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Two hundred and fifty chariots marched forward in a horizontal row, each followed by at least fifty soldiers running on foot, and to be honest, such a scene seemed to be a little louder except for the movement of the chariots drawn by the horses, and because the number of infantry troops was slightly small, it was not a huge scene.

The infantry army followed by a chariot should actually be five hundred or a thousand people, and the total strength of this hunt was limited to 30,000, and the Qi Yan coalition army simply reduced the number of foot soldiers attached to each chariot to fifty, God knows if even if the chariot could disrupt the front of Lu Zhe's army, would it be enough to tear open a larger gap with only fifty life foot soldiers.

The Qi Yan coalition army took the initiative to attack, and the war drums on Lu Zhejun's side stopped, replaced by a burst of desolate horns.

The pre-planned response plan had already been deployed, and as soon as the Qi-Yan coalition army moved, the officers at all levels of the Lu Zhe army began to shout and shout instructions, Cao Shen, who commanded the long-range attack equipment, kept shouting "steady", and Su Lie, who was in charge of commanding to withstand the first wave of attacks, roared loudly and asked the lower-level officers to implement the pre-planned plan.

The horses and antlers hidden in the military formation were moved out under the joint efforts of several light soldiers, and by the time the chariots of the Qiyan coalition army began to speed up, three lines of defense had been erected in front of Lu Zhejun's army arranged by the horses and antlers.

The light soldiers arranged the horses and antlers, and the heavy infantry carrying the shield also began to separate from the spearmen, they formed a small phalanx of fifty people, and the heavy armor soldiers carrying the shield in each tun were facing the Qiyan chariot soldiers who came in a straight line, so there was a gap between the small phalanx formed by the heavy armor soldiers, and the spearmen were behind the heavy armor soldiers and did not erect the hedgehog defense mode of the long-haired forest in front of them.

"Hurry up, erect the shield walls on the slope, and reinforce each shield with iron bars!" Tun Changyong's voice was not small, and he ran back and forth to the left of his direct subordinates.

In addition to carrying the horses and antlers, there is no possibility of using a long-haired phalanx to resist the charioteers, after all, a galloping chariot is by no means something that a spear array can stop. That was something that countless soldiers of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period confirmed with their blood and lives.

In order to deal with the chariot with an acceleration and collision force of thousands of catties, the crystallization of the wisdom of the Chinese generals of the past dynasties was to erect a shield wall with an inclined plane, and use the shield wall of the inclined plane to tilt the wheels of the chariot, so that the two wheels of the high-speed galloping chariot were of different heights and were toppled by the speed. After all, although it is impossible to make a large-scale turn of the chariot, it is still possible to change the direction in a small area, so it depends on whether the soldiers who maintain the oblique shield array have the courage to endure the possible impact to control the movement of the shield array, not only can not let the horses pulling the chariot step on the air, but also ensure that one wheel of the chariot can have a stressed surface.

Waiting for the inclined shield array of his own tun to be erected, Yongya turned his head to look in the direction of Cao Shen not far behind. Just glanced at it, then turned his head to look in the direction of the Qi Yan coalition army, and what he saw was that the chariot of the Qi Yan coalition army was about to complete the acceleration.

"One more, one more ......" Cao Shen's eyes were always staring ahead, and the position he was looking at was the mark of the crossbowman shooting the red feather arrow in advance, once the Qi Yan coalition army was about to reach the position covered by the shooting Zhuyuan, the ballista and ballista should be fired in advance.

The weight of the chariot is nearly five hundred catties even if it is stationary and the three soldiers on the chariot weigh nearly five hundred catties, which is destined to be difficult for the chariot pulled by two or three or four war horses to completely lift the speed in a short distance, the distance between the two armies is nine hundred meters, and the farthest firing range of some ballistas is exactly the position where the Qiyan coalition army is about to complete the acceleration.

"A little. A little more......" Cao Shenfang's eyes suddenly widened, and he also roared in his mouth: "The Ballista of the First Serial Number ,—— launched!" ”

Of course, how could Cao Shen's roar spread to everyone's ears in the increasingly noisy battlefield. Some of the "car owners" who were in charge of issuing the order were close enough to pull the trigger when they heard it, and more often they pulled the trigger when they saw the flag representing the firing order wavering.

The groans of the equipment were heard frequently, and the soldier operating the ballista could clearly feel the sand bag on which he was stepping on. There was also the sound of bowstrings rattling in my ears, followed by the sound of thick crossbow arrows whizzing through the air.

The first round of thick crossbow bolts was not too many, but everyone on the battlefield could see it. Especially the people on the platform can see more clearly because of the relationship between vision and angle.

"Sure enough, the ballista is used as the first wave of counterattack, and it depends on how many hits you can hit." Xiang Liang subconsciously made a movement to stretch his neck, and as soon as his words fell, the results of the crossbow arrows fired by the ballista on the battlefield had been produced.

