Chapter Eighty-Five: Battle!

Ye Qing has nearly 300,000 cavalry in his hands, but most of them are arranged in Xincheng to prevent the attack of the barbarians, plus this operation is mainly to siege the city, and the number of cavalry is too large to be able to give full play to his strengths, so Ye Qing's army of more than 100,000 people only has 30,000 cavalry troops, of which 10,000 are Ye Qing's personal guards.

This battle is only a tentative confrontation between the two sides, and it will not affect the outcome of the war.

Therefore, in the face of the offensive of the coalition army, Ye Qing only organized the infantry to form a formation to confront the enemy with the coalition army, with 10,000 cavalry on each flank, and the remaining infantry army to form a huge formation!

How vast was the formation of an army of 80,000 men? archers, crossbowmen, broadswordmen, halberders, and sword and shield soldiers...... And so on, the formation of a military formation requires the cooperation of all arms, rather than a dense column of soldiers standing in the form of piles.

The passage of advance and retreat before and after, the spacing between different arms when cooperating, etc., etc., the vast range and scene, coupled with the faint bursts of murderous aura. It is not what ordinary people in the peaceful years of the 21st century can imagine, but it can deter countless timid people just by looking at it from a distance.

Under the handsome banner, Ye Qing, who was dressed in bright silver armor, looked at the allied forces and found that they had no intention of attacking in a big way. In the face of this large number of coalition forces, Ye Qing knew that rushing to attack was not the best way, and waiting for the enemy to send him to the door was the right way.

The formation is based on the battalion, and under the guarantee of tens of thousands of cavalry in the large battalion, he does not need to worry about being copied from the back. All that is left to deal with now is the threat posed by the coalition forces from the front and from both flanks.

On the coalition side, under a yellow handsome flag, Cheng Dan was also looking at the opponent calmly. He and Ye Qing didn't know each other, and looked down on Ye Qing in his heart, although Ye Qing's record made Cheng Dan feel a little frightened, but this could not increase Ye Qing's weight in his heart, and the matter of sympathy for each other basically would not appear on the two of them.

This coalition attack is mainly based on cavalry, and the infantry army is basically to suppress the cavalry, after all, the coalition army relies on infantry to defend the city, and even if there are some problems with these cavalry armies when they are tempted, they cannot shake the main force of the coalition army to defend the city.

Quietly observed for a while, "It's really tight, and it doesn't miss a flaw—"

Ye Qing's formation against the coalition army this time was very ordinary, after all, some powerful military formations basically needed the help of the Holy Book to achieve, but now Ye Qing didn't want to expose the fact that he had the Holy Book, so he chose some more ordinary military formations to face the enemy.

However, although the large array is ordinary, the infantry army is in the center, and the cavalry is on both wings, which is simple. However, it is this ordinary, general, and simple formation that is the most troublesome. Because they seem inconspicuous, they have withstood the constant test of time and war to survive to this day.

In a word, the simpler the better.

Cheng Dan, as the deputy city lord of a city, has led troops for many years, knowing that his opponent is waiting for him to attack, but he can only attack first!

Cheng Dan does not seek to defeat Liu Yu, but he must consume or fight the opponent's military strength. Only by depleting a large amount of the living forces of the Leaf Adjustment Army at the beginning of the war can it be easy to hold Aoba Castle in the future defense of the city.

The low drum sounded, and in the dusty coalition cavalry camp, a large area of horses' hooves suddenly sounded. The three allied cavalry attacked from the front, left and right.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

The thunderous drums sounded in the Ye army's formation, and then the horn of 'woo', Ye Qing's attention immediately focused, and then he saw the order flag in front of the headquarters shaking violently.

The black flag was waving in the wind, retreating, but judging by its direction, it was about to retreat into the infantry formation. "Boom Boom ......" is the sound of the iron armor vibrating.

"Driving and driving" In the sound ......of horses, a full 10,000 allied cavalry entered the Ye army's infantry array. In the center of the gaps was a very large open field.

"Whoa, ......whoa, whoa," Ye soldiers began to plug the gap. With the inclusion of a full 10,000 cavalry, the infantry arrays on both sides changed rapidly again. Ye Qing stood on the big platform of the Chinese army and looked left and right, and the dozens of gaps on both sides had disappeared in the changes in the array.

The spears and crossbows, the giant shield and the sword soldiers, once again converged into a piece, as if the changes just now did not appear at all. In the sound of neat footsteps, two thousand crossbowmen poured out from the rear formation, all of them holding single-shot green crossbows, and quickly rushed to the front line to stand in the gap between the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers in the front formation. Gather the previous 1,000 crossbowmen, a huge chunk of 3,000 people!

The range of bows and arrows in the desolate world is much farther, but the speed of the horses is also a little faster, and the three arrows are still suitable for battle, and it is impossible for soldiers to shoot arrows for a long time.

