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The crossbow arrows in the sky shot on the long card held high, making a continuous sound of "grabbing" and "grabbing". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Although most of the sharp arrows were blocked, there were too many of them, and there were still many stray arrows that pierced through the gaps in the shield and pierced the soldiers' **, causing the red liquid to splash like a fountain!

As some of the soldiers in the middle of the array fell, cracks appeared in the well-organized stacked embankment. The Tang soldiers were well-trained, and they didn't need any orders at this time, they instinctively aimed their crossbow arrows at the crack. The attack of the crossbow bolts immediately penetrated like mercury. In that short moment, tens of thousands of feather arrows were mixed with the whistling sound of breaking through the air, as if the rushing water of the Yellow River was surging, and hundreds of lives were swept away in an instant!

Hou Junji's face did not change, and ordered the sword and shield men of the second and third echelons to quickly step forward to resist.

On the battlefield where the two armies faced off, the lives of these hundreds of people were as worthless as ants.

Xue Yantuo's soldiers were known for their fierceness and fearlessness of death, and they regrouped themselves and continued to advance at great speed.

The power of the Tang crossbow is still there, but the number of casualties has been suppressed to the minimum.

Du He's face was gloomy, and he suddenly saw the iron-tired bow behind Xue Rengui, and smiled: "Rengui, Mingda, you immediately select a hundred marksmen, as long as the other party enters the effective range of the bow and arrow, specifically attack the gap between the shield and the shield...... The others listened, as long as the other party was in a mess, they immediately shot with a crossbow......"

The order came, and without any hesitation, all those in the army who were good at shooting formed a squad at the first time, and aimed their bows and arrows at the gaps in the shields.

The power, range, and speed of the crossbow are all above the bow and arrow, but because the crosshair is difficult to control, it is always inferior to the bow and arrow.

Xue Rengui took off the iron-tired bow behind his back, pulled a full moon, and shot an arrow.

"Whoosh".

The whistling bolts pierced the sky like eyes, burrowing into the gaps between the shields and knocking the enemies behind the shields to the ground.

The effective distance of the bow and arrow was within one hundred and fifty steps, but Xue Rengui was two hundred steps away from Xue Yantuo's shield array at the moment.

At such a distance, Xue Rengui's arrow is compatible with the three elements of accuracy, speed, and ruthlessness, and can be called a divine skill.

This arrow immediately caused the shouts of the surrounding soldiers, and the crossbowmen also took the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the enemy in the crack.

"Good shot!" Du He also praised it, Xue Rengui's archery skills are indeed unparalleled in the world.

Two hundred steps......

One hundred and fifty steps......

Fifty steps......

As the number of casualties continued to expand, Xue Yantuo was getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, there was a loud "boom", which directly covered up the rumbling war drums of Xue Yantuo.

With Xue Rengui's divine shot, the trap he had laid out was once again powerful.

Because Xue Yantuo's soldiers all protected their faces with iron shields, they couldn't see the road ahead at all. Xue Rengui's trap was already cleverly constructed, and they couldn't detect it.

Due to the relationship of time, the trap designed by Xue Rengui was only one meter wide and one meter deep, which was not enough to be fatal, but the shieldmen in the front row all fell into the trap, and the spearmen used to attack the fortified positions were suddenly exposed to thousands of crossbow arrows.

Du He naturally would not miss such an opportunity, and Sen Ran ordered: "Shoot, ten thousand arrows are fired at once......"

In an instant, the soul-chasing crossbow arrows pierced through people's bodies, often piercing two or three people with one arrow, taking away many lives.

"Dangdangdang......"

The sound of the golden gong sounded at this time.

Before rushing closer, Hou Junji had already given the order to retreat.

With his command, the five thousand Xue Yantuo soldiers who came to attack slowly retreated in an orderly manner. They retreated without confusion, showing an extremely high level of quality.

Hou Junji sat on his horse, his expression was not angry, but showed a victorious smile, and said in a low voice: "I can calculate in advance that I will use shield soldiers to restrain crossbow arrows, isn't it simple?" But I think that I, Hou Junji, only have this ability, so I'll wait to cry my nose...... Little thief, I'll take your head from your neck tonight......" He said the last sentence, his face was full of frost, and his eyes were full of gnashing teeth and hatred.

As the attackers retreated, there were more than 700 corpses on the originally noisy battlefield, and almost every corpse had no less than ten arrow feathers stuck in it.

Du He asked people to be reasonable, clean up the battlefield, and recover the useful crossbow arrows, his expression was a little weird, and he said in a low voice: "This wave of Hou Junji's offensive seems to be a little strange...... He didn't use his real strength. "Hou Junji was a general of the Tang Dynasty who had experience in offensive and defensive warfare.

The siege of the city in the Central Plains was the most tragic of the battle, and the defenders relied on the convenience of the city, even if they encountered more than ten times the enemy, they could also have the power of a battle, and they could bring huge casualties to the attackers.

Now Hou Junji has done everything possible to kill in front of the battle, and it is really a little inexplicable to retreat so easily.

