The mountains of corpses under the city of Xiang'an and the blood-stained earth are enough to prove the cruelty of war. Corpses and broken weapons everywhere, burning flames, and undried bloodstains all exuded a strong smell of death.

In this more than ten days of battle, the Wei army was greatly damaged, and after being repelled by Yang Tong with a sand storm, Li Mi understood at this time that even if he occupied Liyang again, it would be useless, but would become a burden to his own army, although more than 40,000 elite soldiers were lost, but fortunately, the mainstays such as Shan Xiongxin and Fang Xuanzao were not harmed, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Li Mi led the army back to Jiangdu.

Li Mi's defeat, the happiest is naturally Du Fuwei, the continuous battle, has made him tired, Li Mi's retreat undoubtedly gave him and the 11th Army the time to rest.

After recovering Liyang, the army rested on the spot.

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However, it was said that Li Mi's army had been retreating to Qingliu County, Jiangdu County, before he was relieved. At this moment, the Sui army took advantage of the situation and recovered the lost Liyang County.

Li Mi sorted out the team and found that the battle of Xiang'an caused him to lose more than 40,000 soldiers, in fact, only 10,000 people were killed at most, and the rest were captured alive, and some were deserters, deserters could not be stopped on the ancient battlefield, as long as the morale of the army fell, there were deserters, unless it was a strictly selected descendant army and personal soldiers.

Qingliu County is located at the intersection of Jiangdu, Lujiang and Liyang counties, and the strategic location is very important.

Li Mi stood on the city, at this moment he was already in shape, his face was withered, he was no longer in his former style, and his eyes were full of worry. Fang Xuanzao also had a few more wrinkles on his forehead.

Shan Xiongxin glanced at the city wall that the soldiers were reinforcing and sighed, and persuaded: "King Wei, you haven't rested for two days, so leave it to the last general!" If the clear stream is lost, the head will be cut off. ”

Li Mi sighed when he heard this, and asked: "I wanted to take this opportunity to completely annihilate Du Fuwei, but I didn't want Yang Tong to suddenly lead the army to arrive, I'm afraid it won't be long before Yang Dong will come here." The enemy army that this king feared would surround but not fight, trap the main force of our army in Jiangdu, and then divide and encroach on Shiji and Bodang with absolute superiority, and if the army could not move, we would be in an unfavorable situation of fighting separately and being divided. What do we do next? ”

Fang Xuanzao paced and frowned: "Although it is difficult for our army to win a big victory, it may not necessarily need a large number of troops to sit here. Ten miles to the west, there is a place near mountains and rivers, which is the road that the Sui army must pass, the terrain is quite dangerous, and it is better to defend than the Qingliu county, so it is recommended to set up a strong camp there to block the enemy. ”

"Is it too late?" Li Mi frowned and asked.

"Du Fuwei and our army fought for more than half a month, in our army day and night under the tired strategy, the whole army has been exhausted, insisted on so far, in fact, it is the end of the strong crossbow, to Liyang all rely on a breath of support, now morale is discharged, will fall into fatigue, if it is forced to attack, just give our army a good opportunity to break the enemy, from them stopped in Liyang, it can be seen that Du Fuwei's army has no ability to fight again, the whole army rests! At the same time, it can also be seen that Yang Tong's Sui army is not many, otherwise, he would have taken advantage of the victory to pursue here. Therefore, we still have time to set up camp, and once this camp is settled, it will be able to become a horn with the clear stream."

"General, this king will give you 30,000 troops, be sure to set up this camp before the Sui army comes to attack." Li Mi said to Shan Xiongxin.

In the battle of Xiang'an, the Wei army lost about 40,000 people, and the advantage in strength was gone, and Shan Xiongxin only had 10,000 elite soldiers here and 20,000 people who were promoted to war. There are still 40,000 elites in Qingliu County resting, but this is the only army available to Li Mi, if Xu Shiji and Wang Bodang are not supported, they need to be drawn from these 40,000 people, that is to say, when the recruits who were urgently recruited have not yet transformed into combatants, it is impossible for Li Mi to take the initiative to send troops.

"Whoa!" Shan Xiongxin received the order to leave

"The general is not in a hurry!" Fang Xuanzao said: "I will personally design the formation map to arrange the camp for the general, as long as the camp is arranged according to this formation map, not to mention that it can win a big victory, but it can also use a very small number of troops to make it difficult for the enemy army to move an inch, and there is no need for any elite division to defend it." In this way, the King of Wei will have more mobile forces,"

"There is Lao Shangshu!" Li Mi's eyes lit up when he heard this, although he was defeated in this battle, he still brought back about 50,000 troops, if he didn't need the elite to sit in the camp that was about to be built, then he still had at least 40,000 elites available. At the moment, he changed the military order, transferred 10,000 elites and 20,000 heavy troops to Shan Xiongxin, and ordered the generals to prepare. And he and Shan Xiongxin are waiting for Fang Xuanzao's formation.

Fang Xuanzao didn't let them wait long, but just asked people to take a piece of white silk that was more durable than paper, and began to sketch the formation map of the cloth camp, and at the same time asked people to collect giant stones around the camp site.

"Sir, this array seems to be a gossip array? But it seems to be a little different. ”

Li Mi looked curiously at Fang Xuanzao's gradually outlined formation diagram, he had also learned some formations, and he still had some understanding of some basic formations.

