Liu Quan and Feng Xiaoci are standing in front of the battle today, their injuries are slower than expected, it took half a month to get better, when they arrived in Changsha City, Wang Huaqiang had already pulled out the camp and raised troops, the two of them were riding horses to catch up with the large army, although they did not get along with the troops for a long time, but among the soldiers who relied on their strength to speak, the superb military qualities and excellent command ability of the two quickly convinced these veterans, and it was logical to become the commander of the two thousand teams, Liu Quan was in charge of the Chinese army today, and Feng Xiaoci was in charge of the right army, Lei Shimeng, another staff general of the former Southern Chen Army, commanded the Left Army.

Liu Quan stood calmly at the front of the entire army formation, listening to the drumming sound in the rear, and staring coldly at the barbarian army surging like a tide, five hundred steps, three hundred steps, two hundred steps! He could already see the hundreds of hideous and vicious faces rushing to the front, and his hand grasped the lance and raised it high.

One hundred and fifty steps! The long lance in Liu Quan's hand slashed down fiercely, and the crossbowmen behind him all ran diagonally to both sides, forming a wild goose formation, which seemed to be a little wider at once, and the gaps between the teams were all filled, and everyone aimed at the opposite target, with a cruel smile on the corner of their mouths, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

A dense burst of crossbow arrows flew by, and the more than 200 brute soldiers who rushed to the front were shot into a sieve at once, the crossbow arrows were strong, and some arrows passed through the body of the person in front of them, directly hitting the companions who were still running behind, and finally shot the two into a string of sugar gourds, posed in a strange shape, and fell to the ground.

The crossbows used by this batch of Xiangzhou troops are all new-type three-stone infantry crossbows left over from Wang Shiji's preparation for the southern expedition last time, the crossbow strings and triggers are new, and the firing range is as high as 200 steps. It is far from being comparable to the old crossbows of the defenders of Donghengzhou who are about to reach the age of obsolescence. Plus the brutes are all shirtless. Without any armor to speak of, the crossbow bolt was fired, and all of a sudden the soldiers in the front row fell, and the momentum of the charge was also stopped.

However, the crossbow bolt is very troublesome to load, and the crossbow string must be pulled apart with a twisted chain, and then the crossbow arm is attached to the arrow, and then it is aimed and fired. The rate of fire is a hard wound, often it takes about half a minute between the two arrows, and the first wave of crossbow arrows slows down the momentum of the enemy, but the people behind still rush forward, and they rush within a hundred steps.

The impact time of this hundred steps was almost exactly half a minute, and the second crossbow arrows of the crossbowmen were also wound one after another, Liu Quan's long lance was raised and fell again, and another row of arrows flew out, this time because the distance was closer, and there were more barbarian soldiers killed. More than 400 brutes were shot in the cold and fell to the ground. He was soon trampled into a pulp by his companions behind.

The corners of Liu Quan's mouth moved, and he roared: "Archer, release the arrow!" ”

The archers in the second row have already set up the arrows on the winding, after hearing this, they have shot their bows and arrows up to the sky, and cut an arc to hang and shoot, these archers are all men with outstanding arm strength, and they can shoot about eighty steps flat when they open their bows, and even if they shoot in a hanging, they can form a rain of arrows in a distance of fifty to sixty steps.

The barbarians were panting for breath, and suddenly felt that the light in the sky had become dim, and when they looked up, they found that hundreds of black and oppressive arrows were covered like dark clouds, and a large number of barbarians were swept to the ground by this rain of arrows, and the bodies that suddenly fell stumbled over many of their companions who were sprinting behind them, and the barbarians in the front row staggered to the ground and rolled a large area, and the momentum of the forward charge was completely contained.

Taking advantage of this time, the archers continued to wind up their arrows, and they did not need to aim, and directly poured a rain of arrows into the air at the angle just now, more than 400 hard bows, about eight to ten seconds of firing time, that is, a matter of one or two minutes, they could shoot out more than 20 arrows, and even the crossbowmen with the geese-shaped array in front of them also took the opportunity to reload the arrows three or four times, forming three or four arrows in the horizontal direction, and shot down some brave barbarians who were still charging against the rain of arrows and the sea of arrows again and again at a distance of sixty or seventy paces.

