Fancheng was broken, although there was still Xiangyang to defend, but with the departure of Jiangdong reinforcements, Xiangyang was already an isolated city, and the fortifications outside Xiangyang City were also facing threats from the river.

After breaking through Fancheng, Chen Mo's army did not move, but only ordered Zhang He to start attacking various camps outside Xiangyang City, while the army was repaired in Fancheng.

Three days later, Chen Mo ordered Zhang Liao to go down the river, find land to cross the river and set up a village, and block the retreat of Xiangyang.

Xiangyang City, enemy tower.

There is only a Han River between Xiangfan, and the other party's whereabouts can be seen clearly, no matter how reckless Zhang Fei is, he is a little desperate at this moment, Fancheng has been broken, Jiangdong has retreated, and now there is only one city left, Chen Mo only needs to do the previous attack on Fancheng outside Xiangyang City, Xiangyang is almost a sure game.

looked at Zhuge Liang beside him, but saw Zhuge Liang kneeling in the enemy tower, closing his eyes and not speaking, and a little irritable in his heart, if the main force of Jingzhou is still there, even if Fancheng is broken, it will not be in a desperate situation, but the message from Shu before, Liu Bei has occupied Jiangzhou, Badong and Bazhong, and he can capture Chengdu when he sees it, and it cannot be said that Liu Bei is wrong, just with such a place as Jingzhou, it is indeed difficult to stop Chen Mo's iron cavalry.

"Kong Ming, you're talking!" Looking at Zhuge Liang's appearance, Zhang Fei became even more irritable: "Tan Zhi is about to be unable to resist." ”

Zhuge Liang's camps outside the city are indeed strong, but no matter how strong they are, it is not a city, although Chen Mo's main force has not moved in the past three days, Zhang He's offensive is quite rapid, Guan Ping can still hold it at first, but there are heavy casualties in three days, and two of the three camps outside the city have been broken? At this time? If you go to support again, there won't be enough troops in the city? But if not? At that time, Chen Mo followed the same as when he was in Fancheng, and built the artillery platform outside the city? Although Xiangyang City is tall and strong, it is far better than Fancheng? But can only be beaten passively? Zhang Fei could almost imagine that Xiangyang would just be a repeat of the tragedy in Fancheng.

"Yide, do you remember the formation I played before?" Zhuge Liang opened his eyes, looked at Zhang Fei and said with a smile.

"What's that eight-of-yours? Naturally remember. Zhang Fei nodded, looked at Zhuge Liang and said, "You want to use this array to break the Ming army?" Will it work? ”

"Is it the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array? The terrain outside Xiangyang is not suitable for large armies? If this array is relied on, it can block the Ming army. Zhuge Liang said uncertainly.

You must know that he Zhuge Liang has learned a lot, and his Qimen mathematical attainments are extremely high, but Chen Mo is also a learned person, and there are countless strange people under his command? He wasn't sure if the other party would be able to break the formation, but this would break the enemy with a formation? Is Zhuge Liang's only remaining means now, until now? He hadn't thought of how to crack Chen Mo's catapult, but didn't Zhuge Liang have the giant catapult here? Even if he could figure it out? Can't use it on the city walls? There's nowhere to put it.

Fighting out of the city, even if the terrain is favorable to the Jingzhou army, but with the same number of soldiers and horses, there is a gap between the Jingzhou army and the Ming army in terms of equipment and the cooperation of the soldiers themselves, and the most important thing is how many soldiers and horses does Chen Mo have? How many soldiers and horses does Zhuge Liang have? is consumption, Chen Mo can consume Xiangyang's troops.

So now Zhuge Liang can only fight with a battle array.

"Okay, let's fight with him!" Zhang Fei nodded: "I'll prepare people here!" ”

Early the next morning, Zhang He launched an attack on the last of Guan Ping's guards again, but found that there were no horses in the wall, and the last wall was easily occupied by Zhang He.

"Report~" Just when Zhang He's side was preparing to re-establish the camp, and then launched a general attack on Xiangyang, he saw a scout rushing over, came to Zhang He's side and bowed and said: "General, the gate of Xiangyang City is wide open, and the enemy army has left the city." ”

At this time, you dare to go out of the city to fight?

Zhang He was a little surprised, and without the slightest hesitation, he immediately ordered: "The three armies are arrayed to meet the enemy. ”

"Whoa!"

The three armies opened and went to the outside of Xiangyang City under the command of Zhang He, but saw that the Jingzhou army had lined up five miles outside Xiangyang City, but when he saw the banner flying and the figure moving, Zhang He looked carefully, and he didn't know how many people and horses there were on the other side for a while.

"Battle formation?" Zhang He shook his head, looked at it for a while, and felt a little dizzy, and secretly surprised in his heart.

"General, do you want to attack?" A general came to Zhang He's side and asked.

"Naturally, we have to attack." Zhang He nodded, looked at it again and said, "Order the archer to shoot it!" ”

"Whoa!"

A thousand archers quickly came to the front of the formation, and shot a random arrow at the enemy formation, but under the cover of the banner, Zhang He only saw the shield of the opponent's army rising, but he didn't know what the effect of this round of arrow rain was, and he was about to order the arrow to be released again, but he saw a rain of arrows in the enemy formation rising from the ground and falling towards this side.

Zhang He's complexion changed, but he was fascinated by the formation, and his reaction was half a beat slower, and when he wanted to order the shield hand to protect, the arrow rain had already fallen in the archers in the front row, and there were casualties in an instant.

