Chen Hai delayed the attack on Yuchicheng, in addition to using the pressure of war to implement the government military system in Lucheng, a more important reason was that although the rain of quenched arrows formed by the mechanical crossbow was amazing, the consumption of quenched arrows was too terrifying. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Ninety mechanical crossbows can shoot thousands of quenching arrows in one breath, and the 40,000 quenching arrows that Chen Hai and their previous reserves are not enough to maintain a minute's continuous fire on the battlefield, and in order to severely damage the rebels' war birds and suppress the advance speed of the rebel cavalry, nearly 20% of the reserves have been consumed.

Chen Di delayed the attack on Yuchicheng, and he still had to build a refining furnace in Lukaixia first, so that a large number of quenched gold arrows could be supplied in bulk nearby to support the subsequent brutal war.

It is not self-reliant, and it is not realistic to rely entirely on the supply of Juquanling.

Even if his uncle Chen Lie fully supported him, after the co-ruling of all the families, even if the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion had the largest share, it only accounted for one-sixth of the quenched iron material produced in Juquanling; in addition, the transportation volume of forty giant vultures was too limited, it took a month to make a round trip, and there was only fifty or sixty thousand catties of transportation.

The sediment deposits of the lake in Lukai Gorge Tianhang Lake are more than 100 meters thick, which can directly smelt the eighth-grade quenched iron. However, the quenched iron arrow does not need such high-quality quenched iron materials, and Chen Hai mixed several times more ordinary iron materials into the smelting to greatly increase the daily refining output of the quenched iron materials, and the casting volume of the quenched gold arrows was directly increased to the level of 1,500 pieces per day after the year.

The winter and early spring of the Pinglu Oasis were extremely cold, the rebels were not fully prepared, and they could not come out of the Jade Chi City, and it was impossible for the elite army and the Ye royal army to besiege the Jade Chi City in the ice and snow, and the two sides faced off at the western foot of the Tiele Ridge and were in a stalemate, and the time soon entered March of the seventy-seventh year of the Yitian Emperor.

Since the Ye royal army and the elite army occupied Tiele Ridge and confronted the rebels occupying Yuchicheng, the situation in the Pinglu Oasis has developed, just as Chen Hai expected, and no city has been thrown into the rebels.

Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng could only tap the war potential from the cities they currently controlled, and increase the number of soldiers and horses stationed in Yuchi City to 60,000. Although the Demon God Temple became more cautious under the strong pressure of Chen Hai and Ge Xuanqiao, there were still many Qianghu tribes from Tibetan Qiang, Jinyue and other countries, and thousands of elite disciples were sent into the Pinglu Oasis to join the rebels.

At this time, the elite army implemented the government military system in Lucheng and the Ye royal army absorbed elite children from the four surnames of Lucheng, and the scale of the soldiers and horses of the two armies was increased to 60,000, which was not lower than the rebel army in Yuchicheng.

Many small and medium-sized clans in Pinglu saw that the rebels didn't even have the courage to attack Tiele Ridge, and at the same time, they also knew that the elite disciples of the Demon God Temple were forced to retreat from Lukaixia, even if they were still neutral, they had already sent their disciples over to secretly communicate with the Ye clan.

At this time, Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng found that although they could obtain a certain amount of land from Tahe and other places, they did not have the foundation to rule the Pinglu Oasis, so they no longer dared to continue to delay, and Zhang Xiong and Zhang Jun brothers personally mobilized 40,000 soldiers and horses from Tianai Mountain and Xiqiang Wangcheng, and gathered 100,000 soldiers and horses to crush the west mouth of Nanjian Gorge together.

In order to suppress the rain of quenched arrows formed by the crossbows, the rebels built a tower shield cart propelled by 200 manpower with a thousand-year-old solid wood, forming two shield walls, covering the frontal advancing shield soldiers, sword and shield soldiers, and archers, and encircling the camp built by the elite army at the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge.

The elite army and the Ye royal army will not let the rebels really approach in front of the camp to build fortifications.

In that case, the role of the Shenji chariot and the mechanical repeater crossbow will be suppressed, and it will evolve into a more brutal siege and defense battle - the rebels have the weapons discarded by the Great Yan Western Expeditionary Army in the Xiqiang King City twenty years ago, and they have also made hundreds of counterweight catapults based on gourd painting scoops, which makes many ordinary warriors who have no absolute force and short training can play a huge role in the cruel battlefield.

Once the rebels have successfully dug a trench in front of the Xikou camp to block the passage of men and horses, built a parapet wall to cover the rain of quenched arrows, and then deployed a large number of catapults in front, it will turn into a brutal war of attrition.

At that time, it will be even more difficult for the elite army and the royal army, which do not have an advantage in terms of strength, to take advantage.

Therefore, when the rebels came out of Yuchicheng, nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses of the elite army and the Ye royal army in the Xikou camp also opened the gate of the camp one after another, and entered the gentle slope at the western foot of Tiele Ridge to arrange troops, opening the prelude to the decisive battle of Tiele Ridge.

Su Chonghu, the eldest disciple of the Demon God Temple, was responsible for leading the elite disciples to escort the Zhang clan back to the Demon God Temple from the deep mountains and ravines in the south, but Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran stayed behind with more than a dozen disciples.

Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran had made it clear a few years ago that neither the Demon God Temple nor the Taiwei Sect were directly involved in the Pinglu War, and they had the courage to stay in Lucheng, but Chen Hai had no excuse to expel them, and they had to expose some secrets of Lucheng under their eyes and noses.

