To the south of the city is a hilly area, which is actually a small hilly area with a height of only thirty or forty meters and a low height of only seven or eight meters.

To the north is an endless plain with a large number of fields, and the Sand River is here, which contains water and soil.

And their position was above the small hill to the south, and from their view from the south to the north, in their view, to the west, that is, to their left, there were thousands of troops on the road.

These soldiers are Han Xi's army, Han Xi is from the Nanyang clan, and Han Ran, who is currently following Liu Bei and being Liu Bei's subordinate officials, belongs to the same clan, but Han Xi is the main family, and Han Ran belongs to the branch, so this means that the Han family has actually fallen to Xiangyang in an all-round way.

After Han Xi received Cai Mao's order, he left 3,000 men and horses in the camp, led 7,000 men to the east, and arrived at Heiniuyi, because the south is hilly and the north is a river, and the battlefield will be relatively narrow, which is more suitable for this kind of small-scale combat.

His soldiers lined up in a line, and at the front were all spear and shield soldiers, with hooked shields erected and sharp spears stretched out between the shields, while the soldiers stood behind the shields and looked out over the end of the road.

On the opposite side of them, to the east of the state position, in the right-hand direction, a group of men and horses slowly appeared on the horizon, and the troops at the forefront were neatly arrayed, like countless black dots in dense formations huddled together.

The two sides had gathered at least four miles or more, and the army had already stopped, and then made a new formation. The two sides faced each other in a position about four miles away, which was quite unpredictable.

After about two quarters of an hour, two other teams slowly came to the southwest of Han Xi, and one of the generals came out of the crowd and rode like a horse towards this side.

"General Han!"

It was Sun Yi who came, and the two sides joined forces according to the agreement to deal with the reinforcements from Huangmen Pavilion.

Han Xi said hello: "Captain Sun." ”

Sun Yi looked into the distance and said, "General, those are the Yellow Gate soldiers?" ”

"Hmm."

Han Xi's face was more serious and said, "Captain Sun, be careful, the Yellow Gate soldiers are one of the best in the world. ”

"Thank you, General, for reminding me where I should line up?"

Sun Yi was not too arrogant, but was willing to obey Han Xi's command, and the Yellow Gate soldiers themselves were famous, although they had never seen it, no one dared to take it lightly.

At least the record of others is also solid.

Han Xi instructed: "The captain can line up on my right side, if they rush over, I will be the middle army, and the captain will attack their left flank." ”

"Okay."

Sun Yi responded, pulled the horse and turned his head back to set up the formation.

After a while, Zhou Bo also came over, and the two chatted a few words, and arranged Han Xi's position for Zhou Bo on his left side.

After arranging the task, Zhou Bo raised his head and looked into the distance, and said in surprise: "Since the soldiers of the Huangmen Pavilion are here to support Gan Ning, why don't they move in the distance, will there be fraud?" ”

"Fraud?"

Han Xi frowned and said, "Our tens of thousands of troops are besieging Xinye, what else can he deceive?" ”

Zhou Bo said: "This is difficult to say, Shen Chen has always been scheming, if he brought some more men and horses from Jiangxia and asked them to pretend to be Yellow Gate soldiers, they would actually attack."

Han Xi turned his head and looked behind him from a distance, there was no wolf smoke in the rear, and there was no sound of horns, coming from Xinye for seven or eight miles, although it was far away, there were sentry posts and scouts along the way, if Shen Chen really wanted to make any noise, there should be an alarm.

Seeing that there was no problem in the rear, Han Xi said: "Now that Jiangxia's side is also insufficient, I don't even know if Shen Chen is there in person, where did he get his soldiers and horses?" What's more, there are tens of thousands of Taiwei troops, even if they come, they will not return. ”

"That's just as well."

As Zhou Bo spoke, he planned to go back and lead the troops to line up on the left side of Han Xi's army.

At this moment, the scout Pegasus came, jumped off the horse with a beautiful movement, and arched his hand and said, "Report, general, it's Shen Chen!" ”

"Did you see him?"

Han Xi asked.

The scout said: "I didn't see it with my own eyes, I only saw that the flag they played was a blue background Shen flag." ”

"Only saw the Shen Zi banner?"

Han Xi frowned.

"Yes."

The scout replied.

Zhou Bo said: "General, will it be?"

"Don't be suspicious."

