Cao Rui is in the army

"Your Majesty, look, the two generals Tian Zhu have already defeated the Shu army! The iron cavalry of my Great Wei Kingdom is invincible in the world! Wuwei General Cao Shuang pointed to the distance and said excitedly.

"Yes, this is all thanks to Your Majesty's divine power and heavenly blessing, and the soldiers of the three armies are all brave to take the lead, and each one is ten. Long live Your Majesty! Long live Dawei! Cao Zhao, the captain of the Tun cavalry on the side, lost no time in praising it.

"Hooray, hooray, hooray!" The civil and military ministers around Cao Rui cheered together.

Cao Rui is also full of spring breeze, looking proud and happy. If everyone including Cao Rui himself has been muttering in their hearts about whether they can defeat Zhuge Liang before, now they have won the first battle against Zhuge Liang, which is equivalent to giving everyone a dose of reassurance. Zhuge Liang is nothing more than that, if you really want to fight hard, my Dawei will not lose him! Cao Rui said silently in his heart.

"Not good! Your Majesty, the two generals Tian Zhu pursued the Shu army into the enemy formation! Liu Ye's eyes were sharp, he saw the changes in the battlefield at a glance, and he didn't care about the fact that everyone was celebrating, so he hurriedly ran to report to Cao Rui.

"Oh, this ......" Cao Rui heard the prestige, and sure enough, he found that the Wei army had rushed into Zhuge Liang's gossip array. It's strange that he didn't order Tian Yu and Zhu Ling to chase after him.

"Your Majesty, don't be surprised!" Dadu Governor Manzhong said calmly, "Chen has just been observing the situation on the battlefield, after the two generals Tian and Zhu defeated the Shu army, the remnants of the enemy army fled into the enemy formation, and disrupted their own formation. At this time, the situation on the battlefield has been reversed, the morale of our army is flourishing, the morale of the Shu army is declining, and Zhuge Liang's formation is chaotic. According to the minister, Zhuge Liang's gossip array seems to be invulnerable from the outside, and breaking it from the inside may be the only feasible way. "Man Favor, who is also a military general, has a judgment of the situation, which is more consistent with Tian Zhu and the others.

"Grand Duke, this is not the time to take risks! The ghost and the sudden cavalry is the last elite of the Great Wei, Zhuge Liang's gossip array is unpredictable, and I don't know how much danger is hidden in the array, how can I easily put the army into danger. Please Your Majesty quickly send someone to stop our army from entering the battle, I'm afraid it's too late! Liu Ye said anxiously. Although he didn't know what Zhuge Liang's intentions were, he always felt that the battle was going too smoothly and was a bit strange, so he tried to be safe.

"Hmph, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the fighter plane is fleeting, and you can't win by shaking your tongue here. If there is a way to break Zhuge Liang, please go to the battle in person. Otherwise, it is useless to talk more! "Man Zhong is quite dissatisfied with the frequent intervention of scribes in the war situation, and it is the generals who shed blood and sacrificed on the battlefield, and the people who talk nonsense and command blindly behind their backs are all literati.

"You!" Liu Ye was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while.

"Okay, okay, don't argue, this is the time when you need to work together with the civil and military, in my opinion, the second general Tian Zhu has already entered the battle, and now it's too late to stop it, it's better to observe the situation." Cao Rui also rationally stopped the argument between the two. Liu Ye and Man Chong had nothing to say, and everyone became quiet again for a while.

Just as Liu Ye and Man Zhong were arguing about the rights and wrongs of Tian Zhu and the two of them entering the formation, Tian Yu and Zhu Ling in the formation began to notice that something was wrong.

One of the reasons something is wrong is that they underestimate a person.

Who? It's not Zhuge Liang, it's Jiang Wei.

They didn't expect that Zhuge Liang would treat Jiang Wei, a mere official, not only as his own, but also as everything he had learned in his life. This includes the Bagua Array!

The talented Jiang Wei was taught by Zhuge Liang's words and deeds, not only studied the formation drawings of the Bagua Array, but also watched Zhuge Liang practice the formation of the three armies. If there is another person in the Shu army who can arrange the Bagua Array, it is Jiang Wei!

