Chapter 17: Strange Formation

He had fought many battles with the Han army, and he was already familiar with the formation of the Han army. Generally speaking, the Han army always had the shield bearers in front, the archers behind, the pikemen and the short sword men behind, and the cavalry was distributed on the flanks and in the center of the rear. The Donghu army is the heavy armored cavalry in front, the light cavalry surrounds the heavy armored cavalry, a small number of infantry is used to follow the cavalry to clean up the battlefield, this kind of confrontation, the Han army is very disadvantaged, because although their bows and arrows can shoot the light cavalry, but there is no threat to the heavy armored cavalry, the heavy armored cavalry of Donghu is responsible for impacting the Han army formation, the Han army's formation is chaotic, and the light cavalry repeatedly impacts, the cavalry of the Han army is few, and not as well trained as the Donghu cavalry, the result is that the Han army has suffered greater losses nine times out of ten.

However, this time, the formation of the Han army was very strange and incredible.

The ranks of the Han army were divided into two teams, at a glance, each team was about 2,000 people, the first two rows of soldiers of each team carried a thick and short wooden stake, the stake was thicker than a foot, but the height was only one person high, and then behind, the soldiers of the third and fourth rows were still two people working together, carrying a sharp and long wooden stake, one end of the stake was sharpened, no more than a few inches thick, but the length was two people long outside. Behind them were the pikemen.

What kind of strange formation is this?

Ag's eyes narrowed.

If you are not afraid of the enemy's strength, you are afraid of the strange formation. Since such a strange combination is used, there must be a reason, and if you attack rashly without thinking about it, you are afraid that you will suffer.

"Order, defend the villages, don't attack!" Ag ordered.

He is not afraid of the Han army attack, now he is in this village is the first village, is the most sudden, only six miles away from Xingcheng, on the left and right sides of the flank, there are three large villages, although the loss of personnel is larger, yesterday the siege has just lost thousands of people, but each village still has seven or eight hundred people, a total of about six thousand people, and most of them are cavalry, if the Han army forcibly attacks the first village, the other six village cavalry attack, will slaughter the Han army again as before, so he has enough time to observe the movements of the Han army, Think about what this strange arrangement of the Han army is all about.

However, this latter question did not make him think for long, because the Han army made even more strange moves.

Two miles away from the first village, the Han army stopped. A group of soldiers quickly dug a hole in the ground, and the pikemen screamed and stabbed hard into the ground.

What is this for? The Donghu people looked at each other, and everyone's eyes were full of questions. The Han army won't come here to practice arm strength, right?

"Defend tightly!" Ag ordered again. He doesn't care what the Han army wants to do, anyway, the enemy doesn't move, I don't move, if you like to be funny, just do it, as long as you guard the camp, you can ignore whatever weird you do.

He had just given the order, and a herald rushed in front of him, panting and saying, "Commander Wan, Commander Mowur requests to attack!" He said......"

"Don't attack, otherwise military law will deal with it!" Ag was furious and shouted.

This Moyur, is this deliberately antagonistic to himself or what? Yes, the order he gave now to prohibit sorties has not yet had time to reach the camp defended by Moyur, but just now he has also issued an order prohibiting sorties, why do he still ask for an attack?

He turned to the guards beside him: "Go and tell Moygur that if he steps out of the camp with his front foot, I will cut off his head with his back foot!" "He simply didn't need a herald, and directly used the guards to inform, Moyur, if you dare to mess around, I will really do it! Ag thought hatefully.

At this moment, the actions of the Han army changed again.

I saw that the Han soldiers with thick wooden stakes stood in the pits dug one after another, and the soldiers holding the long wooden stakes stuffed the unsharpened end of the long wooden stake into the hole in the ground that was pierced by the spear.

Ah Ge looked at the Han army's actions and suddenly understood what the Han army wanted to do!

The long stakes stretched out from behind the thick stakes, with the sharp end facing outward, which was used to defend against the Eastern Hu cavalry, and as soon as the cavalry rushed over, these sharp stakes would skewer the cavalry on top like a skewer of meat, and the faster the impact, the deeper the string. As for those thick wooden stakes, it is to guard against some cavalry who have slipped through the net, although the wooden stakes are beautiful, but they just block the horse's feet, when the horse jumps, the thick wooden stakes just trip over the horse's feet, and the strong thick wooden stakes can completely trip the horses down, and the Han army short sword soldiers who defend behind the wooden stakes just go to cut off the heads of the Donghu cavalry.

It's ruthless enough! It's just that this formation is completely a defensive formation, although the defense is very tight, but if the Donghu army does not attack, this formation will have no effect.

Thinking about this, Ag was a little proud. Fortunately, he decisively ordered not to attack, hehe, this is the reason why he is a commander, and those soldiers are soldiers.

However, the smile on Ag's face froze as soon as it bloomed. Because another question came to his mind, a very simple question: what would have been the result if the Han army had attacked before it had even set up camp?