Chapter Ninety-Two: Breaking the Formation, Reinforcements, Seven Skies
The core rule of the military formation is to disperse the position, and to achieve the rapid integration of the number and the class of troops to encircle and kill the strong enemy, which can deal with the enemy whose number and combat ability are several times stronger, but the obvious disadvantage is that the restraint effect on a small number of cavalry is poor, and the geographical restrictions are large.
Pang Lu naturally knew these flaws of the formation, and he spent a lot of thought on arranging this glaive array, hoping to use this formation to wipe out tens of thousands of mountain bandits, but he didn't discover the enemy's abnormality until more than half an hour after the battle began, because his confidence in the glaive formation caused him not to take the lead in observing, so there was such an omission. He noticed that the opposing team's team was regularly divided into several groups, with a majority of men and horses pinning down his four generals in the position of the array, and the light cavalry that roamed around turned his position into a slaughter field, and almost all the halberd armor soldiers were killed everywhere he went, and he immediately shouted that it was not good.
"The halberd armor soldiers in the overall formation outside the four major formations are used to encircle and kill the enemy's main force, if these troops are swept away, it is equivalent to the tiger losing its fangs, and the shield soldiers at the position of the formation eye are the main encirclement defense forces, if they have problems, the other troops will be equivalent to dropping their weapons and exposing themselves in front of the enemy, becoming a live target for the enemy's cavalry. ”
Pang Lu's heart palpitated, and he exclaimed, "Who came up with such a method that can limit the operation of my formation to the greatest extent, so that as long as the shield soldiers and halberd armor soldiers are cleared, my glaive array will lose most of its power, this is not a real sense of breaking the formation, but it has played a role in breaking the formation, who has this ability?"
Mu Ya, who was close to the military camp of Wohua Mountain, was listening to the scout's report on the battlefield at this time, while showing a happy smile, and said to himself, "It seems that this method of breaking the formation can be successful, I Mu Ya has been in the mountains for a long time, and I really need a big victory to make a name for me, although Pang Lu is a famous general, but it is inevitable to be arrogant when he wins, and he will not believe that someone will be able to break the subtlety of the formation, he is not defeated by me in this battle, but lost to his glory and fame for more than 30 years." ”
Pang Lu thought that he could not be defeated if he continued like this, so he ordered the soldiers to call Luo Yaohua before, although Luo Yaohua was injured in his right arm before, and his force was reduced by at least three percent, but it was still not comparable to the average seventh-rank martial artist, and he needed Luo Yaohua to do something to save the battle.
"Listen to my military orders, General Luo Yaohua, you immediately lead a thousand armor soldiers and three hundred cavalry into the battle, enter from the Xiumen in the northeast, and attack Lin Han's cavalry in the southwest. ”
Luo Yaohua smiled bitterly and said, "Governor Pang, it is very likely that I rashly lead the troops into the battle to disrupt the balance of the large array, and I am now about to lose my right arm, and it is very likely that I will be defeated in the face of Lin Han's generation, and I may not be able to get the result expected by the governor if I go out on the expedition." ”
Pang Lu glared at Luo Yaohua viciously and said, "If you don't go, the Glaive Array will be broken, and our army will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, you may have a few chances of winning if you go, but it's a pity that Bian Daocheng is not on my side, otherwise it is most appropriate for him to go." ”
Hearing this, Luo Yaohua's face changed, he didn't want to hear the words that he was inferior to others, even if Bian Daocheng was the best son of the younger generation of the Bian family, he said sonorously, "Governor, I know that you are using the method of agitation to let me fight, although I am injured and far inferior to my peak strength, but I must participate in this battle." Come here, lead my war horse, take my war armor, I want the governor to see that the people of my Luo family are not mediocre people who rely on the merits of the previous dynasty to eat the emperor's grain to live, and my Luo Yaohua will correct the name of my Shangwu Luo family. ”
After Luo Yaohua finished speaking, he ordered the infantry cavalry and entered the battle with spears.
Pang Lu sighed lightly, "Although this Luo Yaohua is reckless, but he is really a good man, I don't know which prince their Luo family chose, if he can, he can recommend him to secretly take refuge in the Seventh Prince, although I am now considered the person of the Great Prince, but looking at the situation, the Seventh Prince's chances of winning are greater, and it can be regarded as giving him a good end." ”
Li Zhengxing at the eye of the moon convex array fought against Luo Fengzhi in the seventh position, once the battle Luo Fengzhi was completely pressed and beaten, Li Zhengxing's marksmanship was fast and fierce, and Lin Han's tricks were actually quite similar, each move used a killing move, Luo Fengzhi was pressed dangerously, and he was stabbed in many places, but he knew that only by persevering could he have a chance to win.
