Due to the shooting of several generals, the Jiaozhi army lost its command for a while, and when the catapult position was attacked by the Song army, the camp where the main force was located was also subjected to heavy artillery shelling at the same time. Only the Jiaozhi soldiers in the forward position, far from the center of the shelling, did not become the target of the Song army's shelling.

The position of the Jiaozhi army's catapults was precarious, and more than 300 stone-throwing machines were at risk of being destroyed.

In the artillery fire of the Song army, there were immediately rescue troops to the stone throwing machine position, but in front of these reinforcements were superb Song army archers.

The first wave of the Jiaozhi Army's rescue force was about 5,000 people, but in front of them were sharpshooters who could easily take their lives from hundreds of meters away.

When the supporting troops were about to arrive at the catapult position, it was less than a kilometer from the artillery position, but the whole unit stopped there.

In front and behind, there were Song Army marksmen in ambush, and in the first round of attacks, hundreds of Cochin soldiers were shot through the head by the Divine Arm Bow, and none of the Cochin soldiers who tried to advance towards the catapult position could walk forward twenty steps.

The Cochin army tried to cover the advance with bed crossbows, but the corpses of no less than 30 Cochin soldiers fell around the two bed crossbows that had been arranged.

The terrifying sniper tactics shone brightly in this era, and quickly became a lingering nightmare in the hearts of the Cochin soldiers.

As long as it was a mortal soldier, no one dared to come forward, and they all prostrate on the ground and did not dare to move, let alone look up.

There were many Jiaozhi soldiers who tried to look up to check the situation, but they fell under the arrows of the Song army, taking a lesson.

Another reason why more Cochin soldiers did not dare to move was that most of the officers in the entire army had already fallen in the first round of attacks.

The priority target of sniper tactics is first the enemy's heavy weapon operator, then the officer, and when the officers are killed, the army loses its effective command, and the cochin soldiers can only lie on their stomachs.

The Cochin Army's Catapult Position, which could not get support, hurriedly sent people to ask for help again, and soon the second wave of Cochin troops supporting the Catapult Position also stopped there.

It was the most terrible battle for the surviving Cochin soldiers, because until now they had not even seen a few enemies, and the two support units had already killed more than seven hundred people.

And there are cannons around from time to time, and every time the cannon sounds, it is like the call of death, and someone will always die.

Blocking the enemy does not necessarily require a position, nor does it necessarily require heavy long-range weapons, sometimes just a group of skilled shooters is completely sufficient.

In particular, this kind of superb marksman, who can accurately snipe targets in the shadows, only needs a few dozen people, and can delay thousands of enemy troops.

However, it was also in this era that the clearly marked officer armor and banners, as well as the well-made and ornate blades they used, made them the top priority targets for marksmen.

At this time, Sun Hui did not fly into the sky, but observed the situation on the battlefield through Du Lili's manipulation of the "omniscient eye". Seeing the officers of the Cochin Army under the attack of the Song Army's marksmen, he knew that the tactics he had taught Gundam had achieved the desired result.

Limited by the limitations of technology, this kind of behavior of exposing the identity of the commander on the battlefield in this era has long disappeared without a trace in the modern war environment of later generations.

In modern warfare, every officer will not clearly reveal his identity, but hide among ordinary soldiers, in order to prevent snipers who are everywhere in the shadows.

Before the end of World War II, this behavior was not obvious, because sometimes officers needed to show their identity on the battlefield and then command troops more conveniently.

When the Jiaozhi army, which was still mainly fighting with cold weapons, faced a group of Song army marksmen who already had a modern combat concept, the situation was of course completely different.

Although there were a few experienced Jiaozhi soldiers who were able to roughly know the direction and distance of the Song army's attack according to the direction from which the Song army's sharp arrows were fired, with their ability, they did not pose any threat to the Song army's marksmen at such a long distance.

Some of the Jiaozhi soldiers chose to crawl forward with their shields on their backs, and crawled towards the catapult position in the face of the deadly arrows fired by the Song army, but even if they climbed to the artillery position, the daylily was cold.

This is a tactic formulated by Sun Hui for the Jiaozhi army, combining long-range artillery fire with infantry attacks, and then using sharpshooters to delay the rescue of Jiaozhi reinforcements, and finally achieve the goal of completely annihilating the Jiaozhi army's catapult troops. That is, to dispatch the smallest number of troops and ensure that their own side pays the minimum price, successfully destroying more than 300 stone throwers of the Jiaozhi Army, which can be said to be a very crazy plan.

Because the Song army, which participated in the attack on the catapult position of the Jiaozhi army, the artillery and archers combined were less than a thousand people.

And the target of their attack was the stone throwing machine position of the Jiaozhi Army, which was defended by nearly 10,000 people.

However, the result did not surprise Sun Hui, because of the thorough understanding of the tactics of the armies of the countries of Indochina in this era, combined with the combat capabilities of the soldiers on both sides, this targeted plan was born.

Thanks to the intelligence provided by the local Song people, the combat mode, support tactics, infantry defense tactics, and combat will and operational thinking of the Jiaozhi army in this era, the Song army carried out all-round collection, so that Sun Hui could do effective analysis, and combined with the combat ability of his own soldiers, this bold tactic could be truly realized on the battlefield.

The Cochin army encountered an enemy who had already learned all their secrets, and was not unjustly defeated.

Half an hour later, more than 300 stone throwers were destroyed on the stone throwing machine position of the Jiaozhi army, and all the artillery and defenders also fell under the artillery and the god arm bow. The Song army, which was responsible for attacking the position of the Jiaozhi army's stone thrower, also paid the price of one-third of the casualties, and if it were not for the long-distance shooting of the "Xiangyang cannon" was very powerful, I am afraid that they would have fought out in the end, and it would be difficult to capture this heavily defended position of the Jiaozhi army.

Although a certain price was paid, the first step of the offensive was finally completed, and then the Song army concentrated all the artillery and all the firepower to bombard the forward positions and camps of the Jiaozhi army.

The main force of the Jiaozhi Army, which was originally blocked in the camp by artillery, began to really face the powerful artillery attack of the Song Army. In particular, the artillery bombardment of the forward positions of the Jiaozhi Army, under the attack of the giant flowering shells of the Xiangyang artillery, the artificially dug earth trenches could not stop this terrible heavy artillery shell at all.