Chapter 554: The First Wave of Attacks

This is a meadow, because autumn has come, the grass has withered and yellowed, and the dry leaves are swaying in vain in the wind.

Huang Zhong occupied a small earthen bag that was only about five or six meters high, and it was also the only one in the vicinity that could be regarded as a relatively high terrain, and he set up a military formation on the slightly sloping slope.

And Sun Jian is on the flat ground to line up accordingly.

The autumn wind was bleak, and the flags of both sides crackled, but it could not blow away the strong fighting spirit of both sides.

Sun Jian looked at the yellow-lettered banner opposite, and also saw the middle-aged general under the yellow-lettered general, and groaned for a while, hmm......

I don't know.

But it's certainly not a good general.

There is nothing wrong with that small dirt bag being regarded as a relatively good terrain, how can you only look at one aspect of the problem as a general?

In order to occupy a small geographical advantage, he did not hesitate to line up in advance.

There's nothing wrong with being ready for battle, but do you know what the courage of the three drums is?

came slowly, just to be able to move the body, and the other party stood in the autumn wind for nearly an hour, and his hands and feet must be stiff!

Besides, it's past noon, and the sun is about to start to deflect, and once the sun is deflected, that little dirt bag will be directly oblique to the sun!

One general is incompetent and kills the three armies!

A trace of ridicule appeared at the corner of Sun Jian's mouth, he raised his sword and burst into a shout, breaking the silence of the confrontation between the two armies!

The war drums that suddenly exploded like thunder, like gushing magma, rose from the two opposing armies, soared into the sky, and then fell to the ground, covering the sky and the sun in an instant, with endless surging battle intent, across the ground less than two hundred meters between the two armies, and collided together.

To the sound of war drums, the armies of both sides rushed out of the first column of soldiers, and the vanguard of 200 men each stepped on the ground and carried wooden shields, and began to advance under the orders of their respective songs.

Behind them, the archers also half-bent over, into the range of each other's fire, one by one sharp arrows with a terrible sound of breaking through the air, pounced on each other's positions.

In mid-air, the arrows of both sides staggered......

This is the standard field offensive method of the Han army, and so far, the mode, number of people, and deployment of the teams on both sides are exactly the same. The Han army continued the combat mode of the former Qin, and generally speaking, they would first use archers to test and attack, especially if both sides were mainly foot soldiers, it would be a standardized attack mode.

As for the stupid mode of stepping forward to fight, you must stand outside the range of the bow and arrow, otherwise you may not be able to say that the other party's mind will move, and you will directly shoot ten thousand arrows and die......

The front-line soldiers on both sides shouted in unison, and the sword and shield men divided into three rows raised their shields, the front one squatted and leaned on his shoulders, the second row was half-bent over the shield of the first row, and the third row was standing and raised his shield into the sky, and the exposed archers hurriedly shrank into the shield wall......

The arrows crackled like a torrential rain on lotus leaves, and it was like death tapping the shield walls on both sides with his own fingers.

At this time, what is tested is the command ability of the soldiers in the front of both sides, the courage and training of the soldiers......

After the first wave of arrow rain, the shield arrays of the two sides couldn't help but stagger a little, revealing the sharp tips of the arrows that had been bent on the bows, and then the second wave of arrows were shot into the sky almost the same......

Not much different.

But there is still a gap, for example, like a sprint of 100 meters, it may be less than a second, but it is like the difference between heaven and earth.

The soldiers on Sun Jian's side completed the whole set of coordination actions faster, so Sun Jian's arrows arrived so early that several soldiers were shot because they couldn't dodge, and they immediately fell to the ground in a miserable howl......

Sun Jian stared at the soldiers in front of him with blazing eyes, like this kind of encounter between the two sides, no one would stupidly put all the troops into it, and he had to pay attention to the surrounding situation, and only after seeing the slight superiority of the soldiers in front of him did he show a satisfied smile.

Of course, not only the hundreds of people in the front were trying to attack, but the mixed formations of light cavalry and foot soldiers on the left and right flanks were also attacking and testing each other.

The light cavalry and the war horse were like scimitars, constantly spinning, cutting, touching and breaking away in an instant, leaving only the victims dyed red and yellow.

Han Dang observed for a moment, snorted softly, and said next to Sun Jian: "Lord, their cavalry foundation is good!" We're a little tight on both wings. ”

Sun Jian also shifted his gaze, nodded, and said, "These are veterans!" Herald! Let the left and right wings be dragged and you must not take the initiative to attack! ”

The herald behind Sun Jian hurriedly began to wave the flag representing the cavalry in his hand, and then waited until the soldiers on the left and right flanks shook the flag left and right to indicate that they had received the flag order before stopping.

Sun Jian knew that the left and right wings would suffer, but it didn't matter, after all, the left and right wings combined were only more than a hundred people, and the focus was still on the main infantry formation in the center, as long as the main formation on the opposite side was broken, even if the opponent's soldiers of less than 100 cavalry were strong, how could they compete with their own mixed cavalry infantry troops?

Moreover, the advantage of Sun Jian's side of the entire central battle formation has been expanding over time, and the expansion of this advantage is an avalanche......

Archers don't have much effect on sword and shield soldiers, such an attack is just to hit the morale of the other side, but more to compete with the ability of the generals of both sides to transfer troops, whoever collapses first will be finished.

Sun Jian tilted his head and said to Han Dang: "The temptation is almost over, it's time for the second wave, Yigong, you take the soldiers, no matter what, pull a hole in the middle for me!" ”

Han Dang snapped his fists, without saying a word, and turned to the front line of Sun Jian's army.

"Boom! Knock knock! Knock knock! Sure enough, as Sun Jian expected, the second drum beat sounded on the opposite hill, and a group of soldiers began to respond to the drum and move forward.

Han Dang, who was in front of the Chinese army, looked back at Sun Jian, and when he saw Sun Jian nodding, he tightened the spear in his hand and shouted loudly: "Beat the drum!" Enter! ”

Since he was going to lead the foot soldiers to break through the central formation, it was naturally impossible for Han Dang to rush forward on horseback, otherwise he would not be able to increase his speed, and he would become the target of the opponent's archers, so Han Dang dismounted and mixed in the second row of foot soldiers, advancing forward with the entire battle formation......

The archers in front of the formation began to separate to the sides, giving way to the follow-up troops to attack, and the archers on Huang Zhong's side obviously left more corpses on the ground than Sun Jian, obviously suffering greater losses.

The second wave of soldiers on both sides finally rushed to the front, and a scuffle was about to begin......