Mu Ya's class restraint theory is very targeted, because Li Zhengxing was contained, the shield soldiers and armor soldiers at the eye of the moon convex array lost the ability to join the formation, like a mess facing the slaughter of the armor soldiers from Luo Fengzhi, of course, this kind of blocking is not very effective, the fight of the armor soldiers can be summed up in one kill ten, and most of the shield soldiers were killed and injured in less than half an hour.
Luo Fengzhi gritted his teeth, saw that the task was basically completed, and shouted, "Everyone, retreat with me." As soon as the order was given, those armored soldiers gathered towards Luo Fengzhi like a school of migrating fish, Li Zhengxing was shocked and hurriedly retreated, and when he turned back to gather his subordinates, he noticed the miserable situation of his subordinates, and he said in disbelief, "How is it possible?" Obviously our army is several times more numerous than them, how can they be killed like this?" However, he did not know that the shield soldiers without the command of the main general were completely the live targets of the armor soldiers, and without the mutual cooperation of other arms, the combat effectiveness of the shield soldiers would become very fragile.
The same situation also appeared in the other three directions, Jiang Ming and Deng Zhun were in full swing, Liang Jin and Zhao Zhi also had dealings with each other, and Du Heng was reluctant to deal with Lu Xingyang
Strong, but still delayed the time, but the enemy generals on three sides did not expect that after the armor soldiers killed seventy or eighty percent of their shield soldiers, the enemy retreated quickly, because they still had to guard the formation, but they could not easily leave the formation, they could only watch the enemy flee.
But seeing that Lin Han was killing in the battle, the Quartet Halberd Armor was slaughtered by him, because there were no other eight-stage martial arts masters to resist, his task seemed extremely easy and smooth, during which two or three seven-stage martial artists came to block, but Lin Han did not directly entangle with them, but only let his cavalry slaughter the halberd armor soldiers, and retreat after killing, although the opponent had the intention to catch up, but could not catch up.
Lin Han met two seventh-rank martial artists again, and the two of them could indeed fight him for a while when they joined forces, but his purpose was only to clear the local halberd armor, even if he didn't use cavalry, he could easily do it. When he was proud, he saw a white horse general rushing with a spear and roaring, "Enemy General Lin Han, I have Luo Yaohua, the general of Duobao, to take your head." ”
Lin Han secretly screamed badly, hurriedly got rid of the entanglement of the two seven-stage martial artists, and retreated to the other side with the cavalry, but unexpectedly, this Luo Yaohua only wanted to kill him, regardless of the integrity of the big array, and took the cavalry to chase and kill frantically along the way, Lin Han could only retreat to the end of the team, and fight against Luo Yaohua, and go and fight, it was another battle of martial arts masters.
There were about 100 moves, Lin Han grabbed the flaw, and stabbed Luo Yaohua's chamber with a shot, but the silver-white brake gun did not penetrate half an inch, recalling the battle between Luo Yaohua and Jiang Ming before, he immediately reacted and hurriedly withdrew his weapon, and Luo Yaohua did not let go of this opportunity, took out the miniature crossbow machine from the shoulder blade again, and quickly took out several poisonous needles. Lin Han's hand was sick, and he used the trick he had learned to drive the "One Loss Vortex" forward here, and between the left and right swings, he shot down Luo Yaohua's poisonous needle.
Knowing that Luo Yaohua had lost his trick, Lin Han made a move to hit him hard, but he heard a muffled shout, it was Li Zhengxing from the Moon Convex Formation, who was surrounding and killing with his own personal guard cavalry, "Thief Lin Han, this is your burial place." ”
Lin Han echoed to block, but unexpectedly, Li Zhengxing's marksmanship was no less than his own, but because of the strong resistance, the knife wound in his back cracked again, and because he was tired of fighting with Luo Yaohua, he fell into a disadvantage for a while, Luo Yaohua naturally would not let go of this opportunity, and quickly joined the battle.
The commanding standard-bearer of the glaive formation saw that the formation was attacked, and hurriedly transferred the forces of all parties to encircle it, but because of the vacancy of the shield soldiers and the halberd armor, even if the combat effectiveness of the moon-shaped formation still exists, but when facing the enemy army, it is completely unable to exert its due strength, which is equivalent to being drawn from the bottom of the cauldron and losing the main force of attack and defense.
