The crossbow did live up to expectations, and in the afternoon battle, he quickly showed his might.

But it's a pity that Zhao Kuo knows the power of the Qin army's strong bows and crossbows, and has even read the story of Meng Tian's thousand-year-old crossbow to break the Huns, where will he gather his precious heavy cavalry in a target for the Qin army.

If you don't slip away after taking advantage, that's a fool.

Therefore, in the battle in the afternoon, Zhao Kuoli overrode public opinion and detained most of the elite armored cavalry in his hands, and even Zhao Wei, the vanguard of the cavalry, did not have to fight. After all, Zhao Wei is his own canon-like existence, and when Zhao Wei is here, he can be regarded as having an extra life. How can such a heavy general fall lightly?

Zhao Kuo's order was naturally unanimously disagreed by the generals, and even his henchman Zhao Wei was quite puzzled, but after a volley of the Qin army's crossbows on the battlefield, the originally indignant generals no longer had any sound.

In addition to the "general's foresight", I really can't think of more words to express the shock in the hearts of the generals.

What a salvo it was!

The crossbow arrows with the thickness of the forearm, the fine iron of the triangle at the front glowed, and after a few muffled buzzing sounds, they swayed out of the ballista. The crossbow arrows were lined up in the air, and the air seemed to be condensed by the murderous aura of the crossbow arrows themselves.

As early as in the battle of the barriers, Zhao Jun had already seen the benefits of the Qin army's bed crossbow, although he didn't know how the Qin army moved the heavy bed crossbow onto the chariot, but now seeing this situation again, how could he not be afraid, and then raised the small shield in his hand, trying to block the crossbow arrow.

However, the bed crossbow that can be shot through the heavy city gates, even if the power is slightly reduced, is by no means a small shield can compete.

The sound of "buzzing" breaking through the sky immediately sounded in the Zhao army's front, and the huge crossbow arrows pierced through the armor directly, and the power did not diminish at all, and it still walked straight towards the next Zhao horse.

With a few "bang, bang, bang", the crossbow arrows pierced through several people, and finally submerged into the body of a war horse and did not come back.

A round of salvo, the ballista is only a hundred, but the cavalry of the Zhao army has directly lost hundreds of combat power, and there are more than 100 elite cavalry, if Zhao Kuo did not prevent the elite cavalry from playing, I am afraid that at this time, the main force of Zhao Jun's ace has consumed most of it, and it should be known that all the elite cavalry in Zhao Kuo's hands is only three thousand.

The Zhao army on the front line quickly changed formation, taking advantage of the characteristics of the cavalry coming and going like the wind, and turned to attack the Qin army's crossbow chariots. After some entanglement, the second battle came to a quiet end with the acquiescence of the two armies.

And between this back and forth, the second battle between the two armies of Zhao and Qin turned out to be a draw, the Zhao army lost thousands of cavalry, including more than 100 elite cavalry, and the Qin army also lost nearly 2,000 cavalry, and exposed such a big killing weapon as a ballista, of course, these two thousand losses, many of them were lost when they were luring the enemy into depth.

After the battle between the two sides, the Zhao army no longer dared to easily use the elite cavalry to charge to tear apart the Qin army's defense line, and the Qin army did not dare to use the ballista to eliminate the Zhao army except for the heavy cavalry, because one was limited in arrows, and one was missing, and the other was afraid that the Zhao army would launch a surprise attack on the ballista.

Therefore, the cavalry battlefield in the north became the main battlefield of light cavalry and archers.

It is a pity that both Zhao and Qin have been dealing with the northern nomads for a long time, Zhao has Hufu cavalry and shooting, and Qin directly includes Yiqu into the territory. Although there is a slight difference, it is not enough to shake the whole army, not to mention that the Qin army still has the advantage of strength.

You advance and I retreat, you retreat and I advance, bow and arrow attack far, melee sword!

For a while, the battlefield became a pot of porridge, and neither of Zhao and Qin could help anyone, but the occasional appearance of the elite cavalry of the Zhao army also caused a lot of trauma to the Qin army.

What should have been a fast, accurate, and ruthless decisive battle turned into a helpless stalemate, and this situation was obviously more and more unfavorable to Zhao, but as for Qin, he was happy to see such a situation - time was on Qin's side after all, at least for now.

Today's situation:

Northern Battlefield: The cavalry of Qin and Zhao fought chaotically into a pot of porridge, and no one could help anyone.

West and south: The Qin army's fortress army and the south side of the Jiepai Ridge army (about 10,000 troops left behind) have caught up with the footsteps of the Zhao army, and are cleaning up the countless fortresses of the Zhao army one by one.

Eastern Battlefield: The Zhao army still held the barrier on the west bank of Danshui, temporarily avoiding the possibility of the northern army being attacked on the back. Once the west bank barrier is lost, whether it is the Zhao army in the south or the Zhao army in the north, its flanks and backs will be completely exposed to the Qin army.

It's just that the current barrier is being attacked from both sides of the east and west, and no one knows how long it can be held. What's more, according to Zhao Kuo's latest general order, the battle of the fortress is no longer aimed at holding on to delay, but with the purpose of killing and injuring the Qin army.

Therefore, there is not much time left for Zhao Jun.

Zhao Kuo did not hide such dangerous information from the generals, or even if he wanted to, he couldn't hide it.

In the face of such a crisis, if you want the people to remain undispersed, Zhao Kuo must come up with practical methods, otherwise, even if the army does not mutiny and defect, its combat strength will drop sharply, and this will have a great impact on the layout after that - if you don't fight until you are exhausted, if you don't fight the Qin army to the end of the mountain, reinforcements will not appear.

"Order: 100,000 troops on the North Road, make food tomorrow, and set off at three o'clock.

I intend to use 1,000 cavalry and 5,000 light cavalry to transfer out the Qin army's crossbow, and with 20,000 foot soldiers, go straight to the Qin army's crossbow;

Then the army was all pressed, regardless of the cost, according to the terrain, put in saturated troops, and fought to the death with the Qin army! ”

Zhao Kuo ordered in a cold voice to the generals under his command.

The soldiers were obviously fully aware of the urgency of the current situation, and immediately stopped saying more, clasped their fists and said: "Yes!" ”

The generals don't know, but Zhao Kuo's heart is like a mirror, tomorrow's battle, it is impossible to win, although he seems to have arranged it properly, but in fact it is full of loopholes.

Not to mention the rest, if you can put the elite cavalry into batches, will the Qin army leave no behind?

If the Qin army left a back hand and invested in combat power little by little, how would it be different from the tactics of adding fuel?

And with such a refueling tactic, want to defeat the Qin army? If the Qin army was so competitive, why did he have to make such a big game? Putting yourself in danger?

Although it is impossible to win, it is impossible to lose, but if you lose, you cannot afford to lose. even relied on this battle to arouse Zhao Jun's fighting spirit, so that they still maintained a strong desire to fight in the despair afterward.

And there's no other way to do that!

Only, bleeding......