From Chief to Ball

But at this time, his people can no longer be changed at will, even if he wants to support Chen Jian's central army, he can't do it. With a distance of [-] steps, once there is chaos in his transfer, the Xirong people can overwhelm him in an instant, causing the whole line to collapse. .

What made E Yue even more puzzled was that the archers of Xiacheng's new army were originally the biggest reliance. Their fifty-step salvo was very accurate. If they were lucky, two rounds of arrows could hit dozens of Xirong people, but Chen Jian It actually made these archers retreat, revealing those black holes in the wood.

"What the hell is Ji Xia going to do?"

He looked around anxiously, seeing that the Xirong people in the front had rushed a hundred paces away from Chen Jian's army, and there were endless roars and shouts, like the tide of a raging river, trying to completely submerge Chen Jian's side.

There are not many 500 people on the first side, but there are three Xirong soldiers behind them sixty steps away. Once the battle starts, the [-] soldiers from these three sides will continue to attack, starting from the seam between the left and right wings and the central army. Open up the situation.

Seeing that these Xirong people were about to charge close, E Yue found that Chen Jian only let the shock troops composed of wild people and slave farmers gather in the gaps in the wood.

"Could it be that the 500 Xirong people were defeated by these [-]-strong Linong? Even if the [-] people are defeated, how can the latter resist?"

Eighty steps, seventy steps... The first batch of Xirong people who attacked had already rushed within seventy steps. E Yue slapped his thigh in hatred and said, "How did Jixia win the battles before? Seventy steps When the Xirong people charge again, you should also charge. I thought you wanted to rely on the vigor of those slave farmers, but if you don't charge, where does this vigor come from?"

He understands that thirty or forty steps is the best distance to charge. At that time, the speed is the fastest and the impact is the most powerful. But since the Xirong people also charged, they can't stick to those ideas. Half of seventy is exactly thirty steps, but Chen Jian still hasn't moved.

Just when E Yue thought Chen Jian was crazy, the next scene was unforgettable for E Yue forever.

He saw Chen Jian raise a banner and force it down. The soldiers beside the pine took out iron hooks from the brazier and stuck them into the pine. sound.

The moment the flash appeared, E Yue saw a mass of white mist rising near those logs, like a dream.

But this dream was full of blood and blood. The Xirong people who rushed to the front suddenly fell down in a large piece, and the screams were accompanied by the muffled thunder.

E Yue froze there, the clansmen around him froze there, even those Xirong people who were charging were also froze there.

With a salvo, the Xirong people in the front row of the [-]-meter-wide front were almost scattered in an instant. Dozens of them were lying on the ground, wailing unceasingly, and the huge rubble smashed their bones.

Not many people died, perhaps only thirty or forty, but there were nearly a hundred people injured by gravel.In a battle involving thousands of people, one hundred casualties is not considered a major casualty, but if such casualties appear in an instant, it would be extremely terrifying.

One-fifth of the first party lost their combat power in an instant, and in this era, their collapse can already be declared.And those lightning and thunderous sounds made those Xirong people who were attacked by wooden cannons completely lose their courage to fight. They froze there and forgot to escape, until they were awakened by the shouts of those tribesmen who were lying on the ground with their limbs broken. .

Chen Jian looked at the broken arm fifty steps away with satisfaction, waved Wufeng and pointed forward. Although the slave peasants had their ears plugged, they were still shocked when they saw the scene in front of them, until Chen Jian's Wufeng swung out, and then shouted and held the dagger and rushed towards those Xirong people who were instantly frightened.

They wield short swords, not thinking about their own protection at all, only thinking about beheading their enemies.

Passing over the corpses beaten to death by gravel at the front, like wolves pouring into the sheepfold, they fiercely vented their anger on the enemy after being a slave for a year, cut off their heads and tied them with ropes, and continued to attack the other A person, all covered in blood, with a head hanging from his body, looks like a demon.

The Xirong people at the front had completely collapsed, and after being crushed by the artillery in an instant, they encountered such a group of completely desperate people, dragging their weapons and running back.

Chen Jian didn't beat the drums and all charged. This time, he just frightened the Xirong people and knocked down one of their soldiers. The rest of the Xirong people may be frightened, but it's not time to collapse yet.

The artillerymen threw away the pine guns on the carriages, and the men behind brought in new loaded wooden guns and began to fix them.

They operate very slowly, and they can shoot once within a minute, but the Xirong people don't know it.

When the Xirong people at the front were routing backwards, the leader of Xirong witnessed all that, and while shocked, he still made a judgment very quickly.

Although he didn't understand what those weird woods were, he knew that his clansmen could be afraid of lightning and thunder, but he couldn't, and he vaguely felt that he had fallen into a trap.

He didn't know the reload time of the wooden cannons, but he could tell that the wooden cannons had a killing distance of only 56 steps. He felt that these wooden cannons were the greatest reliance of those people on the opposite side!

So he ordered people to stabilize the crowd immediately, ordered them to stop advancing and stand by, and the archers stepped forward to stabilize them.

The soldiers at the front had already collapsed, and this battle could no longer be continued on the battlefield, and it might even cause panic on the entire front, so he could only give up.

When the Xirong people stopped and used their archers to stabilize the team, Chen Jian also sent someone to appease the allied forces on the two wings. They might also panic because they didn't know the existence of these things before.

Then Chen Jian beat the drums to signal the whole team to march. Except for those slave farmers who were still fighting for their own hope, the rest quickly organized the team, and the archers moved forward slowly.

