?Yang Liu led the cavalry to wander around the periphery of the Anzhou Army's spear formation and tried to delay the opponent's marching speed. At the same time, he dispersed the other Anzhou Army soldiers who were trying to approach. Seeing that the opponent's formation began to move northwest, he ordered people to follow and harass them with cavalry and shooting.

If the infantry that formed a formation is forced to rush to the formation with cavalry, the loss will be great and the effect will not be much better. Therefore, the usual tactic is to let the cavalry wander around the periphery of the military formation and force the opponent to maintain the formation and thus unable to move.

This is the way to win after the infantry on your side clears the surrounding enemy troops. If there are many people on the other side, there is no need to hurry. Force them to squat in the wild for a day or two, then there will be no water or food. The army will be in chaos sooner or later.

If the opponent sends troops to attack, if there are few people, they will deliver vegetables. If there are too many people, the cavalry will run away and wait if there are any flaws and rush up to take a bite. This will take several days to make the opponent harasse and will be almost finished.

Infantry and cavalry cannot chase and defeat and retreat, as long as they are negligent, they will suffer a catastrophe. This is how Chen's army was defeated by the iron cavalry of the Great Zhou again and again.

The Chen army likes to gather together to keep warm, and the Zhou army will deliberately retreat and lead the other party to go deeper step by step, resulting in the long food route, and the cavalry will go to the food route. If the Chen army attacks in separate ways, they will be eaten by the cavalry one by one.

The Chen State did not have powerful cavalry, so every so-called Northern Expedition ended in failure. The city of Chen State in Jiangbei was captured by the Great Zhou again and again. The Chen army could not resist the harassment of the Zhou cavalry in the field.

Yang Liu's mission was to wrap his spear formation in front of him so that they could not support the Anzhou army formation in time. When his army defeated the Anzhou army, the crowd rushed up and they could fight, it would be useless.

Now the opponent started to move, so the cavalry rushed up and harassed them with cavalry shots. Anyway, the opponent's soldiers formed a dense array of targets without aiming, and they would definitely hit the crowd. They would continue to grind until their army won.

Not only did Yang Liu think so, but the cavalry under his command also thought so, but the Anzhou army's spear formation opposite began to move. The spear that was as beautiful as a forest in the spear formation suddenly lay flat, and then the big crossbow on the carriage shot many objects at them and hit the ground, and the people or horses emitted waves of white smoke.

"The range of more than one hundred steps is so long." Yang Liu looked at the big crossbow on the opponent's military formation carriage and was the first time he saw someone putting a big crossbow on the carriage.

The effective range of an ordinary cavalry bow is only forty or fifty steps, and the effective range of an ordinary step bow is about eighty steps. The opponent's large crossbow has a range of more than one hundred steps, so the cavalry of one's own cavalry does not seem to have any harassment effect.

The crossbow arm of this big crossbow looks very short and I don’t know how such a short crossbow arm can have such a large range. He thought that the other party would fire something arson, but now it seems to be creating smoke. Did he think that the cover of smoke can stop his own harassment?

The white smoke spread and the cavalry shrouded in it didn't have anything at first, but it didn't take long to feel something was wrong: the eyes were irritating and the throat was as painful as fire. It seemed that there was a irritating smell in the white mist. It made people unable to open their eyes and feel a pain in their throat every time they breathed.

Even the war horses under their crotch were a little wrong. They kept neighing and restlessly, as if something stuck on their bodies that was unbearable. As the objects that were constantly firing on the other side's large crossbow burst, the white mist became thicker and thicker.

After a while, many cavalry fell off their horses in pain or covered their eyes, and the warriors became more and more restless, some did not listen to their masters' control and ran around, and some fell directly to the ground with their four hooves softened.

"White smoke is poisonous!" Yang Liu's first reaction was like this. He couldn't figure out what was so toxic that it could make people lose their combat power in an instant. Seeing the large crossbow in the spear formation keep firing such strange things to form white mist, he quickly led his subordinates to avoid it.

As soon as the Chang'anzhou Army spear formation was pulled up, it accelerated to advance westward. Seeing this, Yang Liu led the cavalry to encircle left and right, but was blown down by the things fired by a large crossbow on the carriage moving with the army formation.

Before he could catch his enemy, he had already lost nearly one hundred cavalry. Seeing the opponent getting farther and farther away, Yang Liu gritted his teeth and ordered the cavalry to surround the left and right with cavalry to stop the opponent from continuing to move forward.

He believed that as long as the horse ran and didn't stay in the white fog for too long, the poisoning would not be too deep, so there was nothing unbearable. Moreover, the white fog did not last very long, as long as it could contain the other party by more than half of the loss.

All of this changed after Yang Liu's mount was shot by a big crossbow. He experienced what pain was and also understood what this white thing was.

It was not a poison but a common visible lime, but quicklime.

As soon as quicklime touches water, it will become hot and even make the water roll. Yang Liu has seen someone accidentally fall into the quicklime pond and has also sucked in a small amount of quicklime dust, so he is a little familiar with this feeling.

But it was too late. His mount was hit by the lime bomb shot from the big crossbow. Although he did not suffer much direct damage, the quicklime powder sprayed out then sprayed it sprayed it with his mount and himself.

When the war horse runs, it will sweat all over. When the sweat touches the quicklime, it will immediately become hot. Although Yang Liu is wearing armor, his eyes cannot be protected and breathing is inevitable, so he and the war horse under his crotch are all hit.