Therefore, Jiang Wei dared to quickly withdraw into the formation when he broke through, and ordered the standard-bearer to command the surrounding teams to make the illusion of a scattered formation, so as to attract the Wei army to take the opportunity to enter the formation. The Wei army really took the bait, and not long after they rushed into the formation, Tian Yu and Zhu Ling were surprised to find that the cavalry of the Shu army that was still in front of them just now suddenly flashed into the formation and quickly disappeared without a trace.

What's even more bizarre is that the entrance that just rushed in has also disappeared!

The Shu army moved through the seemingly slow but imperceptible perimeter, forming a huge pocket, and had quietly surrounded 40,000 Youhe Raiders into the formation.

Jun has entered the urn, close the door!

Tian Yu and Zhu Ling realized that they might have been surrounded, and the two of them were quite calm, understanding that if they panicked at this moment, they might worry that the whole army would be wiped out, and the top priority was to find the exit and rush out of the battle formation before the Shu army launched an attack. The two took the lead, commanding everyone to follow closely behind, looking for a way out.

Strangely enough, no matter how far they rode along the road in the formation, they never seemed to see their heads, and when they turned back, the road they had just run seemed to change. After galloping like this for a long, long time, the Ghost and Sudden Rider gradually became exhausted.

"I don't believe in this evil!" Zhu Ling shouted angrily, pulled out his sword, and thrust it into the ground, "Rush with me again, you must find the exit before the Shu army attacks!" Everyone was infected by Zhu Ling's passion and once again rode their horses wildly.

"General, look!" I don't know how long I ran, the soldiers next to Zhu Ling pointed to the front and shouted, Zhu Ling was stunned when he heard the sound, and his heart was about to jump to his throat.

On the road ahead, there was a sword inserted in the light, wasn't this exactly what Zhu Ling threw on the ground angrily?

Zhu was a little dizzy, no wonder they couldn't run out of this encirclement, it turned out that they had been spinning in place! By moving silently, the Shu army guided the Wei army to repeat the same path over and over again without noticing. This is a large array of tens of thousands of people, and in order to achieve the effect of quietly changing the formation, it must require how strong discipline and coordination it takes, especially the command ability of the general in the battle and the comprehension ability of individual soldiers are extremely demanding. Everyone in the whole army must maintain a completely consistent rhythm, and a battle formation is a person! Zhu Ling gasped, what kind of Zhuge Liang is this, what kind of group of soldiers!

Tian Yu obviously also found out what the problem was, and he leaned closer to discuss countermeasures with Zhu Ling, "General Zhu, the Shu army obviously wants to trap us. Even if the Shu army does not attack, if it continues to impact like this, we will be sleepy and tired, and we will be powerless, and then we will be a group of lambs to be slaughtered, and we must find a way out as soon as possible to rush out! ”

"It's really hateful, Zhuge Liang and Jiang Wei are too cunning!" Zhu Ling gritted his teeth and said hatefully, "At the moment in front of you, it will definitely not work to run again, only to take advantage of the fact that the Shu army has not yet launched an attack, forcibly rush into battle, and kill a bloody road!" Tian Yu nodded, there was only this way at the moment.

"Brothers, the Shu army is cheating, we are already surrounded and have no way out. Today's plan, only by fighting hard to impact the battle array and fighting a bloody road can there be a glimmer of life! If you're not afraid of death, follow me! Zhu Ling raised his arms and shouted, leading hundreds of personal soldiers to rush to the enemy formation. Probably stimulated the last desire to survive, the Ghost and Sudden Riders burst out with amazing strength, and one by one they cheered up, roaring loudly and launching a charge.

"Prime Minister, the Wei army finally couldn't bear it anymore and attacked our army's battle formation." Yang Yi on the side respectfully waved and reminded.

Zhuge Liang nodded slightly, raised the feather fan and waved, the flag bearer understood, changed the color of the flag, and began to wave the battle flag frequently.

