Chapter 1545: Conquest of the Empire (41)
As the two sides approached, the soldiers of the Kate army with short bows immediately drew their bows and shot, but unfortunately not only did not form a rain of arrows, but because of the uneven time of shooting, it appeared sparse, and the range was completely insufficient, so it was useless at all. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"You shoot quite accurately when you ride a horse, why are you all blind now!"
As soon as he saw this effect, Officer Kate, who led the team, immediately understood, and immediately scolded while gathering the archers together for unified command.
These short archers are also full of opinions, shooting at this distance when they are riding their horses, and just entering the range when they release the bowstring, but who calls themselves infantry now, not only will they not advance but will stop when shooting, so they can't blame me for not having enough range!
On Zhao Hujun's side, the officer gave an order, the whole army stopped, and the leaders of the archers in the front, center, and left and right immediately shot an arrow, and after measuring the range, they immediately shouted the order. The archer raises the bow and pulls the string to fire according to the command, and the archer does not need to aim during the whole process, but directly obeys the command to raise the bow at how many angles, how much strength is used, and finally listens to the order to fire.
The archers of Zhao Hujun showed the Kate army very well what is called a real rain of arrows.
The dense arrows kept scattering to one place, and after the rain of arrows, there were corpses full of arrows, and if the shield was not big enough, it would not be able to survive such a dense rain of arrows.
After the rain of arrows, the shieldmen stepped forward with their shields, the pikemen followed like a forest, and the archers began to shoot freely.
The Kate army, which had endured several rounds of arrow rain, did not collapse, and they had long been accustomed to such blows. Soldiers with spears rushed at the front, sabers and bows followed. After some lessons from the officers, the archers learned to be shrewd and began to shoot and cover only when they were in effective range, while the lancers and sabers immediately took advantage of the opportunity to advance.
The short arrow volleyed, the shield soldier raised his shield to resist, and the pikeman immediately came to Zhao Hujun's best thrust!
The spearmen and sabber men who were rushing forward felt a pain in their chests and lost consciousness before they could react.
The first row of pikemen stabbed at the end, and when the spears were withdrawn, the second row of pikemen spurted out, and when they returned their guns, the third row of pikemen followed closely, and the third row ended with a new round of spurts from the first row.
Zhao Hujun just made contact with the enemy, and launched a rolling attack, and the three rows of spears were like a roller that kept expanding and retracting needles, slowly rolling towards the Kate army. The place where the drum passed was full of corpses, and occasionally some strong goods were either killed by the sword and shield soldiers hiding in the forest of guns, or by the free-fire archers.
Kate and his subordinates looked at the scene in front of them with a blank expression.
For Zhao Hujun, the war is like playing a game, it seems so relaxed, casual, and neat, just for a while, Kate's army is like a wave hitting a rock, and he is crushed, but the other party is not damaged at all.
After five lunges from each platoon, the pikemen's drums stopped, and the spearmen reappeared in the front row, continuing to tap their shields. The pikemen and archers followed slowly, as if they had first appeared.
Seeing this scene, everyone knew that Zhao Hujun was just recovering the physical strength of the pikemen, such a rotational attack, the consumption of mental and physical strength was not particularly large, and after walking with the shield soldiers for a while, the spiritual qi consumed by the pikemen had recovered a lot.
The officer, who always paid attention to the state of his subordinates, gave an order, and another round of arrows rained down.
At this moment, even the idiot knew that a new round of spear drum attacks was coming, and with this realization, Kate's army was divided into two halves on the spot, half in order to repay Kate's many years of kindness, and half thought that this was a warlord melee, and his precious life was not worth wasting here, so he immediately turned around and ran.
The Kate army, which forgot to attack to the death, did not appear to be much more clever than its previous companions, and under the irresistible attack of the spear roller, this half of the Kate army quickly followed in the footsteps of its previous companions.
The other half of the fleeing Kate's army was also not pleased, and was slashed by the Overseers behind them, so they had to turn around and meet the enemy.
It's just that death threats are most easily replaced by more terrifying death threats, and after the Kate army turned back halfway and was poked to death by the rollers, the desire to survive once again made them turn around and face the Overseer.
For these Kate troops, those retracting spear wheels were much more terrifying than the Overseers, and this time, the Overseers' knives had just been raised, and they were killed by the frightened Kate's army.
When the soldiers of the army are not afraid of the Warlords, but dare to kill the Warlords, the army can be said to have collapsed.
Seeing this scene, Kate seemed to be more than ten years older, and her whole face became dull.
