The attack surface of the bridgehead was too narrow. When the Qin cavalry arrived here, it naturally showed a thin front and wide front and back. When a large number of people marched forward, the originally scattered formation began to tighten. The messy river stones on the ground made the cavalry difficult to walk. These stones were not big and might not be anything to infantry, but for cavalry, they needed to ride horses to avoid them, and their speed inevitably decreased.

The speed was slow and the formation was tight, which was the favorite way for the enemy to attack. At this time, the cavalry at this time, except that they were larger and more conspicuous, and they seemed to be unable to see any other advantages.

But the size is even more conspicuous and there is a fatal disadvantage, that is, the Ming army has no cities to aim, and just launch the short arrows in the crossbow like a raindrop.

The buzzing crossbow machine screamed and the mosquitoes were crying, but what they brought was real death.

The crossbow arrows of the crossbow machine are very short, half shorter than ordinary feather arrows. In the past, this crossbow arrow was made of iron and was costly. However, at the beginning of this year, the Arsenal finally developed the technology of replacing the original iron rod with wooden poles. The apple wood was chosen. This thing is very crisp. After it was shot into the human body, it would mostly explode due to the obstacle of powerful inertia. In the past, the Ming army crossbow machine had to be recycled in all directions, but now it has become a disposable product. But for those who are being arrested, it is a nightmare, because these apple wood arrow rods will cause a second damage after they explode in their bodies.

Most of the iron crossbow arrows are caused by penetration injuries. As long as they are not dead at that time, there is still hope of survival after pulling out the crossbow arrows, but the apple wooden arrow shaft exploded, which made the wound full of wood chips. If you want to clean it up, it was a dream. If you were not killed on the spot, you would have been half gone.

Under Zhong Zhen's stunned expression, the cavalry rushing forward fell to the ground like cutting leeks. In a moment, the open ground in front was covered with corpses of people and horses.

No matter how brave the Qin army was, it could not withstand such huge casualties. Finally, someone collapsed mentally and turned around and fled back. Then, the ten and hundreds of cavalry attacked the Qin cavalry had collapsed in an instant.

"It's that simple!" Looking at the Qin cavalry who had escaped, Zhang Yu laughed. When the enemy's carelessness caused the Xiushui River Bridge to be hit for the first time, he washed away the opponent's cavalry vanguard at the cost of not losing one person, and opened the curtain of the bloody battle of the Xiushui River Bridge with the bodies of nearly two hundred people.

It has to be said that the Zhongzhen and the cavalry there, which have been in the Luoying Mountains for a long time, have lagged far behind this era, regardless of their understanding of the battlefield and their understanding of the speed of weapon renewal. New weapons like crossbows have already fully understood the Qi people who fought with the Ming army, which was the price of blood and life. The Qin State on the Kaiping Front under Deng Pu's previous command also had a deep memory, but the remaining people among these people have now transformed into the Ming army.

The Qin border army in the Luoying Mountains was too far away from the Ming Kingdom on the other side. This was the first time they encountered this weapon, and they started to shoot like a rainy crossbow machine. The terrifying fire speed of crossbows all broke their perceptions. The casualties of two hundred cavalry were a huge loss for the cavalry in the first round of attack, but it was not unbearable for Zhong Zhen, which had more than 10,000 soldiers. However, the confusion when facing this weapon for the first time was the real cause of the uneasiness of the veteran.

Several wounded soldiers who were injured and lucky enough to die were lying in front of Zhong Zhen. The exposed wounds were shocking. The leather armor had almost no protection ability for crossbow arrows. The sharp triangular arrow easily broke the protection of leather armor on the human body. The doctors in the army carefully cut out the bloody arrows to clean up the wood chips in the wound, but they were powerless to do anything about more small wood chips and could only bandage them. As for whether these wounded people can survive, it depends on whether their lives are hard. If they can not have a fever or purulent within two or three days after the injury, the survival rate will be greatly improved.

Zhong Zhen looked at the piles of corpses in the distance, and his heart was filled with regret. He knew that he underestimated the enemy too much and his lack of understanding of the enemy made him suffer this great loss. This terrain was originally not suitable for cavalry charges. He originally thought that such a massive charge would be enough to make the opponent's defense lose its soul and energy. Once he lost his energy, the battle would be easy to fight. But who would have expected that he would eventually lose his morale.

Those people are cavalry, and it is not easy for Qin to raise a cavalry. Since the Deng family cavalry was almost completely destroyed, Qin has no ability to form a powerful cavalry. Except for the Thunder Army, it is the royal guard. The cavalry returned from the Luoying Mountains had only three thousand cavalry. General Yuan angrily assigned him two thousand cavalry, but now more than two hundred cavalry died worthless.

