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The scorching sun is in the sky, and the water is surging. The battle on the south bank of the river stretched for several miles, and after a brief contact between the two armies, the Qi and Zhao soldiers on other fronts also began to engage in tentative confrontations.

At the beginning of the campaign, the "invincible" Zhao army in the past few years did not achieve a comprehensive advantage. It is true that the military discipline of the military guards is stricter and the equipment is better, but there are only 5,000 elite soldiers brought here by Zhao Wuxian, and the rest are conscripts. He would not have thrown them into it at the beginning, and at the beginning he was sent some so-called "gully fillers": the new soldiers who had been trained for half a year after being recruited in Hanoi, a part of the Song army, and the Qufu Lu soldiers, and only after they weakened the enemy's front could the elite be defeated overnight......

These people are copies of the warriors, and they have fought with the Qi army, and there is even a decline on some fronts, because their phalanx must advance against the strong bow of the Qi army.

There were too many archers of the Qi people, more than 10,000 people, using bows made of hyperbolic horns and tendons from the east, distributed behind twenty chariot bases, constantly pulling the strings and opening the bows, releasing them towards the front line of the Zhao army. Arrows rained down, and even though the Zhao army's defense was good, each wave would take dozens of lives, injuring more people and fearing them.

The Zhao army counterattacked fiercely, and the crossbows lined up in three to five columns on the flanks also fired continuously, but they were far less effective in projectile than bows and arrows.

The Zhao army also had archers, and hundreds of good archers from the Lu State fought hard to raise their heads to the sky under the leadership of Yan Gao. Unfortunately, there was a thick formation of Qi troops between them and the enemy, and most of the bows and crossbows were nailed into the bodies of the enemy's foot soldiers, or on the large oars in their hands, and those who shot the farthest were also blocked by the barricades, and the clanging of iron arrows and hardwood was incessant, but the screams were rarely heard from them.

Yan Gao's arms were a little sore, and he felt a little helpless in the face of the base, as an old archer who had served in the Lu army many times, he was no stranger to this kind of thing.

There is no doubt that the bow and arrow played a huge role in early warfare from the time of obscurantism, when Ru Mao drank blood, and the arrows that flew at the enemy line like locusts often caused terrible casualties to the opponent. However, with the advent of fortifications, the role of individual bows and crossbows against them was correspondingly weakened. For example, at the moment, Zhao's crossbow could not shoot through the heavy Qi people's large oars, let alone destroy the bunkers surrounded by chariots.

And the Qi people, just hiding behind the barrier, weakened the Zhao army from the top of their heads with a strong bow, and then let the foot soldiers with spears and halberds launch a counterattack, and the long-range firepower was not as good as the other party, so that the Zhao army fell into a slight passivity.

In Yan Gao's mind, if he wanted to break the enemy's barricade, he was afraid that he would use smoke arrows and rockets like the Battle of Qinshui. It's just that this is an open field, not a camp with mountains of combustibles, and the enemy's back to the big river, it is very convenient to get water, and it is difficult to have the effect of burning the enemy's position.

Not to mention that the wind is not in the right direction today, and the breeze is blowing along the river valley.

What to do? Yan Gao frowned and thought hard, as a brigade commander at the grassroots level, he couldn't know the overall situation, as well as those secret weapons that were secrets, he was just given orders by Zhao Wuxian, and he only needed to carry out the orders.

"Keep shooting! To believe in the general, there will definitely be a way! Yan Gao can feel the hesitation of the young crossbowmen around him, he knows very well that doubt and hesitation are poison that leads to the discouragement of the army, the Zhao army's offensive has been blocked, and they now need an exciting miracle!

A miracle really happened.

Yan Gao gritted his teeth, put an arrow in his hand again, and was about to raise his head to open the bow, but he was stunned to find that something flew over the heads of the two armies in the fierce battle! Yan Gao, like many crossbowmen who saw this scene, grew his mouth, and just watched as the thing smashed directly into the Qiren chariot base about a hundred steps ahead!

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"Zhao Jun is nothing more than that." Standing behind the safety of the barricade, Xianshi squinted at the battle and smiled back at the archers.

In general, the newly rising doctors of the Qi State surrounded the Chen and Bao families, while the descendants of the Jiang family, the Xian family, circled around the country and Gao.

Xian Shi is a typical example of this, he is the son of the Qi State Doctor Xianzhang, and is also a noble child, this time the national summer expedition to the south, he served as a township in the army. He had a thousand archers under his command, all recruited from the territory and the surrounding capitals, these people were not good at close combat, but they were skilled in bows and arrows, and they had already shot a group of Zhao soldiers who tried to use shields as cover to shoot back.

"The son of the country is the son of the country, if we can make our army play to its strengths and avoid its weaknesses, if the light is compared to archery, no one in the world can fight against the Qi army!" In Xian Shi's view, this time Guozi's tactics are undoubtedly correct, they will definitely be able to successfully repel the Zhao army, and then calmly cross the river and fulfill Guozi's promise: take the soldiers home!

However, at this moment, he suddenly noticed that there was an extra black dot in the sky in front of him, and the black dot was getting bigger and bigger, and he flew towards them in a daze!

In the blink of an eye, no one had time to react, and then, a pebble the size of half a head smashed straight to the edge of the barrier!

