Gong Chang suddenly said happily at this time: "If this Tianyuan chess array can work, as long as it can consume three or four percent of the Jurchen army's 200,000 troops, Nurhachi is destined to lose money on such a heavy gamble, and he will definitely withdraw his army." ”

Sun Qi nodded and said: "This method is feasible, we will wait for work, and it is also a backwater, you can try it." Lian Qiying was surprised: "Is the younger brother of Guolian a chess player who commands the overall situation?" ”

Fang Guochuan said: "It can also be said that this is a chess game that has been arranged, and it will be mobilized with the change of chess situation, as long as we set up the formation and layout properly, wait for the opponent's own house to enter, and use the flexibility of the overall formation to eat and kill the enemy to the greatest extent and most effectively." This Tianyuan battle is not about winning, but about intercepting and containing, so as to consume the vitality of the Jurchen army. In this way, according to what the lord of the bow village said, Nurhachi will not spend all the wealth of his tribe on our heroes, and he will not be able to hold on. We are fighting to the death, in order to survive in a desperate situation, the overall formation of each group of troops is the elite of Liuhetang and the heroes of the Kanto region, the command is appropriate, the large array is operational, and the power is endless. Nurhachi couldn't fight for a long time, and he didn't dare to be stubborn anymore, and when he couldn't stand it anymore, he would definitely withdraw his troops. As soon as the Jurchen army retreated, the threat to the border pass was immediately resolved, and the border guards would no longer have any reason not to let us enter the border. Although Fang Guo's well-founded analysis was hypothetical, it surprised Lian Qiying, Sun Qi, Gong Changchang, and Gu Sichen, and applauded their hands.

Lian Qiying said excitedly at this time: "This battle is related to the life and death of Liuhetang, and the lives of more than 10,000 people in front of me will all be handed over to Brother Guozhuo." Fang Guochuan said with a smile: "The junior brother can only use the overall Tianyuan chess array, as for the combination of the military array, the transfer of troops, and the command of the overall situation, Mr. Sun Qi must be there." ”

Sun Qi said with a smile: "In this Tianyuan battle, Fang Gongzi is the boss, and Sun is willing to be a pawn." Gong Chang said: "Now that we are a soldier, we will fight a family, and the five thousand brothers in the Kanto region will be dispatched by two, without further ado, we should prepare earlier." Fang Guochuan said: "Although the time is not right, we have the key point, that is, people, and then choose a good location as the battlefield, so as to maximize the role of the Tianyuan chess array, it is appropriate." Sun Qi said: "Yes, let's go check the terrain." ”

Fang Guolian and Sun Qi, and then Otani Sichen, Han Mengchao, and Lu Zhufeng led the escort of the five hundred Dragon and Tiger Army, and went out of the camp to check the terrain and choose a battlefield suitable for the Lie Tianyuan Chess Array. After dusk, a bright moon in the sky, after seven or eight miles, suddenly saw an open area in front of me, with high mountains and mountains on both sides in the north and south, especially a towering hill in the middle.

When Fang Guohuan saw it, he was overjoyed and said, "This is it." With Sun Qi led the horse up the hill, looking around, under the twilight, this wide area is in full view, it is really a good battlefield, Sun Qi nodded and said: "God help me, this area runs from east to west, there are mountains in the north and south, it is not suitable for 200,000 troops to move together, it is suitable to set up troops, and the Jurchens should be intercepted and killed here." Fang Guochuan then took this hill as the position of Tianyuan, and set the nine-star formula, Sun Qi drew it with a map, and slightly measured the width and narrowness of the terrain, and after speculating about it, everyone returned to the station.

After the battlefield was selected, he returned to the camp, and Fang Guochuan marked the layout of the fifteen-star pattern of the Heavenly Dragon Array in the middle of the abdomen on the map drawn by Sun Qi, and explained in detail how to change, the rescue at the beginning and the end, and the method of cooperating with the position of the nine stars. Sun Qi was overjoyed when he heard this, thinking that the power of the ancient and modern military formations was not here, and everyone's confidence immediately increased. Sun Qi then ordered people to erect a very stable and solid wooden platform of more than 30 meters on the Tianyuan position on the battlefield, that is, on that small hill overnight, as the command center of the Tianyuan chess array. At the same time, he ordered to cook overnight, and after the meal, he was strict enough to let people rest, and in order to nourish his spirit, he monitored the movements of the Jurchens and Dushikou more strictly. From time to time, there were detectives to report the military situation, which confirmed that there was no abnormality that night, and everyone was at ease.

Sun Qi formulated a complete set of battle plans overnight, arranged for Lian Qiying and Gong Ying'er, and led 1,000 Kwantung men and horses to protect their dependents, carriages, horses, and goods, and set up a few miles away from the Dushikou border pass tomorrow to ensure safety, and at the same time monitor the movements of the officers and soldiers at the border pass to ensure that the Tianyuan chess array has no worries. In the case of cutting off contact with the Guannei, the flying pigeon passed a message, ordering Cao Zhuxuan, who was stationed in Qijiabao, to gather the elites from all walks of life who arrived after the Liuhe Hall, as well as all the people and horses of the three branches of the Liuhetang Hebei Branch, to rush to the border pass of Dushikou in the starry night, and after retreating the Jurchen army, with the momentum of forming a flank attack on the border pass, forcing Zhang Weicheng not to dare to make a rash move, so he could only switch and release people. Sun Qi also carefully arranged the formation changes of each formation and the configuration of the main general, so that each leader of the formation would know it in his heart. Fang Guolian also stayed up all night with Sun Qi, and studied in detail all the accidents that might occur in the Tianyuan Chess Formation and how to deal with them. Fang Guochuan knows very well that this is not a game of black and white chess pieces on the chessboard with more than a foot, but a chaotic game composed of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. Before I knew it, it was dawn.

