The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Countless arrows flew out.

The scene of tens of thousands of arrows shooting into the sky was quite shocking.

When these arrows fell on the cavalry rushing forward, the scene was even more spectacular.

Someone fell directly from the horse, and someone screamed after being hit by an arrow, but still insisted on charging.

Some people were shot dead without even having time to scream.

The war horses also hit a lot of arrows, but the war horses were rough and thick, and one or two arrows alone could not kill them directly, but they could disturb the war horses and make them suffer so that they were out of control.

For a while, the cavalry who were charging ahead were in a mess, which once again aggravated the cavalry's damage.

Even if Ding Yuan's cavalry were elite, they couldn't withstand such a sniper attack.

Chapter 775 The Killer

If things such as trebuchets and trenches are only blocking the cavalry and cannot cause large-scale damage to the cavalry, then the dense rain of arrows is the harvest of the cavalry.

Those cavalry who rushed to the front suffered heavy casualties after a round of arrow rain.

Le Jin saw the heavy casualties of those cavalry after a round of arrow rain, and immediately looked surprised, looking at those cavalry for a while, he was a little surprised.

"General, the power of this rain of arrows is too great."

Huang Zhong saw the bows and arrows fired by the soldiers behind him, and after killing a large number of cavalry, he also showed a smug expression on his face.

Seeing Le Jin and Li Dian both looked surprised, Huang Zhong was not stingy, and immediately explained to them why he waited for these cavalry to approach before starting to shoot.

"Do you know why I waited for these cavalry to get so close to us before ordering our men to shoot arrows?"

Both Li Dian and Le Jin shook their heads, expressing that they didn't know, and at the same time stared at Huang Zhong, expecting Huang Zhong to explain to them.

Huang Zhong did not hide his clumsiness, but immediately told them the reason.

"The best shooting range for a shooter is at a distance of 120 steps. Although there are still shots at a distance of [-] steps, the power is much reduced. Unless you are born with supernatural power and paired with a good bow, you can reach about [-] steps. And even further."

"But ordinary archers are the most lethal within a range of eighty paces, while the enemy's cavalry are all elite, either wearing soft armor or excellent harness. Breaking through their defenses is not easy."

"If we start shooting at 150 steps as soon as they enter the range, it will only waste the arrows of the archers behind us, and they will not cause damage to the enemy. Instead, they will be able to put arrows on us again. rush to the front.”

"And the distance of eighty steps is the distance where the archer can do the most damage. As long as the arrow can be shot, even a cavalry in soft armor will be pierced by our archer and cause some damage!"

Huang Zhong's understanding of archers was unmatched by anyone present, so having him to train and command these archers was simply perfect.

Le Jin and Li Dian on the side listened to Huang Zhong's explanation, and both of them suddenly realized that they were still worried about something at first, but now after hearing Huang Zhong's words, both of them admired Huang Zhong unceasingly .

Just as Huang Zhong and the two of them finished explaining, the archers behind them had already finished firing the second round of arrows.

The arrows that rushed out again caused some damage to Ding Yuan's cavalry.

However, correspondingly, the distance of eighty steps was quickly pulled in under the gallop of the cavalry sitting on their horses.

Some cavalry had charged over, only thirty steps away from Huang Zhong and the others.

However, they could not directly confront the shooters under Huang Zhong's command, but the [-] infantry under Huang Zhong's command competed with these cavalry in front.

These six thousand infantry were the elite infantry led by Li Dian and Le Jin.

Although most of Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses are archers, there are still some infantry. These infantry are equipped to prevent enemy surprise attacks, so some infantry will be equipped in front of the archers to block the enemy's pace.

"Li Dian, Le Jin, it's your turn to play!"

When Huang Zhong saw that the enemy had charged up, he immediately ordered Li Dian and Le Jin to start a counterattack.

The role of Li Dian and Le Jin was not to lead the troops in the headquarters to defeat the enemy troops, but to intercept some of the cavalry here and not let these cavalry get close to Huang Zhong's troops in the headquarters.

Li Dian and Le Jin are not incompetent people, especially Le Jin, who can be called a five-son general by Cao Cao, is always not a dead man.

Anyway, Le Jin is also one of the five good generals, second only to Zhang Liao.

During the decades when he took refuge in Cao Cao, Le Jin participated in almost all the wars of the Cao Wei regime.

