The battle between the two sides began with the exchange of arrows by the archers, and when they entered the range of the bows and arrows, the archers of both sides immediately drew their bows and arrows and fired with all their might.

The rain of arrows in the sky was intertwined in the air, and even before the arrows could shoot at the opposing camp, they had already collided in the air, which showed the density of these arrows.

In contrast, the bow and crossbow of the state army is more aggressive, the main reason is that the state army is equipped with a large number of crossbows, after Cao Liang entered the state, there are manpower and material resources to ensure that in terms of ordnance manufacturing, the scale of production can be expanded, in the past, such as small batches of equipment for the army's crossbows, equipped catapults, repeating catapults, and crossbow vehicles, these equipment can now be widely equipped in various infantry battalions, this time it is a field battle that requires high mobility rather than siege operations, Otherwise, the state army will definitely put the heavy equipment of catapults into actual combat.

At present, the ratio of archers and crossbowmen of each infantry battalion of the Bingzhou Army has basically reached one to one, although the range of the crossbow is smaller than that of the compound bow, but in terms of killing effect, it has a unique advantage, so this round of bows and arrows of the two sides shoots at each other, and it is obvious that the Bingzhou army is going to overpower the Sima army.

Wang Guan stood in the middle of the formation, commanding the army to dodge the arrows that came like a torrential rain as much as possible, and the sword and shield soldiers put up their shields as much as possible and connected them together, so that they could not only protect themselves, but also protect the soldiers of other arms around them, and other soldiers without shields used all cover to cover, such as hiding behind the baggage carts, in short, hiding as much as possible.

But Rao is so, and the state army's large-scale 360-degree attack method without dead angles has made Sima Jun pay a lot of casualties, many soldiers were killed or injured by arrows, especially archers, they themselves are an army that attacks the strong and defends the weak, and in the shooting, there are constantly archers who are hit by arrows, and there are many casualties.

The greater the casualties of the archers, the smaller the strength of the Sima army's counterattack, and in the face of the super arrow covering attack of the Bingzhou army, the Sima army's archers did not dare to resist hard, and dodged one after another, so that they shot behind, and the Sima army was almost dumb.

However, the arrow output of the Bingzhou army has never been attenuated, they fight together, the sword and shield soldiers provide strong protection for the crossbowmen, and the crossbowmen only need to be responsible for the attack, such a complementary combat system can ensure that the crossbowmen of the Bingzhou army can provide a continuous and stable attack wave.

Although in the process of firing, the battalions of the Bingzhou Army also suffered casualties of varying degrees, but this casualty phenomenon was not common, and the Bingzhou Army could maintain uninterrupted arrow strikes in the process of advancing forward, which also provided strong support for the advance of the infantry.

If you want to really annihilate this Sima army in the encirclement, it is impossible for the state army to rely only on long-range bows and crossbows to attack, and it is necessary to press the infantry and cavalry up and engage in hand-to-hand combat, so that it is possible to completely annihilate them.

Wen Qin's cavalry battalion was on the left and right flanks of the infantry battalion, but the cavalry battalion was not willing to play a supporting role in this battle, relying on the advantage of speed, the cavalry battalion took the lead in breaking out from the left and right flanks.

The iron cavalry rumbled, and the Xiao cavalry battalion took the lead in attacking the Sima army.

However, the defense line built by the Sima army with a large number of baggage vehicles could block the attack of the Bingzhou cavalry to a certain extent, and the Xiao cavalry rushed to the front and had to restrain the war horse.

In fact, the height of the baggage cart is not high, and if the war horse jumps over, it can definitely jump over the baggage cart. However, Wang Guan had already paid attention to this point when he was arranging the grain carts, so he tried his best to line up the grain carts side by side, with as few as three or four cars and as many as five or six cars, and the middle was tightly tied together with thick ropes.

The biggest advantage of this is that it can defend against cavalry attacks, and the war horses can jump over the grain carts, but at most they can jump over one or two, and they will not jump over several at once.

Wen Qin rushed closer only to find that Sima Jun's grain carts were lined up very much, and it was not easy to rush over at once, so he had to solve these grain carts.

However, these grains and grasses are very closely connected, and it is not easy to destroy them in a short period of time.

And Sima Jun hid behind the grain cart, constantly casting cold arrows, and even Wen Qin was hit by an arrow in the shoulder, fortunately Wen Qin was wearing thick armor, although this arrow pierced the armor, but the arrow did not have much strength, Wen Qin only suffered a little skin trauma.

Slightly injured and unable to get out of the line of fire, Wen Qin did not retreat for half a minute, and ordered the cavalry battalion to light torches and throw the torches at those grain cart arrays.

The grain carts were all made of wood, and naturally they were the best things to start fires, and so many torches from the cavalry battalion were thrown in one after another, and soon they were set on fire and burst into flames.

Wang Guan was a little anxious at first, these grain carts were their only barrier at present, once they were burned, the cavalry of the state army could drive straight in, and they would be difficult to resist.

In a hurry, Wang Guan ordered Sima Jun to go to extinguish the fire, but the fire was easy to burn, and it was difficult to extinguish it, not to mention that these grains and grasses were made of dry wood, and they could not be extinguished when they caught fire.

However, although the fire burned the grain wagon, it invisibly formed a wall of fire, blocking the Bingzhou cavalry from the fire ring, and it was impossible for the Bingzhou cavalry to attack until the fire was extinguished.

But just looking at this fire, it is impossible to finish without three or two pillars of incense, although this time is not too long, but for Wang Guan, it is enough.

Although the fire showed signs of spreading to both ends, it was impossible to set fire to the entire circle of grain carts in a short period of time, especially if it was in the upper hand, it was difficult for the fire to burn.

This position is the direction of attack of the Changshui battalion, Wang Jun is still commanding the battle on the east mountain at this time, responsible for leading the assault is the two captains of the Changshui battalion, they each led a thousand people to kill the Sima army, although the grain truck can block the cavalry, but can not stop the infantry, only more than half a person high baggage truck for the infantry, it is just an obstacle to lift the foot, the soldiers of the Changshui battalion trampled on the grain cart, as if walking on the ground, the speed did not decrease at all and rushed to the Sima army.

The hand-to-hand battle soon began, and the infantry of the state army swarmed up, and Wang Guan commanded the Sima army to resist desperately, and the two sides fell into bloody hand-to-hand combat.