The staring of the two heavy infantry did not last long, after a rapid war drum on the Han army's side, the soldiers who were ready to go into battle first shouted "drink" in unison, and the rhythmic drums began to be beaten, and each drum beat was a reminder that the soldiers should take steps, forming a uniform footsteps.
Before the attack was launched, some of the Han army's mounted heavy infantry changed their weapons to spears, and the third row of the formation began with some people holding shields and spears.
The armor on the Han military equipment and heavy infantry should be sixty-five pounds together, including the weight of shields or weapons, the overall weight is definitely nearly 100 or so, they are arranged in the front by the people holding the tower shield, the first row is holding the tower shield when advancing, the second row is held up to an angle of about 45 degrees, the third row is held high and flat, and the formation is dense to look like a moving wall composed of steel.
The three bridges built in the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty are a kind of progressive hole bridges, which are made of a mixture of stone, wood and mud, and its two sides appear to be relatively low, and the highest position in the middle reaches more than three zhang, and there will be no obvious slope when walking due to the long length of the bridge deck.
The Han army began to advance, and the Longteng Guard mounted infantry on the side of the Shijie Zhao army also began to react.
They did not stay on the edge of the riverbank, but stepped into the bridge deck amid the desolate sound of horns, and put on a posture to block the bridge deck layer by layer.
The speed of the Han army's infantry formation that formed the shield formation was not fast, and it could even be said that the speed of the advance was a little slow, and they would stop for a short time to adjust the loose formation every fifty steps forward, and they were also taking the opportunity to recover some physical strength.
"Watch your step."
"Yes."
It wasn't the heavy swordsman who came to the front row, it was from the people who were selected by their respective ranks.
The Han army was very particular about the formation of heavy infantry, the height could not be less than seven feet three inches, the Eastern Jin Dynasty 1 foot 245 cm, so it was about 180 cm, the skeleton should be large and strong, they usually trained the most physical fitness and foot formation, and the personal fighting skills were relatively less trained.
Xiao Qi, who walked in the front row, could look ahead through the gap in the shield, because the higher relationship in the middle of the bridge saw the bridge deck.
In fact, he mechanically listened to the beat of the war drums behind him, and the drums stopped as soon as they stopped.
The soldiers who can be used as the strikers are generally selected by the brave, and the robes standing side by side with Xiao Qi are the sharps according to the army.
They are the first group of people to meet the enemy in close quarters, and they are definitely the first to be attacked, and their psychological tolerance is very high.
The early Han army lacked self-confident soldiers, after all, their original living environment was very bad, not only bad under the arbitrary bullying of the Hu people, but also not to mention any dignity, it was Liu Yan who used the system troops to give them courage again and again for a long time, plus they participated in the war and won again and again before they gradually regained their courage, and even became unprecedentedly confident because of their continuous victories.
In Xiao Qi's sight, the enemy's head appeared in the distance first, and gradually the body was revealed.
He judged a little that his side should be about one hundred and forty steps away from the enemy, and subconsciously looked up at the sky, but his vision was blocked by the shield.
There were arrows flying in the sky, and it didn't look too dense.
The front end of the three bridges was full of mounted heavy infantry, which stretched from the front to the rear for nearly two hundred and forty paces, and behind the mounted heavy infantry was the bow and crossbow troops.
"Even if it is a strong crossbow, it will not have any lethal effect on the mounted heavy infantry at a distance of three hundred paces."
Li Jun was a member of the heavy infantry, and his troops were the lead of the attack, and he himself stayed on the south bank of the river, with a wagon with war drums on the side.
He looked at the situation ahead and said, "It seems that the effect of the attack is also very limited. ” The crossbow has a long range, its most powerful distance is about thirty paces, and the prismatic arrow can penetrate three layers of heavy armor, but no one will put the crossbow troops in front of the enemy when they are close to thirty paces, which means that they will engage after firing once.
And strong crossbowmen who don't have any melee support themselves will inevitably be slaughtered when they face the approach of melee troops.
Despite the limited attack, the Han army still fired crossbow arrows one after another, and even let the bed crossbow on the side of the river beach try to shoot it, but unfortunately the range of the bed crossbow could not reach the enemy.
