Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Taking advantage of the opportunity that the rain of arrows was continuously fired straight ahead, the Linyi nobles on the left and right sides almost quickly urged their private soldiers to drive a group of peasant soldiers to charge forward.

The tense and bloody atmosphere on the battlefield did not give the peasant soldiers any chance to think too much.

Faced with the ferocious private soldiers under the nobles who urged them to attack, even though some of the peasant soldiers were already afraid, they could only rush towards the Han army with loud shouts.

"kill!"

However, when the bamboo spears and wooden spears hit the shields, they broke, but the big men's spears easily pierced into the flesh and blood.

The first batch of peasant soldiers who rushed up were like waves hitting the rocks... and they shattered with a sound.

The Linyi nobles who were further behind did not pay attention to the specific battle situation in front. They just followed the past war habits and sent out the peasant soldiers to carry out the first wave of consumption and disrupt the enemy's formation, and then their elite private soldiers would make the final move.

Therefore, when the peasant soldiers who rushed up were almost being harvested by the well-coordinated Han army like harvesting wheat, a group of nobles were still constantly urging the peasant soldiers to move forward.

Only the district tyrant, who was still on the opposite hill, felt his hands and feet shudder.

Faced with wave after wave of attacks from the peasant soldiers, blood kept splattering, but the Han army suffered very few casualties.

The Linyi army, which seemed to be four times larger than the enemy, surrounded the Han army, but was unable to break through the Han army's defense line.

"What kind of battle formation is this?!"

Qu Ba opened his eyes wide and murmured in disbelief.

Even the royal elite known as the "Linyi Iron Wall", Qu Ba knew that it was impossible to do such a thing.

Qu Ba tried hard to calm himself down and started to analyze the situation.

"No! When the men are exhausted, the Han army is full of energy and can resist at the beginning, but after a long time, when the defense line is broken, there will inevitably be chaos."

"What's more, I still have the 'Linyi Iron Wall' in my hand..."

"Even if those peasant soldiers have difficulty in breaking through the Han army's defenses, once they have worn down the Han army's strength, they will definitely not be a match for the Linyi Iron Wall."

Thinking of this, Qu Ba regained his composure, but his eyes were fixed on the changes in the battle situation.

In a sense, Qu Ba’s judgment was not wrong.

When people are exhausted, even the most skilled coordination will inevitably lead to mistakes.

Therefore, after batches of peasant soldiers died, the Han army also gradually began to suffer casualties.

The consumption of energy, coupled with the fact that most of the Linyi peasant soldiers had mastered the technique of blowing arrows with bamboo tubes, would often take advantage of the chaos on the battlefield to launch a surprise attack on the Han soldiers with bamboo tubes.

Even though the well-trained Han army was about to fill the vacancies quickly, as the bodies of Linyi soldiers fell more and more in the front row, this actually restricted the coordination of the Han army.

However, the Han army's formation had been constantly improved over hundreds of years of war, without stopping for even a decade, so they naturally had a plan to deal with this situation.

As long trumpet sounds rang out, the Han army's front line of defense began to retreat alternately.

In this way, the Han army seemed to be retreating, but in fact, it was also transferring some of the tired or injured soldiers to the back during the process of retreat, and replacing them with the soldiers in the second line who were in good condition to the front.

Soon, the Han army formation, which seemed to have blunted its fangs, once again demonstrated its astonishing lethality.

In contrast, as the number of casualties among the peasant soldiers exceeded three thousand in just two quarters of an hour, the strong smell of blood that permeated the battlefield and the corpses scattered across the front line caused the morale of the Linyi peasant soldiers to plummet almost precipitously.

Even with the private soldiers under the command of the Linyi nobles and strict supervision from behind, the momentum of the attack had obviously slowed down, and there were even some peasant soldiers who secretly retreated and fled.

This made Qu Ba, who was watching the entire battlefield situation from afar, extremely furious. Even though the enemy force was four times larger than the Han army, they were unable to do anything to it.

