Cao Cao said: "Then act according to Sima Yi's strategy, you can pass the order to Cao Ren and Xun Yu, there is no need to feint Wancheng and Tiger Prison Pass, and Liangxian is not in a hurry." ”

Xun You suggested, "My lord, in order to attack Tong Yuan and expand the results of the battle, we will lie dormant for the time being, and when Yuan Shao asks for help from us, we will have a moral advantage and then sweep away the enemy." ”

Cao Cao said, "This is a clever plan, it is estimated that Yuan Shao will not ask my little brother for help in the short term, so we can prepare for a while more in Hanoi County." ”

Dong Zhao also thinks so, this place is relatively stable and prosperous, and many scholars have fallen to Cao Cao, so it is long overdue to expand the surrounding ruling area, so that this place will no longer be attacked from many sides.

The discussion has been decided, and it is just time to seize the opportunity.

Zhang Ji led 30,000 troops and fought with Yan Liang, the vanguard of Yuan Tan's department, in the northeast of Shangdang.

"Don't drive you, that's Yan Liang."

Following Liu Bao's direction, Zhang Ji saw Yuan Shaojun at the front, surrounded by a Mingguang armored general, standing at the front of the whole army with great energy.

Xu Rong, Xu Jian, Xu Huang, Huang Yu, Qubei, Chen Gou, and even Tong Yuan and Zhang Fang, who fought with Yan Liang and Wen Chou last time, were not there.

Even if you fight hard, you can't beat it, and it seems that this fraud can't be real.

He said to Liu Bao, "I heard that Yan Liang is brave and abnormal, and each of his soldiers and horses has iron armor and leather armor, and he is by no means an easy guy to deal with. I wonder what your ministry is going to do? ”

Liu Bao said, "Although Yan Liang is brave, he is only one person, and his soldiers and horses are only half of ours. ”

Zhang Ji said, "That's fine, listen to my orders for a while, and you and Shan Yu will attack and harass the enemy's flanks for a while." But now is far from the time for a decisive battle, so there is no hurry to cover up for the time being. ”

"No!"

The armies of Zhang Ji and Yan Liang gradually approached, and the Xinxi Liang army was only twice the size of Yuan's army, but due to the loose formation of the cavalry on both wings, it appeared to be extremely large.

Such a cavalry formation looks terrifying, and if it were a second- or third-rate soldier or horse, I am afraid that they would have been terrified and would not dare to fight.

Although the soldiers and horses led by Yan Liang were not like Ju Yi's first camp, they were like thunder in Pogongsun Zhan, but they also broke Gongsun Zhan's cavalry many times, and they were not afraid of the Hun cavalry at all.

He rode out and shouted, "Who dares to fight me to the death?" ”

Li Tong, the captain of the Tuntian Military Academy, wanted to come out, but Zhang Ji stopped him and said, "You don't need to fight with him, you can directly engage the army." ”

So he ordered Hu Chuquan and Liu Bao to detour past from the two wings, and the frontal infantry stepped forward in a large formation.

Zhang Ji was surrounded by 15,000 Tuntian troops, and these soldiers were better fed and clothed than ordinary rich families, and each of them had two grades of armor or even better equipment.

More than 30% of them are long-trained archers, and whether it is a compound bow or a single bow, the difficulty and duration of training are greater than using a crossbow.

So the long-range firing power of the New Western Liang Army formed an interesting configuration.

The weakest conscripted peasant soldiers, equipped with the best trained hand crossbows and crossbows, mainly perform the tasks of vigilance, low-intensity garrison, and banditry.

The higher-level Tuntian army is equipped with compound bows and single bows, and they are also the main force to maintain the battle line and perform covering shooting.

The most elite dreadnoughts, according to different tactics and tasks, use compound bows and crossbows as the main long-range weapons, and are equipped with some easy-to-carry riding bows and crossbows.

In the future, with the abundant strength, some large yellow crossbows, bed crossbows, high stone number compound bows, armor-piercing heavy arrows and other big killing weapons will be added.

The main force of Yan Liangbu is the opposite, its elite long-range shooting power is extremely strong, but it is dominated by Zhang crossbow and Que Zhang crossbow.

This is inseparable from the composition of its generals, as well as its main opponents, including various types of light and heavy cavalry.

Most of the elites of Yan Liangbu are soldiers and some of them are off-duty armed forces who have been serving in the military for a long time because of frequent fighting. In terms of weapon selection, they generally tend to favor crossbows that are easier to reload and more lethal.

They were surrounded by a large number of cavalry who were good at cavalry archery and assault, and these cavalry were highly skilled in archery, but riding a bow did not have the same advantage of range and coverage as a crossbow for a crossbow.

Therefore, elite crossbowmen with large shields and spears can suppress the light cavalry at this time in all directions, far and near.

But what happens when such a configuration meets a huge infantry and bow soldiers?

"Boom"

"Ahh

When each salvo of arrows roared and covered, Yuan's army cowered under the cover of the big shield.

But even so, iron armor and leather armor are mixed, and most of them do not have helmets, and gradually some people report the endless screams.

Yuan Jun took advantage of the gap and hurriedly fired back a round of crossbow arrows.

"Whoosh"

The bolts are extremely fast, piercing through the air with a terrifying tearing sound.

However, there was a group of shield spearmen in the front row of the Xinxi Liang Army to form a solid shield wall, and it was difficult to break the shield if the Que Zhang crossbow was not close to within fifty steps, let alone the short Zhang crossbow and hand crossbow.

The crossbow machines in the front row of the Yuan army were unable to break through the defense, and they had to be covered by bow and arrow throwings, and they were completely suppressed for a while.

Part of the rear row Yuan Jun couldn't bear it anymore and used a crossbow machine to shoot back.

However, after a few rounds of loading and throwing, not only did he not shoot as fast as the opposite side, but he also felt that he did not cause much damage to the opponent.

It turned out that the Tuntian army of the New Western Liang Army had armor and iron and leather helmets, which were enough to block the weak projectile of the crossbow machine.

Crossbow arrows are different from bows and arrows, they are short and heavy, have few tail feathers, and the killing and accuracy of the projectile are much worse than those of the bow.

However, when some lieutenants of Yuan Jun saw this situation, they still strictly ordered the rear row to shoot.

They hoped to inflict some casualties and pressure on the Xinxi Liang army, forcing their frontal shield array to defend upward. In this way, crossbowmen who are unable to take advantage of their direct fire will be able to shoot immediately, dealing significant damage.

It's a pity that Li Tong, Liu Pi, Gong Du and others have already practiced many times and resolutely defended the front. Even if the archers in the back row have no shields, they are at most injured when they protect the vital points, and they are almost unaffected under the orderly rescue and replenishment operations.

Yuan Shaojun was already at a disadvantage in shooting, coupled with the tight cover of the shield on the opposite side, he couldn't see the killing effect of the back row at all, and the more he shot, the less confident he became. It was only under the pressure of the bullets of the soldiers that they did not retreat beyond the range of bows and arrows.

However, the two wings fired at each other according to Yuan Jun's script.

The Hun light cavalry killed Yan Liang's flank and found that the formation was complete and difficult to impact, so they had to use the ability to shoot on horseback.

Some of the Huns were strong in equestrian skills, galloping and shooting at the same time, making it difficult for the Yuan army to fight back.

However, under the cover of the big shield, Yuan Jun did not fight back at all against the harassment that was a hundred steps away. As soon as some Huns wanted to increase their lethality and accuracy, and approached a distance of sixty or seventy paces, there would immediately be a round of crossbow arrows, ready to shoot them.

This kind of counter-shooting is obviously developing in the direction of Yuan's superiority.