As soon as the hoplites of the Wei army came out, the momentum was really different, and then looking at the Qi army, although they had the advantage in numbers, they saw these armor soldiers piled up with bronze from a distance, and there were still some Qi soldiers who rushed in front and couldn't help but slow down their pace. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but soon the commanders of the Qi army reacted and shouted one after another, so that the soldiers could see that those heavy armor soldiers were only a few thousand, so the Qi army immediately began to roar again.

The distance between the two armies was a mile and a half, and for the horse chariots, it was a charge, and soon, the chariots of both sides came into contact.

In fact, in the earlier Shang Dynasty and even the Western Monday until the Spring and Autumn Period, the chariot was used as the main force in the army, and it would not be too far away from the large army, and generally a chariot would be accompanied by thirty infantry around, so as to give full play to the maximum role of the chariot.

In the middle and late Warring States period, the status of the chariot declined, and naturally it did not enjoy too much preferential treatment, but was only used as a tool for charging, rather than the core of the army. Therefore, at the beginning of this great battle, the chariots of both sides charged with all their might, and they wanted to boost the morale of the entire army with the weight, volume and momentum of the chariots.

Seeing that the chariots of the two sides met in the middle of the battlefield, some chariots collided with the opposing chariots because they were running too fast or the coachmen's skills were too poor, and they collided so hard that people turned over on their backs, and even the chariots could not stop and flew out from above the overturned chariots. More chariots attacked each other, using bows and crossbows when they were farther away and halberds when they were next to each other. Soon there were casualties on the tank.

Hundreds of chariots met, a few dozen of them tangled together, and many more brushed past the enemy infantry in the rear. Among them, especially the chariots of the Qi army rushed through the center line of the battlefield the most, there were more than 100 of them, but also, the chariots of the Qi army were more than twice that of the Wei army.

In the first round, the two sides fought against the chariots, and the Qi army won completely.

Leaving the Wei chariot behind, then the chariot of the Qi army is facing the infantry of the Wei State, more precisely, the first to meet is the heavy infantry in the Wei army.

Look at the heavy armored infantry of the Wei army who have rushed out a hundred paces away, the speed is still not reduced, the speed of this full charge, this physical strength is really not ordinarily good. The heavy infantry had already set up a posture to attack at this time, unlike other ordinary Wei warriors, the heavy infantry were not equipped with shields, which is easy to understand, because the armor on their chests was already very heavy, and then they were not equipped with bows and crossbows, which was mostly because their task was not to attack from a distance, and then they were not equipped with the Ge that Wei warriors were accustomed to, but like the halberd used in chariot warfare.

Each halberd has a person and a half length, with a long spear in front and a curved back of the spear, it can be said that the appearance of the halberd is to concentrate the advantages of Ge and the spear on their own body, and because of the weight and length of the halberd, the general halberd is mostly used on the chariot, but the tall and strong Wei heavy armor should be effortless to lift, after all, the man who can wear a nearly one-person heavy armor and run as fast as others naturally wields a long halberd.

After rushing out, the heavy armored soldiers of the Wei State also put on several conical formations, and the halberds in Duanping's hands were all pointing forward, and they fearlessly faced the chariot of the Qi army.

Seeing that there are only a few hundred steps, is it possible that the heavy armored soldiers of the Wei army want to use their bodies to crash into the war horses of the Qi army?

In the middle of the Wei army far behind, seeing this scene, Zhou Bian couldn't help but grow his mouth. You must know that even if a person wears armor as heavy as himself, it is not as heavy as a war horse that wears nothing, and the speed of the war horse is much faster than that of a person, and there are still four horses running side by side in front of a chariot. From this, it is not difficult to see that if the heavy armored soldiers of the Wei State really collide head-on, the chariot will certainly not be able to move forward, but those Wei soldiers will naturally be torn apart by the collision, and even die directly.

Zhou Bian believed that the Wei army must have other plans.

Sure enough, when the two sides were still two hundred paces away, the Wei soldiers who were closely behind the heavy armor soldiers exerted their strength, and their tools were crossbows.

In the era of cold weapons, the bow and crossbow are undoubtedly very powerful long-range attack weapons, and every regular army in the Warring States period is equipped, and the Wei army is naturally no exception, and with the national strength of Wei, although the range of the Wei crossbow is not as good as the Chu crossbow, but the power is one of the best among the vassal states.

In the blink of an eye, after the sound of bowstrings, thousands of arrows flew into the air and flew towards the chariot of the Qi army.

