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The fog finally dissipated, a round of red sun in the sky, and ten thousand golden rays sprinkled down!

On the nameless riverside, Zhu Wen was directing his men to dig a pit in his own position on the riverside. One pit after another, each pit is only about a foot long on the side and about a foot deep.

"Dig a hole and stick a sharpened stick in it, remember to straighten it up!" Zhu Wen shouted loudly while digging the pit hard. Although Li Cunxiao gave him five teams of 250 brothers, Zhu Wen still had no confidence. Although these 200 or so people are fully equipped, after all, they are just newly recruited warriors, and who knows if Lu Dao will be scattered under the impact of the grass thief.

For the sake of his own life and his own future, Zhu Wen tried his best, and finally remembered the trap to deal with the beast when hunting, and discussed it with Zhu Zhen and Zhu Cunyi, and both of them also thought that this method was good. Anyway, their task is to defend the river flat. In that case, digging a pit is a perfect fit. However, to deal with the enemy, it is too late to dig a big pit now, just dig a small pit, and this small pit is best to prevent the cavalry of the grass thief, after all, if the grass thief has a cavalry, even if the cavalry is bad, as long as he rushes up on a horse, it is still a huge threat.

Digging a horse pit and planting small stakes can not only prevent the cavalry from charging into battle, but also make the infantry unable to rush for a while.

The 200 recruits on the left wing were also full of tension at this time, and at this time they also knew that digging a pit in the road could relieve some pressure, and everyone did not complain one by one, and dug the pit desperately.

Li Cunxiao rode a horse to inspect the left flank position, and was so active in Zhu Wen's defensive arrangement. Very satisfied with his cleverness. scolded Zhu Wen with a smile: "Since you fucking know that you dig a horse pit." Planting piles. Why don't you plant antlers by the way, and the trees reject horses? Now that the enemy soldiers have not arrived, you can still dig a ditch and pile up a wall of earth! ”

Zhu Wen and the others were all new to the army, and they didn't know about the war in the past, and it was based on the experience of hunters to dig a pit. And Li Cunxiao has been by Li Jing's side for so long, and he is very familiar with many combat fortifications in the war. But it's a must-learn.

After Li Cunxiao pulled it out a little, Zhu Wen couldn't help but be surprised, it turned out that fighting is not just about you cutting me and killing me.

"If you want to do it, you have to hurry, or when the grass thief comes, it will be too late." Li Cunxiao smiled, turned his head to an officer next to him and said, "Go, take a thousand of our thistles and give them to Zhu Wen." ”

Tribulus terrestris is a four-legged nail, and if you throw it on the ground at will, one foot will inevitably be facing up. This is the most rearly weapon against the infantry. Especially in positional battles, throw them in front of the battle. If the enemy infantry rushed straight up, they would have to pay a lot of damage. This time, Li Jing deliberately gave a batch of auxiliary troops, and Li Cunxiao himself gave 5,000, and this time he gave Zhu Wen 1,000.

By the time it was close to noon, Zhu Wen's 200 or so men had already dug a half-man-high ditch on the section of defense line that was dozens of feet high, and then used the excavated soil to build an earthen wall about five feet high behind the ditch. Zhu Wen and the others stood behind the earthen wall, with the earthen wall to cover against the bow and arrow, and the earthen wall plus the ditch was equivalent to an eight- or nine-foot city wall, and it would be difficult for the grass thieves to break through their position directly.

In front of the earthen wall and the ditch, there is a dense horse trap about 60 steps wide, and sharpened wooden stakes are planted in the horse pit. In addition, many antlers were planted on this land. The so-called antlers are sharpened wooden stakes about two or three feet high, which are planted in front of the position in a disorderly manner, effectively preventing the enemy from charging on foot. In addition to the antlers, there are also horse-rejections, which are also made of sharpened wood, but instead of planting them on the ground, several sharpened stakes are tied together, and several rows are erected in front of the formation, and the trees form sections of horse-resisting walls, forcing the enemy to slow down when charging, and the biggest effect is to prevent cavalry from charging.

The richest of the 1,000 thistles had all been scattered on this open ground within sixty paces.

After doing all this, more than 200 recruits were all tired and lay on the ground like dogs. In the May weather, they were already sweating their clothes. However, looking at this completely changed position that had been tossed by them, Zhu Wen and the others were all amazed in their hearts.

This land has really become a death trap, and whoever rushes up to it will never be pleased. Everyone's originally nervous and worried mood couldn't help but relax.

Countless crows flew across the sky, croaking overhead. Recently, the grass thieves have been burning and looting in this vicinity, and the wilderness villages are littered with exposed corpses, attracting countless crows, so that when these crows see so many people gathered together, they can't wait to enjoy a feast of crows!

"Wait and feed the crows!" Zhu Zhen looked up at these crows who were not afraid of the soldiers, and then at the fortifications they had just worked so hard to build, and cursed in a low voice. Although Zhu Wen didn't speak, he couldn't help but nod in agreement. It's just that, despite this fortification, there are still too few of them. There were only 250 men to defend the defensive line of dozens of feet, and what was even more important was that most of these soldiers were new recruits. Although the quality is good, there are not many archers.

