Sort it out this way.

The bows and arrows of the New Han Army were in large arrays, and the bows and arrows that were fired were generally carried out in a covering salvo over a certain area with the battalion as a unit.

If you concentrate your arrows on an area, you will have a very dense number of arrows in that area. Let's put it this way, the enemy soldiers, almost every soldier shot by our army, was full of arrows. This, or a little too exaggerated, may not be the case for every enemy soldier, but, according to the statistics of the New Han Army cleaning the battlefield after the war over the years. Under normal circumstances, an enemy soldier who is shot by a large array of bows and arrows usually has more than a dozen arrows on his body.

In this way, it can be calculated, a battalion of archers, each round of arrows, about 2,000 to 2,500 arrows. It took a dozen arrows to kill an enemy soldier. In other words, a round of bows and arrows is to shoot about 300 enemy soldiers. However, this is not how numbers are counted. Because, more bows will fall on the clearing. In other words, a round of bows and arrows can shoot about a hundred enemy soldiers, which is already good.

Again, a soldier, after shooting an arrow, then shoot another arrow, because the archers of the New Han Army are well-trained, generally speaking, the rate of fire is relatively fast. In addition, every time a single shot is fired, there will be a general who will give an order to extend the arrows back and forth from the enemy formation. In this way, shooting an arrow is usually done in a few breaths. In a minute, you can shoot about thirty arrows.

If we calculate the casualties of the first round of bows and arrows, when the bow and arrow array of the New Han army fired thirty arrows, the enemy's casualties should be two or three thousand. The result. Absolutely outstanding. But, actually. That's also unlikely. Often, the enemy army also reacts. Will shoot, will retreat, will have all kinds of ways to neutralize the blow of the bow.

How so? Even in the era of hot weapons in the later generations, the same two or three thousand people fought against each other, using guns, shells, machine guns, etc., it is unlikely that they will destroy all the opponents in a minute, right? What's more, in this ancient war, no matter how well-trained the archers were, it was unlikely that they would be so powerful.

Before. The bow and arrow array of the New Han Army can play a prestige and can be intimidating, this is mainly because its momentum is too terrifying, and it often takes the lead when the bow and arrow array of the New Han Army releases arrows. Scared the enemy out. In this way, the flight trajectory of those bows and arrows will obviously not hit them. However, those enemy soldiers will be frightened and retreat to hide. Then, they were so frightened that they did not dare to formally confront the archers again. Even if it comes to it. They are all cowardice before fighting, and they are secretly defeated.

However, as long as someone can study the bow and arrow array of the New Han Army. Then you can see the advantages and disadvantages of the bow and arrow array of the New Han Army, and you can make corresponding arrangements.

Like what. With the army of the Xiliang princes in front of him, Han Sui basically summed up a way to deal with the bow and arrow array of the New Han army.

The bow and arrow array of the New Han Army. What are the biggest advantages? It was not a salvo, nor the training of the New Han Army, but the sophistication of the bow and arrow of the New Han Army. The bows and arrows of the New Han Army were dozens of paces away from ordinary bows and arrows. This one is the most important.

When the enemy can't shoot at all, only you can shoot others, and no enemy can threaten you. In this way, the archers of the New Han Army can deal with it calmly, and can let go of their hands and feet, concentrate on the enemy's arrows under the condition that there is basically not much defense, cover the past round by round, directly suppress the enemy, and shoot back, so that the enemy army is afraid, and a kind of idea rises in his heart that he has no way to rush to the enemy's bow and arrow array to kill the enemy.

This, in fact, is a misunderstanding.

It is also a mistake that almost all enemy troops have always had when fighting against the bow and arrow array of the New Han Army.

That, who let them kill the bow and arrow array of the New Han Army to attack the archers of the New Han Army? Why did you get into the horns?

Well, in this era, even an ordinary hunter can make a bow and arrow, even if the powerful range is not as good as the fine bow and arrow of the New Han Army, but so what? None of the princes' forces will lack bows and arrows.

