PS: Chapter 2 is around 1 o'clock

Qi Shuai Guoxia tried to break through with the chariot that the Qi army was accustomed to, because the art of war was promising, leading the troops deep into the enemy's territory and making head-on contact with the enemy's assault troops, and the enemy took advantage of the familiar terrain to attack, either attacking the left flank or attacking the right flank, which made the whole army terrified, and such an enemy was called "Zhenkou".

Dealing with such an enemy is conducive to battle, but not to defense. You should choose a strong bow and use the chariot as the left and right flanks to quickly attack the front of the enemy and quickly attack the enemy's flank and rear. Or hit the surface, or hit the inside. In this way, the enemy soldiers will be confused, and the enemy generals will be defeated in terror and fear!

However, people are alive, tactics are also alive, before the two armies take over, the commander in chief fine-tuned according to the different conditions on the spot, often can determine the trend of the battle, Zhao Wuxian let the army not do a rest, directly lined up to press forward, suddenly brought a huge sense of oppression to the Qi people.

"Hateful! The Zhao army didn't wait for us to finish the formation and began to advance, the chariot couldn't be spread, Guozi, how should this be? ”

Gao Wupi hammered the car fiercely, but Guoxia did not panic, he glanced at this junior brother lightly, and said: "It's okay, the method of engagement is just to attack and defend the two ways, since the Zhao army is attacking before us, then it is good to defend first, and the one who makes the first move may not necessarily take advantage." ”

Guoxia also reacted quickly, and he immediately let the chariots that had been gathered change their formations on the spot.

"Unload the horses, and the number of chariots will be linked together to become a strong barrier, faster, faster!"

The Qi army did not have a barrier, so they took local materials, and sprinkled the wooden thistle terrestris carried by the cart on the outside to play the role of a trench, they did not know that this was of little use to the iron horses of the Zhao clan with horseshoes...... Then they were arrayed with chariots and used as a low wall. In this way, the Qi people quickly established a place to hide, which could not only defend and consolidate their own front, but also counterattack outside.

In this way, the bow and arrow, the second sharp weapon that the Qi army relied on in addition to the chariot, was able to appear.

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Yi people, the tribe that is good at using the bow is also, Qi was originally the land of Jiuyi, many Qi people are Yi people from Huaxia, but the ancestral bow and arrow skills have not been lost, so although there are few famous archers like Yang Youji and Lu Jian in Qi State, but the folk archers are far more than Jin and Chu.

Generally speaking, the Qi army has 12,500 foot soldiers, 6,000 strong bows, 2,000 halberds, and 2,000 spears, in addition to the 500 skilled craftsmen who repair and repair attack tools and sharpen weapons, 500 skilled craftsmen, 500 skilled fighters, and 1,000 baggage soldiers, which is the approximate ratio of troops in the Qi army.

That was the time of Sima Sui Tho, and Guo Xia didn't bring such a high proportion of archers this time, but there were still four or five percent. The archers of fifteen thousand people are already quite terrifying long-range fire strikes on the front, and the attack on the enemy is no longer a point, but covers the surface! One salvo is enough to be prohibitive.

The soldiers selected from the archery salute in the townships on both sides of the Jishui River, the hunters in the townships, the bird shooters in Donglai, and the fishers on the seaside...... The archers from all over the Qi country were divided according to the region and the township party, and after the fortress was just built, they were immediately arranged inside, counting the bows and arrows, adjusting the bow body, and putting themselves in the best state of battle, and those who could not be stuffed were sandwiched between the gaps in the phalanx.

"Guoxia coped well...... Zhao Wuxian touched his chin and thought carefully, most of the Zhao army was still early from the range of the Qi army, and the previous contacts were tentative.

Guoxia's tactics are actually an enlarged version of the Four Martial Forces, only to see that as many as a thousand vehicles are arranged in a low wall, bows and arrows and long weapons are waiting for each other in the back.

The first to engage them was the Zhao light cavalry, and the cavalry rushing from the periphery galloped around in front of the Qi chariot formation, and the hard horseshoe made them ignore the obstacles of the thistles. Some winding clockwise, some winding counterclockwise, but seeing the horses galloping back and forth, the flags swaying, the hoofs like muffled thunder, and the thousands of horses are like stormy waves, almost engulfing this small barrier. A moment later, the horns in the diamond-shaped cavalry formation sounded in unison, and the cavalry surrounding all directions simultaneously let out an earth-shattering cry, flying arrows like locusts, shooting towards the chariot formation together!

However, the Qi people have formed a barrier, although the archers thousands of arrows swished and whistled, like swallows, like crows, and drilled into the car city, but most of them were nailed to the carriage outside. A small number also flew into the air, but most of them were injured by Qi people, or with weapons or shields.

