Because of the blind spot, the arrows of the Xia army militiamen on the watchtower did not pose any threat to the Zhou army soldiers who smashed the door.
There was nothing they could do about the Zhou soldiers who hid at the foot of the wall.
At this time, a row of halberds suddenly plunged from the air and immediately pierced the heads of a row of Zhou soldiers hiding under the wall.
It turned out that the militiamen in the courtyard climbed onto the corridor and attacked the Zhou soldiers outside the courtyard.
The Zhou army, holding a 16-meter long sword or a shorter short sword, was unable to meet the attack and was forced to leave the corner.
The Xia militiamen on the watchtower used their crossbows to fire another powerful arrow.
At a distance of twenty meters, even militiamen with poor shooting accuracy could hit the Zhou soldiers in front of the mansion.
The hammer-wielding soldiers were sweating profusely.
This door was far stronger than they imagined.
Looking at the soldiers around him who were injured by the opponent's arrows one after another, the centurion of the Zhou army became anxious and shouted: "Why haven't you locked the door yet?"
In the darkness, a heroic hunter loosened his bow string, and the powerful arrow shot into the mouth of the centurion of the Zhou army, killing him on the spot.
The centurion was dead, and the Zhou soldiers, who were suffering constant casualties, immediately withdrew outside the city.
But soon ten warriors in black helmets and black armor blocked their way.
They fired ten arrows from the crossbows in their hands, killing seven of them immediately.
Then they threw their crossbows on the ground, took off their swords and shields, and charged towards the Zhou army.
At this time, the door of the compound burst open, and about twenty Xia army militiamen came out holding halberds or holding shields.
These Zhou army disciples were no match for the elite warriors.
Heads, severed limbs, and corpses fell everywhere.
Not long after, most of the remaining seventy Zhou soldiers were killed, and the rest were captured on their knees.
On the second day, there were hundreds more heads stuck with wooden poles beside Xia Jun's "food road".
In Jiang Mansion in Chaoge City, Jiang Ziya stared at a crudely drawn military map, frowning.
Ji Dan stayed with him.
His strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country and then cutting off his food routes was not successful.
The other party has efficient logistics capabilities and investigation capabilities.
There is an invisible net covering the grain transport channel.
Jiang Ziya first sent out a large number of small groups of troops to test, but most of them never returned.
Those who came back also came back with lost troops and generals, and failed to complete their mission.
This naturally made Jiang Ziya not dare to devote more of his main troops to the operation of robbing the grain road.
At this time, according to reports from spies, Xia Jun was already fifty miles south of Chaoge and would arrive tomorrow.
"Master, should we prepare for a decisive battle with Xia Jun now?"
Ji Dan asked Jiang Ziya in a consulting tone.
"No, let's move."
"Transfer, where to transfer" "We don't have an exact goal.
We just want to go around in circles with Xia Jun on the Hebei Plain."
"I understand the intention of the Grand Master, which is to divert the opponent's main force away from the grain road, causing difficulties in the opponent's food supply, and at the same time, waiting for an opportunity to use the main force to go back to the rear to attack the opponent's grain road.
But in this way, where will our own supplies come from?
" "Of course, take it with you."
Thirty thousand Xia troops finally arrived at Chaoge, but it was already an empty city full of ruins.
Like most large cities of the same era, it had no outer city walls, otherwise Jiang Ziya would have definitely clung to the city.
Hua came to the treasury and reached out to pick up a few corn grains on the floor.
After looking at them, he already understood Jiang Ziya's plan.
Jiang Ziya judged that he was eager for a quick victory, but he wanted to do the opposite.
Thirty thousand Xia troops were stationed outside Chaoge City, and Hualing stepped up the transportation of grain and grass to the rear.
After the grain and grass are accumulated in the Chaoge Camp to meet the needs of three months.
Hua also ordered the removal of the grain road, and gathered all the reconnaissance scouts, heroic hunters, and soldiers and warriors who were originally used for reconnaissance and support on the grain road to Chaoge.
