The call for battle between the two armies of Qi and Wei before the battle opened Zhou Bian's eyes very much, and the two sides came up with strategies one after another, competing with each other, but it was obviously Wei Hou who was superior, because when Sima Coo stepped forward and shouted, let the monarchs of the two sides and the Son of Heaven a total of four chariots meet in the field, the Qi army was cold. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Obviously, Qi Hou would not joke with his own life, because Qi Hou believed that if Wei Hou could do anything to kidnap the Son of Heaven, then he might also be able to kidnap himself in front of his own army. Although each side produced two chariots, Qi Hou firmly believed that Wei Hou could still play tricks.

And Qi Hou also believes that even if Wei Hou doesn't play tricks, under this seemingly fair way of dialogue, Zhou Tianzi will definitely not admit that he was taken captive, and at this time, Qi Hou also found that he saw the problem simply, the Zhou people are not stupid, as long as Zhou Tianzi is still under the control of Wei Hou, their monarchs and ministers will unanimously and firmly believe that it is the Son of Heaven who went to fight against Wei Hou, so it is not much point to dwell too much on this issue.

Therefore, after Qi Hou ordered his generals to strictly point out the injustice of Wei Hou, he had already made a decision, calling for a battle is not a famous place, and the decisive factor is still in the war itself, so after feeling that the morale of the Qi army has rebounded again, Qi Hou recalled Gongsun Qiu and Tian Zhong, who called for battle, sounded the war drums, and sounded the horn of attack.

And this was also in line with the meaning of the Marquis of Wei, and the war between the two sides officially began.

This is also an opportunity for Zhou Bian to watch the battle that he has been looking forward to for a long time, you must know that the Wei army is known as invincible in the field, and Zhou Bian believes that he will still gain something by seeing it with his own eyes. However, he fought hard all day, and in the end, Zhou Bian was disappointed, because the performance of the Wei army had no other highlights except for the array and the quality of individual soldiers. It's not that the Wei army just ordered this, but that the Wei army didn't do its best, or that it didn't have the determination to attack at all.

Yes, on the first day of the battle, the Wei army was just tempting, and the Qi army was also tempting, and both sides were superficial.

And in a blink of an eye, five days have passed, in these five days, the armies of Qi and Wei have to fight every day, but they are all up to the point, both sides seem to be just trying, every time they contact and do not fight to the death, as a result, only a few hundred people are killed in the battle every day. Even though it was early winter, the two countries were still unhurried.

Seeing that Zhou Bian was a little anxious, he didn't know what the two sides were playing.

100,000 on one side, 50,000 on the other, and 100,000 people only die in each battle, this proportion is indeed very small, but in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which has formed a certain war law, this situation is extremely common, a large battle is fought for several months, but the casualties are only thousands, and it is not uncommon for one side to withdraw in the end. During the Warring States period, even though small countries were annexed every year, this was still the case among large countries.

In this mature society, under the conventions of war habits, in order to avoid life and death between the big powers to a certain extent, this phenomenon has arisen, if it has been developing like this since the Warring States period, and several major powers maintain balance with each other, maybe China will embark on the road of Europe, but after all, China is unique, because of Qin Shi Huang, and the upcoming Qin State is a strong family.

However, at this time, the performance of Qi and Wei made Zhou Bian feel very strange, because according to the reason for the confrontation between Qi and Wei, it was not an ordinary confrontation that could take a tentative way, but a competition for national status between the old and new generation of powers.

Because after thinking about it carefully, Zhou Bian could guess that the Qi army was worried that the Wei army had a backhand, so he was still waiting for the scout's return. Zhou Bian believed that once the Marquis of Qi determined that the large forces of the Wei army were still in Daliang, the Qi army would launch a general attack. Obviously, for the Wei army, in the absence of follow-up army support, every day of waiting, more Qi soldiers will recover from cold and cold, and the combat power of the Qi army will naturally increase every day.

I don't know what Wei Hou is waiting for.

Finally, the sixth day of the battle between the two sides arrived.

It was a faint cloudy day in early winter, gray and heavy, and the north wind blew, blowing so that the soldiers who didn't have time to change into winter clothes couldn't help but shrink their bodies, but fortunately, among the hundreds of thousands of troops, if they hid in the middle, they could blow less wind, and if they were unfortunate at the edge of the team, they would have to block the wind for others.

However, the slow coldness of this weather did not attract the attention of the Marquis of Qi, because even if the low-level soldiers were still wearing a few tattered clothes, the upper-level officers and even the princes and princes had put on their jackets early, and in this era before cotton, the nobles were actually wearing more luxurious silk cotton.

Therefore, Qi Hou did not find that his army was in a more dense formation than usual. On the contrary, when we came together this morning, Qi Hou has been in a kind of excitement, or euphoria, because Qi Hou has set the decisive battle for today.