"All those who know how to bow and arrow come, and the others keep only ten arrows each, and give the rest to them." Zhu Wen thought about it, and finally decided to gather the people who knew how to bow and arrow among the more than 200 people to use it.

There are not many archers, there are about thirty people, most of these people used to be hunters, Zhu Wen personally tested it, and the archery skills are okay. These thirty people Zhu Wen organized them into a team, directly commanded by himself, and then subdivided the rest a little, the fifty people who were strong in martial arts, tall and brave, were organized into a team, and these people would be jumping sword and shield bearers. The rest were one hundred and seventy people, and Zhu Wen divided one hundred and twenty of them into four teams of thirty people, and the remaining fifty people were used as reserves by Zhu Wen, ready to support at any time.

Zhu Zhen and Zhu Cun and the other four team leaders had no opinion, and the two hundred and fifty people were divided into seven teams, Zhu Wen himself commanded the team of archers, Zhu Cun and Zhu Zhen each commanded a team of sword and shield men, and the other four team leaders each commanded a long spearmen.

Just after the arrangement, suddenly a cavalry squad galloped over, and Zhu Wen recognized that it was Li Cunxiao's personal army and horse team.

Soon a herald arrived and conveyed the latest news to him, "Commander Fu, Commander Yang, Commander Gao, and Commander Wang have all entered Yucheng and are now fighting a bloody battle with the enemy in the city. Commander Liu sent an order, and the scouts had already detected that a large group of grass thieves were coming from the southeast, and asked them to hold their positions before taking Yucheng, so as not to let the enemy's reinforcements reach Yucheng. ”

"How many thieves are coming?" There was a hint of tremor in Zhu Wen's voice.

"About three thousand!" The herald dropped the words, and then turned around.

Can they hold their ground with a thousand soldiers and horses and hold off the three thousand thieves?

He didn't have time to think about these carefully, the sound of war drums had already come from Li Cunxiao's Chinese army position, the drums were getting louder and louder, and the rhythm of the war drums caused his heart to beat faster and faster, making his face red and his hands trembling slightly.

Zhu Cun picked up the red pennant gun, and in an instant, the thief army had appeared in front, and they emerged from the plain along the river, all over the field. The thieves in front of them carried high banners, shields and spears formed a strong barrier, and they continued to advance.

"Fuck it!" Zhu Wen couldn't help but scold, how many fucking people are there. At this glance, the other party is by no means more than 3,000 people, but if you think about it carefully, 3,000 people should be thieves, and those in the wilderness behind should not be thieves, but people who are being coerced.

The leaders of the thieves rode their horses and marched under the guard of the thieves.

He saw a lot of flags, but they were very strange, made of cloth of various colors, different sizes, different colors, and even had no words on them, just all kinds of ghostly patterns. Some depict ferocious tigers, some depict wolves, and some depict swords, spears, and battle axes. The flag fluttered in the wind and flew over the pole.

In the rumbling war drums, the horn sounded, woo woo! ~~ Low and long, like the north wind that has just passed, it makes people chill. Zhu Wen felt a wave of nausea, as if the wine he drank last night was only feeling uncomfortable now, and his stomach was cramping, and a wave of nausea surged up, and he was dizzy and wanted to vomit.

At the sound of the trumpet, the two armies were close to going to war.

Li Cunxiao of the Chinese army was the first to give the order to release the arrows, and the thief army began to send their cavalry of several hundred men to charge directly. The cavalry of the thief army began to accelerate, running and roaring, and for a long time, they fought with the officers and troops, and they were directly rushed up to defeat the officers and troops. Today, they are ready to continue like this, directly drowning the officers and troops with the tactics of crowds.

The auxiliary archers in the middle of the lane held their bows one after another, and at this time, they didn't care about their archery skills, they just released their arrows. And those who had never held a bow were commanded by Li Cunxiao to use a spear thrower to load the five-foot javelins one by one, and then under a shouting order, twisted their waists and raised their arms, and struggled to throw the javelins.

In the rain of arrows, there were countless javelins flying by, and hundreds of spears whistling past, falling towards the arrogant thief cavalry.

Archery requires precise archery, but bidding does not require much skill, especially when equipped with a simple but practical spear thrower, any recruit can throw a gun more than fifty paces, and some talented warriors can even throw a javelin one hundred and twenty paces away.

In an instant, as many as five or six hundred javelins whistled down from the sky, dealing a fatal blow to those arrogant thief cavalry. Many horses and knights were shot and fell to the ground, and the arrogant cries gave way to miserable wails.

And at this time, the second wave of attacks arrived.

Woo woo, the horn sounded again, but this time it was the auxiliary army. Li Cunxiao waved his iron lance and pointed forward, and the voices of hundreds of people immediately responded. Zhu Wen stood on the left flank, watching the blood surging in this face, and the discomfort in his heart just now had all been waved to the back of his head at this time.

Li Cunxiao rode out of his horse, held a lance and jumped on his horse, took the lead, and led the army to kill the grass thief. Zhu Wen also immediately jumped up with a gun, and was about to follow, when a horse arrived, "The commander has an order, the left flank holds its position and must not leave the battle!" (To be continued......)