In the early morning of the next day, when the Anxi armies were preparing to attack, the Tayan army rode to report that the camps of the party departments were noisy and neighing, as if they were going to take the initiative to attack. Wu Yingying smiled: "Since Cai Jifeng is impatient, let's just walk less." So the four armies of Anxi lined up on the eastern city wall of Lingzhou, Xin Gu even gathered almost all the bed crossbows and stone throwers, and most of the Tayan, Lian Rui and hussars were hidden in the city waiting for the order to attack.

"Seeing that there are only 20,000 people in the formation, there are very few cavalry, what about the other armies brought by Wu Yingying?" Cai Jifeng looked at the neat front opposite, and couldn't help but feel a little envious in his heart, the leaders of the various departments and the iron harrier on his side led the tribal cavalry, one regiment in the east and one regiment in the west, barely integrated together, but everywhere showed chaos, and the slightly neater Xiazhou army, Yinzhou army and Suizhou army were also not subordinate to each other. "If the whole army comes out to line up, if the battle is lost, won't Lingzhou be in danger? This Wu Yingying is a Han man, and he is playing the game of not thinking about victory, but first thinking about defeat. Cai Jiqian sneered disdainfully, according to his thoughts, desperate bets are the style of Xianbei heroes. The surrounding iron harriers all laughed with Cai Jiqian, Cai Jiqian has this kind of ability, even if he talks casually, it can make the iron harriers who follow him feel that they are much stronger than the timid Han people in front of him.

Cai Jifeng did not answer, and ordered Cai Keyuan and Cai Keshun to attack the front of the Anxi army first, and ordered the cavalry of the Yeli tribe and the Mobing tribe to attack and harass the enemy from both flanks. Although the Tuoba clan fought infighting, the Yinzhou Army and the Suizhou Army still responded to the order of the great enemy. Cai Keyuan and Cai Keshun led more than 10,000 cavalry and launched an all-out attack on the Anxi Army in the form of a large-scale group charge.

Still four hundred paces away, they faced the first wave of blows from bed crossbows and stone throwers on the eastern city wall of Lingzhou. The projectile weapons at the head of Lingzhou City had already been adjusted in range, and there was no prelude to temptation, and the arrows and stones that did not hesitate to fall densely in the group of party cavalry running at high speed. At this distance, the bows and arrows of the Dangxiang people could not even reach the nearest Anxi army formation, let alone counterattack the defenders at the head of the city, and the tribal leaders and iron harriers could only urge their men to speed up their horses, trying to pass through this area where they could not fight back as soon as possible, and rush to the Anxi army formation.

When there were still about 200 paces away, the bow and crossbow battalion in the front of the Anxi army held up two zhang long antlers, and these crossbowmen with strong crossbows and hard bows hid behind the sharp antlers from the forest and kept firing arrows.

Some of the Iron Harriers, sturdy in their armour, rode carefully through the antlers in an attempt to leap into the crossbow battalion, cutting off the heads of the foot soldiers behind the antlers with their scimitars. But they were subjected to incessant and intensive fire from the repeaters. The repeating crossbow improved by the Anxi Army on the basis of the Wuhou crossbow is purely made of iron stubby crossbow arrows, although the range is not far, it still has a lot of lethality in a short distance. The lethal effect on the party cavalry that rushed forward desperately was even greater. After firing the arrows in the repeater's box, the crossbow battalion retreated. The pikemen battalion held the forward protection of the crossbowmen. At this time, the courage of the party cavalry to charge into battle was almost exhausted, and both fronts and flanks began to fight back one after another. The Yinzhou Army and the Suizhou Army barely caused substantial shock to the Anxi Army's military formation, and did not even bring many casualties. Cai Jiqian, the commander of the Dingyan Army, was furious: "It's just a group of cowards!" ordered all the Xiazhou Iron Harriers to put on their iron armor and get on their horses and prepare to charge into battle. Cai Jifeng does not like to charge into battle, so nearly 2,000 horsemen on the battlefield are led by Cai Jiqian, the famous Pingxia Iron Harrier is the blood of the party nobles, since he was a teenager, he has practiced martial arts, and the horses are good at carrying weights and galloping Qingtang good horses, and the people and horses are wearing the armor of the swords and arrows that are difficult to enter, and more than 2,000 horsemen are rushing together, which is the essence of the accumulation of the difficult army in a battle for a hundred years.

