The location of the field battle was chosen by Xin Er, and Lu Ming agreed.

Because it is located in the south of the city, the enemy and our armies are facing each other from the north to the south, but whether it is morning or afternoon, the two armies do not have to consider the problem of sunshine. The sun is in the east in the morning and the sun is in the west in the afternoon, and if the east and west are facing each other, then with the different positions of the sun, one side of the enemy and the enemy will inevitably meet the sun, and in this case, it will be unfavorable for the battle of the soldiers of this side.

This is a small detail in the battlefield battle, Xin Er has been leading the troops for two or three years, through reading military books and asking the generals in the army for advice, now he is very clear about this, and it is precisely because he chose the battlefield position very fairly, so Lu Ming has no objections.

Lu Ming is now leading Ji He, Lu Wu and other generals and staff to stand in the center of the formation.

Around them, there was a Chinese army formation composed of pro-soldiers, and a handsome flag more than a foot high was erected in the middle. About 300 elite armor soldiers were displayed behind them as reserves and assault units. In order to maintain their strength, the three hundred armorers sat on the ground.

When Xin Er was watching the Qin Array, Lu Ming was also watching the Xin Array.

The troops led by Xin Er and Koji Qiu had slightly more soldiers than Lu Ming and Yao Tao, and the arrays listed were not as thick as the Qin arrays, and the Xin arrays were longer than the Qin arrays, about four miles. Although it is slightly wider than the Qin array, the four-mile position is not too long, Lu Ming has seen a big scene, not to mention anything else, only with the Qin army when Meng Lang attacked Xiangwu only the battalion reached ten miles, put out the formation, the circumference of the Xiangwu almost surrounded by a watertight scale compared to the scale, it is really far away, but although the Xin array is short, the array is full of flags, armor and sun, from time to time I see a herald soldier walking between the arrays, conveying the military orders of Xin'er, and making small adjustments to the formation that has been formed. They all stood upright in their positions, not moving at all, giving people a solemn atmosphere.

When Lu Ming looked forward to it for a long time, he said to Ji He, Lu Wu and other generals and wingmen: "Xin Youshu is known as a high name, and he is known as a knowing soldier and a good fighter. Pointing to the west side of the Xin array, he said, "It's that his western array is a little messy." It is reported that among the soldiers and horses led by Xin Er and Koji Qiu, there are more than 2,000 people who are Yin Ping and descend to Qiang, and the soldiers in the western formation are all wearing hair, and there are quite a few people wearing sheep's horns, and their clothes are mostly sheepskin folds, and the color is gray and yellow. ”

Lu Wu thought so, agreed with Lu Ming's judgment, and said: "The people of the Qiang tribe in Yinping were originally all the people of the Qiang tribe in Yinping, with little training, and their combat power was not as good as that of the Long soldiers. Brother, wait for the Long soldiers to attack me for a while, and when our army counterattacks, we can choose its western formation as the main direction of attack. Wait for it to break through its western formation, and then drive these Yinping Qiang people to the east, chaotic the main formation of the young and young, our army will take the opportunity to cover and kill, and the victory will be easy! ”

Lu Ming asked Ji He and said, "Fang Ping, what do you think?" ”

Ji He disagreed with Lu Wu's opinion and said, "Between the east and west formations of the Xin array, like my array, there is a long distance. General, please see, and in that interval, the Xin array is the same as our formation, and Xin Youzhu also placed fences, ironclad carts, etc., there, obviously to prevent the Western Formation from being defeated and may disrupt his own formation.

"Even if our army breaks through his western formation first, it may not be able to disturb his main formation. In this case, in my humble opinion, our army should attack the eastern front of Xin Youshu first. The eastern array is the main formation of the Xin array. As long as it can be broken, its western front is not enough to worry about! ”

It is generally the same as Tang Ai's suggestion of "capturing the thief and capturing the king".

Lu Ming pondered for a moment and agreed with Ji He's opinion.

Several people were discussing specific tactics when they heard the sound of a majestic drum in the Xin array in the north.

Lu Ming, Lu Wu, Ji He and others listened attentively and recognized that it was the sound of the drum entering the battle.

Thinking about that Xiner, in recent years, the reputation has risen, the south and the north, the east and the west, invincible, as if he has become the most dazzling star in Dingxi, and now against him, Lu Ming, Lu Wu, Ji He and others, the mood is more complicated, both the fear of Xin Er, but at the same time, because of confidence in their own ability, and the eager expectation of defeating Xin Er.

Hearing the drums of the Xin Array, Lu Ming and the others were all in high spirits.

Lu Ming took a calm posture and said in a joking tone: "We are about to attack first, but Xin You knows people's opinions, and he takes the initiative to enter the battle without me sending a general to provoke." The tone seemed to be relaxed, but the hand that held the hilt of the sword tightly betrayed the tension in his heart at the moment of battle. His eyes were firmly fixed on the movement of the Long Array, and he passed down the military order, ordering the soldiers of the Formation to prepare for battle.

