Li Jue was not surprised at all when the cavalry on both wings pulled and fought.

Because he knew that the cavalry of his own side, Liu Bei's army had no absolute overwhelming numerical advantage, and was slightly inferior in equipment, so he could only make up for it by bravery.

However, as long as 40,000 people can resist Liu Bei's 27,000 cavalry, and fully lengthen and widen the front, making Liu Bei's formation disconnect and expose the weaknesses of the flanks, the purpose is achieved.

"Liu Bei really doesn't know about the army. Those who are good at fighting can keep enough reserves to fill the vacant teams at any time. The cavalry comes and goes quickly, and even keep some emergency plugs. Now he has gained an advantage for the first formation, allowing Zhao Yun and Ma Chao to leave the central army so far, and he is angry and compete with our army to go backwards.

The width of the military formation on the front was far smaller than that of our army. As long as you rush up, you will attack three sides and surround three quarts and one circumvent. Liu Bei's soldiers will not panic and their morale will collapse."

After Li Jue observed this advantage, he couldn't help but smile. This was the most favorable news he had seen with his own eyes for two months and ten days since February. It can finally erase the lingering huge pressure from Liu Bei!

He waved his hand and gave a few instructions, wanting the central army to press forward in a step.

His nephew Li Li also knew some tactics and asked worriedly: "Our army took the initiative to push forward, and would it be ready for Liu Bei's army. Will there be a fraud if the crossbows are shot? Why don't we test it first?"

Li Jue didn't care: "The opportunity is rare. The main attacking side was shot three times by the defense side. It is inevitable that the army of more than 100,000 is still missing this loss? However, what you said is not completely unreasonable. Try it and see the focus of his military formation."

In the end, he agreed and sent his own crossbowman to come forward and shoot to test the full charge.

The direct troops of the Xiliang Army lacked strong crossbows in the early days, mainly relying on bows and arrows. However, after Dong Zhuo entered Beijing, he obtained the old capital of Luoyang and Chang'an Armament, and could eat for several years.

Although the internal affairs have been poor in recent years, they have basically not been engaged in production and are just relying on old capital. The equipment with complex mechanical structures has basically been used less and less, and the strings of the crossbow gradually relax and have decreased elasticity. However, the whole family has taken it out in a wave of ways, and the scale seems quite scary.

There were more than 5,000 crossbows in Li Jue's army, plus more than 2,000 waistbows, and more numerous arm-bow light crossbows, and 20,000 or 30,000 bows. These soldiers could not have piled up all of them, and could only go forward in batches, leaving enough reserve teams to shoot at each other with Liu Bei's army.

Liu Bei's army had a steady formation. Guan Yu allowed the camp to stand in front and also equipped with a long shield hand. The firepower of the counterattack seemed to be weaker, but the key was that the front row of the strong shield and iron armor was not afraid of shooting at the extreme range.

After testing for a while, Li Jue decided to further increase his efforts, so he asked a small number of cavalrymen in the army to use short spears, at least a large number of formation chariots, to try to test the enemy's formation with spears, and to use the armor-breaking advantage of spears to see if Guan Yu had any excessive reactions.

Of course, this type of troops is very small in scale, and it is purely a test.

As an established force, chariots gradually withdrew from the historical stage when Qin and Zhao fought for hegemony in the late Warring States Period. However, a small number of chariots used for command were still retained, especially in the open areas of the Hebei Plain and the Guanzhong Plain in the north. In the late Han Dynasty, people on the chariots no longer used bows and arrows, but threw short spears as long-range attacks.

The established professional javelin soldiers did not appear on a large scale in the Chinese war history. But this does not mean that soldiers in the late Han Dynasty would not throw spears to fight.

The short spear of the Han army was not like the special javelin used by the Roman javelin army. The spear head was specially made very sharp and thin to achieve the greatest piercing and armor-piercing effect, and the sharp part after landing is bent and damaged and cannot be thrown back.

The short spears of the Han army can be both stabbed and thrown. The advantage is that they are multi-purpose, and the disadvantage is that they are not as aerodynamic structure as the West. As for the advantages of durability, they are different from those of the person and can be thrown repeatedly, and it is easy to be picked up by the enemy and thrown back.

In history, Ma Chao's Western Liang cavalry were not only good at using spears, but also able to throw spears, which to a certain extent made up for the disadvantage that the Western Liang cavalry was not as good as the Youzhou cavalry and the Xiongnu Xianbei cavalry. The reconnaissance cavalry under Li Jue was also in the same origin as Ma Chao's military source, and of course they also threw spears.

The kinetic energy of throwing spears is several times greater than that of crossbow arrows. Even soldiers wearing iron armor may not be able to withstand it, or if they block it, they will suffer internal injuries like blunt attacks. Guan Yu's front row of iron armored soldiers and long shield hands can no longer ignore them.

