Chapter 1573 This is far more than just the right time and place
At the same time, a centurion commander who was responsible for operating the trebuchet was jumping anxiously because some of the trebuchet parts were too big and the selected trebuchet positions were on the hillsides on both sides and could not be lifted up.
After a while, Zhang Tiangang's order seemed to come from the ridge. The detachment that had just been on guard retreated to rest. The second detachment that had been resting on this side of the hillside immediately stood up and slowly walked up to the high ground under the leadership of the officer.
, then crossed the front line and gradually disappeared from the sight of more than 2,000 civilians and more than 100 prisoners.
In the end, the more than 2,000 civilians on this side of the ridge, the 1,000-strong third team, and the prisoners could only see countless gleaming gun barrels and gun heads poking out from the horizon, pointing densely at the sky.
What the special forces are doing 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 hillside where Li Jiajun could not see, two special operations teams of two thousand people continued to sit and rest. At the foot of the hillside, the captive captain Huang Sifeng had already enthusiastically selected some of the more than two thousand people to start making fires.
Cook.
After a while, a thousand men from the second detachment of the special forces began to move forward. A thousand gun tips sank neatly, one by one, below the horizon, and then the rest also fell forward.
It went down, and in the blink of an eye, not even a gun could be seen among the more than 2,000 civilians and prisoners. Many people could not help but murmur to themselves: "It's started, an army is coming."
In fact, these people thought wrong again. Zhang Tiangang just asked the spearmen in the front row to walk forward for a while, and then asked the soldiers to level their spears, so as not to affect the light crossbows behind and the rapid crossbow shooting of the special forces soldiers in the following rows.
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The Li army on the opposite side seemed to be very shocked by the encounter with the Far Eastern Army here. They also seemed to realize the value of the terrain here, but since the Far Eastern Army had already deployed, they could not come out to form a formation.
Zhang Tiangang watched coldly as the nearly two thousand enemy troops put on armor and drew swords on the road, making some hasty preparations for battle.
After the Li family's army finished putting on their armor, they dispersed directly into the woods on both sides of the road.
Zhang Tiangang knew that the opponent planned to form a horizontal formation 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 field of vision and prevent the Far Eastern Army from charging from top to bottom with cavalry.
But in Zhang Tiangang's view, arraying in the woods not only wastes time, but also wastes physical energy.
At this time, the one thousand soldiers of the first detachment of the special operations team who were in combat status kept a terrifying silence. They watched the opponent's figure gradually emerge from the woods diagonally below. The infantry line laid out by the five hundred soldiers who walked half way down the hillside was still there.
There is a distance of about seventy steps.
Of course, light crossbows, guns and light trebuchets could already kill the enemy at such a distance, but in order not to scare away this army, Zhang Tiangang did not order the trebuchets and light trebuchets to start attacking.
After seeing the Li Jiajun's intention to attack from a distance, Zhang Tiangang ordered everyone to kneel down. Some feather arrows were thrown from the opposite side. Many of these fletched arrows hit the special forces spearmen and infantry, but they were unable to penetrate the Far Eastern Army.
The steel armor on his body just made some jingling noises helplessly.
"Light crossbow, rear row
Quick crossbows, shoot at the same time!"
Thirty light crossbowmen on the top of the mountain and the infantry square formed by a thousand soldiers of the second detachment launched a volley from the rear rows of fast crossbowmen.
Amidst the buzzing sound in the air, a series of screams came from the edge of the woods more than 70 steps away. Many soldiers of the Li family's army fell to the ground, making the sound of heavy bodies hitting the ground.
"Quick crossbowman, shoot!" Because this time we were fighting behind enemy lines without a baggage team, it was difficult to replenish the weapons after they were consumed, and the number of light crossbows and guns was limited, so after the first wave of test firings, Zhang Tiangang no longer allowed light crossbows to be fired.
Crossbow firing.
A total of 500 fast crossbows from the second and third rows of the phalanx on the top of the slope launched another volley. Heart-wrenching screams were heard again at the junction of the woods and the stream, and more Li family troops fell to the ground.
fell to the ground.
Because the quick crossbow fires nine rounds, people who are hit in the torso by the Far Eastern Army's crossbow arrows are often hit by at least three or four crossbow arrows all over their bodies. Some of them quickly swallowed their last breath, and the rest were seriously injured all over the ground.
Rolling around, helplessly letting out a dying scream of agony.
After shooting twice, Zhang Tiangang noticed that his opponent seemed to hesitate.
At this moment, he decisively let the fast crossbows in the formation above the hillside fire a third salvo.
The enemies in the field of vision suddenly retreated hastily.
Just opposite Zhang Tiangang, a soldier from the Li Army seemed to be drunk. He staggered for a few times under the gaze of the Far Eastern Army. Then he turned back and hugged a big tree, and sat down slowly.
He fell to the ground, and when his hand holding the tree moved downward, he left a wide, long red mark on the trunk.
