Seeing those crossbows pushing to the river one by one, Yi twitched his cheeks and couldn't help but want to curse people. Novels.

This is an extremely sinister move.

No matter what kind of crossbow, it has a certain range. The further you shoot, the smaller the power. Even a ten-stone crossbow with a range of 400 steps, the most lethal range will not exceed 200 steps. The lethality will drop rapidly after more than 200 steps. Two hundred steps can break a thick and reinforced large shield, and three hundred steps can only break an ordinary shield. Even ordinary shields cannot be broken outside 300 steps, and can only attack people without heavy armor protection.

He asked the front army to retreat a hundred steps in order to avoid the maximum range of these crossbows and maintain long-range strike capabilities on the water surface. When Sun Ce's infantry crossed the river, the crossbowmen could still maintain suppression. Even if Sun Ce sent soldiers holding large shields to fight, he could compress them to the river. Even if Sun Ce pushed the powerful crossbows to the river, he would not play any role in the melee between the two armies, so as not to accidentally hurt their soldiers.

But Sun Ce still did this, which shows that he had other intentions: forcing his central army to retreat. He set up a formation in the river, and the crossbows were only about two hundred steps away from him, and the large shields he prepared could not protect him. The retreat of the central army would not affect his command of the battle, but would affect morale, especially the place where he was located was an earth slope. Once he retreated, he would be behind the earth slope, across the slope from his front army.

The battlefield was chosen by Sun Ce, so Yi had enough reason to believe that this was the plan of Sun Ce. Although it was a small way to not be on the table and could not decide the outcome, it could disgust him, make him very uncomfortable and discourage his morale.

He can never retreat, but in this way, he will become the target of the crossbow.

Yi smiled bitterly. I have heard that Fuchun Sun family was a merchant, and Sun Ce was good at calculating and indeed well-known. Sun Ce used his talent in doing business on the battlefield and was very careful in every step. Although he had a powerful Jizhou crossbowman, he did not have a killing weapon like a crossbow. Sun Ce seized this advantage and exerted the power of the crossbow to the fullest, pressing him step by step, not missing any opportunity.

He accumulates small victory to big victory. He wants to defeat me with a dignified formation. Yi guessed Sun Ce’s thoughts and was angry and happy. What he was angry was that Sun Ce was arrogant and aggressive, and what he was happy was that he met a strong enemy. He was also such a person, caring about details very much and did not miss any opportunity to attack his opponent. He fought for many years and rarely met an opponent. Today, he met a rising star, and he couldn’t help but feel happy and his fighting spirit was even stronger.

Yi Lu thought about it and ordered a large shield to be placed in front of the earth slope, and two shields were stacked forward and backward to strengthen protection, and the spearman and the crossbowman were strong behind. He then ordered the cavalry to set up a formation of three hundred steps on the left side of the earth slope to prepare for an assault. Sun Ce's ultimate goal was to cross the river. Although the crossbow chariot had a long range, it was unlikely that it would cross the river first, and could only suppress it on the other side of the river. The only ones who crossed the river would be the infantry, infantry set up a formation, cover the crossbowman to cross the river, establish a crossbow position, and then cover the main force to cross the river.

Since long-range strike forces cannot gain an advantage, Yi decided to give full play to his cavalry assault advantage. When Sun Ce's infantry crossed the river, he used cavalry to assault. He used cavalry assaults to deal with such infantry with limited numbers and no solid position to rely on, the cavalry assault has the strongest lethality.

Yi stood on the slope, mobilizing troops and dispatching generals, while looking at Sun Ce on the opposite side, with his heart full of expectations. It is not easy for infantry to defeat cavalry, otherwise he would not have become famous all over the world. He really wanted to see if the Wu Meng, under Sun Ce's command, had such strength.

