Turbulent Times Chapter 1573: This is far more than just the right time and place

At the same time, a centurion who was in charge of operating the trebuchet was there because several parts of the trebuchet were too large, and the chosen trebuchet positions were on the hillsides on both sides, and he was so anxious that he couldn't lift it up for a long time.

After a while, Zhang Tiangang's order seemed to come from the ridge, and the unit that was on guard just now retreated to rest. After reaching the high ground, he crossed the front line and gradually disappeared from the sight of more than 2,000 civilians and more than 100 captives.

In the end, more than 2,000 civilians on the side of the ridge, 1,000 people from the third unit, and the captives could only see countless gun barrels and gun heads poking out from the horizon, pointing densely at the sky.

What the Special Forces do today is completely different from their usual reconnaissance, harassment, assassination, raids, etc., so all their equipment at this time is mainly infantry equipment.

On the other side of the hill where Li Jiajun could not see, the two thousand soldiers of the two special operations teams continued to sit and rest, and at the foot of the hill, the captive Captain Huang Sifeng had enthusiastically selected some of the more than two thousand civilians People start a fire to cook.

After a while, a thousand people from the second unit of the special operations team began to move forward. He fell forward, and in a blink of an eye more than two thousand civilians and prisoners could not even see a single gun. Many people muttered to themselves: "It's started, an army is coming."

Actually, these people are wrong again. Zhang Tiangang just asked the pikemen in the front row to step forward for a while, and then asked the soldiers to lay down their pikes so as not to affect the shooting of the light crossbows behind and the fast crossbows of the special forces soldiers in the back row.

The Li family's army on the opposite side seemed to be very shocked by the encounter with the Far East Army here. They also seemed to realize the value of the terrain here, but since the Far East Army had already deployed, they couldn't come out to form an array.

Zhang Tiangang watched coldly the nearly 2,000 enemy soldiers put on their armor and draw their swords on the road, somewhat hastily preparing for battle.

After the Li family's army finished putting on their armor, they scattered directly into the woods on both sides of the road.

Zhang Tiangang knew that the opponent was going to form a line in the woods, and then jump out to fight.

The opponent's attempt is not wrong at the moment, it can block the Far Eastern Army's vision, and it can also prevent the Far Eastern Army from charging from top to bottom with cavalry.

But in Zhang Tiangang's view, lining up in the woods not only wastes time, but also wastes energy.

At this time, the one thousand soldiers of the Special Forces Unit 1, which was in the combat state, kept a terrible silence, watching the opponent's figure gradually emerge from the forest obliquely below, and the five hundred soldiers who walked down the half hillside set up a The infantry lines were still about seventy paces apart.

Of course the light crossbow, gun and light trebuchet could already kill the enemy at such a distance, but in order not to scare the army away, Zhang Tiangang did not order the trebuchet and light trebuchet to attack.

After seeing Li Jiajun's attempt to attack from a distance, Zhang Tiangang ordered everyone to kneel down. Some feathered arrows were thrown from the opposite side, and many of these thrown feathered arrows hit the infantrymen of the special forces captain, but they were unable to penetrate the steel armor and iron armor of the Far Eastern Army at all, and they just made some clanging noises helplessly.

"Light crossbow, back row

Quick crossbow, shoot at the same time! "

Thirty light guns and crossbowmen on the top of the mountain and the infantry phalanx of 1,000 soldiers from the second unit launched a salvo from the rear rows of fast crossbowmen.

In the midst of the buzzing sound, there was a series of screams from the edge of the woods more than seventy steps away. Many soldiers of the Li family army fell to the ground, making the sound of heavy bodies hitting the ground.

"Quick crossbowman, shoot!" Because this time we are fighting behind enemy lines, without a train team, it is difficult to replenish weapons after they are consumed, and the number of light crossbow guns is limited, so after the first wave of test firing, Zhang Tiangang did not Then let the light gun crossbow fire.

A total of five hundred crossbows in the second and third rows of the phalanx on the top of the **** launched another salvo, and heart-piercing screams sounded again at the junction of the woods and the stream, and more Li The home army fell to the ground.

Because the fast crossbow is fired in nine bursts, people who were hit by the crossbow arrows of the Far East Army often hit their torso with at least three or four crossbow arrows all over their bodies. Writhing on the ground with serious injuries, he let out helpless screams of dying pain.

After two shots, Zhang Tiangang noticed that the opponent seemed to hesitate.

At this moment, he decisively let the fast crossbow above the hillside shoot a third volley.

The enemies in the field of vision immediately retreated in a hurry.

