It wasn't until it became noisy outside again that Lin Fan, who had been sleepless all night, put down the book in his hand.

The thieves he feared about stealing the camp obviously did not become a reality, and the camp was uneventful overnight.

Not only did the thief soldiers not come to steal the camp, but they didn't even have the least temptation, perhaps because the thief general Du Zishan felt that this was a waste of effort.

In this way, the people of Shenzhou spent the first day of their first arrival. Of course, Lin Fan would not be disappointed by the fact that the thieves did not come, he got up and stretched, and left the camp quickly.

The sky was bright, and the whole camp was full of food and drink. Lin Fan ordered the whole army to line up, facing the rising sun and the morning dew with the autumn chill, and marched towards the camp of the thief army.

The camps of the two sides are not too far apart, and they have also scattered a lot of scouts around each other's camps, and it is difficult for either side to hide from the other side if there is a little trouble.

As soon as the official army left the camp as a whole team, the scouts in the thief army had already seen the movements of the official army and quickly went back to report.

Du Zishan, who got the news, understood that they had superior forces at the moment, and if they blindly stuck to the camp, their advantages would be limited and difficult to play.

Moreover, the camp does not have a complete city defense like the city, and the defense is limited. If it is besieged and the siege equipment of the official army is used, the casualties will not be small.

Although the advantage of defending the camp has been lost, the flexibility of using troops has been greatly improved. Compared to the passivity of defense, it is undoubtedly more active.

In contrast, Du Zishan decided to send the whole army out to meet the officers and soldiers.

In an open field less than fifteen miles from the camp of the thieves, the armies of the two sides met in front of the battle.

When the narrow road meets, the brave wins, and even more so on the battlefield. Both sides knew that this war was inevitable, there was no so-called dialogue and negotiation, and it was a clash of flesh and blood from the beginning.

The front of the officers and troops formed a shield formation of long players, followed by pikemen and short men, and then crossbowmen. With this common formation in the war book, it is constantly approaching the thief army.

Compared with the well-equipped officers and soldiers, the thief army is much worse.

Since they could not be equipped with as many shields as the officers and soldiers, many of them had to use a single plank as a shield, including many door panels that had been removed from the houses of the common people, and some table tops that had been sawn legs. Compared with the two, it can only be said to be simple.

These so-called shields are not only not protective, but they are also difficult to operate and extremely inconvenient to use.

For the thief army, if they advance at this time, it is easy to cause confusion in the formation. Therefore, Du Zishan still decided to focus on defense and wait for the officers and soldiers to take the initiative to approach.

When the officers approached a hundred paces in front of the thief formation, as if agreed, the archers on both sides began to throw at almost the same time, and a dense rain of arrows rushed towards the enemy's formation.

The shields of the officers and soldiers are better protected and more closely coordinated, and the round shields in the hands of the short soldiers behind can protect the gaps between the long escapes and the top of their heads. Except for one or two unlucky ghosts who are occasionally hit by arrows, the bow and arrow of the thief soldier are difficult to achieve.

The casualties on the thief's side were much greater, and a rain of arrows poured down from the top of their heads, and the limited shield in the thief's hand could not keep most of the arrows out. The door panels and table tops are also inflexible, and it would be foolish to expect them to block all the arrows.

The thieves could only hide under their shields as much as possible, and many of them even had an already crude formation

I can't take care of it. In order to avoid the ubiquitous arrows, those people were eager to burrow their whole bodies into the earth.

This behavior of the thief soldiers attracted repeated scolding from the generals in the thief army, which made the situation better.

Although the formation has been stabilized, casualties are inevitable, and the situation is not optimistic.

The rain of arrows of the officers and soldiers seemed to not stop, constantly flying towards the formation of the thieves.

In a round of arrow rain, countless thieves fell to the ground with arrows, and the wounded and dead were constantly dragged away, and then the latter made up for them, and then fell down again, and the cycle repeated.

At this time, the officers and troops had stopped advancing, set up a defensive formation on the spot, and assumed a defensive posture.

In this way, if they do not finish the arrows in their hands, they are not ready to move.

If the thief army wants to change the status quo, it must take the initiative to break the situation.

In the case that the shield and bow and arrow are not as good as people, if Du Zishan, the leader of the thief army, does not want to stay where he is and be shot passively, he has two choices.

The first is to retreat, to withdraw the army beyond the range of the archers of the official army. The second is to change defense to offense and take the initiative to attack the formation of the officers and troops.

On the surface, it seems safer to retreat. But in fact, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is very likely that the soldiers will think that their side has been defeated, and their morale will collapse and trigger the rout of the whole army.

And even if they can successfully retreat, then what is the point of their camp fighting this time? It's better to stay in the camp honestly and wait for the officers and soldiers to attack.