The periphery of the Shu army's battle array is composed of antlers, partial box cars, etc., the front of the partial box car is equipped with a shield guard, and there is an arrow window on the guard plate to fire a bow and crossbow, and the partial box cars are connected with iron chains, which are connected to each other to form a peripheral defense. Restrained by the antlers, he rushed to the front and slowed down, when a dense bolt of arrows suddenly shot out of the arrow window, "Huh! Swish! Swish! The rider was caught off guard, and the person who was shot turned over on his back. The wave of Wei troops behind wanted to rush forward while the Shu army was pulling the bow again and stopping, but the front rain of arrows just started, followed by another round of back feet, and the Wei army fell to the ground one after another. It turned out that the Shu army adopted a three-stage shooting, and arranged three rows of crossbowmen to shoot in turn to ensure the formation of an uninterrupted arrow rain strike.

"Huh!" Zhu Ling's left arm was shot, and he broke the arrow in pain, "Keep rushing for me, you must kill it!" The Wei army had no choice but to rush forward against the rain of arrows, and finally rushed to the front of the formation, stripped off the antlers, and was just about to hit the guard plate of the partial box car, when suddenly countless hook and sickle spears stretched out from behind the partial box car. The hook and sickle spear head is eight inches long and can be used for assassination, and there are protruding barbs on both sides, which can cut the horse's legs horizontally, so that the enemy can fall off the horse, and then use the barb to hook the enemy and drag him into the formation for assassination. The Youhe Raider didn't expect that there would be a back-up move after the rain of arrows, and for a while, they were either stabbed off their horses or hooked into the formation and killed. After this blow, the defense line in the heart of the Youji Tu cavalry completely collapsed, they were originally a group of wandering light cavalry, mixed with Hu people, the discipline was not good, and the successive blows also completely destroyed the formation of the Youji Tu cavalry, they began to scatter around like a swarm of headless flies, stringing around. The battle formation of the Shu army was quickly adjusted, and the Youhe Raiders were further divided and surrounded, and eliminated one by one.

It was only at this time that Zhuge Liang's powerful Bagua Array really surfaced, it was simply the nemesis of the cavalry, the magic weapon of the infantry to challenge the cavalry on the plain!

The real Bagua Array is actually an array of infantry against cavalry, and it is not so evil in itself.

In war, victory or defeat often does not depend on the absolute number of casualties on both sides, but on the morale of the soldiers, when the vast majority of the troops on one side fall into fear and lose the courage to continue fighting, it is also declared their defeat. And people are blind, and the so-called courage often depends on whether there are standing comrades around us and whether our side can maintain a complete lineup. As long as a battle formation is still intact, even if it is besieged, the soldiers around him can give the soldiers the incentive to continue fighting. But even the most complete battle formations are loose, because too close an array will limit the attack of infantry weapons, while the opponent's weapons can knock down several people at once. Therefore, there are still gaps between soldiers and soldiers in the battle formation, which gives the cavalry an opportunity to take advantage of.

Therefore, the overwhelming superiority of cavalry over foot soldiers is largely due to its indomitable momentum and powerful impact on the battle line. The orthodox cavalry tactics, the so-called "charging formation", are a hundred horsemen in unison, breaking through the opponent's battle line from multiple points in the front, reaching the battle, and then reining in the horse and turning back to counterattack. The effect of this repeated impact is not to kill, but to make the connection between any two soldiers on the other side in danger of being cut off by a horse at any time, so that a single foot soldier will have the illusion of being isolated, and the whole formation will be destroyed into a plate of scattered sand. In addition, when the cavalry charges, it is like a sickle cutting wheat, and the extremely high speed causes a huge amount of energy, and once a lone infantry is hit head-on, there will be no chance to block or counterattack. This fear of death becomes more pronounced under the influence of loneliness, which leads to the loss of the individual's will to fight, and then develops into the defeat of the group.

