Chapter 426: The Battle of Chenshui (1) (50 votes plus more!) )
The sudden explosion of war drums was like thunder, breaking the silence of the Wu army in an instant, like an erupting volcano, rising into the sky, covering the sky in an instant, with boundless anger, crossing the water surface two hundred wide, rushing towards the position on the north bank, and sweeping towards Wei Ba on the hillside.
To the sound of war drums, thirty Wu warships rushed out of the water village and headed for the north shore, they approached the north shore, and nearly two hundred soldiers jumped off the boats, stepped on knee-deep water, and rushed to the shore. They did not rush towards Zhao Tong and the others, who had been waiting for a long time, but quickly lined up with their backs to Chenshui.
Behind them, the ship's crossbowmen began to fire volleys, arrows with a terrible roar, and swooped down on the hillside below.
"Whoosh!" Arrows gallop.
The Han army's combat habits were all based on bows and crossbows, and for the Wu army, which had no cavalry and was known for its sailors, it relied more on bows and crossbows. Compared with the Shu army that came over the mountains and mountains, the Wu army had warships and could carry large strong crossbows, which was an incomparable advantage for the Shu army. Wei Ba is superior in mechanics, and the repeater car he built is a well-deserved weapon, but the repeater cannot be carried on his back, and he now only has a hand-held repeater with a range of no more than thirty steps and a standard bow and crossbow, which is suitable for close combat, but cannot shoot against the strong bow and hard crossbow carried by the Wu army.
When manpower is poor. Wei Ba can exert mechanical force to the limit, but he cannot break through this limit. After all, machinery is not gunpowder, energy is limited, and if you want to fire fast, it will inevitably affect the range.
It was precisely in consideration of the disadvantage in the bow and crossbow that Wei Ba arranged the Guan family's sword and shield men and the Zhao family's spearmen at the bottom of the hillside, using the shields of the Guan family's sword and shield men as cover. Lined up one hundred and fifty paces away from the shore. It is also to suppress the play of the Wu army's crossbowmen to the greatest extent, the range of ordinary bows and crossbows is about 100 steps, as long as the Wu army does not dare to go ashore, their power is limited.
On the hillside, he has Sun Luban's meat shield, and his safety is even more safe. No matter who the general of the Wu army who led the troops was, I am afraid that no one would have dared to give the order to shoot at the hillside, and attack him at the cost of possibly injuring Sun Luban by mistake. After all, these people are not Maudun, they can't do such a decisive thing.
Things were just as Wei Ba expected, Wu Jun wisely targeted the crossbow attack on Zhao Tong and others under the hillside. A rain of arrows passed over the soldiers of the Wu army who were arraying. Poured on top of their heads.
Without any command, the Guan family sword and shield hand raised his shield, squatting in the front row and standing in the back row. A row of zuihou noodles stands on the prepared haode stones. The three sword and shield hands formed a one-and-a-half-man high shield wall. The other sword and shield men and the Zhao family's spearmen were hiding behind this shield wall.
The long arrows were like a storm, constantly striking the shield array, and the arrows hit the shield. Ding Dong's voice was endless, like a lament of death. If it is a new recruit who has just entered the battlefield, it is inevitable that he will be flustered and nervous in the face of such a fierce arrow array attack, but now the Guan family sword and shield men and the Zhao family spearmen who are in front of the formation are all battle-hardened pawns, and they have seen larger and denser arrow arrays, and the collection of more than a hundred crossbowmen is like a child's play for them.
Wei Ba calmly watched the battle at the bottom of the hillside, sipping his wine casually. The more intense the battle, the more he has to take it easy, so that he can overwhelm his opponent in momentum. Zhou Yin is still on the warship, and he can't see that he has the intention of getting off the ship for the time being, so the next battle is just an appetizer, and the real battle between the two sides is far from kicking off.
He didn't believe that Zhou Yin would send more than a hundred people to break the formation so simply, Zhou Yin or Zhou Jun must have other arrangements. Although so far, it is not clear what kind of arrangement they will make. Scouting in the mountains is not an easy task, it takes not only time, but also luck. Zhou Yin They won't give him enough time, just as he won't give Zhou Yin enough time.
Everyone has Jihua, but no one can know each other's Jihua well, so not only careful preparation and analysis are required, but also flexible adaptability. He has a limited understanding of Zhou Yin and Zhou Jun, but Zhou Yin's understanding of him is difficult to say. In the spirit of being careful to make the Ten Thousand Year Ship, he must list Zhou Yin or that Zhou Jun as the real opponent.
He didn't know if his guess of Zhou Yin and others was accurate, and how many errors there were, he could only take one step at a time, but it really didn't work, so he fled to the mountains again, with Sun Luban's meat shield, he believed that as long as the luck was not extremely bad, there was no problem in escaping.
Prepare for the worst and do your best, this is Wei Ba's principle. He knew he was taking a risk, but he had to. Even if his heart is beating like a drum, he still has to pretend to be a commander and a bamboo in his chest. Otherwise, he has no chance of success.
If it weren't for the two-year self-reflection and physical and mental training, he would definitely not be able to do it so calmly now in his previous life. It is precisely because of more than two years of midnight meditation and reflection and masochistic exercise every morning that he can sit here calmly, even though he knows that he has stepped on the ghost door with one foot.
forced out.
Zhou Yin, who was one hundred and fifty steps away, did not have such an experience as him, and when he saw that the arrow array attack was fruitless, he frowned, and decisively ordered to stop shooting, and the foot soldiers stepped forward to attack.
