Chapter 2 Crises 15 The Checheng Circle Formation has achieved miraculous results
"General, is this formation really useful?" After the generals left, Le Yi couldn't help but step forward and asked in a low voice.
Suddenly, Zhao Kuo's eyes turned red: "When I was a child, I had a dispute with my father about the effect of the round formation of the car city, and it is still in my ears!" β
Le Yi didn't know how to comfort the general for a while, but when he saw Zhao Kuo wave his hand, he smiled indifferently: "This formation created by Sun Bin is only defended and not attacked, and it is used by the Jedi, and he has not tried it in his life, and he doesn't know what the actual effect is." However, the Qin army is powerful, and our army has no way to retreat, and this is the only way! β
"Le Yi should be desperately guarding the general!" Le Yi suddenly fell to his knees and choked up.
Zhao Kuo laughed and helped Le Yi up: "The general doesn't have to be like this, if the Qin army is defeated tomorrow, the defeat can be saved!" β
"This ...... Is the general sure? Le Yi got up and looked at Zhao Kuo hesitantly.
"The general returns to the camp to prepare, tomorrow will be a fierce battle." Zhao Kuo patted Le Yi's shoulder, his face full of confidence.
"No!" Seeing that the general was so stunned, Le Yi swept away the haze, let out a tiger roar, and strode out of the military tent.
With Zhao Kuo's order, Zhao Jun gathered all the old chariots in the Yewang Fortress, and according to Zhao Kuo's arrangement, Zhao Jun dug a deep and wide trench outside the fortress overnight, and placed more deer obstacles. Behind the ditch deer, the old chariots collected by the Zhao army were fixed end to end and connected to form a ring of Checheng barriers, and 20,000 heavy armored infantry were arranged behind the chariots to defend. Behind the Checheng is an orderly phalanx of infantry, responsible for intercepting the Qin army that broke into the formation, and then behind it is the earthen city of the Yewang Fortress. According to Zhao Kuo's orders, Zhao Jun set up a high platform of more than ten zhang in the center of the fortress, on which the main general could give orders and dispatch the overall situation.
At dawn, the long-lost Checheng Circle Formation unexpectedly appeared outside the Wild King Fortress.
Just after noon, 50,000 Qin army iron cavalry rushed in under the leadership of the former general Meng Wu.
"Herald! The Zhao army was exhausted, and the whole army dispersed and assaulted, breaking through the Yewang Fortress in one fell swoop and capturing Zhao Kuo alive! Meng Wu glanced at the huge military camp circle, Huo Ran raised the horsewhip in his hand and ordered sharply.
In an instant, thousands of arrows were fired in the Qin army's array, and under the cover of the rain of arrows, the vanguard troops immediately rushed up, pressed the wooden planks into the trench, and smashed countless dense earth bags into the ditch. Fifty thousand cavalry followed, swarming over the trench and approaching the Checheng barrier. Zhao Kuo stood on the high platform, looking coldly at this group of Qin army iron horsemen who didn't know what to do, and waved the flag left and right, and suddenly the Zhao army in the formation was running like flowing water, closely cooperating with each other, and it was actually not leaking. The scimitar shield and the spear thrust are even more tacitly compatible, as long as the Qin cavalry is close, they will either be stabbed by the spear and fall off the horse, or they will be hacked to death with a random knife. Half an hour passed, and the Qin army suffered heavy casualties, but it was never able to attack Checheng for half a minute.
Meng Wu stood in the distance and saw it clearly, and hurriedly ordered to change the tactics and concentrate his forces to storm one place. So the Qin army began to retreat slightly, and when the army regrouped, it began to storm the Zhao army's large array from the south.
Zhao Kuo saw the Qin army retreating, and already knew Mengwu's thoughts, so he waved the flag up and down, the Zhao army quickly changed the formation, and the south car formation rumbled out, and countless gaps suddenly appeared in the originally closely connected car city, and the Qin army only cared about the onslaught, and unconsciously entered the car city circle array. The Zhao army in the car formation immediately blocked the gap, and the infantry phalanx in the formation was dispatched at the same time to intercept the Qin army from the front. The fierce battle was in full swing, but he saw that Zhao Kuo's Lingqi suddenly moved, and on the east and west sides of the car formation, there were two Zhao army iron cavalry swept out, and covered the flank of the trapped Qin army. After three hours, the outside of the Wild King Fortress finally calmed down.
Meng Wu watched as the 50,000 army was wiped out here, but there was no way to save him, his heart was anxious, and a mouthful of blood suddenly gushed out, and the guards hurriedly surrounded Meng Wu and hurriedly retreated. Zhao Jun did not chase either, but only regrouped the chariot formation, and at the same time sent men to clear the trenches.
The news of the annihilation of the 50,000 troops of the former army soon reached the ears of Meng Fu, who was horrified and ordered the whole army to speed up the march, and finally arrived at the Yewang that night.
