While everyone was in shock, the iron cavalry of the Qin army had approached the array of the Han army, and they were greeted by a rain of stones.

The forty thunderbolts in the Han army's array were divided into two groups and took turns to launch a blow against the Qin army first. Although the thunderbolt is powered by the torque of the ox tendon to project stones, and the projection force is much smaller than that of ordinary trebuchets, at this time, the Han army used small stones the size of a fist, and could project six or seven such small stones at a time, so it was still able to project the stones out of about 100 steps, and a salvo could project about 150 stones.

Although the cavalry of the Qin army was equipped with shields, the shields of the cavalry were all small round shields, and they could not block much in the face of the rain of stones falling from the sky, so there were still many soldiers who were hit by stones.

Although the projected stone is not big, but falling from a high altitude, the force is not small, whether it is hitting people and horses, even if it is not stoned to death, but it will also be beaten to the head and blood, tendons and bones are broken, even if it is hit by the helmet, it will also shock people's eyes with gold stars, dizziness, naturally unable to sit on the horse's back, fall down. And when the horse is hit, it will immediately fall to the ground, throwing the knight on horseback down.

After several rounds of stone rain, as many as 100 horses of the Qin army were smashed to the ground, some people were only directly hit by stones, some people were hit by horses and fell to the ground, and some people were tripped by the people and horses who fell to the ground in front, and the neat charging formation of the Qin army was also a little scattered.

Although the cavalry of the Qin army has been trained for nearly two years, but in this era, the cavalry is still a new branch of the army, except for the plateau, which is a traverser, others lack the experience of using the cavalry, and can only refer to the cavalry tactics used by the plateau, but because this era of information transmission basically relies on roaring, and the relationship between Qin and Han has never been good, so the Qin army can get very limited reference information, only know a general direction, and the details can only rely on their own slow exploration, Naturally, there are still considerable deficiencies in zài. This is not something that can be learned by training or drills.

Since it is at the time of the cavalry charge, the horizontal row naturally needs to maintain a dense formation to strengthen the strength of the impact, but between the vertical teams, the necessary distance must be maintained, otherwise the horses in the front row will fall, and the horses in the back row will have no room to dodge. This is very different from the charge of the infantry army.

But the Qin army is obviously inexperienced, the distance between the columns is too close, some of the cavalry almost chased the tail of the horse in the front row, so the cavalry in the front row fell to the ground, and the cavalry in the back row had no room to dodge at all, sometimes a horse fell, and would trip three or four war horses in a row, and some war horses stopped in time in order to avoid the war horses that fell to the ground in front, but they were knocked down by their companions who could not stop walking behind them, and as a result, the men and horses of the Qin army fell to the ground one after another, and soon exceeded three hundred.

However, there were still a large number of Qin troops approaching the array of the Han army, and the Han army's arrow trucks also used vehicle-mounted crossbow guns to attack the Qin army.

Although the crossbow guns in the arrow cart were far less powerful than the bed crossbow, they were not under the ordinary crossbow arrows, so the crossbow guns on the forty arrow carts were fired together, and more than ten Qin soldiers and horses were shot down at once.

However, although the Qin army had already lost three or four hundred horsemen, Bi Jing was strict in military discipline and brave and warlike, and the other cavalry still charged the Han army's defensive line, and soon closed the distance to within fifty paces, and this distance was already a dead end for the thunderbolt.

Originally, the Thunderbolt was not equipped with a repeating crossbow, but Gao Yuan considered that if the Thunderbolt could only project stones, the function was too simple, and once the enemy pushed closer to within 50 paces, the role of the Thunderbolt was not great, so the Plateau required that each Thunderbolt be equipped with a repeating crossbow to make the Thunderbolt also play a role in the middle distance.

Although the speed of the continuous fire crossbow is three times faster than that of the ordinary bow and arrow, but the range is only more than 30 steps, in the general battle, in fact, there is not much actual combat value, so at most only one or two rounds can be fired, the enemy can rush to the front, but the continuous fire crossbow is placed on this fully enclosed chariot, but it can give full play to the advantage of the fast rate of fire of the continuous crossbow, as a result, the arrow rain shot towards the Qin army one after another, and suddenly caused greater casualties to the Qin army.

Although many Qin soldiers also fired bows and arrows on horseback, the arrows fired by the Qin soldiers could not penetrate the thick wooden planks on the front of the chariot, so they could not cause any damage to the Han army at all.

Although many Qin troops braved the rain of arrows to rush to the chariot, picked up the spears and halberds in their hands, and stabbed and slashed at the chariot, they could not hurt the chariot in the slightest, but they were constantly shot down by the crossbow arrows shot from the arrow holes of the chariot.

At this time, the Han army, which relied on the chariot for defense, also waved its spear and launched an attack on the cavalry of the Qin army, although the Han army only had more than 1,000 people, and they were all infantry, but the formation was dense, and the cavalry of the Qin army was blocked by the chariot and could not rush up, and the power was naturally greatly reduced, so it was stabbed by the Han army with a burst of spears, and suddenly suffered a lot of casualties.

