The scene of the Huns' attack was extremely spectacular. Although there was no uniform formation, this pattern of thousands of horses galloping and rushing around seemed to be superior in terms of momentum. The iron hooves rumbled, and even the earth seemed to be moving gently.

Trembling, the agitated dust and smoke shot straight into the sky.

Facing the Huns' surging offensive like a tidal wave, the Wei army's formation did not show any panic. The Wei army soldiers, who had experienced several battles, held the spears in their hands tightly and faced the oncoming force without even a trace of shaking.

The fierce enemy showed no fear at all.

The square formation formed by the Wei army was much larger than the usual spear square formation, at least ten times larger than usual. To be precise, it was not even a square formation, but rather an approximate oblate circle.

shaped battle formation.

However, whether it is a square formation or a circular formation, its structure is generally the same. Pike soldiers are deployed on the periphery, the second line of defense is sword and shield soldiers, and the crossbowmen are at the back.

Once the Huns came within shooting range, the Wei army's crossbowmen took action without hesitation. The rain of arrows in the sky was like meteors streaking across the sky, drawing beautiful arcs towards the Huns' team.

Shot it over.

The Huns came out almost in full force. Although they were fighting on their own, there was almost no distance between the horses. They were all walking side by side or staggered.

This kind of crowded formation is actually preferred by archers, because the archers don't need to aim at all, they only need to point the arrow towards the attacking crowd.

Arrows were flying all over the sky, drawing arcs and then falling again. After being hit by arrows, the Huns cavalry kept falling off their horses and being submerged in the crowd.

It is very dangerous to fall off the horse in this situation. It does not matter if you are shot to death by an arrow. Anyway, even if the body is trampled into mud, there is no pain.

But most of those who were hit by arrows were not dead but injured. Sometimes they were even slightly injured, but falling off the horse turned into a nightmare, with countless horse hooves trampling over the body.

A painful death.

In this case, the person who was hit by the arrow is not the dead, but the person who fell from the horse will definitely become the dead, and the kind of dead with no bones left.

The arrows of the Wei army kept coming, and the Hun soldiers kept falling off their horses, and the screams were endless. However, under this tide, the casualties of individual people could not stop the advance of the army. In the blink of an eye, the Hun cavalry

He had already rushed to the front of the Wei army's battle formation.

The high-speed war horse was pierced by the spear with great force, and the huge inertia caused the sharp spear to sink deeply into the body of the war horse.

It is difficult to pull out the spear that has penetrated so deeply. The Huns tried to use such impact to destroy the Wei army's battle formation. Although they had to pay a heavy price of casualties, the Huns were numerically superior.

Well, this kind of effort is still worth it. At least it can destroy the integrity of the Wei army's formation to a certain extent.

A pikeman without weapons is equivalent to losing his husband's fighting ability.

Obviously this is the latest method of breaking the formation invented by the Huns, using the flesh and blood of men and horses to trample a way to break the formation.

For a long time, infantry has gradually formed a more effective defensive formation when fighting against cavalry, that is, the formation of spears. In the absence of long-range attack methods, the cavalry wants to destroy the forest of spears, which are as tough as hedgehogs.

, it is indeed not an easy task.

Now from the attack method of the Xiongnu soldiers in the central part, it seems that Liu Jiao is very capable of destroying the spear formation of the Wei army. He sacrificed some of his men and horses to destroy the integrity of the Wei army's formation, and then attacked

The cavalry can then drive straight in and trample the Wei infantry.

Sure enough, when all the cavalrymen in the first wave of shock waves were killed, the impact of the second shock wave on the Wei army's battle formation was quite severe. Some parts of the battle formation could no longer withstand it and showed signs of being breached by the Huns' cavalry.

Yang Hu, who was commanding on the spot, saw that the situation was unfavorable and immediately ordered the entire army to retreat.

This kind of retreat is not a chaotic and disorderly retreat, nor a retreat in which everyone flees for their lives, but a retreat according to a predetermined plan.

The contraction of the battle formation made the Wei army's defense line shorter, so that the previously existing loopholes could be easily filled. Moreover, in the process of slowly retreating, the battle line was invisibly lengthened, and the attack distance of the Huns' cavalry was also shortened.

It increased in size, and everything seemed to be back to its original appearance. The Huns cavalry had to make continuous attacks if they wanted to break through the Wei army's defense line.

In fact, from the beginning of the battle, the Huns cavalry had already paid a heavy price. Their casualties were more than ten times that of the Wei army. In front of the Wei army's position, countless human and horse corpses were piled up. This accumulation of corpses,

It also affected the Huns' attack efficiency to a certain extent.

Under normal circumstances, the contraction of the Wei Army's spear battle formation could be sustained for a while, but today Yang Hu did not seem to be prepared to persist any longer. The Wei Army continued to retreat, all the way to the back of the sidecar.

Wei Jun unexpectedly listed such a huge spear battle formation today. In fact, there is a formation within the formation. Inside the spear formation, there is another battle formation with a side carriage formation.

The side-carriage formation is a type of infantry vehicle formation with stronger defensive capabilities than the spear formation. When Hedong County established its army, Cao Liang had already begun to build this kind of side-carriage, but it was relatively difficult to build this kind of side-carriage.

It is said that it is labor-intensive and time-consuming, so it was not until recently that it was gradually equipped into the army.

The Battle of Dongguan this time was an extremely important decisive battle for the Wei army. Cao Liang did not dare to hide it anymore. He put in the latest weapons and the most sophisticated equipment to fight with countless enemies.

The Huns, who were twice as many as themselves, launched a life-and-death battle.

The Wei army infantry withdrew in an orderly manner from the gap between each side carriage, and then the gap was blocked. Facing the Huns cavalry, it was like a copper wall and an iron wall.

This is the first time the Huns cavalry have seen such a chariot. The reason why it is called a side chariot is because this chariot has a body on only one side. The body is made of a three-inch thick pine board. Behind the board

, nailed with wooden bars and poles, and the height of the car body is more than seven feet, which also eliminates the possibility of the war horse jumping.

The chariots were connected end to end, forming a towering barrier in front of the Huns cavalry.

When Liu Jiao saw that the cavalry's attack had stalled, he couldn't help but be furious and stepped forward to urge him in person. However, when he got closer, he couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
Chapter completed!