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Meng Ping stared at the Wu army formation opposite from a dirt bag, his face was as calm as water, and no color could be seen in his eyes that did not see any depth. He had received Mo Li's military order, and for Meng Ping, the wording of the military order could be described as extremely harsh, but he had no complaints, the Hundred Battles Army should not have been blocked by the Wu army in Jiangpu.

After the 30,000 Wu troops landed in Hezhou, they seemed to have expected Yangzhou to divide their troops to attack Hezhou, so when Meng Ping led the Hundred Battle Army to the area between Jilong Mountain and Laoshan, they were attacked by the 20,000 Wu troops who had already occupied a favorable position here and were ambushed.

Han Xizai is in the opponent's army, but he is not a general in command - even if he is quite valued by Xu Zhihe, he does not have the qualifications to lead 20,000 soldiers and horses at present.

Although Han Xizai is not a general in command, he is a supervisor of the army, and he has the convenience of being a counselor. Because of this, the Wu army's tactics were very appropriate, which could cause trouble for the hundred battles.

At this time, in Meng Ping's field of vision, the Wu army relied on Jilong Mountain to form a glaive array. The glaive array is arranged very appropriately, perfectly combined with the terrain, it can be called the seamless, the soldiers of the Wu army are all in good spirits, and they are all brave children, they are indeed good at fighting, these days the Wu army has successfully dragged the hundred battle army in Jiangpu, the record is not proud, and the generals and soldiers of the Wu army are also high morale.

Looking at it this way, the Wu army is very capable of fighting, and it is difficult to defeat.

It stands to reason that at this time, Meng Ping should look jealous, awe-inspiring, and act anxiously, after all, Mo Li's military orders are very strict.

But it's a pity that Meng Ping's demeanor and bearing can only be described in four words: calm.

And it's not pretending to be calm, if you look closely at his expression, you can find that he is confident from the clues. At this time, he looked at Wu Jun's eyes, quite playful, obviously not looking at a strong opponent that was difficult to defeat, but looking at a turtle in an urn.

"This group of Huainan soldiers is also quite daring to fight, especially the method of arranging troops and dispatching troops in the main general, which has exceeded the level of ordinary good generals, and has a bit of the style of famous generals." It was An Chongrong who spoke, if the banter in Meng Ping's eyes was still a little subtle, the ridicule in his eyes was very obvious.

"That's true." Zhao Hongyin licked his chapped lips and smiled like a jackal about to choose someone to devour, "In the past few days, the reason why our army has not defeated this group of Huainan troops is that it can't be cared?" I don't want to either! If it is defeated cleanly, the Huainan army can completely retreat to Hezhou - the city defense of Hezhou is very tight, if there are 10,000 people guarding it at that time, how can it be attacked in the short term? If our department wants to completely cut off the back road of the Huainan army to retreat into Jianghuai, it must take the city of Hezhou, and if we want to capture the city of Hezhou, we cannot make the 20,000 Huainan soldiers in front of us retreat into Hezhou! Therefore, our army spent several days maneuvering with the Huainan soldiers here, just looking for an opportunity to surround and annihilate them! And now, the Huainan soldiers are forced by our army's offensive, so they have to defend with their backs to Jilong Mountain, in order to hit our army's arms - they think that they can block our army's offensive by backing the mountain and forming a glaive formation? It's a fool's dream! ”

Zhao Hongyin's words were extraordinary, and Meng Ping said in a normal tone: "When I first came to Jiangpu, I was ambushed by Huainan soldiers and attacked from both sides. After that, the Huainan soldiers surrounded on both sides and broke through in the middle, although the tactics were good, but they were borrowed by me to fight with strength, the main formation entangled the main force of the opponent, and the elite cavalry defeated their horse army, and protruded to cover their two wings. After that, the Huainan soldiers tried to regain the initiative, while I lured the enemy deep into the unfavorable terrain and completely blocked the opponent's retreat while resisting in the division and showing the enemy weakness. ”

