In the evening, despite the darkness of the day, the government army officially began the attack.

A large number of armored soldiers covered the sappers and baggage soldiers to charge forward, and the most striking thing was of course the more than 300 single-bowed crossbows, which were dismantled from many small ships, maintained and repaired, and immediately put into battle.

Most of these crossbows are pushed by the baggage soldiers and sappers, so that a large number of archers can be saved, a single bow crossbow is also weighing nearly 100 catties, driven by a wooden wheel, in the rugged battlefield, just to push forward requires many people, and then use a winch to wind, place arrows like short spears, and use wood chips to cushion the crossbow body, determine the distance trajectory, and finally fire.

A crossbow requires more than a dozen people to control Ruyi, and if you want to fire continuously, you have to be ready to repair and change the strings at all times. The bed crossbows made by the Great Wei court are all mortise and tenon structures, although the craftsmanship is excellent, but the structure is fragile and too easy to damage.

The bed crossbow repaired and reformed on the Eastern Domain Island added a lot of metal fittings, and even added a spring machine, and the speed and intensity of such a bed crossbow have exceeded that made by the imperial court.

If the Eastern Domain poured everything it had, there were actually more than 600 single-bow crossbows, but there were still many that needed to be restructured and repaired, even so, when the 300 crossbows were launched, it was enough to move the thieves on the opposite side.

The officers and soldiers led by King Zhao had no more than a dozen crossbows, which had already put great pressure on the thieves, and when he saw more than 300 bed crossbows that were set up one after another, even Li Kaiming, who had always been persevering, was speechless for a while.

At 300 paces, an officer waved a red flag, and the bed crossbow stopped.

Then there was a palpitating silence, and the drummers on both sides paused as if in tacit agreement, all looking at the bed crossbows.

The archer transfers the winch, winds it, and places the arrows in the slot.

Another military attache waved a small flag, and then the whistle sounded.

"Buzz ......"

First, there was the loud sound of the bowstring crumbling and then exploding, and then the humming sound of more than 300 huge arrows soaring into the air.

The sky seemed to be dark, and the whole sky was obscured by the arrows.

Countless thieves and soldiers couldn't help but crouch on the ground in the camp, trying to avoid the death of the bed crossbow.

The huge arrows passed through the camp with great strength, and some of the arrows hit the fence directly, and after a snap, the thick and wide wooden fence was broken.

Others were inserted on top of the rocks, creating a series of sparks.

Then there is the arrow that plunges into the ground, and under the force, it penetrates the frozen earth, leaving less than a third of the arrow shaft on the ground.

Under such force, what the human body that was shot looked like is unknown.

Although a large number of arrows missed, the lethality of the bed crossbow was weakened due to the terrain, but even so, every long arrow that hit the thief brought great damage to the opponent.

Hitting each other head-on, the giant arrow directly penetrated the human body, and the thief who was shot sprayed blood from his mouth, fell upside down, and died directly.

Whoever is shot in the head has his entire head shattered.

There were many people running in one place, and they were directly strung in one place by a giant arrow.

Someone was shot in the neck, and his entire head was shot to the ground.

A thief stood with a shield, and a giant arrow hit the shield, shattering the entire wooden shield!

Although it was just a round of powerful arrows, it gave people the feeling of a landslide and a crack.

A large number of archers of the government army shot after the bed crossbow.

When they entered the 150 paces, the range of the projectile was sufficient, and under the command of the officer, more than 3,000 archers of the government army began to draw their bows and shoot.

The sound of the collapsing bowstrings continued one after another, and the arrows flew out like willow leaves, and like a swarm of flying locusts.

A large number of arrows were instantly thrown inside and outside the enemy camp, and black bushes grew on the fences, mountains, and ground in an instant.

A large number of thieves were covered by the rain of arrows, they covered their bodies with wooden planks, many of them wore iron armor and shields to cover their partners behind them, the thieves officers roared desperately, and a large number of elite veterans held shields and planks, and tried to stand up to block the rain of arrows...... Occasionally, a bed crossbow shoots through the planks or shields, or even to smithereens!

Under the cover of the rain of arrows, the entire North Camp is like a small boat struggling in the storm, at any time

There are worries of overturning.

However, at this moment, under the escort of several shield-wielding soldiers, Li Kaiming, who was wearing a hat and a blue robe, stood up, used his famous giant bow of nearly forty forces to fill the bow, raised the bow diagonally, and then threw a heavy arrow out!

