Chapter 444: Deng Ai broke the formation
"If Tongguan is lost, our army will lose contact with the Central Plains, and then Wei Yan's army will be able to crisscross the pass at will! , we will be invincible, completely isolated, and passively defensive......" Guo Huai let out a long sigh, and a trace of desolation spread out, making everyone smell an unusual smell. Where are the words of the commander of an army who has won a great victory during the day?
"In today's battle, I learned why the Han army fought and our army was defeated repeatedly?" Guo Huai's eyes flickered, and he said slightly: "I have heard Liu Cong for a long time, his momentum is calm, powerful and domineering, Fa Zheng, Pang Tong and others have a lot of thoughts, calm and strategic, and they also command a lot of warriors, and the sergeants are strong, there are such powerful masters, and there are so many talents under his command, and the soldiers under him are also the division of tigers and wolves, just ask, how can they be easily defeated?" ”
Guo Huai hated only hating that he was born at the wrong time, he was still a weak-crowned young man when the first emperor ruled the world, and now he can finally take charge of himself, but it was the first emperor who died, and the sons competed for succession, especially the reckless man Cao Zhang, who actually took soldiers and horses to Yecheng to cause the emptiness of Guanzhong to give the enemy a chance. Doesn't he know that there are no eggs under the nest? If you want to fight for the big position, you have to keep the big position first. Guo Huai knew that he was still young, and even Cao Zhen couldn't stop Cao Zhang, he could only obey the destiny of heaven and do his best. Let Huang Zhong escape yesterday, I don't know how the enemy army behind will respond? How long can iji's fifteen thousand men hold off the Han army.
Hearing Guo Huai praise the enemy like this, everyone felt bad in their hearts, but they had to admit this fact. Cao Cao, the first emperor of the Great Wei State, fought in the north and south throughout his life, and was defeated by Liu Cong in a few rare defeats. Which of the three current power rivals can surpass the emperor in military talent? Although yesterday won a battle by relying on the formation, but the entire Chang'an is only 20,000 people in total, once the enemy's army is surrounded, no matter how powerful you put in the formation, after all, it will not be able to withstand the enemy's crowd tactics. What's more, the Han army has always been brave, and it is difficult to reverse the psychological advantage of winning more and losing less against the Wei army at once.
The battlefield is so dangerous that even a casual mistake can cost you your life. With Xiahou Yuan's experience, Guo Huai was naturally cautious, muttering to himself in the camp tent: "Don't look at their losses today, maybe tomorrow they will break our array......"
Early in the morning, on the battlefield of the two armies, the military flags were hoisted high, and the morale of both sides was very high.
Guo Huai stood on the temporary tower, majestic and heroic, the image was mighty, only to see the flag wave, nearly 10,000 Wei soldiers began to form a large formation in full swing. It was still the weird glaive array, which made the soldiers on Huang Zhong's side look big. Obviously, Guo Huai plans to repeat the old tricks, and it is a day to delay it, in his opinion, as long as the Han army does not think of the method of breaking the formation for a day, then he has to play with himself around here.
"General Xu Sheng, before you lead all the troops under your command, go and break the formation according to what the military advisor said. Remember to gather the sergeants and not blindly scatter, and break through immediately if something goes wrong. Huang Zhong gave an order, although he felt a little unbearable in his heart, but in order to break the formation as soon as possible, someone had to make some sacrifices!
Xu Sheng drank in a deep voice, raised the cirrus knife in his hand, and the blade-like momentum rose to the sky, and with a snort, he took the lead in rushing out, followed by the sound of a surging charge.
Just like yesterday, Xu Sheng led the military horse into the formation, and went straight to the eye of the formation, without stopping for a moment, and the entrance that came in behind them had been blocked by the Wei army, and they couldn't find the original direction if they wanted to go out. In the big array, all kinds of military flags reflect each other, and the troops don't need the Wei army to start coming and going, and you can see that the side of the Jiangdong Han army is dizzying.
