Chapter Five Hundred and Fifty Nine: The Battle of the Snowfield (the second to last)
Xue Chong looked into the distance.
The cavalry of both sides were fighting there, and the black belonging to the Tang army had slowly gained the upper hand. He could see the scattered black dots gathering into a trickle stream. This was an excellent signal. Next, this local small victory would eventually be connected. When the black torrent was completely formed, the red Lu Long army was defeated on its entire line.
So, Deng Jingshan couldn't wait.
"Uncle Fifth, this is our Zuo Jinwu Guard's chance to correct his name." He turned his head and looked at Xue Jian beside him.
Xue Dian nodded vigorously.
"Xue, we will carry forward the whole world." Xue Chong continued.
Xue's family is now almost divided into three branches.
One of them is Xue Chong and Xue Jian's branch. Xue Chong now considers himself a hard-core follower of Prime Minister Li Ze, but it has not been recognized by Li Ze's direct descendants. The two sides are far from trusting each other. This requires long-term efforts to get a good result.
The second branch is Xue Ping, who is a typical royalist. In Xue Chong's view, Xue Ping can still live with Li Zeping peacefully now, but at a certain point in the future, he will inevitably turn against each other.
The third branch was Xue Xiong, who now works in the pseudo-liang, and there is nothing to say about this branch. In the future, we will definitely meet each other with swords and weapons, and we will never stop until we die.
When you meet other enemies, you may have a chance to reconcile, but when you meet Xue Xiong, you may not even have this.
Xue Chong looked left and right, and only this branch of the Xue family was considered promising.
Xue Jian was a little sad, but he had to admit this. Originally, their branch was the direct lineage of the Xue family. From now on, I am afraid that Xue Chong's branch would support the Xue family.
"Li Xiang regards me as his confidant and handed me over the important places like Zhuozhou Youzhou to me to station. He treats military equipment equally with his direct troops. At this moment, it is time for us to repay him!" Xue Chong's eyes became sharp, "Fifth Uncle, in this battle, we have advanced but not retreated, defeating Deng Jingshan and winning the final victory, not only for Li Xiang, but also for ourselves."
"Xue, it will definitely be carried forward in our hands." Xue Jian also nodded vigorously. "General, I'm going."
"I'll leave it to Uncle Five in the front."
Xue Jian turned over and left the central army's location, and ran towards the frontier position in front.
The war drums of both sides were deafening, and a battle between the two sides gathered nearly 40,000 people was immediately unveiled.
Deng Jingshan is Zhang Zhongwu's direct army, and his army is not equipped at all. Even if it is not as good as the Zuo Jinwu Guard in front of him, the difference is not too big. The combat power of the entire infantry is probably even stronger than that of the Zuo Jinwu Guard. This is a unit that has been fighting all the time.
If we talk about their weakness, it is that their long-distance running physical strength was affected, and the Zuo Jinwu Guard, who arrived in advance, was full of energy and took the lead in occupying the favorable terrain and building a position that could be relied on.
The best long-range weapon on both sides is the powerful crossbow. No one of the two armies carried a big thing like a catapult this time. Even the powerful crossbows were not too many. More were still relying on ordinary arrows.
But in this regard, Zuo Jinwu Guard has an absolute advantage.
Lu Long Army Archers, this is the accumulation of a veteran powerhouse for many years.
Zuo Jinwu has many crossbow archers.
Crossbow archers do not require too high preparations and use cover-based shooting. The biggest advantage is that they do not waste physical strength. As long as they have enough time and space, they can shoot continuously. Even the best archers, if they shoot ten arrows in a row, they will be afraid that their arms will be sore and soft, and it will be difficult to pull out a strong bow again.
It’s not that Lu Long’s army does not know the advantages of crossbows, but it takes money to equip such crossbows. Lu Long’s army can build crossbows, but they just can’t afford so much money to build more expensive crossbows.
One attacks, one defends, one is a mourning soldier fighting, and the other is a victory, and there is a lot of confidence. The various differences have brought the combat power of both sides to the same level. There is no fancy in this battle, just a competition for who can hold on to the last breath.
Amid the drums, the Lulong army infantry arrays advanced forward. The one in front was rows of shields behind, with giant shields in front, forming a shield wall, and the one behind held the shields above their heads. Although the advancement was slow, it was airtight. After walking dozens of steps, it would pause and rectify the queue.
More than a dozen square arrays launched an attack at the same time. From a high point, they looked like huge and hard rocks rolling on the ground, which was extremely shocking.
Above the ridges on both sides, besides the drums and the military flags rushing in the wind, there was a silence.
Get close, get closer.
