The World of Yellow Sky

The turbulent fighting intent flowed in Qu Yi's eyes.

8:45 am

The Han army's formation has approached only eighty steps away from the river beach at the latest.

The distance of eighty steps has already entered the range of the bow and crossbow, but the Ming army's formation is eerily silent.

On the battlefield, everyone's heartstrings are in the most tense state.

The advance of the Han army was also affected by the atmosphere on the battlefield, and their footsteps became visibly flustered.

In the Ming army's formation, there was no difference except that the sound of breathing and panting became slightly aggravated.

The crossbow has been wound, and the archer has put the arrow on the bow, and is ready to go.

"Raise your shield!"

In the Han army's formation, the generals and schools at all levels shouted loudly.

The tower shield soldiers at the forefront raised their shields, while the soldiers behind also raised their double-arc shields, always ready to resist the arrows thrown by them.

At the rear of the infantry formation, the infantry archers of the Han army have already stopped. At a distance of [-] steps, they can already shoot. Although it is difficult to break through the armor, it can cause a certain blow to the Ming army formation and interfere with its normal operation. defense.

Eighty steps.

Seventy steps.

The infantry archers of the Han army released their arrows together, and a large number of feathered arrows soared up, shooting directly at the formation of the Ming army.

Both Xiandeng Camp and Xiliang Camp were cavalry. They didn't carry any shields, and only some of them carried a small number of double-arc shields. These people were all arranged in the front row.

This wave of arrow rain could not be avoided, they could only bear it with force.

All the soldiers in the Ming army formation lowered their heads, covering their faces.

Arrows shot from eighty paces away can hardly break through their armored stomachs. Compared with the Han army with poor protection, the Ming army cavalry not only equipped with double armor to protect the thighs and chest, but also equipped to protect the shoulders and chest. The armor around the arms, and even some elite cavalry wear chain mail specially designed to resist arrows.

The distance of sixty steps, this distance has reached the range of crossbow armor piercing, although the iron armor is difficult to break, but it is already within the killing range for the leather armor, but the Ming army still did not shoot the arrow.

Although the arrows fired by the Han army caused some damage to the Ming army, the damage was extremely limited.

Many Ming soldiers had arrows pierced on their bodies, which looked extremely terrifying, but those arrows actually didn't break through the armor at all, they just hung on them.

The armor they wore provided them with good protection, and the cotton clothes they wore inside also provided them with a certain degree of cushioning.

To be precise, the cotton-padded clothes worn by some of them should be called cotton armor, because there are iron pieces sewn under the cotton-padded clothes.

However, due to production and cost reasons, there are fewer cotton jackets, and most of them are ordinary cotton jackets.

Because cotton armor is a new product, it takes more man-hours.

Today, there are only three troops equipped with cotton armor, the Yellow Angels, the Suppression Camp, and the Tengxiang Guards.

The innermost layer wears cotton armor, then wears a layer of chain mail, and finally wears iron armor on the outside. The three layers of heavy armor cannot be pierced by knives, pierced by spears, or shot by arrows. There are only routs.

Today's sharp soldiers of the Han army will not have much power to fight back when they encounter the yellow angels in the formation of the Ming army.

Fifty steps away from the Ming army's formation, the Han army's formation was already criss-crossed like canine teeth. At this time, the whole army could no longer march, so they had to bite the bullet and charge forward.

In fact, it was really a serious mistake to shoot arrows at the Ming army at a distance of eighty steps.

The arrow missing at a distance of eighty steps not only did not cause any damage to the Ming army, but also did not damage the morale of the Ming army much.

On the contrary, it also helped the Ming army to be at the peak of its momentum, which caused a huge mental blow to the soldiers in the front line of the Han army.

After several waves of arrow rain, what they saw was not the Ming army who was attacked by the arrow rain, crying and wailing.

What they saw was a group of neatly arranged military formations, with arrows stuck in their armor and wearing terrifying ghost masks, but they still stood on the ground, and there were no Ming soldiers who fell.

The flags and banners with densely packed scriptures fluttered in the gust of wind, and countless ochre-yellow braids swayed in the river wind.

