"Woo (wu)-woo (wu)-"

A long trumpet sound, as if from the far east, slowly spread to this side. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Hongrun could hear that this was the military horn of the Qi army, representing the attack.

"Wei Jiao." Zhao Hongrun gestured to Zong Wei Jiao with a solemn face.

Wei Jiao comprehended, and after nodding, he raised his arms and shouted in a deep voice: "Honk!" ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw that the Su Wang Wei in front of the formation also raised their horns and sounded the horn of attack.

Slightly different from the sound of the Qi army's military trumpet, the Wei army's military horn spread from the main formation to several Wei army phalanxes in front of the formation.

Because it was a large-scale corps battle, it was by no means comparable to the small fights in the past, so the arrangement of the Wei army today was also extremely neat and orderly.

I saw 50,000 merchant and naval troops, which were in a three-level column at this moment: the front column was the vanguard, the middle column was the backbone army, and the rear column was the rear army that pressed the formation.

Among them, Zhao Hongrun, as the coach and the supreme commander of this battle, sits in the main formation; Wu Ji, the chief general of the Shangshui Army, sat in the backbone and concurrently served as the second commander; Nanmen Chi, who temporarily replaced Zhai Huang as the deputy general of the Shangshui Army, was in charge of the vanguard army as the third commander.

Note: According to the default rules on the battlefield, the general orders issued by the commanders have priority levels, such as the current Wei army, the most priority is to obey Zhao Hongrun's general orders, followed by Wu Ji, then Nanmen Chi, followed by the battalion generals and thousands of generals. The most direct manifestation of this is the situation in which there will be a conflict.

After hearing the sound of the military horn behind him, Wu Ji, where the Chinese army was located, did not move in the slightest, because it was not the time for him to make a move, and at this time, the south gate Chi, who was in the front army, had slowly drawn out the sword on his waist.

I have to say that although Nanmen Chi was once an experienced general valued by Xiang Mo, the general of the Chu State, he was inevitably a little uneasy in his heart in the face of a big war of this scale.

In the final analysis, it was because there were too many enemy troops in the distance, so many that Nanmen Chi felt his scalp tingle.

How many soldiers are on the opposite side? Lakh? Two hundred thousand? Three hundred thousand?

Nanmen swallowed silently.

Although he actually knew very well that the nobles led by the Xiong clan of the royal family who attacked the king of Chu today, led by the Xiong clan of the royal family, were bound to gather heavy troops on the outskirts of the royal capital, he was still taken aback by the massive army on the outskirts of Shouying.

Because only the suburbs of Shouyingxi, which their Wei army was responsible for attacking, there were hundreds of thousands of troops stationed at this moment, and how many people were there on their Wei army? How many people are there in his vanguard army?

Because the two armies were only a hundred zhang apart, Nanmen Chi could clearly see the details of the Chu army on the opposite side - from the color and sophistication of the armor, he could easily distinguish that some of the hundreds of thousands of Chu troops were the same Chu army as he used to be, and some were local county divisions, and those soldiers who were mixed and mixed with clothes and armor and messy may be the peasant soldiers recently recruited by Shou Ying.

Even, there were some Chu soldiers who didn't even have armor, only a Changge that didn't look very good.

Half of them are peasant soldiers, but it's okay......

Nanmen Chi was secretly glad in his heart, and immediately, his eyes subconsciously looked for flaws in the formation of the Chu army opposite.

Compared with the Chu State Army and the local county divisions on the opposite side, those peasant soldiers naturally became the priority target of Nanmen Chi's attack.

The reason is very simple, because those peasant soldiers, whether they are middle-aged people with long beards or young people with smooth chins, their emotions are far less calm and calm than those of the regular army and county divisions.

Even from a distance, Nanmen Chi seemed to be able to feel the fear and fear in the hearts of these people.

Even at the south gate, you can faintly see the hands of many peasant soldiers holding weapons, as if they are trembling slightly.

Old tactics......

The corners of Nanmen Chi's mouth couldn't help but hook up a faint smile.

As a general of the former Chu State's main army, he certainly knew the tactics of crowd attrition used by most of their Chu generals: first launch a suicidal charge with a large number of peasant soldiers to consume the enemy's physical strength, and then invest relatively elite regular troops and county divisions to deal a fatal blow to the enemy.

It was precisely because he knew the tricks of the Chu army on the other side that Nanmen inevitably felt a little sad, because he felt that this country that gave birth to him and raised him seemed to be unchanged for decades or hundreds of years.

Even after the crushing defeat of the Qi, Lu and Song Three Kingdoms alliance army twenty years ago, the army of Chu still did not repent.

Increase investment in military spending? No!

Strengthen the training of non-commissioned officers in the army? No!

Those big nobles led by the Xiong clan seem to have never paid attention to this matter, and they are confused, which makes the country also confused.

"Knock knock—"

In the rear, there was a loud sound of war drums, which woke up the slightly distracted Nanmen Chi suddenly.

Nanmen Chi took a deep breath, then looked at the Chu army opposite, and sighed in his heart: On the battlefield, each is his master, and he can't help it......

Thinking of this, he raised his right arm and slowly put it down, the sharp sword in his hand, Jian Feng pointed ahead, and shouted in a deep voice: "Yi Jiao, Chen Xie, forward!" ”

The two generals Yi Jia and Chen Xie were the original 2,000 generals of the Shang Water Army, but after Zhao Hongrun generally promoted the generals of all ranks of the Shang Water Army a while ago, these two generals have been promoted to 3,000 generals, and the number of troops in their hands has also reached 5,000.

