I'm afraid that the entire Sima army's cavalry now has a relatively relaxed mentality. No one has any pressure to fight against 3,000 infantry with five thousand cavalry. Before the war, someone even joked that this was a hunting battle, even easier than hunting. Wild boars and hares must at least run faster. What can these Bingzhou soldiers do? At most, they are waiting to die.

It is only two or three miles away from the Sima cavalry ambushed to the location to the target of attack. For infantry, it may take a while, but for cavalry, it is just a short time to arrive.

Moreover, the Sima cavalry sprinted at such a short distance without any horsepower, and they were completely galloping at the highest horse speed. Many people rushed to the front. This was clearly the Bingzhou army came to send people's heads. Since there were only 3,000 Bingzhou army, and there were 5,000 Sima cavalry alone, the heads were obviously not enough!

Therefore, many Sima cavalry rushed to the front as much as possible. This is a fool who is not arguing about the open credit. He has to eat meat first, and he may not even be able to drink soup after falling behind.

But just as they approached the Bingzhou Army's battle formation, just a distance of one arrow, behind the rows of flat-box trucks, a dense rain of arrows suddenly shot out, pouring towards the galloping Sima cavalry. Unpredictable, the Sima cavalry were all caught in arrows and fell down, and a large area fell down.

When a cavalry attacks, the possibility of being attacked by an enemy's bow and arrow is extremely high. After all, the opponent's infantry cannot sit still and wait for death. They will also use the strongest means to counterattack.

However, the cavalry's attack speed is quite fast. It takes only a few breaths to rush from outside the land of an arrow to the infantry formation. In other words, the enemy's archers can shoot at most one or two arrows, and there will be no chance. And these arrows are difficult to pose a fatal threat to the cavalry.

But the current situation is somewhat beyond the Sima Army's expectations. The Bingzhou Army had only 3,000 people at most. Even if they were all archers, they could only shoot three thousand arrows at the same time. However, the rain of arrows pouring in is dense and numerous, which made the Sima Army's cavalry very puzzled. Could it be that the Bingzhou Army had three heads and six arms, and how could it shoot so many arrows?

In fact, this is not because of the special means of the Pioneer Battalion, but because of the continuous crossbows. Before leaving, Cao Liang specially allocated a thousand continuous crossbows to Ma Long.

This made Ma Long, who was determined to equip all infantry with bows and crossbows, was ecstatic. With such a powerful weapon on the battlefield, why worry about the immortality of the enemy's cavalry?

The real core of the flat box chariot formation founded by Ma Long is not the flat box chariot, but the crossbowmen. This is also when Ma Long recruits warriors, he repeatedly requires every soldier to master the skills of crossbows and be able to pull thirty junctions and four junctions of bows.

The flat box truck can resist the attack of enemy cavalry to a certain extent, but if the Pioneer Battalion does not have any countermeasures, the flat box truck will be useless and will be destroyed by the attacked enemy cavalry through various means.

Therefore, the key to whether the flat box van can resist the attack of the cavalry is not whether the flat box van is strong, but whether the crossbowmen have strong counterattack capabilities. The biggest key is that as long as the enemy cavalry cannot get close to the flat box van.

Crossbowmen are long-range combat troops, and their role can only be played in medium and long-distance combat. Once they fall into close combat, crossbowmen will lose their combat effectiveness.

Therefore, in normal infantry troop equipment, long-range attack troop archers, short-range attack troop slingers, short-range defense troop sabre slingers, and short-range defense troop sabre slingers, swords and shields are basically matched one-to-one. Only this balanced setting allows infantry to have both attack and defense capabilities, so as not to have strong attacks and weak defenses or weak defenses.

But balance means mean, and both offense and defense means that both offense and defense are subject to certain restrictions on both ends of offense and defense.

Ma Long's flat box chariot array maximizes the long-range attack ability of infantry. He is almost all equipped with crossbow soldiers, which significantly improves the attack ability of the entire team. Since the spearmen and sword and shield soldiers are not configured, the combat power of the crossbow soldiers is directly doubled.

Such attack power is particularly terrifying on the battlefield, and three thousand people can be used as ten thousand people.

As for the defense of the entire team, it is handed over to the flat box truck. At this time, the flat box truck becomes very important. It almost assumes all the responsibilities of the spearmen and swords and shields in ordinary infantry combat formations to block the attack of the enemy cavalry.

Because the flat box truck is very strong, from a defensive perspective, its defense ability is definitely stronger than that of the spearmen and the sword and shield soldiers. In addition, the extremely powerful firepower of the bow and crossbow behind the flat box truck makes it difficult for the enemy cavalry to get close to the flat box truck formation.

Of course, if you want to say that the weakness is also very obvious, that is, the flat box vehicle array has poor maneuverability and slow movement speed is its biggest disadvantage. It can only be used for passive defense and cannot carry out active attacks. If the enemy cannot retreat, even if it is close, it will be difficult for the Pioneer Camp to achieve success.

So what Ma Long most hopes for is the enemy's attack. The sharper the enemy's attack, the more powerful his counterattack can be. Seeing the violent attack of Sima's cavalry, Ma Long smiled happily.

Now that the Pioneer Camp has a thousand crossbows, it is like a tiger with wings. It’s really not too good to have a feeling of firing thousands of arrows at once!

Ma Long believed that as long as he had a crossbow and a box van, he could withstand any attack. No matter how fierce the cavalry was, he could not break through this barrier.

Such a crossbow was simply tailor-made for him. Before this, Ma Long had only heard of Shu State having a crossbow, and it was made by the late Shu State Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, so this crossbow is also called Zhuge crossbow.

It’s a pity that only Shu Kingdom has this kind of weapon in the world, neither Wei Kingdom nor Wu Kingdom, so Ma Long could only fascinate it.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he joined the Bingzhou Army, Cao Liang took out this weapon, and he had a thousand weapons at one time, almost shocking Ma Long's chin. With such a big move, it is obvious that this kind of crossbow is already a standard weapon in the Bingzhou Army.

Ma Long couldn't figure out how Cao Liang could obtain the weapon Fengruo Treasure of Shu Kingdom and could be produced on a large scale. However, having this weapon made Ma Long feel at ease and comfortable. Attack is always the best means of defense. The stronger the crossbow soldiers in the battle formation, the stronger the defense ability of the battle formation. After having a continuous crossbow, the ordinary flat box car formation will directly transform into an upgraded flat box car formation. On the battlefield, it can simply turn on the invincible mode.
Chapter completed!