The drums slowed down, the crossbowmen put away their bows and arrows, the sky obscured by the arrow array returned to brightness, and more than a hundred Wu troops who had already completed the formation began to advance, one team in front and two teams in the back, forming a triangular attack formation. They did not walk very fast, and even had to stop every twenty steps to form a whole formation, but it was their calmness that greatly boosted their morale, although the soldiers who watched the battle could not make noise and cheer because of the military orders, but their eyes became hot, they stared at the river bank in the distance, and watched their comrades in arms push towards the enemy's position step by step.
In just one hundred and fifty steps, Wu Jun stopped seven or eight times, and each pause made people feel as if their breathing and heartbeat had also stopped. The Shu army came from afar, did not prepare a large bow and crossbow, and Zhao Tong did not plan to shoot at the Wu army, so the psychological pressure faced by the Shu army at this moment was even greater, and they even hoped that the Wu army could go faster and start fighting earlier.
The sword and shield bearers clenched their shields and ring knives, and the spearmen clenched their spears in both hands and were eager to try. When Wei Ba saw it, he raised his eyebrows and shouted softly: "Drumming!" ”
"Boom! Knock knock! Knock knock! The muffled sound of war drums rippled like water waves, striking the ears of the first sword and shield bearers and spearmen, soothing their anxieties. Zhao Tongyi was shocked and shouted in a deep voice: "Take a deep breath and steady!" Don't rush! ”
Hearing this, the sword and shield men and spearmen took a few breaths, slowly relaxed, and quietly waited for the battle to begin.
Wu Jun finally rushed to the front of the formation, and when Zuihou formed a team, they were only about ten steps away from the sword and shield men in front, and both sides could clearly see each other's eyes hidden behind their shields, and they looked at each other viciously and held their breath.
Zhao Tong patted a sword and shield hand on the shoulder, gently pushed him aside, squeezed out of the gap himself, and stood proudly in the face of Wu Jun ten steps away, holding a spear in his right hand, with his back behind him, and beckoning with his left hand: "Come to fight!" ”
When the sword and shield men and spearmen behind him saw it, their blood immediately boiled, and they roared in unison: "Fight!" War! War! ”
Wu Jun was stunned for a moment, and the face of a Wu commander standing at the front suddenly swollen red. He was seriously stimulated by Zhao Tong's contempt, and he didn't care about the tactics ordered by Zhou Yin, so he shouted angrily and drew his sword forward: "Kill!" ”
The Wu sergeant behind him also ran: "Kill!" ”
Zhao Tongyi didn't move, watching those Wu soldiers who were about to rush to him, he suddenly took a big step forward, kicked the spearhead resting on the ground with his right leg, and the huge spearhead suddenly flew up, as if out of Zhao Tong's grasp and had his own spirituality.
"Kill!" Zhao Tong snorted, held the spear in both hands, and struck left and right, the spear was like a giant python flying close to the ground, and it slammed on Wu Jun's calf. Wu Jun was caught off guard, screamed, his body fell down, and the shield that was guarding the door flew out, revealing his face that was torn crooked by pain. Before they could fall to the ground, a spear suddenly appeared in front of them, and with two "tuk tuk" sounds, the spearhead pierced their throats, and blood gushed out!
"Kill!" Zhao Tong retreated sharply, pulled out his spear, stepped forward again, raised the spear with both hands to his chest, the spear trembled, the spearhead followed the gap, and killed one more person.
More Wu soldiers rushed over, rushing towards Zhao Tong and the battle formation behind him.
"Kill!" The sword and shield bearers erected their shields to block the swords of the Wu army, and at the same time fiercely counterattacked. They were all equipped with the new war knives made by the Wei family, which were sharper than the commonly used standard combat feats. Combined with their martial arts, the morale of the Wu army was beaten down in one fell swoop. They were in groups of three or five, covering each other's advances, while the Zhao spearmen hid behind them, using the length of their spears to assassinate them from a distance. The sword and shield men and spearmen did not cooperate for a long time, but they used their superb martial arts skills to make up for the unfamiliarity of the cooperation, and they fought well.
The Wu army came with a breath, but was disrupted by Zhao Tong at the Zuihou juncture, and in the face of the stubborn resistance of the sword and shield men and spearmen, they could not have the upper hand at all. Although the battle was fierce, there was no hope of breaking the formation.
The Wu army attacked, the Shu army defended, and when they saw the fierceness of the Shu army, the Wu army immediately adjusted the attack point without thinking, and the two wings behind quickly moved closer to the middle, trying to break the formation of the Shu army with continuous attacks.
Under the frantic attack of the Wu army, after killing several enemies in a row, the two sword and shield men who were facing the front were finally seized by more Wu soldiers and killed on the spot, and a small crack appeared in the formation. Wu Jun was overjoyed and moved forward more fiercely.
Zhao Tong arrived, the spear flew like a fly, and after killing two people in an instant, he interrupted the attack of the Wu army, retreated two steps in a row, retreated into the formation, and issued an order at the same time: "Retreat in the middle of the formation, outflank the two wings!" ”
"Whoa!" The sword and shield men who were almost killed by the Wu army responded in unison, covering each other and retreating, and the pressure in front of the Wu army was relaxed, and they quickly followed up, and then found that they were under siege from three sides of the Shu army. The sword and shield men and spearmen on both sides surrounded them, sandwiched the Wu army in the middle, and killed the killers.
The encircled Wu army was attacked in front of the enemy, suffered heavy losses, and was cut down to the ground one after another. (To be continued......)
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