Li Su was stunned at first when he saw the Han army's bed crossbow fired, and when he saw the crossbow arrow fired falling more than fifty steps away from his own troops, he couldn't help but show a mocking expression.
Even if they didn't know the Han army before, Shijie Zhao Jun suffered a heavy price in a row, especially the Shijie Zhao army here was abused by the Han army's long-range weapons for nearly ten days and came to a big collapse, no matter how stupid they were, they should gather intelligence and study the range of the Han army's various long-range weapons.
The Longteng guards who went up to the bridge deck stopped at the range of the Han army's long-range weapons that could cause serious damage according to the prompts from the rear, that is, Kankan was located in the north of the center of the bridge.
If you look at the three bridges, you will find a scene, that is, both sides have made the same move, there is no too unusual tricks, resulting in the heavy infantry of the two armies are crowded in front of the enemy in advance.
The rhythmic drum beat sounded again, and Xiao Qi followed many robes and let out a "drink" in his mouth, raised his shield and continued to follow the drum beat.
The pace of the battle of the mounted heavy infantry could not be as fast as it was wanted, and there were no troops participating in the battle, and some of the soldiers on both sides in the river beach could only hold their breath and watch.
The weather is hot, and the body is covered with multiple layers of armor, in fact, the heavy infantry on both sides should have been covered in sweat, and the sweat on their bodies will flow downward, gathering less into more and making the ground of the bridge appear water traces.
The two sides had been approaching each other to within thirty paces, and the Dragon Guard, who had not moved, suddenly burst out into a loud roar in unison, and some objects that looked like spears were thrown from the Dragon Guard's military formation.
More than one grassroots officer on the Han army's side is shouting: "Steady and steady" Almost as soon as the words fell, the sound of bumps and bumps sounded frequently, it was the spear thrown by the Dragon Guardian and hit the shield, and if the contact between the gun head and the shield could definitely be seen in the dark night, it was an instantaneous impact effect.
The act of throwing by the Dragon Guardian was wave after wave, and the shield in Xiao Qi's hand in the front row was hit twice in succession, and he could feel that the force generated was not light.
Ran Min, who was holding a monocular to watch, first sighed, turned his head to look at Li Tan, and said with some wondering: "Why didn't we think of this trick?"
Li Tan really didn't know how to answer, they valued strong crossbows, bed crossbows, stone throwing carts and other ordnance, and they really forgot about the throwing guns that had been used in ancient times.
He touched the beard on his chin and said, "You can learn from it, you can learn from it."
In the future, it is necessary to add gun throwing training, and even equip the equipped foot soldiers with small axes for close throwing. ” Ran Min nodded, looking very interested in the suggestion mentioned by Li Tan.
Li Jun, who was staying in the rear command headquarters, was actually stunned for a moment when he saw the enemy throwing spears, and after paying attention to the fact that his troops did not have casualties, he put down his heart.
He inevitably had an idea that he could learn from, just thinking about it and quickly focusing his attention and ordering the drummer next to him to speed up the rhythm of the drum.
Thirty steps is a matter of running for a few seconds for other troops, but it is difficult for heavy infantry with heavy loads to run quickly, they can only move forward step by step.
When the two sides approached within twenty paces, the Dragons stopped throwing their spears, and the Dragons in the front row could be seen tightening the distance between each other and stacking their shields as much as possible.
They don't know what they're shouting when they do this, and they sound loud but noisy.
The rest of the spectators.
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On the north bank of the Yellow River, the Shijie Zhao army erupted in shouts, and I don't know how many people were shouting, and the sound was so loud that it could drown out the sound of drums and trumpets.
On the south bank of the Yellow River, the Han soldiers kept quiet.
Xiao Qi visually measured the distance between the two sides, and there would be no more than ten steps between each other.
He clenched the shield in his hand, subconsciously turned his head slightly to look to the side, and the voice of the officer came to his ears, and he saw that one spear after another was passing forward.
"Prepare to engage the enemy.
Hold the shield and control the spear in pairs" The sound of metal grinding was so slight in the noise, the Han military equipment and heavy infantry under the protection of the shield, they were doing all kinds of actions according to the orders of the officers, each shield in the front was the sergeant to advance with his shoulder, the people in the second row used the shields to interlock each other into hands on the back of the robe in front of them, and then the people who were ready to poke their spears out of the hole in the shield stabbing hole.
