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Chapter 333 Sprinkling beans into soldiers?

The shield formation of the Han army is no stranger to the Shijie Zhao army. It first appeared in the battle of Xuzhou. In this battle, [-] Han infantry formed an army formation to resist the [-] Shijie Zhao army. It was the first time that the shield formation was displayed. And the terrifying power brought by the strong bow and crossbow.

The straight lines that make up the shield array continue to move forward slowly, and the continuous crossbowmen following behind them shoot at least a thousand crossbow arrows almost every breath. Jie Zhao's army formed absolute suppression, making it difficult for the archers sent by Yao Yizhong to fight back.

The sword and shield soldiers of the Han army rushing to the front poured into the trench. They carried small round shields and held swords. As soon as they entered the trench, they encountered the enemy. The tragic fight was staged from the first moment of the encounter between the two sides.

Dou'a first used his shield to block the coming mallet, and the next moment he slashed out the sword in his hand. The blade hit the neck of the enemy soldier, and blood gushed out from the place where he was hit.

An enemy stabbed with a long spear and forced Doua to cover his body with a shield. The sound of metal collisions exploded, and he was also pushed back by the huge force and staggered back two steps, but at this moment, You Paoze stepped past him Killed the enemy in front of him.

When Dou'a stabilized his body and prepared to fight again, there were already several Paizes advancing side by side with shields in front. They cooperated to cover each other to block weapons for comrades-in-arms and seized the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the enemy soldiers.

The trench was dug by the Qiang army for nearly ten days, and the depth should be about one foot. As a result, the groundwater overflowed to the knees, and every step forward was wading through the water and the soil at the bottom.

The shield formation formed by the Han army had to split when it approached the trench, and the long shield formation split into irregular small shield formations again and again, which was also an opportunity for the Qiang troops to counterattack.

When the Han army's shield burst, it was the moment when the Han army's long-range troops lost their cover. At that time, the Qiang archers would be driven by the officers to emerge from their hiding places and fight back desperately against the arrow rain.

Most Qiang archers have no chance to shoot an arrow at all, but even if only a small number of Qiang archers successfully shoot arrows, it will cause damage to the Liannu soldiers on the Han army's side.

There will never be a lack of screams and death on the battlefield. The dark red blood from the human body will flow on the ground, and when there is too much blood, it will converge into a stream. They will successfully meet in the low-lying areas and become a pool of blood full of fishy smell.

Dou'a is now a Sima of another department, and the quality of his armor will be better than that of ordinary soldiers. It can be vaguely seen that the armor on his body left traces of sharp weapons in the fight just now.

The reason why the death rate of officers is lower than that of ordinary soldiers is not only because there are fewer officers than soldiers, nor is it because officers always stay in a safe position, but mainly because the armor equipped by officers is far better than that of soldiers.

Looking at the marks on Dou'a's armor, if those blows had fallen on ordinary soldiers, the unarmored soldiers would have definitely been dead. Leather armor wouldn't have saved them, and ordinary iron armor should have been damaged, but he just Some unarmored parts have injuries.

"Okay, rush too far ahead, we will fight and retreat."

The long-range attack of the Han army has not stopped. Although they deliberately avoided the position of the trench, some stray arrows will still fall. If the soldiers of the Han army are so unlucky to be shot to death by their own arrows at this time, there will be nowhere to go. reason.

The sword and shield soldiers of Dou'a's team didn't just fight and retreat. When they retreated, they didn't forget to cut off the heads of the enemy's dead in battle. Who told the Han army to use the enemy's head to remember their meritorious service.

The sword and shield soldiers in the trench would retreat a certain distance and then stop and build a line on the spot. After the enemy troops came again, they would push forward again, often fighting in the trench again.Their main responsibility is to block the enemy troops in the trenches and prevent the enemy troops from threatening their own long-range troops through the trenches.

The battle on the ground was at its most intense. Before the shield walls of the two armies collided with each other, the long-range troops on the Han army's side had stopped shooting arrows within [-] steps, and only the strong crossbow troops were still forming arrow formations. Repeated coverage to a position two hundred steps away.

"It's really an elite dispatch. Normally, the enemy army would have already collapsed and retreated."

"Yeah, they didn't crash."

In fact, whether a soldier is an elite is really not simply distinguished by whether his martial arts are superb. The real elite can be absolutely obedient to military orders and have extraordinary willpower.Otherwise, you can fight again, but you will ignore the military order, and even there is no military law at all, so what's the point.

