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On the north bank of Hengshui, hundreds of hideous and gray heads are poked and inserted in the wetland by sharpened wooden poles, which are extremely conspicuous in the reeds, making people feel cold all over the body.

Yanbei used this method to intimidate and provoke his enemies.

Riding a horse outside the military formation, Yanbei paced his horse to the riverbank, raised his whip and pointed at the soldiers and horses of the Montenegrin army on the opposite bank, and scolded loudly: "Dog cub Tao Sheng, lead the army to scare Naiweng? There is a kind of river crossing! ”

Behind him, two huge military formations were slaughtered, the bright armor of the Yanzhao warriors reflected the nascent sunshine, and the Yanzi banner fluttered lightly with the majesty. Behind a row of samurai wielding spears and double-arc shields, thousands of elite crossbows wielded with large bows and crossbows were hidden...... As long as the Montenegrin army has the intention of crossing the river and attacking, Yanbei will shoot them into a sieve as soon as he gives the order.

Yanbei missed the lame Zhang Leigong very much at this time, his talent was not in his voice, he shouted and scolded a few times across the riverbank, and he didn't even know if Tao Sheng could hear it, he only felt very bored, and was about to fight the horse and return, when he saw the commotion of the opposing army, the Chinese army dispersed a passage, and a few riders in cumbersome leather armor came out and galloped towards the riverbank.

"Good boy, it's for Naion!"

Yan Bei grinned at Tai Shi Ci beside him, and said in a low voice: "How far can you shoot from here?" ”

Tai Shici's face was a little embarrassed, Yan Bei actually wanted to take this opportunity to shoot Tao Sheng to death with a secret arrow! This is too unfair!

Of course, this is not above board, in fact, Yan Bei also had a lot of shame in his heart when he said this. He still remembered that Guo Dian, who was known as a famous general of a generation in Pingxiang City, ordered someone to release arrows to the city, and Zhang Leigong, who was caught off guard, was shot like a hedgehog, and his life would not be saved if he did not have a body of iron armor.

Guo Dian was hated by him because of this incident, if it weren't for Guo Dian's self-slaughter and some integrity, Yanbei would have let people hang him in the city for ten years, and let people shoot him with bows and arrows every day.

Compared with the number of soldiers on both sides, Yan Bei would rather use this method to kill Tao Sheng and let his soldiers' morale collapse...... If this arrow is worth thousands of lives, why not?

Tai Shi Ci didn't know Yan Bei's inner struggle, but he still said in a relaxed tone: "Yan Jun, his subordinates can use a bow, and they can shoot from a distance. But the subordinate is not a strong crossbow car of Wuhan Iron and Steel, and the riverbank is separated by 300 steps...... Where will you shoot? ”

"When I say that, I want to shoot him from afar!" Yan Bei shook his head and paused, as if it was a pity that Tai Shi Ci couldn't shoot the bow for 300 steps, and then he came back and asked, "What is the Wuhan Iron and Steel Qiang Ballista?" ”

"This ...... Ci has never seen it, but he has heard that there is such a weapon. A look of embarrassment flashed on Tai Shici's face, and he said hesitantly: "Maybe you want to make the crossbow bigger and place it on the chariot, right?" Ci had seen it in the book, saying that it was a feather spear as an arrow, and the crossbow could be shot a thousand steps away, but he had never seen it with his own eyes. ”

Shoot a thousand steps with a crossbow? What's that?

Curses don't need thunder!

"Open a crossbow and shoot a thousand steps, what kind of book to read, let Yan also take a look at it another day...... I heard what you said, I want to take someone to Luoyang to be a craftsman to be a supervisor, and I want to grab some craftsmen and go back to Liaodong. "What does it feel like to be able to kill an enemy a thousand steps away? Yan Bei kept the name of the Wuhan Iron and Steel Qiang Ballista firmly in his heart, and said with admiration: "If Yan has such a weapon in his hand, the war will be invincible, and the two armies will stab the enemy's main general a thousand steps away in the blink of an eye, and the flag will be waved no matter who it is, there will only be one way to lose!" ”

Looking at Yan Bei's lofty idea of being superstitious and superstitious and strong, Tai Shi Ci couldn't help but pour cold water and said: "Yan Jun, in fact, Ci thinks that even if I have that kind of ballista, it is not very useful, even if I can drive a thousand steps, I don't know where to shoot two hundred steps away." Maybe the ballista can really shoot a spear to a thousand paces, but it is far from the reach of human eyes, so how can it be aimed? ”

Yan Bei was stunned for a moment, and in retrospect, it seemed to be the case, it was not clear enough to see people's faces from a hundred steps away, and he couldn't even aim at a person three hundred steps away, if it was a thousand steps away? Even if the spear could be shot that far, the shooter didn't know where it would fall...... This disappointed his expression. But then he excitedly said, "Then make ten, make hundred!" In an instant, a hundred arrows can shoot down the enemy in one song! ”

Tai Shi Ci also laughed when he heard it, and he also felt that Yan Bei's idea was feasible. A hundred spears must be thrown at a distance of fifty paces, and if nothing else, the enemy will have at least fifty casualties, and the army will collapse without a blow.

It's just that neither of them knows that the strong ballista of Wuhan Iron and Steel does exist, but even at the beginning of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were only ten times in the largest armament arsenal in the north.

The world is generally like this, ignorant people belittle or praise things they don't understand, but they don't always say that.

