In just ten minutes, four or five thousand people lined up on the river bank to form a standard ten horizontal formations, the front row of 500 large shields guarded the front, forming a line of lance forest, and the soldiers in the rear raised their shields to the sky, covering their heads tightly, looking like an invulnerable steel forest!

Wang Shichong looked at the formation on the opposite shore, but his brows were tightened together more and more, with his wolf-like battlefield sense of smell for many years, he felt that something was wrong.

Mai Tiecane plays personal heroism like this, which is indeed extremely morale-boosting, but the problem is that while boosting the morale of his own side, it will also become a thorn in the enemy's side, a thorn in the flesh, judging from the frame of the Goguryeo Army's covering shooting just now, it should be fired with ten thousand arrows, especially sending the archer to shoot at Mai Tiecane alone, if that is the case, I am afraid that Mai Tiecane will already die.

But this scene did not happen, not only that, the enemy's bow and arrow momentum also weakened a lot, became weak, disorganized, and the arrow storm just now, not only could not shoot the wheat iron rod, even the three pontoon bridges behind, especially the water like dumplings in the water, more than 1,000 Sui officers and soldiers without protection, there was no obstruction to strike, even the launch of the catapult, also slowed down a lot, the overwhelming stones in the air, almost no longer seen, but sent to the opponent's camp, If you fall to the shore and into the river early because of the lack of range, more of your own soldiers will be killed by mistake than by the opponent's stones and arrows!

Wang Shichong's heart was full of suspicion, and his intuition told him: This must be a trick by the Goguryeo army to lure the enemy, wanting to attract more Sui troops to cross the river, and then gather and annihilate them!

Mai Mengcai ran over excitedly. He said loudly: "General Wang." Now Father Shuai and General Qian. General Meng has already gone ashore to line up, please give an order, send another 10,000 reinforcements, as long as you work harder, you will definitely be able to break through the enemy camp! ”

Wang Shichong shook his head and said firmly: "No, now is not the time, the enemy army is afraid of fraud." Hurry up and give an order, and tell the soldiers in front in the language of the flag that no one is allowed to cross the river now, and let the brothers on the opposite side pay attention to protecting the two wings in case the enemy cavalry will attack! ”

Mai Mengcai's eyes suddenly opened round: "General Wang, what do you mean by this?" They all rushed over, and they didn't send reinforcements, did they want to trap my father and them in fighting alone? ”

The blue light in Wang Shichong's eyes flashed: "Mai Mengcai, you are the captain of the herald, don't doubt the orders of the boss!" Can't you see it. Did the Goguryeo army deliberately let our army cross the river? Even if you send reinforcements, it can't be now! Execution of the general order. Otherwise, military law is engaged in! ”

Mai Mengcai gritted his teeth hatefully, turned forward, and quickly showed Wang Shichong's order to the front in flags.

Mai Tiecane was sandwiched in the center of the Sui army's 5,000-strong phalanx, looked back at the flag on the general platform in the distance, nodded, and said: "Wang Shichong really deserves to be a famous general, and he can be so calm." ”

Qian Mengxiong stomped his feet: "Damn, General Mai, are you still helping the surnamed Wang to speak?" I think he is clearly not saved! ”

Meng Cha also said: "Yes, not only do we not send troops, but we also want to divide our troops to protect the two wings, how can we storm the opponent's camp fence?!" ”

Mai Tiezhu gritted his teeth: "General Wang is reasonable, now our army has no protection on this riverbank, if the enemy cavalry kills from both wings, our army will not be able to resist, Lao Qian, you go to the left flank, Lao Meng, you go to the right flank, each bring a thousand people, turn the team to the left and right sides respectively, and point to the side to protect the flank of our army!" ”

Qian Mengxiong shook his head: "You rely on these 3,000 people to storm the camp?" ”

Mai Tiezhu laughed: "If you can really attack, Lao Wang will definitely send reinforcements over, you just do what I order!" ”

When the Sui army forcibly crossed the Liao River, they lost almost all their banners, and at this time they could only rely on the heralds to run back and forth between the teams and give orders, but fortunately, this army was all elite soldiers and well-trained, and by this method, the orders of the wheat iron rod were quickly conveyed to each soldier.

The 1,000 soldiers on the left and right flanks turned their direction and turned the horizontal column into columns, turning the tip of the lance that was originally facing the front 90 degrees to the side and vertically, while the 3,000 sergeants of the Chinese army, the lancers in the front row shouted the trumpet and stepped forward, and the more than 1,000 archers in the back row drilled out from under the shields held high by their comrades and comrades-in-arms, pouring arrows into the Goguryeo camp at the fastest speed.

Goguryeo's camp fence was built on a high ground fifty or sixty steps away from the river bank, and the dense fence was covered with thick black mud, and behind the fence were erected shields painted with blue-faced fanged ghost heads, and above these shields, they were also covered with heavy and thick wooden shields, many of which had been inserted with the arrows of the Sui army, and I don't know what the situation would be in the shields, look, less than twenty steps away from the other party's camp!

Mai Tie Staff suddenly roared: "Heavy crossbow arrows, fire!" ”

Song Zhong on the side quickly raised a red flag, shook it three times, and suddenly opened more than 30 gaps from the front shield wall of the Sui army, and the Sui army sergeants in groups of two or three people held a large-shaped crossbow machine assembled together, half a person high, weighing dozens of catties, and the crossbow arm on it was not an ordinary crossbow arrow, but a broken lance more than two feet long, and the tip of the cold lance was like the head of a poisonous snake, spitting out a letter, and raised the head that meant death in the Goguryeo army formation on the opposite side, these were the great killing weapons of the Sui army's infantry. Eight stone bull crossbows!

The sound of the machine spring firing is endless, more than 30 broken lances shoot out, and the soldiers who are pulling the strings behind them are also unable to stand one by one, and fall backwards, the power of these eight-stone ox crossbows is much stronger than the ordinary two-stone infantry crossbows, and it is close to the Wanjun Divine Crossbow, the big killer weapon of the Chen army in the former south, but the stability is much stronger, and it is launched at a distance of twenty or thirty steps, not to mention the wooden shield wall, even if it is an iron shield, it can also shoot through!

The sound of the strong lance breaking the shield was endless, followed by screams and muffled snorts, behind the shield wall of the Goguryeo army, blood gushed out, and after each trajectory of the broken lance's flight, one or two shields four or five steps wide fell to the ground.

Dozens of lance tips stood straight through the bodies of three or four Goguryeo soldiers, punching terrible bloody holes in their chests, and then brought them to the three or four people in the back, strung together, and seven or eight corpses were like dominoes, smashing down twenty or thirty people around. (To be continued......)