Armor!

It must be armor!

Whether it was the past or the recent battle with the border guards, the armor of the merchant army left a deep impression on Ji Fa, those armor skin is rough, the thickness is uniform, the grain is smooth and fine, the grain is fine, tough and strong, ordinary wooden bows and arrows can not penetrate at all, and the protection is excellent.

But why is the armor so fragile during this battle, a row of arrows will fall after a rain of arrows!

The armor of the regular army of the Shang Dynasty is logically much higher than that of ordinary troops stationed on the border, but in fact, on the contrary, this thing must be strange!

The people who fell weren't playing dead, were they?

Ji Fa thought of this suspicion, and then quickly vetoed it himself, because he had seen the situation with his own eyes, those soldiers did not get up after they fell, and the arrows were penetrated, and there was blood on their bodies, and there was still a difference between the dead and the living.

So, why is that? Fei Lian has no reason to let these soldiers die in vain!

If not, then what are they doing?

Although Di Xin did not show up, the number of the large team following behind him was even larger, but no matter how many soldiers there were, they couldn't stand such consumption, not to mention that the Fei Lian army itself was also quite numerous, and it was completely possible to fight with Dongyi for a few rounds.

Therefore, it is impossible to delay time or rather, to block the continued penetration of the Dongyi army into the Shang Dynasty's territory, and then wait for the arrival of Di Xin's army after blocking it, and the two will be combined into one to start a decisive battle.

But if this is the case, then there is no need to fill it with human lives, as long as the team is constantly consumed and dragged down Ji Fa's attack.

Thinking about it left and right, he felt that something was wrong, and Ji Fa even wondered if Fei Lian was deliberately defeated, indulging Dongyi's pride, and then the arrogant army would be defeated......

Either way, there's a strong smell of conspiracy here!

It's just that all this is still his speculation, there is no evidence, and it doesn't make much sense to most of the straight-headed Dongyi generals.

Pressing the doubts in his heart and ignoring them for the time being, Ji Fa walked into the circle where the generals gathered, and said coldly and directly:

"This is just the vanguard army, the number of people is not even half of the big team, the big army is still behind, but we can't even take these vanguard troops, and when the big army arrives, do you still plan to fight like this?"

Zhong Chou and several black-faced generals around him were happy to splash at the mouth, but unexpectedly a Ji hair came out, and a cold word was put down, so that the cowhide words that were going to be blown again were suddenly stuck in their throats, and they were super uncomfortable, so their faces sank suddenly, and they stared at Ji Fa with bulging eyes.

The air was suddenly quiet, and there was a sense of slaughter!

"Phew!"

A slit broke the silence in the middle of the night.

Zhong Chou wanted to scold Ji Fa angrily, but in a blink of an eye, he found that what this guy said was indeed right, and he couldn't get out of his anger, so he could only spit on the ground fiercely.

Ji Fa naturally ignored this kind of lustful performance, but he didn't come to specifically attack these people, he just did it, and he didn't do anything serious.

Stepping out of the circle, he turned to the captain who was in charge of logistics bows.

Ji Fa has dealt with this captain a lot these days, and the two sides are already very familiar, but at this moment, the captain's face is not as elated as the others have won the battle, but a sad face.

"What's the matter, I don't see your face is very good."

"Childe, something is wrong, the arrows recovered from the battlefield today are only one percent of the past!"

The main combat tools of the Dongyi army were bows and arrows, and then others, and the most lethal of the bows and arrows were those arrows inlaid with bronze arrows, which were painstakingly recovered after every battle in the past, repaired a little, and used as usual in the next battle.

When encountering a weak brigade, it is mainly based on wooden arrows, and when encountering a strong enemy, it is used as the first wave of lethal weapons, and the bronze arrows themselves are much more difficult to make than wooden ones, plus the carrying weight, they have always been strategic weapons, and they can be recycled and recycled, and there can be no waste, and today's sudden war has made the loss of bronze arrows particularly large.

No wonder the captain in charge of logistics has a sad face.

Thinking of the abnormal situation of the merchant army, combined with the reasoning of the armor before and after, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in Ji Fa's mind, and he suddenly understood why!

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"Have you noticed that today's merchant army is not as difficult as the legend says......", Ji Fa raised his head and squinted, muttering.

"What? Childe, what did you say? The logistics captain looked puzzled.

These vanguard troops led by Fei Lian are definitely not the elite of the Shang Dynasty, at least more than half of them are ordinary soldiers, and even according to the armor, eighty percent are not soldiers at all.

Quite possibly...... Well, according to the previous way of fighting the merchant army, these vanguard soldiers are likely to be death row prisoners or slaves who were forcibly escorted over!

Thinking about the thin body that is very different from ordinary soldiers, the unruly sense of war, and even the weapons at hand and the armor on his body, the more Ji Fa thinks about it, the more it makes sense.

Ji Fa knocked on his head, thought quickly, and quickly concluded that there was only one reason for Fei Lian to do this, and that was to consume the combat power of the Dongyi tribe's army, whether it was soldiers, arrows or something else, so as to fully prepare for the upcoming real war.

Things get complicated all of a sudden!

"Whew!"

Ji Fa let out a long breath and frowned tightly.

What to do?

Now that it is too late to replenish the arrows, the most appropriate way to deal with it is undoubtedly to avoid a head-on duel and use roundabout tactics to deal with the enemy.

But when he thought of the attitude of Zhong Chou and the others, Ji Fa once again felt that his head was going to be big.

Today, during the day, Ji Fa did not hide behind, but personally went to the battlefield to kill a lot of enemies, and at this time at night, he also felt exhausted, and after some deep thought and the thought of the pressure he was about to face, he was a little exhausted.

But the situation was already very urgent, if it was really tomorrow day, I was afraid that it would be too late to adjust, so I patted the logistics captain on the shoulder, and after a few words of relief, he took him and turned around and walked towards the place where the generals of the various tribes gathered.

Although there is not much hope, but at this critical moment, there is always a force to get a force, as the saying goes, three stinkers, is better than one Zhuge Liang, many generals together to see if they can come up with a better way, save themselves from messing around here.

Besides, even if you come up with a way to do it yourself, you still have to rely on these people to implement it.

……

It was already late at night, and the bonfires were swaying by the wind blowing from the river, illuminating the beaches and fields by the river

Just like Ji Fa's mood at this moment!

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