The charging Ji cavalry was very fast, but without exception, all of them were blocked by a trench, which was not deep, but it was very wide, two feet long, and the horses could not cross it at all.

At this time, the crossbowmen in the army formation of the Bingzhou army began to shoot, and Pei Yu personally led the crossbowmen to attack the Ji cavalry on the opposite side.

Even if the cavalry of the Ji army rushed to the front of the trench, there was no way to rush through the trench and then storm the army formation. Even if someone rushes through the trench with the ability of the war horse and comes to the first line of defense of the Bingzhou army, the war horse does not have such a big impact, and the cavalry that loses its speed is a proper military feat in the eyes of the infantry.

Because of inertia, the cavalry of the Ji army in the front row failed to stop the war horse and rushed into the trench, and the cavalry on horseback suddenly felt that the legs of the war horse under him were weak, and even the people and horses pounced on the ground, and the cavalryman's whole face was pierced into a finger pressure board by iron nails. new

There were hundreds of cavalry of the Ji army with the same treatment, and Shen Ping's position was relatively backward, and before he was squeezed into the trench, he was escorted by the guards around him and turned aside.

Shen Ping escaped the catastrophe, but there were constantly unlucky ghosts on the side who fell directly into the trench, or because they couldn't resist, they were squeezed into it by their companions.

The cavalry of the Ji army in the trench were pierced into hedgehogs, and the soldiers who did not die were wailing like ghosts one by one, and then died despicably. No horses dared to charge the trenches anymore.

Shen Ping hurriedly stopped the charge of the Ji cavalry, and with such a defense, it was useless for him to send all the cavalry.

Either the trenches and slopes were filled with earth, or only human lives could be filled. But either way, it requires a lot of manpower and material resources.

Shen Ping looked at the scene in front of him with blazing eyes, and originally wanted to disperse the state army in one go, but unfortunately it didn't work. He hastened to order, "Let's withdraw!"

Although Shen Ping still did not change his pride and arrogance, he beat a drum in his heart. As soon as the war began, it was so unsmooth, which cast a shadow on his heart.

Shen Ping was preoccupied here, and Wang Rong was also holding a small meeting with a group of generals in the same army. Wang Rong interpreted Pei Yu's distance from the arrangement of the crossbowmen to the trench, from the timing of the attack to the configuration of the formation.

Each of the generals also said something they thought was lacking and how to improve it. The whole meeting came down as if it had just been defeated.

Wang Rong has always adhered to the principle of learning while fighting, and the generals under him, except for a small number of talented generals, most of them were born with mud legs, and followed him all the way from Hongnong, to Shuofang, and then to Zhanghua, and he had not systematically learned the art of war at all.

With their ability, it is difficult for them to bring three or five hundred people. They may have a lot of combat experience in guarding the border all year round, but this does not necessarily translate into the ability to command the army. Only by continuous study can they improve their ability to command the army.

Wang Rong has always emphasized to them that it is not that people will fight when they fight more wars. The armies of the Central Plains countries have been fighting for hundreds of years, and they have never stopped, and it stands to reason that fighting the Japanese army that has rarely fought is not the same as playing?

Putting aside the problems of equipment and supplies, the final result is that countless Yongguo, Jiguo, Yiguo and Xu *** teams are playing around in front of the Japanese army.

This is that the armies of the Central Plains countries are like a blind bear breaking a stick every time they fight, and they do not draw nourishment from it, so they have fought for hundreds of years and their combat strength has become more and more regressive.

Wang Rong learned this lesson, and he implemented various systems of post-war summarization, criticism, and self-criticism in the Bingzhou Army, summed up many effective combat methods, and also trained many generals. There is no shortage of middle- and lower-level generals in Wang Rong's hands, but high-level generals are very scarce.

The territory of the Bingzhou army is getting bigger and bigger, Wang Rong sent his brothers to Hedong County, and Wang Rong didn't even see his parents, so he came to Jizhou with his troops.

When Shen Ping retreated to the bank of Zhangshui with his cavalry, all the infantry of the Ji army had already crossed the river and were sorting out the military formation. Shen Zhiyi took his personal guards and came to the front of the infantry array.

Shen Ping came to Shen Zhiyi with a frown, Shen Zhiyi's gaze was very calm, with a blazing flame in the calm.

Shen Ping said in a deep voice, "

General, the last general has disgraced you."

Shen Zhiyi shook his head and said, "You didn't embarrass me, tell me what the situation is ahead?"

As soon as Shen Ping mentioned this, he was indignant: "This gang of state troops is too cunning, they actually dug a trench two zhang wide, and there are all kinds of secretly arranged mechanisms in the trench."

Shen Zhiyi snorted coldly and said, "A group of clowns who jump off the beam, it's just a small skill of carving insects."

I saw that driven by a group of Ji cavalry, tens of thousands of conscripted poor people of the Ji country each rushed towards the trench with a bag of sand.

The scouts of the Bingzhou army quickly discovered the situation and immediately notified Wang Rong. Wang Rong looked at Song Wenbai and said with a smile: "This Shen Zhiyi still has some ability, but this person's heart is black, and he treats the people of his Ji country as grass mustard. General Song, send out the crossbowmen."