But in fact, this attack mode of the cavalry is full of bluff. Since their actual attack range is not larger than that of the foot soldiers, and the presence of their mounts causes the area of attack to be much larger than that of the foot soldiers, they can only use endless running and irregular routes, relying on instantaneous explosive power to attack the unsuspecting, lone foot soldiers. Once an infantry with guns and shields, leaning on each other, and waiting for battle, the cavalry often has no way to do anything and will easily bypass it. The cavalry slashed back and forth, creating confusion and panic, waiting for the foot soldiers to disperse and then reap one by one. Therefore, although the cavalry's assault route was irregular, in fact it tended to move in a direction with fewer people in front of them and weaker troops.

Shu Han is located in Sichuan, mostly infantry, he will march into the Central Plains one day, inevitably on the plain and Cao Wei cavalry fighting. On the plains, if the infantry wanted to fight the cavalry, they had to rely on battle formations. It was in response to this situation that Zhuge Liang developed a new type of Bagua Array. The Bagua Array is actually a multi-arm battle array, which is divided into an inner array and an outer array, with a total of 8 directions. The outside is divided into eight peripheral arrays, such as the Sky Covering Array, the Ground Carrying Array, the Wind Lifting Array, the Cloud Hanging Array, the Dragon Flying Array, the Tiger Wing Array, the Bird Xiang Array, and the Snake Pan Array, so it is also known as the Eight Arrays! Among them, the heaven and earth wind and clouds are the main formation, which is the main soldier, and the dragon, tiger, bird and snake are the four formations as the surprise soldiers. If one of the formations is attacked, the neighboring formations will protect its flanks and keep approaching to kill the enemy with bows and crossbows. Each of the surrounding 8 large arrays is guarded by a general, which is led by Ma Zhong, the general of Zhengnan, Zhang Wei, the general of Anbei, Zhang Yi, Situ Dengzhi, the general Liao Hua, the general of the Protector Army, the right general Zhuge Dan, and the general Guan Suo of Anxi, each of which is composed of 6 small formations, a total of 64 small formations. The Chinese army is the command platform, composed of 16 small formations, Zhuge Liang led Sikong Yang Yi, Zhengbei General Wang Ping, Zuo General Jufu, Hubu Supervisor Meng Yan and others personally guarded.

The front army had a total of 9 large arrays, including a total of 88 small arrays, each small array of 1,000 people, equipped with 200 shield soldiers, 300 crossbowmen, 300 hook and sickle soldiers and a small number of military cavalry.

The main tactics of the Bagua Array were that when the cavalry charged, the infantry consciously gave way and lured the cavalry to subconsciously concentrate on these routes. After the cavalry entered the formation, the infantry array was broken but not dispersed, gathering on both sides along the way, giving up the space in front for the cavalry to charge. And the core of this formation is that this path can be determined by prior drills, and through conscious guidance, the cavalry can be used to charge in a straight line on both sides of the battle formation, and become a circular route in the formation under the leadership of the infantry side! The Shu army continued to induce the enemy to charge, and the endless arrows and hooks would gradually consume the momentum and physical strength of the enemy cavalry. And due to the characteristics of the cavalry itself, they had to charge along this "safe" route. Over time, the enemy forces in the array will eventually be gradually depleted.

Secondly, if the cavalry risked their lives to storm the battle formation, the troops in each small formation would cooperate with each other. The first row of the Shu army's battle array is composed of antlers, partial box cars, etc., and the front of the partial box car is equipped with a shield guard, which is operated by the shield soldier to defend against the impact. The second row is composed of crossbowmen, who use three-stage shooting to strike the enemy intensively, and the third group is composed of hooked sickles, who use hook and sickle guns to harvest the last wave of enemies that rush through the rain of arrows. If the enemy army is scattered, the Shu army will change or even close the road according to the situation, divide and surround the enemy army, and then be eliminated one by one.

Every part of the Bagua Array is specifically designed for cavalry, so that the cavalry in the formation will fall into endless running, be stabbed by unguardable arrows and crossbows, and even if they risk death to break through, they will be suppressed by the combined arms in the formation, and finally be divided everywhere and broken one by one.

This is the real gossip array!

