Chapter 72: The Battle of Luoyang (10)

Yang Shuojun put out a huge sharp arrow formation here, and Cao Jun's side was not idle, it was still the most defensive round formation, but compared to the battle formation that was hastily placed before, the Cao Jun round formation at this time was more rigorous and orderly, and a heavy air rushed to the face.

When the formation was set, Qin Qiong immediately waved the order flag, "Attack!" ”

With the waving of Qin Qiong's order flag, the leading soldiers led their respective troops to slowly advance towards the Cao soldiers' army formation in an orderly manner.

Qin Qiong was originally a brave and brave person, and he must be the vanguard in every battle, but today he has become a handsome man who stands on the command platform and commands thousands of troops and horses, there is really no way Qin Qiong is the highest commander among the four of them, and he is also the current highest commander in Yang Shuo's army, and Qin Qiong is also a famous general in Li Tang, in addition to being brave and invincible, his ability to command troops is also first-class.

Yang Shuojun's front five rows of sword and shield men held shields more than one person high, and they hid behind the shields and moved forward steadily, followed by spearmen, pikemen and other arms, and let out a low short drink with the tune.

Two miles, one mile, five hundred steps, one hundred steps...... Sixty steps!

With the steady advance of Yang Shuo's army, Cao Ren's command flag was slowly raised, and the archer in the center also slowly raised the longbow more than one person high, and with a "squeak, squeak" sound, the longbow was like a full moon, and it was aimed at the air obliquely.

Sixty paces is within range of the longbow.

"Shoot!" Cao Ren waved the flag and yelled!

With the sound of swishing, the space above Cao Jun and Yang Shuojun was covered by a dark cloud within fifty or sixty space, and for a moment it was like a hailstone, urgent and heavy, falling on the shield in the front row.

"Duh!" More arrows were blocked by the shields, but many arrows still landed on the soldiers behind them along the gaps between the shields, "Oops! With a wail, the neat shield array seemed to tear a gap, and the sword and shield hands behind the chain reaction who couldn't dodge in time were also shot into hedgehogs by the dense rain of arrows.

Seeing that the shield array was missing a gap, the military Sima behind him quickly ordered someone to fill the gap, but all this did not affect the advance speed of the battle array, and he still advanced slowly and methodically.

At a distance of sixty steps, a wave of arrow rain was certainly not enough, and the archers in the center of Cao's army array once again bent their bows and aimed at them in one go, and the dense arrow rain once again rushed straight to the swarming Yang Shuojun like locusts.

At a distance of sixty steps, three waves of arrows have passed, and there are only six or seven out of ten sword and shield hands left who can rush to the front, and it can be said that this short distance of sixty steps is crawling over the corpse mountain and the sea of blood.

The Cao soldiers on the opposite side continued to rain arrows, and Yang Shuo's army did not have any defensive measures at all, and it was impossible for the archers to stop and shoot arrows again in the process of attacking, followed by a row of spearmen behind the sword and shield hands, and the long spear was cut from a log or bamboo pole, and the long tip of the spear was terrifying to look at.

The spearmen followed closely behind the sword and shield hands, and the rain of arrows shot by the Cao soldiers in the formation was blocked by the sword and shield hands, and they followed closely behind the sword and shield hands, and the spears that twisted their waists and hips jumped with their full strength, and the sword and shield hands in front of them stabbed straight into the Cao army's formation.

The first to bear the brunt is the sword and shield hand in the first row of Cao Jun's array, the power on the spear is huge, it is easy to pierce the vertical shield, even if it can't pierce the huge power, it can fly backwards with the whole person, and some spears fly high past the sword and shield hand and shoot straight into the pikeman formation, like a string of sugar gourds that instantly take the lives of several Cao soldiers.

As soon as the war came into contact, it was tragic and abnormal, the tip of the needle was against the wheat mang, here was the rain of arrows, that side was the spear, that side was the spear, and here was the vertical shield, in short, it was comparable.

