"Kill the thieves and quell the chaos!"

"Fengtian rebellion!"

Even with a clear understanding of the facts of the troubled times, the soldiers from humble backgrounds were still convinced that they were in the camp of justice, throwing their heads and spilling their blood for some noble purpose, at least at the moment when they raised their spears.

There is no way, if it is just to find food to eat and fill your stomach, you put life and death aside and fight for your life, this life will inevitably seem too humble, even if this is the truth.

Only those great and lofty goals are worth everyone's hard work, whether the goal is real or an illusory dream, as long as you try to believe it.

In addition, the fierce duel of Shicai is not one of the factors that motivates the fighting spirit of both sides.

The soldiers in front of the battle witnessed it with their own eyes, and the soldiers in and after the battle spread it by word of mouth, and most of them were excited by that duel and were full of fighting spirit. The regret that the duel was inconclusive turned into full motivation, and as soon as the battle began, it entered a fairly fast pace.

At a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, the strong archers on both sides shot out the long arrows in their hands without hesitation, and the sky above Luoshui was suddenly covered with a huge black cloud, and the long arrows of both sides roared and staggered in the air, colliding and clashing, and the breath of death poured down like an overwhelming breath!

Chasing after this breath of death, the soldiers of the two armies hurried forward, and even the strong archers who had just shot the long arrow in their hands only stopped at the moment when they released the arrow, and the arrow was off the string, so they put down their longbows and chased after their companions.

People are like a tide, and those who fall by the arrow are swept away by the torrent in an instant.

The two sides were one hundred and twenty paces apart, and the arrow array became denser, and the roar of the long arrow breaking through the air merged into a thrilling hurricane, hovering overhead. Countless long arrows "buzzed ......" into the raging waves, stirring up waves forged with life.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! The roar of 30,000 soldiers swept across the battlefield like rolling thunder, and the angry killing sound shook the heavens and the earth.

"Rebellion! Rebellion! "The 20,000 allied troops roared like a raging flood of embankments, roaring with a majestic momentum like overwhelming mountains and seas, and slaughtered them with no relent.

The drums of war sounded again, and the earth shook the mountains; The horn sounded for a long time, and the sound shook the four fields!

Shieldmen, spearmen. The knife and axe hands roared in unison, the battle spirit was boiling, and the footsteps were getting faster and faster, between far and near. There was a deafening shout of killing.

"Kill ......"

The distance between the two sides is getting shorter and shorter, the ground is shaking more and more violently, the arrows are getting stronger and stronger, and the wheezing of the opponent is becoming clear and audible!

"Boom...... Boom ......" was like two huge waves crashing together, and at the same time as the two sides touched, a thunderous crash rose into the sky, and the entire Great Plains seemed to be shaking. Trembling!

The fierce battle has finally begun.

The battle itself, as expected by the top brass of the Cao army, but the way it unfolded. But it's not the same as planned.

Xiahou Yuan is a general who is very good at boosting morale, and in the past two years with Cao Cao, he has relied on this skill more than once to stimulate the potential of his soldiers. It has exerted a higher combat power than usual, and has repeatedly performed miraculous feats.

But at the moment he was a little confused. The morale was too high, at least more than fifty percent higher than he expected!

Cao Jun's established strategy is to use static braking, defense as the offense, and the rear strike, and the formation is also a yoke formation that is more suitable for defensive counterattacks.

Preemptive strike and preemptive strike are the essence of the art of war, which seem to contradict each other, but in fact they are not. If the two sides make it clear that the decisive battle between the chariots and horses and seize the first move, it can play a very crucial role in defeating the enemy; But if this is the case at the moment, both sides have their own calculations, and they are secretly hiding one or several hands, that is, it is more advantageous to strike later.

The side that first puts the hole cards out has a great chance of becoming a loser, Cao Cao's arrangement, Cheng Yu's offering, are designed according to this principle.

And now, the emotions of the generals seem to be out of control, but they are just a long-range temptation, and they have even played a full-scale decisive battle.

It is not surprising that the Qingzhou Army will do this, in a sense, the Qingzhou Army has fallen into a dead place and has to fight against the water. If it were possible, the Qingzhou army would like to enter the decisive battle at the beginning, divide the victory and defeat in one go, and defeat the Cao army.

On the Cao army's side, Xiahou Yuan was just routinely motivating morale and facing the battle, and did not do anything superfluous, but as a result, the mental state of the generals was similar to that of the Qingzhou army......

Xiahou Yuan didn't think that he was overperforming, and it was likely that something was wrong.

However, at the current juncture, he didn't have time to think about it, and he didn't have time to make any adjustments, so he could only push the leader of the boat to face the battle. Wait until the battle has been going on for a while, and this inexplicable momentum has subsided, so that adjustments can be made according to the specific situation.

