Because he had heard the name of the snake tail knife formation for a long time, Zhao Yuan did not dare to slack off. He urgently raised his tent www.biquge.info ordered the generals to be neatly draped, the soldiers of each battalion unsheathed their steel swords, Fuyue led a road of soldiers and horses to protect the left flank, the loyal general Shen Gang protected the right flank, and the Xuanwei general Wang Guangling was behind the mat, and he led a light cavalry out of the middle road.

On the high slope at the gate of the camp, all the generals had already stood in the whole team, and at this time, Zhao Yuan's black horse Jin Jia rushed out of the camp with a Mo knife in his hand and stood in front of the generals.

The snake tail knife array was placed in the open space below the slope, and everyone looked down at this array, and they were all silent.

Silence doesn't necessarily mean fear, it can be surprise...... Or even ...... Speechless.

I saw that each of the 1,000 barbarians was holding a steel knife, which was made of dozens of trapezoidal and triangular pieces of steel threaded by iron wire, so that it could be bent and folded.

They were clad in hair and feet, with brass rings on their ankles, and wore armor woven from animal skins and tree bark, and squatted or stood in nine layers, with the innermost layer of barbarians in a circle, and a white-haired elder stepped on the shoulders of these people, leaping and spitting flames, and reciting incantations as if in their mouths.

As his spell was spoken, the nine-layer formation was constantly changing, high and low, dense and sparse, and the snake tail knife was straight for a while, bent for a while, and turned into a hook for a while...... It's dazzling.

Most of the ordinary people in the barren mountains and mountains at the beginning of twilight were frightened when they saw this momentum, but Zhao Yuan and his generals were all people who swam back and forth in the sea of blood, and all this in their eyes was not the same as ordinary people.

In the case of Zhao Yuan, he first looked at the weapons used by this barbarian, don't look at the changes that are very lively, they are actually made of Wututu's hundred steel, which is not comparable to the equipment of the Great Qi army at all.

Zhao Yuan's Mo knife is made of scarce meteoric iron, hair-blowing, sharpening iron like mud, Fuyue's spear is made of Damascus steel from the Western Regions, this steel is born with strange patterns, so it is named the Cold Moon Plum Blossom Spear.

Even the swords of ordinary soldiers of the Qi State were already made of steel, and no matter what the barbarians turned into their snake tail knives, they would be vulnerable in front of the Great Qi army.

Speaking of armor, animal skins and tree bark are flammable.

Fu Yue also saw it, and leaned in front of Zhao Yuan and said, "Father, it's better to attack ...... with fire."

It's easy to kill them, but that's not the end goal. Thinking of this, Zhao Yuan shook his head, and when Fu Yue saw this, he knew that his father had his own plans, so he kept silent with interest.

At this time, the white-haired elder jumped for a long time, I was afraid that he was a little tired, and sat on the shoulders of the two barbarians and began to scold: "The dog thief of the Great Qi Country, treacherously stealing our country's social crop, and being spurned by the world, even if the whole Huaiyang has been surrendered, we must not be insulted by this!" ”

Others also began to scold, the left sentence "dog mongrel", the right sentence "illegitimate child", the general of Qi State couldn't listen to it. Shen Gang's eyes widened angrily: "This snake tail knife array is like street juggling, and it is just a waste of fame by spreading false rumors." The last general, please order him to go down and kill him, and leave no piece of armor behind! ”

Other generals chimed in.

At this time, Cui Qi came out of the team and said loudly, "The Holy One listens to me. Now we take Huaiyang lightly, and our prestige is greatly enhanced, although the Huaiyang army and the people are obedient, it does not mean that they are convinced. ”

"This snake tail knife formation now seems to be a fancy and prestigious, but in fact, it is precisely because the Huaiyang people attach great importance to this formation and regard it as a treasure that it has not been used for many years, so that the moves have not been improved and there is a lack of actual combat training. If we kill these barbarians, it will ruin their glory, provoke the displeasure of the natives, and cause civil strife. ”

Killing is only the last policy, how to win the hearts and minds of the people is the key. Moreover, Zhao Yuan wanted to use Huaiyang as the base of Pingnan, and the thoroughfare for the transportation of rice from the south to the north after Pingnan, so he should be more cautious in handling this matter.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yuan ordered the shield armor soldiers in the army to step forward. These soldiers held a seven-foot-tall raw cowhide-covered wooden black-lacquered tiger head shield in one hand, and a sharp spear more than a foot in the other, forming an encirclement and gathering towards the snake's tail knife array.

A circular wall of shield armor was formed about two feet away from the snake's tail knife array, and the soldiers hid behind the shields, all their spears pointing forward in unison. The barbarian wanted to rush forward to fight, but in the face of Leng Sensen's sharp spear point, he retreated. At this time, it was already dark, and a barbarian lit a torch, and as soon as he was a little bit, a cold arrow shot out of the Wei army camp and shot the torch away. After a few attempts, the barbarians had no torches to light and had to hold their blades in the dark, their eyes wide open and ready to respond to the attack of the Great Qi army.

But this night, the Great Qi army did not attack, and only heard the sound of rustling around them. It wasn't until dawn that the snake tail sword formation saw clearly that last night the Wei army took advantage of the night to build a three-zhang high circular stone wall behind the shield army, and put down the hook lock on the back wall to drag the shield army inside.

They were literally locked up in this round wall like monkeys.

Just when the people in the snake tail sword formation were surprised and panicked, I saw a silver-armored general walk up to the high platform by the wall, and he said to the barbarian in the wall: "Today you are already catching turtles in the urn, and there is no point in struggling or scolding. As long as you surrender, we will treat you well. Huaiyang's assassination history is desolate and brutal, and he abandoned the city and fled in times of crisis, which has lost the support of the people. Now that all parts of Huaiyang Mansion have been surrendered, why do you go against the sky......"

Before the barbarian elder could finish speaking, he scolded, "Don't talk tricks here! Since we dare to come, we have long put life and death out of the way. Lock us here, you must have a trick, you don't need to work in vain, I hate sinister people the most in my life, get out of here! Get lost! ”

Fu Yue sneered on the high platform: "If that's the case, then the elder should stay here for a few more days!" With that, he turned and left.

Back to the big tent, Fuyue reported the situation just now to Zhao Yuan, and Zhao Yuan was displeased when he heard it: "If you don't kill them, your subordinates are merciful, and you don't know what to do like this, is it difficult to force the Daqi army to knock down the stone wall and smash them all to death inside?" ”

Cui Qi said in the foreword: "Think twice. There was a great drought in Huaiyang, the sun was scorching, and they had no water or rice, so they couldn't support it for a few days. As soon as they surrendered, the last resistance in Huaiyang would have been dissolved, and the people's hearts would naturally all fall to our side. In addition," he paused and said, "you can also send a message saying that the Wei army has restrained the snake tail sword formation, but has not killed them, but only surrounded them." If the people of Huaiyang are curious to come to watch, first, they can know the mercy of the Great Qi State to their defeated generals, and second, when they can't support the surrender, these people can also go back to spread the word, which is better than the effect of our posting notices. ”

"Just according to Aiqing's words." Zhao Yuandao. It must have taken a lot of time, and the best results must be achieved.