In order to cross the distance of more than two hundred steps, the Xiliang army left thousands of corpses, and even the turret as the trump card could not completely resist the killing of the ballista.

The cart can block the shot of the crossbow arrows, but it can not bear the weight of the crossbow arrows, once a large number of crossbow arrows are concentrated on one side of the body, there is a danger of losing balance, and the slightest carelessness is the end of the car being overturned.

However, as Wang Yu said, with the power of long-range weapons in the era of cold weapons, no matter how big the advantage is, it is impossible to inflict heavy damage or even annihilate the opponent. The crossbow does not have the covering and lethal ability of a heavy machine gun, and at most it can achieve the effect of destroying the enemy's formation, slowing down the advance speed, and destroying the enemy's morale.

When the Xiliang army pushed out the means of pressing the bottom of the box, which was originally prepared for siege, the lethality of the bow and crossbow was no longer as terrifying as before, at least within the tolerance range of the Xiliang army.

The evidence is that when the Xiliang army advanced to the last fifty paces, some of the thugs rushed out from behind the wall and rushed towards the position of the Qingzhou army at the risk of being skewered into meat skewers by crossbow arrows.

The Qingzhou army, which took advantage of the long-range battle, did not show weakness, the crossbowmen in the front row quickly retreated, and the soldiers in the back row wielded spears and knives to quickly meet the desperate ones. The clash of metal overshadowed all the sounds and quickly became the main theme on the battlefield. The white blade swung, flesh and blood flew sideways, and the corpses fell one by one.

"Isn't it an array battle?" The attack went smoothly, but Ma Chao looked quite surprised.

The Qingzhou infantry is most famous for its strict battle formation, as long as the Yulin army forms a formation, even if it faces several times the enemy's impact, it can stick to the formation and keep the enemy out of the defensive circle.

Ma Chao refused to charge on horseback, but took the foot soldiers as the forerunner, mainly for this reason. He was worried that Wang Yu had hidden a killer feature, and the cavalry charged, even if he broke through the blockade of the bow and crossbow array and the array of the Yulin army, the impact power would be greatly reduced. It would be very dangerous to face Wang Yu's killer again at such a time.

In front of the strict array of the Yulin Army, although it is difficult for the foot soldiers to create miracles, they can use the tactics of crowds to cause attrition to the enemy army. The array of the Yulin Army was relatively heavy, and it could only stand there to withstand the impact, no matter how elite the soldiers were, they would inevitably be consumed in the end.

As long as there is no Yulin Army's blocking, Ma Chao is confident. You can win this battle in one go. No matter what killer Wang Yu had, he couldn't stop the charge of tens of thousands of armored horsemen.

However, what he saw at this moment was that the Qingzhou Army took the initiative to abandon the array and launched a-for-tat counterattack.

According to common sense, Ma Chao should be happy. Wang Yu defeated the Xianbei army in Juyong. Relying on the violent movement of the Yellow Turban soldiers of the Taishan Army in the Central Plains, it is this army that is now launching a counter-attack, which can just use the tactics of crowds to stick to the other side and prevent the enemy from having the opportunity to change their strategy.

But for some reason, Ma Chao was faintly uneasy in his heart, and he couldn't tell what was wrong. But he is sure that the opponent's move is definitely not a unconscionable move!

Ma Chao's hesitation did not delay the attack of the Xiliang army, and the two wings were originally commanded by the Qiang tribes and Liang Xing and others. In the previous long-range battle, these people have suffered enough, and at this moment, seeing that the crossbowmen of the former army forced back from Qingzhou, they have launched a large-scale white-edged battle, and their eyes are all blood-red. Angry to the sky, hoarse and exhausted shouting to urge the battle.

"Kill! Kill! There are those who capture and kill Wang Yu, no matter what their identity is, they can be crowned marquis and pay homage to the prime minister and get a million rewards! ”

"Let the cowardly Central Plains people see how powerful our Yongliang men are, and kill them all in one go!"

"Rush! Win this battle. You can go to Hebei and let go of the big robbery! There is silver and gold everywhere, and oil comes out of the earth. ”

"Hit Hebei, eat and drink spicy, and the rich woman can take it!"

What kind of army is suitable for what kind of incentives. In the chaotic land of Yongliang. The slogans shouted by the outlaws, rebels, and tribal leaders greatly boosted the morale of the army, and the soldiers rushed forward frantically with red eyes, ignoring the cold light of the blades in front of them, and ignoring the feathered arrows falling like rain above their heads.

The victory lies in the large number, and the advantage of the Qingzhou army is reflected in the equipment and cooperation between each other.

Needless to say, even if it is a foot soldier, the ironclad equipment rate in the Qingzhou Army has reached nearly thirty percent. Compared with the Xiliang Army, which is not even fully equipped with swords and guns, how much stronger is it?

In addition, the Qingzhou Army facing the battle was not only the Taishan Army, but the formation formed after the mixed formation of the three armies of Yulin, Taishan and Thunder.

On the whole, there is no military formation on this front, but as long as you look closely, you will find that the Qingzhou army did not fall into a melee of its own battles, but formed a small pentagonal formation by every dozen people and cooperated with each other to fight.

Each of the small arrays has a similar composition. Three shieldmen each occupy one corner in the front, four or five spearmen follow, the last two corners are occupied by four sword and axe men, and in the middle is commanded by a halberd officer, and the three crossbowmen constantly fire cold arrows to kill the enemy.