Xian Shi only felt that the car that was more than ten steps away from him had been violently impacted, and then let out a squeak and groan of broken wheels and axles, and the whole car collapsed in front of his eyes! By the way, he crushed the Qi pawn who was squatting next to him and wanted to avoid Zhao Jun's bow and arrows.

"It happened...... What's the matter......" Xian Shi was stunned in place, and the Qi people archers beside him were all dumbfounded, and suddenly flying stones fell from the sky, which was something that the old man couldn't explain.

"Could it be that there is a strong man like Gao Xuanzi in the enemy formation, who can throw flying stones and injure the enemy?" After half a ring, Xian Shi finally found an explanation, and said to his subordinates next to him with a dry smile, and let the archers continue to shoot arrows.

What he didn't know was that at the position of the Chinese army, Gao Wupi, as a descendant of Gao Gu, was also looking at the stones flying into the base in the distance with a confused expression, and the small commotion it caused.

"Here we go again......" Coach Guoxia's face was pale, and he suddenly said this, Gao Wupi was about to ask something, and came again, but when he looked up, he couldn't say a word.

Not only Guoxia and Gao Wupi, who had a wide field of vision, but also the string Shi and archers in the base, and even the Qi and Zhao soldiers on the battlefield could see it clearly, and dozens of black dots broke through the sky again, and bombarded them all in unison towards the place where the first stone fell just now!

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"It's over!"

Looking at the bigger and bigger black dots in front of him, Xian Shi flashed these two words in his heart, and was immediately knocked down by the pro-soldiers next to him.

The river sand entered his eyes, and it hurt so much that he could only lie on the ground with his head covered and not dare to move, leaving only the loud sound and shock of the impact in his ears, as well as screams, wails, broken walls, and broken bones......

When he opened his eyes again, Xian Shi's front was already in a mess, and there were screams for help everywhere. When he turned around, he was startled by the horrific sight he saw, the body of the soldier who had fallen down Xianshi was still there, but his head was completely gone, he was hit in the neck by a flying stone impartially, the part above the shoulder was all gone, and it became a mass of paste in the distance, and the stone wrapped in his flesh was embedded in the sand, and the red and white things on it were so hideous that people could not avoid it.

Getting up and looking around in confusion, Xian Shi found that the barrier had collapsed several big gaps, and some Qi people around him who were frightened by the flying stones from the sky walked around the barrier aimlessly, screaming in despair, and throwing bows and arrows on the ground in a mess, such a terrible thing happened, who still had the heart to fight with a bow?

His barricade was finished, and although there were few casualties, everyone was terrified by the last attack. Xian Shi's previous evaluation of Zhao Jun's "nothing more than that" has long been replaced by panic and uneasiness......

He wanted to cry without tears, this was not something that a strong man could throw, but like the handiwork of a ghost!

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Xian Shi was still at a loss as to where he had been attacked, but Guoxia, who was in the Chinese Army, looked at the overall situation, but he really saw it.

The stones did not fall from the sky, but from the riverbank behind the Zhao army's formation, dozens of stone bullets of two catties to more than ten catties were shot out from there, drawing an arc of death and then concentrating on the front of the car barricade, for a time many parts of the car barrier collapsed, dusty, countless pieces of wood rose into the air and fell like raindrops.

Ignoring the screams of the people, the horses that had been taken aside after unloading their chariots neighed, and they were horrified by the sight before them. One of them even deviated from the target stone fell into the herd, hitting an unlucky horse, the horse's head collapsed in an instant, the skull was broken into pieces, the horse's head was knocked to the side, the horse spat out two mouthfuls of blood, the four hooves softened at the same time, the body fell forward according to inertia, the four hooves had begun to spasm when they fell to the ground, the horses ran and scattered, disrupting an array that was assembling.

The Qi people's hearts were in turmoil, and the soldiers on the Qi army front who could see this scene had been in an uproar by this sudden upheaval, and the generals desperately pressed them to keep them in place again.

In fact, it was not only them, but even the always calm commander Guoxia also had some fluctuations.

"This is something I have never talked about in the art of war, and it is also a weapon that I have never seen before, and it is simply a spectacle that can only occur in the myth of the battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou......"

At least when Taigong and Sima Sui Tho narrated the art of war, they would never have imagined that they would encounter such a weapon in their backs, let alone write down a countermeasure.

The place where the stone bombardment was hit was hundreds of steps away from Guoxia, but it also shocked his heart to beat wildly, and he could feel the ground shaking on the other side of the barrier from such a distance, and the power of it could only be experienced by experiencing it himself.

"It's something that Zhao Jun used when he captured Chaoge, it can send flying stones to more than 100 steps away, I thought they couldn't carry such a bulky equipment, they could only use it for siege, it seems that I was careless......"

Guo Xia took a few deep breaths and explained to Gao Wupi, who was stunned, he knew that he must not be chaotic now, if it was chaotic, the Qi people would really have to be wiped out here!

Gao Wupi swallowed his saliva, nodded heavily, and took the initiative to drive to the place of the incident to maintain order.

"Be careful, Zhao Jun will never attack only once......"

Although they regained their composure on the surface, the sense of security and confidence brought by the stronghold and the strong bow in the hearts of Guoxia and Gao Wupi, as well as all Qi people, was shattered at the same time as the barrier was broken.

After the mysterious new weapon appeared on the riverbank, no one was safe in the battle array, and the way of war will change drastically from today!

Now Guoxia only hopes that Zhao Jun's mysterious stone tool cannot be moved, and can only bombard an area...... (To be continued.) )