After the two sides lined up, the big flag waved and waved, the drum beat rapidly, and the soldiers walked forward, if you look at it from a high place, the strength of the two sides on the side is quite different, there are more than 27,000 thieves, and more than 2,000 people stay on the boat to prevent the Penghu Navy Division from raiding, and there are still three or four thousand people stationed in the sea off Penghu and have not followed.

There were thousands of soldiers in Penghu, and the group of thieves left behind five or six thousand people, which was enough to defend against a surprise attack behind them.

More than 26,000 people, their left rejection is particularly thick, there are many spears, and the thieves are densely packed, almost embracing each other and the front line.

The right rejection is much thinner than the left rejection, but it is still much thicker than the Nan'an Fu army, not only longer in expansion, but also thicker in depth.

Both sides have no logistical baggage, and there is no camp, only the Nan'an Fu army has a long base behind it, and it is only garrisoned by the people.

The beach is more than five miles from east to west, and the north and south are all in sight, and the two sides are three or four miles from north to south, and the east and west are within five miles, and tens of thousands of people are placed on this narrow battlefield, and the soldiers and horses are quite dense, and almost many pirates are behind the sea.

Qin Dongyang was in front of the first battalion of the First Army, but it was impossible for the generals and the generals of the government army to call the general the first striker, he watched a strong military man, holding a shield in his left hand and a horizontal knife in his right hand, striding in the first column of the First Army.

In front of countless military formations and countless arrows, there are these similar men, with iron armor all over their bodies, blocking their faces in iron masks, and when they walk, they seem to be not wearing iron armor weighing more than seventy pounds.

This kind of strong man reminds Qin Dongyang of those records in the history books, the legendary ancient soldiers, those strong men, seem to be lifelike and appear in front of his eyes.

Maybe those men with shields and knives were the ones who put pigs' legs on the shield at the Hongmen banquet in the Han Dynasty and ate them with knives.

Such a person is like a walking iron beast, although when observed, the opposite front is longer and deeper, so what?

With such a heroic mind, Qin Dongyang strode forward, he is also a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, walking in the ranks, if not many soldiers recognize him, I am afraid that he will also regard the first person among the generals as an ordinary soldier.

The two armies were very close to each other in an instant, from more than two miles to a mile, then to less than three hundred paces, then less than two hundred paces, and then about a hundred paces down.

Xu Zixian knew that the archers and crossbowmen in the array of the Fu army were about to be thrown, and the number of crossbowmen in the Nan'an Fu army was not too much, and there were about seventy people in the Wei army's forbidden army every hundred, and at least there were about sixty crossbowmen.

In the war against the nomadic cavalry, the Wei army used heavy infantry to cover the archers as a way to fight the cavalry, and there was no other way.

Nan'an Houfu emphasizes hand-to-hand combat training, encouraging soldiers to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, no matter what? The length of the formation? Hands, or iron cavalry, or sword players, are all strong troops ready to charge into battle and fight the enemy hand-to-hand.

However, there were still a large number of archers and crossbowmen in the army of Nan'anhou Mansion.

This is also the Great Wei's weapon for diplomatic warfare, the Great Wei heavy bow and arrow, is to have a large number of qualified archers in the people, this is an advantage, how can it be put aside? That's choking and eating waste.

The Divine Arm Bow is easy and convenient to use, but the power is greater than the bow and arrow, and it is one of the best achievements in the military development of China.

It was past noon, both sides were moving towards each other, the pirate's array was divided into a wide horizontal formation, flying forward under the guidance of various colored flags, due to lack of training, the pirate's array walked for a while was staggered, chaotic, except for maintaining the posture of continuing to move forward, it was almost impossible to see the existence of the array, that is, a large number of people walked forward in a mess, waving swords as they walked, hissing and roaring.

There is no doubt that these pirates are bloodthirsty, cruel, and violent, but they really don't have the ability to set up a military formation, and from this point of view, they are not much better than the Qizhou pirates.

