Chapter 564: Defense
While they were stunned, Xu Ye made people beat the drum and give orders, and in the next moment, the three-meter-long thumb-thick crossbow attacked the night army like rain.
As soon as he arrived here, his attention was attracted by the snake, and he didn't look at their camp for a while, but when he saw the crossbow attacking, Qin Yi hurriedly frowned and asked people to beat the drum and give orders, ordering the iron shield soldiers to resist in front, and the elite troops to be behind, approaching Fangcheng.
Raising his eyes and thinking about their camp, the previous Mo camp was all heavy infantry fighting with our siege forwards in front, archers in the back, and finally large crossbows.
This is also the most common faction when defending a city.
How could you think that this time the strange army actually let the large crossbow strike first, and the shield soldiers resisted in front, so they were not afraid of the elite troops rushing in and removing their biggest weapons?
Although this formation is extremely lethal, it is also an extremely dangerous move, and if the shield soldiers are breached, the large crossbow archers will be slaughtered like fish.
Looking at the city wall, he could only see the appearance of a few people on the wall from a distance, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a playful smile.
After all, Ge Hao's few would not have the courage to lay down such a dangerous formation.
is really an interesting woman, with courage, courage and tricky camp, which is better than Li Shuai.
"Since she gave us a large crossbow salute, we should naturally return the favor. ”
The general next to him nodded, beat the drum and ordered the large crossbow to be fired.
But before the crossbow archers opened their bows, the Mo archers hiding behind the shield soldiers aimed at the enemy archers, and hundreds of people drew their bows and arrows, and the arrows were not missing, and the night army lost a hundred crossbow archers in an instant.
Large crossbows are not as light as bows and arrows, the weapons are very large, and it takes five people to work together to open the bow, and it is extremely difficult to make them, and the crossbow battalion will not exceed 5,000 crossbows, and they are generally at the rear to break the enemy's shields.
However, the lethality is extremely high, and the range is up to several hundred meters, it can easily shoot through a thick shield, and if the enemy is missed, the buffer force can affect three or four people, in simple terms, it is to fire a large arrow, which can kill three or four people.
And Qin Yi obviously didn't expect that behind the shield soldiers, Mo Ling also laid archers, not shooting others, only aiming at crossbow archers.
And those archers are skilled in archery, and there are no missed arrows.
They hid behind shield soldiers and couldn't kill them, while the Night Army crossbow archers stood on a one-meter-high crossbow platform, like live targets to shoot at them.
Qin Yi weighed it again and again, and in order to reduce casualties, he ordered the crossbow archers to withdraw and replace them with archers.
Looking up at the city wall in the distance, the crossbow archers were not shooting.
His eyes narrowed slightly, and he could understand why she had let the large crossbow take the lead.
If the large crossbow first involves our soldiers, we will definitely resist with shield soldiers, and she also guessed that he will return fire with a large crossbow.
At that time, she will let the archer shoot the crossbow archer and force him to withdraw the crossbow battalion.
In this way, our shield soldiers will not be able to resist the crossbows, and they will not be able to continue the siege, and the shield soldiers will not be able to stop those elite soldiers, and if they attack, they will die under the large crossbows, and under the mouths of those poisonous snakes.
She didn't want to fight at all, all of them were just for defense.
Mo Ling stood on the city wall and looked at the overall situation, and the night army withdrew the crossbow, although the bow and arrow were changed, they could be easily resisted by our shield soldiers.
The enemy shield soldiers have been on the defensive, and the night army has no signs of attacking, although the two sides of the battlefield are evenly divided, but we can faintly gain the upper hand.
Ge Hao had never understood why she let the crossbow go first, but at this time, seeing the battle situation with his own eyes, he understood it thoroughly.
His eyes lit up, and he sighed again and again: "Wonderful, wonderful, really wonderful!"
Why didn't he expect such a tricky defense?
Even Cao Zhou, who had developed limbs and acted recklessly, looked at Mo Ling's eyes with a little admiration, and clenched his fists: "The county lord is wise! But at this time, with my side having the upper hand, why don't you face the enemy head-on!"
