Now that we have received accurate information about the officers and soldiers, it is already feasible to block the attack, and it is possible and necessary to eliminate or at least cripple this group of officers and troops at the first opportunity.

So, Zhao Dahai recalled the soldiers who were nervously cutting down giant trees on the mountain to build a small village, and immediately summoned all the captains to start arranging the blocking position and lined up a large array of guns.

The arrangement of troops still depends on Geng Kui, the old army, this is not the strength of Zhao Dahai, a personal and brave post station, and Zhao Dahai also willingly handed over the command.

Geng Kui did not give in, and lined up the three teams of spearmen relying on the Wuding River with their backs against Ximaoliang, taking the sixth team of the cottage old man Zhu Tie as the center, Wang Xin and Jiang Liang divided the two teams into two wings, and Zhao Dahai's cavalry was hidden behind the three teams, as a surprise soldier ready to give the enemy a heavy blow at the most critical time of the war, and his twenty prison sergeants were placed behind the entire large array as the supervising team, staring at every brother who might hesitate to escape.

There are no reserves, there is no strategic depth, and some are desperate to fight to the death.

At this time, Zhao Xing, who was sent by Lu Shi in the old camp of the Chinese army, hurried over with a team of men and horses, bringing good news and bad news.

The good news is that in order to reinforce the broken army to build temporary fortifications, the old battalion sent 500 heavy soldiers and carried sufficient tools, the bad news is that the bow battalion can not move, because the front is the county town of Suide, if you want to speed up the speed to take this roadblock, you must have the full strength of the bow battalion support.

But Zhao Xing said to Zhao Dahai, who was slightly disappointed, that although there was no support from the bow and arrow battalion, the military advisor still brought them a wonderful way to restrain the cavalry of the official army from charging into battle.

As soon as these words came out, Zhao Dahai immediately smiled, he had always believed in Lu Shi's whimsy, and he had always believed that his stupid brother's idea would definitely work.

When Zhao Xing said this method, Zhao Dahai paused for a while, then stretched out his thumb and shouted again and again, "High, really high." But he said in his heart, Lu Shi, you are really damaged, too bad.

With the addition of five hundred baggage soldiers, this made Geng Kui breathe a sigh of relief, these baggage soldiers are also veterans who have recovered from injuries, and their combat power is definitely not to be underestimated, which happens to be his own reserve.

The method of reserve is also Lu Shi's idea.

In fact, at that time, there was no reserve for the two armies to start a war, and the emphasis was on the three armies together, and the momentum was like a tiger, and only the commander of the Chinese army led a few pro-army generals to sit in the Chinese army, once the enemy broke through the front army to hit the Chinese army, then there was only the result of defeat, which is why in ancient times, there was always a group of men and horses to enter the Chinese army, and it was not uncommon to see cases of killing generals and capturing the flag to win more with less.

It is to the time of the Republic of China, the national army does not have the habit of reserves, often the entire line of defense is broken through a point will lead to the collapse of the entire front, such examples abound throughout the Anti-Japanese War period, and the first army from the founding of Mao Taizu, even if a company of the battle is left in reserve, as long as a place is dangerous, the reserve immediately goes up, the reserve is the fire brigade, the reserve often appears at the key turning point of the battle or campaign, the defense can make the front resilient, and once the counterattack, that is the new force, It's a sharp knife that has just come out of its sheath and is invincible.

Geng Kui chose the terrain to block the attack, regardless of rest, and according to the method of the military division, he took everyone to be busy in front of the battle for an hour, and then he ate and rested.

Looking at the three poles of the sun, a soldier on duty pointed in the direction of the north and shouted: "Deputy commander, look, the dust is rising in the north, and the officers and soldiers are coming!" ”

Everyone turned over and looked up, but no, the flags of the officers and soldiers were already faintly fluttering in the dust.

The captains didn't need Zhao Dahai's orders, they immediately jumped up, shouted loudly for the soldiers to get up, put on each other's rattan hats and stood in formation according to the training, and the sergeant sent by the supervisor walked to the end of the queue and stared closely at the soldiers in the entire queue.

Looking at the swarming ranks of officers and soldiers, those Black Tiger soldiers who fought for the first time, their bodies that had not moved at all during training were shaking uneasily, Zhu Tie, who was standing at the core of the formation, knew that he needed to say something now to boost his morale, looking at everyone's eyes with anxiety and fear, Zhu Tie took a deep breath, raised his gun and walked to the front of the team, thought about it, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, do you remember our military regulations!" ”

The array didn't make a sound, and they all looked at him nervously.

"Well, I'll repeat the military regulations to you, the gun array pays attention to team cooperation, close cooperation, you don't care about your back and left and right, give your back and left and right to your brothers, your task is to look at the enemy in front of you, stab out your spear, cooperate with your brothers and teammates, become a wall, a wall that can not let any enemy break through you, and threaten the safety of the brothers behind you, once the gun is in hand, the gun array rolls forward, that is, there is no enemy, there is no me, I am invincible.

Don't think about running away, because before and after you are your brothers in your neighborhood and township, if there is a gap in this wall because of your escape, then you will kill your brothers and uncles, township, listen, King Chuang (this time he is not called a military advisor) stipulates that all the soldiers who are behind, the first thing you have to do is to keep an eye on the brother in front of you, once he wants to escape, you first stab him to death, and then you fill the position of the deserter, if you can't do it because the deserter is your relatives and friends in the township, The sergeant of the prison will behead you first, and then the deserters.