On the ridge, the drum sound suddenly rose, and then a powerful crossbow came through the air with a sharp roar. With a loud bang, the giant shield hand of the Lu Long Army was in the middle.
With the loud bang, the giant shield broke a big hole, and the crossbow arrow immediately tore the man's armor and penetrated it deeply into the chest of the shield-holder.
But that's all.
A powerful crossbow only takes one life, so it is naturally a loss.
But this is just a label crossbow arrow.
As the crossbow arrow hit, the roaring sound immediately came and went, hundreds of crossbow arrows shot down from the ridges on both sides, tearing open the neat military formation one by one.
In a large battlefield of tens of thousands of people, there were only hundreds of powerful crossbows in one volley. It is obvious that the Zuo Jinwu Guard is extremely short of heavy weapons.
Under the ridges, the airtight military formations broke into gaps, and a crossbow chariot was pushed out of the military formations. They obviously had more powerful crossbows than on the mountain.
Hundreds of crossbow arrows shot towards the ridge, and before one wave could land, the second wave had already been shot out again.
Shooting from top to bottom naturally has a geographical advantage, while the crossbow arrows shot from the foot of the mountain are shot to the highest point and then turned down, falling like rain. Using a powerful crossbow has actually weakened the power of the powerful crossbow arrows to the extreme.
"Scatter!" With the order of Officer Lu Long, the close formation of Lu Long's army scattered.
"Attack!" After another order, Lu Longjun, who had dispersed, shouted and rushed up the mountain.
With a buzzing sound, a black piece of crossbows soared above the ridges on both sides, which were crossbow arrows shot out by dense crossbow machines.
The shield was raised above his head, like rain hitting a banana leaf, and it kept ringing. It attacked the feather arrows like locusts on the ridges. Lu Longjun bent and ran upwards.
From time to time, people will immediately get countless arrows due to poor protection or during running.
On the way forward, people fall from time to time.
The higher the attack surface, the narrower the attack surface, which also makes the originally scattered formations begin to become denser. The higher the formation, the thicker it appears.
At this moment, the crossbow arrow suddenly stopped.
Lu Longjun took advantage of this rare gap and put away his shield and ran faster and faster.
Only those experienced officers felt something strange.
A strange sound of shouting horns came from my ears.
Then they looked up and saw huge snowballs appearing on the ridge. The sound of shouting just now was Zuo Jinwu soldiers on the ridge working together to push these giant snowballs forward.
"Be careful!" Before the officers' shouts landed, countless giant snowballs rolled down from the top.
The snow is soft.
But the snow was gathered together to form such snowballs, which were watered and solidified early, and then wrapped in layers of snow. After this repeated, each of these snowballs was hundreds of kilograms, and their strength was no less than that of a stone.
Hundreds of such snowballs almost covered the entire attack surface, and during the rolling process, they continued to wrap the snow on the ridges onto the snowballs again, making their size bigger and bigger. They collided with each other, and some of them rose into the air and fell heavily to the ground, the snowflakes wrapped outside fell, but they would be stained with more snowflakes.
The soldiers of the Lulong Army stopped and stared blankly at the rumbling snowballs.
There is nowhere to hide.
There is nowhere to retreat.
The soldier in front roared and inserted his shield heavily to the ground, then squatted down and pressed all his strength up, hoping to block these snowballs.
But when the snowballs hit hard, their power seemed so insignificant. With one touch, they were immediately overwhelmed. The snowballs were tripped by the fallen people and then jumped up again, and then fell heavily.
The snowball swept across the entire attack surface.
What's even more terrifying is that some Lu Long soldiers were actually embedded on these snowballs and became part of the snowballs.
The rumbling sound was endless, and the first batch of attacking soldiers were almost swept away.
The soldiers who luckily escaped because the snowballs soared into the air were also stunned at this moment. Thousands of people's attacks were actually swept away by the snow.
Before they could wake up from the shock, the whistling crossbow arrows left them on the hillside forever.
Deng Jingshan's hands trembled slightly. He had never thought that there would be such an attack method.
On the mountain, Xue Jian was happily dancing and patting an officer beside him on the shoulder, "Well done well, how did you come up with such an idea?"
This Lang General was very young and seemed a little shy when he was praised by Xue Jian. "General Xue, when we were in Daqingshan, we often rolled snowballs like this when we were fine. The snowballs were not big when they rolled down from the top of the mountain, but when they reached the foot of the mountain, they had become a giant. I once saw trees as thick as sea bowls knocked down by them, so I knew that snow that seemed to have no lethality would become a magic weapon to defeat the enemy as long as it was used properly."
"Life is full of knowledge!" Xue Jian sighed: "It's a pity that we can only use such an attack once, and there is no more snow on this ridge."
Chapter completed!