After the drums!

The soldiers of Youzhou picked up the weapons in their hands one after another, walked towards the Yuan army array with neat steps.

Seeing this, Yuan Tan hurriedly ordered the army to take the lead in charging the Youzhou army array, the Liaodong crossbow was amazingly powerful and had a long range, whether the Yuan army was defending or shooting at others, they could not take any advantage, Yuan Tan didn't want his army to be a live target for the Youzhou soldiers, so he could only make a preemptive decision immediately!

The soldiers were ordered to go out in all directions, and the Yuan cavalry took the lead in the charge!

Seeing this, Huang Zhong immediately made a countermeasure, ordering Zhang Liao and Zang Ba to lead 5,000 Liaodong iron cavalry to crash into Yuan's army head-on.

In an instant!

The two torrents collided fiercely, and the battlefield was full of scenes of people on their backs!

The Liaodong Iron Cavalry had a slight advantage, and they took advantage of the charge to fire a wave of crossbow arrows at the Yuan cavalry.

The screams were incessant, and there were stumps and broken arms everywhere, but the cavalry on both sides seemed to turn a deaf ear to this, and the cavalry desperately beat their horses, screaming and waving steel knives or stabbing spears at the bodies of the opposing cavalrymen.

Some of the unfortunate fallen cavalry were trampled into pulp by the galloping horses behind them, but the individual soldiers who were lucky enough not to die did not show the slightest fear, they kept stabbing and stabbing with spears and spears, until the moment of death, they finally stopped their movements.

The advantage of the cavalry of the Yuan army is that there are Hu people among them, the Hu people can ride and shoot well, and they are skilled in bows and horses, while the advantage of the Liaodong iron cavalry is that they are strong and crossbowed, which is the gap in technology, and at this point, the Hu people, who are mainly animal husbandry, can never compare with the Central Plains people.

After the cavalry on both sides fought a confrontation, they turned their horses' heads and continued to tirelessly launch wave after wave of charges against each other, and the two sides added up to a large-scale cavalry duel of more than 10,000 men and horses.

In the past, there were many large-scale wars between Yuan Jun and Gongsun Zhan, but most of the two sides fought a war of attrition.

And this was the case of a decisive cavalry battle from the beginning, and both sides were only seen in their lives.

Although there were only about 5,000 Liaodong Iron Cavalry, they were not at a significant disadvantage, because their strong crossbows and armor were the capital of their lives, and with this sharp weapon, they were not afraid of the Yuan army at all.

After changing the crossbow box for the Liaodong crossbow again, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry once again launched a frontal charge against the Yuan army, first firing the crossbow arrows, and then touching the melee combat.

Compared to the duel between the cavalry, the battle between the infantry is not very exciting.

The infantry on both sides of Li and Yuan marched in orderly steps, slowly advancing towards the opposite side, and the Youzhou soldiers temporarily gained some advantages, and from time to time there would be a group of Yuan soldiers who were shot and killed by Liaodong crossbows.

But Rao is like this, the Yuan army is still unswervingly advancing towards the Youzhou phalanx, and when a Yuan soldier falls to the ground, a new Yuan soldier will immediately step forward to fill the position.

Large-scale infantry duels are boring and tedious, because they have to keep their formations intact, and if they are out of shape, they will become lambs to the slaughter.

When the distance between the two sides is less than a hundred steps.

After firing the last round of crossbow arrows, the Youzhou soldiers carried the crossbow behind their backs, which had the advantage that the crossbow might be able to save their lives by blocking the swords coming from behind.

Although the Liaodong crossbow is very good, Li Yang attaches the most importance to the lives of the soldiers, and in front of the lives of the soldiers in Youzhou, nothing is worth mentioning.

The Youzhou infantry was slightly different from the regular army, and the soldiers in the first three rows of them were all armed with huge shields with iron spikes, and nothing else.

The weapons in the hands of the soldiers in the fourth to sixth rows were spears, spears that were more than a foot long, and the blades were nearly three feet long, and the soldiers after them used knives or spears, and everything was available.

After the two sides engaged, the infantry of the Yuan army, who held a shield in their left hand and a knife in their right, made a uniform chopping and stabbing action, while the Youzhou soldiers raised their huge shields in unison to block the first round of attacks of the Yuan soldiers, and only a very small number of Youzhou soldiers were killed on the spot by the first round of Yuan soldiers.

After the Youzhou shield soldiers blocked the first round of Yuan's attack, they pressed their bodies tightly behind the giant shield and tried their best to make a forward sprint, they had to resist the momentum of the Yuan's soldiers rushing forward with their flesh and blood.

Then there was the pikemen standing behind the shieldmen, who took half a step forward in unison, then stabbed forward with their spears, then pulled their spears, stabbed again, and then pulled their spears, and the pikemen were very skillful and very mechanically repeating the above movements, their movements were constantly changing with the speed of the drum, and as the drums got faster and faster, the movements in their hands became faster and faster.

Although the Yuan soldiers blocked some of the attacks, they still suffered massive casualties.

The soldiers of the Yuan army were all fearless of death, although they showed some flaws, but they did not show the slightest defeat.

When the battle lasted for an hour, a gap appeared in the formation of both Li and Yuan, and this gap had a tendency to intensify.

Han Dang and Yuan Tan, who were the commanders of the former army, saw this situation, so they sent their right-hand men to fill the cracks.

Yuan Tan ordered his general Cen Bi to lead people to plug the gap, and before Cen Bi left, Yuan Tan specially instructed him: "Just command in the center, and you must not fight with enemy generals." ”

His family knows his own affairs, what virtue Cen Bi has, Yuan Tan knows it in his heart, and he makes Cen Bi fight, mainly because Yuan Tan's subordinates are no longer available.

As the so-called Shuzhong no general Liao turned into a pioneer, Cen Bi was purely a big one among the short people, and he was pulled out by force!

Cen Bi nodded in understanding, and then saluted and led the people away.

And Han Dang sent Lu Dai.

Lu Dai laughed loudly, and bowed his hand to Han Dang in high spirits, and took the order!

Lu Dai is an official fan, all he thinks about all day long is meritorious service and meritorious service, promotion and promotion, he can't wait for all the big battles to be commanded by himself!

When Lü Dai led his troops to a hundred paces away from his gap, he was depressed, because there were people everywhere, if Lü Dai led his soldiers to join the battle group, then he could only dismount and fight, if he dared to ride into the enemy camp, then his beloved horse would be stabbed into a sieve by Yuan's soldiers in minutes.

Lu Dai smashed his mouth, then turned over and dismounted, and said to the people around him: "You take my war horse to General Han, let him take care of it for me for a while, and after repelling Yuan's army, I will personally go to General Han to get it back." ”