Chapter 14: A Hearty Battle (Part I)

"The enemy is just a strong outsider, and our army is fearless!" Wang Yu raised his arms, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, and the soldiers of the whole army suddenly felt that their fighting spirit seemed to have improved a little, and the enemy's charge became less terrifying.

Class Skill Boost: Adds a boost to your troops every 5 minutes, increasing morale by 20% and stacking up to a maximum of 100%.

This was the first time that Wang Yu had used his professional skills in a formal setting, and according to him, it would take at least three encouragements to fully exert the effect. However, the morale that has been raised has made the soldiers more calm.

"Tribulus terrestris projectile! Vibrating guns ready! Zhang Ying and Tai Shici gave orders one after another, and the strong archers took out a small cloth bag, wrapped it on the arrows and shot it flat, while the pikemen lined up one after another, holding guns in both hands, ready to stab.

The cloth bag was shot out, and then more than a dozen thistles fell out of the cloth bag and scattered on the front line. More than 1,000 cloth bags suddenly covered a large area, forming a natural barrier.

"Piercing!" Seeing this, the general of the Cao army had no intention of stopping, and shouted, and the large army quickly rushed forward. During this period, of course, some horses stepped on the thistle terrestris and fell directly to the ground, but under the advance of the large army, the thistle terrestris on the ground was also divided a lot, and the damage to the follow-up troops also decreased a lot.

"Vibrating the gun!" Tai Shi Ci shouted at the same time, and the spearmen's legs sank sharply, and they stabbed forward fiercely. Each thrust, the spear has a layer of spiral energy attached to it, which looks like a straight line thrust, but in fact, every spear that thrusts out is like a drill stabbing forward.

This is the collision of the drill bit and the iron wall, even if one shot may not be possible, but the spear with more than four or five strokes continues to thrust forward, and the power formed must not be underestimated. The spears of these pikemen are about 50% longer than ordinary spears, and even if the cavalry of Cao's army wants to fight back with spears, they can't reach them.

"Sigh ...... Rhythm" didn't know when, the armor of a hoplite cavalry horse at the front was pierced, and he was immediately assassinated by a spear. As soon as the cavalry landed, two more spears stabbed at him, and the cavalry avoided it with its armor, but did not want to be trampled to death by the friendly troops behind it.

"Push! Keep moving! Cao's cavalry shouted, and the large army continued to advance, whether it was facing spears or their own soldiers, their aim was to advance and advance until they completely tore apart the enemy's battle formation.

"You don't exist when we don't? Armor-piercing gun throwing! Xu Huang shouted, and the cavalry troops under his command, who didn't know when they had appeared on both sides of the battlefield, took down their backs and threw their guns one after another under his order.

Today's cavalry has been equipped with stirrups, and the five thousand cavalry borrowed through the stirrups, and the acquired qi broke out instantly, and the spear turned into a streamer and burst out towards the front, and the five thousand spears instantly turned into a rain of guns and splashed towards the Cao cavalry.

"Ahh The spear was shot into the enemy's ranks, penetrating the gaps in the scale armor of the cavalry soldiers and penetrating into their flesh and blood. Not only the soldiers, but also many horses were directly hit, and immediately neighed.

"The attention of the enemy army has been attracted by the cavalry division, and all the troops are attacking! Damn, the soldiers under Li Ming's command have become stronger, is Li Ming planning to promote the method of practicing Qi to the whole army?! Cao Cao complained as he gave the order.

It is impossible for him not to complain, practicing Qi means increasing the absorption of energy, in other words, starting from practicing Qi, the amount of food for the soldiers will increase. Raising an army of 5,000 Qi practitioners can consume 350,000 yuan of military rations. Nowadays, there are homeless people everywhere, and there are tens of thousands of them recruited at will, and they don't even need to pay money, who would waste military food to raise a group of Qi practitioners?!

But Li Ming did this kind of thing, not to mention the five thousand cavalry, just the strong archers and pikemen in front, which one is not a Qi practitioner, after calculation, there are already nearly 10,000 soldiers who are Qi practitioners, how much food do they have to consume every day?

In fact, what he didn't know was that there was already a lot of prey in the Jiangdong area, and the key was that Li Ming had been asking to increase the scale of the farm. At the same time, coupled with the emergence of peanuts, the oil and water have improved a lot. When the soldiers had oil and water, their requirements for food dropped a lot, and the consumption of military rations naturally dropped a lot.

Anyway, for ordinary soldiers, there is no improved version of the medicinal bath, and the cultivation is the lowest-level "Fighting Duel" and non-quality martial arts, as far as the current output of Jiangdong is concerned, it is more than enough to supply the whole army and soldiers to practice Qi.

Some people have objected, saying that it is extravagant and wasteful. However, since the battle of Dong, the cavalry troops have been amazed with their armor-piercing spears and pikemen with their vibrating spear skills, not to mention the civil and military ministers under Li Ming, only the other princes, in fact, are also discussing the rationality of training Qi soldiers and trying to form them.

"Crossbowmen shoot!" Xiahoudun shouted, and the crossbowmen in front of Cao's army began to advance and fire.

"Tiger and Par Ride Charge!" Cao Chun shouted, and the tiger and leopard cavalry troops at the Cao army headquarters began to move forward.

"Danyang Army troops, move forward!" Cao Bao has just taken refuge in Cao Cao, so he naturally wants to behave well.

"Huh? Tiger and leopard ride?! So the cavalry troops behind are not tiger and leopard riders?! Li Ming couldn't help but be surprised, at this moment, the rear had been blocked by them, and the army that was about to enter the slaughter link was obviously a heavy cavalry unit, but it was not a tiger and leopard cavalry?

"Interesting, Lao Cao, it seems that you have taken great pains to deal with me!" Li Ming looked at the obviously light cavalry troops in front of him and grinned.

"Shield!" At the same time, Shi Lian, who was in charge of commanding the sword and shield soldiers, shouted, and more than 5,000 sword and shield soldiers immediately put their shields on their chests. ”

Five thousand sword and shield soldiers rushed forward, allowing the crossbows to come at them. The distance between the two sides was less than 200 meters, and this running, the distance was further narrowed, and the best range of the crossbow bolt was reached.

Seeing this, Lao Cao couldn't help but secretly say: Is the general stupid? Didn't you run over and die! You know, the strong crossbow is within a range of fifty meters, but even the iron armor can shoot through!

Who knew that the crossbow bolt was shot over, and as a result, it was nailed to the opponent's shield or armor, and it actually bounced off directly. These powerful crossbow arrows actually made the other party let out a muffled snort at most, or paused for half a second!

"Lao Cao, do you think I've only been training for the past two years?" Li Ming laughed, he has also climbed a lot of science and technology trees in the past two years, not to mention anything else, if blast furnace steelmaking and hydraulic punch are not invented, he will be sorry for the identity of the traverser.

In fact, he didn't know the principle at all, but after gathering a large number of craftsmen and constantly raising the standard of rewards, he finally got the results, and then it was continuous improvement and improvement, just like the printing press.

As long as the government encourages it, and enough money is thrown in, plus a group of guys who are not stupid to study, then the results will eventually be produced, and if it is a genius to study, then of course the results will be faster.

Armor and weapons have been replaced with harder or sharper materials, and the threat of the past is naturally greatly reduced. In order to let the soldiers understand this, a lot of training has been done to overcome fear, otherwise how could the sword and shield soldiers muster up the courage to rush towards the crossbow array?!