"It should be a temptation...... Hearing Du He's suspicion, Xue Rengui on the side thought about it for a while, gave an answer, and then sighed: "This Hou Junji is worthy of being a famous general in a hundred battles, but it is just a tentative attack, and we have already probed our hole cards." The next wave of the offensive should be a real decisive battle. ”

"That's the only explanation!" Du He also somewhat agreed with Xue Rengui's statement, tentative attack is a common trick in siege warfare, mainly used to test what powerful defensive equipment the defender has, what powerful defensive means to beware in advance. But the little doubt in his heart has never been solved.

Hou Junji should be more than just this means.

didn't figure it out, and didn't bother to think about it, the soldiers came to block the water and cover the earth, see what you can do with me, Du He immediately strengthened his defense.

Luo Tong proposed: "Hou Junji has prepared a strong army for Xue Yantuo to limit the strength of my Tang crossbow, and this will be even more true in the next battle." Since the strength of the Tang crossbow has been greatly weakened, it is better to withdraw part of it, use spearmen, swords and shields to top it, and prepare for white-edged combat. ”

Du He nodded and arranged, thought about it, and was still a little unsteady in his heart, and transferred Fang Yiai's Mo Daowei to the vicinity of the camp, just in case.

When the last rays of sunlight were also swallowed up by darkness, Du Ho arranged for Qi Bi He Li to leave the barracks.

It's winter, and the winter nights come very early.

Under the howling north wind, the entire camp showed a dead silence. Except for the soldiers in charge of patrolling, none of the soldiers wanted to wander outside in this ghost weather, and they all hid in tents to chat, or even huddled in warm bedding to rest.

Du He also reluctantly got out of the handsome tent and made his last round before going to bed.

He wanted to look into the distance, but found that what he could see was only less than fifty meters outside the camp gate, and if the torches in the camp were extinguished, he would be able to see less than fifty paces.

Du He silently pondered in his heart, and suddenly he heard a "bang" in his ears, the bowstring sounded, and an object fell from the sky and landed in front of the fire not far away.

Only then did Du Ho see clearly what was missing, it was a vicious vulture, and an iron arrow passed through the vulture's abdomen. Misses the vital point, the vultures struggle and flap their wings, screaming, trying to fly high, but they don't have the strength to fly.

A figure of Kui'an came to the vulture's side, holding a knife, and opened a hole in the vulture's throat, it was Tuoba Wushuang.

Tuoba Wushuang saw Du He on the side, hung the vulture on his shoulder, smiled and stepped forward to greet him: "General...... " He saw Du He's gaze on the vulture on his shoulder, and hurriedly said: "Give Meng'er a meat ......"

Du He nodded and understood that Meng'er had a great role in the battle, and he couldn't treat it badly, and then he said strangely: "Your eyes are so good, I ask myself that my eyesight is extraordinary, but in this night in the northland, if there is no such fire in the camp, I am afraid that I will not even have a sight of fifty steps, but you can shoot the vultures flying at high speed in the sky." ”

Tuoba Wushuang said: "This is the biggest difference between us and you, most of the beasts tend to go out at night, and most of us grassland people are used to attacking at night in order to protect the herd and hunt, and they have long been accustomed to the life of the night...... This vulture does not fly high, there are still traces to follow, but the crosshairs are poor, and whether they can shoot the vital point depends on luck. ”

Du He's heart moved, and asked: "Remember that you are also from Tiele, so you are good at night fighting?" ”

Tuoba Wushuang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I haven't thought about this, but we grassland people are really used to going out at night." ”

Du He's eyes showed a sad color, and he said in his heart: "If I were Hou Junji, I would definitely make good use of Xue Yantuo's characteristics of being good at night fighting." ”

Just thinking like this in his heart, there was a familiar sound in the air of the Eagle King's fierce wings.

With a whistling roar, he circled two overhead, and then rushed away, flying to the east of the field to the right.

Tuoba Wushuang's color immediately changed, staring at Meng'er's movements.

Du He felt that something was wrong, and he kept spinning under the low altitude.

Tuoba Wushuang shook and said: "It's not good, the enemy is attacking, there are a large number of enemies who are killing to the east, and the speed is extremely fast. ”

In the midst of the lightning, Du He already understood what was going on. Good spirit, bad spirit, Hou Junji has already noticed the characteristics of the grassland people who are good at night fighting, and when they attack at night, they may not make any noise because the horse's hooves are wrapped in cloth.

This famous general who is good at attacking does not intend to fight a war of attrition with himself at all, but directly wants to destroy himself with lightning speed.

"Prepare for battle...... Du He did not hesitate any longer, and immediately ordered to strengthen the defense in the east.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded.

The number of people attacking was as high as more than 10,000, all of them cavalry, who were not afraid of life and death, and rushed to the camp with arrows. In an instant, Dongying shouted and killed into a piece, and fell into a fierce white-knuckle battle. The defense of Dongying, under the onslaught, was extremely difficult for a while.

Duhe rushed to the front camp and was about to lead his troops to support.

Luo Tong and Xue Rengui, who were in charge of the guards of the front battalion, heard that the battle in Dongying was raging, and they also came up at this time to ask for battle, hoping to support Dongying.

Du He glanced at the second general, suddenly held his chin, and said in a deep voice: "Don't take care of Dongying, Hou Junji's purpose is to ...... the main gate."