At the same time, the coalition forces covering the trenches stood by the battle, erected their shields and exposed their spears, and forced the crossbows in the middle of the formation, allowing the barbarians to cut in a roundabout way.

In the blink of an eye, the light cavalry led by Dean was already in formation on the north side, and the barbarian infantry approached the front of the formation with elite iron shields, building a shield wall to resist the strong crossbows of the coalition army, and at the same time, with the powerful range of the compound bow, the five thousand strong archers of the barbarian army took the lead in attacking.

"Archer prepare!"

There was a roar of bowstrings, and the barbarian archers drew their bows and arrows, and the bowstrings were buckled into the rings and ready to go:

"Shoot the arrows!"

At the sound of an order, five thousand arrows slashed across the sky, emitting a clattering roar, leaving an untraceable arc and quickly rushing towards the northern flank of the coalition forces.

"The enemy drops arrows, and the shield is ready!"

The leader of the people's army gave an order, tens of thousands of shields were raised above his head, and the rain of arrows hit him head-on, piercing the simple shields of the people's army. Until after the three arrows, the people's army counterattacked with a strong crossbow:

"Crossbow aim, strong bow ready!"

A burst of bowstrings roared, and the people's army stretched their bows and arrows, and the strong crossbows were wound up to aim.

"Put!"

At the sound of an order, ten thousand arrows were dispatched.

The strong bow of the Central Plains was far less powerful than the strong bow of the barbarian army, and the moment the bronze arrow cluster hit the iron shield, it was instantly twisted and deformed, leaving only a pit that would break but not shoot through and fall to the ground. Only the crossbow bolt pierced through the iron shield and pierced through the shield and into the barbarian armor, causing only minor damage.

At this time, the Dean cavalry was adjusted in place, and the 20,000 light cavalry aimed at the narrow northern flank of the people's army, and laid out three echelons in the front, middle and rear.

"Fearless warriors of the Moon God!" Dean shouted heroic slogans and raised the sharp sword in his hand: "For the moon god, for your majesty, for the comrades who died in battle, kill them!" ”

"Kill them!"

The troops shouted in unison, and the long sword in Dean's hand was instantly swung towards the northern flank of the people's army:

"Kill them with me!"

"Kill!"

Ten thousand armies shouted in unison, thousands of light horsemen like wild horses on loose horses, side by side in a dense formation, launched a fierce attack on the loose northern flank of the people's army. At the same time, 20,000 well-armed Jin Xuedi infantry troops followed closely and launched a frontal attack.

The horses' hooves are staggered, the barbarian army is attacking fiercely, and the northern flank of the people's army is gradually falling into passivity under the tenacious struggle, Su Fangxin saw it in his eyes and couldn't help but sigh:

"General Peng, the Xian army's ability to win a great victory in the war is that the generals are handsome, wise and brave soldiers use their lives, have excellent equipment, exquisite tactics, and everything is indispensable, it is not easy!"

"That'...... The 30,000 southern expeditionary troops led by Baili Yan will not be just a miscellaneous soldier of the Xian army! Peng Yi said with some kind of inertial thinking.

"It should ...... Not yet. With the current strength of Xianguo, it is not easy to raise 30,000 elite dead soldiers. If all countries can come to help the war with their elites, why worry about the indestructibility of the southern barbarians. However, King Xian's order to march south should be to protect Bailiyan, if Zhao Xun marches south, he will never come with a strong army, which shows King Xian's dependence on Bailiyan. ”

"Military advisor, you said that Baili Yan is so good, and now he has the weight of the Xian king, Qi and Xian are not bordering, and there is no benefit or disadvantage, will he return to Qi Country to be the king in the future?"

"This ...... It's hard to say. Su Fangxin said noncommittally: "Bailiyan is buried incognito in Xianguo, one is worried about the Jin people extinction, and the other is worried about the destruction of the Qi king Baililu, he is now in power, after the Xianguo is quelled, the Jin forces still exist in Xian and Qi, if Bailiyan wants to seize the throne, he must first stabilize the situation in Xianguo and drive away the Jin State in order to borrow troops to restore the country with peace of mind." This alone is far from being possible in five or ten years.

If he insists on seizing the throne, King Xian is under the coercion of the Jin State, and it may be difficult to lend troops to him, even if he borrows troops. The waterway is blocked by the Jin State, and the land route is even more impossible, and it is impossible for the Wei State to let Bailiyan return to China to claim the king, and the Jin State will not be willing to lose its interests in the country, so other countries will never dare to borrow from him.

And now that Bailiyan's life experience has surfaced, I am afraid that it will be extremely unfavorable to him in the future, and it is unknown whether King Xian can continue to use him, which can be described as unpredictable. ”

"In this way, Sai Qian ended up harming his disciple."

Peng Yi didn't have the heart to say that Su Fangxin was indeed transcendent:

"Fortune and misfortune are lurking, misfortune and fortune are relied on, and how the future is determined is undecided, it depends on how Bailiyan himself grasps it, and it is really difficult to calculate. General Peng, the barbarian army's golden-armored heavy cavalry has entered the trap of our army and is ready to attack. ”

"Yes!"

Peng Yi raised his binoculars and looked at it, the barbarian army's golden-armored heavy cavalry had already entered, and the gap between the trench army and the trench army was rapidly adjusting the formation, preparing to attack the trench army.

"Okay, come on!"

Peng Yi ordered, and the guards stepped forward:

"The subordinates are here!"

"Herald, trumpet!"

"No!"

In the morning, the trumpet sounded suddenly, and the stirring horn resounded in the sky. Jabanis was unaware of the significance of the coalition battle horn, and quickly adjusted his cavalry, quickly killing behind the civilian army of the trenches. Just as they were on full throttle, hundreds of dead men lifted their brass shields and jumped out of the cave, pulling up the tripwires, and killing the barbarian heavy cavalry by surprise.