Retreating was not a good idea, Du Zishan did not hesitate, and from the moment the official army changed from offensive to defensive, he ordered the front army to attack forward.

With a slight wave of the commander's command, these people below have to fight hard.

This time, it was the turn of the various units of the thief army to take the initiative to attack the official army, and in order to avoid a few rounds of arrow rain, the thieves almost rushed over.

The two sides are engaged in battle, and the official and military sides are also a little nervous. It was the first time for most of them to fight such a big battle, and they couldn't help but clench the weapons in their hands, and many of them were sweating in their hands.

As the thieves approached, the threat of bows and arrows diminished. But before they could be happy, they saw that the thief army was approaching thirty steps in front of the formation, and all the flag officers and teams in the official army were unanimously giving the same order: "Short crossbowman, release!" ”

From the gap between the shields, the crossbows spat out their fangs.

In this kind of hand-to-hand combat, the power of military short crossbows has been greatly demonstrated.

This is not like the archers' projectile just now, they only need to shoot in the direction of the enemy, and it depends on the will of heaven whether they can shoot or not.

Behind each short crossbow, there are a pair of sharp eyes staring at their prey, just waiting for the order of their superiors to come down, and then they can take the lives of their enemies.

At such a short distance, it was difficult for the crossbowman to miss. The column of soldiers at the front of the thief army fell in large pieces at once.

Before the two armies, death was the most common thing. The dead are already dead, and the still alive have no time to grieve, much less to be afraid.

Those who are not afraid of death on the battlefield may not be able to live, but those who are afraid of death will definitely die. Even if such a person does not die at the hands of the enemy, his own people will not let you go.

The rest of the thieves quickly crossed over

The corpses of his comrades, and filled the vacant space in front of them, and charged at a faster speed towards the officers and soldiers.

The distance between the two sides was rapidly closing, and the crossbowmen only had time to take turns firing two rounds of crossbow arrows, and the thieves were already in front of them, and they had no chance to fire a third shot.

According to the usual training, the crossbowmen retreated, and the pikemen made up. The thieves rushed towards the official formation, and the strong collision came as scheduled.

The long-card soldiers kept retreating under the onslaught of the thieves to relieve the strength of the thieves' charge, while the pikemen waited for an opportunity to collect the lives of the thieves.

With such a dense crowd, every time the spear behind the shield is stabbed, it will not miss.

The pikemen stabbed through any gap that could accommodate the passage of the barrel of a gun, and it was vicious and vicious. The thieves in the front row were bitten by an elusive viper, and then fell to the ground screaming.

However, all this did not stop the thieves, the offensive of the thieves became more and more ferocious, and under the continuous attack, the physical strength of both pikemen and long-card soldiers was violently depleted.

Each impact of the thieves would make the formation of the officers and soldiers retreat a few points, and as the impact of the thieves became more and more violent and the physical strength of the officers and soldiers in the front row decreased, the formation of the officers and soldiers began to shake, and it was no longer as stable as it was at the beginning.

The officers and soldiers were brave, but there was no shortage of brave men among the thieves. One of the thieves grabbed a spearman who had no time to retract after stabbing it, and pulled his spear out from behind the shield, knocking out several long players in the process.

Before the caught off guard pikemen and a few long players who had been knocked over from behind could react, countless thieves smashed their weapons mixed with anger on them, almost cutting them into a pile of meat sauce.

This kind of thing happened in more than one place, he happened in every corner of the battle. This formation of the official army has reached a precarious point under the offensive of the thief army.

Lin Fan saw that the formation was no longer difficult to maintain, so he ordered: "Order Chen Fangshu and Wang Hu to change the formation!" ”

The flag waved, and the herald galloped away.

The officers and soldiers began to change their formations, no longer using large military formations, and became more suitable for small team battles.

The double-line formation of more than ten people cooperating with each other is extremely flexible, and it can be divided into small formations within one team, or it can be combined with other teams to form a large formation.

Faced with the cooperation of long players, pikemen, and short soldiers, the thieves are helpless, because you have no idea where the attack that killed you came from.

The officers and soldiers are wandering around, seemingly scattered, but in fact there is another mystery. They took advantage of the many changes in the double line array, sometimes scattered and sometimes converged between the arrays, causing great damage to the thieves.

After an encounter, the thieves were repeatedly suppressed from the beginning. The advantage is gradually tilting towards Lin Fan's side, although it cannot be said that the victory is in hand, but the officers and troops have indeed begun to gradually grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

It's just that the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and until the dust settles at the last moment, no one dares to say that they will definitely win.

The specific outcome of this battle still depends on whether the officers and troops led by Lin Fan can maintain their current advantage and gradually expand it into a victory.

If you can, you will win, and if you can't, you will lose, this is an eternal truth. And no matter how many military books you read, these things on the battlefield are actually as simple as that.