In March, the east bank of Xiaoyu River.

With the warm spring snow melt and the flood skyrocketing, the water level of Xiaoyu Water has risen by several meters, and the rice in the Yilusu Fatun field on the west bank of the river has been fully irrigated, and at the same time, the draft water level of Xiaoyu Water has risen to the extent that it is enough to drive sand boats in the sea.

You must know that in the dry season of autumn and winter, the most important thing to worry about when using troops in eastern Liaodong is that the water level of many rivers and swamps is reduced to the extent that "shallow vehicles and horses are not passable, and deep are not carrying boats".

Historically, Cao Cao cut down Wuhuan, and the reason why he needed Tian Chou to "not sell Lu Long" and offer the strategy of leaving Lu Long's old way was because Cao Cao cut down Wuhuan in the autumn, and the water level of the rivers in the West Liaoning Corridor was not suitable. Cao Cao left a wooden sign of "Retire now, come back next spring" to deceive the enemy, and the enemy will believe it.

Therefore, the natives of Liaodong basically do not have the string of "guarding against the water army" in their minds. Because of the flood season, most of the year, not only can the sand boats in the sea not be able to enter the large and small Chongqing waters, but there are also no inland river boats in the local area.

Guan Yu took advantage of such a solar term to lead 3,000 foot soldiers, including 2,000 Danyang soldiers and 1,000 crossbowmen, to slowly march north along Xiaoyu River under the cover of a van with a cloth curtain, making a look of covering and defending the Wuhuan people from crossing the river and destroying the west bank.

The 3,000-foot army and the chariot formation formed a moon-shaped, and the two sides shrank back against the river bank, and the spears, halberds, bows, and crossbows were all facing the outside, like a hedgehog with a semi-circular arc.

Although he committed the taboo of "fighting against the water" behind his back, once he was crushed by the enemy, he would be driven into the river and drowned. But in fact, Guan Yu had another 1,000 Jiujiang soldiers and 1,000 crossbowmen ambushed in the Mijia fleet on the river, even if the infantry was really driven down the river, they would be fished out by the navy.

The Danyang soldiers, who served as the emperors in the land car formation, also made an exception to give up their usual swords and shields, and instead held halberds facing outward, carrying crossbows in their vehicles.

Liu Bei and Li Su also personally sat on the largest modified Mijia ship, observing through the holes of the arrows. And beside them, it was Zhou Tai who was responsible for commanding the fleet and the Jiujiang soldiers.

Because Mizhu's sea ships also have to take into account the purpose of transportation, the center of gravity should not be too high, so the superstructure is much shorter than large warships of the same tonnage, and it seems that the combat effectiveness is not very strong, and there is no condescending arrow range advantage.

But the actual effect, only who uses it and who knows-and the warship is not used for the enemy to pick up and jump to slash and kill? Why bother if it has to be like a siege? As long as you have the money to install a strong crossbow, this little range advantage brought by the altitude difference does not matter at all.

"This formation, is it that after cooperating with Jizhou Koji Yi to break Xianbei Suli that day, Yun Chang pondered? Imitating Koji Yoshi's tactics of first boarding the camp and breaking the cavalry? The Xianbei people suffered a big loss under the hands of Liyi and Yun Chang, wouldn't this Wuhuan King learn a lesson? ”

Liu Bei still has some expectations for the combat effectiveness of this new formation that Li Su and Guan Yu have drummed up. After all, there is a naval army to respond, which makes up for the biggest drawback of "being driven down the river and drowning", and allows the soldiers to fight to the death.

There are also hundreds of vehicles, thousands of shields, halberds and hammers used in close combat, and hundreds of strong crossbows and nearly 1,000 waist crossbows are hidden.

Liu Bei just felt that the enemy would not bump into him like a feeding move.

Li Su is more confident than Liu Bei: "Brother and relieved, I think it is very likely that the King of Nanqiao can't help it - first of all, the Xianbei people and the Wuhuan people have never been on good terms." The King of Nanqiao has always followed Zhang Chun, and Xianbei Suli has followed Zhang Ju.

