The camp surrounded by the trench, there are countless antlers clustered outside the rammed earth camp fence, such as the arrow tower of the forest, the wide camp area, and now there are countless thick smokes, in the firelight, the official and military flags are full of holes, and there are countless fire arrows flying from the north, falling into the camp like meteors. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

With a distance of more than five hundred steps, how could Zhou Jun's crossbow be so powerful!!

Feng Xuan looked at the scene in front of him, as if he had returned to the night half a month ago, at night, the camp in the south of Zhenyang City, the fire was soaring.

"Erlang-kun! Zhou Bing! It was their cavalry that rushed over!! ”

"Array! Spearmen outside, crossbowmen inside! ”

The dust was flying, and a group of cavalry appeared in the north of Feng Xuan's position, as Feng Xuan's grandmother Mrs. Xian had predicted before the war, the purpose of the Zhou army's attack today was to encircle the point and send reinforcements, the attack on the Chen army camp was fake, and the attack on the slang soldiers who reinforced the Chen army was real.

The marching procession, after an initial panic, soon shrank into a ball, with the spearmen turning out into human repulsors, while the crossbowmen hid behind the human repulsion, bent their bows and wound their arrows, ready for the oncoming cavalry onslaught.

There is a shortage of horses in the Lingnan region, even if there are local horses, those are all crooked melons and cracked dates, and the war horses that the slang soldiers have seen before are mounts brought by the official cavalry from Jiankang, perhaps mixed with the blood of the horses of the Central Plains, these horses are much taller than the local horses in Lingnan.

And now the crotch mount of the cavalry of the Zhou army can be seen from a distance to be taller than the mount of the official army, and even the weight of people and horses is not less than hundreds of catties, such weight plus the speed of the charge, the consequences of hitting the crowd, as long as you are not a fool, you can imagine how bloody it will be.

Feng Xuan was the first time to see such an imposing cavalry, although it looked like a hundred horses, but the sense of oppression caused to him had exceeded hundreds of infantry, if he hadn't prepared in advance, he really didn't have the confidence to fight the cavalry with infantry in the field.

"Don't panic! Don't be afraid! They will deliberately rush at us, and just over seventy paces away, turn their horses' heads and diverge to the side, which is to trick us into shooting arrows! ”

"Attention all crossbowmen! Without an order, even if they rushed in front of them, they were not allowed to release arrows!! ”

Looking at the official army camp not far away, Feng Xuan tried his best to show a calm posture and command his subordinates to meet the enemy, since he came, he was ready to fight alone, and whether he could win this time depends entirely on how well he plays.

The official army will not come out to respond, and there will be no reinforcements behind, the Feng family army led by Feng Xuan is the elite of the Feng family, and they want to fight the Zhou army that has been waiting for a long time here, and the other side should not only have cavalry, but also infantry.

Sure enough, the cavalry of the Zhou army saw Feng Xuan's troops shrinking into a ball like hedgehogs, and did not rush up to take a bite, but dispersed, sprinting towards them from different directions, and kept screaming in their mouths, like hungry wolves about to pounce on the flock.

Seeing that he was approaching nearly seventy paces, that is, the effective range of the infantry bow, Zhou Cai suddenly spread out to both sides, which was an obvious feint to deceive the infantry who were waiting for him to release their arrows.

However, Feng Xuan had an order first, and the crossbowmen could not release arrows without the order of the tribal governors, so even though many people were almost frightened to loosen their strings, they finally held back.

To be able to be the elite of the Feng family, the most basic quality - to obey orders - of course there is, but almost everyone is facing such an imposing cavalry for the first time, and if there is no backbone, then they will be at a loss.

The cavalry of the Zhou army displayed another common tactic: after attacking and harassing with cavalry, after dividing into several squads, they kept circling around the Feng family army in formation, and the radius of this circle was maintained at a distance of seventy paces, while the cavalry continued to throw feather arrows into the formation.

The effective range of the riding bow is generally about fifty paces, but this does not mean that the arrows shot beyond this distance are not lethal, and the cavalry of the Zhou army used the method of projectile to shoot the Feng Jiajun in formation, which was originally intended to attack.

This kind of projectile does not need to be aimed, because it does not need to be accurate to shoot arrows into the crowd, and it is extremely difficult for the crossbowmen of the Feng family army to shoot at the enemy cavalry that is constantly moving.

Seven out of ten shots missed, and the remaining three arrows were useless, because the cavalry of the Zhou army was wearing iron armor, and it was not painful to insert the feather arrows at all.

Riding in step is really not so easy to fight!

Although he was slightly disadvantaged, Feng Xuan knew that as long as his army formation was not chaotic, the enemy cavalry would have no good way to break them, after all, the war horses kept running in circles like this, and the physical consumption was not small, and they were just holding shields to block arrows on the spot.

So, it's time for your infantry to come over too!

Feng Xuan thought so, and the battle situation developed like this, the purpose of the cavalry of the Zhou army was actually to make the Feng family army unable to move, and the infantry, which was responsible for knocking out the hedgehog array of the Feng family army, quickly came up.

The soldiers were all dressed in iron armor, and the ridiculously long spears in their hands were held high to the sky, and the Zhou army that appeared in Feng Xuan's sight was like a moving forest, and its momentum reminded him of a sentence in the art of war: its Xu is like a forest.

The infantry of the Zhou army, with more than 1,000 people, lined up to approach the Feng family's army, and the fluttering tiger head flag showed the difference between this army and other Zhou troops, Feng Xuan couldn't help but swallow his saliva when he looked at this army.

"Erlang-kun!"

A subordinate governor called softly, the matter has come to this, everyone knows that the situation is not good, the cavalry of the Zhou army is attacking on the periphery, and now there is an amazing infantry formation approaching, and if you don't take countermeasures, it will be over.

Feng Xuan looked at the cavalry of the Zhou army wandering around the periphery, the so-called encirclement of the other party seemed to be full of loopholes, but he knew that once his side was dispersed, everyone would not be able to escape the pursuit of the cavalry in the end.

Thinking of this, he looked at the smoke-emitting official camp in the distance again, and saw no sign that the defenders had come out to rescue.

Are we going to be finished?

Hehe.

The Zhou army broke through Zhenyang, and now it has rushed out of the Qinshui Gorge, and went south along the Qinshui, confronting the Chen army and the slang soldiers who rushed to reinforce in the Sihui territory.

Under the command of Mrs. Xian, the slang soldiers camped on the east and west banks of Qinshui, and Wang Meng, the governor of Chen Guo, gathered all the officers and troops that could be mobilized in Guangzhou, went out of the north of Panyu, and marched to the east of the slang bureaucratic camp for ten miles to set up camp.

Zhou Jun stood by and watched the whole process, allowing such a situation to form, what were they thinking?

After such a long standoff, the Zhou army did not send troops on a large scale, and suddenly stormed the Chen army camp early this morning, forcing the west camp to send reinforcements to rescue, and then broke this reinforcement halfway, so the Zhou army wanted to use the Chen army camp in the east as a bait to transfer the soldiers from the west village to wait for the opportunity to annihilate.

Destroy the reinforcements, and then take advantage of the situation to break the Chen army camp, pull out the thorn in the east, and then surround the camp in the west!

Feng Xuan looked around, and the people he saw in front of him were all good members of the Feng family, and these people came out with him today as bait.

If you want to fish, we will fish!

Taking a deep breath, Feng Xuan said, "Pass the order to go down and retreat!" ”

After thinking about it, he added: "Tell everyone, pretend to be some!" ”