The circle array is the source of a hundred arrays, which can be sharp, dense and sparse, and unpredictable. Judging the movement of the circle formation, you can't look at the formation, after all, no matter how you look at it, it's round, and you can only look at what the main general is pointing to. It is impossible for the palace armor to surrender surrounded by the front and rear, and it is necessary to break through to the death, Xiong Jing's carriage is in the center of the circle, and the direction of the carriage is the direction of the palace armor breakthrough.

Cai Bao's move of turning the front of the car surprised Xiong Jing in the car, and also surprised Jinghua, Wu Shen and others not far away. This is out of their calculations, and normal people would break through to the south, which is the direction where the palace is located. It was precisely because of this that Wu Shen's 1,500 dead soldiers were arranged in the south, while Wang Shen's 2,500 Miao soldiers were arranged in the north.

The dead soldiers were personally selected and trained by Wu Shen, and all of them held beryllium. Beryllium is actually a copper sword with a wooden sash more than one zhang long at the end, similar to a spear, but unlike a spear, its blade is very long, after all, the sword is at least three feet; And there are blades on both sides, in addition to stabbing can also be slashed, the last one is that the spear is easy to be cut off by the enemy in battle, and the probability of such a thing happening to beryllium is very small, because its blade is very long. Beryllium has many advantages, and it has been used in later generations, such as the Tang Dynasty Mo knife was originally here.

Unlike the frequent envoys of the state of Chu, the palace guards of the state of Wu mostly made beryllium. When Zhu Zhu assassinated the royal bureaucracy with the fish intestine sword, the royal bureaucracy's guards were 'clamping attendants, all holding long beryllium'. After Wu Shen was sent to Wu Wangfu, he naturally had a set of techniques for using beryllium. Although the number of his dead soldiers is small, their combat power is not necessarily inferior to that of the more numerous kings. Unexpectedly, Cai Bao, the general of the palace armor, did not go south but north.

"What if? Can I withdraw from the property? Shen Yong's eyebrows began to knot. In the past, in the name of guarding against Huang Xie, he persuaded the king of Chu to transfer 2,500 Miao soldiers from Dongting County to Ying, and they were incorporated into the left army, but in fact, these Miao soldiers may not be stronger than the Chu people.

"No retreat!" Jing Hua and Wu Shen spoke in unison. Jing Hua knew the details of Miao Zu, while Wu Shen felt that retreating would lead to a decline in morale, which would be unfavorable to the war. "Immediately attack it." Jing Hua had no choice but to attack and defend, and ordered the wind to attack.

"We can die here, Your Highness must not die here!" Arrows rained down, screams in his ears continued, and Cai Bao was convening thirteen pawn commanders to discuss the battle. It was said that it was a battle, and the time was so urgent, he was actually giving an order. "With the sound of my drums, the soldiers of service, the soldiers of struggle, and the soldiers of disease, you and other three soldiers and five people in a column, must resist the rebels in the south, even if you stand to the last one; The pawn of the intermediary, the pawn of the tiger, the pawn of the flame...... Wait for seven soldiers to be ten men, so that you may break through the rebel army on the north, and kill the enemy's archers. Xia, Chu, you and the other two pawns are divided into the spear array, waiting for the opportunity to hit the flank and back of the northern enemy, and the soldiers of the period are guarding the carriage and defending His Highness. ”

"The last general swears to die!" The thirteen pawns bowed, and at this time, another wave of arrows came from the shower, and I don't know who snorted.

"I only hit one drum! After a drum is blown, you will run north, beat the northern enemy, and then break through the southern formation, and protect His Highness to return to the royal city. Cai Bao finally admonished, and the captains were ordered to leave.

The arrows rained down, and the drums of the palace armor in the encirclement finally sounded. The drums were not as loud as those of the rebels, but they were short and powerful. With the sound of drums, the armor soldiers in the circle formed two battle formations in the north and south as quickly as possible: in the south, there was a thin array composed of three pawns, namely, service, struggle, and disease, and this array was wide because the depth was only five people who could not be thin, so it seemed wide, reaching fifty meters.