"Kill! Kill the thieves and quell the chaos! Many thoughts flashed, and Xiahou Yuan made a decision in a moment, stabilized his mind, and roared with his sword, urging his soldiers to continue to move forward.

Huge shields shattered and toppled in impact;

Spears pierced through the enemy's body, and there was no time to retract them;

Driven by courage, flesh and blood turned into a huge storm, constantly colliding with each other.

At the place where the two armies collided, the battle had already entered the white heat, and the shieldmen who had completed the collision on the huge oars had not had time to adjust and regain their balance before they were stabbed by spears from the gaps in the shield array, covered in blood.

Because both sides ran all the way, carrying huge kinetic energy, the collision was too violent, and the shield players desperately tried to stabilize the formation, but the shield formation was still staggering, revealing a large gap.

And the fighting spirit of the spearmen is also extremely strong, and they assassinate the spear in their hands without waiting for their comrades to adjust, ignoring the enemies on the opposite side who are doing the same action, bringing the same storm of death.

The edges of the huge waves suppressed each other, but they turned into two huge thorn forests, spears and thorns all over the edges, denser and denser, and constantly pushed forward by the subsequent crowds, forward! At the same time, he was pushed backwards by the reaction force coming from the opposite side!

The two great forces could not hold each other, and the result of the wrestling was that the thorn bushes were no longer straight, but the canine teeth were staggered together, sometimes advancing. From time to time, whether you advance or retreat, you have to pay for it with countless blood.

In just a few breaths, Xiahou Yuan found that his plan was about to change again, the battle was too fierce, and the momentum of the soldiers was too fierce, and it was impossible to make adjustments.

After several staggered fronts, the shieldmen at the front were dead and wounded. Even the spearmen had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and the short soldiers armed with swords and axes had already appeared in front of the battle, and began a more fierce and bloody fight.

The yoke formation is similar to the X formation, but the four wings distributed on the left and right are not distributed in a long pattern, in fact. This formation is more like the five cakes in mahjong, which is made up of five huge squares.

And Wang Yu's glaive array, the array is like a crescent, the Chinese army is heavy, the wings are pointed, and the entire array is semi-arc-shaped.

Cao's Chinese army is behind, so. The first contact between the two armies was the two wings, and the crescent moon on the right wing of the Qingzhou Army, like a scimitar, slashed viciously on the phalanx commanded by Xiahou Yuan. While shattering itself, it also smashed the enemy's phalanx.

If the normal deployment is followed, the two flanks of the yoke formation will not only fight against the two wings, but also play the role of countering the Chinese army. Xiahou Yuan's right flank had a total of 5,000 foot soldiers. Lined up in several batches, according to his command. Even if two sides face each other, it should be more than enough.

However, when the fierce battle began, he suddenly found that more than half of his 5,000-strong army had been swept up in the battle group in the blink of an eye.

In array warfare, hand-to-hand combat should be the penultimate link. If it evolves further, it will become a full-scale melee. If it gets to that point, the generals are basically useless. The melee cannot be commanded, and it will only end after the winner is divided, and then it will evolve into a rout and pursuit.

In his busy schedule, Xiahou Yuan turned his head to look at the Chinese army and the right wing. He wanted to know if the lord had any way to deal with the unreasonable offensive of the Qingzhou army and the resulting chaos.

At the same time, he is also worried about the safety of the right wing. After the Battle of Jieqiao, the most capable unit of the Jizhou Army was replenished by Yuan Shao, and then divided into two, one part led by Lu Yi and Zhang Jaw, to attack the plain; The other part is concentrated in Yecheng and is in his own hands.

The troops of Gao Lan and Lu Kuang were all county soldiers who were urgently assembled after Long Cuao's defeat, and their equipment was not bad, but their combat effectiveness was very average.

And Xiahou Yuan's face-to-face enemy was not the main force of the enemy's army, but the Youzhou army.

The Youzhou infantry was originally formed by the assembly of soldiers from all over the country, and the combat effectiveness is very debatable.

However, after the Battle of Longcuo, the Youzhou infantry exchanged the captured baggage for equipment, and the combat effectiveness suddenly rose to a higher level; Since the Battle of Jieqiao, the Youzhou infantry has also fought several battles, large and small, and the military strength has also been expanded in the process of attacking Qinghe and Anping, which is no longer what it used to be.

Therefore, although Xiahou Yuan's subordinates were all fierce soldiers who switched to Yan and Yu, they still couldn't gain an advantage, and even had a tendency to be suppressed, at least they were led by the nose.

