Facing the speeding cavalry, even the Song army officers and soldiers hiding behind the deep trench still felt a sense of fear and couldn't help but hold the weapons in their hands tightly. The enemy cavalry came and went like the wind, and they would rush into the formation unexpectedly, rushing wildly, killing, making you unable to escape, and you could not escape, either die under the iron hooves or die under the scimitar. The tragic situation of flesh and blood flying, wolf running and pig escaping, which is called a feeling that every day is not effective, and no one has ever experienced it will never forget.

"The crossbow cannon is ready, and the enemy cavalry enters the range and shoots immediately; the archers are ready to intercept the enemy cavalry near the trench!" Zhuang Siqi watched the enemy cavalry rolling up dust in the sky, but he also knew that the trench four meters wide was not something that war horses could jump through, and the firewood on the horse's back indicated that their goal was to fill a way.

However, Zhuang Siqi soon realized that his idea of ​​blocking the enemy cavalry with dense arrows was dashed, and the enemy cavalry scattered far beyond the range of the crossbow cannon. Although the crossbow cannon cannons cannons adjust the angle, they are not so flexible, and the cavalry moves fast. Even if one is shot, they cannot aim at the second one in time, unless there are enough crossbow cannons, but that is simply impossible.

The archers have better results, but they are also unsatisfactory. After all, only shooting a few enemy cavalry at a time is too cost-effective. Most of the enemy cavalry not only survived, but also successfully threw firewood into the trench and returned successfully. After sending off this group, the ones behind came again, and it was endless. Under this situation, the trench will be filled in no time.

"Idiot, immediately use flowering bullets to intercept the enemy's gathering ground, and draw the sharpshooter to shoot the enemy cavalry near the trench. Wouldn't this beating be used to kill the mosquitoes?" Zhao Bing, who was watching the battle at the top of the city, saw it from beginning to end. Seeing this, he couldn't help but stand up and shout anxiously.

"Your Majesty, don't move around, so as not to be exposed!" The emperor's shouting scared Zhang Shijie and hurriedly blocked him. It turned out that although he was allowed to watch the battle, he quietly went up to the city to avoid attracting local attention and causing unexpected surprises. Because the emperor's watching the battle led to a large-scale attack by the enemy, there were too many examples of the inexhaustible trouble.

"Okay, I'll sit down!" Zhao Bing knew that he was too excited. He finally came out and then "taken" back, so he was not worth it. He hurriedly acted according to the order and sat down honestly.

"Tell the rear army to do as your Majesty's order!" Zhang Shijie also ordered his side to quickly convey His Majesty's order. In fact, he was also an outsider for the application of new weapons such as crossbows. Relatively speaking, the emperor had the most experience, so he adopted his suggestion without hesitation.

Zhao Bing picked up the telescope and looked down at the city. After receiving the order, the rear army immediately changed its combat mode, increased the shooting angle of the crossbow cannons, and the effect was immediately apparent. First, the enemy cavalry had not completely dispersed and the targets were relatively concentrated; second, the crossbow arrows were point-killing, and after the flowering bomb exploded, it would not only produce shock waves, but also produce a large number of shrapnel after the projectile rupture, which would cause serious damage to the weak abdomen of the war horse; second, the war horse was not brave enough. If it had not undergone special training, the loud noise would scare it and jump around and cause greater chaos.

On the other hand, archers group shooting is to increase the density within unit time to increase the hit rate. Therefore, they are all aiming and shooting at a rough target, not requiring targeting a certain target, but rather killing the group target. However, it is different to use sharpshooters to deal with approaching enemy cavalry. This is just like modern snipers accurately shooting a single target, so as to achieve targeted targets, but do not need to wait for the commander's orders, which instead improves the efficiency of killing enemies.

"Oh, it seems that the infantry still lacks practical experience and should have been given some exercise. Otherwise, wouldn't it be a fool to encounter a big battle again?" Zhao Bing saw that although he did not see any immediate results after changing the tactics, he also curbed the enemy's offensive momentum to a certain extent, but he still sighed.

A motto from Zhao Bing's old record means, "As the commander-in-chief, people rely on their own experience or genius. The tactics and science of engineers and artillery officers may be learned from books, but the cultivation of generals can only be achieved through experience and research on the battles of famous generals of all dynasties." After the previous army of the generals arrived in Qiongzhou, they mostly conducted training and did not participate in large-scale offensive and defensive battles. The strength of the navy did not allow the enemy to step on the coast of Qiongzhou, which made most of their practical experience still remain in the past.