Seeing that the Han spear battalion was powerful, Cai Jifeng didn't want the Iron Harrier to be killed or injured in vain, so he ordered Cai Jiqian to temporarily buffer the front, and the five thousand crossbowmen advanced slowly. The Xiazhou army has a range of more than 300 steps of the crossbow, in which the crossbow machine, the crossbow body and many other components are forged with fine iron, the bow arm is twice as long as the general crossbow, the soldier can not be wound by arm strength alone, it is improved in the Central Plains has been lost in the Han Dynasty stepping on the strong crossbow. The crossbow arrows of this partial crossbow are also specially made, the arrows are straight, and the arrows are carefully polished, so as to shoot at extremely long distances and still have strong penetration. Only this partial crossbow is extremely difficult to manufacture, in the past, when the Xianbei Tuoba clan covered the world, there were not many, and the descendants of Xianbei were difficult to make the Cai family's material resources in the five states, and only 5,000 strong crossbows were made. But the way of crossbow warfare is really an inch long and an inch strong, five thousand Xiazhou army crossbowmen released crossbows outside the range of the Anxi army's bow and crossbow battalion, but when they heard the sound of strings, the Anxi army's crossbowmen and spearmen kept falling, and few of the arrows shot from the opposite side could reach the Xiazhou crossbow array.

"There are two militaristic weapons, the iron harrier and the partial crossbow, even if you can't dominate the world, it will be difficult to surrender to the five states and wait for the opportunity. Cai Jifeng smiled triumphantly, but unfortunately these two things cannot be produced in large quantities, otherwise the Bianliang Forbidden Army would not be enough. The leader of the eight party departments even led his cavalry to shout loudly to help the Xiazhou Army and the Xia Iron Harrier. Many of the young children of the Eight Tribes were in the cavalry covered in iron armor, although their faces were covered by iron masks and they couldn't see clearly, but these people were all the elites of the young generation of the entire Dangxiang tribe, and now, they were about to launch a charge and once again crush the enemies of the Dangxiang tribe. Following behind the leaders, the tribal cavalry also let out bursts of cheers, and with the dispatch of the Iron Harrier swarm, the morale of the entire Dingyan army was raised to the extreme.

"Let General Xiao lead the bow battalion to retreat. Wu Yingying sighed, although the Anxi Ordnance Division has made every effort to improve the power of crossbow arrows, but now the main achievement is the development of repeating crossbows, and the range is very different from the Xiazhou partial crossbow. Wu Yingying once ordered the Military Intelligence Department to try to get a partial crossbow to dismantle, but this is the military weapon at the bottom of the Tuoba clan's box, which is hidden in the Xiazhou arsenal on weekdays, and even the crossbowmen are not easy to see, and these crossbowmen themselves are also loyal to the Tuoba clan's domestic slaves, and their wives and children live in the inner city of Xiazhou. "The former general Bai asked the Mo swordsmen to attack and charge into battle!" the herald came to report. "Let him stay put. Wu Yingying looked at the front quite apologetically, the Modao battalion and the spear battalion not only had the scene of the sergeant falling in front of the crossbow arrows of the Xiazhou army, but also fought with the platoon guns of later generations, these sergeants were all warriors who stood out among thousands of people, but they didn't even see the enemy's face clearly, so they fell in front of the battle. "The Pingxia Iron Harrier is just waiting for the moment when our position is loosened. He paused, "Let the bed crossbow and stone thrower at the head of the city go all out to suppress the Xiazhou crossbow array!" Don't be stingy with your ordnance, how much damage you have, how much you can replenish them!"

At the head of Lingzhou City, Captain Qian Qingzhi shouted and scolded: "Work hard!" Several strong men pushed the winch together, wound the huge bed crossbow, and suddenly the tight bowstring broke all of a sudden, the sergeant and the man fell to the ground, and some people kowtowed their heads and bled out, Qian Qingzhi frowned, the more urgent the military situation, the easier it is to make trouble. The people of the baggage battalion immediately pushed the bed crossbow down to repair it, "Don't care, it's useless to wait for the guy to fix it!" Qian Qingzhi shouted loudly, threw off his helmet, took off his armor, and wore only a single coat, grabbed the winch of the crossbow of the other bed, and shouted: "Work hard, one, two, three!" Under his leadership, the other captains and centurions also took off their armor one after another and joined the ranks of the sergeants and people, and a sweaty vapor rose from the entire Lingzhou city. Qian Qingyi pushed the winch, and at the same time shouted loudly: "If you can't smash the crossbow array in Xiazhou, you will go to the battle with your grandfather for a while!" Centurion Zhang said.