Chapter 129: Rushing into battle
In the Wei army's formation, the war drums rumbled, and Deng Ai's army finally began to move.
Jiang Wei immediately ordered the Qilin army to form a strong formation, wait for the Wei army to attack.
He also sent orders to Liu Bao and Guan Yinping, ordering the two divisions to immediately charge the Wei cavalry once the cavalry pursued by the Wei army began to return to the Wei army's main formation, biting the Wei cavalry to the death.
Only when the cavalry of the Wei army could not come back to help, Jiang Wei had a chance to fight against the Wei army under Deng Ai.
Jiang Wei ordered 6,000 Xiongnu archers and cavalry to keep attacking the Wei army's large array, and when the Wei army attacked two hundred steps in front of the Shu army's array, the two roads were separated, constantly harassing the two flanks of the Wei army, and the Chinese army was handed over to the Qilin army to deal with.
Deng Ai's army of 20,000 troops, including about 6,000 cavalry, and the remaining 14,000 troops, including about 3,000 sword and shield men, 3,000 crossbowmen and 8,000 pikemen.
Now, the 6,000 cavalry of the Wei army has been completely lured away from the Wei army's main array by Liu Bao and Guan Yinping's troops of the Shu army.
The Wei army had turned into a large array of infantry in motion, and the sword and shield men adopted by Deng Ai formed a shield wall to cover the formation of crossbowmen and pikemen slowly advancing, and slowly advanced towards Jiang Wei's large array.
Because of the protection of the shield wall, it was difficult for the Xiongnu archers to cross the shield wall and shoot the Wei soldiers behind the shield wall. The Wei soldiers were also unable to get the best view because of the shield wall, and the arrows they shot had little effect on the Hun archers harassing the periphery.
In this way, the two sides shot at each other, and little by little the front line approached the large array of the Shu army.
When the Wei army moved to a distance of less than two hundred steps from the Shu army's Qilin army array, the Hun cavalry attacking in front of the formation had almost been compressed to the point that there was no room for harassment, so Jiang Wei immediately ordered the Hun archers who were responsible for attacking and harassing the front of the formation to spread out on both wings and wait for an opportunity to go around the rear.
Seeing that the two armies were getting closer and closer, the crossbowmen of the Wei army even began to throw arrows and missed, but the distance was too far for the arrows to be missed in front of the Qilin army. However, if you advance a little further, you will soon be able to reach the Qilin Army.
The hand-to-hand combat was about to start, and Jiang Wei immediately stepped in front of the battle and began to motivate the Qilin Army soldiers.
He shouted loudly: "The soldiers of the Qilin Army, the soldiers of the Wei Army in front of you, several times larger than our army, you should have the ability to use one as ten, you must remember that you are the Qilin Army, the most elite infantry under my Jiang Wei, I want you to be invincible in the world!" I'm a unicorn army, mighty! β
"The Qilin Army is mighty!"
"The Qilin Army is mighty!"
"The Qilin Army is mighty!"
The soldiers of the two thousand Qilin Army roared wildly, and for a while, the morale of the Shu army was like a rainbow in front of the battle.
The Chinese army of Shu began to beat the drums, the rumbling drums began to sound, and the sergeants of the Qilin army began to hold the long knives in their hands tightly, waiting for the enemy's large array to attack within a hundred steps, and then the Qilin army would charge.
Soon, the Wei army's large array was approaching, and the arrows shot by the crossbowmen in the Wei army could already reach the Qilin army, and the arrows were densely packed like flying locusts and fell into the Shu army formation.
However, the military formation on the side of the Shu army was not chaotic at all, and even the action of dodging was omitted.
Because the iron armor of the Qilin Army of the Shu Army covers almost all the vital points of the body, the helmet almost wraps the face so that only the eyes remain, and the iron piece is made of a neck, which protects the neck of the infantry very well. Unless the Wei archers can shoot in the eye, this distance bow miss can barely cause substantial damage to the Qilin army.
Deng Ai was a little stunned, he never expected that the equipment of the Shu army would be so sophisticated, and in the continuous rain of arrows of the Wei army, it could be unscathed and immovable.
How terrifying is the combat power of such an army?