Immediately, the Chinese army's order flag waved, the drums also sounded, and the heralds scattered to the east and west.

Military orders were passed down one level at a time.

The entire Qin army array, including the soldiers of the Yao Tao Formation, the soldiers in the front row raised their shields.

The spearmen who followed put the tail end of the lance at their feet and the tip of the lance on the shield.

In an instant, at the front of the Qin Array, which was more than three miles long, black shields were lined up on a wall, and the silver-white lances protruding outside were densely packed, like hedgehogs.

Then the crossbowman took out the arrows and put them on the crossbow, and for the sake of saving physical strength, the bowstring was not opened, but the spirit was highly concentrated.

The last melee soldiers, such as swords and axes, slashed their blades and looked ahead,—— although the figures and weapons of the shieldmen, lancemen, and crossbowmen in front of them basically obscured their vision, most of them could not see the situation in front of the battle at all.

The few cavalry of the Qin army placed on the eastern flank, with armor-piercing armor and light horses, also began to make preparations before the battle.

The Dingxi soldiers of the Xin Er Department did not let Lu Ming and Yao Tao's Qin soldiers wait.

Soon after the war drums of the Xin array sounded, at most half an hour, the Xin array launched its first attack on the Lu array.

This first attack was tentative, Xin Er did not use infantry, and sent out more than 300 cavalry. More than 300 horsemen roared out of the battle, and there was no sound except for the sound of horses' hooves at first, and then when they galloped through the middle of several miles, when they were about to arrive at the Qin formation, some of the knights carried the riding drums, and beat the riding drums together, and the rest of the soldiers put their fingers in their mouths and blew out sharp whistles.

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The army in the middle of the array.

Xin Er's eyes followed the figures of the more than three hundred horsemen, carefully observing the Qin array they passed.

These more than 300 cavalry were originally listed on the eastern flank of the Xin array, so the first place they rushed to was the eastern formation of the Qin army, that is, the formation of Lu Ming's headquarters.

I saw that the more than 300 horsemen, galloping like lightning, rolling up smoke and dust all over the sky, the sound of horses' hooves, riding drums, and whistles, the momentum was not small, but Lu Ming's soldiers in the eastern formation, no matter where the more than 300 cavalry rushed to the front line of the eastern formation, they were all standing in place steadily, without the slightest chaos, and even the crossbowmen behind them had no one to shoot arrows.

Xin Er couldn't help but care about Tang Ai, Guo Daoqing, Zhao Rangan, Zhao Xing and others, and said: "No wonder Lu Ming has the courage to fight with me in the field, when I have hundreds of knights stepping into battle, and his soldiers are not moving, and the formation is solid, which can be called elite." ”

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Qin Formation Army.

Ji He's gaze, at this moment, was also on the body of the more than three hundred dragon riders.

He said to Lu Ming: "Xin You's writing is to test the reality of my array. His three hundred horsemen will not attack our formation, and the general will make the soldiers ignore it. ”

Lu Ming nodded, and then gave the order, and added a sentence to the military order: "Those who trespass in the front will be beheaded in the back; Those who trespass in the back row will be beheaded left and right; Those who move without permission and are in the back columns, left and right, will be beheaded by all the parts. ”

When the military order arrived, the more the soldiers of the Qin army's eastern formation dared not move.

……

The more than 300 dragon riders were led by Lan Baozhang.

The military order given to them by Xin Er is indeed only "test the enemy's formation and reality".

But what is "trying to be real"? If you think that after the enemy's formation is formed, if you only look at it from the outside, there is roughly no difference in all directions of the line, so how can you judge where the weak point of the enemy's formation is? Observing the quality of the armor of the soldiers in different directions of the enemy formation, and whether the queue is strict or not is one of them, and sending troops to feint and which position of the enemy formation will not help but move first is the second.

Lan Baozhang's task is to see if he can try out the second point.

Because of this, in the case of feints to attack the eastern formation of the Qin army, and the eastern formation of the Qin army did not move, when it was about to enter the range of the enemy's bow and crossbow, Lan Baozhang led the troops to turn in time, changed to the west, crossed the interval between the east and west formations of the Qin army, galloped to the front of Yao Tao's formation, first turned to the north and walked for a while, and then turned around, and then beat the drums and whistles, and galloped towards the front formation.

It was actually the same as the array listed by Lu Mingbu, and the array of Yao Taobu's was also calm and unmoving.

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The army in the middle of the array.

After Xin Er saw this scene, he said to Tang Ai: "Qianli, you said that Yao Taobu is a veteran who is good at fighting, and now you look at its formation, as Qing said." "Xin Er had never fought with Yao Taobu before, so far, in his heart, Yao Taobu's combat power has been raised to a higher level.