Zhuge Liang thought about it day and night, sharpened his sword for ten years, and created this invincible battle array that shook the past and the present. This was because Shu Han did not have a strong cavalry, and it was simply impossible to cross Cao Wei's defense line and complete a large-depth movement battle. Zhuge Liang's only expectation was to fight a decisive battle with Cao Wei's army on the Great Plains, relying on the war monster he created to destroy Cao Wei's main force in one fell swoop. The arrangement of the entire formation is very complicated, and the mobilization is also very complicated. In order to let his army strictly implement the orders and coordinate like a machine, Zhuge Liang wrote the "Twenty-four Articles of the Art of War", and continued to practice and exercise in Shuzhong, just looking forward to one day being able to really come in handy.

Therefore, Sima Yi in history was "afraid of Shu like a tiger", not because he was incompetent, but because he knew very well how terrible the opponent he was facing. Sima Yi resolutely insisted on holding the war and the turtle war, and predicted and seized various strategic key points. He is not a tactician, he is a master of strategy and does not play with fire. It's a pity that all this passed away with the defeat of his plan, and everyone in Cao Wei didn't have Sima Yi's vision and couldn't see through Zhuge Liang's intentions, so they entered Zhuge Liang's "trap" step by step, and finally let Zhuge Liang usher in the long-awaited Battle of the Plains as he wished, so that his Bagua Array could finally see the light of day and leave a glorious page in the history books.

Back in the battle formation, although the defeat of the Youhe Raiders was decided, after all, there were many people, and they were still resisting stubbornly. In particular, Tian Yu and Zhu Ling, led hundreds of personal soldiers, dismounted and fought on foot, with round shields and spears, they quickly formed an impenetrable fish-scale round formation, and fought and walked, always looking for opportunities to break through.

"Prime Minister, the Youhe Raiders have already dispersed, and it won't be long before our army can wipe them all out. Congratulations to the Prime Minister, congratulations to the Prime Minister, the battle array created by the Great Show of Might, and fulfill the wish of many years. Today's war, shaking the past and the present, is enough to shine in the annals of history and leave a name in history! Yang Yi excitedly bowed to Zhuge Liang and congratulated him.

Zhuge Liang didn't seem to care about this praise, he was concerned about another thing at the moment, only to see him staring closely at the Wei army in the formation, and said: "If it goes on like this, the casualties are too great." This batch of Wei troops is the elite of the world, and the harvest is very beneficial. Command Jiang Wei to quickly cut in and end the battle! ”

"This, Prime Minister, now that this fierce battle is in full swing, how can you end the battle quickly?" Yang Yi asked puzzled.

"Capture the thief and capture the king first." Zhuge Liang smiled and shook the feather fan.

"Understood!" Yang Yi suddenly realized and immediately ordered the flag bearer to pass the order.

Jiang Wei in the formation got the order and immediately led the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to re-enter the battlefield and clean up the battlefield one by one. The Youhe Raiders were completely defenseless, and the surging Xiliang Iron Cavalry rushed off their horses one by one and were captured one after another. Jiang Wei personally led Ma Dai, Zhao Guang, Zhao Tong, and Fu Jian to fight Tian Yu and Zhu Ling, and the Anxi general Guan Suo also turned on his horse and joined Jiang Wei's team in order to avenge the killing of his brother in the Tiger Prison.

I saw that Tian Yu and Zhu Ling formed a turtle formation, and they were moving slowly, and the Shu army attacked the turtle formation, and they were blocked by the arrows and crossbows and spears in the array.

Seeing that the Shu army was at a loss, Guan Suo suddenly had an idea, and said, "We can take off the iron cable of the partial box car, connect it to a long chain, tie a heavy hammer to it, and drag it by the cavalry to gallop in twos, and when the battle is engaged, then suddenly the two of them will throw up the iron chain separately, raise the heavy hammer to break the outer shield of the enemy formation, and then shoot intensively with bows and crossbows, then the enemy can be broken!" ”

"Good strategy!" Jiang Wei clapped his hands and approved, "That's it, General Guan and I will go into battle in person, and the rest of the generals will be used as backups!" ”

With the blow of the heavy hammer, Tian Yu and Zhu Ling's turtle formation was finally broken, and the dense arrows quickly shot to the shield bearers and spearmen in the front row, and even Tian Yu and Zhu Ling were also hit by several arrows, and the two still stood with swords in their hands, organizing resistance and fighting.