Of course, their ability is not comparable to those rabble in the battle of the river beach, many pirate leaders are quite experienced, when they walk to a hundred and fifty steps, a roar sounded one after another, and then the archers in the pirates quickly spread out in the corners of each horizontal formation, they are generally carrying two or three pockets, the number of pirate archers is not much, there are hundreds of archers in the army of tens of thousands of people, and most of them are the kind of longbows with a height of one person who use the Japanese people, and most of them are Japanese archers, islanders of the Luzon countries, There are not many people who are good at using bows and arrows.

The officers and men of the government army have a strict gait, although the overall military formation has changed slightly, but on the whole it has almost maintained the formation before the impact, and there is almost no change.

And on top of their heads? Sharp, the sun shines behind him, the whole army is like a celestial man who walked out of the Buddha country, taking advantage of the glow, driving a thunderbolt, the drums on both sides are non-stop, only from the momentum, the government army is more like a regular army, and the pirates have been suppressed.

"Great." The soul of modern people in Xu Zixian's heart seems to be gradually moving away, the big war is about to start, and after a while, flesh and blood will fly, not only did he not feel afraid or have strange emotions, but he felt quite excited.

The sense of honor of the warriors on the battlefield also has a certain sense of murder, and the array of the government army is in full array, adding a little bit of expectation that victory is in sight.

After sighing with emotion, Xu Zixian said to Zhang Huchen beside him: "I want to say here that the best fate and destination for a martial artist is not to linger on the sickbed and die in the tears of his relatives, but to fight on the battlefield with a strong enemy, and die of blood wounds, so as to live up to his life." ”

Zhang Huchen said in a deep voice: "The prince is not a martial artist. ”

Xu Zixian smiled slightly, knowing that he had lost his words, and waved his hand and said: "The stronger the army of the Eastern Domain, the less chance I will have to go into battle, and I may never have a chance to charge into battle in a few years." Gentlemen, do your best. ”

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At this time, the two sides seemed to be in agreement, and they began to shoot arrows at the same time.

The arrows were so dense that they obscured the sky, and many pirates looked up without restraint, only to be knocked to the ground by a storm of arrows.

Nan'an army throws heavy arrows, because it usually attaches importance to the training of soldiers' bow strength, qualified government army archers, not necessarily how accurate, accurate is an assessment standard, but the first standard is bow power.

There are four bows in the army, and the step bow is to cooperate with arm strength and waist strength, and if there is no strength, it is in vain to say anything.

Ten forces, in later generations, is a strong bow of more than one hundred and fifty pounds, and there are not many people in the ordinary bow and arrow club who can pull it away. At this time, the soldier is the most basic standard, and if he can't pull ten bows, he should give up his intention to be an archer.

In fact, there are few people who can't pull it away, the training in the army, including Nan Anhou, is to use the bow force to measure the strength standard, but also to use the bow force to exercise the arms and chest, waist and other parts, Xu Zixian has to pull the bow more than 100 times every morning, until the sweat stops, many generals are the same, pulling the bow is more than a few movements in later generations to exercise more muscle groups, it is a good way to kill multiple birds with one stone.

The archers on both sides began to shoot arrows within a hundred paces, and the bow power of the Nan'an army was obviously superior, throwing heavy arrows, which fell in the group of pirates who lacked armor protection, and instantly shot over a large number of people.

The rain of arrows seemed to be everywhere and everywhere, falling on people's heads, instantly knocking them to the ground and then falling to the ground.

When it was shot in the neck, blood gushed out, and the person fell down with his eyes covered his neck, and he soon died.

There were even heavy arrows that fell, and the force was too great, and the shovel-shaped arrows were used, and the force was so great that half of the neck of the person who was hit by the arrow was broken, which made people feel shocked after seeing it.

Arrows were not to be struck in the chest, abdomen, legs, arms, and under the storm of arrows, the waves of pirate attacks were also stopped, and their pace of progress slowed down significantly.

The pirate archers also began to fight back, but their bow strength was insufficient, and the speed of the projectile was not fast, but because there were too many pirates, the number of archers was far above the government army, so it seemed that the momentum was not weaker than that of the Nan'an army.

