Chapter 6: The Fierce Battle (I)

The right flank of the Anju Army, where Yu Wenwen was located, performed well, but the center and left flank were not so lucky.

Because the middle village of the Anzhou army was the key point of the breakthrough of the southern army, they relied on the large number of people to forcibly break through the tide of foot soldiers, and gradually squeezed the Anzhou army lined up outside the camp and retreated.

The southern army was not afraid of death, and in hand-to-hand combat, the left flank of the Anzhou army was forced to suffer heavy casualties and could not help retreating, and as soon as the left flank retreated, the middle army formation was prominent.

They were well prepared, forming a shield formation with a large shield body, and the soldiers in the back row stabbed the enemy with spears, and turned into a thorny turtle with the blocking of the big shield, so that the opponent could not get close.

But the southern army seemed to have been prepared, several soldiers carried a spear in a group, followed by two big men with big shoulders and round waists, holding wooden mallets, I saw them aim their spears at the shield of the Anzhou army, the two big men picked up the mallet, struck the tail of the spear, and nailed the spear into the shield array like a pile.

The mallet slammed at the end of the spear, and the spear that continued to advance first pierced the shield and then the Anzhou army soldiers behind it, and then the second layer of shields and the soldiers behind it, so that the Anzhou army suffered heavy casualties.

Behind the shield array, the defenders on the wall of the middle wall of the wall leaned out and bent their bows on the wall composed of wooden fences, trying to support their comrades outside the wall, but the enemy archers were more numerous, ready to deal with these soldiers who dared to take the lead.

If the archers of Anzhou want to support the soldiers under the wall, they have to let the opponent's archers release their arrows unscrupulously, and if they suppress the opponent's archers, their own infantry will not have support, and the casualties will be increasing.

Behind these shield arrays is the wooden fence wall of Zhongzhai, if the opponent breaks through the military formation and breaks through the wall, rushes in from the gap in hand-to-hand combat, then Zhongzhai will not be too far from the loss, because the number of Anzhou troops is at a disadvantage, and the left and right two villages can not be carried for long.

As a fence of the three small villages, the defenders can only be compressed inside and outside the main village and wait for death, the camp is broken, the enemy is on three sides, the east is the river, there is no escape, there is only a dead end.

The Anzhou defenders in the middle wall were also anxious, and many soldiers fell directly from the wall and entered the battle, and now it is still the first wave of attack to be forced to such an extent, I am afraid that they will not be able to stay up in the evening.

In order to prevent the cavalry from impacting the three small villages, the gates of the village are open in the direction of the main village, and now the two wings of the village are the enemy and the enemy, and the two sides are in hand-to-hand combat, so to support the comrades in front of the village, they can only go directly over the wall.

Seeing that the middle was not good, the right-wing Yu Wenwen decided to make a 'big news'.

The trumpet sounded, and the four phalanxes that were originally in the shape of "┻" began to be agitated, and the left and right flanks of the phalanx rushed forward, stabbing the enemy troops in front of them one by one, and then stepping on the corpses and moving forward until they were parallel to the front formation, and finally the formation became "┳" shape.

The soldiers of the Southern Army were completely helpless against this hedgehog-like spear formation, the dense spears stabbed anyone who dared to rush in into corpses, and they watched the entire formation move forward without any way.

The gap in front of the phalanx was filled by the second echelon of the Anzhou Army behind it, and the spear formation in the shape of a '┳' formation completely protruded from the right flank and then stopped, and then the whole phalanx began to move slowly to the left, like a bulldozer with a problem engine moving slowly but firmly.

"Rush in, rush in and hack them to death!"

The soldiers of the Southern Army roared and rushed towards the spear array, they had seen such a strange spear formation, the other party actually used all the spears as melee weapons, so as long as they could block the spears and stick them in, they would win!

They didn't know what happened to the left wing comrades when they attacked, they only knew that they could win if they rushed in hand-to-hand combat, and the knife player was sideways, blocking in front of him with a shield in his left hand, and approaching the phalanx with a knife in his right hand.

A knife player noticed a spear poking him in the face, and quickly raised his shield to block the spear, but just as he was relieved, he stepped on the calf in front of him and was stabbed in the face by another spear, and the pain came, and his body was unstable, and he was stabbed in the face by the spear that followed, and he was killed on the spot.

However, the experienced veterans did not wait so honestly for the spear to stab people, and some of them took advantage of the spear to stab in the air, grabbed the head of the spear violently, and then waved the long knife in their hand, and slashed at the barrel behind the spear head, intending to break the spear head.

The guns are gone, I'll see how you stab people!

When the long knife was slashed, it shook violently, and the tiger's mouth was numb, and he fixed his eyes to see where the guard about three feet long behind the head of the spear had been cut, and at that moment another spear came and stabbed him to death.

Some veterans were ruthless, taking advantage of the stabbing of their comrades in front of them, pushing them forward as human shields, and wearing them on spears like abacus beads to push.

However, another spear in the phalanx stabbed the corpse of his comrade, and then stabbed the man behind the human shield.

The spear is too dense, so dense that it dodges the first shot and the second and third shots!

Even if a few fish slipped through the net, before they could make a move, they were chopped by a soldier with a strange long axe next to the pikeman, and the long axe had long thorns to stab people, hooks to tear off shields, or hooked calves to hook people down.

