Four hundred and sixtieth chapters to live
"From now on, I know the prince's honor and the noble governor." King Zhao smiled and did not say what he thought, but pursed his lips and watched the army march forward intently.
Only those who have experienced this will understand the feeling of being at their feet, obeying orders and serving themselves.
With his order, the hero crawled and the warriors served. Many heroes and heroes fought forward with their wits, sprinkled their blood and abandoned their lives...
After more than ten years of hard work, today it finally paid off.
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Both sides beat the drum hard, and this time there was a thunder tremor, and it was also suppressed by the drum sound.
Then they all set up flags, lined up, and set out. The army of 200,000 people was boundless and could not see at a glance. The bandits were in great momentum in the southern camp. After more than 10,000 elite troops from the northern camp came out, their momentum was no longer under the southern camp.
The two sides gradually lined up from nearly ten miles apart, and by noon, they were less than two miles apart.
At this point, they were facing each other and cursing each other, but many people felt sad between the officers and soldiers and the thieves.
This time, the officers and soldiers attacked the thieves, and the number of thieves in front of them was actually the locals in Jianzhou.
Miners, local young and strong, refugees, rogues, rangers, and the top-aged men in Jianzhou were at most about 400,000 to 500,000. This time, one-quarter of them were among the thieves in front of them.
Less than one mile apart, the generals of the imperial guards reorganized their queues, while the large formation of the wing army that was not far away continued to move forward with the sound of drums.
At 300 steps, the imperial guards stopped a little, and the battalions under each army pushed out the bed crossbows. There were not many equipment in this type of bed crossbows used in field battles, but only more than twenty, and about fifteen people needed to control one.
At the same time, the archer has already held the bow in his hand, inserted the bag and opened it. The arrows are divided into heavy arrows and light arrows. The imperial guards must undergo strict assessment. Within half an hour, fifteen arrows and thirty light arrows must be shot several times in a row before they can be considered qualified.
The divine arm bowman also tightens the bowstring and places the arrow into the crossbow.
The range of the bed crossbow is three hundred steps away, and the power of nearly three hundred steps is already quite large. Therefore, the bed crossbow did not continue to move forward, while the infantry, archer, and divine arm archer continued to move forward.
The entire imperial guard formation, more than 10,000 people were fighting soldiers, lying across the north and south, lined up in front of the formation. After many rounds, the array was not chaotic and was still quite neat when it reached about 200 steps in front of the enemy.
Located in a flat and on a plain, this is simply the best battlefield for the Great Wei imperial guards.
In contrast, in the bandit camp, more than 80,000 people were arranged outside the camp, and the team was already extremely chaotic, with chaotic corpses and disorganized arrays. Many arrays had different numbers of people, weapons were mixed, and even the banners were temporarily made, which seemed to be shoddy.
However, there are so many archers, but they are almost the same as those of the Wei army.
Li Kaiming urgently took Jianzhou and other cities, but his actions were not money, and the prefectures and counties did not have much money and grain, and his income was far less than that of a large household. What he sought was the bows and arrows in the arsenal of the prefectures and counties.
When a large number of bandits and officers confront each other and enter a range of about 200 steps, the large formations are facing each other and the posture of each other being shooting with bows and arrows is already quite obvious.
There are many bandits, but there are very few armors in the camp, and more than 90% of them are almost wearing ordinary thin cotton jackets. Not to mention armor, there are not many wooden shields, leather armor, cotton armor, and iron helmets.
With its dense thick array, a large number of archers stand in the array, and the dense long archers are in small arrays. Compared with the archers, the mid-range is also very thicker than the archers. Moreover, since all the archers are needed to exert the effectiveness of the archers, the two wings are obviously more protruding, forming a half-encircled battle formation.
Li Kaiming and others also lived through the battle formation for a long time. They knew that the Nandaying lacked armor, soldiers lacked experience, and had little blood. They could only use the strengths of many people and many archers, but they did not abandon the strength of the bow and the shortcomings of the archers lacked training, and concentrated and thick formations to encourage military morale and shoot arrows in multiple faces to try to consume the targets of the enemy.
