"Sir, why did you light a fire for Zhou Jun, so that Zhou Jun could see the trench and avoid it?" At this time, although it was still foggy, under the light of more than 20 large fires, a trench fifty steps away could be vaguely seen, and Zhao Tong couldn't help but be puzzled.

"Whoever fights, with the right combination, with the odd victory. The trench is positive, the fire is also positive, and the combination of the two is to win with odds. Zhao Yingqi tilted his head and looked at the bed crossbow next to him, feeling that the preview was in his own imagination, and nodded with satisfaction: "Xiaotong, let's look at it first." ”

The torches at the first earthen wall had been extinguished quite a bit as the earthen wall was mostly torn down.

"It's coming!" Zhao Yingqi said to the captain in front of him: "According to the previous arrangement, two thousand archers are divided into four teams, three teams are ordered to shoot at the preview point, and one team is free to diffuse!" ”

"Yes!" The lieutenant gave the order, and the three military commanders each stared at the trench in front of them that they were responsible for, and another military commander commanded the diffuse archers.

The sound of horses' hooves was slowly heard on the battlefield, and the Zhou army began to attack.

Two quarters of an hour later, the neighing and screaming of horses on the battlefield continued, and the first wave of the Zhou army's attack was repulsed, and only more than 1,200 of the 2,000 attacking cavalry returned, and there were many slightly wounded. The farthest had just crossed the third zigzag trench.

Zhou Jun Wang Lin frowned, puzzled.

On the side of the Shuo army, morale was boosted.

Without waiting for Zhao Tong to ask, Zhao Yingqi took the lead in explaining.

The cavalry of the Zhou army is well-trained, the horses are excellent, our trench is only less than a zhang wide, for them it is just a sprint to cross over, basically do not need to pay attention, but if the horse speed is not enough, the width of this trench is very embarrassing, so whether it is their soldiers or horses, they will subconsciously choose to march in the area with more sprint space, the intersection of the zigzag trench, the distance between the two trenches is closer, it is not convenient to increase the speed of the horse, so they will bypass the intersection and charge from the other side.

Our trenches stagger the intersections, which can lengthen the distance of the Zhou army's charge, and substantially compress the width of the Zhou army's charge, and crossing the trench many times will slow down the speed of the Zhou army's charge and lengthen the team.

Hum! The archers only need to shoot at the pre-set pre-set pre-sight points to inflict heavy damage on the cavalry with insufficient horse speed.

This is to win with the right and the odd!

Zhao Tong was puzzled again: "Then sir, why don't we just dig the trench wider?" ”

Before Zhao Yingqi could speak, the captain in front of him said thoughtfully: "If the trench is dug wide at the beginning, and the Zhou army cannot cross it, it will first take advantage of the fog to fill the trench, and it does not need to be filled in completely, only a road to charge is completely sufficient, and now this width that is not embarrassing or embarrassing makes the Zhou army who is eager to fight ignore the role of the trench." After speaking, he stared at Zhao Yingqi with a begging gaze: "Sir, is what the last general said right?" ”

Zhao Yingqi smiled: "The general is also a talent with profound military skills!" ”

This sentence made the captain breathe quickly, such a wonderful tactical thinking, how could a soldier like himself have the opportunity to learn, Mr. Zhao did not hesitate to give advice and did not hide his selfishness, which made the captain grateful in his heart.

Zhao Yingqi saw that the captain was a little excited, and the smile on his face became stronger, and he couldn't help but say a few more words: "Of course, tactics are just a trail, and strategy is the basic." Wang Lin is also a famous general who is in harmony with the soldiers, if it is a normal battle, of course he will not be led by the nose like this, the most important days of the battle are the fake grain transport, and the Zhou army is consumed at the same time psychologically and in time, since it has been determined that the Zhou army is short of food, it is better not to confront the Zhou army head-on, semi-soft and not hard to hold the other party, step by step to force the other party to a situation where the battle must be fought is the key to the decisive victory of this battle! ”

"Thank you, sir, the last general has been taught!" The lieutenant knelt on one knee and gave a standard military salute.

And Zhao Tong on the side looked at Mr.'s smile, under the firelight, Mr.'s eyes seemed to shine with confidence in mastering everything, and he pursed his lips tightly.

"This general, please give orders to go down, count the number of casualties, and then replenish and replace them in time. Zhou Jun's cavalry shooting is still very powerful. ”

"Yes, sir." Now this lieutenant simply respects Zhao Yingqi like a god.

In a few moments, soldiers would come and report that the casualties did not exceed 100, most of them were minor wounds, and the reserve soldiers had already been replaced.

"Sir, our casualty toll is so low, and the Zhou army is just like that." Zhao Tong still wanted to see the smile and eyes of her husband again.

"What do you think I lit a fire for Zhou Jun?" Zhao Yingqi asked rhetorically.

"In order for Zhou Jun to be able to see the trenches on the ground, it is easier to follow Mr.'s plan?" Zhao Tong stared at Zhao Yingqi with burning eyes, which made Zhao Yingqi blush with some bubble teapots, but Shuo Jun didn't light too many torches here, so he couldn't see clearly.

