"Wind! Wind! Wind! Gale! In the desolate and tragic sound of the horn, the roar of the five thousand Qin troops in unison set off the prelude to the offensive and defensive battle of Linjin.

Row after row of Qin troops marched out one after another, quickly assembling in the order of shield bearers in front, light infantry in the center, and archers in the rear. In a few moments, more than a dozen cone-shaped advance formations took shape. The rows of shields armed the phalanx into an impermeable iron shell, and it was clear that the Qin army intended to sacrifice speed for a smaller casualty cost.

Behind the cone-shaped phalanx is the arrow array that the Qin army relied on to become famous, and anyone who ignores the Qin army's arrow array will have to pay enough price to gain valuable lessons. Now, the head of Linjin City has not yet been included in the attack range of the Qin army's arrow array, and people with a little common sense know that when the Qin army's arrow array advances, it will be the moment when the Qin army will attack with all its might.

Because of the height, the range of the Zhao army's bow and arrow is more than ten steps farther than that of the Qin army, and the power will also increase by three points. However, the biggest disadvantage of the Zhao army was that the city was too small to place too many archers, and the output firepower was naturally far inferior to that of the Qin army. These ten steps of distance, the Qin army can cross in a few breaths, and the Zhao army can expand the results in these few breaths. You can't say no, you can only say that talking is better than nothing.

Therefore, the Zhao army positioned itself as a white-knuckle battle at the beginning, and only melee warfare could make the archers of the Qin army afraid and unable to perform, so that the Zhao army could suppress the Qin army that had an absolute numerical advantage by virtue of the height of the city wall.

Therefore, when the Qin army's arrow array moved forward and the entire formation appeared a little imperceptible loosening, the Zhao army moved out the most powerful trump card - the city defense crossbow. The nine-foot-long crossbow is an absolute nightmare for all armies, even if it is heavy infantry or heavy cavalry, it is difficult to resist the edge of the crossbow. Even the weakest, eight-foot-long city-guarding crossbow could nail a heavy cavalry company with a horse to the ground, not to mention the nine-foot-long city-guarding crossbow used by the Zhao army. As long as the angle is right. It was a piece of cake to skewered four or five heavy infantrymen or eight or nine light infantrymen into char siu.

Zhao Jun showed weakness at the beginning, although in fact they were already weak. When the Qin army's arrow array was cautiously advancing forward, he didn't watch out for the Zhao army suddenly taking out the city defense crossbow, and he suffered a big loss when he landed. Even the hard-hearted Qin Jun inevitably felt a little panicked when he found that the robes around him were crucified in strings.

From the very beginning, the Zhao army set his sights on the archers of the Qin army. As in modern warfare, the sniper's greatest enemy is always the sniper. In this era, the greatest threat to your own archers is the enemy's archers. If they can, either team will be the first to weaken the opponent's ranged class. In order to maintain the deterrence of your own guarantee on ranged damage.

The dismount of the Zhao army exceeded the Qin army's expectations, if it were not for the strict military discipline that had already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the archers of the Qin army would have the possibility of collapse. Fortunately, although the power of the city defense crossbow is great, the firing frequency is too slow, and. The Zhao army only had five crossbows to defend the city, and they lost their effectiveness except for taking advantage of them at the beginning, which made the Qin army frightened.

The marquis who commanded the Qin army's arrow array accelerated its advance after the arrow array was attacked. The best way to reduce this one-sided loss is not to retreat, but to imminent. As long as you take another forty steps forward, the opponent's city crossbow will be within your attack range. The Qin army did not expect to destroy these defensive weapons. All that is needed is to suppress the archers of the opposing side. No matter how powerful the instrument is, it needs to be controlled, and if the other party is dead or suppressed, they dare not raise their heads. Then the purpose of the Qin army has been achieved.

As soon as the Qin army's arrow array entered the range of the Zhao army's archers, hundreds of sharp arrows roared from the city, black and oppressive, full of the malice of death. The Qin army didn't care about it at all, just moved forward and fired arrows into the air. Suppressing in advance is also self-preservation.