The Ming army in the first row half-kneeled on the ground, holding the crossbow horizontally, the Ming army in the second row stood behind, also holding the crossbow horizontally, and the Ming army in the third row held the crossbow, standing in the second row in the interval.

One cold arrow after another pointed directly at them, even holding a tower shield, it still made the Han army in front feel extremely panic.

Not far behind them, a group of cavalry with spears on their shoulders and horses riding on their horses were ready to go.

The strong wind blew up the ochre-yellow war robes worn by the cavalrymen, and the golden sun shone on their armor robes, as mighty as the heavenly soldiers in the nine heavens.

Such a scene, how can it not make people chill, how can it not make people frightened!

But at this moment, a sharp sound pierced the sky and shot straight into the sky.

"stop"

The sharp military whistle sounded suddenly in the formation of the Ming army.

In the next instant, a rain of arrows, like locusts, swept across the air from the Ming army's formation and shot toward the Han army's formation.

The distance of forty steps is already the distance for a bow and crossbow to break through armor.

Every cavalryman in Xiliang Camp is equipped with two bows and three sets of quiver.

One of the bows is a powerful step bow, and one of the quiver bags contains armor-piercing arrows, and now they use special step bows to shoot special armor-piercing arrows.

A large number of feather arrows shot into the Han army's formation in a very short time, causing countless wailing sounds in an instant.

Although they are protected by tower shields, this does not mean that they are invincible. Because the army formation was scattered before, there has already been a gap between them.

The crossbowmen in the front row of the Ming army shot the arrows in their hands and passed the crossbow machine from the left hand to the rear, then took the crossbow machine from the right hand side and shot again, and so on.

And the archers of the Xiliang camp behind them shot five arrows quickly before finally stopping.

Under such a fierce shooting of bows and crossbows, the Han army formations attacking from three directions were all stagnant and fell into chaos.

The most severely hit by bows and crossbows, and the most chaotic army formation was the Han army in the west.

The reason for this is not because the Han army in the west is the weakest, but because Qu Yi deployed the largest number of soldiers in the west, and they are all elites who are good at shooting.

"stop"

A louder sharp sound than before rose into the sky.

Just to the west, the Han army was still in a state of panic, and the Ming army's formation to the west was splitting to the left and right like waves.

Amidst the sound of rumbling horseshoes, hundreds of cavalry troops from the Xiliang Battalion, led by Guan Hai, rushed out of the battle from the right to the Han army's formation.

"Stabilize the army!"

"Raise the gun!"

"Raise the gun!"

The sudden appearance of the Ming army's cavalry made the Han army in the west's front line even more flustered for a while.

Even though the generals in the Han army formation shouted loudly, there was still no way to restore the soldiers in the formation to their senses immediately.

However, their efforts were not ineffective. Under their orders, some soldiers raised their spears tremblingly, forming a simple spear array, trying to stop the Ming cavalry from charging.

But all these efforts were in vain before the shock cavalry of the Ming army threw out the iron bones.

The short-handled iron bones thrown by the cavalry at the forefront of the Ming army smashed into the formation of the Han army. The dozen or so Han soldiers standing at the forefront fell down like cutting wheat without even humming. .

These special iron bones, as long as they hit people's heads, they will definitely kill people on the spot, and if they hit people on the body, they can immediately lose the ability to move.

"stop"

Accompanied by that unique sharp sound, the cavalry of the Ming army had already rushed into the chaotic formation of the Han army.

The army formation was dilapidated, the soldiers were chaotic, and the battle had turned into a massacre.

The cavalry of the Ming army was like a sharp knife cutting through butter, cutting through the formation of the Han army, and completely disintegrating the fighting will of the Han army in the west.

After defeating the Han army in the west, Guan Hai did not continue to lead the troops to strangle the defeated Han army. He just sent out a team of dozens of cavalry to drive some of the defeated troops, while he led the troops of the brigade. The men and horses drove some of the broken soldiers and rushed straight towards the Han army attacking from the south.

The situation on the battlefield has completely reversed at this moment.

The prey of the Ming army transformed into hunters.

Cao Cao's face was gloomy and terrifying at this time, and the riding whip in his hand was already pinched into a ball.

