Pei Yuanshao, who commanded on the eagle wing side, gave an order to shoot arrows, and in an instant, long arrows **** out, like a giant eagle spreading its wings, rolling up a fierce wind and whistling, but this wind is a rain of arrows that cover the sky and the sun, falling like a shower, but with little effect, even the screams of the arrows did not come out a few times, such a situation has often appeared since the heroes fought against Dong, Liu Lan has long been prepared, from the moment he faced Lu Bu in Rongyang, he understood that the enemy he would face in the future was no longer the Hu people in the past, or even the rebels such as the Yellow Turban and Bai Bo, but the well-trained soldiers and horses of the princes and the Han army, and in front of him, Liu Lan is facing the Danyang army, which is known as the world's first pawn, the arrows fell, and the soldiers successfully dodged the arrow rain one by one behind the shield soldiers, and even launched a counterattack at the first time.

The counterattack of the Danyang army was the same as that of the Xuzhou army, but it was not all crossbowmen, but a mixture of crossbowmen.

The Central Plains has been using crossbows for a long time, especially the Han crossbow reached its peak in the Han Dynasty, such as the current Danyang military hand a crossbow, compared to the mine army by Ou Yejian to arm crossbow improved from the hand crossbow is too cumbersome, the crossbow power is only less than eight denier, in the case of similar range, the hand crossbow is easier to carry, simple to load, no need for many people or even consume the filling is more advantageous. But for various reasons, especially as a baby pimple dare not appear easily, the hand crossbow has never appeared in the Central Plains, although the hand crossbow did not arrive in Xuzhou, but Tao Qian's family wealth is like a crossbow and arm Zhang in the armory but there are many crossbows, which is far from being comparable to the Danyang Army.

The gap appeared, and the Xuzhou army, which originally took the initiative to attack, began to attack the Danyang army from a long distance with the long range of the crossbow machine, so that the Danyang army, which was originally on the defensive, had to take the initiative to attack, otherwise it could only retreat strategically, but at that time the formation was chaotic, and the result was unimaginable.

"Buzz ......"

The Xuzhou army plucked the crossbow strings in a row, making a piercing buzzing sound, one after another in front of the Xuzhou army array. Soon whistling and flying towards the enemy line.

Wave after wave, but they were never able to stop the enemy's rapid advance. Danyang crossbowmen have always been the leaders in Xuzhou, but since Zhenrong left Xuzhou, the crossbowmen who lost their supplies naturally gave way to the archers, which made the Danyang army at an absolute disadvantage in the number of crossbowmen.

It is no wonder that the Xuzhou army suddenly changed from a fierce attack to a counter-shooting, 'he' was really a powerful opponent, and he was able to discover the weakness of the Danyang army at the beginning of the battle.

It is unwise to shoot at hostile times. It is likely to be defeated by the Xuzhou army in an instant, so Zhang Bei immediately ordered the Danyang army to change the defense to the offensive and take the initiative to attack.

"Shoot!" Pei Yuanshao's palm was raised again and fell suddenly, and he let out a low cry in his mouth at the same time. The order was given, and the commander of the thousand chiefs gave the order to each crossbowman, and in an instant, the powerful crossbow arrows in his hands were fired along with the low roar.

"Die!" An arrow departed from the string, and the cold light streaked across the sky. Leaving a perfect arc like a meteor, hundreds of cold arrows flickered like a curtain of light, but behind them, there were more pursuers, like stars in the sky, shining with brilliant light, the bloodthirsty light of death.

Bang!

Burst!

A rain of arrows fell. The screams of shooting flesh and skin increased, but that was all. More of them were defended by the shield array in front of the Danyang army, and the shield in their hands was not an ordinary wooden shield, but it was a bit similar to the shield held by the Jizhou Xiandeng Deadman, but it was much larger than the Ludeng's shield of the Xiandeng Dead, which was enough to be one person tall. Of course, such shield soldiers only need to move forward slowly, as long as they can help the troops behind them reach the battlefield and avoid the enemy's arrow rain, their task will be completed.

This shield is a sharp weapon for attack and defense. Don't say that it is to meet the infantry, even if you encounter the cavalry, you are not afraid, the cavalry known as the ancient tank is vulnerable in front of them and the Changge soldiers, but the same shield is not indestructible, because it is cumbersome and inconvenient, as long as the cavalry has a body, just spare its back to break the enemy in one fell swoop!

But now Guan Yu didn't have the slightest intention to send the dragoons, it was not the time, he had to wait, wait for a suitable time.