Indeed, if you wait any longer, the weather is getting colder, and every day you are so tempted, ordinary soldiers have expressed that they can't understand, in the eyes of many people, since the Wei army is less than half of our army, then directly press on the whole situation, kill them and it's over, what are you waiting for?

So, early this morning, Zhou Bian, who was hiding in a thick coat, discovered that something was wrong when he just arrived at the battlefield with the Wei army, and today's Qi army seemed to be a little different from a few days ago.

After a closer look, Zhou Bian began to doubt that Qi Jun wanted to fight the winner today. Because the momentum of the entire Qi army is higher than a few days ago, the flag is more energetic than before, the weapons are higher than in the past, and even the footsteps are much louder than before, if a person raises the flag a little higher, in the army of more than 100,000, he may not feel anything, but if every flag bearer raises the flag a little higher, then the change in the momentum of the entire army will become extremely obvious, and this is the difference between the Qi army and the past that Zhou Bian can feel when he comes.

Is the Qi army going to a decisive battle? After discussing a few words with Ning Yue, who was in the same car, Zhou Bian quickly came to the conclusion that the date was calculated, counting from the first day when the two armies met, the scouts sent by the Qi army went to Daliang for a round trip, which was exactly five days, that is to say, Qi Hou should have learned the news that tens of thousands of Wei troops were still in Daliang last night, then, Qi Hou must not help but fight a decisive battle, and he will divide the superiority today.

After coming to this conclusion, the boredom of the past few days was immediately left behind, and Zhou Bian couldn't help but sit up straight, looking forward to today's decisive battle.

This decisive battle is not decided by both sides at the same time, but by either side, because one side is attacking with all its might, then the other side must also show real skills, otherwise if it is used as a temptation, it will be directly pushed.

So where is Wei Jun's true ability? Zhou Bian couldn't help but turn his head to look at a chariot not far from him, where Wei Hou, who was draped all over, was calmly discussing with Sima Cuo on the adjacent chariot with a square face.

I couldn't hear what they were saying, but I knew that they weren't talking, but discussing countermeasures. Obviously, even Zhou Bian, a person who is not very rich in actual combat experience, can see the problem, and Wei Hou, who has personally experienced ten battles, can naturally see it.

So what was Wei Hou's countermeasure?

Zhou Bian was full of anticipation. According to the current strength of the two sides, it is obvious that the Wei army has stronger individual combat effectiveness, while the Qi army has more numbers, and on the whole, the Wei army has a disadvantage. This time he only brought 50,000 people, Wei Hou must have other plans, and Zhou Bian was full of curiosity about this.

And the conjecture that the Qi army wanted a decisive battle was indeed not wrong, and the two armies immediately set up a formation after they met, and then, the war drums and horns of the Qi army shook the sky, and the Qi army couldn't wait to launch a general attack.

That's right, it's a general attack, because as soon as the war drums of the Qi army sounded, the more than 100,000 troops were almost all launched.

According to intelligence, at least 110,000 troops should be set up here by Qi State, and as soon as the Qi army moved, the sentries on the cocoon immediately came with accurate news, in addition to the nearly 10,000 people who defended the Marquis of Qi, the remaining 100,000 people actually charged at the same time.

100,000 people rushed forward at the same time, it was a lot of uproar, not only the eyes saw the black pressure rushing over, not only the shouting and killing sound in the ears, not only the vibration from the feet made people palpitate, even if you close your eyes and calm down, you can also feel the invisible momentum, rushing to the face. Of course, at this moment, no one can calm down.

However, after Zhou Bian saw Qi Jun rushing over, he immediately turned his head, obviously at this time, Wei Hou's expression, Wei Hou's performance, made Zhou Bian even more interested.

However, what Zhou Bian saw was a sneer at Wei Hou, in the face of twice as many enemy troops, Wei Hou could still maintain such confidence, it was really appetizing!

Then Zhou Bian saw Wei Hou move, he first leaned over and whispered a few words to a colonel under the chariot, who immediately hurried away, and then he pulled out the sword at his waist and shouted, "Kill!" ”

Then with Wei Hou's order, Sima Cuo also pulled out the sword at his waist and roared, "Kill!" ”

Immediately afterwards, more generals shouted to kill, and then all the Wei soldiers roared together.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

After three deafening roars, the Wei army moved. The first to rush out were more than a hundred chariots, and the chariots that charged with all their might met the Qi army. In the current era when there is no cavalry, the chariot is still an extremely powerful heavy weapon, even if the new heavy infantry in the middle of the Warring States period is the mainstream, even if the cavalry has appeared in the late Warring States period, the life of the traditional chariot still extends to the early Western Han Dynasty.

