After Spring and Autumn

Chapter 376 Helpless
Moreover, while the Jin army was marching, these four soldiers and horses would rotate at any time. Under such circumstances, the effect of Chen He's harassment was not obvious, and there was no way to do it.

Before that, when Mengdi was fighting, they were always on the attacking side, and the chariot soldiers were limited to a combat range. Because of the large gap in mobility, the Jin army did not dare to leave this area at all.

In order not to be seized by the Han army at that time, but the current situation is completely different. Zhao Yang is now the offensive side, and the strategic initiative is in his hands, so he took advantage of this opportunity to cause damage to Chen He's cavalry. suffered some casualties.

Under such circumstances, after [-] days, Zhao Yang arrived near Chen County smoothly, but Meng Di was not surprised when he received the news, but sent someone to tell Chen He that he should continue to maintain the Jin army. Just harass the back road.

And Meng Di took the infantry to set up a formation under Chen County, but he didn't dispatch all of them, he only used 1 people, and the rest were guarding the top of the city.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Yang couldn't react for a while. Logically speaking, Meng Di should be defending with all his strength at this time. Unexpectedly, he put on a stance, as if he wanted to compete with the Jin army.

No matter how you look at it, this is a bit overreaching. Zhao Yang naturally did not hesitate at all. If you are fighting cavalry, then the opponent can fight against chariot soldiers with high mobility without losing the wind, but infantry is different.

After all, how could a two-legged man outrun a four-legged horse? As long as the chariot charged, the infantry formation would inevitably fall into chaos. Not too much.

There were only two hundred chariots, and he wanted to test the attack first. Seeing the crashing car approaching aggressively, Meng Di stood on top of the tall chariot and observed carefully. After entering the shooting range, the messenger immediately gave an order.

Then the shield was raised high, and the arrows shot by the archers on the chariot were directly blocked by the shield. At the same time, the entire infantry phalanx retreated in unison, and then began to move rapidly like a tide. mobilize.

Immediately, what was behind the rows of soldiers in front was revealed, which were rows of chariots, but these chariots were quite strange, they were densely packed into three layers, and all the people standing behind were archers.

On the side of these chariots facing the enemy, tall shields were erected, and the archers fired arrows behind them, and these archers were divided into three groups, and began to shoot alternately. Once the sword rain started, it would be continuous.

All of a sudden, a large number of casualties were caused to the Jin army. When chariot soldiers rushed to the front, the archers quickly retreated, but the archers behind the second shield wall were still firing non-stop.

Although a lot of manpower was lost, the battle with swords was about to begin, which gave the Jin army a glimmer of hope of victory. The infantry behind immediately rushed forward and moved the chariots away, but they did not expect that these chariots were very dangerous. heavy.

All of a sudden, the running Jin chariots were forced to stop. Zhao Yang, who was watching the battle from behind, cried out inwardly when he saw this scene, and immediately sent another [-] chariots to meet him. withdraw troops.

Because he has already seen that under this triple car formation, if the Jin army wants to successfully break through, at least tens of thousands of people must be dispatched to achieve the goal. Such a loss is a bit too big, so he sighed deeply. Take a breath.

"Sure enough, Mengdi has some means to use this method to fight chariot soldiers with infantry. This method is quite good, and it will have a very good effect even against cavalry in the future."

At this time, Youliang also frowned and watched carefully for a long time, and then said slowly.

"It's a pity that so many people have been lost for nothing. If we look at it this way, unless our entire army is on top, the chance of winning is not great. But I didn't expect Mengdi to be so difficult."

But Zhao Yang didn't show the slightest hint of discouragement on his face at this time. He held the hilt of his sword and looked at it carefully for a long time, and said with emotion.

"This Meng Di is also a well-known figure in the world, and it is normal to have some means, otherwise he would not be able to stay in Chen County so calmly. Let's retreat for now and continue to lead troops to attack after tomorrow."

After the Jin army retreated, Meng Di led his people back to the city, and said to Yu Rang with great emotion.

"Sun Wuzi's method of training troops is really different. Although these soldiers were timid when they were about to fight, they stuck to their posts all the time. None of them faltered and fled, and they obeyed orders when they approached the enemy."

"When the battle starts, the clouds and water flow. Even if this kind of army is placed in the hands of a general with a moderate talent, it can still display considerable strength. You give orders immediately and start defending the city with all your strength tomorrow. I will let Zhao Jianzi see that he can't eat it."

"Only in this way is he reluctant to leave. Anyway, we brought a lot of bows and crossbows this time. The Jin army alone cannot attack Chen County. Chen He has contributed a lot this time, at least holding back more than half of the opponent's troops."

"At first, I thought that Zhao Jianzi would definitely attack strongly this time, but I didn't expect to be so cautious. It seems that our Han army puts a lot of pressure on him. The next step is to see how Chen He does."

Zhao Yang, who returned to the camp, was also thinking about how to break the situation. After thinking for a long time, he finally found a good way, that is to find some thick logs, and then use someone to carry them directly and hit them. In a short time, he can Break the car formation.

After all, although the chariot formation looked solid, it was still too far away from the city gate. As long as the shock of the chariot could be thrown away, the infantry would not be too dangerous to the chariot soldiers.

What he didn't expect was that when he was preparing to attack the city the next day, he found that all the Han troops had climbed to the top of the city and were ready to defend the city. Build engineering equipment.

A few days later, the simple catapults for long-range strikes were quickly set up one by one, but at this time, some large crossbows appeared on the top of the city, and soldiers were operating them repeatedly, which made Zhao Yang's heart ache. Got a bad feeling.

Just after these catapults were built, they saw a few thick feathered arrows shot directly from the top of the city. In an instant, one catapult was declared scrapped, and then the second, and the third tower.

Although the casualties were not large, the insult was very strong, which dealt a great blow to the morale of the Jin army.

(End of this chapter)