Chapter 8 The Bloody Battle on the Beachhead

Zhao Min's arrangement trapped two hundred red scarf elites. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info lightly armed in terms of red scarves, and the weapons are all spears or swords and shields, which are already considered well-equipped. But no one carries a bow and arrows with them? Everyone knows that archers are not easy to train, and no matter where the army is, well-trained archers are held in their hands like treasures, and they will not let them go home. And the Red Turban Army is at most a local armament, how can there be such a high-end equipment as archers? At least these guys, who are known as the elite of the red scarf, don't have a bow or arrow. As for the crossbow machine, not to mention, even the armament rate of the border army does not reach thirty percent, let alone the peasant armament?

On the other hand, Zhao Min's Jimo troops, the assembly rate of crossbow machines even exceeds seventy! The equipment rate of crossbow machines like their nouveau riche, not to mention the border army, even the northern and southern armies, which are known as the most well-equipped, cannot reach it! Of course, this is thanks to Lu Xu's selfless dedication in the battle of Pingshou and the harvest in the Jiaozhou Bay cave. And Zhao Min always brings a hundred and ten crossbow machines and crossbow arrows in the storage ring when he goes out, anyway, this thing is small in size and does not take up space, which has led to the current situation. Now Zhao Min can completely beat the other party, and he doesn't even have to pay a single casualty - just such an uncovered open space, the Red Turban Army can only be a target, and has no power to resist!

But Zhao Min was not an ancient scholar who could treat human life like a mustard after all, so he stepped forward to shout and persuade the other party to surrender. The reason why only the time limit of ten breaths is given is because there is too little oil to burn at all!

The current situation between friend and foe is clear at a glance. These elite red scarves do not seem to have reached the point of giving up their lives for the sake of the "great revolutionary ideals". With a sigh from the leader, he took the lead in throwing down the blade in his hand. Immediately afterwards, the remaining soldiers also abandoned their weapons one after another, and then under the command and response of Zhao Min's personal guards, they lined up in a row, carefully bypassed the ditch in turn, and then let the guards tie their hands with ropes on their backs, trapped in a long string.

Zhao Min saw that the general trend had been decided, and he breathed a sigh of relief. Hurriedly asked someone to bring the red scarf head tie to the front, and asked directly: "You are waiting for you to come from the pavilion, but are you?" "These captives are different from Xu Chu, who was passively captive, while these people surrendered on their own initiative. Generally speaking, people who voluntarily surrender will have some inferiority complex, so you don't need to talk to them politely.

The leader nodded, "That's right. ”

Zhao Min asked again: "I heard that there are thousands of soldiers in the Yiting Pavilion, why are there only hundreds of people such as you?" ”

When the leader of the red scarf heard this, his face suddenly distorted, and he gritted his teeth and said: "It's all that Wu Damu is making trouble, giving me false information, letting my two hundred brothers be in front, and his own army is behind, in fact, he wants to borrow a knife to kill people." If he does not die now, he will pay back a hundredfold one day. ”

Zhao Min rolled his eyes, it seems that the pressure between this faction is beyond any force. But now he doesn't care about that. "As you said, where is Wu Damu now?"

The leader was still snorting and panting: "When I set off, I said that I would follow closely and wait." With Wu Damu's ability to command the army, I'm afraid it's not half way at this moment! ”

Zhao Min thought about it, this guy didn't agree with that guy named Wu Da, and he would definitely try to belittle the other party's ability. Then think on the worse side, that is, I'm afraid that the big army is coming!

Zhao Min felt that time was pressing, so he hurriedly called his subordinates and stuffed the prisoner behind the mountain wall. There's no time to take care of them right now, and there's a lot of work to be done.

At first, because of the time constraints, the antlers were placed directly on the ground, and the roots of the antlers had to be buried in the ground as soon as possible. And because of the toss just now, the oil ran out, not to mention, although the flame has been extinguished, but there is a large black burn mark on the ground, and the fool knows that something is wrong, so be careful! Therefore, that chasm can no longer play the role of a surprise soldier, and can only be used as a trench to block the enemy. And the trench is certainly not to be arranged in the rear, so it is necessary to be busy dragging the antlers to the end of the ditch, so that the rear formation becomes the front formation.

Zhao Min was busy working, Zhang Han walked over with a frown, and asked, "Why don't you make the prisoners exert their strength?" ”

Zhao Min suddenly realized when he heard this. That's right! I just thought that I was hurrying up, how could I forget that there were still two hundred strong laborers to call? blamed himself for being poisoned too deeply by later generations, and the rule that he could not abuse prisoners of war became subconscious. But this is an ancient time when there was no concept of "human rights"! Besides, these guys came to kill themselves with great momentum, and now they are captured, although they can't bear to kill prisoners, but the death penalty can be avoided and the living crime is inescapable, what is it to do some coolies?

At that moment, he hurriedly called his subordinates, asked them to untie the elite of the red scarves that had just been captured, and drove them to dig pits and carry antlers. As for whether the captives would take the opportunity to rebel, he was not at all worried. These guys' weapons and armor have been removed, and although the ropes on their hands are untied, they are still connected under their feet! If his 50 guards can't even look at 200 unarmed captives with ropes tied to their feet, then they will be called the highest level of elite in vain!

With the addition of two hundred coolies, the next progress has really accelerated a lot. In just half an hour, the defensive position has been arranged in an orderly manner, and it is no longer the original chaotic appearance. At this time, there was no need for those prisoners, and Zhao Min ordered people to tie them up again and get them behind the mountain wall. In fact, this is not because they are afraid of running away, but because they are afraid that they will fight, and the arrows on the battlefield will not be long-sighted, and if they fly into the pile of unarmored prisoners, it will be a prick and a pinch! So simply take people away, so that your conscience will not be troubled.

