Wang Huaqiang smiled slightly, looked at the banner of the Sui army that was being shaken by the strong north wind above his head, and showed a trace of confidence on his face: "General Feng, do you know why our army joined you two days ago, but we have to wait until today to go out to fight?" ”

A wave of confusion appeared on Feng An's face, he really didn't know this question, so he could only shake his head.

Wang Huaqiang smiled and patted Feng Ang's shoulder: "General Feng, what you have to do today is to let your soldiers not run too slow when chasing and killing the enemy army!"

When Wang Huaqiang said this, he said to the herald beside him: "Herald, archers and crossbowmen, according to the predetermined battle plan, the enemy's shield soldiers are only allowed to pour fire oil in the ditch in front of them when they advance to three hundred paces, and the first three arrows must be shot with bows and arrows with sulfur packets, and the rockets are only allowed to be released after fifty steps, quickly!"

Feng Ang suddenly understood, and his face was full of surprise: "General Wang, are you going to attack with fire?" ”

Wang Huaqiang smiled and pointed to the three-mile-wide, overgrown clearing between the two armies, and then pointed to the bright sun: "The north wind is strong, the scorching sun is in the sky, it's ridiculous that these idiots still think that with a wooden shield they can block my bow and arrows, and when the time comes, the fire will burn, so that they will die without a place to bury!"

As he spoke, a dense and heavy brass drum sounded on the opposite side, and the central forces of the rebels had begun to move forward slowly, although compared to the Xiangzhou army's uniform pace spacing, which could almost maintain a horizontal line from beginning to end, it was far inferior to the chaos of Zhou Shiju that day.

The soldiers in the front row of the rebel center were also in groups of several hundred, with gaps of more than ten paces in between, holding thick wooden shields high. Carrying a large knife on his back. Moving forward. And the rebel banner with the word "king" written on it also slowly moved forward two miles behind the battle.

The troops on both flanks of the rebels were still advancing slowly and disorderly, but the speed was much slower than that of the central troops, and after walking more than a mile, they were already more than a hundred steps behind the central troops.

Wang Zhongxuan's face sank like water, looked at the left and right wings that were sluggish, and scolded fiercely: "These slippery heads." They all shrank in the back and want to see the excitement! After this battle, we must settle accounts with them one by one!"

Ren Gui smiled weirdly: "Wang Shuai, now you don't have to think about the matter of calculating the general account, these people have always been unreliable, in fact, the Sui army doesn't have the same idea, they don't expect the puppet army on both sides to help, the most important center only put these three thousand people, they probably thought that relying on the strong bows and crossbows of these three thousand people can shoot our army unapproachable, as long as they eat the Sui army in the center, those wall grasses on both wings will definitely take the initiative to kill." ”

He said this. glanced at the front line and nodded at Wang Zhongxuan: "Wang Shuai." It's almost a mile away, please give the order, the chariot will attack!"

Wang Zhongxuan laughed and shouted: "Order, the chariot is pushed to the front line to cover the advance of the front army!"

Wang Huaqiang coldly watched as the enemy army suddenly stopped when it approached a distance of about three hundred steps from his side, and hundreds of carts were pushed out of the crowd, with wooden planks more than one person high, and the planks were sprinkled with chicken blood and all kinds of charms, Wang Huaqiang shook his head angrily and funny, pointed to these carts and said: "General Feng, are you Lingnan people fighting like this?" ”

Feng Ang smiled embarrassedly: "The battles between the sons, most of them are also indiscriminate, and before the battle, the wizards have to dance for a while, sprinkle chicken blood, and paste charms, which will make the soldiers think that they can be invulnerable, whether others believe it or not, I don't believe it anyway." ”

Pei Shiju on the side also laughed: "But it seems that Wang Zhongxuan's people believe this." ”

Wang Huaqiang also laughed: "Today I will let them change their beliefs and let them know that in this world, the heavenly soldiers of the imperial court are much more effective than their talismans!"

Today, Feng Xiaoci stood in the center of the Chinese army, seeing that the enemy army suddenly changed into a chariot and took the lead a few hundred paces away, and the sharp soldiers at the front shouted: "The enemy is three hundred steps away from me!" He sneered and shouted at the soldiers: "It's now, the crossbowmen of the first and second rows pour fire oil into the ditch in front of them, quick!"

