3,000 against 10,000, and the result was a "0:3000"......

With this kind of result, if it were another person, Yan Yan would definitely feel that he was reversed by Chu Guoce!

"So, that kind of crossbow...... How much does the magazine cost to be terrifying? Yan Yan frowned and said.

Because it was Zhang Ren, Yan Yan listened to his thoughts on this battle very carefully.

When Yan Yan heard that the result of Zhang Ren's initial reconnaissance was that the Chu army only had 3,000 people here, so he decided to attack, but ...... After starting the war and discovering that these 3,000 people were actually a "crossbow" that seemed to not stop, the first reaction in his heart was that the Chu State was so properly prepared in Badong?

In fact, this idea is not wrong.

Purely talking about power and performance, the current true qi bullet crossbow actually does not surpass the repeater!

If you optimize the repeater's arrow box change speed and prepare an "infinite number" of arrow magazines, it can actually have a similar effect, but it ......

The cost of a repeating crossbow is dozens of times that of a true qi bullet crossbow, not to mention, a crossbow arrow is a wooden pole, a bird feather, and an arrow, compared with a simple and unpretentious small projectile, no matter in terms of manpower and material resources, the consumption is much more expensive.

What's more, the difficulty of storing and transporting a few bullets and a magazine is even worse!

The magazine of the repeater, which was even disposable in the early days, can now be reloaded multiple times, but ...... After loading, it must be used in a short time, otherwise it will remain in a winding state for a long time, and the machine bracket will accelerate damage, and during transportation, the projectile will fall to the ground in a sack or sack, and it only needs to be picked up, and the crossbow box ...... If the bumps on the road are severe, there will be transportation losses.

In contrast, the True Qi Bullet Crossbow is cheap and resistant!

Only the part of the true qi charge is more sophisticated, but you must know that in close combat, it can be used as a hammer head, which is not "pretentious" at all.

And in addition to the prepared spare box full of true qi, the grassroots officers of the Chu State are also full of true qi, and they are still charging at any time!

However, from a tactical point of view, Yan Yan's brain is not wrong to have thousands of repeater crossbows in Padang County, as well as an "infinite" repeater box.

"The state of Chu is so rich? Or rather...... This kind of bullet crossbow, compared to the previous repeater, has a much lower cost? Yan Yan said, took a collected projectile and muttered.

"It should be so, otherwise, not to mention thousands of repeaters, can you really prepare tens of thousands of crossbow boxes?" Zhang Ren also judged the same.

"If there are so many arrow boxes that they can't shoot endlessly, I'm afraid that ordinary military formations are not their opponents......" Although Yan Yan is old, his brain in this area is not slow.

"Actually, if it's just Patong County, I already have a plan in mind, but ...... If the state of Chu is really so wealthy, I am afraid that the situation in Hanzhong will be even more uncertain, and even ...... in the future" Zhang Ren is very leisurely, and he is still worried about the "future".

When Yan Yan heard his words, his face also changed, but then he squeezed out a smile and said: "Justice doesn't need to be disturbed, no matter what happens in Hanzhong and what happens in the future, at the moment, we have to take Badong County first and take back the control of Kuimen...... Decade. ”

"Yes, it's me who thinks about it too much, maybe Chu thieves don't have so many bullets and crossbows." Zhang Ren also followed with a round, which can be regarded as a refreshment for himself.

It's just that......

If the bullet crossbow is really rare, people don't take it to the more important Hanzhong, but it turns out to be used for defense in Patong County?

Is it possible?

However, as Yan Yan said, there is no need to think about that now, first take back Padang and reoccupy Kuimen, and then you have the qualification to "close the door".

"The strategy that justice said before ......," Yan Yan asked.

At this time, Zhang Ren pulled the sand table on the side, and said: "You can't calculate the strategy, you can only say that it is a countermeasure!" To put it bluntly, it is to imagine that the opponent is ten or twenty times the crossbowmen who are taking turns shooting arrows to block the attack, and if you take into account the ejection damage, this number will be doubled again......

In this way, we use a conventional military formation against the enemy, and the officers and men are densely packed, but it is easy to inflict huge casualties in a short period of time.

However, the weakness of the opponent is that as long as you get close, you will immediately 'fight back to your original form', so we only need to make some small changes in the military formation......"

I saw Zhang Ren talking, on the sand table, the flags of his own military formation were sparsely arranged.

And these flags are not enough!

Zhang Ren's so-called "countermeasures" are to replace the dense military formation with a sparse queue similar to the "sparse formation" variant, so as to avoid being shot by the Chu army and maximize its numerical advantage.

In fact, this is also a change on the battlefield after the perfection of breech gun tactics, in the West, it is called a skirmish line tactic, and for the East, it is similar to "sparse formation".

It's just that the sparse formation is before, and it's more of a choice when it is used as a "suspicious strategy......

As for the "future", if the era of cold weapons continues to develop, there will be a tactic of going the opposite way and using sparse infantry and swords to fight against cavalry, but now it seems that there is no opportunity to continue to deepen the development of cold weapon tactics.

Yan Yan watched Zhang Ren compare and draw, forcing and chattering, and was also surprised in his heart - Zhang Ren is worthy of being Xichuan's "back wave", he lost a little miserably before, but after all, he was only "surprised", and now it is so fast, there is a countermeasure!

At this time, both of them subconsciously ignored that this countermeasure is only useful when there is an absolute advantage in numbers, otherwise there is no need to fight.

If you want to really save yourself, you must advise the Marquis of Shu to develop an equivalent weapon as soon as he can close the door for a few years after retaking Kuimen!

And at this moment, another scout came to report......

"Come in, what's the news?" Yan Yan opened his mouth and called.

"Report to the two generals, the defenders of the Chu thieves have retreated, and they have closed the battle line and returned to the direction of Zongcheng." The scouts came in and reported.

Yan Yan was not very happy when he heard this, and after letting the scout retreat, he said to Zhang Ren regretfully: "It seems that the general of the Chu army is not a blind and brainless barbarian person, and when he saw the large army of our army coming, he actually retreated. ”

Guo Huai...... It seems that he did underestimate him before! Although he didn't know whether the tactic of digging a ditch here was taught by the Privy Council of Chu State, or whether he pondered it himself, this was a brand-new tactic after all, and Guo Huai was indeed a rare general who could master it in actual combat so quickly. Zhang Ren changed his previous impression.

What Zhang Ren said is indeed reasonable, the transition of cold weapons and hot weapons is not just as simple as hardware.

Especially the technology of Chu State, which directly jumped a generation, if the software, that is, the tactical thinking, does not keep up, and just uses a set of cold weapons to control hot weapons, just as a weapon upgrade, I am afraid that there will not be such a big improvement.

"Now is not the time to praise him! In case the thief retracts the turtle back into the city and guards it according to ......the city wall," Yan Yan said worriedly.

However, Zhang Ren interrupted: "Old General Yan doesn't have to worry, if they stick to one city, it's a big deal that we will directly clean up the outside of the city, leaving most of the soldiers and horses to trap them to death, and the remaining small part is enough to pacify Badong and Kuimen, which have not many defenders......

After all, this Badong, but it has only been occupied by the Chu State for a few years, how can I have the hearts of the people of Xichuan to join me, if they shrink into the city, except for an empty city, what can be left? ”

Yan Yan hesitated to speak, but finally nodded and did not refute Zhang Ren's words......