Therefore, forcing Liu Wuzhou out of Mayi County and avoiding unnecessary casualties in the whirlwind camp siege was the first link in Wang Junlin's plan to plot Mayi County.
On the surface, Wang Junlin only brought the 17,000 people from the Tornado Battalion, but secretly there were also a large number of people from the Special Operations Brigade and the Military Intelligence Bureau. Youzhou Luo Yi and his 40,000 elite cavalry had already secretly arrived in Mayi County.
Within the territory, there is also the mysterious horse thieves.
Wang Junlin had the confidence to use these people to lay a trap and eliminate Liu Wuzhou's more than 80,000 troops. In addition to having confidence in Luo Yi's Youzhou soldiers and the mysterious horse thieves, his other reliance was his military factories in the Qilian Mountains far in the northwest.
In the small town, Nie Xiaoyu drew two random drawings and designed two new weapons - a hundred-shot crossbow chariot and a steel string bow. Moreover, these two new weapons have been recently sent to Luo Yi's Youzhou Army.
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More than twenty miles northwest of Mayi County, under the orders of Luo Yi, just arrived at the Youzhou Army yesterday. A group of horse thieves with weathered faces carefully placed the hundred-fire crossbow chariot, provoking the Youzhou Army.
The officers and men were extremely curious. They had never seen such a strange weapon before, and it was operated by a team of horse thieves. It really made them extremely curious.
In the distance, wolf smoke suddenly ignited, and the thick black smoke shot straight into the sky. Luo Yi had a clever idea and ordered his troops to take their positions and get ready.
The 10,000 Youzhou Army's infantry and lance battle formations have been arranged in neat rows. The dense forest of spears like hedgehogs has been erected, just blocking the whole ditch road.
Another 30,000 cavalry have been hidden on both sides, and other arrangements have been prepared one by one. The expressions of every soldier are full of confidence and high fighting spirit.
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Liu Wuzhou was worried that Wang Junlin would send cavalry to catch up, so he let go of his horse power and galloped all the way to the northwest. The shortest route in this direction must go through this section of the ravine. Because he fled in a panic, he did not even have time to send out an outpost. As a result, he did not wait until he entered the ravine.
In the center, 500 steps away from the 10,000 infantry phalanx of Luo Yi Youzhou Army, I suddenly discovered it when I turned around a low hill.
Liu Wuzhou, Huang Lao, Wang Chengguang and others were surprised. Wang Chengguang was a sharp archer, so he had excellent eyesight. After taking a closer look, he said: "My lord, they are all infantry, about 10,000 people. It seems that the uniforms are not Wang Junlin's."
The Far East Army is the frontier army of the imperial court."
"Turn out of the ditch at this time, and if you go around again, you will definitely be entangled by the cavalry of Wang Junlin's Far Eastern Army behind you." Huang Lao said with a heavy face.
"There are ten thousand imperial infantrymen trying to block our way, huh! Do they think they have the powerful combat power of the Far Eastern Army? Charge with all your strength, rush through these ten thousand soldiers, and then leave quickly." Liu Wuzhou ordered loudly.
Picking up the telescope and seeing the Mayi cavalry suddenly appearing in the field of vision, Luo Yi smiled ferociously and shouted: "Don't even think about escaping any of these Mayi rebels. Listen to my order, raise your bow and string it!"
After the first two rows of spearmen, all the rows in the back held newly issued steel string bows. At this time, they heard the order, drew their long bows, and cocked their sharp arrows.
"Get ready!" There was a squeaking sound. The steel string bow that was just issued made it very easy to pull the string due to the modification of the gears. In the past, an archer would feel weak after releasing more than ten arrows, but with the steel string bow in his hand, he could pull the string very easily.
Multiply this number several times.
"Five rounds of elevation angle throw!" Luo Yi ordered loudly. The flag danced and shot into the sky like a rain of long arrows at 45 degrees. After flying to a high point, it fell like raindrops.
The Mayi cavalry group that charged them suddenly fell on their backs. The soldiers without iron armor could not stop the arrows from swooping down. Due to the momentum brought by the gravity energy, they turned over and fell from their horses after being hit by the arrows, and were immediately hit by the cavalry from behind.
Step on the meat paste.
"Charge, charge! If you rush in front of them, they will only be slaughtered!" Liu Wuzhou ignored the losses at all. In his opinion, as long as he rushed into the opponent's infantry group, the opponent's terrifying long-range attack would naturally lose its due power.
Youzhou's 10,000 infantrymen kept their expressions unchanged, as if what was charging towards them was not more than 80,000 troops, but a group of fat sheep coming to die.
Liu Wuzhou personally led more than 30,000 cavalry and charged at the front, followed by more than 50,000 infantry.
These more than 30,000 Mayi cavalry have increased their speed to the extreme, and soon they were a hundred steps away. At Luo Yi's order, a sharp whistle sounded next to him, and the sharp spear tips of the first two rows thrust forward like a forest.
When they came out, the people behind threw down their steel string bows, replaced them with fast crossbows, and fired another round of nine-shot fast crossbows. Hundreds more people in the Mayi army fell off their horses.
At fifty steps, Luo Yi said to the leader of the team of horse thieves next to him: "Brother, what happens next is up to you."
The leader of the horse thief nodded and suddenly shouted: "Hundred-shot crossbow, prepare!"
At the sound of the order, ten thousand Youzhou infantrymen lined up in ten rows suddenly squatted down, exposing to Liu Wuzhou's eyes the hundred hundred-shot crossbow chariots controlled by the hundred-shot crossbow company behind them.
"shooting!"
The leader of the team of horse thieves gave an order, and the horse thieves operating the group turned the handle hard, and a hundred repeater crossbows were fired at the same time.
At this moment, the sight of Luo Yi and the 10,000 Youzhou infantry were even blocked by the rain of arrows. The continuous rain of arrows blocked the sky. All the officers and soldiers of the Youzhou Army who witnessed this scene were stunned for a moment, and even forgot about the general.
The nine-shot rapid crossbow from Fanyang County was fired in their hands. This scene of horror and strange beauty made them lose their minds at this moment. They all stared blankly at the densely packed iron arrows falling like raindrops.
The hundred-shot fast crossbow is equipped with a powerful spring, coupled with armor-piercing iron arrows, and can be fired flatly at a distance of fifty steps. The killing power produced is extremely terrifying, like cutting wheat, rushing towards Mayi at the front.
The cavalry fell down one after another, but the rain of arrows seemed to be endless.
But in fact, each hundred-shot fast crossbow was only fired once. After one time, the bandit leader shouted loudly: "Our work is done."
Luo Yi got excited and yelled: "If you guys don't stand up, I'll shoot you with a quick crossbow in your hand."
The 10,000 crouching infantry quickly stood up. The two rows in front were armed with long guns, and the eight rows behind were all using fast crossbows. Each of them fired another round of nine crossbow arrows.
Liu Wuzhou did not die because the soldiers around him surrounded him tightly at the critical moment, but at this time all the 500 cavalry protecting him fell down, and then he saw that there was no one twenty steps away from him.
A living person, to be precise, the first four of the Mayi cavalry charged into the battle, except Liu Wuzhou, and all the others, including men and horses, fell down. In just one blow, more than 4,000 Mayi cavalry died on the spot.
"These are not the frontier troops of the imperial court, but Wang Junlin's people, otherwise why would there be so many terrifying weapons." This was Liu Wuzhou's last thought before he died, and then dozens of crossbow arrows were pierced in his body in an instant.
That was when more than a dozen Youzhou infantrymen fired at him with quick crossbows.