In the face of the bow and arrow array of the New Han army, which has weak defensive capabilities, they can find a way to shorten the distance between them and the bow and arrow array of the New Han army first. As they do now, they used various methods to advance to the distance within the reach of their own bows and arrows, and then formed a formation to shoot at the bows and arrows of the New Han army. In this way, at least, they will no longer be completely passive.

What's more, there is another situation. The New Han Army would never let its archers stand against the enemy's archers without any defensive capabilities. Because, the New Han Army will not fight a battle that kills 1,000 enemies and loses 800 themselves. Shooting at the enemy, in addition to killing the enemy, your own army will also have a large number of casualties, especially the bow and arrow formation of the New Han Army, the formation of the sergeants is more rigorous and rigorous. Because of this, the party can carry out a more effective covering shot on the enemy. But because of this, any arrow fired by the enemy could kill one of the soldiers of his own army.

This is also why Hao Zhao noticed that there was an unfavorable aspect to the New Han Army at a glance, so he immediately ordered his archers to retreat first and not shoot at the enemy.

Xu Rong also sensed that the shape seemed to be not very beneficial to his side. I couldn't help but say to Hao Zhao with a worried face: "Brother Hao Zhao, it can't go on like this, you see, they are about to break through to our first trench defense line." In this way, it will not be long before they can completely break through to our positions and attack our city. Xu is not worried that they will kill us under the city, but you see, if our cavalry army attacks it from the flank, their military horses can rely on our position to block our cavalry. ”

"Hmm......" Hao Zhao raised his eyes and looked over, and he also noticed the severity of the matter.

This time against the allied forces of the Western Liang princes, the New Han army had to fight a perfect war and achieve the final victory at the cost of the most minor casualties. However, if the position of their own army allows them to break through. Its tens of thousands and two hundred thousand troops have entered the positions of their own army, then. It was impossible for his own cavalry army to ride into a position full of pits. Instead, it will allow them to hold positions and pose a threat to the cavalry of the New Han Army from the flank.

To know. The bow and arrow array of the New Han Army could cause huge damage to Dong Zhuo and the Huns' charging cavalry array. Now, on the other hand, if the princes of Xiliang rely on the positions of their own army and lay down a large array of bows and arrows, they can also cause great damage to their own army's cavalry.

"Humph! They have a good plan, we have a wall ladder! Hao Zhao said quietly: "With the first trench as the boundary, we must not let their people attack it." General Xu, immediately give the order. When the horses in the city come out, we will make a distance difference with them, calculate their distance, suppress them, and then, you lead an elite army to kill them and drive them out of the battle. ”

"Oh? How to fight? Xu Rong didn't understand for a while.

"This, you don't have to ask, please General Xu get ready. Look at my command banner, when the time comes, you will lead the army to kill it. Hao Zhao couldn't explain clearly to Xu Rong for a while, so he had to let Xu Rong start mobilizing the military horses in the city first.

Soon. In addition to leaving the necessary garrisons in the city, Xu Rong transferred about 100,000 horses out.

Hao Zhao asked Xu Rong to lead an army of elite soldiers and hide aside. And then. He immediately divided the remaining New Han army into swords, shields, swords, archers, and so on.

Since the Western Liang princes are allied. Use the sword and shield soldiers as cover to advance step by step, then. You can also use the sword and shield soldiers as cover and fight them in a big battle with bows and arrows. What's more, the range of the bow and arrow of his New Han army is longer than that of the Xiliang princes, and if he calculates this distance, he can still suppress the coalition army of the Xiliang princes.

Combat plans can be used against each other and utilize each other.

Hao Zhao immediately made a targeted approach. Hao Zhao thought about it, and decided to let his soldiers quickly move the bed crossbow under the city wall to the first line of defense, so that they could directly deal a powerful blow to the allied forces of the Xiliang princes who had broken through into the first line of defense of their position.

