Amid the thick and rapid sound of war drums, more than 10,000 Qingzhou troops and Liu Ling's troops who were blocking them collided.

As soon as they came into contact, a scream and blood mist burst out from the two lines. In front of the Qingzhou Army, where almost everyone was wearing armor, Liu Ling's subordinates fell down a large area in an instant as the metal hisses of swords and armor rubbed against each other.

Unlike most of Shile's troops who were cavalry, many of Liu Ling's subordinates were mountain citizens from Erzhou, Hebei. These people were born mountain infantry, not barbarian light cavalry who were guerrilla like wolves, but elite infantry warriors who could withstand short-term battles.

This is also the reason why Shi Le kept persuading Liu Ling to block the Qingzhou army after he retreated, but Liu Ling could actually agree.

Liu Ling thought that with his own numbers and physical strength, he should be able to defeat these Qingzhou troops who dared to rush into the battlefield.

But it was beyond Liu Ling's expectations. After seeing the formation of Liu Ling's troops who were blocking reinforcements into the city, these Qingzhou troops were not afraid at all. Instead, they rushed up like crazy tigers under the agitation of a stubborn general.

As soon as he took over the enemy, Liu Ling discovered the difference between these Qingzhou reinforcements, not only because the proportion of these Qingzhou troops was indeed very high, but also because these Qingzhou troops were not afraid of death. After all, the soldiers and horses of Jintingzhou County that Liu Ling had fought against were also elite soldiers with distinct armor and bravery and fearlessness of death.

What really made Liu Ling feel a little scared was that these Qingzhou troops, which were both well-armed and fierce and fearless, were not just some of the leaders in a certain army, but almost the entire front of the Qingzhou troops were in the same state.

This is very terrible.

For example, if there were one or two tigers in the two wolves that were originally against each other, it might be possible to use the numerical advantage to make up for the gap in individual strength.

But a group of wolves faced a group of tigers, so even if the group of wolves had a tenfold gap, it would be dangerous.

Second, after marching in a hurry, these Qingzhou troops immediately entered the attack. In the fanatical attack, they could still maintain the strictness of the array. Amid the unique conch and whistles of the Qingzhou troops, they could still maintain the rotation of front and rear rows of soldiers, carrying out a very skillful rolling attack.

This almost killed Liu Ling. Although Liu Ling was guilty of his superiors, he was also fearless and fearless, but he mostly relied on his brute force to actually catch the enemy. In the process of actually taking over the enemy, he changed the formation and replaced the enemy. When he fought, he would fight in a melee, either the enemy would collapse, or his front arrogance would be defeated.

This is because of the lack of daily collective training. In these bandit-like battles, the elites are often regarded as omnipotent firefighters. In a battle, they are often squeezed to the end of their efforts, and rarely cooperate with the replacement military formation changes.

This kind of reckless tactic can always gain miraculous results when facing enemies who lack training and morale. It can often defeat the enemy in one or two charges.

However, at this moment, facing the Qingzhou Army that had been cooperating with each other for several months, Liu Ling's subordinates, who had already lost the lead and had not even launched a wave of recklessness, all of them were exhausted to resist.

The bandits who had the advantage in numbers actually had a stalemate on the front line and did not use their number to surround the two wings.

Seeing that he was in an unfavorable situation just now, Liu Ling was very anxious. He quickly mobilized the cavalry and ordered them to divide the troops into two wings to attack Qingzhou's side and rear.

Although using these light cavalry to attack infantry with strict formations would have to withstand huge casualties, Liu Ling had no choice. His infantry had been passive. If he could not attack backwards, the infantry with twice the advantage in numbers would collapse.

At this time, in this dense battle of infantry soldiers, Liu Yu only needed to sit in the rear to command, and he did not need to fight.

Seeing that the Qingzhou army, which had a disadvantage in numbers, used its skillful cooperation to force the bandits who were more than themselves to retreat step by step, Liu Yu couldn't help but feel very proud.

Sure enough, these sergeants who are only half professions can exert the power that even bandits cannot match if they have enough material support and training time.

