A violent metal collision sounded, and sparks flew.
Gan Ning jumped up and slashed, and Le Jin also slashed down with his sword. It was a life-threatening fighting style.
The two madmen's knives met in mid-air, and they collided like needles.
However, Le Jin had an advantage in that he was riding on a horse and had a horse to help relieve the force, while Gan Ning was in mid-air and could only be chopped down.
So after this move, he fell from the air and took several steps back. He stabilized his body with the help of his personal guards.
Just as Le Jin was about to take advantage of the victory to pursue the enemy, a large number of Gan and Ning troops swarmed around him again, almost overwhelming the formation of his surrounding guards.
The shortcomings of the small number of people are fully exposed.
At this time, the entire left bank of the Suishui River was full of Cao Jun and Gan Ning troops fighting each other.
The people in the surrounding countryside had long abandoned their hoes and poles and ran as far as they could. No one cared about the destroyed bridge.
The other half of Cao's army on the other side of the river could only stare. The river was fast and there were mostly landlubbers from the north. They were not as good at swimming as Ganning's Jinfan thieves.
Therefore, Cao's army on the other side is now standing on the bank of the river, watching helplessly, unable to give Le Jin any help.
Especially when Gan Ning tore a hole in Le Jin's formation to the northwest, the entire team was retreating steadily.
This led to the fact that when Le Jin wanted to fill the gap with himself and his personal guards, he met Gan Ning head-on. Although the first confrontation was a little advantageous due to the problem of horses.
But there were too few reinforcements around him, and the soldiers from Gan Ning's side were rushing towards them like a flood. As a result, even if Le Jin had some advantages, he could not expand them.
However, war is not a fair game in the first place, and all means should be used to destroy the enemy, so Gan Ning had no intention of a fair fight and bullied himself and pounced on him again.
At this moment, Shen Chen was sitting on a horse in the distance, watching the battle here from a distance. This was the first time he had seen such a small-scale head-on battle. When they fought Cao Ren before, they were completely huddled in the cage.
, and there was no head-on confrontation.
Therefore, Shen Chen is just waiting and watching. He sees that Gan Ning has broken through Cao Jun's formation. Cao Jun's troops are now in a hard fight. The surrounding Gan Ning troops are still intruding in. It is only a matter of time before they are defeated.
However, more than 6,000 people fought against more than 2,000 people. Currently, they only have the upper hand instead of instantly defeating the opponent. This also gave Shen Chen a preliminary understanding of the strength of Cao Jun. He is now analyzing the reasons why Cao Jun can persist.
"Uncle, how long has it been since the war began?"
Shen Chen suddenly asked Deng Hongdao.
Deng Hong raised his head and glanced at the sky and said, "It's been about half an hour and three quarters."
It's almost an hour and a half.
Shen Chen looked into the distance and said, "Cao's army only has more than 2,000 men. Why can it persist for so long?"
Deng Hong said: "I heard that Cao Cao's army is an elite warrior who has fought a hundred battles. I think everyone must be brave and hard to defeat. Wasn't Tao Shijun almost annihilated by Cao Cao in Pengcheng when there was not much difference in military strength between Cao Cao's army and Pengcheng?"
Shen Chen shook his head and said: "On the one hand, the soldiers are elite, but I think Uncle Xingba's army is not much different from our Huangmenting soldiers. The main reason is that the other party is very particular about formation."
Deng Hong asked curiously: "Ah Chen, I remember that you didn't seem to read military books very much before. Are you now interested in marching and fighting and military formations?"
"When I went to sit with Brother Zhuge before, I watched some "Six Taoists" and "The Grandson" with him, and I had some insights."
Shen Chen nodded. He really didn't pay much attention to the art of war before. Because the Han Dynasty was governed by Confucianism, so if ordinary people wanted to study and make progress, they could only study the Seven Classics. Books like the art of war were often only available to wealthy families.
However, the Zhuge family had many books on the art of war. Zhuge Xuan married off his two nieces and served as an official under Liu Biao. He was barely considered a second-rate family in Jingzhou, so it was easy to acquire the art of war.
In addition to the Zhuge family, Xianshan Academy also has books on the art of war.
But in the past, it was because of the need to make progress. People like Liu Biao and Song Zhong were both great Confucians of the time. To gain a foothold in Jingzhou, one had to study Confucian classics intensively. Therefore, he used to focus on Confucianism.
In the past year, his Confucianism has gradually become more and more sophisticated. Wang Can often took him to visit various Xiangyang scholars, and he gradually became famous among the scholars in Jingzhou. He had made certain achievements in Confucianism, so he began to study the art of war.
Don't think that modern people can immediately become outstanding military strategists after traveling to ancient times. That is all nonsense.
Cold weapon warfare in ancient times and firearm warfare in later generations are completely different concepts.
The so-called marching and fighting, marching and fighting, involves just marching to mobilize the crowd and setting up camp, there are many ways to do it.