"Send someone to drag the body of the dead brother back." Zhong Zhen said. Bringing back the body of the dead can help the soldiers regain their morale. In the same way, it is also to clean up the battlefield. So far, he has understood that although the other party has only 500 people guarding the bridge, he is afraid that he will have to go through a hard battle if he wants to take it down.

Led by a captain, hundreds of soldiers walked towards the battlefield naked, and the Xiushui River Bridge opposite was still quiet. At the position of Zhongzhen, he could not even see soldiers defending on the opponent's position.

This made him particularly shocked. The enemy's psychological quality was so strong that it was outrageous.

"Call the old whistleman over here." He withdrew his gaze and said to the personal soldiers beside him.

The old commander of the sentry was also a veteran who had fought in the Luoying Mountains for many years. He had countless generals under his command, but this person has never been promoted. However, he has rich connections, qualifications or experience in the army. After the failure of that military rebellion, the ten thousand-year-old veteran finally became an officer and is now a general. However, whether it is a veteran in the army or his online presence, he still habitually calls him the old commander of the sentry.

"Old Chief of the Sweeping, I'll give you a thousand invaders, can you take it down?" Zhong Zhen asked, staring at the old face covered in frost and frosty face in front of him.

The old whistleman looked down at the wounds of the wounded soldiers, then looked up and glanced at the defense deployment opposite, and his old face twitched a little. The area of ​​the opponent's defense was not large, mainly the one at the bridge head, but the layout was seamless. The more inward, the greater the intensity of the defense, and more importantly, the strong support force behind the opponent's front-line defense. Xiushui River has no city wall, but for him, attacking such a position is as good as attacking a defensive position with a city wall as a support. Without huge casualties, it is impossible to take it down.

"Only someone can live!" He whispered: "I need the soldiers to wear armor, not leather armor, but iron armor."

Zhong Zhen's eyes twitched. There were not many people with iron armor in his army. Even though they changed their clothes in Yong once, they were only equipped with leather armor. This made him happy for a long time. You must know that they were in the Luoying Mountains, and even leather armor was a luxury.

"I don't have a thousand iron armor, I'll give you five hundred." He said.

"I will try harder!" The old whistleman's brow frowned into the shape of Sichuan. "General Zhong, the big shield cannot block the opponent's powerful crossbow. I need more wood to make a giant shield."

"Where do you get so many woods?" Zhong Zhen looked up at the empty surroundings. He could not even see a forest wherever he could see his eyes. He was cut down completely by the Ming people. If you want the right wood, you can cut down it far away.

"Sharpening a knife will not delay the chopping of wood." said the old chief whistleman: "Let the cavalry go out, cut down the trees and drag them back."

"This took a long time, I'm afraid that it would be impossible to launch a second attack today." Zhong Zhen looked puzzled. If the vanguard army could not cross the river in time, the three armies would become the left and right wings that broke forward. The longer the delay, the more obvious this situation would become. As an experienced veteran, he knew that once the left and right wings were too sudden, it would be easy for his opponent to take advantage of.

"General Zhong, this is not something I can decide. Without a giant shield, we cannot get close to the enemy's position. Even an iron shield cannot stop the enemy's powerful crossbow shooting."

Zhong Zhen thought for a while and gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, just listen to you and be a giant shield. Even if it is night attack today, I will do whatever I want."

It was really not easy for the Qin army to launch a night battle, because at night, the night blind formation will become a great enemy of the army. Compared with the Ming army that is rich and well-fed, the Qin army's night blind formation is a very common thing.

Compared with the tension on the Qin army, the Xiushui River Bridge was calm. The enemy stopped attacking and they were happy to be idle. Their original purpose was to delay the enemy's progress, so time was on their side.

"Person Zhang, why didn't the Qin army who came to collect the bodies clean up?" Chang Yonggang asked Zhang Yu curiously, this was a good opportunity to find a dog to fall into the water. Why did they take back the body? Wherever they placed it, they could also shock the enemy.

"This is a convention!" Zhang Yu said: "The battlefield constrains the bodies of the dead, and the other party must not interfere, because it may be our turn to do such things at any time. If we break the rules, others can also have sufficient reasons to deal with us in this way, so that the corpses of the robes will be stormed in the wilderness, which will hurt morale."

"So that's it!" Chang Yonggang nodded. Sometimes the army acts, but there is still a big difference between it and the world.
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