492, Five Days of Life and Death (11)
20,000 forbidden troops crossed the border and marched towards Bozhou again, this time they learned the lesson of the last time, and sent a large number of scouts in advance to explore the road in front, and sure enough, they saw the Bozhou army in the same place again,
The two main generals snorted coldly when they learned about it, and the second general said slightly angrily, "Hmph, the Liangshan thief Kou still wants to repeat the old trick? It's really too much to underestimate us, but it's okay to do this, and it saves us from going to them, and the order goes down, and the army speeds up ......,"
"Slow!" The third general interrupted him, "Liu Shuai, don't be in a hurry, let's stop first, and then send scouts to search all over the Quartet." ”
The general surnamed Liu was suspicious, "What does Wang Shuai mean ......?" ”
The general surnamed Wang said, "As the so-called soldiers are not tired of deceit, although the thieves did not set up an ambush last time, who can guarantee that it was not deliberately played by the thieves for us to see?" The purpose is to paralyze us and make us mistakenly think that they didn't set up an ambush this time! So let's stop for the time being, and then send out scouts, and let them ride the fastest horses and search this area for several miles! ”
The general surnamed Liu was still a little hesitant, "This ...... Are thieves so smart? Can you be sure that we will be scared away by them last time? ”
The general surnamed Wang smiled coldly and said, "Liu Shuai, don't forget Yao Qigong and his first general, thieves and thieves are treacherous, you must guard against it!" ”
The general surnamed Liu was shocked, and finally came to his senses, and hurriedly said to the general surnamed Wang, "Wang Shuai is high!" You really need to be careful. ”
The two of them then gave their subordinates an order to stop advancing and sent scouts, and after more than half an hour, the scouts reported that they had not found any other bandit army within a radius of ten miles ahead, and that the Nabo State army was indeed alone.
The two main generals put their minds at ease, and re-ordered the army to move towards the location of the Bozhou army, and after a few miles of rapid marching, they really saw the Bozhou army, but this time the Bozhou army did not take the initiative to attack, but set up a rejection horse and a deer in front of the formation, and put down a long shield, which was a defensive posture.
The two commanders no longer hesitated, and immediately gave the order to attack, ordering the two generals to march towards the enemy position with their respective front, right and left armies, leaving only about 2,000 people in the rear army to guard the grain and grass in the rear, and about 2,000 people in the middle army to protect their respective generals.
The 12,000 forbidden army attacked the Bozhou army in a neat and orderly manner, and the formation was also a common routine used by the forbidden army when launching an attack, with cavalry on both sides, using the rapid marching speed of the cavalry to form an encirclement of the enemy from both wings; In the middle, the crossbowmen go first, the infantry follows, and when the crossbowmen enter the range, they stop advancing and begin to attack the enemy from a distance with their crossbows, and the infantry continues to advance past the crossbowmen.
And when the infantry also enters the attack range of their own crossbows, the crossbowmen stop shooting arrows, either retreat, or throw away the bow and crossbow, draw their swords, and turn into infantry to join the hand-to-hand combat.
However, unless it is absolutely necessary, crossbowmen will not take the second method, because crossbowmen are also a special class, and the difficulty of training is higher than that of ordinary infantry, so it is more cherished.
As the name suggests, the Divine Arm Bow is a soldier who operates the Divine Arm Bow, generally stopping between two hundred and three hundred steps away from the enemy camp, and within this distance can use the Divine Arm Bow to inflict damage on the enemy.
The Divine Arm Bow and the soldiers who operate it are both the magic weapons of the forbidden army, although in each battle from the time they complete the first round of shots to the time when their own infantry enters the enemy camp or the enemy rushes in front of them only has time for them to complete one or two volleys, but the fear and deterrence caused to the enemy is huge, and the Divine Arm Archers not only shoulder the heavy responsibility of killing the enemy with the Divine Arm Bow, but also shoulder the responsibility of maintaining, protecting, and even deliberately breaking the Divine Arm Bow, that is, if their own side is defeated, the Divine Arm Archer must destroy their own Divine Arm Bow before retreating or surrendering, lest this rare, expensive and powerful weapon fall into the hands of the enemy,
Ordinary archers are soldiers who use ordinary longbows such as black and white lacquer bows as weapons, and generally stop advancing and attack within 50 to 100 paces away from the enemy position.
At this time, the officer of the Divine Arm Bow Team at the forefront was silently estimating the distance, seven hundred steps... Six hundred steps... Five hundred steps... Four hundred steps, another hundred steps can reach the maximum range of the Divine Arm Bow, but the lethality at that distance is not large, if you want to maximize the power of the Divine Arm Bow, you need to advance dozens of steps forward to reach a distance of two hundred and fifty steps,
Three hundred and seventy steps...... Three hundred and fifty steps ......, and one hundred steps further can make the Divine Arm Archer stop advancing and start shooting, the officer counted the steps, while watching the Bozhou army still standing motionless, he couldn't help but sneer in his heart, the leader of the secret Liangshan bandits must be a battlefield idiot, and he actually let the army stand there like this as a live target for himself, then I will fulfill you......,
But before he could finish thinking about it, suddenly, a scene that shocked him appeared, only to see that something like a black cloud suddenly rose into the air in the Bozhou army, flew across the sky, and came rapidly in his direction! As a crossbow officer, he was all too familiar with this phenomenon, and where was the black cloud, it was clearly an arrow cloud composed of countless arrows fired at the same time! Look at that posture, to say the least, there must be more than a thousand arrows!
