It seems that Song Jian's army is not very bad.

"Looking at its army, the queue is neat, the equipment is not too bad, the banner is also clear, and it is also a strong force in Liangzhou, no wonder it can be divided in such a place for fifteen years without being wiped out, this is a hard bone, it is not easy to gnaw, we have to be careful."

Chen Gong said.

Cao Ren's view is different.

"They haven't fought much in fifteen years, relying on the terrain and numbers, they can often directly force the enemy back, so they lack combat experience, although the queue is neat, but the recruits we have just trained, the queue is much neater than them, our elite has experienced a hundred battles, and has rich combat experience, can this group of people be compared?"

Chen Gong felt that Cao Ren's opinion was a bit interesting, they were divided into these places, there would not be many opportunities to fight, and the experience of fighting in large regiments was even rarer, if they really fought each other, were they really opponents?

That's hard to say.

With such an idea, Chen Gong also supported Cao Ren to fight with them face-to-face.

So Cao Ren immediately arranged his troops and let Cao Xiu be the front governor, directly leading the troops to fight against Song Wei, thinking of using this enemy army to train Cao Xiu and see how Cao Xiu has improved over the years.

Guo Peng was still very optimistic about Cao Xiu, so he instructed Cao Ren not to forget to give Cao Xiu the opportunity to lead the troops to fight during the march, so that Cao Xiu could also experience and increase his experience.

Soon, Song Wei's side also began to arrange troops, and a big battle between the two sides was about to break out.

The Wei army has always been very active on the battlefield.

The Wei army has never been afraid of the enemy, and the victory in the battle over the years has filled them with the will to fight and the confidence of victory, so there is no doubt that the Wei army took the initiative to attack in this battle.

The mode of attack remained the same as before, starting with a long-range fire strike with a large number of powerful crossbows to deal a severe blow to the enemy's arrogance.

"Put!"

Cao Xiu gave an order, and a large number of strong crossbowmen released the bowstring they were holding on to, and shot out the thick and hard bows in one go.

Countless bows and arrows pierced the sky, rushing towards Song Wei's military formation with an indomitable momentum, covering it, Song Wei never expected that the Wei army had such a huge number of powerful crossbows with such a long range, and the Wei army's arrow rain pressed Song Wei's military formation out of a gap in an instant.

A large number of soldiers who were not protected by large shields died tragically under the rain of arrows and were crucified to the ground.

Those who died were lucky, at least for a moment, without the slightest pain, and those who were not killed but were pierced by an arrow through a certain part of their body were sad, crying and crying, but no one could save them, and most of them could only die miserably on the ground.

The Wei army's arrow rain hit non-stop, Song Wei was dumbfounded, he didn't expect the Wei army's arrow rain attack to be so fierce.

Seeing that his army continued to lose men and horses, and people kept trying to retreat, Song Wei could only grit his teeth and beat the war drums, ordered the army to move forward at full speed, collided with the Wei army, and forced the Wei army to no longer use the strong crossbow with hand-to-hand combat.

To say that this Song Wei is not a coward, and his army is not a weak chicken, he really rushed forward quickly against the rain of arrows, and he really didn't collapse so quickly, it does seem that he has some ability.

There are Han people, Qiang people, Xiongnu people, and other miscellaneous people who don't know the nationality in this army, which can be called a mixed army, and there are not a few soldiers with strong combat effectiveness and fierce personality.

In the face of the blow of the Wei army, at first, they were not afraid.

In the process of the strong development of the Wei army, it also repeatedly encountered the elite troops under the command of the major warlords, and fought fiercely with these elite troops, without exception, they all relied on stronger combat effectiveness to persevere.

The Wei army has fought against many opponents, and has fought with armies in many regions, and has accumulated rich combat experience.

Song Wei's army soon rushed in front of the Wei army, and they were faced with the Wei army's neat formation, with tall shields and bright spears.

The spearmen desperately stabbed with their spears, the shield soldiers tried their best to protect their comrades, and the Wei army's battle array was as steady as Mount Tai under the onslaught of the Song great army, constantly inflicting a large number of casualties on Song Wei's army, and the blood they killed was a river and a mountain of corpses.

The Wei army never liked to stay where it was, it must have been to move forward, to kill the enemy while moving forward, step by step to push back the enemy's army formation on the opposite side, until their pace was disordered and could not maintain a unified and neat military formation, so that the enemy army would be defeated.

The tactics of the Wei army have been quite perfect, whether it is facing the infantry army or the cavalry, the Wei army has a strong ability to deal with it, and even more so in the face of the army in front of it.

In the short battle, Chen Gong had already seen the weakness of this army, it seemed to be strong and neat, but the cooperation between them was indeed very rusty, and it didn't look like a battle-hardened formation at all.

The location does allow them to stand out safely, but the lack of opponents is also a problem that cannot be ignored.

Without real fighting, the army and soldiers can not grow, this army that is king behind closed doors when facing the battle-hardened Wei army, at first can rely on the courage of blood and strength to face the Wei army head-on, but as time goes by, the problems of coordination and strength begin to become prominent.

After an hour of fighting, the Wei army's strength was still full, the spearmen were still holding their spears and stabbing with their spears, and the shield soldiers were still resisting with large shields, and their combat effectiveness was still maintained.

And Song Wei's army couldn't support it.

In the face of the continuous attack of the Wei army, they were exhausted and could not keep up with their physical strength, and they were stabbed to death by the spearmen of the Wei army in just a little trance, and a large number of soldiers who insisted on the front line were stabbed to death, and the army began to be chaotic and the soldiers began to disperse.

They began to be unable to resist the sharp attacks of the Wei army and began to retreat.

At the right time, Cao Ren threw in cavalry and began to threaten Song Wei's two wings, and Song Wei also put cavalry into battle, but it was no match for the Wei cavalry.

After some fighting, Song Wei's cavalry retreated, and the Wei cavalry began to outflank from both flanks, with a tendency to cut off Song Wei's retreat.

Song Wei discovered this trend, and immediately sent the rear army to the rear to ensure the safety of the rear road, and sent his own personal soldiers to the front line as a supervising team, trying to ensure the rear road while curbing the trend of the front army's retreat, so as to persist in the battle.

The Overseer slashed and slaughtered the rout to block the retreat, but the result was not good, the Wei army's attack became more and more sharp, and the physical strength of Song Wei's army was rapidly exhausted, and the fear of the rout of the Wei army completely exceeded the fear of the Overseer.

They swarmed up and overthrew the warlords, and quickly fled backwards.

The situation on the battlefield could not be reversed since then, Cao Xiu led the army to quickly assault, Song Dawei was shocked, and immediately retreated under the protection of his own soldiers.

Song Wei ran away, and the army naturally could not continue to resist, and soon the army was defeated like a mountain, Cao Ren waved his army to cover the killing, and the Song great army that was killed was defeated.

This head-to-head battle caused Song Jian's army to suffer heavy losses, with nearly half of the 20,000 troops lost, and two or three thousand people captured, with only a few retreating with Song Wei.

Song Wei was forced to retreat, while Cao Ren took advantage of the situation to advance his army to the key crossing of the road to Han County, which was also the place where Song Jian heavily fortified.

Cao Ren observed it and found that Song Jian had set up a fortress-style military camp at the main crossing of the road leading to Han County, which was built with wood and stone, which looked quite a bit of a majestic pass.

But it's quite a few points, about a point or two, compared to Hangu Pass and Tongguan under construction, it feels like a child stacking blocks, which is really unsightly.