Chapter 830: Prohibition by Order
Under the strong crossbow, the slow-moving Guishan Heavy Step is simply a target-like existence. Under the concentrated attack of the powerful power of the waist crossbow, it was easy to tear out a big hole in the Kushan shield array, followed by continuous strong crossbow and repeater shooting, the Kushan shield array was completely chaotic, and then the pikemen cooperated with the sword and shield soldiers to come forward to harvest, and after a set of processes, the Kushan army had no power to fight back. And the archers on the Guishan side, because the range of bows and arrows is not as good as that of Da Chu, has been suppressed by Zhou Yu's orders.
"The opponent's troops and offensive means are too single, if the frontal confrontation of the formation is really powerful, but once it is targeted, it will be the end." Zhou Yu looked at the one-sided situation on the field and said lightly.
"The enemy's commander has sent cavalry to attack." Zhuge Liang looked at the iron cavalry faintly emerging in the enemy's formation, and shook his head slightly.
"Is this sending out cavalry? The commander of this enemy army was really unable to hold his breath, and he gave up this last chance to break the game. Zhou Yu shook the feather fan in his hand, and the demeanor of the canopy disappearing in the middle of talking and laughing was unobstructed.
Zhuge Liang sighed slightly, and he couldn't deny Zhou Yu's words.
In my heart, this Kushan army is not weak, and it can even be regarded as elite, and its bravery and execution are enough to make people look sideways. But the opponent's offensive methods and methods are indeed too rigid, and they were seen through by Zhou Yu at a glance, and with a little targeting, the two armies that originally had the strength to fight turned into the current crushing situation. You must know that Zhou Yu hasn't even opened the talent of the Second Legion yet, so he originally wanted to test the water first, but found that the other party was so "immature" that he didn't even need to use his back hand.
"Their only chance is this cavalry, but alas, it's too anxious. If it drags on for a little longer, when the two armies are completely entangled and the crossbowmen can't spare their hands, maybe the iron cavalry can still seize the opportunity to rush into the crossbow formation, but now the infantry will send out the cavalry before they can press it. What is the use of hundreds of cavalry? Zhuge Liang said.
"The crossbowmen suppress the enemy's iron cavalry, the cavalry prepares to attack, and after destroying the enemy, insert the enemy directly from the flank, and the crossbowmen assist, ending the battle." Zhou Yu no longer had any interest in "playing" with the other party, and said directly to the deputy general.
"No!"
Following Zhou Yu's order, the crossbowmen immediately turned their targets. As soon as they rushed out of the camp from the flank, preparing to kill the crossbow array, the Kushan Army's iron cavalry saw a dense rain of arrows in front of them.
"Damn it!" The Guishan general, who led the charge of the army, looked at the iron horses that kept falling around him, and said in horror in his heart.
Although nearly half of the Kushan cavalry were armored cavalry, they were still taught to be human beings by the Great Chu crossbowmen with waist crossbows and strong crossbows. Even the heavy armor is unable to resist in front of the waist crossbow, and it is directly pierced. Hundreds of waist crossbows aimed at the Kushan cavalry who rushed at the forefront, and with a wave of covering strikes, more than a dozen iron cavalry fell directly to the ground in an instant, and by the way, it also turned into a barricade to block the momentum of the cavalry in the rear.
Of course, there is a limit to the power of the waist crossbow, and it is slower to rewind. After a wave of fire, the crossbowmen rewound up, giving the cavalry a respite. But the crossbowmen and crossbowmen did not rest, and although it was difficult for them to shoot through the heavy armor, countless crossbows rained down, and many of the cavalrymen were hit by the arrows, either out of fear or because of the unstable shape of the powerful impact, and they fell to the ground. Many of the non-armoured cavalrymen, whose horses were not protected by armor, fell to the ground with arrows.
In just an instant, the Kushan cavalry suffered a lot of damage, and their momentum was reduced.
"Rush! Rush up and slaughter these cowards who can only fire dark arrows! The Kushan cavalry general shouted angrily with red eyes.
Under the rain of arrows, the Kushan cavalry continued to move forward with rage, and each step was accompanied by the miserable sound of falling to the ground. Leaving behind nearly a hundred corpses, the Kushan Iron Cavalry finally charged over half of the distance, but facing them were the heavy infantry that had already raised their tower shields, and the Great Chu Iron Cavalry, which had already been preparing to charge from the side.
The crossbowmen retreated very decisively, and the pikemen who had been waiting beside the crossbowmen stepped forward one after another, as if they were ignoring the Kushan iron cavalry not far away, and formed a spear formation without hurrying and being extremely proficient, waiting behind the heavy infantry.
Seeing such a smooth change of formation in the Chu army, the constantly disappearing crossbowmen, as well as the shield wall, the gun forest and the big Chu iron cavalry rushing from the flank, the Guishan cavalry showed a look of despair on their faces.
The Guishan Iron Rider, who rushed here with a breath of anger, thought that he would finally be able to vent the anger in his heart and kill those hateful crossbowmen by chopping melons and vegetables, but he was faced with such a situation, and he was about to collapse.
"Attack!"
The Kushan cavalry general had already understood his current situation, and shouted angrily as if he were going home.
"Kill!"
The Kushan Iron Rider followed closely behind the main general, shouting angrily and killing forward.
"Throw!"
The well-armed Chu army has many means of attack. The pikemen behind the shield men picked up the throwing spears at their waists, and at the command of the captain, threw the spears diagonally upward.
The sharp throwing spear and the weight of the gun, under the throwing of the soldiers, the power is more terrifying than the crossbow arrows fired by the waist crossbow. Under a rain of spears, the Kushan Iron Horse's momentum, which had already shown its declining momentum, was once again stagnant, and dozens of corpses were left behind by the way.
