Chapter 328: A Devastating Blow

"Crossbowmen in formation!" Like a black wave, the Xiliang army rushed to the foot of the mountain, and Liu Wei raised an arm and gave the order for the crossbowmen to line up in a loud voice.

With Liu Wei's order, thousands of crossbowmen lined up a defensive formation on the hill. The crossbowmen formation was divided into five columns, each with more than 1,000 people. When all the crossbowmen were in their positions, the crossbowmen buckled their crossbow arrows on the machine springs, and took their crossbows to aim at the Xiliang army that was climbing up the hillside.

The pavement of the hillside is not as flat as the ground, the road not only has an angle of inclination to the slope, but also the potholes are uneven, more than 10,000 Xiliang troops, under the leadership of Hu Chi'er, crowded towards the hillside, there is no formation at all.

Standing on the bluestone, looking down at the Xiliang army that was rushing towards the hillside, Liu Wei slowly raised an arm.

The Xiliang army at the front has climbed halfway up the mountain, and they are holding the four-sided shield equipped with the Xiliang army in their hands.

A soldier of the Xiliang Army climbed halfway up the mountain, raised his hand to wipe the beads of sweat on his forehead, and looked up at the top of the slope.

The morning sun has climbed up the mountain, and the direction of the Xiliang army going up the mountain is just facing the sun. The soldiers of the Xiliang Army who looked up at the top of the mountain only felt that there was a dazzling light in front of them, and they couldn't see how many Luoyang troops there were on the mountain.

"Up!" Walking in the tide-like Xiliang army, Hu Chi'er waved the long sword in his hand and shouted to the Xiliang officers and soldiers who were climbing to the top of the mountain.

All the Xiliang troops sped up their speed and rushed towards the top of the mountain. Looking down from the top of the mountain, they looked like black ants, separating towards a high place.

"Crossbow bolts are coming!" More than 10,000 Xiliang soldiers were climbing towards the top of the mountain with all their might, and suddenly a shout full of fear came from the Xiliang army.

Hearing this shout, all the Xiliang soldiers raised their faces and looked towards the top of the mountain.

What appeared in their sight was a field of arrows as thin as a swarm of locusts. The black-pressed arrows, like raindrops falling from the sky, swooped down on the officers and soldiers of Xiliang.

Seeing the arrows flying, the officers and soldiers of Xiliang were taken aback, and the officers and soldiers who reacted faster hurriedly raised their shields to block in front of them, and some of them reacted a little slower, and even were stunned for a long time and couldn't slow down, and they all looked up at the arrows falling from the top of the mountain.

With a crisp sound of "crackling", countless arrows were nailed to the shields held by the officers and soldiers of Xiliang, and many shields were even pierced into plank hedgehogs by powerful arrows.

Those Xiliang soldiers who were slow to react were still staring at the crossbow arrows flying towards them with frightened eyes, and countless arrows pierced their bodies with the sound of "whirring".

Patches of Xiliang troops were shot by arrows and fell to the ground, and some of them were even covered with arrows, lying upright on the hillside like porcupines.

The arrows of the Luoyang army are different from the arrows of the armies of the princes. The armies of the princes and the archers all shot their arrows. The arrows of the Luoyang army were fired, but just like the army of Great Qin in the past, the arrows were fired in echelons.

As soon as the arrows in front arrived, the ones behind followed, and as soon as the crossbowmen began to fire, the arrows rained down on the enemy without pause.

"Up! Above! Hiding behind a huge square shield, Hu Che'er waved his hand at the Xiliang army, which was lying dormant on the hillside, under the attack of the Luoyang army's crossbow arrows, and shouted: "Their crossbow arrows are powerful, the soldiers rushed up the mountain with the general and killed them!" Hiding here is just waiting to die! ”

After all, the Xiliang Army is also an army that has been on the battlefield all the year round, and the officers and soldiers saw that their companions were shot by arrows one by one and fell to the ground and died, and they also knew in their hearts that if they were dormant on the mountainside, the Luoyang Army was condescending, and they were just a group of live targets.

Qi Qi shouted, and the Xiliang army on the hillside jumped up again and rushed towards the top of the mountain.

When the Xiliang army got up, many more people were shot by crossbow arrows, fell on their backs, and rolled down the hillside.

"Kill!" On the mountainside, the Xiliang army launched a burst of shouts and killings, and advanced towards the top of the mountain with the defense of the big shield.

When the Xiliang army advanced to a place only forty or fifty steps away from the top of the mountain, the crossbow arrows on the top of the mountain suddenly stopped firing, and a shocking shout of killing suddenly sounded on the side of the mountainside.

The Xiliang army, who was charging, was taken aback when he heard the shouting of killing from the side, and hurriedly turned his head to look to the side.

What appeared in their sight was the Luoyang army that was pouring up from both sides like a tide.

The red robe of the Luoyang Army, under the sunlight, was as gorgeous as blood. The Luoyang army, which rushed out from the left, under the leadership of a black-faced man, rushed straight to the tail of the Xiliang army; The Luoyang army, which rushed out on the right, was led by a female general wearing scaly armor and beautiful like a fairy in the Moon Palace, and killed the Xiliang army head-on.

The two Luoyang armies that rushed out were all Pu Dao soldiers armed with Pu knives and round shields.

Compared with the heavier equipment, the Pak Knife Soldiers' collision power and defense are much worse, but they have the same advantage that the Mo Knife Soldiers do not have, that is, they can maintain flexible mobility while being equipped with heavy armor.

