Because of the Han army's Qiyue formation, the galloping Wei army's iron cavalry could only surround it from three sides.

Fu Wei, who was at the forefront of the Qiyue Array, looked at the Wei Army's iron cavalry that had entered within a hundred steps, and at this distance, Fu Wei could even see the look of joy on the face of the Wei Army's iron cavalry.

They were rejoicing, and the Han army was once again stupid.

But before the thousands of Wei army iron horsemen were happy, Fu Wei calmly raised the order flag in his hand, and then waved it fiercely towards the thousands of Wei army iron horses surrounded in front.

When the order flag in Fu Wei's hand fell, the Han troops on the chariot, inspired by the majestic drums, took out the big yellow crossbow they carried.

Unlike the chariots that only carried soldiers in the Spring and Autumn Period, the chariots used by the Han army today are larger in size, which can not only carry more than 20 soldiers, but also put down a sharp weapon to kill the enemy.

That's the rhubarb crossbow.

The bow and crossbow were the most frequently used ranged weapons in the ancient military, and there was a big difference between the two.

Compared to bows, crossbows are more lethal.

Even at a distance, the lethality of the bolts fired from the crossbow is terrifying.

Crossbows were widely used as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China, and there were four main types of crossbows at that time, namely: clamp crossbows, thin crossbows, Tang crossbows and large crossbows.

In the Western Han Dynasty, whenever the infantry army resisted the Hun cavalry, the Han infantry soldiers defending the city and fighting in the field often used crossbows to kill and injure the Xiongnu cavalry.

For example, when Li Ling led a 5,000-foot army to encounter tens of thousands of Hun cavalry troops in Junji Mountain, he relied on the power of crossbow arrows to inflict great damage on the Xiongnu cavalry.

And the world's good crossbow generation, the strength of the crossbow machine, Jing Chu is the crown!

At that time, most of the 5,000 infantry troops led by Li Ling were Jingchu people.

Now, after hundreds of years of development, in the land of Jingchu, which is already good at bows and crossbows, there is a kind of rhubarb crossbow with extremely lethal power.

The rhubarb crossbow is also known as the yellow shoulder crossbow, and the crossbow strength of the Han Dynasty is calculated according to the stone, divided into one stone to ten stones, of which the strongest ten-stone crossbow is called the rhubarb crossbow.

The soldiers who wield the rhubarb crossbow must be very strong for such a person to use the rhubarbar, and such people are currently gathered in these hundred chariots.

Under the command of Fu Wei's command of Lingqi, hundreds of Han troops raised the big yellow crossbow they carried with them.

Jing Chucaishi, who was good at using bows and crossbows, stood on the chariot, almost at the same height as the Wei cavalry riding on tall horses.

This made it easy for them to aim at the Wei cavalry rushing ahead.

Even because of the three-way encirclement of thousands of Wei army iron cavalry, the Han army on the chariot did not need to do fine aiming at all.

A moment later, under Fu Wei's command, hundreds of crossbow arrows that flew out rapidly and carried cold killing intent shot towards the Wei cavalry in front.

Most of the Wei cavalry present at present were mounted cavalry, and the combat methods of mounted cavalry were different from those of light cavalry.

The light cavalry may deliberately scatter around, mainly with bows and arrows to harass and kill.

However, from the day they became an army, the mounted cavalry abandoned a certain amount of mobility in exchange for unrivaled impact.

For example, Cao Cao used 5,000 iron cavalry to break through Liu Bei's infantry army formation in Dangyang, for example, Cao Cao used 5,000 iron cavalry to resist Ma Chao's Xiliang iron cavalry in Liangzhou.

Therefore, the formation of the thousands of Wei army iron cavalry is very dense, which is greatly strengthened from the objective conditions, and the lethality of the hundreds of crossbow arrows shot by the Han army.

The Wei army's iron cavalry wore good armor, but after hundreds of years of development in the Han Dynasty, crossbow arrows had already become a sharp weapon for the infantry army to restrain the cavalry.

In Chinese history, the crossbow arrows of the big yellow crossbow have even had a record of directly shooting enemy generals from a long distance, not to mention the Wei army's iron cavalry, which is now less than dozens of paces?

So when hundreds of powerful crossbow arrows braved the cold air and shot into the formation of thousands of Wei iron cavalry, many Great Wei iron cavalry who rushed to the forefront fell to the ground one after another.