And in this era, the most direct data to measure national strength in addition to the total strength, there is also the number of chariots, even in the middle and late Warring States period, when Su Qin Zhang Yi lobbied the countries to compare the strength of various countries, he would also say words such as "Zhao more than 2,000 li, with hundreds of thousands of armor, thousands of cars, 10,000 horses, Su Zhi for several years", it can be seen that the chariot is still the main force, but in terms of quantity, in the late Warring States period, the chariot has gradually begun to give way to cavalry and heavy infantry.

For example, at present, the Wei army has 50,000 chariots, and there are only a little more than 100 chariots, while the Qi army has 300 chariots, which completely defeats the Wei army in terms of numbers.

Compared with the momentum of the chariot rushing out, Zhou Bian was more concerned about the junior colonel that Wei Hou ordered just now, if nothing else, the key to this war Wei army was on him, so for the chariot charge, Zhou Bian just glanced at it, and lowered his head to ponder the reason why Wei Hou wanted to send a small colonel alone, if it wasn't for the fear of causing Wei Hou to misunderstand or disgust, Zhou Bian couldn't help but send someone to follow him.

However, Zhou Bian did not ponder for long before being interrupted, and immediately after the chariot, thousands of hoplites were launched. And as these thousands of people rushed out of the ranks, Zhou Bian, who had just raised his head, immediately lit up.

It turned out that the Wei soldiers were like steel fortresses, and like heavy tanks, rushing out of the Wei army with all their might. No, to be more precise, not a steel fortress, but a bronze fortress, each of these soldiers is wearing heavy armor, there are armor pieces on the chest and back, the armor on the shoulders protects the upper arm, there are copper arms guards on the forearm that can wrap the entire forearm, the hem of the armor is also composed of layers of bronze armor, the lower part almost covers the knees, and the feet are a pair of boots, because these soldiers rushed out not far from Zhou Bian's side, so Zhou Bian can clearly see that the leather boots are also sewn with armor pieces, On the soldiers' heads, the hem of the helmet hung down to the neck, and there was a small hood in front of the helmet to protect the mouth and nose, and only the two eyes were exposed.

If you look closely, the armor is bulging, and if you think about it, you know that you are dressed like this, and there must be cooked cowhide inside, not a jacket. The history records that the Qin soldiers have three layers of armor, but even the Qin soldiers unearthed from the terracotta warriors are not as good as the fully armed Wei Wushu in this era. Zhou Bian searched for the memories of history in his mind, it seems that only the hoplites in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty had such armor that could wrap the whole body, but the Tang soldiers were iron armor, that was the famous Mingguang armor, and the protective power was naturally far greater than that of the Wei soldiers thousands of years ago.

But it is obvious that Wei Wushu is the ancestor of hoplites, and it is the invincibility of Wei Wushu in the early Warring States period that opened a new era of Chinese cold weapons, and promoted the curtain call of traditional horse chariots earlier and more effectively than cavalry.

It turned out that this was the strongest combat power of the Wei army, and in this era, on the field battlefield, Zhou Bian believed that there was no army that could block the edge of the Wei army in the situation where the disparity in strength was not very large. Because the most elite Wei Wushu not only has almost no weaknesses in the defense of the whole body, but also has a tall body, and after training, his strength is much greater than that of ordinary people, and the speed of charging is not slower than that of lightly armored infantry, or even unarmored soldiers.

I really didn't expect that there were these heavy infantry hidden in the Wei army, but they had never appeared in front of the royal family in previous battles, not only Zhou Bian, but even Ning Yue, Su Rui and others, also stared blankly at these Wei soldiers with heavy and rhythmic steps, rushing forward neatly, or it was more appropriate to press over. And that Fan Yu grew his mouth even longer, and he couldn't close it for a long time.

This scene is indeed too shocking, it turns out that this is Wei Hou's dependence. However, after a short while, these hoplites rushed out, followed by ordinary Wei soldiers who only wore armor in key parts, so that there were less than 5,000 such hoplites in the Wei army.

Think about it, the bronze on a person's body weighs dozens of catties, that is, no matter how rich the Wei State is, it should be extremely reluctant to be able to bear the equipment of these Wei warriors, if there are more such hoplites, I am afraid that the Wei State will already dominate the world, not just slightly stronger than other princes.

However, if you calculate carefully, even if these thousands of Wei soldiers can crush the Qi army, but after all, the number of Qi troops is twice that of the Wei army, and the Wei army can only remain undefeated or win a small victory, which is obviously inconsistent with Wei Hou's original intention of trying to lead the Qi army over.

Therefore, Zhou Bian concluded that in addition to this hoplite, Wei Hou must also have hole cards.

So where exactly are the hole cards?