Li Rui sat straight on the raised earth platform, staring at the main Liang army unit in the distance with the monocular telescope in his hand. At this time, war should have begun in the direction of Huang Fengya and Wuliu Tree.

It is a lie to say that he is not nervous. After all, his opponent is Cao Xuan, who has been famous for many years. This guy is not short of the courage of military generals and the skills of a planner. He is a guy that Zhen Shang is extremely difficult to deal with.

There are now 15,000 Tang soldiers in the camp, of which 10,000 are war soldiers, and the remaining 5,000 are auxiliary soldiers and civilians. Unlike the places in the northern area where the camps have been long, these civilians recruited from Shandong Province and Anhui Province are real civilians. When fighting, there is no need to expect them to help lift the wounded and build the camp. You have to beware of these guys being whistled at any time.

His opponents had nearly 30,000 combat soldiers alone, and the regiment training troops recruited from Xuanwu were all private soldiers of local powerful landlords, and their real combat effectiveness may not be worse than those of Liang's headquarters. Such regiment training troops exceeded 10,000, and as for civilians, the number was even greater.

Cao Xuan was fighting at home, and his advantage in this was incomparable to the Tang army.

Faced with invaders like themselves, the clans must have to fight to the death.

Unlike the two cavalry's active attack, Li Rui's role is to defend. He sticks to Cao Xuan's tens of thousands of infantry, and then waits for the two cavalry to return to win and make dumplings on the other side and swallow it in one bite.

Of course, the premise is to keep it.

His eyes turned and he slowly looked at his camp. Although there was no city, Li Rui felt that the defense of the camp was not much worse than that of the city.

The originally endless wilderness has long been for the appearance.

And these changes were created overnight.

Surrounding the entire camp was a trench about three feet deep and ten feet wide. The soil from the digging trench was filled into the mezzanine erected by wooden stakes as thick as bowls, and a simple-branded wall was formed like this. A circle of barbed wire with sharp iron sheets was wrapped around these fences. Even if the enemy rushed through the trench, it would take a lot of time to clean up this thing. When the two armies were fighting, time was equivalent to life.

Behind these walls are powerful crossbows shining with cold light and the most popular crossbow of the Tang army. This thing does not require any accuracy, nor does it require special training. What is important is to cover it and win by quantity.

Every distance, there is a small mountain made of earth and stones. There are also strong crossbows on it, and behind these hills is a catapult.

Thanks to the powerful military industry of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang army's trenchers have standardized the most basic accessories, which allows them to disassemble and carry them at will, and then reassemble them anywhere. In addition to some special throwing weapons that require them to carry on their own, things like stone bombs can be found everywhere.

There was a rumbling drum sound on the opposite side, and the earth-brown battle robe surged out like a mudslide, but it was still the same as three and one! Li Rui laughed loudly. Is it possible to escape when I couldn't hold on?

He suddenly felt that the other party was a little dogmatic. This war had no option to escape for them and themselves.

But this is good. The enemy attacked from three sides and left one side, so that his soldiers could have more rest time. What I need to pay attention to now is to wait for a while and where the enemy's main attack direction is. Cao Xuan now has more than 50,000 troops, but the real elite is only in just over 20,000.

The first to fight must be those regiments trained the army and even the civilians, so that they could find out their own defensive focus.

It was very quiet in the camp at this moment.

The soldiers on the periphery were preparing for the battle, and the civilians dug trenches and built earthen walls last night last night. At this moment, they were so tired that they couldn't even stand up. Many of them didn't even eat, and fell asleep after falling down.

I hope they can still have a good dream in the horn of the battle.

He stood up, narrowed his eyes and looked at the red sun on the eastern horizon that had just revealed a small face. He had just emerged, and the weather was so hot.

Li Rui touched the sweat on his forehead.

The weather today is really bad! Fortunately, the camp has already produced several ***s. Although it is a bit simple and the water is a little dizzy, it is not a problem to drink after simple treatment. Now there is a lot of water stored in the camp, which is enough for the thirsty soldiers to drink at that time.

Thank God, the groundwater here is very rich, and you don’t need to dig deeper, and these wells will be watered out of the water.

Li Rui waved his hand, and the two soldiers on the platform immediately raised the main flag to the highest point with quick hands and feet. A flag bearer stood on the platform and waved.

