Under Zhao Wuxian's order, more than 500 soldiers marched in line 300 steps away and made preparations.

At this point, he also saw clearly the array of Qi troops on the opposite side, with equal numbers on the left, center, and right, and there were two rows of armor soldiers holding shields in the front of each large array. Behind are densely packed with apprentices holding spears, but the length is not as long as the spear Changge specially made by the warriors, and the formation is also a little scattered; The archers stood in several rows from the gaps in the columns, adjusting their bowstrings and preparing them to fire; Ten chariots moved to the center, and it seemed that they still had no intention of giving up a frontal charge.

Of course, the horror they showed when they faced the soldiers standing still was also seen by Zhao Wuxian.

"Sure enough, although the Qi people are good at the art of war, they rely too much on skills, and the people are not united in a while, and the deployment of troops is heavy before and light after, so the formation is huge but not strong. What's more, they spread out in the deep grass of the bushes, and the gap between the arrays was very large, and they were not close enough at all. ”

This is the skill that Zhao Wuxian was taught when he communicated with Post Wuzheng in the lower palace, and in the face of this situation, the Jin army's previous style of play was to divide the troops into three equal divisions of the left, center and right, each with one flank to attack its left and right flanks, and the other to attack from the front, then it could be broken.

However, today, because it was a small attack, Zhao Wuxian made some minor adjustments according to the actual situation.

The commanders once again gave orders to their two commanders, captains, and soldiers.

"The last two rows of Ge oblique point to the sky! The spears in the first three rows are flat! ”

"The sword is unsheathed! Raise your shield! ”

"Crossbow winding!"

"The second and third sons are ready to gallop on horseback!"

Zhao Wuxian also held the flags representing the colors of different troops, and gave on-the-spot command, and he instructed the young emperor.

"Xing Ao, control the speed, don't be impatient, advance and retreat in moderation."

Xing Ao bowed his head heavily, his hand loosened slightly, and he held the eight bridles tightly.

At this time, five hundred people on the left, middle and right, under the leadership of the commanders, reported in unison: "Qi Yan! ”

"Qi Yan!" Hundreds of people shouted in unison.

"Good. The whole army continued to move slowly, and after fifty paces, it accelerated and trot, and then everything went according to plan! ”

With that, the drummers began to beat the waist drum again. The crowd marched again to the beat of the drum, which was gradually intensifying.

"Doctor, drum vertebrae, drum vertebrae!"

The Uya Brigade was a little stunned after the other party's steps, and then realized that he had been in a passive state from beginning to end. Face an array of enemy forces that are getting closer and faster. He hurriedly handed the drum to the right side of the car and asked him to tap the skin drum rack on the car.

"Sima Fayun, drum up the horse's restlessness, and be afraid of it!" The Wuya Brigade stabilized its mind, and hurriedly waved the flag to command the pawns and Xiao Rong, letting everyone move closer to make the formation as dense as possible, and then began to move forward slowly.

After the entire Qi army array began to move, it seemed to be a little ineffective, the left and right sides were already completely aligned, one facing forward and the other back. The people in the rear of the formation walked slowly, and the people in front walked fast, and they couldn't do the uniformity of the soldiers at all.

Standing on the chariot, the Uya brigade held on to the railing, and did not forget to shout to the archers in the front row: "The enemy can only release arrows after entering a hundred paces!" ”

But this was shouted a little late, for half of the archers, who could not bear the pressure from the opposite side, had already cast their arrows, and after they were thrown high, they fell with a scream, and landed more than ten paces in front of the warrior who had begun to trot, without injuring a single person.

The Uya Brigade stomped its feet regretfully. But there was nothing to be done, the rhythm of the archers in the front row was completely out of order, and after they finished shooting an arrow, they began to shoot with their bows in succession, regardless of how the commander shouted. None of them formed a dense salvo, only scattered arrows flew everywhere.

In an instant, the distance between the two sides had already entered within a hundred paces!

