Outside the eastern part of Manchester City, two large armies are facing off against each other.

Located in the western position is about a million Xianbei troops, and Xianbei County does not seem to be in very good shape at this time. The soldier's face showed tiredness that could not be concealed, and his morale did not seem to be particularly high.

In the face of this million-strong army, the Pingzhou army, which was outnumbered, was uncharacteristically conservative. The foot soldiers, who occupied about 60% of the total strength, tightly shrank into a ball, and formed a complete defensive formation.

The cavalry troops were fierce, but they did not dare to take the initiative to attack.

"Report, the Xianbei Army has sent an envoy!"

Shang Ji glanced at Liu Yi next to him and said with a smile: "Brother, do you guess what is the purpose of Kebi to send a messenger over at this time?" ”

"Hmph, it's impossible to surrender!" Liu Yi snorted coldly, with a hint of sneer on his serious face.

After thinking about it, Shang Ji still agreed to summon the messenger.

A moment later, a Xianbei nobleman came to Shang Ji arrogantly, with a haughty posture and a domineering demeanor, without the slightest appearance of a messenger.

"What, Kobi sent you to surrender?" Looking at the Xianbei soldiers whose heads were almost raised to the sky, Shang Ji couldn't help but tease.

"Humph!" The envoy's face quickly became gloomy, he glanced at Shang Ji with disdain, and said in a loud voice: "My lord can't bear to see the lives ruined, so I will give you a chance." Now that you have led the army to surrender, my lord can spare your life, and give you the title of the king of the right school. Otherwise, wherever I go, I will not leave an inch of grass! ”

"Right Colonel King?" Shang Ji glanced at the Xianbei envoy rather playfully, pointed to himself, and asked Liu Yi, Zhao Yun and the others next to him, "What about the generals and Li Shaoqing?" ”

Li Shaoqing is Li Ling, who was canonized as the king of the right school by the Xiongnu after the defeat and surrender.

"The general of the defeated army, dare to compare with the lord? The Xianbei envoy despises the lord, and the last general will kill him! ”

Liu Yi snorted coldly, staring at the messenger with murderous intent, and Changqiang in his hand was eager to try.

The Xianbei envoy's eyes involuntarily showed a trace of panic, but he pretended to be calm and snorted coldly: "My lord is merciful, give you a glimmer of life, don't be stubborn!" ”

Shang Ji rubbed it, looked at the envoy and said, "If the two armies don't fight, I won't break the rules." However, the lord humiliates the ministers to death, and the Xianbei envoy despises the general, what should you do? ”

As soon as Shang Ji's words fell, Zhao Yun and Tai Shici appeared at the same time, and two qiang shadows, one silver and one red, flashed, and then they heard the screams of the Xianbei envoy.

He followed the prestige, but saw that the ears and nose of the Xianbei envoy had been removed, and he was wailing in desolation.

"The last general is incompetent, causing the lord to be humiliated, and please ask the lord to surrender!" Zhao Yun and Tai Shi Ci bowed down and said in unison.

Shang Ji nodded with satisfaction, and said loudly: "Zilong and Ziyi are brave and martial, and the reward is a thousand gold, to encourage!" ”

"Thank you, Lord!"

The two bowed at the same time, making Su Huan and the others next to them, who were a little slower, annoyed. The little money of the daughter doesn't matter to a military general of their level, but in front of the army, such a good opportunity was missed in vain, which is really regrettable.

"Just Chief Hu, he even dared to let the general surrender, I don't know what to say! Ben will also give you a chance to immediately lead the people to surrender, and still lose the position of returning to the righteous marquis, continue to be stubborn, and will definitely let the entire Xianbei be wiped out! ”

The Xianbei envoy didn't say anything, glanced at Shang Ji with hateful eyes, and waved his sleeves and left directly.

After the envoy left, Shang Ji immediately said: "Pass the order, the whole army is on the highest alert, the sword is out of the sheath and the crossbow is wound, and prepare for battle!" ”

Although the slogan was shouted loudly, Shang Ji really didn't have too much confidence in his heart. Since Kebineng has sent people to persuade him to surrender, he must be full of confidence, and combined with Payne's analysis, this victory is not high.

