"The Shu army is unbearable, and if you want to block my edge, you will undoubtedly use your mantis arm as a car! Speed up the march, quickly crush the rabble, and remove the obstacles to the city of Dangtu. Lin Renzhao said from the review department.

It was a cloudy day, and there was still mist on the ground, and the vision was not very thorough. When Lin Renzhao looked back, he saw that the dense soldiers and horses on the two main roads were following behind, marching vertically and horizontally. Directly ahead, many rangers roam in the flat field.

A military general hugged his fists and said: "The last general immediately urges all departments." ”

Not long after, I suddenly heard a person in front of me shouting: "Shu army array!" ”

Lin Renzhao unhurriedly reached out and wiped his round head, put on his helmet, and rode past the horse team in front. Looking at it, I saw a large number of soldiers and horses in the distance, with flags like clouds, and a large number of people and horses.

A group of people took the lead in riding forward, and after getting closer, Lin Renzhao took a closer look for a moment, and suddenly felt that it was not too good. At this time, the subordinate generals around him also spoke: "Guanzhi is fully clothed and armored, and the queue is clean, it doesn't seem to be a rabble......"

Lin Renzhao also saw that Dafan estimated the enemy's combat strength before the war, and this is how he looked at it with his eyes.

He didn't say a word, but observed again. The mountain on the left is heavily shadowed, and that mountain is the Great Yellow Mountain; And behind the position of the Shu army opposite, there should be a lake...... Lin Renzhao had sent scouts to carefully inspect the terrain and military situation of this generation.

On the opposite side, the large array of the Shu army is backed by the lake, next to the mountain, and the whole area of men and horses is in a square shape, which is a defensive formation. However, the formation is very rare, it looks like a "six-flower array", but judging by the density of each corner, it seems that there are not only six corners (like the protrusion like the petals of a flower), but eight...... So it's like an "eight-array diagram".

At this moment, the general asked, "Lin Gong, are you still arranging the fish scale array according to the previous decision?" ”

Lin Renzhao was a little hesitant for a while. The army in front seems to be a bit difficult to gnaw, will there be any danger if it can't be resolved quickly? He calmed down and thought about it again, the main force of the Zhou army was quarrying, and under the threat of more than 40,000 people from Huangfu Jixun, he could fight at any time, and he was afraid that he would not be able to withdraw his hand to threaten himself for a while; What's more, the quarrying Zhou army is more than twenty miles away from here!

Although this group of Shu soldiers is clean, they are still Shu soldiers. These people were arrested from Shu Kingdom, can they really fight a tough battle?

In the midst of his thoughts, the vanguard of the army had already come, and the envoy came to inquire again. Lin Renzhao immediately said: "Arrange the formation according to the original plan!" ”

At the foot of the mountain, people came and went, and the people and horses who arrived at the battlefield began to form a phalanx under the arrangement of the generals, arranging a fish-scale array. The direction of the Nan** battalion was arranged in the northwest, so as to avoid the mountains on the left flank and increase the attack surface.

It was a long time before the men and horses who came one after another were deployed to the arranged position. The south ** into the attack, the middle is prominent, the back is the wrong echelon, the heavy troops are gathered in the front, and the tactics are very simple: break through in the middle!

At this moment, I suddenly saw a movement in the large array of the Shu army, and the entire octagonal shape began to rotate slowly. Lin Renzhao rode his horse to the front to watch, figuring out the intentions of the Shu army, and later saw that the Shu army turned a well-armored horn to the front, and Lin Renzhao finally understood.

The opposing generals should also see that Nan ** deployed the fish scale formation and understood that the edge of this formation was in the middle lane, so he put the most elite group of men and horses on the front. From a distance, the infantry was wearing a lot of armor, and the armor was shiny, a bit like the Mingguang armor of the Tang Dynasty. In short, the best armor should be elite soldiers.

This formation can rotate in the inner circle, and Lin Renzhao's attackers are on the periphery, unable to avoid the opponent's elite. He did not change his tactics and ordered the southern ** large formation to approach the enemy camp together.

