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The second wave of the Chu army's offensive had already hit, and it was another battalion of 5,000 infantry, only three or four zhang away from the Wei battalion.

At this distance, the Wei crossbowmen in the battalion shot the Chu soldiers with a machine crossbow and killed them with one arrow, but almost none of them who were hit by the crossbow arrows did not fall to the ground and died.

Once upon a time, the bow was hailed as the most despicable weapon invention in history, but when the crossbow was introduced, the world threw the insulting title of bow to the crossbow. Because the machine crossbow is more powerful than the bow, although it has various weaknesses such as the range is not as good as the bow and the difficulty of loading the crossbow arrows, the lethality of the machine crossbow at medium and close ranges is definitely beyond the reach of the bow and the horse.

You must know that at medium and close ranges, the crossbow bolts shot by the machine crossbow can easily pierce the iron shield, even the iron shield of the Wei army cannot resist the powerful machine crossbow, let alone the wooden shield of the infantry of the Chu army, or is it just flesh and blood?

In the face of the continuous crossbow arrow attack on the wall of the Wei camp, the five thousand Chu soldiers who formed the second round of the offensive fell to the ground one by one, but the fatal thing is that even in this treacherous situation, those Chu infantry still had to slow down.

There was no way, because on the periphery of the Wei camp wall, there were countless spear forests, the dense spears fixed on the ground at an outward angle, and the threat hidden by the sharp tips of those spears, so that the Chu soldiers who attacked the Wei camp had to slow down.

These things that Zhao Hongrun made up are similar to the effects of rejecting horses and antlers, if those five thousand Chu soldiers dare not slow down and stop the momentum of the charge, then they will definitely be pierced by these spears that freeze the ground in the cold wind.

"Clear the obstacles!" A Chu general shouted eagerly.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he was hit by two arrows in the chest. I saw that his eyes widened, and after a few strange sounds of "cough cough" came out of his throat, he fell to the ground and died in the frightened and horrified eyes of the Chu soldiers around him.

It was too close, and the place where the Chu soldiers were forced to stop the momentum of the charge was too close to the Wei camp.

It seemed like it was only a foot or two away.

At such close range. No matter how strong the martial arts are, no matter how strong the generals are, they can't resist the powerful machine crossbow.

The Chu soldiers were frightened and helpless, obviously the camp wall was only one or two zhang away from them, but this distance of two zhang seemed to be close to the end of the world, no matter how hard they tried, they could not cross this moat.

They withstood the rain of arrows of the Wei army, grabbed the spears that were fixed to the ground with both hands, and pulled and shook them vigorously. I hope to remove these obstacles that block the way, but unfortunately, most of the Chu soldiers have just touched those spears with their hands before they are shot to death by those Wei soldiers with machine crossbows on the wall of the Wei camp.

The warm blood of the Chu soldiers seemed to be a shocking blood-colored area flowing out of the position one or two zhang away from the Wei camp, and in this land that had been watered with blood, it was densely packed with the corpses of those dead Chu soldiers.

"It's a massacre......

Pei Zhan, the former county commander of Yanling County, stood on the camp wall and watched. Secretly shook his head and sighed.

He really couldn't estimate how many Chu soldiers couldn't get past the 'Gun Forest', the first obstacle set up by the Wei army. Dead and unsightly, he fell only a foot or two away from Wei Ying.

What made many Chu soldiers even more desperate was that the "gun forest" was not the only obstacle ahead, the dense and sharp swords on the outside of the Wei camp wall made the Chu soldiers who intended to climb the camp wall and attack the camp feel a strong helplessness and frustration.

It's like the existence of a 'knife mountain'.

But those Chu soldiers had no choice, because they knew it very well. If they fled with their backs to the Wei army at this moment, the generals of their army would not hesitate to order the crossbowmen to shoot them.

If they are shot as "deserters", they will lose everything they have accumulated in the past struggle, and the money and goods they have hidden will be divided among the same soldiers in the same tent. What's worse is that even their families will be convicted for it.

They had no choice but to advance, braving the crossbows of the Wei army.

Because only by winning the battle can they have a chance to survive and have a chance to harvest the wealth of the Wei people. "Note: The Chu army does not prohibit the sergeants from plundering the people of the enemy country, and this is also the most important source of income for the Chu soldiers in addition to the "settling-in allowance".

However, when the offensive of a full 5,000 people failed to break through the first line of defense of the Wei camp of the "Gun Forest", but was easily harvested by the Wei soldiers on the wall of the Wei camp like a target, nearly half of the friendly troops were killed, and the second wave of Chu infantry finally collapsed.

They cried and howled, and some even dared not face those cold and terrifying spear forests anymore, and when they tried to flee with their backs, the Chu infantry who formed a third wave of offensive arrived.

The Chu infantry, armed with swords and shields, showed no mercy to the deserters who fled from the front line to the rear, drove them away with their weapons, forced those former allies back to their original positions, and forced them to pull out the spears fixed to the ground at the cost of their own lives.

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Looking at this scene, Zhao Hongrun couldn't help frowning frequently.

