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"Stop in front of the formation, line up and defend against the gun!"

At the front of the more than 1,000 Yizhou soldiers is a combination of 300 shields and pikemen. But seeing that after Huang Zhong's order and the drumbeat changed, the shield soldiers and spearmen all stopped, and the shield soldiers inserted the spikes under the large shield more than six feet high (Han chi, equivalent to about one meter and a half) into the soil, and at the same time immediately pulled the two pillars folded behind the shield to the ground. Many of these large shields are all supported, and the backing hand adopts a half-kneeling posture to resist the large shield, and the shield and shield are connected to each other and become a simple fortification. There is a gap between the shields, and that's where the pikemen place their spears and wait for an opportunity to stab the enemy.

The spears between the shields formed a forest of guns, and if the Jiaozhou army rushed over, the men and horses in the front row would definitely crash into this solid defensive formation and suffer heavy losses. In addition to the two rows of gunners who cooperate with the shield hands, there are two rows of gunners in the back who hold spears that are longer than the first two rows, which can directly support the gun and shield defense positions in the front row. If necessary, you can also add an extended spear to the spear shield array, so that the original two columns of spear arrays on the large shield will become four columns, and even about three meters in the air can be prevented. If you want to cross the shield array, you are afraid that if you jump together, you will become a "hanging sausage".

The large shield is combined to form a tight and thick shield, and the sharp spears of each pole are stretched out from the gap in the shield wall to form a forest of spears. To be honest, this shield wall gun forest was common in its time, not at all new, but very practical. Shields block swords and arrows, spears stab the enemy, and this tactic is mainly to approach and suppress the opponent with a solid defensive posture.

Of course, the main body of this array of the Quanzhou army is still mainly defensive, and if the enemy army does not carry out a strong attack, it will not have any lethality. But when Huang Zhong was about to approach his own formation, Huang Zhong suddenly let out a long roar: "Oh......"

Huang Zhong's long whistle may be an order, and the Yizhou soldiers behind the shield wall gun forest immediately followed Huang Zhong's long whistle and the sudden drum beat, and roared rhythmically together!

"Oh-oh-oh——!"

Thousands of people shouted in unison, what a spectacle! What's more, this shout is full of fighting spirit, momentum, and strong killing intent! The shouts of one person are not enough, but the shouts of a thousand people in unison can be terrifying.

After a few shouts, Huang Zhong suddenly waved his hand to stop the drumbeat, and the entire battlefield suddenly fell silent. It's a bit funny to look at the Jiaozhou army in front of you again, these rookie soldiers who have never really fought on the battlefield didn't dare to rush again when they saw the gun forest on the opposite side, and suddenly they were used by Huang Zhong to raise their fighting spirit. First, I don't know how to break the formation, and second, no one wants to be the first "hanging sausage" in the gun forest. So just stop there and confront the Yizhou army, almost everyone has the same idea, even if you don't come, I won't go over! And the momentum on the other side is a little too scary.

Shiwen is also a rookie who has been on the real battlefield for the first time, and he can still rely on a little blood to support some momentum before, but now when he sees the formation listed by Huang Zhong, his scalp is numb, and he sees that the front team and the back team stop one after another, and hurriedly think hard about how to break the formation.

A rookie is a rookie after all, he never thought that he had an advantage in troops, and the opponent's defensive formation only had the strongest anti-counterattack ability in the first row. If you can command the soldiers to carry out a strong attack regardless of casualties, it is not impossible to break through the gun and shield array. Of course, the first condition is that the Jiaozhou soldiers dare to rush forward, and secondly, we have to consider whether there is a second row and a third row behind the gun and shield arrays in the first row.

In fact, there are only two rows of guns and shields under Huang Zhongbu, which is not very solid. However, Huang Zhong did not plan to completely adopt a defensive formation, because in front of the two armies, how to kill the opponent quickly and effectively is the right reason. And at this time, not to mention a veteran like Huang Zhong, even Lu Ren knew what kind of order should be given......

"Crossbowmen! Forty-five degrees of upward shooting! Shoot the arrows! ”

More than 1,000 Yizhou soldiers, except for the 300 spearmen and shield soldiers in front, almost all of them behind were crossbowmen. At this moment, Huang Zhong's general ordered, more than 700 crossbowmen raised the crossbows in their hands one after another, and threw the arrows in the arrow box wildly.

How powerful can more than 700 crossbowmen be? It's really hard to say. But well-trained archers and crossbowmen, once in dense firepower, can often be surprisingly lethal.

For example, in recent battles, when Yuan Shao and Gongsun Chan fought at the boundary bridge, the three thousand crossbowmen of Koji (I really didn't expect this word to be typed) could shoot Gongsun Zhan's more than 10,000 elite cavalry to the ground; For example, before preparing to attack the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent a bow and crossbow force of 5,000 people, and the 100,000 Hun cavalry had no way to take them, and in the end, if it weren't for the exhaustion of arrows, these 5,000 people could even retreat with their whole body, so that the general who led the army said "Three more arrows for each of our soldiers is enough" sighing.

