"Play steadily and advance step by step!"

"Come here, send an order to Cen Bao, a thousand-man general, and ask him to clear the obstacles along the way! ... Tell him that killing a few more Korean soldiers is meaningless. The top priority is to push our army's tortoise-shell carts over. If he continues to be so hot-headed,

If he forgets his responsibilities, I will remove him from the post of Thousand-Man General!"

On the left flank of the Wei army on the battlefield in the middle, "Gan Mao", a three-thousand-man general of the merchant navy of the state of Wei who was born in Qi, gave the order with a serious face.

"yes!"

The messenger held up his shield and rushed forward against the flying arrows in the sky.

A moment later, after receiving Gan Mao's stern warning, the thousand-man general Cen Bao became much more at ease. While resisting the Korean army's offensive, he cleaned up the corpses on the surrounding battlefields and opened a passage for the turtle convoy.

A turtle-shell chariot, as its name suggests, is a chariot with an indestructible defensive capability like a turtle shell. Even if a knife falls from the sky, it will be difficult to penetrate the knuckle-thick iron wall of this chariot, and its attack method is a combat weapon.

The crossbowmen inside the car - the Wei soldiers were hiding in the car and shooting out through the shooting holes.

It is worth mentioning that after being improved by the Smelting Bureau, this tank itself has the performance of a small fortress and can shoot in all directions through the shooting holes. Of course, under normal circumstances, the Wei soldiers in the vehicle will shoot from

The shooting holes on the other three sides are closed internally, and only one side is shot.

It is no exaggeration to say that this kind of tortoise-shell vehicle with iron-wall-like defensive capabilities will be extremely useful as long as it is pushed into the enemy's formation - because ordinary soldiers will not be able to deal with such a heavy tortoise-shell vehicle.

There is absolutely no way.

Of course, everything has pros and cons. The turtle car also has its fatal weakness, that is, its maneuverability is not much faster than a turtle can crawl. What's more terrible is that it relies very much on flat ground. If there is a slight obstacle in front, it can make it move.

This kind of tank cannot move forward.

Just like at this moment, the corpses of the soldiers from both sides who died in the battle were blocking the path of these tortoise-shell chariots, forcing Gan Mao to slow down his offensive against the Korean army and order his thousands of men to remove the obstacles.

But unfortunately, the effect is not good.

"...Although the tortoise-shell chariot is indestructible and has far better defense than the Wugang chariot, its mobility is really annoying."

Seeing that his turtle car was unable to move forward due to the bodies on the ground in front of it, Gan Mao became very anxious.

He must admit that each tortoise-shell vehicle is actually a small fortress. As long as it is pushed to the front line of the battlefield, even if the battlefield is temporarily occupied by the enemy, the enemy soldiers will have nothing to do with this type of tank unless they gather many

People, use brute force to turn the chariot over, and then kill the Wei soldiers inside.

Therefore, the life safety of the Wei soldiers in the turtle-shell chariot is best guaranteed. It is no exaggeration to say that on the battlefield at this moment, these Wei soldiers inside the turtle-shell chariot are the safest, because no one can break through.

The iron walls of this chariot.

In comparison, even the Wugang Chariot with the same outstanding defensive capabilities cannot be as invulnerable as the Turtle Armor Chariot.

But in contrast, Wugang chariots can directly crush corpses and pass by, but heavy turtle-shell chariots cannot do this - they cannot advance to the front, and this kind of chariots are purely decorations.

No, Gan Mao's current evaluation of the tortoise-shell chariot is as useless: just abandon it, this kind of chariot can really work wonders; but if it is put into use, this kind of chariot's extremely slow speed, and its impact on flat ground

Dependence made Gan Mao wish he could immediately replace it with a Wugang chariot.

Fortunately, this war has lasted for more than twenty days, and Gan Mao has gradually adapted to his anxiety about the tortoise-shell chariot, forcing himself to think on the bright side: Although the propulsion capability of this chariot is really annoying, but on the contrary

Come over and say, with this kind of chariot in front, the Korean army can't attack it. This can be regarded as invincible, right?

