That’s right, what is placed on the shore is the famous moon formation.
This moon formation is a classic military formation that uses schools to control cavalry. In history, it was created by Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Southern and Northern Dynasties during the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
By this time, Liu Yu once defeated the mad attack of 30,000 cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty with more than 2,000 infantry.
Now Zhang Xiu is playing guerrilla tactics. If Yan Liang can land in a large army and use conventional means to deal with Zhang Xiu, Zhang Xiu will definitely avoid fighting.
After weighing the pros and cons, Yan Liang decided to use more than 2,000 troops to set up a camp on the river bank and feigned attack on Li Yang to lure Zhang Xiu into a battle.
Yan Liang knew that Liu Bei's order to Zhang Xiu must be to focus on defending the Liyang Ferry. As long as he expressed his intention to attack Liyang, Zhang Xiu would have to go out to fight.
If Zhang Xiu dares to fight, Yan Liang can launch the magical advantages of the moon formation by chance.
Now, Zhang Xiu has indeed fallen into the trap.
On the ship, except Yan Liang, all the Chu soldiers were deeply worried.
On the front line of the shore, Gan Ning and Ling Tong also quietly felt worried. Although they received Yan Liang's face-to-face teaching and taught this moon formation in advance, they were not sure whether this formation could block the attack of the Yan army's cavalry.
But they firmly believed that since the King of Chu who was in Shenwu and Xiongli taught them this set of formations, they must move forward bravely and execute them without hesitation.
The dust was flying, the iron hooves were rumbling, and the cavalry of the Yan army was more than a hundred steps away.
"Bow and arrow shooting." Gan Ning's halberd shouted.
Several archers around him raised the hard bows in their hands and prepared to launch arrows at the rushing enemy cavalry.
Seeing this, Ling Tong shouted anxiously: "The king has an order. The first arrow shot must be weak. He will replace me with a soft bow."
Since ancient times, when facing the impact of the iron cavalry, one should shoot with a strong bow and a hard crossbow. If it is just weak, how can one stop the surging iron cavalry?
The soldiers in the formation were a little confused about Yan Liang's order, but they did not dare to disobey it. They urgently replaced the hard bow with a soft bow.
With Gan Ning's orders again, hundreds of arrows rose into the air and rushed towards the Yan army's iron cavalry.
However, the soft bow is weak and the arrows are still a few dozen steps away from the enemy cavalry. The arrows are completely removed and fall to the ground one after another.
Seeing this, Zhang Xiu became more confident in his heart and urged the iron cavalry to run wildly.
More than 10,000 cavalry rushed towards the Chu army's chariot formation from three sides.
Yan Liang, who was watching the battle on the Yellow River, saw this situation, a hint of sarcasm appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He ordered Gan Ning and others to shoot arrows with soft bows first, in order to deliberately show weakness to the Yan army, so as to lure Zhang Xiu to attack with confidence and boldness.
With the current situation, I, Zhang Xiu, was fooled.
On the shore, the crazy Yan army had rushed to more than fifty steps outside the chariot formation like a tide.
This distance is already the best range for bow and arrow shooting.
"Boardman. Change to a hard bow and shoot me hard!" Ling Tong waved his sword and shouted.
Hundreds of archers in the formation had already replaced the strongest hard bow. With a command, the arrows of Lisheng rose into the air with the buzzing sound of the rushing waves and headed straight for the Yan army cavalry rushing towards him.
Because the Yan army was wary of the Chu army's use of Yuanrong crossbows, more than 3,000 cavalry among the ten thousand Yan army were heavy cavalry wearing heavy armor. These heavy cavalry rushed forward in order to endure the baptism of the raindrops of the crossbows.
Although the shooting density of the crossbow is large, the shooting range is relatively close and the penetration is obvious. It is acceptable to deal with light cavalry and infantry, but it is a bit unsatisfied with heavy cavalry.
Yan Liang had long learned from the scout that there were heavy cavalry in the Yan army, so the Queyue formation he set up this time was not equipped with a series of crossbows.
Zhang Xiu was obviously wrong. He thought that the heavy cavalry rushing in front could block the dense volley of the crossbows, but he never expected that the Chu army's first wave of attacks would have been a strong bow and a hard arrow.
The crossbow shot flat, while the arrow shot from the strong bow was shot upward.
The rain of arrows that rose into the air passed over the heads of the heavy cavalry, pouring down, and headed straight for the light cavalry behind them.
The horse neighed and howled, and the screams were heard. The running light cavalry could not stop the arrows of the hard bow and fell one after another under the horse.
Zhang Xiu felt a moment in his heart, and then he realized that the powerless soft bow shooting of the Chu army was just deliberately showing weakness. Now, this hard bow arrow like a locust is the real strength of the Chu army.
Zhang Xiu frowned and his gun was driving the attacking arrow. Although nearly a hundred cavalry fell on the way to charge, he was confident and did not order the attack to stop.
"It's only three shots in the battle. Yan Thief, it's simply a delusion to block my iron cavalry's impact with a few hard bows!"
Zhang Xiu was disdainful in his heart. He was familiar with cavalry combat and knew the shortcomings of the infantry crossbowmen, so he had never wavered his confidence at all.
"Crash, rush into the enemy's formation and kill the Chu army." Zhang Xiu, who was still confident, shouted and encouraged his subordinates.
More than ten thousand swallows cavalry gathered up the courage to rush forward on the corpse of their companions.
In a moment, the vanguard's heavy cavalry rushed to the periphery of the Chu army's chariot formation for more than twenty steps, and the bow shooting at this distance had lost its effect.
Seeing a hand-to-hand battle, it was about to begin.