The situation on his side is like this, the general of the glaive formation is usually at the bottom of the crescent concave formation, not the middle army, which is the most suitable formation for the army with strong generals.

Now it seems that Wang Yu should not be on his side, then, most likely, it is on the left flank!

The Jizhou army on the left flank was already weak, and when it encountered the enemy's strongest blow, what kind of performance would it have?

This situation will occur, it's not that Cao Cao didn't think it through, but he didn't expect that this defense-oriented formation would be dragged into a full-scale conflict by the other party in a single face.

Xiahou Yuan looked eagerly, hoping that the Chinese army would make changes as soon as possible, but to his disappointment, Cao Cao seemed to be caught off guard, so that no new orders were conveyed for a long time, just let the armies strictly hold their own positions and not be easily broken through by the enemy.

There is nothing wrong with this order, but it also does not help anything, the battle situation on Xiahou Yuan's side has entered the stage of short-handed combat, and there is no other countermeasure, he can only replenish the troops one by one, and fight with the enemy.

And the right-wing Lu Kuang is quite dangerous, and we must take measures to prevent it!

"It's going to be like this...... Could it be that Wang Pengju was really pretending to be tough just now, but in fact, he was already in a hurry? ”

Xiahou was anxious, Cao Cao was even more anxious, he was not unaware of the weakness of the right wing, and he also prepared the means to contingency. But the problem is that before Wang Yu's hole cards are determined, he doesn't dare to show them in advance.

Until now, he couldn't be sure whether Wang Yu's target was himself or Liu Dai, and whether there were ambushes near the battlefield.

If it's Liu Dai. Now he has to hold on to the enemy with all his might, even if he suffers a certain amount of losses. If the target is himself, then he has to spare some spare strength to deal with the ambush.

The two wings of the rear army, when the troops marched, could serve as a barrier to the middle army against the enemy's surprise attack. When fighting in arrays. The two flanks of the rear army are reserves, and if the situation of the front army is favorable, they will take advantage of the situation to spread out the formation and besiege the enemy together with the front army; If the situation of the front army is unfavorable, it must be topped.

But now. Wang Yu's offensive was extremely ferocious, Xiahou Yuan didn't react, but Cao Cao saw it clearly.

The duel between Dian Wei and Tai Shici just now was-for-tat, but there was no winner or loser, and the morale of the two armies rose to the highest point, but it was not vented. So. As soon as Wang Yu's whole army gave the order to attack, the morale of the Qingzhou army came up, and the Cao army was also motivated by the murderous spirit of the Qingzhou army. As a result, the war began to heat up.

This situation was actually what Cao Cao expected, and he deliberately leaked the news. It was to provoke Wang Yu to reveal the territory as soon as possible, but he didn't expect it. Wang Yu lit up, it was such a fierce move.

"Lord, the strategy should have worked, it's better to ...... Light the wolf smoke, right? Frightened by the fierce battle in front of him, all the staff members were pale like dirt, and Cheng Yu, who had just returned to the Chinese army, was very calm.

"Wait." Cao Cao shook his head, "Wang Pengju's means should be more than that......" After thinking about it, he still decided to brake quietly, wanting to wait to see more clearly before making a final decision.

"At least the rear army should be allowed to respond, the main force of Qingzhou has not been dispatched yet, and it must be ...... Hey? Strange, what's going on? Just when Cao Cao was hesitant and undecided, the situation on the battlefield changed again, which surprised Cheng Yu.

Cao Cao and the others hurriedly raised their eyes and looked over, and were stunned to find that in such a short time, the balance of power between the two wings had been broken, and the situation was developing in a favorable direction for the Qingzhou army.

After entering the stage of hand-to-hand combat, the formations of the two armies have been confused to a certain extent, especially at the forefront of the engagement, and the banners of the two armies have been completely mixed together. Because of this, generals who are proficient in military strategy do not like this situation, because it is difficult to command.

But right now, the various departments of the Cao Army are still fighting separately in a mess, but the Qingzhou Army is in a fierce battle and has reorganized the queue!

It was a small pentagonal formation, or five or six, or eleven or two. An officer with a long-handled battle axe or long ge is in the center, in the front row are three to six sword and shield men, two or three spearmen drag behind, and between the spearmen and the commander, there will be several crossbowmen.

This formation is not a magical thing, whether it is Cao Cao, Cao Junzhong's civil and military affairs, as long as they are rough in military strategy, they can recognize it, this is the small formation in the Han army sequence, which is designed to deal with the current situation.

The principle of this formation is similar to that of the large array, emphasizing the coordination between the long and the short, the coordination between attack and defense, and when facing the enemy, it can often form a situation of fighting more and fighting less, and in addition, there is no other mystery.

