As the Wu Zurui soldiers entered the battlefield, the stalemate was immediately broken. Following the Wu Zurui soldiers entered the city were hundreds of Tiger and Ben Shield Guards, followed by a large number of armored militias holding halberds and crossbows.

After entering the city, the soldiers quickly divided their troops and advanced along the street to the city and the other three gates. Seeing this, the soldiers of the other three gates had to give up their defense against the city gate and retreat to the city tower or the Xianpu mansion in the city.

More Xia army soldiers poured into the city from the other three city gates. In the end, nearly a thousand Shang troops from Henanyi also entered the city.

The soldiers on both sides started a melee on the streets, and some Xia soldiers began to attack the city tower. At this time, Xian Kuo became panicked and thought to himself, "Why has the Huaiyi army not come yet?", but he encouraged the surrounding soldiers: "Persevere for a while, our 30,000 reinforcements will come."

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An hour ago, Shu Lie, the leader of the Huaiyi Army, saw the rolling wolf smoke from the West. According to the agreement, this was a signal of the ambush attack.

Amid the sound of conch horns, 30,000 Huaiyi soldiers were divided into dozens of regiments according to their tribes. Under the leadership of their respective leaders, they were arranged in a "column" with a length of two miles and a width of two hundred meters, and rushed towards Qizhai along the north bank of Shahe River.

The battle between Huaiyi is very simple. When marching, it is arranged in a row in a vertical direction. When going out, it is arranged in a horizontal direction. When fighting, it is fought together and attacks forward.

Halfway through the team, something strange happened. Shu Lie kept finding that there were soldiers riding horses coming to spy on them in the distance. He tried to send soldiers to capture the other party, but the infantry on both legs could not catch up with others. The soldiers rode their horses and disappeared in a flash.

At this time, another army five miles north of the Huaiyi army began to maintain the same direction from west to east with them, and gradually moved closer to them from north to south. This was a square formation led by Hua himself, composed of all the forces of the Eastern Division, as well as spearmen and shooters from the First Brigade of the Southern Division. It was constantly correcting the relative position between the square formation and the Huaiyi formation by ordering the scout cavalry.

At this time, the Xia army's phalanx was arranged in a square formation with a width of nearly three miles long, and it was still a square formation with only five rows of spears in the center depth, a slanting team composed of two wings of shield guards, and behind it was the Hu Ben Shooter. However, the entire square formation is mainly horizontal movement from west to east, or from left to right.

When the Xia army's phalanx appeared in Shulie's vision, the phalanx stopped moving horizontally and rushed towards the Huaiyi army. Hua ordered the entire army to advance at full speed, and even sacrifice formation for speed.

Shu Lie panicked, but did not make a correct judgment on Hua's intentions. He thought Hua just wanted to catch him off guard, and believed that the most important thing now was to prepare for the fight.

If he now orders the entire army to quickly unfold to the east and west ends, or even to rush towards the Xia army and keep himself away from Shahe, the ending may be completely different.

As Shu Lie and the leaders shouted, the commanders ran hard in the queue. After receiving the orders, all the Huaiyi soldiers from both miles long turned to the right, and the "column" quickly turned into a "horizontal team" and entered a state of combat, facing the Eastern Division formation of Xia Kingdom. Shu Lie breathed a sigh of relief.

The Xia army formation slowed down its attack at this time, and began to organize its formation under the orders one after another, and lowered the Rulin spear.

At this time, Hua also breathed a sigh of relief. The overall situation was settled, and the Huaiyi army had reached the death. The vanguard vanguard formation vanguard on the left and right wings was less than 300 meters away from the bank of Shahe River. The two-mile wide Huaiyi horizontal team was nearly 500 meters away from the left and right ends of the East Division.

At this time, the Huaiyi Army, which had 30,000 people, was like a calf swallowed by a python. This python was the Xia army formation that was nearly three miles long and nearly seven thousand people.

With the rumbling drum trumpet, the Xia army formation was moving forward in an orderly manner, stepping on the drum beats. The nearly two-mile spear tip cut towards the Huaiyi. At this time, Shu Lie realized something was wrong and shouted: "Hurry, spread the team along the Shahe River to the wings." However, when the military order was passed to various troops in the army, it was too late.

The spear blade kept making mechanical stabs. With the sound of flesh and blood splattering, the Huaiyi soldiers fell down layer by layer. Many Huaiyi soldiers used shields to block a spear blade that stabbed his chest, but the adjacent spear blade would pierce into his mouth, eyes, abdomen, thighs, shoulders and other possible parts of his body.

The Xia army's Tiger Shooters were interspersed among the spearmen and the guns, and shot a powerful arrow at the Huaiyi array from close range. Priority was given to the archers in the Huaiyi soldiers.

Huaiyi Shooter also began to shoot long distances in the rear, which had almost no effect on the Xia army formation with only five rows in depth.

Most of the arrows shot either crossed the heads of the spearmen and fell behind, or landed in front of the Xia army array, or even accidentally injured their own soldiers. A few fell on the fine armor of the spearmen, and only a few of them could cause direct damage to these spearmen.

A brave Huaiyi archer saw the clues and squeezed into the front of the queue to get close to the shooting. He immediately pierced his skull. He stared at his lost pupils and fell backwards. The Huaiyi archer who shot in front would be suppressed by the opponent's Hu Ben Shooter.

Soon, these Huaiyi archers were unable to shoot, because the soldiers in front fell down layer by layer, and the survivors kept retreating, crowded with people, and trampled under the cruel threat of the enemy's spearhead. Even the archers who lived behind had to retreat to the rear. However, further behind was Shahe.

Under the pressure of the Xia army's central phalanx, some Huaiyi soldiers squeezed towards the two wings. At this time, because the front pressure of the Xia army's phalanx and the oblique shield formations on the left and right wings actively closed into the middle, the two ends had already been closed. The most edge of the Xia army's shield guards had already arrived at the bank of Shahe River.

As the central square formation further pressed forward and closed, the shield guards on both wings became thicker and denser. Three-foot shields were formed in a row, firmly holding back the Huaiyi soldiers who were surrounded by a group, and the big sword in his right hand slashed and killed wildly and stabbed.

At this time, they didn't need to talk about skills, and they did repeat mechanical movements like spearmen. Naturally, behind them, the support provided by the Tiger Shooter through close shooting is indispensable.

The Huaiyi jumped into or were squeezed into the sand river, swimming to the other side of the river, and drowned if they could not. As the army contracted, the excess shield guards and archers began to cruise on the shore, shooting the Huaiyi scattered soldiers in the river and preventing them from getting ashore again.

In the end, the entire Xia army had shrunk and was extremely thick, and the formation no longer existed, nor needed. The spearmen surrounded the remaining Huaiyi group on the Shahe River in a narrow area. They either surrendered collectively, jumped into the river, or died.

Most of the shield guards had left the "military formation" without formation, and they began to search and kill the fleeing Huaiyi scattered soldiers along the upstream and downstream of the Shahe River.

The Hu Ben Shooters continued to shoot at the Huaiyi in the river. There were floating corpses everywhere on the river surface, but the land was even more shocking. More than 20,000 corpses were densely distributed on the banks of the Shahe River. This piece of land will become the most fertile land in the Huaihe River basin in the future.

At this time, Xian Kuo in Qi'er City was still waiting for the arrival of the Huaiyi army.
Chapter completed!