Speaking of this, Meng Ping looked at the Wu Army's Yanyue Formation under Jilong Mountain, and showed a smile, "It took a few days, the two soldiers took turns to fight, and even eating and drinking were tight, not to mention closing their eyes. By this time, the officers and men of both armies were extremely tired, and I originally wanted to wait to see who could not support it first and fell. But now that the military order of the military division has arrived, there is no need to be polite to the Huainan soldiers. ”

An Chongrong said hesitantly: "After surrounding the Huainan soldiers at the foot of Jilong Mountain, the two armies temporarily suspended the battle for a night, and now our brave troops have eased their strength, and in this battle, the Huainan soldiers will definitely not be able to eat and walk!" ”

"You can't walk around it." Meng Ping's voice was quiet, but murderous, "Today, we must wipe out all of them here, and no one can be spared!" ”

When An Chongrong and Zhao Hongyin heard this, they were all high-spirited, and they hugged their fists and said: "Get the order!" ”

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It was almost summer, after the sun came out, there was no coolness in the four fields, and the soldiers of the Hundred Battles Army who had rested all night and had a full meal and nearly 10,000 Tang troops were already full of energy at this time, although they could not be compared with the day when they came from Yangzhou, but they were enough to support today's decisive battle.

From the establishment of the army in Qimen to the battle in Jiangpu today, the Hundred Battles Army has been fighting in the south and north under the command of Li Congjing for ten years.

In the past ten years, countless soldiers have grown up, and the senior generals in the army have changed one after another, from the three giants of Li Congjing, Li Shaocheng, and Meng San in the Tongguang period, to Meng Ping, An Chongrong, and Zhao Hongyin in the Tiancheng period, and now Ding Mao, Shi Congda, Chen Qinglin, Li Zheng, and Li Yanlin have all led an army alone, including Jing Renzhong and others who died in battle.

Today's Hundred Battles Army has long become an existence that makes the princes thunderous, and it is a well-deserved legend in the sequence of the Tang Dynasty!

Among the dozens of armies of the empire, the Hundred Battles Army has the best armaments, and among the hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops in the Empire, the Hundred Battles Army has the highest ratio of students from the Martial Arts Academy. They are under the command of the most warlike military generals in the empire at the moment, and they are most valued by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and even His Majesty the Emperor!

"The Hundred Battles Army obeys orders!" Two poles on the sun, Meng Ping pulled out the sword from the sheath and raised it in the morning sun.

The drummer stood in front of the war drum with the hammer in hand, the flag holding the command flag in a high place, and the soldiers were ready to attack in the battle array.

Meng Ping led his horizontal knife forward, pointing at the Wu Army's Yanyue Formation under Jilong Mountain, "Attack!" ”

The flag is moving, and the drums are beating.

An Chongrong immediately waved his lance, "Hundred Battles Army, forward!" ”

Zhao Hongyin waved his spear in the battle array, "Hundred battle army, forward!" ”

The officers and men of the whole army shouted three times in unison, "Forward, forward, forward!" ”

It is going straight to the bullfight.

The three armies marched, and the battle formation was forward.

It's for the big war!

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Circle formation defense, phalanx attack, the glaive array set up by the mountain has no weaknesses, no matter which point the attacker attacks, the glaive array can mobilize the soldiers in the formation to respond flexibly, and if the attacker fully engages with it, it is tantamount to making the center of gravity of the protruding glaive array enter the heart of its own formation, which is an opportunity for the opponent to counterattack and break through their own military formation.

In addition, those who set up the Glaive Formation usually concentrated their strong bows and crossbows in front of the formation, which could greatly enhance their defensive capabilities.

Under normal circumstances, the Glaive Array set up by the mountain is enough to resist several times the enemy.

But the Hundred Battles Army did not care about this.

The army formation of the Hundred Battles Army attacking the Glaive Formation still used the ordinary battle formation, that is, the infantry phalanx was in the middle, and the cavalry was cruising on both wings.

In the Glaive Formation, Han Xizai and the others couldn't help but laugh when they saw that the Hundred Battle Army was actually this tactic, "The Northern Thief is a dog jumping over the wall in a hurry, intending to break the net with me?" ”

"I have heard that the Hundred Battles Army can fight well, and I thought it was so powerful, this time I was not only restrained here by us, but now I am helpless in the face of my Glaive Array!"

"Is this the Hundred Battles Army planning to attack my Glaive Array head-on? Ha ha...... It's ridiculous! Could it be that Meng Ping was blinded by lard? Since ancient times, it has been unheard of to be able to break through the Glaive Array head-on with a considerable number of troops! ”

"Not only is there no considerable number of troops, but even if he gives him another 20,000 soldiers, he can't help me!"

"Meng Ping, Hundred Battles Army...... Now it seems that they are all wasted people, so why be afraid? This thief will be defeated one day! ”

As the generals spoke, the Hundred Battle Army suddenly stopped when they were one hundred and fifty paces away from the Glaive Array. At this distance, the bows and arrows of the Glaive Array can shoot at the Hundred Battles Army, and the striking power is not small, but it is not enough to say that the damage is significant - in the Hundred Battles Army's formation, rows of large shields are raised.

After Zhao Hongyin stopped, he glanced at the back of the formation, saw the flag waving, heard the drum gradually changing, he raised his sword and shouted: "The bow and crossbow are in place!" ”

Behind the big shield is the crossbowman, there is no abnormality when they ran before, at this time they each pull out the posture, it can be seen that there are dozens of rows in the military formation, more than 100 crossbowmen in each row, at this time or lead the bow and arrows, or the crossbow is wound, all aimed at the Wu army Yanyue array.

When the Tang army set out to fight Jianghuai last year, it was already ahead of the Wu army in armament, especially in terms of strong bows and crossbows. After Fang Zhiwen led the army to aid Jianghuai this year, he brought a large number of bows and crossbows, arrows and crossbow arrows, which completely made up for the consumption of Wang Shi in the past half a year.

Before setting off from Yangzhou, the hundred battle troops carried countless strong bows and crossbows. It's just that since the fight reached Jiangpu, the two armies have been in a semi-melee situation, and Meng Ping deliberately hid his strength, so as not to scare away the Wu army, so as not to let the strong bow and crossbow exert his might, and what he was waiting for was the final blow.

With the strength of the bow and crossbow of the army, even ordinary cities and strong camps cannot be stopped, so why should the glaive array be bothered?

Due to the convenience of strong bows and crossbows, the tactics of the Tang Army have also changed accordingly. Now the Tang Army's method of attacking fortifications is to first concentrate the whole army with strong bows and crossbows, and carry out continuous and fierce bombardment of the enemy positions and enemy camps, and when the strong bows and crossbows tear apart the enemy's formations and defense lines, the army will take advantage of the chaos of its military formations and defense lines to enter in one fell swoop and break the camp and pull out the camp!

The war between the two armies is, in the final analysis, a struggle between the national strength of the two countries, why did the Tang Army gradually form such tactics? It is because compared with the enemy army, the Tang army has an advantage in strong bows and crossbows, and compared with the enemy country, the Tang Dynasty has an advantage!

Zhao Hongyin was in the middle of the formation, holding a knife and shouting loudly: "The first echelon, the first round of shooting, release!" ”

Thousands of arrows rose into the air and fell into the Wu Army's Glaive Array!

In order to ensure that the power of the strong bow and crossbow is maximized, and the Wu army is continuously struck hard, the crossbowmen in the Hundred Battles Army are divided into three batches and take turns to fight!

When the crossbowmen of the first echelon of the Hundred Battles Army were replaced, the casualties in the Wu Army's Glaive Formation had reached hundreds, and Han Xizai and others in the formation all changed color, they all knew that the bow and crossbow were difficult to kill at the beginning, and once the defense of the military formation was broken and hundreds of people were killed, the lethality in the future could climb violently!