Zhang Chun's descendants have not experienced the battles of the water, and it is common for them to not communicate with each other for the reasons for defeat. The tactics of our riding along the river are not well known to the world.

Moreover, when he joined forces with Koji Yoshi, Koji Yoshi was not strictly backing the water, and the 'taboo of soldiers' he committed was not as obvious as ours, and the temptation to the enemy army was not as good as ours.

What's more, the strength of our army today is comparable to the total strength of the army when it joined forces with Koji. However, according to Zilong's intelligence, the king of Nanqiao had 15,000 soldiers and horses under his command, which was 2.5 times more than Su Li's 6,000 horsemen. The enemy army is getting more and more on the surface, and our army is committing more taboos on the surface, how can the king of the cliff endure it? ”

"In this way, I'm worried about whether Yun Chang can withstand it." Liu Bei was said by Li Su, but he felt that there was a huge disparity between the enemy and me.

Of his 10,000 soldiers and horses, only 6,000 people participated in the battle at most today, in addition to the 5,000 people on the frontal battlefield, there were also Zhao Yun with 1,000 rangers, detouring from the upper reaches from afar.

But Zhao Yun obviously will not participate in the frontal killing, and can only chase the dead and chase the north and expand the results after separating the winners and losers head-on.

Liu Bei was silent, ready to personally supervise the battle.

Li Su had a lot of expectations in his heart - he had taken Guan Yu and Ko Yi's tactics and further refined them to the point of Liu Yu, Emperor Wu of the Song Dynasty, but he couldn't insult Liu Yu's military genius.

Liu Yu's moon formation, the use conditions are too harsh, there is no absolute naval advantage, there is no big river to rely on, it can't be used, so it is short-lived in history, after the first battle became famous, since then the nomadic strong enemies in northern Xinjiang have avoided such a combat situation.

But since today's geographical conditions are met, and the enemy is still colliding upwards, why can't he win?

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Yan Rou, the advisor of the King of Nanqiao, was obviously not a military genius.

Therefore, seeing that Guan Yu took the initiative to form a formation in the east of the river to prevent the crossing of the river, the king of the cliff couldn't help it within two days.

There were 15,000 people in Changli City, and there were more than 10,000 cavalry, all of which were dispatched by the King of Nanqiao on this day.

He even secretly transferred 2,000 Wusu cavalry from the southern side of Tuhe City, which was already in a semi-surrounded state. The Han army seemed to be poorly prepared, allowing the cavalry of the Wusu tribe to exit the city through the east gate and join the king of Nanqiao.

10,000 cavalry of the Difficult Cliff Division, 2,000 cavalry of the Wusu Division, a total of 12,000 people, can't they swallow Guan Yu's 3,000 people in the backwater array!

As for Zhou Tai's sailors, there is no need to worry too much - in the spring flood season, the water level of Xiaoyu water soars, so the river surface is much wider than in the dry season, because the main riverbed in the middle has been washed by water for many years, so it is washed very deep, but the shallows along the coast are only flooded in spring, the water level is very shallow, and the sea ships are not close to the distance of less than thirty or fifty steps from the shore.

The ship was so far from the shore, coupled with the thickness of the middle section of the moon formation itself, which meant that the sailors on the ship could not support the shore with ordinary bows and light crossbows, and at most they could only suppress the cavalry on both wings of the moon formation.

"The whole army is preparing to assault, the southern flank is led by the cavalry of the headquarters led by Lord Wufu to charge and kill, and the front and north flank are to be killed by me personally! The one who killed Guan Yu was the general, if Liu Bei was also in the array, the one who killed Liu Bei would be the marquis! ”

The king of Nanqiao himself ran back and forth in front of the cavalry formation, shouting rewards for the final mobilization before the charge.

A moment later, more than 10,000 cavalry finally launched a charge amid a strange scream.

For a while, the sound of hooves shook the sky, and the momentum was like thunder, and it seemed that the surface of Xiaoyushui began to tremble.

