Han Army, Chinese Army.

Liu Xiu was riding on a horse, and there was another one beside him, who was Xi Cheying in military uniform.

Liu Xiu has the habit of taking his wife to the battle, but on the battlefield in front of the double army, Liu Xiu never let his wife go into battle, and usually leaves his wife in the camp.

Of course, the reason why Liu Xiu dared to take Xi Cheying into battle was mainly because Xi Cheying had good skills, and if she really moved, seven or eight strong men couldn't get to her.

Looking at the opposite side, the formation of the Pang Meng coalition army is narrow in the front and wide in the back, which is a typical trapezoidal formation.

The Han army put up a rectangular formation with rules and regulations.

Rectangular formation vs. trapezoidal formation, there is no principle of mutual restraint in formation, and the two sides can only simply compete in combat power.

Liu Xiu narrowed his eyes and looked carefully, the formation of the Chinese army of Pang Meng's coalition army seemed to be relatively loose, and the small phalanxes were like fish scales.

Liu Xiu could identify it at a glance, this was Pang Mengjun.

The left army formation of the coalition army is relatively rough, it is a large phalanx, and it is impossible to see how many pieces it is subdivided into, Liu Xiu estimates that this should be a strong army.

The formation of the right army of the coalition army is decent and very orthodox, this should be Su Mao's army.

After making a basic judgment on the enemy's camp and division, Liu Xiu called the herald and said, "Summons the great Sima, capture the general, and attack the enemy's middle army!" ”

"Whoa!"

"Command the general Huya, the general to capture the general, and attack the enemy's right army!"

"Whoa!"

"Summoning the former general, General Han Zhong, the left army of the main enemy army!"

"Whoa!"

Liu Xiu took a breath and made corresponding arrangements for his own attack.

Pang Meng's combat is more meticulous, and he pays special attention to the coordination and changes of each array.

And Wu Han fought extremely fiercely, no matter how the enemy's formation changed, I just wanted to crush and crush you with a ferocious and abnormal offensive.

Therefore, Wu Han's ferocity and fierceness are more restrained by Pang Meng's meticulousness and changeability.

Su Mao is a traditional general, and the arrangement of troops is like a textbook.

And Gaiyan fights, usually does not play cards according to common sense, and Su Mao used to be Gaiyan's subordinate, and he also knows Su Mao and Gaiyan relatively well.

Jiaoqiang is impulsive and irritable, irritable, can't hold his breath, and fights, just like others, he opens and closes, does not pay attention to too many tactics, and uses Wang Liang, who is rigorous in combat and meticulous as silk, just to restrain Jiaoqiang.

Don't look at Liu Xiu's deployment quickly, but every order he gives has been carefully considered, taking into account both the characteristics of his own generals and the characteristics of the enemy's generals.

As soon as Liu Xiu conveyed the order, he heard a long horn sound from the opposite side, followed by the sound of drums.

Looking at the enemy camp, it has begun to advance in full force.

Seeing this, the corners of Liu Xiu's mouth hooked, it seems that he has not been able to break through the city defense of Taocheng in the past 20 days, and he has really forced Pang Meng, Su Mao, and Jiaoqiang to be in a hurry, and he can't wait to fight with him head-on.

He turned his head to look at Xi Cheying beside him and asked, "What does Cheying think of this battle?" ”

Xi Cheying shook her head at first, she didn't have any unique opinions about this battle, the only thing she could see was that her own troops were more than the enemy.

No matter how smart she is, after all, she is not a general in the army, and she has never experienced such a large-scale confrontation between the two armies before, so she has no way to judge the strength and weakness of the two armies, whether she wins or loses.

However, when she saw Liu Xiu's smiling and groaning appearance, she suddenly had a bottom in her heart, and said in a firm tone: "Your Majesty, the concubine thinks that our army will win this battle!" ”

Liu Xiu blinked, laughed, stroked his palm and said, "Well said!" Our army will win! ”

As he spoke, he turned his head sideways and said, "Long Yuan, order the drumming!" ”

With Liu Xiu's order, the drummers picked up the huge drumsticks one after another, exerting all their strength, picking up the drumsticks and hitting the drum surface.