Han Xi shook his head: "This Xinye is surrounded by fertile farmland for thousands of miles, even if he wants to avoid the real and make up for it, it is probably impossible." ”

As a big family, Han Xi understands the art of war.

He felt that now Xinye was surrounded by Jingzhou soldiers and horses, and as far as the eye could see, there were countless farmlands, and there were their scouts and sentries everywhere, how could it be so easy to break through the blockade and kill the rear?

Therefore, I don't believe that Shen Chen will use any tricks in the art of war, everyone can only fight against soldiers, generals against generals, and fight a head-on tough battle.

However, Zhou Bo said: "Who in Jingzhou doesn't know that Shen Chen is constantly scheming when he fights, in case he uses his banner to deceive us, in fact, he leads three thousand Huangmen soldiers to attack, Yingchuan Xu is not the same back then."

"Amount"

Han Xi hesitated, Yingchuan was also an endless plain, wasn't it stirred up into a sieve by Shen Chen with three thousand soldiers?

It seems that Shen Chen can't be inferred according to common sense.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Han Xi decided to focus on stabilizing the morale of the army, and said to the deputy general beside him: "Li Sima, you lead five hundred people to the north to check it out, and then send scouts to walk around Xinye a lot, especially our camp, don't let him find a vacancy." ”

"Yui!"

Li Sima took the order and left.

After the arrangement was issued, the Jingzhou soldiers on Han Xi's side also began to make timely adjustments.

Han Xi's 6,500 people lived in the center, probably divided into three large phalanxes and more than ten small squares, neatly lined up. Sun Yi is on his right hand and Zhou Bo is on his left.

With a total of about 16,500 troops, there are as many as seven or eight large phalanxes at this moment, and small phalanxes are even denser, and countless are all over the battlefield.

If you look at the column in the front row from left to right, it can stretch for at least two miles, as dense as a dot, and the formation is majestic.

This is only a battle of less than 20,000 people, such as the Battle of Guandu, a large-scale war with more than 100,000 people on both sides, that is, instead of everyone gathering together to fight a group, but scattered into different battlefields.

The battlefield may be tens of miles in radius, and the scale of the battle is not the same.

Han Xi is not a mediocre person, but he is not a genius either, his arrangement is almost decent, at least on the small hill in the south, he did not send archers to occupy the highest point, chose to line up frontally, and just quietly stayed in place and waited for the enemy to arrive.

At this time, the enemy in the distance had a new change, and after they had been stagnant for about less than three quarters of an hour, they began to form a formation and slowly walked in the direction of the Black Bull Eup.

At this time, they were still watching nervously and excitedly on the hill, and a sharp ring-headed knife had reached the neck of the state Tai at some point.

"There seems to be some changes in Shen Jun's back formation, I don't know why I can't see clearly, what are they doing?"

Zhou Tai muttered to himself.

Someone suddenly whispered in his ear: "They are temporarily changing formations, allowing the rear to quickly change equipment, and at the same time sending archer scouts to occupy the high position." ”

"I see."

Zhou Tai nodded, and then suddenly noticed that something was wrong, and then lowered his head, and was dumbfounded.

He had a knife across his neck.

For a moment, Zhou Tai's whole person was stunned and became a little overwhelmed.

When he came back to his senses, he said in a cry that was almost aggrieved: "Spare your life"

Someone pulled him up.

Looking back, his brothers were all under control, their mouths were covered, and they were being grabbed by heavily armed soldiers behind them.

Standing behind him was a young general, Zhou Tai recognized him, and stammered, "Mr. Mu Muzi." ”

"You know me?"

The person who came was Shen Tao, who was ordered by Shen Chen to occupy the hill to the south, and found that there were many local people hiding in the hills, and some of them were lying on the small hill and watching the battlefield without fear of death.

Because for a while, it was not clear whether it was the scouts sent by the enemy or the people, so they had to check them one by one, and it would indeed be a bit of a delay.

Zhou Tai replied honestly: "Mao Gong opened a academy in Xinye, and Shen Jun occasionally came to give lectures, and I met Mr. Muzi in the big class, and Mr. Mu Zi also taught us the skills of marching in the field. ”

Shen Tao patted his head and said, "I did teach students wilderness marching and reconnaissance skills at Xinye Academy, but did I teach you that?" If you want to scout the enemy in the mountains and forests, what should you do? ”

"Be disguised, arrange warning scouts in the distance, be careful behind you, and most importantly, leave immediately if something is wrong, never fall in love with the battle, and don't focus all your attention on the battlefield."

