The Qin people conquered Yiqu, but the Qin law did not fully adapt to the grassland, just as the Qin law did not adapt to the Jianghan Plain. The Yiqu people were accustomed to migration, and only the Huairou policy could make them settle down and become subjects of the Qin State and fight for the Qin State. This is also a kind of assimilation, but it has only been 35 years since Yiqu destroyed the country, and many people were still alive at that time.

Even in the era of stirrups, cavalry was still the dominant tribe of the steppe, and even more so in the era without stirrups. The cavalry of the Qin army suffered a loss in the decisive battle of Qin and Chu last time, and this time Xin Wu specially transferred the Yiqu people who could shoot bows and arrows on horseback.

Immediately using a crossbow is completely different from using an archer. Only one arrow can be fired with a crossbow, and dozens of arrows can be shot with a bow, but the cost of training a cavalry with a crossbow on a horse is not the same as training a cavalry with a bow on a horse. Cultivating an archer can range from five years to ten years, and it takes almost a lifetime to train an archer in this era (you have to start riding a horse from a young age, but less than half of you make it to adulthood). Qin's war machine is not afraid of expensive crossbow machines, but it hates endless practice over the years - the soldiers are all common people, and the common people want to farm, so how can they have time to ride and shoot?

Yiqulu was the leader of this cavalry, and the fat man was sitting in a carriage at this time. The carriage was wider than the Qin army's chariot and extremely luxurious. The painted carriages, wheels and spokes, the leather woven body, and the carriages decorated with gold and silver flowers, agate, faience and shells are all in the style of a king. Watching his warriors drive those Chu people off the moat, he laughed excitedly, and after taking a sip of wine, he regretted again: "It's a pity that he didn't get the head." ”

"I've seen General Xin, General Wang." The carriage drove under the banner, and the Yiqu Kui, who was surrounded by the generals, waved at Xin Sheng and Wang Jian on the carriage, and he complained to his face: "If you don't get the head, the sons are useless." ”

"It's just some common people, and they can't win with martial arts." Xin Sheng replied. He remembered Wang Jian's request, pointed to the Yiqi array under the city and said, "The Jing people have left the city, but there are only three or four thousand people, why don't Yiqu Jun go and behead them?" ”

The Chu army who went out of the city had already seen it, he was not stupid, the huge iron spearhead at the front of the spear was shining in the sun, and to rush to such a military formation was to find death. In the words of the generals on the side, his fat head shook a few times, and said: "The Jing people's arrows and stone bullets are powerful, I will wait for them to come out and fight again." ”

The Chu army's spear formation walked along the moat, and they didn't want to fight at all. Xin Sheng smiled when he heard this, and he didn't force it, he actually didn't have the right to order the Yiqu people how to behave, unless they violated the commander's military order to ban Chen Cheng.

"Yiqu Jun's son is good at riding and shooting, why not shoot it?" Wang Jian kept looking at the Yispear Formation, and wanted to know how this military formation would fight.

"Shoot?" Yiqulu glanced at the spear formation again, riding a bow can shoot up to thirty paces, if the arrow is fired at thirty paces, it ....... "The sons and daughters have not been headed." He still didn't think he should take the risk.

"If you don't dare, you don't dare, why pretend to push here." Wang Jian pretended to be disdainful. "When I was in Xianyang, I heard that the Yiqu people were timid, but I didn't believe it, and I didn't want it to be the case."

"You dare to say that Benjun is cowardly?!" Yiqulu glared angrily, the horsewhip was about to be waved, and Wang Ben and the short soldiers beside Wang Jian immediately drew their swords.

"If Yiqu Jun is not timid, why not give it a try?" Xin Sheng was completely on Wang Jian's side. "Although I can't get the head of Jingren, I will report to the general truthfully, thinking that Yiqu Jun will make meritorious contributions."

The 20,000 cavalry under Xin Sheng galloped to find a gap to seize the gate and seize the city, but unfortunately no matter how fast the cavalry was, they couldn't outrun; The most important task of Yiqulu's 4,000 cavalry was to suppress the cavalry of the Chu army and maintain the same level of isolation as last year.

He could ignore Wang Jian's agitation, but he couldn't ignore Xin Sheng's suggestion. Turning around, there was a flurry of chatter, and a sturdy rider galloped out, followed by several riders, who carried a banner painted with bighorn sheep. With the wave of the banner, seven or eight hundred knights quickly gathered, and their queue gradually lengthened as they galloped, and everyone drew their bows and arrows.

"Right - turn!" The movement of the enemy cavalry was naturally noticed by the commander on the outside of the spear array, and the rider was still 300 paces away, so they ordered the spear formation to turn right to face the enemy. 'Wow! The fourteen spear formations moved in unison, and more than 3,000 people seemed to turn as if one person.

"Drop the spear!" After turning, the spears that had been held high were laid flat on all sides, and the four diagonal small phalanx of archers raised their longbows.

The 'Rumble ......' enemy cavalry was getting closer and closer, and seeing that they were about to enter range, the captain shouted: "Ready ——, to release the arrows!" ”

'Boom ......' the mulberry bow made a subtle string sound, and fourteen phalanxes and five hundred and four arrows came out of the string. It's not precision shooting, it's rapid coverage shooting. The elite infantry archers could shoot an arrow in three seconds at the slowest pace, and the first arrow was fired when the cavalry had reached eighty paces, although this was outside the range, but the archers aimed at seventy paces, and when the arrow flew to seventy paces, the cavalry arrived neither earlier nor too late. The armor-piercing heavy arrow seemed to fly very slowly, but the knight who was shot was like a punch, the not thick leather armor was immediately pierced by the arrow, and the horse with the arrow jumped and neighed wildly.

