Lu Yi sat on top of the horse, and under him was a mixed horse with Dawan blood, born in the Shandan Military Horse Farm established during the period of Emperor Xiaowu, and was the best war horse produced in Han for hundreds of years. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This Jizhou native, who grew up in Liangzhou, held an iron spear in his broad palm, the thin lips in his dense beard outlined a proud arc, and the slightly sunken bridge of his nose looked at the other end of the river bank with a resolute expression.

Although the two sides were thousands of paces apart, he could clearly see that if the Han army on the other side of the Liaoshui River had not falsified on the banner, those long guns and spears marked that the enemy did not plan to take the lead in the vanguard, but directly set up all the soldiers and horses on the riverside.

Of course, the enemy will not falsify on the flag, and those scouts who withdrew from Hexi are enough to prove it.

Perhaps sensing the atmosphere of slaughter, the mount snorted uneasily, and Koji Yi held a spear in one hand and pinched the joints of four fingers with the thumb of the other, calculating his armament.

He has 3,200 people, and those people who rush to and fro in Xiangping and Qingshi Bridge will not be counted among his subordinates. And among his 3,200 people, there are 200 Han and Qiang good men who have suffered a lot in Liangzhou, and they are all elites who know all about curved bows and horses, and among the remaining 3,000 subordinates, there are 700 crossbows and 600 Xianbei bows...... Lu Yi quickly calculated the strength in his heart, calculating the gains and losses of blocking the enemy on the bluestone bridge.

Although he knew that there were thousands of soldiers and horses hiding behind the mountain cols in the north and south of the bluestone bridge, and although he knew that there were still 3,000 Xiaoya troops behind him as elites, he did not intend to let go of the exploits that were at his fingertips.

Although in the rebels, perhaps merit is of little use.

At this time, Lu Yi knew how far Fu Zhi could see, and finally understood the meaning of Fu Zhu letting Yan Bei lead the soldiers and horses around such a big circle. Although it was an absolute accident for Gongsun Zhan to be trapped in Guanzi City, the significance of the 1,500-mile detour at the moment was to let the soldiers and horses in northern Yan at this moment take the lead!

The initiative is in their hands!

It was the Han army that wanted to cross the river to pursue the rebels and pursue Qiu Liju, Zhang Chun, and Zhang Ju, who had fled to the Wuhuan Kingdom. Although Yanbei had already killed Zhang Ju and obtained the first rank without the knowledge of the whole world, now it was the Han army that was going to come over to fight them, not the Han army stuck in the necessary place waiting for them to attack.

Respond to change with the same.

They only need to hold on to such a bluestone bridge to stop the enemy...... This is the only way the Han army can choose to cross the river at the moment, and now in spring, when the river is surging, it is difficult to build a pontoon bridge on the river, not to mention the rebels; The surrounding fishing boats were all moved to the other side of the Liaoshui by the rebels, whether they were purchased or looted, not to mention that the fishing boats on the entire Liaoshui River could not allow more than 10,000 soldiers and horses on the other side to cross the river at one time.

As for the fact that there is no Han army water village to make warships, it is even more nonsense, not to mention that there is no suitable wood for building warships, even if there is, without a year and a half, where can they have the ability to build a large fighting ship that can be called by hundreds of people?

The only way they could choose in a short period of time was to forcibly break through the blockade of the rebels at Qingshiqiao in order to enter Liaodong.

Otherwise, they will have to take a detour to the north, and it will be summer when they get around.

The rebels had countless hours, but the Han army did not ...... After all, they are still subject to the imperial court, the Liangzhou rebels in the northwest have become bigger, so that the imperial court has dismissed several generals Yu Zhonglang, as for the rebels in the northeast, Lu Yi believes that the imperial court will not give them much time to quell the rebellion.

This is the dilemma that the enemy is facing now!

"Pass the order, set up the formation, and as soon as the Han army climbs the bluestone bridge, they will prepare to defend against the enemy!"

As soon as the army ordered, the Qianghu warriors beside him turned over and got on their horses, and between a few shouts, the military array was full of figures galloping from the vertical horses, "The bow and crossbow are wound, the sword is unsheathed, ready to resist the enemy, prepare to resist the enemy!" ”

"The bow and crossbow are wound, the sword is unsheathed, ready to defend against the enemy, ready to defend against the enemy!"

"The bow and crossbow are wound, the sword is unsheathed, ready to defend against the enemy, ready to defend against the enemy!"

For a time, 3,000 soldiers and horses were ready for battle.

The flag was waving behind him, and there were many people on the other side of the bluestone bridge, and the light on the horizon was white.

"Woo!"

The dull sound of trumpets sounded on the other side, and this kind of command, introduced by the nomads of the northern part of the country, played an increasingly important role on the battlefield today, and with the long and heavy sound raised everyone's hearts, because it meant that a great war would officially begin at this time!

"Spread out, get ready to shoot the bluestone bridge!"

With the order of Lu Yi, a group of sergeants pressed towards the bluestone bridge, and the heavy footsteps sounded in everyone's ears, but except for the three hundred-man teams with big shields and spears and knives walking towards the bridge, the rest of the soldiers and horses surrounded the bluestone bridge in stages and echelons, and the scattered soldiers and horses were ten steps away from each other.

