The brave soldiers of the Chen Dynasty rushed into Qinghe's position.
Although the sword and shield soldiers of the Chen Dynasty had tried their best to block the Qinghe spears that were stuck in the ground as a barrier, the spears that stabbed from behind the shields from time to time were still so hard to defend against.
As the attacking side, hundreds of Chen Dynasty soldiers were pierced the moment the two sides' fronts came into contact, but the soldiers behind them were still charging forward against their corpses. So if you look from a distance, you will find a very strange scene, that is, after the two sides engaged in battle, not a single soldier fell down, as if even the dead wanted to fight.
But this situation is destined not to last long.
As Qinghe's spear was pulled back and Chen Chao's spear was thrust out, more than a hundred people fell down in an instant at the contact line between the two armies. The harvest of life by war was vividly demonstrated at this time.
Chen Dynasty soldiers fell to the ground in rows, and then rushed up in rows. In front of Qinghe's formation, a pungent smell of blood began to spread in the air, and there seemed to be a bit of red mist. That was the color of blood thrown in the air after being exposed to the sun.
But the blood of the Chen Dynasty soldiers was not shed in vain. Due to their absolute advantage in numbers, the front width of the Chen Dynasty army formation was actually far greater than that of the Qinghe army formation. Under the hoarse command of the deputy general, the Chen Dynasty army formations on both wings began to advance and encircle, trying to use a wider contact area to demonstrate their advantage in military strength.
In response, the battalion commander of Qinghe had to order a retreat again, abandoning the spear positions that had been more than half destroyed. The entire army gradually changed its formation into a circle, and then took advantage of the inner circle to use fewer people to resist more Chen Dynasty soldiers.
On a hillside farther away, Lin Hai saw everything that happened through the high-powered telescope set up there.
However, Cheng Guorong and other Qinghe officers who accompanied him to watch the battle had made up their minds that no matter how reasonable the orders issued by their emperor and others seemed, they would not carry them out.
After all, His Majesty the Emperor's tactical skills are almost non-existent, which means that the Emperor's tactical commands are basically wrong.
Then think about it from another angle. As long as you don't follow his orders, then at least you have eliminated a wrong answer in advance. From this perspective, letting Lin Hai come to observe the formation is not completely useless.
"In terms of cold weapons, our weapons and armor still can't make up for the generation gap. The crossbow is slightly better, but as long as the enemy has enough people, it's still not enough."
No one expected that the first thing that came out of Lin Hai's mouth was about weapons.
"headmaster."
Seeing that no one else was ready to answer, and Lin Hai was acting like he wanted to hear what you had to say, Cheng Guorong had no choice but to speak:
"According to intelligence, only a portion of the Chen Dynasty's army had such equipment. After all, their equipment was mainly handmade, with high costs and limited production.
Therefore, troops equipped with such sophisticated weapons and armor were considered the core force of the Chen Dynasty's army. In our army, every soldier received such equipment. Even our militiamen had superior armor to their ordinary soldiers. From this point of view, we actually had a significant advantage, though it wasn't apparent in today's small-scale battle.
Moreover, they are actually relying on their numbers today. If the numbers of both sides were equal, after our powerful crossbow attack, we would have the upper hand now."
Cheng Guorong thought for a moment and added, "An absolute advantage."
"Um."
Lin Hai nodded.
It seemed that all the hard work over the years hadn't been in vain. After all, Qinghe's finances had barely any surplus to this day; every penny went into either production and research and development or military spending. It was only because there was no large royal family to share the financial burden that Qinghe's finances had barely held up to this day.
But now, a randomly selected team of 500 people can fight back and forth with 1,000 elite soldiers of the Chen Dynasty, which shows that the early investment is indeed valuable.
This was the result of Lin Hai's order not to use more new weapons. If the crossbows were replaced with explosive packs and napalm bombs at the beginning of the war, the battle would probably have ended long ago.
As time went on, the casualties on the Qinghe side gradually increased, especially the front-line soldiers were consumed in large numbers. The battalion commander had to order the crossbowmen who had already shot all their arrows to join the hand-to-hand combat, and the disadvantage of the Qinghe side was further widened.
The battalion commander had to take his guards into the hand-to-hand combat. He knew what the plan was, but he also knew that the big shot who told him the plan was among the militia, so it was not up to him to decide when to launch the attack. It had to be decided by the big shot that the time was right. Before that, he had no choice but to struggle and hold on.
"Almost."
Huang Zong said lazily.
While the two armies were fighting fiercely, he had already led the five hundred militiamen from the edge of the battlefield back to the abandoned fortifications, where they hurriedly dug out the buried armor and weapons.
"Now all we have to do is give them a good smack on the butt, and we're all set to win."
Huang Zong said so.
Immediately, after changing their uniforms, five hundred elite soldiers from Qinghe appeared behind the Chen Dynasty army, and the famous powerful crossbows once again began to fire on a large scale.
Sometimes things change over time.
But sometimes, the situation changes very quickly. The Chen Dynasty army, which was shouting that they would win if they made another effort three minutes ago, was almost defeated by the sudden rain of arrows three minutes later.
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