On the other side, in the face of the frantic attack of the Wei cavalry, Mai Mengcai quickly selected hundreds of soldiers carrying crossbow machines.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Wei army approached thirty steps in front of the Sui army again, Mai Mengcai sat upright on his horse and raised the lance in his hand, and the herald behind him quickly turned his order into a flag and a horn to pass it on, and the dense soldiers in the front row suddenly separated to both sides like a tide, and the crossbowmen of the Sui army on the first line rushed out of the battle formation from the gap between the shields in the front row under the orders of their respective team leaders, and rushed forward dozens of steps.

The crossbowmen armed with three or four stone crossbows quickly fired the crossbow machine as they ran, and after firing it, they took a few steps back, retreated behind their comrades who rushed in front of them, pulled out the crossbow arrows in the pocket behind them, and continued to wind them.

For a time, the arrows were like flying locusts, and the sound of the "click-click" crossbow machine firing was endless, and the crossbowmen of the Sui army had a range of up to two hundred steps on the four-stone crossbows, but in order to pursue lethality, they all ran forward while firing crossbow arrows, so that, coupled with the momentum of people running forward, the crossbow arrows glowing with cold light were like crossbow arrows like a black wave, fiercely cleaning the light cavalry of the Wei army running in the front.

"Ahh~!"

"Hoohoo~!"

"Poof~! Poof~! Poof~! ”

The neighing of the Wei army's war horses, the screams of the Wei cavalry, and the sound of arrows entering the body were endless, and the cavalry platoon in the front row of the Wei army fell, and the Sui army archers who followed the crossbowmen quickly marched out of formation, and there was a long-range projectile at the Wei cavalry.

"Don't quit! No refund! ”

"Come forward and shoot them!"

"Qiu Xiaogang, prepare for an assault!"

Zhang Liang roared frantically, stopping the Wei light cavalry who instinctively fled backwards, and at the same time asked Qiu Xiaogang to form a team and prepare to assault the Sui crossbowmen.

Soon, the sky was covered with jet-black feather arrows, and many bows and arrows collided with the opponent's bows and arrows in mid-air and fell, but more bows and crossbows were still shot on both sides, so close to each other, the arrows barely survived, the Sui army's crossbowmen fell in rows, and the Wei army's light cavalry was shot on their backs. Now, it's about who can hold out longer, which team is more resilient.

In this way, the bows and crossbows and arrows of the two sides come and go, "swish" and shoot each other for a long time, the cavalry's two-stone recurve bow, the power and the infantry's four-stone crossbow arrows, two stones and three buckets of infantry compound bows can not be compared, and finally the Sui infantry relied on the infantry bow and crossbow compared with the sharpness of the riding bow and the skillful control of the bow and crossbow, successfully suppressed the Wei army's archers, and finally, the Wei army threw down thousands of corpses full of arrows, and hastily withdrew the shooting range of the Sui army's crossbowmen.

On the Sui army's side, only more than four or five hundred people fell, and the remaining archers excitedly waved the bows and crossbows in their hands, whistled, stamped their feet, and roared to their heart's content.

In the process of the bow and arrow contest between the two sides, Zhang Liang had already arranged the sequence of cavalry charges. The 5,000 Wei cavalry began to move slowly, about three miles away from the Sui army in front, and they formed a triangular squad of about 100 men in standard cavalry tactics, divided into four or six waves. Start with a slow walk, and then start accelerating. Until the end, the distance of about a mile rushes the speed to the maximum.

When the cavalry rushed to a distance of more than 100 steps from the Sui army's infantry formation, there was a rain of arrows, and then the armored cavalry rushed into battle, with this uninterrupted impact, tearing apart the infantry spear phalanx, which was tried and tested again and again in the case of cavalry fighting infantry!

Seeing the abnormal movements of the Wei cavalry, Qian Jie, who had been in the army since he was a child, immediately judged that the enemy army was preparing to launch a real charge, and he immediately shouted and ordered: "Long lance soldiers forward, the whole army is in formation!" ”

Soon, Qian Jie commanded more than 3,000 Sui troops to rearrange the phalanx, and more than half of them were fresh troops who had just come from the other side of the river. The infantry in the front row held large shields, and the spears of the soldiers in the back row were placed on the shoulders of the soldiers in the front row. The soldiers in the first row squatted on the ground, and the long lance in their hands was inserted diagonally into the ground, forming a 45-degree inclination, rushing two miles away. The enemy cavalry that had begun to slowly accelerate.

The Sui army changed formations, and the Wei cavalry also completed the acceleration of the run. More than a dozen teams of Wei cavalry at the head of the platoon under the order of their respective teams, unified the cavalry bow, and shot out rows of arrows towards the dense Sui army lance phalanx on the opposite side, as if the dark clouds covered the sun, the shields and armor in front of the Sui soldiers in the front row were suddenly filled with dense arrows, and more than 100 soldiers who were shot immediately fell to the ground, and the soldiers behind them quickly stepped forward to fill this vacancy, and the teams of each team shouted loudly "steady" sound one after another.

At this moment, the Wei cavalry rushed into the Sui army's long lance phalanx, more than two hundred soldiers in the front row of the Sui army were knocked straight out, and some arrays were even knocked down a large row, and the Wei cavalry also had one or two hundred people who were pierced by the lance and turned over on their backs, and the huge forward momentum made some cavalry also become trapeze in the air, and flew to the Sui army's array, but was pierced in the air by the long lance raised high, and after a few struggles in vain, he died on the tip of the lance in an extremely terrifying and strange posture, Only a puddle of blood flowed down the mallet.

Zhang Liang coldly looked at the bloody battle in front of him, the first wave of eight hundred cavalry, it seemed that more than half of them had been lost, and most of the remaining knights entered the infantry phalanx of the Sui army, waving the weapons in their hands, slashing and chopping everywhere, and these war horses were also bloodthirsty, flying in all directions, and kicked at the Sui infantry who wanted to get close to them.

The fifteen or sixteen small phalanxes of the Sui army in the first line were also broken by most of them, and four or five teams suffered serious casualties, and the formation was also chaotic. Shouting slogans, they made up for the front line of the lancer phalanx, trying to fill the gaps that had been washed away.

Zhang Liang quickly judged the situation on the battlefield, and immediately ordered: "Order, the second and third waves, set off at the same time, led by Qiu Xiaogang, must completely crush the second line of the Sui army's long lance soldiers!" ”

Zhang Liang has made up his mind to decide the victory or defeat in a wave, and now the Sui army is constantly coming from the other side, although the speed is limited, but it is not a way to go on like this after all. Let Qiu Xiaogang lead the team to attack, hoping that he can completely tear apart the right flank of the Sui army, and then trigger a domino effect, so that the emotion of defeat can be transmitted to the whole army.