When the horses are charging at high speed, even if the horsemen on the horses are not killed by the crossbow arrows, if they fall to the ground with arrows, the fate may be even worse.

When many Great Wei cavalry troops landed

, Xiahou Ba's ears continued to sound screams.

Some of the screams were the cries of pain when the cavalry was hit by an arrow, but more often they were the cries of pain caused by the strong pain caused by the body hitting the ground after the cavalry landed.

What's more, after many Wei cavalry troops landed, because they couldn't dodge, they were trampled by friendly horses that were rushing from the rear.

The powerful impact instantly made the Wei army cavalry who landed on the ground spurt blood from their mouth and nose, and they died on the spot.

Xiahou Ba relied on his vigorous posture to barely escape the first round of crossbow arrow attacks of the Han army.

Xiahou Ba saw that the Han army had lost a lot of people with just one round of crossbow attacks, and his contempt for the Han army instantly turned into anger.

Xiahou Ba looked at the Han soldier in front of him who was continuing to take the bow with a pair of eyes boiling with angry flames, and he had no intention of retreating in his heart.

Jingzhou is good at bows and crossbows, which is a well-known thing in the world.

When the Wei cavalry attacked the Han army's grain transport team, it was also attacked by many arrows.

It is true that those missed arrows did not cause as much damage as the thousands of Han troops in front of them today, but this was still an expected damage.

At this time, tens of thousands of Wei cavalry troops who quickly gathered from not far away had already appeared on the bank of this river.

Looking at the constant shouts and cheers around him, Xiahou Ba, who knew that most of his side had already arrived, had great stability in his heart.

Even though he had lost a lot of sons, the thousands of Wei cavalry he led were already less than a hundred steps away from the Han army's military formation.

At this distance, with the high mobility of the war horse under the crotch, it can be reached almost in the time of gritting your teeth.

And as long as these thousands of cavalry rushed to the front of the Han army's military formation, the impact brought by their own speed was enough to tear the thousands of Han troops in front of them apart.

With this thought, Xiahou Ba did not hesitate in his heart, and he continued to lead the thousands of Wei army iron horsemen behind him to rush forward.

And at this moment, Fu Wei in the Moon Array issued a new order.

The rhubarb crossbow is powerful, but it also consumes a lot of physical strength on soldiers.

So when the Han army finished firing a round of crossbow arrows, these hundreds of strong men stepped back from their chariots to rest.

Subsequently the original

After thousands of archers stepped forward, they raised their longbows one after another and aimed at the thousands of Wei iron cavalry in front of them.

And unlike usual, the thousands of archers were holding bundles of arrows in their hands.

Each Han archer's arrow was lost after passing through the cluster, and at least several arrows were missing.

Xiahou Ba may have thought that the Han army in front of him was less than 3,000 people, but what he didn't know was that the Han army of less than 3,000 people were all veterans who followed him when Guan Yu was in the North Road.

In terms of physical strength, experience, and training, the 2,700 Han soldiers were the elite of the elite.

Only such an elite can have the ability and confidence to take the method of killing the enemy with arrows at a certain point in time.

When these thousands of archers, who were enough to be called elite among the Jingchu scholars, pointed the cluster arrows in their hands towards the Wei army's iron cavalry that was galloping in front of them.

After they forcefully drew the longbow in their hands into the shape of a full moon, they shot the cluster of arrows in their hands without thinking.

Under the number of speed arrows, this round of cluster arrows caused great lethality to the thousands of Wei army iron cavalry in front of them.

Thousands of Han archers missed at least thousands of arrows in this round of archery.

Moreover, these thousands of arrows were lost because of the distance, and they were all shot into the dense array of Wei cavalry when they were the most powerful.

Coupled with the special structure of the Moon Array, these thousands of arrows almost covered the charging Wei cavalry.

When this round of thousands of arrows was missed, the Wei cavalry, which was already less than dozens of paces away from the Moon Formation, almost fell a large piece.

Louder screams began to emerge in front of the two armies, and the terrible screams were almost muffled

The rumbling sound of the Wei army's iron horses stepping on the ground.

The killing and wounding of the two-wheeled crossbow cost at least thousands of Wei cavalry their lives.

After all, the current Cao Wei cavalry has not yet reached the terrifying level of defense in the form of the Iron Floating Massacre in the Northern and Southern Dynasties in later generations.