Zhou Tai replied one by one.

Shen Tao put down his knife from Zhou Tai's neck, and said with a smile: "You kid is quite serious about listening to the class, although Xiaoqing has not taught for a long time in Xinye Academy, but you are also half of his student, remember what your husband said, you must apply what you have learned, understand?" ”

"Yes."

Zhou Tai was as honest as a quail at this time.

Shen Tao waved his hand and said, "Let them go, it's just a group of children." ”

"Hahaha, I thought it was Cai Mao's scout, but I didn't expect it to be a few half-sized children."

"Our new savages are bold."

"I don't dare to go to the battlefield at this age, these boys have a kind, remember to go to Huangmen Pavilion if you want to join the army in the future."

Hearing that the scouts were not sent by the enemy, the soldiers let them go with a playful smile.

The Deng family has a high prestige in Xinye, coupled with the fact that Shen Chen, Deng Mao and others have strict control of the clan style, do not bully the people, and help the development of local agriculture, so that the people will be attached, and the Xinye people also support Shen Chen more than Xiangyang Liu Cong.

There are also soldiers in Huangmen Pavilion who are all natives of Xinye, and the backbone is the clan of Deng Shen Er, and the cohesion is very high, so they are still very friendly to the locals of the same township.

Zhou Tai and his friends felt that they had walked in front of the ghost gate, and the murderous aura of the other party just now was still terrifying, and they even suspected that once it was determined that they were scouts sent by Cai Mao, the other party would definitely cut off their heads without hesitation.

For a while, everyone was afraid, but fortunately, the new savage did not kill the new savage and escaped, Zhou Tai hurriedly said: "Mr. Muzi, can we still watch the battle?" ”

Shen Tao had already turned around and was about to continue the mission, when he heard this, he turned his head and glanced at Zhou Tai rather unexpectedly, and smiled with a slight meaning: "What's your name?" ”

"Zhou Tai."

"Zhou Tai? I've heard this name in Koto. ”

"State, state of state capital."

"Oh."

Shen Tao nodded: "You are not a soldier under me, I will not order you to do anything." You can watch it if you want, but as a teacher who has taught you, I remind you that you must keep yourself safe. ”

"Yui."

Zhou Tai suddenly became excited.

"Let's go!"

Shen Tao waved his hand, and dozens of soldiers burrowed into the forest like ghosts, heading towards the mountains and forests in the southwest.

At this time, on the frontal battlefield, Shen Chen's army had already lined up.

His army totaled 7,000 men, but now it was only 5,000 men, and the spear and shield soldiers at the front were also at the front, slowly pressing forward.

The distance between the two sides grew closer and closer, and soon it was less than two miles, and then continued on.

Han Xi came out of the crowd and watched from a distance at the front of the team, and he saw a very large flag in the center of the team, which was called Daxu, which was obviously the location of the main general.

Compared with their large army of more than 16,000 people, Shen Chenjun's 5,000 people looked much smaller, but the momentum was like thousands of troops.

After another quarter of an hour, Shen Chenjun was still advancing, and the distance between the two sides was already very close, almost less than a mile apart.

"The enemy is nearly three hundred paces!"

"The enemy is nearly two hundred and twenty paces!"

"The enemy is nearly one hundred and eighty paces!"

"The enemy is nearly one hundred and thirty paces!"

The watchers shouted hoarsely.

"Archer prepare!"

Seeing that the other party seemed to be stunned and bumped over, when the two sides were less than one hundred and twenty steps, Han Xi gave an order.

"Buzz buzz!"

After the command of the military flag waved and the horn was issued, the crunching of bows and crossbows in the ranks of tens of thousands of people was endless, and the sound of iron armor was also clashing.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Almost at the moment when the opponent's formation had reached the range of the archers, Han Xi launched an offensive.

Then, at the moment when the gongs and drums of the arrow attack order sounded, in the formation of the Jingzhou army, countless arrows were overwhelming, forming a terrifying firepower network, flying in the direction of Shen Chenjun.

The rain of arrows was overwhelming, but Shen Chenjun didn't seem to have any idea of wanting to defend, they still held their shields in the front row, and then charged forward with firm steps.

