The fence, wooden fence, and huge horse of Nanzhai were burned in the blazing firelight. More and more Hebei troops, under Zhang He's dexterous dispatch, poured into Nanzhaimen. It has become the main battlefield completely, and groups of heroic warriors have shed their blood and bloomed their souls here. The morale of the Hebei army is high, at least tens of thousands of troops rushing forward to fight on the front line of Nanzhai, Zhang He has led the Chinese army to start to follow up, Wen Chou still has 30,000 horses, a mile away ready to support at any time.

After He Chen personally led the general of the state army, the chaotic situation began to stabilize.

"Report ......"

"The enemy Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang broke the fence with a giant tree, and a large number of enemy troops have poured into the village."

"Revisiting ......"

"Report ...... Han Juzi, the partial general of our army, was shot by a stray arrow and died on the spot......"

"Carry it back to the army and bury it afterwards."

"Report ...... Zhang He has led a large army into the village to tear up ......"

"Report ...... All the strongholds of the outer defense line of Nanzhai have been lost, and General Xu's leading troops have retreated to the second line of defense, and the enemy army is temporarily not allowed to advance. ”

The successive letters and reports almost never stopped, one person retreated, and another person came up, which shows how tragic the battle for the battlefield was. Zhang He deserves to be a famous general of Wei State, and the attack is extremely fierce, Xu Huang suffers from the fact that the difference in strength is too great, and he is obviously overstretched, so he can only temporarily avoid the edge and retreat to the second line.

"Chang Diao, it's time for the Shenji Battalion to be dispatched." Seeing that the first line of defense was lost, He Chen just nodded lightly, and then began to deploy troops. If Zhang He thought that he had broken through the first line of defense, he thought that his side was defeated like a mountain, it was a big mistake, what was waiting for him would be more dense fortifications, more powerful firepower attacks, if a little bit of a breakthrough, it is certain that more Hebei troops would inevitably die on the second line of defense.

Chang Diao is also a fierce general who has emerged since He Chen welcomed the emperor.

In history, Chang Diao is not very outstanding, and there are only a few records of him, he is the general of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Pi sent the three-way army to attack Wu as Cao Ren's forward, leading Zhuge Qian, Wang Shuang and others to attack Wu, but was killed due to the fire attack of the oil boat. At that time, Wang Shuang was brave and fierce, and Zhuge Qian was also good at using soldiers, in this case, Cao Ren was still the main general of Chang Diao, which showed his weight in his heart. After this person voted for He Chen, he soon showed extraordinary skills, especially for archery, although there is still a gap with Huang Zhong and Gan Ning, but if the time comes, it will definitely become famous all over the world.

Therefore, He Chen ordered Chang Diao to be the leader of the new group of "Shenji Battalion".

The Shenji Regiment was built by He Chen to welcome the emperor, and after being sealed as a general, he got the short bow talisman. It's just that He Chen disliked the ugly names of short bow soldiers and longbow soldiers, and he didn't have the prestige of names such as the Divine Sword Guard, so he casually changed it to the famous "Shenji Battalion" in the Song Dynasty. This short bow talisman is probably the one with the least resources among all the troops. Due to the pursuit of movement, shooting, and strength, all the soldiers wore light leather armor, except for the bowstring, hardwood, and special "armor-piercing arrows" in their hands, which took a dim sum machine and time, other aspects were almost a matter of course. Nowadays, there are plenty of soldiers in the state, especially the ethnic minorities, most of whom are tall and have long arms and are good at riding and shooting. As long as the county list is published and there is a flood of recruitment, there is no need to worry about the problem of soldiers. In the combat posture of the Shenji Battalion, most of them can open two stone bows, then this is amazing, one stone is 120 catties, two stones are 240 catties, this arrow is shot, Xu Fei is a heavy armor wrapped in iron sheets, and the general leather armor can't withstand it at all.

"Zhang Xiu, you lead the Divine Sword Guard Regiment and protect the shooters of the "Shenji Battalion". "He Chen is not very relieved, although the Shenji Battalion has huge lethality, it is also very weak in defensive capabilities, except for the scale armor sailors, it is almost the most brittle of all the troops.

"No."

"Wang Chen, you lead five thousand soldiers and quickly support Xu Huang."

"No."

…… The battle of Nanzhai was still in full swing, and the Hebei Army did not become devastated because of breaking the first line of defense, but became more difficult. The Bingzhou army borrowed a favorable defense line, rebuilt its ambition, and fought to the death without retreating, so that the Hebei army paid great casualties every time it pushed forward.

"General Xu, reinforcements have arrived."

Hao Zhao looked at the large number of fresh troops in the rear, raised his shield high, braved rockets and arrows in the sky, and advanced at full speed, and couldn't help but say loudly excitedly. Although Hao Zhao was on the battlefield for the first time, his calmness, adaptability, and fighting ability without fear of death all made Xu Huang firmly remember this fledgling young general.

"Brothers, kill." Xu Huang wiped his face casually, wet, sweat and splashed blood were sandwiched together, making his murderous face even more powerful.

"Kill" reinforcements came up alternately, so that the morale of all the soldiers guarding the front line was greatly boosted, and the spearmen and halberders were separated by the wooden fence, like eating a strong pill, it was a burst of stabbing, bringing bursts of blood mist and screams. At this time, in the wooden fence of the defensive line, the sentry towers, high bases, arrow towers, mounds, etc., which were full of corpses, were occupied by the scattered "Shenji Battalion" under the strict protection of the divine sword soldiers holding heavy shields, or in teams of ten or five people. Firmly seize the advantageous terrain.