"Don't panic, the whole army pays attention to the sneak attack of the enemy on both sides, the archers respond left and right, and shoot directly as soon as they find the exposed Wei army." Xu Sheng was calm and a little hurried, obviously the more he went inside, the more pressure he felt. Despite his advisor's repeated instructions before departure, he was worried that the sergeant would be in disarray when he saw him surrounded.
Originally, he didn't have any mental pressure outside the formation yesterday, but after he really came in, he felt that there was a murderous aura everywhere around him, and it was the kind of murderous aura hidden in the shadows, which made him feel a heavy pressure. No wonder Huang Zhong and Han Dang, the two veterans, fled! Xu Shengrao is younger than them, but if it weren't for Huang Zhong's experience in the battle yesterday, I'm afraid it would be difficult to get out!
Outside the formation, Huang Zhong and the others had faces as heavy as frost, their eyes were firmly fixed on Xu Sheng's soldiers and horses, and the heaviness in their hearts was no less than that of Xu Sheng in the formation. Pang Tong on the side looked even more serious, he urgently needed a strategy to break the formation, otherwise Xu Sheng would very likely have no return! It's just that Guo Huai, the glaive, hadn't fully exerted his power yesterday, and Pang Tong didn't dare to be hasty, he just hoped that Xu Sheng could hold on for a while longer. Let Guo Huai complete the evolution of the entire formation, and when the time comes, how powerful this mutated glaive array is, Pang Tong will be able to get along with the corresponding countermeasures!
"The fish are here, so let's show you how powerful the maze is." Guo Huai looked at the Han army that had entered the center, knowing that the enemy wanted to find the formation by a strong attack, he naturally would not let the enemy succeed, and gave orders to several adjutants beside him. Soon, the situation in the formation began to change, and it was the same as the scene in the formation yesterday.
Rows of Dunjia soldiers stepped out, and the rest of the soldiers retreated one after another, and then a round array of Dunjia like iron buckets appeared in front of Huang Zhong and the others. Xu Sheng looked back and saw that only half of the soldiers and horses he had brought into the formation were left, and the rest were either killed or scattered after rushing into the formation. He shook his head helplessly, not every soldier can move forward as determined as himself. Otherwise, General Huang Lao would not have rushed into battle with 2,000 people yesterday, and seven people came out.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey......" Wei Jun, who was wrapped in Dunjia, took heavy and fast steps, and began to circle non-stop, coupled with the wind and dust, which disturbed the line of sight, no matter what he saw, it was blurry.
Xu Sheng smiled playfully, it's this set again, it's because he looks down on me Xu Sheng, and he dares to use the tricks he has used. Xu Sheng thought that his martial arts might be worse than General Huang's, but in the end, he was much younger, and his physical strength was much better after all. But gradually, he found out that the situation was wrong, the soldiers behind him did not dare to act rashly in the formation, and the spears and broadswords did not work at all when they saw Wei Jun! In addition, they act quickly, it is difficult to catch at all, and they are hidden from time to time, completely caught in a maze, and are in a passive situation that is difficult to fight back.
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people he brought, Xu Sheng looked a little helplessly in the direction of his own camp, hoping that the military advisor Pang Tong would come up with a way to break the formation as soon as possible, otherwise he would have to explain to the formation today.
"Deng Ai, up!" Just when Xu Sheng was anxious, Pang Tong, who was watching the battle outside, finally issued an order, and the young military marquis Deng Ai was used as the second step to break the formation. Originally, Deng Ai had also been pestering Huang Zhong to ask for help, but Huang Zhong knew that His Majesty the Emperor loved this young man very much, so he didn't dare to take risks.
