Long-range fire strikes are not only intensive, but also deadly.

The pro-soldiers around Ma Chao desperately used shields to form a tight defense, so that the rain of arrows could not hurt Ma Chao.

But not everyone is so well protected, and most are still exposed to the rain of arrows.

And what's worse is that most people don't wear iron armor, only a few elite soldiers have iron armor, and most people have leather armor, but leather armor is difficult to resist such sharp arrows.

The strong crossbowmen on the Wei army's side came down when they were tired, changed to another group of people, continued to shoot, took turns to fight, and exchanged in an orderly manner, which the strong crossbowmen had been trained very well.

When Ma Chao led the army forward, the five rounds of salvo fire had already made it difficult for Ma Chao to lose his troops and move forward.

Such a large-scale rain of arrows, such a high-density shooting, Ma Chao swears that he has really never seen it since he was fourteen years old.

What a joke, when did he encounter such an enemy with such an army!

It's all strong crossbows!

Lacking experience and the ability to respond to emergencies, Ma Chao could only anxiously urge the army to speed up and move forward, so as to speed up the attack range of the strong crossbow.

He believed that as long as he reached his shooting range, he would be able to return the favor to Guo Peng's army.

Xun You, on the other hand, improvised and ordered the well-trained crossbowmen to lower the angle of their shots, reduce the range of their shots, and deliver another wave of full-coverage blows to the Liangzhou military formation.

Before the two armies officially clashed, the Liangzhou soldiers had been cleaned by the rain of arrows for a while.

After receiving a round of baptism, and finally without a rain of strong crossbow arrows, the Ma Chao Legion finally came to a distance suitable for them to fight and a distance suitable for them to play.

Ma Chao's confidence was greatly increased, and he immediately ordered the whole army to prepare, and then the crossbowmen immediately fired back at Guo Peng's army formation.

However, the big shield defense of Guo Peng's army is not weaker than that of the Xiliang army, and the shield soldiers are designed to resist the arrows with the big shield, Ma Chao lacks crossbow arrows, and the bow and arrow are far inferior to Guo Peng's strong crossbow in terms of range and armor-breaking strength.

At this time, Xun You had already ordered the spearmen to stand on the shield and prepare for close combat.

Guo Peng values the lives of these elite soldiers under his command very much, and if he loses hundreds or thousands in one breath, it will be really distressing to die.

These elite soldiers are their own lifeblood and the pillar of their own evil autocracy, so if they can kill the enemy with a long-range strike, they should be killed as far as possible to avoid close combat.

When it's time for melee combat, you'll have to fight in close combat.

Wei Jun was also never afraid of hand-to-hand combat.

Eat and drink well, boil up and train the military formation, isn't it at this time?

Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, it is at this time that Guo's huge investment can recover the cost.

Anyway, it was round after round of arrow rain, and when Ma Chao finally rushed to the front with the rain of arrows, Xun You had already ordered the war drums to be beaten, and the Wei army took the initiative to attack.

The Wei army array rushed up to the front, stabbed quickly with spears, and took the lead.

Fierce hand-to-hand combat began, and the soldiers of the two armies exchanged deadly blows with their bright spears.

They didn't know when they would be able to stab the enemy to death, or if they would simply be stabbed to death with a single spear, or even several spears stabbed in together, nailing people to the ground, which was extremely cruel.

The shield soldier vigorously used the big shield to protect the comrades behind him, and the comrades behind him desperately stabbed the opposite side with their spears.

The two sides come and go, desperately trying to move forward and push each other back.

Whoever can't stand it, who retreats, and who messes up, then this face-to-face duel is who wins.

Ma Chao originally thought that the Liangzhou soldiers' housekeeping skills would shine here, and those weak Kwantung soldiers would not be the opponents of the Liangzhou soldiers at all.

But he never expected that these Kwantung soldiers would be so brave, and they would not fall behind in the face of the attack of the elite soldiers in Liangzhou, and they fought back and forth.