The imperial guards set up a horizontal formation and tried to shorten the contact surface with a large number of bandits, but there were only more than 10,000 people. If the observation point was on the high platform of King Zhao, it was obvious that the bandits had two wings wide open, and the imperial guards array was like a long snake, winding forward, as if they were about to be surrounded by the enemy.
"Bandage, launch!"
The crossbowmen of the Wei army's imperial guards were also well-trained. Although there were not many crossbows, many people were still gathered. They made a little clearance in front of them so that the crossbow commander could observe the enemy situation.
In fact, there is no need to observe too much. There are many bandits in front of you and the array is thick. As long as a crossbow is fired, there will be a lot of killing.
With the military orders, the crossbow began to fire.
The bed crossbow used in the battlefield is a single crossbow. The type of double bow or three crossbow requires dozens of people to control, and weighs hundreds of kilograms or thousands of kilograms. It is difficult to carry, so it can only be used on ships or guard cities.
Single-bow crossbow, the bow body is several times larger than an ordinary step bow, and it cannot be pulled by human power. It is also necessary to use a twister to wind the strings and use numbers on both sides at the same time.
The man was twisting the shaft, and then someone put a short spear-like arrow into the arrow groove. Then, as the military officer issued the order, a special person stepped forward with a wooden hammer and hit the teeth with a hammer. The thick bowstring suddenly collapsed forward, making a huge explosion. Then a giant arrow nearly two meters long rose into the air and roared forward.
More than ten bed crossbows were suddenly fired, which opened the prelude to the Jianyang War.
The heavy arrows rushed forward in the air. Although there was no rigorous ballistics at this time, hundreds of years of experience were worth everything. The crossbow had adjusted the angle beforehand. The arrows flew in the air and threw out the semicircle ballistics, and then suddenly fell into the array of thieves!
"Peng!"
The arrows of a single-bow bed crossbow cannot actually be compared with the heavy crossbows of a real triple bow. Those heavy crossbows can fire multiple heavy arrows, each longer and sharper than a long siege, and can also fire siege arrows. The arrows are like shovels and flat siege arrows. This kind of arrow can be deeply shoveled into the wall bricks of the city wall, and one wall is densely packed with hundreds of arrows. While soldiers attacking the city with cloud ladders and earthen mountains, they can climb up. The entire wall is full of soldiers climbing the wall, which makes the guards feel like they can start. At the beginning of Wei, siege arrows made great contributions, and many important passes were shot down by siege arrows with bed crossbows.
At this time, the single-bow crossbow has a far less bow than the double-bow and triple-bow heavy crossbow, but when it is shot into the bandit formation, it is still extremely powerful!
Every arrow fell into the formation with a blink of an eye, and the one who was the first to be hit was almost unresponsive.
The arrow was too fast and the body was too heavy. When the crossbow was fired, the thieves on the opposite side were actually quite nervous. Many people subconsciously looked into the air. When they saw arrows like iron spears falling, many people were already discolored in shock, and even felt that the arrows were shooting at their foreheads. When they were really shot by the arrows, they reacted slowly. They subconsciously wanted to hide and escape, which was just subconsciously. When the consciousness was together, their bodies had not yet taken action, but had been penetrated by the arrows...
Thrilling sounds followed one after another, with heavy arrows hitting one person or shooting continuously, strung from five to six people, and at least three to four people!
The person who was shot first, whether in the chest or abdomen, had a blood hole as big as a bowl, and died soon, which was lucky.
The person who was shot through later was slowed down due to the slowing of the force of the arrow. Although the wound was not big. After the person was penetrated, he saw his companion being shot through again. He was connected to him. The pain and huge fear made people scream, wail, scream, and cry, and all kinds of things were everywhere. When they were struggling, many bandits looked at him sideways. Seeing his companion's death, they were all frightened and frightened!
At the same time, the sound of bangzi sounded one after another among the various camps, and the same was true for both officers and soldiers.