The arrow rain rose again, compared to the first round of arrow rain with little gain, the second round of dense **** arrow rain made it difficult for many shields to stand firm, the shield began to loosen, revealing a fatal gap, the arrow shot into it like opening its eyes, through the body of the soldier hiding behind the shield, the arrow into the flesh, the arrow howled and screamed.

The poignant notes accompanied by the blood-colored lotus flower were staged from time to time in the battlefield, and soon, when the three rounds of arrows of the Xuzhou army fell, when the Danyang army broke through less than 100 steps, the war drums of the Xuzhou army's attack resounded again, as if the earth suddenly sounded muffled thunder, and suddenly exploded between the fields.

Touch!

Bumper Bumper!!

The sound of war drums became more and more rapid and dull, but everyone's eyes were congested with blood and red, and the moment of blood boiling, the excitement was about to be staged.

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After the battle of Jizhou returned to Liaodong, Liu Lan's first order was to move Zhao Yun as a cavalry captain, although the power is not real, but the entire Liaodong seems to have changed the sky, everyone is speculating whether the first person in the Liaodong army has lost the trust of the lord Liu Lan, the last such alternation was when Xu Huang and Guan Yu were at that time, but at that time Xu Huang took the initiative to resign, but now although Guan Yu is called the formation of Liaodong infantry and promoted to captain, everyone knows in their hearts that this is a bright rise and a secret descent, at that time, The so-called Liaodong Infantry Battalion is just a county soldier, and the Dragoon Army, which has put too much effort into it, and even the Youzhou Assault Cavalry, is too far behind in terms of combat power and equipment.

Moreover, there is no need to form a special infantry battalion in Liaodong at all, where is the perennial confrontation with the Hu people, is it possible to expect the infantry to go deep into the grassland?

But in the midst of such many doubts, the two people concerned were silent, and even Xu Huang and Xu Shu began to shut up, and the silence of these three people, who can be said to be the real real power figures of the Liaodong martial arts, made many people smell that things were far from what they thought and saw, and it was not until a few months later, after Liu Lan crossed the sea to move the county to Huang County, that everyone woke up.

It turned out that the center of gravity of the lord was to move south rather than westward, and under the premise of thousands of miles of supply, especially in the event of casualties and injuries to war horses, it might be able to be sent to Huangxian as soon as possible. But what about other places?

It is precisely under this consideration that it is destined that Liu Lan's future development direction will be divided into two parts, Huangxian will be mainly infantry, supplemented by cavalry heavy armor, and Liaodong will be dominated by Youzhou cavalry, supplemented by county soldiers.

From the original Liaodong Infantry Army to today's Xuzhou Army. Incorporated the Yellow Turban Army and integrated the Xuzhou Army, Guan Yu almost took less than a year to put into the battlefield, today's battle can be described as the first battle of the Xuzhou Army, which is why Liu Lan mistakenly thought that Guan Yu would be nervous when he wanted to fight the enemy with the method of ancient array warfare.

He really didn't want to and didn't want to consume this hard-won infantry in the battle against the Danyang army. But just like Liu Lan has his own ideas, Guan Yu also has his own purpose, how can a rare opponent not be an opportunity to test the combat strength of the Xuzhou army?

He wanted to know what the results of the infantry he trained would be against the world-famous Danyang Army?

The effect can be said to be remarkable, Guan Yu has created an elite army. In particular, most of this elite army is still a new recruit, and it is even more rare to be able to achieve the immediate results, in fact, at the beginning of the battle, Guan Yu didn't even know the bottom of his heart, although he tried hard to train them into real elites, but one thing is undeniable, this army is full of mountains and factions, and it is very likely that it will collapse if it is not very good, which is why the dragoon army has not been used. When it comes to the critical moment, even if you abandon the pawn to protect the car, you will not hesitate to do so.

But judging by the results. The Xuzhou army, which is full of factions, not only did not fall behind in front of the Danyang army, but even took the advantage, maybe it is really like what the lord said, the mountains seem to be a plate of loose sand, but once you can be a good captain, it will play a role in lubrication. Then such a mountain competition will exert a more powerful combat power than any monolithic unit.

Competitiveness in battle will undoubtedly give us an advantage.

All this was expected by the lord early on, just like the lord boldly and absolutely withdrew the archers, the role of the crossbowmen in today's battle was beyond imagination, and the shock of ten thousand arrows was indescribable. At that time, the lord had reservations about abandoning the archers and building a crossbow camp. Although it takes more and more difficulty to train an archer, once it is cultivated, it is undoubtedly a baby bump, but just now, the moment tens of thousands of arrows were shot, Guan Yu completely admired how wise the lord was to replace archers with quantity.