Zhao Min didn't dare to hold it up this time, seeing that the leader's figure was not tall, and although the two-grade armor on his body was not excellent, he also had some protective ability, so he honestly and unceremoniously took it for himself and put it on his body. And the biggest advantage of this armor is that it is not too heavy, at least it can still move freely. If it were changed to a set of full-body fish scale armor worn by Zhang Han, Zhao Min estimated that he would not even think about walking aisles.

With the armor on his body, Zhao Min felt much safer psychologically. At this time, it was the end of the Shen period, and it was going to be dark if the other party didn't appear again. With the habit of most people in this era who can't tolerate night battles, if it doesn't come after dark, it really won't appear. Just as he was glad that he might be able to avoid a fight, a flag appeared in the distance at the end of the line of sight.

Immediately after, a huge procession meandered. The front team marched two hundred paces from the defensive position and set up a position, and the tail of this team had not yet appeared at the end of sight!

Zhao Min gasped. It's not that he hasn't seen a large army, whether it was a military parade in Jimo or a bloody battle in Pingshou City, the total number of soldiers at that time was far more than a thousand. But at that time, after all, I was standing on top of the city, with a wide field of vision, and it was quite far away, so I didn't feel too deeply. And now they are on the same plane, and because of the narrow place on the bank of the river, the procession of thousands of people is stretched out, and the eyes seem to be full of human heads with sharp blades, and the sense of oppression brought by the vision is by no means comparable to standing on the head of the city!

What is the concept of a thousand to fifty? It means that you want to fight twenty of them on your side! Although due to topographical factors, the number of people in the unit area at the same time is similar, but after all, people's physical strength is limited. Even if you kill a fat pig that can't resist twenty times in a row, you will be tired enough. What's more, it's not a thousand pigs on the other side, it's a thousand people! A thousand soldiers who are inexperienced in combat, but can dodge, parry, and counterattack!

And even trying to implement the decapitation tactics like earlier will not work at all. Because of the large number of people on the other side and the thickness of the team, the enemy's main general had Xu Chu's earlier encounter as a lesson for the future, and he would definitely no longer take the lead, but safely hide in this formation. In the current situation where the pits and valleys are full of people, you can only vaguely see the handsome flag on the opposite side, not to mention that you have to penetrate the encirclement and kill it? Don't even think about it.

So for today's plan, I have to fight hard! I hope that the Mandarin Duck Array warriors who have been training for months can bring some surprises to themselves!

After waiting for a while, the team of the Red Turban Army was completed, and with a low drum sound, the front team of the Red Turban Army flat-ended their blades, let out bursts of shouts, and stepped forward towards the defensive position, and the offensive and defensive battle officially began!

As the distance closed, the Red Turbans began to charge. And Zhao Minjun relied on his crossbow and arrows, and gave the other party a small lesson with a rain of arrows at the beginning of the opponent's charge! I saw that under the command of Zhang Han, the guards were lined up in two rows, with ten people in each row, the front row was half squatting, and the back row was upright. At the sound of an order, twenty crossbow arrows pulled a breathtaking whistling sound, and plunged headlong into the body of the red-turbaned soldier! However, this was not the end of the story, for the soldiers who had just finished their crossbows retreated to reload, but from between them they again rushed forward with their loaded ballistas, and twenty more bolts roared out......

At this moment, the fragility of the human body seems so fragile in front of the murderous weapon! The screams of the crossbow arrows flying in the air, the muffled sound of the arrows tearing through the flesh and bones, and the screams of the red turban soldiers after the arrows were struck all converged into a sonata of flesh and blood! In just a hundred paces, in just a few blinks of an eye, no less than a hundred Red Turban warriors fell on the way to the charge!

Although Zhao Minjun inflicted great damage on the other party at this moment, after all, the manpower was limited, and the distance was not too far, so after shooting three rounds of crossbow arrows, the enemy army had already rushed to the edge of the ditch. The guards were forced to drop their crossbows and prepare for hand-to-hand combat.

At this time, it is obvious that crossbow arrows are not as good as bows and arrows, because crossbow arrows can only shoot horizontally, and there are only as many arrows as there are gaps in front of you - there are so many enemies in front of you, can you shoot through the person in front of you to the one behind you? And this is also because the Red Turban Army is not well equipped and lacks shield cover. In other words, the crossbow machine of this era is not a steel product! The bow and arrow are different, because the bow and arrow can be thrown! You can shoot as many arrows at the same time as you have as many people as you have. In other words, the kill of a crossbow depends on the number or formation of the enemy, while the kill of a bow depends on the number of your own archers. And because of the rain of arrows, it can create a short blank space for the enemy. Don't underestimate this blank space, on the battlefield, you can often lose your life in an instant; And in the same way, a small respite could be a life! Not to mention, bows and arrows can be wound much faster than crossbows.

What is now in front of the Red Turban Army is the chasm that made the two hundred elites regard it as a moat earlier. The way the Red Turbans crossed the chasm was brutal and effective. The way they do it is – fill it with people! That's right, it's just to fill it in with people. I saw the red-scarf soldier in the front row shouting and jumping into the ditch. In fact, there are only short thorns and thorns in the ditch, which can hurt people but not kill people; And the ditch is only one zhang deep, people stand at the bottom of the ditch, straighten up and arm to reach the edge of the ditch, and the soldiers in the back row directly step on the shoulders of the front row to cross the chasm and step in front of the antler position - as long as you pass through the antlers again, you can meet Zhao Minjun's short army!

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