Sandwiched between Mt. Nakajo and the water is a wilderness with abundant water and grass. The green grass swayed in the wind, like dancers in green, swinging their graceful figures, dancing a magnificent light dance for the warriors who were about to fight here.

Two large armies, lined up in a neat queue, looked at each other at a distance.

The army with its back to Nakajo Mountain, all the soldiers were wearing bright red clothes, and even the leather armor on their bodies was red. Tens of thousands of soldiers lined up in a neat formation, and from a distance, it looked like a fire had ignited at the foot of Nakajo Mountain.

Far away from them, there was an army like the Xiliang army, dressed in jet-black armor.

The armor of this army is bright, the officers and soldiers are full of spirit, and the short spears and long swords in their hands are also reflected in the cold light of the sun.

"Crossbow battalion, fire positioning arrows!" Liu Weizhongjun, an officer waved the order flag with both hands, let out a shout, and with the wave of the order flag, more than 10,000 officers and soldiers holding strong crossbows walked out of the array of big red armor.

The officers and soldiers with strong crossbows were lined up in three small squares, each small square was ten people in column, more than 300 people in a horizontal column, and the three squares were in one place, which happened to be 10,000 strong crossbowmen.

After walking forward more than ten steps in a neat pace, the officers and men of the crossbow battalion took half a step forward with their left foot, followed by their right foot, and stomped down with their right foot vigorously before mentioning the position that was tied to the left foot.

Tens of thousands of people stomped their feet in unison, and there was only a crisp sound, and the ground in the wilderness trembled slightly with their stamping.

The team stopped, and the nine rows of crossbowmen in front of them squatted down in unison, while the last row of crossbowmen raised the crossbows and aimed at the main formation of the Hedong Army three or four hundred paces away.

"Shoot the arrows!" As the officer waving the order flag shouted, the crossbowmen in the last row of crossbowmen almost simultaneously deducted the reeds of the crossbow arrows, and thousands of arrows flew towards the main formation of the Hedong Army on the opposite side with the sound of the wind.

The distance between the two sides was too far, and even though the range of the crossbow was much higher than that of the strong bow, it was impossible to shoot three or four hundred paces away.

The tail end of these arrows is tied to a big red cloth strip, the arrows fly in mid-air, the cloth strips dance with the wind, like a delicate flower blooming in mid-air, it is very beautiful!

The arrows flew out more than a hundred paces, and they all lost their strength and fell to the ground. On the ground in the distance, strips of cloth wrapped in arrows were dancing up and down with the wind, as if a fiery red flower had grown between the two camps.

"Spear advance!" After the crossbowman was positioned, the officer raised the command flag high, waved it violently, and shouted again.

More than 15,000 officers and men armed with spears immediately walked towards the array of crossbowmen.

The spears held by the officers and men pointed straight to the sky, and the tips of the spears flowed like water waves in the sunlight.

The array of pikemen passed through the crossbow array, and the rear team reached a point of five or six paces in front of the crossbow array, and the line stopped.

"Array!" As soon as the queue of pikemen stopped, the officer in charge of dispatching the whole army waved his command flag a few more times and shouted.

"Roar!" With a neat burst of applause, the spears in the pikemen's hands were pointed forward at different angles based on the column.

Their movements were uniform, their spears pointing forward like dense trees, and the shields in their hands were in front of their chests, making a crisp "whirring" sound.

In just an instant, the pikemen listed the perfect array, and the front edge of Liu Bianjun's army seemed to suddenly appear as if a spiky and impermeable wall had suddenly appeared!

"Longbowmen advance!" In the array of the Hedong Army, an officer raised the command flag high and shouted.

As soon as the officer's shout fell, more than 10,000 soldiers armed with longbows took steps and advanced towards Liu Bianjun.

The array of officers and soldiers in Hedong was also very neat, although their steps were not as smooth as those of Liu Wei's officers and soldiers, but they were able to keep the phalanx unchaotic.

The archers came out of the big formation, and they kept pushing forward more than twenty paces before they stopped.

Standing behind Wang Yi, the officer who was responsible for giving orders to the whole army raised the order flag at this time, waved the flag, and shouted loudly: "The big shield advances!" ”

The 20,000 Hedong troops, with a large shield in their left hand and a short spear in their right, immediately walked out of the array and walked in front of the archers.

The big shield in the hands of the Hedong Army is a rectangular square shield. Each shield is half a human high, and the team only needs to stop and point the shield towards the ground to instantly form a solid shield wall.

"Roar!" Walking to the front of the archer array, the officers and soldiers of Hedong holding a large shield hit the shield with short spears, and they all let out a shout, and then the soldiers in the front row put their shields straight to the ground, and the officers and soldiers who followed closely followed forward, stacked their shields on them, and soon set up a shield wall at the front of the team.

Riding a war horse, Liu Wei looked at the array of the Hedong Army from a distance. From the opponent's formation, he could see that the opponent's army had also undergone strict training.

Although the soldiers and horses under his command have excellent discipline, the newly recruited former Baibo Army headquarters have only received more than a month of training, and the overall combat strength is still impossible to verify.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and Liu Wei made a gesture to the officer who gave the order.

Seeing Liu Wei's gesture, the officer waved the order flag in his hand and shouted: "Strong crossbow array, array!" ”

As soon as the officer's shout fell, the crossbowmen who were half-squatting on the ground stood up in unison, and held up the crossbows with arrows on them, and the crossbows in the hands of more than 10,000 people were all aimed at the Hedong Army on the opposite side.

