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When the combined forces of Liaodong and Karasuma from the Mashou Mountain Road in the north were swarming across the river, the army of Gongsun Xu in the south also arrived at a hill about twenty miles away from White Wolf City. Here, however, he was intercepted by an army.

The banner of this army is the word "music", and the ornament on the banner indicates that this is a military horse.

There are only three military horses in the White Wolf Battalion, and there is only one surnamed Le: the White Wolf Battalion Infantry Sima and Le Jin.

Gongsun Xuqin led dozens of horsemen up the high slope to inspect the white wolf soldiers who were busy arranging a defensive formation on the hill three hundred paces away.

Gongsun Xu was happy at first, the number of this blocking army is very small, it seems that the information obtained is true, the Liaodong people and the Karasuma people are attacking in a big way, and the main force of the White Wolf Battalion should be rushing to the Mashou Mountain Road to block the strong enemy. Then he was shocked, Gongsun Xu is also a general, even if he is not very good, but he still has the foundation, he is very familiar with the military formations, looking at it, his face is contemptuous, and his expression is grim.

There were not many men and horses led by Lejin, only 500 foot soldiers, 200 cavalry, a total of 700 foot horses. Two hundred cavalry are all archers, that is, wolf-tooth flying horses. 500 foot soldiers, 300 soldiers, 200 auxiliaries.

At this moment, the soldiers are under the command of their respective teams and commanders, and in accordance with the requirements of ordinary training, they are busy and methodically starting to set up formations. Swordsmen and shieldmen, spearmen, axe and mallet men, and crossbowmen are all in place. The auxiliary corps led and the commander of the tun commanded the auxiliary soldiers to carry down various obstacles such as deer, horse, thistle, iron thistle, and wooden stakes from the ox cart and lay them in front of the military formation, and the chariot was also blocked as an obstacle on the periphery, and the two hundred cavalry led the horses and distributed them on both sides of the formation, killing one by one.

The White Wolf Army set up a circular array, surrounded by the Rejection Horse, the Deer, the Tribulus Terrestris and several Tribulus terrestris ranked as the "Weaving Girl", and the rows of sharp wooden stakes at the back were firmly nailed to the ground, forming a protective fence. Gates are provided every 100 steps behind the fence and chariots are modified with baffles to protect against arrows, which are connected like battlements. Behind the car was the crossbowmen unit with the longest range. Behind the crossbowmen was a row of sword and shield men, a line of spearmen for cover, and at the back was a line of axe men. There are walkways between the rows and columns for sorties and retreats, which stretch all the way to the bottom of the mound. Under the mound there was a row of protective stakes, behind which were archers and infantry armed with small shields and ring-headed swords.

In the middle of the formation, there is a flying tower more than two feet high, and there are flag bearers, trumpeters and lookouts on the flying towers.

Le Jin sat in the middle of the mound, more than ten armor soldiers and drummers gathered on both sides, and the military Sima Da Ming and the white wolf headhunting flag behind him unfolded like waves under the slanting sun, making a "pop" sound.

There were only 700 soldiers. But under the arrangement of Lejin, it is clearly layered, the law is clear, and the momentum is like the appearance of a large array of ten thousand armies. It is no wonder that even Gongsun Xu, who has an absolute superiority in troops, was shocked.

Fishermen are not so easy to do. War is not a singing opera, shake a feather fan or find a trick, and the strong enemy will be wiped out. The achievement of every strategy requires action and effort. Even the price of bloodshed and sacrifice. In Lejin's plan, if you want to make the sandpiper clam fight, the most crucial point is to accurately control the time when the enemies of the north and south arrive at the white wolf.

Judging by the itinerary. The enemy in the north will have to cross the White Wolf Water, and will arrive at the White Wolf relatively late. And the enemy in the south has already crossed the Xuanshui, and the eighty-mile road is unimpeded. If left unchecked, the white wolf will arrive early. In this way, the whole plan is completely aborted.

Accordingly. Lejin put forward the policy of "blocking the south and releasing the north": the enemy in the north was put in, and the enemy in the south was blocked with a force, delaying the time until dark.

