The officers and soldiers of the Wagang Army discovered that their bows and arrows could finally inflict damage on the Far Eastern Army, so they frantically took the time to draw their bows and shoot at the fast crossbowmen. The heavy armor-piercing cones penetrated the steel armor of the Far Eastern Soldiers from time to time with the sound of breaking wind.
However, in the continuous volleys from both sides of the Far Eastern Army, more Wagang Army soldiers fell down with bloody arrows sprayed out. Wagang Army soldiers with long guns in their hands kept rolling and falling to the ground, and the battlefield was filled with the screams of those who were hit.
As the infantry formations of both sides drew closer and closer, the front row and wings of the Wagang Army suffered more and more heavy losses. Now they have lost nearly a thousand people, especially when facing the fast crossbowmen on both wings of the Far East Army.
The shooting position was the blank space of the Wagang Army's spear array.
The heavy arrows of the Wagang Army also posed a great threat to the infantry of the Far Eastern Army. Although they could penetrate the steel armor of the Far Eastern Army soldiers within more than thirty steps, they also caused more than 70 casualties of the Far Eastern Army in a short period of time.
Limited, not many people died directly.
Finally, there were only the last twenty steps left between them. The two sides endured the blows of long-range weapons and came close to the fighting distance. A close-range fatal battle was about to begin.
The marching drumbeat of the Far Eastern Army formation suddenly stopped and turned into a slow drumbeat with intervals.
"Ping gun!"
Twenty steps away, the roars of several captains in the Far Eastern Army rang out. The first three rows of spears in the five phalanxes at the front of the Far Eastern Army were all leveled. Each soldier turned to the right, with his left hand in front and his right behind.
The spear was pointed in the direction of the Wagang Army. This movement used the left hand as the support point, and the right hand played a role in controlling the gun body. It could be held all the way to the tail of the spear shaft, which not only relatively saved physical strength, but also increased the attack range of the spear.
to the maximum.
In the case where both sides have long spears nearly one foot and four feet long, it is difficult for soldiers to accurately judge the timing of the thrust. If they rush forward and thrust, they will often hit the other side's spear head without stabbing the other side. This kind of situation
Slowly approach and then look for opportunities, which is most suitable for battles with super long spears.
Densely packed spearheads appeared in front of the array. As soon as the drums of the Wagang Army subsided, their pikemen also leveled their spears, maintaining a flat front and approaching step by step. However, there were various ways to hold them.
The army and infantry are so uniform.
The Far Eastern Army's fast crossbowmen on both wings fired a final salvo, while the Wagang Army threw a wave of weapons such as throwing axes and darts, causing the last long-range damage to the opponent. Then the Far Eastern Army's fast crossbowmen on both sides of the formation fired.
They began to retreat, but they did not retreat completely. Instead, they stayed at the waist of the first echelon square formation and continued to shoot at the Wagang Army as much as possible.
The spears in front of the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army were getting closer and closer, but their expressions never changed at all, and they just approached the enemy step by step according to the drum beat.
The Wagang Army is not a fool, and will not rush forward and deliver it to the muzzle. As the two sides get closer and closer, their strides become smaller and smaller. The sharp edges of their spears and spears flash with cold light. They are both very threatening. Under mutual deterrence, both sides are afraid of each other.
Carefully approach the attack distance.
The men of the Wagang Army all had ferocious eyes, staring at the Far Eastern Army soldiers in front of them, wishing to devour them. However, the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army did not even look at the faces of the Wagang soldiers opposite, or even look at them.
The opponent's spear blade was not far in front of him, but his eyes were fixed on the opponent's shoulder position without blinking, paying attention to the opponent's movements, and slowly moving his feet to judge the distance between them.
The pikemen couldn't keep their super-long spears flat for too long. Sooner or later, the time came. The spear heads of both sides began to exchange with each other's spear heads. In the middle of the two sides' lines were dense spear shafts, which were slowly passing by.
The poles made a gentle collision sound from time to time. At this time, the drumming had stopped. The soldiers facing each other on the front line were all focused on the opponent in front of them. They were judging the most suitable assassination time as they slowly approached. No one had the kung fu at this time.
To make a sound, only the generals yelling reminders and the rustling of footsteps were left.
Everyone in the Far East Army seemed to be in a forest of spears. On both sides were the spearheads of their companions in the back row. In front of them were their own and the enemy's spearshafts. Directly opposite, the spearheads of the Wagang Army were shaking slightly up and down.
, only the last four feet away from them.
Everyone in the Storm Bear Camp benefited from the fact that they had had several spear confrontations with the blue team formed by Nie Xiaoyu on Snake Island. This feeling of facing the head of a spear was no stranger to them.
But this was not a drill after all. The gun head in front of him was shaking slightly, probably close to the assassination attack range, and the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army did not dare to approach any further.
