Chapter 648: Pros and Cons of the Giant Shield
Xu Yu wore a scarf and a light silk Confucian robe, and came to the front of the battle surrounded by a group of armor soldiers. The pen "Fun" pavilion www.biquge.info the breeze blows, the scarf trembles lightly, and the silk clothes flutter. He stroked the sparse beard under his chin and looked at the military formation three hundred paces away, a sneering smile on the corner of his mouth.
The military formation of 3,000 people is indeed very neat and majestic. However, how neat and majestic it is? Zhuangzi said that in front of the army behind him, even if the army of 3,000 people is solid and tenacious, it will be trampled into powder, and even if it cannot be broken, it will be trampled into the dirt and can no longer turn over.
Xu You waved his hand and motioned for a team of 1,000 people to come forward to test it.
The drums of war sounded, and a team of 1,000 men walked out of the army in a majestic and high-spirited manner, holding shields, spears, and swords, lined up in a neat formation, and began to advance.
Behind them, the majestic drums of war exploded, and the rhythm was slow, matching their pace. It is always more difficult for a large army to maintain formation than to wait in formation, and in order to show off their military appearance and overwhelm their opponents in momentum, they need to maintain a neat formation, and the sound of war drums is to provide them with rhythm.
Two hundred steps, one hundred steps, Xu You's eyes widened, his fingers on the tip of his beard stopped moving, and he inadvertently held his breath. It was just a temptation to test an army of three thousand with a thousand, which was enough to show his prudence and respect for his opponents. Although Xu Rong, the general of the other party, said that his name was unknown, Liu Xiu could hand over the heavy task of attacking Pingyu City to him, and he must not be an incompetent person. 30,000 men is an absolute advantage, but if the battle is ugly. The blow to morale will also be very serious, and the adequacy of his personal command will be verified.
This battle is not only a battle for the Yuan family to turn defeat into victory, but even more so for him Xu Yu. Since that failed to ambush Liu Xiu in Shimen, he has been idle under Yuan Shao's account for several years, and if it weren't for the recommendation of him this time, he wouldn't know when this kind of son would be a head.
The opportunity is right here. Just see if he can catch it.
Xu You looked intently at the army opposite, he needed to discover Xu Rong's weakness from this temptation.
One hundred steps, it should be time for the opponent's arrow array to attack. Xu Yu secretly thought to himself. Liu Xiu's subordinates have masters who are in the instrument. Xu You had also heard of the strength of his arrow array, so he specially prepared a thick shield. Now, the advancing warriors were slowly moving forward with those specially made shields. They will soon prove whether Xu You's preparations worked, and if they do, it will give the soldiers more courage in the following battles.
While Xu You was waiting nervously, all a thousand soldiers had entered within a hundred paces, but there was not a single arrow fired on the other side, Xu You was a little puzzled, this situation was not in his expectation. The tradition of the Han army is to attack with an arrow array first, and the fierce arrow array has been the first act of the attack since the Chunqiu Warring States period, but now this scene has not been staged for a long time. It can't help but make Xu You a little suspicious.
Could it be that Xu Rong wants to wait for us to get closer before attacking?
The advancing soldiers were even more uneasy than Xu You. They tightened their grips on the handles of their shields, tensed their bodies, and waited with bated breath. Although the sun has not yet exerted its power, their bodies under the robes have been **. Half heat, half tension. According to the scheduled schedule. At this time, the opponent's arrow array should start attacking, they will stop, test the protection ability of the big shield at the edge of the effective distance of the opponent's arrow array, have a mental preparation, and at the same time take a breath and accumulate strength. Prepare for the next charge. But now that the other party didn't react at all, and there was not a single arrow, should they stop as originally planned, or continue to move forward?
After a moment of hesitation, confirming that the sound of war drums behind them was for them to move on, the soldiers gritted their teeth, raised their heavy shields, and continued on.
Eighty steps! Fifty steps! Thirty steps!
Xu Rong never gave the order to attack with an arrow array, and the three thousand troops were silent, only the monotonous sound of war drums beat unhurriedly, and the war horses occasionally had to snort and plow the ground with the hooves of the horses.
Twenty steps! Ten steps!
The big shield is getting heavier and heavier, and the soldiers of the Yuan army who have not been able to rest according to the predetermined plan are already struggling at this time, they really can't hold on, some people gritted their teeth, turned the strength of their whole body to their right arm, and some even used two hands to raise the shield, even so, this made them panting and sweating profusely. Because of the hard work, they no longer had time to listen to the war drums behind them, and even if they did, they didn't have enough physical strength to execute, and the pace of unification had become a luxury, let alone walking with great spirits. Half of their strength was on the heavy shield, and half on the face of their opponent who was close at hand.
The smile on his opponent's face was clearly visible, a sneering and contemptuous smile that seemed to show disdain for their embarrassment.
The soldiers of the Yuan army gasped, and their hearts were so aggrieved that they wanted to vomit blood. In such weather, wearing a thick battle robe and heavy armor is already uncomfortable enough, and you have to hold such a heavy shield and walk three hundred steps in one breath, is it necessary to be laughed at when you take a breath? Try it, maybe it's worse than us.