When thousands of Wei cavalry fell off their horses, this scene caused a lot of commotion in the formation of the remaining thousands of Wei cavalry.

But before the commotion could spread, the tens of thousands of Wei cavalry who had already rushed behind the friendly army began to push the front army to continue to come towards the Qiyue Formation.

The generals of the Cao Wei cavalry who led the troops, such as Cao Tai, Sima Yi, Jiang Ji, Wen Qin, etc., had already seen that the cavalry at the front had already arrived in front of the Han army.

In this case, the Han army's bow and crossbow have lost their effectiveness.

And anyone can see that the Han army, which can take cluster archery, is definitely elite.

A general who can command such an elite Han army will definitely not have a low status.

Since the First Battle of Xiangfan, the Great Wei Dynasty was in great need of a victory over the Han army.

Although I don't know who the Han general is who is protected by the Han army's military array, out of basic judgment, if he can be captured, it will naturally be a great achievement.

No general could resist the temptation of all armies to be defeated while their own army was the first to succeed.

What's more, they still have nearly 20,000 iron horsemen!

The losses were large, but the Han army adopted some special techniques, and if they were to charge head-on, they would definitely be the victorious side in the end.

As all the cavalry generals held the same mentality, more and more Wei iron cavalry began to converge towards this place.

But at this moment, the Han army on the chariot, under the command of Fu Wei and Liao Hua, began to take out a special weapon with a strange shape.

This weapon is a bit like a spear or spear, but it is longer.

This is a special kind of weapon.

There are different theories about the origin of the lance, some are said in the pre-Qin period, and some are said in the Han Dynasty, but no matter which point of view, they all believe that the real rise of the lance was after the Wei and Jin dynasties.

At present, the lance is not the mainstream standard weapon in the military.

There were many soldiers in the world who did not know this uniquely shaped weapon.

The lance in the hands of thousands of Han soldiers was made of hardwood, and was divided into two parts: the handle and the head.

The handle is generally six feet long, the head of the lance is hammer-shaped, and the head is filled with iron nails.

Therefore, when the Han army took out the lance as a weapon, it was a little strange to attract the Wei cavalry that was about to arrive in front of the Qiyue array.

The strange-looking weapon in the enemy's hand was longer than the length of the spear in their hand.

But before the Wei cavalry could be strange, under the command of Fu Wei and Liao Hua, the Han army on the east and west sides raised the lance in their hands and stabbed towards the Wei cavalry in front.

Because the Wei army's iron cavalry rushed to the front of the Qiyue array with a huge impact, the Han army didn't need to waste much effort to stab them, so they rushed straight towards the tip of the lance with a roar.

How powerful the impact of the Wei cavalry was, how deep the damage they received.

Many Wei cavalry soldiers were caught off guard and were stabbed off their horses by the lances in the hands of the Han army.

And when the Wei cavalry wanted to counterattack with the spear in their hand, they sadly found that the length of the lance was longer than the spear.

Therefore, when they want to wield a spear to fight back, they are often stabbed off the horse by the lance in the hands of the Han army.

What's even worse is that before the arrival of a large number of Wei cavalry, Fu Wei asked hundreds of soldiers to drive the long lance on the railing of the car.

The extremely sharp tip of the lance pointed directly at the rapidly charging Wei cavalry, and when the tip of the lance was about to touch the enemy's body, Fu Wei immediately ordered the Han army to hammer the end of the lance with a sledgehammer to strengthen the impact.

In this case, a single lance could easily penetrate at least four or five Wei cavalry, just like the "mutton skewers" of later generations.

And when hundreds of lances once again harvested the lives of thousands of Wei cavalry soldiers, the morale of the Wei army suffered a great blow.

In the eyes of the Wei cavalry at the forefront, their comrades were strung together on a "spear", such a terrifying scene made many Wei cavalry soldiers

Shudder.

However, because of the large number of Wei cavalry, after paying a lot of casualties, there were still many Wei cavalry troops who crossed the distance of the lance and came to the front of the Han army.

For these Wei cavalry who rushed to the front, Fu Wei immediately ordered the Han soldiers to draw their long knives and fight in close combat.

When the Wei army and the Han army came into close contact, an extremely fierce shouting began to sound on the riverbank.