It was impossible for the artillerymen to keep up with the team. Chen Jian signaled them to continue loading in the back. These wooden cannons were only used as a deterrent, temporarily disrupting the deployment of the Xirong people.

Soon, there was a sound of horns from the Xirong army on the opposite side, and the three Xirong troops in the front started to retreat in a panic. Withdraw back.

Chen Jian turned around and sent an order: "Let the wolf belt lead the cavalry to stick up. They are not allowed to retreat so easily. Don't charge, approach and harass them, and create chaos for them! If they break up, chase them immediately. If the formation is slow Back off, no pursuit."

"The grenadiers come forward, the corporal checks the matchlocks, the chariots are ready, the new army is ready to attack. Drums beat, the whole army moves forward!"

At the same time as this series of orders were issued, the Xirong people also made rapid adjustments. The center, which originally concentrated nearly 2000 people, began to divide its troops to the two sides. The leader of the Xirong people only left a side of 500 people in the center of the final front. The ranks, strengthened the wings.

It seems that these wooden cannons have given them a great deterrent. The Xirong people are preparing to withdraw the soldiers from the three fronts, stabilize the center, keep retreating out of the range of the wooden cannons, and rely on the two wings to destroy the coalition forces of Xiacheng Echeng.

The originally generous triangle is now in the shape of a dumbbell just like the coalition forces in Echeng, Xiacheng. The Xirong people saw that the wooden cannons were moving slowly, and wanted to exchange space for time. The center was out of contact and let the two wings attack.

Chen Jian clenched his fists on the chariot, which was exactly what he wanted: he wanted to rely on the chariot and the gunpowder bombs in his hands, which the Xirong people had never seen before, to break through from the center and directly kill the leader of the Xirong people.

Chapter 91 Flash

An army that can calmly retreat in chaos instead of becoming a rout must be the strongest army of this era.

Obviously, these Xirong people were not the strongest army in the world, so they could not directly disengage and retreat with the whole army. The sudden change of formation caused a burst of chaos.

The cavalry led by the wolf belt approached the Xirong people who were about to retreat from the side, but they approached and harassed them without directly attacking them, and those Xirong people were already panicked.

The army of the Xirong people stabilized after killing a few of their fellows who were about to flee. The 500 soldiers on this side were restrained by the cavalry, and the remaining two sides retreated.

Behind them, the leader of the Xirong people only left one side of the army, and asked the extra army in the center to strengthen the two wings. The two wings were stabilizing their positions with bows and arrows.

While Chen Jian's side marched with drums across the board, the Xirong people also responded. Their two wings also began to march forward.

But because of the chaos just now, there was a huge gap in the junction between the two parties. Now the Xirong people could no longer retreat. If they stuck too tightly together, once they retreated, it might turn into a rout.

For the Xirong people, time is extremely precious. A volley of wooden cannons fired by Chen Jianzhong's army put them under great pressure. No one wanted to face these weapons that could spew lightning and clouds.

Xia'e's coalition marched at a very slow speed, with ten steps forming a whole team. In the gap between the whole team, the archers shot and suppressed. After the infantry formed a team, they passed the archers and advanced ten steps.

Even if it was very slow, those wooden cannons would always approach at a distance of sixty or seventy steps. The panicked Xirong people stared at the slow-moving wooden cannons, their legs were a little weak, and their hearts were jumping in panic.

The formation was not yet stable, but the leader of the Xirong people couldn't wait any longer, so he blew the horn to push the uneven left and right wings forward: there were no wooden cannons there, and they could win by avoiding the central army.

The Xirong army that was first attacked by the wooden cannons had completely collapsed. The slave peasants who longed for freedom frantically slaughtered these Xirong people who had lost their fighting spirit, and the Xirong people who formed the formation behind finally killed them in order to prevent the collapse from spreading. They captured a few of their fellow clansmen who had fled back, so those Xirong people knew that they could not escape behind, and there were those enemies with heads hanging like demons in front of them, and they fled towards the gap between their army formations regardless of direction. Li Nong followed closely behind, red-eyed.

The Xirong people who were harassed by the wolf fur could not retreat, and a gap was exposed in the center line of the Xirong leader's plan. This gap was on the right wing of the central army. The Xirong people in the center moved slowly to the right, trying to fill this gap. .

After Xia'e's allied forces advanced thirty steps, the gap left by the Xirong people's movement was finally exposed. Chen Jian noticed that the left side of the place where the leader of the Xirong people was was weakened because the gap on the right was filled.

The leader of Xirong also discovered this problem, but he was not worried, because he felt that Chen Jian relied on those wooden cannons, and the speed of the wooden cannons was too slow. Once the two wings came into contact, he would have enough time to block the gap.

Chen Jian judged the distance, let someone blow the horn, and the cavalry led by the wolf belt quickly left the Xirong people on that side.

The Xirong people who were harassed and suppressed immediately felt relieved. While the archers were still shooting, the main force on that side began to retreat.

The gap at the back has been blocked by the rest of the Xirong people. While they retreated, the Xirong leader also breathed a sigh of relief and signaled his central army to move to the left to block the gap on the left, allowing the retreating side to continue to move forward. Right wing - because the distance directly to the rear is the shortest, and it is too difficult to get that side to go from the front right to the rear left along a diagonal line.

Just as the Xirong people began to move, Chen Jian, who had been waiting for a long time, finally issued an order: the new army attacked the gap on the left flank of the Xirong people, and tore through the Xirong people's front before the Xirong people retreated to block the gap.

The moving army formation was chaotic. Chen Jian knew that once the chaos ended and the Xirong people regrouped, the casualties would be huge. This is the time for a decisive victory.