The Era of Generals

Chapter 288   Mistakes

It's a pity that this is just the lieutenant's idea.

What's even more regrettable is that today's coalition commander is still Bao Jianye instead of him.

So even though he knew that Bao Jianye's strategy was wrong, the lieutenant general was still helpless, not to mention that the opponent's long sword was on his neck.

"Dare to violate the military order next time, and you know what will happen!"

Bao Jianye said sternly, but he didn't really wipe the lieutenant's neck with his sword.

He is not stupid, and he knows that if he kills the lieutenant in front of everyone at this time, it will definitely cause a mutiny in the army. After all, most of the soldiers in the coalition army belong to the four border cities.

"Hurry up and reload, adjust the angle!"

With a cold snort, he withdrew his long sword and issued an order to the stone-throwing troops himself.

At the same time, the soldiers assembled from each camp to the rear camp also began to form a formation, with swords and shields in front, pikemen in the center, and archers behind them, rushing to the front camp in a standard advancing formation.

Along the way, they kept gathering their own soldiers, and when they returned to the middle camp, they had gathered a considerable force.

In this way, Bao Jianye felt a little relieved, and at the same time he breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly turned his head and roared: "What are you still doing in a daze, fire!"

The new round of catapults had been loaded, and when Bao Jianye gave an order, the bowstrings vibrated together, and dozens of catapults roared violently again almost at the same time!

This time, the direction they aimed at was the front camp of their own house where the flames were everywhere and they couldn't see the situation clearly.

Chen Ze frowned deeply.

I thought I could fight, but in the end I missed it.

What was missed was that the other party actually had such a number of catapults.

You must know that when Bao Jianye led the army, it was a fast-charging force mainly composed of heavy cavalry. With their marching speed, it is conceivable that they must have abandoned a large number of logistics supplies, especially the catapults. It is even more impossible for slow large equipment to keep up with the speed of cavalry.

That's why Chen Zecai suddenly came up with the idea of ​​being able to fight there, so that the opponent suddenly returned fire with a catapult. After he was stunned for a moment, he didn't have time to stop Meng Yang who had already rushed into the enemy's formation in a rage.

Fortunately, he was stunned for only a moment, and when he realized it, he immediately ordered Meng Yang to withdraw from the enemy camp by displacing the star system.

At that moment, Chen Ze put himself into the perspective of the enemy coach. Based on his previous understanding of this person, he immediately knew where he would hit in the next round of salvo.

The opponent's coach, that guy is a cold-blooded guy who can watch his heavy cavalry fall into artillery fire without doing anything.

Then where he will hit the next shot, this can be guessed.

Own front camp!

This was the judgment Chen Ze made in an instant, and it was also the reason why he ordered Meng Yang to retreat quickly.

On Meng Yang's side, no matter how angry he was, it was impossible for him to disobey Chen Ze's order.

Not to mention that his own loyalty is already close to the full value of 100, even if he wants to violate it if he is under the possession of a general, Zhao Yun will not agree.

So at the same time as the second round of volley, Meng Yang was already ordering his subordinates to retreat, but this move was too late, but because of the unwillingness of the other side's lieutenant general, it bought time for the cavalry. Zedu didn't think of it, and of course he didn't know what happened in it, so he could only feel a burst of rejoicing.

The ensuing third round of salvo fell into the front camp as Chen Ze expected. Fortunately, with the buffer time of the second round, Meng Yang and others had almost withdrawn from the camp.

Therefore, the third round of salvo that Bao Jianye placed high hopes on was all bombarded on the soldiers of his own side who were lucky enough to survive under Li Quanan's artillery fire.

As for Meng Yang's side, only four or five cavalry charged deeper and had no time to withdraw, and were affected by the aftermath, so the loss was minimal.

This time, even Chen Ze couldn't laugh or cry.

He originally arranged his own attack deployment based on the possible reaction of the other party, but it seemed that there were two commanders on the other side. Feeling helpless.

If it was in the previous life, Chen Ze really wanted to vomit: You are playing with snake skin!

Fortunately, the third round of salvo did not exceed his expectations, and it really hit the front battalion, which at least meant that he still had some understanding of the nature of one of the enemy commanders.

"It's dangerous, General!"

The Mengyang troops who successfully escaped the catastrophe were all relieved. They were only a little bit short of the boulder rain, and at this time they could still be grateful for the rest of their lives. Without knowing that there was a strict order from Chen Ze, Everyone looked at Meng Yang again with admiration in their eyes.

Just now everyone could see how Mengyang was furious, and how could it not be admirable that he could handle that kind of anger freely and make the most correct judgment at a critical moment?

Meng Yang, who was at the forefront of the troops, did not explain this.

Of course, this cannot be explained, it is impossible to expose Chen Ze.

Of course, it was not to show off in front of his subordinates and take the credit for himself, but to listen carefully to the new order that Chen Ze was issuing.

"Brothers, follow me!"

After carefully listening to Chen Ze's order, Meng Yang's eyes flashed, and then he waved his hand, leading all the cavalry to rush to the side of the enemy camp, completely abandoning the frontal battlefield.

The most important task of these cavalry is to protect the catapult troops behind from being harassed and to provide the maximum amount of fire support.

However, at this time, when the opponent also had catapults, although Li Quanan was there, their catapults were farther away, but when the opponent was covered by two rounds of boulder rain, Li Quanan's catapult troops could no longer advance.

If you can't push forward, you won't be able to hit a farther distance, and you won't be able to deal a heavy blow to Bao Jianye's troops. At the same time, the opponent can't rush out of the camp to attack Li Quan'an, and temporarily doesn't need protection.

So Meng Yang walked directly and led the cavalry away completely in an instant.

Li Quan'an was not idle, and ordered someone to push the catapult forward, but he directly used the falling rocks thrown by the opponent as a cover, and directly placed the catapult behind.

They are also very sure that after this battle, the enemy coach will definitely not order the catapult to be pushed forward. After all, the attack distance of their own catapult has left a deep impression on the opponent.

At this time, Li Quan'an switched from offense to defense, and directly placed the catapult array under the enemy's nose, in order to guard against the enemy's surprise attack.

As for Chen Ze making such a deployment, it was because he saw another army approaching from the map of the general star system.

That troop was exactly Xu Qing's troop who had changed their appearance and put on the military uniform of Dongping City!