The atmosphere at the upper echelons of the Han army is becoming serious. The more elite the attacking Qiang troops, the more determined Yao Yizhong will be. There will be a winner or loser in the next few days.

"It's time to order the peripheral troops to attack with all their strength." Ji Chang pointed to the banner of the Qiang army, which was less than a mile away from the battlefield: "Yao Yizhong personally supervised the battle, and the troops around him..."

Wherever the banner is, it means where the commander is. There are many Qiang troops around Yao Yizhong. They are soldiers wearing iron armor, including armored infantry and assault cavalry.Except for that part of the elite, there were more ordinary Qiang soldiers, people and horses gathered into one large piece.

Yes, no matter how you look at it, it is the decisive stage.

Yao Yizhong's plan was to storm the camp on the north side of the Han army, but it cannot be ruled out that it was just a cover-up, because the attack is now being launched from four directions.

The scale of the battle in the other three areas may not be as large as the north side, and the cruelty is indeed not lost to the north side battlefield. The west side is engaged in infantry battles, and the east and south are mixed infantry and cavalry battles.

Liu Yan's two reinforcements are not too far away from Luoyin. The [-] cavalry crossing the river from the direction of Licheng is only less than [-] miles away from the Luoyin battlefield. The [-] cavalry from Jian County is farther away. .

The road in Jian County has successfully broken through Hu Yansheng's blockade. Although they are thirty miles away from Luoyin, don't forget that they are cavalry.

For a cavalry army with one man and many horses, it would take one or two hours to reach the thirty-mile range at full gallop. The difference lies in how Hu Yansheng will intercept it, or how much combat power will be left after galloping.The only thing that can be confirmed is that the armored riding equipment of the Huben Army should not be used for galloping for thirty miles, but for ten miles at full speed, it should be abolished.

The high-level Han army is discussing how to deal with the situation, and the Qiang army is also conducting similar discussions.

Yao Yizhong's decision was very simple, that is to attack and attack again, even if it is dark night, it will not stop, since the general attack has started, it will go all out to the end, all because Liu Yan's reinforcements are really coming.

"If Liu Yan's reinforcements can't attack the Han camp before they arrive..." Yao Yizhong said uncertainly, "Then the only way is to withdraw."

A real man should make a choice. Yao Yizhong would rather be blamed by Shi Hu than consume the people in his hands for a war that is destined to not win.

Did Yao Yizhong really not know that the Yellow River was at risk of being blocked?Absolutely not.He blocked the mouth of the Yellow River with a lot of sundries to prevent the ships of the Han army from coming from the sea, but recently there have been many Han troops along the line of Le'an County, and the scouts reported that the Han army salvaged the sundries in the river. I don't know if An Neng is dredging the river to prepare for the arrival of the fleet?
According to the estimates of the Qiang people, with the flow of the river itself and the dredging of the Han army, the Yellow River may be unblocked within a month at the earliest, and the fleet of the Han army will definitely come.

Yao Yizhong knew that the navy of the Han Dynasty was very powerful, and he also thought that Liu Yan would definitely block the Yellow River, but what he couldn't imagine was that Liu Yan had already prepared a fleet at the Mizi River, and that fleet had already started to move towards the Yellow River. If there is no accident, it will arrive at the Yellow River around the main battlefield in two days, and blockade operations will be carried out on the river section.

The fighting on the east side has been interrupted. It was because the cavalry of the Han army not only defeated the attacking Qiang troops, but they also rushed to the Qiang camp in that direction, forcing the Qiang troops in that direction to abandon the front of the camp.

The battle on the south side is still fierce. It is Yao Yizhong who attaches great importance to the south side of the Han army camp. He is worried that once the encirclement fails, the Han army cavalry will go to meet the friendly troops from the source. If this situation really happens would be pretty bad.

Because of his concern, Yao Yizhong continued to increase troops to the local battlefields in the south. Once the number of fighting troops increased, the situation would become unfavorable for the Han cavalry that came out.After all, even the cavalry would not dare to charge in the face of a dense crowd. It is extremely uneconomical to charge in this situation. A battle between the cavalry and the infantry with an exchange rate of less than three to one is definitely a loss, let alone the possibility of three to one in a row. The ratio of one cannot be achieved.

The fact is that, as long as the infantry is dense enough and the infantry is not frightened into collapse by the momentum of the cavalry, I am afraid that only armored cavalry equipment will launch a charge against the infantry in a dense formation.