Guan Yu's soldiers actively defended, and at the same time, more crossbowmen who were originally deployed in secret also left the line and shot in a dense manner. They were soon shot and killed before Li Jue's tentative spear-throwing cavalry and chariots causing greater damage.

Li Jue was slightly shocked at first when he saw the harassing troops he sent to test the firepower and was shot by Guan Yu's crossbowmen, but then he became happy.

"Guan Yu imitated Quyi's method of 'blocking crossbow shooting'! Let the crossbow soldiers not be exposed to the first row, but they can shoot flat! Unfortunately, although this method is miraculously effective in protecting crossbow soldiers and exerting their shooting power, it will sacrifice part of the range. No wonder at the beginning our army fired from a distance with ordinary crossbows, and Guan Yu's counterattack power was so sparse."

Li Jue observed for a while, narrowed his eyes, and remembered the magical tactics he saw from the predecessors of the Western Liang Army ten years ago when he was just an intermediate officer.

At that time, Dong Zhuo had not yet risen. He was just a captain of Wuji under Huangfu Song, and Tuo Yi, who was from Wuwei County, was only a Sima of Huangfu Song's subordinates, and he had no subordinates to Dong Zhuo.

Li Jue was following Dong Zhuo at that time and saw the crossbow formation where Kuo Yi defeated the enemy. He was very impressed: the general normal people often deployed two types of crossbow formations. One type was to place crossbow soldiers on the front line and then shoot flat. The other type was to place shield formations and heavy armored soldiers on the front row, and the crossbow soldiers shot upwards in the back row.

The crossbow soldiers' shooting range is longer and safer, but they will lose their firepower density, because when the crossbow arrow falls, it will only hit one point, and if there is no enemy crossbow arrow at this point, it will be empty.

Although the flat shot is close, it can block a line. If the first enemy you are aiming for is not shot, as long as there are other enemies on the projection surface behind him, you can also hit one. Therefore, generals who have a little bit of crossbow soldiers have a better advantage in using the crossbow soldiers to shoot flat shots, their hit rate will be increased exponentially.

But Que Yi's first camp was combined with these two advantages, allowing shield soldiers or chariot formations to take the lead and block the front of the front from being directly shot by the crossbows on the opposite side. At the same time, his crossbows were tilted at an angle, and crossing firepower was diagonally flat and blocking the enemy's charge route.

The word "正" that "正" that "正" in Baima Yicong is the essence of it.

Guan Yu's troops also left many wide corridors between the infantry array and the infantry array today, and they didn't seem to be afraid of their weak junctions. Now Li Jue finally saw that the corridors left by Guan Yu were used to provide vision and angle for crossfire power to crossfire by crossing soldiers.

The only disadvantage of this arrangement is that after direct shooting to oblique shooting, the maximum effective range is reduced.

No wonder Li Jue's crossbowmen encountered weak resistance when shooting at the maximum distance. After the cavalry and chariots that threw short spears were close to the straight line distance in front of the enemy's formation, the enemy's fire density and hit rate suddenly increased by one stage.

"I heard that Guan Yu joined forces with Qu Yi when he defeated Zhang Ju. Later, when Liu Bei defeated Zhang Chun alone, Guan Yu also learned Qu Yi's tactics to defeat the cavalry of the Xianbei in Liaodong. No wonder he tasted the benefits several times and became addicted.

Since this is the case, our army must try to keep its crossbowmen from 80 to 100 steps to suppress them, and the infantry must rush forward and pass through the last fifty or sixty steps in front of the enemy formation as soon as possible, and put in one go! After enduring this wave, Guan Yu will pay the price for him to "leave a wider corridor between the formation"!"

After a short period of enemy intensive firepower output, as long as you are close to each other, it will be Li Jue's advantage!

The gap between the array is too wide, which is conducive to the deployment of cross-side firepower, but is not conducive to melee combat! Even if Guan Yu finally changed the array in a hurry, these corridors cannot be blocked quickly, and there must be weaknesses that are easily surrounded by division!

His tactical acumen of Dong Zhuo for more than ten years was fully demonstrated at this moment. Even if God gave Li Jue another chance to reconsider, he could not make better decisions.

The 100,000 infantry rushed forward and resolutely implemented Li Jue's military order. Only on the far side of the left wing, Li Jue discovered some discordant notes: Duan Wei's troops were slow to move, and they were dragging their feet while charging, and they were afraid to fight.

"What's going on! At the critical moment, we must fight with fear! After we go back, we must punish us! Guan Yu's situation is so powerful that he puts it all on in one go. If we rush to two groups apart, we wouldn't we be shot by another wave of two wings!" Li Jue was almost angry in his heart.

If Duan Wei dragged another cup of tea, he would want to directly send someone to the order with his sword, and then sneak attacked Duan Wei in front of the formation and took over his military power! However, considering that this might lead to chaos on his own side and shake the morale of the army, he could only think about it.

