Five hundred and fortieth chapters determination
These people shot very fast arrows. As soon as one arrow was shot, the second arrow was already connected. Then, the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, more than 30,000 people continued to shoot more than ten arrows on the front line. That is to say, more than 100,000 arrows were shot down continuously in an instant. Even if the front line of the Wei army was mostly armored soldiers, they were quite embarrassed under such a dense rain of arrows. Many battlefields had twists and turns. Fortunately, the command ahead was quite effective. The drum sounded and the flag waved. Under the swing of the flag, many live imperial guards were ordered to take it up and shoot with the divine arm bow one after another.
It can be seen that under the flat shooting of the divine arm bow, many Donghu soldiers who were walking stopped suddenly, then fell back, their bodies were shot through by crossbow arrows, and some armored soldiers were shot through by crossbows, and their entire bodies were pierced, even shooting their heads and breaking their spines. However, more and more Donghu soldiers emerged to the battlefield. Although the original war was fierce, it was just an ordinary outpost battle. At this moment, Donghu obviously had all the elite troops, and the entire imperial guards' front line was squeezed backwards and began to get tight.
Li Guorui ordered the high platform of the central army to go to the battalions to lead the troops to support the front. The defense system of the central army was originally one by one, and the misunderstanding was complicated. He was waiting for the Donghu cavalry to fight with him when they rushed in. Unexpectedly, the two sides fought in the front battalion into a war of attrition. The Hu cavalry did not come, but only used the infantry formation and the imperial infantry formation to consume. Such a tactic of fuel added would not have a decisive result even if it was fought for ten days and half a month. Originally, he thought it was gradually adding fuel to the oil, but unexpectedly, the Donghu people suddenly changed their tactics, and it seemed that they had to use the stomp formation to determine the sound.
"Che Chen is crazy, crazy." Mai Jitong shouted loudly while waiting for the guard to lead the horse. He was nearly 60 years old and his beards were all white, but his waist and back were straight, and he was wearing more than 70 kilograms of heavy armor and still walked as fast as he could. This was the benefit of entering the martial arts gate in his early years. Although his qi and blood are exhausted, it is still not inferior to the young and strong generation when it explodes.
"The Donghu people are not crazy." Yue Zhi frowned not far away and said, "I can't figure out what the purpose of such a tactic is for a while?"
"Che Chen is crazy and wants to attack Jinzhou." Mai Jitong smiled, waved the sword in his hand, and said, "No matter what, you have to fight hard. The battle is based on soldiers. What conspiracies? Let's talk about our soldiers!"
After saying this, Yue Zhi felt a little relieved.
The Great Wei imperial guards performed quite well. The war on the entire front gradually became fierce. The first long trench that was farthest away was quickly filled. However, when the Donghu army moved away from the horse, pushed the Changzha and destroyed several camps, the Wei army fought fiercely with them. Arrows flew away, killing and injuring each other, and stabbing each other, the ground was corpses like a hill, and blood gathered in one place. There were streams of blood gathering everywhere on the muddy ground. On such a battlefield, the Wei army's will was also firm, and the front lines were maintained well, and there were no signs of being broken in one place. When the Donghu people were entrusted, the central army also responded in time. More than 20 troops immediately rushed up, and a large number of military flags were still waving. The army walked out of the Zhongjun camp, passed through the Changtou and rushed to the battlefield ahead.
"The palace tent army is out!"
When Yue Zhi and Mai Ji led ahead, someone shouted in front of him.
Many generals of the military guard looked forward with a serious expression.
It was indeed the palace tent army that came out, and a large number of armored soldiers poured out from the Donghu army. This is not too strange. The Donghu army and the Wei army could not wear iron armor. Hundreds of thousands of iron armor could not afford the national strength of the Great Wei. The crossbowmen and archers in the imperial guards generally only had cotton armor or mail, only slingers, and the sword and card players were wearing multiple iron armor, and their defense abilities were excellent.
The Donghu Army was divided into five divisions, and each of them was divided into 10,000 teams. Among the 10,000 teams, there were at least about 3,000 pure archers, and at most were cotton armor or leather armor. These were mostly half-life men over forty years old, or young men under the age of twenty. Most of these people were archers, and their armor was not strong, and they mainly used diffuse assistance to fight after going into battle.
It is also the source of Donghu Light Cavalry and the whistle cavalry, robbing the food road, looting and killing the people, chasing and killing the fleeing Wei army, inquiring about information, and fighting with the Wei army's whistle cavalry are all the responsibility of these light cavalry.
In the past six months, from Yuguan to Ningyuan, and then to Jinzhou, the Donghu Rangers have been fighting with the Wei cavalry, and both sides have suffered heavy losses.
Apart from the light cavalry of the archer, the backbone of a 10,000 team is the main soldiers in their twenties to thirties. Most of these soldiers have iron armor, most of them are armored, and paired with mail or cotton armor, which can be called armored soldiers. They are the main force in wartime, fishing and hunting, and do not farm. They have a lot of time to hunt every year, and even various departments organize these men to hunt in concentrated areas to exercise riding tactics and tactics. They are skilled, strong and experienced, and hold long slings, horse lances, and iron spears on the battlefield. They can break the formation when they encounter a strong formation. In addition to the palace tent army, the main soldiers of each department are the main force of the Donghu people's attack on the formation.