This is the first battle of the infantry of the White Wolf Battalion, and the opponent is the Youzhou army, which is four times larger.

Although it was the first battle of the recruits, and it was outnumbered, Le Jin was fearless, and even full of confidence - 700 soldiers and horses may not be able to defeat the opponent's 3,000 men and horses, but it is not a problem to block them.

Lejin's confidence is not only due to the assistance of 200 wolf-tooth flying horsemen, but also from the two special units of the infantry under his command: axe and mallet soldiers and strong crossbowmen.

Axe and mallet soldiers, holding fifteen pounds of long axes or iron-clad wooden heavy mallets, wearing heavy armor, are the most powerful heavy infantry in defense and destruction.

Strong crossbowmen, holding a new type of crossbow, killing enemies from a long distance, and being the nemesis of cavalry.

It sounds like this is similar to Yuan Shao's halberd warrior and the first to die soldier, but the white wolf axe and mallet soldier is even better, and his special is special in his armor.

During the Three Kingdoms period, most of the protection of soldiers was very simple, and it was impossible for ordinary soldiers to be equipped with helmets, and they only wrapped their heads with green and brown cloth towels, so they were called "cangtou". Armor, unless it is a warlord with a solid territory and sufficient money and food, may equip some elites with two-tier armor. those warlords who were in exile, such as Cao Cao and Liu Bei; and warlords who are poor in geography and short of money and food, such as Ma Teng, Han Sui and others, don't think about it.

During this period, it was very remarkable to have a unit with conventional equipment and heavy weapons, such as Yuan Shao's Euphorbia and Gao Shun's trapped camp. Even the later Haw Par Riders were equipped with nothing more than that. And the armor is just a scale armor with leather as the inside and iron plates on the outside, which is far less sophisticated than the Ming light armor and Buren armor of the Tang and Song dynasties. Therefore, the heavy infantry at that time, if they wanted to achieve invulnerability and arrows, there was only one way, that is, to wear double layers of armor. What is that feeling like, think about you wearing two cotton clothes...... Such heavy infantry is limited in physical movement and can only do the simplest stabbing movements.

And the armor of the White Wolf Axe Soldier is very strange—at least in Lejin's opinion. They wore soft leather armor sewn into rectangular pockets of leather, and in each pocket was a plate of iron with a thickness of one finger, one palm long, half a palm wide, four horizontal and four vertical, and a full sixteen pieces.

Sixteen seven-smelting iron plates of this specification are enough to make eight ring-headed knives and equip eight soldiers! And now it's just the armor of a soldier, not counting the weapon and the chain arm of the two arms—how rich is it to be so capricious!

Well, it seems that Ma Han's two trips to Jizhou and Xuzhou before and after really made a lot of money. White Wolf City, there is really no shortage of money.

With such a large investment, the effect is naturally leveraged. Le Jin personally tested, the arrow is useless, the effect of the crossbow is not obvious, he personally holds a spear to help run and stab, although it can hurt the soldiers behind the heavy armor. But the tip of the spear in his hand was broken, and it failed to pierce the iron plate. Only the same axe or lancer can defeat such heavy armor.

Needless to say, this unique plug-in armor was inspired by the body armor of later generations. The advantage of this armor is that it is simple in craftsmanship and strong in defense, although it also has the disadvantage of affecting physical activity, but for heavy armor soldiers, there is no need for superfluous movements on the battlefield. It's just a simple split.

The new armor only has an iron plate defense on the front, lined with soft armor, and covered with hard armor, and the whole armor weighs forty pounds. With an iron helmet, two chain arms, a fifteen catties of axe mallets for the main weapon, and a short axe for the secondary weapon, a full set of outfits, a full eighty catties - if calculated according to the Han catties, it is more than one hundred and fifty catties.

Such a weight is difficult for a non-physically strong athlete to bear.

The reason why the horse is only made of frontal armor. In addition to cost savings, the most important thing is to force the heavy armor to always face the enemy.