"Oh hell, I should have known!"

Jabanis was shocked, and charged to find 20,000 heavy horsemen trapped in hundreds of stumbling ropes.

"There's a stumbling block, quick, take out those ambushes."

No matter how Jabanis shouted, hundreds of gold-armored heavy cavalry who had already fallen continued to fall on the way to the charge, and even men and horses fell to the ground, breaking their necks and crushing their ribs.

Seeing this scene, Peng Yi was overjoyed, and ordered again:

"Haha, that's great! Order, digging trenches in front of the army!

"No!"

The high platform banner waved, and the trench-digging people's army attacked from the west, northwest, and southwest in formation, and quickly encircled the gold-armored heavy cavalry bound under the stumbling horse, and the cavalry relied on important maneuver space, and quickly shrank under the squeeze of 80,000 trench-digging people's troops.

"Break through to the north, quick!"

Jabanis subconsciously understood that the coalition army's plan was to use the trench guards as a barrier and the trench guards as a mobile force, luring them to rush and kill the trench guards from behind, and then delay the cavalry's maneuver with a tripping horse rope, and the trench guards squeezed the cavalry's maneuver space. Once the cavalry loses the space to maneuver, it is an iron horse cast of iron and copper, and it is also a turtle in an urn.

The gold-armored heavy cavalry suddenly broke through to the north, and a trace of disappointment appeared on Su Fangxin's face:

"I'm afraid I won't be able to win this battle."

Peng Yi nodded, and also observed that the Golden Armor Heavy Cavalry was trying to break through to the north

"Well, the barbarian army is a merging of the golden armor heavy cavalry and the light cavalry. It is better for our army to take advantage of the fact that the barbarian cavalry has no time to take care of themselves, adjust the southern flank of the people's army in the encirclement, and detour to the back of the barbarian infantry to encircle it, even if it cannot be annihilated, it can be inflicted heavy losses. ”

"General Peng, no!"

Su Fangxin stopped, and Peng Yi was puzzled:

"Strategist, why is that?"

"The weapons of the people's army are poor, and the people's army can only fight more and outnumbered in a defensive position, rashly order the rear people's army to bypass the southern flank to go forward to encircle, the people's army will turn from defense to attack, and the barbarian army will be trapped under the beast fighting, and it will inevitably be dying and struggling, which will only increase the casualties of our army, and please General Peng think twice."

"What the military advisor said is extremely true, then follow what the military advisor said."

Half of the armies of the vassal states are still dominated by bronze weapons, and the civilian army is all bronze weapons, which can only be captured on the battlefield in most cases, and gradually replaced with Jin Xuedi's iron weapons. How can he be like Bailiyan, in order to kill the enemy at any cost, he practiced forty or fifty thousand fine iron weapons and one or two hundred thousand high-grade war horses, and this kind of thing was done by Bailiyan alone.

Of course, due to the different starting points of thinking, the premise and result of consideration are completely different. Bailiyan takes human life as the highest standard, and on the premise of annihilating a large number of enemies, it would rather lose military resources and animal power than save manpower.

At present, most people's thinking is still at the level that material resources are more important than life, and the price of a good horse is often more important than human life, coupled with the population base is considerable, the current elite class cares more about material resources, and despises all potential resources in the form of people.

This is the difference in thinking between modern people and the old power class, and ultimately the difference in strategies that lead to it.

The failure of the Jabanis assault quickly turned the tide of the war in favor of the civilian army. The People's Army hurriedly surrounded the remnants of the gold-armored heavy cavalry, which had not escaped in time, and at the same time mobilized strong crossbows to shoot the cavalry that was slowly exposed to horseback.

Dean was hit head-on by a crossbow with hundreds of casualties, and instinctively thought that Jabanis had not completed the assault mission from behind, and had not broken the bow and crossbow array of the Nationalist army. Only then did he realize that Jabanis's gold-armored heavy cavalry was fleeing towards him in disarray, and Jabanis' right arm was pierced by a crossbow.

"Jabanese, why don't you attack behind them!" Dean asked angrily as he cocked his bloody sword.

"They dug a burrow behind their backs, set up a tripline, and attacked their backs with cavalry, which is simply a mistake, and they should use infantry!"

"Oh damn it, their crossbows are going to shoot us through a sieve!"

Before the words fell, ten thousand arrows were fired, and the crossbows of the people's army poured down on the heads of the cavalry like a storm, and the barbarian army that had just joined forces immediately became a moving target, and hundreds of arrows were fallen.

The weapons of the Central Plains are not useless, and the crossbow is the most relied on weapon of all weapons in the Central Plains. Even if it is a bronze crossbow arrow, it has an incomparable huge piercing power on the light and heavy armor of the barbarian army, and the effective range is stronger than the compound bow.

The barbarians were also armed with crossbows, but they were never able to make strong crossbows. The strong crossbow requires solid wood, and it is a wood that does not grow in Jinxuedi's native area, and it also needs a special drying process, and the bowstring required can only be competently done by the hemp silk produced in the Central Plains, and the manufacture of the crossbow machine requires exquisite craftsmen and heat treatment processes, and none of the three can be manufactured without one of them.

Therefore, the range and power of the crossbow used by the barbarian army are far less than that of the Central Plains strong crossbow, the practicability is not good, the production cycle is long, the shelf life is not as good as the strong bow and iron weapons, and it is difficult to equip a large number of them.

Jabanis failed to break the crossbow array of the Nationalists from behind, and the cavalry of the barbarians was tantamount to being exposed to the crossbow bolts and becoming targets, which was obviously extremely disadvantageous for the cavalry caught in close combat with the infantry.