Shu Huhu Lu had no intention of relying on firearms to kill daredevils. After all, firearms were extremely powerful when dealing with lightly armored enemies, but when encountering heavily armored soldiers, they had almost no effect other than scratching the itch.
If you want to defeat the enemy, you have to keep your feet on the ground and hit it hard.
Shu Huhulu had very rich combat experience. He did not intend to confront the dare warriors head-on. Instead, he ordered to move to both wings and surround the dare warriors face to face.
Anyway, heavily armored soldiers move slowly and lack the ability to rush forward. Even if they are surrounded by enemies, the daredevil soldiers can only watch themselves being surrounded.
Wang Ben immediately saw the move and ordered twenty royal soldiers holding large shields to spread out and protect all the brave warriors in the middle.
Then he shouted: "Stagger the positions!"
Since there are twenty shield soldiers, if you want to protect all the brave warriors, your position must be very loose.
In this case, the brave warriors need to find ways to make up for the gaps in the formation.
Behind each shield soldier stood two brave warriors, with their heads lowered and their eyes forward, only half of their bodies exposed, facing the enemy with "shoulder-swallowing armor".
At the same time, the brave warriors in the third row also stood in the same position, hiding the parts that are vulnerable to attack as much as possible behind the brave warriors in the front row.
Upon seeing this, Shuhu Hulu was not stingy in his praise for the brave warrior.
"He is indeed the most elite soldier in Yizhou. Even if he is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, he can still make up for it with his skillful formations."
But all this is in vain!
As long as the dare warriors' formation is disrupted, they will be slaughtered, and finding a gap to break the formation is only a matter of time for Shu Huhu Lu.
Shu Huhu Lu keenly discovered that there was a difference between the armor of shield soldiers and brave warriors.
This means that the shield soldiers are not warriors, but servants who coordinate defense.
Shuhu Hulu immediately gave an order: "Infantry archers and firearms soldiers should mainly attack the enemy's shield soldiers!"
More than a dozen foot archers immediately drew out armor-piercing arrows and put the bows and arrows together, but did not pull them apart in a hurry. After all, stretching the bow consumes a lot of arm strength.
The archer holds the bow arm with one hand and the arrow feathers and bow string with the other hand, pointing the arrow towards the ground.
A pair of eyes as keen as an eagle stared intently at the shield soldiers in front of them, waiting for an opportunity to move.
At the same time, the firearms soldiers threw the few remaining thunderbolt fireballs at the shield soldiers.
The thunderbolt fireball exploded at his feet. Even though the shield soldier put his head behind the shield, he was still shaken by the thunderbolt fireball.
When Wang Ben saw this, he shouted angrily: "Stand still!"
"Jin Kou is trying to mess up my formation, don't take the bait!"
The shield soldiers forcibly stabilized their position, but the attacks of the firearms soldiers followed one after another.
They raised the crossbows in their hands and fired directly at the shields. What they shot out were not arrows, but "thunder arrows" and "thunderbolt arrows".
The so-called conical barrel is actually a long iron nail with gunpowder tied behind it, and tung oil and yellow wax are also mixed in it.
Although the cone cannot penetrate the shield, it can stab it firmly.
As the medicine bag ignited, balls of fire burst out, and tung oil and yellow wax adhered to the shield, continuing to burn with blazing fire.
Thunderbolt arrows have the same simple principle, adding medicine packs to the arrows.
Different from the Tongconi, the Thunderbolt Arrow's medicine pack will not explode, but it will smoke!
In an instant, the shield soldiers were engulfed in flames and smoke.
The flames were second, but the most important thing was the smoke. The shield soldier was choked and coughed violently. If the shoulder armor was not tightly grasped by the daredevil behind him, he would have been smoked to the ground.
Even so, some shield soldiers were still stooped to avoid the thick smoke. However, the golden soldiers' infantry archers seized the opportunity and raised their hands to fire an arrow.
Even if it is an armor-piercing arrow, the parts it can penetrate are actually very limited. If it hits the breast shield or the shoulder, it will still scratch the itch.
But it's enough to shoot through the eyebrows and visor!
A shield soldier was hit by an arrow in the face. He let out a cry on the spot, and blood continued to flow out from the gaps in his face armor.
Upon seeing this, the dare warriors in the rear threw down their rifles, dodged the shields and pushed them up. The other dare warriors dragged the soldier who had been shot in the face to the rear.
Confined by the firearms soldiers, the shield soldiers were exploited by the infantry archers one after another. Two of them were shot through the eyebrows, and one was shot through the "shoulder", which is the armpit.
These golden infantry archers are extremely accurate and pose a great threat to the vanguard.
However, Shuhu Hulu still needs to rely on great patience if he wants to take down the dare warriors.
If he launches a strong attack before the formation is broken, he will still face huge losses. He will have to chew open the turtle shell formation of the brave warriors one by one.
Zhao Huan, who was hiding on the carriage, had a panoramic view of the situation on the battlefield.
Simply based on the fact that the enemy general has taken the initiative, it can be concluded that the person coming must have rich experience, so even Zhao Huan did not dare to act rashly and would wait and see.
He secretly observed the enemy's disposition.
Since it is a small-scale battle, there are not many people on both sides, so it is easy to see the balance of combat power between the two sides.
This group of Jin bandits are all "guerrillas".
Specialized in small-scale infiltration, destruction, interception and other tasks, he has extremely rich fighting methods and experience. This is also the most difficult opponent Zhao Huan has ever encountered.
They have a total of twenty heavy armor soldiers, twenty infantry archers, ten firearms soldiers, fifty servants, and the remaining one hundred people are all light armor and long weapons.
As soon as the dare warriors' formation is broken and the Jin Kou heavy armor presses upwards, the light armored troops that have surrounded the dare warriors can use their long weapons to besiege the dare warriors, and the winner will be determined quickly.
No matter how good the warriors are, they can't defeat this kind of mixed army.
Fortunately, Zhao Huan still has eighty soldiers in his hands!
The brave warriors have held back the Jin invaders, and these eighty soldiers are the key to turning defeat into victory.
At this time, if the soldiers are skilled in archery, one round of flat shooting is enough to cripple the light armored troops on the opposite side.
"Damn it, you will practice archery for me when you get back. If you can't practice it to death, you will practice it to death!"
Zhao Huan hated that iron could not become steel, but fortunately...in addition to the bow, Zhao Huan also brought another long-range weapon.
The bow is easy to carry and flexible.
The advantage of the crossbow is that the threshold for getting started is low.
The Eighty Guardsmen have been prepared, and taking advantage of the dare warriors' opportunity to attract the enemy, they have advanced to a position less than a hundred steps away from the battlefield.
Under Zhao Huan's words and deeds, the royal soldiers also formed formations.
Twenty soldiers, wearing half armor and holding shields, were stationed on both wings. The remaining sixty soldiers were divided into three rows, with twenty people in each row.
The first row is the shooter, responsible for killing the enemy.
The second row is responsible for loading the arrow, and the third row is responsible for drawing the bow.
When everything was ready, Zhao Huan stopped delaying and immediately shouted angrily: "Fire the arrow!"
Following an order, twenty divine arm crossbows were fired at the same time, directly knocking down five of Jin Kou's light armored troops at a distance of a hundred steps!