Chapter 42: The Arrow Array

Wen Zhong drove the 100,000-strong army out of the pass, and only the original defenders were left on the castle tower, and they would not participate in this battle. The 100,000 army has been trained for a long time and cooperates with each other tacitly, even if the other side has 300,000 people, they can still face it without changing their faces.

The army set up camp, both sides were not ready to fight immediately, Nanbohou E Chongyu understood that the army expedition, now is the time to rest and run in, don't look at him now has an army of 300,000, but the good and the bad are uneven, and it is completely unusable if he does not rectify it, and Wen Zhong is more calm, he does not need any anxiety, there is Huang Feihu in the north, there is nothing to worry about.

For several days, in the camp of the coalition army on the South Road, people were shouting and neighing, and the whole camp was very lively, but Wen Zhong disdained this, such a chaotic army was vulnerable in Wen Zhong's opinion, and when he fought against each other, he could be defeated in one fell swoop.

Nanbohou Echongyu is also anxious, part of his 150,000 army is temporarily recruited, and although the princes of all walks of life have not expanded the army, but in the past they were not subordinate to each other, equipment, weapons, grain and grass are not unified, and the military array is also a little messy, so it is very difficult to integrate together, and now the soldiers are in the city, but they can't attack immediately, and his current situation is not as good as Beibohou Chonghou Hu.

The north has now begun to fight, Huang Feihu sits in the border pass, Chonghou Hu led the army to attack, but his strength is only three times that of Huang Feihu, so the force does not occupy an absolute advantage, and Huang Feihu resisted the city and defended, 50,000 infantry divided into five batches, taking turns to garrison the city, so to wait for work, advance and retreat, a ten-day battle to defend the city, the soldiers were trained quite elite.

The army of Chonghou Hu is a little tired, they work on expeditions and stay in the wilderness, which is a hard thing in itself, and the ten-day siege makes the army tired, but the city is still intact, and the opponent's defense is not chaotic at all, which makes their morale extremely low.

"Big brother, the losses in such a siege are too great, we can't afford it!" Chonghou Hu's younger brother Chonghei Hu said.

"Well, it's really too much of a loss, but we can't retreat anyway, otherwise Chaoge won't let us go, now even if it's all over, it's best to be able to transfer the defenders inside, but Huang Feihu may not do this. The order went down, rested for three days, and sent people to the front of the battle every day to fight the enemy and scold the battle. Chonghou Hu's face was not good-looking, because the losses were very large, and more than 10,000 people were lost in ten days.

After Kong Xuan came here, he did not disperse the 30,000 troops in his hands, but gathered them together, using the original 20,000 soldiers to divide the defense, and the county orders temporarily summoned ordinary people to assist in the defense. In order to protect their land, the people naturally did not refuse, and they took up arms to climb the tower, while the scattered princes were unorganized, and the troops of individual princes were somewhat weak.

After Kong Xuan began to attack the other party, he directly led the 30,000 troops under his command to maneuver, staring at the princes all the way and beating hard, forming an absolute advantage in the local area, directly quelling the road in one go, and then moving again.

In this way, the two battlefields in the north were in full swing, while the main battlefield in the south was the most quiet, and the southern coalition forces were still training, and there was no fighting for a whole month.

In the end, Nanbohou E Chongyu also had to go to war, but fortunately, a month's training was also regarded as some results, and the army went directly out of the barracks to line up and call for battle. The grain and grass of the Southern Coalition Army is not very sufficient, especially the number of 300,000 is really a lot, and the daily consumption of grain is very huge, and the Chaoge side is constantly delivered with grain and grass, and at the same time, Dongbohou Jiang Huanchu has penetrated deep into the south from the flank, and the Southern Route Coalition Army will get the news soon.

At this time, Xibohou Jichang had just sent troops to the flank of the Beibohou army, and it took a month, and Chaoge's Shangrong and Bigan did not express the slightest opinion on this, as if they acquiesced, but in their hearts, Xibohou had already been classified into the ranks of the enemy early.

Nanbohou E Chongyu came to the front of the two armies, Wen Zhong also came out of the crowd, Wen Zhong had an ink unicorn on his crotch, majestic, this is his master Jin Ling Our Lady gave him a mount, riding for many years.

As soon as the ink qilin came out, E Chongyu's war horse neighed uneasily, E Chongyu's momentum fell a little bit, frowned, and then shouted loudly: "Taishi, are you going to block the way of my army?"

"E Chongyu, you committed a rebellion, and now you can save your life when you get off the horse and are captured, otherwise there will be no grass where the Chaoge army passes. Wen Zhongyan said.