Qin Qiong's sharp arrow array uses the huge penetrating ability of the sharp arrow array, and the part that is used as an arrow is the most elite unit in the whole army, the two armies are close to each other, bows and arrows, and spears are obviously useless, this is a combination of pikemen and sword and shield hands hidden behind the sword and shield hand, and the spear is elusive, as long as it is properly coordinated, it can often harvest a large number of lives.

The order flag waved, and the front end of the sharp arrow, which Qin Qiong had high hopes for, pierced into the Cao soldiers' circle formation as he wished, and with the continuous influx of Yang Shuo's soldiers, the circle array was in danger.

"This person is good at martial arts, and his ability to command troops is also first-class!" Cao Ren, who was in the center of Cao's army, sincerely admired that Xu Chu fought against Qin Qiong on the bank of the Suishui River, but it made all the generals under Cao Cao's command talk about it, so Cao Ren recognized at a glance that it was Qin Qiong, the fierce general who commanded Xu Chu in the center of the battle.

The round formation is the strongest defensive formation in all battle formations, and the opponents Cao Ren faced not only had the 20,000 foot soldiers commanded by Qin Qiong but also the 4,000 cavalry commanded by Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun over there hasn't made any movement yet, and the foot soldiers of Commander Qin Qiong here have already penetrated several layers of protection from Cao Jun, and they are not far from Cao Ren in the center. In the adjutant general's surprised look, Cao Ren gritted his teeth and said, "Order all the archers of the right army to move to the left army!" ”

The deputy general was stunned, the right army is mainly used to guard against Zhao Yun's cavalry, and now all the archers are transferred to the left army, what if Zhao Yun's cavalry rushes in? Without the threat of archers, no matter how strong the shield is, the cavalry that charges is tofu scum!

Seeing that the deputy general was stunned, Cao Ren scolded angrily, "Don't go quickly!" ”

"Whoa!" The adjutant general had no choice but to bow down and leave to inform the generals of the right army.

With the transfer of the archers of the left army of the Cao army, the eyes of Zhao Yun, who was staring at the Cao army from a distance, also lit up, and with the transfer of the archers on the right army's side, Cao Ren made an order that made all the generals of the Cao army dumbfounded, "Sword and shield men, pikemen retreat in place!" ”

The military order is difficult to disobey, the junction of Cao Jun and Yang Shuojun's two armies, just now there was still blood surging, and it instantly became a vacuum, Yang Shuojun looked at all this in a daze, and he didn't know what to do.

And from a distance, Cao Jun's huge circular array slowly squirmed, and in the place where Yang Shuojun was fighting, it was like taking a bite on an apple, revealing a huge pit.

Cao Jun's retreat also made Qin Qiong, who was the main general, stunned all of a sudden, retreating was not, moving forward was Cao Ren's strategy, and he hesitated for a while.

Liu Ji, who was standing behind him, watched the battle formation suddenly wake up, and hurriedly shouted: "Retreat!" ”

It's just that it's too late, and when Qin Qiong waved the command flag, Cao Bing, who was still slowly retreating, suddenly stopped when he was forty steps away, and a large number of archers suddenly emerged behind him, and a sharp arrow was instantly aimed at the defenseless Yang Shuojun soldiers in the center.

When the two armies fought, they were close to each other, and the archers could not shoot at the enemy, and now the soldiers of Yang Shuo's army who rushed into the formation were completely live targets, and a large area fell in an instant when a wave of arrows rained down.

"Withdraw! Evacuate! Jun Sima yelled, don't think about it, you know that you have been fooled

Arrows rained down, and the archers of the Cao army kept stretching their bows and arrows, and nothing could be more energetic than shooting the enemy army.

The archers of the right army were transferred away, and the left army was pouring arrows on the side, Zhao Yun immediately ordered the cavalry to charge, taking advantage of the fact that Cao Jun was ruthlessly shooting Yang Shuojun's foot soldiers, it was the best time for the cavalry to charge.