Chapter 188: The Verge
"Damn, how many catapults are there on the other side!" Wang Jun found that his catapult was more powerful than the other party, the distance was farther, and the throwing was faster, but in this catapult competition, his side fell behind.
Obviously, yesterday, he used a thunderbolt to destroy the other party's catapult, but in just one night, these guys made a comeback, and they made themselves even more headaches, and the other party was lined up with catapults, as if endless.
This feeling is as if Bai Qi slaughtered the 400,000 troops of Zhao State at the cost of his own labor and seven injuries in the Battle of Changping.
But Zhao was very unreasonable and sent out another 400,000 troops to meet again, and these 400,000 people had no food needs.
This kind of thing is so outrageous that even a figure like Bai Qi and the Four Saints level will be a little crazy.
Not to mention, Wang Jun made up his mind not to leave the camp, and had to wait until the rear grain transport team transported grain.
To be honest, from Liu Tai's point of view, he has already passed the news to these soldiers and family members.
It can be said that if Wang Jun used the thunderbolt to compete with the catapult that day, he directly sent troops to defeat him, then it didn't matter what news he brought, this should be Wang Jun's opportunity.
But from Wang Jun's point of view, Liu Tai's vigorous order to come over this time was not to fight a decisive battle with himself.
Liu Tai, who had been egging on Liu Tai for a whole quarter, suddenly took the initiative to attack, and even kept saying that Youzhou had been broken, and if he believed Liu Tai's words all, he would be sick.
After all, since ancient times, soldiers have never tired of deceit, maybe Liu Tai, a bad thing, wants to lure himself out, and then ambush him at some suitable place.
Therefore, Wang Jun would rather choose to continue to drive Liu Tai away with a thunderbolt car, and delay it first.
At least in Wang Jun's thinking, don't care if Liu Tai's words deceive people, but at least food can't deceive people!
If the grain is not successfully delivered, then whether Youzhou is not occupied or not, at least there is a big problem with its own grain route.
And this is the most fatal point for Wang Jun, so it's not too late to wait until the food arrives to make a decision!
It's just that what Wang Jun didn't expect was that Liu Tai's catapult was completely suppressed by his own thunderbolt during yesterday's stone throwing, and even many catapults were destroyed.
Only one day passed, and as a result, Liu Tai's army pushed out a row of catapults, but his own thunderbolts had been suppressed by the other party.
Especially not only is it as simple as the thunderbolt being smashed by the opponent's stones, but more importantly, the people who can control the thunderbolt are more or less technical, unlike ordinary soldiers, give them a spear, and they can go to the battlefield with a surprise.
In such a crazy catapult battle, the main targets of both sides are their respective catapults.
However, the loss of the technical units operating the catapult is also very large, which is a considerable test of the psychological pressure of the soldiers.
When his thunderbolt had the upper hand, Wang Jun didn't pay attention to this problem, but when the next day, his thunderbolt was completely inferior under the attack of the opponent's massive catapults, and no one under his command dared to operate those thunderbolts anymore.
After all, don't say that those thunderbolts that have been smashed, even if they haven't been smashed, they are all stained with a lot of blood at the moment, and many soldiers don't dare to continue to operate the thunderbolts even if they are whipped by officers.
"What kind of magic does Liu Tai have, obviously he should have lost in the catapult competition yesterday, but today he can pull out an elite to consume like himself.
Damn, the people on the other side are all iron men, don't you have any fear! Wang Jun felt incredible.
And Liu Tai's idea is very simple, sometimes when you can use the exchange tactics, then use the exchange tactics.
Yes, it is not easy to train fighters by yourself, and the price paid is also very large, especially if such a mechanized army is really lost here, then it will take two years to reorganize it again.
But for Liu Tai, aren't these people trained to be used today.
When the time comes, if you cherish them too much and tie your hands and feet, how can you win the war?
Not to mention that Liu Tai has some pity for the people of this world, but when it is really necessary for them to sacrifice for some interests, because of the different times and different identities, the sense of alienation brought by Liu Tai's orders will be extremely cold.