The soldiers advanced in a similar manner to modern armies, steadily advancing until they were within effective range of enemy fire, and then moved on to attack. At first, the phalanx marched smoothly, and this speed allowed it to maintain a tight formation. Then, when the first arrows of the Qi people fall into the phalanx, speed up and turn to the trot attack!

This is what Sima Fa called "acting cautiously and advancing cautiously".

The spears in the phalanx were flattened, like countless hedgehogs, and in the concave center, Qi Wan, a native of Mengcheng, also raised a shield to protect his neck and chest, and the short sword in his hand slammed his shield under the shout of the pawn commander Musha!

They called out their names.

"Warrior!"

The sound of swords, shields and contradictory knocks, as well as the noise of hundreds of soldiers chanting in unison, resounded in the sky, and even reached Zhen Yi a few miles away, so shocked that the guards watching the battle also trembled, and Zhen Zhongxun and the others were directly frightened and sat down on the ground.

And the Qi people who faced the military soldiers were even more afraid, and the shaking in their hearts was like a crack in an eggshell, getting bigger and bigger.

It took them half a moment, just to complete the formation, and then they were forced to move forward by the rear officers. Looking at these Jin people who pressed over like a mountain, they were not comparable to those scattered and chaotic Lu masters two months ago. Some people began to cramp in their calves and stomachs, stood still, and said nothing and walked forward.

So these people were quickly killed by the military officials in the back row, and the Qi people in the front row were mostly old pawns and could still hold on. But the apprentices in the back row fell into an incomparable panic, and their steps began to not know whether to move to the left or right, and the formation that had just been collected by the officers loosened again.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and it was only fifty paces. The air was stagnant, and everyone was breathing heavily, as if a rope was tightening around their necks.

Faced with the enemy's terrible right flank, the archers who marched forward on the left flank to shoot arrows lost their fear, and began to disobey the command of the commander, and hurriedly turned around and drilled through the gap in the formation of the armor soldiers, trying to hide behind. This result, however, it messed up the formation of the left flank of the Qi formation, leaving a lot of obvious gaps.

The archers in the center and on the right flank, forced by the sword and shield in the rear, fired another arrow before hurriedly retreating to both sides, moving behind the armor and continuing to throw their heads as they walked. However, the arrows were scattered and chaotic, although they caused more than ten casualties to the soldiers who were charging intensively on the opposite side, but they did not disrupt their formation, but panicked themselves.

"Just withstand the first wave of impact, fight with heavy action and light action, press over, and the enemy will be defeated!" For some reason, Uya's own voice was trembling, and even he didn't believe what he said.

Before the words could be spoken, the crossbowmen on the opposite side stopped, and then began to move diagonally towards the two wings again, and the five rows of panting crossbowmen stepped forward in turn, and within the ideal range of forty or fifty paces, they raised the one-armed crossbow, which had already been wound and charged.

"Not good!" The armorers who were a little loose in the formation of the Qi people hurriedly raised their shields in unison to defend, but there were still many gaps.

Say it's too late, then it's too fast. Under Su Shouyu's shout, the first row of crossbowmen used their fingers to pull the hanging knife, which was a volley!

Bang bang!

The armorers on the left and right wings of the Qi people only felt a sudden strong impact from the shield, and some of them were shocked and took a step back. Someone fell backwards as if they had been punched in the stomach, and several crossbow arrows passed through the gaps, killing several of the apprentices, causing a wave of confusion.

Then, the crossbowmen rode their own foot soldiers before they ran to the enemy. Began the terrifying gapless five-stage shot. After installing each crossbow on the lookout mountain, the accuracy improved a lot, and the march of the Qi people was suddenly suppressed.

In just a few breaths, the Qi people archers, who couldn't see what was happening in front of them, only had time to shoot a single arrow, killing and injuring several opponents, while the Qi people armor soldiers were hit by three rows of crossbow arrows on the opposite side in a row, reducing more than ten people.

The Wuya Brigade found that there was already a commotion on the left and right flanks of the Qi people, and even the array of armor soldiers was in chaos, and the weapons in the hands of some of the disciples could not help trembling.

