The war inevitably broke out in the midst of everyone's nervousness or expectations.
The Western Regions Allied Forces carried the tower shield and climbed up the hillside step by step, in order to resist the arrows shot down from the hillside above.
But Wang Jian is a thief. He felt that frontal shooting would definitely not have much effect, so he simply ordered the crossbowman in the middle formation to pause the shooting and maintain the deterrence, while the crossbowman on both wings shot at the middle mountain road...
So the two wings shot from a high position, causing the first casualties of the Hu people in the Western Regions on the mountain road.
However, compared with the total number of troops of 350,000 people, these casualties are simply insignificant.
Wang Jian didn't have much thought about this. With the opponent's preparations, the five thousand crossbowmen were actually more just deterrent, but the real consumption was still with the three thousand warriors fighting in front.
But Wang Jian noticed something very interesting... that is, the only queue with tower shields that can defend against arrow attacks is 50 meters ahead.
"What kind of war does a group of poor people have no money to fight?" Wang Jian snorted coldly and expressed contempt from the depths of his soul.
Then he ordered: "All crossbowmen, shoot at the back of the enemy with the maximum range, don't worry about the front!"
A rain of arrows spilled down, and flew directly over a distance of 200 meters, and came to the queue covered by the tower shield, causing a large amount of damage.
He shot from a high position, but now he can only take the arrows and wash the floor but it is difficult to fight back.
Because on this slope, the Hu man's short bow can't shoot far!
If the archer approached, he would have already entered the range of the Western Qin Arrow Formation many steps.
So at this time, the Hu coalition could only choose to accelerate the assault with arrows, attempting to forcibly rush into the formation.
But as the side who attacked the enemy, how fast can they charge on this hillside that is more than 30 degrees?
And even if they rushed up and had the heavy infantry from the Western Qin array, how much strength could they have to deal with the battle?
So the most tragic battle began.
Three thousand infantrymen in the Western Qin Dynasty lined up in front of them, facing the Western Hu soldiers rushing up to kill... After a brief stalemate, the Hu people in the Western Regions were immediately frustrated!
Such a charge could not shake the three thousand infantry array of Western Qin, and the reinforcements placed behind were constantly consumed by the Western Qin Arrow Array on the way.
Even after a quarter of an hour of war, the Xihu people could not even guarantee the density of troops in front of the heavy infantry formation... In other words, they could not even maintain pressure on the Western Qin infantry formation!
Under this situation, any commander with some ability will change, and the people of the Western Regions did make changes... but their changes are cruel.
A group of swordsmen in black walked into the battlefield, and they began to use butcher swordsmanship to those who were afraid of fighting, retreating, and even those who ran slowly without mercy.
The Western Regions Alliance dispatched a supervising team... The Western Qin also had a supervising team, but if it were not for a desperate situation, it would rarely be used.
After the Xihu supervision team appeared, it did improve the combat situation and put some pressure on the Western Qin army formation.
But that's all. They were unable to break through the defense of this military formation, as if they were just using their lives to consume the Qin army's physical strength.
But Wang Jian had already prepared for such things.
About half an hour later, he directly ordered: "The crossbowman gathers up and shoots the middle section of the enemy's formation and prepares in rotation!"
The arrow formation, which was originally just a restraining scale, immediately shot the Xihu people who rushed up the hillside and penetrated the Xihu people on the spot.
Taking advantage of the scattered opponents, the heavy infantry phalanx that was pressing in front immediately retreated.
The Xihu people thought that the opportunity had come, so they rushed up and wanted to chase after him.
However, I didn't expect that the original infantry phalanx retreated from both sides and immediately revealed another brand new phalanx that was waiting for in the rear!
This new square formation did not give the Hu people in the Western Regions any chance to react. They raised their tower shield and rushed forward. They swung their swords in the front row and pierced the long spear in the back row, easily regaining the place they had given up and defending the line again.
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After the infantry phalanx has completed the rotation, it is the turn of crossbowmen to rotate in an orderly manner. The entire battlefield is orderly and under the command of Wang Jian, there is no trouble at all.
Ji Zheng couldn't help but praise Su Li repeatedly when he saw this scene... He was born in the army, so how could he not know that the most likely time to suffer casualties in the war was actually the stage when the soldiers' physical strength began to decline.
War does not rely solely on the courage of ordinary men. Those who are generals should indeed take all aspects into consideration.
Wang Jian’s rotation method is now very outstanding, which means that the soldiers in front always maintain sufficient physical strength to face the enemy.
However, the enemy had to climb a hillside of 500 meters, and they were fighting with exhausted energy. This was predictable that the casualties were large.
Moreover, in Ji Zheng's opinion, this Wang Jian's use of troops can indeed be regarded as sympathetic to the soldiers.
