Chapter 404: Fight to the Death

After listening to Peng Tuo's words, the generals who gathered around Peng Tuo nodded sympathetically, and Du Xiang also involuntarily said: "This should be just an ordinary infantry, the elite cavalry of the Dingping Army's two battalions of wind and rain are much stronger than this, and Zhang Yi's personal guard Golden Sword Guard is much more terrifying than them!" ”

When the Yellow Turban generals heard this, they frowned tightly, showing a worried look on their faces, if they heard Du Xiang's words before, they would definitely sneer at Du Xiang, and laugh at Du Xiang's cowardice, but at this moment they felt very heavy, they really didn't dare to imagine what kind of terrible performance the most elite cavalry of the two battalions of Wind and Shower would behave in Du Xiang's mouth, and they didn't know how strong Zhang Yi's elite golden sword guard was in Du Xiang's mouth. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

After perceiving everyone's strangeness, Peng Tuo glanced at everyone and sneered: "I think the Han army is exaggerated, if the Han army is really as powerful as rumored, how can Jizhou and so many other territories fall into our hands?" ”

When the generals heard this, the worry on their faces disappeared immediately, and they all echoed it, and expressed their disdain for the Dingping Army, Du Xiang realized that he had just said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly remedied.

Seeing that the generals had regained their confidence, Peng Tuo couldn't help but nodded, signaled the generals to be quiet, and ordered: "Pass the order, 10,000 foot soldiers will cross the river and attack according to the original plan!" ”

The generals looked at each other, they did not expect that Peng Tuo would carry out the original plan, the original plan was that after the vanguard army consolidated the bridgehead, 10,000 foot soldiers would attack, and the current situation was very different from the previous plan.

Du Xiang, who felt that the plan was not appropriate, hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "Qu Shuai, at this moment, I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve results if you attack according to the original plan, and it will also cause a large number of casualties!" ”

The generals chimed in.

Peng Tuo showed an unfathomable smile and said, "How could I not know this! But I have other plans! ”

Du Xiang was stunned for a moment, then revealed a sudden expression, hugged his fists and said: "Follow Qu Shuai's orders!" ”

Seeing this, the other generals still didn't understand very well, but they also hugged their fists and promised.

Hundreds of wooden boats were pushed into the river, and then carried 10,000 Yellow Turban soldiers to the north bank of the river, at the same time, thousands of rafts have been assembled on the south bank, tens of thousands of foot soldiers are ready to go, Peng Tuo seems to really want to attack at this point, but is the real situation really so simple?

When the 10,000 Yellow Turbans who were the second attack wave boarded the wooden boats, the 5,000 Dingping infantry had already arrived at the river bank, and arranged a three-layer defensive line, with the giant shield soldiers forming a shield wall at the outermost stage, followed by the crossbowmen, and the sword and shield soldiers were delayed, ready to rush forward for hand-to-hand combat.

An even bigger battle is about to begin.

At this moment, the mist has dispersed, and the river surface is visible, and Peng Tuo and other Yellow Turban Army generals who are watching the battle on the hill can clearly see everything on the other side of the river.

Nearly 400 wooden boats were scattered on this river, slowly sliding towards the north bank, and the 10,000 Yellow Turban soldiers on the wooden boats showed a little nervousness and a little excitement.

All the officers and soldiers of the Dingping Army were ready for battle, and the nearly two thousand giant crossbowmen behind the shield wall had already opened their arrows to aim at the larger and larger Yellow Turban Army ships in their field of vision, and Guan Yu's deputy Yang Kai was immediately behind the military formation, staring intently at the movement on the opposite side, his brows furrowed slightly.

Yang Kai was previously appointed by Guan Yu as the guard of the eastern front camp, this river is the closest to the camp he is stationing, so he was the first to receive the alarm, and first led the army stationed in the camp to rush here, the east line camp has a total of 5,000 soldiers, of which 2,000 are the soldiers of the wind battalion, and another 3,000 are the soldiers of the shower battalion, at this moment, there are still 15,000 people on the way here.

The soldiers of the Storm Battalion and the Shower Battalion are all transformed from elite infantry, they are cavalry when they get on their horses, and they are all kinds of infantry when they get off their horses, they can be familiar with the operation of various combat equipment, skillfully use all kinds of combat weapons, and all forms of weapons know how to operate.

When the 400 wooden boats of the Yellow Turban Army advanced to the middle of the river, a loud shout suddenly came from the Dingping army: "Shoot the arrows!" ”

Immediately, only the bowstring was heard, and a dark cloud flew towards the middle of the river, and then there was a commotion in the Yellow Turban Army in the middle of the river, and many people turned into the river from the wooden boats, and there were faint screams.

