Zhao Yingqi looked at the length of the ladder, and then looked at the three zigzag trenches, and immediately understood Zhou Jun's intentions, and hurriedly called the captain over.

"Is the grappling hook from yesterday's capture of the Zhou army's attack still there?"

"Mr. Newspaper, it's still there."

"Quick, get the grappling hook ready, tie it with a rope, and tie the grappling hook to the spear gun of the bed crossbow!"

"Yes!" The lieutenant hurriedly patted his horse and prepared to go.

"Remember, don't tie all the bed crossbows, five is enough!" Zhao Yingqi shouted at the captain who had just left, ten bodies were brought from Jia County, and ten bodies were transferred from Nei County, there were only twenty bodies in total, and they still needed to deal with the cavalry of the Zhou army.

After thinking about it, Zhao Yingqi deployed to Deputy General Chen beside him: "Go quickly, let all the archers go to the earthen wall, mobilize 1,500 spearmen to stand by behind the earthen wall, and be ready to go up the earthen wall to defend against the enemy at any time." ”

Vice General Chen took the order and left.

Zhao Yingqi watched as the ladders in the Zhou army were dismantled one by one, and then covered with wooden planks, and quickly calculated the current power balance between the two sides in his heart.

The Zhou army should currently be an army of less than 10,000 in the early nine-thousands, with full cavalry. Two thousand in front was supposed to attract fire and fight for the squadron to lay planks. Almost fifty planks, the squadron of three thousand people was supposed to cover the laying of planks and then act as a second wave of attacks. The rear team of 4,000 people will charge directly after the planks are laid.

The Shuo army transported 1,000 people for the first time, 1,000 people and 2,000 cavalry for the second time, and 1,000 people for the third time, and 1,000 cavalry were transferred back, plus 1,000 people sent by Neixian, and 20 bed crossbows, a total of 4,000 infantry, 1,000 cavalry, and 20 bed crossbows, occupying some geographical advantages.

If this battle is unfavorable, he who is trapped in Chunuchi Dao, even if he has Zhao Tong's protection, I am afraid that his life will not be guaranteed.

This battle is still hard to fight, but! Must win!

Let's hope my cleverness can play a role...

The time has reached less than half of the hour, the planks of the Zhou army are basically ready, and the 2,000 cavalry of the front team have also been in place, and it is the last moment of both sides. If the Shuo army wins, it can eliminate the barbed nail wedged into the hinterland, and then open the channel for reinforcements to support Neixian; If the Zhou army wins, he will be able to join forces with the reinforcements of the second prince to attack Neixian, or learn from Zhao Yingqi to cut off the passage of the Shuo army to support Neixian and the retreat of the Shuo army in Neixian.

The 2,000 cavalry of the front of the Zhou army began to charge at full speed, and the 3,000 cavalry of the squadron were slowly moving forward. The front team of the Zhou army approached the Shuo army frantically along the road that had been filled in the first two trenches.

The Shuo army has begun to release arrows when the Zhou army is about to reach the third trench, 2,000 soldiers spread their bows and arrows on the earthen wall, when the arrows are really like flying locusts, the Zhou army just stepped on the third trench when it just entered the range of Shuo army's bow and arrow 150 steps, and the arrows of the Shuo army also happened to cover it.

Although the Zhou army raised their shields to block, there were too many arrows, and the Zhou army's bow and short crossbow had to be close to a hundred paces before they could barely reach the killing range.

In the first round of arrow rain, nearly 200 people fell down in the front team of the Zhou army, and a considerable part of them were also arrows in horses, although the cavalry of the Zhou army was very good at equestrianism, but the passage filled in was too narrow, the team was relatively compact, and there were not a few comrades who were knocked down and tripped down.

Zhao Yingqi made a slight rough calculation, the cavalry speed was extremely fast, if there was no third trench, maybe the Shuo army could only shoot three waves of arrows at most before rushing to the close encounter, but now the third trench is basically undamaged, and the path filled in is narrow, resulting in five or even six waves of arrows being shot now.

