Chapter eight hundred and fifty first battle of wits and courage
Han Army, Chinese Army. Liu Xiu is riding on a horse, and there is another person beside him, who is Xi Cheying in military uniform. Liu Xiu has the habit of taking his wife on expeditions, but on the battlefield in front of the two armies, Liu Xiu
Xiu never lets his wife go into battle, and usually leaves her in the camp. This time, he is willing to take Xi Cheying to participate in the battle, which is also the first of its kind.
Of course, the main reason why Liu Xiu dared to take Xi Cheying into battle was because Xi Cheying had extraordinary abilities. If she really took action, even seven or eight strong men would not be able to get close to her.
Looking at the opposite side, the formation of Pang Meng's coalition army is narrow in the front and wide in the back. This is a typical trapezoidal formation. The Han army here has a regular rectangular formation.
When a rectangular array versus a trapezoidal array, there is no principle of mutual conflict between the formations. The two sides can only simply compete in terms of combat power.
Liu Xiu squinted his eyes and looked carefully. The formation of the central army of Pang Meng's coalition seemed relatively loose, with small square formations made up of fish scales. Liu Xiu could tell at a glance that this was Pang Meng's army.
The formation of the coalition's left army was relatively rough. It was just a large square formation, and it was not clear how many pieces it was divided into. Liu Xiu estimated that this should be a strong army.
The formation of the coalition's right army is quite regular and very orthodox. This should be Sumao's army.
After making a basic judgment on the enemy's camp and divisions, Liu Xiu called the messengers and said: "Send the order to the Grand Sima, capture the general, and attack the enemy's center!"
"Here!"
"Send orders to General Huya, General Qilu, to attack the enemy's right army!"
"Here!"
"Command the former general, the Han loyal general, my lord, the enemy's left army!"
"Here!"
Liu Xiu took a breath and made corresponding arrangements for his attack.
Pang Meng's battle is more detailed, paying special attention to the coordination and changes of each array. Wu Han's battle is extremely fierce. No matter how the enemy's formation changes, I will use a ferocious and abnormal offensive to defeat you and crush you.
Therefore, Wu Han's fierceness and toughness are more restrained than Pang Meng's meticulousness and changeability.
Su Mao is a traditional general, and his troops and formations are as orderly as textbooks. In Gaiyan's battles, he usually does not follow common sense. Moreover, Su Mao was Gaiyan's subordinate before, and he knew Su Mao and Gaiyan relatively well.
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Jiao Qiang is impulsive and irritable, has a bad temper, and can't hold his temper. When fighting, he is just like everyone else, he is open and close, and does not pay too much attention to the tactics. Wang Liang, who is rigorous in combat and meticulous as silk, can just do it.
Restrain the strong.
Although Liu Xiu deployed quickly, every order he issued was carefully considered, taking into account the characteristics of his own generals and the characteristics of the enemy's generals.
As soon as Liu Xiu passed on the order, he heard the long sound of horns coming from the opposite side, and then, the sound of drums sounded. Looking at the enemy camp, they had begun to advance in an all-round way.
Seeing this, Liu Xiu's mouth curled up. It seemed that he had not been able to break through Taocheng's defenses in more than twenty days. He really drove Pang Meng, Su Mao, and Jiaoqiang into a panic. They couldn't wait to have a head-on battle with their own side.
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He turned to look at Xi Cheying beside him and asked: "What does Cheying think of this battle?"
Xi Cheying shook her head at first. She had no unique insights into this battle. The only thing she could see was that her own troops were more powerful than the enemy.
No matter how smart she is, she is not a military general, and she has never experienced such a large-scale confrontation between two armies before. She has no way of judging the strength of the two armies and whether they will win or lose.
But when she saw Liu Xiu's smiling face, she suddenly felt confident and said in a determined tone: "Your Majesty, I believe that our army will win this battle!"
Liu Xiu blinked his eyes, laughed, clapped his hands and said, "Well said! Our army will win!" As he spoke, he turned his head and said, "Long Yuan, send the order to beat the drums!"
