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Chapter 234 Mountains and rivers inside and outside (3)

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Your Highness is on the wall.

Wei Bin shouted loudly to the soldiers, and when people looked up, he said, "He was in the battle with his own words and was not afraid of the scoundrels, and he wanted to stand where his brothers could see it!"

The west wall of Gaodu County is three feet high. People at this height can not only see it, but also see it very clearly.The spear used by the Vermilion Bird Army is 15 feet long, and the distance between two spears can be reached by swaying them.

Zhang Ning was wearing a gray military uniform in the field, a light green square scarf, a cowhide belt with a golden buckle, and only a pair of breastplate sat on a chair at the top of the city; there was a long sword in his hand, holding the hilt of the sword in his hand and the top was on the brick floor.

The biggest function of this sword is decoration and props, and it is basically nothing practical.

If Zhang Ning needs to fight with his sword, there is nothing to fight in this battle.

It was originally a quiet and clear morning, because the military formation was erected, the wind carried a little sand and stones in the air, creating a solemn atmosphere, and there was an invisible haze under the scorching sun.

The enemy was not far away. There were five football fields in the open space, which was about the middle. Looking from the top of the city, the dense soldiers entered the battlefield one after another with armed forces. The movement was very clear, and even the Zhu on the largest flag could be vaguely identified.

For a while, it was still unclear whether all the 6,000 people from the official army entered the battlefield, but the opponent's momentum was obviously more spectacular because of the large number of people. If it weren't for the dense queues, it would be surprising that thousands of people stood together all over the mountains and fields.

At this time, Lao Xu pointed to the northeast and leaned over to Zhang Ning sitting on the chair and said: There are no large cavalry in the enemy formation. Maybe they are being arranged somewhere, waiting for the opportunity to enter the battlefield.In the eyes of subordinates, they are very likely to emerge from the mountains and forests over there and make a quick breakthrough, intending to catch us off guard.

Lao Xu made a very reasonable statement. The cavalry's extremely fast tactical maneuverability obviously gave Zhu Yong a great advantage.

Zhou Mengxiong reminded him lightly: Zhu Yong certainly didn't know that our cannon range could be one mile, so he went forward to set up the formation.If the enemy's camp suddenly launches a gun to bombard the enemy's formation, the enemy will be in chaos before they stand firm, and they will be threatened by the first arrival, and their morale will be greatly affected.

Zhou Mengxiong was also very insightful.But Zhang Ning didn't speak, let alone give orders; so Zhou Mengxiong's words were just suggestions.

Zhang Ning did not explain the reason to them. Although he was not a taciturn person, he seemed a little silent at this time. It was not difficult to talk to others. It was inevitable that he would affect his thinking by just speaking. At this time, he was unwilling to have any malfunction in his performance.

It seems that there are so many people on the battlefield, and the killing of cold weapons is limited by one knife and one shot, but it is not impossible to decide the winner in an instant; perhaps at this moment, he is sitting on the top of the city and giving orders, and the next moment he becomes a prisoner.

It is important to strike the enemy's morale, but since Zhu Yong does not know the range of the cannon, it is more important to catch him off guard at the right time.

This decision was learned from the enemy temporarily. Zhu Yong arranged the cavalry in some unknown place. Isn’t this also the same consideration?

Many of his subordinates believe that the biggest advantage of the official army in this battle is the number of troops, but Zhang Ning's personal idea is to take the initiative.

In order not to be defeated at the beginning, the Suzaku Army lined up with infantry troops into dense phalanxes. This infantry phalanx could not raise its mobility anyway and was destined to be on the defensive side; you could repel the enemy's attack, but it was difficult to win if you defend.

...There are too many people a mile away, and I don’t know who is Zhu Yong inside.The battle has not begun, but the contest between the two sides has actually begun.

I saw a few cavalry running out from the sea of ​​people in the distance, gathering in front of the formation, and then walking slowly towards this side.

Temporary attack is also a contest in the first round; it seems that Zhu Yong is a cheerful person, straight to the point and does not do any boring things like finding an envoy to come forward to persuade him to surrender.

Everyone knows that there is nothing to talk about between the two sides, either you die or I die.

The drums were just right, as if they were a foreplay of competition, urging a bloody performance to be performed.

However, there were no audiences in this performance, and no one present could stay out of the matter. Even though there were too many people, they would inevitably be a little lonely.

If you look around from the city, there will be quiet inside and outside the city, and there will be no pedestrian in the streets and alleys, and you will be so lonely that you will only be sparrows.

It seems that Gaodu City is a dead city without residents, and it seems that there is only fighting and no people in this world.

In fact, even if the war is imminent, there are still many people in the city, and not everyone has a place to escape; otherwise, where can I find the strong men who carry stones and roll wood and burn firewood in the city walls?

Because the one who attacked the city was the official army, the city itself belonged to the government, so the people in the city had no desire to defend the city at all. They were forced to help the defenders do anything, and they could only carry buildings or something.

