The war drums sounded frequently, which meant that the attack of the Bingzhou army was about to begin, and Huangfu Song put aside his worries about the cart of the Bingzhou army, and ordered the archers and crossbowmen to prepare according to the predetermined plan.

"General, look!"

An exclamation of surprise rang out quickly, followed by the almost uniform hum of bowstrings and the low whistling sound of the soul.

Huangfu Song was shocked in his heart, turned his head to look, and his heart sank straight down.

The cart on the opposite bank, loaded in the car, was really a bed crossbow, and it had been fired at this moment, and a row of thick crossbow arrows, roaring angrily, across the Bashui River for hundreds of steps, rushed straight into the neatly arranged bow and crossbow army array.

The exclamations were mixed with miserable screams, and from the crossbow army formation, everyone's faces instantly turned pale, and they understood that this kind of vehicle-mounted bed crossbow in the state army had a range of about five hundred steps, and the rumors that it could shoot Xianbei war horses were true.

Before Huang Fu Song could come back to his senses, the humming of the bowstring sounded again, and then there was a low whistling sound, which was soul-stirring, and Huang Fu Song noticed that the crossbow army array facing the river had begun to commotion.

Huangfu Song immediately made a decision and ordered: "Fifty steps back!" ”

As soon as the order was given, the flags were flying, and there was just a movement here, and the military drums on the other side of the river changed, and there was a corresponding movement.

Just when the crossbow army retreated fifty steps, someone had already picked up the crossbow arrows of the Bingzhou army and presented them to Huangfu Song for a look, and Huangfu Song took it in his hand and looked at it, and his eyes were immediately attracted by the sharp arrow, which is not the common style of today, but in a three-edged shape.

However, at this time, he did not have time to delve into these details, and after the crossbow army retreated fifty paces, the vehicle-mounted bed crossbow on the opposite bank no longer fired, and it was obviously about five hundred paces, which was already the maximum range of this kind of bed crossbow.

But. Fifty steps back, which means that the bow and crossbow of the Baqiao are covered, giving up a full fifty steps of distance, and before the official engagement, he will give way first, which will cast a shadow on Huangfu Song's heart.

The offensive of the state army to seize the Baqiao has been launched, and Huangfu Song stared at the bridge deck of the Baqiao, and when he saw a person revealing his figure, he couldn't help frowning.

"Heavy armor!"

Huangfu Song sighed in his heart. A strong jealousy rose, jealous of Lu Bu, how could this guy have such a large financial resource, and he could still create heavy armor while maintaining thousands of elite horses.

Create such a set of heavy armor that covers the whole body. It takes ten times as much time and money as ordinary armor. Not to mention the comparison with lightweight leather armor.

Huangfu Song's eyes. I didn't leave the bridge deck of Baqiao at all, and when I saw that behind the leading heavy-armored foot soldiers, a group of heavy-armored foot soldiers were revealed, and the queue was uneven, which made Huangfu Song a little more disdain and disdain in addition to envy and jealousy.

The queue is not neat. The pace is uneven, either because of a lack of discipline or a lack of military order constraints, either way. All show that this team of heavily armored foot soldiers has limited combat effectiveness.

However, Huang Fu Song didn't realize that he thought this way, because he didn't understand Lu Bu's painstaking efforts, so many heavily armored foot soldiers stepped on the bridge deck, if they moved forward at a uniform pace, it might cause the resonance and shock of the Baqiao, and in serious cases, it could cause the Baqiao to collapse.

In the face of the full-body heavy-armored infantry soldiers who took the lead, Huangfu Song was a little helpless for a while, whether it was feather arrows or crossbow arrows, shooting at these full-body heavy-armored infantry soldiers was like tickling them, it was not lethal, in this case, it was purely a waste of arrows to release arrows intensively.

In the sound of war drums, Huangfu Song and a group of Guanzhong soldiers watched as a hundred heavily armored foot soldiers, all of them burly and strong, step by step from the Ba Bridge across the Ba Shui, set foot on this shore, and watched them reorganize their ranks as if nothing happened, lined up in three rows in front and back, and murderously killed the crossbow army on the flank.

A crossbowman phalanx, with a thousand people, was attacked by a hundred heavily armored foot soldiers, and the number of people was very disparity, but the crossbowmen themselves were weak in protection, and they could not pose any threat to the heavy armored foot soldiers, this was not a battle at all, but a one-sided massacre.

Compared with the damage that a mere 100 heavy armored infantry can cause, their blow to the morale of the Guanzhong army is more effective.

Fortunately, these heavily armored foot soldiers moved relatively slowly, unable to walk quickly, let alone trotting all the way, dozens of steps away, they moved over step by step, and there was still some time, the crossbowmen who bore the brunt of the battle, facing these big guys covered with heavy armor all over their bodies, couldn't help but shiver in their hearts, eagerly hoping that the commander could quickly send someone to stop them.

Immediately after a hundred heavily armored foot soldiers, there were shield guards all around and on the top of their heads, and as far as the eye could see, these combined state troops, like a long snake wrapped in shield armor, were slowly wriggling from the Baqiao.

Huangfu Song quickly responded, ordering a thousand brave infantry to stand out in the formation to meet the hundred heavy armored soldiers of the Bingzhou army, no matter how brave a thousand infantry were, they could not defeat a hundred heavy armored soldiers, but it was enough to entangle them and prevent them from impacting their own crossbow army formation and hitting the morale of the crossbow soldiers.

