Chapter 9 Don't be afraid of low morale
"Form a formation, slow down and adjust your breathing!" Liu Tao was in the middle, and he had to find that the two sides were less than one mile away, so he immediately issued an order.
The troops, which were originally jogging, quickly slowed down, adjusted their breathing, and lined up in a square formation according to Liu Tao's requirements. The soldiers were in line with each other under the constraints of the sergeant commander, and the sergeant commander was aligned with the team on the far right.
In the end, a neat square formation was formed quickly, at least much neatly than the bow and arrows and swords and shields troops.
"Brother (Deran) asked them to line up before, and the purpose is here?" Zhang Fei and Lu Yan saw this change. They didn't understand why Liu Tao did that, but now they understand.
Looking at my own troops, they were neat, but they were uneven. When comparing with the spearmen, I felt that it was a bit dazzling at first.
"Enemy troops appeared behind!" Someone on the Yellow Turban Thieves who were attacking finally noticed the army behind, so he shouted, attracting the attention of other thieves.
"Can they be the defenders of Zhuo County?" Two figures with the same leader stood among the Yellow Turban thieves, one of them was a little panicked.
"Have you seen the imperial army without even armor?" Another person retorted, "I'm afraid the Zhang family's patriarch came... I heard that the Zhang family started to form militia a few days ago and trained in the east of the city. Calculate the time, it should be them."
"Wang Er, will we still fight?" The first person who spoke hesitated.
"If you want to leave now, you are in a situation where you are attacked from both sides. There are only a thousand people on the other side, and they are Zhuang Ding who has only been training for a few days. There are three thousand people on our side, who is afraid of whom? Zhang Da, we concentrate our troops to chew him!" Wang Er showed a cruel face.
"Okay, fuck him!" Zhang Da immediately gritted his teeth and showed a fierce look when he heard this.
Both of them are members of the Taiping Sect. In recent days, they have received news that the great wise and good teachers are in Julu, so they have also begun to contact the believers in Zhuo County one after another. However, when they were about to find that the military rations and weapons were insufficient, they just happened to receive news that there were three caravans coming together, with horses, iron and wine, and the wine was still a 10-tenth bottle of immortal wine.
So Zhang Da and Wang Er planned to ambush him nearby, rob him of a deal, then build arms, buy military rations, wait for the brothers from other counties to come, and then raise an army to respond. They even conspired to intervene in Zhuo County during this period, and help seize the city at that time.
But I didn't expect that the guards of the three caravans were very powerful, especially the red-faced man, who rushed over more than 30 brothers with a broken ring-headed sword, and rushed out a bloody way to hide in Lousang Village with the caravan.
Originally, I was just planning to dispatch a small group, but in this case, I could only dispatch the entire army. Taking advantage of the fact that the defenders of Zhuo County did not come, I quickly ate the batch of supplies. It was nothing more, this batch of goods was really too tempting!
"Wang Er, I'll leave it to you later!" Zhang Da shouted behind him and personally led two thousand people to form an array.
"I'll leave the militia to you too!" Wang Er replied, and then led his people to rush towards Lousang Village. He had no intention of continuing to rush slowly. Relying on the large number of people, he would just take the opportunity to catch it quickly.
"Arrowman, get out of the line!" Seeing that the other party suddenly divided his troops, Lu Yan immediately ordered.
"Slow down the spear (knife and shield)!" Liu Tao and Zhang Fei immediately ordered.
The opponent approached little by little, and the headquarters was also approaching little by little, only about one hundred meters away from the opponent. Lu Yan immediately called for a stop and ordered to prepare for shooting. After the archer got the order, he immediately bent his bow and arrow, lifted the hunting bow forty-five degrees, and prepared for shooting. Through this method, the effective range can be extended to about twenty-five meters.
"If you have the chance, you must replace all the bows!" Lu Yan murmured in a low voice. This hunting bow can be used for training for novices. For a regular army, if you can't even pull a single stone bow, it's just a waste.
Having said that, half-stone bow also means that to get a 31 kilogram of strength to get this bow, and it is not a Chinese kilogram. The standard kilogram from later generations is used as the unit of measurement. A stone bow requires 62 kilograms. It is not a good reason for a qualified archer. It requires more than one year of training. Archers are even more unseeable.
Like Huang Zhong, who can pull the three stone bows and accurately hit the opponent's existence, it is understandable that he is called the "Arrow God".
The enemy was approaching little by little. To be honest, every soldier, even Lu Yan, was very nervous.
It was the first time Lu Yan went to the battlefield, and he felt that everything in front of him gave him a completely different feeling from his impression, and he felt that he was getting more and more difficult to breathe. And these Zhuang Ding, who had just changed his post as a soldier, faced so many enemies for the first time.
Seeing the enemy entering the 30-meter range, Lu Yan immediately ordered the shooting. It was not easy to measure the distance, so he could only roughly estimate that insufficient experience was a problem. Liu Tao always emphasized the need to measure in advance, because during the time when the order was ordered and the arrow flew out, the opponent was also moving forward and shooting thirty meters forward and backward. This was the best situation.
There is no need to worry that the other party will stop, because for the soldiers in front, there is no time to stop!
Now, seeing that the archer began to shoot, Zhang Da planned to order the soldiers to stop, the arrows had already begun to fall. At this time, he closed his mouth, then pulled out the sword in his hand, pointed and shouted in front: "Charge!"
The Taiping Cultists in Zhuo County have not had systematic practices. After all, they are just like fighting in groups. In addition, the weapons themselves are not complete, and when you look closely, someone even uses branches as sticks. The ranks are messy and they cannot build a formation at all. Zhang Da simply doesn’t need any complicated orders, he just needs to order a charge.
The Yellow Turban thieves who received the order launched a charge one after another. It has to be said that although it was chaotic, the momentum was indeed powerful.
When the arrow landed, about 30 thieves died, more were injured and two arrows were shot. The dead bandits did make other bandits around them panic, but the number of people was too large, which inspired their anger.
"Retreat!" Lu Yan ordered the retreat, and the archers flew into two strands and retreated. Their steps were a little chaotic, and if they were given close to each other, there would be no room for resistance.
"The spearman raises his gun, prepare!" Liu Tao also ordered immediately.
Seeing that the other party was about to come to kill, the spearmen in the front row raised their spears one after another, and as required, they raised their spears slightly, clasped their hands tightly. When they looked carefully, they found that many people's hands were trembling slightly.
They are nervous, but definitely not afraid. So many people in front of them rush over in one breath sometimes not only brings a lot of pressure, but also makes people forget that there are other people around them.
The morale is declining with the naked eye. Liu Tao can feel it even if he doesn't need to look at the panel (of course he can't see it even if he wants to...).
"A 20 magic value is worth at one shot..." The battle was about to begin, and the soldiers below were in a bad state. Liu Tao muttered and shouted, "Support the country, defend the country, and kill the thieves!"
In secret, he quietly used the "Light Dragon Faith". This should have been performed before the war, but as the magic tower he passed through, many things were changing. For example, the "Healing Technique" calculates the magic value consumption according to the degree of healing, for example, a "Magic Arrow" suddenly appeared, such as the "Light Dragon Faith", which can also be performed in a state of war.
Chapter completed!