For most of his life, except for the previous time when he ambushed Cao Wenzhao with the eighth team, Yang Chengfu had hardly seen an army of tens of thousands of people on one battlefield at one time.

Troops of more than 10,000 people are mobilized and dispatched at the same time and place, and the generals, as the commander-in-chief, have extraordinary organizational ability, which can be described as one in a hundred. Thinking that commanding three or four thousand people in Shizhouwei at the beginning made Zhao Dangshi powerless, Yang Chengfu was secretly speechless, and he couldn't think of what kind of person the official and general on the other side were.

The officers and soldiers facing the battle are divided into three parts, and if they are from a bird's eye view, they are in the shape of "product". This formation has a long history and is a very common way of arrangement. Although it seems simple, in fact, there are endless changes inside, "a military with a few people, so that the service can make the people, slightly uneven, Zhen Qiu Zhiling, deep to simplify the complex." In a word, the effectiveness of using this formation basically depends on the coach's ability to control the situation.

This kind of scene, since Gao Yingxiang's incident, he has seen it nearly 100 times. He knows this formation very well, the coach is strong when he is strong, and the manager is weak and vulnerable. And it is very common that there are very few commanders of the officers and armies, so the army has hardly lost in the face of such an enemy.

There is inertia in thinking, with past experience, although Gao Yingxiang knows that the official generals on the other side are cunning, but they are only cunning, he does not think that the other party's commander will have extraordinary command ability. It is very difficult to win a complete victory in the confrontation between large armies and tricks alone, especially in the current field battle of two rounds, and only by fighting hard can the winner be decided.

The two wings of the officers and troops are slowly expanding outwards a lot, and at the same time, the gaps between the various teams and columns and even the soldiers are also widened, which is to provide conditions and convenience for units as small as one team and as large as one battalion to change into small battle formations in the shortest possible time.

In an instant, the official and military formations were completed, and tens of thousands of horses were silent, silently standing still, motionless like a mountain. Gao Yingxiang was hesitant in his heart, seeing that the opponent this time was a bit famous, and he didn't want to fall behind, so he gave a few military orders, accompanied by the order flag that he shook hard, and broke into the army and divided a hundred horsemen and rushed towards the other party.

These hundreds of cavalry are all veterans and elites of the camp, and all of them are skilled archers and horses. They galloped their horses, three hundred paces closer to the officers and soldiers, and began to scatter to the left and right.

This is also a common tactic.

Due to the limitations of communication technology, from ancient times to the Ming Dynasty, there was no real solution to the problem of the transmission of instructions at all levels. Generally speaking, the commander-in-chief of an army will basically be in the middle and rear of the army, and to convey military orders, one relies on banners, drums, and trumpets, and the other relies on Tang soldiers to transmit, and a well-trained army is able to realize the move of changing the state in a short period of time with military orders, but no matter how fast, when it is conveyed at all levels, it is inevitable that there will be delays or even mistakes, and for an army with thousands of people, combat orders cannot be specific to a single soldier and one horse. Therefore, if you take a long-range unit as an example, once you shoot at the enemy, it will be a salvo of one layer or even a large scale, and it is impossible to meet the enemy with a certain amount of individual assignments.

This flaw is often exploited by experienced generals, who will send a small number of troops and horses into loose formations to attract opponents to strike. Once the military orders of the defenders are not properly communicated at all levels, there will be a situation in which a large amount of arrows and ammunition will be consumed with little effect or even filled in the gap and the enemy will take advantage of it, which will have an extremely adverse impact on the subsequent operations. Many military books of the Ming Dynasty explicitly forbade the occurrence of such phenomena.

Gao Yingxiang has never read a book, but he has been in the Ming army, knows the essence of warfare, and has accumulated a lot of practical experience. In this way, when applied rationally, the level is naturally not comparable to that of some rebel generals who were peasants and miners, so that they are better than many officers, soldiers, and literati commanders who can only talk on paper.

Hundreds of elite cavalry of the camp gradually approached, but the array of officers and troops began to stir as Gao Yingxiang expected. Officers and men with guns and shields were as strong as steel and cast iron, facing the cool breeze and approaching troops, like a solid city wall, standing firmly.

The elite cavalry that broke into the camp was pressed to fifty paces, and the front of the officers and soldiers who spread out for hundreds of meters was still calm, but it became Gao Yingxiang who couldn't hold his breath. The banner in the rear waved, the simple and powerful whistle rose sharply, and the cavalry, who were about to crash into the enemy formation, quickly turned their horses and turned back.