Energetically, he picked up the spear from the ground, and threw the broken knife or something into the spear array to the point that it could hurt people, but it didn't take long for crossbowmen to appear in the phalanx to aim at people is an arrow.

The crossbowmen relied on the fact that no one could get close to the gun, so they calmly wound up, put the crossbow arrows and then aimed, and the cold arrows were frequent, and many people were killed by the crossbow arrows before they had time to fight with the spear.

Originally, I wanted to transfer my own archers, but the archers in the opponent's camp also needed to be suppressed, and the archers without the shield car as cover had to fight against the archers with the enemy's cover, and they were completely at a disadvantage.

Under a siege, the soldiers of the southern army suffered numerous casualties but could not break the formation, the casualties of the other side were simply negligible compared to their own, and the heavy casualties of those soldiers who dared to challenge the spear formation on their own side caused others to be a little overwhelmed.

The pikemen not only pierced the face, shoulders, and even the calves and even the soles of the feet that the shield could not block were one of the targets, and it didn't matter if the spearmen in the first row missed the stabs, the soldiers in the first four rows made up for the leaks layer by layer, and finally the soldiers of the Southern Army who were lucky enough to get close could not escape the axes and halberds in the hands of the halberders: stabbing, chopping, and hooking.

The gun formation kept moving slowly to the left, although very slowly but unswervingly, and the dense drums sounded one after another, and the soldiers advanced with the drums according to the rhythm of their daily drills.

Not to be outdone, several people formed a group and rushed into the phalanx: three people held large shields that could block their whole bodies in front of them, and then they rushed in several rows in a row of three.

They thought that the shield hand in front of them would rush into the spear forest and then scatter and attack, and sacrifice their lives to get close to the opposing soldiers, as long as they stirred up, so that the other party had no time to care, then the comrades behind could take this opportunity to rush in from behind them to support.

The illusion is that the reality is cruel, and when they advance with large shields that protect their feet, the pikemen already knew what the birdmen were going to do, and several pikemen pointed their spears directly at their feet and poked their spears into the ground.

When the opponent walked forward with a shield, the bottom of the shield was swayed by the spear shaft that was obliquely inserted, and a careless spear was stabbed one by one by other '**unbearable' spears, without the protection of the shield in front, the advance and retreat that followed behind could not be all played.

In order to deal with all kinds of strange ways to break through the spear array, Yu Wenwen vigorously practiced the discipline of the recruits and let everyone speak freely: "Anyone who can come up with a way to crack this spear formation will be rewarded!" ”

The rice buckets are naturally full of strange theories for rewards, and Yu Wenwen adopts the more 'creative' method that sounds more feasible to hold a real confrontation.

The method that the soldiers of the Southern Army had come up with on the spot had already been proposed by the recruits during the training, and Yu Wenwen was really stumped when he used real people to fight the drill, but some recruits proposed a solution under the 'heavy reward' -- that is, the countermeasures taken at this time.

I felt that the effect was okay when I tried again, although I had no actual combat experience, it was not much better than talking on paper, but Yu Wenwen still rewarded him with his words, and then trained for various strange formation breaking methods.

Yu Wenwen thought: What about talking about soldiers on paper, I just want to toss them after spending an average monthly military salary per person!

All kinds of hastily remembered methods to break the formation were useless, the brave executors were killed on the spot, and the soldiers of the Southern Army were helpless to let the spear phalanx move and move to the middle of the Anzhou military formation, blocking their comrades who had suffered heavy casualties.

They became the magnet of the soldiers of the surrounding Zhengnan Army, and were besieged on all sides, the pressure on the left wing of the Anzhou Army slowed down suddenly, and then rushed forward to form a complete front, and the middle army formation suffered heavy losses, but many soldiers were added to the wall behind them, and the situation was finally controlled.

"What's going on?"

In the middle army formation of the Zhengnan Army that attacked the camp, Yang Su, the head of the march, looked at the inexplicable spear formation and was a little strange, according to his experience, such a long spear formation was okay to deal with the cavalry, and now it is used to deal with the infantry, why did his own soldiers fight for so long and failed to break the formation?

"And let that spear array kill from the flanks to the middle, a bunch of rubbish!"

The lieutenants on both sides couldn't say why, and it was the first time they had seen someone use such a long gun to set up a formation, and it looked like a forest in a dense manner.

At first, when they were preparing to attack, they saw such a spear formation listed on the right wing of the Anzhou Army on the opposite side, and they still thought that the other party had taken out the spears specially built to deal with the cavalry, but now it seems that they are likely to be used against the infantry.

"Let's fill the trenches with that piece of garbage!" Yang Su looked at the trenches outside the camp, many of which had already been filled with cloth bags by his own soldiers.

"Yang Liu, how many horses are there pulling the cart this time?" He turned to ask a pro-soldier, who had a deep scar on his face.

The soldier named Yang Liu replied that there were thousands of horses, Yang Su nodded and then said: "Choose the worst of the five hundred, bring it up, cover the horse's eye and tail and tie it with flammable things." ”

After giving the order, Yang Su looked at the spear array in front of the Anzhou military camp again, and then sneered: "Let's see if you can still stand after this batch of attacks!" ”