The next day, Yang Yifei stepped on his war horse with the blessing of Meng Yi, Li Xinnan, Gong Yan and others' "Horse to Success".

Only then did he understand why Meng Yi was going to attack after the sun rose. They were in the east and the enemy camp was in the west. At this time, the sun had just risen and was behind them.

First, using the sun as the background can enhance their power, and second, the enemy is facing the sun and will inevitably be dazzling by the sun.

The enemy's crossbow is not as good as the Daqin crossbow. If you lose your accuracy due to the dazzling sunlight, your side will undoubtedly be safer.

If they use projectiles, the enemy will not even see the arrows clearly, and they will have no way to avoid and resist, which will obviously greatly increase casualties.

In the late Han Dynasty, when the Three Kingdoms were in the late Han Dynasty, Cao Cao used this tactic to defeat Yuan Shao's 110,000 army with 20,000 troops. In that battle, Cao Cao suffered about 8,000 casualties, and Yuan Shao lost 100,000 troops, completely reversing the situation in the late Han Dynasty.

There were too many ways to marching and fighting in ancient times, and Yang Yifei felt deeply that he still learned something.

In later generations, there was no such priority at all in war, because the brim of the military cap was used to block the sunlight and avoid the eyes being shaken by the sun when aiming. Therefore, even if the sun is in front of the soldiers, it will not affect the aiming and shooting of the soldiers.

This attack, Yang Yifei had agreed with two 2500 masters and four 500 masters yesterday that they would divide them into two groups and launch a relay attack on the enemy.

After all, there is a limit on the number of times the archers can shoot, and it is impossible to keep shooting. When one thousand of them attack, the other thousand will standby and then come alternately.

After they set out for a while, Meng Yi will send a large army of infantry and cavalry to follow them. After the enemy scouts along the way were eliminated by archers, the enemy will not be able to grasp their movements. At that time, they can give the enemy a huge surprise at any time.

The middle road was pushed by the archers and cavalry all the way, and the other Qin army scouts concentrated their efforts to eliminate the scouts on both wings of the enemy and the surrounding areas.

After preparation, Yang Yifei raised the long bow in his hand and shouted: "Bowling, attack."

"Xilulu..."

There were neighing sounds of war horses one after another in the field, and two thousand archers urged the war horses and trotted towards the target.

This place is thirty miles away from the enemy camp, so they naturally would not run wildly from the beginning, consuming just horsepower.

In order to maintain the endurance and flexibility of the war horses, the archers and cavalry were reduced to the extreme, without armor on their bodies. Apart from carrying a longbow and forty arrows, and two days of dry food and drinking water, they only had a dagger.

The dagger is not used for close combat, but for cutting the heads, because calculating the military merits and beheading is to use the enemy's heads as evidence.

Yang Yifei didn't care about other troops, but he stipulated that no matter how many enemy troops he shot and killed in one battle, he would divide the head level equally.

Because arrows are all shot from a long distance, and when the arrows rain falls, who knows who killed many enemy troops. Moreover, the archers and cavalry units are relatively safe, and there is no difference between military merit and free picking up, so this requirement is that all archers and cavalry members support it.

If the beheading is less than 2,000 and everyone cannot get military merits, then the person with the lowest title will be given priority. Yang Yifei hopes that all his troops under his command can have titles, even if they are mere magistrates, they can still eat better than ordinary soldiers.

The system of military titles at the twenty-level is many benefits. The biggest function is to encourage soldiers to fight bravely, but it also has its drawbacks.

For example, some troops with insufficient cohesion or soldiers from two different troops will kill each other on the battlefield to fight for military merits.

This disadvantage is still light, and what is even more terrifying is that some cruel and ruthless soldiers will slaughter the people to pretend to be the enemy's head for military merits, which is the so-called "killing good people to make achievements."

Of course, these two situations were quite common in Shang Yang's reform and the years when the First Emperor launched the War of Unification, but it was rare in this era.

When cleaning the battlefield, the generals will stare on the battlefield. If there is an internal strife due to fighting for the head, the provocateur can be directly sentenced to the death.

As the lower part has been unified today, the places where the war broke out are basically on the frontier, and the only heads that the army can cut into is the enemy.

Once the war is over, the troops gather together to slaughter the people, not only will they not have the chance to slaughter the people, but they will not record military merits at this time, so naturally there will be no situation where the people are responsible for military merits.

If the First Emperor began to expand his territory and attack the lairs of foreign tribes in the future, this situation would probably still occur. This cannot be prohibited, and it can only be strictly controlled by military generals.

The generals can only ensure that this situation will not happen as much as possible, but they cannot guarantee that it will not happen.

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Less than half an hour after the archers and cavalry left for about ten miles. After crossing a hill, they encountered the enemy's scout, Qing cavalry. Yang Yifei shouted, "Shoot at the enemy's scouts freely."

After saying this, he raised his hand and shot an enemy scout eighty or ninety steps away, hitting the opponent's chest. Then the soldiers around him also shot arrows one after another.

There were ten scouts I met this time, and they were shot and killed in one encounter, and they didn't even have the chance to fight back.

Originally, the effective distance of the flat shooting of a stone bow was only sixty steps, and the accuracy could not be guaranteed if it exceeded sixty steps. However, the enemy scouts he encountered were eighty steps closest to them, but they were still buried under the arrows of the archers.

This is because Yang Yifei not only trains archers' cavalry and shooting skills, but also transforms ballistics into statements they can understand and teaches them.

After a lot of experiments, Yang Yifei summarized a set of data, which is about how many degrees of elevation angle it needs to be lifted every ten steps away from the range.

After several months of continuous practice, the archers basically mastered this set of data. Even if they were a little more dull, they would have made perfect progress through countless trainings. They could make up for their shortcomings by finally finding that rule and gaining experience.

Now the archers can ensure accuracy between eighty and ninety steps. In other words, their effective range has increased from sixty steps to eighty steps.

At this time, they shot and killed the scouts, and they actually used small-angle shots. Thirty or forty people shot arrows, so ten enemies could not escape the disaster.

This team of scouts was blocked by the mound and failed to detect the archers in time. Then, they were attacked by poisonous attackers. After encountering in such a situation, the enemy scouts were basically unable to escape. However, when they saw them in an open area, they turned their horses and ran away when they saw them from a distance.

Yang Yifei didn't let his subordinates chase him. It was not cost-effective to waste his horsepower for several scouts. He wanted the scout to bring the news back so that the other party could prepare and set up an array to wait for them to shoot.

If they really hit the enemy camp quietly, as archers, they would not be able to enter the camp while the other party was not ready.

If the enemy does not line up, the killing efficiency of Arrow Rain will be greatly reduced. Therefore, Yang Yifei did not intend to destroy the enemy scouts along the way from the beginning. He just drove them back and could no longer inquire about information.
Chapter completed!