He had heard the legend of the fall of LΓΌ Bu's army, which was also an infantry armed to the teeth, although it was only eight hundred men, but it terrified countless strong troops. The trapping camp and Lu Bu's iron cavalry cooperated with each other, so that Lu Bu could fly and dance in the Central Plains, and even Cao Cao, the Taizu of the Great Wei Dynasty, had to avoid its edge.
And now the Shu army under the banner of Qilin in front of him seems to have the same level of equipment as the camp back then, and even surpasses it. Deng Ai suddenly panicked in his heart, although his strength was far superior to that of the Shu army, but there was an inexplicable panic.
Just when he was a little flustered in his heart, the army formation of the Shu army suddenly moved, and the Qilin army began to charge towards the Wei army.
Deng Aiwan never expected that the soldiers of the Shu Military Region would dare to take the initiative to charge him, and immediately ordered the Wei army to charge as well.
In front of the two armies, the war drums sounded loudly, the two armies waved the weapons in their hands, desperately rushed towards each other, the front line was getting closer and closer, and suddenly there was a bang, and the two armies collided together.
Suddenly, the two armies began to engage in hand-to-hand combat, shields and long knives waved each other, bringing up bursts of blood mist, the sword and shield soldiers in the front of the Wei army and the Qilin army of the Shu army began to fight in front of the formation, and the crazy shouting and killing resounded throughout the entire battle line.
At this moment, the crossbowmen of the Wei army have completely lost their effect, the two armies are intertwined, and the crossbowmen are easy to accidentally injure friendly soldiers when they shoot arrows, Deng Ai ordered the pikemen to step forward, and the crossbowmen to retreat.
The pikemen of the Wei army marched forward, and the crossbowmen retreated back like a tide.
The number of the Wei army was far greater than that of the Shu army, Deng Ai hurriedly ordered, the pikemen bypassed the battle line to the shield soldiers, and began to outflank the Qilin army from both wings, he was confident that no matter how well-equipped the Qi Lin army of the Shu army was, as long as it fell into a heavy siege, sooner or later it would be annihilated by himself because of excessive physical wear and tear.
The sword and shield soldiers of the Wei army, because of the heavy shield cover, although it is difficult to kill the Qilin army in hand-to-hand combat, but the Qilin army has not achieved much success, although the overall combat effectiveness of the Qilin army is slightly superior, but it cannot tear the front of the sword and shield soldiers in a short time.
At this time, Jiang Wei saw that the pikemen of the Wei army began to detour, and the crossbowmen retreated to the rear, and immediately ordered the 6,000 Hun archers to stop the attack and charge the Wei crossbowmen in the rear.
Soon, the characteristic horn sound of the Huns sounded, and the archers who made a detour to the two flanks and the rear began to put away their bows and arrows, draw their sabers, and began to charge at the Wei crossbowmen.
Although the archers are light cavalry, when the number of horses reaches a certain number and forms a charging array, with horsepower, it can still form a strong impact force, especially for crossbowmen who lack the ability to effectively resist cavalry, which is tantamount to slaughter.
The Hun cavalry was extremely fast, hissing and shouting towards the crossbowmen, and the Wei army's crossbowmen shot the last round of arrows, and after shooting some of the Hun archers, they were immediately frightened by the rolling Hun cavalry.
The Hun cavalry did not make the Wei crossbowmen wait too long, so they rushed to the crossbowmen array, and a charge broke the crossbowmen's line, and the horses entered the formation and began to wantonly slash and kill the Wei crossbowmen.
The Wei army's crossbowmen were almost defenseless in front of the Hun cavalry.
Deng Ai of the Chinese army, seeing the crossbowmen in a bitter battle, hurriedly mobilized 2,000 pikemen to help, trying to drive away the Hun cavalry that had entered the crossbow formation.
Seeing that the phalanx of the Wei army's pikemen began to surround them, the Hun archers knew that hand-to-hand combat was not necessarily the opponent of the pikemen, and after wantonly slashing and killing a round of crossbowmen, they withdrew from the line one after another, and the soldiers took off their bows and began to shoot arrows at the pikemen again.
In front of the two armies, bursts of cheers erupted in the middle of the Shu army, and Deng Ai saw a golden light shining in front of the two armies, and it turned out that Jiang Wei personally rushed into battle.
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