In order to cross a distance of more than 200 steps, the Xiliang army abandoned thousands of corpses. Even the ace of the oar car could not completely withstand the damage of the crossbow car.
The cart can block the firing of crossbow arrows, but it cannot withstand the weight of the crossbow arrows. Once a large number of crossbow arrows are concentrated on one side of the vehicle, there is a danger of losing balance. If you are not careful, you will be overturned and killed.
However, as Wang Yu said, with the power of long-range weapons in the cold weapon era, no matter how great the advantage is, it is impossible to severely damage or even annihilate the opponent. The crossbow does not have the coverage and killing capabilities of the heavy machine gun, and at most it can only achieve destruction.
The enemy's formation, slows down the advance speed, and destroys the enemy's morale.
When the Xiliang Army rolled out the oars that were intended to be used in the siege, the lethality of the crossbows was no longer as terrifying as before, at least it was within the tolerance of the Xiliang Army.
The evidence is that when the Xiliang Army advanced to the last fifty steps, some warriors rushed out from behind the wall and rushed towards the Qingzhou Army's position at the risk of being skewered by crossbow arrows.
The Qingzhou Army, which had taken advantage of the long-range battle, did not show any weakness. The crossbowmen in the front row quickly retreated, while the soldiers in the back row held up their spears and swords and quickly met those who came to fight. The sound of metal collision covered all the sounds quickly
It became the main theme on the battlefield. Blades were swung, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and corpses fell one after another.
"You're not fighting in an array?" The attack went smoothly, but Ma Chao seemed quite surprised.
The Qingzhou infantry are most famous for their strict battle formations. As long as the Yulin army forms a formation, they can stick to the formation and keep the enemy out of the defensive circle even if they face several times the enemy's attack.
Ma Chao refused to charge with his cavalry, but used infantry as the vanguard, mainly for this reason. He was worried that Wang Yu had hidden a trump card, and the cavalry charge, even if it broke through the blockade of the crossbow array and the Yu Lin army's array,
The impact force will also be greatly reduced. It will be very dangerous to face Wang Yu's killer at this time.
In front of the strict array of the Habayashi Army, although it is difficult for infantry to perform miracles, they can use human sea tactics to cause attrition to the enemy. The Habayashi Army's array is relatively bulky and can only stand there and bear the impact. No matter how elite the soldiers are,
In the end, it was inevitably consumed.
As long as there is no obstruction from Yu Lin's army, Ma Chao is confident that he can win this battle in one go. No matter what killers Wang Yu has, they cannot stop the charge of tens of thousands of armored cavalry.
However, what he saw at this moment was that the Qingzhou Army took the initiative to abandon the array and launched a tit-for-tat counterattack.
According to common sense, Ma Chao should be happy. Wang Yu defeated the Xianbei army in Juyong. He relied on the rampage of the Yellow Turban soldiers of the Taishan Army in the Central Plains. It is this army that is launching the counterattack now, and it can just use the human sea tactic.
Stick to the opponent and prevent the enemy from changing their strategy.
But for some reason, Ma Chao felt a little uneasy in his heart. He couldn't tell what was wrong. But he was sure that his opponent's move was definitely not a reckless move!
Ma Chao's hesitation did not delay the attack of the Xiliang army. The two wings were originally commanded by the Qiang tribes and Liang Xing and others. In the previous long-range battle, these people had suffered enough, and now they saw the former army forced to retreat.
Qingzhou's crossbowmen have already started a large-scale hand-to-hand battle. Each of them has blood-red eyes. They are so angry that they are shouting at the top of their lungs to urge the battle.
"Kill! Kill! Whoever captures and kills Wang Yu, no matter what his or her status is, will be made a marquis and prime minister, and receive a reward of millions!"
"Let the cowardly Central Plains people see how powerful our Yongliang men are and kill them all in one go!"
"Come on! If you win this battle, you can go to Hebei and grab it! There is gold and silver everywhere there, and you can squeeze oil out of the soil!"
"When we get to Hebei, we will have good food and drink, and women with money and silk will be free to take them!"
The motivation method is suitable for any army. In the chaotic place of Yongliang, the slogans shouted by many desperadoes, rebel generals and tribal leaders, regardless of Han or Hu, greatly inspired the morale of the army. The soldiers
With red eyes, he ignored the cold light flashing from the sharp blade in front of him, ignored the arrows falling like rain above his head, and rushed forward crazily.
Victory lies in large numbers, while the Qingzhou Army's advantages are reflected in their equipment and coordination with each other.
Needless to say, equipment, even for infantry, the iron armor equipment rate in the Qingzhou Army has reached nearly 30%. Compared with the Xiliang Army, which is not even equipped with swords and guns, how much better is it?
In addition, the Qingzhou Army facing the enemy was not actually Taishan Army alone, but a mixed formation of Yulin, Taishan, and Thunder armies.
On the whole, there is no military formation on this front, but if you look closely, you will find that the Qingzhou Army did not fall into a melee fighting independently, but formed a small pentagonal formation of more than a dozen people.
Formation, cooperate with each other to fight.
Each small formation has a similar composition. Three shield-bearers each occupy a corner in the front, four to five spearmen follow closely behind, the two corners at the back are occupied by four swordsmen and axe-men in the middle.
Under the command of an officer holding a halberd, three crossbowmen continuously fired cold arrows to kill the enemy.
When encountering the enemy, the three shield-hands concentrate on defense. The spear-hands cooperate with the shield-hands, using the length of the spear-hands to form a defensive depth so that the enemy cannot directly attack them. Once a stalemate is formed, it is time for the crossbowmen to make contributions, and so on.
