Chapter 101: Eight Formations
In the Daxiong Treasure Hall of Yong'an Temple, with a loud bang, the gate blocking the traitors from entering was torn apart by this group of people with a thick stump, accompanied by a burst of shouts and killings, and this group of traitors poured into the inner courtyard one after another.
The guards who had already set up a formation had been waiting for the enemy for a long time, and they were forbidden, and they all concentrated on it, just waiting for Xiao Wan's order.
If you are a person who is skilled in marching and arranging the formation, you will definitely be able to see at a glance that there is only an army of fifty people in front of you, and their defensive posture and method of arranging the formation are one of the eight formations of the famous Wuhou through the ages.
Heavenly Array Praise: Heavenly Array Sixteen, Outer and Inner Circle, Four for the Wind, Its Image Heaven, for the Lord of the Array, for the First of the Soldiers. Make good use of the three armed forces, and their shape is not biased.
The generals who are good at marching and fighting will respond to local conditions and change the method of arranging troops in a timely manner, and Xiao Wan has made appropriate adjustments according to the current form.
The Heavenly Array is one of the eight arrays, and the eight arrays are arranged according to the direction and gossip and each has eight arrays, the door of life and death, which can be converted into each other, just like the way of yin and yang, and the cycle repeats.
Xiao Wan arranged the archers to fight in the outer column, and the armor soldiers were divided into four teams, each pair of four people, standing in a square formation in the middle of the formation, and the halberd soldiers were behind.
Everything is in place, and it is only necessary for the enemy to step into the ambush circle......
When the traitors poured into the inner courtyard like a tide, Xiao Wan immediately made a decision, waved the flag, and shouted:
"The archer releases the arrow, the first kill is rapid-fired, and no arrow is left!"
Xiao Wan gave an order, and the archers in front of the formation aimed at the nearest enemy at close range to release arrows, according to the military order, not a single arrow was left, all of them were shot out quickly and accurately, and the archers needed to ensure that each arrow could accurately shoot the enemy, so as to reach the minimum level of the first kill of rapid fire under Xiao Wan's order.
As the arrows roared away with the sound of fierce bursts of air, the traitors who rushed to the front of the line fell one after another, until all the archers and arrows were released, and the traitors' men and horses, plus those who had been damaged before, were probably more than two hundred people left.
The traitor saw that the men and horses rushing in front had not yet approached those soldiers, so they had already become cannon fodder, where did they dare to take the initiative to rush ahead, shouting and shouting to kill, but people kept starting to retreat.
The leader of the traitors was furious, and even executed a few who dared to retreat, as a deterrent to the people, pointed to several corpses on the ground that had been cut down by him, and shouted:
"There are those who retreat, this is the end!"
The traitors are all gangsters, who have never seen such a battle, and were lured by this leader to Eli, and then forced to die, they were already in a state of confusion, and they were delirious, and they all went crazy, and rushed to the Daxiong Treasure Hall desperately.
As soon as the archers had finished firing their arrows, they retreated behind the armourers and halberders, and in turn, the armourers and halberders pushed forward, changing the layout of the archers on the periphery.
The leader saw that there were only about forty or fifty people in this treasure hall, and he couldn't help but rejoice in his heart, even if his men and horses were damaged, there were still so many two hundred people, and now that their bows and arrows were all released, the advantage of long-distance attack and killing was obviously no longer there, and the next comparison was whose knife and bones were harder!
"Don't be afraid, they have no arrows to put out, all rush up for me and kill all these thieves!"
The leader of the traitors shouted, and the men and horses behind him also poured into the treasure hall one after another, and they were greeted by these four teams of armored soldiers.
The corner of Xiao Wan's mouth sneered, it seems that the dead corpses all over the ground have not been able to make this group of outlaws wake up in time, since they want to die, then she will not have the slightest hesitation and pity.
"Armor soldiers, shield kill!"
Hearing the military order, the four teams of armor soldiers raised their shields above the top with one hand, and drew the short blade at their waists with the other hand, which was fixed with the hidden bracket in the shield, and the four shields were immediately put together into a larger shield.
After a while, there were short blades stretched out around the shield, and the four people in the formation kept moving, and the long blade rotated, flashing coldly, making people tremble at a glance.
The traitors surrounded them and were divided into several pieces, wanting to deal with the four armoured soldiers separately, thinking that if they got close enough to kill the man holding the shield, this formation would naturally break.
The idea is simple, but it is far from easy to get close to the armor under this shield.
Before the traitors could get closer, they were frightened by the sharp blade outside the shield, and raised their swords to cut them, but because this distance was not limited by the length of the sword, they could not hurt the armorers hiding under the shield.
What's even more terrifying is that they thought that they had finally had a chance to invade by relying on crowd tactics, and when they wanted to slash and kill the people under the shield, the armor soldiers suddenly lowered their bodies, and the real shield also pressed down, and those cut knives could only be seen on the shield, and the armor soldiers under the shield took the opportunity to draw the long knife on their waists and unceremoniously slashed the enemy's heels from below.