Perhaps the iron-blooded military regulations are the best means to restrain the soldiers, but Zhao Hongrun hated this from the bottom of his heart, and he was more inclined to use encouragement or motivation to let the soldiers under his command understand "what they are fighting for", rather than using intimidation and deterrence to force the soldiers to fight, like the Chu army opposite.

Having said that, although Zhao Hongrun disdained this way of commanding the Chu army, it is undeniable that the Chu army relied on this ancient method of intimidation and deterrence, and also achieved good results.

No, the first line of defense, the "Gun Forest", has been torn open by those Chu soldiers: I don't know how many Chu soldiers paid the price of their lives to pull out a dozen spears. Although the dozen strokes were insignificant, they were enough for one person to squeeze through.

"It's only a matter of time before the first line of defense is breached......

Zhao Hongrun frowned slightly.

Although only a few Chu soldiers have broken through the spear forest at present, and they were shot to death by the Wei soldiers after only a few steps, it is undeniable that with the passage of time, the tearing hole will only get bigger and bigger, and more Chu soldiers will risk their lives to break through.

However, Zhao Hongrun did not feel much worried about this.

After all, those spear forests are at best the role of rejecting horses and antlers, and what he really has high hopes for is the countless swords embedded in the outside of the camp wall, with blades rushing outward and rushing up, and the outside of the camp wall that is like a mountain of swords.

If the Chu soldiers outside the camp want to climb the camp wall, they can only climb those blades with their hands, and you can imagine how difficult it will be.

Compared with those Chu infantry outside the battalion, Zhao Hongrun was more concerned about the location of the Chu army.

Although he did not know the commander of the Chu army who attacked this time, the latter's trickery and use of troops that almost caused heavy casualties among the Junshui soldiers in the Wei camp was enough to make Zhao Hongrun more vigilant.

After all, no matter how much he buried the state system, system and way of using troops in the Chu State, it was undeniable that there were also generals who were good at using troops among the Chu people.

What worried Zhao Hongrun was that after suffering huge losses in troops, the Chu army's commander-in-chief, Zaifu, was not only indifferent, but instead increased the infantry that attacked the Wei camp again and again.

What made Zhao Hongrun even more shocked was that the two longbowmen in the army of Chu State, after a short rest, once again gradually advanced towards his Wei camp.

It seems that there is a sense of a general attack.

"Go on like this...... It's not good. ”

Zhao Hongrun, who was always paying attention to the movements of the Chu army, couldn't help muttering when he noticed that the large army of the Chu army was advancing towards his Wei camp.

Don't assume that the defending side has the advantage, but that's not the case.

Take this Wei camp as an example, in fact, the camp wall in the south can only stand two or three thousand Wei soldiers at best, this number has reached saturation, and if there are more, the Wei soldiers on the camp wall may not even have room to turn around.

And what about the Chu army outside the camp?

The infantry in the Chu army did not pose a threat to the Wei camp at the moment, so they did not mention it, but the existence of the 10,000 longbowmen was like a sharp sword hanging over the heads of many Wei soldiers.

The fundamental reason is that the space on the camp wall is relatively narrow and cannot accommodate 20,000 Wei soldiers of the Junshui Army at the same time, while the longbowmen of the Chu army can arrange a formation in the open space outside the camp without any scruples, and use the range advantage of the longbow to shoot the Wei soldiers in the Wei camp with the tactics of projectile.

That's the disadvantage of the defenders.

Of course, the premise is that the attacking side has enough ranged troops, otherwise relying solely on infantry, it will definitely be the advantage of the defender.

"Your Highness, it's not okay to go on like this......"

Bailiba watched the battle from the sidelines, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but suggest to Zhao Hongrun: "It's better to let a certain soldier go out and disrupt the two archers phalanx of the Chu army, otherwise, when they get closer, they will fire a salvo above the wall of our camp, and our army's defense will become very difficult......"

Zhao Hongrun's mind moved slightly when he heard this.

To sneak up on the Chu army's longbowmen phalanx, it had to be cavalry: only cavalry with high mobility could quickly penetrate the Chu longbowmen's formation within the interval between their arrows.

At this time, in the Wei camp, although the 5,000 cavalry of the Junshui Army had already left the Wei camp to harass the Chu army under the leadership of the general Cao Jue, this did not mean that there was no way to temporarily form a cavalry in the Wei camp.

Not to mention anything else, the horses of the two hundred horse chariots alone are enough for eight hundred, and if they are handed over to the reserve cavalry in the Junshui camp, it will immediately be a cavalry of eight hundred people, which will be used to sneak attack and disturb the longbow phalanx of the Chu State, which is enough.

You must know that in addition to the advantage of range, the longbowman itself has extremely poor defensive ability, and once a cavalry uses the interval between shots to kill the army, most of them may be killed by the cavalry.

But the question is......

Zhao Hongrun's face gradually showed a little embarrassment and embarrassment.

"It's good to sneak up on the Chu army's longbowmen formation, but ...... But the gate of the camp has been sealed......

Yes, a few days ago, in order to strengthen the defense of the camp, Zhao Hongrun removed the doors of the camp and replaced them with giant knife carts with passages inside.

To put it simply, the Wei soldiers can get out, but the war horses can't get out. (To be continued.) )