Both sides stopped almost at the same time, and then the archer took the arrow and raised the string. Then, under the command of the officer, he slightly raised his bow, then spread his fingers that pulled the bow string and let the arrow fly out.
Almost all movements are the same, even forming formations, archery, shooting arrows, and aiming are generally the same.
The method of bow shooting that had been used for more than 200 years in the Wei Dynasty has been completely penetrated into the people.
The bandits had nearly 20,000 archers, who were arranged in the central army and on both sides, while the imperial guards were lined up in a horizontal line. The archers were both in front of the horizontal formation. When the two sides were about a hundred steps away, they finally began to shoot into the sky as they had made an appointment.
The step bow is powerful and is shot far away. When nearly 30,000 archers are shooting each other together, the crackling sound of the bow strings is like firecrackers during the New Year Festival, and it is continuous. The arrows flying in the air are densely packed, just like locusts covering the sky during the locust plague, giving people a strange and strange feeling.
When the arrows are exhausted and the force falling from the air falls into the human body, the flat and sharp force can easily break the robe on the human body, cut open the skin, cut the muscles, blood vessels, and even break bones, cut into the internal organs, causing extremely severe damage to the person in an instant.
If you are shot in the arm or leg, you will inevitably suffer minor injuries, or even severely injured by broken bones.
If you are shot in the internal organs, lungs, heart, and abdomen, you may die directly or be seriously injured and difficult to cure.
With tens of thousands of arrows shot at each other, and under the dense rain of arrows within two hundred steps, the armored imperial guards immediately bowed their heads when the bandits' arrow rain fell... The shield hands raised their shields high in batches, as if a turtle formation was erected in front of the formation, and then a large number of arrows landed on the shields, making sounds one after another.
Those who are not covered by the shield are not panic. They just lower their heads and let the arrows hit their bodies or heads.
Those who shot on the head would inevitably be like being knocked by a stick. The pain and dizziness would inevitably occur, but they would soon recover. At most, a few strands of blood were flowing under the helmet, and minor injuries were not considered a matter of being a minor injury.
If the person shot into the body without the protection of the armor, the arrows will inevitably enter the body and suffer some minor injuries. However, whether it is cotton armor or leather armor, or armor, mail, scale armor, to protect the vital points of the body and avoid serious injuries to the arrows, they are completely qualified.
After all, a hundred steps away, the bow and arrow float to
This has been exhausted and has been swept down, and it is also a waste of energy. It is not enough to penetrate the armor and seriously hurt the human body.
Most of the military officers on both sides rode horses or stood in command chariots to observe the situation on the entire battlefield.
There were drums, shouts of killing, the sound of bowstrings, and the sound of wailing and screaming. The army's aura was rising. Under the drums, the flags were spreading, and the bandits and officers and soldiers were constantly adjusting their arrays. The archers and infantrymen continued to move forward while yelling and shooting arrows.
The sound of the crossbow is monotonous and poor, but it is deeply compelling and shocking.
The sound of the bowstrings of the archer is also breathtaking and terrifying.
Within a hundred steps, the imperial guards rarely killed or injured, but the bandits on the opposite side were already buried in the fields.
At this point, the archer of the imperial guard stopped stepping forward and began to use light arrows and fire continuously. The well-performance archer and the well-trained archer rapid shooting, although the thief archer on the opposite side was three times that of the imperial guards, they were still shot by the dense light arrows and could not raise their heads, and there were signs of collapse.
Although Liu Guangsi was mediocre, after all, he had been in a military life. When he saw the opportunity to win, he ordered one after another, and then the military flag was swung, infantry shield hands and sling hands began to form a formation and set it forward, forming a sharp triangle shape. Everyone could see that as long as the more than 3,000 imperial guards approached the formation, the thief archers would be in chaos. The quality of their archers was originally inferior to that of the officers and soldiers. When the officers and soldiers broke into the formation, the archers would be at a loss and their power would be greatly reduced.
