Coming out of the prince Dong Chou, someone took Chen Zhang to the Houjun and the Dao Yabing Tent to go through the formalities. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The forward army led by Dong Pu has arrived at the northern foot of the Hechuan Ridge to test the defense line of the Hexiang army, more soldiers and horses are about to pour out, there is no time to catch up or cultivate friendship, Chen Zhang went to the Dao Ya Bing Tent to go through the formalities, and after seeing his direct boss in the Dao Ya Soldier Battalion, he was immediately arranged to replace a hundred martial arts captain who was injured in the battle with the elite scouts of the Hexiang Army when he went out to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and commanded a team of 100 people.

In the baggage battalion of the rear army, Chen Zhang, as a captain, was responsible for the baggage team, which had more than 100 cavalry guards, more than 1,000 baggage foot soldiers, and more than 2,000 people who were recruited from all over the country. The number of people under his command is also densely stubble, and when he was transferred to the Dao Ya soldiers, he served as the captain of the hundred martial arts, and the 100-man team under his command only made up more than 70 generals, but when it comes to combat strength, Chen Zhang knows very well in his heart that the more than 70 Taoist soldiers can kill the baggage team he commanded before turning over on their backs and calling their fathers and mothers.

The 100-member team of the Taoist soldiers has more than 70 generals, but in addition to more than a dozen green cunning horses, the other war horses are all good horses selected from a hundred miles in Hexi, and there are also hundreds of ordinary horses to transport heavy materials with camels.

The light horse armor is mainly made of the scales of low-level demon beasts, which can resist the sword qi halberd or impact energy inspired by ordinary arrows and low-grade seals, while the heavy horse armor worn by the green cunning horse is inlaid with quenched gold armor as dense as fish scales on the basis of the scale and skin armor, and the defense power is amazing.

It's just that this kind of heavy horse armor, each pair weighs more than four or five hundred catties, plus the armor that is strong and stubborn and fully armed, and only the strong war horses above the green cunning horse can withstand it.

Of course, this is also after the discovery of large-scale quenching gold placer ore in Liquan, Hexi can get an additional 12 million catties of quenched gold iron every year to be able to refine this heavy horse armor on a large scale.

Different from the heavy armored cavalry in the ordinary sense, the heavy armored cavalry compiled by the Hexi Provincial Bing Ya Battalion, including people and horses, plus the armor of people and war horses, as well as bows and halberds, and shields, are almost two or three thousand catties.

More than 70 generals, not to mention the foundation of the early stage of the Xuan Realm, nearly half of them are veterans who have experienced many bloody battles, in addition to the foundation of cultivation is not weak, but also good at riding and archery and combat skills, where the most sophisticated longbow, shield and halberd in the soldiers are standard preparations, and everyone will prepare some defensive or offensive seals in private.

Of course, according to each person's equipment, as well as the focus of cultivation and combat skills, the more than 70 generals are actually divided into three echelons and cooperate with each other to fight.

In addition to Chen Zhang, there are four people in this hundred-person team who are not weak in cultivating the spirit realm, and they also have a black-feathered war vulture for reconnaissance and a blue feather spirit hoof for communication.

Such an elite team of 100 people is the most basic component of the Hexi Provincial Yabing Battalion, and such an elite battle formation of 100 people has more than 400 teams in Hexi.

In addition to the Daoya soldiers, there were also six large battalions, including Weijiang, Tieliuling, Yulong, and Taiwei, each of which had 100,000 to 200,000 soldiers—this was Hexi under the rule of Dong, one of the nine major lords of Yanzhou.

The 100-member team of Dao soldiers under the command of Chen Zhang also had two additional Heavenly Machine Repeater Crossbows, which were allocated to two bases, a total of 480 quenching arrows.

Although the Tianji Repeater could only be made by Juquanling at the earliest, this was the first time Chen Zhang saw the actual object of the Tianji Repeater.

The Tianji repeater crossbows are still a little bulky, each weighing 1,200 catties.

Although the martial cultivators of the Spirit Clearing Realm could barely carry such a heavy object into and out of the battlefield, no one was willing to do so, but placed it on a two-wheeled cart frame that could quickly move with the army, and dragged it quickly by horses.

Chen Zhang's department was not able to be incorporated into the Heavenly Machine Chariot, but it also had two ordinary chariots that were refined into a small defensive array.

These two chariots, except that they are not driven by the Wind Array Power Box or the Wind Flame Power Box, and need to be dragged into the battlefield by war horses, their defense is not slightly weaker than that of the Pavilion-level Heavenly Machine Chariot.

It's just that it just needs the war horse to drag forward, and the impact of rushing left and right on the battlefield is far from being comparable to the heavenly chariot.

At this time, he had already entered the wartime, and there was no time for Chen Zhang to familiarize himself with his subordinates, so he was ordered to lead his troops out of Chishan City the next day after his arrival, and go south to reconnoiter the possible movements of the enemy army.

After leaving Chishan City, Chen Zhang knew that the 200,000 soldiers of the Yulong Battalion had been divided into three routes, and the elite soldiers of more than 10,000 Dao had crossed the Chishan defense line and advanced to the northern foot of Hechuan Ridge.

Chen Zhang was ordered to pass on the collected information to the forward generals at any time, so he could realize how terrifying the 12,000 elite soldiers led by Du Yu, the lord of the Du clan, the head of the Tiger Hall of the Taiwei Sect, and the general of the chariot cavalry, Du Yu.

12,000 elite soldiers, including heavy armored cavalry battalions, war poultry battalions, and sky locomotive battalions.

