The Han army's shield array is no stranger to the Shijie Zhao army, the first appearance was in the battle of Xuzhou, the battle of 10,000 Han soldiers formed a military formation to resist the 80,000 Shijie Zhao army, the first time to show the terrifying power brought by the shield array and strong bow and crossbow.
The straight line that formed the shield array continued to slowly advance forward, and the crossbowmen in the rear who followed the advance shot at least a thousand crossbow arrows in almost every breath, and the continuous rain of crossbow arrows, coupled with the strong crossbow diffuse in the rear, formed an absolute suppression of Shijie Zhao's army, making it difficult for the archers sent by Yao Yizhong to have a trace of counterattack.
The Han saber and shield soldiers who rushed in front poured into the trench, they carried small round shields and held war knives, and as soon as they entered the trench, they encountered the enemy, and the tragic battle was staged from the first moment of the encounter between the two sides.
Dou'a first used his shield to block the swinging mallet, and the next moment he slashed the war knife in his hand, and the blade slashed into the neck of the enemy soldier, and blood rushed out from the place where it was slashed.
An enemy stabbed a spear and forced Dou Ah to crouch with a shield, and the sound of metal clashing sounded, and he was pushed back by the force and staggered back two steps, but it was Robes who crossed him and slashed the enemy at this time.
When Dou'a regained his body and prepared to fight again, there were already several robes in front of him who were advancing shoulder to shoulder with shields, and they coordinated to cover each other, block weapons for their comrades, and seize the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy soldiers.
The trench was dug by the Qiang troops for nearly ten days, and the depth should have been about one zhang, causing the groundwater to flood to the knees, and every step forward was wading through the water and the soil at the bottom.
The shield array formed by the Han army had to crack after approaching the trench, and the shield array that became a long line was repeatedly split and became an irregular small shield array, which was also an opportunity for the Qiang troops to counterattack.
When the Han army's shield array cracked, it was the moment when the Han army's long-range troops lost cover, and at that time, the Qiang archers would be driven by the officers to emerge from the hiding place and fight back against the rain of arrows.
Most Qiang archers don't have a chance to shoot an arrow, but even if only a small number of Qiang archers succeed in firing an arrow, it will kill the crossbowmen on the Han side.
There will never be a shortage of screams and death on the battlefield, and the crimson blood flowing from the human body will flow on the earth, and the blood will merge into a stream of blood in the low-lying areas, and it will become a pool of bloody smell.
Dou'a is now another Sima, and the quality of the armor on his body will be more sophisticated than that of ordinary soldiers, and he can vaguely see that the armor on his body in the fight just now has left traces of sharp weapon scraping.
The reason why the death rate of officers is lower than that of ordinary soldiers is not only because the number of officers is less than that of soldiers, nor because officers always stay in safe positions, but mainly because officers are equipped with far better armor than soldiers.
Looking at the traces on Dou'a's armor, if those blows fell on ordinary soldiers, the soldiers who did not wear armor would definitely die, and they could not be saved by wearing leather armor, and ordinary iron armor should also be damaged, but he was only injured in some parts without armor.
"Okay, rush too forward, let's fight and retreat."
The long-range attack of the Han army has not stopped, although the position of the trench has been deliberately avoided, but there will still be some stray arrows falling, and the unlucky Han soldiers have no place to reason if they are killed by their own arrows at this time.
The sword and shield soldiers of Dou'a's team not only fought and retreated, they did not forget to cut off the heads of the enemy dead when they retreated, who let the Han army take credit with the heads of the enemy.
The sword and shield soldiers in the trench will stop and form a line on the spot when they retreat some distance, and when the enemy forces come back, they will advance again, often fighting in the trench again.
Their primary responsibility is to hold back enemy forces in the trenches and prevent them from threatening their ranged troops through the trenches.
The battle on the ground was at its most intense, and before the shield walls of the two armies collided with each other, the long-range troops on the Han side had stopped shooting arrows within two hundred paces, and only the crossbow troops were still forming an arrow array to cover the position two hundred paces away.
"It's really an elite dispatch, otherwise the enemy army would have collapsed and retreated a long time ago."
"Yes, they didn't collapse."
In fact, whether a soldier is elite or not is not simply distinguished by whether his martial arts skills are superb or not, but the ability to absolutely obey military orders and have extraordinary willpower is the real elite.
Otherwise, if you can fight again, you will ignore military orders, and even there will be no military discipline at all, so what's the use.