Following Liu Xiu's order, the drummers picked up the huge drumsticks one after another, using all their strength to swing the drumsticks and hit the drum heads.
Boom!
With the beating of drums, the neighing of the war horses in the Han army camp became one. Even the war horses under Liu Xiu and Xi Cheying began to restlessly kick their hooves and stamp their feet in place, and kept honking in their nostrils.
To judge whether a horse is a battle-hardened war horse, just let it listen to the sound of drums. However, as long as a battle-hardened war horse hears the sound of drums, it will naturally become excited, eager to try, and ready to charge at any time.
Therefore, on the battlefield, the sound of drums and the sounds of war horses usually come and go one after another.
Beating drums to advance, calling gold to retreat, this is a military term that has not changed for thousands of years. With the sound of drums, the Han army camp also began to advance forward.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
As the phalanx advanced, accompanied by the sound of uniform footsteps and the friction of armor, the dust on the ground flew up and rolled higher and higher. Looking at the opposite side, it looked like a huge hurricane blowing in.
If you are a new soldier who has just entered the battlefield, facing this kind of formation, your legs will probably weaken before you even come into contact with the enemy.
Even though he was not directly participating in the battle, even if he was in the Chinese army far away from the main battlefield, Xi Cheying still nervously held the reins, leaned forward slightly, and stared intently at the moving camp ahead.
Liu Xiu comforted her softly: "Che Ying, don't be nervous. In this battle, the enemy will be defeated, but our army will win!"
Xi Cheying breathed a sigh of relief, leaned forward and slowly sat upright. Her face turned red and she whispered, "Is this concubine making His Majesty laugh?"
Liu Xiu smiled disapprovingly and said, "When I first went to the battlefield, I was much more nervous than Che Ying!" And he was riding a cow at the time.
Hearing Liu Xiu's words, Xi Cheying felt much relieved. She said seriously: "Wait a minute, I will also go into battle to kill the enemy!"
Liu Xiu was happy, nodded and praised: "Okay!" He did not agree with Xi Cheying to go into battle to kill the enemy, but simply admired her courage of not being afraid of strong enemies.
Soon, the front armies of both sides were less than a hundred steps away from each other. At this time, the archers in both camps twisted their bows and set arrows, pointed the arrows in the air, and then used all their strength to shoot the arrows into the air.
Buzz! Buzz!
The arrow formations of both sides soared into the air almost simultaneously, drawing two long arcs in the air, crossing over, and whizzing into the opponent's camp.
"Raise the shields -" the generals in each array stretched their strength and yelled at the top of their necks. The soldiers raised their wooden shields high and formed a huge shield array on top of their own camp's heads.
The fallen arrow arrays fell on the shield array, making a crackling sound. From time to time, arrows penetrated through the gaps between the shield arrays and nailed people's bodies. The sounds of screams came one after another from both camps.
Both sides were firing arrow formations while raising shields to resist the other side's arrow formations. Instead of slowing down, the advancing speed of both sides became faster.
Finally, the front rows of soldiers from the two armies came into contact with each other, and there was a loud roar and the collision of shields.
The soldiers in the front row of both sides held a shield in one hand to resist the enemy on the opposite side, and held a sword in the other hand to stab forward with all their might. The soldiers in the back held halberds with both hands and also stabbed at the enemy with all their might.
When the soldiers of both sides are locked together and there is no room for maneuver, whether it is a spear or a halberd, as long as it pierces the opponent's crowd, it will definitely kill the enemy.
The shouts of killing and screams broke out between the two armies in an instant.
No one retreated. At this time, everyone had the same thought, which was to rush forward and squeeze forward. As long as the enemy on the opposite side was dispersed, they would have a chance to walk off the battlefield alive.
The battle had just begun, and it was still unclear who had the advantage and who was at a disadvantage. The soldiers in the front rows of both sides fell to the ground not one after another, but in rows after rows.
The brother in front fell, and the comrades behind him stepped forward to take their place, fell again, and took their place again, and so on. The center line between the two armies was like a huge meat grinder, squeezing people over.