Immediately, in all directions, flags were raised one by one, and various colors were waving them, responding to Li Rui's shouting here.

In front of him, he was filled with the storm of storms, and the deafening roars were extremely annoying. Li Rui always hated shouting when fighting, and he thought it was a waste of energy. Therefore, most of the soldiers he trained to fight were fighting silently.

The enemy was at the forefront of the people and followed the local regiment training, while Cao Xuan's main force was not moved at all.

In three directions, each of them had a scale of three or five thousand people.

Unfortunately, I have no cavalry now, otherwise I could send cavalry at this time to harvest a group of enemies. Cao Xuan probably saw this. When the first wave of attacks was launched, the cavalry in his hand did not move at all. Are you planning to find an opportunity to attack my camp?

Li Rui suddenly laughed as he looked inside his camp.

With a shout, a stone bullet flew high and flew into the air with a whistling sound. Behind him, more sharp stone pieces wrapped in net bags were thrown out. They broke free from the bondage of the net bags, rotated and screamed, and flew towards the running earth-brown figures below.

Countless people fell on the road of running, but more people rushed to the trench and then jumped into the trench without hesitation.

Cao Xuan also fought for many years. When attacking the Tang army, he also found a lot of experience, that is, he must not organize a intensive formation and push forward, because in that case, he will be suppressed by the endless long-range crossbows and catapults of the Tang army.

Ordinary troops cannot be equipped with so many crossbows at all, but the Tang army is always an exception. In the eyes of Cao Xuan and others, Li Ze has always been a big dog and a nouveau riche. Moreover, a considerable portion of the money he invested in the army was still supported by them.

Who made so many good things come from the North? If you want to get these things, you can only buy the other party’s things. The stricter the control, the higher the price. After the release, the price will fall in response to the sound.

The soil of the trench was soft and easy to climb, and it was not high. A regiment training officer leaned against the trench and took a few breaths. He held a knife in his hand, squatted slightly, and jumped up suddenly. When the force was approaching, he grabbed a fence and supported his feet on the trench wall at the same time, and then rushed up again.

A spear suddenly stabbed in front of him. Officer Liang turned sideways, avoided the tip of the spear, reached out and grabbed the spear pole, and dragged the Tang army forward.

Tang Jun's face looked very tender, but he didn't let go of the spear at the first time. Instead, he spoke hard, trying to fight the spear with the other party. In an instant, the knife in the other party's other hand had already slashed over.

Blood emerged from the neck of the Tang soldiers, and they could fall to the ground with a sound.

Before the Liang army officer could be happy, another spear stabbed silently, swung his knife to block it. With a sound, several other spears poked over together.

The legs, stomach, and ribs were all painful. This regiment training officer with good personal force was poked several holes in the flash, and fell down the trench with his back to the sky and earth.

Such a scene was staged everywhere in the trenches surrounding the Tang army camp. The more and more corpses were accumulated in the trenches. Gradually, there were no need to climb in some places. Liang Jun stood on the layers of corpses and could attack the Tang army behind the fence.

Crossbow arrows were flying in the sky. Although Liang Jun’s bow and Yu’s voice was far inferior to that of the Tang army, it was not completely suppressed by the other party, and it could always bring harm to the Tang army in the battalion.

Hou Fangyu's eyes were filled with Liang's army. At present, the two sides were fighting for fences, and the barbed wire mesh was covered with Liang's bodies, but these corpses also resisted the harm of later generations.

"Grenadier!" he shouted loudly.

Dozens of Tang soldiers in red clothes flashed out, each of them had an iron box in their hands. At this time, they took out a porcelain jar from the box, bent down, lit the leads on the fire, and then ran a few steps, throwing the porcelain jar in their hands towards the trench.

The explosion suddenly rang out, and the rain of fire fell all over the sky, igniting Liang troops one by one.

One after another, porcelain jars were thrown out, and explosions came one after another. The Liang army's attack finally got disconnected.

"Counterattack!" Hou Fangyu waved his long sword and rushed forward with the reserve team.

On the high platform in the center of the camp, Li Rui's brows frowned. The use of hot oil bombs so quickly showed that the pressure on the front of Liang's army was quite high. The section in the north was guarded by Hou Fangyu, and he was a guy with rich combat experience.
Chapter completed!