At dawn, when the first ray of sunlight hit the earth, the horn sounded in the military camp.
Countless officers of each battalion and team all got up and came to the camp. They told their troops to gather together, get into formation, eat breakfast, and then rest for a while before going to the battlefield.
For these troops, Zhong Yu was quite concerned about their daily life. He had a meal of meat every day, although it was only a small piece for him, and he was full of rice and usually added some vegetables, which can be said to be very rich. Meals are ready.
At least many small wealthy people in the countryside can't afford it in ordinary times, but with the accumulation of tens or hundreds of years of the nobles Zhong Yu obtained, they can be said to be rich and powerful.
Moreover, you can eat wherever you go, completely solving the resource problem on the spot. There is no logistical pressure, and there is an unlimited supply of food.
They can't eat much anyway, and they will become cannon fodder on the battlefield in a few days. Even if one or two of the ten people inside don't know if they can survive, what can they be stingy about
Seeing the soldiers eating today's breakfast with excitement, they were even discussing among themselves whether the food was to their liking. How long had it been since I had eaten such a good meal
The officers did not stop them, even though there was a military order in the army that explicitly prohibited making noise. Just let them be quiet and finish such a breakfast happily. Later they will be the first batch of people to go to the battlefield.
The guard force of CD City is quite strong, and the quality of those troops is also relatively good. They are not comparable to the previous county soldiers and military police.
If you want to capture that city, you must rotate at least five or six groups of people. As the first group of 5,000 people, they will definitely face the fiercest attacks from the defenders to undermine the morale of their side. .
By then, these soldiers who are still eating happily, after this morning, five thousand people, I don't know if one or two thousand of them can survive, let them indulge for a while, how can they be so ruthless to stop it!
Soon, these soldiers had finished their meals. Zhong Yu also thoughtfully asked them to do some post-meal exercises so that they would have more strength to wait and avoid stomachaches due to strenuous exercise after a full meal. Died for ridiculous reasons.
After the horn sounded, for about an hour, with the beating of cowhide drums, heavy and solemn bugles sounded continuously.
One after another, the military camps were opened in phalanxes. After careful counting, there were five phalanxes with 5,000 people in front. These phalanxes were lined up in a row, with only a road in the middle that could accommodate four or five cavalry.
Behind them are two phalanxes of crossbows with 5,000 men. Zhong Yu has captured four of his counties before. From the treasury of those counties and the aristocratic families, he found 5,000 powerful crossbows. He killed his five thousand crossbow troops.
The remaining phalanx is the bow team equipped with iron-tired bows. The maximum range of these two phalanxes is 300 meters, and the effective range is 150 meters.
Zhong Yu, with his two thousand system soldiers and three thousand Hanzhong County veterans, set up a command platform behind the five square formations alone.
As a command post on the battlefield, the high platform is extremely high, equal to the 20-meter-high city wall of CD City. The situation of the battlefield and CD City can be clearly seen.
Seeing those troops arriving on the battlefield, their formations were neatly arranged, waiting for him to give the order to attack, and they could use their lives to win the chance of survival and further glory at any time.
"Attack!" After carefully observing the battlefield for a while, Zhong Yu found that the situation between the enemy and ourselves was pretty good.
Although the cannon fodder on my side were very dissatisfied because I forced them to attack yesterday and many people were killed and injured.
But because of the 20,000-strong supervising team on our side. And their families are all under his control, so they still dare not resist their orders for the time being and can only obey.
"Bang, bang, bang!" As a burst of rapid drumbeats beat, the 5,000 cannon fodder in the first line slowly approached the city wall.
Those cannon fodders had unwillingness and fear on their faces, but the more than 1,000 supervisors standing behind them drew a line behind them.
They were told clearly that if they did not receive orders, anyone who crossed this line would be killed without mercy.
So they had no choice but to walk forward at a very slow pace with reluctance, hoping that the road in front of them was so far that they could walk all morning until the end of this war.
But all this was just a wish after all. After only ten minutes of doing so, the cannon fodder army was within the bow and arrow range of the city wall army.
As the administrative seat of Yizhou, it can be said to be the capital city of Yizhou, ranking first in the entire state.
In order to suppress the entire Yizhou, there will naturally be no shortage of weapons reserves, and there are a total of three thousand bows and crossbows.
This is because there has been no war for many years, and the weapons reserves in the treasury have not been well preserved. A lot of them have been rotted and damaged, and only a fraction of the original value is left.
Three thousand crossbows were allocated to the three thousand guards on the city wall, and the governor did not expect them to be able to hit many targets.
I just hope that they can shoot out all the arrows in their hands and hit as many enemies as they can. It is better than any long-range strike at all.
With a bang, three thousand arrows shot out like rain, a mass of blackness, and the metal arrows sparkled in the sunlight.
There was a whooshing sound, and although their hit rate was not very high, they still took away the lives of hundreds of soldiers. As long as it reaches a certain level of concentration, no matter how low the head is, it can still have a certain effect.
If some people can't imagine the concept of those three thousand arrows falling down, then you can refer to the scene in the movie hero where the Qin army attacked Zhao. The Qin army there was only three thousand people, almost the same as the defenders in the city.
In short, the cannon fodder who saw such a tragic scene for the first time was frightened. Many soldiers stopped moving forward, and some even became paralyzed with fear and fell to the ground. Another person took the opportunity to escape, but was shot to death by the supervising team who had been watching from behind.
Seeing how useless these soldiers were, the supervisors killed hundreds of them in an attempt to force the soldiers to come forward. But he found that the soldiers still refused to move, even if they would rather be killed by their own supervising team, they did not dare to go up.
Seeing the bearish looks of those soldiers, Zhong Yu understood that if the supervising team continued to kill, it would probably cause a mutiny and eventually trigger the defection of those soldiers.
After all, many of those soldiers were strong men who were forced by me. Although I took good care of their lives during this period, it was still impossible to make them grateful to me for letting them go to the battlefield.
Asking the supervising team to stop what they were doing, Zhong Yu asked the two crossbow phalanxes at the rear to slowly move forward and stop two hundred meters away from the city wall.
After some training, they are much better than the rookies on the city wall. At least their accuracy is not very accurate, but they can still understand the general direction.
Under the intensive shooting of the army formation, there is no need for a long aiming head, as long as there is a rough direction.
When the time comes, under the overwhelming rain of arrows, no matter where the enemies are hiding, he will have nowhere to escape. He can only be pierced by thousands of arrows and die a very aggrieved death.
(End of chapter)