Xia Yan, who was already the commander of the northern division of Huben, led the third brigade of the northern division to the foothills of Wuxing Mountain.
This is already the edge area of Shang Dynasty.
The scenery is very different from the thousands-mile wilderness in Heluo.
From time to time, settlements in Xiaoyi and farmland in Qianmo can be seen, and the people all look at this uninvited army in fear.
When marching, several male guards who were in charge of the local small towns would often stop Xia Yan and ask.
After finding out that this was the Xia army summoned by the King of Shang, they respectfully saw off the Xia army.
Ahead is the entrance to Baixing.
Xia Yan asked the soldiers to stop advancing and rest on the spot, and ordered five scouts on foot to conduct covert reconnaissance.
Unless there is a special emergency, passing through such a dangerous place must be fully investigated for enemy ambush.
This is one of the dogmas of the Qilin Guard instructors.
Three hours later, the scouts hurried back to report that a Zhou army of about 2,000 men was crossing the Baixing Canyon and coming towards them.
The mountain road was rugged, and Ji Changdian's buttocks hurt when he was about to ride in the carriage.
The old man couldn't bear it, so he ordered someone to make a simple sedan chair to carry him.
Lao Jichang thought at this time: This mountain is not suitable for vehicle battles at all.
It will be too risky to let the army pass through in the future, unless it can be guaranteed that no one will set up an ambush or intercept here. .
Fortunately, the Xingdao was not too long, and the 200-mile journey was traversed in two days of rapid march.
What lay before Jichang's eyes was the great plain of Hebei, which is thousands of miles away, the richest place in the world.
The Shang people here are even so rich that they use their excess grain to make wine.
The amount of these drinks is enough for the common people of the Shang people to drink day and night, and at the same time, it kills a person.
The spirit and enterprising spirit of the nation.
When Ji Chang was thinking about whether to plunder a few small towns to humiliate the Shang king, a terrifying thing appeared in his sight, an ocher dragon flag.
"Why did Xia Jun appear here?"
Ji Chang said in horror.
Boyikao was also in shock, and the shadow of that battle still lingered in their hearts.
In addition to the two of them, a general in the Zhou army also experienced that great defeat.
He was one of the few dozen people who could escape back to Zhou Fang, and two of the four people who returned with him had different levels of success.
Going crazy.
At this time, he felt his hands shaking slightly.
When the dragon flag was fully displayed on the ridge line of the mound, the Xia army's phalanx also appeared in front of the Zhou army.
"Let's set up a formation to fight, father."
Boyikao stammered.
"What kind of enemy are you facing?
Retreat," Ji Chang ordered.
The Zhou army quickly changed from the rear army to the front army and retreated towards Baixing Mountain Road in Wuxing Mountain.
However, at this time, several small castles magically appeared at the entrance of Baixing Mountain Road, lined up in a row, blocking the entrance tightly.
If you look closely, these castles are made of bamboo and wood.
The ocher dragon flag hangs on the top of the low city wall.
It is the elephant fort deployed by the Xia army.
At this time, Ji Chang was also at a loss as the Xia army formation behind him was rapidly approaching.
Ji Chang now had only three options.
One was to quickly break through Xiangbao and let the Zhou army retreat to Baixing Mountain Road.
The other was to defeat the Xia army's phalanx.
The third was to escape through the gaps on both sides before the opponent's phalanx could press up.
The probability of winning the first and second lines is too low, especially the first one, which is almost impossible to complete in a few minutes.
Then, after being hit by the Xia army from behind, the entire army will be destroyed in minutes.
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The second option, just from the opponent's lineup, such as the forest of five-meter spears, sophisticated armor, neat and skillful command movements, and marching pace, it is difficult to win.
The third option seems to be the most feasible option, but the opponent is not a dead thing.
If you escape to the gaps on both sides, you will expose your flanks to the opponent.
It would take a few minutes for a queue of 2,000 people to run out.
During this time, the opponent would directly speed up the charge and chase them, easily defeating their own team and scattering them.
Then, in this place thousands of miles away from his own homeland, in the Shang Kingdom where merchants are everywhere, the scene of being hunted as prey two years ago will be staged again.
The opponent's front is getting closer and closer, and there can be no more hesitation.
Ji Chang stamped his feet, gritted his teeth, and shouted loudly: "Form up and prepare to meet the enemy."
If Ji Chang could set up the formation at the first opportunity, and use his numerical advantage to form an array with a front that was much wider than the opponent's, giving the left and right wings a chance to detour behind the enemy's rear, it would still be possible to defeat the opponent.