Soon few people were killed in the Wei army, and Jiang Wei gave an order, and countless cavalry crossbows were aimed at Tian Yu and Zhu Ling in the formation.

"General Tian and General Zhu, the two are heroes and heroes, and Jiang Wei admires them very much. It's just that Wei has exhausted his strength, and stubborn resistance at the moment will only be sacrificed in vain. The two brothers in the formation are still desperate, hoping that the two of them can consider the three armies and surrender on the spot, and I promise not to kill a single soldier of the Wei State! Jiang Wei shouted at Tian Zhu and the others awe-inspiringly.

"I'm a shameless general, and I dare to seduce my Great Wei Zhongchen! I was born as a Great Wei person, and I died as a Great Wei ghost, and today there is just death, so why don't you say more, kill! Zhu Ling shouted angrily and slashed at Jiang Wei with his sword.

"Then don't blame me for being rude!" Jiang Wei saw Zhu Ling mocking himself, and remembered Du Yi's death, but he didn't expect that his angry words would come true so quickly, and he was angry for a while, "Release the arrow!" ”

"Wei thief, return my second brother's life!" Guan Suo shot the bow and arrow in his hand in hatred.

Boom, countless arrows roared like torrential rain, and in an instant, they pierced Zhu Ling's whole body. Zhu Ling's eyes widened angrily, shook a few times, and finally fell.

Jiang Wei and Guan Suo closed their eyes almost at the same time, "General Du...... Second brother...... I've avenged you! ”

Seeing that only Tian Yu was left, Jiang Wei was about to release the arrow, when suddenly a herald arrived behind him and shouted: "General Wei stop, the prime minister has an order, Tian Yu and the first emperor have an old relationship, must not be harmed, must be captured alive!" ”

It turned out that Zhuge Liang recalled the past, in the early years, Tian Yu followed the first emperor Liu Bei, and was particularly valued, and then because his mother returned to his hometown in old age, Liu Bei cried and said goodbye to him, saying: "I just hate not to build a great cause with you." After Tian Yu surrendered to Cao Cao, he guarded the north for a long time, and served as the captain of the guard Karasuma, and he could rely on this person for both pacification and governance of the north. So Zhuge Liang ordered Tian Yu to be captured alive, and feared that the standard-bearer's order would be deviated, so he urgently ordered his own soldiers to deliver the order in person.

"Command!" Jiang Wei ordered everyone to put away their crossbows, and was about to step forward to persuade Tian Yu, only to see Tian Yu suddenly laugh a few times, "Big husband, born in the view of heaven and earth, should be based on loyalty and righteousness, how can you be a capricious villain!" General Zhu and go slowly, Tian Yu is here! After speaking, the horizontal sword wanted to kill himself.

Everyone was shocked, Jiang Wei was sharp-eyed and quick-handed, he took a bow and arrow, aimed and shot, and did it in one go. With a "bang", the sword in Tian Yu's hand was shot to the ground by Jiang Wei.

"Good archery!" Everyone couldn't help but applaud and praise, to complete the shooting in such a short period of time, and to accurately shoot down the sword, its difficulty is not as good as Lu Buyuan's shooting halberd back then, Jiang Wei can be called a divine shot!

"Offended, take it!" Jiang Wei was worried that Tian Yu would find a short-term view again, so he quickly sent people to rush up and capture Tian Yu. Tian Yu was also shocked by the scene just now, so he had to be restrained, and was escorted into the battle array with his head down.

As soon as the main general died, the Youhe Raiders completely lost the confidence to resist, and dismounted and surrendered one after another, and the elite of Cao Wei, who was rampant in the world, was destroyed.