In March, the east bank of Xiaoyu River.

As spring is warm and snow is melting, the water level of Xiaoyu River rises by several meters. The rice farmed in Lusu on the west bank of the river has been fully irrigated, and the draft level of Xiaoyu River has also increased to a level that is sufficient to travel to the sand ships in the sea.

You should know that during the dry seasons of autumn and winter, when using troops in Liaodong, the most important thing to worry about is that the water level of many rivers and swamps is reduced to the level of "shallow traffic and horses, and deep boats and oars".

In history, Cao Cao attacked Wuhuan, and the reason why Tian Chou needed to "not sell Lu Long" and offered his strategy to leave the old path of Lu Long was because Cao Cao attacked Wu Huan in autumn, and the water level of the rivers in the western Liaoning Corridor was not suitable. Cao Cao left a wooden sign with "Retreat now and come again tomorrow spring" to deceive the enemy, so that the enemy would believe it.

Therefore, the natives in Liaodong basically did not have the "guard for the navy" in their minds. Because of the flood season when the ice floods surged, most of the year not only did the sand ships in the sea not get into the big and small Yu River waters, but there were not even the local inland ships.

Guan Yu took advantage of this solar weather and led three thousand infantrymen, including two thousand Danyang soldiers and one thousand crossbowmen, using the van with cloth curtains as a cover, and slowly advanced north along the Xiaoyu River, making a look like he was shielding and defending the Wuhuan people from crossing the river to destroy the west bank.

These three thousand infantry and chariot formations formed a moon-shaped shape, with both sides shrinking back against the river bank, and all spears, halberds, bows and crossbows facing outside, like a semi-circular hedgehog.

Although he committed the taboo of "forming a formation on the back of the water" behind the scenes, he would be driven into the river and drowned when he was washed away by the enemy. In fact, Guan Yu had another thousand Jiujiang soldiers and a thousand crossbowmen lying in the Mi family fleet on the river. Even if the infantry was really driven down the river, they would be fished away by the navy.

The Danyang soldiers, who served as the driver of the land chariot formation, also made an exception and gave up their usual swords and shields, and instead held long halberds to face the outside, carrying organic crossbows in the chariot.

Liu Bei and Li Su also sat on the largest modified Mi family ship and observed through the arrow shot hole. Zhou Tai was the one who was responsible for commanding the fleet and Jiujiang soldiers and sailors beside them.

Because Mi Zhu's sea ships also need to take into account transportation purposes and the center of gravity cannot be too high, the superstructure is much shorter than the large warships of the same tonnage, and they don't seem to have strong combat effectiveness and do not have the advantage of condescending shooting range.

But the actual effect is only who knows - warships are not used to make the enemy jump to the side and kill? Why bother to do it like siege? As long as you have money to install a strong crossbow, the slight range advantage brought by the altitude gap does not matter at all.

"This formation was figured out by Yun Chang after cooperating with Qu Yi, Jizhou to defeat the Xianbei Suli that day? It imitated Qu Yi's tactic of first climbing the camp and breaking the cavalry. The Xianbei people suffered a great loss under Qu Yi and Yun Chang. Couldn't the Wuhuan Nanqiao King learn from his lesson?"

Liu Bei was still looking forward to the combat effectiveness of the new formation created by Li Su and Guan Yu. After all, with the navy, he would make up for the biggest disadvantage of forming a formation with backwater and "drowned in the river", and would also allow soldiers to fight to the death.

There are also hundreds of cars, thousands of shields, halberds and hammers in close combat, and hundreds of powerful crossbows are hidden in the car, and nearly a thousand crossbows are drawn.

Liu Bei just felt that the enemy would not bump into it like a feeding move.

Li Su was more confident than Liu Bei: "Brother, be content. I think there is a high possibility that King Nanqiao could not help but be unable to bear it. First of all, the Xianbei people and the Wuhuan people have always been in a bad relationship. King Nanqiao has always followed Zhang Chun, while King Xianbei Suli has followed Zhang Ju.