But he reacted immediately, his footsteps still didn't stop, his face was full of ridicule, and he secretly said in his heart, no wonder the Liangshan thieves stayed where they were, it turned out that they also wanted to hit us with bows and arrows, but they actually shot at such a distance, and they couldn't hold their breath, such a distance, even the divine arm bow couldn't do anything, what was the use of their broken crossbow and rotten bow? Haha, wait for us to walk a few dozen steps and let you see what a real remote ...... is,
However, the reality is cruel and ...... Lethal!
He suddenly realized that something was wrong, because he saw that the rain of arrows had not yet landed, but ...... It's really going straight in your own direction!
This...... How is this possible?! How can there be a bow and crossbow in the world that can shoot so far?! For a moment, he was stunned, with a mocking expression on his face, and he could only hear the sergeant beside him already starting to let out a frightened cry, and he could only close his eyes in despair with a look of disbelief.......
Whistling ......, arrows raining down, whistling! The crossbowmen who were at the forefront of the line fell a large number of people in response, not to mention six or seven hundred people, especially the Divine Arm Bow Team at the front, which was wiped out almost instantly, and the wails were everywhere, and the forbidden army was in chaos!
Everyone was stunned, including the two main generals who were watching the battle in the rear, what happened?! How is this possible?! Do the Liangshan thieves also have a divine arm bow in their hands? No, is there a more powerful weapon than the Divine Arm Bow?!
It was still the lord surnamed Wang who reacted quickly, and he yelled towards him, "Quick! Beat the drums and let them charge! "I don't know what's going on, but now everyone must charge immediately to defuse the threat of this ranged attack!
Knock knock knock ......! The sound of war drums spread throughout the battlefield, and all the forbidden troops finally reacted and rushed towards the Bozhou army again, and the cavalry on both wings also rushed towards both sides of the Bozhou army.
The Bozhou army still didn't move, and when the forbidden army rushed to a hundred paces away, it was ......! With a terrifying sound, the deadly black cloud rose into the air again, like a deadly giant hand, slapping a large number of people in the middle of the forbidden army to the ground.
The soldiers of the forbidden army were all frightened, and the horror was written on everyone's face, if it weren't for the desperate efforts of a group of forbidden army officers, I was afraid that many people would have turned around and ran back.
At this time, the Bozhou army finally moved, only to see that they quickly divided into three parts, respectively to meet the forbidden army that was killing from the middle and both sides, and the Soul Breaker threw the Soul Breaker to the ground on the spot, and picked up the black lacquer bow that was ready at his feet and aimed at the rushing enemy again,
At this time, the forbidden army finally rushed to a distance of eighty paces, and their archers could finally shoot with bows, but they were greeted by a more intensive bow and arrow attack of the Bozhou army, and almost four thousand of the seven thousand Bozhou army were equipped with black lacquer bows, which instantly suppressed the forbidden army archery team of only two thousand people in terms of firepower, and also caused huge casualties to the infantry behind.
The days of the forbidden cavalry on both sides were not easy, the arrows from the two wings of the Bozhou army formed a ghost gate in a short period of time like raindrops in the distance of eighty to fifty in front of the battle, all the forbidden cavalry who rushed into this range fell from their horses with arrows, and the cavalry who rushed through this layer of death was blocked by the rejection of horses and other things set up in front of the Bozhou army, and after a little hesitation, they were shot into hedgehogs.
The two main generals of King Zhang in the back were dumbfounded, drenched in cold sweat, oh my God, they have already paid such huge casualties before they have fought with the thieves, and the bow and arrow attacks of the Liangshan thieves are too rebellious! The two of them hurriedly ordered the drummers to beat the drums of war a little more, and they couldn't stop the army after paying so many casualties, and they could only rush through their bows and arrows with one blow!
In this way, the forbidden army finally killed in front of the Bozhou army after paying huge casualties, and the two main generals Wang and Liu finally breathed a sigh of relief, although they had just lost one or two thousand people under the crazy arrow rain attack of the thieves, but the forbidden army still had more than 10,000 people, and then it was the time for the forbidden army to take revenge!
And in front of the Bozhou Army,
Huang Song rode on his war horse and swung the ring knife in his hand forward and shouted, "Brothers, kill!"
With his order, all the soldiers of the Heavenly Dao Army threw the bows and quivers in their hands to the ground, pulled out their waist knives, and followed Huang Song's screams to kill the forbidden army!
"Kill ......!"
I saw the two streams of people slamming together like huge waves, and I saw blood splashing in the shadow of the sword and sword, and the heads and arms of people flew wildly, killing the sky in the dark!