The young general hurriedly leaned forward and comforted: "Marshal, stay in Qingshan without fear of no firewood, and there are still hundreds of thousands of troops in Haiquan Province, which is enough to make a comeback, if the results of this battle are spread, there will definitely be an uproar, your current priority is to rush back to Haiquan Province as soon as possible to preside over the overall situation, after all, there is still a Seven Princes in Haiquan Province." ā
I don't know which of the young general's words stimulated, Kate, who was originally disheartened, immediately cheered up.
Seeing that there was a play, the young general hurriedly added to the fire: "Marshal, now that our army has been defeated, and the back road is blocked, it will definitely not be able to go back if it is conspicuous, why don't we change into small soldier clothes and leave alone with a few guards and iron guards?" As long as there aren't many people, by the time it gets dark, we'll be safe. ā
At this time, Kate did not give up a cavalry division and an elite iron cavalry brigade, and immediately nodded and said, "These things are all left to you." ā
"Yes." As soon as the young general waved, the captain of the guard and the captain of the iron guard, who had lost his horse and whose combat effectiveness had dropped to the point where he could only become a guard, immediately leaned over.
After a whisper, the most elite troops of Kate's army began to escort Kate into the camp of the commander, and several officers who were cheering up the rout of the Fifth Brigade immediately ordered the Fifth Brigade to go out to attack the enemy, and then came on their heels, but they were stopped by the guards at the door of the tent.
By the time they forced their way into the tent, Kate and the young general and a group of guards were long gone.
"! The big guys are all gone, and we're going to fart! Surrender and forget it! ā
Seeing the billows of the spears getting closer and closer, the officers lamented that the general trend had gone, and they had to surrender if they wanted to save their lives.
Although they will definitely be demoted to slaves, the officers have already learned about the treatment of Zhao Hujun's slaves from the mouths of the Zhao Hujun slaves who were captured last time, so they are not afraid that they will live a miserable life. It's just a pity that we have to start all over again. But compared to a small life, it's nothing.
The defeat is like a mountain, and this is the scene at this moment.
I saw a group of Kate troops surrender on their knees, and a group of Kate troops scattered and fled like a desperate person. Zhao Hujun didn't bother to pay attention to those who fled, this area has been surrounded by Zhao Hujun, except for a few who can run out of the mountains and mountains, the others have to wait obediently to be caught.
After Zhao Hujun accepted the surrender of the enemy soldiers, the first thing he did was to put away those sleeping war horses, and when the Kate army was confused, these sleeping war horses woke up one after another. Then they were forcibly oppressed by Zhao Hujun, and these war horses recognized their new masters.
About a brigade of Zhao Hu's infantry turned into cavalry, and they didn't show off, and directly began to chase and kill those deserters in small teams.
The surrendered Kate army looked dumbfounded as hundreds of civilian officials each carrying thousands of laborers, and began to carry the supplies of the battalion like ants. Looking at the greedy eyes of these guys dressed as civilian officials when they counted the supplies, the Kate army even thought that Zhao Hujun had set this trap in order to rob the horses and supplies of the Kate Cavalry Division.
When night fell, the Kate army still lived in the camp, but their status became captives, but the food did not drop but increased, and when they saw the pots full of potatoes and beef rice, the captives began to identify with the upcoming slave status.
And Zhao Hujun did not rest, but had a tendency to be a workaholic, and the soldiers didn't know what they were doing, so they didn't see a few camped and rested anyway. And the civil officials were keeping a record of the prisoners, not to mention the laborers, looking at them, as if they wanted to move them in one night.
In the dark night, in a certain mountain road that entered the boundary of Haiquan Province, dozens of figures were walking cautiously.
When he walked to a relatively wide place, the moonlight just shone through the branches, and he could see that the leader of these dozens of people was Zhou Xiang, the leader of the slave squad.
The dog baby shrank back and asked, "Sir, this evening, the captain has already announced that our army has won a great victory, and after tomorrow, you will be able to become a low-level strong warrior, why do you still take on the task of blocking the mountains and forests?" It's pitch black here, where can you catch the fleeing enemy soldiers? ā
"Hey, of course I don't care about this merit, after all, if I want to be promoted to the next rank, it is impossible to rely on the first rank merit alone...... The reason why I took on this task is for the sake of you guys.
"Most of our squad has been promoted to civilian status, don't you want to go to the next level? You know, as long as you have three merits, you can become a citizen. ā
Speaking of this, Zhou Xiang couldn't help but feel proud when he found the red light in everyone's eyes.
His subordinates will be grateful to him for their meritorious service, and he can get officer rewards from his subordinates, which is really a good way to kill multiple birds with one stone, and only he can understand this method if he is so smart.
However, the dog baby's words woke up Zhou Xiang's narcissism: "Sir, come out in the middle of the night to carry out the blockade mission, is it possible to wait until the army is defeated?" After all, it's winter, and no one is in a hurry overnight on a cold night. ā