Face the enemy head-on, no matter how hard the enemy attacks. With super strong defenses, you still have hope of survival; And if you turn your back on the enemy (run away), even if it's just a stray arrow, you can die.

There is no need to emphasize battlefield discipline. There is no need to mobilize the morale of the soldiers, as long as they wear this armor, they will face the enemy until death.

This. It's the White Wolf Axe.

What about the white wolf crossbowmen?

In the past two years, Ma Han has been running around, introducing a large number of people to White Wolf City, getting a large amount of money and food by various means, and working hard for the development and growth of White Wolf City. And the civil ministers and military generals guarding the White Wolf City did not live up to him, and Tian Yu and other officials managed the three cities in an orderly and prosperous manner; Tai Shici, Guan Hai, Xiahou Lan, Pei Yuanshao, Tang Nu, Wu Chai and other generals rode the three armies of the sea on foot, and they were trained to scream. And the two principals of the army's logistics equipment: Ma Jun and Meng Yuan, also did not disappoint their city guards.

Ma Jun has successfully turned the eccentric wheel crossbow drawings given to him by Ma Han back then into real weapons and installed them in batches.

The new type of crossbow with eccentric wheel lever winding has two specifications: infantry crossbow and riding crossbow. The crossbow arm is two and a half feet long, the crossbow bow is two feet long, and it is equipped with a compound string, and two sets of bronze pulleys are installed on both sides of the crossbow arm, a copper lever, and a copper ring at the front end. When firing, first step on the copper ring with your foot, hold the crossbow holder in one hand to form a two-point fix, and use the lever with one hand to rotate it backwards 60 degrees to complete the winding. Then place the arrow in the arrow slot, aim, and move the suspension knife to complete the launch.

The whole action is simple and clear, and the strength required is similar to that of pulling a stone bow once, winding, releasing the arrow, and firing, the time required for this series of actions is equivalent to shooting the bow and arrow twice, which is quite remarkable. At this time, the rate of fire of the crossbow and the waist crossbow is basically one to four. That is, the archer shoots four arrows, and the crossbowman shoots only one. And as time goes by, the crossbow shots, which consume a lot of body, will also become slower and slower.

The White Wolf Battalion's new infantry crossbow far exceeds the contemporaneous Tension Crossbow and Waist Tension Crossbow in terms of rate of fire and duration, and is even one point faster than the Ridge Tension Crossbow. The rate of fire and labor-saving performance are superior, but what about the range?

Thanks to the highly tensile cross-mesh double-string device, the crossbow was shortened by half (the waist tension crossbow of the same period, the crossbow was four feet long), and with the pulley, the rate of fire was increased by three times, while the range was almost the same. The strongest crossbow in the Han Dynasty was the rhubarb crossbow, which could enter the stone in 100 steps, with an effective range of 300 steps, and a bow power of 10 stones, which could not be used by non-tiger warriors. And the effective range of the new crossbow is 250 paces, which can be used by any ordinary soldier.

After Ma Han tested it, he praised it greatly, and named it the Tiger Shooting Crossbow after Han Fei's allusion to Li Guang's shooting tiger into the stone.

The advantage of shooting the tiger crossbow is so obvious that a close-quarters warrior like Lejin wants to carry one with him.

A strong crossbowman who can break through a qiē defense, and an axe soldier who can carry a qiē attack. With such a perfect combination of spear and shield, imagine how Lejin is not full of confidence. If it weren't for the fact that these two arms each had only one team, which was too few, Le Jin might have the crazy idea of annihilating his opponent.

Of course, no matter how strong a weapon is, it is still a dead thing, and the decisive factor in war is still people. In the face of such an advantageous enemy army, what kind of behavior will the white wolf infantry who are just coming to the battle formation will be, it depends on how much they can play in their daily training, and the command of Lejin, a famous general.

Knock knock knock! The Youzhou army on the opposite side has already begun to set up formations.

Le Jin summoned the herald and said lightly: "Xiaoyu whole army, if you want to see the rising sun tomorrow, please try to see the stars and moon tonight." (To be continued......)