"Defense!" Looking at the Luoyang army that suddenly came out from both sides, Hu Chi'er couldn't tell how many people rushed out for a while, and hurriedly shouted to the Xiliang army on the hillside: "Defend in formation!" ”

Hu Chi'er's reaction was also very fast, but the attack launched by the Luoyang army was too sudden, and many Xiliang troops didn't even react to what was happening, and the tide of the Luoyang army that surged up had already collided with them fiercely.

After being shot with crossbow arrows, the attrition of the Xiliang army was already quite serious. Although the Luoyang Army's Pu Dao soldiers were only a few thousand, they suddenly rushed out without warning, and the Xiliang Army was difficult to distinguish for a while, and the defensive array was scattered before it was formed.

At the top of the hillside, Liu Wei, who was standing on the bluestone, pressed the long sword on his waist with one hand, looked at the two teams of men and horses fighting on the mountainside, and some were eager to lead the Mo Dao soldiers who had been waiting for him to kill down the mountain.

Just when he drew his long sword and wanted to take the lead in jumping down the bluestone and rushing towards the Xiliang army, he inadvertently saw Pang Tong standing behind the crossbow array turning his head to look at him.

Seeing Pang Tong, Liu Wei remembered that he had promised Pang Tong the night before that he would not personally lead the army to kill, and he couldn't help but feel a little depressed in his heart, first exhaled a long breath, and then drew out his long sword and shouted to the Mo Dao soldiers who were waiting for the order: "Mo Dao Formation, charge!" ”

As soon as thousands of Mo Dao soldiers heard Liu Wei's order to charge, they held big knives in both hands and rushed down the mountainside with a roar.

Resisting the Luoyang army rushing up on both sides of the mountainside, the position of the Xiliang army was already in chaos. There was another roar on the mountain, and the Mo sword soldiers of the Luoyang Army wearing red robes rushed to the Xiliang Army like a tide stained red with blood.

After a rush to kill, the Xiliang army already had little fighting spirit, and when they heard this roar, many people panicked and wanted to retreat down the mountain.

The Mo knife soldiers rushed down the hillside, and Guan Qing, who was leading the army to intercept and kill the Xiliang army, saw that the Mo knife soldiers were approaching, in order to make way for the Mo knife soldiers and make them exert greater lethality, Guan Qing waved the big knife in his hand, slashed over a Xiliang army, and shouted to the Luoyang army who followed her to fight: "Retreat!" ”

With Guan Qing's shout, the Luoyang army, which was intercepting and killing the Xiliang army, actually shouted in unison and suddenly retreated backwards.

The Xiliang Army, which was attacked on both sides and was feeling the great pressure, suddenly emptied its front, and many officers and soldiers subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

But they didn't relax for long, Guan Qing's team had just retreated, and the Mo knife soldiers of the Luoyang Army holding Mo knives had already pounced on them.

The big knife in the hands of the Mo knife soldier has a much longer pole than the Pu knife. The reason why Liu Wei gave up training the spear formation and chose the Mo knife as the main weapon of the defensive formation was because it could be stretched to resist the frontal rush of the cavalry, and when the enemy rushed to the front, it could also start hand-to-hand combat, and the power was stronger than that of the spear.

Holding the hilt of the knife with both hands, he lowered his head and rushed forward, and the Mo Dao soldiers in the front row were like a huge harvester, advancing rapidly, but what they were about to harvest was not grain, but the lives of Xiliang officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers of Xiliang who were standing in front saw that the Mo sword soldiers rushed towards them, and hurriedly raised their big shields, wanting to block the rows of sharp Mo knives that came up to them.

But the Mo knife is not a crossbow arrow after all, although the Mo knife soldiers of the Luoyang Army have not yet rushed to the front, the officers and soldiers of Xiliang have already lined up the shield array, but what they didn't expect is that the solid shield array, under the strong impact of the Mo knife, is as fragile as a paper wall.

A Mo knife slammed into the shield wall set up by the Xiliang Army, and the Xiliang Army holding the big shield didn't even have time to stab out the short spear in his hand, and the thin shield array was shattered.

Many of the Xiliang soldiers fell to the ground on their backs under the strong rushing force, but the Luoyang Army Mo sword soldiers who knocked them down did not stab them with a fatal knife, but continued to rush forward with the knife.

Although the Mo sword soldiers in front did not take the lives of these Xiliang troops, the crowd of people who came up behind immediately annihilated them.

A pair of feet stepped on their bodies, and the fallen Xiliang army could still let out a scream at first, but later, they could no longer make a sound, because they had been trampled into a bloody corpse by the crowd.

The Xiliang army behind the shield array was almost exposed in front of the Luoyang army with its chest open, and the Mo knives advancing in rows were deeply pierced into the chests of the Xiliang soldiers one by one.

The Mo Dao soldiers who pierced the body of the Xiliang Army still did not stop, they roared and screamed, pushing the corpse pierced by the Mo Knife, and rushed towards the depth of the Xiliang Army.

"Kill!" The Mo sword soldiers broke up the formation of the Xiliang army, and Guan Qing, who had led the team to the side before, let out a loud roar, brandished a big knife, and killed the Xiliang army again.

Surrounded on three sides, and obviously at a disadvantage in numbers, the remaining thousands of Xiliang troops, wielding weapons to resist the Luoyang army, were compressed by the Luoyang army into a small patch of grassland on the mountainside.

With each step of the Luoyang army's advance, there will be some people splashed with blood and falling to the ground.

Among the people who fell to the ground, most of them were Xiliang soldiers wearing black armor, and only a few were officers and soldiers of the Luoyang Army.

The defensive circle of the Xiliang Army became tighter and tighter, and Hu Che'er, who was surrounded by the Luoyang Army with the officers and soldiers, held a long sword, and looked around nervously while retreating with everyone.