The two armies led by the Grand Marshal Li Rong and Xiao Hunhou have already come on the field, standing on both sides of the Grand Collegiate Field, facing each other from afar.

Simulating military exercises, of course, it is impossible to shoot each other directly to kill opponents.

Therefore, they also prepared two simple wooden dolls of the same number, wooden horses and wooden horse carriages, putting them in armor and leather armor, completely imitating the army on both sides.

In other words, the lethality of bows and swords of both armies, and the amount of damage caused by attacking the puppets, is considered to be their effective killing of the enemy.

On the battle stand.

Cai and the eunuch stood next to Emperor Xiang Yanran and announced the exercise rules.

"Marquis Xiaohun fights against Grand Marshal Li Rong."

"The rules of the battlefield are as follows:"

"The death rate of one tenth will trigger a fleeing. After the fleeing, if you gather again, you can fight again."

"Famous generals can bring momentum and morale bonuses, and the death rate reaches two-tenths before triggering a fugitive. After the fugitive, they can gather and fight again. It is considered a small defeat! Grand Marshal Li Rong is my Great Chu God of War, which is in line with the famous general."

"Famous army brings morale bonus, and the death rate reaches 30% to trigger a fleeing. It is considered a great defeat. The Li family soldiers are famous soldiers of our Great Chu Dynasty, which are in line with the famous army."

"More than half of the casualties triggered the entire army to escape, and it was determined to be completely defeated."

"Mr. Xiao Hunhou, do you have any objections?"

Cai and the eunuch asked Chu Tianxiu, "If arbitration is needed, you can submit it at any time!"

Chu Tianxiu nodded and expressed his agreement with these rules.

"Son-in-law, this matchup is extremely unfavorable to you. Let's do this, my father-in-law, let you take three rounds first! Give you the opportunity to use your newly come up with a chance to use your new tactic!"

Li Rongqi smiled faintly on the tall horse.

"Son-in-law, just let the horse come over! I promise not to fight back."

"The opportunities are limited, so cherish them! After three rounds, we will strike back!"

The children of the Li family army immediately laughed.

The Danyang Army opposite was silent.

They were originally a group of miners, so they only trained for two months according to Xiao Hunhou's training method and had almost never been on the battlefield.

If you want to talk about faith or something, there is no such thing as this.

The only thing they can do is follow the command of Xiao Hunhou. They will do whatever they do and think about anything else.

He said he would move forward, he would turn around, he would stop, he would shoot, he would fight with a bayonet... The orders would be prohibited.

Things like victory or defeat are not what they need to consider.

"Thank you, my father-in-law. If I asked me to take action first, then this exercise would be meaningless. Let's fight according to the normal encounter! Just treat it as two strange troops meeting and suddenly start a war!"

Chu Tianxiu waved his hand.

The Grand Marshal Li Rong nodded lightly.

Since Xiaohunhou doesn't need him to give in, then you don't have to be polite.

Fight according to normal encounters.

"Simulation military exercises begin!"

Cai and the eunuch said loudly.

The field of the Military and Military University College was in a state of solemnity.

At noon, under the scorching sun, the two armies were two hundred steps apart, looking at each other silently.

To both of them, the other party was quite unfamiliar with them and had never fought each other.

The Grand Marshal Li Rong narrowed his eyes and carefully looked at the army of the hundred-man infantry chariots of Xiaohunhou.

Judging from his battle-hardened perspective, the army was extremely silent this time, without any anxiety or restlessness, and stood very neatly, making it a good army.

Of course, it is not for no reason that Xiao Hunhou dares to challenge himself.

gunpowder!

This is a very powerful weapon developed by Xiao Hunhou before.

The Taiwei Mansion is also developing new gunpowder weapons, and the only product now is the gunpowder pack.

A few pounds of medicine bags filled with iron thorns.

Once the explosive pack explodes, it will cover a piece of it instantly... about ten steps, and the armor will not exist, so it will definitely be seriously injured.

More than ten steps away, this is much less powerful.

Thirty steps away, there is basically no power.

The infantry threw a gunpowder bag with their arms, which was only more than ten steps away, and it was impossible to go any further!

Therefore, one of the biggest weaknesses of this gunpowder pack is that the attack distance is too close and it is difficult to project to far away.

Unless, use equipment such as a trencher...

However, these equipment were too bulky and even difficult to keep up with the speed of infantry travel, let alone cavalry, which had been eliminated long ago.

A trencher can't hit someone at all.

Only when attacking a city will such siege equipment be temporarily made to attack unmovable city targets.

The range of light cavalry bows and arrows is beyond a hundred steps, and they have the absolute advantage of long-range attacks.

Xiao Hunhou had to rely on gunpowder packs to threaten the light cavalry hundreds of steps away, which was almost impossible. It could only be used for defense and close self-defense.

The speed of the infantry is simply impossible to catch up with the cavalry and throw gunpowder bags at close range.

Li Rong thought for a while and ordered: "A hundred steps away, a round of arrows, a volley! Arrows a hundred steps away harass them, hindering the enemy's formation and forcing them to move."

"yes!"

The Li family members rushed up one after another and quickly approached the Danyang army a hundred steps away.

Xiaohunhou waved the flag, and the Danyang army immediately set up a formation.

Ten chariots were used as horses to form a defensive formation of a carriage. The soldiers held "steel tubes" in hand and guarded behind the chariots.

It is impossible for the cavalry to charge directly and break through the infantry's chariot formation.

The Li family army immediately drew their bows and shot arrows.

Swish~!

Hundreds of armor-breaking arrows shot out, shooting towards the puppet man who was imaginary enemies.

Then there was a scattered loud noise.

Cai and the eunuch hurriedly took ten young eunuchs and ran over to watch the wounds of puppets, wooden chariots and wooden horses.

Count the damages.

But he was shocked to find that these armor-breaking arrows shot on hundreds of puppets wearing steel armor, almost all of which had no penetration effect.

A hundred arrows were all blocked by steel armor. A very few of them hit the gap in the steel armor and injured their arm.

Naturally, Xiao Hunhou, the commander of Danyang Army who was hiding in the chariot, was protected by a thick layer of steel plates on the four walls of the carriage, and was even safe and sound, and there was no possibility of any damage.

Cai and the eunuch were extremely surprised and shook their heads and whispered loudly: "The battle damage was determined. The Li family army failed to shoot through the armor in a round of volleys. The Danyang army was slightly injured and did not die! The attack effect was minimal."

"This, how is this possible?!"

In the stands.

The emperor was shocked.

The military generals, the teachers and students of the military academy were all shocked and looked at each other in shock.

The Li family army used armor-piercing arrows, which were enough to pierce leather armor and slightly inferior iron armor.

If there were no armor, at least twenty or thirty people would be seriously injured in this round of volleys, and the enemy was hit head-on, and the entire army immediately collapsed, fled, and was ruthlessly hunted.

How come the armor of the Danyang soldier is so defensive?!

There were only two people who were slightly injured?

Some generals even suspected that Xiao Hunhou had bribed the eunuch and cheated, so they ran to the colonel's field to check it out. They were shocked to see that there was indeed no armor-piercing arrow that shot through the steel armor.

Li Rong frowned deeply.

Arrow attack is invalid!

Could it be that Xiao Hunhou’s intention was to force him to fight in close combat?

Use light cavalry to attack infantry fighting chariots?!

Then the infantry chariot threw gunpowder packs to injure the light cavalry?

...

Chu Tianxiu expected this result.

The kinetic energy of the bow and arrow is actually very low, with only two hundred tsukes of energy.
To be continued...