The battlefield where Lu Bu's army and Xiliang army were against each other was a rare small and flat area in the hilly group above the Longyuan. When the military formations were less than 300 meters apart, Ma Chao said to Ma Teng: "Father, can you let your son ride alone to meet Lu Bu?"

Ma Teng replied with a smile: "I know my son is brave, but the army can win. Why do you need to fight on your own? Leading troops to fight to defeat your opponent as your highest goal, not the courage of a fighter."

Han Sui also responded from the side: "Yes, I think our army will win this battle. The other side has no cavalry. I believe that when they went out to Qishan, they felt that the cavalry was inconvenient to move on the mountain road, so they didn't bring it with them. Moreover, my soldiers were all swords and shields. Although their armor and weapons were well-equipped, how could such short weapons fight against my long spears and brave soldiers? Moreover, they didn't seem to have many archers."

Han Sui's words were half right and half wrong. What was wrong was that when Lu Bu came out of Hanzhong, he brought cavalry. What was right was that Lu Bu believed that in the hilly and plateau areas of Long County, the cavalry could not play the advantages of maneuver and speed, so he did not bring them to participate in the battle, but stayed in the county town of Long County. Not only the cavalry, but also in order to increase the movement speed of the legion in the hilly areas, Lu Bu did not even bring the car-mounted crossbows equipped with Hu Ben.

When the two armies were less than a hundred meters in formation, Lu Bu ordered "The crossbowman does two rounds of shooting." After the military order was passed, the Hu Ben Shooter behind the formation and the crossbowman of the garrison soldiers shot dense arrows into the air.

After flying over the highest point, they smashed towards the dense spear formation of the Xiliang army like a sudden rain. The spearmen in Xiliang did not have shields, and the armor on their bodies was just a little more sophisticated than the army in the Central Plains, with shoulder armor and head helmets. These ordinary single bows can be used to defend against ordinary single bows, but they cannot defend against arrows shot within a hundred meters of the long composite bow and heavy crossbow.

The Xiliang Army's spear phalanx was constantly hit by arrows and the Xiliang infantry behind quickly replenished the empty positions in front. In the end, although the entire phalanx was uneven behind, the front was still neat and complete.

Ma Teng ordered the military formation to accelerate and let the crossbows in the rear launch a counterattack. At the same time, he also ordered the cavalry on the left and right wings to surround Lu Bu's army. This was the only way for the Xiliang long spear quadrain to defend against the opponent's long-range strike.

At this time, Lu Bu's army formation was still as stable as Mount Tai. Mo Dao Hand, Jian Shield and heavy infantry, who were fighting with swords and shields, as well as the shield soldiers in the garrison, immediately used the shields in his hand to form turtle shells, allowing the opponent's arrows to crackle on the shield.

"Transfer our army orders and the whole army slowly retreated." Lu Bu ordered with a solemn expression. With the sound of the horn, Lu Bu's army slowly retreated. Behind them were uneven slopes and hilly areas.

At a distance of 100 meters, the cavalry on both wings of the Xiliang Army quickly came up. But at this time, the infantry on both wings of the Lu Bu Army had retreated to a hillside. Although the hillside could not be said to be steep, it was enough to reduce the speed of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

Hundreds of arrows shot out from behind the wings of the Lu Bu military formation. The Western Liang cavalry, which had not yet approached the Lu Bu military formation, fell down one after another. Some of them were injured by arrows and frightened by pain and pushed the knights under the horse. When they were closer to the front of the Lu Bu military formation, a javelin was thrown out from behind the large shield like heavy rain.

A Xiliang knight urged the horse to climb up the hillside with difficulty. He was approaching a heavy sword and shield infantry, only two meters away. He raised his rifle in his hand and stabbed him at the other side. A javelin flew over, and in the point of his chest, the spear tip was exposed from behind him, and blood kept spitting out of his mouth, and then rolled down from his horse.

When Lu Bu's wings attacked the Western Liang Iron Cavalry on both wings, he did not stop his retreating pace. Now the slope of the hillside has become steeper. The speed of the cavalry rushing up is similar to that of ordinary people trotting.

At this time, the heavy infantry of the sword and shield of Lu Bu's army also received troops from the Xiliang spear square formation. The large shield of each heavy infantry was tightly held by the opponent's spear five or six meters, and the opponent's spear was constantly stabbed. Xin, at this time, Lu Bu's military order was to retreat slowly, otherwise the shield and spear would be hard, and the result would be that the large shield would be stabbed like a honeycomb.

Because the central army of Lu Bu's army was still retreating, the crossbowmen could not launch the wheel shooting. Soon, the entire Lu Bu's army formation had retreated to the uneven hills. The square formation composed of swords, shields, infantry and Mo Dao soldiers became scattered, and the same was true for the garrison formations in the rear, but the small square formations in the large square formations were still kept intact.

"Father, I think something is wrong. Now Lu Bu seems to intend to introduce our military formation into the hilly area. We should stop the attack immediately and retreat to the plain area." Ma Chao suddenly found the problem and shouted at Ma Teng.

Han Sui, who was standing beside him, said: "Nephew, it's not that serious. I saw Lu Bujun collapse soon."

Ma Teng didn't say anything, thought for more than ten seconds, and said, "What Chao'er said makes some sense. I will quickly pass our military orders, stop the attack, and withdraw to the plains."

However, at this time, Lu Bu had ordered: "Stop retreating and fight back in full." With the sound of drums, Lu Bu's army began a full-scale counterattack against the Xiliang army in the hilly areas.

On the hillsides on the left and right wings, crossbowmen vented their arrows to the cavalry down to the cavalry. The Modao and the heavy infantry simply threw away their shields and started close combat with the cavalry who had lost their speed.

A Xiliang cavalry waved his hand and slashed it, slashing the shoulder ring armor of a heavy infantryman, splitting a crack in the armor, cutting the flesh of the opponent's shoulder, but causing no greater damage to the opponent.

At this time, the heavy infantryman of swords and shields had grabbed his belt with his left hand, and the dagger in his right hand pierced into his thigh, dragged him off the horse, and then used the dagger to cut his throat.

The cavalry holding two or three meters of carving rifles were at a disadvantage. After being approached by the opponent, they were left with the fate of being slaughtered. Some Xiliang cavalry holding rifles were about to replace the weapons in their hands with sabers. How could Lu Bu's Tiger soldiers give them the chance? They all defeated them with the sabers, javelins, and short swords in their hands.

Although the central square formation of the Western Liang Army had not dispersed, there were suddenly more than a dozen wide gaps, which were enough to break into the small square formation of heavy infantry with 5×5 sword and shield.

Of course, the Lu Bu army would not miss a chance. At the moment of receiving the order from Lu Bu, small square formations drilled into these gaps and entered the dense square formation of spears to fight in close range. At the same time, the crossbowmen also began to stop retreating and used shield soldiers as cover to shoot directly at the Xiliang spear soldiers at close range.

At this time, if the Xiliang infantry holding a spear five or six meters in his hand did not put down his spear, he would only become fish on other people's chopping boards. After these spear soldiers were killed thousands of people in close range, they finally threw away their spears, pulled out the short sword at their waists and fought with the enemy beside them.
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