The crossbow shot, and the arrow was like a flying locust.

Between Guan Yu's Yueyue Formation and the Wuhuan Cavalry Formation of the Nanqiao King, hundreds of arrows soared into the air every second, flying one or two hundred steps away, and planted white tail feathers on the black soil beside the Xiaoyu River.

The strong wind blew across the tail feathers, causing the arrow shafts inserted in the soft mud to sway, like reed marsh full of white reed flowers.

As the enemy became more and more arrogant, some links in Guan Yu's chariot formation almost shook.

The main reason was that the soldiers felt that fighting like this was too frustrating! They asked the commander to use a car and crossbow to fight back!

Until this moment, the firepower density exposed by Guan Yu's army was still relatively low - all the crossbows, because the enemy had not yet entered the range of cluster arrows, they were ordered by Guan Yu not to expose their firepower, and they must continue to survive!

Guan Yu learned this trick from Qu Yi, in order to show weakness, make the enemy underestimate the enemy, and rush up.

The Wuhuan cavalry has a much better mobility than the Han army, so they can run away once they find out that they can't beat them.

The key to the Han army's defeat of the enemy has never been how to fight, but how to make the enemy willing to fight to the end-

Since the Han Dynasty, as long as the Hu people were willing to fight the Han army to the end and fight to the death, the Han army will definitely take advantage.

Guan Yu was familiar with the Spring and Autumn Period and studied the history of war. He had known about those war examples for a long time.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, Li Ling led 5,000 infantry out of the frontier and defeated more than 100,000 Huns' cavalry and could not get close. In the end, more than one million arrows were shot before they were destroyed. Li Ling also said that if there were another 100,000 arrows to be supplied, he would definitely be able to hold on until he retreated to the pass.

However, showing weakness also requires the Basic Law, and targeted demonstrations are required. From Li Ling to Qu Yi to Guan Yu, everyone is studying this topic.

All the performances of the Han army on the battlefield today are reflected in Guan Yu's research results.

The current situation is like two primary school students fighting.

The first one is actually carrying a sharp blade and is invincible in close combat, but because of his clumsy and slow running, he cannot catch up with the enemy.

The second one is thin and sensitive, and is more frugal in close combat, but it is more accurate to throw stones and hit people, so it is the advantage when the distance is widened.

At the beginning of the battle, both sides first throw small stones at each other and harass each other. The strong man in melee battle will definitely suffer a loss. So how should he lure the other party to fight you in close combat?

Anyone who has seen primary school students fight knows that the key at this time is the "spiritual victory method". For example, when the other party's stone is thrown on you, you laugh and mock: Spicy chicken! This kind of drizzle doesn't hurt at all! Waste, cub! You have the ability to rush up and fight alone! The little stone doesn't break the defense at all!

Of course, while mocking, you can’t really just mock it. You have to throw a small stone into the fight back.

As long as the small stone you throw can make the other party feel a little painful, and your acting skills are good enough, and the expression of pain will not be revealed. It can make the other party believe that he is really not breaking his defense. If you don’t rush up to fight in close combat, you will not lose blood at all, and then he will not be able to calm down.

The key here is "acting skills", which corresponds to the army's formation fighting skills, that is "military discipline"!

If the military discipline is strict, the soldiers will be shot without chaos, and there will be casualties, as if there are casualties. As long as there are no chaos, the other party will believe that they will shoot without success and will not lose blood when they hit you.

But if you hit him, he will lose blood more or less, and he will become restless and change his tactics.

As for whether you actually lose blood or not, it doesn't matter anymore - war is not a game, and soldiers will not have blood strips on their heads.

In fact, if you shoot him fifty arrows, he will die. If he shoots you thirty arrows, he will die.

But if you show him a fake blood bar, the blood bar shows that he will shoot you for a hundred arrows and you will die. Then he will rush forward decisively and stop shooting against you.

...

Guan Yu could understand the fifth floor, and King Nanqiao and Yan Rou were only on the third floor at most.

Unfortunately, the soldiers under Guan Yu were originally only on the first floor. He relied on Guan Yu to be kind to the soldiers and made the soldiers willing to believe him, so he barely followed up to the second and third floors.

But soldiers who still have low awareness can't understand it, especially those Danyang soldiers who don't like to be beaten for nothing and pretend not to be hurt, and there is almost a riot.

"The chief of the village can't stand it anymore. Why don't you replace the crossbow with a wooden spear to fight back? Just relying on these crossbows to shoot against the Wuhuan people will not be beaten in vain?"

