Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 477
"Kill...", "Ah!"

"When...boom..."

The soldiers on both sides shouted in their mouths, and the soldiers who were hit by the opponent's ring head knife also screamed in their mouths, and then the ring head knife collided with the ring head knife, and the double arc hand shield collided with the double arc hand shield , inevitably made various noises.

Of course, the real melee was at the front of the army formation, and the soldiers in the rear were still not affected in any way, so the archers and crossbowmen in Zhu Wei's army could continue to attack with feather arrows and crossbow arrows towards the rear of Sun Ce's formation.

Of course, Sun Ce's archers could also shoot arrows into Zhu Weijun's formation, so during the melee in the front, the soldiers in the rear were often shot by feather arrows and crossbow arrows, and suddenly fell to the ground.

In this way, Zhu Weijun, commanded by Huang Zhong, and the army commanded by Sun Ce, fought against each other on a slope about two or three miles away from Dantu County.

However, the Zhu Wei army commanded by Huang Zhong originally occupied high ground and had weapons such as crossbows. In addition, the training level of Zhu Wei's soldiers was higher than that of Sun Ce's soldiers. Therefore, the combat effectiveness displayed on the battlefield was obviously better than that of Sun Ce's soldiers. Above the army.

In the two wings of the Zhu Wei army commanded by Huang Zhong, although those Sun Ce soldiers had already rushed to the front and got into a scuffle with the swords and shields at the front of the Zhu Wei army, it was obvious that Sun Ce's soldiers did not go deep into the army formation.

Sun Ce's soldiers were still firmly blocked within ten steps of the front of Zhu Wei's two wings, and could not continue to penetrate.

The military formations on these two wings stayed in place like a chime stone. No matter how Sun Ce's soldiers attacked, they still stood still. However, Sun Ce's soldiers were like waves washing away, constantly crashing into the chime stone, causing the waves to break.

From time to time, Sun Ce's soldiers fell to the ground. If they were lucky, they would be pulled out of the battlefield. If they were unlucky, they would be trampled under the feet of soldiers from both sides.

This is not to say that there were no casualties on Zhu Wei's side, but that Zhu Wei's troops fought very cooperatively. Often, after the soldiers in front fought for a while, soldiers from other units would come up to replace them. , let them go down and rest.

At the same time, the soldiers who were injured in the battle will soon be replaced to the back of the army formation, so that new soldiers will come up to replace them.

This is definitely the effect of usual training, so after fighting here for a long time, I feel that the soldiers at the front of Zhu Weijun's formation seem to have never been injured, and they have always maintained a strong combat power.

However, Sun Ce's soldiers had already killed and injured thousands of people in front of the formations on these two wings, but they still failed to shake the formations on these two wings.

This is still the situation on the two wings of Zhu Weijun's formation. As for the front of the Chinese army formation where Huang Zhong personally sits, Sun Ce's soldiers can't get close at all.

The more than 1000 crossbow archers located at the core of the Chinese army formation, taking advantage of the slope of the terrain, can directly see Sun Ce's soldiers in front, so they rotate into three groups, shooting arrows non-stop, and using crossbow arrows to baptize all the soldiers rushing to the center. Sun Ce's soldiers in front of the army formation, one by one Sun Ce's soldiers also seemed to come up on their own initiative and were shot down in front of the formation.

Even if Sun Ce's soldiers found a large shield to block the arrows in front, and then formed a shield formation to approach them, but after fighting with the short soldiers in front, the shield formation would soon be broken, so Sun Ce's soldiers who lost the protection of the large shield, Those who will be shot by the crossbow arrows will retreat one after another.

Just in front of the central army formation, Sun Ce has already lost one or two thousand soldiers. It can be said that as Sun Ce drove his troops to attack, at least one-third of his more than 1 soldiers have been lost.

As for the soldiers of Zhu Wei on Huang Zhong's side, there have been hundreds of injuries so far, most of which are just injuries, so the ratio of injuries between the two sides is really quite different.

Although Sun Ce can use strict military discipline to make the new army obey the command in a short period of time and can understand military orders, their combat effectiveness cannot be improved in a short period of time, especially in the military formation on the battlefield. There is also a lack of tacit understanding of.

Therefore, compared to the tacit advance and retreat of the soldiers in Zhu Weijun's formation, covering each other, the soldiers of Sun Ce's new army only knew how to fight and charge, but they lacked a bit of mutual cover, and they almost died in vain in many cases.

For example, some people may have only been slightly injured, or they may feel a little tired and want to step back and take a break.

But before they took a few steps back, they were pushed forward again by their companions behind them. As a result, facing Zhu Wei's soldiers who were still energetic, they were often hacked to death and injured, even if they were only Those who were slightly injured would also turn into serious injuries, and eventually either died under the enemy's blade, or fell under the feet of their companions.

Of course, under normal circumstances, when the soldiers of both sides rush into formation, there should be fierce generals in the vanguard, so that the soldiers in the rear can break up the enemy's military formation, and then plunge the soldiers of both sides into a melee. With the number and combat effectiveness of both sides' armies, to decide the outcome.

But now Sun Ce's subordinates don't have any strong generals to follow, even some small officers like military marquis who are more brave than ordinary soldiers, can't play the role of breaking the formation in the face of Zhu Wei's soldiers.

Therefore, the soldiers can only go up and fight desperately. Unfortunately, the combat effectiveness of the recruits under Sun Ce is obviously not enough to break through the formation of Zhu Wei's army.

As for Sun Ce's own heart, he actually has other thoughts. He mainly plays a commanding role now, and he doesn't want to charge into the battle formation of Zhu Wei's soldiers, so that he can't escape in a short time. left.

As a result, the current battle situation was like Sun Ce constantly commanding his soldiers to rush forward to die, while Huang Zhong was directing his soldiers to slaughter the enemy troops who came up to die.

The battle gradually lasted for more than half an hour. Huang Zhong's archers and crossbowmen's feather arrows and crossbow arrows had been exhausted, and the soldiers on both sides finally entered the combat mode of close combat.

However, the battle still failed to break into a melee, and the two sides still only fought at the front of the army formation formed by Zhu Weijun's soldiers.

Looking at the dwindling number of troops on his side, Sun Ce couldn't help feeling secretly, Zhu Wei's soldiers were indeed elites in all battles, and Zhu Wei's four-year campaign has indeed made the combat effectiveness of these soldiers extremely powerful, so he forcibly coerced them The newly formed army does not look like an opponent.

If the fight continued like this, even if his soldiers were all dead, he might not be able to break through Huang Zhong's army formation. In fact, Huang Zhong was able to fight back now, so Sun Ce might have to retreat with his troops.

But for some reason, Huang Zhong just stood there firmly, passively responding to the attack of Sun Ce's soldiers, without any counterattack.

"No, there must be something weird about this!"

Sun Ce suddenly felt a little vigilant, there must be a demon if something goes wrong...

(End of this chapter)