The heavy armored cavalry battalion has 2,000 soldiers; the war bird battalion has 600 black-feathered war vultures and more than 100 more powerful war birds, and 2,000 fierce soldiers of the imperial birds, with a total of 300 machine crossbows, and the sky locomotive battalion has 3,000 soldiers, equipped with 60 pavilion-level organ chariots, 8 township organ chariots, and 400 organ crossbows -- in addition to this, there are also 50 teams of light cavalry guards guarding the two wings......

Of course, after the 12,000 elite soldiers, there is also a considerable scale of baggage battalions to ensure that this elite can get enough supplies at any time.

And to lead this elite, in addition to Du Yu, the first elder of the Tiger Palace, there are two other Dao Dan Realm powerhouses, who can be said to be the generals of the Mingqi Realm who are the backbone of the Taiwei Sect and Hexi, and there are more than 30 people.

The 200,000 soldiers of the Yulong battalion were divided into three routes, and the most eye-catching was that there were 100 heavy catapults in the Chai Teng army that advanced and retreated with Du Yu's troops.

Yanzhou has long had a catapult, but it has not been taken seriously, Chen Hai in Yanzhou to create a new type of catapult, this simple manufacture of catapult quickly attracted the attention of each family.

The Yulong camp is equipped with this hundred heavy catapults, is Hexi in the last year to build, the main accessories are made of high-quality quenched iron, the elevated catapult throwing rods are as long as 40 meters, are cut down in the depths of Taiwei Mountain 10,000 years old wood, many parts are also made of eighth-level quenched iron, to ensure that it is extremely strong, can throw two thousand catties of stone bullets three or four thousand steps away, and the catapult itself is not very damaged.

Chen Zhang went to Chishan City this time, and when he saw the newly built city wall of Chishan City, he felt that it was as strong as a mountain and indestructible, but when he saw the heavy stone-throwing crossbows that looked like desolate beasts in the queue of the Jade Dragon Camp, he couldn't help but think, how long can the newly built giant wall of Chishan City withstand under the bombardment of stone bullets weighing more than two or three thousand catties in front of these heavy stone-throwing crossbows?

The two or three thousand pounds of stone bullets slammed over like meteors, and the impact was so strong that it was never under a high-level shock charm.

Of course, the powerhouses of the Ming Realm and the Dao Dan Realm can quickly dodge, and the stone bombardment is no threat to them, but the large walled city fortress and the defensive array integrated with the city wall, such a large fixed target, there is no way to move to avoid the stone bombardment.

It is not difficult for Chen Chang to imagine how these catapults will play a vital role on the battlefield, and he also has a premonition that the fiercest battle between the two sides may eventually revolve around these heavy catapults.

Chen Zhang thought to himself, if the Hexiang Army was really stupid enough to let these heavy catapults calmly arrange in front of the city they were defending, no matter how strong the city walls were, no matter how strong the defensive array was, I was afraid that it would not be able to hold it for a long time, right?

At that time, the Hexi army only needs to requisition a large number of people to mine heavy and heavy stones near the battlefield, which is far more economical and easier than using those high-level attack seals to impact and destroy the enemy's fortresses, after all, heavy catapults are not a magic weapon, according to the operation manual, ordinary people can operate after a period of training.

Chen Zhang never wanted to understand that Chen Hai had an amazing talent in the puppet technique, but the creation of new puppet weapons not only changed the pattern of future wars to a great extent, but also made the sect's Xuan Xiu, who stood above all living beings before, less important.

Chen Hai has a talent in cultivation that ordinary people can touch, but he will not be assassinated or killed in battle, sooner or later he will step into the Dao Dan realm, or even higher cultivation, Chen Zhang really can't understand, why did Chen Hai do these things?

Of course, the heavy catapult is still too clumsy, huge, each one has to have tens of thousands of catties, it is inconvenient to move, and it needs to be fixed before throwing stone bullets, at a distance of three or four thousand steps from the enemy city, it will also be the easiest target for the enemy to counterattack and is bound to counterattack, and how to protect these heavy catapults in front of the enemy is also quite a headache.

Of course, Chen Zhang's troops were only responsible for scouting and reconnoitring on the flanks, preventing the enemy's elite from sneaking out of the Hechuan Ridge and sneaking into the transportation lines in the northern hinterland or hoarding grain and grass in the cities and fortifications.

Late the next night, Chen Zhang led his troops to lurk in a dense forest at the northeast foot of the Hechuan Ridge, reconnoitring and monitoring the movements of the Hexiang army in the deep mountains opposite.

Chen Zhang knew that after Du Yu led his troops to join up with the forward army Dong Pu, he launched an offensive against Wenhubu, the most important military town of the Hexiang army at the northern foot of the Hechuan Ridge.

Wenhubu was originally a river wharf, there are several streams flowing out from Hechuan Ridge, converging into a large river, flowing north into the territory of Yulong County, also because of the existence of many valleys, here is an important pass to cross the Hechuan Ridge and enter Hechuan County.

Although the Huang clan and other clans have been operating in Hechuan Ridge for hundreds of years, Hechuan Ridge can be said to be the second mountain gate of Helan Sword Sect.

These caves are located in desperate places, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but the most important thing for the Hexi army at present is to capture Wenhu Port, control the valley in the middle of Hechuan Ridge, let hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses cross Hechuan Ridge, condescendingly, and the front of the troops directly pointed at the entire territory of Hechuan County, completely subverting the foundation of the Huang clan, Wu Xiang Army and Helan Sword Sect to rule Hechuan County, and then organize a large number of sect disciples, with the cooperation of the War Bird Battalion and the Heavenly Locomotive Battalion, to sweep away this cave mansion opened up according to the dangerous peaks and valleys......