Chapter Ninety-Four: Zhenbei Pass, the Battle Begins
Knock knock knock......
Woowoo......
In the wilderness, the two armies thundered with drums and trumpets.
On the side of the legal army, the 30,000 forward army led by Leliaojie advanced steadily and slowly, and did not rush forward.
He also used the Door Nail Formation, but with a slight change, with 5,000 foot soldiers every 500 battalions, and 10 formations.
Ten teams of foot soldiers in the front six and four in the back, staggered in the shape of canine teeth to form a curved arc, lined up horizontally in front.
But faintly, there are ten square teams, five on the left and five.
And between the phalanxes, each row is a triangular array composed of 300 crossbowmen, plus one in the middle, a total of seven crossbow horn arrays.
In addition, behind the central corner formation, two thousand elite heavy armored infantry soldiers were displayed, which was for the army to break the formation.
Then there is the location of the Leliao Festival Chinese army, which is composed of 2,000 armored cavalry.
The left and right sides of the Chinese army had six formations of foot soldiers, and each formation was also composed of five hundred.
Then there were 12,000 light cavalry distributed in an inverted zigzag pattern, each with an army of 4,000 men.
Leliaojie did not first disturb the temptation with light cavalry attacks, but directly outside the lixu, so that the Chinese army and the rear army stopped their horses, and the front army's foot soldiers and crossbowmen arrays began to speed up their pace and rushed forward.
At the same time, the left and right flanks were infancied, and after another two hundred steps, they gradually stopped, leaving the military order to support the forward.
On the side of the Zhenbei Army, the left front army and the left rear saber and shield hands were stacked in three columns, and the left and right sides were crossed in front of each other, lined up.
Zuo Yuhou's saber and shield hand were pressed behind him, and it was also reserved for support and replenishment, as a backup.
Behind them, the three armies jumped and swung up, holding large shields, forming layers of shield walls, followed by the three armies of crossbowmen, also horizontal and not fancy.
As for the spearmen of the three armies, they were still after the crossbowmen, and they were listed as three arrows, and they were postponed.
The strange soldiers of the three armies on the left flank are displayed, hanging in the distance, and on one side is where the horse army, which was also transferred to the rear army, was located, which was not only the rear army, but also protected the right flank.
In the Chinese army where Meng Wei was located, there was only a pro-soldier battalion around it.
The two armies clashed, and the arrows went first.
Within a distance of seventy paces, the legal army attacked first, and the six phalanx foot soldiers in the front row rushed forward, while the crossbowmen of the five battalions in the front row raised their crossbows diagonally and stayed in place.
The bowstring trembled, resounding, and a layer of black and oppressive arrow rain seemed to cover the sky, shooting towards the array of the Zhenbei army.
In front of the Zhenbei army, a large shield was erected and put on the head, and the rain of arrows shot on the shield, and soon it was filled with a layer, like a huge hedgehog.
But this round of arrow rain has brought very little damage.
And soon, the Zhenbei Army also launched a counteroffensive.
While the sword and shield hands in the front row squatted down to form a shield array, they also exposed the vision in front of them to the eyes of the robe behind them.
Li Ke, the commander of the left rear army, under the rain of arrows in the corner of his eye, the enemy's foot soldiers had already rushed closer than fifty paces, and immediately raised the command flag in his hand.
As the crossbowmen ordered the flag to be held high, a group of crossbowmen of the Zhenbei Army hidden behind the shield wall of the jumping soldiers silently drew arrows and strings.
All the armies of the Zhenbei Army, the current crossbowmen are equipped with the same, a war bow, a large crossbow, five crossbow arrows, ten arrows, and a horizontal knife, chest and back armor and a small chest.
As soon as Li ordered the flag to fall, the 1,800 crossbowmen of the three armies ran three steps from behind the shield wall of the jumping soldiers at the same time, and the crossbows were thrown diagonally.
Then he quickly ran back behind the shield wall to hide, put down the crossbow, and took the bow and arrows, and at the same time held the left hand of the bow handle, and each held two arrows.
Both sides are old rivals who have fought each other for many years, and they know each other very well.
It was this wave of arrows on the side of the Zhenbei Army, but it did not bring much damage, and after the arrows of the legal army fell, the front array of the legal army infantry quickly stopped, and they also gathered together in one place to defend themselves.
In just a moment, the rain of arrows fell, and the crossbowmen of the legal army had finished their arrows again, and the crossbows were fired.
The foot soldiers of the law also spread their shields and rushed forward quickly.
But this time the arrows fell, but the counterattack of the Zhenbei army did not come, so that the soldiers hesitated, but they did not ignore the military order, but stopped as usual, erected a shield to block, and gave the crossbowmen behind them time to put arrows on the strings.
The four formations behind were ordered to step forward and cross the column, and began to cover the crossbowmen before moving forward.
At this moment, behind the right flank of the Zhenbei Army, a wave of flags rolled, and more than 1,000 horse troops turned over and moved to the right.
The rear of the legal army moved with it, and the left flank of light cavalry swept forward.
However, the large army was unfolded, the number was extremely large, and the width of the battlefield was not small, and even if the cavalry of the two armies moved, it would take time.
On the contrary, on the front, after another round of arrows fell, the foot soldiers of the law army were already less than thirty paces in front of the Zhenbei army's formation, and the jumping soldier shield wall was also included in the firing range.