It's like right now, Liu Tai didn't take into account that the catapults on both sides were being controlled, but Liu Tai was sure that as long as the other party was not a streamlined production of equipment, the speed of maintenance and production of the other party would be slower than his own catapult!
Therefore, on the first day, if he lost in the catapult competition, he lost, and Liu Tai rushed to repair it overnight without half a point, and on the second day, he reassembled it into a catapult that was more than three times more than the number of thunderbolts left by the opponent, and continued to throw.
Do you think it's just a matter of who has more catapults in their hands?
No, this competition is an ancient handicraft workshop model, and Liu Tai has completed the competition of standardized industrial production after the reunification of weights and measures.
The performance of the thunderbolt in Wang Jun's hand is higher, so what, as long as the gap between the two sides does not really widen the generation gap, then even if the other party suppresses himself at the beginning, but with the continuous appearance of the catapult with the advantage of productivity on the battlefield, then the other party will sooner or later be suppressed by Liu Tai's model.
According to Liu Tai's idea, using productivity hard piles will definitely pile up victory, so Liu Tai chose to use catapults to fight hard with the other party.
But Liu Tai ignored it, even if it was a catapult, but in the final analysis, it was still people who were manipulating, and it was people who decided the victory.
Any catapult requires more than a dozen or twenty people to operate together, and as long as one of them is timid, the stones invested by the catapult will be more or less affected.
In contrast, Liu Tai's army has thoughts and beliefs, and will indeed be afraid and dodge in the face of the stones thrown by the thunderbolt in the sky, but even if some soldiers die in battle, there are still people who choose to go forward and continue to throw catapults.
Yesterday, the catapult was almost completely wiped out, and the mechanical unit was damaged by more than two floors, and everyone was injured, but after only going back and going through the simple treatment of the medical battalion, they began to reclassify the parts of the catapult, and today they were assembled and continued to fight!
Liu Tai's army, which had sprouted nationalism, did not flinch at all because of yesterday's defeat.
But Wang Jun's soldiers were fine at first, because they could see that they had an advantage.
After all, as long as you have an advantage in your heart, even if the soldiers around you die in battle, it will not make these people feel hopeless.
It is simply unbelievable that any normal person suddenly has a psychological breakdown and does not want to live when he has an absolute chance of winning.
But today, when their thunderbolts no longer have the advantage in numbers, this torment and despair will be magnified.
In the final analysis, they followed Wang Jun, but only because they only had this choice, and not because Wang Jun was a benevolent and righteous gentleman or had any personality charm.
And as Liu Tai's catapult occupied an absolute advantage, especially after the thunderbolt was destroyed by Liu Tai one after another, the throwing of Liu Tai's army catapult still did not end, and the stones rained down on the opponent's military camp, which made their morale plummet.
Catapults of this era could not smash the walls made of solid sand-clay, but if they only smashed the barracks themselves, which were stained with a little weather, the barracks would sooner or later collapse under the attack at any cost, after all, it was made of wood.
At this moment, Wang Jun watched one rock after another fall into the military camp, and the people in the military camp suddenly turned over on their backs, the houses were destroyed, and the defense facilities were constantly destroyed.
At this time, Wang Jun knew very well that at this point, he had lost the possibility of continuing to make other choices.
Because if it continues to delay, the morale of the soldiers will inevitably suffer.
As a matter of fact, the current self must not let the morale of his soldiers drop.
Because as long as people are depressed, then they are prone to cranky thoughts, even if the words on the slip of paper thrown to themselves are all false, but when the morale of the soldiers is low, they will instinctively think that the words above are true.
To be honest, after Liu Tai threw those broken notes from Youzhou to himself, he had no way out.
Originally, Wang Jun looked at the time when the other party's wolf smoke was ignited, and he could estimate that even if Youzhou City really fell, the grain truck was definitely transported before Youzhou City fell.
Wang Jun planned to wait until the grain truck arrived at the camp and immediately control the people who carried the grain truck, and it didn't matter what news they brought to him, but if he set an example to bring the good news to the whole army, then he would be completely sure of letting go.
But Liu Tai didn't give himself time to operate at all, yesterday the catapult threw wildly, even if a considerable part of it was destroyed by his own thunderbolt, today he actually took out a catapult of the same scale and threw it again.