You must remember that once you can't stop the enemy, then the thousands of your families, the elderly, children, wives, and sisters behind you will be slaughtered, do you remember, are you willing to fight to the death for thousands of fathers and elders? ”

The battlefield was solemn, there was no roar, only the silent soldiers

"So, now let our heroes die in battle, die in battle, die in battle." Zhu Tie glared at his soldiers fiercely, and roared loudly with determination and no room for determination.

After speaking, without looking at the desperate eyes of the soldiers, he clenched the pistol in his hand, strode to the right of the team, stood with the drummer, and shouted: "All of them, squat down in the front row and become a rejection horse!" ”

The soldiers in the first row mechanically crouched down as instructed, holding the end of their guns to the ground, and raised their spears diagonally forward.

"Second row, spear on the shoulder"

The soldiers of the second platoon put their spears on the shoulders of the soldiers of the first platoon and stepped on the tail of the guns with their feet, and the third platoon clenched their guns with both hands according to the habit of training, ready to stab them at any time

"Third row." Zhu Tie paused, "The spear points to the back of the second row"

Accustomed to military orders, the third platoon did not hesitate, staggered, and pointed his spears at the backs of the soldiers in the second row.

"Sergeant of the Warden, point the gun at my back"

The sergeant did as he was told, and a gun was firmly pressed against Zhu Tie's back.

Seeing Zhu Tie's resoluteness, Wang Xin and Jiang Liang also shouted the same order as Zhu Tie, and Zhao Dahai's cavalry also drew out their sabers and held them tightly.

Geng Kui lined up the remaining prison sergeants behind the battle formation, and unsheathed their long knives, not facing the enemy, but facing the backs of the brothers.

"Alright, let's wait for the hero's death." Zhao Dahai's blood was boiling, and he raised his knife and shouted.

The hunting cold wind blew over the head of the Black Tiger Army, and the red tassels hunted, and the spears did not move like a mountain.

The front is the west exit, as long as the west exit is chased, that is the Suide territory, when the time comes, there is Suide Jiancheng in front, there is Wuding River in the east to block, there are rolling ravines and mountains in the west, when the time comes, the thief will really become the front has blocked the pursuit of soldiers, it is difficult to fly with wings, and this money and food military merit will be at your fingertips.

With such an illusion, when the sun rose, Gong Weixian, the deputy commander-in-chief, appeared at the west entrance with his 3,600 men and horses.

When he appeared in front of the West Exit, what was shown in front of him was a forest of guns, and a resolute and resolute face, the square team was silent, and the aura of slaughter expanded infinitely, although it was still three miles away, but the momentum was still oppressing his chest dullly breathless, obviously there were only a thousand people, but it gave people the feeling that there were thousands of troops, and Gong Weixian couldn't help but gasp on the horse, this is a strong army, not a group of rabble at all.

Gong Weixian is not a wasted person, he has been in the army since he was a child, hundreds of battles of all sizes, how rich and experienced, as soon as he saw this formation, he felt that he was facing a difficult bone to gnaw.

Waving his hand to summon his subordinate generals, deputy generals, guerrillas, and other generals to gather, while waiting for the adjustment and rest of the follow-up brigade, he discussed the attack method with a few close generals.

"Brothers, see no, look at the posture on the other side, it's not an ordinary pole homeless person, but a well-trained thief, and it seems that there are a lot of people, we have encountered a hard idea!"

Everyone nodded in agreement with the general's opinion, but no one was nervous, because these people were all fought, and it was not unheard of in a large battle of tens of thousands of people.

Seeing that everyone was waiting for their own ideas, Gong Weixian no longer procrastinated, "Judging from the current appearance, the Woniu Mountain Thieves are really jumping off the wall in a hurry, this is to use the most elite pole to break off, to buy them time to escape, we must quickly break through the bandits of more than 1,000 people on the opposite side, catch up with the thief brigade, drag him, and wait for the town guard brigade to come, I am afraid that it will change if it is late!" ”

"Only listen to the general's dispatch, our 4,000-strong army is still afraid of these homeless poles, and they can be beaten with a charge!"

"Although there are few thieves, but don't be careless to underestimate the enemy, I think their spears are longer than our normal guns, but the length of the spear is good for the far and not for the close!"

Gong Weixian looked at the opposite military formation, and carefully analyzed: "In this way, when the brothers on foot behind us have sorted out the attack formation, the cavalry brothers and I will rush over together with our speed, as long as we risk our lives and give up a few horses to collide with the opponent's gun formation, open the gap, the brothers on foot follow closely, rush in in the gap and slash vigorously, so that we will fight more and less in hand-to-hand combat, and we will definitely succeed." Gong Weixian analyzed confidently.

"Okay, just listen to the general." Everyone felt that this method was foolproof, so they all agreed.

"Listen, this time it's really desperate, don't be a bad seed, if there are those who retreat, those who hesitate, my own soldiers will be ruthlessly slashed and killed!"

"Yes." All the generals stood together solemnly, and the battlefield discipline was quite strict, and after a big battle, the number of people killed by themselves and those killed by the enemy was often comparable.

"That's good, rest for a while, start charging immediately, you must achieve victory with one blow!"

Gong Weixian looked at the hundred battle elite soldiers behind him, turned around silently and didn't say much, took out the long knife on his waist and waved it into the air, shouting "Brothers kill with me" and immediately rushed to the enemy formation.