Countless sounds of raising bows and pulling strings came from the Wuping Army formation, facing the Han soldiers who were advancing in an orderly manner in front of them, once they reached the range, they would shoot thousands of arrows at the same time and shoot them into a hornet's nest.

"Are the Han army stupid? Such a dense formation and walking so slowly, isn't it a way to die? We don't need to rush to the formation. One arrow can destroy one of their square formations once." Someone said in a low voice.

This sentence is also the doubt in the hearts of all the soldiers of the Wuping Army. The dense and slow formation is extremely unfavorable in field battles. Archers can launch unscrupulously without even aiming. On the other hand, if they are fighting on the battlefield in the usual battlefield, they will either be in a scattered formation or a stalemate. Even if the archers are shooting together regardless of the enemy and us, the casualties caused in a single area will be very limited.

However, the Han army in front of them quickly answered their questions. After the Wuping army's bow and arrow range was close to a hundred steps away, the formation of the Han army suddenly changed, and it went from advancing in unison to a team of square formations. Almost in an instant, the leading square formation composed of more than a thousand Han soldiers suddenly drew out a black shield reflecting light from behind.

The shields blocked the Han army like solid scales. Suddenly, the five thousand Han army were covered by shields, and the entire column suddenly turned into a crawling turtle and slowly advanced.

"Hiss!" Li Yuan suddenly took a breath of air conditioning, then calmed down his face and ordered tentatively: "Shoot the arrow!"

A dense rain of arrows immediately poured down from the sky. The turtle array in the front was shot by thousands of feather arrows, but the sound of the ding-dang bounced endlessly. The arrows shot on the shield and jumped around. Except for the dozens of arrows that drilled into the gap in the shield, the rest were all bounced away. The shield array slowly walked past, and only a dozen corpses were left behind them.

Wu Pingjun was stunned. The shield formation was indeed the nemesis of the archer. Even the wooden shield could block the shooting of the bow and arrow, not to mention that the Han soldiers in front of them were actually iron shields.

The first team of Han army shield soldiers quickly arrived fifty steps away from the Wuping Army formation. Although arrows on their heads were like rain, they had little impact on them. However, when they walked here, they suddenly stopped and did not rush straight to the enemy formation. The shields changed and the personnel stood again. The team became narrow and long, while the shields on their heads appeared even more dense, one connected to the other, and were airtight.

"What are they doing?" Zhu Kuangcong said in surprise.

Li Yuan frowned under the Central Army Commander for a long time, then suddenly raised his eyebrows and sighed: "Good solution, it's indeed a good solution. I didn't expect that the shield would be of such a wonderful use! This governor has learned it."

"Governor, what do the Han army meant? The last general was confused." The soldiers asked hurriedly.

Li Yuan nodded and said, "Just just now, the governor was thinking how expensive these iron shields were. Even if the Han Dynasty was rich in materials, it was still a big deal to cast these iron shields. It was almost impossible for a person to have one. This thing is not practical and too heavy. Who can sergeant hold a shield and kill the other?

Therefore, they can only allow thousands of soldiers to attack the front of the formation with shields, because they can only cast thousands of such shields. But what is the use of a few thousand people attacking? Xie Gui used a trick.

If the governor did not make a mistake, the second team of shield soldiers behind would be lined up in front of our army like the first row, so that thousands of shield soldiers could form a corridor that resisted bows and arrows and went straight to the front of our army's formation. The elite soldiers without shields could calmly pass through the battlefield outside the range of our army's arrows and attack and kill our army at close range."

"Ah?" The generals were stunned. Can they still do this? Use shields to build an arrow corridor? In this way, wouldn't the archers all become decorations and could no longer kill them with bows and arrows.

Zhu Kuangcong was the first to suppress it and asked in a deep voice: "Governor, this is a field battle rather than a siege! If our infantry and cavalry rushed forward, what's the use of this shield wall?"

