Zhang Shou stood in the front row of the team. He turned his head slightly and looked around. They were all comrades standing still. He relaxed from the nervousness of standing in the front row.
Zhang Shou was from Wuxiang, Bingzhou. Due to the rebellion of the Xiongnu on the left, Zhang Shou and his family moved to Qingzhou several times. Later, he followed several refugee commanders to join Liu Yu and became a soldier through layers of screening.
This is of course not because Zhang Shou is not afraid of death, but because in Donglai County under the rule of General Liu, if one person from that household becomes a formal soldier, then the entire family will be exempted from more than half of the income. Taxes and labor.
Before he and his comrades set off, they had heard from General Liu that these barbarians from Baekje were very weak. As long as they were defeated today, they could attack their capital city, where there was a lot of food, livestock and population, then all the spoils will be distributed according to merit.
Zhang Shou silently calculated that during the landing battle a few days ago, he landed too late and did not behead anyone. According to the military system of the Donglai Army, he must get a beheading today to get enough loot. In that case, at least It is also a cow, horse or a slave, otherwise the spoils distributed based only on the collective merit of the team will definitely be pitifully small.
Zhang Shou couldn't allow himself to think too much when a sharp whistle sounded behind him. This was an order from a senior officer of the Donglai Army Squadron.
Then a row of archers quickly walked to the front of the formation from the gaps between each square formation, preparing to shoot at the approaching Baekje army.
Zhang Shou stood in the queue and looked at these archers with envy. These archers generally do not fight with the enemy like ordinary infantry. They just shoot arrows from a distance. Moreover, after each victory, the archers' points are increased. He deserves a lot of credit.
However, Zhang Shou also knew that he was just envious. After all, it was impossible to become a qualified archer without two or three years of hard work. As for becoming a sharp archer like Liu Yu, I am afraid that it is a matter of talent.
Soon, the Baekje people on the opposite side came within the bow and arrow range of the Dongrai Army. Zhang Shou, who had very good eyesight, could already see the beard on the enemy's face.
Under the command of whistles and orders, the archers of the Donglai Army nocked their arrows and stringed their arrows one by one, pulling their bows like rounds of the full moon.
In front of Zhang Shou was a strong-backed archer. The fully drawn bow made a slight squeaking sound. Zhang Shou looked at the bow that was stretched to an exaggerated shape by the archer. He was very worried that the bow would explode, but his The worry did not happen, and soon there was another order. All the archers dropped the taut bowstrings in their hands. A buzzing sound of bowstrings sounded in front of the formation, and dense arrows flew rapidly into the air.
Zhang Shou's eyes followed the arrows unconsciously, and he saw dense arrows flying high into the sky, and then falling into the enemy's ranks like raindrops.
Although many Baekje people held shields above their heads to defend themselves, many people were still shot by arrows, mostly in the shoulders or legs, and fell to the ground one by one, groaning in pain.
Just when the first wave of feather arrows fell, the second wave of feather arrows fired by the Dongnae Army archers finished shooting, and many unlucky ones in the Baekje Army were shot to the end.
At this time, Zhang Shou saw clearly that many of the enemy soldiers were only wearing leather robes or thick cloth clothes, and were not wearing any armor at all. No wonder they had no resistance after being shot by bows and arrows.
After the Dongnae Army's archers fired three rounds in a row, the Baekje archers began to fight back. However, most of the arrows were blocked by the shields and armors of the Dongnae Army soldiers, except for two archers who were hit by Apart from minor injuries, there were almost no other casualties.
The archers of the Dongnae Army immediately fired back with two rounds of feather arrows, causing many casualties among the Baekje troops.
"Don't wait any longer, attack now."
King Biliu saw that the enemy's archers on the opposite side were far superior to his own. If he pushed forward slowly, many people would die in vain.
Of course, he didn't care if a few more people died, but this kind of passive beating greatly affected morale, so he would rather launch a charge earlier.
Then, bursts of bark-horn sounds sounded like deer roaring, and the Baekje Army finally launched a charge towards the Dongnae Army.
Waves of loud and strange screams followed the Baekje people who started running.
"The charge was launched too early."
Zhang Shou saw the enemy charging and couldn't help but despise them.
According to the teachings of the officers of the Dongnae Army, charging from such a long distance has almost no effect except disrupting the formation. This kind of truth that even a small soldier understands, these Baekje barbarian generals don't even know.
However, Zhang Shou has also seen that the number of enemies is far greater than his own, so the width of the enemy's wings is much wider than his own, and it seems that the enemy's wings are encircling and outflanking.
But before Zhang Shou had time to worry about this, bursts of conch trumpets sounded from the Donglai army.