At this time, Zhong Xuan, Han Sui, Guo Yan, Niu Fu and other Xiliang princes, who were far away, saw that the New Han army had retreated behind the first trench, and they all looked happy and secretly nodded. felt that their method had finally worked, so they used such a method to advance steadily, and it was estimated that they could kill under Baohan City within a day.

However, they saw that most of the tens of thousands of cattle that rushed forward in front of their soldiers seemed to be dead, and these animals had either fallen into the pit or had been driven into the spiky antlers and their heads were bleeding. They are worried that there may not be enough livestock to the back.

"Report! The Xiliang army was also dispatched and had been arrayed to the west of Baohan City, but the cavalry of the New Han Army did not leave the city. ”

"Report! The second group of dead soldiers has also been assembled, will they be sent to seize the first trench of the New Han army's position? ”

"Report ......"

"Report! The New Han Army transferred a large number of soldiers from the city. ”

……

On the other side, the spies kept reporting the situation on the battlefield to the Xiliang princes, so that they could know the current situation on the battlefield in time.

"Report! The New Han Army seems to be back again! ”

"What?"

The princes were startled and hurriedly looked up at the front.

Sure enough, they saw that in the position of the New Han Army, more soldiers were advancing towards the first trench that had just been abandoned and retreated. Moreover, there are more military horses, and they are no longer just archers.

"Why don't they fall into the pit and kill themselves?" Ushisuke grunted again.

Everyone ignored him, because, as everyone knows, the position was arranged by the Xinhan army itself, where there are traps, they have their own identification marks, how can they dig a trap and pit themselves?

"It seems that they are not going to give up their positions. Sure enough, things are not as simple as we think. Han Sui secretly sighed, lamenting that the New Han Army's response was fast, you must know that if the New Han Army's reaction was a little later, his own military horses would be able to kill the first line of defense of the New Han Army, snatch their line of defense, and attack its second line of defense.

"Pass the order down and do a good job of defending to ensure that our sappers can safely continue digging and prepare for longitudinal excavation." Han Sui then ordered again.

The New Han saber and shield soldiers were in front, estimating the distance from the soldiers of the alliance of the Western Liang princes who were operating outside the first line of defense. Then a row of thick wooden shields was planted in front of the array.

Of course, this is only in case the enemy army will push forward again, because. Their current position is still about 200 paces away from the enemy's army. Out of range of enemy bows. If the allied forces of the Western Liang princes wanted to attack the soldiers of the New Han Army, they would have to advance dozens to a hundred paces or so.

And it depends. The enemy did have such intentions.

The allied army of the Xiliang princes, the generals of their formation, they also saw the situation of the New Han Army, he estimated the distance, and found that the military formation of the New Han Army happened to be outside the distance that his bow and arrow could not reach, he hurriedly ordered, planned to advance a further distance, and then let his army's archers shoot against the archers of the New Han Army.

But. The speed at which the New Han Army was assembled was beyond their imagination.

When the general's order was given, there was a whining sound, and the new Han army had already shot their first round of bows and arrows in the formation.

I saw a rain of arrows like black clouds, suddenly flying into the air, with a roar, and suddenly fell sharply towards their formation.

"Arrow proof! Arrow proof! ”

The general couldn't take care of it anymore. Hurriedly give a loud order, let the shield soldiers raise their shields to block the arrows, and provide cover for the sergeants behind them.

Crackling......

A hail of sounds rang out in their formation. Countless bows and arrows fell in pieces.

Ahhhh......h

A hundred dense and one sparse, many bows and arrows. Piercing directly between the gaps in their shields, it shot the soldiers in the back. The soldier who was hit by the arrow let out a scream.

Once the bow and arrow of the New Han Army are fired. It's a continuous burst of shooting. There is no pause in between.

The whining arrows sounded continuously, and in an instant, in the military formation of the alliance of the Xiliang princes, in front of the formation, it was as if countless dogtail grasses had suddenly grown, and they were suddenly filled with feather arrows with white feathers.