"Half of the answer is correct, I specially put the Zhou army in the light, and our army in the dark. In the dark, the light is visible. The bright places look at the dark places, and the blur is one. Zhao Yingqi removed his eyes from Zhao Tong, and looked at the only remaining torches on the earthen wall in the distance and extinguished them one by one: "The target can't be found, even if the Zhou army is good at riding and shooting, it will be difficult to play a role." There is a way that open guns are easy to dodge, and dark arrows are difficult to defend! ”

The torches on the first earthen wall in the distance had finally been extinguished, and the time had come for a second wave of attacks.

However, unlike what Zhao Yingqi had imagined, the second wave of attack did not come, but through the firelight, he saw that many figures appeared in the trench one hundred and fifty steps away, and there were no horses.

Zhao Yingqi knew that this was a ditch being filled on the other side, and immediately ordered a thousand soldiers to fire arrows at the third trench.

Arrows rained down, and only a few screams and clanging shields could be heard.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Yingqi decided not to do too much, but just asked the five hundred soldiers to release two or three waves of arrows into the third trench every once in a while, and the rest of the soldiers stood by to rest.

In this way, the infantry of the Zhou army used bows and arrows from time to time to bury the third and second trenches into a road almost fifteen zhang wide, but Zhao Yingqi would never allow them to fill in the first trench only fifty paces away, once the Zhou army crossed the second trench, immediately ordered two thousand soldiers to keep firing arrows, and after two attempts, the Zhou army also understood that it was only in the second trench to carry out the filling operation.

Before I knew it, it was noon, the fog had basically dissipated half an hour ago, the fire was gradually extinguished, and the sun was already hanging obliquely on the hill to the south.

After the field of vision was broadened, the battlefield less than two miles between the two armies was also exposed to the soldiers, and it was not as tragic as imagined, after all, it had not yet begun to engage in short-handed combat. And Zhao Yingqi has also been trying to avoid hand-to-hand combat, after all, the Zhou army still has an advantage in numbers and combat effectiveness.

After dawn, the two sides have been in a standoff, Wang Lin is waiting, and Zhao Yingqi is also waiting. Now it's up to each side to see who has the harder hole cards.

The defender of Neixian County, another deputy general of Guan Zhengnong, was responsible for the defense of Neixian, and when he heard the battle report that the lock sand wall had a miraculous effect on the cavalry of the Zhou State, he suddenly came to his senses and ordered the 3,000 troops to build two earthen walls at the southern end of Chunnei Road, and even higher, almost three zhang high.

At the same time, the scouts released have also been reported, and the reinforcements of the Zhou army are less than 100 miles away from the Spring Inner Road, and they will arrive tomorrow at the earliest.

Zhao Yingqi, who heard the news, frowned, time is too urgent, if you can't deal with these Zhou cavalry in front of you today, the more than 10,000 Shuo troops in Neixian and his Santong Town will be flanked from front to back.

You must provoke the other party to start a decisive battle!

Standing on the lookout platform built on the basis of houses in Santong Town, I saw two teams converging into the Zhou army from the direction of Jiaxian and Qiaotou Town respectively from the direction of Jiaxian County and Qiaotou Town.

The Zhou army in the direction of Jiaxian was about 2,000 people, and the Zhou army in the direction of Qiaotou Town was only seven or eight hundred people, and it was very embarrassed, and there were many empty horses.

After waiting for less than half an hour, seeing that there was no third Zhou army, Zhao Yingqi knew that the plan had succeeded.

Zhao Yingqi instructed the herald next to him to inform him to prepare for battle. The Great War has begun!

"Later, you follow me, but don't shoot at will, there are many masters in the Zhou army, they will inevitably rely on this advantage and finally try to attack me, you have to shoot again when I can't hold it in the end, and try to capture the enemy generals alive on the premise of protecting yourself!" Zhao Yingqi whispered to Zhao Tong.

"But sir, how can Xiao Tong look at you..."Zhao Tong immediately became anxious.

Zhao Yingqi hurriedly stopped her words: "Mr. knows, Mr. will not be so stupid to be in danger, I actually want you to capture only one alive." ”

Or two... Even...

Wonderful tacit understanding, both sides of the army began to move.

At this time, the Zhou army plus the more than 2,000 people who converged later, there were almost 9,000 people, and they were all cavalry, standing on the lookout platform, the gathered Zhou army was like a dark red cloud, occupying a two-mile radius in the snow, which was really powerful.

Slowly, the Zhou army began to change formations, first nearly 2,000 cavalry in front, then 4,000 cavalry in the rear, and the 3,000 cavalry in the middle were messy and didn't know what they were doing. Before Zhao Yingqi could figure it out, the 2,000 cavalry in the front moved to the south side, and the 4,000 cavalry in the back moved to the north side, and the cavalry in the middle gradually dispersed, and more than a dozen ladders slowly rose up in the cavalry group, which looked almost four and a half zhang long and one and a half zhang wide from a distance.

In the past few days, Wang Lin has not been idle and has nothing to do, he has been preparing to attack the ladder of Jiaxian, the wall of Jiaxian is only less than four zhang high, he planned that when the second prince arrived, the second prince would attack Neixian, and Wang Lin would attack Jiaxian, but before the second prince arrived, he had already found that Chunnei Road was blocked by Zhao Yingqi, so he had to prepare to make a desperate attempt to open up Chunnei Road and meet with the second prince before making plans.

In front of Zhao Yingqi, Zhou Jun began to saw the ladder, a four-and-a-half-zhang cloud ladder was sawed into three sections, and the sawn ladder was more than one zhang, and then Zhou Jun began to cover the ladder.