After running a dozen steps, hundreds of soldiers were suddenly released from the left, center, and right officer and military formations. Gao Yingxiang looked at the heights, and was frightened. These officers and soldiers were all armed men, and almost in the blink of an eye, they spread out in two columns on three sides, squatting forward and standing backwards. The gunners were not the first to shoot, and the first to strike were the pikemen with bows and arrows behind them. The sound of drums vibrated loudly, and nearly a thousand pikemen in front of them shot out the feathered arrows in their hands. As soon as the arrow left the string, there was another drum beat, and the smoke and fire appeared in front of the three-sided guns, and the resounding sound of the guns in the sky also reached the ears of every soldier on both sides.

Gao Yingxiang's eyes widened, and he saw it really: the most elite in the camp, the nearly 100 horsemen who have survived countless battles, were immediately defeated by two salvos of arrows and bullets from the officers and soldiers and strikes from three sides. The dozens of horses who were lucky enough to survive ran wildly for dozens of meters, and the guns on three sides withdrew, and the dense arrows screamed again. After this blow, the invading army had escaped 200 paces away, but unfortunately, only a few cavalry survived, and the position of the officers and troops returned to calm.

Several horsemen galloped back to their own formation, causing a slight commotion in the front.

Liu Zhe let out a "pout" in his mouth, raised his whip and pointed: "This Ming army has made a certain progress, like a hard hand, our army is tired, it is better to retreat temporarily." ”

The corners of Gao Yingxiang's mouth twitched, his eyes showed a fierce color, and he refuted him: "Our army is tired, and if we retreat, it will only disintegrate the morale of the army, and we are prepared, and there is no chance to take advantage of it. Defeating this army is the only option we have now. ”

Liu Zhe pondered for a while, and doubted: "Hong Chengchou is in northern Shaanxi, and whether he can return in time to help, just look at the number of this army of nearly 10,000, it is impossible for him to abandon them and transfer the main force over." ”

Gao Yingxiang pursed his lips and responded proudly: "It doesn't matter who he is, even if Hong Manzi arrives in person, what are you afraid of?" According to the danger, it is not my fortification, but you see that this place is very low, and the officers and soldiers are all foot soldiers, and our army is heavily ridden, which can attack its shortcomings. ”

Liu Zhe was quite worried, and said: "But just now, this official has a lot of firearms, and it may not be easy to obtain." ”

Gao Yingxiang laughed and said: "It's just a small skill, what a way." Shicai just gave him the opportunity to take advantage of it, and whether they are really elite or not, you can know at a try. ”

As the strongest among the rogues, the resources possessed by the Chuang army are beyond the reach of other battalions. Gao Yingxiang relied on the fundamental, that is, cavalry. At his strongest, he had tens of thousands of cavalry, including nearly 10,000 heavily armoured. With such a trump card, not only the rest of the Kou are beyond reach, but even the ordinary Ming army is unattainable. Everywhere you go, the autumn wind sweeps away the leaves.

In the past few months, after the successive blows, the number of cavalry breaking into the camp has shrunk greatly, but at present, there are still six or seven thousand in the mixed bag, and in Gao Yingxiang's opinion, it is more than enough to deal with the officers and troops on the opposite side. Moreover, he judged that the official army in northern Shaanxi, central Sichuan, Henan and other places was limited, and it was still too late to defend the locality, so it was impossible to gather so many people to come to the aid of the pass in a short period of time. And Sun Chuanting has only been in Qin for more than three months, and his hands and eyes are all over the sky, and it is impossible to train these 10,000 people into an elite army. As long as you try again, the other party will definitely reveal the original form.

After a period of silence, the army restarted, this time, Gao Yingxiang's side, embroidered with the word "Chuang" moved, more than ten flags all over the military array echoed each other, and then, countless flags of various styles and colors at all levels fluttered and waved, from a distance, the waves of the flag up and down the army were undulating, and the colorful rhythm was like the ocean.

Zhao Ying's 200 horsemen were also in full swing. In Yang Chengfu's ears, the shouts and orders of various accents and tones were intertwined and shuttled, each horse was gathering towards the direction of the commander of the headquarters, and the commander of each grassroots level was leading a team to approach the higher-level commander.

