Chapter 333

The shield array of the Han army is no stranger to the Shijie Zhao army. It first appeared in the battle of Xuzhou. In this battle, 10000 soldiers of the Han army formed an army array to fight 80000 Shijie Zhao army, showing the terrorist power brought by the shield array and powerful crossbows for the first time.

The straight line forming the shield array kept moving forward slowly, and the crossbow soldiers following the advance in the rear fired at least 1000 crossbows and arrows almost every breath. The continuous rain of crossbows and arrows, coupled with the strong crossbow diffusion in the rear, formed an absolute suppression on the Zhao army in Shijie, making it difficult for the archers sent by Yao Yizhong to have a trace of counterattack.

The sword and shield soldiers of the Han Army rushed into the trench. They carried small round shields and held swords. As soon as they entered the trench, they met the enemy. The fierce fight was staged from the first moment of the encounter between the two sides.

Dou'a first used a wooden mallet to block the attack with a shield. The next moment was to chop out the sword in his hand. The blade hit the enemy's neck, and the blood rushed out of the split position.

An enemy spear forced doua to crouch with a shield. The sound of metal collision exploded. He was pushed back by great force and staggered back for two steps, but youpaoze crossed him and killed the enemy at this time.

When dou'a regained his body and was ready to fight again, several paoze were advancing side by side with shields in front. They cooperated with each other to cover each other and block weapons for their comrades in arms. They would seize the opportunity to give a fatal blow to the enemy soldiers.

The trench was dug by the Qiang troops in nearly ten days. The depth should be about one foot, causing the groundwater to overflow to the knees. Every step forward is wading with water and soil at the bottom.

The shield array formed by the Han Army had to split when it was close to the trench. It became a long-term shield array. After splitting again and again, it became an irregular small shield array, which was also an opportunity for the Qiang troops to counterattack.

When the shield array of the Han Army splits, the long-range troops of the Han Army lose their cover. At that time, the archers of the Qiang nationality will be driven by the officers to come out of their hiding places and fight back against the arrow rain.

Most Qiang archers have no chance to shoot an arrow at all, but even if only a small number of Qiang archers successfully shoot an arrow, it will kill and kill the crossbow soldiers on the side of the Han army.

There will never be a lack of scream and death on the battlefield. The red blood from the human body will flow on the earth, and more blood will gather into a stream. They will successfully meet in low-lying areas and become a fishy blood pool.

Dou A is now another division commander. The quality of his armor will be better than that of ordinary soldiers. It can be seen that the armor left traces of sharp tools in the fight just now.

The reason why the death rate of officers is lower than that of ordinary soldiers is not only that the number of officers is less than that of soldiers, nor that officers always stay in a safe position. In fact, the main reason is that officers are equipped with better armor than soldiers.

Look at the marks on doua's armor. If the blows fell on ordinary soldiers, the soldiers without armor would be dead. They could not be saved by wearing leather armor. Ordinary iron armor should also be damaged, but he was only injured in some parts without armor.

"All right, rush too far ahead. We'll fight and retreat."

The long-range attack of the Han Army has not stopped. Although it deliberately avoided the position of the trench, there will still be some stray arrows falling. If the Han soldiers who are unlucky enough to be shot dead by their own arrows at this time, there is no reason.

Doua's sword and shield soldiers did not just fight and retreat. When they retreated, they did not forget to cut off the heads of the enemy's war dead. Who let the Han Army record merit with the heads of the enemy.

When the sword and shield soldiers in the trench retreat for a distance, they will stop and build a front on the spot. After the enemy comes back, they push forward again, often fighting in the trench. Their main responsibility is to block the enemy in the trench and prevent the enemy from threatening their long-range forces through the trench.

The battle on the ground was the most intense. 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 200 steps, and only the strong crossbow troops still formed an arrow array to cover the positions beyond 200 steps.

"It's really elite. The enemy would have collapsed and retreated as usual."

"Yes, they didn't collapse."

In fact, whether a soldier is elite or not is not simply distinguished by whether his martial arts are superb. He is truly elite if he can absolutely obey military orders and has extraordinary willpower. Otherwise, if you can fight again, you will ignore military orders, and even there is no military law to speak of. What's the use of farting.