On the day when the decisive battle at the western foot of the Tiele Ridge kicked off, Miao Mingcheng, Yue Yiran, and some sect lords scouts who had a wait-and-see attitude also gathered at the peak cliff south of the Nanjian Gorge to watch how this great war, which was very likely to determine the new pattern of the eastern region of Jinzhou in the next thirty or fifty years, would end.

Zhang Xiong, Zhang Jun, and Kong Peng were in the east of Yuchicheng, commanding 100,000 soldiers and horses, and their strength was more than twice that of the elite army and the Ye royal army.

The huge demon body of the black Jiao converged and squatted in Yue Yiran, even though the black Jiao was far from growing, it was like a black stone cliff towering there.

Yue Yiran went to the west of Tiele Ridge to look at the luck, Ye Qinglin personally led the Ye royal army of 30,000 soldiers and horses, mainly light armor spear cavalry and halberd shield armor, supplemented by a small number of heavy armor cavalry and bow cavalry, after leaving the camp, mainly divided into three teams, side by side deployed on the south side of the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge.

Although in the past time, the Ye royal army has received a lot of assistance from Hexi, but the armor is still rudimentary, most of the generals are still based on leather armor, and it is difficult to resist ordinary arrows and crossbows and halberd spears at close range, but the impact of the cavalry is extremely strong, and the morale is extremely strong at this time.

What really deserves attention to the Ye Clan's royal army is the two thousand heavy armored cavalry beside Ye Qinglin, which is personally commanded by Ye He, another important Ye clan member.

These two thousand heavy armored cavalry are the few remaining elites of the Ye family, almost all of them have the foundation of cultivation above the Xuan Realm, wearing black scale armor, which is also a kind of quenched gold armor, which can block the accumulation of precision forging heavy arrows;

In addition to the war horses and generals who are quite strong and the armor is extremely strong, every twelve war horses are also buckled together with iron locks and rings to advance and retreat together.

"What kind of tactics is this?" The scouts who came over to watch the situation were also the core disciples of the clans, and they had received strict military training since they were children, but they didn't know what kind of tactics they used to buckle together with iron locks after the war horses were armoured.

However, there are also some experienced people who can see the power of this tactic, and said: "In order to facilitate the passage in the depths of the vast desert, the horses of the Jinzhou countries are mainly light horses, and the light horses against the heavy armored horses themselves have suffered a big loss. This should be a tactic from Yanzhou......"

Yue Yiran glanced at the Great Elder Miao Mingcheng, since the end of last year, they have strengthened the collection of intelligence on Juquanling, knowing that this is the armor horse formation in Chen Haili's military training record, which was first used by the god general Le Yi of the Red Mei Sect on the battlefield of Heyang, and fought against the heavier armored cavalry of the Tiger Ben Army, and achieved excellent results.

Looking at the formation of the Ye royal army on the southern flank, it is obvious that it is necessary to take the armored horse formation formed by these two thousand heavy armored horsemen as the core and cut into the battlefield.

Although they had already passed on the relevant information to Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng, Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng could not think of any better strategy except to fill in more troops to block and deploy a small number of bed crossbows on the right flank.

The formation of 20,000 elite troops on the north side of the west entrance of Nanjian Gorge is clearly divided into two echelons.

Nine thousand spear and heavy armor soldiers formed a dense phalanx, and three thousand shield halberd armor soldiers were deployed in the south of the spear phalanx; the elite army had only a limited number of generals who were skilled in cavalry and archery, and at this time they could barely muster together 8,000 cavalry, all of which were led by Fan Dachun and deployed in the flank and rear.

Except for the twelve-rider black iron chariots dragged by thirty war horses each, the northern flank of the spear heavy party formation can be said to be completely exposed.

"What do the elite army want to do when they expose the northern flank?" Yue Yiran asked the elder Miao Mingcheng in confusion, "Could it be that they lured the Black Mountain Army to attack from the northern flank, and then the cavalry of the second echelon suddenly intervened and fought a decisive battle with Zhang and Kong?"

At this time, the battalion of war birds of the elite army increased to one hundred fierce war birds, soaring above their own array on the battlefield, and would rush to the enemy's corner battle formation at any time, but together with the eight thousand cavalry gathered behind the flank, the strength was still too small.

Miao Mingcheng was also confused.

The scope of the elite army selection of pawns is very limited, either it is to incorporate the remnants of horse thieves, or it is to recruit generals from slaves, in terms of the personal combat strength of the generals, it is difficult to call it elite, and there are less than one-tenth of those who have the foundation of cultivation in the Xuan Realm, mainly relying on better armor and tighter battle formations to make up for all this.

Although Miao Mingcheng has retreated to Dajin Mountain for cultivation over the years, he was also a famous general who galloped in the desert twenty years ago, and he had also seriously considered that if he personally led the army to fight against the Elite Army, he must be desperate to cut in from the flank and tear apart the battle formation of the Elite Army. Yes, the spear phalanx of the elite army is very strong, and the crossbow is also chaotic, but as long as the two sides fight together, the spear phalanx and the repeater cannot play much role, and they can give a fatal blow to the elite army with weak personal combat power.

What's more, the number of quenching arrows reserved by the Elite Army is not infinite after all.

Although Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran guarded the bottom line and did not directly meet with Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng to discuss the arrangements for the war, but from the perspective of the deployment on the battlefield, Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng also knew very well what they should do, they just chose the northern flank of the elite army as the main direction of attack, and almost gathered 60,000 soldiers and horses on this side, wanting to crush the past with all their strength and completely tear the front of the elite army to pieces.