"Sure enough, as Mr. Mu Ya expected, as soon as the shield soldiers at the eye of the formation and the halberd armor soldiers in the outer formation are broken, the glaive array will no longer be a threat, brothers, follow me to chase and kill in reverse. Liang Jin picked up the horse and led the armor to charge the enemy army in chaos, and the other three directions were the same, and for a time the men and horses of Pang Lu trampled on each other, and suffered heavy casualties.
Lin Han survived more than 20 rounds, and finally lost because of the pain of the old injury, and sat down on the war horse and was swept off the horse's hooves by Li Zhengxing's iron spear, Lin Han fell off the horse in embarrassment, and was almost stabbed by Luo Yaohua with a shot, which can be described as extremely dangerous.
At this time, Jiang Ming, who was chasing and killing the rebel army to the convex position of the moon, saw this scene, and was furious in his heart, and hurriedly rode his horse over, shouting, "Wait to pick me up with a halberd." Throwing the halberd, the halberd flew like an arrow more than ten meters away, Li Zhengxing used a spear to dial it, and it was able to dodge, but Jiang Ming took advantage of this vacancy, pulled Lin Han to his war horse, and then pulled out his sword and killed Luo Yaohua. At this time, Luo Yaohua was also less than half of his strength, where could he resist Jiang Ming, who was attacking with all his strength, although he was stabbed in the chamber by a sword, and he was not injured in the slightest by the terrifying defense of the blue armor, but the war horse under the seat was also frightened and retreated more than ten meters.
"Stop them!" Li Zhengxing ordered his greedy wolf riders to besiege the two who were about to escape, but Jiang Ming picked up the halberd again, and no one dared to approach under the brute force sweep.
Pang Lu walked on the high platform, took over the position of the commanding standard-bearer, personally changed the big formation, the soldiers and horses of all walks of life actually changed the original formation, the front changed to the back, the left changed to the right, and the middle crescent moon reversed the direction, although it was only a change in some directions, but it was enough to change the original tactics, and had an incalculable impact on the overall layout.
Jiang Ming and Lin Han looked at each other in shock, and the former said, "Pang Lu should have sensed that the big array was targeted by us, and now that we have begun to change formations, we must withdraw from the big array before the end of the change formation." At the same time, Lin Han quickly assembled his team and retreated to the place that had been prepared in advance, where Liu Guan could open the passage for the chaotic army.
"The thief is leaving, and the greedy wolf riding general Li Zhengxing is here!"
"General Duobao Luo Yaohua is here. ”
There was a shout of two people from behind, they took the cavalry to chase after Jiang Ming and Lin Han, Jiang Ming did not dare to fight directly with him, for fear of delaying the retreat time, but was killed by the greedy wolf rider known for his speed at the end of the team more than a dozen armor soldiers, just as Jiang Ming went around to the back to stop the cavalry, Liang Jin, Luo Fengzhi, Du Heng and from the oblique kill, the team of thousands of people directly Luo Yaohua and Li Zhengxing retreated.
"Quickly retreat to Liuguan. Liang Jin shouted this order, obviously also found the change of the big array, this trip they killed nearly 10,000 enemies, it can be regarded as a big victory, at this time the retreat is not considered cowardice, so a group of more than 2,000 people marched towards the designated place, the enemy army of the average size encountered did not dare to touch it at all, and even Lu Xingyang, who was in the eighth position, only led the team to retreat to the side after a little battle with the army.
Liu Guan hid a group of seventeen people hidden in the big array, because
The small number of people makes it almost impossible to be noticed, and with the strength of his seventh-rank position, no one can fight him, so there is no danger. Hearing the report of his subordinates, the army is heading here, which means that the battle is about to be won, and the matter now is to cooperate with the army to return to the barracks safely.
Liu Guan waved his hand and shouted, "Brothers, the army under command is here, quickly open the formation of the chaotic army and clear a passage." "Sixteen people are insignificant in the ranks of thousands of enemy troops, but with the leadership of Liu Guan, whose strength has reached the seventh rank, the enemy troops dare not engage them and retreat wherever they go, and there are countless tramples on each other, and a small gap is quickly opened.
Jiang Ming and Lin Han looked surprised when they saw the passage from afar, so they ordered, "Everyone quickly pass through the passage and withdraw from the big array!"
Victory was in sight, and everyone was much more excited, and they rushed out towards the gap.
At this moment, Liu Guan's younger brother Liu Wang, who was responsible for dispersing the enemy army next to the gap, originally killed several rebels with a spear to create a deterrent effect, but he ignored his low martial arts skills, and was actually knocked away by a rather strong enemy.
