Chapter 567: The Beginning of the Battle

"Fifty meters away," the person in charge of observing the military situation reported the battle situation to Zhao Xu.

"The ballista men stop attacking," and immediately after, Zhao Xu gave the order for the ballista to stop fighting.

After receiving the order, hundreds of ballista wagons were quickly pushed to the rear of the formation, and in order not to affect the battle between the two armies, the ballista wagons had to withdraw to the rear of the army as soon as possible. When the ballista truck retreated, Zhao Xu then gave the order to attack.

"Rush," the front rows of night soldiers rushed out with weapons to the sound of war drums. In the face of the fierce beasts that were still rushing towards them when their numbers were greatly reduced, they no longer had much fear in their hearts.

The battle plan of the night army was clear, the sixth-order martial cultivators mixed in the front row were attacking those fierce beasts, and the ordinary soldiers were responsible for the wing army that followed the fierce beasts.

After a blockade, there were less than thirty fierce beasts left that still had combat power, and the number was within the calculations of Zhao Xu and the generals, so Zhao Xu and some generals, who were already standing on a high place at this moment, were not worried about how much trouble the fierce beasts would cause them.

A moment later, those fierce beasts met with the generals and commanders of the Night Army, these fierce beasts whose strength was comparable to that of a seventh-order martial cultivator, and their huge physique were originally difficult to deal with, but under the siege of a group of Night Army generals and commanders, they died one after another, unable to affect the ordinary Night Army. At the same time, the ordinary night soldiers continued to run forward.

"Jingle bell," not long after, the two armies met head-on.

The battle-hardened Night Army and the Wing Army, who want to take revenge, fight together, and they are inseparable from the beginning. The screams came and went, one after another the wing army fell, and another wing army filled up behind it, and at the beginning of the battle, the momentum of the two armies was about the same, but it was obvious that the night army was stronger than the wing army.

The battle line continued to advance to the side of the wing army, and if it weren't for the fierce beasts behind that had a certain impact on the night army's charge, the night army would advance the battle line faster. With the successful implementation of the plan, those fierce beasts did not cause many casualties to the Night Army, let alone cause chaos in the Night Army, everything was under Zhao Xu's control.

The war between the two sides has just begun, and the situation is showing a one-sided tendency, the current situation is very good for the night army, Zhao Xu, who is watching the battle from a high place, can think that as long as he maintains his advantage for a while, the adverse effects of those low-level fierce beasts attacking the camp on the army will slowly disappear. When the time comes, the stronger the morale will be, and there will not be much suspense about the outcome of this war.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer fierce beasts still alive on the battlefield, Zhao Xu, Fang Quyin and the others each had a little less solemnity in their eyes.

"Our army's plan to deal with the enemy's beast attack has worked, and the winged army has not been able to use the beast to demoralize our army, so it seems that there is nothing to worry about. When our cavalry battalion outflanked from both flanks, it was only a matter of time before the outcome came," Zhang Daring directly deduced the final outcome of the war based on the situation in front of him, and his words were full of confidence.

"General Zhang, don't assert it too early, in my opinion, the Wing Army is not as easy to deal with as it seems," If it is really according to what Zhang Daring said, then their night army is indeed a sure victory, but things will not be so simple, Fang Quyin always feels that the Wing Army still has some means useless.

"General Fang is worried, the Wing Army and our army have already fought, what tricks can they play?" Zhang Daring is not as suspicious as Fang Quyin, and has a realistic attitude. Zhao Xu on the side of him certainly hoped that Zhang Dada's speculation was correct, but he couldn't help but consider the possibility of Fang Quyin's words. Otherwise, if the wing army takes them by surprise by any means, it is likely to have a great impact on the situation.

"According to General Fang, what other strategies can the enemy army use to deal with our army?" Now that the two armies have been fighting, Zhao Xu can only speculate according to Zhang Dada's ideas.

"I don't know," Fang Quyin shook his head helplessly, if he didn't think about it according to Zhang's bold ideas, Fang Quyin couldn't think of anything else.

"General Fang, isn't that equivalent to not saying it? If you speculate indiscriminately, it won't be good to delay the fighter plane!" As the first tiger general of the night army, Zhang Daring tried his best to show a very talented side.

"General Zhang, do you think I seem like a person who likes to talk nonsense? It's just that the Wing Army's tactics have always been unpredictable, and I am overly worried at best. ”

"General Zhang, don't blame General Fang, I think there is some truth in what General Fang said, whether the Wing Army has other plans does need to be considered by us," recalling the scene when he had a conversation with Ruan Qiling before, Zhao Xu felt that Ruan Qiling seemed to have some big plan. Now because of Fang Quyin's statement, Zhao Xu gradually felt that maybe Ruan Qiling's method of dealing with the night army was not as simple as using fierce beasts to hit the morale of the night army.

