Under his command, the first soldier had successfully cut off the enemy soldier who had been used as a car and rushed ashore to create favorable conditions for his follow-up soldiers to land.

The first to ascend, originally meant to be the first soldier to climb the city, and then extended to the elite soldiers and dead soldiers who took on similar duties, not only in land battles, but also in water battles, the first to pick up the side and climb onto the enemy's ship, or the first to rush ashore in land and water battles, resist the enemy's counterattack, and buy time for their subsequent landing.

Lai Hu'er, who had performed well in the previous battle against Chen, has now been promoted to the lord of the building, and this time he was entrusted with the important task of leading a hundred selected soldiers under his command to take the lead in landing on the beach, and now the first step has been completed and the cruel second step is coming.

"Quick, come up and arm!" He shouted to command his men, and the soldiers ran to the perimeter with hemp ropes and iron nails in their hands to arrange the tripping horses.

The soldiers on the follow-up ships got off the boat and waded through the wooden stakes to go ashore, they wore armor and carried spears and crossbows to walk in the mud without panicking, this is a regular training project, so the actual combat operation is not a problem at all.

The cavalry in the camp in the east had already rushed over, and the cavalry galloping out of Wuchang City in the west also arrived, and they saw that the Zhou army that had landed on the shore hastily formed a small formation, but they did not care, one east and one west at the same time.

The number of cavalry coming from Wuchang was close to three hundred, and there were dozens of cavalry rushing from the camp in the east, and the number of Zhou troops on the shore was only about four hundred, and the difference between the two sides was not large, and the Zhou army was facing the battle on the flat and hard ground, so for the cavalry of the Chen army, this was a soft persimmon.

They were greeted by the archers of the Zhou army, the so-called "no more than three arrows in battle", when the cavalry of the Chen army rushed to the front, the archers of the Zhou army successfully released three rounds of arrows, and then met the enemy by the pikemen who had completed the formation.

Although the time was a little short, the pikes had been mostly completed, and they had practiced how to quickly deploy the formation on the tidal flats on weekdays, so they were ready when the enemy cavalry rushed in front of them. Except for a few enemy horsemen who were overturned by simply arranged tripping ropes, the rest crashed straight into formation.

Blood splattered. The cavalry in the front row was stabbed by the longer spears before the horses could stab the opponent, but the momentum continued to grow, and they crashed into the forest of spears. Even the people rushed into the spear formation with a weight of 100 catties on the horse, like a heavy punch slamming into the door of the human face.

Originally thought that the spear array would be in chaos because of this, but the Chen cavalry, who arrived later, found that the other party was still like a forest of spears, and when they couldn't dodge, they crashed into the spear forest again, and they were killed on the spot while breaking a few spears.

Some horses were stabbed through the chest, the horses lost their front hooves and threw their masters forward, and then fell into the spear forest and became sparrows strung on the branches, and some of the war horses were afraid of the spears and did not obey the call, so they made a sharp turn in front of the formation, and as a result, they rolled towards the phalanx with their men and horses, and were pierced all over the body, and the originally unstoppable cavalry charge soon ended in failure.

The Chen army lost more than half of the troops, saw that the Zhou army's array could not be shaken, and then retreated, waiting for the infantry to come, and then make plans, the Zhou army's warships on the river were approaching, and the reinforcements in Wuchang City also rushed to the river, now it depends on the result of the infantry engagement.

If the Zhou army fixed the attack of the Chen army, then it would be able to gain a firm foothold on the riverbank and let the follow-up troops land smoothly, if it was defeated, then it could only row back to Jiangbei in a gray row, and this operation failed.

"Get ready, it's time for a tough fight!" Standing in the phalanx, Lai Hu'er said that his side had initially gained a foothold by the river, and there was still a fierce battle to fight before the main force of the army landed. With a spear formation of more than 300 people, they blocked the opponent's tentative attack, but it was only the beginning.

