The battle on the river bridge progressed quite quickly, when Shi Jingjiao led the elite cavalry to break through the river bridge, Li Congke's forward in the back mountain had just come into contact with Wang Hui's department, and Shi Jingjiao's main force was only used to prevent the cavalry of the two rivers from attacking its two wings from the side, and did not attack the mountain.

The same as Shi Jingjiao, Li Congke was almost beheaded by Li Congjing the day before yesterday, and he also felt humiliated, but he didn't complain deeply, after all, after knowing that his department was defeated by more than a thousand Xichuan soldiers, he also knew that his old face had nowhere to put it.

Moreover, the Baoyi Army, the National Protector Army and the Jingyan Army are different. Although the three are the same vanguard, before the war, Li Siyuan and Li Congjing explained clearly, the division of labor is different, the Jingnan Army is responsible for taking Jianmen Pass, and the Baoyi Army and the Protector Army are responsible for capturing Jianzhou. Now, Li Shaocheng has completed the task cleanly, while Li Congke and Shi Jingjiao have lost a battle, which is inevitably dwarfed by comparison.

Moreover, Li Shaocheng's Jingnan Army is just an ordinary town army in the border areas, while the Baoyi Army and the Protector Army are different. Li Congke and Shi Jingjiao are all relatives of the emperor. In other words, the former and the latter are different from the relatives of the imperial family today, and the weight of being relied on by the imperial family is also different. And now, the estranged ones have made meritorious contributions, and the close ones have suffered defeats, and Li Congke also feels deeply sorry for Li Siyuan.

In this way, although Li Congke is not as humiliated as Shi Jingjiao, his fighting spirit is no different from Shi Jingjiao.

Before going to war, Li Congke convened his generals, which greatly inspired morale, and finally he asked the generals a sentence: Are you willing to die in shame for meritorious service, or are you willing to die in humiliation for no merit?

After the war began, like Shi Jingjiao, Li Congke also personally led the soldiers into battle and charged ahead.

However, unlike Shi Jingjiao, Li Congke faced Wang Hui. According to the truth, it is difficult to say which of the Dongchuan soldiers and the Xichuan soldiers is stronger or weaker, and the combat strength is roughly the same, and there is not much difference in equipment and armor, so that the difference is reflected in the tactics and command of the main general.

Wang Hui is a good general in Dongchuan, and in the face of Li Congke's aggressive offensive, he did not listen to the advice of his subordinates like Li Zhao and fight with Li Congke, but took out the prepared sharp weapons at the beginning.

Outside Jianzhou City, behind Li Congjing, the generals and officials who accompanied him to watch the battle, whether they knew the war or not, all those who saw the battle at the river bridge couldn't help but change their faces at this time.

At the river bridge, after Shi Jingjiao took the lead in rushing across the river bridge and entering the Xichuan army formation, Shi Chonggui also led the foot soldiers to follow.

In the face of a tenfold enemy, the military formation that Shi Jingjiao and Shi Chonggui's subordinates are shaking now is only a small part of the Xichuan army, and the chaotic battle situation caused by it is also very small, but as long as the military formation is opened, there is a possibility of being defeated.

At this end of the river bridge, the main force of the Protector Army, after Shi Chonggui's department also rushed across the river bridge, the middle army formation took the lead in protruding and stepped on the river bridge, and then the entire army formation began to act, gathering from both sides to the middle, preparing to reinforce the battlefield that Shi Jingjiao and Shi Chonggui had finally opened up.

It was at this time that the mutation took place.

At the other end of the river bridge, Shi Jingjiao and Shi Chonggui fought in front of the river bridge, and opened up the battlefield with each other's blood, but within a radius of more than ten steps, Shi Jingjiao broke into a farther and had entered twenty or thirty steps, but compared with the Xichuan military array, this is just a drop in the bucket. The larger Xichuan military formation, still arranged along the river at both ends of the bridge, stretched out for hundreds of steps, and at this time, the wall-like military formation suddenly changed.