In this battle of tens of thousands of people, personal courage is almost negligible. The only important thing is the strictness and coordination of the array. The formation and coordination can allow a soldier to exert the maximum physical reserve, and it will not simply make him lose his energy, and then lose his energy.

Of course, the most important thing is the morale of every soldier.

What the Qingzhou army lacked the most at this time was the morale of beheading for merit.

Looking at the slowly advancing infantry front, Liu Yu felt a little regretful. What he lacked the most at this time was the cavalry that could make a final decision.

If you have a cavalry that can only be trapped in the formation of the army, then you only need one round of raid to completely penetrate the formations of these enemies.

Just when Liu Yu regretted that he lacked cavalry, he heard the sound of horse hooves.

Liu Yu quickly looked in the voice and saw that the enemy army opposite had already had a large number of cavalry, with nearly 10,000 cavalry, and was divided into two groups, intending to detour the two sides of the Qingzhou army's infantry to attack.

Although these are all armorless cavalry and are all short ordinary cavalry, the number of tens of thousands can still cause considerable danger if it hits the flanks of infantry.

Seeing this, Liu Yu quickly ordered to shrink his right wing first, where the Qingzhou army had almost achieved defeat. Then, Liu Yu personally led the only two hundred cavalry and one thousand infantry reserves to personally rush to support the left wing.

Although the number of these thousand infantrymen was not large, they were indeed elite troops who were the highest and strong soldiers selected by Liu Yu from the army.

All of these soldiers were more than seven feet tall, and were armored soldiers holding infantry spears and cutting sabers.

Soon, when the cavalry of the barbarian bandits circled to the left wing, Liu Yu also led these reserve teams to the predetermined position to block the attack.

At this time, many other barbarian cavalry went around deeper rear, intending to directly attack the back of the Donglai Army.

If these cavalry surrounding the back can really exert the power of the trap, the infantry of the Qingzhou Army may face an enemy from both sides and fall into a huge passive state.

In real combat, it will not be like the storytellings of later generations. As long as you strike around the back, the military formation will immediately collapse and fail. The array of an army is generally a line of infantry, and it is not really like a person. If it is really a separate person, it will definitely not be able to take into account both sides. As long as a military formation is strong enough, it can deal with enemies on both sides at any time. However, in this way, the intuitive pressure will increase dramatically and will also disrupt the original array. This is the danger that the army faces being attacked on both sides.

However, Liu Yu no longer cared about these things at this time. After all, these bandits were several times more than him. All he could do now was to defeat the things in front of him first.

As the whimpers of the horns were sobbing, thousands of barbarian cavalry rode their horses one after another and rushed towards the left wing of the Qingzhou Army.

The thousand Qingzhou troops who had just arrived here to support were like a thin fence, which seemed to be crushed in front of thousands of roaring cavalrymen with a slight impact.

As thousands of war horses ran wildly, the earth seemed to be trembling, and rumbling sounds spread along the soil to every Qingzhou army.

"Rise the spear! Arrange the array!"

As the Qingzhou military commander shouted loudly, the three square formations of Qingzhou soldiers raised their spears together, and the sharp metal spear tips were like fangs that were seeking life, waiting for the Hulu cavalry to collide with them.

Rounds of light arrows shot from the cavalry team that rushed towards them, most of them blindly shooting on the erratic horseback, because the cavalry in the back row could not see the situation ahead and did not know the specific location of the Qingzhou Army infantry.

Among them, many arrows hit the target and hit the armor of Qingzhou soldiers, making a clanging sound.

Two more people flew over the infantry array and landed in front of Liu Yu's horse. These light arrows did not even shoot through the frozen ground, and then landed on the ground.

Liu Yu looked down and found that the arrow was not an iron arrow, but a bronze arrow. He didn't know where these barbarian cavalry found such antiques from the pre-Qin era.

This kind of bronze arrow was already behind in the Han Dynasty, but arrows were always consumables. Liu predicted that these bandits and barbarians would not have the ability to control themselves. They should be the stubbornness of the tomb robbers.