But it's too late now.
The Xia army's formation was a dense phalanx of spears composed of twenty troops with a total of 500 spearmen.
It was only five rows deep.
On both sides were flank protection areas composed of 300 shield guards.
The shield guards did not move forward in a phalanx formation.
OK, but move forward in a hash-diagonal formation.
In this way, when the enemy tries to avoid the forest of spears and spears in the center and only attacks the two wings of the Xia army, the shield guards on the two wings can drive the scattered enemy troops to the center like scissors.
As for the enemy who wants to make a roundabout way back to the rear of the line, he needs a pair of Scuds.
Individual enemy troops on the fringe may circle back to the rear, but they will definitely be hunted down by Lingzhen's scout cavalry, or shot dead by Huben shooters wandering behind the formation.
The spear phalanx and shield guards were followed by two hundred tiger and sharp shooters who were divided into several groups and were commanded by their respective corps commanders.
The front width of the entire joint phalanx is about three hundred meters long.
In fact, to deal with armies whose tactics and equipment were very backward during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, considering such details was a waste of time.
The spearmen's five-meter spears were leveled, and suddenly five rows of spears appeared in front of the Zhou army like a wall of spears.
The lightly-armed Zhou army only brought twenty chariots.
The enemy formation was already closing in.
Before these chariots could speed up, their draft horses were pierced to death by forest spears as their horses neighed and screamed.
A soldier on a chariot had to stand on the paralyzed tank body and wave his sword to fight, but the three-meter-long sword in his hand could not reach the opponent.
Then he was hit by several arrows and fell off the chariot.
The arrows came from The Tiger Archer behind the array of spears.
The shooter who was in the same car was stabbed in the stomach with a spear and collapsed in the car.
The twenty paralyzed chariots caused an obstacle to the advancing Xia Army.
Under the order, the Xia Army formation temporarily stopped moving forward, but the spears in their hands kept stabbing, and the bones were broken by the spear blades.
The sound was clearly audible, and bright red blood fell from the tips of five hundred spears.
Some soldiers of the Zhou army tried to use their large shields to block the spear blades, but the spear blades were too dense and blocked their bodies, arms, thighs, and heads.
What's more, the sharp spear blade can penetrate a shield made of leather and wood.
When there was no enemy in front of the spear blade, under the command of the officer, the spear phalanx separated twenty gaps and easily passed the twenty chariots.
Then they came together again, closing the gaps.
During this process, Huben shooters had been alert to the enemy's attempts to exploit these gaps, but their worries were unnecessary.
Individual soldiers of the Zhou army simply did not have the quality and awareness.
Under the pressure of the spear array, the soldiers of the Zhou army passively tried to attack the two wings.
However, in the eyes of the shield guards who lined up in a diagonal formation, this swarm of unorganized attacks was like a group of stragglers rushing forward to die.
They were immediately intercepted by shield guards.
Bronze swords were sent into their abdomen and chest, and some directly cut off their necks.
The Huben archers wandering behind the shield guards would occasionally fire a round of close-range shots at these soldiers wearing only leather armor.
When the spear blade pierced the chests of a group of Zhou soldiers again, all the soldiers led by Ji Chang collapsed.
They just want to escape, but most people only have one direction to escape.
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Soon these fleeing people found themselves facing the cliffs on both sides of Xiangbao or Xingkou.
The military cooks, craftsmen, baggage drivers, and military police stationed at the Elephant Fort also began to shoot arrows at them with arm crossbows.
A handful of people escaped from the gaps in the wings, but were quickly shot by shooters.
Those who ran far were chased by the scout cavalry and shot to death.
A phalanx of spears, shield guards on both wings, the elephant castle and the four sides of the cliff form a quadrilateral.
Ji Chang, Boyikao and the remaining 300 soldiers have been besieged.
There were corpses everywhere inside and outside the frame.
The spear phalanx needed to move forward.
A dozen Zhou soldiers who were kneeling on the ground begging for mercy were still pierced through the head by the spear blade, and their blood and brains were scattered all over the floor.
Only when all the soldiers knelt down and asked to surrender did Xia Yan order to stop the attack.
He stared at the two terrified and isolated people in the formation, old Jichang and his young son.
Xia Yan looked at them, smiled and said, "Uncle Ji Chang, we meet again."
Last time, it was Xia Yan who sent these two people back to Xiqi Zhoufang
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