It seems that Song Jian’s army is not very bad either.

"Looking at the army, the ranks are neat, the equipment is not too bad, the flag is quite clear, and it is also a powerful brigade in Liangzhou. No wonder it can be divided into such a place for fifteen years without being destroyed. This is a hard bone and it is not easy to chew. We have to be careful."

Chen Gong said so.

Cao Ren's opinion is different.

"They haven't fought many battles in fifteen years. They can often force the enemy back directly by relying on the terrain and number of people. Therefore, they lack combat experience. Although the queues are neat, the new recruits we just trained have much tidy queues than them. Our elite soldiers are experienced and have rich combat experience. Can this group of people compare?"

Chen Gong thought Cao Ren’s view was interesting. They were in these places and they would not have many opportunities to fight, and the experience of large corps combat was even rarer. If they really fought, were they really opponents?

That's hard to say.

With this idea, Chen Gong supported Cao Ren and they had a face-to-face fight.

So Cao Ren immediately arranged troops and asked Cao Xiu to be the front supervisor, and directly led the troops to fight against Song Wei, thinking of using this enemy army to practice Cao Xiu's hands and see how Cao Xiu has made progress over the years.

Guo Peng was still optimistic about Cao Xiu, so he told Cao Ren not to forget to give Cao Xiu the opportunity to lead troops during the march, so that Cao Xiu could also experience it and increase his experience.

Soon, Song Wei also began to arrange troops, and a battle between the two sides was about to break out.

The Wei army has always been very proactive on the battlefield.

The Wei army was never afraid of the enemy. The victory of the battle over the years made them full of fighting will and confidence in victory, so there was no doubt that the Wei army took the initiative to attack this battle.

The attack pattern has not changed as before. The first thing is to use a large number of powerful crossbows to launch a long-range fire strike and severely hit the enemy's arrogance.

"put!"

With Cao Xiu's order, a large number of powerful crossbowmen let go of the bowstring that they had grasped with force and shot out the thick, long and hard bow arrow in one breath.

Countless bows and arrows cut through the sky and rushed towards Song Wei's military formation with an unmovable momentum, overwhelming over it. Song Wei never expected that the Wei army would have such a huge number of powerful crossbows with such a long range. The Wei army's arrow rain instantly pushed Song Wei's military formation into a gap.

A large number of soldiers without the protection of the shield died tragically under the rain of arrows and were nailed to the ground.

Those who died were lucky. At least for a moment, there was no pain at all. Those who were not killed but had been penetrated by arrows were sad and cried endlessly, but no one could save them. Most of them could only die miserably on the ground.

The Wei army's arrow rain kept hitting, and Song Wei was stunned. He had never expected that the Wei army's arrow rain would be so fierce.

Seeing his army losing people and trying to retreat, Song Wei could only grit his teeth and beat the war drum, ordering the army to move forward at full speed, colliding with the Wei army, and using hand-to-hand combat to force the Wei army to not continue to use the powerful crossbow.

If Song Wei is not a coward, his army is not weak, and he is really rushing forward quickly against the rain of arrows. He doesn't collapse so quickly. He does seem to have some ability.

This army consists of Han people, Qiang people, Xiongnu people, and other mixed Hu people who don’t know the nation. It can be called a mixed force, with many soldiers with strong combat power and strong personality.

Faced with the attack from the Wei army, they were not afraid at the beginning.

There are also such troops in the Central Plains. During the strong development of the Wei army, they have repeatedly encountered elite troops under the command of major warlords. They fought fiercely with these elite troops, and without exception, they have persisted with their stronger combat power.

The Wei army has fought with many opponents and fought with armies in many regions, and has accumulated rich combat experience. The more we fight, the stronger we fight, the stronger we fight, the stronger we fight, this is an experience that many armies have never had.

Song Wei's army soon rushed to the front of the Wei army's formation, and they were facing the neat military formation of the Wei army, tall shields and sharp spears.

The spearmen desperately launched a stab with their spears, and the shield soldiers tried their best to protect their comrades. The Wei army's battle formation was as stable as Mount Tai under the impact of the Song Wei army, constantly giving Song Wei's army a large amount of killing and wounding, causing the blood they killed to flow into rivers and corpses to accumulate into mountains.

The Wei army never liked to stay in place, and had to move forward, killing the enemy while pushing forward, step by step pushing the enemy's military formation backward until their pace was chaotic and unable to maintain a unified and orderly military formation. In this way, the enemy would be defeated.

The Wei army's tactics have been well practiced. Whether facing infantry or cavalry, the Wei army has strong response capabilities, and this is even more so when facing the army in front of us.

During the brief battle, Chen Gong had already seen the weakness of this army. It seemed powerful and had a neat line, but the cooperation between them was indeed very unfamiliar, and it did not look like a long-standing battle formation at all.

The excellent geographical location does allow them to be safely divided, but the lack of opponents is also a problem that cannot be ignored.

Without real fighting, the army and soldiers could not grow. When this army, which was king behind closed doors, faced the battle-torn Wei army, at first, it could still face the tough head-on with the Wei army with its bravery, but as time went by, the problems of cooperation and strength began to become prominent.

After an hour of fighting, the Wei army was still full of strength, the spearmen still thrust with their spears, the shield soldiers still resisted with their large shields, and their combat power was still maintained.

And Song Wei's army can no longer support it.

Faced with the continuous attack of the Wei army, they were exhausted and unable to keep up with their physical strength. They were just a little dazed and were stabbed to death by the spearmen of the Wei army. A large number of soldiers who were persisting on the front line were stabbed to death. The military formation began to be in chaos and the soldiers began to disperse.

They began to be unable to fight against the sharp attack of the Wei army and began to retreat.

At the right time, Cao Ren threw in the cavalry and began to threaten Song Wei's wings. Song Wei also threw the cavalry into the battle, but he was not the opponent of the Wei cavalry.

After a fight, Song Wei's cavalry retreated, and the Wei cavalry began to detour from both wings, and there was a tendency to cut off Song Wei's retreat.

When Song Wei discovered this trend, he immediately sent the rear army to the rear to ensure the safety of the rear, and sent his personal soldiers to the front line as a supervision team, trying to ensure the rear, while curbing the trend of the front army's retreat and persisting in fighting.

The supervisory team slashed the defeated soldiers to stop the retreat, but the result was not good. The Wei army's attack became more and more sharp, and the physical strength of the army under Song Wei was quickly exhausted. The defeated soldiers' fear of the Wei army completely exceeded that of the supervisory team.

They rushed up and overturned the supervision team and quickly ran backwards.

The situation on the battlefield could not be reversed since then, and Cao Xiu led his army to attack quickly. Song Wei was shocked and immediately retreated under the protection of his personal soldiers.

Song Wei ran away, so the army naturally could not continue to resist. Soon he was defeated. Cao Ren led his army to cover up the killing, and the Song Wei army was defeated.

This head-on battle caused heavy losses to Song Jian's army, with nearly half of the 20,000 troops losing, and two or three thousand people were captured, and only a few retreated with Song Wei.

Song Wei was forced to retreat, while Cao Ren followed the situation and advanced the army to the main intersection of the road to Shihan County, which was also the place where Song Jian focused on defense.

Cao Ren observed and found that Song Jian set up a fortress-style military camp at the intersection of the main road leading to Kuanghan County, which was built with wood and stone, which looked quite like a majestic pass.
Chapter completed!