"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

"The cowardly formation kills! Our soldiers are three times as many as Liu Bei! It's not enough to worry about just a few short walls and shallow ditches! Only by rushing up can you survive!"

"The Prime Minister has an order! As long as you win, everyone will reward you with ten thousand coins! Those who have won will reward you with ten thousand coins! Those who kill Liu Bei will directly be granted the title of Duke!"

Amid the chaotic and crazy roars and shouts, hundreds of thousands of Cao soldiers rushed in like this, and the scene was so grand that it was unprecedented.

The front width of the entire front line stretches for dozens of miles and has a depth of at least twenty miles. The north side has been fighting until the head is bloody, and the south side has not yet fought. When almost all the soldiers in the first row have died, the soldiers in the back row have not even seen the enemy's faces.

But the entire battlefield was like an unstoppable flesh and blood mill rolling forward, pulling countless lives into the huge mouth of the abyss in the middle.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot at full speed! Free shooting!"

"The spearmen are in line! The camp is blocked! I am invincible! Kill!"

Compared to the Cao army's courage, the Han army's posture seemed much colder.

The shouting was mainly due to the officers' orders, while the soldiers mostly firmly held the spear and crossbow, stared at the enemy without saying a word, and burst into a mechanical and thrust.

The Han army's cavalry did not immediately enter the battlefield. Instead, they patrol far away from both wings, or lie in ambush behind the corridor between the military formations, maintaining their tolerance.

Those famous generals who are usually known for their bravery, including Guan Yu, Ma Chao, Huang Zhong, and Gan Ning, did not dare to take the initiative to rush out. This aspect is Liu Bei's layout needs, and he strictly ordered a defensive counterattack.

On the other hand, they all realized that this kind of crazy and dense chopping of the order of 100,000 people, no matter how strong their personal martial arts are, they have no place to use their skills.

The reality is so cruel. Even if the Han army is over today's war, no soldier in the first row can survive! The casualties rate in the second row and the third row will be huge, and it is normal to die more than half of the time!

Of course, it’s not surprising that no one in the first five rows and no one in the first ten rows survived!

Such a flesh-and-blooded grinder, no matter how brave a general is, he will turn "fight with me" into "fight with me" in time.

After the bloody battle began, the Han army's divine arm crossbow was the first to show its power. The huge range advantage and domineering strong penetration made this weapon the bloodiest killer on the battlefield.

The trenches and low walls dug by Liu Bei's army were very well-designed.

The soldiers behind the first wall stand at a height similar to those outside the wall, except that before the enemy reaches the low wall, the enemy will enter a shallow pit and need to be attacked from a high place.

The most vicious one is Liu Bei's second and three short walls. These short walls stand at their own positions on the back, and are slightly higher, allowing the Divine Arm Crossbowman to stand half a person higher than the front row gun shieldman.

In this way, the divine arm crossbowman can choose to shoot flat, instead of shooting, and shoot arrows from the heads of the gun, shield, and comrades. The low and flat trajectory is extremely effective in killing the dense enemies.

Even if you don't aim at the direct target, as long as the enemy's back row has the best luck on the trajectory extension line, you can still be shot and killed. Who makes the Divine Arm Crossbow effective range longer? The thicker the enemy's formation, the higher the probability of the Divine Arm Crossbow.

At least half of the soldiers in Cao's army were only civilians and had no armor. Originally, the generals of the Cao army were afraid that these new soldiers would not be determined, so they deployed them in the back row and fought a battle with the elite soldiers and veterans in front, which might be encouraged.

Now he was suppressed by the divine arm crossbow that covered the two hundred steps in front of the Han army. The soldiers in the back row were also indecent. As long as they were shot, they would either die or be seriously injured, and the morale of the army quickly began to decline.

The strong men in the back row were panic and wailed. The elite soldiers of the Cao army in the front row also felt the huge pressure of adversity in a short period of time.