At this moment, as the two wings of the vanguard of the front army, Yi Jia and Chen Xie, after receiving the general order from Nanmen Chi, each commanded a phalanx of five thousand people, stepping on neat steps, and slowly approaching the Chu army in the distance.

At the same time, among the Chu army opposite, a general in bright armor also raised his sword at the same time, pointed in the direction of the Wei army, and shouted: "Kill!" ”

With the issuance of this order, I only heard a tsunami-like shout in the Chu army, and saw that the hundreds of thousands of peasant soldiers of the Chu State, under the reprimand of the generals and governors of all levels, were forced to charge towards the Wei army.

That scene seemed to be like a flash flood and a thousand miles, and for a while, the eyes of the Wei soldiers seemed to be an overwhelming black tide.

Such a magnificent scene, even Zhao Hongrun subconsciously held his breath, only feeling sweaty all over his body.

However, at this time, the ten thousand-strong phalanx led by Yi Jia and Chen Xie's second general suddenly stopped moving forward, and quickly dispersed to both sides under the command of Nanmen Chi.

At the same time, the front of the Wei army suddenly changed formations, and a team of thousands of archers came to the front from the rear.

At this time, Nanmen Chi pointed his sword forward again and shouted sharply: "Longbowman...... Aim straight ahead and shoot arrows! ”

For a while, the Wei army was raining arrows in front of them, and the arrows were pouring like a torrential rain, and they fell towards those peasant soldiers.

At this time, those Chu peasant soldiers seemed to be a little chaotic, and they didn't know whether to pursue the Wei army that spread out on both sides, or continue to move forward and attack the front of the Wei army.

And this only momentary hesitation caused tens of thousands of casualties.

Pity these peasant soldiers who were temporarily conscripted, and it took less than an hour to set foot on the battlefield to end their short career and give their lives for it.

"Rush! Rush! ”

The commanding generals of the Chu army roared with all their might, as if they were not affected by the heavy sacrifice in front of them at all.

But think about it, after all, in the Chu State, the lives of the soldiers are still worthless, let alone a group of temporarily conscripted peasant soldiers?

Maybe the commander of the Chu army was also sneering in his heart: You placed a group of longbowmen in the front army at the south gate, aren't you afraid of being chiseled by me?

It is undeniable that longbowmen do have terrifying lethality when they have the advantage of distance, but they also have weaknesses.

That is, once the enemy infantry or cavalry rushes in front of them, the longbowmen who have only a short sword in addition to a longbow are hardly the opponents of the infantry with long ge, let alone cavalry with horsepower.

The distance between the two armies of Wei and Chu approached little by little.

Although this is a battle situation that can be summed up in one sentence, the peasant soldiers of the Chu army paid a heavy price every time they took a step closer to the Wei army.

Hum! Want to break through the middle at any cost? How can it be so easy?

Nanmen, who saw through the other party's intentions, snorted coldly, only to see that he, who had already put the sword into the scabbard, raised his right hand again at this moment, raised two fingers and waved it forward, and the guards around him had understood what he meant: order the soldiers who operated the crossbow box of the Lu State organ to step forward.

In a moment's time, the phalanx of longbowmen who had lost their physical strength due to continuous long-range shots quickly retreated, and were replaced by groups of Wei soldiers pushing the crossbow boxes of the Lu State.

I saw that the crossbow boxes of the Lu State were almost one person high, and I don't know how many crossbow arrows were loaded in the wooden box that required two people to hug together.

"Put!"

Nanmen Chi's right hand is heavily under his command.

Suddenly, hundreds of Lu State organ crossbow boxes were pressed at the same time, only to hear the strange sound of "suddenly" sounded, and a continuous stream of arrows were **** out of the small holes of these organ crossbow boxes, and with strong force, they drilled into the bodies of those Chu State peasant soldiers who had rushed to the Wei army more than 20 zhang away.

Pity these peasant soldiers, who have fallen in a pool of blood one after another before they realize what is happening.

Corpses all over the field!

……

Looking at the scene in front of him, Nanmen Chi's face twitched slightly. Immediately, he glanced sideways slightly, glancing at the crossbow boxes operated by those Wei soldiers.

He hadn't participated in the Battle of Qi and Chu twenty years ago, which terrified the Chu people, but even then he had heard of the horror of the crossbow box of the Lu State.

However, the tragic situation presented in front of him at this moment made him faintly feel that today's crossbow box of the Lu State is more terrifying than twenty years ago?

It's a massacre......

Nanmen Chi couldn't bear to turn his gaze away, and in addition to being unbearable, he also had an inexplicable sense of happiness in his heart.

Because he knew that if he hadn't surrendered to the Wei army and hadn't defected to His Royal Highness King Su, then the person who had personally experienced the horror of such weapons of war at this moment might be him.

"Click-"

"Click-"

I don't know how long it took, but those Lu State organ crossbow boxes have been sprayed with crossbow arrows in the boxes, and they have completely become waste.

But the power of these dead things made the soldiers of Chu and Wei feel creepy.

I saw that what was presented in front of Wei Bing at this moment was a bloody land, full of dead bodies, and it was actually a single person's life - those peasant soldiers tried everything and risked their lives, but they could not cross the open space that was only twenty zhang.

It's like a moat. (To be continued.) )