In the narrow battlefield, no matter how skilled the archer is, he cannot disobey the military order and do those difficult dodge movements. Therefore, archers have always been the class with high casualties. Because you can't expect every archer to have a shieldman. The weapons of the archers of the Qin army are only long arrows, and those who can be used to protect themselves can naturally only be long arrows. If you want to survive, in addition to needing a little luck, it is more about suppressing the opponent with a bow and arrow. If all the archers of the enemy army were killed or suppressed and could not raise their heads, there was nothing on the battlefield that could threaten the archers' survival. The archers will survive.

The number of the two waves of arrow rain is almost the same, but the difference is that because of the huge number of archers in the Qin army, they take turns to release arrows in rows. The archers in each row shoot their arrows almost instantaneously. Then he tacitly retreated to the rear of the phalanx, on the one hand, to replenish the arrows, and on the other hand, to replenish the body. At this time, the soldiers in the back row followed, repeating the actions of the previous row. Zhao Jun is different, in order to cause the greatest damage, but also to calm the fear in his heart, all the people are shooting in a disorderly manner, as if this can make the heart a little more stable.

Therefore, if you look down from the air, the rain of arrows from the east (the direction of the Qin army) is neat and dense, while the rain of arrows from the west is scattered and unorganized.

This also caused a different result, the casualties of the Qin archers were negligible, only a hundred and ten unlucky ghosts were injured, and only more than thirty people were killed on the spot. Zhao Jun fell on the city with a series of arrows, and Zhao Jun, who was hidden behind the battlements, became the busiest person.

That is, this kung fu, the more rapid the drum sound, at first just cautiously forward, trying not to show a gap in the more than ten conical phalanx, after the Chinese army came from the rapid drum sound, spread their feet and began to rush. Because this is a signal that they have successfully suppressed the archers of the Zhao army. What the Qin army in charge of besieging the city needed to do was to run to the bottom of the city as fast as possible, set up a ladder, and climb to the top of the city.

Looking at the Zhao army at the head of the city being suppressed by the archers of the Qin army, all of them were prostrate under the battlements, the captain of the Qin army showed a little approving smile, and said to the deputy on the side: "The Zhao army is still very smart, he knows how to use his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and wants to fight with us closely, and does not let us play the advantages of the archers." ”

The deputy nodded again and again, and said, "But this is just drinking to quench your thirst!" The Zhao army allowed us to climb to the top of the city, and under the melee, our archers were useless. But the last thing we are afraid of in Daqin is hand-to-hand combat, and if Zhao Jun wants to drive us down, he has to weigh whether he has the ability to do it! ”

Captain Qin smiled but said nothing. In his heart, he secretly said: "If it is yourself, what you can do is only like this." Unfortunately, the strength of the army limited the tactics that the Zhao army could use. It seems that in less than two hours, he can complete the task assigned by Wu Anjun. ”

Looking at the Zhao army, who was constantly throwing stones and rolling logs under the city, the captain instructed: "We must strictly prevent the Zhao army from breaking through the siege or rushing out of the city." Wu Anjun's task is not to let go of a Zhao Jun, if he doesn't do it, he will have to go to see Wu Anjun. However, until then, all of them are inextricably linked. Let everyone give me a little bit of cleverness. ”

"Whoa!" The deputy replied with a stern face, and then made a farewell and went to tell the whole army.

An hour later, the number of surviving Zhao troops at the East Gate was getting smaller and smaller, and the Qin army had faintly occupied half of the city. The east gate is in a hurry. The Linjin defenders, who had originally made up their minds not to reinforce, had to draw a thousand soldiers from the other three gates to block the Qin army's offensive at the east gate.

Because the Qin army was too well prepared, the plan of the Linjin garrison to open the door and attack the besieging Qin army could only be shelved. Knowing that the Qin army was using the tactics of adding oil, and knowing that the Qin army just wanted to mobilize all its forces to the east gate and then raid the other three gates, but the Linjin guards had no choice. His lieutenant general had done enough on the east gate, but Qin Jun was not fooled, and he just recognized the east gate to fight until he died in battle. The adjutant did not forget to send someone to inform him and apologize. What can I do? Fear. Dying in the city and coexisting with Linjin is the final reward for King Zhao.

"Someone's coming!" Lin Jin Shou General said with a sad face.

"The subordinates are here!" A guard walked over and saluted.