However, the reason why Le Jin's reputation is not high in history is that he has never commanded a battle alone, and he cannot become famous in one battle like Zhang Liao, Zhou Yu and the like.

Therefore, Le Jin's ability has always been questioned, but since Le Jin joined Liu Zheng, he has been added as a side general under Huang Zhong's men, and he has shown his speed dominance.

The thousands of infantrymen under his command were quite strong trained by him.

When the cavalry rushed over, Le Jin immediately drew out his weapon, rode on the horse, charged up, and directed his subordinates to start fighting with the cavalry.

Le Jin and Li Dian each led [-] troops and stood in the center of the battlefield.

With them around, it would be difficult for the enemy's cavalry to rush into the core of the battlefield. After all, these infantrymen were all wearing shields. They were not for attacking, but for garrisoning, and they were connected to each other.

The cavalry rushed over, although they could defeat the infantry and make it impossible for the infantry to stop them, but thousands of infantry cannot be crushed in a short while here.

Plus there are archers who keep shooting behind them.

These archers can greatly increase the losses of those cavalry.

Under such mutual confrontation, nearly half of Ding Yuan's more than [-] soldiers and horses were directly shot to death.

The battle continued, and the more than 5000 cavalry quickly lost more than [-] people.

Coupled with the blocking of these infantry, these cavalry did not immediately disperse these soldiers and horses of Huang Zhong.

After a long time, the casualties of the cavalry increased, and the infantry on Le Jin and Li Dian's side had also been killed by these cavalry.

Even if Li Dian and Le Jin's infantry were well-trained, infantry were inherently weaker than cavalry.

Under the crazy offensive charge of the cavalry, the infantry is still difficult to resist.

As time went on, the [-] infantrymen also began to suffer casualties.

Once the gap was opened, the cavalry could break out of the encirclement, enter the core battlefield, and attack the shooters around Huang Zhong.

At this time, Huang Zhong's expression remained calm.

Not even a trace of tension could be seen.

After Le Jin and Li Dian's troops failed to stop the cavalry's charge, Huang Zhong immediately ordered the soldiers around him.

"Hurry up, let the people sent by His Majesty come out, it's time for them to play!"

Huang Zhong's words immediately made the two soldiers around him nod quickly.

"Yes, General, the people sent by His Majesty are at the rear, let's get them out."

Liu Zheng knew that Ding Yuan would send out cavalry, so he dispatched a surprise soldier under his command to Huang Zhong in advance.

Chapter 776 Big Victory!

At this time, when Huang Zhong couldn't stop the cavalry from attacking, he finally remembered Liu Zheng's instructions.

Decided to use the trump card Liu Zheng gave him.

Liu Zheng's trump card is actually nothing else, but some war elephants carefully raised by his subordinates.

A war elephant unit that specializes in restraining cavalry.

Liu Zheng has a cavalry under him, which was obtained from the remnant party of Linyi County.

Later, he defeated the army of the Funan Kingdom and captured some war elephants from the remnants of the Funan Kingdom. These war elephants turned to Liu Zheng's A Guduo for training.

Aguduo himself was born in training war elephants, but after being captured by Liu Zheng, he joined Liu Zheng in order to survive.

Liu Zheng knew that he had a little ability to train war elephant troops, but he didn't kill A Guduo, and let A Guduo keep training war elephants in Jiaozhou.

Now, when he knew that he was going to fight Ding Yuan, Liu Zheng naturally took Aguduo from Jiaozhou with the war elephant corps, felt the Jingzhou area, cooperated with Huang Zhong, and prepared to use their war elephant army to annihilate Ding Yuan's cavalry.

Although the number of elephant soldiers is not large, there are only a thousand heads.

But because each war elephant is huge in size, in comparison, a thousand war elephant troops can already be as spectacular as thousands of cavalry.

After Huang Zhong's order was issued, the army of war elephants behind the battlefield had already started to move.

A Guduo commanded these war elephants, and slowly rushed to the front line of the battlefield from the rear.

The war elephants let out a long and distant roar.

Those war horses didn't hear what these noises were at first, and those soldiers didn't know that there was such a creature as an elephant in this world.

After all, they were all from Bingzhou. Those people lived near nomads all year round and were used to seeing horses, so how could they see elephants.