The battlefield was full of noisy sounds, and a neat and loud "Han army might" was roared, and the next moment the shields of the two armies collided with each other, and the roar of metal once drowned out other sounds.
Since the rhythm of the battlefield was controlled by the Han army, the engagement of the three bridges basically took place in succession, and after the three huge collision sounds, whether it was the sound of war drums, horns and noise, it was a meal.
The next moment was that the heavy infantry of the two armies after the engagement were pushing each other with their shields, the sound of metal friction between the shields, the friction of the shield base stuck on the ground, and the sound of trumpets being shouted in unison, they became the mainstream of the battlefield.
The contest between the mounted heavy infantry is really a wrestling of strength, they are separated by a layer of shields, and if they want to swing or stab their weapons, there must be space.
There is no space, the comparison is which side has enough strength, that is, desperately pushing each other, resulting in the shield wall on each other wrestling back and forth, watching until the shield wall of one side cracks.
"It's a bit stupid."
Ran Min can use the monocular to carefully observe the battlefield: "Our shield has an interlocking device, and it can be held with something like a door bolt, which will be stronger than the enemy's shield wall, but is it just like that", he said halfway through what he saw and seemed to stop.
This time it was Shijie Zhao Jun who made a surprising move, the front of the two armies was a shield wall pushing each other, but there were soldiers behind them who climbed on the foothold composed of the shield wall, watching the soldiers who were not wearing heavy armor stepping on the shield forward, jumping to the top of the Han army's shield array, and smashing with heavy weapons such as maces and flails.
Of course, the Han soldiers who were in the shield array noticed the situation above, and after reacting, they stabbed their spears upwards from below, regardless of whether they would hit or not, anyway, they kept expanding and stabbing back and forth.
Li Su didn't have a telescope, he squinted his eyes to watch the development of the battle situation, and when his Donggong Gaoli ran to the Han army's shield array and smashed it, he still had a sense of expectation, and he didn't have a too special expression when he saw the Han army's shield array constantly poking out spears.
There was already Donggong Gaoli on the Jianjin side, but Shi Xuan went to Chaoge to preside over the battle and brought most of it.
Donggong Gao Li is a group of powerful guys, they come from all ethnic groups, and they are the murderous people carefully selected by Shi Xuan.
Trying to attack from the top, they are now facing a sharp spear that could be stabbed from below at any moment, and they are definitely lucky to be hit on the bottom of their feet, and worse are to be stabbed in the egg.
Whether it is the soles of the feet, the legs, or the eggs, Donggong Gaoli will inevitably fall down if he is injured, and if he falls, he will have the consciousness that his body will be stabbed into a rag, and their reaction is quite fast, after the Han army counterattacked, they gave up the attack and retreated, and they really ran back for the most part, and some of the people who really couldn't retreat back and were still alive jumped into the boiling river fiercely.
"This trick can also be learned."
Li Tan didn't know when, holding a piece of writing in his left hand and a brush in his right hand, he said while writing it down: "There are really a lot of tricks for them, and they are completely worth learning from." ” Ran Min seemed to make a pouting gesture, not hiding his disgust: "The combat mode of the Han army has always been very rigid, and it is long overdue to try to diversify." ” "That's not what I said."
Li Tan retorted to Ran Min rarely, and said: "Like the Zhao army that we are constantly fighting against, their generals don't know how much they envy the rigidity of our troops. ” "Ben is not going to talk about discipline and resilience."
Ran Min was really disgusted, and said: "Ben will talk about the hard encounters that come and go, and the battles are also the ones that come and go." ” "This is true" Li Tan couldn't deny it, and said with a wry smile: "The arrow array attacks, the rest rushes, the rest is blocked, the arrow array attacks, the arrow array is finished, and the rest rushes."
Back and forth, that's the trick. ” It was the first time Ran Min heard that sentence like a tongue twister, tasted it, laughed out loud with a burst of "haha", patted his thigh and said: "Just this trick, the big man has also laid a huge territory." ”: