The enemy's 150 crossbowmen entered and started shooting, and the same Russians' nearly 1,000 lever crossbows also started firing crossbow arrows.
Su Ce watched helplessly as the crossbowmen in the front row loaded crossbows faster than usual in training, aimed and fired.
Both sides have troops with extremely high armor, and the light feather projectiles have no lethality at all, so both armies put the other side at a distance where their crossbows have the greatest lethality.
The enemy line approached sixty steps, and the archers on both sides started shooting. Su Ce watched the red arrow feathers streak through the open space in the middle. Someone immediately dragged the injured person to the back after he fell, and the people from behind immediately filled the front.
The casualties surged in an instant. The enemy troops entered 20 steps. The archers retreated and the crossbowmen put on their shoulders and charged forward with their swords. At the same time, the third line of heavy infantry also began to charge. At this time, the two reserves of the fourth and fifth lines began to charge.
and the cavalry stayed put.
Everyone is part of this huge military formation, and life flows with blood.
When the heavy infantrymen holding shields and swords in this formation leaned behind their shields, pressing forward step by step, and the spearmen behind them stabbed in different ways, in the time of half a cup of tea, the front line advanced five steps, and the corpses were already nowhere to be found.
When the gong sounded, the remaining heavy infantry immediately retreated, and the reserve troops immediately came forward to meet them. The two sides exchanged positions. The heavy infantry used their last strength to push forward two steps and quickly retreated. The reserve troops behind took up positions and bullied them.
The cry of killing resounded through the front line, and the comrades behind him watched in silence as Ze Pao fell in front of his eyes. They were all elites in the army. It was the first time that Da Gan encountered someone who was inseparable from him in the military formation.
The army, around Mo Daoshou, slashed indiscriminately to create a gap for the army. Behind the heavy infantry, two large military formations were intertwined.
At the same time, the armored cavalrymen also looked for loose spots in the enemy's formation and rushed in.
The left and right front troops, including the front of the central army, all pressed against the opponent's formation regardless of casualties. Su Ce looked at a young-looking heavy armored soldier whose left wrist was cut off by a short sword, and he swung his right hand hard at himself.
Cut out a small space. Get out of the way and let your colleagues keep an eye on you.
The masseter muscles on his immature face were bulging out just now, and the pain of a broken limb did not allow the young man to shout, but he grabbed his left wrist and retreated to the rear of the military formation.
Su Ce's heart had never thought it was beating so fast. In the queue of hundreds of silent lieutenants, the others had long been used to life and death, and their eyes only had fighting intent.
But this was Su Ce's first time fighting in the military formation.
Su Ce was trembling all over, but he gritted his teeth and kept himself in his position. His eyeballs were stained with red bloodshot threads due to the accelerated blood flow.
He really wanted to go up and kill him.
But now that the order to attack has not been heard, Su Ce cannot move and cannot destroy the integrity of the military formation because of his own actions.
"Squeak, squeak..." Turning the wooden windlass in the audience, Li Sizhe chose to move forward when the battle was at its fiercest. He marched forward every step of the way. He did not lie to anyone.
Captain Shangqingche finally waved the flag to attack.
Su Ce took his three-stone strong bow and started shooting arrows from the top of the front line. The lower the trajectory of the arrow, the closer the enemy killed, and the less pressure on the front line.
For a moment, the sound of bow strings resounding throughout the entire military formation, and everyone had only one goal, which was to throw arrows as far as possible fifty steps in front of the front line.
Heavy red-feathered arrows of the same shape streaked across the sky. The mirror-coated armor could not protect the whole body, and many enemy soldiers were hit in the face by arrows.
Comparatively speaking, Daqian wears armor and is equipped with a face armor. No one will care about the bows and arrows of the Jiuhu people. As long as it is not unlucky that the bows and arrows hit the gaps in the armor, other places will be cold forged. The armor pieces blocked it, of course the arrow was only strong enough to resist.
The place where the commander's flag is located is the end point of the enemy's attack. The front line competes with determination, so now is the time to compete with perseverance.
The army is pressing forward bit by bit, no matter how good your martial arts skills are, it will not be as lethal as simple slashing and stabbing in the military formation.
In just one cup of tea, Daqian's military formation advanced thirty steps. There were too many enemy troops. The entire military formation was surrounded by an influx of enemies. Together with the carriage formation of the baggage team, there were only a few troops on the entire ground. The enemy army was filled with darkness, and among the more than 600,000 enemy troops, 11 military formations remained standing.
"Dong dong dong!" The drum sounded urgently.
This is about to change the formation!
The outermost military formation began to extend and became integrated with the military formations next to it. One formation change framed at least 150,000 enemy troops.
The swordsmen, crossbowmen, and cavalry are not the basis of the military formation. Only the mediocre heavy infantry is the basis of the military formation.
The combination of shield and horizontal sword will always be the most versatile combination in the cold weapon era.
The troops of each team followed the waving of the order flag, the heavy infantry tried their best to maintain the military formation, and other troops began to quickly kill the surrounded enemy troops.
The entire military formation had now turned into a circle, and the 20,000 people in the center were surrounded by 150,000 enemy troops.
The outermost original ring began to shrink in scope, but this force was transferred to the interior, and the military formation in the center deployed the largest number of heavy infantry and crossbowmen.
All the preparations are not a simple head-on confrontation, but a compromise between the Chinese army and the Chinese army that cannot defeat the enemy. The military formation depends on cooperation. When it comes to cooperation, the Daqianfu soldiers are unparalleled in the world.
Shields, horizontal knives, spears, bows, crossbows, spears, and swords, each strike exerts maximum lethality. The cavalry surrounding the center of the military formation silently comforted their mounts. Now they have stuck to the enemy. After this period of time, their battlefield will be opened up.
In the circular military formation, the baggage team drove the carriages to quickly replenish the arrows to the troops, along with food and drink.
The shouts of death, the sound of drums, and the sound of orders became the only background music in this world.
From Si Shi to noon, an hour and a half of fighting had worn away the enemy's vigor.
The 200,000-strong army held back more than 600,000 enemy troops at the cost of more than 40,000 people. The 150,000 enemy troops in the army formation had been completely destroyed. The auxiliary soldiers quickly ate and drank the arrows. He then distributed his share to the regular troops who had been rotated down from the front line, then drew out his sword, ended the pain of screaming at the enemy, and at the same time carried the injured comrades onto the carriage of the baggage train.
Sixty-percent of the Daqian Army Formation is armored regular troops, and 40% are leather-armored auxiliary troops. This is the result of many years of trade-offs.
Soon, a quarter of the auxiliary soldiers, with the help of their colleagues, put on armor and replenished the main army.
At noon, the sun was high overhead, and the Jiuhu and Ruos people, who numbered less than 400,000, were already exhausted. The main army relied on cooperation and constant rotation to maintain sufficient strength for the soldiers on the front line to fight.
The Jiuhu people have no such ability at all, thinking that a 600,000-strong army can defeat a 200,000-strong army.
It's just that the Jiuhu now is no longer the Jiuhu before. All the elites have been lost, and the army is filled with a lot of gray hair and immature voices.
Although the Russians also had their own set of wartime regulations, they were firmly stuck to the 30,000-strong military formation led by Li Sizhe and had no chance to rotate.
Duke Lviv now finally knew where his uneasiness came from.