All the soldiers of the "Shenji Battalion" have double quivers on their backs, and each quiver is full of dense arrows, at least more than 100 of them. These arrows are not ordinary arrows, they are all specially made. In addition to the sharp triangular pyramid of the arrow, there is also a thin barb, which makes the arrow extremely sinister. Once it enters the meat, you can't pull it, you can't pull it, you can only pull it out, you can only see through the whole root, otherwise the blood vessels and tendons brought out by the barb hook are enough for you to die of pain directly. Moreover, the entire handle of this arrow is wrapped in iron sheets, so as to increase the weight, and the general light armor armor cannot resist the defense breaking effect after being pulled apart by the two-stone big bow. Hence the name "Armor-Piercing Arrow".

"Raise your shield."

"Rapid-fire."

"Rapid Fire", a special skill for short archers, increases arm strength by 50%, increases arrow speed by 50%, and reduces accuracy by 20%. When faced with such a dense group of soldiers below, even if you are blindfolded, it is difficult to fail, and what happens to the 20% drop in accuracy?

The sword soldiers held up their shields in unison, covering the sky in front of them, leaving only a gap of about twenty or thirty centimeters to protect all the archers. All the "Divine Machine Battalion" speed probes, facing the front, flew from time to time to the arrows, their faces remained unchanged, or they were high and down, or they were at an elevation angle, and they had a bow in their hands, and the arrows had been wound.

"Whoosh" heavy bowstring "buzzed" and beat twice, obviously different from the arrow, and then turned into a thousand black shadows, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, extremely fast. The first arrow has not yet hit the target, the second arrow, the third arrow has followed up, three arrows in a row, and the arrow chases the soul. Looking at the position and direction of the gallop, the Hebei Army that rushed to the front was obviously not the target of the "Shenji Battalion", but the Chinese army and the slightly detached troops.

The effect of the rapid fire of the thousand-man "Shenji Battalion" is almost no less than the momentum of the five thousand archers.

"Ahhh In an instant, an earth-shattering scream rang out throughout the middle section. The Chinese army in Hebei, most of them are light armor, where to receive the "armor-piercing arrows" without a target, a wide range of carpet swept wildly, countless soldiers fell to the ground in the arrows, some went straight through the brain, some of the whole arrows passed through the heart, and even some soldiers could be seen with legs and arrows nailed to the ground, all kinds of casualties were unbearable, and the cry for help resounded throughout the south bank of Zhangshui.

Under a wave of three arrows, at least nearly 1,000 soldiers were killed or wounded, and only a few missed.

The soldiers of the "Shenji Battalion" are like clockwork machines, repeating one action, bending the bow, taking arrows, stretching strings, and repeating the cycle.

Zhang He's face that had remained unchanged was finally a little moved, and he scolded fiercely: "He Chen's guy is cunning enough, and he still has a hand." Looking at the range of the opponent's arrows, it is by no means comparable to ordinary archers. After seeing a wave of killings all over the ground, he immediately mobilized troops and shouted angrily: "Gun shield soldiers, archers counterattack." ”

This is where the advantage of the Hebei Army in the local war lies. Arrows, weapons, armor, soldiers, and food and grass can all be slowly and continuously supported to the front line. On the other hand, He Chen, there is nothing in the early stage, and in the middle and late stages, these problems will soon appear.

"Bang la la" all the foot soldiers equipped with a gun and a shield began to be sent to the front line.

This is a helpless move for the archers of the counterpart, although the archers of the square have been suppressed, and the arrows have been shot into the other party's village, but the range has finally been different, and the bows and arrows in the village are still the same, and a large number of them flew out, although the killing effect has been weakened since the initial stage, and the soldiers have begun to disperse, but it still makes Zhang He have a headache.

In desperation, he could only open the way with spears and shields.

And it was precisely because of this wave of suppression that the Hebei soldiers were unable to succeed in a short period of time, and they were taken advantage of by the annexation of the state to complete the task of changing guards.

The battle went on frantically from noon to night, and then from night to dawn.

Under the orders of Yuan Shao and the command of Zhang He, the Hebei army launched an uninterrupted assault, and the second line of defense was finally overcome on the third day. But Zhang He sadly found that after consuming at least 10,000 soldiers' lives, there was still a more shameless third line of defense in Neizhai. Zhang He could almost conclude that the resistance and lethality of this line of defense would exceed the sum of the previous two, and if Wen Chou's 30,000 soldiers did not go into the attack, he was afraid that it would be difficult to make a difference.

That night, Zhang He routinely asked the soldiers to beat drums and trumpets in unison, and every once in a while, let the rockets cover the pass, so as to exhaust the enemy troops, while he anxiously waited for Wen Chou's news.

There are still 30,000 horses in his hands, most of them are wounded, and the ubiquitous counterattack of the state army almost made Zhang He go through the most unforgettable baptism in his body, which is far from being comparable to Gongsun and others. If you don't take the opportunity to go down in one go and let He Chen come to his senses, I'm afraid that things will be very difficult.

Just when Zhang He was restless, He Chen, who had been on the defensive, finally found that the Hebei Army was weak and was temporarily in the adjustment stage. Without hesitation, he secretly mobilized all the centaurs and prepared to start fighting back with all his might.

(To be continued)