Soon the battlefield was filled with a strong smell of blood, which soaked into the ground, and then trampled on it by a pair of bare feet or sandals, and the ground became muddy, and the smell of blood and dirt mixed together, making people feel like vomiting.

The dust is even more raised, there are often strong winds on the seaside, and the rain is sufficient, the dust is not much, but tens of thousands of people gather on such a battlefield, countless people trample on the ground, the dust still keeps floating, and the entire military array on both sides is shrouded in light yellow dust.

The leaders marched forward in armor, and there was a constant sound of "tuk tuk" around them, followed by screams.

When he entered the eighty steps before and after, the Divine Arm Bow was also fired, and the sound of crackling and the powerful arrows swept through the air, giving people an extremely terrifying feeling.

The Divine Arm Bow can actually be fired earlier, and its range is far greater than that of the bow and arrow, but Xu Zi first thought that shooting with a powerful arrow at close range could bring more terrifying damage, and it was unexpected.

Sure enough, dozens of people were overturned in a volley of the Divine Arm Bow, most of them were powerful arrows entering the body, either seriously injured or killed, for the shooting of the bow and arrow, the Divine Arm Bow was indeed much more terrifying than ordinary bows and arrows.

At this distance, you can even see the faces of the pirates. Their faces were mostly horrified and distorted, and it was rare for these people to encounter such scenes of war when they were looting the people or operating in the South Seas.

They only had the intention of killing and looting, and they felt that the army on the opposite side was not numerous, so their morale was high, until the rain of arrows fell, and when there were already many corpses in front of the battle, the pirates were not afraid and said to each other: "This Wei people are brave, I am afraid that it will not be easy to defeat them." ”

The pirates were slightly demoralized, and were shot to death, the corpses on the ground were constantly dragged away, so as not to affect the movement of the brigade, and when the corpses were dragged, the pirates let out frustrated cries from time to time, obviously not expecting that so many people would die under the bow and arrow.

Although the armor of the Nan'an army is not complete, when it is equipped with sharp formations, it is close to the armor, and the rear is cotton armor or leather armor, or there is no armor to wear.

The sharp soldiers at the head of the platoon are all wearing heavy armor, and most of the soldiers behind them are also armored and wearing helmets.

When the pirate shoots the arrow, everyone lowers their heads, uses the brim of the helmet and the iron armor on the body to block the arrow, the arrow falls on the body, makes a dangdang sound, and slides directly to the ground, and a few people are pierced through the gap in the iron armor, for the arrow to penetrate the body, but the strength of the arrow is weak, and the damage is not great.

The pirates were short of bows, and when they extended their arrows far, a large number of soldiers of the government swung their long. The sharp arrow with an unfast rate of fire was directly shot away.

Lu Wenluo kept waving his shield, he felt that his body strength was still sufficient, and the threat of arrows to him was very small, only when the frontal arrows came, he would use the shield to shoot away, or horizontally on his chest, and the person shrank behind the shield, using the shield to block most of the threat.

At this time, the army advanced to about fifty or sixty steps, and the pace of both sides slowed down, so close to each other, they could see each other clearly, and on the left and right sides of the government army, the pirates gradually protruded from the flanks, and there was a posture of encircling the entire government army array.

At such a close distance, the archers on both sides were still firing arrows, the arrows were more powerful and denser, and more and more people were shot, and people in front of the array kept falling, making muffled grunts or screams of pain.

Lu Wenluo was sweating profusely, and he stopped for a while The sweat dripping under his feet did not stop, showing obvious water stains.

At such a moment, everyone has no distractions and only thinks about breaking the enemy in front of them.

Cowardly in front of the battle, turning around and fleeing not only to face the enemy's pursuit and killing, but also not to escape the punishment of military law afterwards, the army was originally a violent organization, and the Nan'an Hou army did not use much beheading and corporal punishment to deter the soldiers, and the law enforcement was extremely strict, and there was no possibility of leniency.