Li Congjing saw the flag waving behind the Xichuan army formation, and listened to the rhythm of the opponent's war drums, and after a while, the Xichuan armor soldiers in the front of the Xichuan army formation retreated sideways, and behind them, a Fuyuan crossbow, a wooden single crossbow, and a bamboo pole crossbow were exposed.

At a glance, there are hundreds of crossbow machines. The armor soldiers who operated them lined up in array, taking the place where the soldiers had stood. Fang is the armor army formation, and now it has become the crossbow machine army formation!

Mo Li's eyes were good, he quickly estimated the number of Xichuan crossbow machines, and reported softly, "There are more than 400 Fuyuan crossbows, more than 300 wooden single crossbows, and more than 200 bamboo pole crossbows" The voice did not fall, and saw that in the Xichuan army formation, there were rows of armor soldiers, single people holding crossbows, standing in front of the big crossbow, Mo Li's eyes changed, and continued: "Single bow crossbow, no less than thousands"

"This is a winch crossbow? Hundreds of them! Speaking of this, Mo Li finally couldn't help but sneer, "Meng Zhixiang and Li Shaobin are so generous!" ”

After Mo Li finished speaking, Sang Weihan, Wang Pu, Du Qianshu, Wei Dao and others all changed color. Feng Dao, Su Fengji and others, although they didn't know how powerful they were, they could see the posture of Xichuan soldiers, but why didn't they know that the situation was not good?

Before they could speak, there was a thunderstorm on the ground.

It was indeed thunder, thousands of crossbows fired at once, especially such a large crossbow, the momentum shook the heavens and the earth, and it was really like a thunderous roar.

Where have Feng Dao, Su Fengji and other civil officials seen this kind of posture, they have no experience in dealing with it at all, and their eardrums were shocked by the roar of a thousand crossbows and thunder as if they were about to crack, and they all covered their ears and screamed, looking extremely embarrassed.

The fact that these people still reacted like this at such a distance shows the power of these crossbow arrows. And the Protector Army, who bore the lead among them, immediately fell into hell!

The crossbow arrows of the Xichuan soldiers were not aimed at Shi Jingjiao and Shi Chonggui, but the main force of the Protector Army who intended to reinforce the river bridge. Li Zhao's intentions are simple and direct, as long as the main force of the Protector Army is defeated, Shi Jingjiao and Shi Chonggui, who are only a few hundred people, it doesn't hurt to enter the formation, and they can be extinguished with a backhand.

Thousands of crossbows were fired at once, but there were more than a thousand crossbow arrows.

Let's not talk about anything else, let's just say that the winch crossbow, one crossbow has seven arrows!

Arrows are the head, as long as the armor is complete, it doesn't hurt not to dodge, and if one side shoots a dozen arrows, it may not be able to kill one of the opponents on the spot. Crossbows are different, compared with bows and arrows, crossbows have an overwhelming advantage in terms of range, penetration, and lethality, especially large crossbows, which are no longer the same as bows and arrows.

Therefore, whenever it is necessary to concentrate fire on the target, the role of the crossbow is obviously greater than that of the bow, and the training of the archer takes a lot of time, and it takes a long time to train a qualified archer, while the crossbow is different, the so-called "learning and twilight", the crossbowman is much simpler to master.

A preloaded crossbow can also be used to deal with emergencies, and the first strike is stronger, which is a function that the bow cannot have. Right now, Li Zhao's means of dealing with the National Protector Army are exactly like this!

At this time, the Protector Army was moving closer to the middle, and the Xichuan soldiers fired thousands of crossbows together, only one round, and the crossbow arrows fell into the Protector Army's formation, setting off a tragic and bloody storm. The crossbow bolt is strong, and there are countless people who penetrate the armor into the body, but they can't shoot the vital point, and they can also make the soldiers no longer have the ability to fight, especially the wooden single crossbow, bamboo pole crossbow, and winch crossbow, all of which penetrate the body of the soldier, and the crossbow arrow carries the body of the soldier, and the person who nails it into the ground can not be distinguished.