One blow and then three and then exhausted. Even the iron-clad troops are about to collapse in the face of such a series of blows. The Great Chu cavalry on the oblique side seemed to have been carefully arranged, and rushed in front of the Guishan cavalry at this time.
"Kill!"
The five hundred Da Chu iron horsemen who were in full state and neatly formed in formation, and the one hundred iron horsemen who rushed to the front as arrows were all heavily armored with men and horses, and they collided head-on with more than three hundred demoralized and scattered Guishuang remnants, and the outcome was naturally self-evident. The former is like a sharp blade, directly splitting the latter in two.
The scattered Guishan Iron Cavalry, who had completely lost their momentum and formation, could not shake the heavy steps of Da Chu who held a huge shield to form a shield wall, and fell to the ground one after another under the continuous stabbing of the spearmen from the gun holes prepared by the pikemen from the shield wall.
At this point, the five hundred Kushan cavalry completely collapsed, scattered and fled, and had no fighting spirit.
"This set of combos is really smooth, almost bloodless to destroy this Guishan Iron Cavalry, Gong Jin, your command and dispatch ability is really terrifying." Zhuge Liang was amazed.
The cooperation shown by Zhou Yujun just now seems simple, but it is unimaginably difficult to really face the fighting atmosphere, the threat of the enemy, and the ever-changing situation on the battlefield. This would not have been possible without the subtlety of command and the thousands of drills that took place every day.
"It's all the foundation laid by General Ji Ling. If it weren't for the outrageous execution and loyalty of these soldiers he trained, it would have taken me a lot of effort to do this. Zhou Yu said modestly at this time.
Since Yuan Shu's fortune, Ji Ling has hardly participated in several battles, but his position has always been unbreakable, relying on his incomparable loyalty and this ability to train soldiers. The soldiers of Da Chu all came out of Ji Ling's training, not to mention the soldiers trained by Ji Ling, it can be said that they have almost reached the extreme in terms of loyalty to Yuan Shu, just like training dead soldiers. No matter when you shout, for the sake of Da Chu or for Your Majesty, there is a knife in front of you, and these soldiers dare to go down, because if they don't, they have either been repatriated to the people by Ji Ling or they are already dead.
Anyway, it's a feudal society, Yuan Shu, as the Son of Heaven, what is it to kill some people? The lucrative treatment of joining the army is not given in vain, and when he signed up, Yuan Shu wrote that his life would be in danger at any time, and what he ate was a severed head meal. As long as you become a full-fledged soldier and fight for your country, everything is treated favorably and generously to the point that people have nothing to say, and after death, your family will be taken care of by you, but if you are afraid or even flee on the battlefield when the commander does not order a retreat, all military law will be carried out without mercy, and even your family will be harmed.
Angering the Son of Heaven, it is polite not to punish the three clans, defecting on the battlefield, making your family not allowed to go to school for the next three generations, not allowed to engage in business and commerce, canceling all benefits, and even hanging a coward's house sign to be spurned by others, etc., you have nothing to say, and it is natural that you should be. It is also natural that the military should be trained to death if the physical fitness is not strong enough during military training, or that they will be executed for some "reasonable" reasons. Anyway, the bereavement pension and treatment that should be sent to your family are not a lot.
Sometimes Yuan Shu felt that the feudal society was really good, there was no so-called human rights and freedom, as long as it was not excessive, the people and soldiers could let him do it.
Ji Ling strictly implements this kind of thinking, and the soldiers' physique, combat power and ideological consciousness selected from many soldiers who have served in military service and reserve have a certain foundation, and then Ji Ling's first step is to brainwash them, so that they will be loyal to Yuan Shu, loyal to Dachu, and loyal to the Han people. In ancient times, there was no shortage of brainwashing methods, otherwise how did the dead in the family come from? If the assassination does not succeed, they will commit mass suicide immediately, and one by one they are more decisive than the assassins.
Ji Ling wants to brainwash these soldiers first, and then conduct will training in the second step, and constantly eliminate the unqualified. Those are not qualified? An order to cut off all your arms with a knife, a little hesitation or not deep cut first a lesson, help you cut a few more knives and then educate, repeated mistakes directly eliminated, but the next one has to suffer. What else is there to jump the fire ring and lie on the dung pit, this kind of similar means Ji Ling has played all over again, so that he can prohibit it. Of course, there is no one who has jumped out to resist.
For these people, Ji Ling's means are also very simple, find some hundred generals to fight with them, you win, enter the reserve officer camp and then cultivate, and pass directly as a general. But if you lose, I'm sorry, there is no punishment, just kill it. If you don't have the ability to resist management, the end is death.
Anyway, as long as you enter this door, you will have to suffer there from beginning to end no matter what, and if you can't do it, you will only suffer more, and you will be released again until the end. After being released, there will be follow-up punishments for all kinds of treatment, who let you join the army before not reading the regulations, here is not that you can come in if you want to come in and go out if you want to, and the generous treatment of becoming a soldier is not so easy to get.
After these two steps are completed, these soldiers are basically qualified in Ji Ling's eyes, and then they are formally trained in military training.
Although Yuan Shu felt a little cruel about Ji Ling's method of training soldiers, he had no intention of stopping it, but agreed with it. If you weren't so ruthless, how could you train an iron army that would be forbidden?
However, in order to avoid the situation that no one is willing to be a soldier, Yuan Shu has also been continuously improving the treatment of soldiers and improving the bereavement guarantee and military merit system. How to achieve a balance between the combat strength, treatment and financial burden of the soldiers, and how to ensure the enthusiasm and treatment of the soldiers while avoiding problems in the long run, so that this system can be maintained, all these made many strategists under Yuan Shu's command have worked hard, and so far they have only come up with a rough plan.