More than 10,000 thieves and soldiers let out a cry of grief and indignation, and at this time they also realized that because the bed crossbow was to shoot upwards at an upward angle, the angle of many crossbow arrows was insufficient, and many giant arrows were either shot too high and inserted into the rocks, or they were mainly in the wooden fence area outside the camp gate, and few crossbow arrows could be shot all the way to the camp.

The threat of the bed crossbow is not too big, these thieves are also old soldiers and miners trained by them, and they have already experienced a big war before, at this moment, under the inspiration of Li Kaiming, all the thieves and archers also draw their bows and shoot back.

The sky was dark, and countless archers continued to throw heavy arrows at each other, and the whole sky seemed to see no other colors, only black feathered arrows were shuttling back and forth.

Even the government army side, also suffered from the crackling rain of arrows, the miners are strong, has always been very organized, after about two months of training, plus there is a battle experience, they and the thieves and the old soldiers together to throw hard, the government army also caused a certain amount of damage.

When they reached about 100 steps to the north camp, the government army was blocked by a wide and deep trench.

A large number of sappers and baggage soldiers began to dig the earth, and then loaded it into sacks, they used miscellaneous horses, mules, donkeys, and simple carts to push the sacks to the front, and the soldiers of the government army received the baggage, carried the sacks on their shoulders, and the men and horses took turns forward, throwing the sacks into the trenches. Arrows rained down on the high base camp, crackling arrows hit these government soldiers carrying sacks, and there were shield soldiers wearing iron armor standing in line with huge shields, covering the rain of arrows for the robes carrying the soil bags, even so, there were non-stop government soldiers who were shot to the vital point, and fell to the ground after a muffled snort, blood spilled, soaking the black and white intersecting land.

There are first aid soldiers and medical soldiers in charge of the rain of arrows forward, dragging the fallen soldiers backwards, because the rain of arrows is too dense, often drag people are also hit by arrows, several soldiers are hit by arrows in the legs, they crawl on the ground, drag the seriously wounded soldiers of the government army behind them.

Such a fierce war, from the outbreak into a state of high rhythm and high casualties, the thieves and the soldiers of the government have already killed the red eye, there are many robes on both sides have fallen on the battlefield, at this stage, there is no need to encourage and persuade, every soldier is like a soldier ant in the ant colony, only know to do their duty, all kinds of negative emotions, the idea of unprofitable war and the instinct of human self-preservation, have disappeared without a trace.

After nightfall, the attack of the government army did not stop, the sound of war drums was not weak at all, the thieves and the government army all lit torches, the light was everywhere, bright as the stars, overnight, both sides each reduced about a thousand people, the rain of arrows was strong and sometimes weak, by dawn, the long trench that was more than three miles long had been close to being filled.

In the second half of the night, the thieves in the southern camp dispatched more than 10,000 people, trying to sneak attack the left flank of the government army, the government army dispatched the cavalry battalion, the frontal impact like a mountain of mountains, and the thousands of thieves who had just sneaked over the long base were defeated, these wills were quite firm, and the thieves who dared to sneak out of the camp in the middle of the night were not allowed to rush forward from the cavalry camp, and saw the black pressure of the iron cavalry rushing forward, a large number of thieves directly lost all their will to fight, and the rest was only screaming and fleeing.

Regarding Li Kaiming's deployment, Xu Zixian also felt that the other party had done his best.

Long base defense, the middle battalion and the south battalion continued to send those miscellaneous soldiers to sneak attack and harass, the chaos of the government army, the north battalion resolutely resisted, and if the government army attacked the middle camp or the south battalion, the north battalion would attack more decisively and firmly.

However, the government army attacked the north camp, the box army of the middle camp was useless, and the miscellaneous soldiers of the southern camp also lacked firm will.

You can't go out of the camp to fight, although you set up a camp, it's useless.

However, the thief is not without the power to fight back, from evening to dawn, it stands up a number of arrow towers at the four corners of the north camp, each floor is placed with strong bows and arrows, a large number of elite archers with strong arm strength and long-range shooting ability on the arrow tower, condescendingly to fill the ditch of the government army soldiers to shoot down, the death and wound of the government army, most of them come from such a dive shot, and the government army archers shoot on it, the effect is not good, quite difficult.

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After the failure of the battalion attack, the two armies have been fighting for half an afternoon and a whole night, the sound of killing and drums still does not stop, the sound should have spread all over a radius of dozens of miles, if there are still people here in Jianyang who are lucky not to be caught in this war by thieves, hiding in their tattered and cold homes, hearing such movements, the sense of fear in their hearts, I am afraid that outsiders will be difficult to guess what will happen.