With a gap of one meter per person, the standard width of the three spearmen should be sixty meters when fighting, but unfortunately the spearmen were killed and wounded by bows and arrows, and the column of five people was barely fifty meters after being deployed. Fortunately, this width is comparable to the width of the long beryllium phalanx of the rebels on the opposite side - because it is expected that Cai Bao will break through to the south, the long beryllium array is very thick, and they are in a column of thirty people, horizontal to the south.

There are three pawns in the south, and all the main forces of the palace armor in the north. At this time, Cai Bao left only a sword and shield soldier to protect Xiong Jing's safety, and the rest of the troops were all put into battle. The seven spearmen formed a phalanx with a width of about seventy meters, and there was also a sword and shield on each side. Because of the continuous arrows from the north, the two sword and shield soldiers formed a tortoiseshell formation, and one hundred and fifty men were tightly huddled together, and this formation was not facing the enemy horizontally, but in a vertical row. There were only three in each row, which took up a width of about a meter, and each row of fifty men had a length of twenty-five meters, and the last row of sword and shield men was almost next to the rear of the five-man spear formation in the south.

After nearly two months of hard training, the speed of the palace armor sanitation formation made Jing Hua and others who were watching and commanding from a high place breathtaking, especially the tortoiseshell formation formed by a big shield made Wu Shen, the former great sima, amazed, but at this time, the drum beat of the palace armor suddenly stopped. The seventy-meter-wide spear array began to advance, and in the rain of arrows, people kept falling, and someone immediately replenished.

At this time, a rough male voice howled in Chu language: "Shi Xi is hazy, and the state is shy." He also holds the halberd, and ...... for Wang Weixi"

It was the wounded who stayed behind the battle who were singing, and the song was like the sun, dispelling all the haze of fear. With this song, the spearmen in progress changed from trampling to trotting, and their momentum was unstoppable.

"The warrior is brave, and the gentleman is ashamed. also holding spears, ...... for the king" The song continued to be sung, and the number of people singing became louder and louder, and even the running spearmen were groaning.

"Lift! Lift! "The enemy army is coming, and in the middle of the king's army, the general is shouting loudly.

Cai Bao just said that he would attack after only hitting one drum, but in fact, because of the rapid change of formation, he stopped before a quarter of the drum was hit. According to the custom of the Chu army, the Miao general thought that the palace armor would not attack until the drum was beaten, so after receiving the order from Jinghua to attack, he also convened the commander to discuss the battle and give the order. When the drums on the opposite side stopped, he realized that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered the commander to return to the battle.

Although the two armies are fighting in formation, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, so the main general has to stand on the nest car to watch the enemy, and at the same time, because of the backward communications, the military orders issued cannot be withdrawn, so it is necessary to be cautious. The move of sharpening the wind is right, but the mistake is that the distance between the two armies before the battle is only fifty steps, and fifty steps is only more than sixty meters, even if the spear is heavy, it is only a matter of ten seconds to rush over.

The time to engage the enemy was very short, and there were also problems with the military formation of the king pawn - since the long beryllium soldiers in the south were only 50 meters wide in order to prevent the enemy from breaking through, then the king pawn should be wide, so as to form an encirclement and prevent Xiong Jing from escaping.

The diameter of the palace armor circle array is more than 30 meters, and the two armies are 50 steps (more than 60 meters) apart, and the two add up to 100 meters. This circle with a diameter of 100 meters has a circumference of 314 meters, minus the 50 meters occupied by the long beryllium array, and the remaining 260 meters are defended by 2,500 men, and its thickness cannot exceed 10 men; Subtracting the two archers at the very end, the real thickness of the military formation is only eight people, and these eight people are still four people, and the four people are arranged separately in front and back, five steps apart from each other.

