Since the departure of Guyin, including a few days ago, when arranging for the generals to attack the city, Zhang Shao has always been kind and kind, discussing everything with others, even if he prides himself on being wise and brave, does not regard himself only as a "fierce general", and regards himself as a "Confucian general" who is good at poetry and literature at the same time, Gao Yancao and consciously resourceful, although he joined Dingxi, he is still no different from when he was in Puqin, and Zhao Xing, who still has other thoughts, has put forward opinions on his siege deployment several times, which is quite point-in-cheek, and he is not angry. It was the first time for Zhang Gu to see him so grim, and he didn't feel that he was like Bing Bo and other generals, so he became restrained and replied respectfully: "The lower officials have nothing to add." ”

"If there is no supplement, please join the army and join me here to supervise the battle of the north and south!" Zhang Shao looked forward to the Chinese army generals and colonels on the left, raised his voice, and said to Zhang Gui, "No matter which of the two formations in the north and south, which one dares to retreat, I will take the head of the main general; If I dare to retreat, please take my head when I join the army! In order to strengthen the tone, he reached out to take the sword, touched the air, but only then remembered that he had given the sword to Yang Hezhi, Zhang Gui had eyes, and hurriedly pulled out his saber with great difficulty, held it to him, Zhang Shao caught it, waved the sword and said, "The former strong city was not conquered, and then it was attacked by the northern captives, and now our army is facing the desert in the south, surrounded by rivers on three sides, this battle is like a defeat, and my generation is dead!" Gentlemen, reluctantly! ”

Zhang Gu and the others all responded loudly: "No! ”

People who are usually kind, such as the good old man among their friends, once they turn their faces and stare at them, probably because their image has suddenly changed dramatically, and they make people feel bottomless, and they are often more frightening than they are usually babbling and shouting and shouting and killing at every turn, Zhang Shao is now in such a state, and when he gave the order, he didn't even dare to say a word about Zhao Xing, who often raised different opinions in person for several days, so you can see how afraid the generals are of him at the moment.

Therefore, under his order, after the generals lifted their spirits, although the Dingxi troops suddenly faced the danger of being attacked on their backs, the morale and morale of the army were even higher than when they attacked the city before.

Zhang Shao took Zhang Gui and climbed the tall watchtower, looking at the situation of the enemy and the enemy under the city in the north and several miles away in the south, close to the desert area.

The chariot formation in the south is a little farther away, and it will take a certain amount of time for Zhao Rangan and Zhao Xing brothers to organize the cavalry of the headquarters, and they and Yang Hezhi have just led their troops to prepare to leave the Chinese army, rushed to the chariot array, and joined forces with Gao Yancao and other troops.

The Rouran cavalry of the Wenshilan Department had already galloped out of the desert at this time, and was rapidly approaching the Dingxi chariot formation that had not yet been formed. As the distance shortened, the full picture of this Rouran cavalry was probably visible. They waved colorful flags, the flags are large and small, look at it, it is like a sea of colorful flags, throw away the color to give people a visual impact, rough estimates, let alone 4,000 up and down.

Zhang Shao saw that about 100 horsemen and horses, and about 2 or 300 horsemen, should have been ordered by Gao Yancao to form an offensive formation, get out of the car formation, and meet the Rouran cavalry. Zhang Shao didn't know that Gao Yancao was not in this Tai Ma Cavalry, but with four or five hundred against four thousand, it seemed that there was a huge disparity among the outnumbered, but with the excellent equipment of the Tai Ma Cavalry, the superb riding skills of the Tai Ma Knight, and although the subordinate cavalry of the Tai Ma Cavalry was a light horse, it was also the qualification of the West Warriors, and it should be no problem to block this Rouran cavalry for two quarters of an hour. As for half an hour later, the car formation will be completed, and even if Zhao Rangan and Zhao Xing brothers climb, they can climb there.

Zhang Shao had a number in his heart and thought: "At the car formation, don't worry about it for the time being." ”

In the long run, the car formation is the key to the north and south formations, since the car formation is worry-free for the time being, then in the short term, the key is to replace it with the main formation of foot soldiers in the south.

Zhang Gui was already watching the battle in the north of the southern formation, under the city of Guangmu, and in the moat.

