Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 56

People are poor and short-sighted, and horses are thin and long-haired; this is also something that cannot be helped.The Death Army has not been established for a short time, and the entire army has just had enough food. A group of people who are used to hard times are too good at planning.

Although the clothes on the corpse were torn, they were mended, so they could be worn.Now the dead army has put on new military uniforms, but the half-grown children in the family are still running around with bare buttocks. Even if they take them back to wash and modify them, they can add clothes to their children.

As for the money carried by the soldiers of Yang Suowen's department, it naturally belonged to the soldiers of the dead army.Everything captured on the battlefield will be returned to the public, private collection will be severely punished, and finally will be distributed by the commander of the dead army according to the size of military merit.

Seeing this scene, Zheng Fang wanted to burst into tears: "Isn't this too cruel?"

However, Zheng Fan did not order the trilogy to attack. The result of the battle just now was very obvious. These soldiers in black were too powerful. They knocked down half of Yang Suowen's troops in just two rounds of shooting. What we have heard is not much stronger.My troops are only equipped with dozens of light shields, which are enough to defend against bows and arrows. Unfortunately, facing a strong crossbow, especially this kind of foot-mounted crossbow, I can shoot all the shield players to death in two or three rounds at most.

At this moment, bursts of golden sounds came from the south bank of the Huai River, and Du Fang finally heaved a sigh of relief, now he didn't have to face this army of black-clothed ghosts alone.

Zheng Fang led his troops back slowly, but Hu Guang did not pursue them.

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On the barren hill about eight miles behind Hu Guang's troops, the three main forces of the dead army are all concentrated here.When Gao Jingzong finally arrived here in a cart, he rushed to Jikan and said, "Uncle Ji, why did you stop? There is a saying in the art of war, and soldiers are very fast. If we go late, Hu Guang's troops can't handle it." You will suffer a lot!"

"Any art of war is dead. If the art of war really works, then why do you want to kill us!" Ji Kan said: "The scouts have already reported that the rafts built by Tian's army are less than fifty, and each raft is filled with ten boats. Counting people, they cross the river at most 500 people each time. With the equipment and training level of our dead army, the same number of people can completely defeat the Tian family army. If they want to win, they must successfully cross the river at one time. There is a possibility of victory. Otherwise, it would be a refueling tactic, which is exactly what I want. Hu Guang’s troops carry a lot of crossbows, and each crossbowman has four pots (one hundred pieces). There are more than 5000 crossbows and five thousand bows. At least half of Tian's army can be brought down. In this way, we can easily win!"

After hearing this, Gao Jingzong realized that he was actually farther away from the so-called commanding general.With the production capacity of this era, more than 3000 people need at least 300 rafts to cross the river, and to build these 300 rafts, at least thousands of trees need to be felled.Although there are many forests on both sides of the Huai River, it is a pity that the ones suitable for building rafts are far away from the shore. If you want to build these more than [-] rafts, it will definitely take two to three days, or even longer.

Gao Jingzong curled his lips and said: "What if their Tian family's army is attacking east and west? They can pretend to attract our army's attention, and then send elite soldiers to cross the river from places we don't pay attention to, and steal our way!"

Feng Lei looked at Gao Jingzong in disbelief, gave him a thumbs up and said: "Mr. Gao is really a genius, you can imagine such an idea!"

"Is there something wrong?" Gao Jingzong remembers the surprise attacks in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" like this?

"The idea is very good, but unfortunately it is too difficult!" Ji Kan said: "We are at the junction of the lower and lower reaches of the Huai River. The current is fast and there are not many places where we can cross the river. It is indeed possible to use a big boat, but the Tian family army does not have a big boat. , It is impossible to smuggle in on a raft, we are under surveillance up and down the Huai River, if they want to sneak attack, they will definitely be discovered by our scouts."

At this time, Gao Jingzong discovered that many old faces from the Ziying in the dead army were no longer in the army, especially Chen Yongfu.Gao Jingzong vaguely remembered that he, like Hu Guang, was born as a scout, as if Chen Yongfu was an excellent scout of the Shengjie Army by Ran Min back then.

Feng Lei looked at the stunned Gao Jingzong and came up to make up his sword again: "Our people are monitoring the Huai River up and down a hundred miles away. Once they really bypass the hundred-mile range and want to sneak attack on Banxian Valley, they have to detour for three hundred miles. For the above, let them walk an extra three hundred miles. Even if the Wei army is elite, it will take more than two days. Their gang of trash will take three or four days at the fastest. Just give us three or four days, and we will win this battle It's settled. The old man will stay to defend the Banished Fairy Valley, and I will lead 1000 people to attack Tianjiabao by surprise, and even his old nest will be brought to him!"

Gao Jingzong said: "But what if..."

"What if?" Feng Lei said: "Then you have to wait and see!"

Sure enough, as soon as Feng Lei's words fell, the messenger came to report the news that Tian's army had retreated.

Gao Jingzong felt his face was burning hot, wishing he could find a crack in the ground to get in.

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On the south bank of the Huai River, Tian Bao, who was sitting on a tiger-skin bed, looked at a bloodstained crossbow repeatedly in the tent of the Tian Family's Central Army camp. As an old soldier, Tian Bao was no stranger to this kind of crossbow. This is the standard equipment of the two major field armies in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It is equipped with the sheep's head (that is, the triangular arrow) crossbow arrows used to shoot Huqi.

This kind of crossbow is only two feet three inches long (about 55 centimeters in modern times), which is slightly shorter than bows and arrows, but it feels a little thicker after you get it. Lethal.The sheep-headed arrows shot by the foot-mounted crossbow can ignore the leather armor defense at medium and short distances, and even the hard skull of a horse's head can be easily shot through. This kind of strong crossbow has created countless mottled blood and tears of the Hu people since the Han Dynasty History, and summed up an experience with blood "Arrangement does not attack."

It is impossible to use cavalry to rush to the army formed by crossbows, otherwise the damage will be heavy.Attacking with infantry is no different from nature.

"I didn't expect these poor ghosts to have such sharp weapons now. I would have thought that they bought so many armors and crossbows in a short period of time. This battle is not easy to fight!" Tian Bao sighed: "The huge profits of the salt mine It’s so rich? Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to buy tens of thousands of grains in one go, and also bought so many armors and crossbows.”

The cost of crossbows, especially foot-mounted crossbows, is very high, basically ten times that of archers, that is to say, the same money can equip ten times as many archers.Therefore, although the crossbow machine is powerful, in the end, from its invention to its withdrawal from the stage of history, there is no chance to replace the bow and arrow, because the cost is too high.

The marshal Long Xi looked at all the marshals and saw that Yang Suowen's entire army was wiped out, he was a little apprehensive, although the money is good, he still has to live to enjoy it.These handsome men were faintly afraid.

Marshal Long Zhi said: "Marshal, all marshals, at present we only have to build more heavy shields to defend against their crossbows, in fact, you don't have to worry, we have six or seven times the strength of their camp, six or seven times the advantage Still can't beat them?"

Long Zhi broke the embarrassing situation in a timely manner, rescued Tian Bao, and instantly won Tian Bao's favor. Tian Bao smiled and said: "Are you timid? Are you afraid? In fact, the commander saw that it was full of money. Jiziying has no less than [-] sets of iron armor and [-] sets of crossbows, which is a lot of money, defeating Jiziying, it belongs to our Tian family army!"

　I came back too late today because of work delays.Reluctantly write a chapter, Lao Cheng will not go to work in the morning tomorrow, and continue to write.Guaranteed to be issued no later than five shifts
　　
　
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