After a while, the long-range crossbowmen in front of them began to fire arrows at each other. Lin Renzhao then left the front army, returned to the drummer in the middle, and ordered the middle horse team to go out; Then he climbed into a large car that had been built on an elevated road. Seeing that after the Nan** horse team was dispatched, the archers of the Shu army were already retreating, returning to the big formation from the emptiness between the corners.

The south ** opened the way with horsemen, and the main force approached forward. The central protrusion of the heavy troops attacked a corner of the Shu army, and the sound of killing in the battle array shook the sky.

Lin Renzhao was in the Chinese army, and the battle started in the front, and the army stopped advancing and waited for the central department to break through the enemy camp. However, there was still no progress for a long time, and the whole army could not advance half a step.

Riding back to the Chinese army, he knelt down on one knee and said: "Marshal Yulin, the striker can't break through the enemy camp, and there are many casualties!" ”

Lin Renzhao can see a general situation in the Chinese army, his own forward is heavy, the number is far more than one of the eight corners of the Shu army, and he also has cavalry. Nan** also rushed fiercely, and there was no sign of cowardice, but many people were killed and injured, and they couldn't break the force.

The situation was completely unexpected by Lin Renzhao, he didn't expect the Shu army to be so able to fight, so he was a little panicked at the moment, and shouted: "The pro-soldier team is on the horse, I'll take a look!" ”

The general hurriedly dissuaded: "The big war has begun, the commander has left the Chinese army, in case there is a mistake, the whole army will be disadvantaged." ”

Only then did Lin Renzhao endure and said, "Order the second formation of the right flank to be dispatched from the flank!" ”

"Order!" One of the generals shouted and turned on his horse.

Lin Renzhaobu's fish scale formation, with elite troops in the middle, was intended to concentrate troops to break through the enemy camp from the center; It is not a good idea to divide the forces to attack another place now, because it is impossible to concentrate the forces in one place with a dispersed force...... However, Lin Renzhao temporarily judged that the reason why the front could not advance was because of a small number of elites in the Shu army, so he had this order.

The southern ** cavalry went first, followed by the infantry, and attacked another "corner" of the Shu army from the right flank. Looking from the elevated position of the cart, a group of horsemen could be seen shooting arrows near the enemy formation, and the opponent's queue was stable with dense spearmen in front, and the Southern Tang cavalry did not dare to attack head-on. In the Shu military camp, the infantry bows were thrown in batches, and the southern ** horse team lost more, and the people had more armor, but the horses did not have armor, resulting in the loss of war horses, and the cavalry kept falling off their horses.

The center of the opposite "octagonal array" is a hollow, and the Shu army puts the horse soldiers in the hollow, and at this time a horse army has quickly reinforced to the right flank. "Dangdangdang......" There was a faint sound of bronze, and the southern ** horse soldiers retreated, reorganizing the soldiers and horses in the open space on the right, waiting for the infantry to catch up.

After a while, the right-wing infantry stepped forward and gradually approached the "corner" of the Shu army, and the two sides soon met each other, the shouting was more noisy, the men and horses were stabbing intensively in the place of contact, and the bows and arrows behind were still throwing at each other, and the battlefield was very tragic. But the Shu army column has not collapsed for a long time!

Lin Renzhao was flustered, and then asked, "Who is the commander of the Shu army?" ”

The general replied: "The scout who was caught this morning confessed that his name is Gao Yanyu, and he is a general of the Shu Kingdom. ”

Lin Renzhao frowned and said, "That Gao Yanyan, why do you have to work so hard for the people of the Zhou Kingdom?" Mother|Yes, being a dog is so loyal! ”

When he scolded, he forgot that he was also a general of the Fujian State, and he was also very hard for the Southern Tang Kingdom! However, Lin Renzhao's idea was that the southern countries should have united to resist the Central Plains a long time ago.