The soldiers of the Suzaku Army were defending a city that did not need them to defend, a city that did not care about their lives and death; this was probably the case with the lonely army.

At this time, Zhang Ning finally spoke. He issued the first order to the messenger: The soldiers of the military gun teams were not allowed to open fire without permission. Violators were punished for disobeying military laws in front of the battlefield and beheaded!

The commander ran to the edge of the city and recounted the military order just now to the general below.

Before this, the Suzaku Army had originally set up a command system that cooperated with the golden drum and the flag, but many simple commands, like the one just now, could not be expressed with props, and as a result, many commands had to rely on roar.

The left whistle commander Wei Bin immediately shouted: The cavalry coming was to tempt the attack. If they did not get close, the generals ordered a crossbow to fight back on their own.

Some of the melee infantry are also equipped with bows and crossbows, especially many of them are equipped with crossbows, most of which are captured.

After a while, the first team of the official army's horse team ran closer and began to trot and rushed forward two hundred steps away.

But they faced a line of defense composed of two rows of spearmen. The spears, which were ten feet long, stood up like thorns on a hedgehog's body, and of course the cavalry would not charge towards the thorns; as expected, the dozens of cavalry gradually dispersed, and some of the cavalry in front jogged to forty or fifty steps in sparse arrangements, and then stopped to start shooting arrows.

The sound of the wind passed by, and more than a dozen arrows fell into the Suzaku Army formation one after another. Because the people were too dense, there was no problem in shooting, but the density of killing was not enough.

I could only hear a crisp sound of metal collision, and most of the arrows hit the wide helmet or shoulder armor.

Suddenly, a muffled groan, and one of the purged people fell down, like a small stone falling into Dongting Lake, without any extreme turmoil, and the camp was motionless.

After a while, some people in the front line temporarily put down their spears, took out their crossbows and mounted the arrows, and then they fought back at the horse team. Unfortunately, the three of them were caught in the arrows and fell down from the horse with pain.

The crossbows behind were fired one after another, and the two sides shot at a distance of dozens of steps. The infantry was obviously advantageous. The infantry bow and crossbow were more powerful than the official army's wild cavalry shooting in short-range armor piercing capabilities.

In less than half a stick of incense, the cavalry rescued several injured people and turned around and left several bodies in the open space.

Unexpectedly, after a while, one of the bodies on the ground struggled to sit up. It was probably that he fell off the horse and fainted and was mistaken for death in battle.

He looked back, with a panic expression on his face, and struggled to climb westward, covering the arrow feathers inserted in his chest with one hand and shouted: Save me...

Most of the Zhuque Army camps were arranged by infantry, and the soldiers were purged and seemed very quiet after a little battle. So the shouts full of fear and pain seemed particularly strange on the bleak battlefield.

After a while, drums and trumpets were played in the distance, and the people and horses became noisy.

The camp began to move, and the crowd slowly spread forward like a tide. Looking around, the flags were like clouds and weapons were like forests.

Zhu Yong finally wants to attack, and the real battle has just begun.

The soldiers and horses moving forward are mainly infantry. If you look closely, you can tell that they are actually square formations composed of four groups of people and horses. The layout is like a field character, square and square, coming.

It is roughly estimated that there may be two thousand people in total, perhaps less than two thousand.

Zhu Yong's opening was not good at attacking head-on with twice the strength of the troops, but the rules were correct.

Whether it is the Suzaku Army, the official army, or the long spear, they are the main weapons of infantry. The advance team is like a forest, but like the forest with leaves falling in autumn in the north.

It’s like withered dead branches. Perhaps the battlefield is bleak, because of this situation?

The large group of people slowly advanced to 200 steps away. The official army laid a few arrows in the air in front of the air, and stopped to rectify the formation.

Even Zhang Ning on the top of the city could already hear the shouts and curses of the other generals, and could often hear various nicknames of women and genitals from the noisy voices.

The messenger on the top of the city shouted at the top of his voice: Prepare for war!The drummer grabbed the handle of the red cloth and shook his arms and began to hit hard. For a moment, the city was full of lively.

The front line of the official army was some light infantry holding bows and arrows, and the queues were very sparse; the rear line was mostly equipped with long spears, and some were single-knife rattan cards, which were very densely arranged, with shoulders close to shoulders and almost no space at all.

Looking down from the city wall, I saw the dome of the iron helmet shaking, and the feathers were flying lightly, and there might be chicken or duck feathers.

A group of people shouted in the sound of drums and trumpets and began to move forward again, and there were still unscrupulous shouts and shouts.

Next to the chair on the city wall, Zhou Mengxiong said lightly: The battle of the "Northern Army" has not changed for decades.The light soldiers in front would shoot several rounds of volleys when they were seventy or eighty steps apart, and then quickly ran from the left and right sides to the flanks. The light soldiers were in a sparse queue just to run faster.Immediately afterwards, the dense infantry team wearing heavy armored soldiers will conduct assaults to forcefully break the opponent's military formation. It is useless to squeeze people into martial arts. It is only for life to exchange for life. It depends on who has been working for a long time.