Standing on a high ground, he could see more clearly. The cavalry of the Ming army attacked in three lines.

The Ming army on the western front has already defeated the Han army on that side, and is now driving the defeated army all the way east.

Soon the Han army attacking from the south and the east will evolve into a greater rout under the impact of the rout and the siege of the Ming cavalry.

"Shoot and kill all the broken soldiers who dare to attack the army formation!"

"There is no need to test any more, just send Tiger Guards and Rui Shi out!"

"Take down this Ming army for me!"

Chapter 862 I'm Like a Wall Xu Jin

The Ming army lined up with their backs, and it seemed that they had completely given up on fleeing and wanted to stand firm and wait for help.

But no one could have expected that the Ming army, which was in a desperate situation, would still want to attack.

Strike the crowd with the few, without fear.

After all, Cao Cao underestimated the first camp and underestimated the Xiliang camp.

Although the Xiandeng camp under Qu Yi's command was not an orthodox Ming army, its core was still a feudal army.

But for a long time, Qu Yi shared the same food and clothing with the generals under his command, slept without a seat, walked without riding, wrapped up food for himself, and shared the labor with the soldiers.

What Qu Yi did was the same as Wu Qi in the Warring States Period and Huangfu Song in the past.

All the generals under his command have exclusive military fields to support their parents, and the military pay is generous. If they die in battle, the family records of the deceased will be raised by the Koji family.

Moreover, Qu Yi's method of marching troops is on the front line, how can the soldiers not die for such a general?

As the orthodox Ming army, the Xiliang camp was side by side with the Xiaoqi and Wuxiang battalions, and the officers and soldiers in the battalion were all Taoists of the Taiping Dao.

The Ming army fought with its back, just like the Chu army who was on the banks of the river, smashing the [-] infantry in the front line of the Han army in one fell swoop.

The cavalry of the Ming army dispersed the broken soldiers and rushed into the Han army's offensive infantry formation from the flanks, and then the cavalry from the other two lines also attacked in concert, and the Han army's front formation completely collapsed.

The army was defeated like a mountain, and the front lines of the third-line Han army were broken one after another and collapsed.

On the battlefield, the soldiers in the front line are hindered by the threat behind them, and most of the time they can still persist even in the face of the threat of death.

But this is when the army formation is intact, or when facing enemy infantry.

Instead of slow-moving infantry, they now faced cavalry who turned into the wind.

When they were still in a panic, the rout had already broken through their formation.

The trend of defeat unfolded like a snowball until it turned into an avalanche.

"woo"

The low sound of bugles sounded in the formation of the Han army.

In the formation of the Han army, longbows were raised one by one, and the infantry archers of the Han army standing on the high ground were already drawing their bows.

"Those who dare to attack the army will be shot!"

Wearing iron armor and wearing feathers and iron stomachs, the generals of the Han army gave orders mercilessly.

In the formation of the Han army, tower shields were erected one after another, and long spears were put down to form a forest of guns.

Gaps were opened in several military formations, leaving a very narrow passage, which was specially reserved for the fleeing soldiers.

The rout soldiers will be driven to and confined to a demarcated area so that the entire army will not be wiped out.

This is not because the Han army is ruthless, but if it does not do so, once the Ming army's cavalry drives off the rout and breaks through a corner of the formation, the rout will spread rapidly and cannot be contained.

The hearts of the broken soldiers are already filled with fear, they are like drowning people, they have lost all reason, and only have the idea of ​​survival in their minds.

Although there is room for buffering and a place to accommodate routs, there are still a large number of routs who want to rush into the army formation.

Naturally, this part of the routed soldiers, without exception, either fell under the spears of the army formation, or were shot dead by the infantry behind.

The corpses covered the field, and the blood flowed like a river.

The blood flowed on the ground, condensing into pools of blood and streams above the ground.

The corpses that fell on the ground almost raised the ground by an entire floor.

The chaos in front of the Han army lasted for nearly two quarters of an hour before it completely subsided.

9:45 at three o'clock.

On the Yuquan Pavilion, the sound of the Han army's vigorous war drums reverberated again after stagnating for a while.