Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

Taking advantage of the arrow rain only showering the front, the nobles on the left and right sides of Linyi almost frantically urged their private soldiers to drive the peasant soldiers forward.

The tense and bloody atmosphere on the battlefield did not give those peasant soldiers much time to think.

Faced with the fierce private soldiers of the nobles urging them to attack, even if some of the peasant soldiers were already afraid, they could only roar and charge towards the Han army.

"Kill!"

However, when those bamboo spears and wooden spears broke upon hitting the shields, the Han army's long spears easily pierced into flesh and blood.

The first batch of peasant soldiers to charge up were like waves crashing against a reef... shattering upon impact.

The Linyi nobles further back did not pay attention to the specific battle situation in front. They were only following their past war habits, first using the peasant soldiers to carry out the first wave of attrition, disrupting the enemy's formation, and then letting their elite private soldiers deliver the final blow.

Therefore, when the peasant soldiers who charged up were being harvested like wheat by the well-coordinated Han army, the nobles were still constantly urging the peasant soldiers forward.

Only Qu Ba, who was still on the opposite hill, felt his hands and feet turn cold as he watched.

Faced with wave after wave of peasant soldiers' attacks, blood splattered continuously, but the Han army's casualties were very few.

The Linyi army, which seemed to be four times the size of the enemy, surrounded the Han army, but it could not break through the Han army's defense line at all.

"What kind of battle formation is this?!"

Qu Ba stared wide-eyed and muttered in disbelief.

Even the royal elite, known as the "Iron Wall of Linyi," could not do such a thing, Qu Ba knew.

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

"No! People have their limits. The Han army is full of energy at the beginning and can resist, but after a long time, after the defense line is broken, it will inevitably be in chaos."

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

"Even if those peasant soldiers can't break through the Han army's defense line, after the Han army's strength is exhausted, they will definitely not be a match for the Iron Wall of Linyi."

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

And Qu Ba's judgment was not wrong in a certain sense.

People have their limits, and even the most skilled cooperation will inevitably have mistakes.

Therefore, after one batch of peasant soldiers died after another, the Han army gradually began to suffer casualties.

The consumption of strength, coupled with the fact that most of the Linyi peasant soldiers mastered the skill of blowing arrows with bamboo tubes, often took advantage of the chaos on the battlefield to sneak attack Han soldiers with bamboo tube arrows.

Even though the well-trained Han army quickly replaced the vacancies, as the corpses of Linyi soldiers piled up more and more in the front row, this instead restricted the Han army's coordination.

It was just that the Han army's formation had been continuously improved over hundreds of years of war history in the Han Dynasty, which had never stopped for even ten years, and naturally had countermeasures for this situation.

As a long series of horns sounded, the front line of the Han army began to alternately shrink back.

In this way, the Han army seemed to retreat, but in fact, in the process of retreating, it transferred some exhausted or injured soldiers to the rear, allowing the second line of soldiers in their prime to replace them at the front.

Soon, the Han army formation, which had seemed to have blunted its fangs, once again showed amazing lethality.

In contrast, as the number of peasant soldiers' casualties exceeded 3,000 in just two quarters of an hour, the strong bloody smell permeating the battlefield and the corpses all over the front line caused the Linyi peasant soldiers' morale to plummet almost off a cliff.

Even with the strict supervision of the Linyi nobles commanding the private soldiers in the rear, the momentum of the attack had obviously slowed down, and even many peasant soldiers were secretly shrinking back and fleeing.

This made Qu Ba, who was watching the entire battlefield trend from afar, so angry that smoke was coming out of his ears. An army four times the size of the enemy could not do anything to the Han army.

This was simply an unprecedented humiliation since the founding of Linyi.

Moreover, Qu Ba felt a bit of panic in his heart, and felt that the direction of the situation seemed to be beyond his control.

Qu Ba's gaze turned to the nobles around him, but he saw that each noble was consciously avoiding him, as if they were afraid that Qu Ba would also let them lead their own private soldiers to fight.

The combat power displayed by the Han army had completely shocked these Linyi nobles.

However, Qu Ba could not tolerate his first battle being one where he could not win despite having nearly ten times the enemy's forces. In that case, how could Qu Ba possibly sit on the throne of Linyi?

Qu Ba gritted his teeth, flicked his horse whip, and said loudly.

"Iron Wall of Linyi, follow this grandson to personally fight, defeat the Han army, everyone will be rewarded with half a jar of wine, one catty of meat, and a beautiful woman!!"

This was undoubtedly a heavy reward for Linyi.

And with Qu Ba personally leading the Iron Wall of Linyi to fight, the morale of the Linyi army, which had been extremely low, was greatly improved.

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

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

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

It was just that when Qu Ba personally led the "Iron Wall of Linyi" to a distance of about fifty steps from the Han army, Gan Ning was a little eager to try and prepare to lead an elite force to try to directly capture Qu Ba, who seemed to be of extraordinary status.

A scout hurried from behind and handed a roll of silk to Gan Ning.

Gan Ning opened the silk and quickly browsed it...

"Tsk!"

Gan Ning put the silk into his arms and made a sound mixed with a bit of helplessness.

Immediately, Gan Ning directed the flag bearer to issue a command flag, directing the various departments to further shrink their formations and slowly retreat.

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

Suddenly, the morale of the Linyi army was further boosted, and Qu Ba's somewhat uneasy heart was completely settled, understanding that the Han army was probably exhausted.

And facing this Han army with amazing combat power, Qu Ba, who intended to occupy Rinan County, how could he let the Han army retreat completely?

Immediately, Qu Ba shouted loudly and ordered.

"The entire army presses on, be sure to completely annihilate the Han army, and don't let them escape."

Suddenly, not only the "Iron Wall of Linyi" led by Qu Ba, but even the remaining tens of thousands of Linyi troops also chased after them.

For a time, if you looked down from a high altitude, you would see the Han army led by Gan Ning retreating while resisting, and the Linyi army was like sharks smelling blood, constantly pouncing on the Han army to completely swallow the weakened Han army.

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

If it were common sense, Xu Sheng would naturally not have the opportunity to make 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 the Linyi army did not spread out scouts on a large scale before the war.

This made Xu Sheng, who was cautious by nature, feel incredible. In the end, he could only attribute it to the fact that Linyi had never had this habit, or that the enemy commander was Zhao Kuo among the Zhao Kuos.

"In that case, don't blame this general for swallowing you all in one bite."

Xu Sheng held his sword, his expression grim.

(End of this chapter)