There was a terrible howl from the Protector Army, which was endless, like falling into the Shura field. Under a volley of crossbow arrows, less than half of those who could stand, and those who were hit by crossbow arrows looked miserable and died cruelly, so that people could not look directly, and the entire military formation disappeared in an instant, becoming a piece of decayed grass swept by the wind.

Mo Li, Wang Pu and the others are okay, after all, they have already experienced the battle formation, although their faces are not good-looking at this time, they are not too out of shape, and Feng Dao, Su Fengji and other civil officials who have never seen such a tragic situation can't stand it, it is completely like being hit on the head with a heavy hammer, and they lose their minds. Feng Dao was better, but his face was pale and his body was stiff and still, while Su Fengji and the others had already rushed out of the shed one after another, leaning over and vomiting.

Li Congjing frowned.

Wang Pu's body trembled slightly, and he gritted his teeth with hatred, "The Shu soldiers have such sharp weapons, and the number is so many that the thousands of soldiers who were caught off guard are tens of thousands of soldiers who are well guarded, and they can't rush over."

Du Qianshu's face was about to drip, he said: "It was strange before, the Jianmen Pass was captured, why the Shu soldiers were guarding Jianzhou City, and they could not mess up, and they did not show half of their cowardice, it turned out to be such a reason."

"Meng Zhixiang and Li Shaobin, knowing that after raising troops, they will be attacked by the imperial court, and they dare to dare to provoke trouble, how can they not rely on it?" After saying this, he pointed to the back mountain with a folding fan and said to Li Congjing: "Commander, please see, the Baoyi Army has also encountered such a situation, and the situation is even more miserable than that of the Protector Army. ”

Everyone followed the prestige, and there was a chill in their hearts.

The situation of the Baoyi Army is much more tragic than that of the Protector Army. Different from the Protector Army's flat combat, the Baoyi Army was originally attacking the mountain, and was in a passive position on the terrain, so Wang Hui was different from Li Zhao, and did not give Li Congke a chance to taste the sweetness.

After the soldiers of the Baoyi Army were killed and wounded by crossbow arrows, they could not continue to fight, and countless soldiers rolled down the hillside, the former knocked down the latter, and suddenly the chaos doubled and expanded.

At this time, the Dongchuan soldiers on the back mountain began to smash the rocks again, and the rain curtain of the rocks fell, making the Baoyi army, which was already unable to form an army, become a lamb that was slaughtered at will.

Su Fengji and other officials, who had just run out of the shed to vomit, finally came back after vomiting, and when they saw this formation, their stomachs churned again, and they couldn't help but run out and vomit again.

The mountains and rivers on this side have already screamed and are about to collapse.

"The crossbow is enough to retreat from the enemy, Wang Hui still let the Dongchuan soldiers smash down the rocks, this is to expand the killing effect, make the tragedy worse, and then hit the morale of our whole army, so that our army will lose the fighting spirit and can no longer fight." Mo Li saw Wang Hui's intentions, and he said to Li Congjing: "Marshal, the defeat of the two armies of Protectorate and Baoyi has been decided. ”

Li Congjing was still a little puzzled, in the original history, why Shi Jingjing captured Jianmen Pass, but after several battles outside Jianzhou City, it was unfavorable, so that he took the initiative to write to Li Siyuan and asked for the withdrawal of troops, and now he knows the answer - if Li Congjing knows more about this history, he will understand that the army led by Shi Jingjing did not get the results in Jianzhou City, which was defeated by the strong crossbow of the Shu soldiers.

After listening to Mo Li's words, Li Congjing nodded and said, "Mingjin, collect the troops!" ”