The palace tent army is usually used to break the strong formation and will only be used when deciding the victory or defeat. The general palace tent army has iron armor, which is a selected brave warrior among the elites. The 30,000 heavily armored cavalry in the palace tent army are the elites among the elites, especially the Tiefutu with multiple iron armor. No matter how proud the Great Wei imperial guards are, even the Qinfenglu imperial guards are strong, brave and tough, when encountering an opponent like Tiefutu, they can only rely on camps and city defense to resist. Fighting head-on is absolutely unreasonable.
In front of generals such as Yue Zhi and Mai Jitong, a large number of palace tents with bear skin on their helmets came bravely with swords. The most conspicuous one in the formation was the iron pagodas wearing multiple iron armor, iron masks, and walking on the ground like an iron tower.
Yue Zhi was shocked and blurted out: "Is it crazy to release the Tiefutu at this time?"
The release of Tiefutu at this time only shows that Donghu is determined to win the first line of defense against the front army, that is, his determination to cut off the road connecting Jinzhou and the front camp is as unshakable as steel.
The Wei army's front camp and the central army have gathered extremely strong forces. If the palace tent army and Tiefutu are not released, it will be extremely difficult to break the formation.
Yue Zhi was not worried about being crushed or broken through. The first long trench was filled up, and most of the outer defense was demolished. Now the front of the two armies directly faced each other, and the road from the front camp to Jinzhou might be cut off, but the worst result was nothing more than this. Each army had a large number of defensive facilities afterwards, and there were more than a hundred arrow towers alone. A large number of archers were condescendingly on the arrow tower and used the divine arm bow to cover them. Even Tiefutu had to be careful. If you were not careful, you would be seriously injured or even killed. Ordinary Donghu soldiers, wearing cotton or leather armor, could easily be killed or injured before such defense facilities.
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Three, there are more camps, arrow towers, and fortifications led by Yue Zhi. Although in just a few days, long trenches with all directions were dug up on the wide and flat ground. The long trenches made of sharpened logs were also solid walls. The Donghu army was able to conquer the front camp and the first trenches, which were quite good. Their offensive battle was unexpected. If they were attacked with cavalry, the losses would be much greater than those of infantry battles.
More imperial guards also rushed forward, but under the storm-like attacks of the opponent, the imperial guards still showed signs of instability and retreat.
The people in Jinzhou City were also clamoring, as if there were generals beating on the top of the city to inspire morale. The garrisons of Jinzhou City were not allowed to leave the city to fight without receiving the military order, in order to prevent the enemy from taking the opportunity to attack the city. The city was covered with dense imperial soldiers. Seeing the Donghu soldiers advancing like a bamboo shoot, these garrisons were quite helpless. The Donghu army still had enough strength to guard the city, and at least about 50,000 people were guarding near Jinzhou City. Once the imperial guards in the city attacked, they were likely to be taken to seize the city.
Tiefutu and the palace tent soldiers fought bravely at this time. The entire front seemed to be occupied by these iron towers. There were long scepters and iron spears everywhere. The iron armor on the iron twigs turned silver and shining silver. Under their sharp attack, the imperial guards on the front line could not hold on anymore. The imperial guards were wearing strong and held sharp edges. At this time, the fighting spirit had almost been wiped out. The imperial guards' fighting will was not too high. In the Northern Expedition, the imperial guards had not received ten jin of money in total. Due to insufficient pensions, the imperial guards paid a generous salary, and it was easy to support their wives and children. If the imperial guards died in battle, their salary would be gone and the pensions were not much. Therefore, before the war, the imperial guards gave heavy rewards, and they asked the soldiers to worry about it. It was not that the imperial guards were too greedy.
According to the needs of the soldiers, from the war in Yuguan, each person would have to be rewarded at least twenty cents of money, which was almost the salary of the imperial guards for three or four years. Of course, this money was sent home. Even if he died in battle, he could protect the family's food, clothing and expenses for several years... Of course, it was based on the premise of being frugal.
If you have half a child at home, you can help your child grow up and support yourself.
If there is an elderly person, there is no need to worry that after you die, the elderly will have no money to send, and they can't even afford to prepare a coffin or a cemetery.
When serving as a soldier, he was in danger of losing his life. The soldiers at this level knew that they had no rewards to be given, but when they asked the soldiers to die, they had never been in place. This was to make the soldiers feel resentful. The emperor did not need hungry soldiers. This was the consensus of all the civilians of the Great Wei Dynasty.
If the Donghu soldiers really came to their doorstep, they would have to fight forever without a penny. But now they went out of Yu Pass to fight against the enemy and fought for their lives. They didn’t have enough money to buy their lives for more than ten or twenty cents of money, so why did they fight for their own lives? The soldiers of the Imperial Army are the pillars of the family. When the people died, no one helped them establish a household.
Originally, the morale was not strong. Under the attack of the palace tent soldiers, the imperial guards on the front line finally could not stand it, and there were signs of being penetrated from all sides.
Chapter completed!