"The big shield advances, the archers follow!" In the Hedong Army array, after receiving Wang Yi's order, the commander also waved the small flag in his hand and issued a new order.

This time, the Hedong Army's big shield array took neat steps and kept moving forward, without stopping for a moment halfway.

The array of archers that followed them followed closely behind, advancing with the help of the shield array's protection.

Compared with the strong crossbow, the bow and arrow have an obvious disadvantage, that is, the range of the bow and arrow is too short, even if it is downwind, the effective killing distance is only fifty or sixty steps. However, the strong crossbow is different, and in the case of headwinds, the strong crossbow can still effectively shoot at a target 80 paces away.

Bows and arrows against strong crossbows, if both sides have no defense, it must be the bow and arrows that suffer. However, if both sides have shields as cover in the front line, and the parabolic trajectory of the bow and arrow, it is possible to avoid the shield array and shoot directly at the crossbowmen behind the defensive line.

Once the archers of the Hedong Army advanced to an effective range under the cover of the big shield, Liu Bianjun's crossbowmen would definitely suffer great losses.

Tens of thousands of crossbowmen were holding strong crossbows, and the crossbow blades flashing with cold light pointed directly at the approaching Hedong Army's big shield array.

The Hedong Army, armed with a large shield, was getting closer and closer, and they were about to walk to the crossbow arrow that the crossbowman had shot earlier and had fallen to the ground.

Seeing that the big shield array of the Hedong Army was about to cross the positioned crossbow arrows, the eyes of all the crossbowmen were aimed at the Hedong Army, who was wearing black armor and was like ink.

"Shoot the arrows!" Finally, the officers and soldiers in the front row of the Hedong Army's big shield array crossed the line where the crossbow arrows were located.

As soon as the officer's shout fell, the fingers of the first row of crossbowmen lightly plucked on the machine spring, and a row of arrows flew over with the strong wind towards the shield array of the Hedong Army, which was slowly advancing.

As soon as the first row of crossbowmen fired their arrows, they immediately crouched down and loaded them with new arrows. Immediately after that, the second row of crossbowmen shot the arrows out of the river, and so on, ten rows of crossbowmen fired alternately, and the crossbow arrows flew towards the Hedong Army formation like raindrops for a moment.

The officers and soldiers of Hedong who were advancing towards Liu Bianjun bent their waists, hid behind their shields, and continued to advance without delaying for half a step.

Countless arrows were shot at the shield of the Hedong Army, making a crisp sound of "popping". The powerful impact force slammed into the shield in the hands of the Hedong army.

Although the arrow that hit the middle of the shield had a great impact, because of the stability of the force point, it would not make the Hedong army holding the shield make a mistake.

But those arrows that happened to hit the edge of the shield brought unexpected disasters to the Hedong army.

With a strong impact, the arrow hit the shield directly, and a soldier of the Hedong Army holding a large shield only felt a numb wrist, and the shield was slightly deviated to the side.

A small deviation is definitely not a big deal on weekdays, but in the dense arrows like rain, a small omission may cause irreparable losses.

As soon as the shield in his hand was deflected, several other arrows flew straight towards the chest of the soldiers of the Hedong Army with a strong wind.

With a few soft sounds of "puff, puff", several arrows pierced deep into the chest of the soldiers of the Hedong Army.

The soldiers of the Hedong Army who were shot by the arrows were shocked, and the big shield in their hands slowly fell to the ground.

As soon as he was shot, he didn't fall for a while, but just at this moment, countless arrows flew towards him again, and the strength penetrated into his body without diminishing.

By the time the Hedong soldier fell, he was like a porcupine covered in arrows.

The arrows became denser and denser, and although the Hedong Army was holding a large shield, there were still pieces of officers and soldiers who were shot by the arrows, and fell to the ground with a miserable howl.

The large array was still advancing, and behind the shield array, the archers of the Hedong Army were bent on their waists, using the advance of the shield array in front as a cover, advancing rapidly towards their effective range.

A crossbow bolt passed through the dense shield array ahead, and with a "poof" it pierced the neck of an archer.

The powerful piercing force of the arrow pierced the archer's neck, and the archer who was shot did not even have time to let out a terrible howl, his body twisted around, and he fell to the ground.

The companions beside him and behind him, as if they hadn't seen him shot at all, continued to push forward rapidly after he fell.

The distance between the Hedong Army and the crossbow array was getting closer and closer, and seeing that the archers of the Hedong Army were about to enter the effective firing range, Liu Wei, who was sitting in the Chinese army, narrowed his eyes slightly, raised one arm, and gestured to the officer who gave the order.

Seeing his gesture, the officer did not shout this time, but waved a command flag to the side.

In the main formation of the Hedong Army, Wang Yi, who was looking at Liu Bianjun from afar, saw this banner and shouted: "The enemy is going to attack the archers, and the cavalry will go to relieve the siege immediately!" ”

The officers beside Wang Yi hurriedly waved a command flag to the cavalry, and thousands of iron horsemen of the Hedong Army waved their horsewhips and rushed towards the battlefield.

At the same time, in Liu Weijun's camp, Han Xian held a spear, gave up riding a horse, and at the moment when the Chinese army just raised the flag, he already shouted loudly and rushed towards the Hedong army.

Thousands of officers and soldiers armed with Pu swords and round shields followed closely behind Han Xian, shouting and rushing towards the archers of the Hedong Army.

The two columns in the hands of the three columns of Liu Bianjun's strong crossbows also turned the strong crossbows to the Hedong cavalry that was galloping towards the battlefield.