The speed is actually not fast, but the sound of heavy footsteps always makes people feel some kind of dead horror.

In the next second, the big thing that everyone imagined was knocked down by the arrows did not happen at all, only the sound of clanging was heard countless, and Shen Chenjun was still like a roaring war horse, moving forward unswervingly.

"What's going on?"

Han Xi was shocked, a round of arrow rain the enemy actually didn't move, how could this be possible?

"Armor, it's armor!"

At this moment, a lookout standing on a high place suddenly shouted: "All of them are in armor behind them!" ”

All in armor?

With this thought, Han Xi was stunned.

Where did they get so much armor?

"Woooooooooooo

Just as he was stunned, the sound of a whining horn was already heard in Shen Chen's army.

The spear and shield men in the front row suddenly parted, revealing two thousand armored hoplites.

These infantry were extremely tall and burly, all dressed in bright white full-body armor, armed almost to the teeth, and each one was like a god descending from the earth, exuding a terrifying aura.

The armor of the Han Dynasty actually tended to be black, because it was not steel, but iron, which is commonly known as wrought iron.

In the era of lack of high-efficiency steelmaking technology, it was difficult to make too much steel by frying steel, so there was no shortage of pig iron and wrought iron in the Han Dynasty, but steel.

The color of the steel is also black, but it has a lustrous glow that emits a bright silver color when exposed to sunlight.

Therefore, this army is actually a pure steel armor force, which is more powerful than Gao Shun's iron-armored and iron-armored heavy infantry camp.

This is the deepest heritage of Huangmen Pavilion!

They have an all-steel armored force of three thousand people!

The reason why it was not used when fighting Cao Cao was because the equipment was too heavy, and it was difficult to carry it in the battlefield environment that required sixty or seventy kilometers a day.

And now that he is fighting at home, he naturally doesn't have to travel long distances like when he fought Xudu.

Therefore, this battle Shen Chen can be said to be exhausted.

The steel-armored soldiers marched neatly and firmly, like a tank army composed of a torrent of steel, rumbling towards Han Xi's army.

The arrows were still being swayed, but they were as inconsequential as scraping on these soldiers.

The bow and crossbow have a certain lethality against armor, and there are even cross-bladed armor-piercing arrows, which can break through ordinary armor and shoot through three soldiers who are not armor-piercing.

But that was because after the technological innovation of the steel filling method in the Tang Dynasty, the cold weapon bow and crossbow arrows were upgraded.

The bows and crossbows of the Han Dynasty were only the most advanced compared to their contemporaries, and they were very backward compared with later dynasties, and due to the low steel production, most of them were pig iron and wrought iron arrowheads, which had no armor-breaking effect at all.

Therefore, those soldiers of the Yellow Gate Pavilion almost just lowered their heads and protected the face gate with the small round shield in their left hand, and it was almost impossible to hurt them.

The soldiers heard only the clanging sound and the occasional burst of sparks, which had no effect at all, except for the uncomfortable impact of the arrows.

The most important thing is that there is not enough impact where it is.

The power of the powerful bows and crossbows of later generations is comparable to bullets, especially compound bows and compound crossbows, after being shot, even if they can't shoot through hard body armor, the impact can break people's ribs.

However, limited by the technical level, the long-distance power of the Han Dynasty's bow and crossbow was not very strong, and the kinetic energy attenuated after 30 meters, and the lethality was greatly reduced after 50 meters, and after 80 meters, it could only rely on inertia to kill the enemy.

As a result, the impact these soldiers can feel is also very small, and it is not enough to damage themselves unless they are hit with blunt force in melee combat.

Soon, in the midst of heavy but solid steps, the two sides finally got close to each other.

There were no bells and whistles on either side, as if a piece of dirt had been hit by a flood and collided with each other without hindrance.

When the spear and shield men in the front row of Han Xi met them, it was as if they had been crushed by a bulldozer, and the shield collided with the iron armor, making the kind of friction sound of scratching the glass with their fingernails, which was extremely harsh and ugly.

Immediately after the spears and spears of the two sides stabbed each other, the swords were stabbed, and no martial arts and tactics were as good as the spears and swords in their hands, and in just a moment, Han Xi's front army was killed and dispersed.

