He Bai and his subordinates rode back on their horses, and Cheng Qixi asked, "Lord, can you give him a hard blow in the back of the thief?" ”

Li Ping, Hou Cheng, and Luo Pei all looked at He Bai, He Bai smiled slightly, and said: "Don't worry, our army attacked all night last night, and there were seventy or eighty miles of land, and they haven't rested yet." And this rare battle is a must-see. In the future, when our army may encounter a fortified city, we can also learn some experience from it. ”

Everyone nodded thoughtfully, and then rode on their horses and ate some food, regained their strength, and looked at the battle from afar.

Guo Daxian's tactics for attacking Qiu and Yin Erjiawu Fort were tactics of encircling one fort and attacking one fort. Guo Daxian once ordered his elite cavalry to be deployed on the two wings of the east and west periphery, and ordered a fine cavalry to be located in the dense forest between the two forts to help. As far as the layout is concerned, Guo Daxian is already very tightly arranged, and he is indeed an old thief who has been in battle for a long time.

Looking at the fierce battle, one side of the fort is 100 meters wide and 8 meters high, and each fort wall has three wooden arrow towers three meters high, and there are only 30 people on each side to defend it. At the beginning, He Bai thought that when 30 people were guarding the 100-meter-wide fort wall, the troops must have been tight. But after looking at it for a while, I found that it was not like that. One person is more than enough to guard the ten-meter-wide city wall.

According to the thieves who attacked the fort on the west side, the total number of their troops was 500 men, divided into five batches of siege troops. There are 100 people in each batch, and there is a long wooden ladder for every 10 people, just like the long wooden ladder in later films and televisions, which is not the legendary ladder style made by Lu Ban.

He Bai shook his head again and again, what is going on? Is it because Guo Daxian doesn't understand, or because of other reasons. I saw that the hundred thieves were divided into ten teams, and the distance between each team was about ten meters, which almost occupied the entire fortress wall. Four of them ran with ladders, four with shields for cover, and two with bows to fight back.

The thirty guards on the fort wall each have a hunting bow, although the shooting distance on the flat ground is less than 100 meters, but it can reach the fort wall. Thirty shooters shot a hundred thieves who could barely lift their heads, let alone move forward.

There are thieves who want to take advantage of the gap between the guards' shots to fight back, and the guards have three archers standing on top of the wooden tower, specializing in shooting the exposed thieves with accurate archery. More than ten minutes passed, and instead of approaching the city wall for half a step, the thieves were killed and wounded by nearly half of them, and had to flee backwards.

He Bai still shook his head when he saw it, the defenders' arrows were not shooting fast, and they only shot more than a thousand arrows in more than ten minutes. And the thieves did not have good fire cover, so they could not attack the city wall and set up ladders to go up to the city, so they could only be beaten passively, or they were consuming the arrows and strength of the defenders. The whole battle was slow and tasteless, far less rapid and hearty than the field battle.

Another group of thieves came out, perhaps because the previous defenders had lost their arm strength, or because they were short of arrows, they couldn't continue to shoot the enemy for a while. After a mere hundred and ten arrows, the thieves attacked the fort, set up a wooden ladder, and prepared to climb the ladder to attack the city.

Seeing this, He Bai couldn't help but perk up and observed carefully. I saw that the elite archers on the wooden tower were shooting at each other, and the other guards were fighting against a wooden ladder for every three people. Two of them used a wooden pusher to push an erected wooden ladder and tried to knock it down. The other picked up more than 20 catties of stones and threw them under the fort.

Three of the thieves under the fort wall climbed the wall with a shield with a sharp blade, and five pushed a wooden ladder to avoid being pushed down by the guards. However, the boulder thrown by the guards fell, and although it was blocked by the wooden shield of the thief on the ladder, the thief under the ladder was smashed by the boulder. For a while, his head was bleeding, his hand was broken and his bones were broken, and where was there a pneumatic escalator, and he was immediately pushed down by the guards.

The thieves screamed and fell down the wooden ladder, although they did not kill anyone, but they also made people feel depressed and uncomfortable. Before they could get up, the guards threw stones down one after another. Because the distance was too close, one stone at a time, except for the archers who shot arrows from afar, more than half of the thieves in a team of ten people were killed and wounded, and they had to flee backwards in panic.

The thieves of the other teams were almost like this, and another wave of siege battles ended, which made He Bai almost yawn. The siege of the city is not strong, and the defense of the city is not good, which makes He Bai, who has countless experience in later generations, boring to the extreme. Is this how the people at this time attack and defend the city? He Bai couldn't help but ponder deeply. After a long time, He Baifang came to his senses.

In the past, the mature offensive and defensive weapons of the Warring States period were used by the Han Dynasty to be so simple, which can be regarded as a military malaise brought about by the stability of the Eastern Han Dynasty for more than 100 years. Because the enemies of the Eastern Han Dynasty have long been nomads from the north, they are all raiders who come and go like the wind, and there is no fixed castle. Therefore, to a certain extent, the country's army is also required to be good at field warfare, like to fight and rush, like to boast of bravery, and like to fight alone in front of the battle.