Tang Ai said: "Duke Ming, Qin Yu's east and west formations are not moving, and it is useless to stay in the Lan Captain's Department to test it, so you can recall it and change it to a strong crossbow." ”

Xin Er's head was bowed, and he ordered, and the Chinese army beat the golden drum and recalled Lan Bao's palm.

The more than 300 horsemen returned to the formation, and still went back to the east side to line up.

Four hundred strong crossbowmen, under the escort of two hundred armor soldiers and shield bearers, divided into east and west divisions, went out of the formation and marched forward in the formation of a phalanx, marching to the front of the Lu and Yao formations. The officer leading the team gave an order, and four hundred bows and crossbows were opened in unison, and they shot into the second formation.

Xin Er watched the movements of the Qin Array intently.

Seeing that the eastern formation of the Qin army was still not chaotic, facing the rain of arrows; The soldiers of Yao Tao's department in the western formation showed a little chaos compared to the momentum of the Long cavalry just now, but this confusion was not serious, and it didn't take long for Yao Tao to be pressed down.

Soon, a counterattacking arrow was shot from the Qin array.

Fortunately, these four hundred strong crossbowmen are all good marksmen in the garrison of Guyin, the king of Dingxi, and they are the first-class elites in the Dingxi army, and they all use strong crossbows, which are farther than most of the bows and crossbows of the Qin soldiers on the opposite side, because the arrows of the Qin array can not shoot much to them. Those who shot were also blocked by shields.

Xin Er took a closer look, the two sides had been shooting against each other for a long time, the Long soldiers had the advantage of crossbow strength, and there were few casualties, while the east and west formations of the Qin army had soldiers with arrows, and not one or two, only Xin Er saw, to say the least, there were dozens of people; However, the two formations of the Qin army were still strong.

If the task of Lan Bao's palm is just to "test the reality", then there are two tasks for the top 400 crossbowmen.

One, it is also "trying the real thing".

The other, and more important, is to "mess with their positions" or "lure them to attack".

"Messing with its feet", the feet, not to say that the formation has feet, this is a metaphor, just like people's feet, feet are the foundation of people, feet are unstable, people will not be able to stand steadily, the same reason, the so-called "formation", is the foundation of the formation. If the foundation is messed up, then the array will naturally be broken. At present, if the two formations of the Qin army are in chaos because of the crossbow shooting of the Long soldiers, for example, the soldiers leave their designated combat positions in order to avoid arrows, then the Qin array will definitely become chaotic, that is, it is equivalent to a "formation" chaos. Needless to say, as soon as this situation appears, of course, it will be the time for the Longbing army to attack in a big way.

Those who "lure them to attack", 400 crossbowmen, only 200 armor soldiers and shield guards, if the enemy general is quick and short-sighted, he may think that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, and it is very likely that he will send troops to attack. If this is the case, Xin Er has already prepared the troops to fight, not only can they take back the four hundred crossbowmen, but they are also sure that they will destroy the enemy who comes out of the battle. It is conceivable that after seeing with one's own eyes the defeat of one's comrades-in-arms in the two formations, the morale of the enemy army will inevitably decline suddenly, and on the contrary, the morale of our army will inevitably rise to a high level, so that the whole army can take advantage of the opportunity to press on it, and it is only a matter of time before the enemy position is broken.

In the context that there is no generation difference in weapons, and there is little difference in the number of soldiers and combat strength of the two sides, the two armies are fighting in formation, not that the commanders of each other issue a military order, and the enemy and our soldiers will flock to each other and fight each other.

In the final analysis, the confrontation on the battlefield is a comparison of the fighting spirit of the soldiers on both sides, the quality of individual soldiers, and the organizational ability of the generals of the enemy and us to organize their respective troops. Trying to be real, chaotic formation, and inducing them to attack are the temptations and attacks launched by Xin Er against Lu Ming and Yao Taobu at the organizational level.

Two attempts, both failed.

The vigorous shooting of the four hundred crossbowmen failed to mess up the Qin formation's position, nor could it lure the Qin soldiers to attack.

In desperation, Xin Er had to give the order again and ordered them to fight back.

"It seems that there is only a hard attack."

It was Guo Daoqing who spoke.

From the bottom of his heart, he is unwilling to attack hard.

A hard attack is usually used when the enemy position is strong, and the enemy position is strong, which means that the enemy's army is strictly disciplined, and the troops with strict military discipline will have strong combat effectiveness.

Xin Er asked Tang Ai and the others: "Do you have any other strategies?" ”

Tang Ai and the others have no other way.

Speaking of which, when praising a person for using soldiers like a god, he often uses the word "resourceful" to describe it, but in fact, in the situation of enemy and friend, no amount of strategy is useless.

But there was one person who said proudly: "The capture of the formation is Xiaojian, and it can't be moved unless you fight to the death!" The last general dared to ask Ming Gong to give 100 soldiers to fall into his position for Ming Gong! ”