Once in contact, the thieves will be in chaos and will be penetrated by the officers and soldiers as if they were in a no-man state, and the array collapsed directly. At that time, the situation of great defeat will be achieved. Even if Bai Qi and Wang Jian commanded the formation and the situation of defeat will be reduced, he will be powerless to turn the world.
At this time, Liu Guangsi was extremely proud. Although today's battle was more intense than expected, the thieves were stronger, arrows were like rain, and even though the imperial guards had armor and iron helmets, they were also inseparable from many casualties. However, once the formation was broken, even if there were slight losses, they could still cut off one important wing of Li Kaiming, and then capture the capital of the enemy's camp, and then work together with the Xiang army to fight the Northern Camp.
As soon as I thought about this, I couldn't help but look at the situation in Beiying on the command car.
However, it was exactly the same as expected. Compared with the fierce war on the southern front, the wing army in the north was extremely slow and had not yet entered the effective range of both sides. The wing army did not have a large number of bed crossbows to shoot from a long distance, but they were just constantly clamoring and shouting for killing. The momentum was quite large, and the two sides had not yet officially fought.
"What a bunch of men." Liu Guangsi was not very dissatisfied with this. Even if Lin Zhien, Li Yaowu and others were not convinced when they were in command this time, they were still ordered on the battlefield and the soldiers were in danger. These imperial guards still knew that they were aware of it. However, after this battle, Liu Guangsi's position in the army was unshakable.
As long as you can master the imperial guards of the Five Armies, you don’t have to take the wing army too much. They have always been like this, but they just bluffed and stopped the enemy’s Northern Camp and the Southern Camp. I think it would be possible to block the enemy’s Northern Camp with more than 60,000 troops, holding swords and holding swords, but they should be blocked for a while.
There are 60,000 troops in the six wings, and there are not a few armoured soldiers. They are lined up and arranged layers of them, and there are a large number of archers in them. Even if the momentum and array are not as good as those of the thieves, they consume the attacking force of the thieves, so that the imperial guards can turn around calmly after defeating the Beiying and work together to deal with the Beiying. I think it is the only way to do.
As for whether the Xiang Army does work or not, this is expected, and there is no need to take it too seriously.
More than 3,000 imperial guards began to assault forward, while the archers continued to quickly suppress the enemy formation with light arrows, driving away the enemy in front of the assault soldiers.
Unlike what King Zhao, Liu Guangsi and others imagined, Li Kaiming was not among the old soldiers in the Beiying group. Liu Maoqi and the generals of the old camp were mostly in the Beiying, while Li Kaiming himself was in the Nanying.
In the middle of the camp, the flag of the Grand Marshal Fengtian's marshal of Yi was not raised before. When the imperial guards raided, Li Kaiming sat down on the flag tower, still dressed in a blue robe. He was tall and had short beards on his chin. He was with the soldiers almost every day, so everyone recognized him.
After Li Kaiming appeared, people inside and outside the camp were filled with hearts, and many soldiers and officers shouted loudly.
"Today's battle is not about winning, nor is it about me, Li Kaiming, who is going to lead everyone to die." After the blue-robed man rode on the iconic yellow-fat horse, Li Kaiming began to act outside the camp. Countless soldiers stationed in the camp followed the horse, followed the northwest man loudly: "This is for survival. We are the people who are the people who are bullied by the court, the government, and the gentry and grain-rich people. Because I cannot pay taxes, I was shackled by the county magistrate in front of the yamen for fifteen days. My neck was stuck in the stand cage and lacked food.
Water, physically suffering, and humiliated in his heart. From that day on, I did not recognize the emperor of the Great Wei family as the emperor, nor did I obey those officials and wealthy families. In this world of darling, we poor people can only use the bow and slap in our hands to create a peaceful world for ourselves! Brothers from Fujian Road, Jiangxi Road, Liangzhe Road, Jingnan Jingbei, Qinfeng Road, and Hedong Road, we do not rely on God, do not believe in the emperor, kill these lackeys with the dog officials, and seek life in death!"
Chapter completed!