The sky was very blue, and it was a very good weather. The temperature in October was not very high. Xiliang soldiers slowly came out of the camp. The scout troops from both sides tried their best to detect the movements of the other side's army.
The vast flat loess land is very suitable for the armies of both sides to deploy. With a distance of more than 2,000 meters, both sides can deploy with peace of mind.
Archers, spearmen...the troops came out one after another, forming a formation and moving forward slowly. The Xiliang formation looked like a huge phalanx, and there were smaller phalanxes within the phalanx.
The smallest phalanx in the formation is a hundred people, and their commander is the centurion. There is a commander under the centurion, and the commander is the commander of the forward combat unit.
Li Xiang decides the formation and the direction of the army. The centurion directs the troops to the designated position to fight against the enemy. The centurion directs the troops how to deal with the enemy. The commander is the executor!
The command system of the Xiliang army is layered one by one. Everyone has been trained for a long time. There have been many large formations like this in training. They took their time and set up the large formation as quickly as possible.
On the other side, the soldiers of the Seventh Legion dispatched from the north gate were armed with spears. They knew that the coalition had cavalry, and to deal with the cavalry, of course they had to choose spears. The spear soldiers were at the outermost edge of the army, and there were swordsmen, spears and other soldiers inside.
There are very few archers in the Seventh Legion. These soldiers are not like the Xiliang archers. If you want to train a qualified archer, it takes a lot of time and resources. At the same time, it also requires talent. If you don’t have talent, you can train no matter what.
Not out.
At the south gate, the Xiliang light cavalry is dispatched, with their horses carrying a large number of arrows. They will mainly focus on traveling. After the army defeats the enemy, they can transform into a force that cuts off the retreat. However, at present, they are still mainly engaged in guerrilla warfare and harassment.
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Li Xiang led the heavy cavalry in the middle of the army. There was still a lot of space inside. This space was reserved for the archers and crossbowmen in front. When the enemy was very close to them, the long-range troops would retreat back to the middle of the army.
The pikemen and swordsmen at the front formed a formation and waited for the enemy to approach. The long-range troops returning to the center could continue to attack, but this time they were under the command of the battle flag in front.
As the trump card of the Xiliang army, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry can be used as a vanguard or as a backhand, and cannot be used for the time being.
Boom, boom, boom!
The sound of war drums sounded, and Li Xiang moved forward slowly. The war drums are the commanders of the army on the battlefield. Xiliang soldiers can hear from the war drums, advance, retreat, and the whole army attacks...
The position of the war drums is not fixed in one place. They will follow the movement of the army and keep a certain distance from the army so that the soldiers can hear their voices. They are usually in the middle position.
There are also movable war drums and war flags that follow the carriage. Each war flag and war drum corresponds to a troop. This kind of carriage is generally not easy to use.
The sound of the war drums sounded, and the Xiliang soldiers moved forward slowly according to the sound of the war drums. Every step they took was on the beat of the war drums. After the meeting, the steps of the Xiliang soldiers were all at the same point.
The sound of the war drums gradually weakened, and the war drums also needed to be moved. The army formation was very large, and Li Xiang, who was on the horse, could not see the end at a glance. This was the first time that the Xiliang headquarters army had such a large-scale battle, and there were heavy crowds everywhere.
, there is a high tower behind him, which was built for him by Xiliang soldiers as a tool to observe the enemy's situation.
One side of Xiliang was dispatched, and the army under Song Cheng and Pang Sheng on the other side had just been deployed. They used the Qing Army as the main force and lined up in the middle position. Ten thousand cannon fodder troops were in front, and three thousand cavalry were on the left. The Qing Army's elite
The army is on the right.
The armies on the left and right sides are further back than the central army. The entire army appears to be of the same character, but the 10,000 people protruding from it are cannon fodder troops. The three armies are actually at the same level.
Most of the more than 10,000 cannon fodder of the former army were ordinary farmers sent by the Xuantian Sect to the Qing Army. They had only been trained by Song Cheng for a period of time, and instead of wearing leather armor, they wore blue cloth, and they only had a long stick in their hands.
A spear and a log shield.
When the Xiliang army came to a stop in the middle of the two camps, the archers and crossbowmen separated the arrows. The crossbowmen had four opportunities to attack, and the archers had six opportunities. After defeating the enemy, they could not reach any position.
Retreat to the middle.
Archers and crossbowmen stood under the sun. There was no noise from Xiliang, and there was a killing spree.