Mo Ling rubbed his eyebrows and sighed: "Without fighting, the crossbow battalion can open its fists and kicks and attack the enemy indiscriminately; In the past, the crossbow battalion only went out to break the enemy's shield soldiers in a small number of battles, because they were afraid of hurting their own people, but they only played a supporting role, and now more than 4,000 crossbows and bows are fired together, and if the battle is definitely affected, it will definitely affect our army. ”
Cao Zhou suddenly realized, and scratched his hair embarrassedly, "It's the last general who didn't think it through, and he was reckless." ”
Mo Ling shook his head, his brows furrowed slightly, "Qin Yi didn't expect us to use this formation today, and he was caught off guard, and he would retreat within half a pillar of incense." But this camp is not so strong that it is unsolvable, and it can't be used all the time if it can be prevented for a while. ”
Cao Zhou was puzzled: "The last general is stupid......"
Bai Yixuan explained: "This defensive formation is strong, but if the enemy also uses it, our side is already on the defensive, which is a disadvantage, there is no extra space to retreat in place, and they advance and retreat, if the enemy moves and attacks with this camp, we can't resist them." ”
"But why don't they use it today? There is also the indiscriminate attack that the county lord said, if the enemy attacks and engages us at that time, he is not afraid of affecting the innocent?!" Cao Zhou was puzzled again.
Bai Yixuan helped his forehead, "First, the archers suppress the crossbow archers, they don't have time to deploy, and second, our crossbow archers suppress the shield soldiers, they have the heart but the power." And Qin Yi is extremely cold-blooded, he doesn't care about the lives of the soldiers, he only cares about whether he wins or not, he only cares about the soldiers who can bring him benefits, for example, he removed the crossbow archers, not for their lives, but if they die, there will be no one in the crossbow camp. ”
Cao Zhou nodded, "Teachable, taught." But tomorrow Qin Yi will shamefully plagiarize our camp?"
Mo Ling pondered, "Half a chance." ”
Half of it was just for them, Qin Yi is insidious and good at using stratagems, and he will definitely use this method tomorrow.
"If tomorrow he will be ashamed to use it, what shall we do?"
Ah Jin shook the folding fan and said calmly: "General Cao, don't panic, this formation was thought up by Xiao Mo, then she must have a way to crack it, even if she doesn't have it, she will use it to think about other camps." Don't worry, just believe Xiaomo. ”
After half a pillar of incense, as Mo Ling said, the night army's shield soldiers couldn't attack, and Qin Yi didn't want to waste time, so he beat the drum and retreated.
He squinted his eyes and looked at the city wall in the distance, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, Leping, today he was careless, this time he lost, but tomorrow he will see how she can defend!
The thunder of the drums reached the ears of the night army, who immediately took the shield and guarded the rear from slowly retreating with the large army.
The black army receded like a tide, and the Mo army raised its arms and shouted in celebration of the defense of the city, but before he could cheer twice, after letting go of the tense heartstrings at the end of the battle, he saw the poisonous snake under his feet, and Qi Qi began to numb his scalp again.
Ge Hao is the same, because those snakes were temporarily ignored in the war, but after the fight, it was difficult for him to pay attention to those snakes.
Looking at Mo Ling with a dry smile, "County Lord, when will this snake be withdrawn?"
"Wait for Uncle Huang to give me the handsome seal, or wait until the day Huo Jianghao comes. After speaking, Mo Ling turned around and went down the city wall.
Even if she insisted, Uncle Huang would not give her the handsome seal easily, she estimated that he wanted to see if Huo Jianghao had the ability to fight with Qin Yi, if not, he would have no choice but to give her the right to fight.
Until then, she can defend Fangcheng.
The two little ones howled at the snakes and ordered them to stay put, and the snakes and snakes snorted, and lowered their heads in unison as if they should be.
Back at the mansion, she first went to see Li Shuai, and then called the four generals to discuss tomorrow's deployment.
"I feel that Qin Yi will definitely have this formation tomorrow, the most critical formation is the crossbow battalion, Qin Yi will definitely strengthen the protection of crossbow archers, maybe he will also send shadow people, and it will be useless to shoot with archers at that time. Mo Ling thought for a moment and continued-
"Today, Qin Yi has very few crossbows, and tomorrow he will definitely send them all, if you want to fight, both sides must be damaged, especially our side, so you can only defend it, and you can't rush out to fight. Tomorrow we will change the formation, the shield battalion will all be dispatched, and several people will work together to resist with several shields, and they will also hold shields above their heads to resist, defending in a circle, so that they should be able to block the crossbow attack. As for the enemy crossbow archers, we can't get on them, so we will send poisonous snakes to attack, first, to disrupt their attacking steps, and second, to divert their attention, so that we don't want the snakes to poison many people, and it can disturb their morale. ”