Despite this, the killing efficiency was still insufficient, because there were still 3,000 cavalry in the squadron laying planks, and they could not leave the Zhou army laying planks.

Zhao Yingqi held the red flag commanding fifteen ordinary bed crossbows tightly in his right hand, and in his left hand he held the blue flag commanding five bed crossbows with grappling hooks.

Fifteen bed crossbows were already aimed at the path of the front team, and the two-foot-long arrows on the three spear spears arranged vertically glowed with cold light, and Zhao Yingqi stared at the cavalry of the front team after the first wave of arrows was slightly confused, and then quickly passed through the first trench.

If the preparation you made before doesn't work, you can only fire the bed crossbow!

However, the bed crossbow was very slow to load the arrows, and twenty bed crossbows, which were specially equipped with three hundred soldiers for loading, could only fire two waves of spear guns at most.

Staring at the cavalry of the Zhou army, Zhao Yingqi didn't dare to blink his eyes.

Finally.

In the Zhou cavalry crossed the first trench less than three steps, one after another cavalry inexplicably fell, because in the process of high-speed sprint, the front cavalry fell without warning, often resulting in two or three cavalry behind will collide, bringing great confusion to the front team of the Zhou army.

Zhao Yingqi relaxed his right hand slightly and exhaled a long breath.

As I imagined, the people and animals in this world are generally more physically fit than in the previous life, but the basic body structure is similar, and the horse is also the same as the previous life, without a collarbone.

Since horses do not have collarbones, the bones of the forelimbs are directly attached to the shoulder blades, so that although a deeper and longer stride can be obtained, the forelimbs of horses are mainly weight-bearing, and the absence of a collarbone makes the forelimbs of horses inflexible, and it is difficult to twist the shoulders back and forth like human forelimbs.

When Zhao Yingqi ordered the digging of the zigzag trench, it was to allow the Zhou cavalry to bypass the intersection and then advance from the side of the trench that was more distant through a curved path, so as to reduce the speed of the horses and buy time.

Zhao Yingqi also thought of this situation of filling trenches, so he ordered the Shuo army to dig small pits in other areas other than the pre-set Zhou army's charging route!

A small pit half a foot deep in size, staggered with a distance of half a foot across all the ground outside the predetermined route, this kind of road surface is not too much of a problem in front of humans with ankles, knees and gluteus maximus muscles in the lower limbs, but the horses of the Zhou army stepped on this bumpy staggered road with two hundred pounds of armored cavalry charging on their backs, and it was easy to make the weight of the two front hooves to the shoulder blades different and cause the shoulder blades to be dislocated and dislocated, and the snow stopped and cleared in the past two days, and the ground became honest because the snow melted, It's easier to cause the horse to stumble and fall to the ground!

The speed of the front team of the Zhou army was immediately suppressed, and when the Zhou army rushed to one hundred and twenty paces and was about to approach the second trench, the second wave of arrows had already covered the face of the Zhou army, and the cavalry that continued to fall and the cavalry who were hit by bows and arrows had fallen by nearly 700 people at this time.

In this way, you can fire eight waves of arrows, and you can basically hold it, and you don't need to move the bed crossbow! Zhao Yingqi thought of this, and his right hand clenching the red flag relaxed slightly.

Immediately after the Zhou army's front team stepped on the second trench, the Zhou army's squadron had already reached the first trench.

To Zhao Yingqi's surprise, Zhou Jun did not widen the passage that had already been filled in as Zhao Yingqi expected, but began to cover the other side with wooden planks remodeled with cloud ladders.

The cavalry dragged them to the edge of the trench, and then seven or eight men dismounted and covered the planks over the trench less than a foot long.

One plank is one and a half zhang wide, and there are six of the three trenches, each of which is covered by seven or eight planks at the same time, and the speed of movement is very slow.

