474. The fight of the military formation
"However, Zhu Wei's army is all under my investigation, what means can the demon girl have, unless it is ......"
I don't know why, Sun Ce is still faintly uneasy in his heart, he feels that Huang Zhong attracted him here, I'm afraid it is not a random move, could it be that Wang Yuyan really has some ambush here.
Sun Ce's heart jumped suddenly, unless Zhu Wei had reinforcements coming from Jingzhou, in this case, this Huang Zhong led his troops to retreat to Dantu County, could it be that he would meet Zhu Wei's Jingzhou reinforcements, and then fight back against himself?
Sun Ce immediately thought about whether to withdraw his troops directly and avoid Zhu Wei's main army, but after thinking about it, these were all his own speculations, and maybe it wasn't necessarily what he thought.
Of course, even if Zhu Wei has reinforcements coming from Jingzhou, if you want to fight, then let's fight!
At this moment, the day has gradually reached three o'clock in the afternoon (more than two o'clock), and the temperature is also the hottest time of the day.
Dantu County belonged to the rule of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period, when the county name was Guyang, after the Qin State unified the world, Qin Shi Huang heard that there was a son of heaven in Guyang, so he ordered 3,000 ochre disciples to dig the southeast ridge of Jingxian Mountain, in order to defeat its anger, and then changed the name of Guyang to Dantu.
In fact, there are no mountains in this Dantu County, there are also Maoshan remnants in the southwest of Dantu County, there are many hills and hills, and there are also vast forest areas covered by mountains and forests, but now the county seat of Dantu County is close to the Yangtze River, located in a flat and low flat position along the Yangtze River.
This Dantu county can be regarded as standing between a low flat polder and river ditches around it, which looks a little abrupt, and there is also a wharf leading to the Yangtze River and three continents located in the middle of the river from the north gate of the county.
Dantu County is not very large, and the city walls of the county town are relatively low and dilapidated, in fact, it is not easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Therefore, the soldiers led by Huang Zhong simply set up a military formation in a slightly higher place outside the south gate of Dantu County, preparing to meet the soldiers and horses pursued by Sun Ce here.
For a time, the 8,000 Divine Arrow Battalion led by Huang Zhong was divided into almost three military formations according to the location shape, basically with sword and shield men as the outer formation, and crossbow archers and archers as the core in the inside.
Huang Zhong was naturally located in the middle army formation, and behind him there were flag bearers holding the "yellow" character general flag, and there were also some heralds holding banners with orders, and there was also a song of personal guards around Huang Zhong.
As for Sun Ce's side, with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, he also lined up in several queues and slowly approached this side.
There was still a mile away from Huang Zhong's military formation, Sun Ce drove his troops to set up an attack formation, and with the orders of the junior officers in the army, such as the commander and the tun commander, he drove the soldiers to approach Huang Zhong's military formation step by step.
"Kill! Kill! ”
Sun Ce didn't have any idea of challenging or making an appointment, so when he led his troops here, he directly urged his soldiers to go up to attack Zhu Wei's military formation, so more than 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers commanded by Sun Ce shouted loudly in their mouths and rushed towards the direction of Zhu Wei's army.
And Huang Zhong watched Sun Ce drive the soldiers and horses to rush up, but he also stroked his long beard, and gave an order in a deep voice, "Stabilize the formation and shoot!" ”
"Whoa!" "Wow! ”
The herald beside Huang Zhong agreed, and then waved the command flag in his hand, and the soldiers in the surrounding array also commanded and shouted, "Kill... Kill... Kill! ”
In the formation of Huang Zhong's army, the archers first bent down and pulled the string, and threw feather arrows at the rushing Sun Ce soldiers, and for a time more than 2,000 feather arrows flew into the air with the bowstring, and when they reached the highest place, they fell to the Sun Ce army that rushed to kill under the action of gravity.
"Whoosh ......"
"Raise your shield to defend, rush quickly!"
Seeing this, some of the soldiers and Sima in Sun Ce's army also beckoned the soldiers around them to guard against the arrows, and then they raised the double-arc hand shield in their left hands, protecting the key points such as the head, neck, and heart, and still led the troops to rush forward with the attacking feather arrows.
"Puff puff ......"
Many feather arrows fell, naturally piercing the bodies of many Sun Ce's soldiers, and even if some of the soldiers protected the vital points on their bodies, the feather arrows still pierced into other unprotected areas of their bodies.
Most of these Sun Ce soldiers were new soldiers, and they were temporarily recruited by Sun Ce to transform into young and strong, so many of the new soldiers were not necessarily wearing leather armor, that is, they were wearing ordinary cloth clothes.
In this way, the new pawn was shot by the feather arrow, and the iron arrow pierced into their bodies almost unhindered, and many of Sun Ce's soldiers were injured even if they did not die.
"Ahh Uh......"
Many of Sun Ce's soldiers fell to the ground with a painful cry in their mouths, and then they were covered by the footsteps of other soldiers, almost no one cared about their life and death, and staying still on the battlefield would be self-defeating, and they would only become arrow targets in vain.
Now only by rushing into the Zhu Wei army and fighting with the enemy can the enemy's bow and arrow not dare to attack easily, although these Sun Ce soldiers are all new soldiers, they also understand this truth, where dare to stop in place.
Even some of the soldiers who were hit by the feather arrows did not dare to stop, as long as the feather arrows did not affect their movements, they continued to rush forward quickly.
"Archery!"
Soon another round of feather arrows in Zhu Wei's army came over, and hundreds of Sun Ce's soldiers were killed or wounded, of course, at this time, Sun Ce's army village also had archers who began to shoot feather arrows in the direction of Zhu Wei's army.
It's just that the archers on Sun Ce's side can't form a military formation in the battle and play a covering feather arrow counter, and the archers on Zhu Wei's side will naturally deal with these opponents who will threaten them as soon as possible, and it is impossible to give Sun Ce's archers a chance to gather together.
Therefore, the archers on Sun Ce's side could only hide everywhere, scattering feather arrows into Zhu Wei's army, and threatening the lives of Zhu Wei's soldiers scattered.
Of course, there are shield guards in Zhu Wei's army to protect the arrows in a timely manner, but there are still a few soldiers who are killed or injured in the military formation, which is also inevitable on the battlefield.
Sun Ce's soldiers slowly approached within about sixty steps of Zhu Wei's army, and at this time, the crossbow archers in Zhu Wei's army also began to release arrows, and about a thousand or more crossbow archers were divided into three groups in the Chinese army formation where Huang Zhong was, and they continuously shot crossbow arrows at Sun Ce's soldiers.
This crossbow arrow, which is a sharp weapon in the army, is more powerful than the feather arrow, even if Sun Ce's soldiers use a double-arc hand shield to protect the vital points on their bodies, there are still non-stop soldiers who are overturning on the way to charge.
It's just that Huang Zhong concentrated the crossbow archers in the middle army formation, but there were no crossbow archers on the side of the two wings of the army formation to block the enemy, so Sun Ce's soldiers finally rushed to the front of Zhu Wei's two wings of the army formation, and began to start a hand-to-hand fight with the Zhu guards at the front of the two wings.
Although there were swords and shields in front of the Zhu Wei army to protect the formation, Sun Ce's soldiers continued to collide, and naturally broke the front line, so the soldiers on both sides had a hand-to-hand battle on this side...... [.]