However, running away without a fight is not the style of Shang Ji, and in any case, it must be compared with Kebi.

Soon, after the envoy returned, the Xianbei army remembered the loud horn sound, and the decisive battle officially broke out!

The horn of war was sounded, but the Xianbei army did not attack at the first time. For the sake of prudence, Shang Ji also ordered the army to be on standby, so as not to change the situation.

"Whew-"

A gust of gloomy wind blew, taking the center of the army as the origin, and suddenly a large area of red blood mist began to appear and spread around. All the Xianbei troops who were shrouded in blood mist suddenly changed their spirits.

The originally somewhat sluggish expression immediately became hideous, the muscles were knotted, the eyes were blood-red, the internal strength began to boil uncontrollably, the wisps of blood mist seeped into the body from the seven orifices, and the blood rays flowed on the blades and armor.

The Xianbei army began to become crazy, and its momentum soared all the way, and the army was like a bloodthirsty and brutal beast of the wilderness, giving people a terrifying oppression.

Fortunately, the Pingzhou Army is well-trained, with a high proportion of high-level special troops, a tenacious will to fight, and the control of many historical generals, plus the bonus of the title of Shang Ji [Alien Conqueror], otherwise the ordinary army will face the Xianbei army in this state, I am afraid that there is a high probability that they will flee directly without a fight.

"Woooooo

The horn sounded, and the half-demonized Xianbei army began to move.

The army was divided into two, and there were about 400,000 people under the leadership of Suo Nu who rushed straight to the infantry cluster led by Zhang He, while the remaining Xianbei main force did not move at all, staring coldly at the Pingzhou cavalry corps.

Seeing that the Xianbei army was the first to cut themselves, Zhang He was not panicked. It was still the standard defensive posture of shield soldiers and Changqiang soldiers in front, Gong Nu hands in the back, quietly waiting for the Xianbei army to come to the door.

Shang Ji did not intend to intervene in the war of the infantry group, at least not for now. On the one hand, it is because of the containment of the remaining Xianbei army, and on the other hand, it is necessary to measure the true combat power of the Xianbei army after demonization.

Judging from the appearance, the combat power of the Xianbei army has skyrocketed, and there is even a feeling of incomparability. But there are more fancy things in the world, and Shang Ji needs to estimate the real combat strength of the current Xianbei army through the battle between the infantry group and the Xianbei army, and then formulate the corresponding strategy.

Seeing the Xianbei Army approaching at an extremely fast speed, Zhang He's cold expression finally changed slightly, and he suddenly got up and shouted: "It's now!" ”

"Whoa!"

There was a sound of armor scraping against each other, and the shield soldiers and qiang soldiers in the front row retreated left and right, transforming from a complete shield wall into a column that crossed over. Every few zhang away, a gap in the military formation about three zhang wide was revealed.

Through the gap, you can see heavy city-breaking crossbows aiming at the incoming Xianbei army, crossbow arrows with arm thickness and a foot long, and the arrow clusters of about two feet exude a dazzling cold light!

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang!"

With Zhang He's order, the giant hammer of the mechanic smashed on the crossbow machine of the heavy crossbow, the string was like a thunderbolt, the arrow was like lightning, and the crossbow arrow shot towards the Xianbei army with a deafening sonic boom!

"Boom-boom-boom-"

At the same time, large siege equipment such as stone-throwing trucks and torch stone trucks also began to exert their might, and pieces of huge stones fell from the sky and smashed into the Xianbei army formation.

The giant crossbow carried a cold glow and shot at the Xianbei army with a thunderous momentum. Even though the Xianbei army was demonized and its combat power increased dramatically, it was still difficult to escape a dead word when it was directly hit by the siege giant crossbow. If you're lucky, you can even pierce several people with a single crossbow arrow!

And the attack of the torch stone cart was even more terrifying, it was directly hit by it, and even the corpse capital could not be found!