When Zhuge Liang went out to Qishan six times later, he was extremely cautious every time he sent out troops, and his strategic and tactical arrangements must be meticulous and perfect.
Therefore, every time we set off for the Northern Expedition, we encountered various reasons, such as Soochow pig teammates, Ma Su, Li Yan and other problems.
But each time he retreated safely without causing huge casualties to Ji Han's internal affairs and military strength.
In comparison, although Jiang Wei is not bad, he is far behind Zhuge Liang.
Several Northern Expeditions mobilized troops, wasted people and money, and achieved results that were incomparable to those of Zhuge Liang, exacerbating the internal strife in Shu.
Therefore, fighting in the era of cold weapons is a very profound knowledge. If you learn it well, you will be Zhuge Liang, if you do not learn it well, you will be Ma Di.
Shen Chen is still in the stage of learning the art of war and has not yet entered actual combat. Even if he has defeated Cao Ren, it is because Cao Ren himself underestimated the enemy and did not know the capabilities of the architect.
If Cao Cao had come in person and sent thousands of people to find out the real situation in the Huangmenting Valley, he might have been able to think of other ways to deal with it.
Even if the Qiong cage was so strong that even the red cannons of the Qing Dynasty could not blast it, the food and grass stockpiles must not be enough, and even Shen Chen could be killed in it.
Therefore, when Shen Chen came here this time, he felt that it might be a very important practical experience.
He looked at the situation on the battlefield and found that although it was very unfavorable to Le Jin, Cao Jun still resisted tenaciously by using their formation, and sometimes even counterattacked, which inspired him very much.
"This is what Sun Tzu said in The Art of War, "Therefore, the person who is good at fighting is like turning a boulder on a mountain of thousands of feet."
Shen Chen murmured to himself: "This Le Jin is also a man who is good at fighting. He used his army formation to fight against us. We could only attack their spear formation from three sides, like a tiger encountering a tiger." The hedgehog is just curled up. Although we are powerful, we can't eat it in a short time."
Deng Hong said smoothly: "Didn't Xingba already open a gap?"
"Yes."
Shen Chen's eyes suddenly lit up, he looked at Deng Hong and said, "Uncle, you are really a genius."
"ah?"
Deng Hong was confused.
But Shen Chen ignored him and immediately said to the soldiers beside him: "Go, give me the order and ask my uncle to lead all our troops from Huangmen Pavilion and rush in from the northwest corner."
"yes."
The soldiers galloped away on horseback.
Gan Ning took over the main offensive force, so the Huyang defenders were at the forefront.
Huangmenting's soldiers and horses followed behind and were currently cruising around the outside.
The opponent's main force actually showed signs of being defeated, but was struggling to hold on under Le Jin's command. The front lines of the battlefields of both sides were full of corpses. Fighting was taking place everywhere in the fields, along the river banks, and near the countryside.
Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen did not take the initiative to attack now. There were too many of them. Six thousand people surrounded two thousand people. On average, three people fought against one. There was really no place for them to intervene and rush in.
Then Shen Chen's order came over at this time. After confirming the direction Shen Chen was pointing to the orderer, Deng Zhao and Shen Zhen took a look from a distance and found that there was indeed a gap over there.
This was easy to handle, and they immediately issued an order for Huangmenting's soldiers to charge in that direction.
At this moment, the battle between Gan Ning and Le Jin has reached a fever pitch. Historically, Le Jin was a brave general who charged into battle. In terms of force, he was definitely stronger than Yu Jin, and he was also a first-class general.
Although he was shot in the face by an arrow from Gan Ning in the Battle of Ruxu, he still drew with Ling Tong in fifty rounds, and Ling Tong drew with Zhang Liao in fifty rounds.
Moreover, Ling Tong wanted to challenge Gan Ning to avenge his father many times, but he was dissuaded by Sun Quan and did not carry out the plan.
So from this point of view, Ling Tong's force value should not be inferior to Gan Ning's.
If we make a horizontal comparison, we can conclude that among the five good generals, Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Xu Huang, and Le Jin have basically the same strength values, and they are all first-rate generals, while only Yu Jin is a second-rate general.
However, even if Le Jin is a first-rate general, he should be at the lower-middle level among the first-rate generals, while Gan Ning is at the upper-middle level among the first-rate generals. There should still be a difference of two or three points in force value between the two.
Therefore, they fought fiercely together. At the beginning, Le Jin took advantage of the advantage of having a war horse and fought Gan Ning for more than 20 rounds without deciding the outcome.
But Gan Ning had a large number of people, and they were surrounded by his soldiers. Le Jin's personal guards fell one by one. The Jingzhou army almost surrounded Le Jin. They kept attacking him with spears and swords, and Le Jin was quite exhausted from the beating. .
Soon in the fortieth round, while Le Jin was busy dealing with the spears of the Jingzhou Army soldiers around him, Gan Ning saw the opportunity and slashed the leg of Le Jin's horse with a knife.
The war horse was in pain and immediately neighed and fell to the ground.