When encountering the enemy, the three shieldmen concentrate on defense, and the spearmen cooperate with the shields, using the length of the spears to form a defensive depth, so that the enemy cannot directly besiege them. Once a stalemate is formed, it's time for the crossbowmen to make a difference, and when the crossbowmen open the gap, the skilled halberd-wielding commander will lead the sword and axe men to break through and slash the enemy forces in full force.

Such a small battle formation is both offensive and defensive, even if it encounters a large-scale enemy army in formation, there is no need to worry, several adjacent small formations will be close to each other, quickly merge together, form a battle formation of 100 people, or even 1,000 people, and fight with the enemy.

Such a battle formation, the generals of Xiliang also saw it for the first time, and they were all frightened.

With their eyesight, they couldn't get a glimpse of all the mysteries of this battle formation in such a short period of time, but they could have reversed it from the results.

The pentagonal arrays rotated alternately like wheels, harvesting several lives with each change of angle. No matter how hard the Xiliang soldiers resisted, they were like praying mantis in front of the wheel, no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't stop it a little, and they were crushed into pulp in the blink of an eye.

At first, the infantry of the former army was still shouting and fighting, but the number of such brave soldiers quickly decreased, and the number of darers soon became as many as the opponent, and slowly became inferior to the other side. Suddenly, someone let out a scream, dropped his weapon, turned around and fled.

Fear spreads like a plague. Spread it to all your companions. The courage dissipated in an instant, and the remaining Xiliang soldiers cried and withdrew from the battlefield and fled to their own camp for their lives.

The Qingzhou army was not merciful, and the large array quickly dispersed into small formations, chasing forward like a shadow, like a goshawk fighting a rabbit, like a tiger descending the mountain.

Most of the fugitives died on the way. Before they could escape far, they encountered a wall, and they retreated to the battlefield by themselves!

The soldiers cried and pounced on the rook that had once been held up as a dry city, and tried with all their strength to knock it down in order to make a way to survive. But the pursuit of the Qingzhou army was also very fast. Many people were killed from behind by the enemy before they could knock down the carts.

The few lucky ones who overturned the cart or passed through the gap between the carts were not happy for long, and what awaited them was the spear of the forest. They were stabbed by dozens of spears, raised high, and then thrown on the red-stained ground, turning to dust.

"Those who did not wait for Mingjin to retreat first. No mercy! A military general with a blank face emphasized loudly, and then with a flat-ended spear, he led thousands of soldiers in a neat queue, and relied on the collective strength to push down the oars that had become obstacles, and entered the battle.

Ma Chao's Chinese army stopped, and the cavalry troops on both flanks could not continue to advance, and the two armies launched a life-and-death struggle on a long front.

Tens of thousands of foot soldiers of the Xiliang Army poured up like a tidal wave and attacked the Qingzhou Army from all angles. Trying to win with crowd tactics. However, the Qingzhou Army relied on its flexible formation and exquisite command, constantly changing the formation and angle, and always let the enemy's attacking troops hit the edge by themselves.

Qingzhou soldiers are elite, and Xiliang has many soldiers, each with its own advantages, and it is difficult to hold each other. So the battlefield quickly became quite chaotic.

The two armies were intertwined with each other, and sometimes a small formation of the Qingzhou army fell into encirclement, but before the Xiliang army that reached the encirclement cheered, some people found out. It was a trap, and the part of the flank that was outflanking had fallen into the flank of the superior enemy and was quickly killed.

Of course, the strength advantage of the Xiliang Army is large enough, and no matter how much the Qingzhou Army moves and dodges, it is impossible to completely avoid the encirclement. But every time this happens, there will always be a large group of crossbowmen appearing, throwing a rain of arrows, and clearing a dead field with a position that is almost indistinguishable from friend and foe.

The generals of Xiliang all hated it. Don't look at the bow and arrow coverage of the Qingzhou crossbowmen, in fact, the Qingzhou army is more advantageous, because they are well equipped and have at least a well-made leather armor on their bodies. The attack that can cause fatal damage to the Xiliang soldiers falls on the Qingzhou soldiers, and sometimes even the oily skin can't be broken.

"Bo Zhan, what's the specific situation now?" Ma Chao's handsome face was covered with a layer of green qi, and his voice was as cold as eternal ice.

The attack of the foot soldier did not meet his expectations at all. Although it also caused a certain amount of attrition to the Qingzhou army, its own losses were disproportionate, and Ma Chao is still not completely sure how exaggerated this proportion is, but he knows that the number must be amazing.

"The number of troops that our army has put into battle has been close to 100,000, more than 40,000 Qiang soldiers, more than 50,000 Han troops, and more than half of the troops whose banners have disappeared. Judging from the formation of the Qingzhou Army, the casualties may be less than the eleventh ...... of our army," Ma Dai was also shocked.

He had seen the scene of the Qingzhou militia drill, and he thought that the soldiers in Qingzhou were at most a strengthened version of the militia, and the battle mode should be roughly similar to the militia. As a result, looking at it now, the gap between the combat power and tactical literacy of the Qingzhou soldiers and the militia is more than one or two? What a world of difference!

The troops that lost the general's banner were not necessarily completely wiped out, and the actual casualties caused by the Qingzhou army were far less than 50,000. But losing the general flag means losing the command and becoming a skirmisher, which is worse than the dead, not only can not form combat power, but even interferes with his own people.

"Herald ......" Ma Chao's face did not change, but the voice of the order was a little colder: "Order the generals to prepare and launch the main cavalry attack!" ”