The Han army has low walls to protect it, and the assassination efficiency of gun formations is higher, and the power of stabbing from a condescending place is stronger and easier to exert. If you don’t talk about these points for the time being, they can be overcome.

What made Cao's army's sledgement spearmen the most unbearable was the last part of the charge at the last stage. The soldiers who really slipped and even the steady lower plate could not exert their strength.

In order to build temporary defense lines, the Han army poured water to build ice walls. The water accumulated slightly into the shallow ditch dug in front of the earth wall and would naturally freeze again. The ditch seemed to become shallower and seemed to be easy to pass, but the probability of slipping suddenly doubled.

Anyone who has practiced martial arts knows that when a person uses a weapon to cut and stab, whether it is a force of fists and palms or arms, in the final analysis, the waist and horse must be united, the waist must be stable, and finally the feet must stand firm.

This is in line with the basic principle of physics that "the role of forces is mutual."

If you can't stand steadily, you will slid backward if you stab yourself forward. What else can you hit?

In front of the defense line, the soldiers in the front two rows of Cao's army quickly disappeared at an extremely tragic speed, with corpses sprinkled out and flowing into the shallow ditch, which soon condensed again, making the ditch more slippery, but even a bit of oily sticky.

After all, blood is not water.

That scene really shocked countless Cao army soldiers crazy, lost their sober consciousness, and could only be driven by their bloodthirsty instinct, like walking corpses.

It’s not that they don’t want to choose, it’s that the battlefield is too chaotic, and the people in the back row are crowded with people to rush up, and the people in front are afraid of fighting without a chance. As for the situation, it is even more impossible to turn against each other. Sporadicly giving up the battle sporadically will only be stabbed into sieve by both sides.

In the end, the body almost filled the shallow trench, and Cao soldiers in the back row could rush over human flesh and clothing, which was the problem of being slipped by the whole row.

But to what extent morale and life have been consumed?

Cao Cao personally supervised the battle in the rear army. Seeing the progress of Xiahou Dun and Cao Hong, his face was ashen.

Cao Cao had seen big scenes, had a sharp vision, and was good at evaluating the situation on the battlefield. With his eyes, it was not difficult to see that the battle lasted for only a quarter of an hour, and his casualties were definitely over 10,000!

What if the bloody battle lasts for half an hour, one hour, and longer? Could it be that there are as many as 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers in every quarter of an hour? Even if the battle is not maintained at the end, it is unimaginable.

At this time, although the Cao army was crowded, the problem of the formation being too deep and easy to disconnect from front and back was also exposed.

After all, it is a large plain battlefield where hundreds of thousands of people gather. Even if the front line is too long, there are only two or three thousand soldiers standing in each row. The average depth of an army of 50,000 and 600,000 can be 200 rows.

In order to prevent congestion, trampling on each other during the dispatch, or the morale collapsed in the front row, the rear army was also swept away, when Cao's army invested its troops, they were stuck in batches.

The front row suffered heavy losses and when morale was almost unstoppable, there would be subsequent reinforcements from the reserve team.

Especially when it was discovered that the Han army's divine arm crossbow was output based on the low wall and the shooting angle was tricky, the Cao army even needed to reduce the thickness of the front row soldiers' array to reduce the efficiency of being harvested by flat shooting.

Based on the actual situation on the battlefield, the reserve team of Cao's army in the rear group was at least 200 steps away from the bloody troops in the front row, and every formation was like this. In this way, the divine arm crossbow and crossbow that the Han army failed to hit would not accidentally injure the reserve team of the rear group.

However, as the battle lasted for more than half an hour, the deaths and injuries in the front row became more and more tragic. At least several rows of square formations were blocked, and the casualties of tens of thousands of people were only exchanged for forcing the first line of defense to retreat from the Han army.

The casualties of the Han army were obviously much smaller, definitely less than one-fifth, and even more pessimistic, perhaps only one-tenth of them.