Almost in the blink of an eye, these barbarian cavalry rushed into front of them, but unlike the cavalry that Liu had assumed to rush forward, and then the people were overturned and both were injured. Except for some cavalry holding super-long cavalry to attack the Qingzhou infantry, the rest of the cavalry passed through the surroundings and gaps of the three infantry phalanxes, and did not really fight against the sharp spear tips and qiang heads.

After all, even if these robbers who were robbing families suddenly were not afraid of death and dared to attack the infantry against the brigade, the mounts under their crotch were unwilling to do so. These horses were actually smart and tight, without rigorous training. These horses were never automatically avoiding dangerous brigades and would not really impact the dense formation.

In this whizzing cavalry charge, the war fruits of these barbarian cavalry were quite rare. Instead, the infantry of the Qingzhou Army used the longer spears in their hands to knock many cavalry that dared to approach.

At this time, the cavalry in front and cavalry in the rear of the barbarians fell into a brief chaos. Some wanted to form a formation and attack again, some wanted to roam and shoot with bows and arrows, and some wanted to continue moving forward and went straight to the back of the Qingzhou army for a surprise attack.

At this moment, Liu Yu felt that this short-term chaos was his chance!

"Everyone! Kill me!"

Liu Yu shouted, he wanted to lead the two hundred cavalry around him to counterattack the left-wing barbarian cavalry.

Unlike the light armor of these barbarians, the mounts of these two hundred cavalry were already covered with thick felt at this time. Although they were far from comparable to the horse armor of the shaped barbarians, they were still barely useful in dealing with these barbarian light cavalry.

Soon, the cavalry that first attacked the left wing of the Qingzhou Army suddenly found that a cavalry with only a few hundred people was rushing towards him. Looking at the cavalry coming from two rows of cavalry, the cavalry who had their own thoughts, at this time, they saw the cavalry rushing towards him, and were even more confused.

When some people turned their horses and fled, while some were holding them to meet the enemy, the two hundred cavalry led by Liu Yu had already hit them in two rows of horizontal formations.

Under the attack of the two rows of qiang spears in front and back, the barbarian cavalry in the front had collapsed, and these light cavalry had no ability to fight with such armored cavalry at all.

However, Liu Yu succeeded with one blow and had no idea of ​​fighting with these cavalrymen.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the Hu cavalry in front of him, he retreated again to carry out the second round of charge. In front of a group of undisciplined and cooperative barbarians, Liu Yu's two hundred cavalry easily carried out three rounds of attacks like an exercise. Although only a few hundred people were killed, the Hu cavalry on the left wing instantly fell into a fleeing.

On the head of Licheng City not far away, Sun Fang, Licheng County Magistrate Zheng Jie and other officials were stunned when they watched the melee outside the city.

On the condescending city wall, Zheng Jie, who originally thought that the barbarians who had been several times the advantage would probably not take long to defeat these reinforcements from afar. When Zheng Jie kept complaining in his heart, he thought that all the reinforcements that had been waiting for would die under the nose of Licheng, he suddenly found that these reinforcements with a disadvantageous number actually took the lead and launched an attack on the barbarians who were several times his own, and immediately gained the upper hand.

However, the subsequent Hulu cavalry immediately divided the troops into two wings, and they were about to attack on both sides and were in danger. The Qingzhou cavalry, with a smaller number of people, took advantage of the chaos and defeated the left-wing cavalry and fled.

"Okay, okay! It's really mighty!"

For a moment, everyone on the city wall applauded and cheered.

However, unlike these Licheng officials who were just watching and cheering, Sun Fang, as the commander of a city, had another idea in his mind.

At this time, Sun Fang discovered that the barbarians outside the city had already put all the troops in the array in hand, and did not reverse the decline, but instead caused the Qingzhou army to counterattack.

However, these barbarians flew away and would soon regroup. If so, these Qingzhou troops would have to face endless wheel battles.

Therefore, the best way at this time is to defeat these barbarians with one blow, so that they don’t even have the chance to regroup.

Large beads of sweat were emitting on Sun Fang's forehead, and he thought anxiously.

Finally, I made up my mind.

He suddenly spoke.

"Donglai'ermen, follow me out of the east gate and help kill the enemy!"
Chapter completed!