Zhang Chun's direct troops have not experienced various battles in the Hung River, and it is very common for them to fail. The tactics of our backs and breaking cavalry along the river are not well known to us.

Moreover, when he worked with Qu Yi, Qu Yi did not strictly form a formation on the back of the water, and the "military taboo" he violated was not as obvious as ours, and his temptation to the enemy was not as good as ours.

What's more, our army's strength today is the same as the total strength when we joined forces with Qu Yi. However, according to Zilong's information, King Nanqiao had 15,000 troops under his command, which was 2.5 times more than the six thousand cavalry that Suli had at the time. The enemy's surface was more numerous and our army had more taboos on the surface, so how could King Nanqiao resist?"

"After saying this, I was worried that Yun Chang could withstand it." Liu Bei felt that the enemy was disparate because of Li Su's words.

Today, only 6,000 people participated in the battle. In addition to the 5,000 people on the front battlefield, Zhao Yun also took a thousand Rangers and detoured from the upstream from afar.

But Zhao Yun obviously would not participate in the frontal rush, and could only decide the winner and lose head-on, and then chase the death and chase the north, expanding the results of the battle.

Liu Bei remained silent and prepared to supervise the battle himself.

Li Su was quite expectant in his heart - he used Guan Yu and Qu Yi's tactics to further elaborate on the Qu Yue formation of Emperor Wu of Song, Liu Yu, and could not insult Liu Yu's military genius.

Liu Yu's moon formation has too harsh conditions. Without absolute naval advantage and without a big river to support, it cannot be used. Therefore, it has been a flash in history. After becoming famous in one battle, nomadic enemies in the northern border have avoided such combat situations.

But since the geographical conditions are met today and the enemy is still hitting up, why can't you win?

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Yan Rou, the counselor of King Nanqiao, was obviously not a military genius.

So when he saw Guan Yu taking the initiative to form a formation in the backwater in Hedong to stop crossing the river, the King of Nanqiao couldn't help it in just two days.

There were 15,000 people and over 10,000 cavalry in Changli City. All of them were dispatched by King Nanqiao on that day.

He even deviated from Tuhe City on the south side of the half-encircled state to transfer two thousand Usu cavalry. The Han army seemed to be not prepared for it, allowing the Usu cavalry to leave the city from the east gate and meet with the King of Nanqiao.

There are 10,000 cavalrymen in the Nanqiao Division and 2,000 Wusu Division, totaling 12,000 people. Can't they swallow Guan Yu's 3,000 people?

As for Zhou Tai's navy, there is no need to worry too much. During the spring flood season, the water level of Xiaoyu River soared, so the river surface is much wider than the dry season. Because the main riverbed in the middle is washed by water for many years, it is washed very deep, but the shallows along the coast are only flooded in spring flood season, and the water level is very shallow, and the sea boats are not even close to within thirty or fifty steps from the shore.

The ship is so far away from the shore, and the thickness of the middle section of the Chrono Formation itself means that the sailors on the ship cannot support the shore with ordinary bows and arrows and light crossbows, and at most they can only suppress the cavalry that detours the two wings of the Chrono Formation.

"The entire army is preparing to assault. The cavalry in the southern wing led by Lord Wupu to revolve around, and I personally raid the front and north wings! Those who kill Guan Yu are named generals. If Liu Bei is also in the formation, those who kill Liu Bei are named marquis!"

King Nanqiao personally ran back and forth in front of the cavalry formation, shouting for the final mobilization before the rush.

After a while, more than 10,000 cavalry finally launched a rush of strange screams.

The sound of hooves shook the sky, and the momentum was like thunder, as if the surface of the Xiaoyu River began to shake.

Guan Yu stood in the middle army with a sword and a horse, and the Duwei's tooth flag was inserted into a chariot behind him, tall and majestic, making the whole army brave.