The infantry equipped the crossbows on a large scale and arrived in Qiongzhou. As the commander, the rear army with the richest practical experience in the army, is the same. Therefore, although each army can operate crossbows skillfully, its tactical level is not high, especially the officers who lack experience. This resulted in their hands having powerful weapons but not being able to exert their due power. This defect was immediately exposed in the battle, and they could not say that they would provide "on-site guidance" again...

"Your Majesty, right here? You can't look at the overall situation even if you get closer." The city wall is five miles away from the first moat. Although it is helped by a telescope, Zhao Bing still felt that he was not really looking at the battlefield. He must go forward to the front line. Zhang Shijie could not stop the little emperor who was determined to be alone, so he could only accompany him. He walked to a high platform two miles away from the city. It was originally used to set up bibladders to attack the city. At this time, it was just right as a command platform. He blocked His Majesty half of the suggestion and half of the begging.

"Well, that's good!" Zhao Bing looked up and saw that the platform was about three meters high and was higher than the city wall. There was a fort built on it, with a semi-closed bunker, which was just a command post. As Zhang Shijie said, it was too close, but he could not see the entire battle situation clearly. You should know that the formation of a team of tens of thousands would last for several miles, not as small as those arranged on TV and movies. And there were more than ten thousand enemies attacking the city in front of him. If the attack surface was not wide enough, Zhao Bing suspected that tens of thousands of people would be able to level the trenches and even stack the arhats could climb into the city. Fortunately, he had gained knowledge in the past two years, and if he had seen it in his previous life, he would have been unable to walk.

Zhao Bing, with the help of Ni Liang's half-bearing and half-drag, went up the platform. The area was not large but only half the size of a basketball court. There were wooden boards around it, and there was a chest wall and a roof cover. However, there was no problem for 20 or 30 people. As soon as someone came, they arranged two tables and several hu beds, which were the current horses. A personal soldier laid the city defense map of the West City, set up observation posts, arranged flag bearers, and arranged guards. Everything was orderly and not messy at all. Wang De led two close-fitting small yellow doors, and also raised a tea stove to make tea, and placed a few plates of food to satisfy His Majesty's hunger.

Since it was to train the team and increase practical experience, Zhao Bing did not attract everyone to observe, but did not take over the command. Instead, he informed Zhuang Siqi to take over the command of the rear crossbows team and he commanded and cooperated with the defense. He first looked at the configuration of the crossbows position. Zhuang Siqi's arrangement was quite standard. He concentrated the small crossbows belonging to each battalion on the front line, mainly on the left and right wings of the position. The heavy and large crossbows of the military-owned crossbows battalion were arranged in the middle and backwards, and were basically in the shape of a small crossbows, which could deal with enemy groups attacking from the front and support combat on both wings.

"Report to Your Majesty, the contact with the crossbows and artillery teams has been completed and the communication is smooth!" Guan Tongshou reported.

"good!"

"Report to Your Majesty, the enemy cavalry is approaching the corner of the trench in front of the right wing, and shoot with the ranger to suppress my archer!" Guan Tongshou reported again.

"Yeah!" Zhao Bing nodded and turned his gaze to the south side of the battlefield. The defensive fortifications outside the city lasted six miles, with the left wing connected to the North City fortifications and the right wing connected to the South City wing, forming a complete line of defense. However, here is backed by the sea, and the wing city has been destroyed during the siege, thus forming a defensive dead end. It is impossible for the enemy to fill the entire trench, so the attack just now should be a temptation to show the weakness of defense as a breakthrough.

Of course, if the enemy cavalry wants to get close to the trench, first destroy the obstacles in front of the trench so as to open a path for subsequent cavalry to fill the trench. The archers arranged in front of the formation have also become the biggest obstacle for them to get closer. They use the archers to keep going back and forth in front of the formation and shoot and kill the archers sent by the Song army to suppress the archers. When the cruising army is marching, the main task is to explore, reconnaise, and hunt the opponent's scouts; in wartime, they cruis near the battlefield, responsible for covering the safety of the two wings, and act as vanguards to break the formation when the enemy's defense line is loose or when there is a gap.