Zhang He didn't know how many deaths the other party had killed, but he felt that the other party's drums and trumpets were boring, and after ordering the archers to retreat, Zhang He frowned and looked around: "Can anyone know this formation?" ”

The generals looked at each other when they heard this, and the generals in the army were naturally no strangers to the marching formation, but they were all ordinary phalanxes and circular formations, and no one really recognized such a bells and whistles formation.

Zhang He immediately ordered two generals to go to the test formation, two thousand men and horses from two directions towards the enemy formation, the surrounding flags suddenly dispersed, and the two teams of men and horses were all welcomed, but listening to the sound of fighting in the formation, but did not see any change in the formation, but in a moment, the sound of the battle disappeared, and no one came out of the formation.

Zhang He and a group of generals felt chills in their hearts when they saw this, and they didn't know whether they should continue to try.

After Zhang He was silent for a long time, he waved his hand and said, "Withdraw the troops!" ”

The situation in front of him is really weird, whether it is the drum beat or the flag, it is upset, I don't know what's going on, Zhang He is not sure if he can break this formation, and he immediately withdrew.

"Battle formation?" In Fancheng, Chen Mo was a little surprised when he heard the battle report sent by Zhang He.

"Yes, what is the specific formation, General Jun Yi couldn't see it, so he didn't dare to rush in." Xun You nodded.

"The battle formations contained in this book can be used to arrange battle formations." Chen Mo nodded and said with a smile: "However, this battle formation needs to be trained, which is quite troublesome, if you can't use it skillfully, such as arm command, it is not even as good as the ordinary cone formation and round formation, and once you meet a general who knows how to fight the formation, it is easy to crack the flaw, and there are very few people who use this method to break the enemy, Zhuge Kongming dares to sacrifice this formation, I think it is quite confident." ”

When Xu Huang was not under his command, he also used a battle array, which was broken by Chen Mo directly with a drum and trumpet, of course, the mixed yuan qi array that Xu Huang laid back then was only able to set up a formation in Chen Mo's opinion, and he was not proficient.

Xun You said with a smile: "According to the minister's opinion, Zhuge Liang is unable to deal with the law of the lord breaking Fancheng, and he is out of the city to fight, and the soldiers of the Jingzhou army are far inferior to the soldiers of our army, so he put down this formation, if he can break this formation, then Xiangyang can be broken." ”

"Then I need to try this formation myself." Chen Mo smiled when he heard this.

"Now that the encirclement of Xiangyang has been completed, it is time to break Xiangyang at this moment." Xun You said with a smile.

Chen Mo nodded, as soon as this Xiangyang is broken, basically Jiangling is left with some difficulty in the entire Jingzhou, but the elite soldiers of Jingzhou are all gathered here, Jiangling is a strong city, there is no soldier to garrison, and it is difficult to stop Chen Mo's army.

On the same day, Chen Mo ordered Xu Huang to guard Fancheng, and took Ma Chao, Pang De, Zhang Xiu, Wei Yan, and Zhao Zhao to cross the river to join Zhang He.

"Your Majesty!" Zhang He welcomed Chen Mo into the tent, and said with a wry smile: "The battle formation of the Jingzhou army is quite weird, the drum and trumpet sound will make people upset, and there are many flags in the formation, which makes it difficult for people to see the reality clearly, and after watching it for a long time, they feel dazzled, and the last general will send people to try the formation, but they have gone and have not returned, so they dare not attack rashly." ”

"I'll call the formation tomorrow and show me what the formation is!" Chen Mo nodded and smiled.

"Whoa!" Zhang He nodded in agreement and bowed back.

There was nothing to say all night, early the next morning, the Ming army out of the camp, again outside the city of Xiangyang, Zhuge Liang saw the Ming army's movements, and immediately reacted, but saw the gate of Xiangyang opened, the first to go out of the city was the soldiers holding the flag, running, but seeing the flag in the blue sky, the figure swayed, it was difficult to see how many people and horses the other party had, especially with the sound of drums and trumpets later, it was more annoying.

Chen Mo, Xun You, and Dian Wei stood on a high platform, watching the formation from a distance, looking at it like this, what they saw was also a banner waving, occasionally a figure shaking, and I don't know how many.

"Does Gongda know this?" After Chen Mo looked at it for a long time, he turned his head and saw Xun Youdao.

"It seems to be the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array, but there seem to be some differences, especially the sound of this drum and trumpet, with this array is really unheard of, to break this formation......" Xun You looked at it for a long time, and was also dizzy, so he simply didn't look at it, and turned to Chen Mo and said: "As far as the minister knows, if it is the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array, it is standing according to the Qimen Dunjia, and the Eight Gates: Hugh Sheng's injury is Jing Death, if you enter from the Shengmen, Jingmen, and open the door, it is auspicious, and if you enter from the Wounded Gate, the Shocking Door, and the Rest Gate, you will be injured, and if you enter from the Dumen and the Death Gate, you will die, but the enemy army will cover your sight with a banner, It's hard to see the direction of the eight gates. ”

"It's not that hard!" Chen Mo said with a smile: "Order the three armies, repair in situ, and when they are tired of dancing, it will not be too late for me to break the formation!" ”

Although Zhuge Liang's method is wonderful, but the manpower is poor, carrying the flag and running around, don't say that ordinary scholars, is to let Dian Wei and others run, run for a long time, I'm afraid I don't have the strength to run again, so Zhuge Liang's approach, in Chen Mo's opinion, is like this, in the end, these eight directions still have to be exposed, which is also the reason why Chen Mo never spends time practicing this complex battle formation, it takes a long time, and it needs to be supported by terrain, and it is easy to be broken when you meet those who know how to do it, with this time, it is better to practice more ordinary battle formations, although it is simple, but practical, Anyone can quickly assemble it.