Chapter 300

Chen Hai delayed attacking Yuchi city. In addition to taking advantage of the pressure of war to implement the government soldier system in Lucheng, a more important reason is that although the power of the quenched gold arrow rain formed by the mechanism crossbow is amazing, the consumption of quenched gold arrows is really terrible.

Ninety mechanism crossbows can shoot thousands of quenched gold arrows in one breath. Chen Hai's previous reserves of 40000 quenched gold arrows are not enough to maintain a one minute continuous shooting on the battlefield; Previously, nearly 20% of the reserves had been consumed in order to hit the rebel war birds and suppress the advance speed of the rebel cavalry.

Chen Hai delayed attacking Yuchi City, but he still had to build a smelting furnace in Lukai gorge first, so that he could supply a large number of quenched gold arrows nearby to support the subsequent cruel war.

It is unrealistic to rely entirely on juquanling's supply.

Even though his Uncle Chen lie fully supported him, after the joint ownership of all families, even if the share of Zhaoyang tinghou house was the largest, it accounted for one sixth of the quenched gold and iron materials produced by juquanling; In addition, the transportation volume of 40 giant vultures is too limited. It takes one month to go back and forth, and the transportation volume is only 50000 or 60000 kg.

The lake mud placer deposit in Tianxuan lake of lukaixia is more than 100 meters thick, which can directly refine eight grades of quenched gold and iron. However, quenched gold arrows do not need such high-quality quenched iron materials. Chen Hai added several times more ordinary iron materials for smelting, so as to greatly improve the daily refining output of quenched gold iron materials. In, he will directly increase the casting output of quenched gold arrows to more than 1500 pieces per day.

The winter and early spring of Pinglu oasis are extremely cold. The rebels are not fully prepared and do not come out of Yuchi city. It is impossible for Jingjue army and ye's Royal Army to besiege Yuchi city in the ice and snow. The two sides are in a stalemate at the West foot of tieleling. The time soon enters March of the 77th year of emperor Yitian.

Since the Ye's Royal Army and Jingjue army occupied tieleling and confronted the rebels occupying Yuchi City, the situation in Pinglu oasis developed just as Chen Hai expected, and no city turned to the rebels.

Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng can only tap the war potential from the cities under their control and increase the number of troops stationed in Yuchi city to 60000. Although the demon Temple became more cautious under the strong coercion of Chen Hai and Ge Xuanqiao, there are still many Qiang Hu tribes from Tibet, Qiang, Jinyue and other countries, sending thousands of elite disciples to Pinglu oasis to join the rebels.

At this time, the Jingjue army implemented the government soldier system in Lucheng and the Ye Royal Army absorbed elite children from the four surnames of Lucheng. The size of the troops of the two armies was increased to 60000, no less than that of the rebels in Yuchi city.

Many small and medium-sized clan clans in Pinglu have seen that the rebels do not even have the courage to attack tieleling. At the same time, they also know that the elite disciples of the demon temple have been forced back from Lukai gorge. Even if they remain neutral, they have sent their children to communicate with Ye secretly.

At this time, Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng found that although they could get some support from Tahe and other places, they had no foundation to rule Pinglu oasis, so they did not dare to delay any longer. Zhang Xiong and Zhang Jun personally mobilized 40000 troops and horses from Tianai mountain and West Qiang King City, and gathered up 100000 troops and horses to roll over to the west entrance of nanjianxia.

In order to suppress the golden arrow rain formed by the mechanism crossbow, the rebels built 200 human driven Tower Shield vehicles with Millennium solid wood to form two shield walls to cover the shield halberd soldiers, knife shield soldiers and archers advancing in the front, and force them around the camp built by the Jingjue army at the west entrance of nanjianxia.

Jingjue army and ye's Royal Army will not let the rebels really approach the camp to build fortifications.

In that case, the role of Shenji chariot and mechanism crossbow will be suppressed and become a more cruel attack and defense war in the city -- the rebels have the war weapons abandoned by the Dayan western expedition in the King City of Western Qiang 20 years ago, and have also made hundreds of counterweight catapult crossbows according to the gourd and gourd, which makes many ordinary brave people who do not have strong force and short-term training, It can play a great role in a cruel battlefield.

Once the rebels are allowed to successfully dig trenches that hinder the passage of people and horses in front of the Xikou camp, build a protective wall covered by the rain of quenched golden arrows, and then deploy a large number of stone throwing crossbows in front, it will later evolve into a cruel war of attrition.

At that time, it will be even more difficult to take advantage of the elite army and Royal Army, which do not have an advantage.

Therefore, when the rebels came out of Yuchi City, nearly 50000 troops and horses of Jingjue army and ye's Royal Army in Xikou camp also successively opened the gate of the camp and entered the gentle slope at the West foot of tiele mountain to line up troops, opening the prelude to the decisive battle of tiele mountain.

Su chonghu, the chief disciple of the demon temple, led the elite disciples to escort the Zhang family back to the demon temple from the deep mountains and dangerous valleys in the south, but Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran stayed with more than ten disciples.

Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran showed years ago that neither the demon Temple nor taiweizong were directly involved in the Pinglu war, and they had the courage to stay in Lucheng. However, Chen Hai had no excuse to expel them, and had to expose some secrets of Lucheng under their eyes and noses.

On the day when the decisive battle at the West foot of tieleling began, Miao Mingcheng, Yue Yiran and some wait-and-see patriarchal scouts also gathered at the peak cliff in the south of Nanjian gorge to see how the war, which is likely to determine the new pattern of Jinzhou's eastern region in the next thirty or fifty years, will end.