And that's just the beginning! The cavalry could not shoot arrows too fast, and when they had reached fifty paces, a second wave of arrows struck, and this time because they were closer, the arrows took more people away. From Wang Jian's side, the Yiqu cavalry seemed to be drunk, and fell off their horses one after another. The already undense cavalry revealed a large gap. Some simply abandoned their arrows and raised their shields, while others bowed their upper bodies, still holding their bows and arrows in their hands, trying to wait until thirty paces to fight back.

"Putting ——!" Once again, the commander gave the order to release the arrows. The arrows flew away, and the cavalry with their bows bent to shoot stood upright, just waiting for the third wave of arrows. At such a close distance, the arrow fell to the ground. And the arrows they shot by luck were inaccurate, and most of them were blocked by the spearmen's small shields.

The last of the 'rumbling ......' the undead cavalry swept past thirty paces from the spear formation, and then they quickly turned their horses and tried to flee the killing ground, but the fourth and fifth waves of arrows from the well-trained, protected archers of the spear array arrived, leaving behind a mass of corpses once more. When the cavalry departed without looking back, the archers lowered their longbows, and the cheering spearmen rushed out of the spear array, mending their swords to the fallen cavalrymen.

In five waves of arrows, the archers shot more than 2,500 arrows, almost all of the more than 800 cavalrymen were wounded, and more than 100 fell in front of the spear array.

"It can be near or far, and the spear array is difficult to break." Wang Ben sighed. At this time, the Rong general, who had been hit by two arrows in his body, barely managed to hold up in front of the Yiqu cart, but before he could speak, he fell off his horse and closed his eyes. Seeing that almost everyone in this team was injured, the Rong general beside Yiqulu was extremely excited, and one of the Rong generals even pointed at Wang Jian and Xin Sheng with a horse whip, and cursed loudly in Rong language.

"Riding a bow is no match for a foot bow, who knows that there are also foot archers in the Jingren spear array?" Xin Sheng argued. In his heart, he actually felt that Yiqu people were too stupid. How can a riding bow with less than one stone be able to defeat a three- or four-stone stepping bow? In the battle just now, before the cavalry bow entered the range of thirty paces, he was shot three arrows in a row by the infantry bow. If it was him, as soon as he saw the spear array flashing out of the bow, he hit the horse and turned around, but the Yiqu people were good, and they rushed over stupidly, and they suffered losses and came to complain.

"What a battle!" Wang Jianfu, who was happy in his heart, continued to look at the spear array heading west. At this time, those archers stood on the inside of the spear array, and there was no shadow in sight, but the position of the archers just now was engraved in his heart. It was the only gap between the four opposite corners, squared on all sides. Standing in this position, the archer can calmly release the arrow.

"Jing people's formation is not in line with the formation." Xin Sheng didn't think there was any merit in this kind of military formation, which was completely unreasonable. "The formation pays attention to the combination of long and short, the long fight is to save the short, the short is to protect the long, the Jing people only have long soldiers and no short soldiers, once they get close to the front of the formation, they will be defeated."

"Very much." What Xin Sheng said also made sense, and Wang Jian had to nod again and again.

In the era of cold weapons, the pure team and the flower team are two branches. The pure team refers to the same weapons of all soldiers in the military formation (about 100 people), and the flower team refers to the arrangement of various weapons in the military formation, that is, the so-called long and short match. The pure team has its own advantages and disadvantages, the pure team is stronger than the flower team in terms of single function, and the flower team is better than the pure team in applicability.

The biggest disadvantage of the pure team is that if the commander cannot flexibly configure various pure teams according to the enemy's situation, terrain and weather, the battle will not only be lost, but even lost; The biggest disadvantage of the flower team is that if the intensity of the war is very high, then the flower team with multiple functions is likely to be unable to withstand the attack and collapse-

The most obvious example is the Northern Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty faced the Liao people with uneven armor, especially the Western Xia people who lived in the mountainous areas and had inconvenient armor, often used flower teams, with spearmen in the front row to resist and crossbows and crossbows in the rear; But at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, in the face of the Jin people with heavy armor, they had to use the pure team, the front hand-to-hand combat pure team resisted the heavy cavalry infantry of the Jin people, and the rear bow and crossbow pure team shot high.

In the Warring States Period, because of the limitations of smelting technology, the soldiers only had leather armor and no iron armor, and because of the restrictions of stirrups, there were few hand-to-hand cavalry, and the flower team was a common tactical formation in various countries, but Wang Jian still felt that the Jing people's spear array was difficult to break while nodding. Although it can't help each other, if it is skillfully matched, it may also be able to use the length of other formations to make up for the shortcomings of its own formation.

"King! O king...... "The spear phalanx marched to the north gate, and the villagers who were lucky enough not to die rushed over, and they cried so much that they couldn't say what they wanted to do, so they could only shout for the king.

Shangguan Gao, the head of the pawn at the front, looked at the city tower helplessly, and said in a harmonious voice: "Don't cry, don't cry, the Qin people have retreated, the Qin people have retreated." ”

Thousands of people had died in the moat, and the largest section of corpses had been filled. Just now, the villagers were so frightened that they didn't know how to cry, but now that they are safe, they cry out to the sky and the ground, crying sadly. The North Middle Gate was crying, and the people at the North West Gate who had not been ravaged by the Qin cavalry were a little dazed, and most of them did not know why the fate of the two sides was completely different after only more than 300 steps.

"What are the last words of the false father?" Chen Ji was lying next to a dead young soldier, his leg was still bleeding, and Chen Sheng thought he was going to die.

"Vertical words!" Looking at the witches running towards him, Chen He didn't believe that he would die at all. Chen Ao is not dead, how can he die with this little injury? After he finished reprimanding, he glared at Chen Sheng again, "Are you worried about my daughter?" ”