Zhang Shao's Chinese army, in order to facilitate the command of the soldiers to attack the city, of course, was very close to the southern formation, and the armor soldiers led by Li Liang and An Chong were few, only 100 people each, and they were assembled quickly, so the two of them had already crossed the main formation of infantry soldiers who were accepting the retreating soldiers and urgently adjusting the formation, and rushed to the small battlefield in the moat.

I saw two armoured soldiers of 100 people each, with Li Liang and An Chong as the center, all forming a square defensive formation, through the two sections of the river that were filled in the moat, with a distance of about 100 steps, advancing head to head, almost at the same time into the moat, while fighting fiercely with the elite of the Qin army led out of the city by Gao Gao, while trying his best to gather and respond to the comrades who had not yet been able to withdraw.

Zhang Gui clearly saw that Li Liang's formation was in the east, An Chong's formation was in the west, and both formations were moving forward bravely, far away with a lance, and close to hand-to-hand combat, the difference was that in Li Liang's formation, Li Liang was at the forefront, holding a bloody battle with a lance, as a striker; In An Chong's formation, An Chong was in the center, raising his sword and giving orders,—— the two of them chose different positions in their respective formations, but they showed their different combat styles.

The Qin soldiers who went out of the city with high troops had infantry and cavalry, and there were also armor soldiers in the infantry.

Noticing the entry of these two Dingxi Armor soldiers into the battle, he immediately gathered the infantry soldiers brought out, about 300 people, adhering to the tactical principle of fighting more and breaking less, and randomly selected Li Liang's formation, which was closer to him, as the first target to capture, and ordered to attack it; And sent half of the few armored cavalry in the cavalry, and cooperated with the infantry armor soldiers to attack Li Liang's array.

Li Liangzhen suddenly fell into a dangerous situation surrounded on all sides.

Gao's personality can be called arrogant, when he fought Shuo Fang before, he didn't even accept Meng Lang, if it wasn't for Gou Xiong's help, his head might have been taken off by Meng Lang; However, even if Gou Xiong turned against Meng Lang, he must save his determination, this person is indeed good at fighting. After sending a soldier and a cavalry to besiege Li Liang's array, he sent out all the light cavalry and galloped back and forth around the inner side of the moat, or shot arrows inward, so as to force the Dingxi soldiers in Hanoi to be confused, or to be vigilant outward, in case the main array of Dingxi outside the river sent troops to cross the river again.

Zhang Gu was concerned, looked at Zhang Shao, and said, "General, Li Liang is in danger!" You can quickly beat the drum and wave the flag, so that An Chong will go to help! ”

Zhang Shao protruded his belly and chest, standing according to the sword,—— just before going up to the watchtower, Zhang Gui's saber was inserted into his scabbard by him, Zhang Gui brought not a wooden sword, but also a standard steel sword in the Dingxi Army, so the scabbard is suitable, at this time Zhang Shao pressed, it was Zhang Gui's sword, he said calmly: "If it is An Chong Array that is surrounded, it may be dangerous, and if it is Li Liang Array, it will not be dangerous!" ”

"Why?"

"An Chong, although this person is brave and cunning, if it is his array, he may not have the heart to hold on; Li Liang is not. Li Liangqian and Zhang Daochong guarded the military capital, slashed the Qin camp four times, and finally succeeded, can you hear about this matter? ”

"I know about it."

"Repeated defeats without setbacks, four slashes and success, Li Liang's tenacity can be seen from this. Don't look at him at the forefront of the charge at this time, as if he has courage and no strategy, on the contrary, he takes the lead, this is to boost morale, this is also his soldier! It is both tenacious and motivating, and I can conclude that even if the number of armored cavalry and armor soldiers in the upper part is doubled, it will be difficult to capture their formation in a short time. …… What we have to do now is not to transfer An Chong's array to help him, but to seize this advantageous opportunity and make An Chong attack in a hurry! ”

Capture the thief and capture the king first, taking advantage of the fact that most of the first-class elites under Gao Gao were transferred to fight Li Liang's formation, and the troops around him were therefore empty, as long as he could beat Gao Gao in a hurry, the hundreds of Dingxi soldiers trapped in the moat would be able to return to the battle smoothly.