"Haha, Taishi, my 300,000 army is behind me, and you only want to capture me with 100,000 people? The king has stopped singing for many years, where did he go? What is the difference between not being in court for a few years and fainting king? Or get out of the way quickly, don't stop me from the army of King Qin. ”

"Hmph, the king's affairs are not yet your turn to wait for the princes to ask more, now come to see that you have a heart of disobedience, the king is wise and powerful, and the national strength of the great merchant is thriving, and now the king is no longer singing, but everything is as usual, when the king returns, the song will naturally go further, and those who are not subordinate will only have the end of the broken corpse. ”

"It's useless to talk more, let's talk about it after the two armies clash, who will take the lead with me. ”

"The end will be wished. A general behind E Chongyu came to the front of the two armies on horseback and shouted: "Which one will come out and die?"

Wen Zhong smiled disdainfully, and then waved his hand, and the army began to move, Chao Ge's side did not have the intention of fighting generals, but directly advanced the whole army, and the front of the army was all sword and shield hands, and the whole ten thousand sword and shield hands held a shield in their left hand, and a knife in their right hand.

"Drink ......" shouted in unison neatly and uniformly, the pace was extremely unified, and the ground shook a little "boom". The generals of the Southern Route Army sat down and were frightened and took a few steps back.

"No one shouts at the song?" he shouted again, but the sound was drowned out, and the sword and shield men advanced in the front row, followed by pikemen, spears like a forest, and ten thousand people, followed by sword and shield men, again pikemen, and finally javelinmen, each with five short javelins behind their backs, and the phalanx of fifty thousand men began to advance neatly.

"Arrows. "The infantry phalanx advanced, and the 50,000 arrow phalanx behind them was ready, and they did not pull the bowstrings or crossbow strings, but put the arrows on them, ready to open their bows at any time, and then accompanied the infantry phalanx forward.

E Chongyu was surprised, the other party only had 100,000 people, and he didn't fight the generals first, but attacked first, although the military formation looked very powerful, but after all, the number of his side was more than three times that of the other party, how could Wen Zhong use troops like this?

When Sun Ming arranged the military formation, he said that the fighting generals were useless, and they were directly canceled, unless the other party had cultivators, otherwise they would directly confront the military formation and crush the opponent with absolute strength. All the generals were scattered in the phalanx to prevent the opposing generals from attacking. The military generals of this era are still very high, and the most important thing in the phalanx is the deployment and formation, so there needs to be a general to block the opponent's impact, so that it can be invincible.

E Chongyu watched the opponent's army formation keep approaching, and the generals on his side had returned, and it was useless for him to go out now, "Array." "Since the opponent doesn't fight, then he can only fight.

The formation of the Southern Route Army is not very good, although it is also a horizontal formation, but the momentum and formation can not be compared with the Chaoge army, the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, a general beside E Chongyu said in his ear: "Master Hou, are we going to attack? Our side has more people, it is better to attack, otherwise waiting for the arrival of the opponent's army formation, the morale will not be raised at all." ”

Nowadays, morale in war is very important, but this is not the case with Chaoge, the way of training is completely different, even if a general falls off his horse and is killed, the soldier will still continue to move forward, even stepping on the corpse of his own general, this is the importance of discipline.

"Okay, order the army to advance. E Chongyu knows that if he waits for the other party to charge, then the morale of his side will inevitably be low, and now the army is attacking the opponent's camp, which can improve morale, and the morale of the attacking side will generally be higher than that of the defending side.

"Kill. "The 50,000-strong army at the forefront of the Southern Route Coalition began to charge.

At this time, Wen Zhong smiled and whispered a few words, while the herald beside him was waving the order flag, and someone in the army specially watched the order flag, and when he saw the order flag swinging, he directly shouted, "Defense." ”

The pace of the advance of the "boom" army stopped, and then the first column of sword and shield men stopped directly, and the army was uniform, and then the queue began to concentrate, and the formation became more close, the first column of shields fell to the ground one after another, the sword and shield men half knelt on the ground, and the long knives stretched out from the gaps in the shields, and the pikemen behind them put their spears on the top of the shield, and there was a semicircular groove at the top, which was just used to hold the gun.

The first and second columns were ready, while the third and fourth columns behind them were ready to fill in at any time, but they all crouched on the ground, and the javelinmen in the fifth column were holding javelins in their hands, and they were responsible for throwing at close range, especially when the opponent rushed to the front of the formation.

"Arrow array, wind!" As the command was given, the arrow array began to change, the front two columns were all crossbow arrows, the crossbow arrows were not thrown, the distance of random shooting was a little short, and the last three columns were all bows and arrows, and they were ready to shoot.

The bowstrings are all drawn, and just waiting for the enemy to come into range, two hundred paces, one hundred and fifty paces, one hundred paces, "put." With a command, the "hum" arrows vibrated in the air, and 30,000 arrows flew into the air, crossed an arc and began to fall, and the black pressure filled the sky.

"What's that?" exclaimed E. Chongyu.