As long as someone dares to turn around in front of the battle, the team leader can immediately behead him, even if the team officer does not behead and flees to the back of the battle, there is also a military law enforcement officer responsible for dealing with it, even if he is lucky enough to survive until after the war, there is no possibility of being forgiven, and he will be beheaded and will not be spared.

And his own beheading, his family was also affected, so even if he was in a battlefield where the blades were like a forest, the enemies in front of him were like beasts, and the arrows were raining down, he could be shot by arrows at any time and die, Lu Wenluo had no distractions, only holding a shield and carrying a knife, and continued to move forward.

Many of the arrows were warriors like Lu Wenluo, and some of the arrows were even headed by sentinels.

These people are all wearing iron armor or multiple armor, strong and strong, do not suffer from the weight of armor, to within fifty steps, the pace of both sides slowed down, slowly moving forward, glaring at each other, and even the sound of breathlessness can be heard, and the smell of the battlefield is also enveloping everyone, making people feel uncomfortable, and at the same time surging bloodthirsty **.

By the time they reached a distance of about ten paces, the sharp tips of the government army were still sharp, and the group of thieves was already depressed, and it was the first time they had encountered such a violent rain of arrows.

At this time, the archers of the government army followed the army forward, did not stagnate, they stood on the two wings of the triangular array of the government army, still with bows and arrows to shoot flat, at this time they used light arrows, the bow was shot flat, the arrows were shot fast and urgent, and the henchmen of the people were bound to die, and the thieves were terrified.

What scared the thieves even more was the bow of the divine arm, the arrows were short and powerful, and the middle man came out through the body, and could even shoot the people behind him, carrying minced meat, internal organs, and blood rain forward, which was terrifying.

The pirates encountered were not the Great Wei Forbidden Army at its peak, if the extremely prosperous Great Wei Army fought this battle, a few thousand people would be enough, and all the armies were wearing heavy armor, holding shields and armor. The hand is in front, a large number of divine arms and bows are behind, and there are crossbows, waist crossbows, bed crossbows in the back, ten thousand arrows are fired together, like pirates, such as personal martial arts and strong, but the array is lawless, lack of iron armor and shields similar to the northern Zahu, there is no Zahu war horse light and swift characteristics of the army, several rounds of salvos, plus the bed crossbow like iron spear-like arrows shot through its formation, after a few rounds, the pirates will collapse.

Although the pace is slow, the distance is also very close.

The banner of Nan'an Hou stood behind the formation, the first army, the second army's military flag moved forward with the army, Wu Weisan was appointed as the flag guard envoy in the battle, he led a sentry horse to guard the banner, and slowly moved forward.

Because he saw that the pirate array was staggered and the chaos was abnormal, Wu Weisan sighed unconsciously, and said softly: "If you treat the enemy with a phalanx, the two wings keep firing volleys, and move several bed crossbows from the north and south forts to the front of the formation, it is not impossible to break the enemy with bows and arrows." The prince is too self-conscious, and he is always willing to break the enemy by hand-to-hand combat, which is too light on the enemy. ”

Wu Weisan's voice was very small, and he didn't dare to let others hear. After saying a word, because he was riding on a horse and was on a high slope, he could see that Jin Baoyi was on one side of the array, and the place where the other side was protruding was Qin Dongyang.

The Ge family brothers, Lin Cunxin, Li Xingwu and others were all in the array.

Look at the inside and outside of the right side, there are more than 500 cavalry, arranged into a cavalry formation of more than ten people, the cavalry battalion is under the command of Zhang Huchen's banner erected in the first row, Zhang Huchen is also in the front row, and Xu Zixian, the Marquis of Nan'an, who is wearing heavy armor, is also in the front of the array.

Wu Weisan's heart shook when he saw it, and his right hand holding the hilt of the knife at his waist was also sweating, although he felt that it was more secure for the phalanx to break the enemy, but as a martial artist, he still felt excited when he saw the scene of the sharp formation in front of him and the cavalry camp preparing for battle.