Facing Yan Liang, who had already formed a defensive formation, the best way to do it was naturally to use cavalry to charge back and forth, consuming the enemy's combat power and morale. Now on the battlefield, only Zhang Liao's Yanbei cavalry and Tai Shici's horse Chaojing cavalry, so it is naturally the two of them who undertake such an important task.

Therefore, when they were still fifty steps away from the enemy's charge, Gao Shun and Wei Yan raised the order banner in their hands at the same time, and the heavily armed soldiers and the light armor soldiers of the Ma family spread out at the same time, expanding the encirclement of the entire battlefield, making the net more dense and tighter.

At the same time, Zhang Liao and Tai Shici glanced at each other from a distance, and their meaning was obvious: since both of them were cavalry and their combat strength was about the same, then use Yan Liang's strength as a gamble to try the other party's command and command ability!

Tai Shici's face was more dignified than Zhang Liao, and after joining the Ma family, he felt the strength of the Ma family's military level, and good generals, fierce generals, wise generals and Confucian generals abounded. And for generals, how can there be no competitive? Especially for Tai Shici, a backward general, he wants to make a name for himself in the Ma family as soon as possible.

Also, Yan Liang's ability to block his own killer arrow with an instantaneous reaction has already caused Tai Shici's arrogance to receive a serious provocation!

In the midst of the charge, the well-trained horsemen began to shout at the cavalry to change formation, and half of the riders took off the short lances from the victorious hooks, lowered their bodies, and lined up in a horizontal line, each with their companions half the width of the horse's body; The other half took off the Yuanrong crossbow on the shoulder and kept it ten paces away from the lancer.

This is the most standard horse-style attack formation, where the archers slow down and fire the first and second arrows to cause confusion among the enemy, at which point the lancers rush forward, using the burst of the Xiliang horse to charge and sweep and assassinate the enemy with their lances and spears, and penetrate the formation in one fell swoop. The horse archers would fire the third and fourth arrows again, and would deviate from each side, walking in two arcs, and meeting up with the broken spearmen on the other side of the formation.

This was not the case with Zhang Liao's Yanbei cavalry, whose team fought against Xianbei Karasuma many times. So their tactics were somewhat similar to those of the aliens, and they also took off the strong bows on their shoulders, but more knights took up their swords. The entire formation did not look like it was breaking through the formation head-on, but planning to kill around Yan Liang's circular formation, like peeling the skin of an apple, and slashing off Yan Liang's outermost shield hand layer by layer, revealing the delicious and juicy flesh inside.

Yan Liang's subordinates have 20,000 men, so this battle will be a very time-consuming battle. And surrounded on all sides, Yan Liang didn't have any thoughts of entanglement. His first reaction was to find the weakest link among the four armies.

Just after sweeping a glance, Yan Liang determined the weakest link in this encirclement, that is, the Ma family's light armored infantry led by Wei Yan. If it was against the infantry formations of other princes, in Yan Liang's eyes, all he saw were local chickens and dogs.

However, the Ma family alone, in the weakest link of the Quartet, is also two grades stronger than the infantry regiments of the other princes!

The Ma family infantry regiment in the back stood horizontally, with halberds and spears, and the formation was quite tight. They chose a clever position, with Gao Shun's heavily armed warriors on the right and a rolling hill on the left, with the formation stuck in the middle. If you want to attack them, you can only do a frontal assault. As if it was calculated that Yuan Ying would not come out to respond, and the back of this corps was not even guarded.

Yan Liang took in the entire battlefield situation in this instant, and in this short moment, Tai Shici's Ma Jiajing was already only thirty steps away from his circular formation: "Listen to my order, quickly change the circular formation into a conical formation, the front team will become the rear team, and break through the encirclement from the rear with all your might!" ”

Yan Liang was very helpless with such a decision, you must know that when the battle is about to be fought, letting the troops change their formation is a test of the prestige of the main general and the ability to lead troops in peacetime. If the two points are a little insufficient, then the entire team will be attacked when it changes, and it is very likely that it will be completely destroyed!

