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Chapter 1495 Conquering the Empire (41)

As the two sides approached, the soldiers of Kate's army with short bows immediately drew their bows to shoot. Unfortunately, not only did no rain of arrows form, but because the shooting time was uneven, it appeared sparse and the shooting range was not enough at all. It was a useless effort.

"When you were riding horses, you were quite accurate, why are you all blind now!"

Seeing this effect, Officer Kate, who was leading the team, immediately understood, and while yelling curses, he gathered the short archers together for unified command.

These short archers are also full of opinions. When I shoot at this distance when riding a horse, I just get into the range when I let go of the bowstring, but who said that I am now an infantry, not only will not move forward but will stop when shooting arrows, so I can’t blame me for not having enough range!
On Zhao Hu's side, the officer gave an order, and the whole army stopped. The archers in the front, middle, back, left, and right immediately shot an arrow. After measuring the range, they immediately called out the password.The archer raises the bow and pulls the string according to the command to shoot. The archer does not need to aim during the whole process, but just obeys the command to raise the bow at an angle, how much strength is used, and finally obeys the command to launch.

Zhao Hujun's archers showed Kite's army well what is called the real rain of arrows.

Arrows were densely packed to one place non-stop. After the arrow rain, there were corpses full of arrows everywhere. If the shield was not big enough, it would be impossible to survive in such a dense arrow rain.

After the rain of arrows, the shield soldiers tapped their shields and stepped forward, followed by spearmen like a forest, and the archers also started shooting freely.

Kate's army, which had withstood several rounds of arrow rain, did not collapse. They had long been used to such blows.Soldiers with lances rushed forward, followed by sabers and short bows.After some lessons from the officers, the shortbowmen learned to be a little smarter, and only started shooting cover after entering the effective range, while the lance and sabermen immediately took the opportunity to charge forward.

The short arrows volleyed, the shield soldiers held up their shields to block, and the spearmen immediately came with Zhao Hujun's best thrust!
The spearman and saberman who were rushing forward felt a pain in their chest and lost consciousness before they could react.

The spearmen of the first row finished their thrusts, and when they drew back their spears, the spearmen of the second row launched their thrusts. When they returned their spears, the third row of spearmen followed closely. The end of the third row was another round for the first row. stab.

Zhao Hujun launched a rolling attack just in contact with the enemy army. The three rows of long spears were like a roller that kept stretching and piercing, slowly rolling towards Kate's army.The place where the roller passed was full of corpses. Occasionally, some tough ones were either killed by sword and shield soldiers hiding in the gun forest, or by those free-firing archers.

Kate and his subordinates stared blankly at the scene in front of them.

For Zhao Hujun, war is like playing a game, it seems so relaxed, casual, and neat, just for a while, Kate's army is like a wave hitting a rock, smashing itself into pieces, but the opponent has no damage .

After each row of pikemen sent out five rounds of thrusts, the pikemen's roller stopped, and the sword and shield soldiers appeared in the front row again, continuing to tap their shields to advance.The pikemen and archers followed up slowly as they had just appeared on the stage.

Seeing this scene, everyone knew that Zhao Hujun was only recovering the pikemen's physical strength. This kind of attack in turn did not consume a lot of mental and physical strength. After walking with the shield soldiers for a while, the pikemen's exhausted mental energy had already recovered. many.

The officer, who was always paying attention to the status of his subordinates, gave another order, and another round of arrows was thrown.

At this moment, even an idiot knows that a new round of spear-roller attacks is coming. With this realization, Kate’s army is divided into two halves on the spot, one half is to repay Kate, the commander-in-chief, for his many years of kindness, and the other half thinks that this is a melee between warlords. His precious life is not worth wasting here, so he turned around and ran away immediately.

The Kate army who had forgotten to attack did not appear to be much superior to their previous companions. Under the irresistible offensive of the spear drum, this half of the Kate army quickly stepped up to the footsteps of their previous companions.

The other half of Kate's army who escaped was also not pleased, and was slashed with knives by the supervisor team behind, so they had to turn around to meet the enemy.

However, death threats are most likely to be replaced by more terrifying death threats. After some people were stabbed to death by the rollers, the Kate army turned back halfway, and their desire to survive once again made them turn to face the supervising team.

For these Kite troops, those stretching and retracting long gun rollers are much more terrifying than the Supervising Team. This time, just as the Supervising Team raised their swords, they were killed by the frightened Kate Army.

When the soldiers of the army are not only not afraid of the supervising team, but dare to kill the supervising team, the army can be said to have collapsed.

Seeing this scene, Kate seemed to be ten years older, and her entire face became dull.

