Li Zicheng stood at the other end of the valley, holding a sword in his right hand and still holding the broken arrow in his left hand. He drew a rough formation of the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers in front of him on the ground, and analyzed: "The officers and soldiers stood with spears everywhere, blocking the Junling River.
Yamaguchi, Yufeng and Jiexuan rushed three times but failed to get away, so it was very difficult."
The spear formation deployed by the captains Ai Guobin and Li Siquan at the Junlingchuan Pass made it very difficult to break into the camp. First, Li Shuangxi fell into the formation by mistake and suffered heavy casualties. Then Liu Zongmin and Tian Jianxiu led dozens of sharp soldiers and tried to force the way.
The spear formation of the officers and soldiers was defeated by the well-disciplined iron wall.
Seeing Ai Guobin at the rear of Junlingchuan Pass, he continued to contain the defeated troops of General Zheng Guodong, and the strength of the troops gradually increased. Once the officers and soldiers took a breath and recovered from the previous crisis of morale collapse, then rely on the officers and soldiers to
Due to the army's superiority in strength and weapons and equipment, it would be difficult to defeat the army in a head-on confrontation.
At this time, Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi also gathered their troops and withdrew from the front line. They had just led the troops separately and tried to use sharp soldiers with short soldiers to conduct infiltration assaults, approaching to a close distance to break up the spear array. However, the official army's spear hedgehogs
It was extremely difficult for Li Guo and Yuan Zong to attack. After a while, they felt that there were no fighter planes to use, so they withdrew their troops before the casualties increased.
Li Laiheng and Hao Yaoqi's troops also followed Li Guo into this feint attack. The officers and soldiers in front of him shocked Li Laiheng, because he could still recognize many familiar faces among the enemy formations. These officers and soldiers
, are clearly the local warriors he trained in Mizhi's hometown.
But when Li Laiheng looked more carefully, he found that among these village warriors, the officers he was more familiar with had all disappeared. These people had been replaced by his own trusted servants by Du Si Ai Guobin, so Li Laiheng could only give up the idea of letting the villagers.
The brave men decided to take action anyway.
The little tiger clenched the waist knife in his hand. He knew that those officers and figures had probably been "disposed" by Ai Guobin in various ways, and most of them were probably not alive anymore.
The scene in front of him also made Li Laiheng even more certain that Ai Guobin, the capital official with whom he had a deep hatred for destroying his family and destroying his family, was behind the official army formation!
While thinking about how to help the intruders break through the army's spear formation, he and Bai Wang came to Li Zicheng. At this time, in addition to the two of them, Liu Fangliang and several members of his subordinates were surrounding Li Zicheng.
General Liu Fangliang has a fair complexion and is very prominent among the generals, but beside him there is a dark-faced general with a face as dark as charcoal, which is actually much more conspicuous than Liu Fangliang.
The black-faced general was named Liu Rukui, and he was nicknamed "Soap Eagle" during the camp. The so-called soap color refers to black. Liu Rukui not only had a face as dark as charcoal, but his whole body was also completely black. In Li Laiheng's view,
, almost no different from black people. I don’t know whether he was exposed to the sun for a long time during the war, or whether he was born this way and is much darker than ordinary people.
Liu Rukui stood beside Liu Fangliang. He was responsible for leading the sword players in Liu Fangliang's team to charge into the battle. At this time, he suggested to Li Zicheng based on the characteristics of the official army's spear formation: "Old commander, I think the official army's formation is all long spears."
Pure team. Although the pure team with spears is full of spears, like hedgehogs, it is definitely not as agile as the experienced sword team in our camp."
Li Zicheng nodded, pointed with the long sword in his hand at the sketch of the official army formation drawn on the ground, and said: "There are no sword players in the official army's pure spear team, nor are there any swordsmen or jujube sticks.
Infantry with heavy weapons such as maces, as long as our sword team can penetrate deep into the array, they will definitely be able to smash the official army's array."
In fact, purely using spearmen to form a formation is a very crude and hasty way of fighting. Li Laiheng originally trained the rural warriors in this way, but because of limited conditions, the spear formation had to be combined with flexible swordsmen and other short infantry.
Can exert full power.
As a veteran of the army, Ai Guobin didn't even have this knowledge. It was really stupid to put up a pure spear formation in front of Junlingchuan. But Li Siquan was smarter. He used the hillsides on both sides to cover the flanks of the spear formation.
, avoiding the weakness of its flanks.
However, the remnants of Zheng Guodong's troops who rushed into the camp were too brave and did not pay much attention. They actually ran into the official army formation without any precautions, causing a lot of casualties. By the time the generals below Li Zicheng came to their senses, they
After that, they immediately came up with many ways to break the formation.
But at this time, Liu Fangliang raised another objection. He believed that the pure spear troops of the official army were easily broken, but after Ai Guobin gathered the defeated troops of Zheng Guodong, he was constantly replenishing these reorganized troops into the official army.
In the military formation, this makes up for many of the fatal weaknesses of the pure spear team.
Liu Fangliang dissuaded Li Zicheng, Liu Rukui and others, saying: "The official army has blocked the entire valley entrance, and we cannot attack the two wings. Even if we rely on the Sword Team to attack the enemy from the front and open the front, we will probably pay a lot of casualties."
Liu Fangliang's words changed Li Laiheng's perception of him a lot. Before, Li Laiheng had only seen Liu Fangliang's brave and fierce side, but now he saw his cautious side in fighting.
Regarding the situation at hand, Li Laiheng actually already had a better combat plan. After all, Xiangyong's spear formation was trained by him in his hometown of Mizhi. His understanding of it was naturally far better than other generals in Chuangying.
