This time, the rebels were a little too deep, the heavy infantry and the archers were together, they couldn't retreat, but the big shield obviously protected a part of the archers, plus divided into two parts, the heavy infantry rushing forward, with the opportunity brought by the sacrifice of the archers, they could not give up.

Running forward, the heavy infantry soon arrived near the moat, a huge plank, carrying both sides of the moat, when there was no time to fill the moat, such a temporary plank is the most suitable, the length is appropriate, the weight is also appropriate, the other four aspects, also rushed up, soon, on the moat, a passage was formed, the heavy infantry carried the ladder, and rushed up.

It stands to reason that the general garrison will definitely counterattack these heavy infantry and ladders, as long as this archer changes direction, the short archman can be saved, but unfortunately, Sun Ji did not stop attacking, and kept telling the direction, and the longbowman attacked towards the short archman as if he had eyes.

Unlike the previous short-term attack of 60 breaths, this is a long time, from 70 meters away, crossing the moat, to reach the bottom of the fortress, it took at least more than 200 breaths, during this time period, the attack has been continuous, in the time of 200 breaths, each archer completed 25 shots, that is, a total of 5000 arrows were shot.

Compared with the previous 500 people and 3,500 arrows, the lethality caused this time was not as great as before, and there were only more than 100 casualties.

The reason is very simple, the round shield, even if it is just an ordinary round shield, provides the necessary defense, unless it is drilled into the gap and hits the empty space, and the large shield of the heavy infantry also guards a part of the short archers in Da Nang, which is also the root cause of the poor effect.

However, the shock to the rebels was even greater, it could be said that they were caught off guard before, they did not prepare for the attack, and caused a large number of casualties, but now, the attack has been foreseen, but it is still the same, the density of the longbow, above their expectations, seems to be easy to dodge the bow and arrow attack, but in fact, as long as they dodge, the other area is also a dense rain of arrows.

Longbowmen, never the pursuit of accurate shooting, it always relies on probability, the same 200 breaths, caused about 120 casualties, about double the number of before, minor injuries are the majority, incurable serious injuries and deaths do not exceed 50, and the lethality is greatly reduced.

When all the archers were hiding under the big shields of the heavy infantry, Sun Ji knew that the attack had already reached a higher stage, and his eyes were back on the heavy infantry below, and the heavy infantry under the city had begun to build a ladder, which was five times higher than the ordinary ladder, and it was not easy to build it, and it needed to be combined simply.

Sun Ji hesitated, the reason for his hesitation was whether to take out the armor-piercing bow, which is a longbow that has a considerable lethal effect on foot armor at close range and at some specific angles, but the secret weapon of the longbow team, under the premise that many heavy armored infantry are gathered together, the lethality will be amazing.

In the end, Sun Ji still gave up, on the one hand, there are not many armor-piercing bows, and on the other hand, it is far from the time to fight hard.

On Miaojiazhuang, Wei Gui, who had been staring at this battle, was shocked, this time, Wei Gui had been behind him, carefully observing the movements of the fortress, when the heavy infantry arrived at the city, he was overjoyed, but the casualties of the archers still surprised him.

Wei Gui is also very familiar with military affairs, and even an excellent shooter himself, and he quickly saw something from the frequency of attack and defense.

The fortress looked formidable, but there were not many men, most of whom were archers.

The city wall is very high, but the city wall is not full of people, maybe it is unnecessary, but more because the personnel are scarce, otherwise, as long as there are enough armored soldiers to stand on the city wall, they can give a huge oppressive force below.

The archers are really elite, but it is clear that the number of archers is not much, no more than 200.

Each wave of bows and arrows will not exceed 200, unless the other party chooses two groups, looking at the size of the castle that the other party does not know, it does not seem to be able to accommodate so many, 200-400 archers, the former is analyzed by area, only in such a small area, even if the archers are densely stationed, they are at most two or three hundred, and the other is from the frequency, each time it is 200, which seems to be a fixed number.

However, the elite level of the archers was somewhat beyond their expectations, whether it was 60 breaths and 8 arrows, or 60 breaths and 4 arrows divided into two groups, they were all a bit beyond imagination, they were elite archers.

Even if it is this Zhuangzi, it is really not small, the Miao family is just a relative, how much can they mobilize, in 60 breaths, shoot more than 4 arrows, and there are enough lethality, in the entire Song Dynasty among the millions of troops, it is rare, 10,000 archers, may not be able to jump out of 1000 people, almost one-tenth of the appearance, such a low rate, if you want to choose the archer from the middle, it is difficult.