Just when the soldiers of the Yuan army were secretly cursing in their hearts, Xu Rong suddenly gave the order to attack. The colorful flags fluttered, the drums of war suddenly rushed like a shower, and the 200 foot soldiers of the forward, who had been sitting still, suddenly roared and ran wildly.
Quiet as a virgin, moving as a rabbit.
These two hundred foot soldiers had been waiting for a long time, and in their eyes, these thousand Yuan soldiers who came with strange shields were simply ridiculously stupid. In battle, the lighter the weapon, the more conducive it is to conserving physical strength. The craftsmen of the baggage battalion racked their brains in order to reduce the weight of their weapons while maintaining their effectiveness, even if they could reduce it by one or two or two, it was a major progress, and they could be rewarded, and now there were people who held a huge shield that was at least five times heavier than an ordinary shield to fight, which was really laughing to death.
Looking at the Yuan Jun who was so tired that his steps were out of order, these foot soldiers who stood in front of the formation and saw it most clearly were full of pride and contempt for their opponents. They had already anticipated the difference in strength between the two sides, and they waited for the battle to start and rush up to beat the water dogs.
As soon as the drums sounded, the two hundred foot soldiers rushed out. They didn't deliberately maintain their formation, but Dori's training allowed them to work in groups of five, even in the midst of a wild run.
Ten steps, just a breath or two, and after a while, the two sides have come into contact.
"Kill!" A soldier armed with a ring knife and a small shield roared and collided with him. He used a very clever force, and he hit the junction of the two large shields at once, so that he did not collide with the other party head-on, but collided with the sides of the two Yuan soldiers at the same time.
The soldiers of the Yuan army were exhausted, they gritted their teeth, concentrated all their strength on the front, and met the enemy's impact, but for this tricky attack, they did not anticipate enough, their footing was unstable, and they gave up half a step to the side.
This half step was enough for the soldier to break in, and with a light slap with a smile, the ring knife slashed horizontally, slashing Yuan Jun's arm on the right side at once, and then flew up and crashed into the next opponent.
Behind him, four of his teammates split off on the flanks, guarding him tightly, knocking the staggering foe to the ground. They swung their weapons and attacked their opponents mercilessly, but instead of forcing them to kill each enemy, they pierced forward as fast as they could, wedged deep into the formation.
Two hundred foot soldiers, but made an attack formation of two hundred cavalry, they were like mercury, and easily tore apart the formation of a thousand Yuan soldiers, tearing them into several sections. Under their brutal and cunning attacks, Yuan's army was defeated, neither had the opponent's abundant physical strength, could not catch up with the opponent's pace, and did not have the opponent's skilled combat skills.
Even on the battlefield array, there was not a day of untrained soldiers who vividly demonstrated their advantages in physical fitness and combat skills, and the battle armor, shields and ring knives that condensed the efforts of countless craftsmen also gave them a big advantage in the face of the soldiers of the Yuan army who held heavy shields.
Like a soup splashing snow, hitting an egg with a stone!
Before the drum stopped, the two hundred foot soldiers had successfully penetrated the formation of a thousand Yuan troops, and they turned around, in groups of three or five, and killed the lone Yuan army soldiers. With their close cooperation, those Yuan soldiers were physically and mentally exhausted, and they were defeated on all fronts before they could support Xu You's reinforcements, and a small half were killed in front of the formation, and the rest threw down their shields, turned around and ran.
Xu Rong was silent, only a cold glow flashed from his eyes, he waved his hand, and the herald behind him understood, waved the colorful flag vigorously, and ordered the ballista to start firing.
With a "boom", the thirty ballista carts that had been prepared for a long time roared in unison, and in an instant, more than three hundred arrows flew out of the position with a roar, rushing towards those fleeing Yuan soldiers. The first batch of arrows had just flown out of the formation, the second batch of arrows had also flown out of the ballista, and then the third batch of arrows had also flown out.
Layers of arrows poured out like waves.
The fleeing Yuan soldiers didn't have time to react at all, and they were knocked down by the speeding feather arrows. In a few breaths, ten batches in succession, and three thousand dense feather arrows poured down a large part of the six or seven hundred Yuan Jun who only cared about the escape, and only a few dozen people were extremely lucky and fled back to the main formation, and the rest were all fallen in front of the formation.
Moving like thunder, in the blink of an eye, the wind and rain fell, and the thirty ballistae who had completed a round of attacks did not look at the results in front of them, and they skillfully began to reload their arrows, waiting for the start of the next attack.
Xu Rong raised the clairvoyance in front of him, looked at the situation in front of the formation, especially looked at the coverage of the arrow array, waved his hand, and a herald hurriedly came to him.
"Order, increase the shè by twenty steps!"
"Whoa!" The herald pressed the knife, rushed to the crossbow array, and conveyed Xu Rong's order to Jiang Xian, the commander of the strong crossbow, Jiang Xian listened carefully, raised his hand and shouted: "The first three lines, listen to the order!" Shè corner minus three points! ”
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