I don't care how many enemy soldiers were killed or wounded, but such a non-stop shooting suddenly suppressed the coalition forces, so that they could not raise their heads, and the sappers behind also stopped their operations in horror, looking for a place to hide from the arrows, or simply hiding in the pit and not daring to raise their heads.

The archers of the New Han Army were not all on at once, but in batches, and when the first batch of archers finished shooting a pot of arrows, they immediately retreated and let the next batch of archers go on.

After all, pulling a strong bowstring is also very consuming of the body, and generally, after shooting a pot of arrows, their body will drop rapidly, and they need to rest for a while, and then when they shoot again, they can maintain the level.

Han Sui and the other princes were a little dumbfounded when they looked at it in the back, and they continuously released arrows, and it was such a dense radiation, how many arrows did it take? Although their army can make their own bows and arrows, they will not waste them like this.

However, in this way, their soldiers were so suppressed that they could not move at all, and there were constantly sergeants who were shot by the bows of the New Han army.

After a while, there was an occasional pause, but the coalition soldiers, once they were about to start their work, the rain of arrows would cover them again.

The coalition of princes really wants to cry, why does the New Han Army have so many arrow reserves? As if you can't finish shooting?

Time passed slowly, a quarter of an hour, two quarters of an hour.

During this time, the coalition forces were no longer able to advance an inch.

Hao Zhao looked at his sergeant and used the principle of rolling wood to transport a lot of heavy bed crossbows.

Although the number is not large, it is necessary to avoid the problem of traps, and only send a dozen bed crossbows at a time.

However, this is enough, what Hao Zhao needs is only suppression, just deterrence.

Soon, the bed crossbow was erected, and more than a dozen gaps were opened in the formation of the New Han Army.

Boom!

There was a loud buzzing sound, and without warning, more than a dozen bed crossbows of the New Han Army directly fired bed crossbows.

A round of crossbow arrows is only a hundred, but the power is immediate.

In the coalition formation with a shield, the crossbow arrow was heavily slammed into it, and with a bang, more than a dozen gaps appeared in an instant.

Well, the ten or twelve crossbow arrows sent out by each bed crossbow were concentrated and bombarded, and a large gap was forcedly shot.

Those thick wooden shields were actually difficult to block the crossbow arrows, and they were shattered with a bang.

Sawdust flies, flesh splatters.

Screams of horror rang out.

In the gap that was blasted open, the archers of the New Han Army stared at the places where those gaps and fired arrows, and in an instant, they showed their power again, shooting those coalition soldiers who were disrupted by the formation to the ground in pieces.

It's messy, the soldiers of the coalition are in chaos, and the shield soldiers in front of them, they are also scared, and they actually want to flee to the back.

However, Han Sui had expected such a situation earlier, and finally many people remembered it. They jumped into some of the pits dug by their sappers, and more of them lay on the ground.

The New Han Army's strike method, even if the coalition army of the Xiliang princes had been prepared and expected, they were still overwhelmed and frightened.

Hao Zhao saw that it was time and ordered someone to play the banner. When Xu Rong saw it in the distance, he immediately led the army from some vertical and horizontal trenches to the first line of defense trenches.

When Xu Rong led the army to the first trench, the bed crossbows and bows and arrows of the New Han army all died down without warning, and not a single arrow was fired.

Those coalition soldiers, when they were still wondering, Xu Rong had already led the army out of the trench bubble and rushed straight to the Xiliang coalition soldiers not far away.

"Kill!"

Twenty or thirty thousand soldiers of the New Han Army rushed up from the trench of the two or three miles long defensive line almost at the same time, and shouted loudly, which frightened the allied forces of the princes.

"Kill!"

Xu Rong took the lead in slashing out, splitting a coalition shield soldier who had just wanted to get up with a shield and flying backwards. (To be continued......)