As the crossbowmen took out the canisters of fire oil they had brought with them and poured black oil (oil) into the ditch, the two long ditches that were only about half a foot deep soon became two black streams, and a pungent smell of oil suddenly permeated the entire battlefield, and the sharp soldier shouted: "The enemy is two hundred steps away from me!"

Feng Xiaoci's hand waved violently: "Crossbowman in the front row, shoot!"

The six hundred crossbow archers in the first row unhurriedly wound their arrows, and unlike the usual crossbow arrows, today's crossbow arrows carried a small bag behind the crossbow arrows, and the mouth of the bag was tightly tied, but the yellow powder at the mouth of the bag clearly showed that these bags contained sulfur for ignition.

There was a sound of breaking through the sky, and six hundred crossbow bolts flew by like waves, and after a "ding ding dong", the baffles of the carts on the opposite side were full of crossbow arrows, but this time none of the crossbow arrows could pass through the baffles that were more than a foot thick.

Wang Zhongxuan laughed, pointed to the front and said: "Master Ren, your method is really good, this time Sui Gou didn't shoot one of us, if we do this, we will soon be able to approach in front of them!"

Ren Gui also clapped his hands and laughed: "It's all thanks to Wang Shuai's blessing, there are still 200 steps left, you can't be careless, tell the brothers to raise the shield higher, and Sui Dog will use a bow and arrow to shoot within 100 steps!"

Wang Zhongxuan nodded and shouted: "Spread the word, tell the person in front to raise the shield higher, and hold on for another hundred steps!"

Another burst of crossbows flew by, this time there were more crossbows on the planks, and they were full of nails, and a few unlucky fellows were hit by the crossbows that came in through the gaps in the baffle, and fell to the ground and died, but the people behind them still held their shields and said something in their mouths, and continued to move on.

The voice of the sharp soldier in front of the Sui army sounded again: "The enemy is a hundred steps away from me!"

Feng Xiaoci shouted: "The archers stepped forward, and five rounds of arrow rain salvo!"

The sound of the bowstring was incessant, and the bow and arrow tied to the sulfur envelope on the tail pole were like dark clouds, cutting through the sky one by one, and at a distance of forty or fifty paces, the wooden shield held high by the rebels was densely filled with feathered arrows, and the voice of the sharp soldier sounded mournfully: "The enemy is fifty paces away from me!"

Wang Huaqiang's face was grim, and his raised arm fell fiercely, as if he was cutting off Wang Zhongxuan's head, and with his gesture, dozens of big drums behind him suddenly sounded at the same time, and the sound shook the sky.

Feng Xiaoci yelled: "Ignite, release the rocket, shoot freely!"

Ren Gui, who was slowly advancing with the large army, suddenly heard the sound of drums, his face changed color slightly, and then looked at the Sui army in front of him, a person suddenly took a torch to the ditch in front of him, and in a blink of an eye, the two walls of fire were blazing, Ren Gui suddenly felt a strong north wind blowing in his face, with a strong smell of gunsmoke, his heart suddenly cramped, and roared: "Not good, fire attack!"

When the word Ren Gui just came out, there was a rain of fire in the camp of the Sui army, with a rolling heat wave, and smashed into the array where the rebels were advancing.

The raging flames with the strong north wind, soon lit the weeds on the battlefield, and at least 20,000 people on the entire central front of the barbarians were in the sea of fire at once, countless barbarians with broken tattoos and vertical buns threw their shields, let go of the big knife in their mouths, and wanted to run towards the rear, but tens of thousands of people were crowded together, how could there be room to go backwards, and the speed of people running was far from keeping up with the speed of the fire spreading by the wind, and they often couldn't run two steps, so they caught up with the flames, with a terrifying scream, and were engulfed in fire in an instant.

There were hundreds of brave men, who were on fire, jumped over the cart that had been burned to the original shape, and tried to launch a suicidal charge towards the Sui army on the opposite side, but before they could rush out two steps, they were shot by the Sui army's strong crossbows and flat bows and arrows, and fell like hedgehogs less than twenty paces away from the Sui army's array. (To be continued......)

PS: Next shift, 17 o'clock.