It is useless to have an empty shield without armor, you will not be itchy if you stab someone with a spear, the shield will not cover the whole body, and you will die if someone stabs you with a spear, in this case, no one wants to fight with a group of iron cans, and they have retreated.

This retreat caused the phalanx at the front of Han Xi's army to collapse all of a sudden, and the good news was that the collapse did not spread to the whole army, because they were large in number and lined up early, so it was just that phalanx was chaotic.

To change an excellent general, at this time, he should let the phalanx in the back evacuate, then guide the phalanx in front to evacuate, and then order the left and right sides to outflank and besiege this group of Huangmen soldiers.

Heavy infantry was the most powerful army even in the late Ming Dynasty, such as the Ming Dynasty, which basically relied on heavy infantry to win the Ming Dynasty in the later Jin Dynasty from Nurhachi to Huang Taiji.

It's just that the flaws of the heavy infantry are also very serious, and they can't fight for a long time, so before their own army collapses, they can immediately adjust their tactics and adopt tactics that consume the physical strength of the Yellow Gate soldiers.

However, Han Xi's tactical command ability was average, and he only remembered to carry out tactical rectification after realizing it, and when he remembered to give orders, the collapse spread to his entire Chinese army.

Secondly, Sun Yi and Zhou Bo on the left and right flanks did not support at the first time, not that they didn't want to support, but now that the outer battlefield is in chaos, they can't help it in the past now, so they can only wait and see from afar.

It was not until Han Xi reluctantly withdrew the Chinese army back a distance and let the defeated soldiers retreat back that he barely stopped the situation, and then gave an order to surround these Huangmenting soldiers on three sides, and finally remembered the attrition tactic.

Then the melodious sound of trumpets was heard from the mountains to the south.

Under the leadership of Shen Tao, two thousand Jiangxia soldiers who had been ambushed suddenly came out, and crashed headlong into the diagonal rear of Sun Yi's department, who was outflanking the left flank of the Huangmen soldiers, and directly stabbed him in the eye.

"Run, there's an ambush!"

"Withdraw!"

"Run!"

The chaotic battlefield suddenly became even more chaotic.

More than 10,000 people lost their command and could not overcome the frontal hard attack, and they immediately faced the risk of the collapse of the entire army.

Immediately after that, their flags fell.

Yes.

Han Xi's Daxu fell.

At this moment, Shen Chen was dressed in steel armor, like a tiger rushing into the flock, slashing and slashing everywhere.

All the attacks that stabbed him around him couldn't help him, and even if there were soldiers around him who were knocked to the ground, the armor could protect him.

And Shen Chen's strength was very great, much greater than that of ordinary soldiers, even if seven or eight soldiers pressed their spears against him together, they were swept out by him like a violent war horse that could not be stopped.

His goal is very clear, that is, Han Xi Daxu in the crowd.

Hundreds of steel-armored guards were followed by him, and they went straight to Han Xi's direction to kill, and Han Xi was constantly directing the battle at the moment, but the crowds around him were crowded, and the enemy was slowly approaching him, causing him to have to retreat.

As soon as his banner retreated, the army became even more scattered, and then he suddenly felt that the surroundings were empty, and more than a dozen steel-armored soldiers killed him, so frightened that Han Xi fled from the horse, and the banner was gone.

Shen Chen cut down his banner with a single sword, and then all Han Xi's soldiers and horses were instantly defeated like a mountain, and fled to the rear.

Zhou Tai and the others who were far away on the top of the mountain were stunned.

There were no bells and whistles in this battle, except for sending a partial division to outflank the hills to outflank the raid, it was completely head-on.

But 7,000 people defeated more than 16,000 people head-on, and they were also regular troops under the hands of the strongest princes of the Han Dynasty, not rogues without military discipline and combat effectiveness, which in itself was already a very exaggerated thing.

It turned out to be a war.

You can still fight like this!

I don't know if it's yang, the current symptoms are headache, runny nose, uncomfortable throat, weakness in the left hand, it's very uncomfortable when the left hand can't make the strength when typing, and dizzy, no idea, I hope it's just a cold. Today's chapter is this.,Because my left hand is really weak.,The body is also very bad.,I'm going to take some cold medicine first.,Get a good night's sleep again.,Tomorrow if the situation is better, I'll resume the update.,If it's not good.,I may only be able to barely make a 4000 word a day.,And then go to the hospital to see.。

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