The formation of the cannon fodder troops of the Green Army was not very good. When they were advancing, the formation was in disarray. The commanders and commanders in the army loudly ordered the troops to cheer up the soldiers.
Song Cheng and Pang Sheng stood in front of the army, followed by more than a hundred outer disciples of Xuantian Sect, and the man in white was also beside them.
Ten thousand cannon fodder troops were at the front, blocking the view ahead. A few people didn't care. They just wanted to let the front troops consume them and explore the firepower and weaknesses of Xiliang's long-range troops.
The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and the Qing army's cannon fodder could see the Xiliang formation in the distance. The opponent's formation was far larger than theirs, and was similar to the troops behind them.
At this time, the elite troops of the Qing Army on the side accelerated. Although there was some distance between the Qing Army troops, strictly speaking, the army was still together and not separated.
As soon as the elite troops were dispatched, the cavalry on the other side also rushed up. After the two of them caught up with the cannon fodder army, their speed slowed down again.
Li Xiang climbed to a high platform that was ten meters high. Not only could he see the entire battlefield, but most of the area could still be seen. On the left, he could see the troops of the Seventh Army advancing slowly in the distance, and their speed had already reached a certain level.
Almost overtaking the army.
The light cavalry on the right was faster and almost reached the enemy's back. However, there was no sound of war drums and neither unit had yet entered the battlefield.
The cannon fodder troops of the Qing Army are about to enter the attack range of Xiliang's long-range troops. The frontline soldiers do not need Li Xiang to say anything. The captains are already ready, with crossbows and bows pointed in the air. The battlefield is not suitable for level shooting.
The crossbowman is in front and the archer is a little behind.
"kill!"
A centurion from the Qing Army rushed to the front, two hundred meters away, which was already within the attack range of the enemy's long-range troops. There were many long-range soldiers in Xiliang. This was something everyone knew.
The next two hundred meters is a road of death. If you rush over it, you can still survive. If you can't, there is only a dead end.
"Get ready!" the voice of Commander Xiliang spread throughout the front line
"put!"
Bang bang bang!
The crossbow arrow in the hand of the crossbowman flew out first, "whoosh!" The archer's long arrow followed closely behind. At this time, the long arrows used by the Xiliang soldiers were all good ones, not the inferior ones used to deal with the fallen demon.
Long arrow.
As Xiliang Gong's long-range troops attacked, the sky turned black, and countless long arrows fell from the sky like rain!
The cannon fodder soldiers raised their shields to block the long arrows falling from the sky. The places with shields did block the long arrows, but other places were filled with arrows.
Some of the soldiers at the front of the cannon fodder army disappeared and were killed by the rain of arrows. A centurion behind him picked up a corpse and blocked it above his head: "Pick up your body and charge forward!"
They have no choice but to rush. They are all family members, and their families are still in the hands of Xuantian Sect. They can die fighting outside this pass, but they cannot escape. Once they escape, their whole family will die together.
It’s not that they are loyal to Xuantian Sect, but that they have no choice!
The soldiers behind picked up the corpse, and everyone stood close together and rushed forward. Some people strode forward and rushed forward. They knew that there were intervals between archers' attacks, so they did not kill them at this time.
, how long are you waiting for?
The death of the first group of people did not cause the cannon fodder troops to retreat. Instead, they charged harder. More than 8,000 people rushed forward at full speed.
"Give me the order to attack from the right!" Song Cheng had already walked around to the side when the cannon fodder army was attacking. When he saw the rain of arrows shot by Xiliang's long-range troops, he didn't believe that there were not three or four thousand archers.
He didn't want to think about why there were so many archers in Xiliang. He had to fight to the Xiliang formation to make the archers unable to perform. Otherwise, Xiliang could rely on the long-range archers to slowly kill them.
The soldiers on the side quickly ran over with Song Cheng's orders, and the elite troops on the right side of the Qing Army rushed forward.
The elite troops of the Qing Army and the cannon fodder both had a little bit of Qi, and there was not much difference in their equipment. There were only about 5,000 troops with armor.
The elite Qing Army on the right consisted of 12,000 men, divided into twelve thousand-man square formations, and rushed towards the Xiliang formation.
On the frontal battlefield, the archers kept drawing their bows to attack, and the crossbowmen fired arrows. Waves of arrows fell one after another. When the soldiers of the Cannon Fodder Corps were less than thirty meters away from the crossbowmen, the crossbowmen
He packed up his weapons and turned around to escape through the corridor.
The archers no longer fired, but continued to attack the enemy in front, retreating while attacking without any chaos.
