"3,000 steps"
"2,000 steps"
"1,500 steps, prepare the crossbows"
"1,200 steps, fire the crossbows"
On the wall of the Datong Army, a general was calculating the distance of the enemy. When it reached 1,200 steps, the crossbows were fired first. This distance was enough to break the heavy armor.
"500 steps, the sharpshooters will take action"
"300 units, heavy crossbows will be fired"
"100 steps, medium crossbows will be fired"
At each distance, different types of soldiers joined the attack. For example, those martial arts masters holding special strong bows were enough to shoot the monsters at a distance of 500 steps, and the crossbows also had different models and different powers.
When the monsters rushed to 50 steps, the light crossbows were also fired. That was when the arrows really rained down. I don't know how many monsters were shot directly. Even if they didn't die, there were martial arts masters waiting for them.
"Woo woo woo..." The
horn soon sounded on the monster side, and the remaining monsters quickly withdrew. It should be that the monster's high-level officials found something wrong.
A small victory made the whole camp happy, but in the next few days, when Lin Jiang used the same trick again, the monsters would not be fooled, and at most they would send their vassal army to die.
"We still have to fight a field battle openly,"
Lin Jiang sighed. It was useless to show off his cleverness on the battlefield. He had to defeat the enemy in a night battle, because their battle line was longer, they had more soldiers and horses, and they consumed more food and grass. It would snow in more than a month, and it would be extremely difficult to transport food and grass at that time, so they had to fight a strategic decisive battle before the snow fell.
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"Dong, Dong, Dong····"
The war drums sounded, and the Datong army walked out of their respective camps one by one and lined up in front of the camps, and the monsters did the same. This was a decisive battle with a tacit understanding.
The Datong army was worried that the food and grass would be insufficient after the snow, and a decisive battle was needed, while the monsters received news that the human race was attacking from all directions. Now the monsters' territory was full of flames, and they were also eager to defeat the human race in front of them and support the monsters in other directions, so they reached a tacit understanding with each other.
The two sides had nearly a million troops deployed on a battlefield with a radius of 100 miles. There was no end in sight. Xia Liang had no choice but to delegate power to several generals, giving them enough autonomy to decide the command of some battlefields.
"General Xia, how do we fight?"
"We still have to make good use of the advantages of the equipment. The ordinary battle formation should be pressed forward first, and then take the opportunity to set up a chariot formation behind the battle formation, the kind of large chariot formation. Leave enough supplies inside the chariot formation, and then feign defeat to lure the enemy to attack."
"Just follow your method. I will be responsible for dealing with the 10,000 regular troops of the Ape Tribe."
Lin Jiang nodded. He didn't care how to fight specifically. He only focused on the 10,000 regular troops of the Ape Tribe. If we have to fight, we should fight the elite. What's the point of fighting the vassal army?
The battle started soon. The demons first sent out the vassal army to fight, but the vassal army was defeated in a few rounds. These vassal armies were fierce against the army of the Chen State, but they were not strong enough to fight against the Datong Army.
It's not that they have become weaker, but that the enemies they encountered are too strong. How many elite troops can a dynasty like the Chen Kingdom have at the end of its reign?
The vassal army was defeated, and the demons had to go to the battlefield themselves. A large number of tribal soldiers and horses began to move out. The tribal soldiers and horses were untrained and looked messy, but the Datong army did not dare to be careless at all. These were not a mob, but individual super-strong demons.
A single martial arts master is just a cattle and sheep to be slaughtered in front of a strictly trained army, but martial arts tells you that if there are too many, the army can't suppress them in terms of numbers, and the situation will be reversed.
So in the real battle, those tribal demons had no traces of training, but they relied on a large number of individuals to break through the battle formations one by one.
"Retreat, the commander has an order, retreat"
"Retreat to the middle gap, quickly"
The Datong army fighting in front quickly received the order and retreated quickly, and behind them, I don't know when they formed more than a dozen large chariot formations, and there were several teams of spearmen in front of the chariot formations. There was a gap of more than ten meters between each chariot formation, and these defeated soldiers left through the gap.
