Chapter 71 The first battle
"General, the highest among the mountains ahead is Hualong Mountain."
"According to government and local governments, Hualong Mountain has high mountains and dense forests, steep and difficult to move around. Old trees and thorns are everywhere. It is a benefit of being a one-man pass, and there are more than a thousand thieves on the mountain. The imperial court sent troops to encircle and suppress the enemy many times before, but they lost their troops and returned in disgrace."
On the official road, Yang Zhi pointed to a mountain in the distance and said to Wang Han. As the only one of Wang Han's available people, Yang Zhi and Wu Song both took into account many miscellaneous things such as collecting information.
"What would you do in the face of this situation?" Wang Han asked Yang Zhi with a smile.
"This... General, if we only have 300 people, I will choose to attract them first and then fight in a spacious place." Hearing this, Yang Zhi hesitated for a moment and said, "But if the thieves in Hualong Mountain guard the valley, I can only surround and not attack. Even if the troops are several times more powerful, a strong attack is the worst."
"Indeed, the environment on Hualong Mountain is too unfavorable to us. Even if our soldiers are excellent, it is difficult to prevent hidden arrows in the dense forest. Attacking up the mountain is indeed a bad idea." Hearing this, Wang Han nodded in agreement and said to Yang Zhi with a smile: "Maybe even God is helping us!"
"Did they go down the mountain?" Yang Zhi immediately guessed.
"Maybe! Although they don't know the reason, they did take the initiative to go down the mountain." Hearing this, Wang Han nodded with a smile, looking at the foot of the mountain in the distance.
After several months of practice, Wang Han's physical fitness is now 200 times that of ordinary adults, and his vision is more than 100 times that of adults, and he is sharper than an eagle's eyes. Although it is about six kilometers apart, Wang Han can blurredly see a large number of figures constantly falling from the trees on the mountains in the distance.
"Hmph! Those thieves still want to pull out the formation and fight with us, and they just happen to kill them all." Wu Song said excitedly. Attacking the mountain is indeed a headache. Everyone is also worried that the losses after attacking the mountain may even fail. However, since the enemy wants to launch a formation fight, it is an exciting thing.
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It took about an hour to walk from six kilometers to arrive.
"These thieves really want to break the formation and fight us!"
"They made the stupidest decision!"
When Yang Zhi and Wu Song saw the bandits with loose formations hundreds of meters away opposite each other, they were a little unbelievable. How stupid these bandits were, they would do such a thing that they gave up on the right place.
"Maybe they want to scare us off!"
Wang Han said with a smile, looking at the formation of the bandits opposite. At this time, two of them were riding a pony towards them, and their faces were quite confident.
"Maybe I want to surrender to the general."
Upon hearing this, Yang Zhi said with a smile. They also saw two bandits riding horses across the street, but Wang Han could see clearly.
"I don't want such a bad person, it's better to kill him." Hearing this, Wang Han smiled and shook his head.
"Who are you General Dou?"
Soon, two bandits riding horses arrived in front of Wang Hanjun's formation, fifty meters apart, and one of them shouted loudly at the top of his voice.
"Are you going to surrender?"
At Wang Han's instructions, Wu Song rode forward and asked loudly.
"Surrender, haha." Hearing Wu Song's question, the two riding horses on the opposite side laughed out loud. One of them said disdainfully: "Not only you are only 300 people, even if you come, you can't do anything to us. My elder brother is thinking that General Dou is giving new grain to the world and is kind to the world, so he lets us advise you to go back obediently. We will not violate the river water, otherwise you will know the power of our Hualong Mountain bandits."
"You are looking for death."
Upon hearing this, Wu Song was furious and was about to ride a horse to kill him. The mere bandits dared to look down on him and others so much.
"Wu Song, don't get angry easily. As a general, you need to be rational and calm."
Wang Han called Wu Song and then ordered Yang Zhi: "Keep the formation forward, Yang Zhi, you will command the next battle."
"Yes." Hearing this, Yang Zhi immediately responded and shouted loudly to the soldiers behind him: "Keep the formation forward."
"Wow, wow, wow."
Upon receiving the order, Wang Han's three hundred soldiers immediately took neat steps and kept the formation and began to move forward. Their movements were very neat, just like a whole.
"Hmph! If you don't eat toast, you will be punished for your own death."
Seeing this, the two bandits in the distance cursed loudly, turned around and ran towards their formation.
Soon, the bandit formation on the opposite side also moved, but compared to the neatly advanced military formation on Wang Han, the bandits on the opposite side were messy and almost disorganized, with some outstanding, some behind, and there were dense crowds. Maybe they felt provoked, or maybe they felt that there were only 300 people on Wang Han's side, which was not to be afraid. The bandits on Hualong Mountain actually gave up the advantage of geographical advantage and wanted to fight against Wang Han's 300 soldiers in a wide area.
Soon, the formations of both sides approached an eighty-meter distance.
"Catch General Dou alive and kill everyone else."
Wang Han had even heard the voice of the leader riding a ponies opposite him.
"Shoot the arrow!"
As both sides entered the range of bows and arrows, Yang Zhi immediately ordered loudly.
"Swish...!" Suddenly, thirty arrows were shot towards the formation of the bandits on the opposite side. The first round of arrows shot more than twenty bandits.
"rush!"
"Shoot them!"
At the same time, there were also shouts from the opposite side.
Hundreds of arrows were shot towards Wang Han's formation, and the bandits on the opposite side rushed over in a mess.
"Arrow rain, defense."
Seeing the arrows shot out from the opposite side and launching a charge, Yang Zhi immediately issued an order loudly. He sneered in his heart. The bandit leader on the opposite side would not marche and fight. It was not difficult for three hundred people to eat this thousand.
At this moment, Wang Han's previous training results were immediately reflected. In just two seconds, the two rows of soldiers holding large shield spears at the front of the team had turned into two rows, forming a two-meter-high shield wall directly in front of the team, and the spear in his hands stretched out from the gap between the large shields. The soldiers holding large shields in the third row threw the spear to the ground, raised the large shield with both hands and protected themselves while protecting them.
The soldier holding the round shield quickly squatted down and tried to shrink his body behind the round shield. (Refer to Sparta 300.)
"Tu tuk tuk..." Almost the next second that formed the defense, these arrows fell. However, this kind of arrow rain was just a drizzle for the soldiers, and on average, both of them shared less than one.
"Boundman, shoot all the people riding on the opposite side. The archer strikes back."
After the enemy's first round of arrows, Yang Zhi issued another order.
"Swish swish swish swish......"
The next moment, forty arrows were shot out from the military formation, and ten crossbow arrows shot at several bandits riding horses and charging in front faster than other arrows.
Wang Han’s training requirements for crossbowmen is that each person must shoot 200 arrows every day. With tens of thousands of times of frequent practice, even if these crossbowmen are not sharpshooters, the arrows they shoot are definitely comparable to those of hunters who have been hunting in the forest all year round.
Chapter completed!