If Ruan Qiling really has a follow-up plan, then they must come up with a countermeasure in advance, but the key point is just as Fang Quyin said, Ruan Qiling uses a plan that is unbelievable. If it were common sense, it would be difficult for them to deduce the correct answer, but if it wasn't, they would not be able to get the answer at all, unless they could think of a foolproof solution that could be used to deal with all the means of the winged army.

In fact, in this regard, Zhao Xu and the generals had discussed it before, but they didn't think of any foolproof strategy, the real result of the discussion was to wait for the opportunity, and now it seems that it has come time to wait for the opportunity.

"The two generals, regardless of the specific strategy of the enemy army, what if after a period of time, the enemy army takes our army by surprise and even makes our army defeated?"

"What does the marshal mean to let us think of a complete strategy?" He couldn't even be sure what strategy the enemy was going to use, so he naturally couldn't think of any countermeasures, and after a turn of thought, Fang Quyin directly understood what Zhao Xu meant.

On the other hand, seeing that Zhao Xu also raised concerns about unexpected situations, Zhang Daring no longer questioned Fang Quyin's statement before, after all, Zhang Daring has also experienced many battles, and Zhang Daring has some experience in the fact that the war situation may change at any time.

"That's right," when Zhang Daring considered it in the direction given by Fang Quyin, Zhao Xu nodded in affirmation of Fang Quyin's statement.

Now there are only two main generals, Fang Quyin and Zhang Daring, and the others are just ordinary generals who have no part to speak, and as for Wei Shi, he knows nothing about the war and cannot express his opinion. Time is running out, and Zhao Xu and Fang Quyin must get the results as soon as possible.

"Marshal, our army still has a cavalry battalion and an arrow battalion for the time being, can we use the strength of the two battalions to ensure the safety of our army at a critical moment?" After thinking about it, Fang Quyin put forward his own ideas.

"Although General Fang's idea is good, the cavalry and archers account for most of our army. If we keep our troops moving, I'm afraid our army won't be able to win with tens of thousands of infantry," the next time, Zhang Daring denied Fang Quyin's opinion.

"How about leaving only the archers?" There were 30,000 archers in the night army, and the number was very objective. Under normal circumstances, in the middle of the battle, the archers would definitely have to participate in the battle, so the current idea of Fang Quyin was to completely separate the 30,000 archers from the entire army. In this way, with cavalry participating in the battle, they do not have to worry about the disparity in strength.

"This plan is feasible," because he felt that another cavalry battalion would be enough to defeat the wing army, Zhang Daring hurriedly agreed with Fang Quyin's opinion.

"What's the use of just leaving 30,000 archers?" Zhao Xu also felt that Fang Quyin's proposal was feasible, but he still needed to consider how the archers could play a role at the critical moment. If it can't be used as a reserve force to deal with unexpected situations, it is better to enter the war in advance.

Zhao Xu's question is exactly what Fang Quyin is considering, as we all know, once the two armies fight, the archer's bow and arrow will lose its effect, but the archer's melee ability is generally very poor, and it cannot be compared with infantry and cavalry, most of the time it can only be counted as a person, so how much role the archer can play needs to be considered.

"If the night army can divide 30,000 archers, then the wing army with equal strength can also do it, and when the time comes, the two sides will cancel each other out, I'm afraid it will be difficult to play a role," It didn't take long for Fang Quyin to question his own method first, so that the problem that the three of them had to consider fell into a completely contradictory situation.

At the same time, on the side of the Wing Army, Ruan Qiling was also discussing with some generals.

"Marshal, the enemy has fallen for our tactics and is breaking through our defenses one by one, penetrating deep into our positions," one general described the current state of the battle.

"Well, wait a little longer, when the time is ripe, our army can surprise the night army," Ruan Qiling nodded, he was very confident in the plan of the night army, and he didn't think that Zhao Xu could guess their plan at all.

"The back is already ready, as long as the marshal gives an order, you can launch an attack on the night army at any time," after mentioning the situation in front, a general reported to Ruan Qiling about the situation in the rear of the wing army.

"Don't worry, today's marshal must take you to wait for a shame, otherwise Ben Shuai would rather die on the battlefield than withdraw his troops," from the tone of his subordinates' voices, Ruan Qiling could hear that the person who spoke was somewhat anxious, obviously the tragedy of the last night army's massacre of more than 200,000 winged troops still had some impact on this person. However, thinking of the defeat of Winless City, Ruan Qiling also couldn't keep calm.

A flash of anger appeared on his face, and Ruan Qiling's eyes showed an unprecedented resoluteness, just one look was enough for the generals to understand how much Ruan Qiling hoped to defeat the Night Army.

On the other hand, in fact, more than one general was also affected by the aftermath of the Battle of Windless City, because the fierce image of the Night Army on the battlefield left too deep an impression on them. Even if the plan of the Wing Army was successful at this time, some people were still a little apprehensive.

"I wonder when the marshal will have to wait?" In the end, some generals couldn't help but ask the key question.

"After the enemy army has penetrated enough into our army's position, and all the cavalry has participated in the battle, our army can implement the follow-up plan," in order to reassure the generals, Ruan Qiling did not sell to the generals.