"There is no way, I can only hope that I can lead the chariot with the five hundred people in the center. Defeat the enemy's mid-line first, and kill or capture the opposing boss. The Wuya Brigade gritted its teeth and waved the flag so that the center was not hit by the crossbow arrows, and the Qi pawns with a relatively tight shape accelerated their pace and pressed on.

At this point, on the open plain hundreds of steps wide, the entire array of the two sides finally collided head-on!

……

The sword and shield array to which Qi Wan belonged was located at the back of the concave shape on the right flank, and when the two spear formations on the left and right and the armor warrior holding the shield on the opposite side slammed into each other, they were still ten steps away from the front.

So he can see everything that's going on.

It stands to reason that the phalanx's encounter with the opposing formation was carried out by forceful pushing, "pushing" with shield against shield, and stabbing with spears. Fight until one side is exhausted and retreats.

However, given the length of the spears made by the warriors, in a tight queue of five columns, at least the spears of the first three rows could easily stab the enemy when laid flat, and even past those sparse shields. Pierced into the neck and chest of the apprentices behind him.

But the opponent's short sword and eight-foot spear, Ge couldn't do that.

So at the moment of the collision, more than a dozen Qi soldiers and apprentices were stabbed with blood holes by three rows of spears, blood sprayed wildly, screaming and falling to death, the undead were rolling and struggling all over the ground, and the soldiers were only a few killed and injured.

But because the number of Qi people is exactly twice that of the military pawns. And because the armor in the front row was pierced, the injury was not too big. Under the collision, the impact of the warrior array was temporarily stopped, and the two sides began to hold each other on the front line.

But as soon as they got close to the fight, the Qi people were dumbfounded.

What's the deal with those rows of copper spears that are more than a foot long? The phalanx is so close that even if someone is killed and retreated, any gap will be immediately filled by the spears in the back two rows, how can people rush? If you push forward, you will die, and if you are backward, you will live.

The same is true for the two rows of ge, who can peck from a high place, help the front row of robes push and peck, multiply the threat faced by the enemy, and they can also move forward to replace the fallen comrades in the front row.

The Qi people were afraid, but they didn't find that the recruits recruited in the Song State on the other side were also a little scared and unfamiliar, and the battle to break Zhenyi was not fierce, how could it be compared with today's tragic scene? But after receiving the enemy, as the battle began, the spear-wielding soldiers found that they only needed to raise the spear forward, and it would be difficult for the enemy to break through the array, even if the gap was exposed, even if they faced a strong enemy, they still had robes on their sides, and there were robes behind them, without a spear of their own, and dozens of them around them.

It turned out that when they were in Shangqiu, the training that the brigade commander asked them to do every day, walking in unison and walking in a phalanx was really useful, and the confidence of the soldiers doubled, the hand holding the spear no longer trembled, and the pace of progress became more and more firm.

The tip of the spear was drawn, blood splattered, and the bronze slashed down, and the skull burst apart.

The bloody slaughter ended the stalemate between the two sides, and the front began to move forward and behind the formation, the muddy pools of blood and the corpses lying on the ground seemed to be just a reinforced version of the quagmire that had once waded through it. The captain and the drummers helped them find their way through the noisy and screaming battle formation, and everyone could still follow the steps even after the assassination.

"Forward, forward, forward!"

The crossbowmen continued to shoot Qi people from the gaps between the formations, and they themselves continued to lose their numbers under the throwing of the archers on the opposite side.

Because of the numerical advantage and the wide depth, the left flank of the Qi people was not dispersed at the first time, but the decline after the battle made them feel a little weak. Some people wanted to fight, some wanted to escape, some were at a loss, some had already put into action, and even one of Xiao Rong's fifty apprentices dropped his spear and turned his head and ran.

A huge gap suddenly leaked out of the Qi people's front, and the sword and shield phalanx behind the "concave" shape was waiting for this moment, and they braved the arrows that had not stopped after the commander Mu Xia let out a loud roar and stormed in! (To be continued.) )

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