"Boom~~~" As time went by, the Han army's catapults became closer to the Jin army's village and entered the range, and then began an indiscriminate attack on the Jin army's central camp.

Such an attack lasted for a whole day, and hundreds of catapults threw thousands of stone bullets of all sizes into the places where the enemy entrenched. The offensive on the entire battlefield looked very shocking and spectacular. As the stone bullets continued to hit the ground, and the occasional screams or two from the opponent's camp, the morale of the Han soldiers on the periphery continued to rise.

However, from Guanyi below, many Han army officers counted one, and everyone's faces became increasingly ugly.

On the one hand, it is August 3rd, and I think the battle has started in Huaili - that is the main battlefield that determines the outcome of this battle. However, such a large army of our side is restrained here and cannot move forward. On the other hand, the other side is too calm.

You said that you are a wise commander and a strong general. No matter how I bombard you, you will be calm and believe me. But there are at least tens of thousands of people in your entire camp? You have been bombarding like this for a day, and it would be fine if there were no surrenders, but there was not even a team of people who could not help but be bombarded for a long time and rushed out on their own. What does this mean? The elite with strict discipline! And they are elites that the main general can completely control!

And after this day, I threw all the lit stone bullets. After so many of them, I could not form a fire that swept the entire camp... The enemy general's persistence and preparation in advance were extremely sufficient. At this time, I ordered the infantry of our side to kill in. Alas, I don't like fighting such wars the most.

Seeing that the sun on August 3rd had slowly risen to the sky, and then looking at all the towers in the enemy's central camp with a height of more than two meters, the arrow towers had been completely destroyed. Guan Yi sighed: Attack!

With his orders, the war drums in the Han army were ringing, and Zhang Zun, Huo Zai and Jiang Bin shouted together, and led their respective troops into the central camp of the Jin army in three directions.

"General, the Sichuan thieves finally come in!"

"Good, send an order. The entire army stood up from the trench and killed the enemy!"

"Here!"

It can be said that Zhou Zhi is really not a simple general. He actually creatively took out a defensive weapon in this era. It was because the 30,000 Jin troops hid in the dense camp that avoided large casualties.

With the order of Zhou's order, the war drums roared in the central tent of the Jin army. More than 20,000 Jin soldiers who were still alive stood up and collided with the surging Han soldiers.

The troops attacked from the south of the Jin army's Dazhai to the north. According to Guan Yi's deployment, the troops led by the Mandarin Duck Formation from Fuling County. The troops rushed to the front were the Bizkas from Panlong Village. And the Pan Dazhuang, who was a strong man in Fuling County, was the captain of this Mandarin Duck Formation - the shield player who rushed to the front.

A brave Jin army soldier shouted and rushed over with a ring-headed knife in his hand. Pan Dazhuang raised his eyebrows slightly, then raised his big shield with both hands and blocked the opponent's big sword. The perspective was largely blocked by the big shield, but Pan Dazhuang was not panicked at all, because as he expected, the sound of the fierce collision between the big sword and the big shield had arrived as promised to reach his ears. Then the next voice was naturally the other party's scream: the spearman behind him had accurately stabbed the enemy.

He put down his big shield and quickly pulled out the Pu Knife hanging on his left body, accurately slashing towards the neck of the enemy who had fallen to the ground, and a head left his master's body. Pan Dazhuang didn't look at the fountain at the broken point, quickly packed up his mind and turned his attention to the next enemy.

When he cooperated with the spearman behind him to kill the enemy, another shield player on his left hand also cooperated with the spearman on his left to kill an enemy. Then when they reorganized the formation again, they heard a voice they disliked the most: "Soldier A hugs the shield! Soldier B blocks the bamboo! C Ding kills the enemy!"

This was when the Xindu War in the past, Wang Qi came up with a way to break the Mandarin Duck Formation. It was bloody, but it was effective. Although Wang Qi himself has become a Han minister now, the method he came up with the Jin State report Cao to sacrifice a large number of intelligence personnel and successfully visited the survivors of the Xindu War (the surrendered soldiers who were placed in various pavilions by Zong Yu) and was widely known throughout the Jin army.

Soon, Pan Dazhuang felt a huge thrust coming from the shield. There was no doubt that his large shield was hugged by an enemy soldier.

But as soon as the thrust was generated, Pan Dazhuang heard a scream on the other side. The corner of his mouth was unconsciously pulled: "You just found a cracking method, are we not prepared to prevent cracking? In the past, General Guan was poor, and the shields he gave us were all wooden shields and rattan cards. Now they are all iron shields. Not to mention the iron shield, the front and edges of the shield are all spikes!"

But the other soldier was indeed brave. Although his hands and chest were pricked by the spikes on the shield, he still tried hard forward without fear of death, trying to knock Pan Dazhuang down.