The Wu army also has bows and crossbows in the Yanyue array, but as soon as the two compete this time, they know that they have been completely suppressed by the Tang army, both in terms of quantity and quality, not to mention anything else, in the previous period, the Wu army's bow and crossbow did not cause more than 100 kills to the Tang army, let alone break the Tang army's defenses!

Don't you see, the front formation of the Wu Army Yanyue Formation is already quite chaotic, but the Tang Army Army is standing still?

Zhao Hongyin shouted again: "The second echelon, the first round of salvos, release!" ”

The dense arrows like locusts enveloped every soldier in the front of the Wu Army's Glaive Array, the arrow rain fell, the screams came one after another, and many blank spots of different sizes appeared in the military array!

Seeing that the Tang army's bows and crossbows were non-stop, and the soldiers of the Wu army were killed and wounded one after another, Han Xizai's face sank like water, and his heart ached, "You can't let the northern thieves fight like this anymore, where is the Ma army?" Attack the Northern Thief Army and suppress the crossbowmen of the other side! ”

The Ma army received the order, rushed out from the two wings of the Glaive Formation, and rushed towards the Hundred Battles Army formation.

An Chongrong led the elite cavalry to cruise on both wings, and when he saw the Wu army and the horse army killing the generals, he was immediately in good spirits, and immediately laughed.

If the Wu army's infantry bow and crossbow are not as good as the Tang army's foot soldiers, then the Wu army's horse army, whether it is the breed of war horses, the fighting skills of the soldiers, and the coordination of the battle array, are incomparable with the Tang army's elite cavalry, An Chongrong led the hundred battles of the army's elite cavalry into a small front arrow formation, and then the Wu army's horse army passed through the intestines, and then rounded the two wings, holding the other part, killing the enemy with a bow and arrow, and charging into battle at close range, killing the Wu army and horse army without the power to fight back.

At this time, the first-echelon crossbowmen in the infantry formation had been replaced, and then the second-echelon went up.

When the crossbowmen of the third echelon of the Hundred Battles Army went into battle, the front of the Wu Army's Yanyue Formation was already unrecognizable, and the number of dead and wounded soldiers had exceeded 1,000, approaching 2,000. Han Xizai was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and looked at the Ma army nervously, but found that the Ma army also suffered heavy casualties, leaving two or three hundred corpses, and was driven back by the elite cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army!

"Han Jianjun, I'm afraid this can't be resisted, you are resourceful, hurry up and think of ideas!" The commander of the Wu army was at a loss, and hurriedly asked Han Xizai for advice.

So far, where does Han Xizai still have a strategy, they are backing the mountains to form a formation, they thought it would be easy to block the Tang Army, but now the war is unfavorable, and there is no place to retreat, "As the main general, is there no way to break the enemy?" ”

The main general wanted to cry without tears, "It is said that the northern thieves have been fighting Jianghuai for more than half a year, and they have long been exhausted, their armor has been seriously damaged, and their arrows have been exhausted...... But at the moment, it is clear that this is not the case at all, I ambushed the northern thieves with a considerable number of troops and could not win, at this time a head-on battle, how can I win? ”

Without waiting for Han Xizai and them to come up with a reason, the second round of salvos of the three echelons of the Hundred Battle Army had been completed, and by this time, Han Xizai and the others were already colorless, because the strongest central front formation of the Glaive Array had been completely torn apart, and the soldiers were in a mess, revealing a large gap in the gap, and the number of casualties was meaningless at this time, because the military formation was completely chaotic!

The whining trumpet sound was heavy and solemn, resounding through the heavens and the earth.

The crossbowmen of the Hundred Battles have stopped wielding, for their infantry is in full swing!

