The enemy's T-shaped formation, with 600 infantry in front, defending the front of the material area with a width of more than 100 meters, while the 400 cavalry are listed as columns, waiting for an opportunity to counterattack at any time. [26nbsp;] This forced the attacking troops to be careful. If they were divided into two by the counterattack of the enemy's cavalry when they launched a full-scale attack on the enemy, they might be the ones who would be defeated in the end.
Xu Sancai jumped into a private house and looked at the enemy's formation, looking for the enemy's weaknesses, but did not see the obvious loopholes in the enemy's formation, and did not dare to let the troops attack easily. However, the enemy did not launch, but just waited in line. The first row of the enemy's infantry was shield soldiers, behind them were soldiers holding long weapons, and the last row was archers. If the cavalry troops charge against the enemy now, the losses would inevitably be huge.
Xu Sancai asked Zhang Dali to send people to transfer all the archers of the Agricultural Reclamation Army. Before Zhang Meng arrived, the Agricultural Reclamation Army had not arrived yet. There were only four hundred archers here and two hundred shield soldiers were transferred. He asked Zhang Dali to lead 500 cavalry to capture other city gates separately and hand them over to the Agricultural Reclamation Army to prevent the enemy from having other reinforcements and temporarily encircle the enemy in the material area without fighting.
What Xu Sancai was most worried about was the enemy who was defeated by his fire. Although the fire had a heavy blow to the enemy, and might even solve most of the enemy soldiers in one fell swoop, if the remaining enemy troops returned to Xiaoyue City, it might immediately reverse the strength of the two sides, and his troops fell from numerical advantage to disadvantage.
Zhang Dali immediately took the order to lead a group of troops to leave, while the rest of the cavalry remained still. The enemy did not know Xu Sancai's purpose, but he did not dare to act rashly and was still waiting for the battle. The sky was getting darker and darker. About an hour later, the shield soldiers and archers of the Agricultural Reclamation Army arrived. When the enemy saw another troops arrive, he did not dare to slacke in the slightest.
Xu Sancai was not in a hurry to launch an attack, but instead let the cavalry troops retire. Anyway, the enemy's troops need to be prepared at any time, and they should have rested, but now they are nervous to defend, and they will inevitably slack off over time and their physical strength will gradually decrease. He wants to use the exhausted army to reduce the combat effectiveness of the enemy.
Xu Sancai stood on the roof and observed the changes of the enemy at any time. More than an hour passed. His troops were sitting on the ground to rest, but the enemy stood in an array and prepared, so he gradually became tired and lazy. He immediately ordered the shield soldiers to charge forward for dozens of meters in an attempt, but when the enemy archers launched an attack, they asked them to retreat, trying to avoid injury to the troops.
At the instruction of Xu Sancai, the two hundred shield soldiers shouted loudly and charged forward. When the enemy heard the shout, they immediately became energetic. The troops in front were ready to defend. The archers behind immediately bent their bows and arrows after the shield soldiers entered the attack range. But what surprised them was that while they attacked, the shield soldiers immediately protected their bodies with shields and retreated backwards.
The enemy couldn't help but feel strange. In the chaotic continent, Zhanwu was proud of his courage and retreating without fighting was a shame. They were puzzled by this. This was also because the Agricultural Reclamation Legion was not considered an authentic Zhanwu origin, and he was full of respect for Xu Sancai, so naturally he would not object to his strategy of retreat without fighting.
The enemy's general suspected that he was cheating and immediately ordered the soldiers to be fully alert, but Xu Sancai's troops were silent. Time passed little by little, and about an hour later, just as the enemy was slacking off again, the Nongken Shield soldiers shouted and attacked again. Another round of archery, retreat, alertness, and calmness.
After the shield soldiers launched four feint attacks, the enemy already felt the strangeness. The archers had just launched a small number of arrows to attack. The general still did not dare to neglect anything, but the soldiers were tired. At this time, it was approaching the early morning, and it was the time when a man was the most tired. These soldiers were alarmed by the sound of warning gongs just as they were about to rest. They were already very sleepy, but the enemy was in front of them, but they could not rest.
Seeing that the enemy's morale and energy were declining, Xu Sancai immediately ordered the Agricultural Reclamation Army to launch a charge again. However, this time it was not just a shield soldier charge, but an archer was hidden behind each shield soldier. When it was currently at the effective range of the bow and arrow, two hundred archers immediately bent their bows and arrows to attack.
Although these archers are still very limited in accuracy, the enemy is arranged in a dense manner in front of them. They only need to shoot all their strength at the diagonal top, and they can basically land on the enemy. If they aim at the straight shot, they will be blocked by the shield soldiers in the first row. At this time, the sky is still very dark, and their vision is not good, and there are shields to block them. The enemy soldiers did not notice the archers behind them at all.
The sharp arrows shot out were so fast, and it was difficult to find in the night. The first round of archers of the Nongken Archers killed many enemy soldiers, and the enemy's team immediately became in chaos. The second and third rounds of archers of the Nongken Archers also arrived. The enemy's deputy general ordered the shield soldiers to pay attention to cover and commanded the archers to counterattack.
However, just as the enemy archers launched a counterattack, the attacking agricultural reclamation troops quickly retreated beyond the range of the archers, which made the enemy's deputy general so depressed that he cursed. However, he quickly calmed down his anger, let the troops continue to be on guard, and commanded people to carry the injured soldiers behind to treat.
More than half an hour later, Xu San ordered the troops to attack again, but this time there were only shield soldiers. The enemy was much more alert. The shield soldiers had just entered the range and shot out a round of bows and arrows. However, the Agricultural Reclamation Army had shield cover and retreated immediately, but there were no casualties.
Every quarter of an hour, the shield soldiers launched three rounds of charge, but the archers did not follow. The enemy attacked with bows and arrows as soon as possible. Although they did not give Xu Sancai a chance to send archers to attack, the enemy soldiers were also nervous and did not dare to slack off for a moment.
As the sky was about to brighten, Xu Sancai sent archers to follow the shield soldiers to launch a round of attacks. After the three-wheeled feint attacks of the shield soldiers, the enemy still became more and more sleepy, and he still slacked off. This round of sneak attacks basically achieved the goal, but in the enemy's counterattack, several archers in the farmland were injured due to insufficient shield protection.
Zhang Dali rushed back with his troops before dawn. After several hours of running around, he had already taken down three other city gates. Since the enemy was prepared, the casualties were naturally relatively high. However, the troops guarding the city were infantry, and each city gate was only 200. After paying nearly 100 wounded people, he finally took down three city gates.