Facing the second low wall and trench, would you still have to use your bodies to cover the frozen and slippery trench bottoms? Even if Cao Cao wanted to, his morale would not be able to withstand it!

Moreover, if you take a step back and consider that even if all the short wall trench positions are taken down, so what? The loss of the Han army's live power is completely within the acceptable range of Liu Bei. Cao Cao still wants to fight another pure field battle after he seized the position.

By then, Cao Jun, who had already lost too much blood, would still be almost impossible to win.

The Cao army has begun to see some local reserve teams being disconnected. The subsequent reinforcements are not afraid to go on tour. The generals are supervising the battle and urging them to force them. They even killed some leading elements who are afraid to fight and do not fight in the face of the battle, which is still unsustainable.

As the subsequent reinforcements stopped moving forward, several Cao army arrays were killed in rows in front of them. In the end, the soldiers saw that the supporters did not come, so they directly chose to flee back or put down their weapons on the spot to surrender. They hoped that the Han army would not kill them. They could not stop, and they were still killed by putting down their weapons.

Those who fled backwards were of course shot dead by Cao's army with crossbows, so he could not bring his fear to the back formation.

However, even if the war is fought like this, you still cannot say that Cao Cao's deployment is wrong.

Cao Cao also had other unscrupulous difficulties, that is, he must ensure the flexibility of the troops to advance and retreat, and ensure that when the troops collapsed in a small-scale front, fear was not easily contagious. This is very critical for an army with many new recruits.

Cao Cao's ability to consider these aspects and make such arrangements at present shows that his military talent is at least above Fu Jian of later generations.

When Fu Jian of the Former Qin Dynasty attacked the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was an obvious mistake in the Battle of Feishui that the buffering between the front and rear armies was not enough.

Otherwise, the Jin army would let Fu Jian's vanguard withdraw from a battlefield for the Jin army to cross the river to fight. When the Qin army retreated slightly, hundreds of thousands of people would retreat together? Isn't this nonsense?

If you leave enough buffer between the front and middle and rear armies, in this case, you can only let the front army retreat a little first, or the troops stagger the retreat time and give up the battlefield in an orderly manner. How could Zhu Xu give the opportunity to yell "The Qin army has been defeated" in the Qin army's back formation to disrupt the morale of the army.

Of course, the important reason why Fu Jian did that was because he underestimated the enemy. He didn't think that he would encounter a decisive counterattack near the water. Before that critical moment, he only pursued the efficiency of march, and there were too many people and there was no time to make hasty adjustments. Therefore, it might not be all about level issues, but also about attitude issues.

Cao Cao attached great importance to Liu Bei today. He knew that he had only one numerical advantage. The other soldiers were crushed by Liu Bei in all aspects of elite level, morale, equipment, and geographical advantages.

Cao Cao knew himself and his enemy at least, but he knew that he could not fight, not fight.

However, any tactical deployment has pros and cons.

Cao Cao's deployment allowed him to better prevent fear from spreading between the formations and leave enough "isolation belts". However, he had to bear the problem of unfavorable situations in the war, the rear army's support was inefficient and fearless.

Cao Cao keenly judged that there was little hope for continuing to fight to the death. The investment of reserve teams in various places gradually became disconnected, and he could only adapt to the situation and ordered Xiahou Dun, Cao Hong, Li Dianlejin and others to temporarily suspend their participation in the reserve team and be prepared to break away from contact, so as not to collapse across the board.

And at this moment, the Han army also launched a fierce counterattack.

The main infantry force of the Han army never moved, just sticking to the defense line. Huang Zhong and Ma Chao's cavalry rushed forward from the battlefields on both wings and the corridors between the formations, trying to divide the remaining disconnected troops surrounding the Cao army on the front line.

It is impossible for the 40,000 cavalry of the Han army to be invested in one go. The front width of the battlefield is not that big and cannot accommodate so many people, but it is still possible to pour out 20,000 to 30,000 people in a short period of time.
Chapter completed!