Because these rangers are responsible for the most dangerous and difficult tasks, they are not as simple as skilled in bows and horses. They are all outstanding archery skills, high equestrian skills, alert and smart, brave in combat, and able to block the elites in the army alone. In addition, the Mongolians are already good at shooting, and they can still shoot arrows and shoot running beasts on the speeding horses. In contrast, the sharpshooters of the Song army are much weaker, and they are difficult to shoot the fast-moving riders, and they are quickly defeated in the shooting, and are so pressed that they cannot raise their heads. The enemy behind them are ready and fill the trenches again after clearing the roadblocks.

"Let the left-wing crossbow cannon group take the right-wing flag as the benchmark, and thirty steps left as the aiming point, fill in two-foot crossbow arrows, with an angle of five points!" Zhao Bing observed for a while, not only frowned, but the rangers often walked away as soon as they reached the formation, and at most they only shot two arrows and would never fight. Using crossbow cannons to deal with these extremely slippery rangers had no time to capture the target, but he soon realized that the rangers' actions seemed irregular, but in fact there were traces to follow.

"Report to Your Majesty, the left-wing artillery group is ready!" After Guantong hand sent the order, he quickly made a signal to complete the shooting preparation.

"Preparation!" Zhao Bingping held the telescope and stared at the ranger on the battlefield. He issued a preparatory command. After receiving the command, the flag bearer immediately raised the red signal flag with his right hand.

"Two consecutive shots, let it go!" After completing a round of attacks, the rangers quickly turned around the horse's head and turned to the northeast, left and turned around after leaving the range of the bow and arrow, and turned left and east at a distance of fifty steps ahead of the Song army formation. At this time, the war horses were parallel to the trench. They immediately fired arrows and then entered the next cycle. Zhao Bing found that they had to slow down the horse when they turned east to avoid falling. At this time, they would have a small crowding, which was the moment when the target was most concentrated. He grabbed the moment and fired the crossbows.

The crossbows arranged horizontally have enough scattering surfaces. The two-foot-long iron crossbow arrows are sufficiently powerful, flying smoothly and have strong penetration power, enough to penetrate the iron armor of the ranger and shoot through the leather vest. The crossbow arrows arrive instantly, and the enemy cavalry is turning and cannot dodge at all. They move fast and have only time to hide in the stirrups, but it is still difficult to block the crossbow arrows. Seven or eight enemy cavalry are shot down. The injured war horse rushed a few steps and then threw the master down, throwing the horse off. Some of the living ones were shot down by the Song army sharpshooter behind the chest wall as soon as they got up.

When the enemy Rangers behind saw that their companions were shot down, they wanted to stop the horse from evading, or turn their heads to go around, but after delaying this time, the god of death came again. The second round of crossbow arrows flew to kill a few more Rangers behind. Other Rangers turned around, dispersed around, and dared to gather after they could not escape from afar. The enemy soldiers who were burying their heads and trapped in the pit were in trouble. After losing the cover of Rangers, they became targets for the archers of the Song army. They were covered by arrow rain and turned into strands of unjust souls.

"Your Majesty is a good method!" Zhang Shijie, who was watching the battle, saw that His Majesty had just done a little dispatch and smashed the enemy's offensive, and couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praise.

"Killing these racists is just the opening scene. You won't give up even if you don't break through the moat. There will be fierce battles today!" Zhao Bing smiled calmly.

"With Your Majesty here, you can't pass the moat!" Zhang Shijie said confidently. Of course, his confidence also comes from this expedition. The little emperor calculated almost every move of the enemy and seized every fleeting opportunity. This expedition can be regarded as a win between fame and fortune.

"Haha, he has to let him live, but he has to pay some price!" Zhao Bing put down the telescope and smiled. He was also surprised that Zhang Shijie was complimenting himself or trying to play with him? But he felt relieved when he thought about it. How could he achieve this position in the Song army with only military achievements?

"Does Your Majesty want to evacuate Quanzhou?" Zhang Shijie asked.

"Well, you have already killed what you should kill, and you have also taken what you should take. If you don't leave, God won't let us go!" Zhao Bing nodded and said.

"Yes!" Zhang Shijie said with a loss, "If we could wait for more than a month, and foreign merchants from all over the country gathered, we would have gained more at that time!"

"The wool needs to be cut one by one. If we even peel the skin, what will we eat in the future!" Zhao Bing said, "Besides, if we don't act like we are fighting and retreating, how can the people believe that we are willing but not capable?"

"Well, Your Majesty's words are reasonable. We cannot break our trust in the people!" Zhang Shijie pondered for a moment and nodded... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!