Li Dian couldn't figure out what Zhang Fei's "demon" was. Logically speaking, Li Dian should first stabilize the morale of the army at this time, find a way to figure out what the opponent's "demon" was, and come up with a countermeasure before attacking.
Rationally, this should be the case, but what Li Dian lacks most now is time.
The fire had been burning in front for some time, and he could hear the killing cries from his side. Under this situation, if he, Li Dian, slowly tested the enemy's attack tactics, even if Xiahou Dun escaped in the future, he would not be there with Li Dian after he returned. Eat the good fruit.
After all, that was Xiahou Dun, Cao Cao's trusted and beloved general, and there was no room for failure.
Therefore, Li Dian had no choice but to send the defeated soldiers of the first group to the rear camp to serve as a reserve team, and at the same time organize the formation and organization.
As for Li Dian himself, he had reorganized two thousand people, and this time he personally took command, so he was bound to see what happened.
Then Li Dian saw clearly that it was not a magic spell, but just arrows whose shafts were burned one after another.
Moreover, Li Dian also discovered that although these arrows were on fire, they did not burn for long. The arrow shafts were basically burned, and the fire was extinguished.
In this way, Li Dian knew how to defend against it, just treat it as an ordinary arrow.
But just because Li Dian understood it, it didn't mean that his soldiers also understood it.
Some are bold and obedient, and know how to defend, but some are timid. Even if they know it is an arrow, they will still be in chaos when they see the balls of fire hitting them.
The problem of uneven military quality is not only faced by Liu Bei's army, but also by Cao Cao's army.
Not to mention that this time Li Dian led ordinary Cao Jun soldiers, while Zhang Fei's side were also elite soldiers who had been trained for more than a year. Comparing the two sides, Cao Jun's side was even more chaotic.
When it comes to offense and defense, the offensive side will always suffer a little, and the offensive side can't even deploy an offensive formation, and the soldiers don't have a complete strength advantage in the battle. Anyway, Li Dian has no way at all.
We can only suspend the second attack, then reorganize the formation, replenish the soldiers, and carry out the third attack.
And this third attack was really fatal.
Because Li Dian worked hard.
Li Dian used his own personal troops as the main body, supplemented by some soldiers who had performed well in the previous two attacks, and once again gathered 2,000 men, still under his personal command, to lead the army to attack Zhang Fei's team.
There is no way. Although Li Dian doesn't have enough time now, his advantage is that he has more people.
If it doesn't work once, do it twice, and if it doesn't work twice, do it three times. If the impact continues for a long time, Li Dian doesn't believe that he can't open a gap.
This time, the "power" of the rocket was suddenly reduced a lot.
It failed to cause substantial damage twice in a row. Cao Jun was not an idiot just because he looked scary. It was useless even if something that couldn't hurt people looked scary.
Cao Jun, who was no longer afraid of the unknown, easily broke through the rocket blockade and marched to the front of Zhang Fei's army.
What follows is a head-to-head contest.
The power of the Yuanyang Formation remained as strong as ever. Although Cao Jun attacked several times, they were unable to break through Zhang Fei's first line of defense.
But at the same time, Zhang Feijun's sergeants also began to suffer casualties.
Last time, Cao Ren used 500 soldiers to test and attack 800 soldiers of Zhang Fei.
But this time Li Dian directly overwhelmed two thousand men, and he was still facing 800 Zhang Fei's soldiers.
The remaining 150 people from Kou Feng's primary school were kept as a reserve team at Zhang Xi's suggestion.
Kou Feng looked at the stalemate battle in front of him and felt extremely anxious. He wished he could lead his soldiers to rush forward and kill the enemy right now.
But Zhang Fei didn't say anything, and Zhang Xi kept a straight face. He and Kou Feng couldn't help it, and they knew the military orders were like mountains, so they could only walk in circles around Zhang Fei and Zhang Xi.
As the battle on the battlefield gradually became stalemate, especially as the casualties among Zhang Fei's army gradually increased, Kou Feng couldn't bear it anymore.