The barbarians rushed three or four times, and finally retreated in front of the pile of corpses like grains on the front line, and Zhou Shiju's eyes were red, and he ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

The barbarian soldiers who were still arrogant just now retreated back to the starting position in despair, but Wang Huaqiang on the opposite side did not pursue, and the distance between 60 and 200 steps in front of the entire army formation was full of corpses of barbarians who were shot like hedgehogs, and there were nearly 2,000 corpses of the wounded in the pool of blood, and the wounded in the pool of blood were rolling helplessly on the ground crying and screaming.

Wang Huaqiang waved his hand coldly, and the ten teams of reserves in the back row took out the arrows from the car one after another, and ran to the front to replenish the quivers that the archers were carrying cross-body, and the crossbowmen also put away the goose marching formation and retreated to the first row.

Master Zhou raised his head and looked around, and shouted: "Ren Sima, Ren Sima!" ”

A personal soldier beside him whispered: "Marshal, you just asked Ren Sima to go back to the camp!" ”

Zhou Shiju reacted at this time, his intestines are now repentant, nearly 2,000 people died in this formation just now, but this is not fatal, the worst thing is that not a single enemy army has been killed, zero casualties! In addition to fear and despair in the eyes of every soldier, although there are still more than 10,000 people in his own hands, and the other party is still only 3,000, but the morale of his own side is on the verge of collapse, even if he orders to charge again, it is impossible to move forward as he did last time.

Zhou Shiju secretly said in his heart: His grandmother's, it turns out that this is the strength of the Han army in the Central Plains, no wonder the surname Ren persuaded Lao Tzu to go back to the camp and hold on to this posture, these 3,000 Sui troops, not to mention my 10,000 people, even if they take 50,000 people to rush, they may not be able to rush down, but now the Sui army is only four or five hundred steps away from him, and now if he wants to order a retreat, the whole army will definitely collapse.

Zhou Shiju glanced back at Donghengzhou, only to see that the defenders at the head of the city were leaning on the battlements to watch the battle, cheering, and suddenly found that more than 3,000 people in the rear army were holding wooden shields, and he had an idea: Yes, with this thing, can't you guard against the arrows above your head, although the crossbows of those Sui soldiers are powerful, but the firing speed is not enough, the most important thing is the bow and arrow on the top of the head, hahaha, I don't need to be surnamed Ren, I can also come up with a good way!

If you are tempted, you will act, thinking that it is better to do it, Zhou Shiju immediately ordered: "Re-array, the shield soldiers charge with shields, follow behind, thirty steps away from the enemy, rush up and fight after the poisonous arrow attack, quickly!" ”

The brute soldiers began to arrange the formation again, the rear team changed the front team, the front team changed the rear team, Wang Huaqiang coldly watched the other party tossing and turning like this, but he didn't say a word.

Pei Shiju just watched it in the back and enjoyed it a lot, this scholar was still a little dizzy when he saw the blood at first, but then he saw that his side killed nearly two thousand enemies at the cost of zero casualties, this is a feat that has not been mentioned in the military books I have read before, as the saying goes, kill three thousand enemies, and lose eight hundred, but this time there are not even eight losses, so that he has only one word for Wang Huaqiang from beginning to end.

It's just that Pei Shiju was a little puzzled when he saw that the barbarian army was arranging the formation in a chaotic manner again, and Wang Huaqiang didn't make any moves: "Huaqiang, now is a good time, the enemy army is arranging the formation, if our army rushes over, we will definitely be able to annihilate them!" ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled and shook his head: "It's not good, it's not good, if you rush over now, the formation of our army can't be maintained, and the long lance men and knife and axe men in the back three rows will watch the crossbowmen in front of them kill happily, and they will also take the opportunity to rush up to fight hand-to-hand, although our army can still win a big victory, but in this way, I am afraid that there will be hundreds of casualties, and my three thousand people will fight all the way to the city of Panyu, and it is best not to hurt one of them." ”

Pei Shiju's eyes widened: "Isn't there a military order, Hua Qiang, you just need to order the formation to advance, why worry about these people not obeying the order?" ”

Wang Huaqiang sighed: "Hongdae, you still don't understand the heart of a sergeant, you will lose your mind when you see blood on the battlefield, although these soldiers of the Southern Dynasty are strong in combat, but the discipline is still a little insufficient, I train them every day this month, I know this very well, they can now endure not to go forward to harvest the head is not easy, if I really give the order to attack, the lancers and axe men behind will only scatter the formation and step forward to grab the merit."

When I was in Baizigang outside Jiankang City, I saw with my own eyes that the elite of the Chen army was greedy for merit after a small victory, and as a result, they disrupted their entire formation, and the victory turned into defeat. (To be continued......)

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