The atmosphere on the side of the Han army's top brass is becoming serious, the more elite the attacking Qiang troops, the firmer the will of Yao Yizhong, and the decisive battle has begun from the moment Yao Yizhong sends the elite at hand, and this war will be won or lost in the next few days.
"It's time to give the order for the outlying forces to attack with all their might."
Ji Chang pointed to the location of the Qiang army, which was only less than a mile away from the battlefield: "Yao Yizhong personally supervised the battle, and the troops around him" Where Daxu is means where the commander is, there are many Qiang troops around Yao Yizhong, and there are soldiers in iron armor, including ironclad infantry and assault cavalry.
In addition to that part of the elite, there were more ordinary Qiang soldiers, and people and horses gathered into a large area.
Yes, no matter how you look at it, it's a 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 trick, because the attack was now launched from four directions.
The other three areas may not have fought as much as the northern flank, and the brutality is indeed not lost at all to the northern flank, with infantry fighting on the western flank and mixed infantry and cavalry fighting on the east and south.
Liu Yan's two reinforcements were not too far from Luoyin, and the 20,000 cavalry who crossed the river from the direction of Licheng were only less than 20 miles away from the Luoyin battlefield, and the 30,000 cavalry troops from Suxian County were farther away.
The way in Suga County had successfully broken through Hu Yansheng's interception, and although they were thirty miles away from Luoyin, don't forget that they were cavalry.
Thirty miles is for a cavalry army with more than one person and more horses, and it can be reached in one or two hours by galloping with all its might, the difference is how Hu Yansheng will intercept it, or how much combat power can be left after galloping.
The only thing that can be confirmed is that the armored cavalry of the Tiger Ben Army should be scrapped, not to mention galloping for thirty miles, and marching at full speed for ten miles.
The Han army's top brass was discussing how to deal with the battle situation, and the Qiang troops were also discussing similarly.
Yao Yizhong's decision is very simple, that is, to attack and attack, even if it is dark night, it will not stop, since the general offensive has begun, he will fight to the end, all because Liu Yan's reinforcements are really coming.
"If Liu Yan's reinforcements can't enter the Han army camp before they arrive," Yao Yizhong said uncertainly, "Then there is only one way to withdraw the army." ” The eldest husband should have a choice to make a choice, Yao Yizhong would rather be blamed by Shi Hu, than he would rather consume his clansmen for a war that is doomed to no victory.
Is it true that Yao Yizhong doesn't know that the Yellow River is at risk of being blocked, absolutely not.
He blocked the mouth of the Yellow River with a lot of debris to prevent the Han ships 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 was wantonly salvaging the debris in the river, and An Neng did not know that he was dredging the river to prepare for the arrival of the fleet According to the estimation of the Qiang people, the flow of the river itself and the dredging of the Han army may make it possible for the Yellow River to be unblocked within a month at the earliest, and the fleet of the Han army will definitely come.
Yao Yizhong knew that the naval army of the Han Department was very strong, and he also thought that Liu Yan would definitely block the Yellow River, but what he could not have imagined was that Liu Yan had already prepared a fleet of ships in the Luzi River, and that fleet had already begun to march towards the Yellow River, and it would arrive at the Yellow River around the main battlefield in two days to blockade the river section.
The battle on the east side had been interrupted, and the cavalry of the Han army not only routed the attacking Qiang troops, but they also stormed the Qiang camp in that direction for a time, forcing the Qiang troops in that position to abandon the front of the camp.
The battle on the south side was still fierce, that is, Yao Yizhong attached great importance to the south side of the Han army camp, and was worried that once the encirclement failed, the Han cavalry would go to meet the friendly troops from the source, and it would be quite bad to really cause this situation.
Because of the importance of it, Yao Yizhong continued to increase troops to the local battlefield in the south, and the situation of the warring troops would become bad for the Han cavalry.
After all, even the Assault cavalry did not dare to charge in the face of a dense crowd, and the charge in this situation was extremely uneconomical, and the Assault cavalry and infantry fought in an exchange of less than three to one, not to mention that it was very likely that the ratio of three to one could not be achieved.
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As a matter of fact, as long as the infantry is dense enough and the infantry is not frightened by the sound of the cavalry to collapse on its own, I am afraid that only armored cavalry will charge the infantry in a dense formation.
There are always exceptions to things, 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, but he won't be merciful and hesitate too much when necessary.
