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- That's right, what's on the shore is the famous Queyue Formation.
This Queyue Formation is a classic military formation based on foot and cavalry. Historically, it was created by Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period.
Liu Yu relied on this formation to defeat the Northern Wei Dynasty's 30,000 cavalry attack with more than 2,000 infantry.
Today Zhang Xiu is using guerrilla tactics. If Yan Liang can land a large army and deal with Zhang Xiu with conventional means, Zhang Xiu will definitely avoid fighting.
After weighing the situation, Yan Liang decided to use the inferior force of more than 2,000 people to pretend to set up camp on the river bank and pretend to attack Liyang, in order to lure Zhang Xiu into being deceived and come to fight.
Yan Liang knew that Liu Bei¡¯s order to Zhang Xiu must be to focus on defending Liyang Ferry, so as long as he revealed his intention to attack Liyang, Zhang Xiu would inevitably have to fight.
If Zhang Xiu dares to fight, Yan Liang can unleash the magical advantages of the Moon Quenching Formation at will.
Now, Zhang Xiu has indeed fallen into the trap.
Except for Yan Liang, all the officers and soldiers of the Chu army on the ship were sweating deeply.
Along the beach, Gan Ning and Ling Tong were also sweating quietly. Although they had received face-to-face instructions from Yan Liang in advance and taught him the Queyue Formation, they still had no idea whether this formation could block the attack of the Yan Army's cavalry. Not completely sure.
But they firmly believed that since the mighty King Chu taught them this formation, they must move forward bravely and execute it without hesitation.
The dust was flying, the iron hoofs were rumbling, and the Yan army's cavalry was already more than a hundred paces away.
"Bow and arrow shooting." Gan Ning danced his halberd and shouted.
Several archers around him raised their hard bows. Be prepared to launch arrow attacks at the oncoming enemy cavalry.
Seeing this, Ling Tong shouted urgently: "Your Majesty has ordered that the first arrow shot must be a weak shot. God damn, I need to use a weak bow."
Since ancient times, when faced with the impact of cavalry, one should shoot with a strong bow and a crossbow. How can one withstand the surging cavalry if he is weak?
The soldiers in the formation were a little confused about Yan Liang's order, but they did not dare to disobey it. They urgently replaced the hard bow with a soft bow.
As Gan Ning gave the order again, hundreds of arrows soared into the sky. They roared and galloped towards the Yan army's cavalry.
However, the power of the soft bow is weak, and the arrow is still dozens of steps away from the enemy cavalry. The power of the arrows had been exhausted, and they fell to the ground one after another.
Seeing this, Zhang Xiu, who was galloping, became more confident and urged the cavalry to run even more unscrupulously.
More than 10,000 cavalrymen. They rushed towards the Chu army's chariot formation from three sides.
Yan Liang watches the battle on the Yellow River. Seeing this situation, a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He ordered Gan Ning and others to use soft bows to release arrows first, in order to deliberately show weakness to the Yan army and induce Zhang Xiu to attack boldly and confidently.
The current situation shows that Zhang Xiu has been deceived.
At the shore, the crazy Yan army had rushed to the outside of the car array more than fifty steps like a tide.
This distance is already the best range for bow and arrow shooting.
"Crossbowmen. Put on a hard bow and shoot hard for me!" Ling Tong shouted, brandishing his sword.
Hundreds of archers formed the formation. He had already put on the strongest bow, and with a command, the arrow from the string rose into the air with the buzzing sound of hunting, and went straight towards the oncoming Yan Army cavalry.
Because the Yan army was wary of the Chu army's use of Yuanrong's repeating crossbows, among the ten thousand Yan army, more than 3,000 cavalry were all heavy cavalry wearing heavy armor. These heavy cavalry rushed forward in order to withstand the rain of repeated crossbows. Like baptism.
Although the firing density of the continuous crossbow is high, its short range and weak penetration are also obvious. It can deal with light cavalry and infantry, but it is somewhat incapable of dealing with heavy cavalry.
Yan Liang had already learned from his scouts that there were heavy cavalry among the Yan army, so the Queyue formation he deployed this time was not equipped with repeating crossbows.
Zhang Xiu obviously made a mistake. He thought that the heavy cavalry rushing in front could block the intensive volleys of repeated crossbows. However, he never expected that in the first wave of Chu army's attacks, the ones that came flying into the air turned out to be strong bows and hard arrows.
The crossbow shoots straight, but the arrows shot by the strong bow shoot upward.
The rain of arrows flying into the air passed over the heads of the heavy cavalry, poured down, and headed straight for the light cavalry behind them.
The horses neighed and people howled, and the screams were loud for a while. The running light cavalry could not block the arrows from the hard bows, and fell under the horses one after another.
Zhang Xiu felt a moment in his heart, and then he realized that the Chu army's weak soft bows and arrows just now were just a deliberate show of weakness. Now, the locust-like hard bow arrows are the Chu army's true strength.
Zhang Xiu frowned secretly and waved his spear to block the incoming arrows. Although nearly a hundred riders fell on the charging road, he was still confident.?No order was given to stop the impact.
"You can't do more than three shots in the battle, Yan Thief, you want to block the impact of my iron cavalry with just a few hard bows, you are simply wishful thinking!"
Zhang Xiu was disdainful in his heart. He was familiar with cavalry combat and knew the shortcomings of infantry archers, so he never wavered in his confidence.
"Come on, charge into the enemy formation for me and kill all the Chu troops." Zhang Xiu, still confident, shouted to encourage his men.
More than ten thousand Yanqi mustered up their courage and charged wildly over the corpses of their companions.
In a moment, the forward heavy cavalry had rushed more than 20 steps to the outside of the Chu army's chariot formation. From this distance, bow shooting had lost its effect.