The battle had just begun, and the casualties of the Qin army were close to 1,000 people, which also made Wang Zhang, who was commanding in the rear, stunned, and could not think of the impact of the cavalry, and did not move the Han army's defense line at all, which was very different from the results of the Qin army's ordinary training, in the Qin army's ordinary training, the general infantry could not stop the cavalry's charge.

Although the cavalry of the Qin army continued to attack the defense line of the Han army at this time, the Han army firmly held the defense line and did not retreat, and the Han archers on the altar at this time also opened their bows and arrows one after another, assisting their companions in front of the stage to resist the attack of the Qin army, killing the Qin army on their backs, and killing countless casualties.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Qin army could not be attacked for a long time and suffered heavy casualties, he also knew that he could not continue to attack and must be readjusted, so he had to give an order to let the cavalry withdraw. As a result, the cavalry of the Qin army suddenly retreated like a tide, leaving only the corpses of men and horses in one place.

In fact, the time of this offensive and defensive battle was not long, less than half an hour in total, but the casualties of the Qin army had exceeded 1,000 people, and the defense line of the Han army was unbreakable, which greatly reduced Wang Zhang's confidence. Or do you want to go in another direction?

If you use infantry to attack the defense line of the Han army, the result may not be much stronger than the cavalry, because Wang Zhang can see that the defense line of the Han army, which is based on chariots, is extremely strong, and can not only defend against the cavalry, but also resist the attack of the infantry army, unless he brings heavy weapons such as trebuchets and can destroy the chariots of the Han army first. In other directions, the two armies of Qi and Chu also used the same way to arrange the defensive line, and if they boldly changed the direction of the attack, I am afraid that they would not achieve any good results, and once they turned to other directions, what if the Han army killed them from behind? Although Wang Zhang is a general who has experienced a hundred battles, he is not a person with strong decision-making ability, so he is also in a dilemma for a while, and he doesn't know how to decide.

However, Wang Zhang also knew that he must not hesitate at this time, and must make a decision as much as possible.

After the ―――――――― dividing line ――――――――― dividing line―――――――― after the Qin army retreated, on the top of the altar, a burst of cheers immediately sounded, but the cheers were basically the monarchs and soldiers of Qi and Chu, and the officials of the Han State basically did not react, which also made Qi Wangjian and Chu Wang Cheng feel very strange, why were they not happy when the Qin army retreated?

At this time, the plateau climbed the altar from the steps, and the king of Qi and the king of Chu hurriedly greeted him, and the king of Chu looked happy and said, "King Han, the Qin army has retreated." ”

Gao Yuan glanced at the audience, at this time, the soldiers of the Han army were reorganizing their defensive lines, moving away some of the corpses of Qin soldiers and horses that had fallen near the chariots, preparing to defend against the next attack of the Qin army, and said with a smile: "That's just the Qin army taking the initiative to retreat, I think the Qin army will attack us again immediately, and this time I am afraid that it will attack from the defense line of the two armies of Qi and Chu, so we can't be careless." ”

Qi Wangjian and Chu Wangjian listened, and suddenly became nervous again, because the momentum caused by the intensive attack of the Qin army's cavalry just now left a very deep impression on them, although the Han army resisted the attack of the Qin army, but whether their own country's army could do it, both of them did not have a bottom in their hearts, so Qi Wang Jianjian asked again: "What should I do?" ”

Gao Yuan said with a smile: "King Qi and King Chu, don't worry, just now I have arranged a defensive line in the two armies of Qi and Chu, and I should be able to block it for a while." ”

If the Qin army's attack just now was first launched from the defense line of Qi and Chu, Gao Yuan was really a little worried, because the defense line of Qi and Chu was not completely arranged, and it was difficult to resist the impact of the Qin army's cavalry, and after the Qin army launched an attack on the defense line of the Han army, Gao Yuan was relieved, and did not look at it at all, but immediately rushed to the Qi and Chu armies to arrange.

As for the attack of the Qin army, Gao Yuan was not worried at all, firstly, he had considerable confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Han army, if he could not even resist the first round of attacks of the Qin army, what else could he talk about to join forces with the Qin? Second, the use of cavalry on the plateau is much more profound than that of the Qin army, and it is simply a mistake to use light cavalry to attack the already arranged defense line.

Of course, even if the Qin army first attacks the defense line of Qi and Chu, the plateau is not without countermeasures, even if the defense line under the stage is breached, it can also retreat to the high platform to garrison, and the plateau still has five hundred cavalry in its hands, which can attack at any time, and the Han army can also be dispatched to attack the flank of the Qin army.

Therefore, Gao Yuan Hetian Kezhang and Xiang Dong came to the defense line of the Qi and Chu armies, personally set up the formation, and encouraged the soldiers of the Qi and Chu armies, and taught the middle-level officers the tactics of defending the Qin cavalry. At this time, the name of the plateau's soldiers has already spread all over the world, not only can it be compared with Li Mubaiqi, even if it is compared with Sun Wu and Wu Qi, it is not too much, and to be able to get the encouragement and guidance of the plateau, the soldiers of the two armies of Qi and Chu are naturally very excited, and their morale has also been improved.