Moreover, this soldier had obviously received training in breaking the formation. When he pounced on the big shield, his head was consciously hidden under the edge of the shield. In this way, the spearman behind Pan Dazhuang could not attack him.

"Huh!? Why is there a gap in the middle of this shield?"

The Jin army soldier who buried his head very low just found in his sight that there was a crack in the middle of the shield he was holding tightly. Before he could figure out what was going on, a sharp blade quickly pierced out of the crack. The blade was so sharp that his hard skull was broken after just a little.

"Hmph! After so many years, our soldiers in the Mandarin Duck Formation also need to improve their combat effectiveness. If you use the old methods to deal with us, it will not work."

He skillfully pulled out the knife from the other party's head, and his eyes flashed across the red and white brain stained on the blade. Pan Dazhuang quickly looked at his left and found that his comrades had also dealt with the other party's soldiers holding shields. He nodded tacitly with the other party, and both sides moved closer again, and then took the spearman, wolf wielder and other comrades behind him to continue to fight deep into the enemy formation.

As he entered the enemy camp, Pan Dazhuang's relaxation just now was completely gone. Instead, there were waves of anxiety and powerlessness.

On the one hand, it was the madness and courage of the opponent's soldiers. Their team of mandarin duck formations had entered the enemy camp for less than a quarter of an hour and had killed more than twenty Jin soldiers. Even so, more Jin soldiers were still swarming. Although the combination of the mandarin duck formations was exquisite, they were not invincible. Their team of eleven people has now been killed and injured.

The one who died was a spearman who was tightly grasped by the enemy after firing the gun, and then pulled out the formation by the opponent's force. The one who was injured was an archer who was slashed by the ring-headed knife thrown by the opponent before his death. Although this casualty had little impact on the combat effectiveness of the Mandarin Duck Formation, the enemy's morale was high and he fought very bravely. How could it look like an abandoned rear guard? It was clearly a vanguard army!

On the other hand, the deeper you go to the enemy's Dazhai, the more messy the terrain becomes. Inside the Dazhai, in addition to the stone bombs thrown in by the original side, the density of various tents is also extremely high. These things can effectively cover the enemy's troops behind them, and then it is convenient for the opponent to suddenly jump out of the corner to kill the enemy. Pan Dazhuang saw with his own eyes that in the back of the stone bomb just now, a Jin army soldier suddenly rolled out and cut off the legs of two tiger and infantry comrades in one knife. In such an occasion, it would destroy the two precious combat powers of our side.

"Change the formation! Change the mandarin duck formation into the three-talent formation. The two three-talent formations are blocking each other and moving forward in turn!" Those who are commanders can only create a favorable situation for their own army strategically. When it comes to specific battles, even the higher commanders will need to rely on the on-site command of middle and low-level officers.

One of the important reasons why the Shu Han army was able to defeat the strong with fewer and weaker repeatedly was that there were a large number of low-level officers who were old in the battle formation and commanded experienced on the spot. This tradition is also deeply rooted in the army of the Fuxing system.

Therefore, when I saw the landform of the battlefield, hundreds of captains of the Mandarin Duck Formation made the decision to split the formation.

"What's going on? It's been more than an hour, and my general's banner has only advanced ten feet? How can this speed end the battle within today?"

"Former General, the enemy's resistance is tenacious, and our army is advancing extremely slowly!"

"Hey! This Jin army general is good. He can actually make all the soldiers under his command fight to the death. He sends orders to go to the rear to call a thousand civilians. He also puts armor on them, and then follows our warriors, clears obstacles on the battlefield, and sets out a passage for our spearmen to advance."

"Here!"

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"General Zhou, our soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and many strongholds in the battalions have been lost."

"After the order is sent, our army's retreat has been cut off. Only by relying on this Dazhai area can you have a glimmer of hope. Let your brothers persevere for a while, it will be dark and it will be safe next. Tell your brothers that after today and guard for another day, I will lead them to break through!"

"Here!"

From that morning on, the Han army entered the Jin army's camp, and the fierce fighting lasted for a whole day. Although the Han army also suffered heavy casualties, the Yuanyang Formation was the vanguard, so the entire front was still advancing steadily. Now, the camp controlled by the Jin army under Zhou Zhi has shrunk by at least half.

Looking up at the sky, Guan Yi turned around and asked, "What time is it now?"

"Report to the Grand Sima, it's the third hour of You!"

"It's almost dark, but if the troops are withdrawn tonight, the passage of entry that our army has worked hard to clear will be gone." Thinking of this, Guan Yi has no doubts: "Send an order! The reserve team in the rear is above the top, and the entire army is not allowed to rest, and fight at night!"
Chapter completed!