Guan Yu immediately stood in the Chinese army, and the flag of the captain was planted on a chariot behind him, tall and majestic, and became the courage of the whole army.

Although Guan Yu's nominal left and right tooth men were not by his side today, Guan Yu did not feel apprehensive at all, but was full of confidence.

He and Ko Yi have broken the Hu cavalry twice, and the soldiers under him are also, and the past historical achievements are the best medicine for morale.

Because we've won so many times, we're confident we'll keep winning!

Once the military courage is out, with the courage to fight to the death, it is invincible!

"Crossbow ready! All the hammer soldiers are on the frame shield! Protect the crossbowmen! Put the crossbow first, then the iron arrow! ”

The hundred crossbows were all prepared according to Guan Yu's instructions.

At the end of the Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin dynasties, the application of the "beam crossbow" was in the sporadic embryonic period, and it was not until the early years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties that this weapon was frequently seen in history.

But the principle of this weapon is actually very simple, that is, to make a kind of belt that is easy to control the breaking time, tie a crossbow arrow together, and shoot it out with a strong crossbow.

This weapon is rarely used, mainly because it sacrifices the penetration and range of the bolt in exchange for the density of fire. A strong crossbow that could effectively kill three or four hundred steps, so that each arrow can only effectively kill within a hundred steps, or even only fifty steps, what is the use? It is better to arrange more archers, and use soft bows for the number of people.

However, this tactic has a tremendous effect on troops that are psychologically prepared to fight a bloody battle of attacking positions and attacking fortified positions.

It's like in the era when muskets lined up to shoot, and when the last charge to engage the enemy, the infantry guns on both sides switched from large solid bullets to shotguns. This last shot entered the soul, and the killing and wounding of the enemy troops within fifty paces was terrifying.

At the same time, showing weakness to the enemy in range at the beginning will give the enemy greater confidence to charge the car formation! Otherwise, if you use the ultra-long-range firepower consumption of iron arrows at the beginning, maybe the enemy will retreat and lose their physical strength and energy against you.

Sure enough, the Xianbei people did not charge directly at the beginning, but rushed to more than a hundred steps in front of Guan Yu's formation, and began to patrol and probe, galloping slowly horizontally, casually covering with a bow throw, and did not seek to kill or injure the Han army, but only to harass and weaken.

"The Hammer Shields are all in place! No retreat, no chaos! The Chaos Slash! The hammer shield soldier is not dead, but the crossbow is destroyed! Guan Yu shouted loudly, boosting morale and asking all Danyang Hammer Shield soldiers to guard their positions and never allow chaos.

The shield phalanx shoots at the cavalry, even if the number of long-range bows and crossbows in the shield phalanx is less than that of the light cavalry, it is definitely the shield phalanx that takes advantage!

The shields of these Danyang soldiers have been improved, and for this battle, they used a huge and strong shield like a Western-style tower shield. The light cavalry on the opposite side shot dozens of arrows, and not necessarily one arrow could pass through the shield array.

Even if your crossbowmen are killed or injured by the enemy through the gap in the firing when they shoot back, they must be stable and not show weakness.

"No crying, no chaos! After being injured, the reckless mover is beheaded! Guan Yu's usual benefits of being sympathetic to the soldiers and sharing the joys and hardships with the soldiers came into play at this time, although there were dozens of casualties on the side of the moon array that were shot, but there was no reaction on the surface.

Especially many soldiers who were originally flustered, seeing that Guan Yu himself had a few arrows on his armor, but Guan Yu did not move and did not cry out in pain, and the morale of the soldiers was even more inspired.

Guan Yu himself was hit by an arrow and did not shout pain, this is the best example to lead by!

It is also the effect that Guan Yuzheng wants: it doesn't matter if our army has dead or wounded, and how many dead and wounded there are!

The important thing is to behave very steadily on the outside so that the enemy thinks that you are not killed or wounded! Or there are very few dead and wounded!

Only by making the enemy feel that he is definitely the one who suffers more if he continues to shoot at you, will he not be able to hold his breath and rush up to melee combat.