Zhang Xiong, Zhang Jun and Kong Peng are in the east of Yuchi city. They command 100000 troops, more than twice the strength of the elite army and the Royal Ye's army. They have also made adequate preparations for the mechanism crossbow. Yue Yiran wants to see how Chen Hai can win this battle in the battlefield at the West foot of tieleling.

The huge demon body of the black Jiao converged and squatted next to Yue Yiran. Even though the black Jiao was far from mature, it was like a black stone cliff standing there.

Yue Yiran looked to the west of tieleling mountain for transportation. Ye Qinglin personally led the 30000 troops of Ye's Royal Army, mainly light armour, gun riding, halberd, shield and armor soldiers, supplemented by a small number of heavy armour riding and bow riding. After leaving the camp, they were mainly divided into three teams and deployed in the south of the west entrance of nanjianxia.

Although the Yeh's Royal Army received a lot of assistance from Hexi in the past, the armour was still rudimentary. Most of the soldiers were mainly leather armour. It was difficult to resist ordinary arrows and crossbows and halberds and spears at close range, but the cavalry had a strong impact. At this time, the soldiers were very powerful. If you look at the posture, you only need to ignite the fire, The 30000 troops and horses of Ye's Royal Army will continue to advance to the core battlefield, and will not consider retreating.

What really deserves attention is the 2000 heavy armor cavalry commanded by Ye he, another important Ye clan, around Ye Qinglin.

These two thousand heavy armor riders are the only elite left in Ye's family. Almost all of them have the foundation of cultivation above the xuanjing realm. They wear black scale armor, which is also a kind of quenched gold armor, which can block the accumulation of forged heavy arrows; The horses of heavy Armored Cavalry are all good breeds in the desert. Almost a quarter of them are green cunning scale horses. They are also dressed in horse armor made of quenched gold armor pieces.

In addition to the strong horses and generals, and the strong armour, every twelve horses are fastened together with iron chains to advance and retreat together.

"What kind of war method is this?" the leaders of the various sects came to watch the situation. They were also the core children of the various nationalities. They had received strict military training since childhood, but they didn't know what kind of war method it was to buckle the horses together with iron chains after they were dressed in armor.

However, some people with sophisticated eyes can see the power of this method of warfare and say: "In order to pass through the vast desert, the riding of Jinzhou countries is mainly light riding. It will suffer a great loss to use light riding against heavy armor riding. Once more than ten heavy armor riding are linked together, how much combat power should Heishan wuzun deploy in the front to block the advance of heavy armor riding. This should be the combat method from Yanzhou..."

Yue Yiran took a look at the elder Miao Mingcheng. Since the end of last year, they have strengthened the collection of information on Juquan mountain. They know that this is the armour horse array in the military training record of Chen Hai. The earliest God of Chimei sect, Le Yi, was used on the battlefield in Heyang to fight against the heavy armour cavalry with stronger combat power of Huben army, and achieved excellent results.

Looking at the arrangement of Ye's Royal Army on the south wing, it is obvious that it wants to cut into the battlefield with the armour horse array formed by these 2000 heavy armour riders as the core.

Although they had already passed relevant information to Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng, Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng could not think of a better plan except to fill in more troops to block and deploy a few bed crossbows on the right wing.

The formation of 20000 elite troops in the north of the west entrance of Nanjian gorge is clearly divided into two echelons.

Nine thousand heavy armour soldiers formed a dense square array, and three thousand shield halberd soldiers were deployed in the south of the square array of spears. The soldiers who were excellent at riding and shooting were limited. At this time, they managed to gather eight thousand cavalry soldiers, all led by fan Dachun, and deployed in the side and rear.

In addition to the twelve black iron chariots dragged by 30 horses, the north wing of the spear heavy armor array can be said to be completely exposed.

"What did the Jingjue army want to do to expose the north wing?" Yue Yiran asked the elder Miao Mingcheng in confusion. "Did they lure the Heishan army to attack from the north wing, and then the cavalry of the second echelon suddenly came in to fight with Zhang and Kong?"

At this time, the battle bird battalion of the Jingjue army has increased to 100 fierce battle birds, flying over its own array on the battlefield. It will kill the enemy's battle array at any time, but together with the 8000 cavalry gathered at the side and back, the force is still too small.

Miao Mingcheng was also confused.

The range of soldiers selected by the Jingjue army is very limited, either to recruit the remnants of horse thieves or to enlist the courage of sudden generals from slaves. In terms of the personal combat power of generals, it is difficult to be called elite, and less than one tenth of them have the foundation of xuanjing cultivation. They mainly rely on better armor and tighter battle array to make up for all this.

Although Miao Mingcheng returned to Dajinshan for latent training in recent years, he was also a famous general galloping the desert twenty years ago. He also seriously considered that if he personally led the army to fight with Jingjue army, he must cut into the battle array of Jingjue army from the flank regardless of everything. Yes, the spear array of Jingjue army is very strong and the crossbow is invincible, but as long as both sides fight together, If the spear array and crossbow can't play much role, they can give a fatal blow to the elite army with weak personal combat power.

Moreover, the number of quenched gold arrows reserved by the Jingjue army is not unlimited after all.

Although Miao Mingcheng and Yue Yiran kept the bottom line and did not directly meet with Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng to discuss the arrangements for the war, from the deployment on the battlefield, Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng were also very clear about what they should do. They chose the north wing of the Jingjue army as the main attack direction. Almost 60000 troops and horses were assembled on this side, trying to crush it with all their strength First, tear the front of the Jingjue army to pieces.