The atmosphere at the top of the Han army is becoming more serious. The more elite the Qiang troops attacking, the more determined they are to represent Yao Yizhong. The decisive battle has begun from the moment Yao Yizhong sent the elite at hand. This war will win or lose in recent days.

"It's time to order that the peripheral forces do their best to attack." Ji Chang pointed to the flag of the Qiang army, which was less than a mile away from the battlefield: "Yao Yizhong personally supervised the war, and the troops around him..."

Where the flag is represents where the commander is. There are many Qiang troops around Yao Yizhong. They are the same soldiers wearing armor, including armored infantry and sudden cavalry. In addition to that part of the elite, there are more ordinary Qiang soldiers. People and horses are integrated into a large area.

Yes, it's a decisive stage anyway.

Yao Yizhong set out to attack the northern camp of the Han Army, but it can not be ruled out that it is just a cover up, because now the attack is in four directions.

The fighting scale of the other three areas may not be as large as that of the north, and the degree of cruelty is really not lost to the North battlefield. There is infantry fighting in the west, and there is a mixed confrontation between walking and riding in the East and south.

Liu Yan's two-way reinforcements are not too far from Luoyin. The 20000 step cavalry crossing the river from Licheng is less than 20 miles from Luoyin battlefield, and the 30000 cavalry in Kan county is far away.

Kan county has successfully broken through the blocking of huyansheng all the way. Although they are thirty miles away from Luoyin, don't forget that they are cavalry.

For the cavalry with more than one person and horses, galloping with all their strength means that they can arrive in one or two hours. The difference is how huyansheng will be blocked, or how much combat power can be left after galloping. The only thing that can be confirmed is that the armour and riding gear of Huben army should be abandoned after marching at full speed for more than ten miles.

The high level of the Han army is discussing how to deal with the war situation, and the Qiang army is also conducting similar discussions.

Yao Yizhong's decision is very simple. He will attack again, even at night. Since the general attack began, he will fight to the end, just because Liu Yan's reinforcements are really coming.

"If Liu Yan's reinforcements can't attack the Han Army camp before they arrive..." Yao Yizhong said indefinitely, "there's only one way to withdraw."

The eldest husband should have a choice. Yao Yizhong would rather be blamed by Shi Hu than consume his people for a war doomed to failure.

Is it true that Yao Yizhong didn't know that the Yellow River was in danger of being blocked? Absolutely not. He blocked the estuary of the Yellow River with a large number of sundries to prevent the ships of the Han army from coming from the sea. However, recently, a large number of Han troops appeared along Le'an county. Jianqi reported that the Han troops were wantonly salvaging the sundries in the river channel. Anning didn't know that he was dredging the river channel to prepare for the arrival of the fleet?

According to the estimates of the Qiang people, with the flow of the river itself and the dredging of the Han Army, the Yellow River may be unblocked as soon as a month. At that time, the Han Army's fleet will certainly come.

Yao Yizhong knew that the navy in the Han Dynasty was very strong and thought that Liu Yan would definitely block the Yellow River, but what he couldn't think of was that Liu Yan had prepared a fleet in the Chenzi River, which had begun to move towards the Yellow River. No accident, he would arrive at the yellow river around the main battlefield in two days and block the river section.

The war in the East has been interrupted. The cavalry of the Han army not only defeated the attacking Qiang troops, but also once attacked the Qiang camp in that direction, forcing the Qiang troops in that direction to abandon the front of the camp.

The war on the south side is still fierce. Yao Yizhong attaches great importance to the south side of the Han military camp. He is worried that once the siege fails, the Han cavalry will go to meet the source's friendly forces. If this situation is really caused, it will be quite bad.

Because of his attention, Yao Yizhong continued to send more troops to the local battlefield in the south. As soon as there were many belligerents, it would be bad for the Han cavalry. After all, even the sudden cavalry dare not charge against the dense crowd. The charge in this situation is extremely uneconomical. It is definitely a loss for the sudden cavalry to exchange less than three to one when fighting with infantry, let alone even the ratio of three to one.

As a matter of fact, as long as the infantry are dense enough and the infantry are not scared to collapse by the momentum of the cavalry, I'm afraid only armor and riding equipment will launch an assault on the infantry in a dense formation.

There are always exceptions, such as commanders who don't care about casualties. Liu Yan doesn't care about the casualties of the system troops, but he won't be soft hearted and hesitate too much when necessary.