Although there were more than ten Tang soldiers galloping back and forth, conveying instructions, Yang Zhaofeng's voice still screamed painfully. After a while, at present, a big flag was indicated, and the horn sounded at the same time, Yang Zhaofeng sighed and said to Yang Chengfu: "Second brother, there are more than ten riders who have been mixed up elsewhere, and they have not been able to find it back so far." ”

"No matter." Yang Chengfu responded, his eyes staring at the flag that was held high, "Our side is about to move, gather the brothers who are already there, and don't fall behind." ”

I don't know if it's to ease the tense atmosphere or what, Yang Zhaofeng exhaled deeply, squeezed out a smile and said, "Second brother, it's a good day today." ”

Yang Chengfu clamped the horse's belly, and then took advantage of the slow speed of the brigade, and his voice was not drowned out by the noise: "Yes, I haven't seen such a blue sky and white clouds for a long time." ”

Generally speaking, Gao Yingxiang likes to use a cavalry tactic called "three walls" the most, but in fact, in recent years, because of the improvement of the equipment quality of the officers and soldiers in various places and the sharp reduction in the loss of their own horses, this extremely costly combat method has gradually been abandoned by Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, who are good at horse troops. Li Zicheng proposed a new tactic, which has no name, but judging by the content, it can be called a "five-fold array". The general idea is that the first is to put the hungry people and the militia, the second is the infantry, the third is the horse army, the fourth is the cavalry, and the last is the old battalion. In this way, compared with the rudimentary "three walls," the combat costs are greatly saved, and there is room for maneuver when dealing with some thorny situations.

Gao Yingxiang is not from a professional class, he will not stick to the rules, he is bold, he has long wanted to try this new tactic in actual combat, and this battle of life and death has become his testing ground.

The war was about to break out, and although Liu Zhe was very dissatisfied with Gao Yingxiang's desperate idea, he had rich experience and knew that the most important thing for breaking into the army now was not to judge which decision was correct, but to order one person to ensure that the military orders that had been issued could be resolutely implemented. Therefore, he put aside all distracting thoughts, listened to Gao Yingxiang's arrangement wholeheartedly, and did whatever the other party said, and no longer put forward other ideas like before.

Facts have proved that the execution of the army is still very strong. Because of the starving soldiers who were not cannon fodder, Gao Yingxiang put on the thousands of miscellaneous troops that he thought were the weakest in combat effectiveness in the first place. Although these miscellaneous armies are called horse armies, they are extremely poorly equipped, their horses are dull, and their combat capability is very low. A few small leaders were dissatisfied and wanted to lead their troops to mutiny in front of the battle, but Liu Zhe didn't say a word, and immediately beheaded seven or eight people to set an example. The bloody head was inserted on the spear of Zhangyu to show back and forth, effectively suppressing many people who had a second child.

The two hundred cavalry of the Zhao battalion were arranged in the rear of the fourth heavy, and when they turned their heads back, they were the most elite two or three thousand old elite horsemen who were full of murderous spirit and heavy armor and heavy armor. Yang Chengfu was slightly gratified, licked his pale lips, and carefully peeked at the high-mounted cavalry twenty meters behind with his spare eyes, and the nearest general who broke into the camp straddled his horse and drew his sword, with a solemn expression. The word "Han" on a small flag behind swayed in the wind.

The officers and soldiers discovered the transformation of the sequence of the army, and Yang Chengfu looked far through the shadows, and nearly 1,000 people were divided into the front lines of the three departments of the officers and troops, and they set up small formations. The infantry were busy, running around, their eyes were glazed, and they thought they were flies in front of their eye sockets.

Liu Zhe, as the commander-in-chief of the front, stayed between the three and four heavy formations, and he knew the goods, until now the officers and troops separated from the phalanxes of various departments and independent small formations are called "stacked formations", which are combat units mainly for long-range strikes. Under his orders, the first heavy ragtag horse army began to move. The quality of these riders was so poor that it was obvious that they had already charged when they were still hundreds of meters away from the officers and soldiers.

However, this is what Liu Zhe is willing to see, although these inferior horses do not expect to have much damage, it is only appropriate to use them to suppress the official army and deploy the formation. Unexpectedly, this expectation still overestimates these fearful precursors. Their short, poorly sized horses began to scatter their pace after an all-out acceleration of one or two hundred meters. The formation, which was still relatively dense, had already dragged back and forth at this time, and it was sparse and loose. Running in front, he suddenly found that the robe was behind him, and immediately panicked, trying to slow down the horse, and the one behind saw that the mount had lost its momentum, and his liver and gall were broken, and he had the intention of retreating. Before the thousands of horsemen had even rushed within a hundred paces, they were scattered.