If it was an ordinary army, it would have been able to greatly delay the offensive, even if there was no rout, if it had not been defeated. But at this time, the Xianbei army was obviously beyond the scope of the ordinary army, and in the face of the death of their comrades, the Xianbei army didn't even look at it, with a violent and crazy killing intent in their eyes, and rushed straight to the Pingzhou army!

The attacks of the Bed Crossbow and the Torch Cart are terrifying, but their hit rate is extremely low. And their slow reload speed means they only have one chance to attack!

Zhang He stared at the surging Xianbei army with a solemn face, and his heart sank slightly. At a cursory glance, Zhang He found that the attack he had carefully prepared had far less lethal effect on the Xianbei Legion than expected, which was not good news for the Pingzhou Army!

However, it is not bad news, although the strength of the Xianbei army in the current state is awe-inspiring, it seems that there has been a cliff-like reduction in command fluency.

In the face of this situation, it is the most basic choice for the normal army to attack from the flank, or to look for opportunities by detouring, but the Xianbei army in front of them has no such consciousness at all, and continues to charge!

"Record, the Xianbei army in the demonic state seems to be unable to command normally, but their morale has been in an extremely high state, please pay attention!"

After Zhang He finished speaking, a general in charge of communication immediately passed the news to Shang Ji.

After the heavy crossbow took effect, the soldiers in front of them immediately closed again, and a wall of steel shields stood in front of the Xianbei army again.

"Strong archers, shoot! Northland crossbow, shoot! ”

Seeing that the Xianbei army had entered the firing range, Zhang He issued two orders one after another.

"Whoa—"

The dense sound of bowstrings was connected together, forming a piercing buzzing sound, but I saw that the 400,000 strong archers with the starry strong bow and the sun-shooting strong pawn as the main force were at the same time, and the overwhelming rain of arrows directly attacked the Xianbei army.

In the face of the terrifying rain of arrows, the Xianbei army did not dodge or dodge, and continued to attack in the rain of arrows. However, even in this favorable situation, the casualties of the Xianbei army were still very limited.

An ethereal blood mist automatically appeared on the surface of the Xianbei army's body, and the seemingly thin layer of blood mist made the flying arrow rain helpless. Ordinary arrows can only consume a little blood mist at most, and they can't do effective damage to the Xianbei soldiers after the blood mist.

Only the Star Bow and the Sun-Shooting Pawn can form an effective kill, but they also lose the sharpness of one arrow and one person in the past.

The weak performance of the strong archers further deepened Zhang He's uneasiness, and made him realize that today was probably the most difficult battle since joining the army.

"Northland crossbow, shoot!"

The giant shield soldier turned sideways, revealing a gap, and the strong crossbow of the northern land led by Gao Xiang immediately shot with the crossbow, and Gong Nu, who fired five consecutive shots, was not inferior to the 300,000 strong archers in terms of attack density.

"Puff puff!"

Contrary to the weak performance of the strong archers, the strong crossbow of the Northland gave Zhang He a big surprise, a volley of steel crossbows, causing at least thousands of enemy soldiers to fall from their horses.

"Change the barrel and shoot!"

In the blink of an eye, another round of crossbow bolts came to the face, and the Xianbei army fell in large numbers.

In just a few breaths of effort, the Beidi strong crossbow led by Gao Xiang emptied five arrow magazines in one go, and hundreds of thousands of steel crossbows were all shot out in the blink of an eye.

Each Northland crossbow is only equipped with five arrow boxes, not because the merchants are unwilling to equip more, but because the arrow boxes are expensive and cannot be expanded. In addition, the continuous high-intensity shooting is extremely damaging to the crossbow string, and if you continue to shoot, you may be scrapped directly.

After emptying the arrow magazine, the Northland crossbow, which had temporarily lost its combat effectiveness, immediately retreated, and the giant shield soldiers stepped forward and closed the defense line again.

"Quick, send 30,000 regular archer troops to assist the Northland crossbow to fill the arrow box, and the victory or defeat of this battle depends on the northland crossbow!"

A hint of excitement erupted in Zhang He's eyes, although for some reason the killing effect of the Northland strong crossbow on the Xianbei army far exceeded expectations, Zhang He would not let go of this opportunity in vain! 166 Reading Network