A thousand voices roared out, echoing down the long street.
Their morale was rising. The soldiers at the front held shields, the soldiers in the second and third ranks held spears, and the soldiers in the fourth and fifth ranks prepared their crossbows. As soon as the captain gave the order, they began to fire their crossbows.
This is a standard 100-man formation; its crude and simple strategy is suitable for head-on confrontations in areas where the terrain is not very wide.
Soon, they also encountered the rebels.
The Song Dynasty's Xiang Army rarely participated in battles, except in cases like the Jurchen invasion two years ago, when the Imperial Guards collapsed and retreated to Taiyuan.
At that time, all soldiers and civilians united to fight against external threats.
However, in ordinary times, the Xiang Army mainly performed miscellaneous tasks, such as building military fortifications and transporting military supplies and equipment.
Therefore, they did not equip themselves with powerful crossbows, only the simplest knives.
"Release the arrows!"
The head constable of the Central Army roared, and the crossbowmen behind him began to fire arrows, unleashing the first wave of arrows.
Some were nailed to a person's forehead, some to their eyes, some to their crown, and some to their neck.
After the first wave was launched, the second wave was launched immediately.
Soon, the two armies clashed head-on on the not-so-wide street.
The foremost shield was raised, blocking the slashes of the opposing army with a heavy thud.
The men at the front roared and pushed forward, while the soldiers in the second and third rows pierced the rebels with their spears and then pushed forward with all their might.
The two sides clashed brutally in this narrow space.
The captain, surrounded in the middle, kept directing the fighting at the front.
The spear could pierce into the body of a rebel at any moment, perhaps into his heart, or perhaps into his eye, and then begin to stir, bleed, or even pierce into his mouth, breaking his teeth and protruding from the back of his head.
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