The Wagang soldiers on the opposite side were also hesitating, because countless spears were also in front of each of them, and the formation of the Far Eastern Army was very straight, and his right hand was hidden behind his back. He could not judge the enemy's assassination distance. Maybe he
If you take another step, you will be attacked by three spears. Moreover, the Wagang Army holds the spear with a downward grip. Not only is it difficult, but it also has to leave a section of the spear tail behind, which reduces the attack range. As time goes by, the physical strength of the spear is reduced.
After continuing to consume, he had to extend the length of the gun's tail to keep the gun's balance, so now he was both worried and anxious.
As they slowly approached, the only sounds left on the front were the heavy breathing of both sides and the gentle banging of beetle leaves. Occasionally, officers shouted, but no one listened.
In the silence, the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army faced the opposite guns and moved forward with the smallest strides. The Far Eastern Army looked indifferent, while the Wagang Army's whole body was in a highly tense state. In the short period of the confrontation,
, as long as ten thousand years to him.
At a certain moment, several Wagang soldiers suddenly shouted wildly, as if it was a signal to start fighting. The two sides started a chaotic stabbing attack almost at the same time. The densely packed gun barrels of both sides stabbed back and forth between the lines. When the gun bodies moved, the banging sounds of the collision were as dense as raindrops.
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Seemingly in chaos, the soldiers of the Storm Bear Battalion took advantage of the distraction when the Wagang soldiers were stabbed, and reflexively took a step forward to occupy the attack position. Just like they practiced hundreds of times a day, they stepped forward with their left legs and moved their bodies.
Lean forward slightly, both right and left hands reached forward at the same time, and the spear thrust out as fast as lightning. When they were still one foot away from the opponent's spear blade, their hands felt sluggish, and the spear accurately penetrated the opponent's Wagang soldier's chest.
The whole movement of the neck is completed in an instant.
The next moment, the spears of countless Wagang soldiers clattered to the ground. The Wagang soldiers on the opposite side were distracted and made almost no dodges against the assassination of the soldiers from the Storm Bear Battalion. They covered their necks and fell to the ground.
Soon, the battle line was reduced to a mess. More and more soldiers rushed to the middle area and struggled in front of their respective formations. The pain caused by the cold weapons was very intense. The hoarse screams of the wounded soldiers resounded throughout the battle line, wide and dense.
The contact surface quickly brought huge casualties. The first rows of both sides quickly suffered losses, and the pikemen in the rear row continued to fill in. The neat rear row quickly turned into a zigzag shape.
The soldiers of the Ten Thousand Violent Bear Battalion were like robots, or they seemed to be fighting in a state of numbness, relying entirely on their body's instinctive reactions developed through countless trainings to repeatedly assassinate.
After the first batch of casualties occurred, the two sides fought more and more crazily. There was no longer any cautious probing, and the spears were like a forest of fire, quickly harvesting lives. Someone fell at every breath, but often one person from the Far East Army died, and a tile was lost.
Five of the Gang's troops were about to die, and the corpses almost covered the battle line.
As time went by, the casualties of the Wagang Army increased sharply, their bravery was torn to pieces in the face of death, and at a certain moment they were finally defeated.
While the spear formation of the Far Eastern Army continued to advance, the infantry of the Wagang Army began to flee back. Li Xuanba led a thousand cavalry to charge diagonally and began to chase and kill the deserters.
The Far Eastern Army armed with fast crossbows rushed out from the wings and gaps, running in pursuit. When encountering a small group of Wagang troops who were resisting, they set up a platoon to shoot with fast crossbows, and then began to assassinate at close range, defeating a group of Wagang troops.
The stubborn Wagang army.
Wang Xuan looked at the collapsing army with a pale face. They fled in panic and even scattered the soldiers around him who were still holding their posts. They had completely become a bereaved dog. Some generals of the Wagang Army returned with some of their soldiers.
He wanted to kill people to supervise the battle, but in the end, even the people supervising the battle were instantly overwhelmed and had to flee behind him.
They had 13,000 infantry, and had already lost more than a thousand before the battle. As they approached, the losses were even greater. Especially the rapid crossbow fire on the hillsides on both sides of the Far East Army's battle formation was very intensive. They continued to fire from beginning to end. The Wagang Army
The two wings could not bear that kind of loss and had to fight with bows and arrows from a distance. Not only were the two wings unable to form a breakthrough, they also suffered great losses.
The spearmen of the Wagang Army in the middle also did not gain an advantage in the confrontation. Instead, they were quickly defeated by the opponent in formation battles. Wang Xuan knew just by looking at the formation that after losing most of the elite spear-wielding soldiers in front of the middle front, the Wagang Army behind them
The still dense Far Eastern Army has gradually lost its fighting spirit.