The nomads did not know how to make siege equipment, so the Eastern Han army gradually weakened when it came to defending the city. The two armies in front of He Bai are both militia in nature, so it's no wonder that they are even more unadept. It was not until after a decade-long melee that the forces of all sides relearned to understand the true way of attack and defense, and the war became more tragic.

He Bai couldn't help laughing dumbly, he didn't want to be like himself in the next half a bucket of water, and at this time, he also had the ability to attack and defend like a military god. It seems that the vision and insight far beyond the two thousand years of the ancients can indeed make oneself invincible in this era. Thinking of this, He Bai couldn't help but become more and more confident in his future.

The world says that you need a golden finger for crossing, is it really needed? Having this vision and insight far beyond the ancients is the best golden finger, why need anything else.

He Bai ignored the congregation's bewildered gaze and began to think to himself. Since traveling to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although he has certain ambitions, he has never been sure whether he can really achieve great things, so he has always held the idea of relying on others to fight the world. It was only at this point that I decided to dismiss that idea completely.

What are your strengths? He Bai thought: It is the vision and insight of the ancients who have been leaping for 2,000 years, and in many things, the ancients may be strange, but they are not strange. This matter was a major matter in the eyes of the ancients, and there was no solution. But in my own place, it is nothing, and there are always similar examples in history that can be imitated.

What are the disadvantages? is that He Bai's own ability is not strong, and he is just an ordinary soldier in the later generations. In terms of ingenuity and innovation, in the political vision of court political disputes, in the skill of recruiting and using talents, and in the eloquence, emotional intelligence and personal charm of interacting with people, these are all very lacking. He Bai thought about it, and he seemed to be just a talent for being a military general, and he should not be an emperor's talent who could not control the overall situation of the country.

Maybe he is like Sun Wukong, he looks very powerful, but he can't sit on the seat of the Jade Emperor. Thinking of this, He Bai couldn't help but feel a little discouraged again.

Think about Liu Bei, who was born with the ability to convince people, Cao Cao and Sun Quan, who are good at using people, the major strange people who are good at scheming, the many court ministers who are good at conspiracy and political battles, and Yuan Shao, who is full of followers and other high-charm and high-prestige celebrities, can he really defeat them with his vision and knowledge?

Just as He Bai was pondering, Guo Daxian's auxiliary troops had already consumed the defenders, and the arrows, stones, and human strength at the head of the city were almost exhausted, and Guo Daxian finally decided to send the elite under his command to do the final blow.

"The deputy commander of the elite cavalry hasn't rested yet, okay? Someone came, and ordered the elite cavalry to go to the predetermined battlefield as soon as possible, preparing to intercept the Yin clan's reinforcements and prevent the Qiu clan from escaping. Armored foot soldiers can cross the bridge first to prepare for the siege. ”

A herald came towards He Bai, "Lord, the thief has changed. Li Ping hurriedly woke up He Bai.

He Bai looked at the heralds, and then at the armored elite soldiers who were about to cross the stone bridge, and immediately came to his senses and shouted: "Come on, quickly block the herald, just say that our department will act, and there is no need for Guo Qushuai to urge." "I still lack self-confidence. He Bai shook his head, put all his thoughts aside for the time being, and focused on the battle in front of him.

Riding a flying horse, he rushed to intercept the herald and keep him from approaching or suspicious. He Bai began to divide the cavalry into three divisions, with Li Ping and Hou, who were good at commanding the cavalry, becoming the left and right wings, each commanding 300 cavalry, and He Bai led 300 cavalry and Cheng Qi to be in the middle army, and began to run slowly towards the stone bridge.

Looking at the more than 1,000 thieves scattered in front of him who were preparing to cross the bridge, their backs were completely exposed in front of the army, and the whole army showed a bloody fierce light. He Bai, who was riding in front, silently calculated the distance, and seeing that he was about to reach a distance of two hundred steps behind the thief, he immediately raised his big hand to stop the cavalry.

Guo Daxian, who faintly felt that something was wrong behind him, finally turned his head and glanced at the approaching elite rider from the gap in the head of the elite rider behind him. Just this glance suddenly surprised Guo Daxian and made him feel bad.

Where is this formation that gathers together to prepare to cross the bridge? It was obviously a formation that was scattered and ready for an assault. What is this deputy commander of the elite cavalry going to do? Do you want to make trouble?

Without waiting for Guo Daxian to send a herald to ask, the entire nine hundred cavalry soldiers had been divided into three formations and three columns. There are four or five spacing between each horse, which makes it easier for the rear row of horsemen to charge. The front and back rows of horses bite the horse's tail, and the difference is only staggered.

As soon as the array was formed, He Bai immediately raised his spear high, and the three formations of three columns of nine hundred horsemen immediately whipped the horses under the seat vigorously, and the spear with a zhang long spear in his right hand was aimed at their respective targets, and rushed towards them suddenly.

Guo Daxian's eyes widened suddenly, and he shouted: "Damn, damn, that guy is really a rebellion." The herald ordered the infantry to pause across the bridge, and the whole army lined up to resist spears to prevent the cavalry from charging into battle. The protectors immediately turned around and slew the traitor with me. ”

Guo Daxian's series of orders were suddenly issued, but where did the thieves who coaxed the bridge have the quality of Taiyuan soldiers, and they were all stunned for a while, what is the situation?