The monsters were so excited about killing that they didn't think too much and rushed towards the chariot formation.
"Release!"
When the monsters approached, the soldiers on the chariot formation began to fire crossbows. Each soldier had four or five crossbows. After using one, they immediately took another one. Inside the carriages, there were soldiers who specially installed crossbow arrows on the empty crossbows, so that the crossbow arrows could not be continuously fired.
The attacking monsters were shot by crossbow arrows, and they were immediately killed and injured. Even masters were useless. Such dense crossbow arrows could not be avoided by physical skills. They could only resist them and survive with good luck.
When they rushed to the vicinity of the chariot formation, they were greeted by the long spear formation under the chariot formation. There was another fight. Only a few very fierce ones could break through these obstacles and break the chariot formation.
But breaking a chariot formation was useless, because there were dozens or hundreds of chariot formations on the battlefield, like a chessboard, and being eaten by one or two chess pieces was insignificant.
"Datong is a hundred times stronger than Chen, but it's still so hard to fight. I wonder what the situation would be like if it was still Chen at this time."
Xia Liang looked at the scene under the banner of the Datong Army, with mixed feelings in his heart. The Datong Army under his command was the strongest army he had ever seen in the decades since he joined the army.
Lin Jiang has not been idle at all in the past few years. He has trained soldiers throughout Datong and eliminated the weak ones. Before the war, the border troops of Mizhou were all warriors, and they had been strictly trained for more than three years. In Xia Liang's opinion, they were ridiculously strong.
But in the battle with the monsters, they didn't gain any advantage at all. You know, the monsters dispatched tribal soldiers, a mob.
"General Xia, there is no need to say more. My appearance is an opportunity given by God to the human race."
"Your Majesty is right, but if we win this battle, I want a reward."
"What does General Xia want?"
"I want Your Majesty to establish a harem and have many offspring."
"Ahem, let's talk about this later."
Lin Jiang coughed and felt speechless. In the past few years, almost all the senior officials of Datong Kingdom have been persuading him to marry a wife and concubines. As long as Lin Jiang nodded, there would be hundreds of thousands of beauties sent to Lin Jiang's room.
But Lin Jiang refused, and Lin Jiang did not blame them. In the countries of this era, the offspring of the monarch is one of the foundations of the country and one of the foundations of national stability. Although they don't know how old Lin Jiang is, they have been fighting for more than ten years. They expect that Lin Jiang should be quite old
. The sight returned to the battlefield. At this time, the battle had reached a white-hot stage. Both sides paid a heavy price. The news of other battlefields was constantly summarized in Xia Liang's hands. Xia Liang kept responding, either ordering them to approach a certain place or supporting them.
"Your Majesty, overall, we are still slightly better. Now we only need to look at the 10,000 troops of the demon ape tribe."
Xia Liang glanced at the sky. The demon should also take action. If he doesn't take action, it will be dark. At that time, it will be difficult for both sides to fight. If the battle is discredited, the probability of accidental injury is very high.
"Yes, this is a variable, and I am also a variable."
Lin Jiang nodded. He has been watching from the side and knows the situation on the battlefield. In terms of overall quality, the Datong Army is about 70% to 80% of the demon, but the number is several times that of him. The number makes up for the lack of quality and has begun to control the situation.
Of course, the demon still has 10,000 elite ape tribesmen who have not moved. Lin Jiang also left 10,000 elites, of which 6,000 are his personal guards.
"Your Majesty, the demon has moved, he can't hold his temper, let the men consume him for a while, first rub his spirit, we won."
After a while, Xia Liang saw the last 10,000 elites of the demon taking action, and was overjoyed. He immediately mobilized troops to meet them, first using ordinary troops to consume their spirit, and then let Lin Jiang rush, and it was stable.
"No, I'll go intercept them."
Lin Jiang shook his head, left a word, and floated away, already landing on a horse. It is certainly safe to let ordinary troops consume the enemy's morale, but Lin Jiang also wants to preserve the vitality of the army as much as possible. After all, this is only the first battle.