Therefore, when the officers commanding the battalion on the front line saw that the situation was not good, they ordered the soldiers to go backwards. On the one hand, they wanted to temporarily avoid such continuous strikes from Gao Shun's troops, and on the other hand, they could adjust the range of the crossbow and counterattack on Gao Shun's troops.

At this time, behind Gao Shun's troops, hundreds of marching soldiers were holding shields, pushing the floating bridge, or carrying soil bags, and were about to run to Huanggai and Sun Ben camp.

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In the distant Sun Jian camp, Wen Chou and Sun Jian saw this scene.

Wen Chou said: "Lu Bu wanted to use Gao Shun as the edge, suppress Huang Gai and Sun Ben, then use infantry to fill the soil and fill the ditches and trenches, and then use Gao Shun as the sharp and infantry as the auxiliary to break through Huang and Sun's camp."

Wen Chou has also used this tactic in previous battles.

Sun Jian looked at the battle carefully and did not speak.

When I saw Huang Gai in Sun Ben's camp, the soldiers who resisted Gao Shun's attack, saw that Dong Bing's infantry took the opportunity to approach and came to fill the ditch and level the trenches, there seemed to be a brief panic. However, under the scrupulous officers, they quickly calmed down again and followed the officer's command and dispatched the shield to form a formation to respond to Gao Shun's short spear attack. At the same time, the crossbow moved backwards. The crossbow that moved backwards no longer targeted attacking Gao Shun, but concentrated its strength to attack the infantry of Lu Bu's troops.

This is one of the most appropriate ways to deal with it in this situation.

The hundreds of stairs sent by Lu Bu were too far away and could not see the flag clearly, so he didn't know who the general was the one who led the lead. However, compared to Gao Shun in front, the general was very brave. He braved his arrows and led his troops straight forward without hesitation at all.

The infantry was slow, and the crossbow arrows shot out by the powerful crossbow were fast and very strong, so although there were shields to protect them, hundreds of infantrymen from the Lü tribe still had arrows one after another. Looking at the hundreds of sprinters moving forward from afar, they were really moving forward with corpses and blood.

Of course, because of the distance between them, Wen Chou and Sun Jian could not see the casualties among these infantrymen. But it can be judged from the rising short-term smoke and dust that they must have suffered a lot of casualties. These infantrymen have carried earth bags, or pushed pontoon vehicles. Whenever someone fell to the ground, some earth bags fell to the ground, or some pontoon vehicles fell to the ground, and whenever the bags fell to the car, smoke and dust would rise.

Perhaps because Gao Shun's troops were covering the front, although the infantry suffered a lot of casualties, they were not slow to move in the rain of arrows. After about two quarters of an hour, they had arrived before the trench.

When they arrived at the front of the ditch, the front shield hand of the infantry raised the shield high and formed a shield formation. Then the remaining infantry threw their own bags of earth in the ditch under the protection of the shield formation, and some were pushing the pontoon bridge chariots to try to build the bridge to the ditch. But this bridge was not easy to build, because Huanggai and the soldiers in Sun Ben Camp kept shooting rockets when they saw a bridge coming. One or two rockets landed on the bridge, which might not cause a big fire, but dozens of rockets landed on the bridge and would inevitably catch fire. Under the attack of the crossbow arrows on the opposite side, the infantry of the Lu tribe were unable to extinguish all the fires.

However, even if all the floating bridges were burned out, Sun Ben could not stop the attack of the soldiers of the Lu family. Because in addition to the floating bridges, the soldiers of the Lu family also carried the earth bags. Huang Gai and the ditch outside the Sun Ben camp were not very deep and narrow, so the earth bags were easy to fill it up for a section, and once it was filled, the Gaoshun tribe that was cruising around would inevitably attack the camp in large numbers.

The generals of Sun Ying were watching the battle in the Wanglou with Wen Chou and Sun Jian.

Wu Jing said: "The floating bridge is just a bait from the Lu tribe. It is to disperse the arrows of the soldiers of Boyang Camp to cover the rest of the soldiers carrying the earth to fill the ditches."

Wu Jing said it was right that the floating bridge was just a bait, but this bait, Huang Gai and Sun Ben, had to swallow it. Because if you don’t swallow it, ignore these floating bridges, and wait for the floating bridges to be built, with these floating bridges as a helper, the attack of Lu Bu’s soldiers will be smoother.

Han Dang asked for battle and said, "Gaoshun's troops were trapped in the camp, and the attack was very sharp. The attack was overthrown. Boyang's camp was terrible. Once the trenches were leveled, it was bound to be dangerous. General, he should immediately send troops to help Gong's overthrowing. Boyang. Please ask for five hundred soldiers to be raised and immediately rushed to help him."

Sun Jian didn't turn his head. While continuing to watch the battle, he said lightly: "Where did the war party come to help?"

"General, Gao Shun is very brave, Lu Bu and Xu Rong are watching from behind, and Hu Zhen's formation has also begun to attack. If the support is delayed, he may be defeated and Boyang will be in trouble."

"Will there be any loss? Only after the hand and blades intersect each other!"

Seeing that Sun Jian was determined, Han Dang refused to say anything again.

Wen Chou sighed in his heart: "Wentai is a tiger general on the battlefield. Huang Gai is fine. Sun Ben is his follower. Now his camp is surrounded by both sides of the enemy, but he can endure the distance for the sake of the overall situation and refuse to rush to help immediately... It was me? At this time, it was Zilong in the camp? Will I go to save him? Or will I just sit and watch for the sake of the overall situation like Wentai?"

Wen Chou asked himself, and he would sit and watch him like Sun Jian, without sending troops to rescue him immediately.

Since you are in charge of the army, you must always be conscious of dying in battle when you go to the battlefield and be cold. If you lose your position because the person being attacked is his own relative, then there is no need to fight this battle.

In the air where Han Dang asked for battle, the infantry of the Lu army had already filled a trench.

After filling the ditch, the group of infantry retreated temporarily and gave way to the cavalry of Gaoshun's troops. Wen Chou glanced from a distance and noticed that the number of infantry had dropped sharply. It was originally about 400 people, but now it seems that there are only about two or three hundred people left, at least more than a hundred people were reduced. Some of these more than a hundred people were killed and injured on the road, while others were killed and injured when filling the ditch.

Not every battle will reduce the number of troops. Sometimes, a battle with tens of thousands of people participating may be reduced by at most a few hundred people. As soon as this battle started, the infantry of the Lu army had reduced the number of troops by more than a hundred. One can see the fierce crossbow arrows of Huang Gai and Sun Ben camp soldiers, and the other can also see the soldiers of the Lu army, at least the strong fighting will of elite soldiers.

The trench has been leveled, and the next step is the attack of Gao Shun's army's trapped camp.

Wen Chou retracted his gaze and no longer looked at the casualties of the infantry in the Lu family. He held his breath and stared at the cavalry of Gao Shun's troops with all his attention.

Sure enough, under the leadership of the forefront flag, this hundreds of cavalry first turned the horse's head and turned toward Huang Gai and Sun Ben Camp, that is, facing Lu Bu, Xu Rong's main formation for a while, and then turned back, just as they did when they first came, towards Huang Gai and Sun Ben Camp began to rush into Chi Ben Camp again. With Chi Ben, they gradually raised and became faster and faster. (To be continued.)

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Chapter completed!