The soldiers of the Bingzhou army had just entered the range of the archers, and Huangfu Song gave an order, and the feather arrow rose into the air, drawing an arc in the air, which had the potential to cover the sky and the sun, and shot at the top of the heads of the soldiers of the Bingzhou army.

The shields of the Bingzhou army are spliced together, as if hiding in the shell of a turtle, but there will eventually be gaps, some of the arrows fall into the water, most of the arrows, nailed to the shield, sounded a dull knock sound, and some arrows, through the gap between the shields, shot the soldiers of the Bingzhou army hiding under the shield.

However, a rain of arrows fell, and the Bingzhou army that crossed the river still maintained a tight formation, even if someone was shot, as long as it did not hurt the vital point, they all gritted their teeth and stood firm, otherwise, staying on the bridge would only lead to a dead end.

An earth-shattering shout came, and Huangfu Song withdrew his gaze from the Ba Bridge, and followed the sound to look over, where the thousand soldiers he sent were colliding with the hundred heavily armored infantry soldiers of the Bingzhou army, and the morale of the thousand soldiers was good, like a turbulent wave, slamming into the past.

But Huangfu Song knew that although there were only one hundred of the heavy armored soldiers of the state army, although they were against a thousand soldiers, they would definitely not be so fragile and defeated by an impact.

Sure enough, the waves dispersed, and Huangfu Song felt bitter in his heart, a hundred heavily armored foot soldiers still stood there neatly, and his thousand soldiers were constantly colliding and being smashed in front of this copper wall.

In desperation, Huangfu Song raised his gaze again, looked at Baqiao, and the turtle shell composed of shields wrapped around the head of the state army, even if he was slow, just a few dozen steps away, he still quickly stepped on the west bank of Bashui, the distance was shortened, Huangfu Song squinted and looked carefully, and immediately found another detail.

The shields of the state army are tightly knit with each other, just like a whole, even if there are gaps exposed in some places, but in such a narrow place, even if an arrow is lucky, it will not play a big role.

Huangfu Song was very puzzled in his heart, how did they do it.

Feather arrows, crossbow arrows, were still pouring out, still nailing to the shields of the state army, making a muffled thumping sound.

"No, the state army crossed the river, and there were crossbowmen!"

The veteran Zhu Jun whispered beside Huang Fu Song, and at this point, Huang Fu Song had also discovered that under the shield of the Bingzhou army, a series of crossbow arrows shot out and attacked the crossbow army array that occupied a favorable position on both sides.

Huangfu Song was silent, Lu Bu's style of play was beyond his expectations, he originally thought that in addition to the only one hundred heavy armor foot soldiers, the first to attack the river should be the foot soldiers, so that once they get close to the distance of dozens of steps, they can withstand the threat of two or three waves of arrow rain and attack the crossbowmen of the Guanzhong army.

If this is the case, Huangfu Song has already prepared the soldiers for them to fight, but there are crossbowmen on the other side of the river, can he order the soldiers who have been prepared to meet the battle at this time, go forward to block the crossbow arrows?

Of course not, Huangfu Song immediately vetoed this idea in his heart, and nervously thought about countermeasures.

On the battlefield, the war drums of both sides sounded frequently, competing with each other in order to boost the morale of their own soldiers; and the trumpet of the state army when crossing the river; The feather arrows and crossbow arrows poured out by the Guanzhong army carried a roar that pierced the sky; The soldiers on both sides fought fiercely together, and the shouts and screams that broke out were intertwined with each other, forming a tragic pattern of a bloody battlefield.

Huangfu Song rode his horse and stood on a specially built high platform, the battlefield was unobstructed, in front of the horse, there was a slope, which could smoothly ride the horse up and down, he ignored Zhu Jun's exclamation, and couldn't think of a better response to the battle method of the state army on the battlefield, so he could only remain silent like this, which meant that the original combat strategy was continued.

The battle for the bridgehead of Baqiao was in full swing, and the 100 heavy armored foot soldiers of the state army were against 1,000 soldiers, and it was almost to the end, Huangfu Song was very disappointed to find that there were 1,000 soldiers under his command, and there were still hundreds of people left, and at this time he had lost the courage to fight again, and he was only hovering in front of the 100 heavy armor infantry army ten paces, but he did not dare to come forward to fight again.

This situation is not unexpected, Huangfu Song sighed secretly in his heart, frowned, and was about to order another team to attack, when he suddenly heard the veteran Zhu Jun beside him, and said in a low voice: "Brother Yizhen, this battle, I'm afraid it's impossible to do it." ”

His voice was very soft, almost only the two of them could hear it, Huangfu Song was startled, looked around, glanced around the entire battlefield, and immediately found that what Zhu Jun said was not unreasonable.

Aside from the thunderous crossbow bombardment across the river at the beginning, whether it is a thousand soldiers against the opponent's 100 heavy armored foot soldiers, or the opponent's turtle shell army that is still crossing the river, the blow to their morale is extremely heavy.

"Gongwei means ......"

Huang Fu Song also asked in a whisper that only the two of them could hear, Zhu Jun leaned over on horseback and whispered a few words to Huang Fu Song, Huang Fu Song's eyebrows were twisted together, he groaned for a moment, nodded, and his face was so solemn that it seemed to be dripping. (To be continued......)

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