Although it was not aimed at, and the number was not enough to form an overwhelming effect, compared to more than a hundred vehicles, this rain of arrows was still extremely dense.

It was so dense that almost every chariot was hit by arrows on its body or horse, and more than a dozen arrows were inserted into one chariot, which swung in the wind as the chariot advanced.

However, with the exception of one chariot that was overturned due to the fall of a warhorse, all the other chariots continued to move forward and did not seem to be harmed.

It is no wonder that in fact, the chariots of the Qi army are all heavy chariots with armor, and there are whole pieces of armor in front of the armrests of the chariot and on the left and right, and the soldiers in the chariot are holding shields, and even the war horses are covered with armor protection, such equipment is obviously more like a bronze tank than the individual soldiers of the Wei army.

So in fact, in the rear of the Qi army, after seeing the appearance of the heavy infantry of the Wei army, which had already received the information, the Marquis of Qi and some senior generals did not show too surprised or worried expressions, because they knew that the heavy infantry of the Wei army was not very large, and most importantly, they had more than two hundred heavy armored chariots, and in the eyes of the Marquis of Qi, the heavy armored chariots were definitely more effective than thirty heavy armored soldiers.

After experiencing a round of arrow rain washing, the Qi army's chariot was still rushing forward at full speed, and Zhou Bian still had a long mouth, and couldn't help but worry about the Wei soldiers who rushed to the front.

But it was found that at this time, the Wei army's heavy infantry began to change formations again, and the five conical formations were divided into dozens of smaller conical formations, and due to the opening of the front and rear battlefields, these small conical formations were more widely distributed, and the distance between each small array was widened, and the front and rear were divided into several layers.

And just as the heavy infantry was in formation, the second round of arrows poured down in the Wei army, and due to the approaching distance, this round was twice as much as the previous round.

When the rain of arrows fell, more than a dozen chariots overturned, and the huge inertia caused the chariots to swing sideways on the ground for dozens of paces before completely stopping. Such a record is already good for the Qi army, because even if the war horse wears armor, there will still be gaps, and the armor of the war horse is not as thick as the one on the person.

Since both sides were running with all their might, after this second round of arrow rain, the chariots of the Qi army met the heavy infantry of the Wei army rushing to the front.

Zhou Bian couldn't help but widen his eyes, and it happened that the Chinese army of the Wei army chose a small dirt slope, although it was only less than the height of a person in front of the battlefield, and it was shorter than the place where the Chinese army of the Qi army on the opposite side was located, but Zhou Bian could also clearly see the situation of the entire battlefield.

I saw that the chariot of the Qi army seemed to have been rehearsed with the other party a long time ago, and it actually passed through the small cone-shaped formations of the heavy infantry of the Wei army, and the two did not collide together as Zhou Bian imagined, but avoided each other very accurately.

"Why didn't the Qi army use the chariot to ram the Wei soldiers? Wouldn't that be more lethal? Zhou Bian was a little puzzled for a while.

"Great King, if the Qi army uses the chariot to ram it, at most it will kill a few and injure a dozen Wei soldiers, and then the chariot of the Qi army will be scrapped and will no longer be able to move, and the soldiers on the chariot will be killed immediately. If the chariot is interspersed with the Wei army array, a crossbowman on the chariot can attack from a distance at will, and a halberdidian can attack at close range with a halberd. However, now that the Wei army is a heavy armor soldier, it is difficult to say that little attack power on the chariot. Ning Yue, who was beside Zhou Bian, replied.

Hearing this, Zhou Bian thought about it too, because he was too naïve, and he always imagined the power of the tank to be too powerful, but it was not a tank after all. However, Zhou Bian soon found a reason and excuse for his naivety, that is, he had never seen a large-scale field battle between major powers, and then he was young and shallow.

Thinking about it this way, Zhou Bian would no longer feel embarrassed by his thoughts, but what he didn't expect for a while was that in Ning Yue's opinion, asking such a childish question was in line with Zhou Bian's current identity, a young man who grew up in the deep palace.

At this time, the two sides can be said to have entered the point of handing over the handover, the soldiers on the chariots of the Qi army brandished their weapons and fought with the Wei soldiers, and there were chariots on both sides in front of them, and then behind them was a large area of infantry on both sides.

Qi and Wei both sides are also hard enough, except for the 10,000 Chinese troops left by the Qi army, all the rest rushed up, and the Wei army left even less, Zhou Bian looked around, in addition to the 100 guards of the royal family, there were only 5,000 Wei soldiers around him. Obviously, this will be a battle of life and death.