This was simply the greatest shame and humiliation that Linyi had ever experienced since its founding. Qu Ba was even more terrified, thinking that the direction of the situation seemed to be beyond his control.

Qu Ba turned his gaze towards the nobles around him, but he saw that almost all of them were consciously avoiding him, as if they were afraid that Qu Ba would ask them to lead their own private soldiers into battle as well.

The combat effectiveness displayed by the Han army has completely shocked these Linyi nobles.

However, Qu Ba simply could not bear the fact that his first battle force was nearly ten times larger than the enemy and yet he could not win. In this case, how could Qu Ba possibly sit on the throne of Linyi?

Qu Ba gritted his teeth, swung the whip in his hand, and spoke loudly.

"Linyi Iron Wall, follow this prince to fight in person and defeat the Han army. Everyone will be rewarded with half a jar of wine, a pound of meat, and a beauty!!"

This was undoubtedly a huge reward for the Linyi Kingdom.

Moreover, with Qu Ba personally leading the Linyi Iron Wall into battle, the morale of the Linyi army, which had already been extremely low, was greatly boosted.

At this moment, all eyes on the battlefield were focused on the "Linyi Iron Wall" led by Qu Ba, hoping that the "Linyi Iron Wall" led by Qu Ba could defeat the Han army.

Gan Ning, who was commanding the Han army calmly, naturally noticed the so-called "Linyi Iron Wall".

After all, in Gan Ning's eyes, only this group of armored men in front of the "Linyi Iron Wall" could be considered soldiers.

However, when Qu Ba personally led the "Linyi Iron Wall" and was about fifty steps away from the Han army, Gan Ning was eager to lead an elite force to try to directly charge into the formation and capture Qu Ba, who seemed to have a special status.

A scout came hurriedly from behind and handed a roll of cloth to Gan Ning.

Gan Ning opened the cloth and quickly glanced through it...

"Tsk!"

Gan Ning put the cloth into his arms and uttered a sound mixed with some helplessness.

Immediately, Gan Ning ordered the flag bearers to wave the command flag, commanding the various troops to further shrink their formations and slowly retreat.

In the eyes of the Linyi army, this scene undoubtedly seemed more like the Han army was afraid of the "Linyi Iron Wall", so after the "Linyi Iron Wall" approached, they quickly began to retreat.

Suddenly, the morale of the Linyi army was further boosted, and Qu Ba's originally uneasy heart was completely calmed down, realizing that the Han army might no longer have the strength to spare.

Facing this Han army with amazing combat power, how could Qu Ba, who intended to capture Rinan County, allow the Han army to retreat unscathed?

Immediately, District Ba shouted loudly and gave the order.

"Push forward with all your forces. We must annihilate the Han army and not let them escape."

Suddenly, not only the "Linyi Iron Wall" led by Qu Ba, but also more than 10,000 Linyi troops who remained in place followed and chased after them.

For a moment, if one looked down from a high altitude, the Han army led by Gan Ning was resisting and retreating at the same time, while the Linyi army was like sharks smelling blood, constantly chasing after the Han army and pouncing on them, wanting to completely swallow up the weak Han army.

What the Linyi army did not know was that on the back of the hill where Gan Ning was, Xu Sheng was commanding 20,000 Han troops like two black dragons, winding their way forward from the shadows on the left and right sides that could not be seen from the front of the hill.

According to common sense, Xu Sheng would naturally not have the opportunity to carry out such a frontal ambush.

However, the results brought back by the large number of scouts sent out by Xu Sheng all verified one fact: that is, the Linyi army did not deploy scouts on a large scale before the war.

This made the cautious Xu Shengda feel incredible, and in the end he could only attribute it to the fact that perhaps the Linyi Kingdom had never had this custom, or perhaps the enemy commander was Zhao Kuo among the Zhao Kuo.

"In that case, don't blame me for swallowing you all in one gulp."

Xu Sheng held his sword, his expression solemn and murderous. (End of this chapter)