Chapter 400: Do more with less
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"Yes!" Zhang Yi clenched his fists in response and turned around and walked to the city wall, shouting to the five thousand soldiers under the city wall: "The enemy is coming, and those who are not afraid of death will quickly go out with the general!"
Today's 5,000 soldiers are no longer the stragglers of a few days ago, and after the baptism on the battlefield, both courage and adaptability have changed a lot, and they have set up formations and waited for the order to kill.
The cavalry at the city gate came very quickly, and after a few feet away, Gao Hang muttered: "There are a lot of people coming, it seems that this battle has to be fought?"
Yang Zheng couldn't understand where these cavalry came from, and his body couldn't help but take a few steps to a high place, standing high and looking far away, those cavalry were surging, making him squint his eyes.
"My lord, what should we do?" Jin Yixiao asked in a low voice.
Yang Zheng said: "There is no distinction between the enemy and me, so it's not good to act rashly?"
Jin Yi smiled and said: "My lord is right, know yourself and know your opponent, you will not be defeated in a hundred battles, I think these cavalry are less than a thousand people, and we have 5,000 soldiers, everyone has weapons, and it may not be that there is no ability to fight in a battlefield."
Yang Zheng nodded and said: "What Brother Jin said is extremely true, but it's better to be careful, the cavalry is not easy to deal with, you quickly gather the soldiers and horses with Brother Zhang, set up the formation, once the enemy situation is clear, ready to kill the enemy at any time?"
Jin Yi smiled and went down, and the whole team went.
When Xu Feng fought the Maitreya Sect, he was left on the fort by Yang Zheng, and he didn't show his skills, he was feeling sorry, and when he heard the enemy attacking, he was suddenly excited and inexplicable, brandishing a big knife and shouting to kill him.
Zhang Yi was also a little excited, he laughed loudly, and said: "Lao Tzu thought that after beating the Maitreya Sect, he would never have the opportunity to go to the battlefield and make meritorious deeds, but I didn't expect this opportunity to come so quickly, God is really good to me, let this group of enemies see the power of the big sword today!"
Zhang Yi shouted a few times, and the 5,000 soldiers behind him were infected and shouted one after another, and the sound was like thunder.
Gao Hang nodded secretly, and said in his heart: "I haven't seen you for a few days, this group of stragglers is a little bolder, and their momentum is bullish? It seems that it shouldn't be a problem to deal with these cavalry?"
Jin Yixiao saw that the soldiers followed Zhang Yi and shouted, and the formation was chaotic, and he couldn't help glaring at Zhang Yi, and said: "Fighting a war is not a blind thirst for killing and bravery, if there is a formation to cooperate, killing the enemy will get twice the result with half the effort, and now that the adults have not yet issued an order, you should quickly set up the formation?"
In the first battle of Maitreya Sect, Zhang Yi saw the power of the formation, and at this time, he was scolded by Jin Yixiao, but he was not angry, he laughed, and said: "What the stinky poor said is that it is difficult to succeed with the courage of the horseman, and it is necessary to rely on the formation to kill the enemy?"
The training ground was immediately crowded, and several skilled formations were immediately set up.
Yang Zheng kept squinting his eyes and looking into the distance, those cavalry came very quickly, like a gust of wind, which made him secretly a little worried, although these soldiers in the city were not the stragglers of the past, but they did not really have the ability to face the cavalry, although the more than 1,000 cavalry was not much, looking at this posture should be prepared, rash action may not be able to achieve victory.
Just as he was taking a closer look, the soldiers under Zhang Yi's command listened to the order, set up the formation, and everyone was excited, as if it was a happy thing to go to the battlefield.
Zhang Yi carried his signature broadsword, held the reins of the horse in one hand, and sat majestically on the horse, ready to rush and kill at any time.
Jin Yixiao and the left side, also carrying a big knife, the knife face was slightly tilted, the expression was solemn, and more than a thousand soldiers behind him followed.
The entire ancient city of Hangzhou was quiet at the beginning, quietly waiting for Yang Zheng's order.
Outside the city gate, those cavalry roared, rushed to the city gate, the first person, raised his head to look at the city wall, turned his head and muttered to the soldiers behind him, and then those cavalry rushed to the city gate, in groups of three or five, equestrianism, skills are very good, the first person bent the bow and arrow on the horse, and shot at Yang Zheng on the city tower.
"Shuff!", a feather arrow pierced the air and hit Yang Zheng's chest.
Gao Hang's eyes on the side were quick, and the embroidered spring knife in his hand burst out of the air, and a few feet away from Yang Zheng's chest, a knife slashed out, a white light flashed, and the feather arrow was accurately cut to the ground.
Yang Zheng squinted his eyes and snorted coldly, turned slightly to Jin Yi and smiled: "Brother Jin, has Zhuge Wuhou's gossip formation ever been used?"
Jin Yixiao laughed and said, "After many days of training, you are as skilled as your chest, enough to fight?"
Jin Yixiao mainly trains soldiers in the army on weekdays, and Zhuge Liang's eight-array diagram is the most favorite, and he doesn't let his soldiers train a group of soldiers on weekdays, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is as skilled as a chest?"
Yang Zheng nodded and said, "Very good, today I will fight with these cavalry with the Eight Formation Diagram?"