It is also true that the Wei army was originally less than the Qi army. However, Zhou Bian still instructed Su Rui to raise the royal flag of the Zhou room higher, otherwise if the Wei army really made the Qi army crush, if the Qi army rushed over and killed indiscriminately without recognizing the banner, it would be miserable.

But when I look closely at the battlefield, I find that this worry may be purely unnecessary.

I saw that although the chariot of the Qi army successfully rushed into the heavy armor formation of the Wei army, it did not play much role, not only did it not disperse the Wei army's array, but even those heavy armor soldiers did not kill a few, but it was like falling into a quagmire, and was deeply trapped in the attack circle of the Wei army's halberd.

Each chariot was surrounded by dozens of Wei soldiers, and dozens of halberds greeted the chariot and the war horse from all angles, and soon almost all the Qi army charioteers found that their chariot could no longer run. Not long after, several tanks stopped.

Naturally, this is not the chariot itself stopped, but the war horse was stabbed to death by a halberd, or the wheel of the chariot was damaged, then the chariot soldiers on the chariot naturally could not live. Poor Qi army in order to train these hundreds of chariots, I don't know how many resources have been expended, but now they have to be all explained here, not only that, but these chariots have hardly caused any damage to the heavy armored soldiers of the Wei army.

You must know that the halberd of the Wei soldiers can be one and a half years long, and it can easily reach the soldiers on the war horse or chariot, and there is only one crossbowman and one halberdidian on a chariot, if it is extremely easy to deal with ordinary soldiers, but it is not easy to deal with heavy armor soldiers, but it is not easy to please the crossbow at close range, but the halberd can not pierce it, but the halberd of the heavy armor can hook the soldiers off the chariot, or directly stab them to death.

Therefore, it was a failed idea for the chariots of the Qi army to leave the large army and penetrate into the Wei army this time.

Seeing that one chariot after another fell into the quagmire of the Wei army, one was killed or attacked, Zhou Bian couldn't help but sigh, "It's better to hit it directly, maybe you can kill a few more Wei soldiers." ”

Ning Yue on the side did not answer, perhaps still silent in the shock of the heavy armored soldiers of the Wei State.

At this time, the most central place where the chariots of the two sides were entangled was also separated, and the losses of both sides exceeded fifty, but there were also dozens of chariots that rushed into the Qi army, but the Wei chariots did not mean to fight deeply, and after a few clashes in the Qi army, they actually went around to both sides, obviously trying to kill out of the battlefield.

Finally, the large forces of both sides, the infantry formations collided.

After experiencing the attack of the Qi army's chariots, the Wei army's heavy armor soldiers slaughtered into the Qi army's infantry array.

Although they had already experienced a battle, these heavily armored soldiers still had good physical strength, and they quickly cut the surging Qi army into many pieces, but they were immediately overwhelmed by the Qi army rushing from behind.

Then the armies of the two sides were killed together, and the junction of the two armies was drawn into an irregular folded line, which was obviously done by the heavy armor of the Wei army. Otherwise, if the Qi army is kept in formation, with the shield bearers in the front, the spearmen in the middle, and the archers last, it will be difficult for the Wei army to break through the front line of the Qi army. The most important purpose of the heavy armor soldiers was to break up the formation of the Qi army, and it was clear that they had completed the task and were perfect.

Therefore, at this time in the battle, the formation is no longer very important, but the training on weekdays and the ability to fight individually play an important role.

Needless to say, the ability to fight individually, and if they are well trained on weekdays, soldiers will naturally be able to find companions when fighting, cooperate with each other, and cover each other to obtain better defensive and offensive capabilities.

Obviously, the Wei army is now relying on good training and the quality of soldiers to be able to fight with the Qi army, after all, there are too many Qi troops, which are twice as much as the Wei army and a little more. And the Qi army is also due to the advantage of numbers, began to gradually surround the Wei generals, only to see the two wings of the Qi army continue to move forward, to make dumplings in the middle of the Wei army, but unfortunately, the Qi army is only twice as large as the Wei army after all, if you want to make a whole dumpling obviously can't reach.

So now the war has basically become a war of attrition, and if it continues like this, no matter which side wins, it will be a crushing victory. Could this be what Qi and Wei are willing to see?

Especially Wei Hou, if there is no other way, can he only bring 50,000 people here knowing such a result?

Zhou Bian couldn't help but stare at Wei Hou, and the latter didn't know at all, he kept looking at the battlefield, and there was a trace of indifference in his solemn expression, at this time when the full-scale war started, Wei Hou was still so confident?