The Terran bow and arrow are very disadvantageous when the opponent is a barbarian, but the archers are still very popular when they are fighting within themselves.

A while ago, arrows rained down, quite intense but also short-lived, from the beginning to the end of the few hits. After the bow and arrow are shot, Ye Qing is not afraid, isn't there still a bow and crossbow!

After a clanging sound, the three thousand crossbowmen in front of the battle were ready to go, holding their bows and crossbows in their hands, and one after another sharp crossbow arrows were buckled on the strings and placed in the arrow slots. Three thousand pairs of indifferent eyes stared at the dust and smoke billowing from the opposite side, and listened to the order in their ears!

Arrows"

Seeing the military flag, the commander in front of the formation drank coldly, and the right arm raised by the drummer behind him fell suddenly.

"Knock!" the eyes of the three thousand crossbowmen lit up, facing straight ahead, clenching the crossbow in their hands, their dark eyes revealing a cold murderous intent.

"Whoosh ......"

Arrows swept diagonally across the sky, countless ghosts overlapping each other to form a dark cloud of death.

The clouds of death naturally rained deadly, and arrows rained down on the heads of the charging coalition cavalry.

The overwhelming rain of arrows is the largest lethal weapon in the cold weapon war. Even ordinary masters, under the cover of this rain of arrows, have to hug their heads and run away. This is the equivalent of today's artillery, but it is more deterrent than lethal.

The rain of arrows is just an appetizer, and no one expects a rain of arrows to defeat others. Holding on to death, that is, a morale blow, the real damage is not as serious as imagined.

Amid the sound of wild horses' hooves, the coalition cavalry was still rapidly approaching. The infantry followed, the cavalry opened the gap, and the infantry followed closely behind, and the infantry and cavalry were in harmony. The key is that the cavalry is off to a good start, which can open a gap in one fell swoop.

But if the door is not opened beautifully, even if the cavalry of the coalition army is like a dragon, it can only hit its head and break the blood in front of Ye Jun's 'giant shield like a wall and a spear like a forest'.

The cavalry of the coalition army slapped over layer by layer like waves, and all of them smashed one by one in front of the Ming army, which was as calm as a mountain and rock.

This kind of formation, Ye Jun's soldiers have practiced countless times before, this time it is just more real than Ye Qing, as long as he follows the method of practicing on weekdays, the enemy on the opposite side is just a ghost under his own gun.

In a short period of time, thousands of war horses and cavalry had fallen on the sprinting battlefield, Cheng Dan really turned a blind eye to the losses of the coalition forces, and did not move, and the attack of the coalition side continued.

The Green Crossbowman has a single launch and has a time interval. The archers can't shoot arrows for a long time, and the opponent's bow and crossbow array can't last long at all. If it weren't for the fact that the manufacture of the repeater was too troublesome, and Ye Qing didn't want to expose it in advance, the 10,000 cavalry would have been gone now.

The horses and corpses of the arrows gradually spread all over the battlefield, but there is still no end to the waves, and the cavalry with superb riding skills is not far from the front of the Ye army, and it is also the place where the bow and crossbow are the most powerful.

The crossbowmen quickly fired arrows at the coalition positions, then easily turned sideways and diverted to the left and right. Then go around in circles and return to your own back, and you will gather and another wave of surfing will be formed in the blink of an eye. The triple waves were superimposed on top of each other, merging into a thicker and heavier wave.

In the Ye Army's array, sweat broke out on the foreheads of countless archers, their powerful arms began to feel sore, and a wisp of exhaustion inadvertently crossed in their resolute eyes.

"Da ......" In the thundering sound of horses' hooves, the huge waves of the sea of people rushed towards the Ye Jun formation in front of them, and they urgently needed to slap down mercilessly.

Although there are brave soldiers on either side, they know that they will die, but they have no regrets. However, each of these heroes is the most precious essence of a party and a country, so it will not be wasted so easily.

As early as when the horn of the coalition forces sounded, Ye Qing raised his hand lightly. The archers who had temporarily lost their combat strength before the battle retreated from the front line, and they retreated directly to the middle of the formation to be accompanied by the cavalry, recovering their arm strength with all their might, and they still needed to be transferred to the field for the next battle.

The allied cavalry was no longer in the way, and the galloping cavalry was even faster. The cavalrymen in the front raised their weapons in their hands and began to shout wildly. It was as if the soldiers in front of them were just a bunch of meat on the chopping board, and they could eat whatever they wanted, and the group had fallen into a kind of madness.

Rows of pikemen approached, and the huge shields like walls were arranged more compactly and densely. Heavy infantry armed with broadswords and halberds walked behind the pikemen step by step.

Spearmen against cavalry. These coalition generals are basically the elites of various territories, and their strength is naturally not weak, and in order to show their ability in the coalition army, most of the generals personally rushed to the front line. Coupled with their own personal guards, the strength is not weak. These powerful people are crazy to attack as arrows, and their impact is not trivial.