"Take someone to burn the government for me, and the grain depot is also burned, which can be taken by the Qin State in Jincheng. If you want food and grass, no way! ”

"Whoa!" The guard replied in a deep voice, and left without looking back.

If it weren't for the fear of arousing the people's anger and turning the tide, the Linjin guards would have wanted to burn down the entire city. Don't give the Qin people a brick and tile. It's a pity that now they can only burn the grain and grass to create pressure on the logistics of the Qin army.

Soon, a thick smoke rose from Linjin City, and the flames soared into the sky. The people in the city shouted, "It's water!" Walk the water! I subconsciously wanted to go out to put out the fire, but I was stopped by Zhao Jun, who was patrolling the street. Zhao Jun naturally did not admit that it was his own side that set the fire, but on the contrary, slandered that it was the Qin army who infiltrated Linjin and set this fire with the intention of creating chaos. The county order has an order, in order to prevent the trivial tricks of right and wrong, all the people stay at home, and those who violate it will be punished by the whole country! All the people who wanted to put out the fire were intimidated and returned home.

The Qin army naturally also discovered the changes in Linjin, but Bai Qi found that the Zhao army defending the city did not have a trace of turmoil, so he guessed that this matter was probably not an accident. Before doing this, the other party must have notified all the soldiers in advance.

After thinking for a while, Bai Qi guessed the other party's thoughts. With such a large fireworks, most of them are due to the burning of the grain depot. It seems that the other party has made it clear that he can't hold Linjin, and wants to destroy the materials as much as possible, and the most important thing is naturally grain and grass. Although Bai Qi didn't expect to use the grain and grass of Linjin to feed the army, he still felt a little sorry for seeing the grain and grass being so wasted. This is also a change in mentality, before the change, Zhao Jun tossed as much as he liked, and he didn't care about it; But now that Linjin is about to be recovered, Zhao Jun is burning his own grain and grass, which is unbearable!

"Go and tell Captain Sù Wang, if he can't take Linjin for an hour, General Ben will personally go to command." Bai Qi said casually to Wang Qian, who was observing the battle situation on the side.

Wang Jian felt a pang in his heart, and said in his heart: "It seems that Zhao Jun has indeed angered the general!" Otherwise, the general would not have shortened the originally agreed time of three hours by one hour. However, now that the offensive of our side is extremely smooth, there is some pressure in an hour, but it can still be done. ”

"Whoa! The last general will send someone forward! Wang Jian bowed and replied.

Bai Qi shook his head and said, "It's better for you to go in person!" ”

Wang Jian was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, his expression became more and more respectful, and he replied: "Oh! ”

The captain of the Qin military academy, who was commanding the army to attack the city, did not expect that Wang Qian, who was the guard captain of the king of Qin and the deputy general of the Zhao army this time, would actually come to the front line in person. The captain was excited, and suddenly realized that most of the other party was going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, could it be that Wu Anjun was dissatisfied with himself? That's not right! These three hours have only passed an hour, and there is no need for Wu Anjun to send Wang Jian to urge him.

Never mind! The so-called reach out and don't hit the smiling person. The lieutenant, who didn't know Wang Qian's intentions, put his posture very low and low, and said flatteringly: "The last general will meet Lord Weiwei!" ”

Wang Jian waved his hand. Said politely: "There is no guard lieutenant in the army, (Wang) Jian Tianju is the deputy general of the army, and Captain Wang is called the deputy general." ”

Seeing that what Wang Jian said was undoubted, the lieutenant couldn't insist, so he could only say: "The last general knows!" I don't know what Vice Admiral Wang is here for? The last general is stupid, and the deputy general is asked to make it clear. ”

Wang Jian smiled after hearing this. Knowing that most of the other party was nervous and confused, he came here to be a peacemaker this time, so he said with relief: "Has Captain Wang ever noticed the sky-high flames in Linjin City?" ”

The lieutenant nodded, such a big fire, he naturally saw it. Originally, he thought that Zhao Jun would be a little flustered, and he could just take advantage of it. Unexpectedly, Zhao Jun was not nervous, and he could only continue to fight with Zhao Jun.