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Later, Hua divided his troops to search for grain in various cities in the northeast of Yin land, and concentrated the grain in Chaoge.
He also told the people in these towns that if they had no food to eat, they could come to Chaoge.
These grain raiding teams are equipped with scouts, hunters, and some are also equipped with warriors.
While looting grain, pay attention to the whereabouts of the main force of the Zhou army.
In addition, if a large group of Zhou troops are found, they are not allowed to fight with them.
They should burn the food and grass and evacuate in time.
Jiang Ziya, who was jolting on the chariot, showed an old look that matched his age.
His plan didn't work again.
After leading an army of 40,000 people on the plains of Hebei for more than a month, they did not see any movement by the main force of Xia's army.
Instead, a large number of troops were sent to plunder food from various cities.
Moreover, these troops were so responsive that the troops they sent out to encircle and suppress them could not stop them at all.
Now the initiative is in Xia Jun's hands.
Instead, Zhou Jun played away from home.
More terrifying things have happened recently.
The whereabouts of the main force have obviously been grasped by the other party, and troops on horseback are often sent to harass them.
They stopped their horses at a distance, then drew their bows and shot arrows at the surrounding soldiers.
If they saw the enemy pursuing them, they would ride away.
In addition, most of the supplies of food and grass carried by the Zhou army were consumed.
If this continues, the morale and morale of the army will be completely exhausted before the decisive battle.
Jiang Ziya on the chariot sighed: "Oh my god, why did you give birth to Xia Hua?"
Jiang Ziya had the idea of temporarily moving his army eastward to Laiyi's territory to rest, but he heard that Fei Lian led his army northward and had already entered Laiyi's territory.
In this case, there will definitely be no food there, and it is inevitable that he will encounter Fei Lian.
I can only give up this idea.
"Pass the military order, the whole army marches to Chaoge, and fights to the death with the Xia army."
Jiang Ziya finally made up his mind.
He was forced to lead the main force of the Yin Eighth Division in a decisive battle with the Xia Army, but the choice of the battlefield for the decisive battle was now in the hands of the Xia Army.
The Yin Eighth Division, which covered the sky and the sun, finally arrived, bringing with it an army of 20,000 Dongyi troops.
Jiang Ziya had certainly heard about the opponent's spear phalanx, so when he asked for reinforcements from Dongyi, he specifically asked for more archers.
Xia Jun immediately set up a formation when Zhou Jun approached within ten miles of him.
This time the spear phalanx was uncharacteristic of the norm and sent out a formation with a depth of twelve rows.
Although purely in terms of military strength, the opponent still has nearly ten thousand more troops than our own.
But this is the richest battle China has ever fought.
With the troops of both sides so close, there was no need to worry about the safety of the two wings of the spear phalanx.
If the frontal width of the enemy's military formation is too large, it must be achieved at the expense of depth.
If Jiang Ziya really set up the formation like this, Hua couldn't ask for it.
The too thin formation collapsed and was broken into two parts by the spear formation.
Enemy troops trying to outflank one's own flanks will instead be outflanked into two groups.
As the ancestor of the military strategist, Jiang Ziya naturally would not be so stupid.
He only formed a military formation that was as wide as Xia's army but slightly longer in depth.
The part that grew out was three full rows of archers.
On the vast land, two large formations with a width of three kilometers faced each other, and then began to slowly approach each other.
Jiang Ziya knew that a chariot charge was useless against an army like the Xia Army, so the chariots just marched alongside the infantry formation.
The two sides were getting closer and closer, and when they were less than forty meters apart, Jiang Ziya on the chariot could already see the faces of Xia Army spearmen wearing fine armor under the forest of spears.
He waved his hand in the air down hard.
The archers on the chariot and the archers behind the formation began to shoot before the battle.
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A shower of arrows rushed towards Xia Jun: