"Knock...... Boom! The dense drumbeat rumbled, and this calm and powerful sound made the earth tremble slightly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info In the thunderous drums, the officers and troops began to advance.

"Raise your shield!" Zhang Chao ordered loudly.

Under his command, the soldiers of the left flank raised their shields in their hands as they advanced. The shield is very wide and not very light, but it can indeed protect the life of the Yellow Turban archers when they are covered and shot. That's enough.

The phalanx of the Han army was roughly like this: with the most basic team as the unit, a horizontal line. In this way, line by row, ten teams are taken as a phalanx as a whole, and there are a hundred people here.

A hundred people is a phalanx, and in this phalanx, all soldiers have the same weapons.

On the left flank, where Zhang Chao and Li Qin were located, there were about 7,000 men, of which 2,000 were cavalry and 5,000 infantry.

Two thousand cavalry were in separate formations. The 5,000 infantry, according to the difference in their weapons, formed a phalanx with 100 people in a phalanx, and formed a diagonal line on the wide plain. This diagonal line is the left flank of the official army.

At this time, the officers and troops marched noisily. All the soldiers, urged by the beat of the drums, stepped forward. Their pace is not fast, even a little slower than the walking speed of normal people, but so many people, all taking relatively neat steps, the formation of a momentum is quite amazing.

Moreover, in order to adjust their pace, they also dotted the weapons in their hands in a heavy manner while they were stepping, so as to make a neat sound. This sound, as a complement to the sound of drums, while coordinating the pace of the army, also formed an inexplicable deterrent. This deterrent is an encouragement to oneself and a deterrent to the enemy.

With the sound of the "dong dong" drum as the background and the "snap" sound of the long sword striking the shield as the basis for coordinating the pace, under the trumpet drum of Zhu Junzhong's army, Zhang Chao and Li Qin led 12 of the 50 phalanxes under their command to move forward slowly. These twelve were all sword and shield soldiers anyway, they were the first of the five thousand infantry troops, and they were used as targets to attract enemy archers.

Before the battle broke out, Zhu Jun had a certain understanding of the strength composition of the Yellow Turban Army.

After all, the Yellow Turban Army was a rebel army with peasants as the main body, although it captured many cities and obtained a lot of weapons, but the main types of troops in the army were still pikemen and sword and shield soldiers, as for the more skilled archers and cavalry - the Yellow Turban Army was not absent, but the proportion was really very small.

Take the 60,000 Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Bao at the moment: the main force is also pikemen and sword and shield soldiers, which accounts for 53,000 out of 60,000 horses; The number of archers used for long-range attacks is roughly around 5,000, and the remaining 2,000 are the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army.

Such a ratio of troop allocation is already quite luxurious in the Yellow Turban Army. You must know that Zhang Mancheng, who is making trouble in Wancheng, Nanyang, has 100,000 archers and the number of archers that Zhang Bao has at the moment.

There is no way to do this, who makes the archers and cavalry in the army need to spend a lot of effort to cultivate.

You must know that a pikeman, who spends ten days and a half months training, can make do with it. The sword and shield hand is a little more troublesome, but it can be basically trained in a month. But training an archer is not possible without three months of effort. And the cavalry can not be trained by a year or two of hard work.

The Yellow Turban Army's uprising was really hasty, and there were too many deficiencies in the preparations. It is not surprising that this dilemma is caused by the current situation.

This is the weakness of the Yellow Turban Army, and it is also a key point that the officers and soldiers will inevitably grasp. So in the fierce drumbeat, the sword and shield soldiers under Zhang Chao acted first.

And after the sword and shield soldiers took fifty steps forward, with Zhang Chao's order, the phalanx of pikemen also stepped forward.

As for the archers who were left behind, after the pikemen took the first ten steps, they took three steps forward neatly, quickly changed the formation, and turned the square formation of 100 people into five rows and twenty long strips, divided into five rows, and poured waves of deadly arrows into the Yellow Turban camp opposite with bows and arrows.

Because it was fired in rows and rounds, like the three-stage shots of the musketeers of later generations, the endless arrows swept through the air, stirring up brilliant blood flowers in the Yellow Turban Army array, which was a few points denser than the ordinary military formation.

Blood lit up, lives died, and the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army fell one by one under the rain of arrows falling from the sky. Although the archers in the Yellow Turban Army also kept drawing their bows and arrows to counterattack, they were not on the same order of magnitude as the archers of the official army in terms of elite or number.

In the confrontation with each other, they could not put much pressure on the officers and soldiers at all. On the contrary, after revealing the position of his existence, he was countered by the phalanx of official archers. In the exchange of arrows between the two sides, countless people fell, but many more persisted.

Although on the surface, the losses suffered by the Yellow Turban Army seem to be greater, but the Yellow Turban Army has many more people than the official army, and they are still relatively able to bear this kind of loss by virtue of the resentment in their chests.

The current situation is as follows: the officers and troops as a whole are pressing towards the Yellow Turban Army, but the two flanks of the officers and troops are more active and rapid than the slightly slower moving Chinese army's bottom formation. They operated actively, and soon approached the formation of the Yellow Turban Army.

At this time, the eyes of the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army converged on the two wings of the officers and soldiers.

"Fly with wings...... Is this an attempt to take advantage of the geese march to outflank us and swallow us? Zhu Jun, this guy seems to look down on us. Looking at the dynamics of the official army, Yan Zheng said in a whisper.

"Twenty-five thousand sieges and sixty thousand...... Zhu Jun really thinks that it is still the time of the long company! It seems that the victory in the last game has turned him into arrogance. He fought with us thinking he could take us down, but he didn't want us to have hole cards. Aren't Liu, Guan, and Zhang very powerful? Under Qingzhou, I was chased by them enough, and this time I want to get back everything that has happened to me. Zhang Min, who stared at the official army flag hatefully, saw the familiar name, fled from Qingzhou to Xuzhou, and came to Yuzhou from Xuzhou, said angrily.

The last defeat was regarded as a great shame by him, and if he had the opportunity to retaliate for such an insult, he would definitely spare no effort.

"But we'd have to be careful! We all know how powerful General Digong is. However, it takes time for the Digong General to cast spells. Before the spell of the Digong General is revealed, we must stabilize our array. We all know that the odds are good, but we should know that we have to hold on until then. Gao Sheng put forward his opinion quite cautiously.

At this time, Zhang Bao was not in the army. The affairs of the Yellow Turban Army array are all in the hands of these three commanders. Before Zhang Bao's Dao method was not successfully released, they had to discuss how to fight this battle. It's just that they are discussed, and there is still a head among them.

This head is undoubtedly Gao Sheng, who served as Chen Guoqu Shuai as Zhang Bao's personal disciple - this is also recognized by everyone.

At that moment, the Yellow Turban Army was ordered by Gao Sheng to fight back against the attack of the official army.

What is-for-tat? That is, if you use your wings to fight me, then I will draw a considerable number of troops and horses from that large square phalanx to meet your two wings. Soldier to soldier, of course, there is no need to be a general. In short, we must use the number of our Yellow Turban Army to deal with the superiority of your officers and soldiers in terms of equipment and training.

It has to be said that this is a rather brainless response. But in terms of the current advantages of the Yellow Turbans, there is no problem with such a response. After all, the strength of the Yellow Turbans lies in the sheer size of their army.

"Forward!" Gao Sheng gave the order.

The Yellow Turban Army's military formation changed under a wave of slightly messy adjustments, and two groups of men and horses were drawn out of the large square, and under the leadership of Yan Zheng and Zhang Min, they met the left and right flanks of the official army.

Unlike the rather rigorous array of the officers and soldiers, the formation of the Yellow Turban Army was somewhat scattered, no matter how loudly the commanders and leaders in it shouted orders. It's just that they don't notice such scatteredness.

After having the morale of the officers and soldiers, in the face of the neat array of the officers and soldiers, this group of people of the Yellow Turban Army dared to meet without fear and ignore the gap in training and equipment between the two sides.

As a result, as the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army ran in great strides, the two wings of the officers and troops and the attacking troops sent by the Yellow Turban Army quickly approached. And with the exhaustion of both sides, the arrows that had been continuously shooting forward gradually thinned out, and except for some who were still shooting anyway, the rest of the phalanx stopped. Obviously, they are also afraid of hurting their own people.

Without the attack of the arrow feathers, the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were visibly relieved. When they saw that the phalanx of the officers and soldiers had approached to a place only twenty paces away from them, they shouted loudly in unison. Although their shouts were not very neat, the meaning of unwillingness was very obvious.

In the shout, several strong men of the Yellow Turban Army directly used their bodies as giant hammers to slam into the wooden shield wrapped in cowhide of the official army.

The heavy wooden shield and dense formation naturally stopped the men from rushing after a fluctuation. However, the collision of these people is not an end, but a beginning.

Although the first few guys were quickly ended by the long swords poking out of the official array. But at the same time that these swordsmen finished off these thieves, more Yellow Turban soldiers rushed forward, and they did the same actions as the soldiers in front of them.

Wave after group, wave after wave, these Yellow Turban soldiers are really vicious, they don't take their lives seriously, and naturally bring the fear of death to others.

With their perseverance, the collapse of the official and military shield arrays has become an inevitable thing.

And after a phalanx collapsed, more and more ferocious Yellow Turban soldiers pounced on it, using their strong numerical advantage to devour the phalanxes of officers and soldiers.

There were 7,000 soldiers on each of the left and right flanks of the officer army. Without the use of cavalry and archers, the number of soldiers who could actually be put into battle was roughly between two and a half thousand. In order to deal with such foot soldiers, the Yellow Turban Army put into the battlefield was about 30,000 to 40,000.

In other words, after realizing that Zhu Jun was taking the two wings of the official army as the main direction of attack, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army quickly and decisively threw most of his troops into the strangulation of the left and right flanks of the official army.

The two sides quickly scuffled together, shouting and killing loudly. It quickly became a mess. And in this mess, the Yellow Turban Army still pressed the officers and soldiers to fight.

"It seems that our Erlang is still very courageous." Seeing that the battle situation was in his favor, Gao Sheng's face couldn't help but smile.

He raised his chin slightly, and looked at Zhu Jun very arrogantly. He really wanted to see what Zhu Jun's expression was like at this time. But the distance between the two sides was still a little far, and he couldn't see it clearly.

He didn't know at all that in the face of such a battle situation, Zhu Jun's face was also happy.