The Han cavalry on the south side rushed forward one after another towards the dense Qiang infantry group, and the scene was the sound of heavy horses' hooves stepping one row after another, and then slammed into them at a speed of about 70 miles.
When a war horse hits a person, the knight on horseback does not have stirrups and saddles, and even if there are stirrups and saddles, they will be thrown out by inertia.
The person who was hit by the war horse, at that moment, was definitely because the internal organs were shattered, and blood spurted from his mouth and nose, and he would also fall backwards.
The Qiang troops on this side were subjected to the charge of the Han army assault cavalry at any cost, but the rear was staged by the supervising team to constantly hack to death the soldiers who turned around and fled.
To put it bluntly, Yao Yizhong is really red-eyed, he expects that he will only attack for five days, and if he can't see the hope of victory for more than five days, he will definitely withdraw, and there will be no room for negotiation.
Now that the date of the retreat has been calculated, Yao Yizhong will definitely not forget to estimate how many people can be sacrificed.
His bottom line is 100,000, and if he thinks about it more, his hands and feet tremble and he breaks out in a cold sweat.
It must be said that among the 100,000 people he expected to sacrifice, Zahu and Jin accounted for seventy percent.
The so-called 100,000 that will be sacrificed does not count the previous losses, and the offensive in the first six days has already cost Yao Yizhong nearly 90,000 people.
Not all of them were killed in battle, and the number of people who died directly should be about 40,000, and the rest were crippled or temporarily incapacitated.
The majority of the casualties were on the side of the cavalry reinforcements that intercepted the Han army, and more than 10,000 were annihilated by the Tiger Ben army alone.
The battle continued at noon, and the east was the least intense area in the whole battle, and the heaviest was not the north, but the south, which was repeatedly attacked by the Han cavalry.
"Where did Liu Yan get so many commandos" Yao Yizhong couldn't figure it out: "How could he be willing to take precious cavalry to consume like this?"
The Qiang troops on the southern battlefield have collapsed twice, and you must know that the cavalry really rushed directly at any cost, and the momentum was really not ordinary, and the casualties caused to the infantry were not small, especially the psychological shadow caused to the side that suffered the impact was even more difficult to describe.
"We threw in nearly 13,000 people, and the Han army was not comfortable on the side, so we should have lost nearly 3,000 cavalry."
Cao Yao was one of the many Simas of Shijie Zhao, and Sima's official position was really not low.
He was also full of incomprehension: "We are using miscellaneous soldiers to pile up, and they exchange the elite" Yao Yizhong wanted to optimistically think in the direction that Liu Yan was forced to be anxious, but after thinking about it a little, it felt very wrong.
It is not wrong for the Qiang army to launch a general attack, as the north side of the main attack is firmly blocked a hundred steps away, and the direction of the remaining feints is not possible to get close to the Han army camp.
Moreover, Yao Yizhong was reported again just now that the Han army on the periphery of the two roads was launching a fierce attack, especially the Han army, which was dominated by cavalry, had successively broken through the two interception lines set up by Huyansheng.
Could it be that the Han army here is the end of the strong crossbow Yao Yizhong really couldn't guess how many Han troops were surrounded, every time he guessed that a number would be overthrown in the next battle, he was a little unstable and thought: Isn't it impossible, under the strict blockade, not a single soldier entered the besieged Han army camp, and Liu Yan would still scatter beans into the army Maybe he felt that he should force it again, and it was very likely that he would be able to find out the bottom of Liu Yan if he forced it again, Yao Yizhong gritted his teeth and not only increased his troops in the north, but also changed the feints on the other three sides.
When Yao Yizhong's movements were noticed by the high-level of the Han army, except for Liu Yan, who was quite calm, several strategists were in a hurry.
"Your Excellency, our military inferiority is too obvious" Ji Chang didn't know what he was trying to scare himself, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he even said: "According to this trend, your majesty may be ready to break through" The others didn't speak, but they all had the same meaning in their expressions, they felt that Liu Yan was too risky to use himself as bait at the beginning, and now Yao Yizhong was obviously crazy and attacked regardless of casualties, so they even felt that even if tens of thousands of troops were buried here, Liu Yan couldn't do anything.
"Huh."
Liu Yan was still laughing, and after laughing, he said: "I like the war of attrition."
Dividing line I had insomnia last night, and my brain was a little empty, and it took me six hours to write only 4,000 words.
That's it for today
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