The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 415 Explosive Packs

In large-scale battles in this era, the morale of both sides has a great influence on the outcome, and it can be said that it can determine the outcome of a war.During the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao had much more troops than Cao Cao, but when the soldiers heard that their food and grass had been burned, their morale collapsed immediately, and even famous generals like Zhang Yun surrendered directly.

Therefore, in the world of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, many wars often collapsed instantly because one side's general died in battle.For example, General Guan Hai of the Yellow Turban Army led tens of thousands of troops to attack Beihai. Kong Rong, the governor of Beihai, led his troops to fight. When Kong Rong's general Zong Bao was killed by Guan Hai with a knife, the Beihai defenders were in chaos and fled back to the city.

Later, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei led [-] elite troops to rescue Kong Rong. After Guan Hai was beheaded by Guan Yu, the tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops could not defeat the [-] Liu Bei troops, and countless of them surrendered.

As the saying goes, "The general is the courage of the soldier." The courage of a soldier depends on the courage of the general who leads the army. The general is the source of the courage of the soldiers. If the general of an army is killed by the enemy or escapes on his own, who of the soldiers below will still persist? resistance.In later generations, hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could not defeat thousands of soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was not because the general fled first.

Now Cao Jun's two wings were hit by Chu Jun's poisonous smoke bombs and kerosene bombs, their morale was completely lost, and they were in chaos. Let alone unable to attack forward, they would be defeated when the opponent pushed over.

Cao Cao ordered: "Where are Wen Yuan and Wen Qian!"

Zhang Liao and Le Jin urged their horses forward and responded: "The general is here!"

"The two of you each led five thousand cavalry to attack the opponent's flanks and disrupt their formation."

"As ordered!"

Zhang Liao and Le Jin each ordered five thousand cavalry to outflank the Chu army's two wings.

When fighting against the Chu army, the cavalry is Cao's trump card.In this unfavorable situation, Cao Cao planned to use cavalry to attack the Chu army, which could not only interrupt their firing of kerosene bombs and crossbows, but also distract them from resisting the cavalry, thus creating opportunities for the frontal infantry.

Although most of the cavalry led by Zhang Liao and Yue Jin were light cavalry, [-] heavy cavalry were specially placed at the front of the formation for the purpose of charging.

The cost of heavy cavalry is too high, not only the requirements for horses and cavalry are very high, but also the horses must wear horse armor, otherwise they will be shot to death by the opponent's crossbow.Therefore, Cao Jun did not have many heavy cavalry, and most of them were concentrated in the tiger and leopard cavalry.

But heavy cavalry is really easy to use when dealing with infantry phalanxes, just like tanks, they are not afraid of any obstacles ahead.

In this era, only cavalry can fight against cavalry, so when a large army is fighting, it is often necessary to use cavalry to protect its own wings to prevent the opponent's cavalry from outflanking and disrupting its formation.

Although infantry does not have an advantage in confrontation with cavalry, there are other ways to defend.

If the infantry phalanx wanted to withstand the impact of the heavy cavalry, it had to rely on terrain, such as hills, rivers, swamps, etc., or arrange fortifications in advance, such as digging trenches, erecting horse-repelling posts, and so on.

Although the Chu army is now arrayed with their backs against the fat water, they are not afraid that Cao's cavalry will detour to the rear to attack, but the land beyond the two wings is flat, and they have not dug trenches and erected horse-repelling posts in advance.

Could it be that Zhang Wu, Zhuge Liang and others have forgotten that the other side has powerful cavalry?Or do they have other ways of coping?

At the center of the Chu army, a soldier who climbed on a high pole to watch the enemy shouted loudly: "Report~~ The enemy dispatched cavalry and charged towards the wings of our army!"

Sure enough, the cavalry was dispatched. How could Zhang Wu and Zhuge Liang forget Cao Jun's cavalry? This is the most troublesome thing for Zhang Wu, just like Cao Cao's headache for Zhang Wu's navy.

Afterwards, Zhuge Liang issued an order, the drums of the Central Army Department changed, and the flag was waved. The four thousand archers who had been prepared for a long time were divided into two parts to support Zhang Fei and Wenpin's phalanx.

But archers alone cannot stop the opponent's cavalry from charging, because the cavalry is very fast, and there are heavy cavalry in front of them. Except for large siege crossbows, it is difficult for ordinary crossbows to cause damage to them. Kill some light cavalry without heavy armor.

However, in addition to the crossbowman, the catapult at the rear also began to turn, adjusted the counterweight, and the soldier operating the catapult put a strange projectile into the launch basket.

This kind of projectile is a cloth bag, which is tightly wrapped in linen and tightly tied with rope, and the gunpowder is contained in it.

This is the explosive bag made by Zhang Wu with gunpowder, and some small stones, iron nails, and iron pieces are stuffed inside. The weight of each explosive bag is basically the same.

Zhang Wu had already had people calculate the distance and the weight of the counterweight in advance, and the catapult accurately threw the explosives into the charging Cao cavalry.

Cao Jun thought that what the opponent fired was a rock, and he could only see who was unlucky during the charge.

Then there was a deafening explosion in Cao Jun's cavalry formation.

Cao Cao was startled after hearing this and asked the people around him: "What is that? Why does it sound like thunder!"

Sima Yi and others were also shocked because the sound of hundreds of explosive packets exploding was too loud, and they had never been exposed to this thing before, so they couldn't answer it.

This gunpowder explosive pack is actually not very powerful, far worse than the TNT explosive packs of later generations, but the sound of the explosion is not bad at all, and the small stones and iron pieces inside are blown around, It works well on both humans and horses.

The most important thing is that horses are relatively spiritual animals and are easily frightened. Cao Jun's war horses have not been trained in this area at all, and their ears have not been blocked. They were scared by the violent explosion and fled around. control.

Cao Jun's cavalry phalanx suddenly became a mess. Some horses jumped and ran wildly, throwing off the cavalry on their backs;

This is the second time gunpowder has appeared on the battlefield. The first time Zhang Wu used gunpowder to blow up the walls of Moling City and Sun Quan's only hope in the battle to destroy Wu.

This time it was Cao Jun's cavalry who tasted the bad results. Although not many people were killed, the most important thing for the cavalry was their horses. Now that the horses are out of control, how can they charge?

Cao Jun's [-] cavalrymen were in a mess, and even the [-] cavalrymen in the central army began to be chaotic. Although the explosive package exploded on the two wings, the huge explosion made Cao Jun's other horses also restless. Many war horses have already started running wildly.

In this situation, Cao Cao suddenly remembered the earth-shattering noise he heard when he rescued Sun Quan, and thought it was thunder.Later, spies in the army found out that the walls of Moling City had been knocked down by divine thunder. Cao Cao, Cheng Yu and others thought it was nonsense.Now it seems that it should be this new gadget created by Zhang Wu that destroyed the walls of Moling City.

This is a weapon that has never been seen before. It is very powerful and extremely threatening to cavalry.

The two thousand cavalry led by Zhao Yun were waiting for orders beside Zhang Wu. These horses had their ears plugged long ago and had undergone special training, so although they felt a little uneasy after hearing the explosion, they did not feel uneasy under the control of the soldiers. flustered.

(End of this chapter)