"Soldiers! The New Han army invaded my territory, invaded our land, plundered my wife and children, and we must not let them leave here alive, and the whole army will attack me! Kill! ”

Yu shouted loudly at the embargo.

With his order, tens of thousands of Cao troops roared in unison, such as Lin's pikemen, rushing forward in unison, and the other cavalry rushed out of its military formation and rushed straight into the sword and shield soldiers in the New Han army's military array.

Qin Jie himself is good at using the Pu knife, and like Wei Yan, he is a military general who is good at using a single sword. Therefore, he is particularly fond of training sword soldiers.

They all believed that the use of swords in hand-to-hand combat was the king. Therefore, more than half of the soldiers and soldiers of his 20th army were sword and shield soldiers. The rest of the soldiers, about two battalions of military horses are archers, two battalions of men and horses are pikemen and comprehensive arms, the whole army of more than 25,000 people, only one battalion of cavalry, that is, more than 2,000 cavalry.

Among the various armies of the New Han Army, it is not that every class of troops is the same number, and more troops they think are more suitable to follow them in battle according to the preferences of their commanders and what they are good at.

For Qin Jie, most of his subordinate generals were southerners and were not very good at riding horses, so he did not deliberately pursue the number of cavalry, and his 20th army only formed a battalion of cavalry.

Therefore, the military array arranged by Qin Jie is a bit strange in the eyes of General Cao.

How so? In general, pikemen were in front, sword and shield men were behind the archers, and cavalry remained on the flanks to protect the entire large army formation. lest the enemy's cavalry break into his own ranks.

However, Qin Jie's military formation with his back to the mountain. Its pikemen are in front, and archers are in the middle. On the flanks were sword and shield soldiers, and the cavalry was at the rear.

You must know that of the Cao army led by Yu Ban and Li Dian, two-thirds of the military horses were cavalry, and only 20,000 horses were infantry, and most of them were pikemen who were lightly armed.

According to the principle of mutual restraint of the troops, this cavalry and pikemen are actually a bit of a sword and shield soldier. After all, the sword and shield soldiers have strong defenses. However, the weakness lies in their short weapons. The impact of the cavalry, as well as the attack distance of the pikemen several positions farther than the sword soldiers, these are more resistant to the sword and shield soldiers. When the two armies are fighting, the cavalry can fight with the impact force so that the sword and shield soldiers may be broken through the military formation before they have time to counterattack, and the pikemen, when the spears are rushing, the sword and shield soldiers can only be passive defense. It is simply difficult to effectively inflict casualties on the enemy at the first time.

Therefore, for Yu Ban and Li Dian, they are really a little happy in their hearts, for this battle. I do have a relatively large grasp in my heart. In particular, Qin Jie had formed an army formation here early, waiting for them to kill. It was too late to change the formation again, so they could set up a targeted military formation that was more conducive to their own army's rush and kill.

Shouts of killing erupted. Cao Jun drove at full speed and quickly rushed towards Qin Jie's military formation.

But. The whole battlefield seems to be a little weird. If you look at it from a high altitude, you will see that the military formation of Qin Jie's New Han Army, when the Cao army launched an attack, the whole army was still as immobile as a mountain, and all you saw was the military horses of the Cao army clash forward, quickly narrowing the distance between the two armies.

This is an example of a very regular battle formation, with both sides in a position to fight.

The first to hand over were the cavalry of the Cao army and the sword and shield soldiers of the New Han army on the left and right flanks.

I saw the cavalry of the Cao Army like a huge wave, and with a bang, it directly crashed into the sword and shield array of the New Han Army.

"Kill!" When the cavalry of the Cao army rushed to kill in front, basically everyone held a spear in their hands, and when they rushed to a distance of several zhang from the sword and shield soldiers of the New Han Army, they rushed to kill the cavalry in the front.

For these cavalry of the Cao army, they all thought that their cavalry, attacking the sword and shield soldiers of the New Han Army, was definitely an impact, and they could kill the sword and shield soldiers of the New Han Army to a point and collapse the army.

Especially some of the Cao Army's cavalry members who possessed their own martial arts, they smirked and sprinted towards the soldiers of the New Han Army who still seemed to be calm.