The Danyang soldiers in one garrison could not withstand the first one. There were seventy or eighty soldiers in their garrison, corresponding to five chariots equipped with crossbows. All the soldiers set up shields along the chariots. After a long-term attack, nearly one-tenth of the wounded soldiers appeared. Fortunately, most of the arrows were not in deep injuries.

The head of Natun is Fu Shiren, a native of Guangyang County. He was the first group of veterans recruited township warriors before Liu Bei became the magistrate of Liangxiang County. He gradually became the head of the township and came over to command these Danyang soldiers.

He knew that the Danyang soldiers liked to fight with the wind and were very patient with such things that they were angry. They pulled out their swords and repeatedly pressed them down, and told the soldiers about Guan Yu's tactical ideas, hoping that everyone would understand and cooperate, but they still could not control the situation.

He had no choice but to point at Guan Yu who stood still and boost morale: "Look at Guan Duwei! Guan Duwei himself was still motionless even if he was caught in an arrow. Why? Isn't it just because Hu Gou believed that it would be useless for them to fight like this! As long as Hu Gou rushed up, they would be dead!

It’s better to do this. If anyone is caught more arrows than Guan Duwei, I promised him to hide under the car and no longer have to build a shield for the crossbow! I will do what I say, do you dare! If anyone retreats, I will take it up by myself and help him build a shield if it is his vacancy!"

These words are truly an example. The Danyang Hammer and Shield soldiers looked at Guan Yu and Fu Shiren, and finally calmed down a little more.

But after a while, a strong man from Danyang got three arrows in total. He was the one who got the most arrows in the village, and there were more than Guan Yu.

Fu Shiren had to fulfill his promise on the spot and ordered the strong man to be pulled under the chariot to cover him, and he personally took the other party's shield and pushed it to the front line to set up the shield!

After holding on for a few more minutes, Fu Shiren, wearing metal armor, was also shot an arrow in the gap between his arm and breastplate. He suddenly felt the pain in his bones, but the more senior officers were persevering, so he had to persevere.

The Danyang soldiers beside him were slightly shaken at the moment when he was shot, but seeing that he still insisted on holding on to the front line, this wavering stabilized.

Fu Shiren didn't know how long he had lasted, but because he was not as skilled as those Danyang soldiers with shields, he was hit by two more arrows one after another, and finally fell down and died in anger.

But the soldiers around him saw that he set an example and died without retreating, and even asserted his strong fighting spirit, inheriting his will, continuing to hold the shield against the waste.

...

On the battlefield, there has never been any kind of battle situation that can hit the morale of the attacking party just like "You shot in a blank shot, I'm fine."

As expected, although the cavalry under King Nanqiao was also causing harm to the Han army, because the Han army formation was still motionless on the surface, from generals like Guan Yu to grassroots officers like Fu Shiren to ordinary Danyang soldiers, all their acting skills were outstanding.

The Wuhuan people thought they had caused no harm, and finally became more and more impatient and their morale was dissipated.

No one wants to do useless work while bleeding.

King Nanqiao saw it and knew that if he continued to waste like this, his morale would be completely destroyed. He could only force the entire army to rush forward to fight in close combat.

Every enemy killed in melee battle was witnessed by one's own people, and this style of fighting was the most motivating.

The King of Nanqiao's face became increasingly ugly, and he thought to himself: "It seems that he was really fooled by the Han army this time! Their arrows are so sparse that they must not have arranged many crossbowmen, but they all set up strong shields to lure us.

Otherwise, the shield formation could only block the flat-shooting arrows in the front row, and could not block the arrows that were shot over the top. Our warriors shot at the open area behind the Han army's shield formation for so long, and the Han army was not in chaos. Maybe it was hollow inside! There was no deep arrangement of archers behind us invisible locations! Guan Yu just made a circle of empty outer circles to deceive me! "

Thinking of this, King Nanqiao officially ordered: "Everyone rushed up and fight with the Han army! The shields on these chariot formations are not scary! The back of the Han army's shield formation must be hollow! There will not be many crossbowmen!"

In an instant, thousands of horses rushed together.

Guan Yu, wearing two layers of fish scales, finally sneered when he saw this scene. He wiped it casually and slapped the arrow rods that could not penetrate the two sets of iron armor. When the enemy approached to close, he raised his left hand and waved it crossed.

The meaning of this gesture is to let the crossbow on the left side of the formation shoot in the front right, while the crossbow on the right shoot in the front left, forming crossbow on the front left.

Qu Yi's first climb to the camp to break the white horse Yi, there is a keyword called "shooting with a powerful crossbow". Many people will ignore the word "clip" of this magical stroke.

The essence of the clip is "cross firepower".

