Dong Shouye's entire army only had 2,500 crossbows, which was also one of Dong Shouye's battles in this battle.

However, this thing is relatively slow to reload, and it is far less than a bow and arrow.

Sun Jian didn't have any crossbows in his army, and he didn't expect that the opponent would have them, so he was a little caught off guard for a while, and he suffered a lot of damage, but this guy was not good at stubble, so he immediately reacted, and immediately ordered the soldiers in the first few rows to raise the wooden shields in their hands diagonally above their heads to block the rain of crossbow arrows falling from the sky. When the two armies fought, both archers and crossbowmen fired in the first wave of attacks, with few exceptions, and waited until the two armies were close together to shoot directly to avoid injuring their own men.

Sun Jianjun continued to move forward without hesitation, and the second wave of crossbow arrows shot by Dong Shouye's crossbowmen had already arrived.

This time, Sun Jianjun had just learned the lesson, and many people successfully used their shields to block the rain of crossbow arrows, but many of the crossbow arrows could break armor, so many of the wooden shields in Sun Jian's army were pierced by crossbow arrows.

By the time of the third wave of crossbow arrows, the wooden shields in the first few rows of Sun Jianjun's army had been scrapped a lot, and the overall damage caused by crossbow arrows was also quite objective.

But in the blink of an eye, Sun Jian's troops had reached a distance of two hundred meters in front of Dong Shouye's army, and at this time it was no longer meaningful to continue to command the crossbow attack, the long-range advantage was lost, and it was troublesome to reload.

A passage immediately flashed out of the battle formation, causing the 2,500 crossbowmen to retreat. And the archers behind him immediately took their place.

Dong Shouye arranged some chariots at the front of the army to block the rain of arrows shot by the opponent's archers, and there were rows of spearmen behind the chariots, also carrying wooden shields, protecting the chariots on the one hand, and the crossbowmen behind them on the other.

At this time, the two armies were within two hundred meters of each other, and the archers on both sides began to draw their bows and shoot arrows, and countless arrows flew back and forth in the sky, which looked like it was really a rain of bows and arrows.

Seeing the rain of arrows coming, Dong Shouye arranged the spearmen at the front, clinging to the chariot, using the chariot to protect his body to the greatest extent, and at the same time raising the wooden shield above his head with one hand to block the rain of arrows falling in the sky, and then inserting the tail end of the spear in his hand into the ground obliquely, and stirring the spear with the other hand, stirring in the air in the part that makes the spear higher than the head to resist the arrows falling in the air. As the rain of arrows fell, people were constantly hit by arrows, people were injured and bleeding, and people were bleeding to their deaths.

War is accompanied by death and the withering of life.

In the short period of time since the beginning of the fighting, the number of casualties on both sides has been rising, and there is a tendency to rise faster and faster.

Then the archers continued to fight back under the cover of the chariots and spearmen in front, seeing the continuous fall of their comrades, the anger in their hearts burned even more angrily, turning into a force into their own bodies, and then this power made themselves open their bows and arrows again, and then shoot, fiercely shot the bow and arrows at the opponent, hit the opponent, and avenge their dead comrades, tooth for tooth and blood for blood, revenge, in an instant.

When the two armies were one hundred and fifty meters apart, the crossbowmen with crossbows joined the battle sequence and fired along with the archers. This tensioning crossbow is much easier to use, reloading slightly slower than a bow and arrow, but much faster than a tensioning crossbow.

However, the range of the crossbow is relatively short, one hundred and thirty meters, which is not as good as the range of nearly three hundred and fifty meters of the crossbow, nor can it be compared to the effective range of the archer's one hundred and fifty meters. But it's very easy to use, it's a fool's version that can be used by any recruit, and the effect is the same.

Soon the two armies were engaged head-on, and the spearmen at the front of the line had already stabbed their spears hard.

The crossbowmen rushed in and retreated to make room for the halberders behind them.

The halberdmen gave way to a passage under the command of the Shangguan for the crossbowmen to quickly retreat, and then the halberders took the crossbowmen's positions. After the halberd soldiers entered the combat position, the crossbowmen regained a suitable position under the command of the superior officer and continued to attack, providing fire cover for their comrades in front.

On the battlefield, the soldiers' movements are absolutely very orderly, all of them are unified swinging, stabbing, at this time, the front-line commander, commanding his subordinates, repeatedly shouted: "stab, receive, chop" and other exclusive actions of their respective troops, exclusive attack methods.

When the halberd soldier and the other side of the battle, the battle has basically entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat, the soldiers behind the halberd, holding a small round shield, wielding a knife or sword of seventy or eighty centimeters, or other kinds of long and short weapons and the enemy hand-to-hand combat, either you die, or I die.

Dong Shouye commanded the officers and men under his command to fight in the rear of the Chinese army, and various orders and orders were constantly issued. This product is actually very nervous, and the palms of his hands are sweaty, but on the surface, he still has to pretend to be very confident and coping with it.

Dong Shouye arranged for the cavalry on the left flank to be commanded by Li Dao and Zhang Liao, and the cavalry on the right flank to be commanded by Li Meng and Yang Ding (Yang Ding was Hu Zhen's general, not explained above). Among the 36,000 infantry in the middle, it can be divided into three parts: left, center, and right, with 12,000 people in each part, of which 11,000 infantry are used as the main battle force, and another 1,000 cavalry are used as reserves. Among the 36,000 infantry, Zhang Ji and Song Guo commanded the left, Yang Feng and Du Ji commanded the middle, and Hu Zhen commanded the right.

In the midst of the battle, there will be other situations all the time, and all kinds of urgent orders for help are transmitted to Dong Shouye's side, and Dong Shouye has to respond to them one by one.

Either let them stick to it, or send someone to support it, you must come up with a decision in a fairly short period of time and communicate it to the other party quickly.

There is a command car next to Dong Shouye, and the flag bearer on it is constantly waving the flag to convey Dong Shouye's various instructions, and the flag bearer on the battlefield sees the order issued by the commander, and then immediately feeds back to the commander on the scene.

After receiving the commander's order, the on-site commander will adjust his own tactics and tactics in a timely manner according to the actual situation.

The cavalry under the command of Li Dao and Zhang Liao, the cavalry commanders of the left wing, continued to accelerate and charge at the other side, and the current cavalry combat is mainly compared to the kung fu of cavalry and archery, and it is obvious that the cavalry under the command of the left wing led by Li Dao and Zhang Liao has been well-trained for a long time, and has participated in many battles and has rich combat experience.