Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 476 Fighting in the Army Formation

Chapter 476 Fighting in the Army Formation

"However, Zhu Wei's army is under my investigation, so what can the demon girl do, unless..."

I don't know why, but Sun Ce still felt a little uneasy. He felt that Huang Zhong's attraction to come here might not have been random. Could it be that Wang Yuyan really had some kind of ambush here.

Sun Ce's heart skipped a beat, unless it was Zhu Wei who had reinforcements coming from Jingzhou. In that case, Huang Zhong led his troops back to Dantu County. Could it be that he wanted to meet Zhu Wei's Jingzhou reinforcements and then fight back against him? ?

At the first moment, Sun Ce thought about withdrawing his troops directly to avoid Zhu Wei's main force, but after thinking about it, these were all his own speculations, maybe not necessarily what he thought.

Of course, it doesn't matter if Zhu Wei has reinforcements coming from Jingzhou, if you want to fight, let's fight!

At this moment, the weather has gradually reached the third quarter of the afternoon (more than two o'clock), and the temperature has reached the hottest time of the day.

Dantu County was under the rule of Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, the county was named Guyang. After the Qin State unified the world, Qin Shihuang heard that there was a son of heaven in Guyang, so he ordered three thousand Zheyi disciples to dig the southeast ridge of Jingxian Mountain to defeat it. Qi, and then changed Gu Yang's name to Dantu.

In fact, Dantu County is not without mountains. In the southwest of Dantu County, there are also Maoshan Mountains, many hills and hills, and a vast forest area covered by mountains and forests. However, the county seat of Dantu County is now located. It is close to the Yangtze River and located in an open and low-level position in the polder area along the river.

This Dantu county town can be regarded as standing among the surrounding low flat polders and river ditches.

Dantu County is not very big, and the city walls of the county seat are relatively low and dilapidated. In fact, it is not a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Therefore, the soldiers led by Huang Zhong simply set up an army formation at a slightly higher ground outside the south gate of Dantu County, preparing to face the soldiers and horses that Sun Ce was chasing here.

For a while, the Baqian God Arrow Battalion led by Huang Zhong was divided into almost three formations according to the terrain. Basically, the outer formations consisted of sword and shield fighters, while the inner core consisted of crossbowmen and archers.

Huang Zhong is naturally located in the middle army formation. Behind him is a flag-bearer holding a flag with the word "yellow" high, and there are also some messengers holding flags and banners of orders. There are also a group of soldiers around Huang Zhong. guard.

As for Sun Ce's side with more than 1 soldiers and horses, they formed several queues and slowly approached here.

One mile away from the army formed by Huang Zhong, Sun Ce drove his troops to form an attacking formation. Following the orders of low-level officers such as the military marquis and the commander of the army, he drove the soldiers towards the army formed by Huang Zhong step by step. Array close.

"Kill! Kill!"

Sun Ce didn't have any idea of ​​challenging or making an appointment to fight. When he led his troops here, he directly urged his soldiers to go up and attack Zhu Wei's army. So four to 5000 of Sun Ce's more than [-] soldiers shouted loudly, Charge towards the direction of Zhu Weijun.

But Huang Zhong watched Sun Ce drive his soldiers and horses to charge up, but he also stroked his long beard, and said in a deep voice, "Steady the formation and shoot!"

"Here!", "Here!"

The orderly soldiers beside Huang Zhong agreed, and then waved the command flag in their hands, and the soldiers lined up around them also ordered in their mouths, "Kill...kill...kill!"

Within the formation of Huang Zhong's army, the archers first bent down and pulled the strings, and threw feathered arrows at the rushing Sun Ce soldiers. In a short time, more than [-] feathered arrows flew into the air along with the bowstrings, and when they reached the highest point, under the action of gravity, Sun Ce's army rushed over and fell down.

"Whoosh whoosh..."

"Raise your shield to defend, hurry up!"

Seeing this, some military officers and Sima in Sun Ce's army also greeted the surrounding soldiers to guard against arrows, and then they raised the double-curved shields in their left hands to protect the vital points such as the head, neck, and heart. Leading the soldiers quickly rushed forward against the incoming feather arrows.

"Puff puff……"

Many feathered arrows fell down and naturally pierced into the bodies of many Sun Ce soldiers. Even though some soldiers protected their vital points, the feathered arrows still pierced into other unprotected areas on their bodies.

Most of these Sun Ce soldiers are new soldiers, and they were temporarily recruited by Sun Ce to transform young men, so many new soldiers may not wear leather armor, they just wear ordinary civilian clothes.

In this way, the new soldiers were shot by the feather arrows, and the iron arrows pierced into their bodies almost without hindrance. Many of Sun Ce's soldiers were injured even if they did not die.

"Ah... uh..."

Quite a number of Sun Ce's soldiers fell to the ground with pain in their mouths, and were immediately covered by the footsteps of other soldiers. Almost no one cared about their lives and deaths. If they stayed in place on the battlefield, they would be seeking their own death, and it would be in vain. become a target.

Now, the only way to make the enemy's bows and arrows dare not attack easily is to rush into Zhu Weijun's formation and fight together with the enemy. Although these Sun Ce soldiers are all new soldiers, they also understand this truth, so how dare they stay where they are.

Even some pawns who were hit by the feathered arrows did not dare to stop, as long as the feathered arrows did not affect their movements, they would continue to move forward quickly.

"Archery!"

Soon another round of feathered arrows from Zhu Weijun came, and hundreds of Sun Ce's soldiers were either killed or injured. Of course, at this time, archers in Sun Ce's army village also began to shoot feather arrows in the direction of Zhu Weijun's formation.

It's just that the archers on Sun Ce's side can't form an army formation in the battle and exert a covering countermeasure with feather arrows. Naturally, the archers on Zhu Wei's side will deal with these opponents who will threaten them at the first time. It is impossible to give Sun Ce's archers a chance to gather together.

Therefore, the archers on Sun Ce's side could only hide in various places, throwing feather arrows at Zhu Weijun scatteredly, threatening the lives of Zhu Weijun's soldiers here and there.

Of course, there were shields in Zhu Weijun who were protecting the arrows at the right time, but there were still a few soldiers who were hit by arrows and died or were injured in the army formation. This is also inevitable on the battlefield.

In this way, Sun Ce's soldiers slowly approached within about 1000 steps of Zhu Weijun's formation. At this time, the crossbowmen in Zhuwei's army also began to shoot arrows. About [-] crossbowmen were divided into three groups in the central army formation where Huang Zhong was. He stopped and shot crossbow arrows at Sun Ce's soldiers.

These crossbow arrows, which are sharp weapons in the army, are more powerful than feather arrows. Even though Sun Ce's soldiers used double arc hand shields to protect their vitals, there were still soldiers who kept falling over on the way to charge.

It's just that Huang Zhong concentrated all the crossbowmen in the central army formation, but there were no crossbowmen on the two wings to stop the enemy, so Sun Ce's soldiers finally rushed to the front of Zhu Wei's two wing formations, and began to fight with Zhu at the front of the two wing formations. The guards started a close fight.

Although there were swords and shields protecting the formation in front of Zhu Weijun's formation, the continuous collision of Sun Ce's soldiers would naturally break through the front line, so the soldiers of both sides fought hand-to-hand here...

(End of this chapter)