In addition, Ai Guobin is the little tiger's enemy, so of course he will try his best to kill the tiger.
Li Laiheng's thin body squeezed between Li Zicheng and Liu Fangliang. He told all about his hatred for Ai Guobin and the origin of the local brave armed forces in front of him. The hatred of other people in the camp towards Li Laiheng and Ai Guobin, the commander of the army and the army.
I already knew something about it, so I wasn't surprised to hear Li Laiheng mentioning old things again.
While agreeing with Liu Fangliang's prudent opinion, Little Tiger pointed to the hillsides on both sides of the army's formation and said: "The officers and soldiers blocked the entrance of the valley and used the hillsides to protect their flanks. But this hillside is by no means a cliff and is naturally dangerous. The officers and soldiers relied on their terrain advantages and faced both sides.
The slopes of the mountain were not paid any attention to."
He pointed at Bai Wang again and mentioned that he and Bai Wang had just sent several night warriors to climb the hillside on the right with common sense.
Bai Wang also nodded and further explained Li Laiheng's plan. He added: "Just now we have sent several night warriors back to the hillside on the right side. I see that the officers and soldiers have no awareness or movement. They obviously did not expect it."
This is our move."
"Not bad." Li Laiheng pointed to the hillside on the right with one finger, making an arrow shape with two fingers, and swooped down from the height of the hillside. "You only need to kill dozens of people with swords and swords, climb up the hillside on the right, and take advantage of the fierce terrain."
Rush down. The flanks of the officers and soldiers are defenseless. Such an offensive will definitely completely disrupt the formation and deployment of the officers and soldiers."
After Li Zicheng pondered for a while, he looked at each other and Liu Fangliang looked at each other. They both nodded in unison, obviously appreciating Li Laiheng's plan. Liu Fangliang put down his spear, took a short sword from the hands of Liu Rukui, and said to Li Zicheng:
"Old Master, let's arrange it like this. Liu Zaoying, Little Tiger, and I will lead the Sword Team to attack from the hillside on the right. Master, you will lead the troops, plus Jiexuan and Yufeng, to make up for it. Hanju's ministries will follow
If you use frontal containment, you will be able to defeat the officers and soldiers in one fell swoop."
"good!"
Li Zicheng sighed in admiration. He inserted the broken arrow that was used for command into the ground, and praised Li Laiheng as a little tiger who broke into the camp. The tiger roared in the valley, and his reputation was no less than that of any ferocious beast.
"Laghorn is not only my family's thousand-mile horse, but also our little tiger in the camp!"
"That's it, Fang Liang and Zao Ying will take all the elite soldiers of the Sword Team, plus the elite soldiers of the Little Tiger and Bai Wang teams, and gather 60 people to charge through the enemy's formation from the hillside on the right!"
"Shuangxi, go and tell Jiexuan, Yufeng and others to restrain the rest of the troops and make a desperate effort to attack the officers and soldiers from the front!"
"Little tiger, if I can capture Ai Guobin, the commander-in-chief of the army, alive this time, I will give him full authority to deal with him. Either kill or behead him, it all depends on your wishes!"
Li Zicheng was so arrogant that he started from the big picture, but did not miss any details. In just a few words, he arranged the entire combat operation. His prestige and charisma greatly boosted the morale of those who broke into the camp.
Get up, the soldiers quickly take action, thousands of people are united, and the momentum is overwhelming!
Okay! After Li Laiheng heard Li Zicheng's promise, he became even more excited and excited. It was really thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. He had no intention of roaring a famous line such as "Don't bully young people who are poor" at this time.
However, Ai Guobin's careless use of troops allowed him to seize an excellent opportunity to defeat the officers and soldiers. It was actually Ai Guobin who sacrificed his own head.
"Brother Hao, bring your brothers and follow us. This time we will follow General Liu and show off our power!"
Li Laiheng ordered Hao Yaoqi to select all the elite soldiers in his army. In fact, most of Li Laiheng's troops were old and weak who had been eliminated by other generals. Hao Yaoqi picked and picked only three or four people.
But the key to this battle was that Li Laiheng came up with the idea of circling the hillside and charging across the enemy's formation. Therefore, even if Li Laiheng's troops did not have many men, a considerable part of the credit for this battle must be attributed to the little tiger.
Li Laiheng was high-spirited and raised his waist knife high. Hao Yaoqi, who was standing next to him, touched the back of his head with his huge palm and imitated the little tiger, raising the jujube stick high.
"Hey, Brother Hao, we are going to rush down the hillside, and we need to break the spear formation. Why are you using this jujube stick? Hurry up and get a short knife."
The little tiger couldn't help but laugh when he saw Hao Yaoqi holding up his jujube stick. He quickly signaled Hao Yaoqi to exchange his jujube stick for one from Liu Fangliang and Liu Rukui, who were leading the sword team.
The waist knife is suitable for surprise operations on circuitous hillsides.
The handsome-looking Liu Fangliang had several strands of hair falling from his forehead due to the fierce fighting. He used his left hand to tuck the loose hair behind his ear, and his handsome face showed his bravery and fierceness again.
A cruel and bloodthirsty look.
Liu Fangliang waited for Liu Rukui, Li Laiheng, Bai Wang, Hao Yaoqi and others to organize all the sharp sword soldiers, then pointed his waist sword towards the hillside and announced the start of the raid.
"Brothers, all follow me, only advance, not retreat, let the officers and soldiers know how powerful it is to break into the camp!"