The distance of a few zhang is actually a matter of blink of an eye, but at this time, the original immovable New Han saber and shield soldiers, when the cavalry of the Cao army was about to be killed, suddenly burst out from the army with a deafening shout: "Shield Emperor!" ”

Shield?

Between the lightning and flint, the cavalry of the Cao army were stunned for a moment.

Dingdingding......

I saw that in the face of the New Han saber and shield soldiers rushed by the cavalry of the Cao army, they moved in unison. Well, to be precise, it is a sideways body, a side step, and then the shield of the left hand is in front, protecting their side and head and face, and the right hand is also against the back of the shield at the same time, their feet make a charging action, a side lunge, and suddenly rush forward like a rabbit, facing the spear stabbed by the cavalry of the Cao army.

The dinging sound was the roar emitted by the cavalry of the Cao army stabbing on the shield of the New Han Army, and a spark was splashing everywhere, as if fireworks were being set off, and even people could smell a trace of iron like the smell of gunpowder.

Lose your marbles! The sword and shield soldiers actually relied on their flesh and blood to resist the onslaught of the cavalry? This was the first thought of the cavalry of the Cao army.

However, then, it did not appear under their impact, and the Xinhan saber and shield soldiers in front of them were hit by their impact and flew up, but their spears, which seemed to be stabbing some rocks, but could not pierce them, because the force was too great, and their spears slid uncontrollably to the side.

Think about how uncomfortable it would be to stab hard and stab with all your might, but stab on a rock that you can't get into at all? Seriously, it's not just uncomfortable, but it will be internally injured by the shock, at least, the spear will slide out uncontrollably, and their people will also fall with the aftermath.

For a while, the cavalry of the Cao army, who was in front of them, actually fell off their horses one by one, and even if they didn't fall, they would be swayed by their war horses. Can't hold their own bodies.

Of course, it seems. The Xinhan saber and shield soldiers who were hit didn't seem to be having a good time, and they were also shocked to the ground. Many of the sword and shield soldiers were also hit by the impact of the cavalry and fell to the side. However, they were all sideways, but they were not shocked and fell backwards.

That, it's too late, the real situation is that there are rows of New Han saber and shield soldiers, they keep doing the same action, and the sword and shield soldiers in a row are all like this. They used the small round shield, which was not too big, a small round shield that could be easily held with one hand in the left hand, to protect their sides, heads and faces, and one by one they seemed to be suicidal to meet the Cao cavalry who kept rushing over.

"Jump Slash! Kill! ”

Among the sword and shield soldiers of the New Han Army, another order was suddenly issued. The sword and shield soldiers behind suddenly rushed forward at this time, jumped high with the help of strength, and then directly crashed into the already chaotic cavalry of the Cao army.

"Assault! Assassination in chaos! ”

Another clear and bright snap, this voice. I don't know who shouted, but it faintly overshadowed the sound of the battle between the two armies, such as shouts of killing and screams. The sound of horses' hooves, the neighing of horses, these noisy and chaotic sounds. can't cover this shouting order.

In an instant, blood spilled. The screams were terrible.

Well, it's weird. The two armies collided so fiercely that it was only after the order of the New Han Army to jump and slash and assassinate in the chaos that a flash of blood was discovered, but earlier, it seemed that there was basically no blood.

Who said that cavalry is the nemesis of sword and shield soldiers? In fact, the New Han Army has long broken the attribute of this kind of mutual restraint of arms. At the beginning, the New Han army was only a sword soldier, which could defeat the cavalry of the thief Dong Zhuo and defeat the invincible Hun cavalry. It's just that it's a strange sword soldier.

This is Qin Jie's painstaking study and came up with some tactical methods of using sword and shield soldiers to break the enemy's cavalry and kill. Because Qin Jie knew from the beginning that the sword and shield soldiers would definitely encounter the enemy's cavalry, so in the case of Zhong Shou's use of sword and shield soldiers, he had to consider how to defeat the enemy when the sword and shield soldiers encountered the cavalry.

Of course, if it weren't for the fact that they were the New Han Army and had the support of a powerful New Han Dynasty, Qin Jie's many ideas would not have been realized.

First of all, there is the question of building their little round shield. The soldiers in the Qin Jie army, the small round shield they used was not an ordinary shield. It was carefully designed after an unknown number of trials. The front of the round shield is not flat, but the bevel of the round vertebrae, so that when the enemy's spear is directly pierced on the front of the round shield, it will inevitably be slid away by the royal shield around the round shield, realizing the effect of imperial power.

