Chapter 487: Forcing the Xianbei to Retreat

The Sun family army also set up a defensive formation.

Tuoba Yu looked at Prince Gong and Sun Ming, "Prince Gong, General Sun, this is the grudge between us Xianbei and Pingzhou, you just watch. Of course, if you have other ideas, we are not afraid."

Tuoba Yu's tone was arrogant, as if he didn't care about the Dali court and Pingzhou joining forces, they were confident that they could wipe out both.

General Sun frowned, he wanted to join forces with Pingzhou, the enemy was divided into internal and external, no matter what, the Xianbei were foreigners, and they were brutal foreigners, and they had the opportunity to annihilate them.

But Prince Gong didn't allow it. Their Dali court had already negotiated terms with the Xianbei, and now they were going to fight. If they won, it would be fine, but if they lost, who knew what the consequences would be?

Moreover, the Xianbei army and the Pingzhou rebels were going to fight, and Prince Gong was overjoyed.

Under the suppression of Prince Gong, the Sun family army did not move, but Tuoba Xun did not put all the Xianbei army into the battlefield, obviously to prevent any unexpected situation.

The Xianbei army and the archery camp of Pingzhou set up their battle formations.

The archers of the Xianbei army were in position and ready to attack.

Pingzhou took a defensive posture.

At the beginning of the negotiation, under the reminder of Pingzhou, the court clearly required that the Xianbei side could not bring cavalry. If they brought cavalry, there would be no negotiation.

The Xianbei royal court agreed, and they were also arrogant, thinking that even without cavalry, their Xianbei infantry still defeated the Dali soldiers.

As the horn of the Xianbei attack sounded, the Xianbei soldiers holding shields and archers holding bows and arrows slowly advanced forward.

When the distance between the two sides was shortened to a certain extent, the Xianbei soldiers began to shoot the arrows in their hands.

Pingzhou hadn't done anything yet, and the generals of the Sun family army who were watching frowned. Is the range of the Xianbei archers so far?

Sun Congyi, who was hiding in the Sun family army, was also worried. He knew too well the level of the archery battalions of the Dali army, which was not as good as that of the Xianbei. Now that the Pingzhou Archery Battalion was facing it, wouldn't it be suppressed by the Xianbei army?

At this time, the Pingzhou Archery Battalion also moved.

Surprisingly, not only did the Pingzhou Archery Battalion bear the shooting from the Xianbei archers, but the Xianbei shieldmen and archers also entered the range of the Pingzhou Archery Battalion.

The two sides went from being shot by the Xianbei archers one-sidedly as others thought, to archers shooting at each other.

Such changes made Tuoba Xun and others frown.

In the past, because the arm strength and accuracy of the Xianbei archers were better than those of the Dali, their Xianbei range was farther than that of the Dali archers.

When the archers of both sides faced each other, they Xianbei had an absolute advantage. A round of arrow rain was shot, which was an overwhelming blow to the Dali army.

Now Tuoba Xun, Dugu Zhong and others found that the archery camp of Pingzhou was not weak and was not inferior to them at all. In other words, their Xianbei archers were not dominant.

At this time, there was some turmoil in the vanguard of the Xianbei army.

The Xianbei archers found that if they were far away, the arrows they shot could not do anything to the opponent. If they went forward, the hit rate was high, but they also entered the opponent's range.

The Pingzhou soldiers were on the defensive side, obeying orders, marching steadily, and never shooting randomly. They were not panicked at all and wasted a bow and arrow.

The two sides fought back and forth.

The Youzhou soldiers on the side were passionate, and the Xianbei soldiers were fierce and brave. They had encountered the Xianbei army in the wild before, and they could only be abused.

Now they finally saw an army that could fight against the Xianbei army!

Stalemate!

The strength of the two sides was equal, and neither could do anything to the other!

Tuoba Xun discussed with Dugu Zhong and Yuchi Rui and decided to change the tactics!

The Xianbei soldiers were strong and had an advantage in close combat. As long as their soldiers could rush to the front of the Pingzhou soldiers, dealing with them would be as easy as cutting melons and vegetables.

Under the command of Tuoba Xun, the Xianbei blew the charge horn.

Woo-woo-ming--

General Sun and others held their breath unconsciously, "The Xianbei army is about to charge!"

A group of burly and strong Xianbei strong men rushed to the front with Dunjia and broadswords, followed by Xianbei archers, and finally Xianbei infantry.

Xian Feng was next to Lu Desheng, protecting him nearby. When he saw the Xianbei strong men rushing over, he curled his lips and said, "It's a pity that our Li tribe's elephant group is not here, otherwise these people would not be enough for the elephants one by one."

General Sun and other generals looked solemn. If the Xianbei army successfully charged, the Pingzhou archery camp would be dispersed.

The Dali soldiers had no advantage against the Xianbei soldiers.

"Look, General Qin Heng has changed the battle formation!"

Qin Heng saw the Xianbei army charging and told his adjutant next to him. The adjutant waved the battle flag vigorously, and the Pingzhou army beat the drum directly.

On the Pingzhou side, the battle formation also changed accordingly.

Originally, after a group of archers shot the arrows in the quiver, they took advantage of the gap when changing the quiver to switch to another group of archers.

Now the Pingzhou soldiers stand in three rows and take turns shooting.

The first row of soldiers shoots an arrow, bows and retreats, and quickly switches to the second row of archers to shoot, and the third row of archers stand by, and so on.

The archery camp follows orders and has a particularly good shooting rhythm.

When the generals of the Sun family army saw this scene, their eyes lit up, "What kind of tactics is this?" Everyone can become a general, and they have strategic vision.

This tactic of the Pingzhou Archery Camp makes up for the disadvantage of the low shooting frequency of the bows and arrows when the arrows cannot be fired continuously.

If Qin Sheng were here, he would definitely kindly tell them that this is a three-stage shooting method.

Under the exciting drumbeats, the archers of the Pingzhou Archery Camp fired dense arrows directly at the Xianbei soldiers.

The Xianbei soldiers were fearless and advanced under the rain of arrows.

As the saying goes, two fists cannot beat four hands. Even if the leading Xianbei soldiers had shields and swords, they could not stop the dense and ubiquitous arrows from all angles.

The results of the battle were remarkable. The leading Xianbei soldiers fell one by one.

Once they fell, without the shield of the shieldmen, the archers and soldiers behind them also suffered and fell in batches.

Looking at this exciting scene, Prince Gong and other civil and military officials of Dali and the Sun family army were shocked.

Tuoba Xun and others looked very ugly. Obviously, their tactics were completely defeated by Pingzhou's special shooting method.

"Keep going. As long as Pingzhou has enough arrows, it will be difficult for our warriors to break through the opponent's defense line." Yuchi Rui said bluntly.

Tuoba Xun's face turned pale. He knew very well that what General Yuchi said was true.

Dugu Zhong also said, "It's a pity that our Xianbei cavalry is not here. For a while, we can't do anything to them."

Tuoba Yu: "Let them retreat. If they rush forward, they will die."

Woo-woo-woo--

The Xianbei retreat horn sounded, and on the battlefield, the remaining Xianbei soldiers retreated like a tide.

The archery camp in Pingzhou stopped shooting and stood by. They didn't even change their posture.