They were dressed in fine armor, their whole body armor was very perfect, and they had great strength, and they did not fall behind in the battlefield where the military formations were fighting each other, and there were even faint signs of pushing the Liangzhou military formation back.

The Liangzhou soldiers lacked sophisticated protective gear, and they fell behind in the mutual attack, and their losses were significantly greater than those of the Wei army, and they lost in momentum.

If the military formation is pushed back, it is easy to lose the formation, the army is scattered, and once the formation is lost, it is equivalent to the collapse of the whole army.

"Push me forward!"

The horse shouted hoarsely, and ordered the drummers to beat the war drums desperately, urging the soldiers to keep moving forward and forward.

In order to achieve a faster victory, Ma Chao even asked Ma Dai and Pang De to take their own personal guards to the front line, in this way to motivate the army to advance violently and try to crush the Wei army.

However, the Wei army was really like a wall, nailed to the spot and did not move, and the battle in front was killed and the back was immediately on top, without a trace of stagnation.

The spear had been constantly harvesting the lives of the Liangzhou soldiers, and the blood of the two armies that had been pierced was flowing in front of the formation, and the corpses were gradually piling up.

Ma Chao kept panting.

He will never admit defeat, he will never retreat, and he will never admit the result of defeat.

He is Ma Mengqi, who everyone is afraid of and has to give three points, and Ma Mengqi, who is very afraid of the Qiang people who beat him in his hometown in Liangzhou, and the rest of the miscellaneous hus.

So he definitely won't back down!

Unless his back path has been cut off.

Yes, his back path was cut off.

The sudden Wei cavalry quickly defeated Ma Chao's rear army, copied Ma Chao's rear road, attacked Ma Chao's Chinese army from the rear, and directly cut off Ma Chao's Chinese army and the front army.

The banner of Wei is so dazzling and ironic in Ma Chao's eyes.

Wei generals Cao Chun and Cao Xiu were ordered to lead the cavalry team to copy Ma Chao's rear road, defeated Ma Chao's rear army, and cut off the communication between Ma Chao and the front army.

The war horses galloped and neighed, and the arrows rained down, and the Liangzhou soldiers were caught off guard, and they were stunned by the sudden insertion of the Wei cavalry.

The Liangzhou soldiers were in a mess because of this, and their morale was greatly reduced, and when the army that was fighting in front found that their back roads had also been copied, it became inevitable to retreat.

The Liangzhou soldiers, who were still fighting desperately just now, began to flee in a blink of an eye, and along with the general stream, as long as one person drove it, it could immediately cause a terrible chain reaction, which was beyond the control of Pang De and Ma Dai, and also beyond the control of Ma Chao.

Ma Dai and Pang De desperately tried to stabilize the military formation, commanding their own soldiers to surround and intercept, killing the soldiers who took the lead in escaping, but to no avail.

Ma Chao is also working very hard to save the situation, he personally led his own soldiers to rush left and right, giving full play to his own and his own soldiers' strong combat effectiveness, trying to open a situation and gather more soldiers to meet.

However, it also to no avail.

The rout of the soldiers on the battlefield is not so easy to recover.

The Liangzhou soldiers completely collapsed, and the balance of victory quickly tilted.

When Zhang He, Cao Hong, Zhu Ling, and Xia Zhao discovered the fighters, they immediately led their troops forward bravely, beating the war drums and attacking forward, constantly prompting the soldiers to kill the retreating Liangzhou soldiers, pushing the battle line forward, tearing apart the military formation of the Liangzhou soldiers, and speeding up the process of the war.

Cao Xiu and Cao Chun constantly tried to attack Ma Chao's military formation, killing or taking Ma Chao down, so as to end the battle and get the highest credit.

Ma Chao desperately wanted to break through, but he could only watch more and more Wei cavalry surround him, and he wanted to break forward, but he couldn't do it at all, so he could only do useless work and fight meaninglessly in such a situation.

Is it going to end here?

I'm going to end here?

Ma Chao was a little desperate.

And at this moment, Han Sui came.

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