Although Guan Yu's nominal left and right gate governors were not by his side today, Guan Yu did not feel nervous at all, but was full of confidence.

He and Qu Yi had broken through the Hu cavalry twice, and the soldiers under him were the same. Their past historical achievements were the best medicine to boost morale.

Because we have won many times, we believe we will continue to win!

Once the military courage is out, it will be beneficial to cooperate with the courage to form a formation of a backwater to die!

"Prepare for the strong crossbow! All hammer soldiers are on the frame shield! Protect the crossbowman! First place the crossbow, then place the iron rod arrow!"

All the hundreds of crossbows were prepared according to Guan Yu's instructions.

During the late Han Dynasty and Wei and Jin Dynasties, the application of "support crossbow" was in its sporadic germination period, and this weapon was not frequently seen in history until the early years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

But the principle of this weapon is actually very simple. It is to make a belt that easily controls the breaking time, tie a crossbow arrow together, and shoot it out with a strong crossbow.

This kind of weapon is rarely used, mainly because it sacrifices the penetration and range of the crossbow arrows, and exchanges the fire density. It was originally able to effectively kill strong crossbows that could have three or four hundred steps, but each arrow can only effectively kill within a hundred steps, or even only fifty steps. What's the use? Why not arrange more archers and use soft bows to accumulate people.

However, this tactic has great effect on the troops who are mentally prepared to fight the bloody battle of positions.

It's like the time when muskets line up to kill, when the last charge to catch the enemy, the infantry artillery of both sides changed from large solid bullets to shotguns. This last shot of soul hits the enemy within fifty steps, killing and killing the enemy within fifty steps is terrifying.

At the same time, at the beginning, it will give the enemy greater confidence to rush into the car array! Otherwise, if you use a very long-range firepower such as a long iron arrow from the beginning, the enemy may retreat and be in trouble and waste your energy and energy when you are not on the way.

As expected, the Xianbei people did not charge directly at the beginning, but rushed to Guan Yu formation for more than a hundred steps, and began to patrol and test, galloping horizontally, covering it with a bow and shooting, and did not seek to kill the Han army, but only harassed and weakened it.

"All hammer and shield soldiers are in their positions! Do not retreat or chaos! Those who are chaotic in the formation are killed! Those who are chaotic in the shield soldiers are not dead and those who are destroyed are killed!" Guan Yu shouted loudly, boosting morale and requiring all Danyang hammer and shield soldiers to guard their positions carefully and absolutely not allow chaos.

The shield soldiers phalanx shoots against the cavalry. Even if the number of long-range crossbows in the shield soldiers is smaller than that of the light cavalry, it is definitely the shield soldiers phalanx that takes advantage of it!

The shields of these Danyang soldiers have been improved, and for this battle, they even used a shield surface as huge and solid as a Western-style tower shield. The light cavalry on the opposite side may not necessarily have a single arrow that can penetrate the shield formation if they shoot dozens of arrows.

Even if the crossbowmen on his side were shot in through the gap in the shooting port when they were shot back, they should be kept steady and not show weakness.

"Don't cry, don't mess up the formation! Those who act recklessly after being injured!" Guan Yu usually cared about his soldiers and shared the benefits of sharing the joys and sorrows with the soldiers at this time. Although he also suffered dozens of casualties on the side of the moon formation, he did not respond at all on the surface.

Especially many soldiers who were originally panicked, saw that Guan Yu had a few arrows on his armor, but Guan Yu remained unmoved and did not cry out for pain. The morale of the soldiers became even more encouraging.

Guan Yu himself was shot in an arrow without shouting in pain, this is the best example!

It is also the effect that Guan Yu is trying to do: whether our army has suffered casualties and injuries and how many casualties are there, it doesn’t matter!

The important thing is that you are very steady to the outside world so that the enemy thinks you have no casualties! Or there are very few casualties!
Chapter completed!