The Glaive Array was torn apart by the bow and crossbow of the Hundred Battles Army and shattered the main formation in the middle section, where could it resist the attack of the elite infantry of the Hundred Battles Army, the resistance of the soldiers of the Wu Army was too weak, and it didn't take long for the Hundred Battles Army to kill into the formation, and a Glaive Array was cut into two sections from the middle, and there was no longer a chance to gather!

At the same time, the elite cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army outflanked the two wings of the Wu Army, holding the possibility of the Wu Army breaking through to the two wings, but the poor Wu Army and the Horse Army had just been killed and retreated by the Hundred Battles Army's elite cavalry, with heavy casualties, and this box was forced to fight again, and it didn't take long for the Hundred Battles Army to be completely scattered by the Hundred Battles Army's elite cavalry, and it was completely useless!

After the Hundred Battles Army broke through the Glaive Formation in the middle, the front formation went straight to the rear of the Wu Army's generals, and the middle and rear formations rushed to the left and right, cooperating with the Hundred Battles Army's elite cavalry, dividing the Wu Army into two parts, completely cutting off the Wu Army's escape route, and then the various departments ran back and forth, dividing the Wu Army into a small part and a small division, and began to slaughter wildly!

The commander of the Wu army pulled Han Xizai to break through, "The matter has come to this point, non-human power can control it, the prison army will follow me!" ”

Han Xizai gritted his teeth with hatred, his eyes were red, and he wanted to burst out of his eyes with blood and tears.

After several days of fighting, the two armies were unable to help each other, he thought that he had successfully intercepted the Hundred Battles Army in Jiangpu, breaking the myth that the Wu Army could not be stopped since the Hundred Battles Army went to Jianghuai, he even thought that Meng Ping was just like this, the Hundred Battles Army was just like this, and he may not be able to be famous in the world over time, but he didn't wait for him to be happy for too long, today's battle, in a few hours, the army was surrounded and annihilated, and his own situation also fell from the sky to the ground!

Seeing that the Hundred Battles Army was rushing from all directions, and the Wu Army was overwhelmed, Han Xizai finally understood that the Hundred Battles Army was not unable to defeat them quickly, and Meng Ping was fighting with the idea of forcing them under the Chicken Coop Mountain and annihilating them all in one battle!

With this realization, Han Xizai was ashamed, his self-esteem poured out like the water of desperation, he pushed away the chief general of the Wu army who persuaded him to go, pulled out his horizontal knife and rushed towards the Tang army with no end in sight, and shouted angrily: "A certain oath to death is the same as you!" ”

Seeing that Han Xizai rushed towards the Tang army without knowing whether he was alive or dead, the commander of the Wu army paused fiercely, and could no longer care about him, so he summoned his own soldiers to find an opportunity to break through.

Han Xizai knew that he had made a big mistake, he had failed Xu Zhihe's expectations, and he had also harmed the great cause of Wu Guo, and he no longer had the face to live in the world, but he was bent on dying and wanted to pull a few hundred soldiers to accompany him to the funeral.

Zhao Hongyin led his troops straight to the handsome tent behind the Yanyue Formation, and the idea of beating the Wu army generals was the idea of serving the commander of the Wu army, seeing Han Xizai rushing over alone, quite imposing, and immediately his eyes lit up, although he didn't recognize Han Xizai, but he recognized the other party's official robe, and immediately rushed up, and knocked the distraught Han Xizai to the ground and tied him up.

This battle lasted until the afternoon, and it was basically over, if it was said that the Wu army would be killed, I am afraid that a whole day would not be enough, but the Wu army surrendered a lot, and the hundred battle army soon settled the battle.

Then Meng Ping lost no time in ordering An Chongrong to lead his troops to rush into Hezhou, and under the instigation of a Wu army general who surrendered, the Hundred Battles Army pretended to be a Wu army rout, easily entered Hezhou City, and captured Hezhou City.

At this point, the Hundred Battles Army deployed defenses in Hezhou and Wujiang for a generation, completely cutting off the back road of the Wu army's retreat into the Yangtze River!

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