"Wu Anjun and I guessed. This is most likely Zhao Jun burning the grain and grass in the city. Zhao Jun must have realized that they could not hold the city, and they were not willing to fail, so they could only gather all the grain and grass together and burn them to vent their anger. This Linjin City is actually already our Great Qin's, if Captain Wang can conquer Linjin earlier, our Great Qin's losses will be a little less. That's a great achievement! ”

The captain's eyes lit up with understanding, and Wang Jian took advantage of the situation and said: "Zhao Jun is crazy, if it is after burning grain and grass. and slaughtered the people, and the loss to Linjin was even greater. You say yes or no. Captain Wang? Therefore, this Linjin City was fought earlier, and Captain Wang not only made meritorious service but also had a good reputation! ”

The lieutenant finally determined Wang Qian's intention, Wang Jian is turning a corner and wants to step up his offensive! If he can't finish what Wang Jian hinted at or what Wu Anjun hinted at in Baiqi, his school captain would be the end. There are quite a few people in the army who are staring at their seats! The lieutenant was reluctant to make a dowry for others when he was about to win Linjin.

"Vice Admiral Wang. How long do you think it's appropriate to win Linjin? The lieutenant said tentatively.

Seeing that the other party understood his hint, Wang Jian was overjoyed, but on the surface he was silent, and said in a reasonable tone: "Naturally, the sooner the better!" Well, not more than an hour at the latest. Otherwise. I'm afraid that the general will not be able to hold back and make a move. Captain Wang must know that many people are staring at this first victory! No one would think that these two hundred gold are hot, right? ”

The lieutenant nodded again and again, and said gratefully: "The last general understands!" Adjutant general, rest assured, within an hour, the last general will conquer Linjin and welcome you and the general into the city at the city gate! ”

After sending Wang Jian away, the captain wiped his cold sweat again and again, and his heart was hanging. After calming down, the lieutenant ordered the deputy and the two or five hundred lords of the south, north, and west gates to be called non-stop. In a quarter of an hour, all the people came to the captain.

"You must be wondering why Ben summoned you at such a tense moment in the battle. What Ben will want to say is that because Ben will have a major matter here that concerns your net worth and your lives. The lieutenant was alarmist.

The two or five hundred masters looked at each other, all of them did not understand the meaning of the captain, but they were strict with military discipline, and no one dared to speak out. Since his own lord said that his own life was at stake, that is, but to doubt it was to question the authority of the lord general.

The captain was very satisfied with everyone's reaction, and said with a stern face: "Just now, Lord Wei Wei came here to convey Wu Anjun's latest military order. At present, Zhao Jun knows that Linjin can't hold on, is burning grain and grass, and will even slaughter the people later, this Linjin is the Linjin of our Great Qin, and Zhao Jun can't act arbitrarily. Wu Anjun has an order, limiting us to conquer Linjin within half an hour, otherwise, not only will the life of the general be difficult to protect, but our battalion of men and horses, more than 500 masters, will use their lives to apologize! So, Ben will gather everyone together and announce it. After you go back, you organize your soldiers to charge, don't care about the cost of casualties, don't worry about the conspiracy of the Zhao army. Ben will also lead the guards to attack Linjin from the east gate later. Here, Ben Jiang will talk a lot and instruct him, if anyone who doesn't contribute to the work and wants to rely on others to take Linjin, don't blame the long sword in Ben General's hand for not recognizing people. Also, Ben will not want the number of casualties, Ben will only need to be in Jin! It's all gone! ”

"Whoa!" Two or five hundred lords roared in unison.

The meaning of the school captain is already very clear, there is only one way to live in front of everyone, that is, to take Linjin within half an hour, otherwise, all the people will be buried for Zhao Jun. Their subordinates will take their place, and the benefits they have won so hard will become a thing of the past. How did everyone know that in order to show himself and buy time for himself, the captain forcibly shortened the time set by Wu Anjun by half!

Soon, the Qin army of the three gates of Linjin was launched. Two or five hundred lords relayed similar words to their men, who in turn relayed them to the lowest soldiers. The "order" changed its flavor as it was passed on, and it became that if Linjin could not be taken in one go, all the people would be buried for Zhao Jun. As for why the funeral is accompanied, many people can't say clearly. But this did not hinder the Qin army's determination to win, and the Qin army only knew that he had to kill the Zhao army in the shortest possible time before he could survive and make military merits.

The drums are beating urgently, and the fierce battle is in full swing! (To be continued......)