On the other hand, on the side of the archers, they swept over the perimeter to attack a barricade, but they could be shot at by the archers in several chariot barricades, and for a time, more than 20 horses were stabbed under the counterattack of locust flying arrows, and for a time people turned on their backs.

Zhao Wuxian frowned, saw the cavalry forced back by a wave of projectiles, and sent someone down to let Yu Xi, who was holding the line and continuing to harass, retreat first.

Although the cavalry was able to defeat the lone chariot on the plains, the cavalry was inherently inferior in the face of the chariot formation. In later generations, Li Ling of the Western Han Dynasty attacked the Huns, and repelled the other party many times with the strength of the car city and crossbowmen composed of baggage vehicles, and tens of thousands of Hun cavalry of thousands of enemies were still able to hold on, not to mention that today Zhao Wuxian only had 2,000 cavalry, all of them were very expensive, and he was reluctant to take them to attack the fortifications.

In addition, the battle site is not far from the shore, the ground is soft, and there are many potholes, which is not conducive to the impact of cavalry, so today's protagonist is destined to be a foot soldier.

Zhao Wuxian raised his hand, waved the command flag fiercely, and gave the order to attack!

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After the cavalry temporarily retreated, the Zhao army had approached a distance of half a mile. There were about 5,000 people in the forward of the Zhao army, half of them were spearmen, as well as 1,000 crossbowmen, 1,000 swords and shields, with the urging of the generals, military flags, and drums, 2,500 people on the left were the first to go out to invite battle, and the two thousand people on the wing of the Qi people who were blocking dozens of steps in front of the fortress collided, only to see the swords colliding, and the soldiers shouted.

In less than half a moment of the battle, Zhao Wuxian ordered another 2,500 people to fight again, directly attacking the Qi army, and Guoxia also waved the flag to block it, and for a time the flags were sassy and the war drums were thundering. Rivers, fields, blue skies, and the earth, thousands of people fought together.

But they did not do their best, and they did not push very hard, this battle is still long, maybe it will be fought from the afternoon until dark, until the early morning of the next day, if the physical strength is exhausted early, there will be bitterness behind the unspeakable, first fight slowly, and after a while, it will naturally be replaced by the new force, and the battle of tens of thousands of people cannot be divided into winners and losers in a melee battle, and must be clearly layered.

At the end of the battle, the striker was a little tired, and Xiang Lu, who had been carefully observing the battlefield, also saw something.

"If this continues, this attack will be thwarted by the enemy's barricades!"

"I know." Zhao Wuxian was also squinting at the battle.

Throughout the battlefield, the twenty chariot bases of the Qi people surrounded their positions in a half-moon shape, and the archers leaned on and threw them outward. Outside the fortress, there were Qi people's contradictions and halberd shield troops waiting in formation, and those thick phalanxes could prevent the Zhao army from breaking into it.

Although the Zhao army's forwards pushed forward very hard, and the crossbowmen also successfully fought to a draw with the archers standing outside the Qi people through three strikes, but the number of Qi people's long-range troops was too large, especially the archers who were hiding in the fortress sprinkled arrows together, and the entire battlefield was suddenly filled with men and horses wailing, and the Zhao army suffered many casualties.

Ran Qiu also came to say: "If you want to defeat the Qi army, you must first suppress the archers in those chariot bases, since the cavalry and crossbowmen cannot hurt the chariot bases, you can only rely on foot soldiers to push hard." In this way, before the foot soldiers penetrate the Qi people's phalanx, they have to endure the throwing of the Qi people's strong bows, and the losses after this battle must be not small! He said worriedly, and asked for his spearmen to come up.

Ran Ziyou's words are good, if this continues, even if all the twenty chariot bases of the Qi people are bulldozed, Zhao Jun will have to suffer huge losses, which Zhao Wuxian does not want to see.

After a moment of silence, Zhao Wuxian suddenly laughed, he clenched his palms into a fist, and smashed it into the Qiren chariot base that was constantly spraying arrows from mid-air, and said sharply: "Or...... Destroy the barricade directly! ”

"Destroy ......" Ran Qiu was stunned: "How to destroy?" Could it be that the general brought a trebuchet from Weiguo? Although he was in the country of Lu, when the public lost class to experiment with the trebuchet, Ran Qiu was on the scene to watch, and then he also heard about the miracle of the trebuchet when attacking the song.

However, Ran Qiu also knew that the large trebuchet was extremely cumbersome, and it would take ten days and a half months to build, and it was impossible to build it quickly in the wilderness...... Could it be that after the improvement of the public loss squad, this siege weapon can be used in field warfare?

"It's not a trebuchet, it's another newly made weapon......" Facing Ran Qiu's doubts, Zhao Wuxian smiled mysteriously, then turned around and shouted: "Herald! ”

The heralds replied awe-inspiringly: "Only! ”

"Go to the public squad and ask him if the ballista on his position is ready!"

(To be continued.) )