"General, let the young general take action. This is the moment when the two armies are in a stalemate. Feng Yuan will lead his troops to attack and directly capture the commander of Cao's army. We will definitely win in one battle!"
Kou Feng asked for a fight quite excitedly.
But Zhang Fei just glanced at him and ignored him.
The little guy's courage is commendable, but his insight into this battlefield is still far away. If you attack Li Dian's formation before the army is in chaos, you will die.
Zhang Xi is Kou Feng's brother after all. Although he can't see clearly like Zhang Fei, he also feels that this is not a good time to rush into the battle.
He called Kou Feng and explained to the boy, "Gong Zhong, look, there are hundreds of soldiers around Li Dian, and there are thousands of people guarding behind him. Although the morale of the soldiers behind him is low, there is no need to follow him. When you join the formation, you only need one person to shoot a bow and arrow, and these thousands of bows and arrows are shooting in unison, are you going to charge the formation, or are you looking for death?!"
What Zhang Xi said made Zhang Fei so angry that he really wanted to roll his eyes.
It didn't matter that the younger brother had little battlefield experience, but the older brother, who was still the second in command in the army, had so little common sense.
You don't even look at your own army. How many archers are there among a thousand people? !
Even if you don't care about accuracy, if you count all those who can shoot a bow, the total number of people is less than 200.
If Li Dian really had three or four thousand archers in his army, he wouldn't need to fight us hand-to-hand. He could just shoot us to death, right?
Archers in this era need to be trained, and not just anyone can shoot a bow and become an archer. Therefore, even among Cao's army, the proportion of archers is not very high, let alone thousands of archers.
Among the more than 10,000 men led by Li Dian, there are 1,000 professional archers who are already elite troops. In this era, more and more people still rely on physical combat to determine the outcome of the battlefield.
But no matter what, it's okay to educate him after the battlefield. At least he can calm down the irritable little guy first.
Zhang Fei still calmly observed the situation on the field and found that although his side suffered casualties, the overall combat effectiveness was still good.
On the other hand, Li Dian's attack was already a bit weak.
Li Dian had no choice. The attacking army of 2,000 men was not an organized one, but a temporary one. He was not good at commanding it to begin with.
In addition, the opponent was like a hedgehog, attacking twice, but his side suffered heavy losses. More than 200 of the 2,000 people had been killed and more than 300 injured.
In this era, if the casualties exceed 30%, the army will definitely be defeated, and now Li Dian can't command the troops that are not directly under him.
The only thing Li Dian could do was to command his troops and see if he could break through the opponent's body.
As long as he breaks through an opening, he will command the remaining soldiers to rush forward and serve as cannon fodder to buy time for his troops. As long as they wait to rescue Xiahou Dun who is trapped in the mountain road, it doesn't matter if all the remaining soldiers die.
Zhang Fei also noticed this, so he simply changed his formation and became more compact, focusing on defending the most aggressive part of the attack, Li Dian's personal troops, which made Li Dian unable to speak.
Li Dian's teeth were itching with anger, but he couldn't do anything about Zhang Fei.
At this time, Zhang Fei finally felt in the mood to smile.
"Yuan Zhang, please keep an eye on Kou Xiaozi here. Don't you want to kill the enemy? Come with me!"
After Zhang Fei finished speaking, regardless of Zhang Xi's reaction, he got on his horse himself, took Kou Feng, who was delighted, and turned around to fight towards the mountain road.
As soon as Zhang Xi saw the direction in which the black guy was killing the enemy, he knew that he was going to intercept and kill Xiahou Dun.
I have to admire this black guy, he actually dared to lead only 150 people to intercept and kill him. I wonder if that is Xiahou Dun's survival army. Different from the troops in front of me who are just responding, he really knows how to fight with Xiahou Dun. You work hard.
Zhang Xi wanted to persuade him, but after thinking about it carefully, he couldn't persuade him.
They were all killing the enemy. Why should Kou Feng's 150 people enjoy preferential treatment? The 800 people in front of him had been fighting against the 2,000 people for half an hour.
What Zhang Xi has to do now is to follow the plan left by Zhang Fei, maintain the defensive intensity and concentration of the formation, and never let Li Dian really break through to respond.
