After all the preparations of the Sui army were ready, they quietly waited for Yang Guang's military order. At this time, Yang Guang put down his telescope and did not rush to order an attack. Instead, he ordered the eunuch who followed him to follow him for a few words. The eunuch quickly prepared as Yang Guang said.

Wang Bodang, who stood in front of the formation, saw a cavalry flying out of the Sui army camp from afar. He looked not as dressed like a scout and a scout cavalry, but very much like an official of the Sui Dynasty. The soldiers around him were about to shoot him, but Wang Bodang stopped him and said, "The other party only came with one cavalry and one man, so there is no need to be nervous. I want to see what he wants to say."

The man rode his horse to Wang Bodang, but did not dismount, but shouted, "Who is the general of the Wagang Army opposite?"

Wang Bodang snorted coldly and said, "I am Wang Bodang, the general of the left wing guard of the Wagang Army. Who are you? What are you going to say to me?"

The man continued to say without being humble or arrogant: "I am the envoy of the Great Sui court. I am specially ordered by the emperor to surrender and accept the court as soon as possible, except for all the previous crimes of treason, and to make contributions to the Great Sui court!" After that, he unfolded the scroll of the imperial edict in his hand and began to recite the general edict aloud.

Before he could read halfway, Wang Bodang interrupted him and said teasingly, "Okay, okay. I have heard of this thing a few days ago. But I, no, my brothers in the entire Wagang Village, have long stopped using your master Yang Guang as the emperor. Come back and tell your master that next year will be his death day."

Seeing that Wang Bo should be so rude, the envoy knew that he would not have to swear more, so he returned and reported the truth to Yang Guang. Yang Guang then waved his hand and shouted: "The whole army attacks and wipes out the bandits."

The soldiers shouted in unison, "I am ordered to fight the bandits and eliminate the bandits." Several times, the shouts echoed in the valley for a long time. Then, as the drums and roars sounded, the naval and army formations began to advance together, and attacked Wang Bodang's Wagang Army.

Wang Bodang looked at the Sui army formation that was getting closer and closer and shouted: "Boundler is ready!" The thousands of crossbowmen behind him raised their crossbows together, began to bend their bows and answer the arrows, or pull the strings on the crossbows. Because the target of this battle was sniper battle, Li Mi arranged a large number of crossbowmen for Wang Bodang's army. Eight thousand of the 20,000 were crossbowmen.

In order to shoot at the same time, Wang Bodang arranged these crossbowmen into a square deep square formation, and also equipped sword and shield hands on the front line of the river to prevent the enemy from landing in the water and attacking these crossbowmen after landing in the water.

But something unexpected happened. The Sui army's arrow suddenly hit the air like a storm, and the Wagang army was unable to defend. With a scream, Wang Bodang's ginseng general wearing mountain pattern armor was pierced through the breastplate with an arrow and was killed on the spot.

This shocked Wang Bo. You should know that the mountain patterned mail is the best armor in the world. Not to mention arrows, even if the sword is slashed and speared, it is not as easy to penetrate. He looked at the arrow carefully and found that it was completely different from ordinary arrows. It was much thicker than ordinary arrows in terms of size alone.

In this moment, countless casualties and injuries occurred in the Wagang Army formation, including the spear soldiers in front and the sword and shield soldiers, and even the crossbow soldiers behind them fell down. Wang Bodang hurriedly shouted: "Hailer comes forward and build a shield wall!"

With his order, amid the sound of swords and shields colliding, a shield wall formed by a large tiger-headed shield was erected in front of the Wagang Army. However, this shield wall was only useful for a few rows of soldiers in the front row, and the crossbow formation at the rear continued to be hit by heavy arrows shot by the longbowmen.

When Wang Bodang saw that if this continues, his team would be shot down by the other party with arrows before the two armies could be fought. He had to order the crossbowmen on the east coast to retreat first and withdraw from the range of the longbowmen.

Wang Bodang saw that he gave such an order, and quickly stopped him and said, "General, we have no cover for crossbows. The infantry in front will inevitably suffer great losses when facing the enemy. We will not give orders to our army on the east coast to advance forward, take the initiative to narrow the distance between the two sides, and offset the opponent's bow length advantage."

Wang Bodang frowned and pointed at the river channel, saying, "Look at the Ru River, there are a large number of Sui army warships loaded with armor. If our army advances to the iron chain of the river, these warships can appear on the flanks of the army. They either shoot or land or harass them, and they can also put pressure on our army's flanks at the same time. What should we do?"

The strategist immediately replied: "Then our army on the west bank will advance together with the east bank. The warships in the Sui army's river will be shot by crossbowmen on both sides of the shore, and they will have to retreat." Wang Bodang pondered for a few breaths and determined that this idea was the only feasible way, at least better than letting the crossbowmen withdraw from the battlefield.

He immediately issued a military order according to the advice of his counselors, and the military formations on both sides of the Ru River must advance forty battles in unison, so that the opponent can enter the range of his crossbowmen and avoid being beaten by one side.

For a moment, the Wagang Army also began to make loud drums. Nearly 20,000 soldiers and armor on both sides advanced in unison and quickly advanced towards the downstream of Ru River.

Soon, the Wagang Army on the east bank joined forces with the three spear formations of the Tianxing Army. These three mountain spear soldiers truly played their advantages and potential in the Rushui Valley. Amid the rapid bamboo whistle of the commanders, they kept changing directions and moving quickly, and the three formations cooperated with each other. Wherever the spear formation passed, no one could stand on the ground after the spear was like a forest spear.

Some experienced low-level generals of the Wagang Army saw that the other party was using a very long spear, so they asked their troops to try to detour from the flanks and then attack and kill each other closely. However, when they passed by these spearmen, the other party would suddenly change direction, and the spear soldiers turned the spear heads together and stabbed them quickly. Or for their friendly forces, another spear square would break into a certain direction, and all the Wagang soldiers who intended to encircle them fell to the ground.

Sometimes the slinger phalanx really has no time to turn, and there are no other slinger phalanxes that can just support themselves. Some slingers in the middle of the phalanx will take off the special crossbow and shoot it at the enemy on the flank.

As for the enemy attack from the rear, there is no need to worry at all, because the opponent's infantry basically cannot catch up with the highly moving spear phalanx. If the spear phalanx stops and there are enemies on the flanks of the rear, they will quickly change into a defensive formation similar to the hollow phalanx.
Chapter completed!