Thinking this way, Gan Mao's mood improved a lot.

He focused his attention from the tortoise-shell vehicle in front to the Korean military position further ahead.

His opponent was the Korean general "Tian Ling", one of the former defenders of Mengmen Pass in South Korea. Gan Mao had never heard of this man's reputation before, but after dealing with them for more than twenty days,

, Gan Mao had long realized that Tian Ling opposite him, even if he could not be called a brave general, was definitely a steady and reliable general.

Looking at the rows and rows of antlers and horses in front of the Korean army's position, they were so dense that Gan Mao felt a little desperate: How the hell is he going to let his tortoise-shell vehicles advance?!

"South Korea...is it so powerful?"

Maybe it was because he was unable to advance for the time being, or maybe because he had gained some experience from fighting against the Korean army on the opposite side these days, Gan Mao thought secretly in his heart.

As the former commander-in-chief of the Donglai Army of the Qi State, Gan Mao's former opponents were just the "Dongyi" rebels living in the Donglai County area. To put it bluntly, they were a group of alien bandits who made a living by robbing the people of the Donglai County of the Qi State.

These alien bandits neither understood the art of war in the Central Plains nor had the best weapons and equipment. They were no match for the elite Donglai Army of Qi. Perhaps it was for this reason that Gan Mao became so arrogant.

Of course, a big reason is that the Qi State was indeed powerful at that time. The Chu State over there did not dare to invade Qi for thirty years, and South Korea in the north originally wanted to compete with Qi State for supremacy. After the death of King Jian of Han, it seemed that

It has been weakened a lot. At least in these years, the only Han generals Qi has to be wary of are Julu guarding Yanjue. In addition, like Yanmen guarding Li Mu and Beiyan guarding Leyi, many Qi people may even follow

Never heard of it.

Perhaps because of this, many Qi people have gradually developed the arrogant mentality of "Although the Central Plains is huge, I am the only one who dominates Qi". Even South Korea and Qi people do not look down upon it.

But this time, after personally experiencing the strength and tenacity of the Korean army, Gan Mao realized that South Korea was far more powerful than he had imagined.

Just like in the current war, regardless of whether the Wei or Han armies are replaced by Qi's army, I am afraid that Qi's army has already fallen into a disadvantage.

A war raged for more than 20 days, with the number of casualties on both sides reaching almost 50,000. Under such circumstances, the soldiers of the Wei and Korean armies still fought bravely on the battlefield with high morale. There were almost no deserters, and even

Gan Mao felt incredible.

You must know that the casualty rate of South Korea's Shangshui Army is close to 30%, while the casualty rate of South Korea's Beiyan Army is close to 40%. For other ordinary armies, this is already a critical line that is enough to cause the entire army to collapse.

However, in his eyes, the Shang Shui Army and the Northern Yan Army not only showed no signs of collapse, but the soldiers seemed to have been inspired by blood, becoming more violent and brave than before.

For example, the special thousand-man generals Ran Teng, Xiang Li, Zhang Ming and others in the middle route lost almost half of the three thousand soldiers under their respective command. However, in this case, these three generals and the soldiers under their command,

Still fighting bravely at the forefront

When it comes to killing the enemy, if one's strengths and weaknesses on the battlefield at this moment will directly affect the victory of the entire war, then it must be the three generals Ran Teng, Xiang Li, and Zhang Ming, not Gan Mao and Tian Ling who have been in a stalemate for a long time.

This pair of opponents is here.

It is for this reason that when Gan Mao was commanding the battle, he frequently paid attention to the middle to see if Ran Teng, Xiang Li, Zhang Ming and others had an advantage - anyway, he encountered a Korean general named Tian Ling who had a perfect defense.

It is difficult to gain any advantage.

Unless he, the Wei army's main formation, mobilizes more than a hundred crossbow chariots.

