Qiu Feihu straddled the tall horse and looked at the opposite side......

He and Li Chongjin's forbidden army advance troops each led more than 1,000 forbidden troops, a total of more than 3,000 forbidden troops, plus Chang Si sent Wusheng troops to support them, several horse teams of less than 1,000, so that the cavalry that went out of the city to engage in the battle added up to more than 4,000 points. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Qiu and Li each received 2,000. Before the arrival of the advance team of the forbidden army, Chang Si had a total of about 6,000 soldiers and horses left in Tongguan, and the remaining more than 5,000 troops and infantry bows had to stay in the city to hold on.

The forbidden army stationed in Tongguan with Chang Si was Zhao Kuangyin, the head of the army on the right side of the Fengguo army, who was both the head of the sect and the leader of an infantry. Originally, Zhao Kuangyin advocated letting the Ma Bu Army coordinate the formation, so that Li Chongjin's cavalry could be safer, after all, only using cavalry to charge the formation was simply looking for death. However, Chang Si decisively rejected his method, believing that there were enough troops to defend the city pass, and it was too dangerous to send troops again.

Zhao Kuangyin didn't think so at the time, as long as there were 3,000 people on the city wall of Tongguan to defend the city, it would be enough, if the Qin army attacked the fortified troops really rushed to the city quickly, then what was the use of one or two thousand more people on the city wall? There are too many enemies and too many ladders, so this flood-like output to the city can only invalidate the tactics of relying on the city alone, but it will not delay time.

Tongguan is known as a husband and a man, but after reading the entire history book, and asking how many people she really saved?

Li Shouzhen's more than 20,000 tooth troops had already stepped into the formation of attacking the fortified village, pushing the ladder and preparing to attack the city, while the remaining soldiers in the camp in the rear were only trained by the township corps and the more than 2,000 Jianghu figures, just waiting for a while to be cannon fodder to replenish and climb the wall. At this time, four thousand light horsemen suddenly appeared on the opposite side, and they hurriedly began to change formations.

Qiu Feihu turned his head and shouted to Li Chongjin: "Li Dutou! When the enemy army changes formation, how about we take the opportunity to kill them and disrupt them? ”

Li Chongjin shook his hand and replied: "Absolutely not!" ”

Qiu Feihu turned around and observed again, knowing that Li Chongjin was indeed right. The enemy is obviously well-trained, and once they can really change formations quickly, rushing over now may not be too late to disrupt them, but will cause the battle to start earlier. Since the task of the advance army is to delay as much time as possible, it is better to wait for them to change their formation and slowly push the army over before engaging in battle, not to be greedy for luck......

Qiu Erhuzi knew that Li Chongjin was the son of Guo Wei's fourth sister, and the privy envoy had always valued this nephew, so he did have some ability.

"Sect Leader Qiu," Li Chongjin also asked back, "What kind of posture do you think the other party will put on to welcome us?" ”

"Since the other party wants to save time and eat us quickly with more bullying and less, it is obvious that he wants to put on a goose walk. The goose-shaped formation from the middle army to the two wings rushed forward in a ladder-like manner, and after the momentum of such an embrace surrounded us was digested as soon as possible, they could also slowly change back to the formation of attacking the fortified positions in order to take Tongguan. Although the weakness of this formation is in the rear and it is difficult to change the formation in a hurry, Li Shouzhen has no worries in the rear, and it is still just right to use the cavalry of the two capitals like us. ”

"It's the same thing! We can't fight in a row, otherwise we won't be able to delay time, and we will have to go and kill them for a while. ”

"Good!"

The two of them discussed for a while, and the formation on the opposite side had been roughly arranged, and sure enough, the first 17,800 people were marching in the formation of geese. The original siege equipment, such as the ladder, the door car, the tiger squatting stone cannon, etc., were escorted by the remaining soldiers to follow behind the goose-shaped formation, waiting for the Qin army to destroy Qiu Feihu and others at any time before changing the formation back to continue the siege......

Li Chongjin knew: At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there were two rows of knights in front of the goose-shaped formation, called "jumping soldiers", and they played the role of assault and consolidating the formation of the front army at the same time, so that the entire army could be disrupted in order to prevent the opponent's fierce scattered cavalry offensive.

"Sect Leader Qiu, in short, as I said just now, we can't stupidly charge at them, do you know what I mean?"

