At seven o'clock in the morning, as soon as the morning sun rose, the troops began to leave the camp in the large camps on both sides of the opposing sides, and then, from the side of the mountain to the river, lined up in a square formation, slowly moving towards the other side's military camp.

After seeing the siege equipment of the northern army assembled, it was impossible for Wang Yanqiu to hide in the city and be beaten passively, so he had to go out of the city to meet the enemy, and the enemy's siege equipment could not be allowed to hit the head of the city. In the more than two years since he came to this world, Li Qi has not officially seen and experienced the real ancient war between the two sides.

The terrain of Quyang is not suitable for cavalry combat, it belongs to the edge of the uneven semi-mountainous land, and the flat land that is not wide is divided into small pieces by hills and mountains, and there is also the dangerous place of Jiashan.

Therefore, Yuan Xingqin ordered the cavalry troops to set up a position south of Quyang to deal with the rear road and flanks, and the frontal attack was still to use infantry combat, leaving only a few cavalry units to protect the flanks. The same was true of the Southern Army, but because of the small number of cavalry. However, in general, when the army engages, the infantry moves first, and after the infantry fights, it will be a collision between the cavalry.

On the side of the Northern Army, Yuan Xingqin put the most well-equipped Jinyang Army in the middle, as the main force of the attack, and Li Qi felt a little painful.

After this battle, I don't know how many men will be lost.

Li Qi was dressed in dark armor, and the red cloak behind him was immediately on top of a mound.

Behind him, two huge flags stood, blood-red battle flags fluttering in the wind.

Although the weather was fine, looking forward from the hill of the horse, you could see a large group of people approaching each other from miles away, but these people in sight had become some moving black spots, not much bigger than ants.

At this time, Li Qi is extremely nostalgic for the counterfeit imitation of the "military telescope" he bought online in his previous life, at least that thing can magnify the scene he sees by 5 times. Later, I learned that the military telescope was not 5 times as large as it was at all, but he didn't throw it away, and it was quite interesting to take it out occasionally to look at the window of the opposite building.

If you have that counterfeit telescope in your hand, the whole battlefield will be clearly visible.

A convex lens, a concave lens, and then put it into a tube, Li Qi felt that it was not difficult to get it out.

In this era, there are many craftsmen who polish jade and gemstones, and they should also be able to polish lenses that meet the requirements.

The drums of war continued to beat and the muffled trumpets of the fields echoed back and forth.

Due to its hilly location on the edge of the mountain, the more than 20,000 infantry troops were divided into dozens of smaller, not very neat arrays, slowly approaching each other.

"The Bianzhou Army is worthy of being the forbidden army of Zhu Liang, looking at this military formation, it is really good!" Wu Ren, the pro-army cavalry general who followed Li Qi, happened to be commenting on the upcoming battle.

"I didn't see it, this military formation is not neat." Li Qi said.

"It's not that it's neat, but the crossbowmen in the rear can automatically adjust their position according to the terrain, and can always keep the attack distance within a hundred and ten paces of the spearmen in the front row, so as to inflict maximum damage on the enemy in the first attack. These are all experiences, and you can't teach them. Yuan Ren explained for Li Qi.

"So this Bianzhou infantry army is very powerful? Can you deal with the cavalry? ”

Yuan Ren shook his head: "In the end, the cavalry is more powerful, two or three thousand cavalry can entangle with tens of thousands of infantry troops, and if the infantry army is less than the cavalry, it will be slaughtered." The steppe people's armor is not good, and the war depends on horsepower, if the cavalry on the grassland is fully armed like you, it will be terrible! After that, he looked at Li Qi again: "Your Majesty, these three thousand Praetorian Guards cavalry armor alone is worth more than 160 pieces each, and I am afraid that it is unique in the whole world at present!" ”

Li Qi bowed his head slightly when he heard this, I love to hear this!

Speaking of which, this vest is also unintentional.

The original process chain mail was not easy to make, and the iron bars needed to be beaten into triangular rings one by one, and then the rings were interlocked. Now Tang Ming Manor is made of steel wire, cowhide silk and silk, and then woven into it, which greatly simplifies the process. Since most of the newly recruited Tuntian military households had nothing to do in winter, Li Qi remembered to make vests.

In the whole winter, only more than 3,000 pairs of vests were made.

The horse armor and cavalry chain mail woven from wire cord could only resist the fire of bows and arrows, and could not resist the fire of crossbows at close range. It's just that if you face the steppe cavalry, you have a great advantage. The steppe cavalry was not equipped with crossbows, and the vast majority of the cavalry used wooden riding bows. The training of the Praetorian Guard cavalry in Li Qi's hands may not be very good, but the total value of this body is more than 300 yuan, that is, because he has a hydraulic workshop, he has the ability to equip such a cavalry force with a huge cost because of his own production and self-sale.

The drums paused for a moment, and then, more than a dozen giant drums rang out in unison, and the sound was earth-shattering.

Yuan Ren squinted at the two black pressures in front of him, and the dense crowd of people who were approaching said, "It's started!" ”

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, countless feathered arrows rose into the air, covering the locusts in the middle of the sky, and then fell towards the dense army formation of the other party.

As a rain of arrows flew in the air, a fierce shout of killing suddenly sounded on the battlefield, and the infantry who entered the range of bows and arrows shouted and charged towards the opponent's military formation. As the shouts rang out, arrows rained down, and the sword and shield soldiers crossed the pikes, braving the rain of arrows, and charged at the opposing army's formation. Without warning, two chaotic teams collided violently!

In less than a minute, the vanguard formations of the two armies were already mixed with each other, fighting together.

Li Qi sat on his war horse, and a magnificent picture of war was presented in front of him, but unfortunately, he couldn't see any doorway at all, and he couldn't even distinguish between the enemy and us. The only thing that could be seen was that there were three red flags, slowly moving forward, extending into the enemy's formation.

Among them, the one on the left should be Fu Yanqing's general flag, and as for who is on the right, he can't see clearly, but the cyan flag should be the troops of the Dingzhou Army.

Standing far behind the battlefield, although it is from a high place, it is actually impossible to see the situation on the battlefield.

Li Qi only saw that the two groups of people were mixed together, and he couldn't tell which was the enemy and which was his own people. The crossbowmen on their own side were still in scattered formations, constantly throwing arrows at the rear of the enemy.

The armor-piercing pyramid arrows used by the crossbowmen seem to have a decent killing effect, but this kind of pyramid arrows require a large water hammer to forge in a mold, and it is not easy for ordinary blacksmiths to rely on manual forging if they use iron hammers.

The rain of arrows did not enter the rear of the Southern Army, which would immediately cause chaos, but the Southern Army seemed to be on guard, holding high the leather shield and continuing to charge bravely.

The hand-to-hand combat in hand-to-hand combat was chaotic and abnormal, and Li Qi, who was watching the battle from behind, couldn't see clearly.