This fierce shouting of killing came from the mouths of more than 2,000 Han soldiers.

And as this fierce shout of killing sounded, the war drums behind the thousands of Han troops became more and more intensive.

The dense sound of war drums is constantly raising the morale of the Han army.

At the time of the handover, although the Wei cavalry continued to surround it with the advantage of numbers.

However, because the Moon Formation was an arc and had a small face, the Han army in the Moon Array would not face too many Wei troops.

As for the Wei army's side, the more they continued to attack the arc-shaped Qiyue Array, the more lethality they received.

Coupled with the presence and protection of chariots, the condescending advantage of the Wei cavalry is gone.

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Now, if we ignore the land under the feet of the two armies, the current situation on the battlefield is not at all that the cavalry is ramming the phalanx of the infantry army, but that the two infantry armies are forming a formation and charging to kill.

Among the two infantry armies, there is no doubt that the Han army's Moon Formation is more lethal.

In this case, the Wei army was constantly shot down by the Han army with long knives and lances.

Compared to the Han army, which was protected by shields, the Wei army did not kill them much.

As time passed, more and more Wei soldiers fell from their horses screaming.

At this point in the war, the morale of the Wei cavalry who rushed to the forefront had long since disappeared.

The Wei cavalry that was at the forefront of the attack was the thousands of cavalry led by Xiahou Ba.

Under the repeated attacks of the Han army, the thousands of Wei cavalry led by him have already suffered many casualties, and how long has it been since the two armies fought?

Xiahou Ba, who had just rushed to the front, was undoubtedly the one who knew the most about the horror of this strange formation in front of him among the tens of thousands of Wei cavalry.

The current Xiahou Ba has no anger and contempt in his heart, and under the situation that his sons and daughters continue to die, he has already retreated in his heart.

However, a large number of Wei cavalry troops in the rear did not know the situation in front very well, and they kept rushing forward.

So Xiahou Ba couldn't make up his mind for a while.

But at this moment, a large number of Han warships suddenly appeared on the Han River, and flags were planted all over each warship of the Han army, as if they were full of Han troops.

After seeing this scene, Xiahouba could no longer stay calm!

Now Xiahou Bafang understands that the Han army has set up this strange moon formation on the shore today in order to lure him into battle with them.

Then take advantage of this formation to make the cavalry lose its mobility, so as to mobilize a large number of Han infantry troops to encircle and annihilate them.

Once the Wei cavalry is confined together and loses its mobility, then the Wei cavalry on the high war horse is undoubtedly a live target.

Xiahou Ba, who thought that he had seen through Guan Yu's plan, immediately made a move that was most in line with the common sense of the moment - that is, retreat.

Xiahou Ba had a rough temperament, and he did what he said, and he began to retreat towards the rear.

And Xiahou Ba, as the chief general of thousands of Wei cavalry, his actions were watched by many people.

When he began to retreat, many of the Wei cavalry around him, who had long been discouraged, also began to retreat frantically.

Xiahouba, who lacked leadership experience, ignored one point.

That is, when tens of thousands of Wei cavalry troops were gathered, as a former army, he suddenly retreated, which would cause a very terrible consequence.

When Xiahou Ba's front army began to turn its horse's head and retreat to the rear, the tens of thousands of Wei cavalry in the rear were still rushing forward.

In this way, under the collision of the two, the already dense formation of tens of thousands of Wei cavalry troops instantly became extremely chaotic.

And the cavalry

Unlike the infantry, sometimes the chaos of the cavalry formation can lead to more serious consequences.

Under the collision between the front army and the rear army, many Wei cavalry were knocked off their horses by their comrades, and then trampled to death by tall horses.

The tragic cries of those cavalrymen before they died further caused a commotion among a large number of Wei cavalry troops.

In this case, a moment later a large-scale escape of the Wei cavalry took place.

At this time, Cao Tai and the others in the rear looked at the Wei cavalry who were constantly retreating, they had no way to stop this phenomenon, and they could only lead their Wei cavalry to flee into the distance.

Because at this time, they had also seen a large number of Han warships appearing on the Han River.

Xiahouba understands the truth, and they naturally understand.

It's all about running for your life first.

When tens of thousands of Wei cavalry began to retreat on a large scale, because there was no unified command, a large-scale cavalry stampede was spreading to the whole army at an extremely fast speed.