In the face of barbed wire tactics, skirmishing lines, or sparse formations, also lost their effect.
For the attacking side, unable to cross the barbed wire defense line, it can only stay in the stage of long-distance consumption, while the defensive side has the help of trenches, which itself has an advantage.
Especially...
Now in Zhi County, the attacking side's long-range weapons are still "high consumption" of manpower and material resources. Even if there are many Shu soldiers, they can take turns to rest, but if the shooting is consumed, in terms of pure output, regardless of Badong
The Chu army is small in number, but it is 70 to 80% higher than the Shu army, which is not a problem.
Moreover, the reserve of projectiles definitely carried more arrows than Zhang Ren and Yan Yan. What's more, the Badong Chu army was on the defensive. In addition to the barbed wire fence to prevent the enemy from approaching, they also had trenches to protect themselves!
After two days of tentative fighting, the Shu army had no hope of breaking through even the first line of defense, and lost thousands of soldiers.
Faced with this dilemma, Zhang Ren chose...
"The bold thief, who has no idea how high the sky is, thinks he can stop me with a mere iron rope? A hundred birds will look at the phoenix, and the phoenix will see hundreds of birds, and the phoenix will soar in the sky!"
In this attack, Zhang Ren directly took the lead and marched forward with armor, preparing to tear through Chu's barbed wire defense line with his own strength.
I saw Zhang Ren, who was wearing a bright yellow battle armor, rushing directly to the front row of barbed wire defense line with a hail of bullets banging on his armor. As the three-pointed gun was swung, wing-shaped missiles appeared on both sides of the gun.
The two short tips spread out like phoenix wings, and in the middle of the spear was a huge phoenix head and beak!
Just as Zhang Ren was waving, the golden phoenix light and shadow, accompanied by the noisy birdsong that was somewhat similar to when Zhang Xiu performed his special move, soared towards the barbed wire fence in front of him!
In contrast, Zhang Ren's "Hundred Birds Facing the Phoenix" is more like standing from the perspective of the phoenix than the original version. It is not only different in "light effect", but also in "sound effect".
Although Zhang Xiu is a forced simulation, it is indeed the closest to the original. The sound is like a hundred birds singing, while Zhang Ren's sound is like a hundred birds singing, with an extra high-pitched phoenix cry...
It's a pity that I still can't be like Zhao Yun, who is completely better than his master, breaks through the shackles, and develops his own decisive spear skills!
Even so, after Zhang Ren's "Feng Yi Tian Xiang" hit the first layer of barbed wire, it was like a "meat grinder", directly twisting in the barbed wire within three feet, and even the entire barbed wire was pulled and rebounded
After that, there was a gap of more than four feet!
As for the barbed wire that was twisted into it, it was completely torn into pieces, leaving a trail of scrap wire on the path of "Feng Yi Tian Xiang".
Even the light and shadow of the phoenix rushed to the second line of defense, tearing open a gap as big as one person in the second line of defense...
Some of the grassroots generals recruited locally in Badong County couldn't help but take a breath of cold air - although they had heard of Zhang Ren before, they didn't expect... General Jin Yu to be so terrifying!
As for the veterans of the original Wancheng 1st Division and Xinye 1st Division, they were unmoved by this.
Is it unusual for a general of gold and jade to take action?
"Why are you panicking? Zhang Ren... it's just that his true energy was condensed a little when he took action. His true strength cannot be ranked among the golden and jade generals at all! I have seen more than half of the thirty-six golden and jade generals in the Chu Kingdom. He
Zhang Ren can't even reach the front half!" The gold-plated leader of the corresponding defense section gave an encouraging voice, "He can kill me with one punch, but I just won't accept it."
At the same time, I heard a rumble of sound...
When the gilded captain heard the voice, his eyes lit up and he said: "Hahaha! The teacher's big treasure has been brought! I'll open your eyes too! Don't just stand there... open the gap and gather the fire for me!"
"
I saw black, thick, and long mobile cannons being pushed over.
Badong County already had artillery not long ago, and there is no need to train in Badong - the operation of artillery is much more complicated than the infuriating crossbow that "you can load the ammunition and shoot forward with your eyes closed". I think
It’s too late for on-site training…
Based on the military system of the Chu State at this time, "artillery" was all distributed in the artillery division. During combat, artillery companies were directly sent to the main army for coordinated operations. Only professionals can fire artillery!
An artillery company has one hundred, forty and fifty men, and even its own cooking squad. One company is only responsible for taking care of six artillery pieces.
According to the current military strength of the Chu State, for an ordinary main force, one brigade can be equipped with one artillery battery, which means that three thousand people can have six cannons.
Because Badong County is located in Yizhou, artillery companies have only begun to be stationed not long ago, so the deployment rate is not high, but at the same time... to cross the mountains and ridges, you have to go to the Wancheng Division in Bazhong. Because the roads are inconvenient, it is difficult to carry
There are very few artillery units, and most of them are left behind by the Badong 1st Division. Therefore, the Badong 1st Division's artillery possessions are still at the top among the main forces for the time being!
Two brigades, two reinforced regiments, five artillery companies, thirty artillery pieces...
Guo Huai stationed two artillery companies at the Zhixian defense line. At this time, due to Zhang Ren's change, one of the artillery companies was sent over!
The Shu army didn't know this thing yet, so naturally they didn't know how to be afraid. Seeing that the "indestructible" barbed wire fence that had "devoured" the lives of countless comrades in the past few days was torn open with a gap several feet wide,
Immediately pour in from it.
only……
As a result, the so-called "sparing and changing formations" naturally has no effect - a few feet wide is very spacious for a person, but for an army, it is very crowded!
They were all crowded together and immediately became a target. Thanks to Zhang Ren's previous arrangements, Yan Yan had led many defenders away from other directions in advance, and the number of defenders gathered nearby was not "excessive".
But... the real crisis really came. Under the command of the aiming hand, the six artillery pieces were twisted by the gunner, turned towards the direction of the influx of Shu troops, and after the muzzle was slightly raised...
"put!"
boom--
Compared with the crisp sound of Qi bullets and crossbows, artillery is a real roar!
The plate-armored cavalry originally blocking the front immediately turned off their fire...
The plate-armored cavalry has at least a small chance of blocking projectiles, and is immune to most damage from "ricochet", so it stays in front.
However, after a burst of smoke from the black tubes in the Chu army's formation, the plate-armored cavalry rushing at the front fell on their backs in response!
Not just one or two rows, but almost as many as there are...
How could a mere three millimeters of plate armor be able to block a breech-mounted cannon?
Although it was a solid cannon, not a thunder cannon, the shells bounced off the ground again and again, accompanied by screams and whines...
Even if it is a plate-armored cavalry, if they resist head-on, their plate armor will often be torn open and smashed into two pieces. At most, the kinetic energy of the cannonball will be reduced much!
Although solid bullets will not explode, they are definitely not capable of killing a single target on the battlefield. At this time, the Shu army is gathered within a few feet, which is simply an output angle for the artillery...