The legal army suddenly lost his scruples, and the phalanx of foot soldiers in the front strode wildly, and the crossbowmen in the rear suppressed the wall of jumping shields, covering the rain of arrows backwards.
Liu Yu was at the forefront with a big shield with a square card, and he kept looking out along the gap, and when he saw the law army running closer than twenty paces, he immediately shouted.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
The Zhenbei soldiers beside Liu Yu, as well as his personal soldiers, also roared violently.
This move is only a small point, and the main function is to give orders.
The roar of one person is really insignificant in this wilderness battlefield, but the roar of hundreds or hundreds of people together is enough for the nearby soldiers to hear it really.
More than 1,000 sword and shield hands scattered the shield array, shoulder to shoulder, shield on shield on shield, densely standing in one place, stacking a tight and solid shield wall.
With a thud, the foot soldiers of the law slammed into the shield wall, and the shield smashed and kicked the sword and stabbed it, mixed with the shouts and cries of killing, breaking the silence of the battlefield and becoming extremely noisy.
But the shield wall of the saber shield hand in the north of the town is like a bluestone embankment, and the soldiers grit their teeth against the shield, which is indestructible.
"Three Arrows Rapid Fire!"
"Put!!"
In the rear, Li shouted loudly, ordered the flag to dance, and the crossbowmen quickly withdrew from cover behind the jumping guard wall, and the three arrows in their hands quickly poured out.
They didn't need to aim, the shield wall in front of them was the best ruler, and the arrows jumped out along the shield wall, heading straight for the cover of the thirty paces in front of the formation.
The soldiers in the rear of the legal army were shot down when they ascended, and outside the array of sword and shield hands in front of the formation, the legal army was temporarily out of the rear troops, and the momentum was suddenly stagnant.
Liu Yu looked at the arrows that crossed the air, and immediately gave an order, as the shouts of the soldiers sounded, the sword and shield soldiers arrayed, making way for several gaps, and the legal army was already crowding people forward, and this time two or three hundred people poured in with pushes and shoves.
Ganqu led a hundred jumping elites, drilled out from behind his shield wall, and quickly pounced on the influx of lawyers.
These jumping elites are extremely brave, armed with heavy weapons, all of them are dual-wielded, and under the leadership of Gan Qu, it will not be long before the legal army will be put in, and more than half of them will be killed.
But at this time, there is a gap in the levee, and there is also a risk of being washed away by the flood.
But Liu Yu had no intention of blocking it with a sword and shield hand, but only continued to stabilize the shield array in front of him to ensure that the open gap was not really torn apart.
The legal army was unwilling to let go of this opportunity, half of the foot soldiers were still slamming against the shield wall, and half of them were rushing to the near gap, trying to penetrate and completely shatter the array of the Zhenbei army from the inside.
It's just that they are not slow, and the jumping elite led by Gan Qu is even faster, and they don't care about the remaining legal infantry soldiers who rushed in, and directly fill the gap.
Between the gaps between the two of them, there were several jumping elites blocking both sides, and they poked out the weapons in their hands, and one after another legal foot soldiers fell down in the gap, and soon they were stacked on top of each other.
At the same time, the remaining jumping soldiers and crossbowmen of the Zhenbei army quickly retracted left and right and united into a formation.
The spearmen, under the leadership of Zuo Yu Hou Junlang and Wang Hui, quickly plugged in, followed behind Gan Qu and others, and filled the gap.
Gan Qu led the people to retreat, gave up their positions, and together with Li Ke, reorganized the jumping soldiers and crossbowmen into an army.
At this time, the Zhenbei Army's horse army, under the leadership of Xiao Ge, also rushed to the front of the battle, but only ran to the side of the jumping soldier and stopped, and did not seize the formation.
In the legal army, Leliaojie hesitated for a moment, but still did not order the light cavalry on the left flank to gather back, but ordered the flag to wave and ordered it to go to feint to attack the right flank of the Zhenbei army.
Who expected that when the enemy was about to be engaged, the Zhenbei Army and the Horse Army quickly retreated, and had no intention of fighting it at all.
Instead, the jumpers turned in the direction of the jumpers, and the array spread out, taking cover in front of the crossbowmen, and hurried to the flank.
Li ordered the flag to swing, and the crossbowman couldn't help but open his bow and shoot, and shot out all three drawn feather arrows at a rapid speed.
Outside the array, the French light cavalry was shot down in a row.
Caught off guard, the legal army wanted to go farther away from the range of the Zhenbei army.
Xiao Ge swung his long lance, and at the same time led the army to go around, rushing towards the light cavalry of the legal army from one side, and formed a flanking attack on this light cavalry with the troops of Gan Qu Li Qi.
What's more, the elite cavalry of the 300 pro-military battalions of the Central Army of the Zhenbei Army on the side of Meng Wei also got on their horses and rushed over, with a fierce momentum.
The leader of the light cavalry of the legal army noticed that something was wrong, and he was only ordered to feint, and he did not need to wait for the dispatch of the Leliao Festival, so he led the army back by himself, not wanting to entangle with it.
Gan Qu Li led people to stop, and the pro-military camp did not pursue, but the horse army led by Xiao Ge followed behind, looking like he would not give up.
But the light cavalry of the law army was getting farther and farther, and the distance between the two was gradually widened.
Suddenly, Xiao Ge led the army and horses to suddenly lift up, and went sideways towards the crossbowmen of the legal army.