Li Yuan frowned and replied: "It is useless when the number of enemies and ours is equal. But now our army is twice as different from the enemy. We all understand that the outcome is unpredictable by fighting alone. Xie Gui naturally understands this principle. They dare to suppress it like this because they are so numerous...

And we only rely on our strong bows and crossbows and the elite cavalry to rush forward. Now that the Han army has set up this formation, it has already defeated the advantages of our army's crossbows, and the iron shield is to prevent our cavalry from rushing forward."

Zhu Kuangcong spat hard on the ground and gritted his teeth and said, "Shi! Xie Gui is a bit real. He can touch the length of our army clearly! Grand Commander, let the general try it! Let the general lead the soldiers forward to break the formation!"

"No!" Li Yuan waved his hand straight to stop him and said, "Don't forget that the number of soldiers is at a disadvantage. It is difficult for flesh and blood to break through iron objects. If you fight hard, you will only increase casualties! If you want to replace their shield soldiers, we will definitely have to pay a huge price after fighting! If you lead the troops forward to rush forward, you will hit Xie Gui's thoughts!"

"Hey! This is not OK, that is not OK! The Han army has come to the forefront. Could it be that we are waiting to die here?!"

Li Yuan's eyes were confused for a few breaths, and then he hurriedly raised his hand to order. Taking advantage of the slow advance of the Han army, only a thousand shield-holding soldiers turned into the rear army, and protected the entire army and retreated to the camp immediately.

Unexpectedly, the Han army did not mess up the formation because the Wuping army retreated back to the camp behind them, or pursued them by taking advantage of the situation. It was like proving Li Yuan's guess that the Han army's shield formations began to change slowly. Soon, as Li Yuan said, the shield formations of each Han army began to line up, like a winding black giant python.

Xie Gui waved the order flag in the central army, and the drum beats of the attack became dense and noisy. The remaining Han soldiers rushed behind the giant python. There were hundreds of figures lined up behind each shield. The crossbowmen were placed on both sides. The spearmen were close to the front and followed the shield soldiers in front, and they were in order.

Soon, more than 10,000 Wuping troops also retreated safely to the camp, while the Han army continued to force the Wuping troops camp without any damage. However, they changed their formation again and quickly dispersed along the wooden walls of the camp to both sides, looking for a suitable position, and finally set off an iron shield with a "clang" sound.

The long black giant python quickly surrounded most of the camp, and the unenclosed part was covered with cliffs. The Wuping Army camp seemed to be curled up tightly, as if this was Xie Gui's real intention, and the situation suddenly became critical.

Since the two sides are only separated by fences and can almost fight in close combat, close weapons are the king. The Wuping sergeant in the camp had to raise his spear and sword, aim at the opportunity through the wooden wall, but this kind of fighting style is obviously a technical job. The gap between the wooden wall is already narrow, and the gap between the shields is only a few feet, so the probability of hitting the enemy is really small.

However, the Han army had the advantage. A tall black iron shield was standing in front of him, and he could stretch out his blade from nowhere. The Wuping soldiers who were close to him would suffer casualties if they could not react. When thousands of shields were placed in front of him and thousands of places needed to defend, the Han army, which had an absolute advantage in military strength, seemed to be almost sure to win.

The iron shields were already standing up one by one, and a large number of Han soldiers actually began to push the wooden walls of the camp with their flesh and blood. Even though the iron shield was strong, it was still driven by human power. This was obviously incredible in the eyes of the Wuping soldiers, but they still had to use weapons to pierce the gaps and try to stop the black giant python from swallowing.

But Wu Pingjun still thought it too simply. At the critical moment, a vague but strange hiss suddenly floated from behind the shield formation. The closer and closer howlings were accompanied by the slight vibration of the ground under his feet. The fear but uncertainty are often the most terrifying.

The generals and guards beside him were all shocked, and Li Yuan's brows were already tightly locked together, and at this time the roar was echoing around him. If his memory was not wrong, those beasts would be going into battle...

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