Chapter 219

"Shoot! Keep shooting!"

Outside Niu Fu's camp, the coalition's archers and crossbowmen continuously shot the arrows in their hands toward the camp.

The arrows were as bright as rain, dripping into the camp.

However, above Niu Fu's camp, there was a light curtain, an invisible barrier. The arrows fell, passed through this invisible barrier, and the originally high-speed arrows instantly lost their power.

"It seems that there are some spell-casting scholars in Niu Fu's army camp, but relying on these scholars to block my crossbowmen is not enough."

Su Fan looked at Niu Fu's army camp in the distance and smiled.

In this era, the scholars accompanying the army were no longer powerless, and they also had their own roles, especially being able to release various spells, which could be offensive or defensive.

Of course, it was not easy for this kind of thing to become a conventional means.

After all, those who wanted to cast spells generally had to be at least the fourth or fifth layer of Soul Nourishing.

Cultivating the soul path for scholars was destined to be more difficult than martial arts. Martial artists refined the body, and entry was simple, but it was very difficult to practice to a deep level.

The soul path could be said to be very difficult from the beginning, and the requirements for talent were even stricter.

So it was destined that scholars would be much fewer than martial artists.

And the inheritance of the soul path for scholars generally came from noble families, and the bottom level had no chance to learn the method of the soul path.

This also destined that scholars could not become a conventional means of the battlefield.

Niu Fu's army had accompanying scholars, Su Fan didn't care, many armies had them, because scholars could indeed play some roles in the war.

Especially some scholars proficient in earth-based spells.

However, scholars could not become a conventional means at all. Most scholars did not have an ordinary background, so how could they act as "thugs" in the army?

Only Zhang Jiao's Taiping Dao had so many Daoist masters.

Unfortunately, after the Taiping Dao was suppressed, most of the Daoist masters suffered persecution, and some were taken as family slaves by noble families.

Niu Fu's army camp had some scholars, but there were definitely not many.

Being able to block it once or twice, they definitely couldn't block Su Fan's multiple attacks.

In terms of logistics, Su Fan was confident that even the Yuan clan, which had accumulated for thousands of years, might not be able to compare with him.

Indeed, accumulating for thousands of years, the Yuan clan might be able to take out more than Su Fan at once, but compared to consumption, it was absolutely impossible to compare with Su Fan.

Su Fan's Donghai territory could be said to be a large industrial base for logistics, with millions of people running around for his logistics.

He didn't care about the consumption of weapons at all. Even if he consumed one hundred thousand arrows a day, he would soon recover.

With assembly line manufacturing, the Ministry of Industry under his command, if it went all out to manufacture arrows, one hundred thousand arrows a day was absolutely not a problem.

The industrial department of the Donghai territory, in terms of technology alone, might not be comparable to later generations of World War I and World War II, but with the blessing of some extraordinary technology, the comprehensive technical production would not be worse than some second-tier countries in World War I.

So he didn't care about the consumption of arrows.

In this great battle, he brought a total of millions of arrows, enough for him to squander for a period of time.

And he had hundreds of craftsmen accompanying the army, who could temporarily forge arrows in local areas. The quality might not be as good as the Donghai territory, but it was not worse than the arrows of other armies.

Su Fan commanded the great battle without any technology, nor any tactics. It was just absolute power, like the Uncle Sam of later generations, just using super-strong technology and logistics.

Catapults and crossbows, these two sharp weapons for long-range, continuously attacked.

Niu Fu's army camp's defensive means were just the defensive spells of scholars and the military aura generated by the military formation, which could weaken the power.

But they couldn't last long.

"Retreat!"

Feeling it was about time, Su Fan immediately ordered to sound the retreat.

The large army retreated in an orderly manner, and Niu Fu's army camp didn't dare to send troops out, because before they came out, they were beaten back.

Especially the cavalry wanting to charge the formation was intercepted by Su Fan with multiple Gang Refining experts, meeting with the cavalry, and had no momentum to charge, which could not pose any threat to Su Fan's large army at all.

What's more, Niu Fu's Xiliang army could not occupy an advantage in numbers, and Su Fan had tens of thousands of elites, coupled with the large armies of Tao Qian and Kong Zhou, they could not take any advantage at all.

After two times, Niu Fu was also honest.

Didn't dare to send troops out to pursue anymore.

Could only passively defend.

"Ning'an, you do this every day, just using crossbows and catapults for long-range attacks, it won't have any effect, right? Why not let the large army directly attack their camp?"

At night, Tao Qian and Kong Zhou found Su Fan and asked curiously.

They had already decided that the battle would be led by Su Fan. Although Su Fan's soldiers were the fewest, after observing for so many days, they knew very well that in terms of combat power, it was absolutely Su Fan who was the most powerful.

Especially they knew that Su Fan had several Gang Refining great generals under his command, so they were even more at ease.

Especially Tao Qian, who had experienced war, knew very well that a large army, if led by Gang Refining martial generals, even if his ability to lead troops was not very good, but relying on bravery, the morale would absolutely not be bad.

As for the ability to command and direct, they had seen Su Fan's command very clearly in these days, and it was mediocre, but just such mediocrity could exert their greatest power.

No need for any strange schemes, it was just a dignified great battle, but it suppressed Niu Fu's large army so that they didn't dare to leave their camp.

"Of course, Ning'an, we are not questioning your combat plan, but the consumption is very large, right?"

"The consumption is indeed a bit large, but well, I can still carry it. Before, I prepared a lot of arrows. As for stones, they are everywhere."

"The reason why I didn't choose to attack directly is first, Niu Fu's camp is arranged very solidly. Wanting to charge in will inevitably cause huge losses, and it's not certain that we can attack in one breath."

"Although it is said that mercy does not command troops, if there are unnecessary losses, then try not to have them. After all, these people follow me, and I also hope to bring them back intact."

"Ning'an is indeed benevolent."

Tao Qian, hearing this, praised with a smile, but whether it was sincere, only he himself knew.

"And I chose long-range attacks, first to consume the enemy's effective strength as much as possible. Niu Fu's large army itself is not more than ours."

"Now we continuously consume their military strength, also to prepare for the great battle in the future."

"And this daily attack can also strike the enemy's morale."

"These days I observed, the first day the defense of Niu Fu's camp was the Xiliang infantry, but the third day, the fourth day, until now, the soldiers defending have changed."

"Niu Fu is not stupid, he naturally won't let his elites be consumed by you in vain."

"Indeed he is not stupid, but the troops under his command have Xiliang large armies, imperial court's Imperial Guards, and some are troops stationed in local areas, which are quite messy."

"Originally, the relationship between the Xiliang large army and the Imperial Guard and local troops was not good. Now Niu Fu lets the Xiliang large army rest in the back, while letting those Imperial Guards and local troops bear my attacks."

"What kind of consequences will this cause? Low morale is very obvious, and even more serious is that it will increase the dissatisfaction of the Imperial Guard and local troops with the Xiliang army, and even hatred."

"When this dissatisfaction and hatred reach a certain level..."

"Then it's very likely they will have internal strife?"

Tao Qian and Kong Zhou were not fools, and instantly understood, and the look at Su Fan also became different.