"Fight!"
The surrounding soldiers shouted loudly, and the morale was much stronger.
Yang Zheng secretly put his mind at ease, and said in his heart: "I can't imagine that I haven't seen you for a few days, and the soldiers have such morale, which is rare and valuable!"
Outside the city gate, a thousand cavalry in groups of three or five relied on their superb horsemanship, roaring and rushing to the city gate, Yang Zheng saw that although they were dressed in a Ming service, they were in tatters, as if they had come out of a fight, and he couldn't help but feel strange.
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"Brother Gao, my Ming cavalry is this kind of service?" Yang Zheng was afraid that it was his own person, so he turned his head and asked Gao Hang.
Gao Hang squinted his eyes and glanced at it a few times, and he was also a little puzzled in his heart, although these soldiers were wearing my Ming clothes, they were a little shabby and not like this, and they were muttering what to say.
But seeing that these cavalry had rushed to the city gate, bending their bows and arrows and shooting towards the city, Gao Hang was startled, and he jumped to dodge.
"If it's your own people, you can shoot us without asking, if it weren't for them, how could they be dressed in my Daming to serve, but they are so wolf?" Gao Hang couldn't help but ask secretly.
At this moment, those cavalry rushed into the city gate in the blink of an eye, and the cavalry saw that there was no one to resist all the way, and many people shouted excitedly, and their horses did not stop, and directly rushed open the city gate, and more than 1,000 horses rushed up and rushed into the training ground, and the dust they brought up was very spectacular. In the blink of an eye, several cavalry led by him had already rushed to the training ground, and when they saw that the five thousand soldiers and horses in the city were slightly flustered, they still waved their horsewhips and shouted: "They are disguised, this city is occupied by them, and we can only recapture the city by killing them all?"
"What a big tone, I'm going to see it today, what are you capable of, brothers kill me?" Zhang Yi shouted, and rushed forward with a knife.
Jin Yi snorted, lifted the Pu knife and shouted, "Set up the array!"
Thousands of soldiers swam quickly, and the huge training ground evolved into a gossip in the blink of an eye, and the surging soldiers, all armed with spears and big swords, surrounded a group of cavalry, and the momentum was very spectacular.
Among the thousand cavalry, the leader of the man frowned slightly, obviously he didn't expect the other party to be able to arrange the formation, and it was also Zhuge Wu's eight formations, so it was not so easy for the other party to rush out.
"These Maitreya sects have such ability, is it any wonder that they can seize this city?" the leader muttered to himself, and at the same time a cold sweat broke out on his forehead, in this situation, there was no other way but to kill it.
He was thinking about how to fight, but he heard a shocking loud noise, the horses behind him neighed a few times, and several soldiers were blown away, the man was startled, turned his head to look at the city wall, but saw that a cannon was erected on the city wall, and it was bombarding his cavalry!
The man was shocked into a cold sweat, he forgot that there was still artillery in the city, and then he understood why he didn't encounter a strong resistance along the way just now, it turned out that they were deliberately showing weakness, just to make themselves and others give up their vigilance, rush into the city, and then besiege them with formations, and finally attack with artillery fire. It's really not simple for this Maitreya sect to have such a character?"
The bombardment of gunpowder frightened the war horse, and it suddenly neighed, let go of its hooves, and rushed forward desperately. These were originally one in a thousand war horses, and they had already seen the artillery fire on the battlefield, but at such a close distance, it was the first time, and the flames brought by the artillery burned the tails of some war horses.
"General, isn't the situation good?" a thousand households grabbed the reins of their horses and leaned up and whispered.
The man at the head said: "So far, there is only one way to fight?"
The Qianhu glanced around, his face became extremely solemn, and he gritted his teeth and said: "What the general said is, how can my Shenji Battalion be feared by the little Maitreya Sect, and today I will die in battle, and I will kill all these cults!"
The man at the head nodded and said, "Yes, our Shenji Battalion can only die by standing, and there is no reason to live on knees! Brothers, kill me!"
"Kill!"
The leader shouted, and the more than 1,000 soldiers behind him, all of whom grabbed the reins of their horses, brandished their swords and rushed forward like crazy.
"Looking for death-?" Jin Yixiao snorted coldly, grabbed the reins of the horse and stepped forward, shouting to the four hundred soldiers on the left: "The heavenly array is sixteen, the outer side is round and the inner circle is four, and the four are the wind, and its image is the sky, the lord of the array, and the first of the soldiers." Make good use of the three armed forces, and their shape is not biased. Have you ever understood-?"
A hundred households stepped forward and hugged their fists and said: "I understand my humble duties!"
Jin Yi smiled and said: "Ground Array: Ground Array Twelve, its shape is square, the four corners of the cloud master, it is difficult to rush the enemy, its body is unpredictable, it is infinitely used, it cannot be independent, and it is matched with Yang."
Wind Array: The wind has no positive shape, attached to the sky, and becomes a snake, its meaning is gradually mysterious, the wind can drum things, all things are around, the snake can be around, and the three armies are afraid.
Cloud Hanging Array: The cloud is attached to the ground, the beginning is invisible, and it becomes a bird, its shape is formed, the bird can be prominent, the cloud can be obscure, ever-changing, the sound of gold and leather ......
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