“Stand firm and be prepared”

"Strong crossbowmen, line up, advance, draw the bowstrings, and prepare to fire."

"Second and third row riflemen, plant the butts of your rifles in the ground, and plant them firmly."

"Sword and shield soldiers, crouch down, gather strength and rest."

The Qinghe Battalion Commander issued military orders in an orderly manner. As the orders were executed bit by bit, a typical Qinghe defensive formation relying on powerful crossbows and spears came into being. He was confident that even without using any conspiracy or trickery, a thousand Chen Dynasty soldiers would not be able to break his hard shell.

The distance between the two sides is decreasing little by little.

Four hundred steps.

Three hundred and eighty steps.

Three hundred and forty steps.

Three hundred and ten steps.

The deputy general knew that he could not delay any longer.

"All troops, charge!"

At the command of the deputy general, the sword and shield soldiers holding heavy shields rushed out first, followed by the spearmen who were used to break the opponent's formation. Under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, these spearmen would use their more than four-meter-long spears to forcibly break the opponent's turtle formation.

Further behind them were the archers, who had to rush forward about another 150 steps to reach the optimal firing distance.

In fact, according to common sense, when charging, the archers are the first to rush to the front. They will first fire two to three rounds of arrows, and then quickly retreat, allowing the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen to become the first soldiers to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. According to the orders of the officers, they will choose to continue shooting arrows in the rear or use machetes to join the hand-to-hand combat.

But it is obvious that such an arrangement would be suicidal in the face of an enemy with a range advantage.

In general, there is no problem with the arrangement of the deputy general. Although there is nothing surprising, it is quite standard. It relies on the fact that they have more people and can use the advantage of numbers to defeat the smaller number.

However, relying on numbers to win is the right way of military strategy, so there is nothing we can say about him.

"Swallow! Release!"

Battalion Commander Qinghe saw that the distance was about right and quickly gave the order.

Crossbow arrows flew densely in the air, passing through a parabola full of various theorems of physics, and then pierced straight into the formation of the Chen Dynasty army. Blood and groans splashed from the Chen Dynasty army.

The front-line officer quickly gave an order:

"Come closer! Shields up!"

Indeed, the striking and penetrating capabilities of the Qinghe crossbow arrows exceeded their expectations, but the official shields of the Chen Dynasty, produced strictly according to standards, were not completely unable to withstand such crossbow arrows.

As a favorite of the prince, the weapons in Jiang's army were of the best quality.

With a "swish", a dark red shield covered with raw cowhide covered the sky in the front half of the Chen Dynasty army. At this time, if you look down from above, you can see a dark red land moving rapidly, as if some kind of demon underground has completed its gestation and is about to break out of the ground.

However, Qinghe's crossbowmen are all experienced veterans. Since they can't penetrate your shield formation, then we will attack your rear formation. After all, our range is long, and you can't cover the entire army formation with shields.

As the distance between the two sides continued to narrow, the archers behind the Chen Dynasty army suffered huge losses. Facing the archers wearing light armor and without shields, the Qinghe crossbowmen dealt tons of damage.

At this point, the deputy general had no way back. He huddled in the ball formed by his guardsmen holding up their shields and shouted, "Speed ​​up! Charge! Crash into them!"

"Kill him."

Seeing that the battle was about to begin, the Chen Dynasty soldiers roared like thunder.

They advanced with great strides, charging forward with overwhelming momentum. It must be said that their momentum was completely different after they knew that the prince was watching the battle from afar.

I can only say that when the leader is present, employees generally behave well and pretend to be busy even if they have nothing to do. The workplace really doesn't deceive me.

The Chen Dynasty soldiers in bright red uniforms rushed forward like waves. They didn't care even though the shields in the front row could no longer completely cover the sky.

It’s just this short distance away, so just rush up and deal with it.

The Qinghe officers continued to wave their hands, and the crossbowmen, the star troops of the Qinghe Army, continued to shoot arrows.

When the two sides were within a hundred steps of each other, the first row of crossbowmen, under the orders of their officers, turned around and passed through the reserved passage to re-form themselves at the rear of the formation. The second row of crossbowmen, relying on the crossbow mechanism, quickly reloaded, fired, reloaded, and fired again...

A sparse number of feather arrows flew over.

Those were the Chen Dynasty archers who had suffered heavy losses launching a counterattack.

Since they did not receive the order to retreat, the remaining archers still faithfully performed their duties even when they could no longer form an arrow formation. Their efforts were not in vain, as Qinghe's powerful crossbowmen were constantly shot down by arrows.

Although the bravest soldiers had fallen under the crossbow arrows, the distance between the two sides did not allow for further thinking. The Qinghe spearmen had already raised their spare spears. They would stab through the gaps between their own spear formations and shields to kill any enemies who dared to enter their attack radius.

The hand-to-hand combat began.