Chapter Ninety-Six: Turning the Tide

"Don't panic, hold your ground, the pikemen line up, the shieldmen build a defensive wall, and the archers prepare to shoot at the enemy's position. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "Cheng Lian saw the enemy's position clearly and knew that he was not capable of the enemy, so he was ready to adopt a defensive strategy.

Cheng Lian decisively abandoned the practice of using the river bank as the front line of the battle and brought his troops to high ground. At this time, many of the enemy troops had already crossed the river, and then relied on the river bank to fight, so they could only let themselves be exposed to the enemy. Moving troops to higher ground gives you time to build a solid defensive formation, which in turn allows you to delay for a longer period of time and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

The White Polish army rushed across the river bank and had to destroy the living forces at the first time before they could build fortifications. Once his fortifications were erected, it would not be so easy to attack again.

Therefore, the longer Cheng Lian holds on to the position, the more beneficial it will be to his side.

"Huh? That guy has given up defending the riverbank, which is kind of funny. "Han Xian came out of the shadows with two hundred archers, these people under him were the most elite veterans of the White Polish Army, and their physical fitness was very high, and they could still ensure their combat effectiveness when diving across the river in late autumn.

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and line up and crush them as soon as possible, so that we have enough time to build fortifications." Yang Feng also walked out of the shadows with two hundred bearded soldiers. These people are either army commanders or even chiefs, and if they really fight, the combat strength of 200 people can be compared to 1,000 people.

There are not many soldiers, but they are fine, and a small number of elites are often a sharp weapon to change the situation.

Soon, two thousand White Polish troops were assembled on the banks of the river. True, there were only two thousand, but these two thousand were the most elite troops of the White Polish Army. With a surprise victory in a positive battle, Guo Da also understands this truth, especially when he occupies the advantage of troops, he can give full play to the division of troops to the extreme.

The previous attacks were all foreshadowing, in order to concentrate all Lu Bu's troops on the side of the single-plank bridge, for which Guo Da did not hesitate to use himself as bait, and his handsome flag was hung on the single-plank bridge.

It was precisely because of this that Jiang Feng and Xun You sent all their troops to the single-plank bridge to fight.

However, Guo Da still didn't expect that Lu Bu still kept a hand in the end, and the thousand men and horses happened to stop at the place where he crossed the river.

This is not a coincidence, after all, everyone can see the terrain, where the water is turbulent, where the water is shallow, you can see at a glance. Guo Da chose the best place to cross the river, and Cheng Lian was also stationed in this place.

"Report to the general, the troops have all crossed the river and are assembled." Xu Huang reported to Guo Dayu.

"Okay, destroy the enemy army on the hillside as soon as possible, and attack with all your might." Guo Da gave the order to attack.

It is a very rare means of attacking the enemy's position head-on with elite troops, and the essence of the art of war lies in avoiding the real and attacking the weak. The most effective way is to first use new recruits and weak soldiers to consume the enemy's combat power, drag the enemy's formation, and consume the enemy's arrow feathers. When the enemy's attack became weak, the central gate opened, and the flaws were exposed, the main force made a decisive attack to deal a fatal blow to the place.

Good steel is used on the blade, but the blade is not used to cut bones, but to cut meat. A good general needs to do his best to protect his soldiers, the soldiers are there, the combat effectiveness of the army is there, once the soldiers are seriously hit, even if the number of the army is not damaged much, the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

However, at this time, there is no way to consider battle damage. The most effective way to stop loss is to solve the opponent's army as quickly as possible.

"Yes." Xu Huang, Han Xian, and Yang Feng got the order and immediately attacked.

The complete Baibo Army, under the leadership of the three vanguards, was like a trident slamming towards Chenglian's defensive array. Every attack is a flight of sparks and flesh.

"Archers, shoot the enemy's left flank. The pikemen retreated, and the shieldmen moved to the right. The broadsword men followed me and repelled them. "Cheng Lian will only change formations.

The two armies were already engaged, and bows and arrows could only prevent the enemy's flanks from outflanking, and the rest was hand-to-hand combat.

Although Cheng Lian's troops are also elite, they are still a little worse than these bearded soldiers in front of them, and the most important thing is that they are twice as bad in number.

The formation was knocked open again and again, and Cheng Lian commanded the broadsword soldiers to rush forward again and again to make up for the formation. The shield men were killed one by one, and the pikemen lowered their spears and raised their shields. The pikemen were killed, and the archers came to fill their positions.

The first charge, the second charge, the third charge......

"Captain, we can't stand it, let's order the withdrawal of troops." joined the army again and again to come to admonish, but was ruthlessly rejected by Cheng Lian.

Seeing the soldiers fall one by one in front of him, Cheng Lian was also like a knife, these people were all old brothers who had fought with him for many years. But he knew he had to hold on, and to retreat at this point was to die. Formation is the key to ensuring your defense, and the formation still has the ability to resist in them. Once retreated, the formation would inevitably break up, and everyone would be lambs to the slaughter.

An army without a chain of command is a rabble.

"Why haven't the reinforcements come yet, what about the reinforcements? There are no reinforcements. Cheng Lian shouted at the sky.

"Captain, look, reinforcements have arrived." Joining the army pointed to the fire in the distance, but then said in disappointment, "Why are there only so few people!" ”

That's right, there were indeed very few people who came, only Lu Bu and his personal guards. I saw a few faint fires moving quickly in the distance, it was Lu Bu and his personal guards. There were no more than a dozen people in total, riding fast horses and rushing straight into the rear of the enemy army.

Cheng Lian stood on a high place and watched, and saw a few scattered fires plunging into the fire like meteors.

However, it is this sporadic fire that contains infinite power. The fire under the hillside seemed to explode, and the originally solemn formation was shattered in an instant.

Capture the thief and capture the king first, Jiang Feng single-handedly went straight to the enemy's handsome banner, wanting to take Guo Da's head. And his guards rushed to the enemy drummers.

There are many flags in the day war, and many golden drums in the night war. The golden drum is their command system, and once the command system is destroyed, they will collapse without a fight.

Xu Huang, Han Xian, Yang Feng and others saw that the coach was in danger, and hurriedly turned their horses back to rescue, and the three of them fought with Lu Bu.

"Look, the enemy's formation is out of order, the enemy is out of order. Brothers, the time has come for a counterattack, follow me, rush. Cheng Lian seized the opportunity and rushed down the hill with the soldiers. In an instant, the situation of the two armies attacking each other turned into a front and rear attack, even if there were only a dozen people on one side of the attack, it still made the White Polish army difficult to take care of and turned into a rout.