Chapter 89 The army collapses
Most of the northern parts of the country are plains and have a cold climate.
Therefore, when the Li Kingdom fought with other countries, the Li Kingdom often fought in a formation, arranging their troops into a neat square formation.
In such large-scale formation battles with the enemy, the Li Kingdom often won, so which of the Li Kingdom's armies was better at formation battles.
Since the people of the Southern Wilderness live in dense jungles, they have been accustomed to fighting in the jungle with small-scale attacks since they were young.
For so many years in the Li Kingdom, the Southern Wilderness people have never won any large-scale battles in the Southern Wilderness area, but the Li Kingdom has always been unable to do anything against the Southern Wilderness people.
The biggest reason is that the people of the Southern Wilderness took advantage of the geographical environment of the dense forests of the Southern Wilderness, which prevented the formation warfare methods of the previous countries from being used frequently.
In most cases, the people of the Southern Wilderness use small-scale raid tactics in dense forests.
Such a form of warfare was not what the founding soldiers were good at, which was why the Li Kingdom's pioneering operations in the south had not made much progress and had been stuck in a stalemate.
For example, the topography of this altar is also very strange. The side of the altar next to the southern barbarians is like a big jar, swallowing Liu Ming's army inside. As long as the mouth of the altar is blocked, Liu Ming's army will have difficulty.
If you rush over, you will be trapped alive in the end.
Moreover, here at the mouth of the altar, there are dense forests deep in the forest, which is very unfavorable for the march of the army. However, outside the mouth of the altar to the north, there is a rare large piece of flat land without any woods.
Therefore, if Wu Feng puts his troops in formation and fights here, then the Nanyue people coming from the direction of Tankou will be hit head-on, because this terrain is really suitable for formation battles.
However, formation warfare has always been the disadvantage of the southern savages, but it has been the advantage of the soldiers of all countries. If you use your own shortcomings to deal with the strengths of others, there will be no second outcome except failure.
This is why Wu Feng is so confident that as long as he holds the mouth of the altar and waits until Liu Ming's army retreats here, he can return the entire army to Li Kingdom.
Agu was thinking about his own problems, and Wu Feng was also thinking about his own problems.
Neither of them could imagine what the other was thinking, but now the outcome of the war has begun to become clearer.
Under Wu Feng's constant battle, the Agu tribe suffered increasing casualties.
After all, how can I put it, his tribe is composed of a mixture of young and strong, old and weak.
This will inevitably cause some delays in combat, but it is also a last resort.
His tribe suffered too many losses in the last war. If they continued to use all their young men this time, they would not be able to organize a defense line at all.
But the ones Wu Feng used in his attacks all belonged to young disciples.
Moreover, he uses this method of five teams taking turns to attack, which is very energy-saving.
It can be said that each round of attacks is the most powerful attack, which leaves the people of the Agu tribe with no time to rest at all.
After a few rounds like this, the defenders have almost no energy left to defend anymore. They are completely fighting for their lives and are wasted in such conditions.
Agu could only painfully realize that he should decide whether to retreat or lose the harvest.
The situation on the battlefield is here. If we insist on holding on, it will only lead to the complete end of the Agu tribe.
If you retreat, all the previous sacrifices will be in vain, and the rewards will not be obtained.
For Agu, this is also a very painful decision.
Fortunately, Agu had been a clan leader for many years and had profound command experience. After confirming that the current situation was unsolvable, he issued an order to retreat across the board.
And Wu Feng did not chase after him. He had no intention of leaving this tribe behind, because even if he forced the tribe to stay, he would have to pay a certain amount of casualties. For Wu Feng, this was completely unnecessary.
You must know that this is what Wu Feng thinks in his heart. He came to seize this platform just to allow his Sword Sect troops to withdraw safely.
As for guarding here and waiting for Liu Ming's army, it is also out of basic justice. Another reason is that if Liu Ming's army is all trapped here, and all the people from his Sword Sect go back, nothing good will happen.
day.
Therefore, he could only take Liu Ming to escape with him. Even if it was not possible, he could not just escape from Jianzong. This was Wu Feng's consideration.
The operation to seize the Tankou went smoothly. Wu Feng basically did not lose too many men and expelled the Agu tribe from the Tankou with only a small amount of effort.
In fact, under the current circumstances, there is no way to carry out large-scale construction of the so-called defensive offensive. That is to say, some trees were cut down from nearby and some simple archery towers, watchtowers, obstacles, and fences were built.
The important thing is that Wu Feng organized the formation in the ground and arranged a simplified version of the Big Dipper formation based on this terrain.
Originally, the Big Dipper Formation was a mountain-protecting formation with very high requirements, but with this simplified version of the mountain-protecting formation, Wu Feng only used it to assist in defense, so it did not require complicated methods or some relatively rare materials.
The setup was easy and successful.
Wu Feng built the Big Dipper formation at the exit of the altar, and then hid his men in the formation. In this way, relatively speaking, it acted as a cover, causing his men to be directly hit.
There are relatively few cases, so as to reduce the casualties of the sword sect.
Wu Feng was engaged in construction and defense here in preparation for the fierce battle that followed, while Liu Ming was also escaping here quickly.
At first, the order was fine. Liu Ming and his cronies rode in the cold iron plug and commanded from the center in the air. Then the Zhennan Army took the lead, the villagers covered the two sides, and finally the sect disciples took the rear. This slowly
Evacuate toward the Tunkou area.
But when it comes to retreating, it often becomes a mess.
Originally, the Zhennan Army was an elite force and could hold out under normal circumstances, because after all, it had already dispatched a unit to the Tankou area, and it had been confirmed that the seizure had been successful.
So this side is not worried about being completely cut off, but who knows, this Liu Ming did not stay in his own team, but flew in the air with a few cronies on the cold iron plug.
This is equivalent to throwing the remaining more than 4,000 Zhennan troops on the ground and depriving them of many corresponding rights.
As a result, the Zhennan Army on the ground responded with anger and resistance, and moved slowly. And most importantly, there was an isolation between the Zhennan Army and Liu Ming in the sky.
This would not be a problem in peacetime, but now it is wartime, and they are on the way to retreat. So when someone in the Zhennan Army no longer retreats slowly according to the pre-agreed situation, but escapes quickly,
The team was immediately in disarray.
This is the case when retreating. If there are senior generals guarding the formation, it is the safest.
But now Liu Ming, who is also the commander-in-chief, ran to the sky and took his cronies with him. Those who were left behind felt a sense of disappointment. Then these people discovered that the officials who used to control them were gone.
So they started to run away.
When there is the first thing about escaping, there will be the second one, and when there is the second thing there will be the third and fourth things.
This is people's herd mentality and the belief that the law does not punish the public, which led to the incident expanding in that moment.
So the escape of one or two people soon turned into the escape of more people.
At this time, from a practical point of view, Liu Ming had lost the command of his team, and the entire team was in ruins.
As soon as the Zhennan Army in front ran away, the colonization soldiers and sect disciples who followed behind became confused.
Under such circumstances, everyone lost their patience and scrambled to escape. The officer could not control his men.
And the people under his command no longer paid attention to the orders of these officers.
Those ordinary soldiers ignored the scoldings of a few officers, even pushed them down, and even killed their superiors directly, and then took advantage of the chaos to escape. Anyway, everyone is now a mess, and no one cares.
No one knows who did it.
In this case, the only real option is to escape with your life.
Chapter completed!