Because although his tactics like this ensure the safety of his soldiers to the greatest extent... they have suffered zero casualties until now!
But the efficiency of killing enemies is not very high.
But he liked this Ji Zheng very much. What he saw was Wang Jian's stability in using troops and his absolute control over the overall situation... But from these points of view, he probably surpassed Meng Zhi's ability, and there was only another one.
The military road can match the guards.
As time ran out in one day, from dawn to sun star setting west again... More than five hours passed, and Meng Zhi had just rotated six times.
Almost every soldier in the pass has its turn to go on the field to fight, but everyone has only fought for about an hour when they are most physically strong.
So during this day's war, the Western Regions coalition forces left behind more than 4,000 corpses, while the Qin army only talked about the injury of more than a dozen people.
No one died!
Because the Qin army was covered with heavy armor, they usually were injured for one or two times and could not die, and they would be dragged down by the robes in the rear for first aid... It just so happened that there was someone in this pass who was very good at dealing with such things.
It was not until the sound of drums and whistles of the retreat of the Western Regions coalition forces came from afar that they had been fighting hard for a day before the Hongshan Pass.
At this time, Hongshan Pass was the real "Hongshan". The mountain road at the foot was soaked in blood, and broken corpses could be seen everywhere.
And corpses can be vaguely stacked in the cracks of the cliff next to the mountain road... Terrifying, terrifying.
This is the first time that Bei Guang has experienced such a tragic and spectacular scene, and it is also the largest "same-like slaughter" he has ever seen in his life.
This greatly impacted his young mind and he was stunned.
"Don't stand stupidly, accompany me to do things." Su Li dragged his disciples to the previous battlefield.
Near the battlefield, a strong smell of blood made Beiguang feel dizzy.
With his experience, he would not be unable to bear it, but it was inevitable that he would be unacceptable to face this situation for the first time.
"If you think the taste is not good, just hold your breath. This is not embarrassing." Su Li said, but then he had already started to do the movements.
He took out a handful of Jingming Talisman from his bag and said to Beiguang: "Come on, help Master, purify every corner of this battlefield, don't miss it."
Bei Guang really came back to his senses, and he asked strangely: "Master, what is the purpose?"
"When I was practicing on the battlefield in my early years, I was almost caught by evil monks using the battlefield's hostility and death aura... So this kind of thing must be guarded against." Su Li explained.
Beiguang heard the expression of being taught... He felt that he would always have endless knowledge and experience to learn with his master.
So he obediently took a large handful of talismans and began to activate and use them according to Professor Su Li's method...
Su Li cooperated to do the movements together... Of course, he actually only needed a Void Condensation Talisman to finish everything.
"Master, you used talismans when you saved people before?" After a while, Bei Guang couldn't help asking.
Su Li nodded and said, "That's right."
He felt like he was secretly planning.
"Will the master draw talismans?" Bei Guang asked expectantly.
It's taken the bait!
Su Li said with a hypocritical look on his face: "Of course, you can do it. After all, practicing talismans is actually a process of spiritual communication with the world."
He was also frustrated... It was obvious that his disciple was staring at him by a group of sword cultivators from the Jianya Sect, and he was not allowed to take the initiative to teach non-sword skills.
This is the last "correction" method for the five old swords.
When Su Li was accepting disciples in the extreme north, these guys actually secretly ran over and pestered them... Really, he just accepted an apprentice and had to endure the "bullying" of these guys.
But their behavior obviously underestimated Su Li's methods... As a guy who can open so many branches of the Sword Cult, which originally produced sword cultivators, how could he "sit and wait for death"?
Just let Bei Guang follow him to do things, which aroused the idea that this young man wanted to learn to make talismans...
"Can Master teach me how to make talismans?" Bei Guang's eyes immediately lit up, showing a strong desire for knowledge.
"Of course, when you pack up here, you will teach you how to draw the original talisman when you return to the pass." Su Li paused at this point, then said: "Speaking of all, your master is the best talisman to make talismans.
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"Huh?" Bei Guang was extremely surprised.
He rarely heard Su Li mention his master's education in the Jianya Sect. He just met Master Gu Zhaozi from afar when he first came to Jianya Sect, and then never saw him again.
So much so that for a long time, although he knew that his master should have a special identity in the Jianya Sect, he never knew what was special.
It was later when he settled down in the courtyard of the fourth generation of disciples to meditate... Master wanted to allow him to practice early in his practice with a more peaceful and quieter environment.
If he had known that he was the first disciple of the Saint Son of Jian Cliff, and the people around him knew that he had a relationship with Su Li, could he still gain that peaceful, fulfilling and interesting practice life in Jian Cliff?
But now it seems that Su Li is planning to tell him some of the relationship between the teacher and the teacher, and Bei Guang couldn't help but look forward to it.