The captain in charge of commanding the two thousand archers of the Shuo army was about to command half of the archers to stop the squadron of the Zhou army when he heard Zhao Yingqi shouting: "Destroy this team of Zhou troops first, and you don't have to worry about the other side!" ”

The lieutenant had to continue to direct the archers to fire.

Zhao Yingqi watched the 2,000 cavalry in front of him experience two more waves of arrows, and at the same time, there were constantly cavalry who fell and tripped the cavalry behind because of the horse's stumbling hooves, and felt that the 2,000 cavalry could no longer pose a threat, so he shifted his attention to the other side of laying the plank.

When Zhao Yingqi saw that the cavalry of the squadron was slowing down because of the laying of wooden planks, he stretched out the blue flag in his left hand and pointed in the direction of laying wooden planks, and Deputy General Chen, who was in charge of the bed crossbows, hurriedly commanded five bed crossbows tied with grappling hooks to aim in the direction of the first trench being laid.

"One hundred and seventy steps, four percent of strength!" Zhao Yingqi shouted.

"One hundred and seventy steps, four percent of strength!" Vice Admiral Chen repeated one side.

The soldiers with five bed crossbows adjusted their lookouts and relaxed their bowstrings slightly. Wait for the command.

Zhao Yingqi stared at the Zhou Jun squadron's eyes for a moment, turned his head to look at the five bed crossbows, and almost laughed out loud.

"MMP, is it to pant with a mouth? Get ready to shout out to Lao Tzu! Wait for Lao Tzu to breastfeed you, right? The shouting made Zhao Yingqi's neck stiffen.

Zhao Yingqi is really speechless, Shuojun's sergeant quality, oh no, the military system of this world is too backward!

"Yes! You ready! "Finally shouted out, the first trench of the Zhou army was almost laid.

"Put!" Zhao Yingqi raised the blue flag fiercely and waved it down fiercely.

"Put!" Vice Admiral Chen is a ruthless repeating machine.

There was a dense sound of bowstrings, and eighteen spears flew out.

There were three more, because there was a bed crossbow that was not equipped with a grappling hook and should have obeyed the orders of the red flag, and it was also fired out because of nervousness.

Zhao Yingqi, who was angry, looked at the soldier who had just knocked down the machine with a mallet, and said fiercely to Zhao Tong behind him: "I don't want to see him!" ”

Zhao Tong was also very anxious at this time, in such a tense battle situation, he couldn't play even a little role for his husband, and when he heard Zhao Yingqi's order, he threw the spear in his hand without hesitation.

The spear flew almost three hundred paces in an instant, and passed through the soldier's chest, grazing the top of a pikeman's head and nailing it to the ground behind the earthen wall, and the barrel of the spear trembled incessantly, so frightened that the pikeman who was in the trench behind the earthen wall stood on the spot.

The Shuo army was suddenly frightened by this blow and stopped for a moment, and the captain commanding the archers and the archers between the lookout and the wrong bed crossbow all looked at Zhao Yingqi on the lookout in a daze.

and the beautiful maid behind Zhao Yingqi.

Zhao Yingqi's bloodshot eyes widened, and he continued to stretch out the blue flag in his left hand, glancing at the five bed crossbows that should be under the command of the blue flag and Vice General Chen.

Vice General Chen watched Zhao Tong pull out another spear from the bundle of spears on the lookout, and trembled all over.

", what are you waiting for! Don't you see the blue flag of the gentleman? Hurry up and reload! Vice Admiral Chen slapped a soldier beside him with a horsewhip in his hand.

Vice General Chen is also served, no wonder Mr.'s maid is a bundle of spears! This power is even better than that of a bed crossbow!

In the process of loading the bed crossbow, because the captain was also stunned, Zhao Yingqi shifted his gaze to the captain, and Zhao Tong, who had already drawn out his spear, paused the spear heavily on the lookout, and the few snowflakes on the lookout were shocked to fall off the lookout.

The lieutenant also hurriedly continued to direct the archers to release the arrows.