However, at this time, the only way to make the formation a little narrower and longer, even if the safety of the flanks is sacrificed, is to make the frontal penetration stronger. As for the cost of putting pressure on the enemy in front and on the left and right flanks, putting the whole team in danger. Yan Liang had no way to take care of it.

More than 17,000 cavalry galloped up, as if the end was coming, and the whole earth shook slightly, like an ancient beast stepping on the ground. Although Yan Liang's military order has been issued, the eyes of those peripheral shield bearers are inseparable from the heroic posture of the surging Ma family knights!

They saw that the knight of the Ma family had bent down.

They saw that the knight of the Ma family had already raised the Yuan Rong crossbow.

They even saw that the corners of the horseman's mouth had already shown a bloodthirsty and excited smile!

'Whoosh! ’

The first wave of more than 3,000 arrows covered the sky and pierced the air with a sharp cry. Sergeant Yan Liang, who was changing formations, was stunned without any surprise, and after that, he saw those arrows rain down on him!

"Shield protection!" Yan Liang's voice was beyond the limit of the human voice at this moment.

However, it was too late.

At the same time, two thousand arrows ridden by Yanbei formed a dense dark cloud in the air, crossed a curved arc in the air, and flew above the head of Yan Liangjun's formation in an instant, and then fell like endless raindrops with a sharp whistling sound.

"Ahh ……..”

"Wow! ……..”

"Ugh! ……..”

All kinds of screams came from around Yan Liang continuously, and the Jizhou soldiers who lacked shield protection in the changing formation fell to the ground wailing in the baptism of arrow rain, some were shot through the throat and were killed directly, some were shot through the chest and were dying, and some were shot through the thighs, bleeding and wailing.......

"Hold on!" Yan Liang shouted loudly, in such a critical time, the performance of the main general is the most important.

It will be the courage of a soldier!

However, as soon as Yan Liang's words fell, there was a muffled sound of 'Du', Yan Liang felt a shock in his right arm, and a sharp arrow actually shot through his wooden iron-clad round shield, revealing a cold arrow downward, Rao is Yan Liang is used to seeing life and death, and he couldn't help but tremble in his heart: he saw that the general of the Ma family's elite cavalry withdrew the bow and arrow in his hand and pulled out the double halberd behind his back.

Yan Liang could be sure that the first arrow he had just blocked with a big knife was done by this person. He knew better, that person was Tai Shici who left him with a deep scar on his thigh in Puyang!

When the enemy meets, he is very red-eyed!

What's more, that guy Tai Shici also made a provocation of archery invitation!

If it was usual, Yan Liang would have charged forward and fought with Tai Shici. However, this is not the time for his men to win a big victory. At this time, his status as a commander is far more important than his identity as a general, so Yan Liang helplessly bit his lip and shouted: "You are all pigs!" Jizhou's bow and crossbow armor crown the world, so I don't know how to meet the enemy in the change of formation? ! ”

After all, it was Yan Liang and his own sharpness, and as soon as the words fell, those Jizhou elites who reacted slowed down the speed of the formation, tore off the big crossbow, and launched a counterattack against the Ma Jiajing Cavalry and the Yanbei Cavalry!

Shoot the man before the horse!

These elites naturally knew this simple truth, not to mention that the cavalry had already rushed to the front, and they didn't need to shoot from the back at all.

'Whoosh! ’

'Soso, So, So, So! ’

The second round of arrow rain is the strong crossbow of Jizhou and the rain of arrows of the Ma family, many arrows even collide in the air, deviating from the normal shooting trajectory, driven by strong force, indiscriminately shooting to the army and all directions!

This time, the real man turned on his back.

This time, it was also really bloody!

The downed war horse hindered the charge for a moment, however, more Ma Jiajing and Yanbei horses had already rushed to the front of Yan Liang's army formation, and their strong and brave impact momentum was already like a sharp sword without regrets, stabbing into Yan Liang's army formation!