Sun Ce grinned, a little regretful. Yi is an old world and is not so easy to be scared away. Looking at this formation of retreat as an advance, Yi obviously did not admit defeat, and he also wanted to counterattack and win a game. This is both a bad thing and a good thing. The bad thing is that this move is indeed tricky and difficult to deal with, and you will suffer a big loss if you are not careful. Good thing is that using step to break the cavalry is Yi's famous skill. If you can win another game, your confidence in Yi will still be better than the Arrow Formation.

However, the situation in front of him is not ideal, but it can be described as stern. In the battle between Jieqiao, Yi was able to defeat the cavalry with his footsteps. First, his Xiliang infantry was experienced and did not panic at the battle, and second, he had thousands of powerful crossbows to help. Jizhou crossbowmen were very famous. As early as the Han Fu era, there were tens of thousands of powerful crossbows, and powerful crossbows were a powerful weapon to deal with cavalry. Now that he was lined up across the water, he could not send the powerful crossbows to the other side of the river first. Infantry could only fight against the cavalry if the strong crossbows were insufficient, and the pressure was greater.

However, for Sun Ce, this situation was expected. The Military Strategy Office studied Yi's combat habits in detail, and based on the actual terrain and the combat power of both sides, he knew that Yi would do this and also studied the corresponding tactics.

The crossbow chariot sets up the formation on the river is a key step.

Sun Ce ordered that all hundred crossbows be arranged on the right side of the position, lined up along the river bank, and the cavalry arranged on the east side of the earth slope were replaced with cluster arrows. These cluster arrows were set in a group of twenty arrows, installed in a copper tube of appropriate size, and after being shot, they would spread out in the air due to the wind resistance. The formation of the cavalry was not as dense as that of infantrymen, and the speed was fast. Although the lethality of the giant arrows was strong, the hit rate was too low, so it was better to kill if replaced with this cluster arrow.

The Huns were relatively simple in equipment, and many of them were still leather armored. They would be injured when they were shot by arrows. In the face of such cluster arrows, no matter whether they were a man or a horse, as long as they were within the coverage area, they would be shot at least three or five arrows, and they might even be shot into hedgehogs at once. Not to mention humans, even if they were war horses, they would be killed immediately after hitting so many arrows at once.

Cavalry charge requires speed and smooth formation. The most worrying thing is that companions fall and interfere with the formation. If dozens of horses are killed by arrows at the same time, the charge formation will be interrupted and the power will be lost.

There were many people and great power. Three cobblers were there to Zhuge Liang, not to mention that there was a Zhuge Liang who was just a fake one around him. Under Guo Jia's coordination, Zhuge Liang and more than 20 military strategists came up with too many ways to deal with Yi. Like powerful weapons, they were Sun Ce's biggest reliance on defeating Yi, and he tried his best to surprise Yi.

Under the cover of crossbowmen, the baggage battalion stepped forward to build a floating bridge. In the unit of curves, the baggage battalion craftsmen worked at four locations at the same time, fifty steps apart. Hundreds of large trucks were pulled over by yellow oxen. The carts were filled with tied bamboo poles, and bamboo poles were tied on both sides. They were huge, like a hill. The coachmen led the scalpers and turned around by the river, slowly putting the big trucks into the water using the slope of the river bank, and then connected dozens of large trucks to head and tail, hooked them together with iron hooks.

A soldier stepped forward and tied two ropes firmly to the car. The other end of the rope passed through the iron ring at the tail of a giant arrow and tied it to the wooden frame dragged by the yellow cow. The giant arrow was loaded on the crossbow cart. The archer pulled the crossbow cart. The crossbow cart "buzzed" with a muffled sound. The giant arrow flew across the Longyuan Water and went straight to the other side, deep into the soil, leaving only an iron ring exposed outside.

The giant arrow was anchored, and the driver on the other side waved his whip and drove the scalper forward. The rope was tightened, and dozens of large vehicles slid into the water one by one, quickly moving forward. A floating bridge appeared in front of everyone in a blink of an eye.
Chapter completed!