Under the premise that there is only one archer in the distance, any archer is a very precious resource, such an archer is very critical to the improvement of the combat effectiveness of a unit, under normal circumstances, it is impossible to transfer it casually, under this premise, not to mention the Miao family, even the emperor, it is impossible to easily mobilize such a large number of elite archers.

Even if they can mobilize, it is impossible for such a large group of elite archers to hide from the eyes and ears of the Wang family, and he informed Wang Xiansong of this result with a little doubt.

Wang Xiansong does not know the soldiers, but understands the important role of archers for an army, it can be said that the difference between the regular army and the irregular army lies in the equipment of the archers, here is Hebei, not the northwest, there is no archery club like this, the place where the archers are specially trained, the local officials' control over the bow and arrow is also quite in place, there are so one or two hundred, or even two or three hundred elite archers into Miaojiazhuang, this is not a trivial matter.

Did you miss it? Maybe you can dig deeper here, but for the current Wang family, it doesn't have much effect, when Wei Gui starts to lift the table, they pursue this again, there is no point, if you attack it, everything is solved, and if you can't attack it, then it makes no sense to pursue this.

At this moment, not only Wang Xiansong, but also Zhu Gui didn't realize that what they were facing would be a completely different class of troops from what they imagined.

The English longbowmen, the most terrifying class of soldiers in the age of the coldest weapons, and even in the era of thermal weapons, there were archers who had a considerable effect, but only under the premise that artillery gradually became the master of the battlefield, they gradually withdrew from the stage of history.

An ordinary farmer, after a month of training, can basically reach half the level, reaching the level of 8 rounds per minute, and a real elite shooter, can reach 60 breaths and 15 rounds, which is no longer a simple archer, basically 4 times higher than the design density of a qualified archer.

For longbowmen, without artillery, or even firearms, this is simply a bug.

This is also where Wei Gui couldn't figure it out, fortunately, his preparation was not ineffective, there were only less than 120 casualties, this result, more or less relieved him, fortunately, the lethality has been greatly reduced, and with one more round shield, it can be promoted so high, as long as the archers are behind the infantry, under the protection of the big shield, it should be able to play a considerable role!

When the first ladder was set up on top of the fortress and the heavy infantry began to climb upward, no matter how frightened they were, 50 heavy infantry began to appear on the outside of the fortress and began to throw stones downward.

At a height of 40 meters, throw down about 10 catties of stones, the lethality is still quite large, the heavy infantry gathered below, almost no misses, between a few breaths, casualties not only began to appear, but also a large number of appeared.

Wei Gui looked at everything in front of him dumbfounded, he thought that he was ushering in a regimental training that was not very well-equipped, but he didn't expect that on top of the fortress, there were actually 50 heavily armed heavy infantry.

Wei Gui turned his head to Wang Xiansong and roared angrily: "Mr. Wang, didn't you say that the equipment for group training has been restricted? ”

"This!" Wang Xiansong was also surprised, restricting the equipment for group training, this thing was done by him personally, according to general, 800 specifications of group training, should be given hundreds of spears, some armor, and almost 50 soft bows, and some necessary equipment, but these, all were detained, and none of them were paid.

Before the bow and arrow, it made him very strange, why Miaojiazhuang has a bow and arrow, this is already the level of military bows and arrows, but the bow and arrow and the foot armor, this is completely different, with the foot armor on it, their short bow suppression, itself is a joke, even if there is no longbow on the threat, the archers are difficult to threaten the infantry above, across the 40-meter-high city wall, they climb, it will increase the difficulty several times.

This is also the source of Wei Gui's anger, at this time, he is in a dilemma.

"You see, there aren't many of them!" Wang Xiansong was a little embarrassed, the negligence of the archers had already put him under great pressure, and now there were dozens of sets of step armor, such equipment was not easy to get, this was a slap in the face for the Wang family, he didn't know why such strategic equipment was in Miaojiazhuang.

As the strongest protective armor of the infantry, the strongest core equipment of the infantry, the degree of control of the infantry armor, and even on the hard bow, each one is numbered, although the Wang family sent 6,000 heavy armor to Baozhou, but it was not conjured out of thin air, this was transported to the front line, with the approval of the Ministry of War and the Daimyo Mansion, even if it was at the level of Wang Deyong, it was okay to get one or two sets, and it was really dozens of sets to take down, which was also very difficult.

I couldn't figure it out, so I simply looked for other breakthroughs, and he noticed that the defenders on the city wall were only about 50 people, and even the entire city was not covered with anything.