"Speaking of which...our army's crossbow tanks have done nothing so far."

Thinking of the Liennu chariot, Gan Mao once again thought of the question that had troubled him for many days: Why did the Crown Prince hide the Liennu chariot instead of using it?

Gan Mao knew that he actually had at least 300 repeating crossbow chariots in his army, but only about 100 were placed in the stronghold built by Generals Chen Xie and Xu Jiong, and there were still about 200 repeating crossbow chariots.

The car made no movement at this position.

It is obviously the sharpest blade of his Wei army, but he hides it and does not use it. Is there some mystery in this?

"...Are you guarding against the Shimandai-gun's heavy cavalry?"

Gan Mao nodded thoughtfully, thinking he had guessed the truth.

In fact, he was not the only one who thought so. I believe that most of the generals in the Wei army believed that Prince Zhao Run hid the two hundred crossbow chariots just to be wary of the Korean army's 40,000 generations of heavy cavalry.

Even the generals on the opposite side of the Korean army had corresponding thoughts.

Just like Le Yi, the coach of the Korean Army this time.

Le Yi had long heard about the power of Wei's machine-gun repeating crossbows - Bao Yuan had suffered great losses at the hands of this machine-gun repeater and was almost killed on the spot. He told the court after returning to Handan.

It is worth mentioning that South Korea originally wanted to imitate it, just like they imitated Wei's Wugang chariot. But unfortunately, the technical content of Wei's machine-operated crossbow was so high that it could be copied at a glance like Wugang chariot.

Are things comparable?

Unsurprisingly, without drawings, the Korean craftsmen tinkered for a long time without coming up with any clues, and finally gave up.

"...The repeating crossbows are reserved, obviously to deal with our heavy cavalry..."

Taking a long breath, Han Jiang Leyi looked at the battlefield hesitantly.

In fact, he also understood that the Beiyan Army under his command could no longer hold up.

The death rate is over 30%, which is actually not a big problem. The key lies in the remaining 70% of the surviving soldiers of the Northern Yan Army. Due to the fact that they have taken turns to fight these days, almost all of them are injured. This has caused the combat effectiveness of the Northern Yan Army to drop by more than one level.

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Of course, the Shang Shui Army on the opposite side is not much better than them, but the problem is that the Shang Shui Army is an army of 50,000 people, while the Beiyan Army is an army of 30,000 people. Even if the actual number and establishment of both sides are slightly different,

There are discrepancies, and there is also a gap of 20,000 people.

With the shortfall of 20,000 men, Le Yi was so helpless that in the last confrontation, he had no choice but to invest in the new army at the last moment.

This move may have made Wei Jun aware of the fatigue of his Korean army.

In fact, having said that, Le Yi had another option at that time, which was to send the Wu'an Army led by General Zhao Cong, which was the last elite force reserved to defend Handan under the former Wu'an Shou Zhu Man. The number was about 15,000 to 15,000.

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But at that time, Le Yisi thought about it for a long time and finally gave up.

The reason is very simple: when Sima Shang's heavy cavalry appears, there must be an elite and energetic infantry nearby to assist in the battle, so as to achieve maximum damage to the Wei army.

But the most fundamental question, that is, when to dispatch Daijun's heavy cavalry, even a famous general like Le Yi, who has experienced hundreds of battles, is still hesitant.

"...We can't delay it any longer."

Le Yi tightened his grip on the reins and thought to himself.

He knew very well that if the delay continued until the Beiyan army under his command was unable to fight anymore, then the Wu'an army, which was only 10,000 to 20,000 people, would not be able to simultaneously "delay the Wei army to buy time for Daijun's heavy cavalry to re-equip" and

The two tasks of "assisting Daijun's heavy cavalry to severely injure the Wei army" mean that if this war still requires the 40,000 Daijun's heavy cavalry to save some situations, now is the last chance.

"If there are only more than two hundred automatic repeating crossbows..."
To be continued...