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In the early morning, a faint thunder sent the spring rain into the world. It is as if the heavens high above see the great war between the two countries, delay the pace of the war, and prevent the spread of the war. As soon as Tuoba Heiyun gathered the army, the rain made the heaven and the earth into a white curtain, and there was not much such rain on the grassland, but there would always be one or two in this season, urging the grass to break through the ground and grow wildly. The rain became heavier and heavier, and several generals galloped to Tuoba Heiyun's side, wiping the rain on their faces and shouting: "Lord Heiyun." Too much rain?! The wind is blowing from the southeast, and I can't keep my eyes open. ”

Tuoba Black Cloud raised his head.

On the grassland, it gets dark when it rains.

The cloud, which came from the east, stretched in all directions, gradually spreading into a single piece, and then bordered the earth, enveloping the whole heaven and earth.

The rain poured on the armor, and there was a fishy smell, half of it was iron, and on the other side was the smell of dried blood.

Finally, Tuoba Heiyun gritted his teeth, stood firm, and shouted: "The Dongxia people are also soaking in the rain, set off for me." Let's fight a battle and try the depths. ”

The camps of the two sides were separated by more than ten miles, and Tuoba Black Cloud drove the soldiers to press up, but it was a moment of effort, the mud ate through the water, and the soldiers had half a catty of mud pills on their legs and feet.

Because of the scale of the war, no one dared to advance to the battlefield with a long snake formation.

Chen's army was all squares of 1,000 people, gradually spreading out into a camp four or five miles wide and one or two miles deep, and spreading towards several Dongxia camps in front.

There are very few people on the grassland who fight like this, the war on the grassland, the scale is not too large, the grassland cavalry prefers to chase each other regardless of the field, fight all over the field, when the battle, in addition to the attacked side in the old camp around the flatbed car, surrounded by a large number of livestock, leaving the troops to collect firmly, as a city of activity, both sides of the war, not limited to the enemy and our camp, circling and fighting each other, and finally whoever can not withstand first, who will retreat.

But when the war rises to a certain scale, it cannot be stirred up all at once, and if it does, it will be scattered by the enemy forces in a camp without a fixed heel.

The same was true in Eastern Xia, where twenty or thirty thousand banner soldiers also gathered in the rain.

They formed small formations, small formations formed large formations, and only a very small number of them carried rain gear, and most of them shouted while wiping the rain from their faces.

At this time, the two sides of the battlefield began to compete directly for will.

Compared with the demoralized Tuoba army, the Eastern Xia won consecutive battles, and the banner soldiers were all willing to fight, and the morale was particularly high, and the soldiers in white clothes were still cherishing the white clothes on their bodies, and many of them simply put them away, folded them into oilcloth bags, and put them together with the boots that the women at home asked them to bring, but they were reluctant to wear...... Some horsemen with strong horses jumped out of the camp on their own, and let the horses' hooves whand the muddy water in front of the battle formation, to provoke the enemy troops who came up.

What the Bullock and Ma Cheng had to do was to gather the archers and the warriors with long soldiers.

In order to prevent the two wings from being shorter than the other side and the camp from being evacuated compared to the other side, they also set up a positive and negative rejection formation according to the situation in the Eastern Xia military teaching, that is, each unit was divided into small formations, the archers were divided into two pieces, standing on the two wings, and the warriors with long weapons and the chariots were arrayed together on the front side of the middle, while the cavalry was at the end.

In real combat, the archers in the process of the enemy approaching into a prominent camp of the glaive, shoot the enemy's attack into the arrows, once the enemy approaches, the archer retreats, in the middle of the long weapon and push the rejection of the soldier will move forward to stretch the formation, the archer in a concave shape to shoot the enemy, reduce the pressure when resisting the enemy, and the cavalry, can attack at any time when the enemy is tired.

This kind of camp is very easy to master, and it is also one of the most practiced formations in Dongxia, but the flag soldiers are not armies after all, and Ma Cheng and Qianniu both know that if there is more negligence, there will be more deaths on the battlefield, although the flag soldiers all look similar, and they all sweat to correct the position of the soldiers.

The two armies began to confront each other.

The soldiers and horses of the Tuoba clan came from the original way and needed to rest, but the soldiers of Dongxia still felt that the formation had not been adjusted well, and the formation posed was not an offensive formation, so they stared at each other and made slight adjustments.

But for some reason, several Dongxia cavalry athletes who were bent on performance galloped out and refused to go back, so they desperately provoked each other in front of the formation, and approached the camp of the Tuoba clan again and again.