lose its combat effectiveness immediately and fall to the ground as if it was hit by a heavy hammer. That kind of huge lethality made many Xianbei people tremble with fear.

The Xianbei people did have an advantage in numbers. The Han army's crossbows peeled off the skin of the Xianbei cavalry layer by layer, but in the end, the Xianbei cavalry urged their horses to directly hit the horses set up by the Han army.

With the soft mud of the river and the presence of strong crossbows, the barbarians' method of pulling the horses with lassoes was basically ineffective, because it was very difficult to change direction or turn around in the river bed. Things, and after Ju Ma are the sword-wielding swordsmen and shieldmen, with one slash, the lasso is basically just a hook hanging on Ju Ma...

Therefore, the Xianbei people had only one way left if they wanted to destroy Juma.

Use flesh and blood to break it open!

The Xianbei people who were lucky enough to escape the baptism of arrows roared wildly, whipping and slashing the horse's buttocks with their sabers, trying to make the horse that had just left the tidal muddy area go as fast as possible, and then reached the point where they could stop the horse. , fiercely lifted the reins of the war horse, and hit him forcefully!

At this moment, the terrible crisis of Huang Cheng's Han army finally came...

Mr. Qian Mu has these four sentences in the opening chapter of "Outline of National History":

1. We should believe that the citizens of any country, especially those who claim to have above-average knowledge, should have some knowledge of the past history of their country. (Otherwise, at most it can only be counted as a knowledgeable person, not a knowledgeable citizen.)

2. The so-called knowledge of the past history of one's country must be accompanied by a kind of warmth and respect for its past history. (Otherwise, it will only be considered as knowing some foreign history, and it does not mean that you have knowledge of the history of your country.)

3. Those who have a kind of warmth and respect for their country's past history will at least not have an extreme nihilism about their country's history (that is, they regard their country's past history as having no value at all, and there is nothing that can satisfy them. .) At least we won’t feel that we are standing at the highest pinnacle of past history (this is a shallow and arrogant view of evolution.) and blame us for all our sins and weaknesses on the ancients. (This is a specious cultural self-condemnation.)

4. We should believe that every country must wait until more and more of its citizens meet the above conditions, so that the country can have hope of moving forward. (Otherwise, the improvement is equivalent to the improvement of a conquered country or sub-colony, and has no bearing on its own country. In other words, this kind of improvement is nothing more than a disguised form of cultural conquest, the atrophy and destruction of its culture itself. It is not the transformation and development of its culture itself.)