His eyes were so hot that he could no longer open. Every time he breathed, his throat felt as painful as being cut by a knife. The war horse under his crotch neighed in pain and suddenly the horse fell to the ground and threw the owner forward several meters away.

Yang Liu struggled to get up but couldn't breathe. He pinched his neck and rolled all over the ground in pain to try to pull out a hole so that he could breathe smoothly. He was unwilling to die inexplicably, and unwilling to die in such humiliation.

He had the strength and martial arts that he had learned through many battles, his superb riding and archery skills, and his determination to die with his enemies, but today he fell down without even touching the side of the abominable spear formation.

Before he was about to lose consciousness, Yang Liu suddenly remembered Yang Qi who led a 500-part hiking hiking to the spear formation yesterday afternoon. He truly felt how unwilling Yang Qi, who was buried in the fire, felt at that time.

‘If I had known this, it would have been better to ride a horse and rush to the formation directly...’ This was the last thought before Yang Liu lost consciousness.

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"Don't look, those people can't get up after falling to the ground." Yuwen Wen glanced at the enemy cavalry that had been wiped out by his quicklime bombs and sneered. Brother Chen Wu and Xu Shao beside him were stunned at the large area of ​​white fog.

They knew that quicklime would heat up when exposed to water, but they never thought that they could be used to kill the enemy in this way on the battlefield. They couldn't figure out how the quicklime bomb could form so quickly a large fog covering the enemy's army and take effect quickly.

Nearly seven or eight hundred cavalrymen were attacked by their own lime bullets for several rounds and they actually lost more than 300. It seemed that they had no intention of continuing to attack. At this time, Yuwen Shiwu, who was on standby in Hexi camp, led 300 cavalrymen to rush out of the camp and attack them, and they all turned their heads and retreated to the west.

The cavalry of the Nanxing Army had always been wary of the Hexi camp behind him, but he never thought that nearly a thousand cavalry on his side would be severely injured by the inexplicable white fog. Now he was attacked from both sides and the main general was killed and he was killed and he was killed and went straight to the battlefield to rush to the west wing of the battlefield to meet with his cavalry.

"Stop shooting!" Yuwen Wen felt a little sad when he looked at the lime bombs that shot in the air. It cost a lot of money to make it. He had to save some money at the beginning of the battle.

A simple lime bomb will not produce too much dust fog when hitting the target. Yu Wenwen used the compressed air tank in the lime bomb that was not very reliable to deflate the air in the lime bomb to achieve the fog-making effect to enhance lethality.

The naked and wet eyes of the man and horse rushed into the quicklime fog. The exposed and wet eyes were first hit and then the respiratory tract was burned. The horses in the running vigorously breathed heavily, so the damage was even worse.

The principle is simple to make, and the complex quicklime powder must be finely ground to compress the air tank. In order to ensure that the injection of A type bomb must be "sprayed" every time it is shot, it must also have a reliable dual mechanism of triggering and delay.

Because of these "high-tech content", the average cost of an A-type bomb (lime bomb) is 100 guan. At least 40 A-type bombs were fired by crossbows. If they were converted into money, they would cost about 5,000 guan.

So Yuwen, who was short of cavalry, is now burning money to smash people with a coin of copper coins in war. If he wins this battle, he will be lucky to be able to use spoils to compensate him if he loses, he will go bankrupt.

Especially his father Yuwen Liang attacked Fan Cheng and the sky-bombing thunder used in the battle between the two armies. The effect was amazing, but the cost was amazing. The sulfur and saltpeter he had worked hard to save. If it was replaced with copper coins, it would be nearly 50,000 jin.

The income from selling glass mirrors in the past six months has been spent in an instant. Yuwen Wen is more than anyone else looking forward to winning this battle. Otherwise, the money spent will be similar to throwing it into the water.

After calming down, he stood in the chariot and looked around the battlefield with a thousand-mile mirror, and frowned as he looked at it.

"The situation is not good, the square formation continues to move forward." Yu Wen Wen's face was solemn. His large formation was already unstable by several enemy cavalry attacks. If measures were not taken as soon as possible to stabilize the morale of the army, it would probably be over sooner or later.

The cavalry of the Anzhou army chased the defeated soldiers too quickly and was blocked by the fire in the opponent's camp. They would not be able to return for a while. The cavalry of the left wing could not stop the enemy cavalry from attacking, not to mention support, even if they were entangled, they could not leave.

Some soldiers of Anzhou soldiers began to retreat south timidly. Seeing that this would not work, Yuwen Wen decided to move northward to boost his morale.

The Hexi Camp Guards led by General Manager Sima Zheng Wanqing on the left wing had beaten drums to tell Anzhou soldiers that reinforcements had joined the battle. Many Anzhou soldiers with scattered formations surrounded them and reorganized the defense line with them as the core.

"Director, should I ask the leader of Yuwen Zhuang to support the central army?" Xu Shao suddenly said something. Yuwen Wen was frightened and immediately looked towards the direction of the central army when he heard this. He saw a cavalry of the Southern Conquest Army rushing towards the central army's commander flag.

"Beheading tactic..." Yuwen Wen murmured as he looked at this scene. The commander of the Central Army was the commander of the Anzhou Army and his father Yuwen Liang was also the place where his father Yuwen Liang was. If he was attacked by the other party, everything would be over.

"Send the order to let Yuwen Zhuang support the central army." Yuwen Wen glanced at the direction of the central army and made a decision, "Turn the square formation and advance to the north!"
Chapter completed!