The morning light dispelled the darkness of the night, and the golden light spread on the earth, the dew on the blades of grass shimmered in the sunlight, and the not so vast wilderness between the Nakajo Mountain and the Shushui also sprouted vigorous vitality under the morning sun.

Han Xian, who had been fighting until the second half of the night, got up early, and as soon as he left the camp, he ordered his officers and soldiers to set up an offensive formation and confront the Hedong Army on the opposite side.

The officers and soldiers of Hedong also got up as soon as it was dawn, and set up an array to watch Liu Weijun's large formation vigilantly.

After a day and a night of rest, the frustrated mood of the officers and men in Hedong has improved slightly, but compared with the heroic energy when they first went to the battlefield, they are much more dull.

Liu Wei stood under the banner of the commander of the Chinese army, which was far away from the Hedong Army, and looked at the Hedong Army that was almost about to retreat to the riverbank.

After a big battle the day before yesterday, the situation on the battlefield was already clear. As the coaches, Liu Wei and Wang Yi are very clear that the current battle is just a game of cat and mouse. When the battle ends depends entirely on when the cat loses interest in mice.

"Order the vanguard, attack the enemy immediately!" Looking at the black Hedong Army in the distance, Liu Wei gave an order to the soldiers beside him.

One of his own soldiers then clamped his legs towards the horse's belly and rode towards Han Xian's camp.

After a while, Liu Wei, who was standing under the command of the Chinese military marshal with the hilt of his sword, saw that the five thousand soldiers led by Han Xian were advancing forward at an extremely slow speed.

Two thousand strong crossbowmen walked at the front of the queue, and three thousand Pu sword soldiers were divided into three phalanxes, left, middle and right, arching and guarding the strong crossbow array.

With such a layout, even if the Hedong Army launched the ****, the Pu Dao soldiers could immediately block in front of the strong crossbow formation and fight with the enemy.

Leading 5,000 officers and soldiers to advance more than 30 steps towards the camp of the Hedong Army, Han Xian raised his arm and shouted: "Stop!" ”

The 5,000 officers and men, who were divided into four small phalanxes, received the order and stopped almost at the same time. As they stopped, they all stomped heavily on the ground.

As the five thousand people stomped their feet, the earth made a loud "boom", and the whole ground seemed to tremble.

"Crossbow Array!" As soon as the steps of the officers and soldiers stopped, Han Xian glanced at an officer beside him, who nodded and shouted, "Ready!" ”

As soon as the officer's words were shouted, the two thousand crossbowmen raised the crossbows in their hands at the same time, and after making a chorus of "swish", the crossbows in their hands were all aimed at the Hedong army, which was less than a hundred paces away from them.

"Shield Array Advance!" As soon as the strong crossbowmen under Han Xian raised their crossbows, and in the main formation of the Hedong Army, which had already lined up to confront them, the officer who gave the order waved the order flag and shouted loudly.

More than 10,000 Hedong troops holding big shields got the order, blocked the big shields in front of them, and pushed forward with their short bodies in unison.

After suffering the loss of Liu Bianjun's strong crossbowmen, when the Hedong Army's big shield array was advancing, the officers and soldiers were all hunched over, and none of them dared to raise their heads and look forward.

"Shoot the arrows!" As soon as the Hedong Army's big shield array advanced more than ten steps, the officer beside Han Xian raised his arm, and then pressed his arm violently and shouted.

The strong crossbowmen lined up in a horizontal rectangular array shot their crossbow arrows in rows towards the large shield array of the Hedong Army that was advancing towards them.

Liu Bianjun's strong crossbow array, after strict training, has strict requirements for firing and reloading time, not one more point, not one less, and it is precisely because of this that the crossbow arrows shot by the strong crossbow array will be endless. Rows of crossbow arrows flew towards the Hedong Army, and the crossbow arrows were so closely connected that there was not even a gap between them.

The raindrops of crossbow arrows flew into the array of the Hedong Army and hit the big shield in the hands of the Hedong Army, making a crisp sound of "popping". Most of the arrows hit the shield of the Hedong Army, broke in two and fell to the ground.

However, some of the crossbow arrows relied on their strong impact to deflect the shield in the hands of the Hedong Army, shooting the Hedong Army to the ground.

"Kill!" The large shield formation of the Hedong Army, lined up in a relatively neat queue, bowed forward and ran quickly, they let out bursts of shouts and killings, and regardless of the fact that their companions beside them were shot by arrows and fell to the ground, they just lowered their heads and rushed forward desperately.

Thirty steps, twenty steps, ten steps!

Seeing that the Hedong Army was about to rush to the front of the strong crossbow array, the officer beside Han Xian shouted: "The strong crossbow soldiers retreat!" Park knife soldiers kill the enemy! ”

With his order, the Pu Dao soldiers who were divided into three phalanxes let out a roar in unison and rushed up against the big shield array of the Hedong Army, while the strong crossbowmen who had been firing crossbow arrows before quickly retreated back and retreated to the rear of the Pu Dao Army array in the middle.

The Hedong army holding a big shield was about to rush to the front of Liu Bianjun's strong crossbow array, but the two thousand strong crossbowmen suddenly retreated, and instead of them, facing the Hedong army, it was the heavily armed Pu Dao soldiers.

Three thousand Pu Dao soldiers rushed to the big shield formation of the Hedong Army, and each Pu Dao soldier blocked the round shield in front of him when he charged, and the Pu Dao in his hand was raised high, rushing to the front of the Hedong Army, and then he slashed the Pu Dao fiercely.

The two armies composed purely of hoplites collided in one place, and there was a huge roar peculiar to the collision of shields and the intersection of weapons, and the officers and men of both sides continued to wave their shields and slash at each other with the blades in their hands.

A puddle of blood shot up in the battlefield, and the bodies of the soldiers splattered with blood and fell under the blades of the opponents.

Looking at the battlefield from afar, Liu Wei's brows were always tightly wrinkled.

He went out of the salt prison and fought against the Hedong Army between Zhongtiao Mountain and Shushui. After a bloody battle, he found that his army had an irreparable flaw in specific battles.

Whether it is a strong crossbow formation or a Pak knife formation, they have exerted their due power in battle. But the performance of the spear formation was very unsatisfactory. In the face of the enemy's heavy infantry, the spear array hardly played a unique defensive role, and the officers and soldiers relied on the equipped long swords to fight the enemy in close combat.

The spear formation is definitely a powerful existence against cavalry, but in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, on the battlefield with infantry as the main combat force, its existence was just an ornament!

In the distance, the two armies were fighting bravely, and under the illumination of the sun, the weapons in their hands reflected the cold light of the forest, and kept twinkling like stars in Liu Wei's sight. Looking at the flashing silver light, Liu Wei's mind suddenly appeared with a weapon that appeared earlier than Pu Dao, but was abandoned by the army of later generations because it was too heavy.

His eyes narrowed slightly, and he turned his head to look at the array of pikemen, Liu Wei had already made up his mind in his heart, once he captured Hedong County, he would immediately collect a large number of iron weapons and create a new type of extended weapons.

The two armies were slashing at each other. The officers and men of Liu Wei, who were in full morale, pounced on the Hedong Army one by one like Kaisheng tigers. However, the officers and men of Hedong, whose morale was low, did not show the panic they should have because of Liu Bianjun's fierce attack.

Although under the attack of Liu Bianjun, the officers and soldiers of Hedong, who were obviously outnumbered by the opposing party, were still in a situation of being passively beaten, but they did not take half a step back, but raised their big shields, brandished short spears, and let out a roar in their throats to launch wave after wave of counterattacks towards Liu Bianjun.

Although the Pu Dao soldiers under Han Xian were brave, their numbers were only one-third of the Hedong Army, and under the strong push of the Hedong Army, the array of Pu Dao soldiers was also retreating step by step.

A Pu Dao soldier held a round shield and slammed into the Hedong soldier on the opposite side. The Hedong soldier held a large shield and withstood the blow of the enemy's full strength with a huge shield.

The shield collided with the shield surface, and both of them felt numb in their wrists, after all, the shield in the hands of the Hedong Army was a little bigger, and the force point was too concentrated, and the hard shield was also knocked open by a crack.

As soon as the Hedong soldier who was hit wanted to stab at the soldier Liu Bianjun with a spear, the soldier Liu Bianjun who hit him with a round shield picked up the Pu knife and slashed at his neck at the moment when the big shield in his hand was knocked open.

Pu Dao drew a silver arc of light and slashed at the neck of the Hedong soldier.

He Dongbing only felt a pain in his neck, and then he saw the scene in front of him constantly rolling, and what shocked him even more was that he actually saw a body that had lost its head and was still shooting blood from the cavity like a fountain. That's his own body!

The head flipped a few times in mid-air and fell into the grass. The headless body of the Hedong soldier stood upright in the field, and it was not until the soldier Liu Weijun, who had killed him, ran past him with a blood-stained Pu knife that he fell straight backwards.

"The number of pioneers in our army is too small, General Daiben will go to ask His Highness for battle!" Looking at the battlefield where the bloody battle was going on from afar, Yang Feng, who was sitting on the left flank, was a little breathless at first, and gave an order to the soldiers behind him.

A pro-soldier answered, and rode his horse towards the Chinese army at a rapid pace.

After a while, the pro-soldier rode back on horseback, and when Yang Feng approached, he hugged his fists and said to him: "General Qiqi, Your Highness has an order, the vanguard fights, and no one is allowed to go out to reinforce without authorization!" ”

"Huh?" After listening to the order conveyed by the pro-soldier, Yang Feng was stunned for a moment, and then asked the pro-soldier: "Has Your Highness said why you can't go to war!" ”

"Nope!" Riding on horseback, he saw that Yang Feng was stunned, and his own soldiers didn't dare to say anything else, so they hurriedly hugged their fists and bowed their heads in response.

Waving his hand at the pro-soldiers, Yang Feng furrowed his brows and turned his gaze to the Chinese army guarded by Liu Wei himself.

He really couldn't understand that the two armies had been entangled between Zhongtiao Mountain and Shushui for three days, and seeing that as long as the whole army launched another general attack, the Hedong Army would be completely defeated, but Liu Wei still wasted time here in a hurry, as if he was deliberately delaying the progress of the battlefield.

As the vanguard, Han Xian, who led the army to fight with the Hedong Army, saw that although the officers and soldiers were slashing the Hedong Army to the ground in rows, the formation was constantly pushed backwards, he roared loudly and rushed towards the battlefield where he was fighting.

Before going out as a pioneer, Liu Wei had told him separately that he would have no backup at all in this battle. The 5,000 men under his command were all the strength that Liu Bianjun had put into this battle.

Rushing into the battlefield where the officers and soldiers on both sides were fighting, Han Xian flipped the spear in his hand, constantly stabbing the officers and soldiers of Hedong who were blocking in front of him.

One by one, the Hedong army fell under his spear, and was immediately trampled under the feet of the soldiers from both sides who rushed up.

Those who fell to the ground were lucky enough to be rescued by their companions, those who were lightly wounded got up with the support of their comrades to continue the fight, and those who were seriously wounded were dragged a little further back to temporarily leave the center of the most intense fighting. As for those who were unlucky, they were directly trampled on the ground by the soldiers on both sides who were fighting.

At first, the wounded soldiers who were trampled under everyone's feet could still let out a wail, but it didn't take long for them to fall silent, and instead of them to let out a burst of wails, it was a group of newly fallen wounded soldiers.