While Li Jue was hesitating, his front army had already rushed through the most dangerous area in the rain of arrows, screaming and wailing along the way. With more than 100,000 people charged, thousands of people fell into the continuous waves of side archery rain.

The output of Guan Yu's crossfire crossbowman was madly maximizing.

Although the angle of shooting is not large enough and the side width is narrow, the military discipline formed by Guan Yu's years of training has allowed crossbowmen to alternately shoot arrows on the front of the flank, and then retreat to the center to load, forming a continuous firepower, which severely hit the morale of Li Juejun.

If Li Juejun hadn't been able to support him with one courage, and knew that his side was obviously full of people and powerful, he also knew that "will die even more miserably when he retreated at this time, and the robes shot in front would be vanished." It would be difficult to hold on.

"The ambition to trap the formation is alive without death!" As the hand-to-hand melee battle was fully launched, Gao Shun, who was in the middle of Guan Yu's army, led the iron-armored soldiers of the three thousand camps, broke out with the roar of a desperate battle.

In order to cover the front of his crossbow soldiers, the camp was pulled into a very thin formation this time, with no more than three rows in each place, and there were a thousand people in the front of the three thousand soldiers, followed by other relatively less elite infantry soldiers.

The horse-slaying sword flew over, and the heavy shield rushed to the top, causing Li Jue to rush to the front of the melee soldiers, like raging waves slamming the shore, and the waves shattered on the reef that was still as moving as mountains.

For a moment, the broken arms and limbs flew, the clothes and armor were flat, and blood was like a spring.

Unfortunately, at this moment, Li Jue heard a discord cry break out from behind.

"Li Jue rebels and threatens his king and father to plot to kill the lord. General Pingdong and Dong Guojiu are secretly ordered to protect the robbers and fight against the thief with the King of Hanzhong!" In Duan Wei's army, such lines spread from ten thousand to hundreds, and soon passed down from Duan Wei's core confidant to the bottom.

Duan Wei's 30,000 people first stopped moving forward and fell into a brief chaos. There was even a small group of trampling on each other because the soldiers did not know the truth in advance.

But soon Duan Wei and the whole army figured out the situation. They only took a cup of tea to reorganize the team, and then prepared to pierce Li Jue's left back waist.

However, Li Jue's pain was obviously more than that. Even though Duan Wei fell into chaos because of hasty turn against him and could not stab him in the back for a while, the intensity of the enemy's resistance on the front suddenly increased to a higher level after a brief stalemate.

Li Jue initially felt that "the corridor between the Guan Yu formation that was left too wide in order to give the shooting angle for cross firepower" would be a weak link that surrounded Guan Yu army formations one by one.

But just as his army was about to break through these corridors, he heard some abnormal movements that caused the earth to tremble.

Before the war, the Elephant Army, which had been lying far behind the formation for several miles, accelerated slowly for about ten minutes and finally increased its speed and appeared on the battlefield.

Guan Yu made this arrangement on purpose, leaving such a wide corridor between the array, not only to allow crossover soldiers to obtain more crossfire output angles, but also to allow elephants to pass through wide enough when rushing from the back to the front row to avoid stepping on their own people.

Li Jue's swords, shields, and short soldiers who wanted to "divid and surround Guan Yu" and went deep into the corridor directly collided with the elephant rushing up.

The crossbowmen on both sides of the Guan Yu army corridor had already retreated, and they were replaced by the spearmen in a array, just in case the elephant rushed to the side, they could use a spear to resist the elephant and let the elephant rush strictly along the corridor toward the front.

The division troops of Li Jue Army were squeezed in the middle and could not move left and right. They could only choose to either continue to rush forward with their teeth or rush back to their own people and trample on each other.

Not to mention, there are really a few Li Jue infantry who rushed out to death - after all, it takes time for the war elephants to enter the battlefield. When the war elephants are about to enter the battlefield, they must withdraw all the defensive soldiers in the corridor in advance, otherwise these soldiers will be trampled to death from behind.

Therefore, the fastest warriors in Li Jue's army had time to rush out of the corridor when they were discovered from afar, then entered the rear of Guan Yu's army's formation, and then spread to both sides.

It's a bit like a lump of engine oil sticking to the cylinder. When the piston is just installed on the cylinder and presses it hard, there are always a few small lumps of engine oil that will be forced to splash outside the cylinder by the wind approaching the cylinder, escaping the disaster.

But then more than 90% of the engine oil will be pressed into the cylinder block by the piston and then rubbed on the cylinder wall for a lifetime.

The soldiers of Li Jiejun who escaped were like those few drops of lucky motor oil. Most of the soldiers who followed suit were like they were hit by a piston and hit by a direct motor oil.

"Bang!" A group of Li Jie soldiers were blocked by the left and right spears, and then they were struck by an elephant and stepped into the shape of an oil, so they were trapped in the soil and couldn't even be lifted.

"Damn it!"

"What kind of divine beast is Haotian Taiyi!"
Chapter completed!