The rush cart was born out of the daily carriages used to carry goods in the city, but it changed its shape to be more suitable for use in war.
It is one foot wide and two feet long. The hood is seven feet high. It has a pointed head and a flat tail. The whole body is covered with iron sheets. The head is made of solid pure iron. Sharp blades running through the head are cast on it. The whole car looks like an enlarged rib. prick.
The iron sheet of the charging car is driven by the formation. The heavy car body cannot last long regardless of human or animal power, but it consumes a lot of spiritual stones, so this kind of formation-driven car can only be used by the military at present. Even from the wealthy families outside, it is rare to see such cars. The cost is high, transporting goods is not cost-effective, and transporting people is unnecessary.
In addition, there is a magic circle on the iron sheet of the ram car to solidify it, and there are six people in the car moving with the car. These six people will use the magic circle on the car body to generate basic spells to attack close enemies on both sides of the ram car. Relying on the heavy iron sheet of the car to protect yourself.
The internal structure of the rush car, the connection between the magic circles inside and outside the car, and the erection pattern of the central control magic circle are all top secrets in the military.
It is not easy to make a ram, which is half a magic weapon and half a mechanism. Zuo Yuliang gathered all the rams in the entire frontier army. He was not willing to use them in the last war, and in early August From the beginning, 300 units were transferred from the pass one after another.
The thing about car rushing is to pay attention to "many". One or two units are not that useful. Only when they are taken out in groups can the tyranny of car rushing be shown.
Especially for the flat terrain on the Baekdu Gorge and the scenes of large armies fighting and rushing into battle, charging cars is a powerful tool to break the situation.
Following the flag officer's wave, soon, huge iron "monsters" began to rush out of the continuous military array and reached the front of the array.
If you observe carefully, you will find that the charging cars are all advancing side by side. The distance between each one will not exceed ten feet, and they are not lined up in a row, but will be staggered forward and backward.
In these areas intersected by rush vehicles, there will be no soldiers standing in the middle. The soldiers began to change their formations in an orderly manner according to the greetings of their respective commanders and commanders, with the protruding ram as the head and closely following in a fan shape.
It seems a bit long to say, but in fact, after the drum beat for more than a hundred times, the first array that had been fighting the barbarians had already retreated, and the original second array had completed the change to the charging formation and took over the retreating third array. The first formation then became the first formation, and started the style of rushing and breaking the formation.
The best way to destroy a ram is to destroy it from a distance. It can be a giant catapult, a special bed crossbow blessed with a magic circle, or a monk's piercing spell. It is a pity that these methods are relatively lacking for the barbarians, not to mention that the barbarians who have been conquered by the Jing Dynasty for more than 40 years now have extremely few means to resist the rush.
Barbarians are basically physical cultivators, physically strong and like to fight at close range. To deal with rams, they also need to get close. However, this makes them easy to be attacked by the basic spells between the rams, and they are also easy to be attacked by the Jingjun monks who follow the rams. Interception. If they are stopped in the Jingjun military formation, it is impossible for physical practitioners below the Yuan Dan realm to escape alive, because the Qi Refining Realm monks in the military formation who hold talismans such as the Thunder Control Talisman can rely on Fu Lu smashed him to death.
Of course, the barbarians are not just stupidly waiting for the charging car to come over and tear themselves into pieces. Although they do not have the most effective way to destroy the charging car, they still have some simple methods.
For example, if you dig a trench behind your own array, a trench half a foot deep and two feet wide can just enough to trap a rush car. Although the ditch cannot be eliminated once and for all, and will be filled up by the Jing army that follows, it can at least effectively delay the cutting and squeezing of one's own military formation by buffer vehicles.
If you bury kerosene and firewood in a deep ditch and ignite it once the car falls down, the people in the car may not have time to escape, and the car will be burned.
On Jingjun's side, the Five Elements Earth monks followed behind the chariot. When they saw the pit, they went up and erected a few stone pillars in the pit. They could barely avoid the chariot from such deep pits, but not every time. It's all in time, especially the deep pits with camouflage on the surface, which are basically difficult to detect in advance.
However, the effect of rushing the car is not how many enemies it can kill, but the power of suppressing the enemy. Whether the barbarians dig holes or use monks to break through, they will inevitably change the original military formation system. This gives a large number of infantry following the charging car space to display, which can steadily encroach on the barbarian front line and force the opponent to take the initiative to press forward with the entire army. Accelerate into the decisive battle.
Zuo Yuliang's use of troops in the two battles before and after highlighted one word: forcing.
Time waits for no one. Zuo Yuliang does not want to rely on dragging tactics to win this national war. He prefers a "wild victory" or a "big victory." However, the barbarians have always maintained a distant confrontation and are unwilling to start a decisive battle. Therefore, Zuo Yuliang saw the right opportunity. When the barbarians were not completely unified, they suddenly pressed heavily on Baotou Gorge. He wanted to use Baitou Gorge, the most important food producing area of the barbarians, as a bargaining chip to force the barbarians to face a decisive battle.
Things look pretty good now. Although the emperor had an order to seize the Baektu Gorge front line before the end of August, Zuo Yuliang still delayed the deployment until the last moment, just to ensure that nothing went wrong. On the one hand, what he was waiting for was the follow-up troops, and on the other hand, these hundreds of units Rush the car.
Just after noon, the first array completed the order given by Zuo Yuliang to advance fifteen miles, but at the cost of more than seventy assault vehicles being damaged.
"Beat the drum, rush the car and retreat. After the military formation changes, continue to support me. Tell Shen Wanlin to put more pressure on him. There are still too many barbarians on the front."
According to Zuo Yuliang's estimate, the barbarian troops on the opposite side would not exceed 300,000. This is calculated based on the maximum number of people the barbarians can carry in their current extreme supply state. He is going to kill at least 100,000 people in this decisive battle at Baekdu Gorge! The battle losses on one's side must be controlled within 50,000 yuan.
Zuo Yuliang's idea is very simple, that is, to eliminate as many effective forces of the barbarians as possible. In this case, no matter who leads the royal court established behind the barbarians, it will only be a weak royal court with an empty appearance. There are huge advantages to take advantage of when entering the later stages of the war.
Therefore, at last night's military strategy meeting, Zuo Yuliang clearly ordered the troops under his command not to just focus on the immediate casualties, but to focus on the overall direction of the war. The implication is that he has been reminded that today's battle will be extremely tragic.
Jing Jun continued to rotate attacks according to the echelon, and from time to time he would send the charging car up again to continue to press forward. The rotation rhythm and timing are extremely subtle, and if there is a slight mistake, the barbarians will easily be able to counterattack. But until Xu Shi, Zuo Yuliang did not reveal a single flaw to the barbarians despite six hours of high-intensity fighting.
By the time of Xu Zheng, the entire front had advanced twenty-six miles. And Zuo Yuliang did not withdraw his troops, but issued an order to start a fire on the spot...