Xu Zixian has been riding on a horse to watch the entire battlefield, from time to time to issue military orders, dispatch the army to move, many generals persuaded him to rest first, but Xu Zixian categorically refused.

Of course, Li Kaiming was also on the battlefield, Xu Zixian raised his whip and said, "How can I be inferior to a thief leader?" The soldiers are loyal and brave, and they fought bloodily, how can I leave the soldiers to rest? ”

He also pointed to the gradually increasing Beiying Arrow Tower, the thieves should prepare a large amount of equipment, and repair and thicken the fence wall at any time, Xu Zixian pointed to the raised arrow tower with a horsewhip and said, "If the soldiers can't break the thieves, I should personally lead the guards, and go through the camp to get Li Kaiming's head." ”

At the beginning of the hour, the sun rose high, but the soldiers of both camps ran out of strength, and everyone felt extremely cold.

At this time, the two sides invariably rested temporarily, even the soldiers of the government army did not have time to eat hot meals, everyone chewed dry food, drank cold water, many soldiers were covered with blood all over their bodies, and their faces were also the same, many soldiers had cakes in their mouths, and they fell asleep on the snow and muddy land, the cold iron armor was in their bodies, and the soldiers generally could not sleep, many people suddenly woke up when they fell asleep, and their legs kicked on the ground suddenly, and then their eyes were opened, and their hands subconsciously touched the horizontal knife or the long sword, But when they saw that the battlefield was silent and everyone was resting, these soldiers turned around and fell asleep with their arms in their arms.

By noon, when the fighting resumed, the soldiers of the government braved the rain of arrows to fill in the long ditch and tamp it down, and this time the archers came closer to each other and shot at each other on the high slopes.

There is a big gap between the armor and equipment of the two sides, the shield hand of the government army is mostly iron scale armor, the long hand is mostly piercing armor, and the archer is a combination of chain mail and hard leather armor, such equipment can defend against the damage caused by arrows to a considerable extent, if it is not for the thieves to hit the top, the arrows are powerful and heavy, many heavy arrows are heavy arrows that are made into shovel shapes, not the light arrows of the triangular sharp arrows, I am afraid that the damage to the government army is not as big as it is now.

Because the north camp is built on the mountain, it is extremely difficult for the government army to attack on the back, when the long trench is filled and the government army can break through to the front of the long gate, the defense of the thieves on the opposite side becomes more and more tight, and the government army under the pressure of arrows and arrows cannot raise its head.

Xu Zixian also abandoned his horse on foot, crossed the long ditch to the bottom of the camp, the camp gates of the thief camp were all at a high place, and several wooden gates were isolated, and then built according to the mountain, piled up soil as the base, and attacked down, and waited for the battle while climbing the mountain.

After observing, Xu Zi ordered the soldiers to pile up the earth again, to pile up a mountain of earth under his camp, and shoot at the enemy's level, and after the arrows were suppressed, he would forcibly seize the camp gate.

After the government army got the order, they dug the earthwork again, and in the rear, thousands of people were also transferred forward, this time Chen Duzhu and Lin Dingyi and other businessmen also caught up, Li Anyuan, Zhang Dejian and other officials who were responsible for supporting the army's military rations also followed.

At this time, there was a strange scene in their eyes, bloody, cruel, but also extremely heroic and exciting.

Many soldiers of the government army climbed up like ant colonies, and the thieves camped on the mountainside, and the higher they went, the steeper the terrain became. It is surrounded by some deep valleys and hills, and it is difficult to outflank it in a roundabout, so it can only be attacked from the front.

Countless gray-robed and iron-armored soldiers of the government army, carrying dirt bags on their shoulders, kept climbing upward, and then piled up the dirt bags on the ground.

More than an hour later, dozens of paces away from the front of the enemy camp, the bottom of the earth hill had appeared.

Chen Duzhu sighed and saw that many wounded officers and soldiers of the government army were dragged down and sent to a field hospital several miles away for treatment.

There are also quite a few officers and soldiers of the government army who have died in battle, and the military and political officials have placed the bodies and recorded their names, and the officers and soldiers in charge of these things are all grim-faced, and there are faint cries.

Zhang Dejian, Li Anyuan, Lin Dingyi, Yang Shizhi, Wei Jiuzhen and others all looked shocked, they didn't expect that this battle would be so fierce from the beginning, the government army suffered many casualties, and the thieves on the opposite side were afraid that the casualties would be even more serious.