At this time, the military advisor let Deng Ai go into battle, and Huang Zhong thought that Pang Tong had thought of a way to break the formation to make Deng Ai make meritorious service, so he also blocked it. Deng Ai, who was standing on the side, was dressed in bright silver armor, a seven-foot-high white war horse under his crotch, and a spear in his hand, which was also majestic, and at first glance it reminded people of Zhao Zilong when he was young. However, Deng Ai himself is not bad, under the careful teaching of Deng Zhi, Zhao Yun and others, he can now be regarded as able to write and martial arts, and the treasure armor on his body is something that Liu Cong has fought for many years. The martial arts of one body are also full of Zhao Yun's true biography.
But today he didn't go to fight the enemy generals alone, but was ordered to break the flaws! So lead the people straight into the enemy line! I want to meet Xu Sheng as soon as possible. Xu Sheng rode on the horse and saw that someone on his side was rushing into the formation, so he also turned the horse's head and led his subordinates to meet in the direction of the people, and soon the two groups of people and horses converged together, Xu Sheng was about to ask Deng Aike if he had a way to break the formation.
I heard Deng Ai shouting loudly: "Crossbowmen, prepare!" Xu Sheng took a look, it turned out that the two thousand people brought in by Deng Ai were each carrying a Zhuge crossbow. At such a close distance, the enemy still has a shield, what kind of trouble are these military divisions and little generals going to make?
With Deng Ai's order, the two thousand people immediately formed a circle to surround Xu Sheng and his subordinates, picked up the crossbow and quickly aimed, and the arrow was aimed at the shield array on the opposite side.
"Shoot!"
Torrential arrows slammed into the hard shields, and the tight and impermeable shield array only heard the sound of thumping and clattering, but did not hear any screams. Deng Ai was not discouraged, but expected this result, smiled coldly, and then ordered the crossbowmen: "Attack head-on, crossbow arrows ready." ”
The soldiers of the Wei army holding the shields thought that the soldiers and horses of the Han army in Jiangdong were going to carry out a new round of arrow shooting, and they were all cynical in their hearts.
However, just as someone came up with this idea, through the narrow gap between the shields, you could clearly feel the silver light reflected in, it turned out that these crossbowmen actually approached quickly with an arrow in one hand! Then arrows came in through the gaps, and before the Wei soldiers had time to prepare, they all screamed miserably, and they all covered their faces and wailed.
Blood spilled out through the space between the shields one by one, and the Han soldiers each held slender crossbow arrows, crowded in front of the shield array, and thrust into it fiercely, and every time they could hear a crisp sound of entering the bones and screams. Xu Sheng looked dumbfounded in the middle, can crossbow arrows still be used like this? But it really didn't work, because just now the Wei army shrank behind the shield in order to avoid the crossbow arrows, and no one thought of counterattacking at all, but they just thought that the Han army would definitely not be able to shoot themselves!
The unprepared Wei soldiers did not expect to be hit by this inexplicable blow, and began to resist one after another, and the spearmen in the shield recovered from the shock, raised their spears one after another, and stabbed them outside, but the Han soldiers outside were already prepared, and immediately left the shield in front of them after a round of attacks. Go back to where you are and form a circle, pick up your crossbow and keep aiming.
Then another rain of arrows fell, the shield array that had just been opened, was hit so intensively, the personnel immediately decreased sharply, and the remaining Wei soldiers wanted to arrange the shield array again, but they had completely lost their advantage, Xu Shengzhong reacted, and the fast horse rushed to the front and shouted to the infantry behind him, "Kill!" ”
Deng Ai smiled knowingly, our General Xu finally knew to protect the crossbowmen! The Han soldiers in the front row quickly pressed up, but this time they were no longer bows and arrows, but sharp blades on the battlefield.
This situation happened in many shield arrays, and in an instant, the so-called shield array was broken in one fell swoop, and the so-called maze completely disappeared after losing the dominance of the shield array. The maze after the mutation of the Glaive Array was actually broken by Deng Ai in such a simple way? Xu Sheng was very puzzled while killing the enemy!