Bows and arrows are throwing weapons. What the throwing weapons leave on the ballistic surface is a point, that is, someone must be at the point where the bow and arrows fall to shoot at the point.

The crossbow is closer to the flat-fire weapon that aims directly. The flat-fire weapon leaves a line on the ballistic surface. Even if there is no enemy at the point you aim directly, or the enemy runs away, as long as there are enemies on the subsequent extension line of this line, you can still shoot.

However, if the crossbow only shoots arrows at the enemy rushing towards the front, the chance of "not shooting at the targeted enemy but can also hit the enemy next to him" will be much smaller.

Because the enemy's cavalry are not fools, especially light cavalry like Wuhuan charge, the horses must be separated by several meters, and the array is relatively sparse.

However, this is only for the case where the 90-degree angle is opposite.

Anyone who has learned a little bit of trigonometric function knows that once the angle between the flat firepower and the scattered line on the charge side is no longer 90°, but 60°, 30°... or even lower, then the individual soldiers' spacing and projection on the vertical projection line of the flat firepower will be much smaller than when observing the front.

At this time, the probability of "not shooting at the targeted enemy, but being able to accidentally hurt his comrades around him" will increase exponentially.

The precise trigonometric function massacre has begun.

Rows of Wuhuan cavalry rushed straight to the front of the chariot formation, waving spears and sabers, crazily slashing the chariot formation and shield formation, and trying to pass through the gaps of the chariot formation, directly trampling the crossbowmen behind the chariot formation, or slashing the chariot soldiers on both sides from behind after penetrating the formation.

However, just as they were about to penetrate the formation, a crossbow on each chariot spewed out a bunch of arrows. The bundles of arrows were buckled on the strings of the crossbow made of cow tendons with a support plate. They were twisted to the tightest point and instantly excited. At once, more than a dozen arrows shot out in a big handful.

Almost no Wuhuan cavalry was shot in the front, but instead they were shot in the left or the right. From a distance, they looked like hedgehogs, which was spectacular.

Those who escaped the first two rounds of arrows really wanted to pass through the seemingly safe gap between cars, but found that fiercely swinged battle axes and maces were stretched out from the Han army's chariot.

This weapon that relies on weight and inertia to kill the enemy does not pay attention to the angle of the enemy's body when it is in conflict with the enemy's body, and does not even have to force one side of the blade to face the enemy.

As long as you have enough strength, initial speed, and inertia, you can break the cavalry's tendons and bones.

In fact, the melee interception weapons that Guan Yu used for the Danyang soldiers today were not the most professional. When Liu Yu later dealt with the cavalry of the Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the main melee weapon of the Kuyue Formation was the "stick".

Many people don’t understand: Isn’t a stick just a stick? How combative is this thing?

But in fact, the sticks used in the car array are mostly long sticks with four-cornered iron heads, and their weight and inertia are enough. What they need is that they are both far enough and do not have to face the tips against the enemy like a spear.

The essence of the rod is the word "sweep", which deals with enemies passing by at high speed from the side, while the gun and spear deal with enemies in the front. As long as the enemy's speed is high enough and the impact force is large enough, blunt weapons can kill people, and the armor-breaking effect is stronger than sharp weapons. The enemy cavalry is self-braking by the momentum formed by their own charge speed.

The Danyang soldiers' hammers and axes are also driven by sweeping. In terms of power, they are stronger than Liu Yu's staff, but the distance is too short and they cannot sweep farther enemies, so they will inevitably leave more flaws.

The power is more than enough but the attack range is insufficient, and the white jade is slightly flawed.

"Kala——"

"Crack--"

The sound of teeth sore and sore, and the horses and knights flew out.

Or the head hits the ground, the cervical spine breaks,

Or a sharp axe is like a picture master shaking his hands violently when he was repairing their appearance, distorting them into various postmodern exaggerated shapes.

The crossbow next to it continued to shoot in a crazy cluster, without stopping. The problem of cluster arrows' effective killing range is no longer important when they are almost close to their faces. They can be said to completely play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.

Moreover, because the shooting port is concentrated, there is no need to expose too many weak fronts like ordinary crossbowmen. Under normal circumstances, if the Han army wants to achieve such a melee firepower density, it means that a crossbowman with a width of at least 20 people should be lined up in front of a car.

So many crossbowmen mean that there are so many weak links that can be broken through by charge, and they will be cut into vegetables by the Wuhuan cavalry.

But now, the firepower density is still so high, but the front is not weak at all. As long as a shooting port is exposed, the width of a shield can spray out so many arrows. The width of the other nineteen people is still a solid shield formation, which makes it difficult to find soft persimmons to make sense?
To be continued...