Since joining the army, Tai Shi Ci showed great curiosity and studious about combat, and immediately asked Yan Bei: "Yan Jun, even if the enemy army master is killed, his subordinates will not lose resistance and retreat...... Isn't it child's play to fight for major military events? ”

"You don't know this, the heaviest person in the army, but Da Xu and the main general." Yan Bei turned around and pointed to the largest banner in the military formation, then pointed at himself, and said to Tai Shici: "If the big one falls, the soldiers are worried and have no morale. When the Lord is about to die, the divisions will be different from each other. For example, if Yan is assassinated during the battle, you have no master of the six gods, Captain Lu leads the army to break through, and Zhang Sima leads the troops to retreat, what is the scene of the military formation? What's more, there are Qu generals and tun generals below them, without the main general's one person and one mind, no matter how elite the soldiers and horses have become a rabble, at this time most of the enemy army pounced, how can they resist...... Look at it, is that Tao Sheng on the other side? ”

Yan Bei said that he was on the rise, and suddenly saw a person riding a horse on the other side, standing on the bank of the river and arching his hand on horseback, Yan Bei had never seen Tao Sheng until now, and subconsciously asked Tai Shi Ci, but he forgot that Tai Shi Ci was the same as him, and he didn't know who Tao Sheng was.

After asking, Yanbei reacted, raised his horsewhip and shouted through Hengshui: "It's Tao Sheng!" ”

"The other side is Yanbei!"

A rough and impatient voice came from the other side, and Yan Bei immediately determined that it was indeed Tao Sheng, the general of the Black Mountain Pinghan, who came from the other side. He squinted his eyes and looked at Tao Sheng, he couldn't see Tao Sheng's face clearly across the hundred-zhang wide riverbank, only saw the figure on horseback wearing iron armor and a black beard under his chin.

Tao Sheng also knew that the other side was Yanbei, in the past two years, he had heard countless deeds about Yanbei, and even fought twice in a row, and was defeated by the man on the other side twice in a row, but it was also the first time he saw Yanbei himself.

He was amazed at Yanbei's youth. No matter Yan Bei's voice or the few beards under his chin, he was sure that Yan Bei was a young man with a weak crown.

Just such a young man who has just passed twenty years old, but he is holding four captains and more than 10,000 Han troops in his palm?

The so-called famous is better than meeting.

Yanbei's reputation is very great, and the name in the entire north is even beyond his imagination.

His reputation comes from a variety of sources, one is Jizhou and the other is Youzhou. And the two places he has stayed in have diametrically opposite evaluations of him. Except for a county in Liaodong, few people in Youzhou regard him as a good person, and people can't believe that this reckless thief has turned into a captain of the Han Protector Wuhuan, and most people do their best to slander this name, or use embarrassing and dirty words to describe this outlaw who has never met.

And in Jizhou, because when Yanbei occupied Jizhou, it only had a slight impact on the people, and it was nothing more than some rebels who were difficult to restrain to rob the people of food and property, and the worst thing was to harm some women. Although this is actually a great disaster, if Yanbei knew all the circumstances, if he had the current level of restraint on the soldiers and his own prestige, he would do his best to put an end to it, but the people of Jizhou did not hate him, on the contrary, the people of Jizhou knew that when Yanbei came out of Youzhou again, almost every family prayed, prayed for a great victory for Yanbei, and hoped that he would lead his soldiers and horses to defeat the Black Mountain thieves.

Compared with the brutal and unkind Montenegrin army, Yanbei has become a hero in people's hearts, since the beginning of the Montenegrin disaster in Jizhou, no one cares about the disaster before his soldiers and horses.

The people love him even more than the court that did nothing after Jizhou was occupied by Montenegro!

Because of this, when the name Yanbei was later passed into Tao Sheng's ears, it was praised like a god by the people of Jizhou. Tao Sheng once heard a man who was tied up and burned alive by him say that General Yan was unparalleled in the world, and as soon as the army arrived, he would beat his remnants and civilians to the ground.

Of course, before the man said this, he spat in Tao Sheng's face, so Tao Sheng smeared grease on him and threw away the torch.

His wails were louder than cursing.

"I've admired the daimyo for a long time! General Yan doesn't want to provoke, Tao won't cross the river! Tao Sheng arched his hands on the other side of the bank in a fake manner, and shouted in a rough voice: "We are also great sages and disciples, why should we kill each other, it is better to stop the army, and the north of Hengshui will be given to the general!" You can go west to Changshan and hit the river in the east, and Tao will never cross the river to loot! You and I can kill horses for the alliance of heaven and earth, and worship as brothers with different surnames, how! ”

Listening to Tao Sheng shouting nonsense about brothers of the opposite sex on the other side, Yan Bei's stomach hurt when he was smiling at Hengshui, this Tao Sheng really dared to think about it! I actually want to worship a brother with a different surname with Yan, what's the matter, I still want to be Yan's eldest brother by virtue of how old I am stupid?

You deserve it too!

"Ziyi, can you hear, this Tao Pinghan wants to be my brother! Hahaha! Yan Bei looked up to the sky and laughed a few times, and then raised his horsewhip and shouted: "General Pinghan said it well!" You and I don't need heaven and earth to testify, and thousands of soldiers behind us can testify for both of us...... If you shout three times at Hengshui, Yan will recognize you as a disobedient false son, how about it? Hahahaha! ”

Yan Bei's words caused the soldiers behind him to laugh more than once, and he didn't care about Tao Sheng, who was jumping and scolding angrily on the other side, he spat out two steps after turning around the horse, and complained: "This old turtle will not be able to cross the river, and Ah Weng will be consumed!" ”

"Ziyi gave me an order on my behalf, let the new pawn carry the axe and sickle, and cut all the fields on the shore for me! Lao Tzu to see how long he can endure it! ”