The running speed of the war elephant troops is not fast, and even their progress cannot be called running, they just walk faster.

Dozens of elephants rushed to Huang Zhong's rear first, and Huang Zhong gave an order to let the soldiers behind him let go.Let these war elephant troops pass through the middle road completely.

The rumbling horses trampled, and after the appearance of the elephant, it began to look a little bit pale.

In terms of size, these Bingzhou war horses are not too big, even if they are tall, they are only about two meters high, and those elephants are three meters high at random, and some remind huge ones, close to four meters, as if they are two meters tall. Twice as many as these war horses.

The size of these war horses is not enough, and when they collide with the elephants, they cannot shake the elephants in any way.

On the contrary, it would irritate these war elephants and provoke the impact of these war elephants. Dozens of war elephants who came out first ran wildly on this battlefield, tearing apart the densely packed Bingzhou wolf riders.

In addition, there are two or three people in the army of war elephants, constantly shooting with bows and crossbows.

All of a sudden, those Bingzhou wolves were killed and injured, and there was a lot of wailing.

Originally, those Bingzhou wolf cavalry had regained some of their disadvantages. As long as they defeated the infantry in the front, they could directly reach the core of the battlefield and kill the shooters behind Huang Zhong.

After killing Huang Zhong's shooter, Ding Yuan will be considered victorious in this battle.

But Ding Yuan never expected that behind Huang Zhong, there were such things that he had never seen before.

As soon as these war elephants appeared, it was like a booster, which gave Huang Zhong confidence and at the same time brought Ding Yuan despair.

Ding Yuan did not take the lead in the charge, it was his lieutenant who charged, but Ding Yuan himself was also on the battlefield, commanding his own army to charge forward.

At the beginning, Ding Yuan didn't realize what was wrong, he just felt that the enemy's sniping was a bit powerful, but with cavalry, rushing over was a victory.

Ding Yuan aggressively ordered the cavalry under his command to charge, and trampled on these weak soldiers with powerful horseshoes.

But as soon as the war elephant soldiers and horses appeared, Ding Yuan was dumbfounded.

"Then what is that?"

"General, we don't know. We don't know where Liu Zheng got the ferocious beasts. They are bigger than war horses. They are not afraid of the charge of war horses at all. Our war horses have no advantage in front of those things, but they are crushed by them. .”

The soldiers who escaped from the front immediately reported the situation to Ding Yuan.

Ding Yuan stared at those elephants dumbfounded. This was a scene he would never forget in his life. His trusted cavalry was beaten completely defenseless under the impact of some ferocious beasts.

In this way, under the impact of the war elephants, more than half of the [-] cavalry were quickly killed or injured.

But there are more and more elephants. In the blink of an eye, thousands of elephants appeared here, forcing their war horses to retreat steadily.

Rao Ding Yuan also knows that the outcome of the battle has been decided.

The cavalry under him were no longer able to break through the defense of Huang Zhong and others.

Ding Yuan looked at the camp in the distance, and then at the cavalry around him who had suffered heavy losses.

Finally, he sighed and gave the order to retreat.

"The situation of the battle has been determined to be powerless, and after all, they still failed to break through, these armies under Liu Zheng!"

"Let's retreat, retreating now can save some strength, continue to challenge them here, there is only one way to wipe out the whole army!"

Ding Yuan's analysis was very clear. After seeing the appearance of those war elephant troops, he already understood that the situation was completely unfavorable to them.

Continuing to fight would be futile and a waste of effort.

If he retreats now, he should be able to retain 1 to [-]% of the more than [-] cavalry under his command.

It will not be annihilated here.

Following Ding Yuan's order, the horn of retreat began to spread throughout the battlefield.

After hearing the voice ordering to retreat, the charging cavalry began to turn around the pier one by one like a straw, receding like a tide.

The cavalry came quickly and dispersed quickly.

Except for a few who were held back by Huang Zhong's men and couldn't leave the battlefield directly, most of the cavalry were able to quickly withdraw from here.

Of course, when they were retreating, they were often shot by Huang Zhong's shooters.

A cavalry phalanx of 5000 people can really be evacuated from the battlefield unscathed, I am afraid that even 5000 people will be a problem.

Looking at the cavalry who fled in embarrassment.At this moment, Huang Zhong's face finally showed a little smile.

This time they won a big victory.