The crossbowmen, who had received the order, quickly ran in front of the shield spearmen, stretched their bows and arrows, wound their crossbows, and fired at the Ji troops on the opposite side.

There are constantly poor people in Ji country who are carrying sandbags who are shot by arrows and wail and die on the ground. When some laborers saw this, they immediately dropped their sandbags and were about to flee backwards, but after not running a few steps, they were caught up by the Ji cavalry who oversaw the work, and then shot them dead with an arrow.

The frenzied slaughter of the cavalry of the Ji army by these Ji laborers far exceeded the fear of the arrows of the Bingzhou army, so they had to rush to the trench, throw sandbags into the trench in the rain of arrows on the opposite side, and then turn around and run. After paying the lives of more than 2,000 laborers, the Ji army filled in the trenches.

Inside the trench, sandbags and the corpses of laborers were huddled together, and the blood condensed these sandbags into an alternative concrete, and the scene was extremely cruel and bloody.

The trench was filled in, and the Ji infantry were dispatched, and they rushed to the trench desperately, and their boots would be stained with bright red mud and become dirty.

Shen Zhiyi immediately sent more foot soldiers, and he planned to cross the trench in one go, and crush the Bingzhou army with heavy foot soldiers.

After the crossbowmen of the Ji army braved the rain of arrows to shoot at the Bingzhou army, they finally suppressed the crossbow army formation of the Bingzhou army by virtue of their numerical superiority.

Under the cover of their own crossbowmen, the infantry of the Ji army finally crossed the filled trench and came to the front of the Bingzhou army.

At this time, the crossbowmen of the Bingzhou army had already pushed behind the shield spearmen, and before the Ji army's foot soldiers rushed up, they had already fired more than a dozen arrows, and some of the archers' arms were already faintly trembling.

The crossbowmen with crossbows quickly lined up in three rows in the military formation, and instead of shooting in three rows, they chose the mode of three shots, with the third row on the crossbow, the second row passing, and the first row shooting. In this way, a curtain was formed in the sky, and the crossbow arrows kept falling on the Ji army infantry on the way to attack.

At the same time, the bed crossbow of the Seventh Division was also fired, "boom-boom-boom", dozens of crossbow guns were fired, directly shattering the shield in the front row of the Ji army's infantry, and even the shield led the people, wore it, and then rampage in the Ji army's infantry formation with unabated momentum.

These crossbow spears are like plowshares ploughing the land, and the Ji army's infantry is like a field, and the blood flowers swaying in the sky are flying clods of soil. The infantry of the Ji army was swept away in dozens of straight lines, causing hundreds of casualties.

Shen Zhiyi frowned, looking at the situation that had not been opened now, and the whole person was in a heavy mood. The situation was a bit unexpected for him now, 50,000 against 30,000, but now there was no good result.

At this time, Shen Ping was already hiding behind the fourth row of infantry under the cover of the shield hand, and observed the infantry formation of the Bingzhou army on the opposite side at close range. When he saw the formation of the state army, he frowned even more.

Originally, he thought that his army should be able to quickly break through the enemy after crossing the trench and engaging the enemy with the state army. But the reality was cruel and swollen his face fast.

Song Wenbai stood on the platform with the bed crossbow erected, and also saw that someone on the other side was secretly observing his own situation in the Ji army's infantry formation, but he was blocked by the shield and couldn't see who it was. Five or six layers of shields were set up in front of the opponent to cover it, and it was obvious that he was not afraid of the bow and crossbow of the state army.

Song Wenbai was furious when he saw it, he pushed away the archer of a bed crossbow, personally turned the bed crossbow, and hit the shield with a blow. The men on the side

Seeing the actions of his own commander, he also turned the bed crossbow one after another, and immediately the crossbow guns were grouped up, shooting five hundred steps away, and several shields were shattered. Bringing up countless dust, the infantry of the Ji army in front of them were all destroyed.

Although many of the Ji army's personal guards quickly surrounded the figure in the center and covered the retreat, Song Wenbai still clearly saw a huge crossbow gun shot into the body of the enemy's center figure.

This situation made the Ji army's foot soldiers a big mess, which made Song Wenbai very surprised, he would not have a character explosion, and shot Shen Zhiyi with a crossbow.

It's a pity that Shen Zhiyi was still in the rear of the Ji army at this time, and it was Shen Ping, the deputy general of the Ji army, who was shot by the bed crossbow of the Bingzhou army. The situation was more difficult than he imagined, and the seemingly ordinary state army was so resilient that it made him anxious. In order to be able to achieve the first credit, he did not hesitate to risk his life, hoping to find a way to break the turtle shell of the Bingzhou army, but Song Wenbai took the opportunity to snipe and kill.

Shen Ping, who was sniped, died on the spot, and the body was carried in front of Shen Zhiyi by everyone, and the blood stained the white cloth red.

Shen Zhiyi looked at Shen Ping, who died in battle, his face was particularly ugly, and the ominous premonition in his heart became bigger and bigger, and he began to worry about his fate.

Shen Ping's death made Shen Zhiyi's heart panic, he didn't keep his hand, he went directly to the battle in person, and the atmosphere on the entire battlefield suddenly became different. Whether it was the Ji army or the merger army, there was an aura of slaughter in the large array of the two sides. Taking a deep breath, Wang Rong could smell the undisguised smell of blood in the air.