"Where is Meng Wu?" Looking at the oncoming defeated soldiers, Meng Fu angrily dismounted and questioned.
"The general of the defeated army, Meng Wu, has seen the general." As soon as the words fell, I saw a general slowly walk out of the group of people and fall to his knees.
"Meng Wu, do you have anything to say?" Although Meng Wu is his own son, after all, military law is ruthless, and Meng Wu is helpless despite his heartache.
"Zhao Kuo's strange formation, the last general doesn't know, so he will be defeated." Meng Wu replied with a dejected expression.
"Strange formation?" Meng Fu muttered to himself, and then pointed at Meng Wudao, "You are telling the truth." β
Meng Wu then described Zhao Kuo's Checheng Circle Formation in detail, and the more Meng Biao listened, the more surprised he became, so he said to the left and right: "And take Meng Wu into custody, the whole army will stop advancing, and you will follow the general to investigate the enemy situation first, and then make plans." β
After the order was finished, Meng Fu did not look back, and the cat's waist got into the forest, and the generals hurriedly followed. After sneaking all the way and walking for a long time, I came to a small hill not far from the Wild King Fortress. When he saw the car array described by Meng Wu with his own eyes, Meng Yu gasped when he landed, this large array under the night was almost a huge circle of flames within a radius of several miles, and by the moonlight, the flags in the circle were faintly visible, and there were bursts of drums, which was really murderous and terrifying.
"Could it be that this is the lost Sun Bin formation?" Meng Fu looked at it carefully, and the more he looked at it, the more shocked he became, this formation was equipped with a circle array with trenches, chariots, and infantry troops, although it was hastily deployed overnight, but it was extremely rigorous, if you want to capture this formation, you need at least ten times the number of troops!
"Zhao Kuo is really a god!" Meng Fu's face was solemn, "Order the three armies to withdraw the troops!" β
"General, the Zhao army is only tens of thousands...... "General Wang Ling was unwilling.
"Needless to say, withdraw!" With that, he turned around and walked down the hill.
The news of the Qin army's withdrawal was reported to Handan by the scout, and the tense nerve in King Zhao's heart was finally relaxed, and he immediately issued an edict: the veteran Pang Yuan quickly transferred 100,000 new troops to Yewang to take over the defense and replace Zhao Kuo.
Three days later, King Zhao personally led a group of civil and military ministers out of Handan West Gate for thirty miles, and solemnly greeted Zhao Kuo's army. It wasn't until dusk that a wriggling black spot loomed above the official road. As the black dots got closer and closer, what appeared in front of King Zhao was an unprecedented army of class teachers, all kinds of crutches, bloodstained armor, ragged clothes, and long hair scattered and fluttering, which looked even more sad and abnormal under the reflection of the blood-colored sun. Seeing this situation, Zhao Guojun and his ministers were all embarrassed and moved.
King Zhao, who was standing on the bronze king's car, hurriedly turned around and waved his big sleeves, "Legong, Zhao Feng!" β
The music suddenly sounded, the courtiers said, King Zhao stepped off the king's car with tears in his eyes and stepped on the thick red felt to greet him, and then bowed deeply to the army in front of him.
The Zhao army then slowly stopped marching and divided into two columns on the left and right. Immediately afterward, a broken red "Zhao" flag flashed from the back of the team, and a member of the banner was covered in blood, but it was a neatly clad black thin general galloping on an equally stained white horse.
But seeing the black thin general flying and dismounting in front of King Zhao, he knelt on the ground and arched his hand: "Sin General Zhao Kuo, see my king!" β
With tears in his eyes, King Zhao helped up Zhao Kuo, who was still tall and handsome a few months ago: "This king is worthy of being a general!" β
Zhao Kuo choked and raised his head, looking at King Zhao without saying a word. King Zhao immediately picked up the bronze lord from the tray of the waiter behind him and held it up in front of Zhao Kuo, and Zhao Kuo took the wine lord and drank it. Accompanied by the generous and tragic Zhao Ge, King Zhao held Zhao Kuo's hand tightly, helped Zhao Kuo into the king's chariot, turned around and ordered: "The ministers' soldiers are all on foot, and the carriages and horses are given to the wounded soldiers!" After saying that, he shook the reins of the horse and drove towards Handan in person.
The army of the class division entered the west gate of Handan all the way, and the city was already empty of thousands of people, and the people and civilians stood solemnly in the road, quietly watching this group of scarred and bloodied soldiers slowly walk by. When he arrived at the square in front of the palace, King Zhao personally read out the edict: Zhao Kuo repeatedly defeated the Qin army, made outstanding achievements, and was given a fief of 100 miles and a reward of 1,000 gold. For the rest of the soldiers, the war dead will be given a third-level knighthood, and the survivors will be promoted to a second-level knighthood and exempted from payment for three years.
For a while, the crowd erupted in earth-shattering cheers: "Long live Zhao Jun!" Long live the General! β