In fact, normally speaking, the dominant side in a war often does not choose to attack the enemy's war horses.
Because these are trophies.
In war-torn times, the price of a war horse was very high. The merit of an ordinary soldier capturing a war horse was far higher than that of capturing several enemy soldiers.
But there was nothing Gan Ning could do. He had a great advantage on the horse. He was sitting high up, could see far, was condescending, and could use his strength. Therefore, he suffered a lot in the fight, so he had to be dismounted first.
"To shoot a man first, shoot a horse; to capture a thief first, capture the king." This saying is not Du Fu's original creation, but is a summary of the experience of China's thousands of years of war civilization starting from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Le Jin's horse fell to the ground, and he also fell down. Under normal circumstances, the surrounding soldiers would have swarmed up to capture him.
But Le Jin's reaction was also extremely fast. Almost as soon as he fell, he pounced to the right.
He rolled completely in the mud. He had seen that direction before, and there were more than ten guards fighting desperately. It was the only direction with friendly troops.
At this moment, he rolled and crawled into the formation of his personal guards. The surrounding Cao troops immediately covered his retreat. The formation of Cao troops in the rear was already under tremendous pressure, and a large number of soldiers were crowded together.
"Kill."
"Run in that direction."
"Fight in."
Originally Le Jin came to fill the gap, but he got into a bitter fight with Gan Ning.
And just after he fell from his horse, he quickly retreated into the formation and wanted to reorganize the soldiers to resist.
A large number of enemy troops poured into the gap in front. Huangmenting's soldiers swarmed in, instantly breaking the deadlock. The sound of blades clashing could be heard endlessly.
Just like the straw that broke the camel's back, after more than a thousand soldiers rushed in, Cao's army's formation was torn apart in an instant.
The formation was completely broken, and the soldiers who were struggling to support the outside suddenly couldn't hold on any longer and began to retreat one after another.
The soldiers at the rear were still pushing forward, clashing back and forth, and a stampede occurred.
You must know that Cao's army only formed a formation of more than 2,000 people at the beginning. In Gan Ning's first wave of charge, they had already killed all the spearmen on the outside.
Inside, there was a circle of sword and shield men surrounding each other. There were probably no more than a thousand people huddled together. This was a standard circular defense formation.
After Gan Ning broke the formation, the circular formation was still struggling to hold on and was not completely broken.
But Shen Chen noticed this scene and immediately let the Huangmenting soldiers roaming around the periphery launch a fatal blow. They opened a gap from the northwest of Cao Jun and reached the middle of Cao Jun's formation.
Such as the central flowering tactic, which penetrates directly into the heart of the enemy and then spreads to the surrounding areas. A large number of Gan and Ning troops attacked from outside, surrounded from inside and outside, and Cao's army collapsed immediately.
"Run."
"Our army is defeated, run away."
"I surrender."
"Don't kill me, don't kill me."
For a time, Cao Jun's soldiers no longer had the will to fight. Soon they died, some fled, and some surrendered.
The entire battlefield showed an overwhelming trend.
Looking at this scene from a distance, Shen Chen was a little surprised at first, and then quickly fell into deep thought.
At the beginning, Le Jin used a defensive formation and was able to hold on tenaciously.
If one's own troops were not three times the opponent's, if one had not chosen to send ships to crash the bridge when the opponent was crossing the river.
In a fierce battle in the wild, with 6,000 men fighting against a total of 5,000 men from the Lejin tribe, perhaps the chance of victory is really not that high.
There was even a risk of losing, because Gan Ning didn't have any formation, and everyone just rushed in a chaotic manner, and Le Jin was far behind in terms of organizational discipline.
But there is no absolute in everything. Once you find a way to deal with the enemy, the battlefield situation will change drastically in an instant.
No wonder the Art of War says: "Soldiers have no constant momentum, and water has no constant shape."
Sometimes everything seems to be going well on the battlefield, but the result is suddenly inexplicable. Any factor may cause the situation of the battle to change.
Shen Chen understood at this moment.
In fact, the art of war teaches them only a basic foundation, such as formations, ways to deal with the enemy, and how to think.
What really determines the winner is his ability to seize opportunities that military books cannot teach him.
If the bridge had not been destroyed at the beginning, and six thousand men on both sides fought against five thousand men, and Shen Chen had also arranged his troops to confront Le Jin head-on, perhaps this war would have lasted a long time.
This will test the command skills of the generals on both sides to see if they can seize the fleeting opportunity and pull the balance of victory to their side in one fell swoop.
Shen Chen is very happy now.
Today's battle went smoothly. First, he destroyed the bridge to gain an advantage for himself. Then, with Deng Hong's reminder, he seized the opportunity and defeated Le Jin in one fell swoop.
For him, this is a very valuable experience, worth remembering for a lifetime!
Don't say that I am short and weak. I am saving my manuscript. I actually write 10,000 words every day, but only 4,000 words are sent out in order to be published and updated.