"defense!"
Li Xiang, who was on the high platform, could see the changes on the battlefield ahead. Enemy troops were approaching on the right side of the Qing Army, that is, on their left.
Boom, boom, boom!
A fierce war drum sounded, and the soldiers on the front line heard the sound of the war drum. The swordsman took out his shield and ran to the front and squatted half-crouched. The shield stood in front, and the sharp spear turned the Xiliang formation into a giant hedgehog, the same on the left and right sides.
He and the crossbowmen quickly divided into four groups and ran to the places they had assigned before.
The cannon fodder at the front rushed to the Xiliang formation, with sharp spears piercing their bodies, and bright red blood sprinkled on the loess wilderness. There was no pity in the eyes of the Xiliang soldiers, but only endless despair.
indifferent.
The spear thrust out, retracted, thrust out, killing cannon fodder soldiers in this way.
The cannon fodder of the Qing army had no advantage against the Xiliang soldiers, so they could only be pushed forward by the people behind them, and finally died tragically under the weapons of the Xiliang soldiers.
The soldiers of the Seventh Army on the right heard the sound of defensive drums on the other side and knew that the battle on the main battlefield had begun. They could see on the ground in the distance that a unit of the Qing Army had arrived to the left of the main army.
Zhang Tiezhu, Hei Yun, Luo Mu, and Aza are the four main commanders of the Seventh Legion. Each of them has two thousand troops. In order to train the troops to cooperate, they were transferred to Beixuan City for training.
Therefore, they were not in Yuan Mine. The soldiers who died in Yuan Mine were led by two other commanders. Those two were also the first third-rate masters to defect to Xiliang. Unfortunately, they died in Yuan Mine.
"That should be the elite force of the Qing Army. If we want to help my lord and the others, we have to tear each other apart!" The four people in Heiyun gathered together and the troops were moving forward. As the main generals, each of them had a horse.
Liang Zhanma, this is more convenient.
"Heiyun boy, just tell me how I want to beat you. We big guys can just follow you!" Luo Mu said loudly.
After studying in Xiliang for a period of time, Luo Mu only learned how to lead troops to fight. Fighting and the like were too difficult for him.
Zhang Tiezhu said: "There are still some gaps between the opponent's phalanx and the phalanx. We can use these gaps to separate the opponent. General Luo Mu's troops are good at fighting. General Luo Mu can kill one first.
Tao, cut out the target!
My unit is good at defense. The enemy who was separated would definitely ask for help, so I took my unit to block it and help the enemy.
General Aza is good at melee combat, General Aza and General Heiyun can kill the enemy, and the reserve troops can be led by General Luo Mu!"
Li Tiezhu's learning ability is no worse than that of Hei Yun. From the first moment they met, the two of them fought openly and secretly. However, this was in peacetime. On the battlefield, the two of them were comrades-in-arms, and everything was for Xiliang.
"Okay!" Lou Fan's chief manager Aza said.
Several people led the army to quickly approach the battlefield. At this time, the flanking troops of the Qing Army had already reached the side of the formation. There were sounds of fighting everywhere on the battlefield. Tens of thousands of people were fighting, and the ground was noisy.
People on both sides kept falling. Those in front fell, and those behind took over. Archers and crossbowmen once again joined the battlefield, but they were all ejecting, obeying the command of the commander in front, and firing blindly.
The soldiers in front covered their eyes, and they could only rely on the commander in front to direct them and shoot arrows using semaphores.
Qingjun
"Report!" A cavalryman ran to Song Cheng: "General, the Xiliang Seventh Army Corps appears on the right. The enemy's target should be the troops on the right!"
"Order the reserve troops to move to the left!" Song Cheng thought for a moment and said: "Let General Pang Sheng lead the cavalry to destroy the Seventh Army first, and let the troops on the right cooperate with General Pang Sheng!"
In Xiliang's main position and the main formation, there are currently only two ways to break the formation. One method is currently being used. The army attacks, turning the front line into a flesh and blood mill. See which side can't fight first.
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The other is a cavalry charge, which uses the impact of the cavalry to break through the enemy's formation and allow the troops behind to rush in. This can damage the enemy's formation.
The second method is very good, but the people of the Great Wall Legion will not do this, and the losses will be quite high.
However, we can destroy the Seventh Legion on the Xiliang flank first!
Li Xiang doesn't just take beatings, but now it's hard for the Xiliang army to disperse. The soldiers who were killed by the Qing army first were obviously just a bunch of cannon fodder!
