The horns in the Chinese army were waving flags again and again, and the soldiers of the Zhengnan Army, who were surrounded on three sides of the Anzhou military camp, began to attack.

Because the Anzhou army was backed by the river and had the left, center, right and the Dazhai behind it as the backing, with a circle of arc-shaped 'anti-cavalry' trenches, the cavalry was not easy to attack and outflank, so the enemy army was a large number of foot soldiers attacking on foot under the cover of archers and various equipment.

They formed a formation outside the safety range and immediately rushed towards the position of the Anzhou army, and when they approached a distance of 700 paces, they were attacked by the giant crossbow of the Anzhou army.

More than a dozen giant arrows flew towards them and fell into the military formation, stirring up bursts of blood, and it didn't take long for the second round of giant arrows to strike, followed by the third, and then the fourth.

"The launch speed is faster than the prime minister said!" Yang Su, the head of the march, stood in the middle army formation and looked at the giant crossbow that kept firing on the opposite side, and was a little surprised, from the beginning of nearly 700 steps to the distance of about 400 steps of the soldiers, he had been subjected to continuous giant arrow shots.

In late June last year, the imperial army was defeated at the foot of Changshou City, and Wang Yi, the marching marshal who fled back to Xiangyang, sent a letter to Yang Jian, the Duke of Sui, who was then the prime minister of Zuo, saying that the Anzhou army had invested a powerful and fast-firing giant crossbow in the field.

According to the battlefield situation at that time, the opponent's giant crossbow could fire a wave of three rounds of giant arrows every hundred steps.

The skilled craftsmen in Chang'an City, a simple high-powered giant crossbow, can make it, but this will cause the winding to be extremely slow, which is only suitable for defending the city and not suitable for field battles, and they don't know how the Anzhou army can speed up the winding speed under the premise of maintaining great power.

The fall of Xiangyang in July last year is rumored to have been used by the Anzhou army with a powerful siege equipment, and the imperial court has sent countless fine works in the past year to find out what this thing is.

The defeated soldiers who escaped from Xiangyang and the news that came out intermittently said that it was a huge catapult that was not pulled by manpower, and that it was a spell that drove the catapult, and it was a secret method created by a great sage named "Newton Heavenly Master" from England in the far west.

Of course, Prime Minister Yang Jian didn't believe it, but the great craftsmen of Chang'an couldn't think of a reason, but it didn't matter, because that thing had shortcomings: it could only attack the city, not field battles.

And the launch speed of these giant crossbows in front of them has reached the field use, so this expedition has to deal with the Anzhou army, so the lethality of this giant crossbow is also under consideration, and the soldiers at all levels have been explained and how to deal with the battle, so it is not a big deal.

However, Yang Su was still surprised when he saw the huge arrows that continued to attack, and he was very interested in what method the Anzhou army used to quickly wind up.

"After conquering the camp in a while, leave a few giant crossbowmen alive, and my father wants to ask for an understanding!" Yang Su decided to find out, so the idea that he was originally going to kill all the defenders of the other side and cut off their heads and pile them up in the south so that the Anzhou army that had returned to the aid could see Jingguan had to be changed.

More than 10,000 and nearly 20,000 heads, not bad for these few.

"Bang bang bang!" With the sound of intermittent sounds, many of the huge arrows flying over were stuck in the large shield carts that moved with the military formation, and the southern army also made corresponding preparations before going south according to the bloody lessons of last year, and this was one of them.

The other is the mantle car, according to the experience of the Jingzhou army attacking Suicheng last year, the other side has many strong crossbows and stone projectiles, causing heavy casualties on their own side, so the southern army has also prepared a lot of mantle cars that specialize in flying stones.

In order to prevent the other side from using rockets to shoot the curtains, causing a fire, all the curtains were soaked in water, and although they could not really resist the fire, as long as they could cover the infantry and walk to the trench outside the wall, they could complete the mission.

So the trench is where the real battle begins.

The trench dug by the Anzhou army was mainly used to defend against cavalry assault, wide enough but not deep, about 50 paces away from the left, center, and right stockades, to prevent the cavalry from directly riding their horses and jumping past the camp, and second, it was also within the range of their own strong bows and crossbows, which could effectively prevent the opponent from filling the ditch.

The dense infantry of the Zhengnan Army soon advanced to the edge of the trench, because the ditch was shallow, they did not use the trench bridge but directly crossed the ditch on foot, and at this time, the long-range weapons of the Anzhou army, which had already been in good time, began to shoot.

Feather arrows, crossbow arrows and stone bullets were poured like rain on the soldiers of the Zhengnan Army who broke through the trench with rattan cards and wooden shields, and the distance of fifty paces was within the effective range of all kinds of long-range weapons.

The archers of the southern army on the edge of the trench relied on the shield cart as a shield to shoot at the Anzhou archers, and they were numerous and had hiding places, so they gradually gained the upper hand.

Because they were too numerous, as the vanguard of the attack on the camp, the first wave of attacking troops was already thousands, followed by the second and third waves of troops, totaling tens of thousands, and the order given by Yang Su, the head of the march, was that they should take the camp within an hour.

On the right flank of the Anzhou army, Yuwen Wen and his new army were ready to fight.

The sound of the horn in the military formation sounded this is a signal to prepare to meet the enemy, Yu Wenwen packed up his mind and prepared to command his subordinates to fight, and the super long spears in the spear phalanx were like forests one after another, and the wings were tilted forward.

