This move not only uses Sun Tzu's Art of War's "Trick the Tiger from the Mountain", but also uses the "information warfare", "psychological warfare" and "special warfare" commonly used in modern warfare, plus a series of stratagems within the stratagem.
Needless to say, the Great Wall was dispatched with 7,000 main troops, which was already lacking in troops.
Information warfare is the use of a fake spy to send half-truth and half-false intelligence.
Psychological warfare is to capture Yang Ting's eagerness to save her father, and then jump down when she sees a trap.
Special warfare is a sneak attack disguised as the Qin army behind enemy lines...Special warfare has actually existed since ancient times, but it was only defined in modern times.
As for the serial scheme within the scheme.
Shen Bing believed that it was true that Li Mu personally led more than a thousand cavalry to capture Ma Tou Mountain.
It's just that Ma Tou Mountain is not Li Mu's real goal, it's just a bait.
Even Li Mu himself was a bait, luring Yang Ting, a newborn calf who didn't know the heights of the world, out of the city.
The only way to win is to take advantage of Li Mu's troops before they are fully assembled...
So what Li Mu is so good at is actually not his art of war or his kung fu.
It's the scheming, the scheming to understand the enemy's psychology clearly and then use it to set a trap.
It's just that Li Mu calculated a thousand times and finally missed one thing: he didn't calculate Shen Bing.
Shen Bing didn't realize this was a trick at first.
But he accidentally discovered Zhao Jun in disguise and opened a breakthrough.
However, even so, there is not much difference.
Because Li Mu had already deployed spies along the way, the big movement just now could not escape the spies' eyes.
So there was a sounding arrow...
Li Mu, who was lying in ambush in the dense forest, was surprised when he saw the sound of the arrow.
This means that your plan has been discovered by the enemy.
Li Mu frowned.
It is not difficult to guess that there must be something wrong with the team pretending to be wounded soldiers.
But Li Mu thought about it several times and still didn't know what the problem was.
This time Li Mu sent a surprise attack on the Great Wall, or it could be said that it was an internal response. There was a reason why the number of troops was only five hundred instead of one thousand or more.
Li Mu knew that the Qin army was very strict in inspections.
Therefore, after every victory in a battle, Li Mu ordered his subordinates to carefully collect the "experiments" carried by the soldiers of the Qin army.
Then based on the appearance, height, etc. described in the "examination", they will be selected from the army.
Therefore, this batch of Zhao Jun with only 500 people can withstand the inspection, and even some of the wounds are real...
Zhao Jun will also be injured in battle, and he can also create some skin wounds himself.
These have reached the point where they can be mistaken for real.
But even so, something went wrong, and the Great Wall didn't even arrive...
This was a little hard to imagine for Li Mu.
How could he have thought that the problem was with the cavalry?
Li Mu crossed mountains and ridges to bypass Yang Duanhe's troops and attacked directly behind them, so he led mostly cavalry.
Naturally, when choosing camouflage soldiers, you must also choose from cavalry.
But none of this matters.
Since the enemy sees through it, the only option is to attack by force.
Thinking of this, Li Mu waved his hand forward, and suddenly many soldiers stood up in the seemingly empty dense forest behind him.
Then groups of cavalry poured out from the dense forest, divided into two groups on the left and right, and moved in an orderly manner towards the direction from which the sounding arrows came.
The Qin army had raised a round formation flag amidst the sound of drums, and the messengers galloped up their horses and shouted:
"Round formation, round formation!"
Formation was indispensable in cold weapon warfare in ancient times.
The reason is that the battlefield forces of cold weapons are generally very large, numbering in the tens of thousands or even tens of thousands.
The contradiction is that the communication equipment is extremely backward and cannot communicate smoothly.
Under such circumstances, it is obviously very difficult to let so many people know and stand in their position in a short period of time.
So there was a formation.
The soldiers listened to the drums, listened to the orders, looked at the flags, and then deployed in an orderly manner according to usual drills.
This is the difference between an elite army and a ragtag army.
In critical moments, elite divisions can follow orders as quickly as possible to get into formation and prepare for battle.
The rabble, often without formation, would run around like headless flies when facing a battle.
Of course, the Qin army was not a mob. They quickly set up their formation to the sound of drums and waited.
Yang Ting deserves to be born as a general, so it is just right to use the circle formation at this time.
Because it is not difficult to imagine that most of the army led by Li Mu must be cavalry.
At the same time, the surrounding terrain is flat, which is convenient for cavalry to penetrate.
Therefore, in any formation, it is easy for the cavalry to find loopholes and take advantage of them.
There was only a circular formation, which placed carriages and baggage in a circle around the perimeter to prevent cavalry attacks.
After that comes the infantry with stronger defense, and then the crossbowmen.
The trebuchets and cavalry that need protection are placed in the middle.
In this way, it will be difficult for the enemy cavalry to find any loopholes when attacking the formation from any direction.
It will not only be blocked by carriages, baggage and infantry, but also suppressed by crossbows and trebuchets.
When necessary, the circular formation would open an opening, and the cavalry in the formation would rush out along the opening.
However, Shen Bing was not so optimistic.
If Li Muhui was stupid enough to use his cavalry to charge the infantry formation, he would have been killed several times by Wang Jian, Yang Duanhe and others.
Will Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe be inferior to Yang Ting?
On the other hand, Li Mu's goal is the Great Wall!
Great Wall! Great Wall... Great Wall!
Although Shen Bing had explained it repeatedly, Yang Ting still didn't understand the point.
There are only 3,000 people on the Great Wall. Li Mu's army can bypass these 7,000 people and attack the Great Wall directly.
At that time, these seven thousand people will be cut off from contact and become rootless people.
So why don’t you put up a Mao formation?
Run away!
Why don't you run away here and wait to die?
However, Shen Bing was just a drill sergeant, and Yang Ting was always in charge of the army.
Therefore, Shen Bing could only follow the order and arrange the trebuchets in a circle on the middle floor together with the artillery division.
In the middle, there are various types of fire bombs piled up ready for firing.
This is the characteristic of the circular array.
Just like the crossbowmen, in order for the trebuchet to respond to attacks from all directions by the enemy cavalry, it must be arranged in a circle.
Shen Bing was unwilling to give in. He looked at the surrounding terrain and shouted to Xun, who was more than ten steps away:
"Master, we should divide the trebuchet into two wings."
Xun responded with dissatisfaction:
"Stop talking nonsense!"
"How can the formation set by the captain be changed at a moment's notice?"
"Are you afraid that your life is too long?"
What Xun said makes sense. This formation is a military order. Changing the formation without authorization is tantamount to disobeying the military order.
And disobeying military orders during wartime is a capital crime.
But……
Shen Bing replied helplessly:
"What my disciple is talking about is also a matter of life and death."
"If not, we and the whole army will probably die at the hands of Li Mu."
"Even General Yang's trapped 70,000-strong army will not be spared..."
Believe it or doubt it.
If I had followed it before, I would have never believed it, and I wouldn’t have even bothered to respond.
but now.
After Shen Bing retreated from the enemy at the Great Wall, after Shen Bing burned Zhao camp, and after he saw through Zhao Jun's disguise...
Xun already knew that this disciple was not an ordinary person.
If Shen Bing is right, then there are two options:
First, he obeyed orders and was killed by Li Mu.
The second is to adjust the formation privately...
It is obvious that the latter should be chosen, even if it involves the risk of disobeying military orders.
Because at least there is hope.
In fact, only Xun hesitated. Cang, Tun, Yan and the artillerymen all believed in Shen Bing at the first moment, and they all looked at Xun with expectant eyes.