Boom! Together with the sound of drums, the neighing of war horses in the Han army camp was continuous, and even the war horses under Liu Xiu and Xi Cheying's crotches began to kick their hooves and stomp their feet restlessly, and their nostrils were screaming vigorously.

To determine if a horse is a battle-hardened horse, just let it listen to the drums.

But any battle-hardened war horse, as soon as it hears the sound of drums, will naturally get excited, will be eager to try, ready to charge at any time.

Therefore, the sound of drums on the battlefield and the cries of war horses are usually one after another.

Marching with drums and withdrawing troops with gold is a military term that has not changed for thousands of years.

With the sound of drums, the Han camp also began to move forward.

Crash! Bang! Crash! Bang! As the phalanx moved forward, it was accompanied by the sound of uniform footsteps and the grinding of armor.

The dust on the ground flew up and rolled higher and higher, and it looked at the other side like a hurricane.

If you are a recruit who has just entered the battlefield, in the face of this kind of formation, I am afraid that before you have contact with the enemy, your legs will be frightened and weak.

Even if he didn't directly participate in the battle, even if he was in the Chinese army far away from the main battlefield, Xi Cheying still nervously clenched the reins, leaned forward slightly, and stared intently at the moving camp in front of him.

Liu Xiu said softly with relief: "Cheying don't be nervous, in this battle, the enemy army will be defeated, and our army will win!" ”

Xi Cheying sighed, leaned forward and slowly sat up straight, her jade face turned red, and she whispered, "The concubine made Your Majesty laugh, right?" ”

Liu Xiu smiled disappreciatively and said, "When I first entered the battlefield, I was much more nervous than Che Ying!" ”

And he was riding a cow at the time.

Hearing Liu Xiu's words, Xi Cheying's mood relaxed a lot.

She said: "Wait a minute, the concubine will also go into battle to kill the enemy!" ”

Liu Xiule nodded, and praised: "Okay!" ”

He didn't agree with Xi Cheying to go into battle to kill the enemy, but simply admired her courage not to be afraid of strong enemies.

Soon, the two armies were less than a hundred paces apart, and at this time, the archers in both camps twisted their bows and arrows, pitted the arrows into the air, and then carried all their strength to shoot the arrows into the air.

Airplanes! Airplanes! The arrows of both sides soared into the air almost simultaneously, drawing two long arcs in the air, crossing and smashing into the opposing camp with a roar.

"Shield-" The generals of each array shouted with all their strength, pulling their necks.

The soldiers raised their wooden shields one after another, forming a huge shield array above the heads of their own camp.

The falling arrows fell on the shield array, crackling, and from time to time arrows penetrated through the gaps between the shield arrays and nailed to the people's bodies, screaming one after another in the two camps.

Both sides are shooting arrows and raising their shields to defend against each other's arrows, and instead of slowing down, the speed of both sides has become faster.

Finally, the front platoons of the two armies came into contact with each other, and boom, and the sound of shields colliding with shields suddenly became one.

The soldiers in the front row on both sides were holding shields in one hand and stabbing the enemy on the opposite side to death, while the other was holding a sword and stabbing forward desperately.

The soldiers in the back held halberds in both hands, and they also stabbed at the enemy with a desperate stab.

In the case that the soldiers of both sides are dead together and there is no room for maneuver, whether it is a spear or a halberd, as long as it stabs into the opponent's crowd, it will definitely be able to kill and injure the enemy.

The shouts and screams that erupted between the two armies became one in an instant.

No one retreats, at this time, everyone has one mind, that is, to rush forward, squeeze forward, as long as they disperse the enemy on the opposite side, they will have a chance to walk off the battlefield alive.

The battle had just begun, and it was not yet clear who had the advantage and who was at a disadvantage, and the front rows of soldiers on both sides had not fallen to the ground one after another, but one after another.

The brothers in front fell, and the comrades in the back stepped forward to fill their positions, and then fell down, and then filled their positions, and so on, and so on, and this central line between the two armies was like a huge meat grinder, tearing everyone who squeezed it to pieces.