The young general hurriedly came forward to comfort him and said: "Commander, if you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood, and there are tens of thousands of troops in Haiquan Province, which are enough to make a comeback. If the results of this battle are spread, there will be an uproar. The most important thing is to return to Haiquan Province as soon as possible to take charge of the overall situation, after all, there is still a Seventh Prince in Haiquan Province."

Kate, who had been disheartened, cheered up immediately after being stimulated by the young general's words.

Seeing the scene, the young general hurriedly added fire: "Commander, now our army has been defeated, and the rear road is blocked. If it is conspicuous, we will definitely not be able to go back. Why don't we change into soldier costumes and bring a few guards and iron soldiers?" How about Wei leaving alone? As long as there are not many people, we will be safe when it gets dark."

At this time, Kate did not give up on giving up a cavalry division and an elite cavalry brigade, and immediately nodded and said: "I will leave these things to you."

"Yes." The young general beckoned, and the captain of the guard and the captain of the iron guard, who had lost his horse and whose combat power had dropped to the point where he could only become a guard, immediately leaned over.

After a while of whispering, the most elite troops of Kate's army began to escort Kate into the commander's camp. Several officers who were cheering up the defeated Fifth Brigade immediately ordered the Fifth Brigade to go out to attack the enemy. Then he came over with his heels, but was stopped by Tie Wei at the door of the handsome tent.

By the time they forced their way into the tent, Kate, the young general and a group of guards had long since disappeared.

"Damn it! The commander-in-chief has run away, and we are still beating the fart! Surrender!"

Seeing the gun barrel getting closer and closer, the officers lamented that the situation was over, and they had to surrender if they wanted to save their lives.

Although they would definitely be demoted to slavery, the officers had already learned about the treatment of Zhao Hujun's slaves from the Zhao Hujun slave soldiers captured last time, so they were not afraid that they would live a miserable life.It's just a pity that we have to start climbing again.But compared with Xiaoming, this is nothing.

The defeat of the army is like a mountain, which is the scene at this moment.

I saw a group of Kait soldiers kneeling and surrendering, while a group of Kait soldiers fled in all directions.Zhao Hujun didn't bother to pay attention to those fleeing guys. This area has been surrounded by Zhao Hujun. Except for a few lucky ones who escaped across the mountains, everyone else has to obediently wait to be caught.

After Zhao Hujun accepted the surrender of the enemy soldiers, the first thing he did was gather up the sleeping horses. When Kate's army was puzzled, these sleeping horses woke up one after another.Then, Zhao Hujun forcibly oppressed these horses to admit their new masters.

About one brigade of Zhao Hu's infantry turned into cavalry, they didn't show off, and started chasing down those deserters directly in small groups.

The Kite army who surrendered looked dumbfounded at hundreds of civil servants each carrying thousands of labors, and began to move the camp supplies like ants moving house.Looking at the greedy eyes of these guys dressed as civil servants when they counted the supplies, Kate's army even thought that Zhao Hujun set up this trap to rob the horses and supplies of Kate's cavalry division.

As night fell, the Kite army still lived in the camp, but their status became captives. However, the food did not drop but went up. Seeing the pot full of potatoes and beef rice, the captives began to agree with the coming slave status.

And Zhao Hujun didn't take a break, instead he tended to be a workaholic. The soldiers didn't know what they were doing, and anyway, they didn't see a few camped to rest.The civil servants were lighting the lamps to record the list of captives, not to mention the laborers. Judging from their appearance, it seemed that they wanted to move them all in one night.

In the dark night, on a certain mountain road that entered the boundary of Haiquan Province, dozens of figures were walking carefully.

When they walked to a relatively wide place, the moonlight happened to shine through the branches, and it could be seen that the leader of these dozens of people was Zhou Xiang, the slave captain.

Gouwa shrank back and asked: "Sir, at this evening, the captain announced that our army has won a complete victory. After tomorrow, you will be able to become a low-ranking strong warrior. Why do you want to accept the task of blocking the forest?" Mission? It's so dark here, how can we catch the fleeing enemy soldiers?"

"Hey, of course I don't care about this merit, after all, if I want to advance to the next rank, it's impossible to rely solely on first-level merit... The reason why I took this task is because of you guys.

"Most of the people in our team have been promoted to civilian status. Don't you want to go to the next level? You know, as long as you have three points of merit, you can become a Shangmin."

Speaking of this, Zhou Xiang couldn't help feeling proud when he noticed the red light in everyone's eyes.

His subordinates would be grateful to him for their meritorious service, and he could get officer rewards from his subordinates. It was really a good way to achieve multiple goals in one fell swoop, and only he who was so smart could comprehend this method.

But Gouwa's words woke up Zhou Xiang's narcissism: "Sir, come out in the middle of the night to carry out the blockade mission, is it possible to wait until the army is defeated? After all, it is winter now, and no one rushes overnight in the cold night."

(End of this chapter)