The sky was light, and Sun Qi ordered the team to set off and assemble the predetermined battlefield. At this time, on the hill in the central part of the hill has been built a high Tianyuan command platform of more than 30 meters, which is built by the thick wooden stakes cut from the nearby mountains overnight, which is solid and firm, there is a soft ladder leading to it, the top is a platform, a guardrail is set up next to it, and various colors of flags are placed on it to command the overall situation.

Fang Guolian and Sun Qi climbed the Tianyuan high platform, and after going up, they put away the soft ladder. When they looked around, they could have a bird's-eye view of the entire battlefield, and the two of them felt a good idea. Sun Qi waved the flag at this time, and began to arrange his troops according to the chess situation set by Fang Guolian. Fortunately, Sun Qi usually arranges the formation with chess games, and he is already familiar with the chess path, and it is not time-consuming and laborious to rehearse. In the middle star position at the front of the big array, Lu Zhufeng, with the cooperation of the ten hall masters, led the five hundred dragon and tiger army to suppress the overall formation angle with the two dragon array formations. The left wing, that is, the star position on the left, was guarded by Zhu Weiyuan, who led five hundred sword players with the cooperation of the ten hall masters. The right-wing star position was led by Zhao Qingyang with 500 people, and it was also guarded with the cooperation of ten hall masters. This is the cutting-edge triple star pattern, each with a military formation, all composed of the elites of the Liuhe Hall.

Because the Kwantung people were not familiar with the military formation, Sun Qi adopted an emergency strategy, the following groups of troops were mixed and arranged by the Liuhetang heroes and the Kanto heroes, so that the Liuhetang heroes could drive the Kwantung heroes in the formation, otherwise the Kwantung people and horses would form a separate formation, and they would not know the changes and respond, and they would be in danger of being rushed and collapsed by the Jurchen iron cavalry. The middle star position on the right side of the chess array, with the cooperation of the ten hall masters, led 500 people to defend the formation. The middle star position on the left side was guarded by Liu Yunhe, with the cooperation of the ten hall masters, with 500 people in a military formation. The lower triple star pattern, that is, the last line of defense of the Tianyuan chess array, was defended by the main villages in the Kanto region. Gong Chang disagreed at first, wanting to defend the forward star position, Sun Qi told him that the rear defense line was very important, and if it was broken by the Jurchens, it would affect the changes in the whole formation, so it was also a key layout. The bow had to respond for a long time, and led 500 people to guard the middle star position with soldiers with the cooperation of ten village owners. The lower left star position was guarded by Du Jian with 500 people with the cooperation of ten village owners, and the lower right star position was guarded by Lei Tianbao with the cooperation of 10 village owners. In this way, with the addition of the Tian Yuan command platform, this is the global nine-star formation.

In the middle of the large array, that is, the focus of the overall array, around the position of Tian Yuan in the Tianlong star layout, a total of fifteen groups of troops are arranged, divided into fifteen stars, each star position is guarded by a hall master with strong martial arts skills in Liuhe Hall, each with 300 people. The head of the Tianlong Array, guarded by the invincible general Han Mengchao of the Golden Gun, this is the eye of the entire Tianyuan Chess Array, the position is the most important, and the Four Elephants Array is composed of four powerful formations, which is the dragon head of the entire Tianlong Array. The middle dragon belly of the Heavenly Dragon Array was guarded by the Medicine King Gu Sichen, and Luo Kun guarded the dragon tail of the Heavenly Dragon Array to echo Han Mengchao of the dragon head. Bu Yuan led more than 100 secret weapon masters selected from Liuhetang and Kanto heroes, as the overall meteor formation, specializing in shooting and killing Jurchen generals and remedying dangerous places, and returning to protect Tianyuan. As a result, the nine-star pattern of the Tianyuan chess array, the layout of the Tianlong Chessboard, has been completed.

Sun Qi ordered more than 200 people to carry more flags and haunt the high mountains on the north and south sides to be suspicious soldiers. Lian Qiying wanted to take the lead and guard the star position, but was persuaded by Sun Qi, Gong Changchang and others to go back, so she had to take a thousand people with Gong Ying'er to protect the dependents of the Kanto heroes and the carriages, horses and goods to the rear, and monitor the movements on the border of the guard monolith. The group of heroes arranged such a reasonable formation for Fang Guolian and Sun Qi, and used troops to dispatch generals, they were surprised and admired, especially when Fang Guolian was in danger, he was surprised to use chess to set up a formation. Gong Chang waited for a long time for all the heroes in the Kanto region, and they were all excited and grateful for Liuhetang to arrange them at the back of the chess array, and secretly swore to fight to the death. The heroes are gearing up. is full of fighting spirit, and they all know that life and death are at stake in this move. The entire Tianyuan chess array, a total of nine star set, Tianlong layout, twenty-four groups of soldiers, nearly 9,000 people, the large array is arranged, mighty and magnificent, waiting for the Jurchen army to vote. Fang Guochuan and Sun Qi glanced at each other and smiled at each other with satisfaction. At this time, the Jurchen army had already been dispatched, and when the heroes heard the news, they were excited, and they were all guarding their positions and waiting for the battle.