But the Chu army was prepared.
Gan Ning and Ling Tong looked at each other, and Gan Ning immediately shouted: "Spike arrows, fire the spear arrows to me."
With a loud shout, the archer retreated and the crossbowman stepped forward.
The range of the crossbow is much higher than that of the bow. According to the normal combat method, the crossbow arrows should be first launched by the bow and arrow, but this time, Yan Liang changed the order.
Moreover, the large crossbows that were pushed up were not ordinary crossbows, but had undergone special modifications. The shape was twice as large as before, and the arrow groove in the middle became thicker. What's more extraordinary is that there was no string installed on the crossbow.
During Gan Ning's order, the crossbowmen quickly placed the so-called spear arrow on the arrow groove.
This kind of spear arrow actually cuts off the long spear, takes its end, and installs an iron-beaten pointed head.
Just as the Chu army was busy, outside the formation, the Yan army's cavalry had rushed to more than ten steps.
The heavy cavalry in heavy armor seemed to be moving the Great Wall of Steel, and seemed to have no power to stop their impact.
"I'll do it"
Gan Ning shouted, hung the two halberds on his back, grabbed the hammer from the crossbowman, and hit the tail of the crossbow machine with a hard hammer.
Bang!
With a muffled sound, the arrows on the crossbow roared out and headed for the enemy cavalry that rushed towards the outside of the chariot.
The arrow went as far as the wind, and instantly penetrated the Yan army's chest armor. The force of the spear arrow failed to eliminate, and it completely penetrated the Yan cavalry's body, and even shot an enemy cavalry behind it.
One arrow, two eagles!
This powerful crossbow that uses spears as arrows and uses hammers instead of strings has undoubtedly demonstrated its powerful lethality.
The Chu soldiers in the formation were greatly encouraged, and the crossbowmen cheered up and swung their hammers and fired the arrows desperately.
Whoosh swosh swosh
The sound of shouting suddenly came, and countless huge spear arrows rose into the air and shot ruthlessly at the heavy cavalry of the Yan army that was rushing towards the nearest.
The enemy's proud heavy armor seemed so vulnerable under the attack of Yan army's spear arrows, and was easily penetrated like paper.
The most terrifying thing is that the powerful penetration power of this spear arrow actually made the record of penetrating four people with one arrow.
Under the storm-like blow, the originally aggressive Yan army was stunned in a blink of an eye. In just a moment, hundreds of cavalry were shot to the ground.
The moon formation is distributed in an arc shape. The closer the enemy cavalry is to the chariot formation, the more dense the arrows it receives. In a moment, ten thousand swallow cavalry were severely damaged.
Zhang Xiu was shocked. Unexpectedly, there was such a powerful weapon hidden in the enemy formation that even his heavy cavalry could not resist it.
Zhang Xiu, who was surprised, immediately wanted to adjust his tactics, give up the frontal attack, and switch to roundabout tactics to disrupt the enemy's formation.
But Zhang Xiu soon discovered that the strongest tactic of using cavalry to exert the power of the enemy's motor vehicle was ineffective in the face of the enemy's chariot formation that was surrounded by the river at both ends.
Because the arc-shaped moon formation, each of the three sides can be regarded as the front of the chariot array, and the back of the chariot array is backed by the Yellow River, with the navy on the river as a cover.
In this way, the cavalry of the Yan army could not attack the Chu army's side.
At this time, Zhang Xiu realized that he had been trapped by the Chu army to lure the enemy. The other party set up this special chariot formation to defeat his cavalry.
On the Yellow River, the Chu soldiers on the warship saw more than 2,000 comrades on the shore killing more than 10,000 enemy cavalry. The soldiers were surprised and shouted happily.
"It turns out that the king's formation can actually restrain the Yan army's cavalry. No wonder the king dared to use two thousand infantry to defeat ten thousand enemy cavalry. The king is really a god." Zhou Cang, who witnessed the situation on the shore, couldn't help but admire Yan Liang.
Yan Liang smiled slightly and waved his hand and said, "Zhang Xiu's face was also hurt. He probably was about to retreat. He sent the order and sent a command to the long-time Qingqin who was on the shore. It was time for Zhang Xiu's butt to bloom."
The order was passed down. Zhang Liao, who had been preparing for war for a long time, immediately led his more than 3,000 light cavalry to land on the shore from the boat to the chariot formation.
And in this moment, the Yan army, which could not be stopped on the shore, was already under the attack of the Chu army's Yue formation, and countless casualties were killed or injured, and the army was defeated.
The periphery of the Chu army's chariot was filled with Yan army's bodies. More than 10,000 Yan army were constantly shot to the ground by the Chu army as if they were lined up to die.
Zhang Xiu was already terrified. He realized in horror that if he continued to attack like this unnecessary force, his more than 10,000 cavalry would be lost.
The fighting spirit collapsed, Zhang Xiu waved his gun and shouted: "The whole army retreats, the whole army retreats quickly."
The Yan army, which had suffered heavy casualties, turned their horses and fled north in a mess.
In the formation, Gan Ning and Ling Tong ordered the stop of crossbow shooting and instead used bow shooting to send off the enemy cavalry that fled in panic.
At this time, Zhang Liao's three thousand light cavalry had already climbed the river beach one after another.
"Open the chariot formation, the warriors of the Divine Walking Cavalry will follow the general and kill all the enemy thieves." Zhang Liaoyang shouted.
As the car array slowly opened, Zhang Liao took the lead and shot out.
Three Thousand Divine Riders, carrying the collapse of the sky and the earth, rushed out and chased towards the enemy cavalry that was defeated by the wind. (To be continued...)