The sudden cavalry of the Han Army in the South rushed one after another to the dense group of Qiang infantry. The scene was the sound of heavy horse hoofs in rows after rows, and then hit them hard at a speed of about 70 miles. When a horse collides with a man, the knight on the horse will be thrown out by inertia, let alone without stirrups and saddles. The person hit by the war horse will fall back at that moment because his internal organs are broken and his mouth and nose spew blood.

In front of the Qiang troops here, they were charged by the sudden cavalry of the Han Army at any cost, but behind them, there was a show that the supervisor team kept killing the soldiers who turned and fled.

To put it bluntly, Yao Yizhong is really a red eye. He expects to attack for only five days. If he can't see the hope of victory in more than five days, he will definitely withdraw. There won't even be any room for negotiation.

Since even the date of withdrawal has been calculated, Yao Yizhong will certainly not forget to estimate how many people can be sacrificed. His bottom line is 100000. If he thinks more, his hands and feet will tremble and cold sweat will burst out. It must be said that among the 100000 people he expected to sacrifice, zahu and Jin accounted for 70%.

The so-called 100000 people to be sacrificed did not count the previous losses. Yao Yizhong lost nearly 90000 people in the first six days of the offensive. Not all of the casualties were killed in battle. About 40000 people should have died directly in battle, and the rest were disabled or temporarily lost their combat effectiveness. Most of the casualties were on the side of the cavalry reinforcements intercepting the Han army. More than 10000 were annihilated by the Huben army alone.

The war process still didn't stop at noon. Relatively speaking, the East was the area with the lowest intensity in the whole war. The worst was not the north, but the South repeatedly impacted by the sudden cavalry of the Han army.

"Where did Liu Yan get so many sudden cavalry?" Yao Yizhong couldn't figure it out: "how could he be willing to consume the precious sudden cavalry like this!"

The Qiang troops in the southern battlefield have collapsed twice. You know, the cavalry really rushed and collided directly at any cost. The momentum is really not ordinary, and the casualties caused to the infantry are not much, especially the psychological shadow caused to the impacted party is more difficult to describe.

"We threw in nearly 13000 people, and the Han Army felt bad. We should have lost nearly 3000 sudden riders." Cao Yao is one of the many SIMAS in Shijie Zhao state, and Sima's official position is really not low. He was also full of incomprehension: "we use miscellaneous soldiers to pile up, and they exchange them for elite soldiers?"

Yao Yizhong wants to think optimistically in the direction that Liu Yan is forced to hurry, but he feels very wrong when he thinks about it a little.

There is nothing wrong with the general offensive launched by the Qiang army. The north, as the main attack, is firmly blocked away from a hundred steps, and the other feint directions are unlikely to be close to the Han Army camp.

Again, Yao Yizhong has just been reported again that the Han troops on the periphery of the two routes are launching fierce attacks, especially the Han Army dominated by riding troops has continuously broken through the two blocking lines set up by huyansheng.

[is it that the Han army here is the end of a powerful crossbow?] Yao Yizhong really can't guess how many Han troops are surrounded. Every time he guesses that a certain number will be overthrown in the next battle, he is a little uncertain and thinks: [it's not impossible! Without a single soldier entering the surrounded Han Army camp under the strict blockade, Liu Yan will become a soldier!]

Maybe I think we should force again. It is very likely that we can find out the bottom of Liu Yan. Yao Yizhong not only increased his troops in the north, but also changed the feint on the other three sides.

When Yao Yizhong's actions were noticed by the high-level Han Army, except that Liu Yan was calm, several counselors were anxious.

"Sir, our military disadvantage is too obvious!" Ji Chang didn't know what he was thinking. He scared himself. His forehead was full of cold sweat. He even said, "according to this trend, Jun Shang... Maybe he should be ready to break through?"

The others didn't speak, but they all held the same meaning. At the beginning, they felt that Liu Yan was too risky to use himself as bait. Now Yao Yizhong was obviously crazy and stormed regardless of casualties. They felt that even if tens of thousands of troops were buried here, Liu Yan couldn't have anything to do.

"Ha ha." Liu Yan was still laughing. After laughing, he said, "consumption war? I like it!"

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I had insomnia last night. My mind was a little empty. It took six hours to code four thousand words. That's all for today.