"Row now! Rowing ...... fast"

A jumble of cries rang out over the river. The soldiers paddled the water with all their might, and the wooden boats grew faster and faster.

"Change the crossbow!"

The giant crossbow is a large bow and crossbow newly developed by Zhang Yi, the crossbow arm is about one and a half meters long, and the crossbow frame is about two and a half meters long, using long arrows with the thickness of a thumb, which Zhang Yi intends to use to shoot the cavalry's war horse, and now Zhang Yi assigned it to Guan Yu, because Zhang Yi thought that the Yellow Turban Army must use a boat to cross the river.

After hearing the order, the Swift Wind Battalion warriors who had finished shooting a round immediately put down their ordinary bows and crossbows, stepped on the front end of the giant crossbow holder with their feet, opened the bowstring with a loud shout, quickly took out an arrow and put it into the slide, and then fired it at the Yellow Turban Army's ships.

The soldiers of the Wind Battalion kept repeating such mechanical movements, and the powerful arrows with the sharp sound of the wind continued to fly towards the Yellow Turban Army, and from a distance, they looked like huge flying locusts that were constantly rising.

The soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were constantly shot into the water, screams rang out one after another, sharp and powerful arrows, one shot can kill a string, just like a string of mutton skewers, on the waterway they passed, densely floating corpses, blood increasing the bright color of this water.

Of course, the Yellow Turban Army did not sit still, and their crossbowmen also began to fire arrows after entering the firing range, and the bows and crossbows used by the Yellow Turban Army were far inferior to the equipment of the Dingping Army, and in terms of range alone, they were only one-third of the Dingping Army's giant crossbows.

A puff of arrows flew out from the ship, and the Dingping Army launched the arrows staggered to fly, from a distance, it was magnificent, but most of the arrows of the Yellow Turban Army were shot on the shield wall of the Dingping Army, and the arrows were shot on the shield wall of the Dingping Army, making a sound like rain hitting banana leaves, but there were still some arrows that crossed the shield wall and fell into the hands of the giant crossbow of the Dingping Army, causing certain casualties to the Dingping Army.

The crossbowmen of both sides kept firing at each other, and the soldiers of both sides fell to the ground one after another, of course, the casualties of the Yellow Turbans were much greater, and the Yellow Turbans could only let the ships quickly approach the north shore at this time.

When the Yellow Turban Army ships were only more than twenty steps away from the north shore, Yang Kai shouted, "The shield wall advances!" Crossbowmen stand back! Spearmen, swordsmen and shieldmen follow the shield wall! The cavalry of the Shower Battalion is ready to respond! ”

"Phew!"

The shield bearers formed by the warriors of the Swift Wind Battalion shouted, lifting the tower shield a few inches taller than a man, and then a thousand men rushed forward until they reached the shallow water, and suddenly lowered the tower shield, splashing countless waters.

The shield wall defense line advanced a dozen steps, and the three thousand pikemen and sword and shield soldiers advanced a dozen steps with it, hiding behind the tower shield, ready to attack, and the giant crossbowmen had already opened a considerable distance from them, and began to fire a rain of arrows at the Yellow Turban Army who were about to seize the beach.

"Kill~"

As the first batch of ships entered the shallow water, thousands of Yellow Turban soldiers jumped off the boat and whistled towards the shield wall of the Dingping Army, in the process, the Yellow Turban Army officers and soldiers were shot into the water by the whistling arrows one after another, the Yellow Turban Army's crossbowmen were still desperately fighting back, and the locust-like arrows continued to penetrate into the Dingping Army's giant crossbow line, and the Dingping Army's giant crossbowmen suffered serious casualties, mainly because they had left the protective range of the shield wall.

Due to the suppression of the Yellow Turban Army's crossbowmen, the Dingping Army's bow and arrow firepower was much weaker than before.

The Yellow Turban Army infantry rushed to the shield wall of the Dingping Army, squeezed against the shield wall and pushed forward, obviously they wanted to push the shield wall of the Dingping Army away by brute force, this approach could not be considered stupid, because the number of the Yellow Turban Army was more than the number of the Dingping Army at the moment.

The tower shield soldiers of the Dingping Army struggled to maintain the shield wall front, but the shield wall line still loosened to a certain extent.

"Withdraw the shield!"

Yang Kai in the rear suddenly shouted.

When the Yellow Turban soldiers were struggling to squeeze the shield wall, they suddenly felt that the force was empty, and the Yellow Turban soldiers in front immediately lost their balance and fell into the water.

As soon as the soldiers of the Dingping Army withdrew their shields, thousands of soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army immediately became a mess, and at this moment, the tower shield soldiers of the Dingping Army had retreated to five steps away, and almost at the same time, the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers had already rushed forward.

Three thousand pikemen, sword and shield soldiers took advantage of the chaos of the Yellow Turban Army to kill fiercely, and killed the Yellow Turban Army until the Weishui River was stained with blood, but at this moment, the follow-up troops of the Yellow Turban Army were constantly catching up.

After a fierce killing, when the follow-up troops of the Yellow Turban Army were about to catch up, the spearmen and sword and shield soldiers of the Dingping Army quickly withdrew to the shield wall, leaving only nearly a thousand corpses of the Yellow Turban Army.

Seeing this scene, Peng Tuo, who was watching the battle on the south bank, couldn't help frowning.

The second wave of ships of the Yellow Turban Army entered the shallow water area, and nearly 1,000 officers and men of the Yellow Turban Army jumped off the boat, joined the remnants of the first wave of more than 100 soldiers, and once again launched an attack on the shield wall of the Dingping Army.

Peng Tuo, who was watching the battle on the hill on the south bank, couldn't help but nod when he saw this scene, showing a happy look.

Yang Kai frowned, this shrinking strategy of the Yellow Turban Army made him feel a little tricky.

Yang Kai subconsciously glanced back, still did not see the shadow of the large army, his eyes returned to the battlefield, only to see that the third wave of the Yellow Turban Army's beach-grabbing troops was about to enter the shallow water area, if the Yellow Turban Army gathered seven or eight thousand people, it would be difficult for the Dingping Army to block the enemy's attack with the shield wall.

'Retreat! ’

These two words suddenly flashed in Yang Kai's mind, but they were immediately vetoed by Yang Kai, who was already a veteran in the Dingping Army, and he understood that if he retreated like this, he would definitely be guilty of nothing!

Yang Kai's face suddenly showed a look of determination, and he muttered, "Damn! Lao Tzu will be out today! ”

"Command, use the shield wall push tactic!"

Yang Kai ordered a company commander beside him.

The company commander was taken aback and said urgently: "General, the number of our army is limited, and the tower shield is too heavy, I am afraid of ......"

Yang Kai glared and shouted, "What are you talking about!" Execute the command! ”

"It's... Promise! ”

The company commander's heart sank, and he made a promise.

Peng Tuo, who was watching the battle on the high post on the south bank, suddenly saw the shield wall front of the Dingping Army moving, and it was moving straight towards his own beach-grabbing troops, Peng Tuo couldn't help frowning and asked, "What does the Dingping Army want to do?" ”

Peng Tuo asked no one else, it was Du Xiang who escaped from Pingling City.

Hearing Peng Tuo's question, Du Xiang immediately replied: "The Dingping Army seems to be using shield wall pushing tactics!" This is a tactic used by the infantry of the Dingping Army! Awesome! ”

Peng Tuo nodded slowly, his eyes fixed on the north bank of the Weishui River, his heart was very curious about the shield pushing tactics in Du Xiang's mouth.

The tower shield soldiers of the Dingping army held the heavy tower shield in front of their chests, and rushed towards the beach-grabbing troops of the Yellow Turban Army with a shout, and looked from a distance, only to see a shield wall moving quickly towards the Yellow Turban Army, the scene was a bit like a thin dumpling skin trying to wrap a large amount of meat filling, and the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers followed closely behind the shield wall.

The tower shield soldiers of the Dingping Army slammed into the Yellow Turban Army with magnificent momentum, some Yellow Turban Army soldiers were knocked to the ground on the spot, and many tower shield soldiers were overturned to the ground by the force of recoil.

The tower shield soldiers shouted, and used their shields to push forward, at the same time, the three thousand Dingping troops were slowly gathering together, the Yellow Turban Army soldiers did not come back for a while, and were pushed by the tower shield soldiers of the Dingping Army and kept retreating, and the scene sounded a chaotic shout, there were angry howls, and panicked shouts.

"Don't mess around! There are more of us than them, so let's stand up to them together! ”

An elite leader of the Yellow Turban Army stood waist-deep in the water and shouted.

The chaotic Yellow Turban Army quickly stabilized, shouting together and pushing hard towards the shore.

The soldiers of the Dingping Army felt that the resistance was getting stronger and stronger, and the speed of their advance was getting slower and slower, but at this time, they had gathered together, and from a distance, they looked like a huge iron turtle.

"Kill!"

One of the Dingping soldiers shouted.

The tower shield soldier at the front immediately raised the tower shield by a foot, and the Dingping saber hand leaned against the tower shield and slammed the lower plate of the Yellow Turban Army, and at the same time, the spearman took advantage of the gap between the tower shield to stab.

"Ahh

"Yikes!"

"Oops~"

In the assassination of the soldiers of the Dingping Army, the screams on the shore were repeated, blood flowers continued to appear, and the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army fell into the water one after another.