When the strong man of the enemy army saw that the mountain bandits were so weak, he shouted loudly, "Brothers, don't be afraid of these people, their martial arts are not as good as ours. The words set off a thousand waves, because of the chaos was suppressed by the Wohua Mountain army The morale of the Qin army suddenly increased greatly, and they crowded towards the counterattack that came to kill, this armor personally selected by Liu Guan is the elite of the elite, naturally there will be no fear, but the other party has a large number of people, often more than ten people together to surround and kill a armor soldier, and the passage suddenly reunited because of this change.
Liu Wang was shocked, hurriedly abandoned the long hook, rode on a deserted war horse, and shouted "The army has counterattacked, flee quickly", while riding the horse and escaping from the formation. Liu Guan also saw this scene, and was shocked, it was nothing for Liu Wang to escape alone, but this shout that confused the hearts of the army caused his team's defense line to completely collapse, and the passage was blocked by the rebel army again.
Liu Guan shouted hoarsely, "Liu Wang is back!" But Liu Wang had already driven out of the battle, how could he hear his call, Liu Wang's escape was a capital crime in the army, because of the problems caused by his own selection of sergeants, which led to the failure of the original plan, resulting in the army being trapped in the formation, and he was also a capital crime. He roared angrily and slaughtered at the enemy, and this battle was bound to be a battle to the death.
An army of thousands of people was trapped in the formation, because the gap was gathered, and the chaotic army poured over in large numbers, Lin Han could always change anything with one enemy and one hundred, he could only kill the enemy with a gun, without any choice. Liang Jin finally arrived, and asked anxiously, "Why don't you go out of battle?"
A lieutenant said, "One of General Luo's men escaped from the battle and shouted words to confuse the hearts of the rebels, causing the rebels to counterattack, the gap collapsed, and the army could not withdraw." Liang Jin clenched his fists to a clatter, because such a mistake caused casualties to the army, which was unforgivable in his eyes, he said angrily, "Luo Fengzhi"
Seeing that Luo Yaohua and Li Zhengxing led the cavalry to arrive, Deng Zhun, Zhao Shi, and Lu Xingyang also took the armor soldiers to fight at the tail of the army, and the original victory suddenly turned into a weak position, and the army of Wohua Mountain at this time also began to become a chaotic army, even if Liang Jin and several generals hurriedly integrated and adjusted, they still could not change this chaos.
At this moment, a deafening shout suddenly sounded on the other side, and countless armor soldiers and cavalry rushed towards the Qin army, scattering the ranks of Luo Yaohua and others at a devastating speed, Liang Jin was shocked, and roughly estimated that this army had at least tens of thousands of people.
But I saw two familiar shadows in the team, one was thin and honest, with a spear in his left hand and a rattan bow in his right hand, and a burly and handsome face, carrying a white tiger toothed long knife on his shoulder, it was Chu Hong and Luo Hu who came to the rescue.
"Lao Jin, quickly integrate the men and horses to break through to the outside of the formation, and we will guard the rear. Luo Hu shouted.
Liang Jin did not hesitate, and hurriedly ordered his subordinate generals to organize men and horses, taking advantage of the enemy's offensive to start again, planning to open a gap again, everyone worked together, although the Qin army was also numerous, but the loss was a large array of chaos and no one commanded, and they were defeated one by one after a while.
Pang Lu saw this support army from a distance on the high platform, and his heart was shocked, and he hurriedly dispatched a seventh-stage general to lead tens of thousands of people to organize mountain bandits to break through, and waved the formation flag himself to bridge the large array, reorganize the glaive formation, and create a situation of encirclement of the enemy army.
Lin Han made several observations in the formation, and finally could determine the influence of the flag bearer on the big array, so he shouted to Chu Hong, "Aim at the formation flag on that high platform, that is the core of commanding the big array." ”
Hearing this, Chu Hong hurriedly took out the Seven Empty Arrows, pulled the vine bow sharply, and carefully aimed at the array flag. Luo Hu asked worriedly, "The distance of that high platform is more than a kilometer, are you sure to get there?"
Chu Hong narrowed his eyes and said, "For a longbowman, distance is not a problem, confidence is a problem. "The arrows shot out violently, as if with infinite strength, piercing through the air and breaking through the wind, and the speed was incomparable.
"Whew!"
The formation flag fell to the high platform, and there was no error.
Pang Lu was shocked, if this arrow was aimed at his head, I believe he would also fall off the high platform!
Without the command of the formation flag, the Glaive Array suddenly fell apart, Luo Yaohua and other generals had no direction to attack, tens of millions of men and horses panicked, Liang Jin and others saw this and hurriedly waved their troops to fight, taking the opportunity to kill countless enemy troops, and only stopped the attack until all the generals had some sore arms, and then commanded the men and horses, and returned to the camp with a big victory.