Directly relying on the number of thunderbolts in his hand, he has begun to smash his own camp.
Wang Jun has commanded the army for many years, and he can naturally feel that as the opponent's catapult does not stop falling stones, he must deal with it, if he does not deal with it, the morale will inevitably decline if it is delayed, and his army will collapse!
"I've been forced to this point!" Wang Jun let out an inner sigh from his mouth at this moment.
But when it was really a desperate situation, Wang Jun also immediately lined up in the middle camp, and his subordinate Qi Hong led the red blood cavalry and the Wang family guards under his command, and the two cavalry were killed from both sides of the barracks, and galloped towards Liu Tai's army from both wings.
"I finally can't help it!" Liu Tai looked at the scene in front of him, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a little smile.
Liu Tai set his eyes on Zhou Ping, handed the sword in his hand to Zhou Ping, and said:
"This sword is given to you, and the whole army is under your command! I'm right behind you, and I can command me to charge if you need to! ”
Zhou Ping nodded when he heard Liu Tai's words, and took over the command of the war from Liu Tai.
With Zhou Ping's dispatch, the two wings of Liu Tai's army began to take the initiative to move forward, forming a crane wing array, showing a V-shape, as if they were planning to take the initiative to meet the two cavalry.
But whether it was Qi Hong, the commander of the red-blooded cavalry, or Wang Ming, the commander of the Wang family's guards, they all let their cavalry bypass from the front at this moment.
This is a normal choice for any cavalry, as cavalry is the type of cavalry that at least has to be the most effective when they cut through the flanks until they become heavily armored cavalry with armor all over their body.
At this time, the barracks in front of him saw Wang Jun's barracks being pushed down from the inside out.
Wang Jun's team has been reorganized, and with Wang Jun's order, a surging crowd of people is surging towards Liu Tai's army at this time.
One phalanx after another, the phalanx army continued to advance amid the roaring killing cries.
Wang Jun's army in this wave had 30,000 people, and he left at least 100,000 people in his hands.
Wang Jun knew very well that the battle between the two sides had just begun, and if he directly smashed all the chips in his hand, he would not be able to command so many people at all.
Therefore, it was still coming in batches, and the 30,000 people in the front army of this matter were fully five squares, and they even raised their shields and broadswords, approaching Liu Tai's steps step by step.
At this time, Zhou Ping's expression was calm, and no one could see his thoughts with a cold face.
He calmly commanded the men on the flanks to jog in small steps, and they stood in front of the mechanized troops, raising their shields.
The fighters of the first row in front held two-handed shields in their hands, and the second row held two-handed spears.
These shields stand on the battlefield, forming a wall in an instant, and the two-handed spears pass through the muzzles of the shields, and then the spears twist to form a simple triangular repulsion into the ground, and the tail of the spears is deeply embedded in the earth.
A simple defensive structure like this was calmly constructed in two layers under the command of Zhou Ping.
The soldiers behind the two floors were holding spears one by one, but they were completely able to stab the spears in their hands through the gaps that had been specially vacated.
With the completion of the simple defensive construction, Liu Tai's army soon formed a simple defensive barrier on the battlefield.
And with this exhaustion of defense, the archers were also ready to shoot arrows.
Those mechanical engineers, under the command of Zhou Ping, began to directly disassemble the catapult, and then quickly retreated to Zhou Ping's side not far away, they began to build a high platform under their joint efforts according to a variety of materials, even if the enemy army is near, at this moment they still can't stop them from working without distractions.
With the sword and shield soldiers under Wang Jun's command approaching Liu Tai's troops step by step, at this moment, under Zhou Ping's order, he saw that the archers of Liu Tai's army finally shot arrows in their hands and threw them at the shield soldiers who came step by step.
Perhaps with this as a name, both Qi Hong's red-blooded cavalry and the royal guards led the cavalry to penetrate the belly of Liu Tai's army.
Three troops, in three directions, launched an attack on Liu Tai's army almost simultaneously.
War between the two sides is on the verge of breaking out.
(End of chapter)