So what's going on now? Although there are more than 10,000 of these Jiaozhou soldiers, can they compare with Gongsun Zhan's elite cavalry in terms of combat effectiveness? Can it be compared with the fierce Hun cavalry? On the other hand, although there are only about 700 crossbowmen in Huang Zhong's hands, one is that these soldiers are well-trained, and the other is that you have to see what these crossbowmen are using!? That's all the products that have been improved many times in the hands of Lu Ren, Shirley, and many craftsmen in Yizhou!

The standard crossbow used by the regular army of Yizhou is of excellent quality, especially after many improvements by Lu Ren and others, it not only has a long range and great power, but also uses the three major structures of arrow magazine, string wheel and winch, which makes the regular crossbow of Yizhou become a complete semi-automatic shooting weapon.

In addition, when it comes to rapid fire, the crossbowmen only need to pull off the folding support under the crossbow, and they can put the crossbow tail against the special buckle groove in the abdomen to stabilize the crossbow body, and then the left hand holds the grip on the crossbow, and the right hand can carry out rapid continuous fire as long as the right hand keeps turning the ring. The arrow box has twelve arrows per box, and it doesn't take a minute for a person with fast movements to shoot all the twelve arrows in a box, and then change the box to continue.

And based on twelve arrows a minute, seven hundred crossbowmen can shoot seven thousand four hundred arrows at the Jiaozhou soldiers in one minute. And the Jiaozhou soldiers are all standard dirt buns, where have they ever seen such a scene? So when the arrows shot by the Yizhou crossbowmen fell like a torrential rain towards the Jiaozhou soldiers' military array, most of the Jiaozhou soldiers looked up to see the arrow rain out of human instinct, but they didn't see what was going on, the arrow rain had fallen one after another, and a large number of Jiaozhou soldiers' military formations immediately fell. A few shrewd people who reacted quickly and had shields in their hands hurriedly raised their shields to block the arrows, so they were able to escape.

Just the first wave of arrow rain, the Jiaozhou army was in chaos. By the time the second and third waves of arrows fell, there was no Jiaozhou army in the effective strike surface of the seven hundred Yizhou crossbowmen. Because except for the Jiaozhou Army, which was killed and wounded and fell to the ground, the rest of the departments were all one action...... Turn around and run! It doesn't matter if you run, the Jiaozhou soldiers in the back are disrupted by their own soldiers.

Shiwen was already panicked when he saw this battle situation, and hurriedly ordered: "Retreat!" The whole army quickly retreated five miles, regrouped and attacked again! ”

Seeing the chaotic Jiaozhou army retreating in a hurry, Huang Zhong showed a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and ordered: "Stop the arrow!" Shield! The whole army marched slowly according to the march, forcing the enemy! ”

The spears were raised, the shields were raised, and the array moved forward, and the crossbowmen took advantage of this gap to begin to replenish the arrows in the magazines. Huang Zhong slowly rode his horse forward, first looked at the smoke in the mountains in the distance, then looked back at Hepu City behind him, and sneered again: "Xingba, Shizai, did you two boys sing today?" If not, the old man will have to monopolize it today! ”

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Jiaozhou Caiwu general Shiwen led more than 10,000 Jiaozhou reinforcements to confront the Yizhou army led by Huang Zhong outside Hepu City, but was defeated by Huang Zhong in the first burst, and retreated five miles to reorganize the army. Huang Zhong did not rush to pursue, but maintained a strict lineup and pressed it step by step. There are only more than 1,000 people and horses, but they follow closely behind the Jiaozhou soldiers with heavy and neat footsteps, and the roaring sound is simply the talisman of the king of Yama for the already frightened Jiaozhou soldiers, and the black and white impermanence of the soul hook...... If there were such myths and legends in those days.

First of all, five miles, not enough! Shiwen escaped more than ten miles with the Jiaozhou army, and when he looked back, he saw that he had pulled the Yizhou army formation out of a long distance, so he hurriedly ordered the army to be reorganized. It's just that it's not so easy for the already chaotic Jiaozhou military formation to be reorganized, and it took a lot of effort for the generals and colonels and flag soldiers at all levels to reluctantly reorganize the military formation.

Of course, it was only barely neatly arranged, and the spacing between the ranks and the positions of the troops were still very messy. But to be honest, the Jiaozhou Army, which has almost zero training and has never had much actual combat experience, can barely rearrange the military formation, which is already good. Perhaps this also has something to do with Huang Zhong's deliberate slowing down and deliberately leaving time for the Jiaozhou army to regroup.

Seeing that his military formation was a little neat, Shiwen felt a little relieved. raised his eyes to look at the Yizhou military formation that was still two or three miles away from him, but his heart was furious. In his ears was the rumbling footsteps of the Yizhou soldiers approaching his side step by step, Shiwen once again lowered his heart, and resolutely ordered with a move of the gun: "Beat the drum and march into the army, rush forward desperately!" You can't let the Yizhou thieves set up a shield array and release arrows! ”

Shiwen's choice should perhaps be said to be the right one. Although it is said that it lost a while just now, and lost some men and horses, the advantage of one's own forces still exists, and if the opponent rushes straight over to destroy the opponent's military formation while the opponent's preparations are not complete, a melee will ensue. And if you get into a melee, the opponent has a small number of people, the battle formation cannot be formed, and the advantage of the crossbowmen cannot be brought into play, so the numerical advantage of your own side can be brought into play.

However, can things really be as Shiwen envisions? (To be continued.) )