The soldiers who had been wounded in the battle had just been moved to the back row, and the soldiers who had landed later formed a new phalanx, and the crossbows that had been erected on the ship were also taken down and carried ashore and used in the formation.

When the Zhou army warships coming from the direction of Zhengrongzhou were about to dock, the Chen army that rushed to the river to intercept had already assembled and launched an attack on the Zhou army standing on the shore, and their number was more than 1,000 people, and reinforcements were coming, and what they wanted was to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Zhou army to drive the other party into the water.

The horn sounded, when the two armies were close, the archers of the Chen army opened their bows and released their arrows, but they were defeated in the first shot, because the opponent came up first with the crossbowmen and the big crossbow that fired stone projectiles, and it was fired at a distance of 100 paces, under the heavy casualties, the Chen army sent sword players to cover the archers, but they were still beaten by the crossbow of the Zhou army.

They have never seen the shape of the crossbow, the crossbow arm is short, and it can't be seen that it is powerful, but the stone projectile that can be fired is amazingly powerful, and even the knife player can't bear a blow at a distance of 100 steps, so the Zhou army is a pikeman array, so the crossbowmen will be much less, but the other party is far and near.

It is necessary to fight both in close combat and draw a bow and shoot arrows. These people are elite!

Therefore, the generals of the Chen army did not dare to delay and decided to attack with all their might, if the other side was able to withstand the shore, then the main force of the Zhou army that followed would be much more tricky to calmly land on the shore. As the saying goes, if you want to attack in the first wave, you will break the opponent.

The first to engage the enemy was the knife player, who found that the opponent's spear looked amazing, but they felt that as long as they protected their body with a shield, then separated the barrel of the gun with a knife, and then pasted it, they could break the enemy, but the battle situation after the engagement was one-sided.

In order to maintain flexibility in battle, the shield of the knife player is a round rattan card, not a long shield, so the defense area is limited, and it was not a problem in the past, but now it has become a big problem.

The pikemen of the Zhou army seemed to be experienced, and as soon as they came up, they directly stabbed the feet or calves of the Chen soldiers, causing the opponent to advance and retreat, some of them were stabbed in the legs and feet, and they stood unsteadily, revealing their flaws, and then they were stabbed by a shot to take their lives, and some of them escaped the first and second shots, but they were swayed and crooked, and then they were stabbed through the throat by the third shot.

The experienced Chen soldiers wanted to cut off the head of the gun, but they were shocked to the point that their hands hurt, and they looked at the long guard iron attached to the back of the gun head, where it was easy to cut it, and after slashing hard, the gap was also exposed, and then they were stabbed to death by several shots.

Because it was a hurried reinforcement, in order to facilitate running, so did not bring a big shield, seeing that the knife player was vulnerable in front of the Zhou army's spear, the soldiers rushed forward, they felt that the length of the spear and spear in their hands was not enough, but it was not much worse, it was nothing more than a distance of one or two more steps, as long as they carried it.

However, the distance of two steps became the road to death. The pikemen of the Zhou army fired quickly, accurately, and ruthlessly. The face is aimed at the eyes and throat. Either it was in the shoulders and thighs, and it hurt so much that the body was unstable if it didn't die after being shot, and then the second shot that came from the poke could no longer be dodged.

There are good skills and struggles to separate the poked spears and rush to the front, but before they can make a move, they are chopped by the strong men who meet in the formation with something similar to a long-handled axe.

That thing has an axe blade, a spear head and a hook, and can chop and stab, and hook people's ankles or shields, combined with the spear array, which is almost airtight, and from time to time there are crossbowmen in the array, which makes people unable to guard against it.

When the two military formations were sticking, suddenly a group of fierce soldiers came out of the flank of the Zhou army's formation, they were like skeletons, wearing heavy armor on their heads, and they had to take the initiative to attack with long knives, long and short handle axes, knives and other weapons.

