As the warriors and warriors entered the battlefield, the stalemate was immediately broken.
Following the soldiers and warriors into the city were hundreds of tiger and shield guards, and then a large number of armored militiamen holding halberds and crossbows.
After entering the city, the soldiers quickly divided into groups and rushed along the streets toward the city and the other three gates.
Seeing this situation, the soldiers guarding the other three city gates had to give up their defense of the city gates and retreat towards the city tower or the Xiancu Mansion in the city.
More Xia army soldiers poured into the city from the remaining three gates.
Finally, nearly a thousand merchant troops from Henan City also entered the city.
The soldiers from both sides started a melee in the streets, and some Xia army soldiers began to attack the tower.
At this time, Xiancu became panicked and wondered why the Huaiyi army hadn't arrived yet. , but he encouraged the surrounding sergeants: "If you hold on for another moment and a half, our 30,000 reinforcements will come."
An hour ago, Shu Lie, the leader of the Huaiyi army, saw the billowing smoke from the west.
According to the agreement, this was the signal for the ambush to attack.
Amidst the sound of the conch horn, 30,000 Huaiyi soldiers were divided into dozens of regiments according to their tribes.
Under the leadership of their respective leaders, they formed a "column" two miles long and two hundred meters wide, and rushed towards Qi'e City along the north bank of the Shah River. go.
Huaiyi's battle is very simple.
When marching, the groups are arranged vertically in order.
When going into battle, the groups are arranged horizontally.
When fighting, they all charge forward together.
When the team was halfway through the march, something strange happened.
Shu Lie kept noticing soldiers riding big horses in the distance to spy on their march.
He tried to send soldiers to capture the opponent, but the two-legged infantry could not catch up with others.
The soldiers galloped their horses and disappeared in a flash.
At this time, another army five miles away from the Huaiyi army began to move in the same direction from west to east with them, and gradually moved closer to them from north to south.
This is the phalanx led by Hua himself.
It consists of all the troops of the East Division plus the spearmen and shooters of the 1st Brigade of the South Division.
The scout cavalry is constantly correcting the relative position between the phalanx and the Huaiyi queue.
At this time, the Xia army formed a square formation with a width of nearly three miles.
It was still a square formation with only five rows of spears in the center, an oblique formation composed of shield guards on both wings, and tiger and sharpshooters at the rear.
It's just that now the entire square mainly moves horizontally from west to east, or from left to right.
When the Xia army's phalanx appeared in Shu Lie's field of vision, the phalanx stopped its horizontal movement and rushed towards the Huaiyi army rapidly.
Hua ordered the entire army to advance at full speed, even sacrificing formation for speed.
In Shu Lie's panic, he failed to make a correct judgment on Hua's intentions.
He thought that Hua just wanted to catch him off guard, and thought that the most important thing now was to prepare for a fight.
If he now orders the entire army to quickly deploy to the east and west.
Or even if the Yingxia Army rushes forward, keep your rear away from the Shahe River.
The outcome could be completely different.
Under the shouts of Shu Lie and the leaders, the messengers ran hard in the queue.
After receiving the order, all the Huaiyi soldiers in the two-mile-long group turned to the right.
The "column" quickly turned into a "horizontal formation" and entered a fighting state, facing Xia's Eastern Division's phalanx.
Shu Lie was relieved.
The Xia army's formation slowed down its attack pace at this time.
Under the repeated orders, it began to organize its formation and lowered its spears like a forest.
At this time, Hua also breathed a sigh of relief.
The overall situation had been decided and the Huaiyi army was dead.
The forwards of the oblique formations of shield guards on the left and right wings were less than 300 meters away from the bank of the Shah River.
The left and right ends of the Huaiyi horizontal force, which was two miles wide, were still nearly 500 meters away from the two ends of the east division.
At this time, the 30,000 Huaiyi army was like a calf swallowed by a python.
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And this python is the Xia army's formation that is nearly three miles long and has nearly 7,000 people.
With the rumbling sound of drums and trumpets, the Xia army's formation marched forward in an orderly manner to the beat of the drums.
The edge of the spear and spear, which was nearly two miles long, cut towards the Huaiyi people.
At this time, Shu Lie realized something was wrong and shouted: "Quick, spread the troops to the two wings along the Shahe River."
However, by the time this military order was transmitted to all departments in the army, it was already too late.
The spear and spear blades kept making mechanical stabbing movements.
Amidst the sound of bones and flesh shattering and blood and flesh flying, the Huaiyi soldiers fell layer by layer.
Many Huaiyi soldiers used their shields to block a spear blade that was piercing his chest.
However, the next spear blade pierced his mouth, eyes, abdomen, thighs, shoulders, and other possible parts of his body.
The Xia army's tiger and sharpshooters were interspersed among the spearmen and spears, and fired powerful arrows at the Huaiyi array at close range.
Prioritize shooting the archers among the Huaiyi soldiers.
The Huaiyi shooters also began to launch long-distance shots from behind, which had little effect on the Xia army's formation, which was only five columns deep.
Most of the arrows fired either passed over the heads of the pikemen and fell behind.
Either they fall in front of the Xia army's formation, or even accidentally injure their own soldiers.
A few fell on the sophisticated armor of the spearmen, and only a few of them could cause direct damage to these spearmen.
A brave Huaiyi shooter saw the clues and squeezed to the front of the queue to get close to shoot.
Immediately, a powerful arrow pierced his skull, and he fell backwards with dull eyes staring at him.
The Huaiyi shooters who come forward to shoot will be suppressed by the opponent's Huben shooters.
Soon, these Huaiyi shooters could no longer launch fire, because the soldiers in front continued to fall one layer at a time, and the survivors kept retreating.
People were crowded together, and a stampede occurred under the threat of being brutally stabbed by the enemy's spear points.
Even the shooter who was in the rear had to retreat further back.
However, further behind is Shahe.
Under the pressure of the Xia army's central phalanx, some Huaiyi soldiers pushed toward the two wings.
At this time, due to the forward pressure of the Xia army's formation and the oblique formations of shield guards on the left and right wings actively closing in toward the center, both ends had already been sealed.
The outermost shield guards of the Xia army have arrived at the bank of the Shah River.
As the central phalanx pressed further forward and closed in, the shield guards on both wings became thicker and denser.
The three-foot large shields were lined up in a row, firmly holding back the huddled Huaiyi soldiers, and the sword in their right hand was slashing and stabbing them wildly.
At this time, they don't need to talk about skills.
Just like the spearmen, they perform repetitive mechanical actions.
Behind them, the support provided by Huben shooters through close range shooting is naturally indispensable.
The Huaiyi people jumped into or were squeezed into the sand river one after another.
Those who knew how to swim swam to the other side, and those who couldn't swim drowned.
As the military formation shrank, the extra shield guards and shooters began to cruise along the shore, shooting Huaiyi stragglers in the river and preventing them from coming ashore again.
By the end, the entire Xia army had shrunk to an incomparable thickness, and the formation no longer existed, nor did it need to exist.
The spearmen surrounded the remaining Huaiyi groups by the Shah River in a small area.
They must either surrender en masse, jump into the river, or die.
Most of the shield guards had broken away from the unformed "military formation", and they began to search and kill the escaping Huaiyi soldiers along the upper and lower reaches of the Shah River.
The Huben shooters continued to shoot at Huaiyi in the river.
There were floating corpses everywhere on the river, but it was even more shocking on land.
More than 20,000 corpses were densely distributed along the banks of the sand river.
This piece of land will become the most fertile land in the Huaihe River Basin in the future.
At this time, Xiancu in Qi'e City was still waiting hard for the arrival of the Huaiyi army
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