He finally couldn't bear it anymore, and led the army to the right flank in person, shouting: "Follow me to break the Shu army camp!" ”

At this moment, someone suddenly caught up with him and shouted, "Oh no! ”

"What's the alarm?" Lin Renzhao turned his head very unhappily.

The man pointed to the right and shouted, "Lin Dashuai, look! It's all a horse team, it's a Zhou military horse, right? ”

Lin Renzhao noticed the end of the western field, and sure enough, he saw a group of horsemen running out of the sparse woods! The distance is too far, and the other party has no flag, so I can't see whose people it is...... But Lin Renzhao's heart was already cold, and it was almost certain that he was an enemy soldier! As the soldier who reminded him said, the cavalry was the most cavalry of the Central Plains; And in addition to Lin Renzhao's men and horses here, who else is here? Whoever is coming should at least tell him.

Lin Renzhao was stunned there, Rao is confident that he was proficient in the art of war in the battle array, and he was helpless at this time, so he was stunned.

Where did the come from? Didn't it make an appointment for Huangfu Jixun to attack quarrying today, and his more than 40,000 people attacked such an important place, and he could still let the Zhou army free up?

At this moment, a horse galloped back, ran towards Lin Renzhao's banner, and shouted before he could get off his horse: "Zhou State Army!" Here it comes! ”

"Lin Gong, what should I do?" The ministry asked urgently.

What to do? Lin Renzhao also wanted to ask...... Mother|Damn, how could Lao Tzu expect that he would be cold and kill a group of horsemen from somewhere? Now this fish scale formation, with heavy troops gathered in front, was originally an offensive formation, and the rear flank was very weak, which could withstand the assault of a large force of cavalry?

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Gao Yanyu was also not in the Chinese army, he supervised the battle in the west (south ** right flank). The men and horses on the front are the most elite troops of the entire Jiannan Army, and they are equipped with the excellent plate armor allocated by Guo Shao, and the defense is extremely high; After getting the "corners" on both sides and the reinforcements of the Chinese army, the front line was very stable. But the west side is a little unable to withstand the attack, most of the officers and soldiers of the Jiannan Army were selected from the Shu forbidden army, and there was no vicious battle for many years, and they did not fight when Chengdu Mansion fell...... When there is less blood, a little more people will collapse.

Gao Yan personally led the cavalry to sit behind the battle formation, and those who wanted to run were beheaded by the formation, and the others were frightened and did not dare to flee easily. There was a steady stream of reinforcements from the central cavalry, which barely withstood it!

But it's hard to say how long it can last. Gao Yanyu was anxious to establish his position in the Zhou court, and he himself would rather die in battle than be defeated, but the soldiers below were not as eager as him.

But even if it collapses a corner, it may be able to survive for a while, after all, the gap in the eight formations is relatively small. This is also Gao Yanyan's consideration of not using six flower formations and lining up eight formations. The more angles there are, the smaller the gap in a place will be. He didn't use the Eight Array Diagram this time, maybe it could be called the "Eight Flower Array...... The changes in the eight-flower array used by Zhuge Liang were too complicated, and ordinary people in later generations could not use it, so they developed a more simplified six-flower array.

Gao Yanyan was also anxious, then Lin Renzhao was indeed not in vain, and if he continued to fight like this, Gao Yanyan felt that the future was worrying.

At this moment, I finally heard a military general cheering, reinforcements are coming!

Gao Yanyan ignored his appearance, stood up on the horse's back and watched with his stirrup, his face was overjoyed. Guo Shao came too timely, Shipo Mountain is near the quarry, more than 20 miles away from here, and he arrived so quickly.

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(I didn't want to apologize anymore, but I had to do it.)

On the 16th of this month, I set off from home to Beijing to participate in the training of the Lu Xun Academy of Literature, which ended on April 3, and the return trip took nearly 20 days. So this month's goal is to keep changing as much as possible, and there is only one update per day.

The second more guarantee will be restored next month, I hope you can understand; I blame me for not saving the manuscript. ）