On the opposite side of Zhang Tiangang, a soldier of the Li family army seemed to be drunk. He sat down on the ground slowly, and when he moved his hand holding the tree down, he left a wide red long mark on the trunk.

There was a mess of shouts on the Li family's army position, and after a while, there were figures shaking in the woods on the opposite side. Zhang Yugang led the soldiers of the special forces to wait patiently.

It's just that this time, the Li family's army seems to have realized that their bows and arrows and armor defense are too different from those of the special forces, and the long-range attack is too disadvantageous, so they don't plan to shoot against the special forces anymore. After a short pause at the edge of the woods, it emerged from the entire dividing line.

Countless pairs of feet stepped on that stream, and the Li family's army reacted very quickly. They raised their shields in front of them, and pressed them heavily towards the special forces army. It seemed that they only had more than a thousand people. There are three or four hundred more in the second unit of the special forces team that is lining up to fight. And this is why these people still did not retreat after losing two or three hundred people in the long-range attack just now.

Zhang Tiangang no longer commanded the battle in person, but handed it over to He Yongyi, the second team leader.

Following the order of the captain of the second division, the five hundred crossbows in the two rows behind fired another volley. At the same time, the pikemen of the first two rows of special forces also stood up after this volley, ready to start hand-to-hand combat with the support of the fast crossbow.

Under the yelling of Li Jiajun, the hand-to-hand combat began the next moment, and the shouts and screams sounded at the same time. Although each of the special forces was a master, they strictly followed Zhang Tiangang's prior orders and fought in the infantry formation. No one is allowed to fight alone.

So, at this time, the densely packed iron spears here stabbed four times at once. Even if the Li family army had shield defenses, more than 400 people died. Only four people were injured, and none died.

With such a casualty ratio, the battle ended very quickly. The Li family army quickly left more than 400 dead bodies and more than 100 wounded. Under the leadership of the general Bing, they fled into the woods in a swarm, and the second special warfare team used a quick crossbow to pursue them again, knocking down a group of Li's troops who were running behind.

The corpses were scattered all over the hillside, spreading from the halfway up the mountain to the stream. There were also more than a dozen soldiers from the Li family's army pouring into the stream, dyeing the originally clear river water a few strands of light red.

On the mountainside, the first two rows of 500 soldiers of the Second Unit of the Special Forces were lined up neatly in a horizontal line holding long guns, and the long guns in their hands were as dense as a jungle. The 500 soldiers also returned to standing at attention, each with their crossbows upright and looking ahead.

Zhang Tiangang also put down the binoculars. He estimated that there were about 1,700 to 2,000 Li Family soldiers on the opposite side. Four people were slightly injured in the Far East Army. The first two defeats of this Li family army were caused by quick crossbow salvos, and there was no need for hand-to-hand combat.

Zhang Tiangang looked at the steel plate armor and helmets on the heads of the soldiers, as well as the pure steel tips of the iron guns in their hands and the fast crossbow in their hands, and said: "We have a very obvious advantage in time and place, and every time we All the soldiers can be called masters, and the sophistication of weapons and equipment far exceeds that of the opponent. Under such circumstances, even if the opponent is considered an elite soldier, they are not our opponents at all."

"Actually, the individual soldiers of the Li family army are not bad. They won easily just now. It's because their armor can't stop our fast crossbow at all." The second team leader He Yongyi said.

"I heard from the intelligence office that the armor and weapons of the Li family army are relatively sophisticated compared to other forces in the world today. It seems that this information is true. Even the Li family army who is in charge of food and grass in the rear has many people wearing armor." Zhang Tiangang thought for a while and said.

At this time, the four people who were injured just now had already arrived behind the hillside, and members of the special forces medical rescue team trained by Yaowanggu were treating them leisurely. He is a person from Yaowang Valley, and he is the grandson of the original owner of Yaowang Valley and now the envoy of the Far East Army's Medical Department.

As for the other people in the special operations team, in addition to the guards on duty, they also began to line up for food at the bottom of the hillside in turn. Everything seemed tense and orderly. It's hard to doubt that a war just broke out.

Last night, they marched overnight and fought another battle just now. Although the special forces are all experts, many of them are carrying accessories for trebuchets and guns and crossbows, as well as boxes of gunpowder and grenades.

So, the soldiers are very tired.

After eating, they still have to seize all the time to rest.

Everyone knows that they cut off the road from Longguan, the most important pass of the Li family's army on the west front, to the granary and Chencang behind. Let it go.

The Li family's army will come back soon, and when it comes again, it will inevitably have more troops and stronger combat effectiveness

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