The enemy army covered up with shields, and their main target was the Anzhou army that was waiting in front of Zhongzhai, and they were only suppressing the right wing of the Anzhou army where Yuwenwen was located.

A total of 600 archers were left in the two buildings in front of the phalanx to retreat after a round of arrows, and the crossbowmen behind the hall also retreated into the phalanx after firing a round of crossbow arrows.

In the face of the enemy soldiers who were holding shields, wearing two dang armors, and howling with many feathered arrows on their bodies, the soldiers did not panic at all, and silently waited for the order in the formation.

They had already seen blood killings last month, watching the heads of the Barbarian soldiers open in front of them and splashing their faces, and seeing their comrades being shot in front of them, their eyes were bloody, but they knew that no one could break through the gun formation of Rulin before the spear assassination they had worked so!

It doesn't matter if you don't stab yourself, it doesn't matter if your comrades in the second row don't stab, and your comrades in the third and fourth rows will stab the enemies who burst out in front of you, and even if they don't stab them, it doesn't matter, because there are also powerful halberders to put out the fire.

My left and right are comrades, and behind me are comrades, no matter how many of you come, you will die!

"Everyone's in place!" The commanders and platoons of the first platoon of the various formations were shouting loudly to remind the soldiers to prepare, and the enemy soldiers were already about to rush to the range of the spears.

Whoosh, the enemy soldiers rushing in the front row suddenly threw short guns, axes, daggers, and even stones in their hands, and many of the soldiers in the front row who could not dodge with guns in both hands were wounded and those who fell to the ground by being hit.

However, after this wave of attacks, the phalanx was not chaotic, and the pervasive smell of blood made the soldiers' blood boil, and when they saw that the enemy had arrived, they immediately roared, "Kill the enemy!" He then stabbed the spear in his hand at the opponent's face, big legs and other unprotected parts.

The soldiers of the Southern Army crashed into the Anzhou Army formation, which was waiting for the battle, and the sound of killing shook the sky and the bloody wind was everywhere......

Li Shimo, a pikeman belonging to the front formation of the new army, stood in the third row of the enemy and stabbed an enemy soldier who rushed into the formation with the spear in his hand.

The man was wearing two armors and holding a rattan card, first blocking the spear in the first row, and then using his knife to open the spear that was stabbed at him by his comrades in the second row, and when his body did not recover, he was stabbed in the face by Li Shimo, who was looking at him, and was killed on the spot.

Before he could catch his breath, more enemy soldiers rushed in, and unlike the Ba barbarians Li Shimo had seen before, their eyes were crazy.

The Ba barbarian soldiers I met when I went out to practice last month were all fish belly, and their eyes were either confused or panicked or dodgy, and at a glance, they knew that they were a group of cowards, not as fierce as the gang in front of them.

Their eyes reminded Li Shimo of the overseers in the mine: ruthless, contemptuous, indifferent, not treating the miners as people but as a group of lambs to be slaughtered, I don't know how many mining men were tortured by them to the point of inhumanity, I don't know how many people were beaten to death by them.

The wages are small, the food is poor, and the physical exertion is large, so Li Shimo can't stand it, his family is poor, but he is born with great strength and appetite, and everyone can't afford to support him, and the meager wages for working in the mine can't afford it, so he can only endure it.

After the Chinese New Year this year, I heard that the 'Sunset County Prince' in Anlu City recruited troops to manage the fullness of Li Shimo, so he gave up the work in the mine to join the army, in order to 'manage the full' item.

If you go into battle and fight, you may lose your life one day, but as long as you have a full stomach and be a full ghost, he also thinks it's worth it, so no matter how hard and tired the drill is, he will endure it, because he is really full.

After staying up like this for more than five months, he also adapted to military life, specifically the life of this army under the command of Xiyang County Gong, and the army of generals elsewhere is not comparable at all.

The military salary is paid in full, there is no arrears, the food is full, two sets of high-quality military uniforms per person, and two pairs of cloth shoes, you must know that he has seen the county soldiers in the county, but they don't even have a pair of straw sandals, and most of them are barefoot, because the military salaries have been deducted by Shangguanke.

Not to mention this two-headed armor that makes people feel a lot of certainty, and there is a rattan helmet on his head, which is much better than the other armies are just a turban.

Therefore, Li Shimo, who was well fed and warmly clothed, and his whole body was full of strength, was full of confidence, and he stabbed an enemy soldier who cut into the army formation with one shot.

The man was nimble, dodged the assassination of three spears one after another, but did not dodge the fourth shot of Li Shimo, he was wearing two crotch armor, but was stabbed by Li Shimo's spear, and his unprotected left shoulder shook and his body shook and then he was killed by another spear.

More enemy soldiers are not as good as him, it would be good to be able to dodge the first shot, but most of them will be stabbed by the second shot that follows, and there are more and more corpses piled up in front of the military array, and few of them are in front of their own phalanx, all lying in a horizontal and vertical way around the phalanx.

"Hey, it's almost the same as those babes!" The comrades next to him began to mumble, as soon as they first engaged in the battle, everyone was still a little scared, after all, this is the official army of the imperial court, well-equipped and superb in martial arts, and it is not comparable to those beggar-like Tongbai and Shanba barbarian soldiers.

As a result, it's not the same as poking around, and they're all lying down!

What about wearing two armors, the unprotected shoulders and face are similar to the cross stake target stabbed during the drill, so you go to die!