Only a burst of screams were heard, and the traitors who crouched down because of the pain either died under the sharp blades hidden in the shields in a moment, or were packed up one by one by the armor soldiers like mussel shells......
At this time, they realized that this was a trick to lure the enemy.
The traitor saw that he could not break the shield array in close combat, so he wanted to fly on the shield by light skills, from top to bottom, and kill them by surprise, but he never thought that the person had not yet stood firm on the shield, but suddenly the shield was divided into four parts, and he was pulled down and trapped in several shields, and after a while, several long knives were submerged in his body, and he no longer had any breath.
In this way, the four anti-shield formations echoed each other, attacking and defending in an orderly manner, and the two hundred people were blocked outside the formation, seeing that the traitor's men and horses were gradually decreasing, but none of the armor soldiers were killed, and everyone was very afraid, what kind of weird formation is this, it is really too weird and terrifying reads;!
Soon, the traitor's morale was low, he had no desire to fight to the death, and his momentum was greatly reduced. And the thief army, which was originally divided into several scattered teams by the square shield array, gradually increased from 200 people to only more than 150 people.
Seeing that the time had come, Xiao Wan immediately waved the order flag and shouted:
"Armor Array!"
The four teams of armor soldiers immediately turned their shields on their heads, like spinning tops, and gradually walked away from the enemy's periphery, as if they were trying to break free from the entanglement of the thief army, and the traitor finally had time to breathe, and for some reason, the flow of people who had been divided into several groups began to gather in the middle.
The traitors only felt that there were more and more companions around them, and they felt a little more relieved in their hearts, but what they didn't expect was that this was the beginning of the nightmare.
When this group of traitors was about to gather together, the four teams of square shield arrays suddenly disintegrated on their own, and then switched back to holding shield armor, and after a few people lined up, it was already a shield circle formation of sixteen people, trapping those traitors in the array.
The armorer struck the shield with his long blood-stained knife, which was already stained with blood, and sent out a burst of vibrations like a drum, and shouted loudly:
"Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!"
This voice was deafening, and fifty sergeants shouted together, and the sound of shouting and killing poured out like a mountain and a sea, scattering people's hearts, and when they landed, they frightened the traitors' souls and scattered like wooden chickens.
The leader sensed that something was wrong, and he could see clearly from outside the formation that the centaurs had been surrounded by this group of armored soldiers!
The leader was so frightened that he was drenched in a cold sweat, and hurriedly shouted loudly:
"Get out of there, get out of there!"
How could his voice drown out the shouts of fifty sergeants and killing, and Xiao Wan would never let this group of traitors have any respite!
The dantian was angry, and the sound was like a bell, Xiao Wan shouted, and said:
"Change formation, heavens!"
The armor soldiers were able to shrink the encirclement, and some of the traitors trapped in it reacted and tried to break out of the encirclement with light skills, but were stopped by the archers' hidden arrows and the continuous scattering of thistles.
The thistle has four iron thorns sticking out, several inches long, and there must be a thorn facing upwards when it lands on the ground, and this thistle terrestris falls from the sky, either piercing people with blood, or hitting the vital point, killing with one blow.
What's more, when the traitors who were knocked down by the hidden arrows and were lucky enough to not die landed one after another, the iron thistles in that place put on their shoes and entered their feet in a moment, piercing the flesh and bones, the pain was unbearable, making it difficult to move an inch, and after a burst of miserable shouts, the siege of the armor soldiers had been completed, and the halberd soldiers immediately surrounded them, and from the dark hole of the shield, the long halberd in their hands was stabbed out one after another......
One by one, the traitors were constantly exterminated, and within the shield, there was already a flood of mourning, blood gushing like a spring, corpses everywhere, accompanied by a sentence of mournful screams before death, one by one life dissipated, no one escaped from this day killing array, and when the dust settled, the square shield array gradually dispersed, and the more than 100 people had already become a mountain of corpses piled up in this circle......
The rest of the traitors, except for the leader, were only twenty remnants left, and the rest of these people had already been frightened by the sight in front of them, their faces were bloodless, their minds were lost, and their shapes were crazy.
This was followed by a terrible roar and throwing away their weapons, and these people were either salivating in fright, or frantically trying to escape from the door.
"It's terrible, it's hell, it's hell......"
"No, I don't want to die, I don't want to die......"
"Ah, devil, devil......"
......
Xiao Wan looked at the scene in front of him, and in his ears was the crazy roar of these people, only to feel a little ridiculous, hell, the devil?
She has seen and experienced situations that are more terrible and cruel than this, and compared to those, what is this?
yes, it's nothing!