"Li Dutou rest assured!"

The two men chatted for a long time when they came from the river, but in fact, they had a little tacit understanding.

"Which way?" Qiu Erhuzi asked again to confirm the attack plan.

"To the left, fight the right flank of the thief army!"

Qiu Feihu understood that they were not prepared to resist head-on, but to make Qiu Feihu's two thousand cavalry suddenly turn left when they rushed halfway to the distance, and to forcibly detour back to the right flank of the Qin army's army formation and then kill it. Originally, Li Chongjin turned to the left to fill the position of Qiu Feihu, and he had to endure the enemy's offensive to delay time. In this way, the engagement of the battle is also concentrated on a single flank of the enemy, avoiding rapid encirclement.

As he was talking, a shout behind him suddenly interjected: "Li Dutou, you don't have infantry protection, and you want to use scattered cavalry to resist Li Shouzhen's entire central rush, do you not hesitate to die?" ”

Li Chongjin hurriedly turned around, only to see that Zhao Kuangyin had already led more than 1,000 troops out of the city gate with a smile.

"Huh? Didn't Chang Si let you divert the defenders on the city anymore? ”

"I had a big fight with him, and I was ashamed of him, and finally agreed to give me some more troops."

Li Chongjin said curiously: "Is he really so bold? In this way, there were less than 4,000 infantry left in the city. ”

Zhao Kuangyin smiled and said: "Just because I just visited Malay, Guo Shuxiang's army has already arrived at Fenglingdu and started to cross the Yellow River!" ”

Qiu Erhuzi laughed and said, "Okay! In this way, with the infantry blocking the infantry coming from the middle of the thief army, then Li Dutou will be much safer. ”

So Zhao Kuangyin led the infantry to drive to the front in a horizontal formation, and kept an appropriate distance from the two scattered cavalry circles behind. At this time, Li Shouzhen's army began to advance slowly, while the Tongguan army continued to stand in place, waiting for the other party to slowly drive over......

Cheng Yuan was also dumbfounded here, in addition to the soldiers who were guarding the siege equipment in the rear, Li Shouzhen's army actually formed a huge goose-shaped formation with more than 10,000 people in front, this kind of thing has always felt incredible in his cognition, and now he finally saw this spectacular military formation with his own eyes.

It seems that Li Shouzhen does have a high degree of confidence in the military discipline and orders of the Qin army.

Qiu Feihu saw that the distance between the enemy and himself was close to two thousand steps, and the huge goose-shaped array struck like a giant pincer that opened hard. Rao is a timid soldier like him, and he can't help but feel flustered for a while. A moment of forward charge of his cavalry is the key, if the start is too early, the enemy's right flank will be predicted in advance, pull outward, and still envelop the forbidden army in the middle, so that they cannot turn to the flank. But if it started too late, it was directly squeezed together with Li Chongjin, and he was quickly surrounded by enemy troops......

"A Thousand Steps...... 500 steps...... Three hundred steps...... "Qiu Feihu calculated the distance intently,

Can't wait any longer! Otherwise, it would have to cross the horizontal line in the front row of the right flank of the Qin army, and it would no longer be possible to throw it to the right side of the enemy. Qiu Feihu waved his hand to the left, and the two thousand light cavalry slowed down, and then pulled the reins to the left with all his strength, and folded them in the direction of his left at an extremely tricky angle......

Even though the horses of this advance team were carefully selected from the river, the huge torque caused the horses that were not strong enough to grasp their balance and fall to the ground, and for a time more than 100 knights were thrown out of the saddle and broke their bones.

Qiu Feihu shouted and led the troops out, and the timing of his order was just right, so the enemy could not react to its turn at all, so he had to watch him go around to the side of the formation. Qiu Feihu's cavalry training rules could make a group of knights' horse control skills rise to a level in twenty days, but at this moment, he still let out a long breath, and secretly thought that he was lucky......

At this time, Zhao Kuangyin's 1,500 troops also dispersed the formation, allowing Li Chongjin's cavalry to intersperse with the front, and was about to start charging.

Li Chongjin desperately bent to his left front, and his 2,000 cavalry barely managed to fill the position Qiu Feihu had just taken. In this way, Li Chongjin commanded the scattered cavalry circle formation to directly break through the first row of "jumping cavalry" on the enemy's right flank, which was like a spike piercing the skin of the goose-shaped formation, and directly probed the muscle tissue - this is the right Yu horse team of the Qin army's formation.