The spear is 4.7 meters long, the moment the enemy is contacted, the spear tip in the forefront pierces the two people in the front of the enemy formation, there is no time to pull out the spearhead in the advance, there is no gap in the advance, the spearman in the front row can only grasp the spear shaft and continue to poke forward, so that the spearhead that passes through the two bodies continues to stab the third person. The resistance of the human body is very large, and many spears cannot penetrate the second body, and even if they pass through, they cannot stab the third person, but the queue of the king's pawns is four plus four, and when the spearhead passes through the second person's body, the third person is already scared stupid; When the spearmen in the front row lost their weapons and gave way to the second person behind them, the spears of the second people had already pierced through the body of the third person, stabbing the fourth person or scaring them stupidly, and then the four columns of phalanx in the front were completely pierced.

The presence of the king's shield hand in front is equivalent to shortening the killing distance of the spearmen in the second row, and the 3.5-meter spear in his hand must be subtracted from the thickness of about 60 centimeters of the shield hand to meet the enemy; When the shield man was killed, and he and the spearman faced each other, the spear was a full one or two meters shorter than the spear, and even if he was pierced by the enemy, the spearhead could not hurt the enemy.

"It's like a bamboo, it's like a bamboo!" Cai Bao stood in the carriage and said an idiom he had learned from Xiong Jing. He knew that Yi Spear was good at breaking formations, but he had never dreamed of breaking the army formation of the king pawn so quickly.

Cai Bao sighed, while Jing Hua and the others were all black. If you don't surround the palace armor, then Xiong Jing may escape, surround the palace armor, but have to dilute the military formation, and then the thickness of one (ten people) is pierced by the spear in the hand of the palace armor in an instant. If this is the king's pawn army formation, if it is chiseled through by the enemy, you can still find a way to re-form the formation and fight again, after all, there are many people on your side, but these people are Miao pawns!

In terms of climbing mountains and mountains, bloodthirsty and daring to fight, the Chu people are naturally no match for the Miao people living in the mountains and forests, but in terms of battle, the Miao people who are not fully civilized and have not been trained for a long time are not as good as the Chu people. The 70-meter-wide military array was chiseled through by the Yispear Array, and the tortoiseshell formation, which was 1.5 meters wide and 25 meters deep on both sides of the Yispear Array, suddenly spread out against the unbroken Wang's Pawn Army, turning into a battle formation 6 meters wide and 100 meters deep, and then rolled back from the side to the back of the Wang's pawn on both sides.

The enemy was killed from behind the flank, and many of the archers lined up in the rear were hit by the large shield of the sword and shield man before they could escape, and then they were stabbed to death by the short sword. Although the spearmen in the rear of the column of four people reacted quickly, the enemy came up too fast and was already close, and the front could not turn from the short hands, so they could only be stabbed down by these sword and shield men one by one.

2,500 people were annihilated by 1,000 people, this is the reality shown in front of the generals on both sides, although the kings on both sides of the Chinese army are still holding on, but the morale has been taken, the army formation has been broken, and even the crossbow behind the formation has been captured by the enemy.

Jing Hua's face was no longer black, but as dead ash.

In addition to killing Huang Xie, the rest of the time he spent thinking about how to intercept Xiong Jing with 4,000 foot soldiers day and night. The 1,500 guards did not surprise him, after all, the armor of the East Palace originally had fifteen times, and what he didn't expect was that the armor of the palace broke so quickly and so fiercely when he was hit by the enemy on his back and abdomen.

Now, the only hope is the Long Beryllium formation, which has already begun to attack. As long as the long beryllium array can take advantage of the fact that the main force of the palace armor is entangled with the royal pawn and cannot return to help, break through the thin five-column spear array, and then kill Xiong Jing, the purpose will be achieved; If you can't break through, Xiong Jing will be crowned king, then everyone will wait for the three clans.