As for Li Dian, Li Dian is really numb now and can't calm down anymore.
If Xiahou Dun can't be saved, then how can Li Dian go to meet his lord?
Li Dian no longer worried about casualties. With a wave of his hand, he asked the soldiers who had just retreated and the remaining soldiers to press forward. No matter what, he must find a way to open an opening.
Zhang Xi was immediately under great pressure.
The main reason was that Zhang Xi had little battle experience and was frightened by Cao Jun's overwhelming black formation. He didn't know what to do.
But fortunately, the soldiers he trained were pretty good, and they were still pushing hard, giving Zhang Xi time to calm down and think.
After carefully observing Cao Jun's formation, Zhang Xi discovered that Cao Jun's current army was only relying on its superior numbers to press forward, and its offensive efficiency was not as effective as before. He only needed to pay attention to whether there were any weak points on the defensive front and make timely adjustments. That's it.
Although Li Dian suddenly pressed on another four to five thousand men, plus Cao's army that was originally attacking, there were already six or seven thousand men surrounding the six or seven hundred men commanded by Zhang Xi.
It looked scary, with a ten-to-one offense-to-defense ratio that seemed impossible to defend no matter what.
But the terrain of Bowang really gave Zhang Xi, the defender, an advantage.
The mountain roads in Bowang are very narrow. Even with the gentle slopes in the mountains where soldiers can fight, the number of Cao Cao's soldiers who can come into direct contact with Liu Bei's defenders will only be one or two thousand. The remaining five The six thousand soldiers of Cao Cao just shouted a few times from behind to build up their momentum.
The actual offense-to-defense ratio is between two to one and three to one.
The two armies were fighting hand-to-hand, and the archers in the army did not dare to shoot arrows at will. Zhang Xi did not even need to worry about a cold arrow coming out of nowhere on this battlefield. It was very safe.
In addition, Zhang Xi's purpose was not to kill these Cao troops, but to stall for time, desperately stalling for time. As long as the battle in the mountain road behind him ended, Li Dian would lose the meaning of the battle.
Zhang Xi immediately regained his composure and followed the strategy left by Zhang Fei. As long as he could withstand this period of time, Zhang Xi would be successful.
With such a dense swarm of swarms, the actual offensive efficiency was not as good as before. Of course, Li Dian could see clearly.
But he really couldn't help it. His mistake in what happened today was that he didn't stop Xiahou Dun from pursuing him from the beginning.
If Xiahou Dun could run back, he, Li Dian, would still have a chance to make amends. If Xiahou Dun couldn't run away, then it would be useless for him, Li Dian, to lose all his more than 10,000 rear troops.
After thinking about it, Li Dian finally sighed and ordered to withdraw his troops temporarily.
There is no point in continuing to fight like this except paying more casualties. It is better to retreat and reorganize and make a final attempt.
As soon as Zhang Xi saw that Cao's army had retreated, he quickly began to inspect the schools, asking them to quickly transport the casualties to the rear, and then arranged for temporary re-formation to ensure combat effectiveness.
Zhang Xi was also very uneasy. He also noticed that the next attack was the key.
If he defends, Li Dian will no longer be able to attack, and Xiahou Dun in the mountain road will be the turtle in the urn.
But if he couldn't hold on, Li Dian might really break into the mountain road and meet Xiahou Dun.
Although it would be impossible for Cao Jun to attack Xinye again, Zhang Xi did not want to be embarrassed.
When Zhang Fei was commanding, Li Dian had no chance to take advantage of him. It would be so embarrassing if he was the one commanding and Li Dian broke in.
But now Zhang Xi's problem is also obvious.
After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, Zhang Xi's army has now suffered a lot of casualties. There are more than 150 soldiers who were killed or injured and unable to fight. The number of soldiers on hand who can actually fight is less than 650. Ten people.
In addition, Zhang Fei took away 150 of Kou Feng's men in order to intercept and kill Xiahou Dun. Zhang Xi now did not even have a reserve team.
Next, Zhang Xi is not sure how long he can hold on.
(End of chapter)