Maintaining a loose line of maximum while ensuring that a dense formation could be quickly assembled, the bow arm was pulled by the arrow and made a tooth-squeaking sound, and a sharp short arrow was placed on the crossbow, pointing at the bluestone bridge.

Looking at his subordinates who were waiting for battle, a smile flashed on his face. During these days, he walked this bluestone bridge hundreds of times, accurately counting every step of the enemy's march by heart. The river bank is too wide for arrows to shoot through, and even if you stretch your bow and shoot arrows as far as you can on the bridge, the common standard two-stone strong bow in the Han army can only project arrows to a distance of thirty or forty steps from the opposite bridge, which ensures that the Han army on the opposite bank cannot attack themselves across the river.

And when they boarded the bluestone bridge, at the same time, at most nearly a thousand people gathered on the bridge to make effective shots on the shore, which determined that only when fighting on the bridge, his 3,000 soldiers and horses could cause an unequal force advantage to the enemy.

Meng Yi would not send all the archers to the bridge, which meant that there were only two or three hundred archers on the bridge at most at the same time, and he could have more than a thousand crossbowmen under him, and he only needed one round of crossbow shots to repel the enemies on the bridge...... Lu Yi estimated that he could at least let Meng Yi drop six hundred corpses on this bridge!

As soon as the horn stopped, followed by the sound of gongs and drums, and then Lu Yi, who was sitting on a war horse and half a body taller than others, saw five teams of sergeants in the Han army stepping on the bluestone bridge with steady steps, most of these sergeants carried small round shields and rattan plates, and even some carried large shields that covered the entire body, and stepped on their feet slowly and neatly.

"Raise the crossbow, prepare!"

Koji Yoshishi understood the reason for the enemy's slow footsteps, they were conserving their stamina, and once they were in range, they would charge quickly, and this change would be completed in a few breaths, so he would not relax because of this, but raised his arms and began to command the battle.

As he expected, although the scouts have a tight defense of the bluestone bridge these days, Meng Yi has been on the battlefield for a long time after all, and his excellent combat experience allowed this veteran to estimate the length of the bridge and the range of the rebels' bows and crossbows on the other side of the river with his eyes at the first time, and then the rhythm of the gongs and drums changed, accompanied by the roar of the sergeant, the five teams of Han troops who boarded the bluestone bridge began to charge quickly.

"Rush!"

Almost at the same time, Lu Yi did not hesitate to wave his arm down, pointed at the bridge head on the opposite bank and shouted: "Strong crossbow salvo!" Bow and arrow wind! ”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

With the sound of the powerful crossbow bursting, hundreds of short and sharp crossbow arrows shot fiercely, and the Han army running on the bridge from more than 400 paces shot away, like a locust with eyes quickly and accurately breaking through the rudimentary leather armor and burrowing into the flesh, blooming a bloody flower.

There were horrific casualties among the Han troops on the bridge!

Crossbows are different from bows, they have a relatively short range but have greater lethality, for example, these three-stone crossbows under the command of Lu Yi are far less distant than the two-stone longbow that can be projected at a distance of four or five hundred paces, and almost lose its damage if it exceeds three hundred steps, not because the crossbow is not constructed enough, but because the short arrows used will flip in the air when they exceed a certain distance and lose their damage.

However, within a certain range, the armor-piercing power of the crossbow is stronger.

And the longbow can shoot four or five hundred paces is not even the maximum range, but no matter how far it goes, it will lose its lethality, of course, even this range will make the arrow cluster lose its accuracy, because ordinary people's eyesight cannot reach such accuracy. Conventional and accurate archery is already the limit within 100 steps.

However, in the battle of the large army formation, the projectile does not need to be accurate, and the bows and crossbows in the army formation are just weapons for large-scale long-range strikes.

Even if they lost their accurate strikes, hundreds of crossbow arrows rained down, causing seventy or eighty casualties in the five ranks of the Han army, and in an instant, more than a dozen people died on the spot, and those sergeants who fell to the ground and could not fight were even more terrible, and could only let out a weak wail.

In this case, no one will come to their rescue, and many will have to wait on the bridge for death, even if the fatal wounds to the chest and neck do not kill them for the time being, and the subsequent rain of arrows will fall on them indiscriminately. And their desolate cries before they die will hit the morale of the enemy army to the greatest extent.

As soon as the crossbow arrow strike was finished, the prancing horse on the riverside on the other side of the river gave the order again, and the bow and arrow were thrown.

The Xianbei people's one-stone light bows did not show any advantage in the small army battle, but the huge number could make up for the disadvantage of insufficient killing, enough seven hundred light bows to throw arrows at the bridge at the same time, and those dense parabolas became the most terrible weapons at this time, falling on the Han army like raindrops.

The lethality of these arrows is so small that it is impossible to detect after flying hundreds of paces in the air, as long as it does not hit the eye or throat on the spot, it will not cause fatal damage at all, and some of them cannot even penetrate leather armor, but such a light bow can simply cause a flood of mourning on the bridge.

The damage is small, but the bloodletting ability is the same!

More than 200 Han soldiers rushed through the middle of the bluestone bridge, and almost when they looked up, they could see the formation of rebel foot soldiers at the bridgehead, and those Han troops with bows and crossbows finally began to carry out long-range counterattacks against the rebels on the bridge.

The two crossbowmen belonging to the imperial court and Yanbei launched a real battle on the bluestone bridge!