Secondly, the material used to create the round shield must withstand the tremendous force of the cavalry's impact without being directly pierced or shattered. Therefore, each small round shield is made of iron, but it is quenched after a hundred trainings, and then a layer of silver is crossed. The round shield is actually not a shield, and the weight is only about ten catties, so light and solid.

This is not enough, and it is necessary to create a relatively tough armor, helmet, and so on for each soldier. In other words, the sword and shield soldiers in Qin Jie's army are actually equivalent to heavy and light infantry, armed from head to toe.

In addition, even the requirements for every soldier who uses such a round shield are quite high, at least, they have to go through training, and they usually don't know how many times they have to be hit by cavalry. They had to learn how to keep themselves from being hurt when the cavalry was on the charge, not only to resist the stabbing of the cavalry's weapons, but also to protect themselves from injury when the enemy's horses crashed into them.

These cavalry led by Yu Ban and Li Dian, they really fell into blood mold, but they encountered Qin Jie's sword and shield soldiers. In fact, among the New Han Army, only Qin Jie's more than 10,000 sword and shield soldiers of the 20th Army were so carefully crafted. The sword and shield soldiers of other armies are at most heavily armed sword and shield soldiers, and they do not have such a tactical style of play as Qin Jie.

Qin Jie named his sword and shield soldiers "Silver Shield Iron Soldiers". For their shield was silver-white, and every sword and shield soldier was armed from head to foot, and his whole body was armoured.

In fact, the most difficult thing to practice is how to make yourself uninjured when you face the residual momentum of the enemy horse when you hit yourself after the impact and assassination of the enemy horse.

Royal power, borrowing power, multi-skilled, it's that simple. The cavalry in Qin Jie's army was actually formed for him to train these sword and shield soldiers.

I saw that the Xinhan saber and shield soldiers who were facing the impact of the enemy cavalry at the beginning, they rolled to the ground, and then they were hit by the attacking enemy cavalry by the sword and shield soldiers behind.

On the battlefield, in fact, it is very chaotic, and people are neighing on their horses. The only thing that is not chaotic is every soldier of the New Han Army, they all calmly obey the order, and reflexively make movements that they don't know how many years they have been trained in, whether it is jumping or slashing, or in the chaos of the army, swinging a knife to kill the enemy cavalry in front.

And if you can watch this battlefield from the sky, then you will see it clearly.

The cavalry of the Cao army who killed in front of the Xinhan saber and shield army like a tide, they were like a huge wave on the reef, but it was the giant wave itself that was crushed, and the reef was still standing majestically. Cao Jun's cavalry, in fact, did not break through the sword and shield formation of the New Han Army at all, but was forcibly blocked out of the New Han Army's military formation.

In this way, it is conceivable that the enemy cavalry that rushed up one after another, when the front could not rush through, how could the cavalry galloping behind be able to stop it?

As a result, it was naturally the Cao cavalry behind, because they didn't have time to restrain their horses and directly collided with the Cao cavalry in front of them who could not advance, which made the momentum of the enemy cavalry like a rainbow stun, and the entire cavalry formation showed a panicked situation of people turning over on their backs.

Cavalry that loses their impact is equivalent to losing their greatest advantage. Moreover, still in a somewhat chaotic situation, among the dense enemy cavalry, Qin Jie's sword and shield soldiers counterattacked, and they were killed into the cavalry group that lost its impact and flexibility.

Countless cavalry of the Cao army, their horses were cut off by sword and shield soldiers and fell to the ground, and more unlucky guys were killed by the soldiers of the New Han Army who were like loaches that had entered their cavalry army with limited mobility.

If this continues, Cao's cavalry will be defeated and will suffer heavy losses.

It's a pity that Yu Ban, who was also commanding the Chinese army to kill the Chinese army of Qin Jie's army, did not know what kind of situation their cavalry was facing in this short period of time. They all thought that their cavalry was fighting fiercely with the sword and shield soldiers of the New Han Army, so their Chinese army was still rushing towards Qin Jie's Chinese army.

Yu Ban didn't know, but the moment that made him thrilling and made him lose his soul, the bloody things that he couldn't forget for the rest of his life were waiting for him. (To be continued.) )