Random shouts rang out from the Li family's army position. After a while, figures were moving again in the woods opposite. Zhang Yugang led the soldiers of the special force and waited patiently.
However, this time the Li family's army seems to have realized that the defense of their bows and arrows and body armor is too different from that of the special forces, and long-range attacks are too disadvantageous, so they no longer plan to shoot with the special forces. They are at the edge of the woods.
After a brief pause, it emerged from the entire dividing line.
Countless pairs of feet stepped across the stream. The Li family's army reacted very quickly. They held their shields in front of them and pressed toward the special forces army in a dark way. It looked like there were only more than a thousand of them, rather than fighting in formation.
The second detachment of the special forces team has three to four hundred more people. This is also the reason why these people still did not retreat after losing two to three hundred people in the long-range attack.
Zhang Tiangang no longer personally directed the subsequent operations, but handed them over to the second squad leader He Yongyi.
Following the command of the captain of the second squadron, the two rows of 500 quick crossbowmen in the back fired another salvo. At the same time, the spearmen of the first two rows of special forces also stood up after the salvo, preparing to fire the quick crossbows.
With support, melee combat begins.
Under the roar of Li Jiajun, hand-to-hand combat began in the next moment, and shouts of killing and screams sounded at the same time. Although the special forces were all masters, they strictly followed Zhang Tiangang's prior orders and fought in infantry battle formations. No one was allowed to fight.
Fight alone.
Therefore, at this time, the densely packed iron spears here stabbed out in four directions. Even if the Li family army had shield defense, more than 400 people were killed. However, the second detachment of the special forces team, because they were experts and had excellent steel plate armor, only had 400 people killed.
People were injured, but no one died.
With such a casualty ratio, the battle ended quickly. The Li family's army quickly left behind more than 400 corpses and more than 100 wounded.
After leading the swarm to escape into the woods, the Second Special Forces Squadron used fast crossbows to pursue again, knocking down a group of Li family troops running behind.
Bodies were strewn across the hillside, spreading from halfway up the mountain to the stream. There were now more than a dozen soldiers from the Li family's army lying in the stream, dyeing the originally clear river water with a few wisps of light red.
The first two rows of 500 soldiers from the second detachment of the Special Forces on the mountainside lined up in a neat line with long spears in their hands, as dense as a jungle. Behind them were three rows, with 500 soldiers holding long spears in their left hands and holding quick crossbows in one hand.
The soldiers also returned to their standing posture, each with their crossbows raised and looking straight ahead.
Zhang Tiangang also put down the telescope. He estimated that there were about 1,700 to 2,000 Li Jiajun soldiers on the opposite side. The entire battle did not take more than half an hour. The other side left more than 800 corpses, but only gave them to the Far East Army.
The army caused minor injuries to four people. The first two defeats of the Li army were caused by volleys of fast crossbows, and did not even require the use of hand-to-hand combat.
Zhang Tiangang looked at the steel plate armor and face-protecting helmets on the soldiers' heads, as well as the pure steel tips of the iron guns and quick crossbows in their hands, and said: "We occupy a very obvious right time and place, and each of our soldiers has
He is a master, and the sophistication of weapons and equipment far exceeds that of the opponent. In this case, in a field battle, even if the opponent is an elite soldier, he is not our opponent at all."
"Actually, the individual combat capabilities of these Li Jiajun soldiers are not bad. They won easily just now, but the armor on their bodies couldn't stop our fast crossbows at all." He Yongyi, captain of the second squadron, said.
"I heard from the Intelligence Bureau that the armor and weapons of the Li Family Army are relatively sophisticated compared to other forces in the world today. It seems that the intelligence is true. Even the Li Family Army who are responsible for food and grass in the rear also have many people wearing armor." Zhang Tiangang thought about it.
Said at once.
At this time, the four injured people had arrived behind the hillside, and the medical team of the special team trained by Yaowang Valley were treating them leisurely. In fact, due to the special nature of the special team, the leader of their medical team was himself a medicine man.
He is from Wang Valley, and is a grandson of the former owner of Yaowang Valley and now the commander of the Medical Department of the Far Eastern Army.
As for the other members of the special force, in addition to those on guard duty, they also began to take turns lining up at the foot of the hillside to get food. Everything seemed tense and orderly. If there weren't hundreds of corpses on the other side of the mountain, it would be difficult to even let people know.
I suspect there was a war just now.
We marched all night last night and just fought another battle. Although the people in the special operations team are all experts, many of them are carrying accessories for trebuchets and crossbows, as well as boxes of powder-packed grenades.
Therefore, the soldiers were very tired.
After eating, they have to seize all the time to rest.
Everyone knew that they had cut off the road from Longguan, the most important pass for the Li Army on the western front, to Chencang, the granary at the rear. Longguan's 60,000-strong army had no food supply and was cut off from their retreat. How could they give up?
The Li family's army will come back soon, and when they come back they will definitely have more troops and their combat effectiveness will naturally be stronger.