When the crossbowmen open the gap, the skilled halberd-wielding commander will lead the sword and axemen to break in and chop down the enemy troops fighting each other to pieces with powerful slashes.
Such a small battle formation can be used both offensively and defensively. Even if you encounter a large-scale enemy army, you don't have to worry. Several adjacent small battle formations will approach each other and quickly merge together to form a battle formation of hundreds or even thousands of people.
Fight with enemy troops.
This was the first time for the Xiliang generals to see such a battle formation, and they were all frightened.
With their eyesight, it is impossible to decipher all the mysteries of this battle formation in such a short period of time, but they can deduce it from the results.
Those small five-corner formations rotated alternately like wheels, and every time the angle changed, several lives were harvested. No matter how hard the Xiliang soldiers resisted, they were like mantises with arms in front of the wheels. No matter how hard they tried, they could not
Unable to stop him for a moment, he was crushed into a pulp in the blink of an eye.
The infantry of the front army were still shouting for a fierce fight at first, but the number of such brave soldiers quickly decreased. The number of those who dared to fight quickly became as many as the opponent, and gradually became inferior to the opponent. Suddenly, someone made a cry
He screamed, dropped his weapons, turned around and ran away.
Fear spread like a plague, infecting all the companions around them. Their courage dissipated in an instant, and the remaining Xiliang soldiers cried and retreated from the battlefield, fleeing for their lives towards the main formation.
However, the Qingzhou Army showed no mercy, and the large formation quickly dispersed into smaller formations, pursuing them like a shadow, like an eagle fighting a rabbit, or like a tiger descending a mountain.
Most of the escapees died on the way to escape. Before they could escape far, they encountered a wall and a row of oars that they had retreated to the battlefield by themselves!
The defeated soldiers cried out and rushed towards the oar car that they had once regarded as their gancheng. They tried their best to push it down and open up a way to survive. However, the Qingzhou Army also pursued quickly. Many of them were chasing it.
Before anyone could push the oar over, the enemy killed him from behind.
The lucky few who pushed over the oar car or passed through the gap between the oar car were not happy for long. What awaited them was a forest of spears. They were stabbed by dozens of spears, picked up high, and then thrown away.
On the red ground, it turned into dust.
"Anyone who retreats before the gold is raised will be killed without mercy!" A military commander with an expressionless face emphasized loudly, and then with a flat-ended spear, he led thousands of soldiers in neat lines to use their collective strength to push down the oars that had become an obstacle.
, and go into battle.
Ma Chao's central army stopped, and the cavalry troops on both wings could not continue to advance. The two armies launched a life-and-death fight on the long front.
Tens of thousands of Xiliang Army infantry surged up like a tide, attacking the Qingzhou Army from all angles. They tried to win with the human sea tactic. However, the Qingzhou Army relied on flexible formations and exquisite command to constantly change formations and angles.
It always allows the enemy's attacking troops to hit the edge.
Qingzhou has elite soldiers, while Xiliang has many soldiers. Each has its own advantages and is at a stalemate. So the battlefield quickly becomes quite chaotic.
The two armies were intertwined with each other, and sometimes a small formation of the Qingzhou Army fell into encirclement. As a result, before the Xiliang Army could cheer for the encirclement, some people discovered that this was a trap, and those who were outflanking had already fallen into an advantage.
The enemy troops attacked from a pincer attack and were quickly killed.
Of course, the Xiliang Army's strength advantage is large enough. No matter how much the Qingzhou Army moves and dodges, it is impossible to completely avoid the encirclement. But every time this happens, a large group of crossbowmen will always appear and throw out a burst of
The rain of arrows, with a posture that is almost indistinguishable between friend and foe, clears out a land of death.
The generals of Xiliang were all filled with hatred. Regardless of the fact that the Qingzhou crossbowmen could cover the enemy with their arrows, the Qingzhou army actually had the advantage because they were well equipped and at least had a pair of well-made leather armor.
The attacks that caused fatal injuries to the soldiers of Xiliang fell on the soldiers of Qingzhou, and sometimes even the oily skin could not be scratched.
"Bozhan, what's the specific situation now?" Ma Chao's handsome face was covered with a layer of green air, and his voice was as cold as eternal ice.
The infantry attack did not meet his expectations at all. Although it caused a certain amount of consumption to the Qingzhou Army, his own losses were disproportionate. Ma Chao is not yet completely sure how exaggerated this ratio is, but he knows that
The numbers must be staggering.
"Our army has entered the battle with nearly 100,000 troops, more than 40,000 Qiang soldiers, and more than 50,000 Han troops. More than half of the troops have lost their flags. Judging from the Qingzhou Army's formation, the casualties are probably less than 10% of our army.
One..." Ma Dai was also frightened.
He had seen the Qingzhou militia drill scene. He thought that the Qingzhou soldiers were at best an enhanced version of the militia, and their fighting patterns should be roughly similar to the militia. As a result, looking at it now, the Qingzhou soldiers' combat power and tactical literacy were...
The gap with the militia is more than one or two steps away? It is simply a world of difference!
The troops who lost the general flag did not necessarily mean that they were completely wiped out. The actual casualties caused by the Qingzhou Army were far less than 50,000. But losing the general flag also meant that they lost their command and became scattered soldiers. Their effect was worse than that of dead men. Not only did they lose their
The method creates combat power and may even interfere with one's own people.
"Send the order..." Ma Chao's expression did not change, but his voice when issuing the order was a bit colder: "Let the generals prepare to launch the main cavalry attack!"