It's simple, but the effect is amazing.

The small arrays of wheels rotated alternately with each other, and each change of angle reaped several lives. The small formation of five people is not very visible, and the small formation of more than ten people is especially obvious.

Because of the abundance of manpower, the sword and shield soldiers in the front row of the ten-man formation are lined up in two rows, and before and after each fierce battle, the two rows of sword and shield soldiers will switch positions, ensuring that the person in the forward position is always in a relatively full state of physical strength.

The sword and shield soldiers focus on defense and containment, while the task of killing and injuring the enemy is done by the spearmen and axe men in the back row.

When the Cao soldiers desperately attacked the sword and shield in the front row, the long-handled battle axes in the back row were raised high and swung down violently, Cao soldiers were horrified and tried to dodge, but a few spears poked out from the shield array, silent like a poisonous snake, and as fast as lightning, but the killing power contained in it was not weaker than the invincible axe.

Even if you are lucky enough to avoid these two rounds of killing, it is useless, because the enemy will shoot a few cold arrows from time to time, and at the distance of short-range combat, even if you wear a full-body iron armor, you may not be able to save your life under the cold arrows. What's more, at such a distance, even the worst archers will have no problem aiming and shooting.

In order to dodge these open guns and hidden arrows, Cao Bing's formation was inevitably chaotic, and it was time for the sword and shield soldiers in the front row to exert their might. The shield in their hands is not a large shield used by shield bearers, but an infantry shield prepared for combat, the left hand shield blocks the enemy's attack, and the right hand sword slashes with the trend, which is the standard combat action of sword and shield soldiers.

The number of Cao soldiers was originally more than that of Qingzhou soldiers, but as these small formations were formed, turned, and recommended, their number slowly decreased, and they slowly became as many as the other party, and slowly became inferior to the other party...... Suddenly, someone let out a scream, dropped his weapon, turned around and fled. Fear spreads like a plague and spreads to all those around you.

The Lu Kuangjun on the left flank was the first to collapse.

A few months ago, they were still county soldiers, and their usual task was to maintain law and order, and occasionally catch a few bandits. The pinnacle duel of suitable talents, they really watched the blood boiling, and they couldn't help themselves, forgetting that they were just a county soldier.

The courage that comes from a bloody battle cannot last, and in the melee in which the two armies have their own victories and defeats, the soldiers of the county can still muster up the courage to fight the enemy to the death.

But when they faced the enemy who formed a formation and cooperated tacitly, a sense of powerlessness came up at once, and their comrades continued to fight and die like moths to fire, but they could not shake the fact that the enemy army was not able to shake the slightest, so that they were instantly overwhelmed by the sense of powerlessness and then collapsed.

The remnants of the county soldiers cried out of the battlefield and fled for their lives. The Qingzhou army quickly dispersed the formation and followed the pursuit, like a goshawk chasing a rabbit. Most of the escapees were killed from behind by the enemy before they could even step into their own pockets. The lucky few ran to the front of the Chinese army, but they were picked up by Rulin's spear and thrown in the bright red mud.

"Those who don't wait for Mingjin to retreat first will be killed!" A general with a blank face shouted a loud emphasis, then flattened his hard spear and entered the battle with hundreds of brothers.

Cao Cao foresaw this weakness and placed hundreds of descendants in Lü Kuang's army as a supervising team. Because of this, when the forward collapsed, it was impossible to shake the entire left wing.

But Cao Cao was not complacent about this at all, and relying on the supervising team alone could only temporarily alleviate the occurrence of the rout, but could not turn the tide of the battle.

The plum blossom needle used by the Qingzhou army is very simple, and he can do it too, but he can't use it, and if he wants to use this kind of combat method, he needs a high degree of training. Even among Cao's army, only a few elite troops could do it.

The proportion of veterans in the Qingzhou army is higher, and Wang Yu's military strategy is high, so it is not surprising that he can use this trick, but the problem is that Wang Yu and Xu Huang's general flags have not yet moved, and the Qingzhou heavy armor foot soldiers, known as the urging battalion, are still steadily advancing with the Chinese army!

Cao Cao was both puzzled and anxious, if he could overwhelm his troops with only the Youzhou infantry soldiers, and when the Qingzhou soldiers whose elite level was far above the Youzhou army were launched, what would he use to resist?

Ambush? You don't need to ambush soldiers, you're done!

"Pass the order down......" Cao Cao waved his hand violently and shouted the order, all the generals were happy, and if the lord wanted to make a move, there was nothing to worry about.

However, Cao Cao's order was beyond everyone's expectations, and his order was very simple, but the content was ......

"Abandon the front army and withdraw the troops!"