"This array is an ancient array, called the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array, and the eight doors refer to the Door of Rest, the Gate of Life, the Gate of Injury, the Gate of Du, the Gate of Jing, the Gate of Death, the Gate of Shock, and the Opening of the Door. The Eight Gates Golden Lock Array was originally used to make astrology more convenient, and the famous general of Wei, Cao Ren, used this formation against Liu Bei, which was seen through by Liu Bei's military advisor Xu Shu at the time. After that, Zhuge Liang improved it according to the use of Qimen Dunjia, and compiled a complete eight-array diagram. The Eight Arrays were brilliant in the hands of Zhuge Liang and repeatedly defeated Sima Yi. Therefore, the formation is not superior or inferior, the strength of the power is actually different from person to person, Cao Ren is a general, naturally he does not understand the subtleties, it may be that he is based on the gourd to draw the scoop and put out the formation, I and the generals under my command did not grasp the essence, so it was easily broken by Xu Shu. If the user is replaced by Zhuge Liang, the power will definitely be far more than Cao Ren's one hundred and ten times. Therefore, the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation is said to be an underestimated formation. ”

"The lowly Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation is actually not original, it can only be regarded as a derivative formation. And the thousands of formations in this world are actually all ever-changing, and the so-called big formations are only formed according to the basic formation changes such as the Five Elements Bagua. Painted below is a static array used for the layout of the camp, which can also be called a dead array; There is also a formation technique used in the battle array, if you get one or two of the essence, you will not be able to say that you will be able to look at it on the battlefield, but if the opponent does not understand the mystery of this formation, you can still win more with less. Fang Xuanzao said proudly

"Eight Gates Golden Lock Array?" A strange light flashed in Li Mi's eyes, and he looked at Fang Xuanzao with some doubts: "Then why didn't Shangshu use this formation to break the enemy before?" ”

Fang Xuanzao shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Although this formation is powerful, it is also extremely demanding, not only does it require the cooperation of a variety of elite troops, but also needs to be smooth, and at the same time, the requirements for the main general are extremely serious. also because the formation has too high requirements for sergeants and commanders, so it slowly withdrew from the battlefield. Fang Xuanzao paused, frowned with some hesitation: "In the world today, the only person who can use the formation is Yang Tong, the Holy Martial Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, who is very good at military training, and can train tens of thousands of soldiers to make their movements neat and uniform, like an arm command, he can be called a great master of military training, and the rest of the generals are afraid that they will not be able to do it." ”

Li Mi faced a bitter face.

"Then do we still need to set up a formation?" Shan Xiongxin asked Li Mi what he was thinking.

Fang Xuanzao said: "No matter how strong Yang Tong's formation skill is, it also requires the joint efforts of many people, and Du Fuwei's army obviously does not have this level. Besides, the static formation we want to set up is to use the camp to block the enemy, and the soldiers are not the main force of the battle, so as long as the camp is firmly repaired, this formation will always be there, and the effect of the enemy is much stronger than the confrontation between the two armies."

"What Shang Shu said is extremely true!" Li Mi understood what Fang Xuanzao meant, and said with a smile: "We can not think of it as a formation, but as a camp that can be attacked and defended. ”

"Exactly!" Fang Xuanzao nodded and said, "As long as you camp according to this formation!" Not to mention that it can be permanently unbroken, but at least it will block the Sui army until the spring of the next year. ”

Glancing at Shan Xiongxin, who looked forward to it and wanted to speak, Fang Xuanzao said with a smile: "I will go with the general to set up this quiet formation, and if I have time, I will explain the battle formation to you one by one." ”

"Thank you, sir!" Shan Xiongxin was overjoyed, and he had also seen some of them in ancient books, but as Fang Xuanzao said, the flexible formation is too demanding, and the enemy will not give you the time to arrange it leisurely, so no one has ever used it in the world, if he can learn a few percent of the level, he can completely rely on the battle formation to annihilate the enemy, and Fang Xuanzao also said that there are few people in the world today who will set up a formation to break the formation, if you face these people in the future, it is a big deal not to use the tactics.

Fang Xuanzao didn't say much, after the formation map was drawn, he and Shan Xiongxin went to the place in the picture to arrange, Shan Xiongxin wanted to learn this formation, and he looked at it very seriously.

The formation of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation is extremely complicated, but Fang Xuanzao has studied this formation for many years, and he is already familiar with it, and the soldiers only need to build a camp according to the place he has drawn out, and it is not difficult for the soldiers to draw a scoop according to the gourd. It's just that this kind of static and immobile static array is used in many cases, and if people who don't know what they are in are inside, it is easy to get lost and lose their sense of direction, even if the Wei army soldiers are no exception.

Fang Xuanzao naturally couldn't let everyone know the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array, if the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array was so easy to learn, the formation would not fade out of the battlefield because of the profundity.

In the 30,000 Wei soldiers busy day and night, Fang Xuanzao's camp was gradually improved, he began to separate the generals and soldiers, and then took the brigade as a unit, each responsible for the defense of different areas, if there was no order, no one was allowed to leave at will, cross the line, just because the whole camp was too complicated, the route of action was not easy to remember, if you walked around, you must lose your way and be killed by the trap in the camp, but it is not difficult to remember a small area.

This is also the disadvantage of all static formations, no matter how wonderful the formation you arrange, he is a dead thing after all, and the enemy army is a living person with a mind and a soul, as long as you understand the internal structure of the static formation, there are traces, and the enemy can take advantage of the gap, so it is not difficult to crack this formation.

If it is replaced by a flexible battle formation, it is not so simple, it can be flexibly changed, so that the enemy can not spy on its own flaws, so that it can be killed by the enemy again and again. However, the requirements are also quite high, and the soldiers must go through continuous training and be familiar with various changes. And the main general must not only have enough understanding of the formation, but also have the ability to adapt to the situation, only in this way can the various subtle changes of the formation be displayed.