The thick crossbow arrows exerted kinetic energy in mid-air, and their thick arrows flashed with cold and glowing arrows, some of which pierced into the body of the horse, some stabbed into the body of the chariot, and more did not hit the intended target of the chariot and drilled into the ground, or flew far away to shoot the Qi Yan infantry running with the chariot.

The situation of the Qiyan coalition chariot hit by a crossbow arrow is different, depending on whether it is shot at the war horse or the body.

The chariot that was shot at the war horse, the war horse was nailed to the ground by a thick crossbow arrow, the whole chariot undoubtedly formed a passive brake, the front hooves of the living war horse were broken because of the sudden pulling force, and the chariot that was heavy in front and light in the back was also pushed in the back as if it had been pushed in the back, and the whole chariot turned up from back to front, and the soldiers on top of the chariot were smashed into meat sauce before they could react.

The thick crossbow arrow hit the chariot on the body, and the huge impact force made those soldiers who did not know what the "seat belt" was because of the collision between the thick crossbow arrow and the chariot were thrown out, they danced in mid-air, and the mouth also subconsciously let out a frightened cry, and whether the chariot lost its combat ability depends on how many thick crossbow arrows hit, and where the hit position was, and the result was that some chariots were shot at the key point and scattered because of the huge force, Some of the people on the chariot threw or fell out of the car, but the chariot was still running.

Those Qi Yan infantry who were shot by thick crossbow arrows produced a picture that was extremely bloody, many of them were strung together by four or five, and some were simply swept off their waists and smashed their heads into corpses.

With the appearance of casualties, and the resulting picture is really too stimulating for the senses, the galloping chariot has no braking device, so naturally it can't brake even if it wants to, but the Qi Yan coalition infantry behind the chariot slowed down.

To put it bluntly, the soldiers of the Qiyan coalition army were re-recruited after the restoration of the country, except for local conflicts, they had never fought any war-level wars at all after forming the army, and I don't know if more than half of the ten soldiers had seen blood, or that there was no blood at all in the ten, and it was inevitable that they would be frightened for a while.

In order to encourage or oppress the army to continue to advance, the war drums of the Qiyan coalition army beat louder and more urgently, and the foot soldiers of the Qiyan coalition army who had already fought under the effect of the war drums shouted to speed up the pace.

Cao Shen, who commanded the long-range attack equipment, was very busy, he kept issuing orders, and the ballista and ballista that were divided into the A, B, C and D sequences were also fired one after another, and the target that was far away was naturally not good to ensure the hit rate, but as the distance was constantly narrowed, the accuracy began to become more accurate.

The 250 Qiyan coalition army lost only four vehicles at about 600 meters, nearly 30 vehicles when it was close to between 400 meters and 500 meters, and a total of 33 vehicles were lost from the time the attack was launched to the distance of 400 meters close to Lu Zhe's army.

The enemy army was already approaching within 400 meters, and Mei Kai, who commanded the crossbow troops, was also watching the situation ahead with full attention, and when the chariot of the Qiyan coalition army entered the distance of 380 meters, he personally waved the flag to send a signal for the crossbow troops to cover and shoot.

There were 3,000 crossbowmen in Lu Zhe's army, and they lined up in formation behind the horses, antlers, and melee troops early on. At the sound of the command, a dark cloud composed of arrows whistled and "buzzed", like a bee skirt, rushing forward.

"Stage-style arrow array coverage, this is Qin Jun's forte." Xiang Liang raised his hand and pointed at Lu Zhejun's large array: "This kind of coverage will continue until the enemy army is close enough, and if necessary, it will even cover the arrow array without distinguishing between the enemy and me." ”

Some words Xiang Liang did not say because of the presence of people from the South Korean side, the first large-scale equipment in history was South Korea, and every time the Korean army fought in battle, the South Korean army would always send out crossbow arrows with a long range and covering the sky at one time, because there were a large number of crossbowmen with a longer range than the archers, and the Korean army was once called Jin Han.

The Qin State originally had the technology to make a crossbow machine, but in terms of quality and range, it was shorter than the Korean crossbow machine and easy to damage, until the Qin State got a full set of crossbow mechanism after destroying Korea, and the Qin State ate the Korean crossbow machine manufacturing technology and made improvements, and the range of more than 600 meters was also born.

"Lu Hou's crossbow troops are 10,000, even if the chariots on the side of the Qiyan coalition army break in, the infantry troops that are continuously covered by the arrow array are either shot to death or retreat to dodge, so the Qiyan coalition army will inevitably take a defensive position after the first round of unfavorable attacks, so the value of the chariot will be greatly reduced." Xiang Liang is prophesying.

The situation on the battlefield was very simple, and the chariots of the Qiyan coalition army had not until they were within two hundred meters of Lu Zhe's army before their losses began to increase dramatically, that is, they were constantly covered by ballistas, ballistas, and arrow arrays, and the number of chariots that could break through within two hundred meters of Lu Zhe's army was less than one hundred, and the 12,000 infantry troops in the rear were simply broken into several knots by the continuous arrow arrays...... (To be continued......)