There are always exceptions, such as commanders who don't care about casualties.It's not that Liu Yan doesn't care about the casualties of the system troops, it's just that he won't be soft-hearted and hesitate too much when necessary.

The cavalry of the Han army on the south side rushed towards the dense Qiang infantry group one after another. The scene was row after row stepping on heavy horseshoes, and then slammed into them at a speed of about [-] miles.When a war horse hits a person, the knight on the horse will be thrown out by inertia, not to mention that he does not have stirrups and saddle.The person who was hit by the horse will definitely fall backwards because of the broken internal organs and blood spurting from the mouth and nose at that moment.

The Qiang troops on this side were attacked by the cavalry of the Han army regardless of the cost in the front, but behind them were the soldiers who were repeatedly hacked to death by the supervisory team and turned to flee.

To put it bluntly, Yao Yizhong was really red-eyed. He estimated that he would only attack for five days. If there was no hope of victory in five days, he would definitely withdraw. There would be no room for negotiation.

Now that the date of retreat has been calculated, Yao Yizhong will definitely not forget to estimate how many people can be sacrificed.His bottom line is 10, and if there is more, his hands and feet will tremble and he will break out in a cold sweat.It must be said that among the [-] people he expected to sacrifice, Zahu and Jin people accounted for [-]%.

The so-called 9 to be sacrificed did not count the previous losses. Yao Yizhong had already lost nearly [-] people in the offensive in the first six days.The losses are not all killed in battle. There should be about [-] people who were directly killed in battle, and the rest were disabled or temporarily lost combat effectiveness.The majority of the casualties were on the side that intercepted the cavalry reinforcements of the Han army, and more than ten thousand were annihilated by the Huben army alone.

The progress of the battle did not stop until noon. Relatively speaking, the east side was the area with the lowest intensity in the entire battle. The worst part was not the north side, but the south side, which was repeatedly attacked by the Han army cavalry.

"Where did Liu Yan get so many cavalry?" Yao Yizhong couldn't figure it out: "Why is he willing to use precious cavalry to waste it like this!"

The Qiang troops on the southern battlefield have collapsed twice. You must know that the cavalry really rushed straight into them regardless of the cost. The momentum is really not ordinary, and the casualties caused to the infantry are not much smaller, especially for those who suffered the impact. The psychological shadow caused by the other party is even more indescribable.

"We threw nearly 3000 people in, and the Han army didn't feel well. It must have lost nearly [-] cavalry." Cao Yao is one of the many Sima in Shijie Zhao State, and the official position of Sima is really not good. considered low.He was also full of incomprehension: "We use miscellaneous soldiers to pile up, and they exchange elites?"

Yao Yizhong wanted to think optimistically that Liu Yan was being forced into a hurry, but after thinking about it for a while, he felt something was wrong.

It was not wrong for the Qiang army to launch a general attack. The north, which was the main attack, was firmly blocked a hundred paces away.

Next, Yao Yizhong had just received another report that the Han troops on both sides were launching fierce attacks, especially the Han troops on the other side, which were mainly cavalry, had continuously broken through the two interception lines set up by Hu Yansheng.

[Could it be that the Han army here is at the end of its strength? 】Yao Yizhong really couldn't guess how many Han troops were besieged. Every time he guessed that a number would be overthrown in the next battle, he thought a little uncertainly: 【It's not impossible!Under the strict blockade, no single soldier entered the besieged Han army camp, Liu Yan would still fail to make a soldier! 】

Perhaps he felt that he should press again, and it is very possible that Liu Yan can be found out if he presses again. As soon as Yao Yizhong gritted his teeth, he not only increased his troops in the north, but also changed the feint attack on the other three sides.

When Yao Yizhong's actions were noticed by the Han army's top brass, except for Liu Yan who was still calm, all the counselors were in a hurry.

"Your Majesty, our military strength is too obvious!" Ji Chang didn't know why he was scaring himself. He was so frightened that his forehead was covered with cold sweat. He even said: "According to this trend, Your Majesty... maybe you should prepare to break out? "

The others didn't say anything, but they all had the same intention. From the beginning, they thought it was too risky for Liu Yan to use him as bait. Now that Yao Yizhong was obviously crazy and attacked regardless of casualties, they even felt that even if it was tens of thousands Liu Yan can't do anything if the army is buried here.

"Hehe." Liu Yan was still laughing, and then said, "War of attrition? I like it!"

……Dividing line……

I suffered from insomnia last night, my mind was a little empty, and I only had [-] words after six hours of coding.That's all for today.

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