"The target is Zhao Jun on the east bank of Danxi, and three consecutive launches are ready." The order of the Qin military captain was quickly issued, and this time it was no longer the Danshui water, but the Zhao army archers who had just stood on the west bank and dared to provoke the Qin army.

Obviously, the captain of the Qin army wanted to use his strength to tell Zhao Jun what it meant to "attack the hard crossbow"!

With the order of the captain, the commanders and captains of each small phalanx immediately led the soldiers under their command to adjust the direction and angle of the arrows.

"A is good!"

"B is good!"

"C: Okay!"

……

One by one, the commanders of the small type phalanx raised the flags in their hands in turn to signal the captains in command, and the direction and angle of their own side had been adjusted in place.

After receiving the message, the lieutenant raised the flag in his hand high, and then fell heavily, shouting to the dozen or so small phalanxes on his side: "Release!" ”

In just a few minutes, the Qin army completed a series of operations such as taking a blow, reorganizing the phalanx, changing the formation, reselecting the target, adjusting the ruler, and firing the bow.

In other words, it only takes a few minutes from being hit to re-clicking.

This is the power of the world's strongest army - the black-clothed Qin army - and this kind of efficient and accurate counterattack can be completed on its own without even the command of any senior general, just under the command of a small captain.

......The bowstring was released, and countless arrows rushed into the sky, and under the action of gravity, they fell towards the archers on the east bank of the Zhao army.

At this time, the second round of the Zhao army's salvo had just been completed, and the equally unobstructed Zhao army's archers also suffered a catastrophe. People kept falling from arrows.

But obviously, as the first batch of troops to land, they are indeed full of elite. In the face of the continuous fall of his companions, the archers phalanx on the east bank of the Zhao army did not panic at all, and the living Zhao soldiers had no time to grieve, calmly drew their arrows, put on their longbows, stared closely at the direction they were about to launch, and waited quietly for the captain's order.

Unfortunately, they could no longer hear the captain's rough voice.

Beside them, the captain holding the command flag had fallen in a pool of blood, his back full of feathered arrows. As a commander, he was greatly valued by the Qin army. I still remember that this lieutenant liked to wrestle with the non-commissioned officers the most, and almost threw the whole battalion, and everyone was close and afraid of him.

A Qu Chang looked at his comrades who fell in a pool of blood, consciously took over the command, put down the bow and arrow in his hand, drew the sword at his waist, pointed at the Qin army barrier, and roared: "Lead! ”

There was no time to grieve, and the troops obeyed the orders of Qu Chang, who took over the command, and drew their bows and arrows one after another.

"Put!" Qu Chang's sword slashed down!

The Zhao army's arrow rain broke through the sky again, but compared to the Qin army's arrow rain and the first round of arrow rain, it was slightly sparse.

The rain of arrows from the two armies intersected again not far above the heads of the Qin army, and they ran to different places again to take each other's lives.

However, the difference was that the Qin archers were already protected by shield soldiers in front of them, and when the Qin archers bowed their heads and took arrows, the shield soldiers tightly protected themselves and the archers under the large wooden shields. In this way, the lethality of the archers of the Zhao army was greatly reduced.

Of course, the Qin army still needs to remove the heavy shield when shooting arrows, even if the Qin army cooperates tacitly, such an operation already takes a lot of time, and in this way, the efficiency of archery will come down.

Although it failed to kill and injure a large number of Qin archers, it was also forced to slow down the frequency of archery, which can be regarded as achieving the goal of suppressing the Qin archers.

Compared with the Qin army, the archers of the Zhao army did not have the protection of shield soldiers, and could only rely on flesh and blood to be hard against the arrows of the Qin army, and the loss was conceivable.

Only after two more rounds of projectiles with the Qin army, the archers on the east bank were no longer in formation, and the few remaining archers could no longer suppress the Qin army on the barrier, and even had no unified order, so they could only be commanded by their own hundred generals to carry out sporadic unsystematic projectiles.

But their sacrifice was worth it, and during the time of the exchange of fire with the Qin army, the Zhao army on the west bank seized the rare opportunity to quickly cross the river. This time, not only the archers, but also the shield men who protected them and the main force of the infantry besieging the city had already crossed the river. Phalanxes are being formed to advance towards the Qin army barriers.

Thousands of elite archers created time and space for the tens of thousands of Zhao troops to fight. The few remaining archers who landed first were also gathered and joined the new archery units to continue to suppress the Qin army.

At this point in the battle, the main force of the battle had quietly transferred from the archers to the infantry.

On top of the ramparts, the archers of the Qin army in Shangcheng also retreated in an orderly manner to give up the combat area to the infantry army, and at the same time, the archers once again switched their shooting targets - suppressing the main force of the Zhao army that was preparing to attack the city.

An offensive and defensive battle of the ramparts is imminent.

……

"Report, our army has broken through Danshui in the middle and completed the assembly on the west bank of Danshui, and at the same time, the siege equipment has set off to cross the river." A herald brought the latest battle report to Zhao Kuo, who was firmly seated in the military tent.

"Got it!" Ignoring the excited generals in the tent, Zhao Kuo just calmly replied to the heralds.

"Report, our army has broken through Danshui on the north and south roads!" Another herald came with good news.

"Got it!" Zhao Kuo continued to say lightly.

It's no wonder that Zhao Kuo was not excited, but the current situation has already been deduced on the sand table of the old pass, although the loss is much smaller than the calculation.

But Zhao Kuo's reaction was unfazed in the eyes of the generals - quite a general's performance.

Zhao Kuo looked at the red glow of Danshui in the distance, and his heart couldn't help but move, he was born in the new century, and he really couldn't treat human life like a mustard.

"Ordered all ministries to report the losses after statistics." Zhao Kuo immediately ordered.

"Yes!" The herald was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted again, and immediately received the order.

After a while, the battle damage had reached Zhao Kuo's hands, and the casualties in a battle of crossing the river exceeded 10,000 - 3,000 cavalry, 4,000 infantry, and the worst was the archers, as many as 6,000. Of course, many of them are wounded, after all, the attack of the bow and arrow, as long as the rescue is timely, is not so fatal.

But these more than 10,000 people are the few real elite troops left in Zhao Kuo's hands!

At this time, Zhao Kuo was in a dilemma, whether to leave these wounded elites behind, continue to fight in the West Bank after treatment, or transfer these wounded soldiers. The former will give itself more bargaining chips, and when the time comes, there will be a greater possibility of survival in the breakout, and the latter will allow these thousands of people to escape from the situation of annihilation.

"That's it, it's a bit of vitality to be able to keep it." Zhao Kuo gritted his teeth and decided to send these thousands of people back to the rear, after all, in the past ten days, the injuries may not be healed, but will become a drag......