Zhang Gui carefully tasted Zhang Shao's words, couldn't help admiring, and then looked at Zhang Shao, and felt that his posture of standing steadily according to the sword seemed to have the description of "immovable as a mountain" in the art of war, and said: "General, those who know people, I think badly!" He praised Zhang Shao for knowing people, and thought of Xin Er in his heart, and said in his heart, "General Zhang knows people, and Ming Gong knows people even more!" On the way to Shuofang, this Zhang Shao is soft, I thought that Ming Gong saw the wrong person, and I was a little worried about the victory or defeat of the attack on Shuofang. ”

Looking downstairs, the drums beat loudly and the military flag waved its fingers.

The military order reached An Chong's array, and An Chong immediately followed the order, commanded the soldiers in the array, scattered several Qin soldiers who tried to block their advance, trampled on the corpses of the dead soldiers on the ground, and shouted in the direction where Gao Gao was, and rushed over to kill him.

As Zhang Shao expected, Li Liang's array was less and more enemies, although he was forced to stop his forward pace, and had to change to a circle formation, defending the position in place, looking condescendingly, they were like a red reef surrounded by a white wave, looking precarious, but under Li Liang's reckless example, the 100 armor soldiers in his formation were still able to hold on to the situation of successive casualties under the repeated impact of Qin armor soldiers and armor cavalry.

The tactical purpose of quickly solving Li Liang's formation, and then cleaning up An Chong's formation not only failed to achieve, An Chong's formation was slow, but he firmly began to move towards his position, and the Qin soldiers in front of him were mostly unarmoured, not their opponents, and they were defeated and retreated, seeing that An Chong's formation was about to be killed, Gao was admittedly brave, but he was not afraid, he immediately made a decision, and immediately personally took the rest of the armor and cavalry, and rushed to An Chong's formation.

Rushing to the front, he turned his head with a high spear, and said loudly with the Qin army armor cavalry who were fighting: "Wen Shilan is famous for the little cry in the north, you all know his good fighting, and he is a fierce general in Mobei!" The Dingxi car formation has not been completed, and he will not be able to stop him, and he and his troops will arrive in an instant! Let's break through the two Tang'er infantry formations that crossed the river first, and then join forces with him to attack from the north and south, how difficult is it to win! After the great victory, I will play the Heavenly King and give you credit! The King of Heaven is generous and benevolent, and he will not hesitate to reward! If anyone dares to retreat without an order, I will do it! ”

The Qin army armor and cavalry who were in the battle all replied vigorously: "First break the Tang'er step formation, and then destroy and capture Zhang Shao!" ”

The armored horsemen of Gao Gao and the Qin army were all wearing hoods, with masks on them, only their eyes and noses were exposed, and their voices came out through the iron masks, which were not very clear and buzzing, but this situation and this scene, mixed with the sound of horses' hooves, wheezing in the galloping of war horses, and the vibration of people and horses' armor, etc., were heard in people's ears, but it was the sound of Jin Ge, full of indomitable killing intent.

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According to Zhang Shao's analysis, although An Chong is brave and cunning, the implication is that he is not a person who fights to the death, can he stop Gao Gao from personally leading the cavalry to fight? And Li Liang, who was considered tenacious by Zhang Shao, could he hold his own position and not be defeated by the Qin soldiers?

Under the southern city wall, the Qin army light cavalry on the inner bank of the galloping moat is north, about two or three miles long, on the battlefield where the enemy and me are scattered and fighting, there are only two formations in the Dingxi army, that is, the left is about to meet the An Chong array of the iron cavalry led by the Gao, and the right is the Li Liang array besieged by several times the enemy soldiers, and these two small formations, needless to say, at this moment, it has become an important factor in determining whether the Dingxi soldiers in Hanoi can be withdrawn, and even whether the main formation outside the river can be held, Zhang Gui's eyes fell tightly on this small battle situation.

However, Zhang Gui's doubts about whether Li Liang and An Chong could complete the task and his worries if they could not complete the task were dispelled at the same time with a military report from the south of the car array, and in the end, the question was not answered, and the worry turned into a surprise.