Seeing a hand-to-hand battle about to begin.
The Chu army was already prepared.
Gan Ning and Ling Tong looked at each other, and Gan Ning immediately shouted: "Shoot arrows for me."
Amidst the loud shouts, the archer retreated and the crossbowman stepped forward.
The range of the crossbow is much higher than that of the bow. According to the normal combat method, the crossbow arrows should be fired first, but this time, Yan Liang changed the order.
Moreover, the large crossbows that were pushed forward were not ordinary crossbows, but had been specially modified. Their shape was twice as large as before, and the arrow groove in the middle was also thickened. What was even more extraordinary was that, There is no string installed on this crossbow.
At Gan Ning's order, the crossbowmen quickly placed the so-called arrows in the arrow trough.
This type of arrow is actually a long arrow cut off, with an iron tip attached to the end.
At the moment when the Chu army was busy, outside the formation, the Yan army's cavalry had already rushed to a distance of more than ten steps.
The heavily armored heavy cavalry were like a moving steel wall, seemingly powerless to stop their attack.
"I come"
Gan Ning shouted, hung the two halberds on his back, took the sledgehammer from the crossbowman's hand, and hit the tail of the crossbow machine with all his strength.
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Amidst the muffled sound, the arrows mounted on the crossbow roared out, heading straight for the enemy rider who was rushing towards them outside the chariot formation.
The arrow flew like the wind and instantly penetrated the Yan Jun's chest armor. The strength of the arrow was not lost, and it completely penetrated the Yan Qi's body, and even penetrated an enemy cavalry behind him.
One arrow, two eagles!
This kind of powerful crossbow uses a spear as an arrow and a hammer instead of a string, and its powerful lethality is undoubtedly evident.
The Chu soldiers in the formation were greatly encouraged, and the crossbowmen cheered up, picked up their sledgehammers, and fired arrows with all their might.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh
There was a sudden whooshing sound, and countless huge arrows rose into the sky, mercilessly shooting at the Yan army's heavy cavalry that rushed forward.
The enemy's proud heavy armor was so vulnerable to the attack of Yan Jun's arrows that it was easily penetrated like paper.
The most horrifying thing is that this arrow has such powerful penetrating power that one arrow penetrated four people in a row.
Under this violent blow, the Yan army, which was originally aggressive, was stunned in the blink of an eye. In just a moment, hundreds of heavy cavalry were shot to the ground.
Queyue formation is distributed in an arc. The closer the enemy cavalry is to the chariot formation, the greater the concentration of arrows they will receive. In a moment, ten thousand Yan cavalry were severely damaged.
Zhang Xiu was horrified. Unexpectedly, there was such a powerful weapon hidden in the enemy formation that even his own heavy cavalry could not withstand it.
Zhang Xiu, who was in shock, immediately wanted to adjust his tactics, abandon the frontal attack, and use roundabout tactics to disrupt the enemy's position.
But Zhang Xiu soon discovered that turning around and disrupting the enemy's formation, which was the strongest tactic of exerting cavalry's mobility, was of no use when faced with the enemy's two-pronged car formation hugging the river.
Because each of the three sides of the Queyue Formation arranged in an arc can be regarded as the front of the vehicle formation, and the back of the vehicle formation is backed by the Yellow River and is protected by the navy on the river.
As a result, the Yan army's cavalry could not attack the Chu army's rear.
At this time, Zhang Xiu was shocked to realize that he had fallen into the Chu army's trick to lure the enemy. This special chariot formation was actually designed to defeat his cavalry.
And on the Yellow River, the officers and soldiers of the Chu army on the battleship saw more than 2,000 comrades on the bank, riding more than 10,000 enemies, killing them until they fell on their backs. All the officers and soldiers were surprised and shouted with joy.
"It turns out that the king's formation was able to restrain the Yan army's cavalry. No wonder the king dared to defeat ten thousand enemy cavalry with two thousand infantry. The king is really a man of God." Zhou Cang, who witnessed the situation on the shore, couldn't help but admire Yan Liang with emotion.
Yan Liang smiled slightly, waved his hand and said: "Zhang Xiu's face was also hurt. He is probably going to retreat soon. Send the order, order"Qingqi came ashore far away, and it was time for Zhang Xiu's butt to blossom. "
After the order was passed, Zhang Liao, who had been preparing for battle for a long time, immediately led his more than 3,000 light cavalry from the walking boat to the shore and landed at the chariot formation.
And at this moment, the Yan army on the shore, which could not be restrained, was attacked by the Chu army's Queyue Formation, suffering numerous casualties and being completely defeated.
The periphery of the Chu army's chariot formation was already piled with the corpses of the Yan army. More than ten thousand Yan soldiers were shot to the ground by the Chu army as if they were queuing up to die.
Zhang Xiu was heartbroken. He realized with horror that if he continued to attack like this in vain, all his more than 10,000 cavalry would be lost.
The fighting spirit collapsed, Zhang Xiu waved his gun and shouted: "The whole army retreats, the whole army retreats quickly"
The Yan army, which suffered heavy casualties, turned their horses around and fled northward in embarrassment.
In the formation, Gan Ning and Ling Tong ordered to stop shooting crossbows and shoot with bows instead, to send off the enemy cavalry who fled in a hurry.
At this time, Zhang Liao's three thousand light cavalry were already on the river beach one after another.
"Open the chariot formation, the warriors of the Shenxing Cavalry, follow our generals and kill all the enemy thieves," Zhang Liao raised his sword and shouted.
As the car formation slowly opened up, Zhang Liao took the lead and galloped out.
Three thousand divine cavalry rushed out with a sudden force, chasing the enemy cavalry who had collapsed in the face of the wind. (To be continued) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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