Xiao Wan's face was covered by a ghost mask and she couldn't see a single joy, anger and sorrow, I saw her slowly raise her hand above her head, her eyes were no longer full of brilliance, some were just bloodthirsty bright red and cold and terrifying eyes, looking at the last batch of people who were still breathing, Xiao Wan didn't even have a trace of pity, and waved her hand without hesitation.
Success and defeat, success and defeat, success and defeat, defeat death, since ancient times!
Only to hear a word come out of her mouth coldly.
"Kill!"
The halberd soldiers immediately went out of battle and threw the halberds in their hands one after another, and the last twenty or so people, except for the leader, were all wiped out, and no one was left!
In the end, the leader of the team could only kneel on the ground like a quadriplegic paralysis, with a slightly distorted face in disbelief, looking at the river of blood in front of him, the mountain of corpses everywhere, and the whole three hundred people, all of them were gone in front of his eyes......
It's terrible, it's terrible, who is that commander-in-chief?
When the dust settled, Xiao Wan was like this, stepping on the blood all over the ground, step by step, slowly walking towards the leader, the cold wind blew the robe, Xiao Wan couldn't help but look up at the sky slightly, the gray in his eyes seemed to be about to pass, and the east was white.
Yong'an Temple, the pure land of cultivation, is still tainted by this ruthless killing after all, but to survive in this troubled world, where will it be the real paradise?
"Who are you?"
The leader's voice trembled with horror, and it was an unwilling roar before he died.
......
"You don't need to know this, you just need to know that those who dare to commit rebellion will be killed!"
Xiao Wan said coldly, and pronounced the ending of this person.
"No, no, I don't want to die yet, I can sue you, who instructed me, as long as you don't kill me, I will honestly explain everything, don't kill me, please, don't kill me!"
The leader wept with grief, and the thought that he would soon become a cold corpse made him tremble with horror, and now he would do whatever he wanted him to do, as long as he could keep him alive!
What a fool, knowing that death is inevitable in the end, but still have to do the final dying struggle?
Also, ants still steal life, let alone people?
"You can say that I know reads; Rather than be sentenced to death for the crime of treason and suffer humiliation, it is better to draw a sword and kill yourself, so that you can still leave a whole corpse. ”
Having lost the last shred of hope for life, the man wept like a baby, tears and snot, piled up his face, and cried:
"I ...... Woo, I don't want to die, I don't want to die......"
"There is a certain death in the end, but sooner or later. ”
These words are heard by the people who have reached the end of the road, as if they are extremely mocking, and the leader can't help but show a fierce light in his eyes, and his eyes are full of vicious looks, even if he dies, he must do his best to do what he can, he will curse the person in front of him, so that he will not be at peace every moment of his life, and even if he is buried in the ground, he will never be able to turn over!
"You, you ......"
"What, you want to curse me?"
Xiao Wan sneered at each other, she had seen too many scenes like this, so much that she was already numb.
The leader couldn't help but be stunned, he didn't even have the last chance to make the people in front of him resentful and resentful. But I was tortured by the other party to the point of a nervous breakdown, and my life was short, I was unwilling, I was really unwilling!
"If it's useless to curse himself, then curse the people he cares about......"
The leader was talking to himself like a nightmare.
Xiao Wan frowned when she heard the words for the first time, she was never afraid to curse herself, but she couldn't tolerate someone hurting the people she cared about!
Without waiting for the leader to speak, Xiao Wan quickly drew his sword, and the sword fell in his hand, and the man's body fell straight to his knees, but there was still a distorted look of crazy joy on his face, as if his trick had succeeded.
Yes, maybe his ruse succeeded, if what he wanted was to make Xiao Wan resentful......
Xiao Wan hung down the sword in her hand a little weakly, and she couldn't tell what her mood was at this moment, she only knew that her chest was tight, as if there was a needle pierced in the depths, and there was a trace of unbearable pain!
"General, urgent military report!"
The scout who had been released rushed to reply at this moment, knelt on one knee, and after presenting his hands to the general, he retreated.
Xiao Wan was a little stunned, handed the sword in his hand to the sergeant beside him, and took the military newspaper and looked at it, this is the military newspaper sent by Ziyu, it seems that she has done what she wants her to do.
Then he looked at the sergeant beside him and asked:
"What about the casualties?"
"General, our army has wounded twelve people, seriously injured four people, killed three hundred and five enemies, and wiped out all the traitors, leaving not a single one!"
Although there is no loss of troops, it is still some distance from Xiao Wan's expectations, although this team is still a new army, it is still an army subordinate to the Dragoon Guard, this kind of combat power is still too far from the Dragoon Guard stationed in Huaishuo.
"The injured need to be treated in time, and the others will clean up the battlefield and prepare to welcome the Empress Dowager back to Luan!"
"Order!"
The sergeants began to clean up the battlefield, carried the three hundred and five corpses out, and went to the well to draw many buckets of water, and washed away the blood stains left by the battle, as if nothing had happened.