Zhao Kuangyin's infantry followed closely behind them, but did not rush into the horse team, but quickly spread out to the right. Blocking the infantry corps known as the "Odd Soldiers" in the middle of the enemy army, so that they could not surround Li Chongjin's horse team.

In this way, Li Chongjin's scattered cavalry against the right Yu horse team, such an engagement is not a loss, if Zhao Kuangyin did not block the enemy's mid-lane infantry surrounded by Li Chongjin's right side in time, the cavalry after losing the impact kinetic energy was almost a group of dying people wrapped in the dense infantry formation.

Qiu Feihu began to attack the enemy's right flank, and the outermost part of the right side of the goose-shaped array was a layer of foot archers called the "bow and crossbow garrison", and the knights could not rush in for a while, but Qiu Feihu suddenly rejoiced after dodging a few flying arrows:

"Sons! Most of the enemy's right front side are foot archers, and there are very few crossbowmen, so we don't need to be afraid! Close the distance. ”

The crowd shouted "No! You must know that the most feared person of the cavalry is the crossbowman, and the threat of crossbow arrows to the cavalry is like a gun, especially its attack on the horse army can be completed at close range, and it is a headache to deal with.

Qiu Feihu, Li Chongjin and Zhao Kuangyin, with the close cooperation of the three of them, this tactic was a small success, and now they can be said to have not only temporarily escaped the fate of being encircled, and concentrated on attacking the right flank of the enemy, but also had a slight tendency to divide and disrupt the right flank of the wild goose......

Chengyuan watched the battlefield situation from a distance behind the Qin army, and only saw a burst of excitement. However, Li Shouzhen's right flank was not so easily disrupted, although Qiu Feihu broke through the bow and crossbow garrison, but there was still a layer in the right flank of the goose-shaped formation called the "Right Battle Brigade" (this name is good sweat...... These people are protecting the flanks from being raided, so elite soldiers and strong generals abound, and Qiu Feihu is really difficult to penetrate for a while.

Even if this layer of infantry array is penetrated, there are still more dense Chinese horse teams and Youyu Houbu teams inside, and only further inside can you see the Wang Qi of Li Shouzhen of the Chinese army......

Li Shouzhen's army in the middle of the "odd army" continued to attack Zhao Kuangyin's troops, and the situation became more and more critical.

At this time, there was a burst of drums on the tower of Tongguan City, but Chang Si was anxious to see it from the city gate, so he simply beat the war drums to help them......

Cheng Yuan was worried, not only about the battle situation, but also about Second Brother Qiu. Second Brother Qiu was able to reveal his talents to the army because of the influence of his own crossing, and it was a pity to die at this time. He is also very concerned about Zhao Kuangyin's life and death. If Zhao Kuangyin dies, Chengyuan will have a strange psychology of "my crossing killed 'that Song Taizu'", although he has no feelings for Zhao, he still feels very uncomfortable.

It doesn't matter if Li Chongjin dies or not............

At this time, he was suddenly tapped on the shoulder, Cheng Yuan was startled, and when he looked back, it was Zhao Pu.

"Cheng Kuiyuan," Zhao Pu looked at him with a smile: "Do you know what the key point of this goose-shaped array is?"

Cheng Yuan looked at the other side and thought for a while and replied: "Li Shouzhen's Chinese army and Shuai Qi are in the rear, so the most vulnerable place is the back, right?" It's right closest to you and me. ”

"It's not just you and me," Zhao Pu stifled a wicked smile: "The back of the thief army is also the closest to these 'heroes' in Guanzhong." ”

Author's note: The content of this chapter refers to the official martial arts textbook "Wujing General Essentials" in the Song Dynasty, as well as "Li Weigong Asks the Right" written by Li Jing under the pretense of the Song people, which contains an explanation of the wild goose marching array of the Tang Dynasty and a detailed internal structure diagram of the military array, but the author also imagines and plays.

"The General Essentials of the Martial Arts" is actually a textbook written by a group of scholars on paper, and these statements of arrays should not be true when they are really fighting. However, it is unfortunate that most of the various "true martial arts" left by the generals are scattered, and the earliest one is still Qi Jiguang's military book, which is quite late......