Soon, the corpses between the two armies were stacked on top of each other, getting more and more tired, but no one retreated, and everyone was pushing forward with all their might.

On the side of Wu Han and Ma Wu, they fought evenly with Pang Mengjun, Gai Yan, Wang Ba, Wang Liang and Wang Chang, against Su Mao and Jiaoqiang, and gradually showed their advantages.

The reason for this is due to the characteristics of the trapezoidal array.

Su Mao and the strong troops were all with few soldiers in the front, and many soldiers in the back, and a small number of soldiers in the front could not resist the all-out onslaught of Gai Yan and Wang Liang's two divisions.

As Su Mao's troops and the strongest troops were forced to retreat, the Pang Meng coalition camp gradually turned into a convex shape.

The formation of the Han army on this side has become a concave shape.

Seeing this, Xi Cheying's face was happy, and he turned his head to Liu Xiu and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, General Gai and General Wang are excellent!" ”

Liu Xiu's face was not happy, but frowned, and muttered: "Juqing and Jun Yan's advance is too abrupt!" ”

He raised his hand, and Long Yuan immediately urged him to step forward and said, "Your Majesty! ”

"Immediately send someone to inform Gai Yan and Wang Liang, don't fall for the trick of luring the enemy, and get out of touch with our army headquarters!"

Liu Xiu was originally a little strange, why Pang Meng put on a trapezoidal array, but now, Pang Meng didn't put this array out at random.

He deliberately put Su Mao and the strong weak soldiers in the front, and the strong army in the back, so that the two armies attacking his second division would gradually be disconnected from the headquarters because of the rapid advance, so as to give Pang Meng's army the opportunity to break through one by one.

Liu Xiu, who was in charge of the Chinese army, saw it very clearly, and when he realized that something was wrong, he immediately sent someone to send a message to Gai Yan and Wang Liang.

After receiving Liu Xiu's reminder, the advance of Gai Yan and Wang Liang's second division immediately stopped, and they no longer blindly pursued the enemy army that was being defeated in front of them, but waited for the Wu Han army that was dragging behind to catch up.

Pang Meng's side was already ready, and he was thinking about whether to concentrate his forces to attack Gai Yan first, or to concentrate his forces to attack Wang Liang, but Gai Yan and Wang Liang both stopped advancing, which made Pang Meng's plan arranged in advance suddenly come to naught.

Seeing that Gai Yan and Wang Liang stopped advancing together, Pang Meng was stunned for a moment before coming back to his senses, and he muttered, "It's Liu Xiu!" It must be Liu Xiu who saw through my tactics! ”

Su Mao and Jiaoqiang, who were beside Pang Meng, glanced at each other and asked in unison, "King Dongping, what should I do now?" ”

Pang Meng sighed and said with a wry smile: "Liu Xiu's use of soldiers is unpredictable, and it is difficult to let him be fooled!" ”

After a pause, he took a deep breath and said, "General Su and General Jiao, now you two can lead your troops to fight back with all your might, and fight head-to-head with Gai Yan and Wang Liang, and fight to the death!" ”

Su Mao and Jiaoqiang didn't say a word, arched their hands to Pang Meng, and went to their respective headquarters.

With the arrival of Su Mao and Jiaoqiang, Su Mao's army and Jiaoqiang's army launched a counterattack against the Han army at the same time.

The Han army, which was fighting smoothly, did not expect the enemy to launch such a fierce counterattack, and was caught off guard, and the Gaiyan army and Wang Liang's army were forced to retreat.

After a confrontation, the battle losses on both sides were countless, and as a result, the battle on the field returned to the original point.

The soldiers of the Han army have been on the battlefield for a long time, but Pang Meng's army, Su Mao's army, and the outstanding army, how can it not be so?

In terms of combat experience, there is almost no difference between the two sides, and in terms of on-the-spot command and battlefield strategy, Pang Meng is not necessarily much worse than famous generals such as Wu Han, Gai Yan, and Wang Liang.