Everyone was torn to pieces.
Soon, there were piles of corpses between the two armies, getting higher and higher as they got tired, but no one retreated, and everyone was pushing forward with all their strength.
Wu Han and Ma Wu were evenly matched with Pang Meng's army. Gai Yan, Wang Ba, Wang Liang and Wang Chang gradually showed their superiority against Su Mao and Jiao Qiang.
The reason for this is due to the characteristics of the ladder formation. The most powerful troops of Su Mao have fewer soldiers in the front and more soldiers in the back. The small number of soldiers in the front cannot resist Gai Yan and Wang Liang's troops.
All-out attack.
As Sumao's and Jiaoqiang's troops were forced to retreat, the formation of Pang Meng's coalition gradually turned into a convex shape. The formation of the Han army turned into a concave shape.
Upon seeing this, Xi Cheying's face lit up with joy, and he turned to Liu Xiu and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, General Gai and General Wang are the winners!"
There was no joy on Liu Xiu's face. Instead, he frowned and murmured: "Ju Qing and Jun Yan are advancing too far!" He raised his hand, and Long Yuan immediately urged his horse forward and said: "Your Majesty!
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"Immediately send someone to inform Gai Yan and Wang Liang not to fall into the trap of luring the enemy and get out of touch with our army headquarters!" Liu Xiu was originally a little surprised as to why Pang Meng would set up a trapezoidal formation. Looking at it now, Pang Meng is not
Arrange this formation at will.
He deliberately placed Su Mao's weak troops in the front and his strong troops in the back. In this way, the two armies attacking his second division would gradually be disconnected from the main division due to their rapid advance. In this way,
This gave Pang Mengjun the opportunity to defeat them one by one.
Liu Xiu, who was in charge of the central army, could still see clearly and realized something was wrong. He immediately sent someone to send a message to Gai Yan and Wang Liang.
After receiving Liu Xiu's reminder, the advance of Gai Yan and Wang Liang's troops immediately stopped. They no longer blindly pursued the defeated enemy troops in front, but waited for the lagging Wu Han troops to catch up.
Pang Meng was already ready, and was wondering whether to concentrate his forces to attack Gai Yan first, or to attack Wang Liang. As a result, both Gai Yan and Wang Liang stopped their advance, which made Pang Meng's prearranged plan suddenly come to nothing.
For nothing.
Seeing Gai Yan, Wang Liang and his two men stopped advancing together. Pang Meng was stunned for a moment before he came back to his senses. He murmured: "It's Liu Xiu! Liu Xiu must have seen through my tactics!"
Su Mao and Jiaoqiang, who were next to Pang Meng, looked at each other and asked in unison: "King Dongping, what should we do now?"
Pang Meng sighed and said with a wry smile: "Liu Xiu's tactics are unpredictable. Trying to trick him would be as difficult as climbing to the sky!"
After a pause, he took a deep breath and said seriously: "General Su, General Jiao, now you two can lead your troops to counterattack with all your strength, and have a head-on confrontation with the two thieves Gai Yan and Wang Liang, and fight to the death!"
Su Mao and Jiaoqiang didn't say anything. They handed over to Pang Meng and went to their respective headquarters. With the arrival of Su Mao and Jiaoqiang, Su Mao's army and Jiaoqiang's army launched a counterattack against the Han army at the same time.
The Han army, which was fighting smoothly, did not expect that the enemy would launch such a fierce counterattack. It was caught off guard, and Gai Yanjun and Wang Liangjun were forced to retreat.
After a confrontation, both sides suffered countless losses, and the battle on the field returned to its original point.
The soldiers of the Han army have been on the battlefield for a long time, but Pang Meng's army and Su Mao's army are outstanding and strong armies. How can they not be like this?
In terms of combat experience, there is almost no difference between the two sides. In terms of command and battlefield strategy, Pang Meng is not necessarily much worse than famous generals such as Wu Han, Gai Yan, and Wang Liang.