Wang Xuan was speechless. Although he knew that the Far Eastern Army was powerful, he did not expect that the other party would already show such powerful combat power without using the legendary explosive gunpowder weapons.
In fact, Wang Xuan had prepared a strategy of exchanging lives for lives before the fight. He even thought about the worst-case scenario of losing two of his men in exchange for the loss of one of his men. When the fight reached a certain level, Huangshi Village would be behind.
People will come to support you.
But he never imagined that he would be defeated so quickly that even most of the people behind him would not have time to invest, let alone the tens of thousands of people from Huangshi Village behind to support him.
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The two sides engaged in such a brutal fight as soon as they came into contact at the southwest foot of Huangshi Slope. This kind of attitude, apart from defeating the opponent first, did not leave a way for them to retreat from the battlefield calmly.
Everything that happened today was somewhat beyond Cheng Yaojin's expectations.
In Cheng Yaojin's view, the Far East Army had already occupied Xiaohe Town, so it should adopt a strategy of careful step-by-step advancement and layer-by-layer advancement. This kind of brutal field battle, in which victory or defeat was inevitable, was something the Far East Army should try its best to avoid.
"Unless the person in charge of the Far Eastern Army's Baoxiong Battalion is extremely confident in their combat power, and even thinks that their combat power is far superior to that of our Wagang Army." Cheng Yaojin, who stood at the top of Fengyang City and deduced this result, felt more and more in his heart.
The more uneasy I became, I began to regret that my previous deployment of 10,000 reinforcements was too few.
But the problem is that the Far Eastern Army's Baoxiong Battalion has 40,000 people, and there are still 30,000 people who have not been dispatched at the Xiaohe Town Pass. Naturally, his main force in Fengyang City cannot be used.
At this moment, a scout came rushing from the direction of Huangshi Village, bringing news that made Cheng Yaojin and Fang Yanzao look ugly.
"Wang Xuan set out from Fengyang City less than two hours ago. Excluding the time on the road, why was he defeated so quickly?" Cheng Yaojin frowned in pain. At this time, he finally understood the intentions of the Far East Army.
"The Far East Army deliberately sent only 10,000 people to attack Huangshi Village, which we had to save, but the main force was watching covetously in the mountains of Xiaohe Town, forcing me not to dare to mobilize the main force of Fengyang City. Instead, I kept sending reinforcements, just to
Let Huangshi Slope become a battlefield for massacre, and we want to involve our troops one by one, instead of surrounding and killing them with our superior strength."
"Although this has prevented us from encircling them with our superior strength, isn't it possible that the Far East Army is not afraid of wheel battles, exhausting their physical strength, and finally wiping out ten thousand of them?"
"There is no way that the Far East Army can compete with us in consumption."
Drawing more conclusions only made Cheng Yaojin more and more puzzled and uneasy.
At this time, the messenger sent by Wang Xuan to ask for help arrived. Cheng Yaojin closed his eyes in pain, because he found that even if he saw the other party's purpose, he had to act in accordance with the other party's intention and had to send reinforcements, and
Reinforcements cannot be too many.
The fighting there was so fierce and cruel that the 10,000 troops led by Wang Xuan could not be given up.
But at the moment, other than giving up these ten thousand troops, there is no other way to stop the other party's plan.
Because if he is led by the other side again, the scale of the war will inevitably expand and evolve into a full-scale battle.
In fact, compared with the strategy of shrinking defense, which is passive and easy for the Far East Army to defeat one by one, this kind of all-out battle may be more beneficial to the Wagang Army.
But the problem is that both Li Mi and Cheng Yaojin just want to besiege the Far East Army with superior force, instead of being forced to send reinforcements bit by bit in this battle.
The most important thing is that because of Li Mi's persistence, the only real elite of their Wagang Army in Fengyang City was the ten thousand people he brought with him, which was too limited. And with Wang Xuan losing to the opponent so quickly, Cheng Yaojin had no choice but to
I really don’t have much confidence in mobilizing people from the surrounding copycat villages.
"Perhaps the Far East Army is bluffing. They want us to drain the main force of Fengyang City, and then the main force will suddenly attack Fengyang City from the Xiaohe Town Mountain Pass." Fang Yanzao said with some uncertainty.
Cheng Yaojin shook his head, but was too lazy to refute Fang Yanzao's superficial inference.
But Cheng Yaojin was hesitant and difficult to make up his mind.
In the face of a fighter opportunity that can be manipulated at the slightest moment, a commander may need more decisiveness than a plan beyond ordinary people.
Before Cheng Yaojin could make up his mind, the guard of Huangshi Village made the decision for him.
Just when Cheng Yaojin continued to hesitate, a messenger came to report that 8,000 men and horses in Huangshi Village had been dispatched to meet the defeated troops led by Wang Xuan, and the enemy and we started fighting again on the other side of Huangshi Slope.