Compared to the long period of training an archer, the crossbowman is effortless, as long as you can equip him with a crossbow machine and enough arrows, because of its simple operation, even women and children can easily shoot a hundred steps away, and once it can really develop to the point where every soldier can be equipped with a crossbow in the future, as the lord said, how wonderful the rain of arrows will be when the battle comes!

But just like the brilliant fireworks, such a beautiful vision is very short-lived, and soon Guan Yu dispelled such an idea, now the Xuzhou military crossbow machine relies on the inventory of the Xuzhou treasury, but once you want to test Ou Yejian in Liaodong to make a small hand crossbow, the cost is difficult to meet even if it is exhausted Xuzhou Liaodong several counties of financial resources, even if the lord smashes the pot and sells iron, but the real cost of the crossbow machine is not manufacturing, but maintenance, this thing is completely different from arrows, if there is a problem with one of the parts, it is the same as scrap.

And even if you can really have such financial resources to equip a crossbow, but what is really spent is the arrows, each arrow is tantamount to shooting a string of five baht coins at the enemy, no wonder Tian Chou, Chen Qun, the two real masters of Liaodong and Xuzhou, repeatedly shouted to stop the crossbow camp, such a huge cost is almost catching up with the three or four tenths of the cavalry army and the dragoon army, such a large cost is better to form cavalry, and even be able to form more sword and shield spearmen, they are convinced that the infantry combat power formed under such a large cost will not be inferior to the crossbow battalion.

Guan Yu must admit their statement, but he must also agree with the indirectness of the lord, on the premise of not fighting each other in short combat, the crossbow soldier is more effective!

Just like now, although the casualties caused by the three salvos of crossbowmen to the Danyang army are limited, it must be understood that this is a casualty caused by the premise that the own side has almost no cost, but if you send infantry to meet the enemy's short soldiers, then no matter how well-equipped and well-trained the army is, it will pay the price of casualties.

"Kill !!"

The shouting and killing sound from the battlefield woke Guan Yu up suddenly, and just as he was thinking nonsense, the Eagle Claw troops led by Zhou Cang fought with the enemy.

Close to each other, like the deep sea rolling up a huge wave on the 10,000-year-old deep sea scorched rock, the roar is like thunder, the shouting of killing is like a galloping horse, shaking the world and shocking the soul.

Danyang shield soldiers and Xuzhou shield soldiers were the first to clash, carrying a huge shield soldier Danyang army in an instant to occupy the advantage, just like high school students and primary school students against each other, too much disparity, in an instant there are many Xuzhou shield soldiers were in the plane shield soldiers collided after staggering back, and even flew upside down

"Bang!"

But with the arrival of the Xuzhou army commander Ge Bing in the rear of the giant shield soldiers, he resolved this embarrassment, and the front Ge soldiers helped the shield hand to push the giant shield on his shoulder, and the rear Ge hand frequently stabbed Changge and spear from the gap in the giant shield and stabbed into the enemy's body.

The real hand-to-hand combat was staged at this moment.

Flesh and blood were flying, stumps and blood were thrown, and the corpses of their comrades fell in front of them, without breath, struggling, in pain, wailing, shocking, but no matter how painful they were, none of them shouted for help, even if they still had a breath to scream, they also screamed for my brothers to avenge me.

Revenge, these two words made the eyes of the soldiers on both sides even more red, lying in front of them were their comrades, the comrades who ate in a pot, under the rendering of such scenes, even the recruits who had just enlisted in the army began to frantically move forward to kill, no one flinched, but no one went to destroy the formation, everything was in order, crazy at the enemy with a knife, crazy to avenge the comrades!

The hand-to-hand hand-to-hand battle was completely staged, and with the arrival of the sword and shield soldiers, it completely entered the white-hot stage.

At this time, according to Liu Lan's knowledge, they completely entered into chaos and even melee, but these two teams represented the most well-trained troops in this era, and their lineup has always remained intact, even if the red-eyed soldiers are killed, they will never leave their positions.

Large-scale melee did not happen, but it was difficult for Guan Yu on the same high platform to play any commanding role, because what he had to do now was to observe the thickness of his own formation and the appearance of the enemy's formation on the high platform, once the enemy collapsed or even collapsed, then he would give the order as soon as possible and convey it to the generals on the battlefield, and they would lead the troops to break the enemy's formation, and once his own formation showed signs of collapse, then he would remind the generals in the battlefield to either rescue or assist in defense. (To be continued.) )