These Zhou soldiers have strong armor, do not dodge, do not avoid direct fighting, they are infinitely powerful, a knife down, the soldiers with little strength are directly knocked off, weapons are then killed by the other party, and some of them are directly cut down with a shield and people with an axe, which is unstoppable.

And that's not all. These people have a lot of work in their hands and their feet, and the Chen soldiers are easy to hold the opponent's weapons, but they can be kicked by a flirtatious leg, and they are cut to the ground, although the number of these Zhou troops is relatively small, but after breaking into the formation, it stirs up a bloody storm, and the generals of the Chen army are about to mobilize people to surround it, but it is too late.

Taking advantage of the gaps cut by these 'skeleton soldiers', the pikemen of the Zhou army advanced the assault along the flaws in the Chen army's formation, and they used long-handled axes to open the way and the spears quickly expanded the flaws in the Chen army's army formation and forced them in.

"Block them, block them!!" The general of the Chen army shouted hoarsely, where did they think that the other party could still break through with the amazingly long spear and the melee soldiers, according to the general concept, such a long spear is also good for dealing with cavalry, and melee may not be able to defeat the sword soldiers, but the other party can be strong.

Everyone knows that it is not good to block, otherwise, but where can the soldiers block it, the forward of the Zhou army is full of unstoppable blood, and the front of the Zhou army is full of unstoppable pawns, and the pikemen who are unguarded are followed by the unguardable pikemen, who are forced to dig a wound in the Chen army's formation, and then forcibly tear it open, and in a moment the flanks will break through, and then the army will be unstable.

"Kill! Fight the enemy! ”

The Zhou army's array suddenly erupted into a tidal wave of shouts, and then the spear array that was waiting for the rabbit began to move forward. The soldiers of the Chen army, who were originally demoralized due to heavy casualties, were immediately beaten back again and again, and the Zhou army was in the flank to the end, and the army was in turmoil.

By the river, the dense warships of the Zhou army had passed through the dilapidated stake defense line and docked. Many soldiers disembarked directly from the boat and waded ashore, and the soldiers of the Chen army saw that the hundreds of soldiers in front of them were so fierce, and they thought that if they surrounded those soldiers again, where would they still win, and they couldn't help but disperse.

The generals who pressed the soldiers were shot one after another by the mixed crossbowmen in the Zhou army's formation, which directly prompted the collapse of the Chen army's army formation, and unexpectedly they thought that the Zhou soldiers were wearing armor and holding spears, so they couldn't run faster, but the other party's pursuit speed was not inferior to their own.

The defeat was like a mountain, and after being chased by the pikemen for more than a hundred paces, the Chen army had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and the city sent soldiers and horses to meet and let the Zhou army stop, otherwise few of the Chen soldiers who attacked would be able to escape back.

In the desert of the shore, the soldiers of the Zhou army were cleaning the battlefield, the defenders of Wuchang closed the city gate to organize the defense, and the city was full of soldiers who were on the verge of a great enemy, and thousands of Chen troops went out of the city from the south gate and set up a formation in the southeast of the city, which seemed to be to fight with the Zhou army under the city.

The wooden stakes by the river had been pulled out, and there were dense Zhou warships docked to unload war horses and many supplies, and a general dressed in Mingguang armor walked ashore under the escort of several soldiers and came to the place where Laihu'er and the others rested.

"Come on, this battle is very exciting, worthy of our army to go first." Yu Wenwen looked at Lai Hu'er, who was covered in blood, and nodded, the smell of blood on the other party's body was strong, but Yu Wenwen looked at it and didn't find any wounds, thinking that it was the blood of the enemy spilled on his body.

"Envoy, the soldiers of our army have defended the beachhead, fortunately not dishonored!" Lai Hu'er saluted and said solemnly, Yuwen Wen looked at him and a group of soldiers around him approvingly, and then said: "Everyone has worked hard, and it is the turn of others to show their skills!" (To be continued.) )